Forgive hmself? heard it all now....why the hell should he...he spoke as he found...and came forward...you should be applauding him for his courage for doing so even though he felt in shock...not morally preachng to him! Disgusting.
Martin Smith in shock?
Courage?
Pull the other one.
This was a man who says he saw a bloke carrying a child at 10.00pm on 3 May.
He maintained that he wasn't aware of anyone being missing until a text from Ireland the following morning.
Hmmm.
He didn't report his sighting that day. Nor on 5 May. Nor on 6, 7 or 8 May. Nor on 9 May when he travelled back to Ireland.
Nor the following day, 10 May.
Nor on 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 May.
No, he waited until 16 May, the day after his friend Robert Murat was arrested. I say 'his friend'. We now know that Smith got to know Murat two years earlier (2005) and had met him many times before.
Murat was pulled in for questioning on 15 May. Smith 'phoned the next day. Is there a connection?
And what prompted him to make that call, 13 days late? He says that it was a 'phone call from his son Peter who said: "Was I dreaming or did we see a bloke carrying a child two weeks ago". Peter backs him up.
How credible is that tale?
Honestly?
And then he expects us to believe that on the BBC News on 9 September he 'recognised' Gerry McCann 'by the way he was carrying his child'. As if he could possibly do that if he did not, on his own admission, see Smithman's face (hidden by child, he says), he only saw him for a second or two, it was dark, and the street lighting was 'weak'.
You claim Smith was 'in shock'.
So when exactly did he report his thoughts on 'Smithman' looking 60% to 80% like Gerry McCann?
Answer: several days later.
It's well worth examining carefully all the statements of the Smiths - to the PJ, to the Gradai, to the press.
There are more holes in their tales than in a sieve