Pigeons and such. And it didn't do a lot for The McCanns either, in their search.
I try not to dwell on it too much. Madeleine wasn't, isn't my child. But I remain appalled by the perfidy.
His Investigation sucker punched Leonor Cipriano and I suspect that he intended the same for Kate McCann.
At the moment I can only put it down to his hatred of women, although I suspect that there might be more to it.
The problem with choosing your target then homing in on it and sticking with it come what may as was done with the Cipriano and McCann cases is that while it boosts the 'detection' figures but at the same time lends nothing to actually solving the crime.
In my opinion it was only because Amaral was unable to use the same coercion measures on Kate McCann as used on Leonor Cipriano that he didn't have another 'successful' case attributed to him but as a direct result, yet another perpetrator or even perhaps the same perpetrator free to walk the streets of the Algarve villages.
It is yet to be decided whether or not Brueckner is implicated in Madeleine's disappearance but I think it could be safely argued that without the continuing search for Madeleine this rapist would not be safely under lock and key but would be enjoying his freedom and whatever else comes with that.
I am bemused that prejudice certainly not evidence and certainly not proof fuels the satisfaction that Leanor Cipriano has been incarcerated over the same period that Brueckner and many like him have been free to keep doing whatever it is they do.
