I still support McCanns. Police have not shown any conclusive evidence so far.

Car was hired 25 days after the incident. They would've had to hide the body somewhere very quickly and with lots of people looking for Madeleine. I just don't see it.

A.D., London, UK

I don't understand why people are so quick to dismiss the idea that the parents could be responsible here.

In the United States, we all remember Susan Smith. She killed her two little boys by driving her car down an embankment into a lake and jumped out at the last second while her little boys were still strapped into their car seats. She then proceeded to put on a show for all the world to see for several days, claiming that a black man carjacked her vehicle and drove off with the two boys in the backseat. She made her rounds with the media. Finally she confessed to her crimes. Thanks to her, many parents aren't believed when their children are truly abducted.

Parents can and do kill their children. I'm not saying that this is the case here. But, to dismiss it by saying it's just not possible or plausible is very naive. It's as naive as dismissing the whole abduction theory too. Anything is possible here. We don't know what happened, and we won't know until the truth comes out.

April, Duluth, USA

Who hired the car before the McCanns?

Brenda, Mill Hill, UK

Why does nobody speak of planted evidence. If someone killed her, it would be very easy to plant evidence in the car or anywhere else, in order to place the guilt on the parents.

Jane , Copenhagen, Denmark

To me, this whole episode is sounding more and more like the Azaria Chamberlain case . Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murdering her baby Azaria in the Northern Territory in Australia in the 1980s. The prosecution case heavily relied on forensic evidence that supposedly showed the baby's blood was splattered inside the Chamberlain's car. The whole prosecution case was built around this piece of "evidence". The "blood splatters " were subsequently shown to be paint . Lindy's her conviction was eventually overturned, but not before she had spent 6 years in gaol.
I find the obvious parallels between the Chamberlain and the McCann cases very disturbing.

Heather E , Brisbane, Australia

No one is guilty unless found so by a judge or jury. Wait for the full story to come out.

Roger Bingham, Lauzun, France

The Portuguese police must consider every line of investigation, and all of you have to agree that, in this case, there are strange facts and behaviours, that at least, should be considered by the police in their analysis.
Portugal isn’t a third world country, the Portuguese Criminal Police have one of the highest success rates of the world, solving cases of kidnap and disappearances, and please don’t forget that this line of investigation grew up when the British police(and their dog’s) were directly involved.

António Monteiro, Lisbon, Portugal

Why have not Lie Detectores been useed on suspects ???

BRIAN ADAMSON, MARBELLA 29600, SPAIN

Maybe its an incredible coincidence and someone should check who rented the car five weeks before.

Natali, paris,

does blood last 5 weeks in a dead body...? do bodily fluids still exist after that long?

it just seems a bit doubtful..

Isabel, London, UK

People are criticising Kate for not crying in public - this same accusation was aimed at Lindy Chamberlain who was subsequently cleared in the Azaria Chamberlain case.

Amanda, Brisbane, Queensland Australia

why not ask a psychic.

bridge, london,

I feel sorry for Madeleine's parents, the greater the focus on her parents the greater the chance of the culprit not being found.

Ju, Coventry,

So if I have got this right, the Portuguese authorities suspect the McCanns of having killed their daughter in a way that produced blood, then of hiding her body somewhere the police couldn't find it and then three weeks later, in temperatures that average mid 30's in June, of sneaking the badly decomposed corpse out under the noses of the police and the world's press so as to dispose for disposal...somewhere.

I can think of one or two flaws in all of that.

DNA is a useful tool but it has to be used with common sense. It is not a substitute for competent and painstaking detective work. No doubt Brown's Home Office, which wants UK citizens to provide it with DNA samples as a substitute for the already limited numbers of policemen we see on our streets, thinks it can rely on chemistry. Voters should send back a message to any political party - and misguided politically correct judge - that supports such a gross intrusion of civil liberties that this will not happen.

ian, bristol,

I believe the McCanns to be innocent, however, I am fearful that after months of intense stress and media hounding a more tragic scenario could occur. There have been cases in the past few years where annhiliation of the whole family has been the only way out of unbearable tragedy. Life will never be the same again for the McCanns and I greatly fear this could happen. Dear God, I hope I am wrong.

shirley bowen, Blackpool, UK

The presentation of events by the international press in this particular case is a good example of (1) how to sell newspapers (2) how to keep a story going and (3) why reporting restrictions were introduced in this country. Trial by press rather than by jury is what the headlines should read.....and what if the McCanns were charged? Could they expect to receive a fair trial? A tragic story with only a tragic ending. Let's give some thought to the effect on the twins and what the future holds for them.

