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Police do not suspect McCanns: parents' spokesman
Police do not suspect McCanns: parents' spokesman 2 hours, 54 minutes ago



LONDON (AFP) - Police do not suspect the parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann were involved in her disappearance, the couple's spokesman said on Wednesday.

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During a debate on media coverage of the child's disappearance, Clarence Mitchell told a packed theatre at the London School of Economics that officials, whom he did not identify, had told him in private briefings that the case was being treated as a "rare stranger abduction".

"I have also had briefings privately from the police and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre that also gave me complete reassurance that the authorities, in this country certainly, are treating this as a case of rare stranger abduction, as they call it," he said.

Madeleine McCann went missing from the resort of Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve region last May, and her parents, Gerry and Kate, launched a high-profile international campaign to find her after she vanished from their holiday apartment shortly before her fourth birthday.

They were named as formal suspects in the case by Portuguese police in September but returned to their home in Britain shortly afterwards.

Earlier this month, they urged a worldwide search for someone they believe could provide a link to the girl's disappearance, releasing detailed images of the man who was seen by a British witness close to where Madeleine went missing.

(1) Did anyone think that Clarence Mitchell would get up in a public meeting and say, "Yes, in talks with British police, they have told me that they believe the McCanns are guilty and that the EAW for their arrest can probably be expected before summer," even if that were the case?

(2) It does not make a tinker's damn what the British police and child protection services think. The only thing that matters is what the PORTUGUESE PJ and prosecutor's office think. THEY are the ones sitting there in possession of the evidence. Everyone else, including the British police, child protection services, and Clarence Mitchell, is merely guessing.

(3) If a British policeman actually told Clarence Mitchell this, in my opinion it is highly irregular, and the officer, whoever he/she is, should be reprimanded. One does not go about making comments about the guilt or innocence of formally-named suspects in someone else's case to spokespersons for said suspects, knowing that such comments will surely become public. A complaint to the police about this is in order, methinks.

(4) Clarence was correct about one thing, though: "Rare" is indeed the correct word to describe stranger abductions. According to statistics published by the Home Office, someone connected to the child - parents, other relatives, caretakers, or friends - are involved in more than 90% of child abduction cases.

What, in affect, Clarence is trying to do be issuing the statement that the British police do not suspect the McCann's is to protect the McCann's reputations in anyway he can by having the general public falsely believe that in the eyes of the law in Britain the McCann's are "squeaky clean" and therefore innocent. What Clarence fails to recognise is that the Portuguese police are in charge of the official criminal investigation and its what the Portuguese police believe that matters in this case not the British police. This is all about saving the McCann's reputations so they can lead a normal life as if nothing had ever happened just like they planned to do by faking an abduction and is tantermount to perverting the course of justice. If the British police do not suspect the McCann's why have we not heard this claim from the horses mouth, i.e. from an official British police source?? Come on Clarence lets see if you can get an official British police officer involved in the case to come out in front of the cameras and back up your claims that they do not suspect the McCann's. I bet he can't cos its nothing but another lie aimed at protecting the McCann's reputations isn't it unless the British police are actually letting Clarence Mitchell pervert the course of justice deliberately as a way of saying (unofficially) we do not suspect the McCann's.

So what do you think?? Is Clarence lying about the British police not suspecting the McCann's or do you reckon he is telling the the truth because the British police are actually letting him pervert the course of justice by unofficially saying that they do not suspect the McCann's?