I am not too sure where to post this as it fits two or three threads I can't see it elsewhere but if I have stolen someone elses thunder I apologise.
Today is paradox day:
Somewhere on Portugal's southern coast two police forces are questioning witnesses in an attempt to determine the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a little girl seven years ago.
Meanwhile in the capital city to the north lawyers will be making closing arguments in a case where parties are claiming the publication of a book written by an ex police officer had caused "damage" to the search for that same child.
There's no paradox. The McCanns were libelled in a book that also damaged the search for Madeleine by propagating the lie that Madeleine was determined as dead by the first (shelved) enquiry, and her parents determined, both as the perpetrators and as the originators of a fraudulent "fund" in their dead daughter's name.
It is reasonable to speculate that had the shelved enquiry been properly led, there would have been no need of a second enquiry with Scotland Yard as key contributors.
Good post, Brietta.
And on the efits, they were in the possession of Scotland Yard and the PJ for several years before they were released.
Ask those two police forces why the efits weren't released sooner
