I've just been chatting on a blog about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and as it is impossible to hold a proper conversation with this blogger I set up my own blog.

I cannot understand some peoples warped ideas. This is what they said: "Gerry and Kate McCann are two grossly irresponsible parents who abandoned their children". Another then said "they did not come across as two parents concerned for the safety of their child, they came across as two very selfish people trying to promote themselves through the media." The first blogger then added "The one thing that no one seems to mention is that we only have the parents word that she was in the bedroom when they said she was. Whatever happened, this couple have an appalling attitude towards the welfare of their kids and are revelling in the media attention. I agree with you that they didn't come across as too concerned about Maddy." A third blogger then added "Personally, I think this is a set-up; maybe the parents have shares in some sort of personal security firm with a new gadget of some sort." These are lamentable statements.

I normally do not comment on these sort of warped ideas but these go too far. I am a parent of three children whom I love dearly. I am also a grandfather of three little ones. It was four but my granddaughter (by coincidence she was also called Madalyn)died very suddenly of undiagnosed childhood leukaemia at 4 1/2.

Thinking back I too did things that could have resulted in a tragedy but that never thank God happened. If you walk through a shopping centre and imagining you are looking for a child to snatch you will suddenly see how easy some parents make it. Does this make them grossly negligent. No. My eldest son once walked in his sleep. He came downstairs and in front of me opened the front door and walked out! Had I been in the garden having a barbecue with friends my son could have walked into the road and been run over. Does this make me grossly negligent. No.

Yes we are all naive in some of the ways we bring up / look after children but to wish them prosecuted, as this blogger said, is sinister.

We should be offering these and all parents, whose children have disappeared, HOPE.

If all this publicity does not get their child back it will have awakened peoples awareness to a crime which is not publicised enough. To me to steal a child for nefarious purposes is worse than murder. We should be discussing what punishments to hand out to such vermin not what punishments that the victims should be handed down by a court. Ridiculous.