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Offline slartibartfast

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #615 on: May 06, 2015, 10:51:43 PM »
Members who should know better are asked to please stop goading our new member OxfordBloo. TY

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Sorry, couple of glasses of wine.
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Offline mercury

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #616 on: May 06, 2015, 10:57:04 PM »
You will of course have an explanation for Mark Harrison moving the sideboard to allow Eddie access to an area of interest.
While you are explaining that ... perhaps you have an explanation of why he wasn't allowed free rein to do so.

Of course you don't because you appear to be interested only in displaying your somewhat combative style of posting.

Que?
Not to worry. Attack is the best form of defence some say.Not to mention changng the subject. So I gather you are not interested in re explaining your posts or correcting misunderstandings.  Or offering proof of your assertions (specifically the one about samples being examined and found to contain cigarette ash).


OxfordBloo

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Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #617 on: May 06, 2015, 11:04:08 PM »
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Sorry, couple of glasses of wine.

Maybe when you have sobered up you can address the mathematics in the matrices I published earlier today.

You are yet to make a rational response to that argument.

Offline Brietta

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #618 on: May 06, 2015, 11:05:20 PM »
Sept 2007
"He immediately gave a positive bark response within the garage between a truck parked to the left of the entrance and a boat parked to the right," Grime said.

Sept 2010
Theresa Parker's family and friends will finally be able to put the Georgia 911 dispatcher to rest after her skeletal remains were found scattered along the Chattanooga River.


He said that, after Theresa Parker's friend reported to police that she was worried about Theresa in March 2007, two Walker County sheriff's deputies found an empty house and looked inside the Parkers' garage when they weren't allowed.

On the left side of the garage, they found Sam's LaFayette Police Department vehicle. On the right side, where Theresa's Toyota 4Runner should have sat, they found nothing. They also found Sam Parker's truck outside the garage, and days later they found the 4Runner back in its place -- though no one ever saw Theresa again.

When Theresa's family reported her missing, members of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation asked Sam Parker where he was the night his wife had last been seen. He told them he had been cruising in his truck.

But investigators knew that wasn't true because the truck had been home when deputies checked on the Parkers. The inconsistency in Sam Parker's story was a key point during a September 2009 trial in which he was found guilty.

You don't fool Eddie. If there's cadaver scent he will detect and alert to it.


The sum of witness statements of domestic violence plus the available  evidence ~ allowed Sam Parker's prosecution to proceed and really had nothing whatsoever to do with either Eddie or the Maggie, the Australian dog.



**snip
Defense attorney Doug Woodruff asked Higgins about the accuracy of Maggie's nose and if there is any scientific proof that shows these type of dogs only get aroused by cadavers.

"Scientifically, no," Higgins replied.

Upon further cross examination Higgins said Maggie has only shown accuracy on occasions when other physical evidence points to where a body has been dumped.
http://www.scentevidence.com/2009/07/dog-debate-at-center-of-murder-case.html

**snip
During lengthy cross-examination Grime said there is no evidence to show Eddie smelled anything incriminating against or linked to Mr. Parker. Like Higgins, Grime said cadaver dogs can only prove useful when there is other evidence that corroborates the dog's "hits."
http://www.scentevidence.com/2009/07/dog-debate-at-center-of-murder-case.html


**snip
Crime scene investigator Audie Wayne Murphy was questioned on taking two blood samples from the bumper, under the latch, of the murder victim’s Toyota Forerunner...
Forensic biologist Ashley Hinkle with the GBI crime lab testified to testing various samples of evidence, including the blood on the bumper, a washcloth with blood on it, dog hair with blood on it, a flashlight, shirt, sweatshirt and towel, to name a few.
DNA examiner Jessica Walker with the U.S. Army crime lab and formerly with the GBI, conducted tests on the two blood samples and confirmed the two blood stains were one on top of the other and that the DNA found in the samples were that of Teresa Parker and Sam Parker...
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/ga-overview-fired-police-sgt-sam.html
"All I'm going to say is that we've conducted a very serious investigation and there's no indication that Madeleine McCann's parents are connected to her disappearance. On the other hand, we have a lot of evidence pointing out that Christian killed her," Wolter told the "Friday at 9"....

