Hot on the heels of Madeleine’s kidnapper

Regular and longtime readers may remember this post from back in May, containing my views on the disappearance of then-three-year-old Madeleine McCann.

Turns out, as time has gone by, more and more people have trouble with the McCanns' version of events. A poll reveals that 70 per cent of people surveyed disbelieve the pair. That's some pretty bad PR they've got going on.

And now -- what, almost six months after the alleged abduction? -- they have finally released an artist's impression of the man they believe took their daughter. This has come from the mind's eye of a friend who was with them that night. A friend who didn't think anything of it at the time. That's it on the right. Oh, hold on... something's missing... Yes, HIS ENTIRE FUCKING FACE! So what we have is a man wearing normal-looking clothes, with greasy dark hair. It was a fucking foreigner what done it. A greasy fucking Portuguese wop. Yeah, that's it. Stone the wops!

What a crock of fucking shit. These people are bullshit merchants of the highest order. I don't know whether they "did it" or not. There are loads of stories doing the rounds, including the one that they would give their kids medication of some sort to keep them asleep while they were out having fun. Certainly the kid in the picture above looks pretty fucking unconscious, right.

What I do know, though, is that every new story that comes out puts me in mind of when you're a kid and you do something wrong and when your parents ask what happened you keep changing the story.
"Umm, what it was, right, we were keeping a check on them every half hour."
"What it was, okay, um, there was this shutter on the window and it was broken."
"Thing is, see, we were taking it in turns babysitting all the kids, who were all in one room."
"So, anyway, right, there was this swarthy-looking guy carrying a kid off."

Is it any wonder nobody can believe them? The whole thing sounds as dodgy as... well, I don't know, but some very dodgy stuff.

Callous, moi? Really?

I don't know if this makes me callous or not, but I don't understand why a certain question is not being asked these past couple of days:

What the fuck were those two parents thinking, leaving their three children (all under four years of age) completely unattended in a Portugal hotel room while they fucked off out to dinner?

Please, can some parent out there explain this to me?

As a child-free person, I can certainly see untold benefits of not taking your kids out with you. But if that's the way you feel as a parent, then you should either (a) make provisions for their safety in your absence or (b) not fucking have children in the first place.

All the news reports keep saying that these people felt they were acting responsibly by allegedly checking in on the kids every 30 minutes or so and apparently choosing a table from which they could see the door of their room. Do me a favour!

If I were king of the world, all their kids would be taken into care now, since they are clearly not responsible enough to look after them. I feel for them, honestly. But I feel for the kid even more, and I hope she is found safe and well. And I also feel for the other two kids. They've got real fucking idiots as parents.