John Goodacre, London, UK

I have blood on my bedroom wall. MY BLOOD.
It got there because I swatted a mosquito that had previously bitten me.
Just a thought.

G J BUNTON, SLOUGH, BERKSHIRE

I do not believe that Mc Canns can be responsible of Madeleine's death. What I wonder about this story is: why did the Portuguese Police search any trace of Madeleine in a car hired long time after her disappearance? Do they have any previous suspect? And if they had, why don't they talk about that? How can the McCanns hide the body of a dead child for many days in summer season? Did they have a fridge or something similar large enough to contain the body? And later on, how could they hide a body so perfectly that nobody could ever find it, being so far from home, in a place they probably do not know so well? I am italian, sorry for my not perfect English.

Ugo Iezzi, Chieti, Italy

If the car was hired five weeks after Madeleine disappeared couldn't it have been used previously by someone who had abducted her and then hired by the McCanns purely by chance?

Fenris, Birmingham,

Jean Benets parents were treated as suspects in her murder, which led to the breakdown of their marriage and the death of her mother from cancer, despite the facts which clearly showed that an intruder had entered the house and comitted the crime.

Lack of correct investigation by unqualified untrained police should be completely ended.

Kathy Scott, Oxford, Oxon

All previous users of the hire car have been checked and ruled out.
Gerry is definitely the biological father of the twins, they look just like him. Kate is definitely Madeleines biological mother as she looks just like her.
Maybe someone else hid the body?
People should stop bad mouthing the Portuguese police, they obviously did not accuse them based on no evidence.
The truth will come out in the end.

Tess, Ennis, R.O.I

Surely if the presence of the DNA was indicated by the cadaver dog that would tend to show that the DNA was post-mortem

jackiew, South London,

I think the media and the Portuguese police will have a lot of humble pie to eat soon. There is no way the McCanns are implicated in their daughter's death. All the way through, the investigation by the Portuguese authorities has been less than convincing and I suspect this will be just another embarrassing episode for them.

Oxford Don, Oxford, UK

There' a guy in SA who can trace missing people with an instrumnet he designed, All he need is a hair string of the missing person, contact Carte Blance.

Ingrid, JHB, SA

Will we ever know the truth amidst all the speculation and counter claims ? Unfortunately we live in a world of ever intrusive media with the public having an ever increasing appetite to dissect peoples lives and comment on them.

If this ever came to trial who ever it was in court would never be able to have a fair hearing based on what has been said by the media and the enourmous speculation that has gone on . This kind of coverage runis peoples live with so many quick to find someone to blame and point the finger at.

In answer to Joseph Kellie, how should parents behave in a situation like this ? We all probably like to think we know how we would raect if we ever had to face this kind of ordeal but the reality is you do not know unless you are going through it and that you would not wish on anyone.

Martine, Milton Keynes,

in the Azaria case, though, the fact they were cleared doesn't necessarily make them innocent (what about O.J too?). The court found there wasn't enough evidence to convict them.

jt, ivry,

I totally support the MacCanns. They are obviously innocent whatever the evidence points to, which is very inconclusive and suspect to say the least. The Portuguese Police have handled the case ineptly from the beginning and are obviously trying to take the pressure off themselves by trying to incriminate the MacCanns.
I would also like to express my disgust at those biggoted, self righteous people who critisize the MacCanns for leaving their children for short periods of time. We've all been there and 'got the T-shirt ' ! What gives others the right or arrogance to think they are any better than the MacCanns ! If all this culminates also in the removal of the twins from their loving family home
those individuals will also be responsible for wrecking two more lives as well ! I sometimes dispair of humanity.
How opinionated we are. How quickly people change from being compassionate to vindictive.
I would like wish Kate and Gerry much love and success in their search for Madeline

