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Saw this item on VM's news pages about how Portuguese police staged a reconstruction. The article also mentions that the McCann's have used donations from the fund to pay for a couple of mortgage payments on their house.

http://www.virginmedia.com/news/uk/u...oryid=15628018

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Took them a long while to do a reconstruction, thought it is a step in the right direction if it ain't a little too late. I think the group they were with at the tapas bar are still 'dodgy' and not giving all the info they can.

Also I really don't think the public really care now what they do or get up to, unless if she's found or they actually charge someone with proof then anything else is just not interesting anymore.

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If they feel they cant go back to work, should mortgage payments continue to be paid from the fund? I think not.

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well the report said they made 2 (or 3 I forget) mortgage payments from the fund, before they were made suspects, once they were made suspects they stopped

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There are a few more articles about the mortgage payments here:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../wmaddy230.xml

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...11&expand=true

So, if they hadn't become formal suspects, I assume the mortgage payments would have continued. I wonder how many people who contributed towards the fund, particularly in the early days, knew exactly what it could be used for?

It wouldn't be so bad if they said that they would pay it back when they resumed work, but Clarence said nothing about that.

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It was reported over a week ago that portuguse police were travelling to UK to interview them, but nothing more has been heard.

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I'm interested to know where the other £296,000 has gone.

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Dont they have a team of PIs roaming North Africa, Portugal and Spain. They must cost a few bob.

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While it is bad attitude to have as long as maddie is missing i am full of nothng but boredom. I really don't give a tinkers cuss about kate or gerry mc'cann from what i have seen of them both on tv and in the press they don't strike me as brilliant people. As for the fund well i will not be giving another penny to it as an early donator (not much but what i could afford) i don't feel it was right to pay the mortgage of a cardiologist and a gp who are on better money then most of those that donated. To be honest until she is found be it dead or more hopefully alive i am not interested in it and i certainly have no interest in this pr exercise that is going on.

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To be fair, the fund was set up with the goal of providing assistance to the McCanns and their costs. Not working and needing to pay their mortgage should count.

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All i saw was the bit about it being to find maddie and to do anything to help do that and thats why i and i think many others donated.

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A bag of clothes containing DNA linked to Madeleine McCann has been discovered dumped by a road in Portugal.
The bag is believed to contain a blue fleece jacket and a pair of adult jeans with traces of DNA which may have come from Maddie.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

http://www.virginmedia.com/news/madeleinemccann/

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It was found 2 weeks ago? - I thought DNA tests took longer than 2 weeks

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Don't know much about DNA testing, but I thought, in general, the time taken to get a result depends on the quality of the sample. I think the results from a good quality sample can be had in a day or 2.

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Or in Portugal 5 minutes if it helps their cause.

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I am not laying any blame as i don't feel qualified to judge but speaking as a parent....I live in bungalow so there are no stairs just the ground level, as I live in a rural location I used to be able to leave my windows fully open at night without any worries. I then became a parent and even when I was inside my own home at night with the windows open and only in a different room from my son, I felt for his safety so now they stay closed. It just puts my mind at rest, and I could never of personally gone out to eat and left my kids sleeping.