Or that the Mcanns' response to being accused of "sedating" their children was a response to the accusation (raised for the first time) making a mockery of Almeida's claim that they "asked too late" for the twins to be tested?
"The fact that, despite all that confusion and all that noise, the twins continued to sleep, as mentioned by GNR Officer José Maria Baptista Roque, a member of the patrol that was first to arrive at the apartment "the children never woke up, remaining in a ventral decubitus position, not moving during the search and afterwards" [28], remains unexplained."
PGR's dispatch
But it was Amaral, that said they used Calpol, not GNR, Anne. Calpol does not have sedative properties.
Its in his book.
He slipped up though, because he said they used "Calpol Night". Which wasn't available in 2007.
What he actually said about calpol night is that
in recent years a drug has been introduced called
calpol night that has a sedative.
Amaral failed to make plain that the McCann children had never been given it, and left open the possibility (to the unwary reader) that the McCanns might have been given it.
It was left to Morais to make all the running of a "case" that the McCanns' children might have been drugged with it.
Certainly by English libel law, Amaral's allusion would be libel.
Don't know about Portuguese ...