Offline misty

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #619 on: May 06, 2015, 11:22:50 PM »
Sept 2007
"He immediately gave a positive bark response within the garage between a truck parked to the left of the entrance and a boat parked to the right," Grime said.

Sept 2010
Theresa Parker's family and friends will finally be able to put the Georgia 911 dispatcher to rest after her skeletal remains were found scattered along the Chattanooga River.


He said that, after Theresa Parker's friend reported to police that she was worried about Theresa in March 2007, two Walker County sheriff's deputies found an empty house and looked inside the Parkers' garage when they weren't allowed.

On the left side of the garage, they found Sam's LaFayette Police Department vehicle. On the right side, where Theresa's Toyota 4Runner should have sat, they found nothing. They also found Sam Parker's truck outside the garage, and days later they found the 4Runner back in its place -- though no one ever saw Theresa again.

When Theresa's family reported her missing, members of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation asked Sam Parker where he was the night his wife had last been seen. He told them he had been cruising in his truck.



But investigators knew that wasn't true because the truck had been home when deputies checked on the Parkers. The inconsistency in Sam Parker's story was a key point during a September 2009 trial in which he was found guilty.

You don't fool Eddie. If there's cadaver scent he will detect and alert to it.

Cadaver scent had already been located before Eddie was called in. Eddie no more located the remains than the previous dogs did. His signal merely provided a limited corroboration of Maggie's indications.


Walker County Messenger-http://www.walkermessenger.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Pretrial+testimony+continues+in+Sam+Parker+murder+case%20&id=2948982-Pretrial+testimony+continues+in+Sam+Parker+murder+case&instance=home_news

Dog experts testify

In Tuesday proceedings, Lisa Higgins with the Louisiana Search and Rescue Dog Team was the first to testify. Higgins retired from law enforcement after 30 years and continues to train search-and-rescue dogs.

Higgins said she brought her Australian shepherd named “Maggie” to search for Theresa Parker in April 2007. Maggie has been a certified cadaver dog since 2003 and is trained in searching for decomposed remains. Maggie lets her handlers know she has found decomposed remains by lying down near the scent.

On April 13, 2007, she and Maggie came to Walker County to search for Theresa Parker, she said. While investi-gating vehicles in the impound behind the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, Maggie picked up a scent of decomposing remains and sent an alert, by laying down, when she came across Teresa Parker’s Toyota Forerunner. Maggie also had a change of behavior when she picked up a scent along the rear passenger’s side of the vehicle.

In response to questions from the defense, Higgins said the scent picked up by Maggie is not necessarily human remains.

Assistant public defender Doug Woodruff asked Higgins if Maggie was infallible and Higgins replied, “No, sir.”

The second witness was Martin Grime of the United Kingdom. He is occasionally contracted by the U.S. govern-ment and is a qualified expert in cadaver dogs.

Grime displayed five videos of his search dog “Eddie,” trained to search for human decomposition. The videos, filmed at the LaFayette Police Department during September 2007, displayed the dog’s ability to pick up on alert scents and did not show any video of the dog searching for the remains of Teresa Parker.

On Sept. 20, 2007, Eddie and Grime traveled to Sam Parker’s residence at 95 Cordell Ave. in LaFayette for the dog to search the property.

During Woodruff’s questioning, Grime said Eddie was used to search the residence — inside, around and under-neath — and found nothing. But in the garage area, between a boat and a pickup truck, Eddie gave an alert of a scent.

Woodruff asked Grime why he did not search the pickup. Grime said that he only screened the areas he was asked to search and if there had been a scent, Eddie would have picked it up.

