Hope I'm Wrong

It emerged this week that Portuguese police investigating the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann have received a huge amount of information from "psychics". This doesn't surprise me. There has been a lot of coverage, and a story of this nature does tend to attract the scum element. I had assumed that when police get this kind of tripe sent to them, it would simply be filed, or even binned. It seems however that they have to waste time examining this information because there is a possibility that the abductor will contact the police, posing as a psychic, intending to derail the investigation. This is not something I had considered.

So, the parasitic scum psychics are not simply clogging the mail boxes with bullshit about visions and predictions. They are actually wasting even more vauable detective resources.

I've been thinking about the Madeleine McCann case and I can't decide whether the parents of the missing child are doing the right thing by generating a media circus. Of course, there is an advantage to keeping the image of the missing child fresh in everyone's mind. But it also has a more negative affect. The child has no passport. It might have been possible to move her around Europe without a passport, except that her picture is now at every port, airport, and border crossing. Her abductor is not likely to risk travelling with her now. Likewise, she would probably be recognised the instant she went out in public. The fact that Madeleine's abductor cannot risk taking her out of hiding, coupled with the fact that he is probably terrified about being caught, makes her a liability. And that means there is more chance of him disposing of her.

I hope I'm wrong.