Mark Williams-Thomas making new three part crime series for Ch5.

[jassi]

If the programs are ready to roll, why should they be delayed by MWT's potential illness ?

Perhaps other pressures have been brought to bear.

[Brietta]

If the programs are ready to roll, why should they be delayed by MWT's potential illness ?

Perhaps other pressures have been brought to bear.

From what I gather - and I stress it is only supposition - I don't think he has a big team behind him.  More like a one man band and that in itself would be stressful and very intensive.
If he was taken ill in the midst of making final edits and tying it all together I think delays would be inevitable.

Other pressures might have been brought to bear which do not emanate from any judiciary.  Jon Clarke encountered pretty hairy circumstances when writing his book - who is to say MWT didn't meet hairier ones in the process of filming.
As Myster noted - he was at the finishing stage - making his silence extraordinary.

[Eleanor]

Just supposing this Alibi proved to be false, or better still actually pointed to Brueckner being in Praia da Luz at the time, phone and all.

No one would want to talk about it just now.  Not Mark Williams Thomas or The German Prosecution Service.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Just supposing this Alibi proved to be false, or better still actually pointed to Brueckner being in Praia da Luz at the time, phone and all.

No one would want to talk about it just now.  Not Mark Williams Thomas or The German Prosecution Service.

Yes, that's another possibility.  If the whole thrust of MW-T's programme is that the police have got hold of the wrong man but then he subsequently comes across new evidence or is advised of such that throws a brick through his programme's premise, then I would suggest there would need to be some serious re-editing going on at Screen Dog Productions. 

[Brietta]

Yes, that's another possibility.  If the whole thrust of MW-T's programme is that the police have got hold of the wrong man but then he subsequently comes across new evidence or is advised of such that throws a brick through his programme's premise, then I would suggest there would need to be some serious re-editing going on at Screen Dog Productions.

I never thought that he might have been following the wrong premise but that certainly is a possibility particularly in the light of the German TV programmes.

[Eleanor]

I never thought that he might have been following the wrong premise but that certainly is a possibility particularly in the light of the German TV programmes.

From what little we have heard Brueckner was supposedly somewhere else at the time and possibly miles away.  But we don't actually know if he was.  And no one appears to be able to prove that he was.

I suspect that if he was out and about to abduct Madeleine then he would have been setting up a scenario to try to prove that he was elsewhere.  But for his phone, of course.  No one takes a half hour long phone call on a borrowed phone.

It never ceases to amaze me that criminals don't realise that they can be tracked by their phones, even in those days.  In fact, they are still doing it now.

[Brietta]

Mark Williams Thomas is back and I am told has Tweeted that he has had time off due to mental health issues.  Best wishes to him and I hope he has made a full recovery.

[Eleanor]

Mark Williams Thomas is back and I am told has Tweeted that he has had time off due to mental health issues.  Best wishes to him and I hope he has made a full recovery.

And of course, now would be a good time.  I am thinking of doing the same thing myself and I don't know shite about anything.

[barrier]

From what little we have heard Brueckner was supposedly somewhere else at the time and possibly miles away.  But we don't actually know if he was.  And no one appears to be able to prove that he was.

I suspect that if he was out and about to abduct Madeleine then he would have been setting up a scenario to try to prove that he was elsewhere.  But for his phone, of course.  No one takes a half hour long phone call on a borrowed phone.

It never ceases to amaze me that criminals don't realise that they can be tracked by their phones, even in those days.  In fact, they are still doing it now.

More pertinent can Wolters prove where he was, the onus is not on CB , maybe if questioned then the onus will change, still won't be long now.

[Ms Para glider]

More pertinent can Wolters prove where he was, the onus is not on CB , maybe if questioned then the onus will change, still won't be long now.

His phone took a 30 minute call in PDL, so if he wants to claim he was nowhere near there, the onus will be on him to give a convincing reason for how that happened.

[barrier]

His phone took a 30 minute call in PDL, so if he wants to claim he was nowhere near there, the onus will be on him to give a convincing reason for how that happened.

To who ? the BKA can't be that interested, they haven't questioned him about it some 18 months on. Reasonable doubt I'd venture.

[jassi]

His phone took a 30 minute call in PDL, so if he wants to claim he was nowhere near there, the onus will be on him to give a convincing reason for how that happened.

Not really.
First Wolters has to prove that Brueckner oened that phone.
If Brueckner then claimed that he lost his phone some time previous to that day, it would be up to Wolters to prove otherwise.
Might be difficult to do so many years after the event.

[Ms Para glider]

To who ? the BKA can't be that interested, they haven't questioned him about it some 18 months on. Reasonable doubt I'd venture.

Yes, the BKA obviously. When they formally question him they have to show all their evidence. So you can't read anything into the fact that they haven't yet.

[Ms Para glider]

Not really.
First Wolters has to prove that Brueckner oened that phone.
If Brueckner then claimed that he lost his phone some time previous to that day, it would be up to Wolters to prove otherwise.
Might be difficult to do so many years after the event.

Well they apparently have proof that he used that phone. And the excuse of losing the phone only works if he's confident they have no proof he used that phone again after that date. So yes, onus is still on him to give the Judge a convincing story.

[barrier]

Yes, the BKA obviously. When they formally question him they have to show all their evidence. So you can't read anything into the fact that they haven't yet.

"If" they question him.