The courtroom became tense when Woodruff questioned Grime’s reading of the dog and their legitimacy, giving various hypothetical scenarios, such as the dog smelling food instead of remains. Grime replied, “I can’t predict the dog’s behavior. I study the dog’s behavior. You are trying to put words in my mouth and I don’t deal in hypotheti-cals.”

Law enforcement agents testify

GBI special agent James Harris, who conducted an initial interview with Sam Parker and performed a search of his property in March 2007, was brought to the stand.

District attorney Leigh Patterson questioned Harris on the various search and evidence warrants, all of which Sam Parker agreed to.

The warrants included Sam Parker’s residence at 95 Cordell Ave., the area around the residence and the areas adjacent to the residence; Sam Parker’s deceased father’s Trion residence; Sam Parker’s LaFayette Police Depart-ment locker; Sam Parker’s patrol vehicle; and DNA swabs from Sam Parker’s mouth and Teresa Parker’s Toyota Forerunner.

FBI special agent Marcus Veazy was cross-examined about placing a tracking device on the Toyota Forerunner and about the DNA swabbing.

GBI special agent Dan Simms and Walker County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Burt Cagle were questioned by public de-fender David Dunn on why the Toyota Forerunner was eventually driven by Simms to the Sheriff’s Office, if the seat had been moved back to fit Simms’ 6-foot-2-inch frame, and if they took samples from a burn pile on Sam Parker’s property.

Simms said he wanted to get the vehicle processed before Sam Parker changed his mind on consent.

Cagle said he remained with Sam Parker, while Simms investigated the burn pile and took the vehicle in for ex-amination.

Both men, at separate times during questioning, said that when they asked Sam Parker if the vehicle could be taken in for examination, Parker said, “Go ahead and take it. I don’t need it anymore.”







http://www.newschannel9.com/news/dog-982846-send-life.html

"...We also saw video played in the courtroom to demonstrate how another dog, Eddie, found a sample pair of pants hidden in the Walker County Jail that was perfumed with a cadaver scent. Eddie is an English Springer Spaniel belonging to Martin Grime, a world-renown forensic K-9 expert based in the United Kingdom.

Grime testified he was paid $450 a day, plus travel and living expenses, by the FBI to search some areas in Walker County in connection with Teresa Parker's disappearance.

During a visit to Parker's home back in September 2007 Grime said he and Eddie sniffed around their garage.

"He immediately gave a positive bark response within the garage between a truck parked to the left of the entrance and a boat parked to the right," Grime said.

Grime added Eddie did not seem interested in the vehicles but in a scent that was wafting in the air, based on the way the dog held his nose upward. Grime said Eddie then "hit" on an abandoned house next door. Testimony shows that house was never repaired after a fire gutted the inside and killed a child several years ago.

During lengthy cross-examination Grime said there is no evidence to show Eddie smelled anything incriminating against or linked to Mr. Parker. Like Higgins, Grime said cadaver dogs can only prove useful when there is other evidence that corroborates the dog's "hits."

The FBI has a keen interest in the outcome of this case. If Parker is convicted the case could pave the legal way for future prosecutions where there is no evidence other than dog "hits" in connection with a person accused of murder.

Toward the end of the day Judge Wood learned that while Grime has international acclaim he has never testified as an expert witness in the United States.

Testimony ended Tuesday with a couple Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents saying Mr. Parker has always been cooperative with the investigation and allowed them to do whatever they wanted on his property.

Offline pathfinder73

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #620 on: May 07, 2015, 12:02:17 AM »
Cadaver scent had already been located before Eddie was called in. Eddie no more located the remains than the previous dogs did. His signal merely provided a limited corroboration of Maggie's indications.


Walker County Messenger-http://www.walkermessenger.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Pretrial+testimony+continues+in+Sam+Parker+murder+case%20&id=2948982-Pretrial+testimony+continues+in+Sam+Parker+murder+case&instance=home_news

Dog experts testify

In Tuesday proceedings, Lisa Higgins with the Louisiana Search and Rescue Dog Team was the first to testify. Higgins retired from law enforcement after 30 years and continues to train search-and-rescue dogs.

