Childless Couple Took Maddie, says Top Cop

Another old theory being repeated in Herald.ie news, as related by Ian Horrocks, former Scotland Yard officer.

Why would anyone think a childless couple given the opportunity to kidnap a child and having the choice of three, would pick an almost four year old over one of the younger children (given the choice of girl or boy also)???? And this comes again from a "top cop".

interested wrote:Another old theory being repeated in Herald.ie news, as related by Ian Horrocks, former Scotland Yard officer.

Why would anyone think a childless couple given the opportunity to kidnap a child and having the choice of three, would pick an almost four year old over one of the younger children (given the choice of girl or boy also)???? And this comes again from a "top cop".

It simply fits the mantra that Madeleine has not come to harm.

AnnaEsse wrote:

interested wrote:Another old theory being repeated in Herald.ie news, as related by Ian Horrocks, former Scotland Yard officer.

Why would anyone think a childless couple given the opportunity to kidnap a child and having the choice of three, would pick an almost four year old over one of the younger children (given the choice of girl or boy also)???? And this comes again from a "top cop".

It simply fits the mantra that Madeleine has not come to harm.

Surely a couple of super-abductors (they come and go with nary a trace) they could have 'abducted' a twin each. Duh!

What ARE these people thinking when they come up with these stories?

Interested you are correct, this is what Ive always said from day 1, why would if given the choice would you take a 3 years old, the scarry thing is this verbal garbade is coming from TOP POLICE OFFICERS!!!

Lillyofthevalley wrote:Interested you are correct, this is what Ive always said from day 1, why would if given the choice would you take a 3 years old, the scarry thing is this verbal garbade is coming from TOP POLICE OFFICERS!!!

Does he explain the dogs? When is anyone going to explain the dogs & abduction in the same sentence...

A childless couple would surely prefer a baby...Next

OR the fact that they used the childs colouring book for their time lines, and let all and sundry march through the apartment, but blame it on the Portuguese Police Officers......dispicable, Team McCann and these Top Police Officers are as bad as each other, both liars imo

sounds like this guy thinks he is a psychic! Maybe this is why he is a former police officer?

I doubt any childless couple would want to take a child of almost 4 years of age who could speak and remember things. They wouldn't even have to be an enormously wealthy couple to buy a baby on the "black market" from anywhere in the world they chose. The mindset of some of these "top cops" is terrifying. It makes you wonder if they could actually detect anything !

mara thon wrote:I doubt any childless couple would want to take a child of almost 4 years of age who could speak and remember things. They wouldn't even have to be an enormously wealthy couple to buy a baby on the "black market" from anywhere in the world they chose. The mindset of some of these "top cops" is terrifying. It makes you wonder if they could actually detect anything !

The movement of children is out of Morocco, rather than into it. Surely a childless couple, if they were going to pay someone to take a child, they would find it much easier to obtain one of the fair-haired children who are abducted every year from Morocco? Who would risk taking a child in a very small window of opportunity then take a nearly 4 year-old, rather than a toddler?

Even if you were planning to kidnap a child, and present them as your own, how could you possibly alight on the 'right' child in the short period of time she was staying in a foreign country, and left on her own with her even younger siblings?

are very articulate. Is it supposed this married couple who wanted a child and then stole Madeleine have her permanently locked up? Why would she not otherwise at once start shouting out: 'My name is Madeleine! Take me back to my Mummy and Daddy'. Also, memories by that age are likely to be well fixed, especially if they are traumatic ones. Madeleine would never forget her parents or her twin brother and sister!

MADELEINE and her family were watched for days before she was taken from their apartment.
Respected ... kidnap inspector Ian Horrocks
Ian is well qualified to review the case after a successful 30-year career in London’s Metropolitan Police.

“Madeleine was most likely abducted by a couple. The nature of the crime, the manner in which it was carried out, together with MY examination of the scene, all point to it being two people."

“It is clear the plan and the escape route were planned and probably rehearsed. It was not impulsive."

I do not believe she is in the Praia da Luz area.

TELL THAT TO DAVE(GRABBIT) EDGAR! (SHE's in a lair in PDL)

“By turning right from the apartment he could have been totally out of sight within 30 seconds of taking Madeleine.
“The abductor went into the garden area, entered through the unlocked patio doors and went to the bedroom, where Madeleine was asleep. A car could have been parked nearby.”

That would be a CAR parked ANY where else OTHER than right outside the FRONT door to 5A in the car park less than 5 feet away over the small wall!
Leaving the 'abductor' to traipse to a car 'nearby' rather than passing the child over the small wall, to the other half of the 'couple' then into a car and away! (turning LEFT out of the car park.)

This timing would fit in with a 9.15pm sighting by Jane Tanner, one of the McCanns’ holiday group, of a man walking away carrying a child in his arms.
Ian said: “I firmly believe the man she saw was Madeleine’s abductor.”

Are you SURE it was a MAN Jane saw, Inspector Closseu?
If it WAS a MAN then perhaps you'd better have a word with Pinkie and 'our Dave' who held a pretendy press conference and held up a picture of a WOMAN (our POSH Spice)
Surely you're not saying that Pinkie and 'our Dave' LIED!

Q. WHY would the inept 'couple' walk around town till 10'o'clock rather than into the car parked outside 5A's FRONT door
A. So Jane could SEE one of them!

“I do not believe the McCanns were involved. To imagine they are capable of creating an elaborate cover-up and then go out to dinner is ludicrous."

NO criminal has EVER lied to the police and tried to cover up a crime!LUDICROUS.
Ask Adrian Prout!
Not only did he kill his wife, he threw a HUGE PARTY!LUDICROUS.
No criminal EVER has committed a crime and gone to dinner afterwards, they all starved to death, absolutely LUDICROUS!

Finally, for Mr Horrocks, whose name actually rhymes with B***ocks!

"IF her hair is cut shorter, she could even be dressed and disguised as a boy."

Please don't say that you are advocating that 'snatch squads' grab at little boys as well as little girls under the pretext of 'we thought it was Madeleine'

LOCK UP YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS FOLKS!

If they had wanted a boy he was there handed to them on a plate.

So Madeleine is possibly being brought up as a boy, that would cause more than a few problems I think. As for criminals lying to the police, well bless his little cotton socks, of course they wouldn't, they are all such honest people, nobody would ever consider lying to the police surely

If HE is the 'TOP COP' how THICK are the plods BELOW him?

mara thon wrote:So Madeleine is possibly being brought up as a boy, that would cause more than a few problems I think. As for criminals lying to the police, well bless his little cotton socks, of course they wouldn't, they are all such honest people, nobody would ever consider lying to the police surely

wow thats a serious case of possible mistaken identity !!!!

comperedna wrote:are very articulate. Is it supposed this married couple who wanted a child and then stole Madeleine have her permanently locked up? Why would she not otherwise at once start shouting out: 'My name is Madeleine! Take me back to my Mummy and Daddy'. Also, memories by that age are likely to be well fixed, especially if they are traumatic ones. Madeleine would never forget her parents or her twin brother and sister!

Madeleine had told Kate...she had the best day ever...i dont believe that but...that memory could not be erased...even if it was later,her worst day ever

jeanmonroe wrote:If HE is the 'TOP COP' how THICK are the plods BELOW him?

Scarey thought indeed!

Well if this is the best they can do is it any wonder people doubt they will ever get to the truth.