More recent events related to Madeleine McCann's case

[Brietta]

Very few of people tell the whole truth the whole time. Therefore I've never made the mistake of believing everything anyone involved in this case has said.

There are people of impeccable character whose word is to be trusted implicitly whatever the circumstances.  It is your misfortune that you don't appear to have encountered any whose word is their bond.

Amaral lied under oath.

That puts him into a very special category; quite simply, he is a criminal.

More recently he has tried to derail the investigation into Madeleine's case by promulgating disinformation;  that again categorises him for all but the most blinkered of his supporters.

[G-Unit]

There are people of impeccable character whose word is to be trusted implicitly whatever the circumstances.  It is your misfortune that you don't appear to have encountered any whose word is their bond.

Amaral lied under oath.

That puts him into a very special category; quite simply, he is a criminal.

More recently he has tried to derail the investigation into Madeleine's case by promulgating disinformation;  that again categorises him for all but the most blinkered of his supporters.

No-one is perfect.

[Vertigo Swirl]

No-one is perfect.

Amaral was a very long way from perfect.  He was a liar and lazy and just not very bright IMO, a lethal combination that led to many of the early mistakes made in this case and which probably accounts for why we’re all still here discussing it 14 years later.

[G-Unit]

Amaral was a very long way from perfect.  He was a liar and lazy and just not very bright IMO, a lethal combination that led to many of the early mistakes made in this case and which probably accounts for why we’re all still here discussing it 14 years later.

As I said; no one person can be blamed for the farce this case became.

[Vertigo Swirl]

As I said; no one person can be blamed for the farce this case became.

When Keystone Kops are involved it usually does descend into farce.

[Brietta]

As I said; no one person can be blamed for the farce this case became.

I think you are mistaken.

Whatever Amaral's intended design might have been - the 'search' for an innocent little girl was not allowed to get off the ground, all very much due to the fantasies of this incompetent.

He has clearly and unashamedly documented it all in his book and in his documentary.

Not content with his farcical manipulation of Madeleine's case when he officially had the licence to do so, as a busy body know it all civilian he attempted to turn the German investigation into as big a farce as the one he left behind him.
The truth will out and it has been well out in the open as a direct result of the latest perfidious pack of lies he has promoted on Portuguese media.

It took a long time for the truth to shine through on the base character of this man  whose incompetence - if it was that - very much set the tone of the whole investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

From first to recent developments and through all of the intervening years.

[barrier]

The truth is ? nothing pertaining to the disappearance has been tried in a court yet.

[G-Unit]

I think you are mistaken.

Whatever Amaral's intended design might have been - the 'search' for an innocent little girl was not allowed to get off the ground, all very much due to the fantasies of this incompetent.

He has clearly and unashamedly documented it all in his book and in his documentary.

Not content with his farcical manipulation of Madeleine's case when he officially had the licence to do so, as a busy body know it all civilian he attempted to turn the German investigation into as big a farce as the one he left behind him.
The truth will out and it has been well out in the open as a direct result of the latest perfidious pack of lies he has promoted on Portuguese media.

It took a long time for the truth to shine through on the base character of this man  whose incompetence - if it was that - very much set the tone of the whole investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

From first to recent developments and through all of the intervening years.

As I'm sure you expected, I reject your obsessive insistence on blaming one person for everything.

[Mr Gray]

The truth is ? nothing pertaining to the disappearance has been tried in a court yet.

What's important is the evidence..

[jassi]

As I'm sure you expected, I reject your obsessive insistence on blaming one person for everything.

And so old hat.
The case would still be unsolved even if Amaral had never been anywhere near it.
The next guy did no better.
IMO

[Brietta]

As I'm sure you expected, I reject your obsessive insistence on blaming one person for everything.

Please desist from the "obsessive".  That is no way to progress debate.  Personal insult reveals nothing more than your inability to defend your position in the face of the truth.

[Brietta]

And so old hat.
The case would still be unsolved even if Amaral had never been anywhere near it.
The next guy did no better.
IMO

Five months were wasted by the incompetent and inexperienced police investigation.  Five months which could never be recovered.  Immaterial of what was being investigated, let alone a missing child, that time plus the time spent following the wrong tracks is irretrievable.

The fault for that belongs to those in charge of the initial investigation and no-one else.

[jassi]

Five months were wasted by the incompetent and inexperienced police investigation.  Five months which could never be recovered.  Immaterial of what was being investigated, let alone a missing child, that time plus the time spent following the wrong tracks is irretrievable.

The fault for that belongs to those in charge of the initial investigation and no-one else.

That may be your opinion, though you omit to say so. I happen to disagree with you.

[G-Unit]

Five months were wasted by the incompetent and inexperienced police investigation.  Five months which could never be recovered.  Immaterial of what was being investigated, let alone a missing child, that time plus the time spent following the wrong tracks is irretrievable.

The fault for that belongs to those in charge of the initial investigation and no-one else.

The names of those in charge, which you choose to ignore, were Neves and Encarnacao. In fact the only example of the rules governing investigations being breached was during their interview of the McCanns on 8th August. If Kate McCann's account was truthful, that is.

[Lace]

Not much IMO.  Good to see that some sceptics are prepared to face up to the possibility that Amaral is not to be trusted.

I'm still wondering how CB's phone number was missed,  if they had followed up the fact that CB was in the area they may have been able to get DNA.   Poor Madeleine.