Dear or dear oh dear. I suggest you start from the top of page 150 of this thread and read the conversation between us. There you will see where you mentioned Redwood (who used to work for the Met). Explain how the PJ knew about Totman from the off, but it was never mentioned either by Amaral in his book to pour cold water on Tannerman or in the final report to rule out JT’s sighting? Do you think they knew about Totman but decided not to rule out Tannerman by ever publicly mentioning Totman?
I've read all my posts AGAIN this time from Page 150 and there still isn't one which comments on The Met or Redwood apart from a reply to Eleanor which was nothing to do with whether the Met or the PJ had or hadn't been aware of Julian Totman at an early stage. Instead it was a question to ask if she now agreed with Redwood's new direction of travel (new as in 2013!!!). I said to Eleanor:
So you don't believe OG / Redwood were correct in claiming that Tannerman/Totman was no longer considered the abductor.... and that Smithman was now their main person of interest?
As I said - I have no reason to doubt Totman's wife's claim that they spoke to the Portuguese Police. The Portuguese Police may have taken the photograph of the pink pyjamas and Ocean Club towel (speculation but it's possible - and seems somewhat unlikely that Totman would keep pyjamas for 6 years just waiting for OG to find him!!).... However, there is the excellent point by G-Unit asking why would Totman have approached the Police before the Tanner sighting was made public? Totman's wife reportedly said:
"We always thought it was Julian who was seen by Jane Tanner. But the national police who investigated didn't get back to us and we don't know if our information was ever passed on."https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5698933/Madeleine-McCann-police-spent-four-years-trying-ID-man-GP-said-him.htmlSo obviously, from that remark, the Totman's reported to the Portuguese Police after the Tanner sighting was known to them. Unlike the fundamentalists here I don't claim to have all the answers!!
With regards to what the UK Police did or did not know here's another report from 2013:
The unnamed dad – spotted in the Praia da Luz resort by McCann family friend Jane Tanner at 9.15pm – was among a number of British witnesses who completed questionnaires for Leicestershire police six years ago.
He is understood to have provided a detailed description of his movements on the night, including the fact he had picked up his own two-year-old daughter from a crèche close to where Madeleine vanished.
But his ‘alibi’ was only looked at this year.
A source said: “He had been clear then that he had picked her up at around the time of the sighting but for whatever reason he was not eliminated as a suspect. The fact the details of the prime suspect have been known all along doesn’t look good.”
Following Madeleine’s disappearance, Leicestershire police were responsible for collating all UK-based inquiries at the request of the Portuguese authorities.
It is not clear if the questionnaires were analysed by the British force or simply forwarded to Portugal.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/editors-picks/madeleine-mccann-bungling-police-prime-2965027 Bear in mind this is just a newspaper story! Nevertheless it does demonstrate that we don't know with any certainty when Totman first accounted for himself, and which Police forces knew that he had.... I would like to know the origin of the pink pyjamas photo, though.