Higgins said she brought her Australian shepherd named “Maggie” to search for Theresa Parker in April 2007. Maggie has been a certified cadaver dog since 2003 and is trained in searching for decomposed remains. Maggie lets her handlers know she has found decomposed remains by lying down near the scent.

On April 13, 2007, she and Maggie came to Walker County to search for Theresa Parker, she said. While investi-gating vehicles in the impound behind the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, Maggie picked up a scent of decomposing remains and sent an alert, by laying down, when she came across Teresa Parker’s Toyota Forerunner. Maggie also had a change of behavior when she picked up a scent along the rear passenger’s side of the vehicle.

In response to questions from the defense, Higgins said the scent picked up by Maggie is not necessarily human remains.

Assistant public defender Doug Woodruff asked Higgins if Maggie was infallible and Higgins replied, “No, sir.”

The second witness was Martin Grime of the United Kingdom. He is occasionally contracted by the U.S. govern-ment and is a qualified expert in cadaver dogs.

Grime displayed five videos of his search dog “Eddie,” trained to search for human decomposition. The videos, filmed at the LaFayette Police Department during September 2007, displayed the dog’s ability to pick up on alert scents and did not show any video of the dog searching for the remains of Teresa Parker.

On Sept. 20, 2007, Eddie and Grime traveled to Sam Parker’s residence at 95 Cordell Ave. in LaFayette for the dog to search the property.

During Woodruff’s questioning, Grime said Eddie was used to search the residence — inside, around and under-neath — and found nothing. But in the garage area, between a boat and a pickup truck, Eddie gave an alert of a scent.

Woodruff asked Grime why he did not search the pickup. Grime said that he only screened the areas he was asked to search and if there had been a scent, Eddie would have picked it up.

The courtroom became tense when Woodruff questioned Grime’s reading of the dog and their legitimacy, giving various hypothetical scenarios, such as the dog smelling food instead of remains. Grime replied, “I can’t predict the dog’s behavior. I study the dog’s behavior. You are trying to put words in my mouth and I don’t deal in hypotheti-cals.”

Law enforcement agents testify

GBI special agent James Harris, who conducted an initial interview with Sam Parker and performed a search of his property in March 2007, was brought to the stand.

District attorney Leigh Patterson questioned Harris on the various search and evidence warrants, all of which Sam Parker agreed to.

The warrants included Sam Parker’s residence at 95 Cordell Ave., the area around the residence and the areas adjacent to the residence; Sam Parker’s deceased father’s Trion residence; Sam Parker’s LaFayette Police Depart-ment locker; Sam Parker’s patrol vehicle; and DNA swabs from Sam Parker’s mouth and Teresa Parker’s Toyota Forerunner.

FBI special agent Marcus Veazy was cross-examined about placing a tracking device on the Toyota Forerunner and about the DNA swabbing.

GBI special agent Dan Simms and Walker County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Burt Cagle were questioned by public de-fender David Dunn on why the Toyota Forerunner was eventually driven by Simms to the Sheriff’s Office, if the seat had been moved back to fit Simms’ 6-foot-2-inch frame, and if they took samples from a burn pile on Sam Parker’s property.

Simms said he wanted to get the vehicle processed before Sam Parker changed his mind on consent.

Cagle said he remained with Sam Parker, while Simms investigated the burn pile and took the vehicle in for ex-amination.

Both men, at separate times during questioning, said that when they asked Sam Parker if the vehicle could be taken in for examination, Parker said, “Go ahead and take it. I don’t need it anymore.”







http://www.newschannel9.com/news/dog-982846-send-life.html

"...We also saw video played in the courtroom to demonstrate how another dog, Eddie, found a sample pair of pants hidden in the Walker County Jail that was perfumed with a cadaver scent. Eddie is an English Springer Spaniel belonging to Martin Grime, a world-renown forensic K-9 expert based in the United Kingdom.

