One thing certain sure is that the tapas group will have researched exactly what 'reconstitution' was all about and took legal advice.
I find it rather touching that at a time when in Britain we had largely taken steps to iron out the Gene Hunt school of policing the sceptics are so determined that people should have thrown themselves into a system which was still operating from that handbook.
I know that is being unfair to Rebelo ... but the Tapas group were working from the experience of their treatment and what had happened to the McCanns ... and who can blame them.
Although with hindsight unlikely uner Rebelo, I expect they had visions of a Thai beach-style one, with the world's media snapping away as Gerry is made to carry a life-size doll from behind the sofa, stuff it in the cupboard, then chuck it in the garden, then sprint to the beach with a life-size doll in his arms in a flak jacket and helmet.
Instead of openly disagreeing on whether the trio were standing in the street, would they have been made to pose for the cameras in a particular position so as to illustrate that it would have been impossible not to see Jane? How would they evaluate that it was impossible for the two men not to hear Jane in her flipflops? Who decides and on what basis? A sound recording wouldn't take into account the subjective perception (or rather lack of it) of two men engrossed in carefree banter. What if a gust of wind from the right direction didn't materialise to blow the curtains? Would that mean that it didn't happen?
Forensic software can presumably do much of this these days, although the PJ may not have had access to any at the time.
A potentially more interesting one would have been to establish a forensic timeline with pretend intruders attempting to enter and exit in between the comings-and-goings - and that's now been done.
More useful still would have been a full reconstruction back in May 2007 with OC staff, guests and everyone else known to have been in the vicinity while memories were still fresh.
I can imagine when such reconstructions could be useful, but not in this case.