Gonçalo Amaral confirms he will appeal the damages decision to higher Court.

[Mr Gray]

I understand the alerts, you however seem to believe that the most likely cause of the alerts is the one that should be discounted and ignored.

and you are assuming that the most likely cause of the alerts is a cadaver...there is absolutely no proof that is the case

[Brietta]

It's obvious, isn't it?

Rather than (as widely touted I think!,) being the McCanns' trump-card,  the Zapata case will be Amaral's trump card, the deciding factor in reserving the legal tide in the libel trial and that will see Amaral, after all, triumph ....

After the long, long wait ... is the Ace not really the A but the Z ??   A truly cunning plan.

[ferryman]

I understand the alerts, you however seem to believe that the most likely cause of the alerts is the one that should be discounted and ignored.

Think?

That the alerts should be ignored is both what the law says and what common sense decrees ....

[Alfred R Jones]

If they can, defense lawyers will produce evidence of innocence in court. If they can't, they will try to discredit prosecution evidence of guilt. Gerry McCann's lawyers intended to use the evidence presented by the lawyers in the Zapata case should the McCanns be charged. The Zapata lawyers had no evidence of innocence, so they used the 'unreliability' argument to convince the Judge that the cadaver dog alerts were of no use. They were successful, but we now know the dogs were right.

They could have drawn on numerous examples of unreliability in this area, Zampo the cadaver dog for one.

[Brietta]

They could have drawn on numerous examples of unreliability in this area, Zampo the cadaver dog for one.

Eddie in Jersey could be another.

[slartibartfast]

Think?

That the alerts should be ignored is both what the law says and what common sense decrees ....

The law says they can't be used as evidence, not ignored.

[Mr Gray]

The law says they can't be used as evidence, not ignored.

could you provide a cite where the law states they cannot be ignored

[slartibartfast]

could you provide a cite where the law states they cannot be ignored

When you provide one that says they should be, which is what is being claimed.

[Mr Gray]

When you provide one that says they should be, which is what is being claimed.

The law says they can't be used as evidence, not ignored.


this is your claim...can you substantiate it...the answer is no

[Mr Gray]

The law says they can't be used as evidence, not ignored.

your post accusing me of lying has been removed,,that speaks volumes

[slartibartfast]

The law says they can't be used as evidence, not ignored.


this is your claim...can you substantiate it...the answer is no

ferryman stated

alerts should be ignored is ... what the law says

so up to him to substantiate.

[Mr Gray]

ferryman stated  so up to him to substantiate.

the alerts have no value...if you do not realise that then you do not understand the alerts

[Mr Gray]

ferryman stated  so up to him to substantiate.

the alerts are ignored by the courts...i thought everyone was aware of that

[pegasus]

The only importance of the dog alerts is as a weapon in the on-going battle of words between numpties like us on internet chatrooms.  In the real world those alerts were consigned to the dog bowl of history eons ago.

...and Mr R employed two welsh cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar to dupe us numpties into imagining he was searching for something cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar search for - a cunning plan indeed!

[Brietta]

...and Mr R employed two welsh cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar to dupe us numpties into imagining he was searching for something cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar search for - a cunning plan indeed!

... and a VRD from Yorkshire was deployed on the Orkney island of Sanday and found human remains.  The same dog was used in Jersey and found nothing.

• there was something for the dog to find on Sanday
• there was nothing for the dog to find in Jersey