Vocal Voices

It is time for the media, especially Sky and the BBC, to put the Maddie case to bed.

Yes, it is ten years since the incident. Yes, there are still questions to be answered. And yes, she is, sadly, probably dead.

But the Portuguese and British police have spent £millions on this one case and are no nearer to any conclusion.

Meanwhile there are many other parents, all over the world, with missing children who only get a small paragraph in the inside pages of the local newspaper before being forgotten. How hurtful and devastating and damaging to their mental health is it for them to see this one case get so much (undeserved) publicity this far down the line?

Unless and until there is some new and concrete evidence in the case can we please put it to rest. We do not need it to be brought up on every major ordinal anniversary.

I fully agree.

Me too

I'm totally with your line WM. You only have to look for the missing children to see that we didn't just lose one child a decade ago.

Personally I just skip the sections on Maddie. I don't watch TV live so I never have to listen through TV news and print (web), media is au discretion and I chose not to.

What is more sickening is that the press is only doing this because it spins money.

Suff wrote:... the press is only doing this because it spins money.

In one.

I admit that I never took to the McCanns, especially him, but this is not about them it is about the media.

Sky's news website has its top four stories about the case. The BBC also has it as a headline story, and guess what?, both are running TV 'specials' tonight.

The whole thing has been resurrected as news as adverts for their sordid programmes. Sickening.

I've just read on Twitter that events are being held in Portugal and in Leicestershire to mark the tenth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.

How bizarre is that!

I understand that if you lose a child and you don't know what happened, then you want to know. These events on the tenth anniversary of Madeline's disappearance are obviously designed to keep the case in the public eye, but to what end?

It's been ten years now and there has been zero progress on the case in those ten years. Madeline's parents will obviously want to go on searching and that is their right. But it is not right to go on spending money on this case. £11 million has already been spent according to one paper and I don't think there is a case for spending any more.

As for the publicity, the media will keep it going imo.

I think the McCanns cannot accept that they should not have left their children while they went out for a meal.
I agree with WM, it should not have any more publicity.

cruiser2 wrote:I think the McCanns cannot accept that they should not have left their children
while they went out for a meal.

If it had happened in this country, they would surely have been prosecuted for leaving a youngster of
that age alone, and I expect that all the fuss they have made is because they feel guilty.

Enough has been said and enough money has been spent on this matter, and it's time it was forgotten.

I just hope the poor child did not experience any suffering.