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Julia: You didn't really think I was being serious back there, did you?
McAvennie: Well said, sir. That edition of The Scum almost put me off my Singapore Chow Mein (no mean feat in itself), with its "How dare the dirty foreigners accuse clean, decent, British people from the professional classes of anything" attitude that pervaded it.
The same hypocritical bastards that were baying for Robert Murat's head on a plate not so long ago, as I recall.
As you, and others before, have said here, if the McCann's hadn't been attractive professional types from England, then the tabloid treatment of this case would have been rather different.
The McCanns are now back in Blighty. Even though (as I understand it) if you have Arguido status, you are required to report to the police every five days (?).
Strange, that, allowing suspects leave the country during an ongoing investigation with (seemingly) no requirement that they return, but then it's been a very strange week as far as this whole case has been concerned.
With respect to Kate McCann's claim that the Portuguese police are trying to frame them, I would suggest that if a "fit up" had been, or was being contemplated in the interests of closing the case, then Robert Murat would have been a much easier proposition.
But there you go.
PB
McAvennie: Well said, sir. That edition of The Scum almost put me off my Singapore Chow Mein (no mean feat in itself), with its "How dare the dirty foreigners accuse clean, decent, British people from the professional classes of anything" attitude that pervaded it.
The same hypocritical bastards that were baying for Robert Murat's head on a plate not so long ago, as I recall.
As you, and others before, have said here, if the McCann's hadn't been attractive professional types from England, then the tabloid treatment of this case would have been rather different.
The McCanns are now back in Blighty. Even though (as I understand it) if you have Arguido status, you are required to report to the police every five days (?).
Strange, that, allowing suspects leave the country during an ongoing investigation with (seemingly) no requirement that they return, but then it's been a very strange week as far as this whole case has been concerned.
With respect to Kate McCann's claim that the Portuguese police are trying to frame them, I would suggest that if a "fit up" had been, or was being contemplated in the interests of closing the case, then Robert Murat would have been a much easier proposition.
But there you go.
PB