Was Gonçalo Amaral fair game given the content of his book?

[Cariad]

 
That would probably be libellous...amaral is a convicted criminal so we can call him disgraced

Ok, we'll stick to 'behaved disgracefully' then.

That's definitely not libellous.

disgraceful
dɪsˈgreɪsfʊl,-f(ə)l/Submit
adjective
1.
shockingly unacceptable.

[stephen25000]

I guess that if Dr Amaral is fair game for writing a book, Dr K Mccann is too.

Should I start referring to her as 'mccann, the disgraced former GP'?

What's sauce for the goose...

[Estuarine]

What is not factual in this article?

Probably not a lot. It is written with some emotive terms leading the reader down a particular path. Setting it out in bullet points would be better to judge against but the journos editor would give him the bums rush for doing that. "The investigating officer" is not half as good as "a fat sweaty old geezer in suit that fits him where it touches, swilling coffee and noshing cakes and spilling it down his front"................................if you see what I mean. But as my old man used to say there are ways and ways of telling the truth. The trick is being able to sort the wheat from the chaff. >@@(*&)

[Carana]

Probably not a lot. It is written with some emotive terms leading the reader down a particular path. Setting it out in bullet points would be better to judge against but the journos editor would give him the bums rush for doing that. "The investigating officer" is not half as good as "a fat sweaty old geezer in suit that fits him where it touches, swilling coffee and noshing cakes and spilling it down his front"................................if you see what I mean. But as my old man used to say there are ways and ways of telling the truth. The trick is being able to sort the wheat from the chaff. >@@(*&)

Personally, I think that he could have left out the descriptive remarks about his appearance. Immaculately dressed officers are also capable of jumping to premature conclusions. That said, I haven't found anything factual to quibble about.

[Angelo222]

Personally, I think that he could have left out the descriptive remarks about his appearance. Immaculately dressed officers are also capable of jumping to premature conclusions. That said, I haven't found anything factual to quibble about.

Mr Amaral had an exemplary record and much success as a police officer especially against drug distributors so it was unfortunate that his minions let him down.  One mistake doesn't make him a criminal as some like to suggest.

[Eleanor]

Mr Amaral had an exemplary record and much success as a police officer especially against drug distributors so it was unfortunate that his minions let him down.  One mistake doesn't make him a criminal as some like to suggest.

So you think it is okay for a Senior Detective to cover up a crime and then lie about it in Court?

He might have been a whizz at catching drug runners, but he knew diddly squat about finding missing children.  He totally ignored any evidence that didn't point to the parents on both counts.

[Lyall]

So you think it is okay for a Senior Detective to cover up a crime and then lie about it in Court?

He might have been a whizz at catching drug runners, but he knew diddly squat about finding missing children.  He totally ignored any evidence that didn't point to the parents on both counts.

What evidence, in this case?

[John]

So you think it is okay for a Senior Detective to cover up a crime and then lie about it in Court?

He might have been a whizz at catching drug runners, but he knew diddly squat about finding missing children.  He totally ignored any evidence that didn't point to the parents on both counts.

He did an excellent job in the Cipriano case putting those two dysfunctionals behind bars.

[Eleanor]

What evidence, in this case?

Don't make me laugh.

[Lyall]

Don't make me laugh.

Talk is cheap, facts are golden. What evidence are you saying he ignored, in this case?

[Eleanor]

He did an excellent job in the Cipriano case putting those two dysfunctionals behind bars.

He certainly knew how to get confessions beaten out of witnesses.  And how to run a publicity campaign against parents.
And if you think that The Cipriano Verdict was safe after what you went through then you have lost your way.

[Estuarine]

So round we go again. 
The investigation continued for nine months after Dr Amaral was given the elbow. The archiving report and the archiving dispatch were signed off by the relevant justice. Whatever the justice may or may not have been reported to have said he "signed off" on the documents. We all know what those documents said because they are available for all to read.

[Carana]

Mr Amaral had an exemplary record and much success as a police officer especially against drug distributors so it was unfortunate that his minions let him down.  One mistake doesn't make him a criminal as some like to suggest.

 According to whom?

[Angelo222]

According to whom?

According to many sources including the Press.

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[Eleanor]

According to whom?

Apparently Amaral single handedly worked out that drugs and contraband were being run into small coves.  Like wot they had been doing in Cornwall for more than 500 years.