John Stalker is in no doubt that Madeleine was abducted based on his experience.
Despite apparently being in ignorance at the time, of the Portuguese secrecy laws which prevented Kate and Gerry and their friends from talking about the case, John Stalker had the following to say about the investigation and the ineptitude of the Portuguese police in employing basic policing procedures.
He is in particular scathing about the mishandling and misunderstanding of DNA evidence
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My instinct, based on years of policing similar cases, is that we are looking at an abduction where the child was targeted in the days before her disappearance.
On the night she vanished it is likely that her abductor simply spotted his opportunity and struck while he could.
I have been horrified by the abject failure of the Portuguese detectives to adhere to basic principles of policing.
The investigation does not seem to have taken a step forward from where it was in the first week after she went missing. I cannot believe that the Portuguese only sent selected DNA samples to the forensic science lab in Birmingham.
There is absolutely no sense in that whatsoever. To fully evaluate poor-quality DNA traces, as we believe these were, forensic experts need to see the whole picture.
In the past, when I have dealt with traces of bodily fluids, it is very difficult to establish how they got to be where they were.
All DNA is highly transferable and that is the most likely explanation for the alleged traces found in the McCanns' hire car and on her mother's clothing. Robert Murat, the other suspect, was seen close to the apartment the day after Madeleine disappeared and freely admits having helped police as a translator.
If he was in that apartment, or anywhere near it, there is no doubt he would have transferred some of Madeleine's or the twins' DNA on to his clothing.
I don't believe for one minute that Kate and Gerry McCann or their friends are capable or guilty of having murdered the four-year-old.
All the criticism of Kate and Gerry and their friends has been completely out of order. They are extremely intelligent and articulate people and, just because they have never visibly cracked in public to the extent that they are beaten, does not mean that they are guilty of anything sinister.
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/press/6oct7/EXPRESS-28-10-07.htm
Oh lol .......how many gut/instincts has he got....
seems a bit of an attention seeker...imo
McCanns 'are hiding a big secret', former police chief claims
Last updated at 14:34 28 October 2007
Kate and Gerry McCann are hiding a "big secret" about the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, according a former police chief claims.
John Stalker, who headed a famous inquiry into whether suspected IRA men were killed by RUC officers, is suspicious of their silence.
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The former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police told the Sunday Express: “My gut instinct is that some big secret is probably being covered up.
“I have watched the investigation into the Madeleine McCann case drag out for six months.
“One thing above all worries me: Why have the McCanns and the seven other members of their group – the Tapas Nine – remained so silent?
“Unlike other high-profile cases I have worked on, not one of them has been prepared to break ranks or really come out and support each other.
“After all this time and pressure, I cannot believe that nobody wants to speak.
“I have a real suspicion that we are not being told the whole truth. There is something else there, some issue that members of the party are embarrassed about”
