...you missed the evidence discounted.
No ... you did.
It appears that even before he became the main man, Ricardo Paiva was reporting back to Rebelo that evidence be discounted as not of interest to the investigation.
SnipRegarding the facts in question, he states that he had already contacted the OH in May of 2007 and at this time relayed to the police that at around 06H00 in the morning on the 4th May, 2007, he saw a couple passing the Marina de Lagos. The man was carrying the child. It was ascertained at that time that the aforementioned situation would not be of interest to the investigation.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/GEORGE_BURKE_BROOKS.htmA practice which he continued until it was brought to light in 2010.
SnipThe McCanns’ legal team became aware of the file during court proceedings as part of a libel trial brought by the couple against the former detective, Goncalo Amaral, who led the initial investigation.
The McCanns’ Portuguese lawyer, Isabel Duarte, accused current Algarve police chief Ricardo Paiva of deliberately ignoring the leads because they did not fit in with the theory that Madeleine’s parents were involved in her disappearance.
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"Every piece of information (in the dossier of potential new leads) was treated the same way -
Ricardo Paiva writes on it 'this is not relevant to the investigation',” Mrs Duarte said from her office in the Portuguese capital on Thursday.
“He believed and to this day still believes that Madeleine is dead. I asked him: ‘How can you find a person when you are not looking for them?’”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/7215353/Portuguese-police-ignored-Madeleine-McCann-leads.htmlIt now appears that Ricardo was not discounting evidence from the archiving of the case ... the files show him doing so prior to that while Madeleine's case was still under investigation.
It seems you didn't take that into consideration when you posted "discounting evidence" particularly when it seems Ricardo Paiva was doing it on an industrial scale: mind you, he was the guy who brought the 'evidence' of Kate's dream to the Amaral investigation ... which apparently he believed 'relevant to the investigation'.