Grime testified he was paid $450 a day, plus travel and living expenses, by the FBI to search some areas in Walker County in connection with Teresa Parker's disappearance.

During a visit to Parker's home back in September 2007 Grime said he and Eddie sniffed around their garage.

"He immediately gave a positive bark response within the garage between a truck parked to the left of the entrance and a boat parked to the right," Grime said.

Grime added Eddie did not seem interested in the vehicles but in a scent that was wafting in the air, based on the way the dog held his nose upward. Grime said Eddie then "hit" on an abandoned house next door. Testimony shows that house was never repaired after a fire gutted the inside and killed a child several years ago.

During lengthy cross-examination Grime said there is no evidence to show Eddie smelled anything incriminating against or linked to Mr. Parker. Like Higgins, Grime said cadaver dogs can only prove useful when there is other evidence that corroborates the dog's "hits."

The FBI has a keen interest in the outcome of this case. If Parker is convicted the case could pave the legal way for future prosecutions where there is no evidence other than dog "hits" in connection with a person accused of murder.

Toward the end of the day Judge Wood learned that while Grime has international acclaim he has never testified as an expert witness in the United States.

Testimony ended Tuesday with a couple Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents saying Mr. Parker has always been cooperative with the investigation and allowed them to do whatever they wanted on his property.

So what? Eddie wasn't wrong in this case.  You go and find a missing person who has turned up alive after he alerted to cadaver scent. I will give you some good advice - you won't find any! And unfortunately Madeleine will never turn up alive in this case and that's why SY are searching for a body.
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline mercury

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #621 on: May 07, 2015, 12:08:29 AM »
Interesting that so many people are trying to discredit the dogs as if the dogs had ever convicted people

Offline Brietta

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #622 on: May 07, 2015, 12:11:36 AM »
So what? Eddie wasn't wrong in this case.  You go and find a missing person who has turned up alive after he alerted to cadaver scent. I will give you some good advice - you won't find any! And unfortunately Madeleine will never turn up alive in this case and that's why SY are searching for a body.


I think the point is PF ... Eddie did not alert in the Theresa Parker case.
"All I'm going to say is that we've conducted a very serious investigation and there's no indication that Madeleine McCann's parents are connected to her disappearance. On the other hand, we have a lot of evidence pointing out that Christian killed her," Wolter told the "Friday at 9"....

OxfordBloo

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Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #623 on: May 07, 2015, 12:12:59 AM »
Interesting that so many people are trying to discredit the dogs as if the dogs had ever convicted people

No dog has ever convicted a person.

They have provided indications of evidence that can be used to help convict people together with other circumstantial and direct evidence.

Offline mercury

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #624 on: May 07, 2015, 02:25:08 AM »
No dog has ever convicted a person.

They have provided indications of evidence that can be used to help convict people together with other circumstantial and direct evidence.

Exactly which is what I said but my post has disSappeared?...so in this case the dog alerts remain as circumstantial evidence

Offline Mr Gray

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #625 on: May 07, 2015, 06:51:29 AM »
Exactly which is what I said but my post has disSappeared?...so in this case the dog alerts remain as circumstantial evidence

the alerts are not circumstantial evidence according to grime...they have no evidential reliability..according to grime

Offline G-Unit

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #626 on: May 07, 2015, 07:16:52 AM »
In the Prout case a cadaver dog alerted in the living room. No body was found, but Prout was tried and convicted after police put together a mass of circumstantial evidence. After his conviction he led police to the place where he had buried her and the cadaver dogs pinpointed the spot. What a useful tool they are.

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Cadaver-dog-sniffed-death-Prout-home/story-11860269-detail/story.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-confirm-they-have-found-kate-prouts-body-6267989.html

EVIDENCE of a dead body inside murdered Kate Prout's home was discovered by a sniffer dog, it has emerged.