Janice Frape, Thorpe Tilney, Lincs, UK

I don't believe that they did it,. They have suffered enough grief losing their lovely daughter and have searched tirelessly since her disappearance. With all the stress, frustrations of the media reports, and the language barrier with the police it amazes me how they manage to function and look after their twins.They have been two people struggling with their guilt and grief, yet still trying to focus on every little detail that might bring back their daughter. They must have returned to Britain tired and deflated knowing that they have not done anything wrong, and that the police are nolonger searching for Maddie alive. Are all the people who hired the car in the month before them suspects? I suspect they are being set up, as it would look better for the tourist trade if they had done it, rather than Portugal being regarded as a country where your children are not safe. Someone out there knows the truth. Please return Maddie to her loved ones and end their misery,

teresa, oxford, england

With so much apparently resting on the reliability of DNA matching, the control sample of Madeleine's DNA against which other samples are compared, must obviously be reliable beyond any question or doubt. In a family of five, where the DNA profiles will be quite similar to each other, and in the absence of Madeleine herself to provide a control sample, it seems somewhat problematic to state with total certainty that the control sample being used for comparative purposes is uniquely Madeleine's DNA. Presumably, the control sample being used was, by necessity taken from clothing, toys, hairbrush etc as Madeleine herself is sadly absent. Such samples, inevitably intermingled with DNA from other members of the family will be contaminated to a sufficient extent to void such a sample being reliably used as a pure DNA control sample. It seems to me that rigorous questioning about the accuracy of the control DNA sample needs to be satisfied before jumping to conclusions from other "evidence".

Simon Brock, Hong Kong,

Joseph,

if the police have been 'doing their jobs' because of the 'email and phone taps', then why no surveillance on them, perhaps then we would have had an explanation for the DNA in their vehicle, maybe even a recovered body?

If they were about to be charged they wouldn't have been allowed to return home so suddenly.

I dont think the investigation has been handled well from the beginning and if the recounting of Mrs McCanns police interview is true ( tell us where madelaine is and you'll get a lighter sentence?) then it sounds like they really are clutching at straws.

D Donaldson, Glasgow,

Can anyone tell me why the Police should have looked 'under the upholstery' in a car hired 5 weeks after the child's disappearance , it would normally seem quite illogical to be looking there .

William. Watkin, Andover, England

I hope that reasonable people will maintain a degree of intelligence and wait for the evidence to be clairified before condemning Kate and Gerry McCann.

Comments like 'they have never behaved as is usual for parents of children who have been kidnapped' are truly ridiculous, and highlight the indecent haste with which some people love to jump on a media bandwagon.

Imagine yourself in this scenario before you judge, and balance the 'parents are bound to be guilty' view with 'hapless detectives grasping at straws' theory.

Dee, Brighton, England

I have a strong feeling that the parents are guilty and I pray that it was accidental.

May God forgive them both.

Socorro Leon, San Diego, CA

Who had the car before them? Kate carries Madelene's toy everywhere and probably did have DNA on her clothes. They must have been very clever indeed to slip out in the dead of night under the media and police's nose to conceal and later bury a body. Utter nonesense. The abductor is still out there.

CA, Manchester, England

Who had the car on hire during the five weeks prior to to it being hired by madeliene's parents ?

Donald F, South Uist, Uk

Who rented this particular hire car around the time of Madeleine's death?
Has this been investigated?

Jane Grey, Melbourne, Australia

It's hard to believe that Maddy's parents were involved in her disppearance. However, the evidence must be considered. Much more evidence is needed before charges can be brought. I personally just 'don't know'. I only hope now that Maddy's found alive and well ; that would be a fantastic end to a terrible nightmare.

If you are reading this and have Maddy, just let her go and get on with your life. It is the right thing to do now.

elliot Jones, Oslo, Norway

In a small community where car rental is available, eg, Praia de Luz, there is a significant probability that the same car rented by an abductor could later be rented by the victims.

Who rented the car around the time of the alleged abduction? Has he/she been questioned in depth? Has forensic examination of the previous car-renters been conducted? What results?

Such a theory is just as valid as other more speculative theories currently being touted.

Bob Brown, Tustin, USA, California

There is absolutely no comparison to the Chamberlain case of 1980. Chamberlain was undoubtedly prosecuted for a crime she did not commit but this was at a time when forensic science was far more primative - which should be obvious to all, since it was almost 30 years ago. We have come a long way in three decades; had the police back then been able to apply the same level of forensic analysis that has been applied to the McCann case, they would absolutely not have found Chamberlain guilty. The Chamberlain parallel is drawn time and time again but only by those with little or no knowledge of forensic science.

It is possible that the forensic evidence that has been discovered is just plain wrong - just like it is possible that the McCanns will win the lottery tomorrow.

JB, UK, UK

"Portuguese police have played down claims that Madeleine McCann's blood was found in her parents' hire car."

I may take the B.B.C. report as more reliable.

