At the risk of repeating myself:
No child and no body ~ so what's to say?
We have no factual news coming out of Portugal. In fact very little news other than the stories "attributed" to unnamed "police" sources.
The only official statement issued by the police is that they have NO direct DNA evidence relating to Maddy and have now handed their files to the prosecutor for a decision. Under Portuguese law the "Prosecutor" will either tell the Police to arrest and charge someone, to seek further evidence, take more statements etc, send the file "upstairs" to a Judge for his/her opinion or to close the investigation. The Prosecutor has today sent the file to a Judge who has ten days to come to a decision.
No-one other than the Police and the Prosecutor knows what is in the files, the Judge has yet to read them. Anything and everything else is speculation.
The Press and other media are simply muck raking and frankly know nothing more than we do.
We have spent 4 months and 19 pages of debate and achieved absolute nothing of any real value. In fact our only conclusion is that we have no conclusion.
Personally, whilst I am sorry for the child, I have no idea what has happened to her, I cannot explain the actions of her parents either when the child was "taken" or since (but I can say I would not have behaved the way they did on the night she vanished).
What is left to debate/discuss?
So we moved onto our usual trick of talking drivel, cracking jokes and generally lightening the mood.
Because there is nothing else we can do.