The "cadaver dog" homed in on an area in the living room of the Redmarley home she shared with her husband Adrian Prout, who was convicted of her killing last year.

An hour-long documentary on the murder case told how the dog, which was specially trained to seek out dead bodies and where deaths occurred, concentrated on a specific spot in the living room at Redhill Farm.

Read more: http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Cadaver-dog-sniffed-death-Prout-home/story-11860269-detail/story.html#ixzz3ZQlkd9E9
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Offline Mr Gray

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #627 on: May 07, 2015, 07:30:59 AM »
In the Prout case a cadaver dog alerted in the living room. No body was found, but Prout was tried and convicted after police put together a mass of circumstantial evidence. After his conviction he led police to the place where he had buried her and the cadaver dogs pinpointed the spot. What a useful tool they are.

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Cadaver-dog-sniffed-death-Prout-home/story-11860269-detail/story.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-confirm-they-have-found-kate-prouts-body-6267989.html

EVIDENCE of a dead body inside murdered Kate Prout's home was discovered by a sniffer dog, it has emerged.

The "cadaver dog" homed in on an area in the living room of the Redmarley home she shared with her husband Adrian Prout, who was convicted of her killing last year.

An hour-long documentary on the murder case told how the dog, which was specially trained to seek out dead bodies and where deaths occurred, concentrated on a specific spot in the living room at Redhill Farm.

Read more: http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Cadaver-dog-sniffed-death-Prout-home/story-11860269-detail/story.html#ixzz3ZQlkd9E9
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citing individual cases is meaningless...just like quoting you smoking since you ere 15.....doesn't prove smoking is not damaging to health...or perhaps you think it does

Offline pathfinder73

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #628 on: May 07, 2015, 07:33:54 AM »

I think the point is PF ... Eddie did not alert in the Theresa Parker case.

Eddie immediately alerted in Theresa Parker's garage where her car went missing from when she was reported missing. Days later the car returned to the garage but Theresa was never seen again. Her policeman husband was convicted of her murder and her remains were later found.

Martin Grime did further searching with Eddie and he alerted at the house next door where a child had died years earlier. So Eddie alerted to two cadavers in one search.

We also saw video played in the courtroom to demonstrate how another dog, Eddie, found a sample pair of pants hidden in the Walker County Jail that was perfumed with a cadaver scent. Eddie is an English Springer Spaniel belonging to Martin Grime, a world-renown forensic K-9 expert based in the United Kingdom.
Smithman carrying a child in his arms checked his watch after passing the Smith family and the time was 10:03. Both are still unidentified 10 years later.

Offline Benice

Re: Were the dog alerts in any way significant?
« Reply #629 on: May 07, 2015, 08:09:29 AM »
Eddie immediately alerted in Theresa Parker's garage where her car went missing from when she was reported missing. Days later the car returned to the garage but Theresa was never seen again. Her policeman husband was convicted of her murder and her remains were later found.

Martin Grime did further searching with Eddie and he alerted at the house next door where a child had died years earlier. So Eddie alerted to two cadavers in one search.

We also saw video played in the courtroom to demonstrate how another dog, Eddie, found a sample pair of pants hidden in the Walker County Jail that was perfumed with a cadaver scent. Eddie is an English Springer Spaniel belonging to Martin Grime, a world-renown forensic K-9 expert based in the United Kingdom.


AFAIK no-one is disputing how clever Eddie was as a sniffer dog.   But the above examples of his expertise does beg the question as to why Eddie did not alert to any of the several items of clothing in the villa -  which he later alerted to at the gym.   

Could if be that there was no cadaverscent to detect at that time - and that cross contamination may have occurred  at some time during the collection, transference, unpacking and laying out of the clothing at the gym?   

I'd still like your opinion on the fact that all the items alerted to came from the same box.   I'm no mathematician but surely the odds of that happening by chance alone must be astronomical. 

IMO     





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