When you count up the bottles after any party, don't you always seem to find you got through a lot more than you thought you had, because who's counting? (I mean, if you're driving you be likely to know what you drank yourself, but hardly what everyone else had.)
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I can't see how encouraging the media to keep pictures of Madeleine on the front pages and in the public eyes for as long as possible should have hindered the police in their investigations.

It's still possible to hope that Madeleine will turn up safe and well - starnger things have happened. But more likely that, if it was indeed an abduction, she is gone forever.

And it's only too likely that there will be no clear outcome to this. No trial ending in a conviction, but a permanent cloud of suspicion over the parents. It's clearly a matter of "guilty until proved innocent" for some people - "I am convinced the mother is guilty of manslaughter".