I don’t believe the family of nine all got their “timings wrong”. I believe they were accurate to within five minutes of the sighting.... Who do you think they saw - an innocent holiday maker? Why was this person never identified in what Colin Sutton describes as a very thorough investigation?
The family of nine consisted of children too
And they’d all been boozing in the pub, except for the underage children.
They must have been tired having flown in from Ireland just that day; and it was dark too. As they all left the pub after drinking goodness knows how much, I’d guess the reason they left at around 10pm is that they were dog tired (their children must have been!) and they probably didn’t even glance at their watches — they just wanted to fall in bed and sleep.
That road was apparently quite narrow, with little walkways and stone steps in all directions, so to take in a strange man’s appearance, facial features, expression and stance seems odd to me...
You’re right it was a very thorough investigation, so thorough in fact, that CS later down the line confirmed Gerry McCann was in the OC Tapas bar at 10 pm, and had been since 9:15pm
So that ruled him out — which was a ludicrous suggestion in the first place.
The Portuguese Police even told Mr Smith they’d confirmed where Gerry was at that time many months later and that’s when Mr Smith said no more. He was obviously mistaken, or perhaps was susceptible to suggestion...I feel he was embarrassed for wasting police time and felt foolish, hence why he insisted he wasn’t to be named in the press
As for the man seen, who the Smiths claimed looked “local”, was slim — which I wouldn’t describe Gerry as: I’d describe him as medium weight, well-set and fit — he certainly didn’t look thin. Nor does he look Mediterranean , albeit with LIGHT brown hair...it’s obvious the man was either a local dad taking his child home, or possibly a holidaymaker from another part of Portugal (they do tend to take their children out late in Southern Europe) and he probably never even saw or knew he’d been mentioned. Especially if he didn’t read English newspapers, spoke English – and if he did see the photo-fit a year later he probably didn’t even recognise himself!
I don’t know why you’re going on about this.
The police aren’t interested in the sighting, so why are you?