Alan Henderson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear

What I do not understand is the logistics of hiding the body of a child for 3 weeks in an unknown country with the worlds media and swarms of police, friends and officials following your every move.
The McCanns then had to hire the car, get the childs body into the boot, drive to a place not too far away and manage to hide the body whilst the towns population and police searched the whole area.
I hope the police can adequately provide a suspected timeline of events and movements of Madeleines body if they are going to charge the McCanns.

V, London,

Come on, blood could easily be around, what about mosquitoes? They carry it and get squashed on the wall. Where is the hard evidence...a body? Yes this is starting to look like the Australian case of Azaria, how disgraceful.
I do feel for Kate, she is like any other mother, looking after her kids and yes I shout at mine too, when they dont do as told, especially when they are strong headed and stubborn, and a 3 year old is capable of both stubbornness and blackmail, I know, I have two.

C Macrae, London,

In the Chamberlain case the "blood" turned out not to be blood at all - despite the fact that several experts swore on oath that it was.

I don't see why it is suggested that the parents' encouragement of publicity demonstrates guilt: surely if they were guilty it would have been in their interests to dampen down the publicity, given that it is publicity that has put more pressure on the police to come up with answers.

Eleanor, London, UK

There is too much pressure on the McCanns by the media trying to gain credibility of "being the first to know something new" about the case. Let the police conduct their investigations properly and in secret as they do and leave all this speculation hype which is not helping anyone involved.

Bugsy, Burley-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire

Definately something fishy going on, theres a lot of sea there. John, those hire cars are circulated very frequently in the same area. You never know, unlikely but possible.

Bryan, Shrewsbury, UK

The media spot light has been on the McCanns since Maddy disappeared, so they are hardly going to have disposed of a body without being seen.

Les, Newcastle, UK

Perhaps, as sad as the case is, if the media had not embarked on such a feeding frenzy (aided it must be said by the McCanns themselves) and allowed the police, both Portuguese and British, to get on with the job without constant surmise and conjecture it may have been concluded by now.

N S Collett, Britsh Forces,

Who had the car in between the time of Maddy's disappearance and when the McCann's rented the vehicle five weeks after the disappearance? Why aren't they checking this person?

KSmith, Buffalo, USA/NY

Body fluid or Blood found in the Hire car could also mean that whoever kidnapped or really murdered Madeline was able to plant evidence in the hire car, meaning that person remained in the vacinity of the McCanns throughout their stay. Maybe they are being stitched up here. After all Murratt was able to walk into the Hotel Room wasn't he.

I still cannot believe that Doctors finding Madeline accidentally dead wouldn't have followed Professional instinct and summoned assistance whilst trying CPR to revive Madeline. And I don't think even the Police in Portugal believe that they intentionally murdered her.

If she was abducted, I still believe that it was for her body parts to be sold in the underground body organ trade, I wonder if the Police have considered this possibility.

David, Northallerton, North Yorkshire

Who had the car when Madeleine disappeared? If there are traces of her in the boot are there not 25 days worth of people hiring the car who need to be interviewed?

Charlotte, London, UK

I think the portuguese police is right. They work with the britain police and britain dogs, too. The evidences were analisys of Birmingham Forensic Science Service, so I dont why not believe. I think the police will find the body's Madeleine, soon.

rosamelia, Brasilia, Brazil

My late father always told to me to ask God for only one thing: no to test you.

People sometimes do un-imaginable things. I sincerely hope that the Police is wrong otherwise it would cast a shadow of doubt on every missing child's parents.

Mehdi Ali Khan, Zurich, Switzerland

Gerry and Kate McCann, are now officially considered suspects in the disappearance of their child - Madeleine.

This news, says more about the incompetence of the Portuguese police investigation than it does about the McCann's. If Madeleine had disappeared in the UK, the police would have considered the family as suspects from the outset and they would have remained suspects until the police had concrete evidence to the contrary.

Gerry and Kate McCann, behaved disgracefully and negligently by leaving their three young children - all under the age of five to go out to dinner with friends - this does not automatically translate into a guilty verdict of a killing.

The rumour and innuendo surrounding this sad case, often fuelled by a voracious media, clouds one simple fact - this story started and will conclude with an innocent young child, whose life has been cruelly taken, whether she's found alive or dead.

John R Bacon, Richmond, UK

So who hired the car 5 weeks before the McCanns hired it? I didn't see this in any of the analysis, but seems within the realms of possibility.

John, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Be very careful before pointing the finger at the McCann's. Certainly this is the message from the Australian experience with Lindy Chamberlain and the disappearance of baby Azaria. Despite all but the most superficial evidence, a body or motive, this poor women was hounded, imprisoned, her family destroyed and ultimately self exiled, largely due to the court of public opinion. Justice is not served if a fickle public and sensationalising media influence due process.

Jim Goodin, Melbourne, Australia

If the child's DNA is proved to be in the car then perhaps the rental car records should be seized to see who rented the car on the day that Madeline disappeared, and the days immediately afterwards. Have the Police followed THAT line of thought? Have they profiled all the former renters of the car, BEFORE blaming the parents automatically?

victor compton, Cherbourg, France

'Unknown whether the couples sperm and eggs were used for conception' ?? Meaning?

The children are the double of their parents. Police are clutching at straws!

Beck, Manchester, lancs

I cannot help believe that the truth will never be known. Sadly many investigations that should have been carried out from the very offset were not. I do not believe the Portuguese police were at fault; they have not had to deal with many child abduction cases and the media frenzy was unprecedented.

Kate and Gerry McCann may not have shown the typical reaction of parents who have lost their child; but that is not enough to condemn them. I will say however; if they use the Madeleine fund to fight their corner with a law firm who fought for the likes of Pinochet and Nick Leeson they are certainly sending out the wrong message in more ways than one.

Debbie, Ware, Herts

Why is so much information being exposed about the McCanns when I thought this was against portugease law? I think they should keep the information down to a minimum because if the allogation is found to be false the lives of McCanns will never be able to return back to normal.

Sheila, durham,

"A forensic sample that has a 100 per cent match to Madeleine McCann has been discovered..."

This is becoming scarier by the day.

ken haggerty, venice, fL

Police says today that the blood is not from Madeleine ! Stop please ! Inform us, but carefully...

nicole laugel, Obernai, France

it is tragedy if the couple really did it. they lost their loved one and shoud be comforted but now they have to encounter with much pressure which comes from human's concience.

clare, Bejing, China

When were the McCanns supposed to have had the opportunity to move the child's body? Surely they've been in company of one form or another every day since their daughter disappeared? I think we should be very careful to withhold judgement and make no suppositions until introvertical evidence is presented and verified by a disinterested authority.

Kitty, Manchester,

Who hired the car on the night that she disappeared?

Trish Warne, Wadebridge/Cornwall, UK

it could be a frame up as the car was rented by the parents 25 days after the disappearence of the girl. The body of the girl would have been already decomposed, in my opinion.

it should be checked out who was the person that was driving the rental car 25 days ago at the time when the girl had disappeared.

Ulrich Schwab, Balmoral South , NSW Australia

The BBC is saying that the Portuguese police are now downplaying the DNA evidence found in the car. Perhaps all the media sources should just agree to stop reporting leaks and hearsay and wait until the Portuguese authorities have something concrete to say.

Sophie, Cambridge, UK

The blood finding in the rental car has been in the news for sometime - I have been wondering why I have never found any mention of the history of this car at the time of and following the disappearance of Madeleine,ie., the persons renting, and the possible locations to which it has been driven.
Since it is such an obvious question I must have missed it in the reportage.

d.jones, vienna, austria

all people are commenting on is what they read. The police will have information that will not be public yet. They have their reasons for their actions.....let them complete their jobs.
We, the public, only have part of the picture....the police have much much more. Wait!

peter, man chester, england

What nobody seems to be addressing is where the McCanns could possibly have hidden the body -- and so quickly after reporting the disappearance -- until allegedly moving it in a hire car more than 3 weeks later. It would either have to have been in a freezer somewhere or decomposing in another location; either way, relatively close to the crime scene.

bryan matthews, Gold Coast, Australia

One thing that occurs to me, and one would assume has also occured to the Portugese police; who hired the car in the previous 25 days and what were their movements, had they been in and around the town at or around the time of the little girls dissapearance?

John, London, UK

this is a very interesting case, DNA is a vital form of evidence used to convict people but we should be very careful to ensure exactly what percentage of DNA was found and where it came from.
However, I would have thought that if one wanted to show their innocence they would cooperate fully with the police investigation and answer all the questions put to them.
There does seem to be some something fishy going on but that does not necessarily mean they commited the crime.

peter cooper, manchester, UK

How are parents meant to behave when they lose a child? The McCann's are intelligent professionals with excellent media contacts. They have used this to highlight the disappearance. I am not sure if they are guilty or not. I hope the truth will be revealed soon.

