"Childless Couple" theory takes lead in Maddie inquiry

PeterMac wrote:

Gaggzy wrote:
Although he did munch his way through 23 16-inch Seafood Special pizzas, all with extra anchovies.

With a couple of side orders of chargrilled sea bass, and suckling pig !

Method
Take three children. Place them in a dark room, shut the door, but don't lock it, and forget about them for the rest of the evening.
THEN -
Before you start cooking, get everything prepared. Trim each sea bass fillet so they are both the same shape, then score the skin, cutting into the flesh slightly, 5 or 6 times at about 1cm intervals.
Segment the orange – Cut away each segment, then squeeze out the juice from the rest of the orange into a bowl. Cut the broccoli into medium-size florets.
To make the warm broccoli salad, cook the florets in a pan of boiling salted water for 1 min until just cooked. While the broccoli is cooking, put a frying pan on to heat. As soon as the broccoli is cooked, drain it, then tip straight into the hot frying pan to ‘scorch’ out all the moisture.
Turn off the heat, then scatter the orange segments over the broccoli. Toss for a few moments just to heat through, then tip into a bowl and dress with the orange juice and 2 tbsp olive oil. Season with pepper and a small sprinkling of sea salt, then set aside.
Wipe out the pan. Season the fish with a little salt and pepper just before cooking. Heat the frying pan until very hot, then add 2 tbsp oil. Lay the fish fillets in the pan, skin-side down. As soon as it goes in, press each fillet down with your fingers or a fish slice to stop it from curling up.
Reduce the heat to medium, then leave the fish to cook for 3-4 mins, undisturbed, until you can see that the flesh has cooked two-thirds of the way up and the skin is crisp and brown.
Flip the fillets over, then fry on the flesh side for about 2 mins until just done, basting the skin with the oil in the pan as it cooks. Leave to rest on a warm plate, skin-side up, and baste with the hot oil and juices from the pan.
Pour 2 tbsp olive oil into the pan and place it back on a high heat. Scatter in the capers and anchovies, then cook until they start to crisp. Grate over the lemon zest and squeeze in the juice of ½ the lemon. If there isn’t enough juices in the pan to drizzle over both plates, add a splash more oil. You are now ready to plate up.
Serve with a New Zealand Sauvignon.

Baldrick wrote:

PeterMac wrote:

Gaggzy wrote:
Although he did munch his way through 23 16-inch Seafood Special pizzas, all with extra anchovies.

With a couple of side orders of chargrilled sea bass, and suckling pig !

Method
Take three children. Place them in a dark room, shut the door, but don't lock it, and forget about them for the rest of the evening.
THEN -
Before you start cooking, get everything prepared. Trim each sea bass fillet so they are both the same shape, then score the skin, cutting into the flesh slightly, 5 or 6 times at about 1cm intervals.
Segment the orange – Cut away each segment, then squeeze out the juice from the rest of the orange into a bowl. Cut the broccoli into medium-size florets.
To make the warm broccoli salad, cook the florets in a pan of boiling salted water for 1 min until just cooked. While the broccoli is cooking, put a frying pan on to heat. As soon as the broccoli is cooked, drain it, then tip straight into the hot frying pan to ‘scorch’ out all the moisture.
Turn off the heat, then scatter the orange segments over the broccoli. Toss for a few moments just to heat through, then tip into a bowl and dress with the orange juice and 2 tbsp olive oil. Season with pepper and a small sprinkling of sea salt, then set aside.
Wipe out the pan. Season the fish with a little salt and pepper just before cooking. Heat the frying pan until very hot, then add 2 tbsp oil. Lay the fish fillets in the pan, skin-side down. As soon as it goes in, press each fillet down with your fingers or a fish slice to stop it from curling up.
Reduce the heat to medium, then leave the fish to cook for 3-4 mins, undisturbed, until you can see that the flesh has cooked two-thirds of the way up and the skin is crisp and brown.
Flip the fillets over, then fry on the flesh side for about 2 mins until just done, basting the skin with the oil in the pan as it cooks. Leave to rest on a warm plate, skin-side up, and baste with the hot oil and juices from the pan.
Pour 2 tbsp olive oil into the pan and place it back on a high heat. Scatter in the capers and anchovies, then cook until they start to crisp. Grate over the lemon zest and squeeze in the juice of ½ the lemon. If there isn’t enough juices in the pan to drizzle over both plates, add a splash more oil. You are now ready to plate up.
Serve with a New Zealand Sauvignon.

noddy100 wrote:...... as another poster says they would have taken one of the babies. 
Easier to learn a new language less questions and quicker to forget

noddy100 wrote:A childless couple would have had a car and car seat all ready if this was planned and they just wanted to be parents
They would not have taken her in a sports bag or without her toy and blanket
But above all as another poster says they would have taken one of the babies. 
Easier to learn a new language less questions and quicker to forget

worriedmum wrote:so who 'jemmied the shutters', then?  And why? 


Red herring?    That's really clever.

plebgate wrote:I have asked this before and will ask again, if the patio doors were unlocked and anybody could come and go - why on earth would a window need to be left open in order to create "red herring"?

A "red herring" for what purpose?????????

Doesn't make much sense to me at all, but maybe I am missing something.

littlepixie wrote:I watched Wire in the Blood last night starring Robson Green. All about a girl supposedly abducted by a sexual predator. It showed the Police investigating the abduction and setting up an amber alert.
Again & again they quoted the statistics for a child surviving a stranger abduction, after half an hour, an hour, then saying that three hours after being abducted the child would be dead and the body dumped.
The child's body was found but she hadn't been abducted. Turned out the mother had done it, blow to the head.
I know it's only a drama but throughout it used certain "McCann" phrases and never once did the Police think the child had been snatched by a childless couple and was being treated like a princess.

littlepixie wrote:I watched Wire in the Blood last night starring Robson Green. All about a girl supposedly abducted by a sexual predator. It showed the Police investigating the abduction and setting up an amber alert.
Again & again they quoted the statistics for a child surviving a stranger abduction, after half an hour, an hour, then saying that three hours after being abducted the child would be dead and the body dumped.
The child's body was found but she hadn't been abducted. Turned out the mother had done it, blow to the head.
I know it's only a drama but throughout it used certain "McCann" phrases and never once did the Police think the child had been snatched by a childless couple and was being treated like a princess.

noddy100 wrote:All about the dogs
This would send most parents into a frenzy to try and get to the bottom of it (plus break their heart)
But not those 2 they went on a spree of explaining it away followed by discrediting them

noddy100 wrote:All about the dogs
This would send most parents into a frenzy to try and get to the bottom of it (plus break their heart)
But not those 2 they went on a spree of explaining it away followed by discrediting them