Thank you. So different stories from the newspapers again.
What Lee Rainbow actually said....
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=1163.msg32653#msg32653
http://justice4mccannfam.5forum.biz/t2450-what-lee-rainbow-actually-said
I wonder if this was the fabled "Ace up the sleeve" we heard so much about.
I can't find a copy of Lee Rainbow's Report (anyone seen it?) ... I presume it must have been in the "confidential" files, some of which were not released on the request of Leicestershire Police.
Therefore the only possible check we have are newspaper reports of the trial which quote only Dr Amaral's lawyer's interpretation of what was said ... so knowing that those closest to the victim are eliminated in the first instance it is extraordinary it took a criminal profiler to indicate what action should have been taken in policing terms right at the beginning of the investigation.
Lee Rainbow's report actually highlights another glaring omission in the conduct of Madeleine's McCann's case.
**snip**
Details of the confidential report emerged during the final day of a libel trial involving former Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral, who led the Madeleine investigation.
Amaral is trying to overturn a worldwide injunction banning the publication of his book Maddie: The Truth of the Lie. In it he claims Kate and Gerry were involved in Madeleine's death and staged her disappearance. His lawyer, Antonio Cabrita, told the court that Rainbow wrote: "It was Madeleine's father who was the last one to see her alive.
"The family is a lead that should be followed.
The contradictions in Gerald McCann's statements might lead us to suspect a homicide."
Cabrita added: "This report has never been published before but is part of the investigation. On June 1st 2007 British police had the theory that Madeleine could be dead and the family could be involved.
"It was British police who said they must consider not only abduction but homicide as well."
The NPIA provided a checklist of what should be done, advising the Portuguese police to include the McCanns in their inquiry and take new forensics at their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.
Last night an NPIA spokesman said: "In disappearance cases it is common for the NPIA to advise investigating officers to consider the possibility of the involvement of family and close friends. The NPIA gave similar generic advice to the Portuguese police in the Madeleine McCann case."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mccanns-should-be-treated-as-suspects-brit-200689