Is it possible to leverage the media to Madeleine's benefit?

[Venturi Swirl]

Speak for yourself, I'm having mine hand-transcribed on medieval parchment in gold ink by a team of monks. Including this one.

Delusions of grandeur from the General.   

[Brietta]

Maybe that Irish Journalist might be interested - I forget her name but she did a McCann article  a year or so ago - or did it never materialise? - can' remember

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Gemma  O'doherty, that's her name.

I think it is an impossible task for a free lance journalist to undertake.  In fact I think what Shining has envisaged is altogether impossible while the two investigations into Madeleine's disappearance are active and outsiders have absolutely no idea what evidence has been checked out and discarded and what new evidence has been found and is still under investigation.

Whatever ... I think the last thing Madeleine needs is another in the long line of individuals regurgitating and reanalysing events of a week in Portugal in May ... I think we have progressed far beyond that.

[faithlilly]

And to this date there has been nothing by both police Investigations to discount their "version".

That we know of.

[jassi]

I think it is an impossible task for a free lance journalist to undertake.  In fact I think what Shining has envisaged is altogether impossible while the two investigations into Madeleine's disappearance are active and outsiders have absolutely no idea what evidence has been checked out and discarded and what new evidence has been found and is still under investigation.

Whatever ... I think the last thing Madeleine needs is another in the long line of individuals regurgitating and reanalysing events of a week in Portugal in May ... I think we have progressed far beyond that.

That's pretty much the end of this thread then.   

[Eleanor]

What about The Cadaver Dog Thread?  That's looking a bit neglected.

[The General]

What about The Cadaver Dog Thread?  That's looking a bit neglected.

...not to say unreliable.

[G-Unit]

I wonder what SIL's key questions are?

[Mr Gray]

...not to say unreliable.

Sceptics don't realise the dogs can be both reliable and unreliable

[Mr Gray]

I wonder what SIL's key questions are?

I think I can guarantee that sil does not have key questions that would take this investigation forward... Sils chance to prove me wrong..
One of mine... Was the smith sighting promoted in Portugal in order to identify smithman

[The General]

Sceptics don't realise the dogs can be both reliable and unreliable

All of them? Another crass generalisation.

[Mr Gray]

All of them? Another crass generalisation.

From observation I think it's an accurate ..which sceptics here think the dogs could be unreliable

[Eleanor]

Dog Thread, if you please.

[The General]

From observation I think it's an accurate ..which sceptics here think the dogs could be unreliable

So just the sceptics on here, or all sceptics who have an opinion about cadaver dogs reliability?
And what's your measure of reliable? Because if it's 100%, then it's a loaded question.

[The General]

Dog Thread, if you please.

That's a bit woof. But you're right.

[ShiningInLuz]

If I could sit down and have a chat with Martin Smith, Peter Smith or Aoife I would do it in an instant.  They know much more than they think they know, and it's important.

If I could ask Kate and Gerry a few questions, I would be happy to chat.  They also know more than they think they know, and it's important.

At the moment, I live in Portugal, where the alleged chief suspect of OG has been portrayed as Smithman.  Note, not a possibly entirely innocent person, as DCI Andy Redwood stated, but a 'chief suspect'.

There are 3 battlegrounds as far as I am concerned.  One is the Republic of Ireland, the homeland of the Smiths. One is Leicerstirshire, the homeland of the McCanns.

The third is obviously in and around Luz.  I have lost patience with OG apparently requesting endless extensions whilst seemingly doing nothing at all.