"Did they miss something back in 2007" ?
Oh they missed a hell of a lot of things.
Parents claiming abduction, knowing right away- but searching the flat, and round about the area- who would do that? why would an abductor hang around waiting to be caught- red handed.. DUH.
seperating the Tapas and gathering their statements! real bad missed opportunity.
why Gerry needed to write down who was doing what whenhis daughter was abducted by suspected paedophiles says an awful lot!!!!!!! especially as they claimed it was every half hour 8.30/ 9.00/ 9.30/ 10.00.
Hmm yeah THey did miss a lot of things!
It is possible that even more might have been missed, both by those in 2007, and by OG, in relation to the 2014 dig.
In 2007, two restaurants opened exactly opposite the mound. One was Italian, called Amici, which means friends. I have trotted through the mound to get to a family night out there. It was close by to our house of the time. Our car then held 7. I made 8 so it made sense that I simply walked there.
In Amici, I had fish in lemon sauce, and it was delicious!
The waiter entertaining us told us a story. The new potatoes that I was served came from the mound. Amici did a deal whereby they supplied water to the plot, whilst the grower supplied a share of the crops to Amici. Those potatoes were delicious. Although I grew up in a region that does the best new potatoes in the world.
Next to Amici, there was a Portuguese restaurant. We never visited that one, and I cannot remember its name.
I do not know precisely in 2007 when either restaurant opened. So I cannot say if they were open by May 2007. Open by May 2007 makes sense, to capture the start of the season, but a lot of things in Portugal do not sense. For all I know, they could have started at Xmas 2007.
The relevance to MBM is simple.
When OG dug up the mound, they had a command and control centre right on the top.
The GNR bagged all the parking spaces outside St James, Amici, and the Portuguese restaurant whilst the OG dig was ongoing. I think they might have had a GNR control centre there, but of course I cannot be certain.
Perhaps one of the 'anomalies' that OG investigated was the small plot where my potatoes were grown.
Personally, I am more interested in whether enquiries were made at Amici or the Portuguese restaurant. If those restaurants were open by 1 May 2007, there was car traffic and parking open and overlooking the mound.
