By Year 10 pupil Nina
A new claim has been pulled in to the ever-evolving Madeleine McCann case. A Portuguese crime expert faces backlash after his claim: ‘Maddie died in the apartment’
On the 3rd May 2007, Madeleine McCann was abducted from her bed in a holiday apartment, situated in the Algarve region of Portugal. Almost 10 years later, the speculation of what really happened to this young girl, is still up in the air.
Parents, Gerry McCann and Kate McCann, left Madeleine and their other two children alone in the holiday apartment, while they went to dine with friends at a local Tapas bar.
When Kate returned to check on the kids at 10pm she discovered Maddie was not in her bed and missing.
There are several different theories as to what happened to this young girl. Theory one: she was kidnapped. She was taken, and could be alive or not – that question remains unanswered and it may always will.
Theory two: Her parents covered up her death.
While many speculate theory one, as the years have gone by people have turned their heads and looked at the dire idea that her parents have something to do with this case, and covered up their own daughters death. Many people working on the case (for example, Moita Flores – a Portuguese crime expert, who worked on the original case) suspect that Maddie’s death is more suspicious than some of us first thought. He claims, ‘It would have been impossible to get through a window with a child,’ replying to the idea that she was abducted.
My personal opinion (in no way legally supported) is that something has been hidden. There are many questions we all must take into consideration – why weren’t the parents arrested? Surely it was child negligence? Leaving your child alone in a foreign country? When has that ever been legal/appropriate? There seems to be so much query at why the parents pushed in a court case to silence a Portuguese police officer. These terms weren’t particularly slanderous, so why did they push so hard to silence the officer?
Of course, all these claims are still up in the air, and nothing has ever been disclosed. But there will always be the question – Where is Madeleine McCann?