Jo wrote:
Portuguese police are apparently pursuing a theory expressed last year by MWT, though it's not clear if he's the original source of the theory.
February 2017:
Madeleine McCann's angry parents are 'baffled' by investigative reporter's astonishing theory she WANDERED OFF in search of them on fateful night in 2007
November 2018:
Madeleine McCann police investigate theory she disappeared after leaving holiday home to try to find her parents
'She WAS kidnapped!' Madeleine McCann's parents dismiss new theory that their missing daughter disappeared after wandering out of holiday apartment looking for them
FROM the Daily Mail
"A family source said: 'Kate and Gerry have always maintained that their daughter was abducted and simply didn't get up and wander off to her fate.
'There were heavy shutters which would have been impossible for a small child to open.'
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The theory Madeline may have lost her way in the dark and taken a wrong turn as she went looking for her parents was one of the early hypotheses put forward to explain her disappearance."
The McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: 'This is pure speculation and as such Kate and Gerry will not be dignifying it with any sort comment whatsoever.'
A source close to the pair said: 'It's baffling a television programme had him on as an authority on the Madeleine case. He's re-invented himself as a criminologist but when did he become an expert on this high profile case? Never!'
The friend added: 'He said he had received a statement from the McCann's saying they were pleased there was an on-going investigation which they hoped would unearth some news but they haven't been in contact with him, neither has their spokesperson.
Well done DM for finding the McCanns concerns and I applaud The McCanns. A remarkable family.
I, along with others I know, feel a real sadness for the McCann's and all those other families who have experienced the same type of tragic event.
What is needed is to be able to identify who abducted Madeleine and anything else like did she go missing from the bedroom or on the street is "eas" to say but way off the mark to helping or solving the case. Yes children can go looking for their parents in general yet where the parents are adamant that is not how it happened then they are most likely correct in knowing the behavior of their own children. Please no more nonsense like that - "find" any likely suspects with evidence to back up suspicion.
Otherwise stay out of the media.
I have read little on this and I do not think I could cope if it happened to me.