Goncalo Amaral.

[barrier]

I was born a Mouthy Cow.  East End Cockney.  I will always be better at it than you are.

Words on a screen, they mean nothing.

[Brietta]

Words on a screen, they mean nothing.

The thread title is Goncalo Amaral.  Please confine your "words on the screen" to sentences featuring that somewhere.
Thank you

[Anthro]

Yup. even when eventually released from prison, uncharged, he'll  still be known as  the 'one that did it'

Same as Madeleine’s parents, then?

[jassi]

Same as Madeleine’s parents, then?

[jassi]

Same as Madeleine’s parents, then?

Yup,  life can be a bummer

[Anthro]

Yup,  life can be a bummer

Has life been unpleasant to you?

[jassi]

Has life been unpleasant to you?

yes. But I learned to live with it.

[Brietta]

Sandra Felgueiras says of Goncalo Amaral >

But the question I ask is, does any good cop start by identifying a suspect and then force his theory to fit into the theory he preconceived?

No.

No good investigator does that.

But Gonçalo Amaral did it.  And insists on doing so.

And that's why there are no eternal truths.


For over fifteen years now there are still those who allow themselves to be governed by the story Amaral concocted to suit his own prejudices.

It is surely long past the time to accept that his technique wrong and the result was prejudicial to any hope there might have been for recovering Madeleine or finding the perpetrator of the crime against her.

[Brietta]

Sandra Felgueiras says of Goncalo Amaral >

I have my well-educated opinion on this matter, but while I listen, my job is to report facts, not rumours, nor convictions.

But my real duty to public opinion is no less when we are talking about a politician or a police officer.
Or a former police officer who relentlessly influenced the public opinion.

For this reason, in 2008, when I read all the volumes of the investigation conducted by Gonçalo Amaral, I found that the alleged evidence he collected against the McCann couple was not evidence but assumptions. A kind of "copy-paste" of what I had done in the Joana case investigation.

The so-called evidence found by the dogs in the room of the apartment where they vacationed and in McCann’s rental car a month after their daughter’s disappearance has not been lab-confirmed to belong to Madeleine.
And it was this irrefutable fact by science that led the Portuguese justice system to eliminate them.

[The General]

Sandra Felgueiras says of Goncalo Amaral >

I have my well-educated opinion on this matter, but while I listen, my job is to report facts, not rumours, nor convictions.

But my real duty to public opinion is no less when we are talking about a politician or a police officer.
Or a former police officer who relentlessly influenced the public opinion.

For this reason, in 2008, when I read all the volumes of the investigation conducted by Gonçalo Amaral, I found that the alleged evidence he collected against the McCann couple was not evidence but assumptions. A kind of "copy-paste" of what I had done in the Joana case investigation.

The so-called evidence found by the dogs in the room of the apartment where they vacationed and in McCann’s rental car a month after their daughter’s disappearance has not been lab-confirmed to belong to Madeleine.
And it was this irrefutable fact by science that led the Portuguese justice system to eliminate them.

I've summarised the statement for everyone: WaaaaAaaahhh...the nasty policeman lied to me......waaahhaaaahh.

[G-Unit]

Sandra Felgueiras says of Goncalo Amaral >

But the question I ask is, does any good cop start by identifying a suspect and then force his theory to fit into the theory he preconceived?

No.

No good investigator does that.

But Gonçalo Amaral did it.  And insists on doing so.

And that's why there are no eternal truths.


For over fifteen years now there are still those who allow themselves to be governed by the story Amaral concocted to suit his own prejudices.

It is surely long past the time to accept that his technique wrong and the result was prejudicial to any hope there might have been for recovering Madeleine or finding the perpetrator of the crime against her.

Lest we forget, stranger abduction is a theory.

[Mr Gray]

Lest we forget, stranger abduction is a theory.

Clutching at straws... The only suspect /arguido is CB

[Brietta]

I've summarised the statement for everyone: WaaaaAaaahhh...the nasty policeman lied to me......waaahhaaaahh.

Making puerile posts such as the above cannot obliterate the proven facts of Amaral's perfidious lies not the least of which is his criminal conviction for perjury which was confirmed by the courts which rejected his appeal.

[Eleanor]

Tis amazing the number of times Amaral turns up in just about everything.

[faithlilly]

Tis amazing the number of times Amaral turns up in just about everything.

It is Eleanor…and he hasn’t even been relevant for 15 years.