Trouble is Rowley tied himself up in so many knots imo he forgot what he had said,this is from earlier in the broadcast,question to and answer from Rowley.
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Q: You’ve described it as a ‘unique’ case. Why is it unique?
MR: I think it’s unique in two or three respects. First of all the way its captured attention in different countries is quite unusual. You’ll get a very high-profile case in a particular country, the way it has captured interest across countries, I think is significant.
The length of it.
And it’s unusual to have a case like this where you’re doing a missing persons investigation, where ten years on, we still don’t have definitive evidence about exactly what’s happened.
And that’s why we’re open minded, even if we have to be pessimistic about the prospects, we are open minded because we don’t have definitive evidence about what happened to Madeleine.
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So if there is no definitive evidence how can he claim there was an abduction?
Scotland Yard began a review of Madeleine McCann's case in 2011 at the behest of the then Home Secretary.
After two years of reviewing
all the available information and evidence from 2007 at a cost of nearly five million pounds the recommendation was made in 2013 that sufficient evidence had been uncovered to justify reopening Madeleine McCann's case as a full blown criminal inquiry.
A two year investigation resulted in one hundred and ninety five new leads into what might have happened to Madeleine as well as revealing twenty persons of interest who might have had information about her case.
Having uncovered this plethora of new information over that two year period it surely stands to reason that many other avenues were followed, eliminated and discarded ~ among which were the allegations concerning her parents and their holiday companions.
The review apparently did not theorise ... the review followed evidence. That evidence eliminated a great deal of material and suggested further avenues for investigation and twenty people the police needed to speak to.
I suggest that Senior Police Officers such as Scotland Yard's Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, will be conversant with all of that ... and if Mr Rowley and his team are of the opinion Madeleine was abducted and is prepared to state so on record, that is good enough for me.
It is worth bearing in mind that the Met's Portuguese 'partners in crime' the PJ, had their eye on and investigated Madeleine's abduction by stranger ... and they arrived at that after their own independent review which led to their own reopening of the case.
So however one cares to refer to Madeleine's disappearance ... it appears the unbiased professionals actually doing the investigation have no doubt there is a presumptive stranger abduction well in the mix.
