Maddie McCann's parents vow to fight 'tooth and nail' if they are ever prosecuted over leaving their kids alone - The Sun

Tracey Kandohla is at it again in The Sun. In my opinion, the McCanns have been fighting tooth and nail for themselves for ten years - it's never been about Madeleine. Tracey Kandohla talks about "respectable" parenting - they have never shown any respect for Madeleine.

FIGHTING THEIR CORNER Maddie McCann’s parents vow to fight ‘tooth and nail’ if they are ever prosecuted over leaving their kids alone

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3128358/maddie-mccanns-parents-fight-tooth-and-nail-if-prosecuted-over-leaving-kids-alone/

FIGHTING THEIR CORNER Maddie McCann’s parents vow to fight ‘tooth and nail’ if they are ever prosecuted over leaving their kids alone
The 10-year milestone of Maddie's mysterious disappearance is looming

EXCLUSIVE interview

By Tracey Kandohla
19th March 2017, 9:39 pm
Updated: 19th March 2017, 9:50 pm

THE PARENTS of Madeleine McCann vowed they would have “fought tooth and nail” if they had ever been prosecuted for abandoning their missing daughter and her twin brother and sister, a close pal has revealed.

As outspoken radio host Katie Hopkins today brands it an “injustice” that Kate and Gerry escaped punishment for leaving three children alone during a family holiday, their friend said: “They were well aware they could have been charged with child neglect and naturally
Maddie’s parents say they will fight tooth and nail if ever prosecuted for child neglect
“But in legal terms they were doing everything well within the bounds of respectable parenting.”

The source insists: “Any legal action against them would have failed.

“They would have robustly defended any charges, if brought.”

Maddie vanished while on holiday with her family in Portugal’s Algarve.

Maddie vanished while on holiday with her family in Portugal’s Algarve
The McCanns left their three children, all under the age of four, asleep in a holiday apartment in Portugal while they were dining nearby with pals.

The couple could have faced jail under Portuguese law if they had ever faced a charge of abandonment and been convicted.

A court would have to show Kate and Gerry had wilfully neglected their daughter and her siblings, and they did not.
A Source Said
Mum-of-three Katie, in a global YouTube interview with glamour model Jodie Marsh, claims they should never have escaped justice.

She also claimed Kate was insensitive for ever washing her snatched daughter’s favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle Cat.

Three-year-old Maddie vanished from the un-locked doored flat in The Algarve’s Praia da Luz in May 2007.

Columnist Katie Hopkins says Maddie’s parents should never have escaped justice over leaving their kids alone
Columnist Katie Hopkins says Maddie’s parents should never have escaped justice over leaving their kids alone
Kate and Gerry are bracing themselves for painful milestone since Maddie’s disappearance EPA FILE

Kate and Gerry are bracing themselves for painful milestone since Maddie’s disappearance
Her parents chose not to pay for a baby sitting service while they ate and drank in a tapas bar with chums, dubbed the Tapas Seven.

Ex GP Kate, 49, and heart doctor Gerry, 48, of Rothley, Leics, were never prosecuted for abandoning their kids out of “compassion”, a former Portuguese law chief revealed last year.

Former minister of internal affairs Rui Pereira slammed the decision not to charge the McCann’s with “the crime of abandonment.”

Little Maddie would now be 13 years old
He revealed in a TV interview how top officials, out of “compassion” for the parents, ruled out charges citing Brits’ “peculiar cultural customs, thinking it is natural for them to leave children alone.”

Last week the McCanns faced fresh misery when a Portuguese crime expert spouted further outrageous claims over their daughter’s disappearance.

In a shocking TV outburst Francisco Moita Flores said: “Maddie died in that apartment, I have no doubt.”

In May it will be 10 years since Maddie mysteriously vanished.
In May it will be 10 years since Maddie mysteriously vanished
Hopkins had previously stated on national LBC Radio: “Maddie was lost because she was left to be found.”

Marsh, in a Twitter rant, added that her parents should be searching “on their hands and knees digging up the bare earth rather than be side-tracked and busying themselves suing people.”

Kate and Gerry will not be fuelling any of this pure speculation with any comment whatsoever.
Clarence MitchellMcCann Spokesman
Maddie’s parents are bracing themselves for the painful milestone 10th anniversary of her disappearance in less than seven weeks.

They cling onto a glimmer of hope that their daughter, who would now be aged 13, could still be alive.

McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell today declined to discuss the latest rant, having previously said: “Kate and Gerry will not be fuelling any of this pure speculation with any comment whatsoever.”
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"............well within the bounds of RESPECTABLE parenting"?????
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The eternal, "close pal" has reappeared once more.... They've never had a close 'pal/friend/buddy/oppo or mate' since they walked off and left their three children all alone for a freebie night out in a quite little holiday resort in Portugal.. But apparently this is well within the bounds of 'respectable parenting'...

Tell that to the parent who left a child alone for a couple of minutes in a car whilst he was in a chemist buying some Calpol...

Plainly the grading for respectable/responsible parenting seems to depend just who you have on your speed dial...