Gorgeous George Lays Into The McCanns?

Question

10 September 2007
THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE MOTHER OF ALL INJUSTICES
George Galloway

NOT since Dr Crippen - long before the blizzard of 24/7 satellite media - will there have been a case like Madeleine McCann's if the now official suspicions of the Portuguese police turn out to have been well founded.

They have turned it into a circus, with daily appearances at mass and the flight to the Vatican to kiss the hand of the Pope, invoking celebrities, inducing millions of people around the world to raise a fortune in a campaign fund and turning their child into one of the iconic faces of our age.

So even Dante himself would find it difficult to describe any circle of the inferno fit for Kate and Gerry McCann if it all turns out to have been a lie.

I have been in and around the Ocean Club in the sleepy Algarve village of Praia da Luz for more than 20 years and it has been surreal enough watching its tiny cobbled streets bristling with television crews broadcasting around the world from a

once little-known holiday idyll.

And now this.

On my Talk Sport radio shows I have been critical of the McCanns from the start. Not least because I knew aspects of their story could not be true.

Their supposed constant vigilance of their three toddlers while they ate in a tapas bar and the children slept in an unlocked apartment was not possible. The distance between the two points was both greater and more convoluted than they said.

In any case, the children's bedroom was on the OTHER side of the apartment block and, though both doctors, neither parent possessed X-ray vision.

I said that if a single mother had left her three kids in the chalet at Butlins while she supped scampi and chips in the boozer, she would have immediately been attacked as a feral, feckless, unfit mother by the same media which was painting the grieving McCanns as the very embodiment of modern middle-class Britain.

For months I have watched that media poke ridicule at the supposed bumbling Inspector Clouse

Clouseaus of the Portuguese police for their apparent leaden-footedness in the investigation.

Of course no Johnny Foreigner could be as good as our own police, who brought us the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six.

Now with this new development, the same media seems coiled like a spring to turn on the McCanns as they previously did on the other "suspect" Robert Murat.

Sensing they may have been made the biggest fools in history, the Press tables can be seen turning, the plates beginning to move.

Of course, the most xenophobic commentators say the science which has led to the Mccanns being named as suspects is inherently suspect due to the foreign hands through which it has passed, oblivious to the fact that it came from British laboratories.

If Madeleine's blood and other DNA evidence really has been found in the boot of her parents' hire car, there are only a few possible explanations. A previous renter of the car - it was 25 days after the child went missing that the family took

possession of the car.

In these circumstances the Portuguese police really would be clots if they did not consider the girl's parents to be suspects.

Of course there could be other, some would say unlikely, possibilities.

The DNA and blood evidence in the boot may not, after all, be Madeleine's and the forensic scientists may be mistaken.

Theblood in the boot of the McCanns' hire car may be somebody else's, in which case Goodfellas comes to the Algarve and the family are the victims of the most grotesque coincidence.

The DNA could have been planted in the boot of the McCanns' car, presumably by the police.

The sort of thing which happened to Mr OJ Simpson.

The McCanns have either been the victims of a cataclysmic historic injustice, almost unprecedented, or they have been complicit in a scheme so duplicitous, so evil, so foul that Shakespeare himself could not have written it.

Either way, the name McCann is now well and truly in the history books.

Answer 1

This loony is back. Pity.

Answer 2

Oh! dear god, and this coming from a 'pillar of society' I must say. Talking about circuses and invoking celebrities. Not that you had any good cause to do so Mr Galloway, but a certain reality TV show comes to mind where you impersonated a cat. What they should have done is made you slither along the ground like a snake as this would have been much more fitting.

Answer 3

George is right, as usual.

And to all you (or is it one person?) who choose to insult George, more fool you for being fooled by the tabloid propaganda. If George had voted for the Iraq invasion the tabloids would have been very kind to him indeed. But because he had the courage to defy the warmongers, he was vilified in the press. He has been proved right of course and everything he predicted has happened. He is a man of courage. Good for you George.

Answer 4

George, as you say, the McCanns hired the car 25 days after Madeleine went missing so can you tell me, for her blood to have been in the boot of the hired car she must have bled, and since when have corpses started to bleed.

Answer 5

good on george for having the guts to say it, too many people in the media ***** footing about what they really think.and joe c, who's a dick?george galloway,shambo?or maybe its someone a little closer to home who hasnt got the intelligence to answer a question civilly.

Answer 6

This is the same Galloway that was such a friend to the tyrant Saddam Hussein and others of similar ilk.

Answer 7

Let those without sin cast the first stone.
Those words are so applicable here. Too many people judge and condemn without knowing all the facts. As a child my family used to regularly holiday at Butlins. They had a baby sitting service where children were left in chalets and one babysitter would do the rounds on many chalets. The parents would all be drunk in the bars. That was considered OK. the McCanns were only a few yards away not out of the area. They returned every 30 Min's to check on the kids. Who knows a waiter at the hotel could of tipped of the abductor to when it was safe to snatch poor Maddie. The point is these poor people were naive perhaps but definitely do not deserve the wrath of all these armchair know alls who are making the hell they are enduring even worse if that is humanly possible. They will have to live with the consequences of their actions to their final breath. there is absolutely no need for them to be punished in a court of law. What purpose would that serve? The only result would be that the twins would have to be separated from the parents that they love. These people are not a threat to society Yes they are victims and should be treated as such. people have a right to air their opinions but to perform a witch hunt which is exactly what they are doing is so wrong. As before "let those without sin cast the first stone"

Answer 8

is George still enjoying the cash Saddam gave him?

Answer 9

i agree.
i'm an unemployed single mother from glasgow imagine if that was me who left my kids alone, i would have been done with neglect and my kids would be put in care.

Answer 10

George Bin Galloway?

Laughable. Anyone who takes this traitor of the Queen & country seriously, needs their head testing

Answer 11

Was he dressed like a cat when he wrote it?

Everybody is judge and jury now......"oh I knew it" say the armchair theorists, well hold your horses...........
Innocent until proven guilty.