The only proof of any steps forward that both investigations have taken that I'm aware of is Andy Redwood saying quite categorically, "We are almost certain now that this sighting (Tannerman) is not the abductor.
Kate and Gerry say a lot of things but this is one step forward we can prove their website chose to ignore.
One step forward, two steps back springs to mind on this occassion.
Your post is ill researched and ill informed. In her book MADELEINE Kate had a lot to say about the man seen by the Smiths ...
SnipThe police did not appear to feel that Jane’s sighting in Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva and the man and child reported by the Irish holidaymakers in Rua da Escola Primária were related.
They seem to have concluded that these were in all likelihood two different men carrying two different children (if, they implied, these two men actually existed at all). The only reason for their scepticism appeared to be an unexplained time lapse between the two sightings.
They didn’t dovetail perfectly.
To me the similarities seem far more significant than any discrepancy in timing.
Every time I read these independent statements in the files (and neither could have been influenced by the other, remember – Jane’s description had not been released to the public before the Irish witnesses made their statements), I am staggered by how alike they are, almost identical in parts.
As a lawyer once said to me, apropos another matter, ‘One coincidence, two coincidences – maybe they’re still coincidences. Any more than that and it stops being coincidence.’
