Do mothers kill their babies?
Is it just me or does everyone marvel at how quickly the public can turn?
There is a media feeding frenzy in the British press at the moment, the worm has turned on the parents of Madeleine McCann, the little girl who disappeared from her hotel room in Portugal four months ago.
I don’t know about you but it reminds me, chillingly, of Michael and Lindy Chamberlain.
Twenty-five years ago, the barrister representing Michael and Lindy Chamberlain, on trial for the murder of baby Azaria, argued that sane, stable loving mothers "don't kill their babies".
But we didn’t believe him. The public had decided Lindy Chamberlain was guilty, and the police, conveniently, came up with the evidence.
Obviously scientific evidence has done wonders for the fight against crime, but it’s but it’s certainly not infallible.
On the way to their ill fated holiday at Ayers Rock, the Chamberlains visited Mt Isa in their Torana Hatchback sedan. Getting in and out of the car in the dusty mining town, the family unwittingly filled the car with copper oxide, the substance later identified as baby Azaria’s blood. The police claimed Lindy left the camp fire, sat in the front seat of the Torana and slit her babies throat.
A tireless fight and a royal commission have completely exonerated Lindy Chamberlain, but not before she lost her marriage, the security of her family and spent years in jail.
The Chamberlain and McCann cases seem uncannily parallel….right down to the public scorn.
In the McCann case, traces of dried blood are claimed to have been found in the car Kate and Gerry McCann hired 25 days after Madeleine's disappearance.
25 days after Madeleine disappeared the police are claiming her parents might have put her body in the hire car and disposed of it in the sea. I just don’t buy it…for a start, when were those people alone for five minutes in the 25 days after their baby disappeared?
Science is great, but it’s not perfect. In the meantime, the person who did take Madeleine gets further and further away…
There is a media feeding frenzy in the British press at the moment, the worm has turned on the parents of Madeleine McCann, the little girl who disappeared from her hotel room in Portugal four months ago.
I don’t know about you but it reminds me, chillingly, of Michael and Lindy Chamberlain.
Twenty-five years ago, the barrister representing Michael and Lindy Chamberlain, on trial for the murder of baby Azaria, argued that sane, stable loving mothers "don't kill their babies".
But we didn’t believe him. The public had decided Lindy Chamberlain was guilty, and the police, conveniently, came up with the evidence.
Obviously scientific evidence has done wonders for the fight against crime, but it’s but it’s certainly not infallible.
On the way to their ill fated holiday at Ayers Rock, the Chamberlains visited Mt Isa in their Torana Hatchback sedan. Getting in and out of the car in the dusty mining town, the family unwittingly filled the car with copper oxide, the substance later identified as baby Azaria’s blood. The police claimed Lindy left the camp fire, sat in the front seat of the Torana and slit her babies throat.
A tireless fight and a royal commission have completely exonerated Lindy Chamberlain, but not before she lost her marriage, the security of her family and spent years in jail.
The Chamberlain and McCann cases seem uncannily parallel….right down to the public scorn.
In the McCann case, traces of dried blood are claimed to have been found in the car Kate and Gerry McCann hired 25 days after Madeleine's disappearance.
25 days after Madeleine disappeared the police are claiming her parents might have put her body in the hire car and disposed of it in the sea. I just don’t buy it…for a start, when were those people alone for five minutes in the 25 days after their baby disappeared?
Science is great, but it’s not perfect. In the meantime, the person who did take Madeleine gets further and further away…
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