Jodie, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

I think there is a great deal of speculation in the absence of any firm information from the police in Portugal. If this were in the UK I am sure more details would be made avaialble as far as possible without compromising any pending case. The sooner these details are made available the better for all, including little Maddeleine who is still, as yet, missing whether alive or otherwise. If the parents are innocent then all this speculation needs to stop; it is incredibly detrimental to their characters and they will be unlikely to be able to shake off any lables they have been given. If guilty, then action needs to be swift for the sake of their other children and the rest of their families grieving the loss of Maddeleine and indeed much of the British public who have looked for Maddy and donated money to the "search fund".

Mrs Neibh Hawkins, Solihull, UK

Is it possible this is the Portuguese police revenge who (somehow) might be upset about the way McCann accused them to be incompetence at the beginning of the investigations?

Franco, Rome,

they said they would stay in portugal until there was hope that madeleine was alive. so, they left after confronted with her death, whith samples from they´re renyed car!!

jorge silva, lisboa, portugal

The Azaria Chamberlain case was in 1980 before DNA was used in crime scene analysis. There is now infinitely more sophicated forensic evidence testing. There is no comparison between the 2 cases apart from a mother being elevated to victimhood - remember, if a child dies under the age of 3, it is dear old mum who is the perpetrator in 75% of cases. I don't think anyone for one minute believes it was murder - most likely accidental death or manslaughter. Take the emotion out of the equation. Of course they proclaimed their innocence - the grief stricken behaviour may have been guilt not the horror of a child aduction. Look for the evidence -not the testimony of people who may well be implicated in the crime. As the fictional Sherlock Holmes said, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever left, however improbable, is the truth.

Kris Stone-Tolcher, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia

My heart is breaking for this little family. They have been through so much.

Barbara Osborn, British Columbia, Canada

As I live in Spain, I have followed this case mainly through the Spanish El Pais. Hence, the reporting has been more detached, and possibly more objective than the very emotional reporting in the UK media. However sad we all feel about Madeleine, we, and the Portugese authorities, cannot ignore the possibility that the parents were somehow involved. Recent events did not surprise me. I had, in fact, expected this to happen for some time. The police are, of course, keeping the abduction option open, but with the new forensic evidence (done in England), and the the McCanns' reluctance to answer key questions, what else can they do? The portugese police are clearly no "Keystone Cops"; they have been doing their job professionally in spite of extreme pressure and hostility. The McCanns have been treated politely and have been allowed home (would the English police have let them out?). Let us all hope the police here are wrong, but I fear they might be right.

Eivind Gilje, Motril, Granada, Spain

thousands parents in india and china kill their daughters and authorities in most cases turn a blind eye

carl, malaga, spain

The mistakes of the Chamberlain investigation in Australia should not be compared to this or any other case. That was pre-DNA testing where the 'blood' in the car was eventually found to be a specific rust of the car's chassis metal.
It's clear that we are far from knowing all the facts about the McCanns; the utter frenzy frothed up by the media has not helped, but nor has their endless desire for publicity.

Ian Wells, London, UK

I just find it so hard to believe,that someone could kill a child by accident is one thing but get rid of the body of that child that you love so much???? I really dont want this to be true,i just hope she is still alive somewhere.
They couldn`t have killed her and just dump the body,what kind of people would do that?

Fatima Tuley, Dartford, England

Who had the car on hire during the five weeks prior to the Mc Canns hiring it?

Donald F, South Uist, Uk

I don't believe either of the McCanns are involved in the dissappearance of Madeleine - they are intelligent people and would surely not have undertaken such an high-profile campaign to find their daughter if they had anything to hide.
I cannot understand how the Portugese police have performed so ineffectively - it certainly does not encourage me to considera holiday in Portugal.

Ian Downs, Carnforth, UK

The reported evidence doesn't seem to support any definite conclusion. Kids bleed all the time. Whether the "biological fluid" is the result of a criminal activity seems purely speculative at this point in time.

Bill Unaire, Albion, Washington, USA

It's a vast world with billions of people. One only has to search the net to discover how much there is out there ,both good and evil.
Anything and everything is possible...

Zak Connery, Leeds, U.K

I hope to God that the police have got it right because if they havnt can you imagine the suffering the parents are going through?

Alan , Chelmsford, UK

Dont condemn the McCanns until you read about Azaria Chamberlain, Ayers Rock, Australia thirty years ago. embarrassed police suddenly find blood in the car, after weeks of fruitless efforts. Parents are charged only to be cleared years later.

catherine, victoria, australia