Kate McCann is angry with bloggers: I am angry with ITV

Kate McCann is angry with bloggers: I am angry with ITV

I made the right decision last night to watch Traffic Cops and The Apprentice on BBC 1 rather than watch Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign For Change on ITV, which I taped to watch at 10 O' Clock. Unfortunately I missed the News At Ten special, which I am led to understand featured even more of the McCanns, if 2 hours of them wasn't enough to make you sick!

I find it distasteful that Gerry and Kate McCann who are prime suspects in the disappearance of their 3 year old daughter, Madeleine, are trying to preach to the rest of us how an Amber Alert system Europe-wide could assist in cases of child abduction. I don't doubt that such a system might be beneficial, it has appeared to be successful in the USA. However, in Madeleine's case she was not abducted. True, Madeleine is missing. Her disappearance is something the Portuguese police are investigating. No sooner were the McCanns made suspects than they fled Portugal, on police bail, on the next available Easy Jet flight. A flight from justice. I feel that the police should have imposed bail conditions and made them surrender their passports. Then if they fled the country at least they would have been treated as fugitives rather than allowed to have 2 hours of prime-time TV to air their propaganda. I think 1 hour would have been enough to hear what they had to say in their defence. Unfortunately, there was nobody to ask them tough questions. It was not balanced, the McCanns had an easy ride. They got a fairer deal from ITV 1 year on than the pair of them gave Madeleine on the evening of 3rd May 2007.

I don't know exactly what happened on that fateful day, but I do know that both of the McCanns have told several lies and that their stories which they keep changing do not stand up under scrutiny. It is an inescapable fact that these so-called responsible, professional, adults left their 3 year old and 2 year old twins without any adult supervision whilst they went out on evenings binge drinking with their so-called responsible, professional, friends. That is bad enough, child neglect and/or child abandonment is a crime in both this country and Portugal. We know that Madeleine was crying for ages the evening before at being left Home Alone. Gerry and Kate McCann were more interested in drinking and socialising with their friends than to care for their children. Since when has going down the road to the pub been like watching your children in the garden?

The fake break-in arranged by the McCanns failed to fool the police. If somebody had genuinely abducted Madeleine, as the McCanns falsely claim, why stage the fake break-in? Obviously, the McCanns sought to cover something up. The McCanns did not seek to cover up the disappearance of Madeleine, very few will not know that Madeleine is missing. What the McCanns are accused of is why is Madeleine missing. If it was simply a case of accidental death, why didn't the McCanns just report it to the relevant authorities? Did they fear what an autopsy would reveal, and decided to rob the coroner of a body? Did they fear losing their reputations? Who stands to gain the most out of this crime? Certainly, the McCanns have the most to gain from any cover up.

I believe their initial stories and desire to seek media attention was to distract attention from Madeleine being the victim to them being the victims of a bogus abductor. Then when Gerry McCann learnt that £10,000 had been raised by staff and patients at his hospital, the realisation came that if this went national and international how much more could be made. The McCanns have profited out of Madeleine's death.

I can understand why the McCanns are angry with bloggers and forums. What I cannot understand is why ITV gave them a platform. Will they next be giving Ian Huntley 2 hours of airtime?