Goncalo Amaral.

[barrier]

There is an account that on one occasion he claimed to have legged it naked from the scene of one crime.  Wigs were found in one of his residences.
Why would it be preposterous for him to use a disguise on the off chance he might be seen and identified? he is known to be a burglar.


Bald burglar who used selection of wigs to try to disguise himself jailed for 15 years https://uk.news.yahoo.com/burglar-bald-wigs-disguise-jailed-080442762.html

Burglar Wears Underpants Mask, Find Out Safe Is Too Heavy To Steal – Dumb Criminal Of The Day | https://999thepoint.com/burglar-wears-underpants-mask-find-out-safe-is-too-heavy-to-steal-dumb-criminal-of-the-day/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

Burglar wears clear plastic wrapper as 'disguise' to rob GameStop https://www.local10.com/news/2018/04/16/burglar-wears-clear-plastic-wrapper-as-disguise-to-rob-gamestop/

Mark of stupidity: Burglary suspects drew masks and beards on their faces using permanent marker pen https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223724/Burglars-Matthew-Allan-McNelly-Joey-Lee-Miller-drew-masks-beards-faces-using-permanent-marker-pen.html

'Professional burglar' scarpered from police wearing a wig after going on the run
https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article17605559.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/1_Wigman.jpg

Vic cat burglar wore wig, stole jewellery https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/5584828/vic-cat-burglar-wore-wig-stole-jewellery/

Assistant commissioner to the MET Mark Rowley 2017:There are odd headlines and odd stories in newspapers on a regular basis and most of those are nonsense.

[Mr Gray]

They're not not suspects.

It seems if you suggest the McCanns are suspects in this investigation it would be considered libellous...so you should be ok

[G-Unit]

Some posters are making a lot about the SC statement that the McCanns havent been cleared. Thinking about it the only body who could say the McCanns are no longer persons of interest is the PJ and by doing so would have to admit what an almighty cock up the initial investigation was. Having said that P D Carmo  has said the mcCanns are not suspects so in effect has cleared them which would mean the SC were just palin wrong.

To be precise, the SC judges didn't just say the McCanns hadn't been cleared. They said the McCanns hadn't been clieared by the archiving despatch, as claimed by their lawyer.

[Lace]

All the files weren’t released however a list of all the files were.....and there was no mention of the type of note Kate claimed.

Can you give me a link to where I would find the list of all the files given to the McCann's and their lawyers please?

[Robittybob1]

Can you give me a link to where I would find the list of all the files given to the McCann's and their lawyers please?

I don't think a list like that exists.

[Venturi Swirl]

It seems if you suggest the McCanns are suspects in this investigation it would be considered libellous...so you should be ok

I woukd say it is insulting and libellous.

[Venturi Swirl]

I have changed my signature line to express my beliefs.  I trust this meets the full approval of the forum moderators.

[Brietta]

Assistant commissioner to the MET Mark Rowley 2017:There are odd headlines and odd stories in newspapers on a regular basis and most of those are nonsense.

And we know for certain that in the case of much of the nonsense which made headlines and odd stories pejoratively directed against Kate and Gerry McCann and other witnesses emanated directly from Amaral aided and abetted by his journalist friend at the time, another criminal cop, Cristovao.

Amaral was sacked from the investigation after being indiscreet with a journalist he was leaking to and Sandra Felgueiras has confirmed he leaked lies to her.

So in many cases ~ and taking Amaral as a prime one ~ I think your cite fits the bill.  Now we only have to work out why people believed and in some instances still believe the arrant nonsense spouted by Amaral.

P.S. ~  Do you know if Amaral has come across anything from the long list of 'lost property' he's apparently been looking for since 2007 ?  the poisonous Calpol for example ... or even his Ace.
Wonder why Brueckner or his ilk never featured on it.

[kizzy]

Can you give me a link to where I would find the list of all the files given to the McCann's and their lawyers please?

What you showed is not proof...as near as you can get is CM stating the mccs had thousands of pages to go through

Where can you show mccs lawyer was given the extra pages

Missing pages from the files
McCann PJ files does not have access to the missing files

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/

[faithlilly]

Can you give me a link to where I would find the list of all the files given to the McCann's and their lawyers please?

There was pages missing from the DVD which the parents may have had access to but none that could have been the note as described by Kate.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/PAGE_ORDER.htm

[pathfinder73]

Smithman reconstruction. Nobody else is seen on this route until Rua 25 de Abril.

[Brietta]

Smithman reconstruction. Nobody else is seen on this route until Rua 25 de Abril.

Standing at an entrance to the waste ground, Mr Amaral said: “This area was thoroughly searched.”

He walked a few steps and looked up at a CCTV camera and sighed loudly. The camera belongs to the Estrela da Luz resort hotel. “I believe that the person carrying a child in his arms was captured on film from that very camera,” he said.

“I asked my officers to gather all the CCTV footage in Luz but, by the time they got to this hotel, the film from this camera had been wiped over. It was a mistake and I will always regret it. I do feel Madeleine was let down.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/210032/Madeleine-McCann-Did-the-camera-hold-vital-clue

[sadie]

Smithman reconstruction. Nobody else is seen on this route until Rua 25 de Abril.

ORIGINAL RESPONSE DELETED

There was NO VIDEO when I wrote my response and the video suddenly appeared making a nonsense of my post, which I have now deleted.

One point that I would make about the video is that we do not know what date and WHAT TIME IT was made.  Was it at 10pm on May 5th 2007 or was it filmed mid winter at 1.30 am.  To be frank PF, the video is irrelevant.

However having been there a couple of times, I will freely admit that this route was very quiet when I was there.   But so what?    A likely route for carrying Madeleine away, yep.  We all know that.   But the video proves nothing.

Whether, or not the ?abductor (Smithman) took ?Madeleine that way, breaking his journey at the Staff quarters on the right is what we really need to know … and with whom did he meet at the staff quarters? 

Was Smithman actually Tannerman and was he let down by the getaway driver ?
Was the person at the staff quarters actually an accomplice ?


Did he pick up a long sleeved top for the little girl he was carrying?   So had the ?accomplish a child of her own?   Did she work with young children herself, so have top handy?

Did he phone someone from there to arrange a hand over rendezvous ?


Questions, questions, questions.  We need the answers.

[Lace]

There was pages missing from the DVD which the parents may have had access to but none that could have been the note as described by Kate.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/PAGE_ORDER.htm

Do they add up to 20,000 documents?    I don't think so.

[faithlilly]

Do they add up to 20,000 documents?    I don't think so.

You think the parents had access to more files than on the DVD....prove it.