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 ...
Where does he say that in his book, Ferryman? Thats not what I read.
Chapter 4, The real victim is the missing child
The paternal grandfather stated that Kate gave the little girl - and also the twins - Calpol, a medication designed to facilitate falling asleep. That seems to be a common practice in Great Britain; they even talk about a "Calpol generation." In recent years, the possible presence of an antihistamine with sedative effects in Calpol has aroused great controversy. Recently, the same laboratory put Calpol Night on the market, whose ingredients clearly list that it contains an antihistamine.
My apologies, Ferryman.
Did anyone ever see Kate's father make that statement?
Amarals statement saying, "Calpol, a medication designed to facilitate falling asleep", is a lie.
Kate's father did make a statement reported in (I think)
The Sun, and I can tell you exactly how the confusion arose.
Mr Healey said something like that Kate and Gerry only occasionally gave their children calpol and
the reporter added in brackets in a verbatim quote (sic)
to help her (Madleine) sleep.
To stress, those were the
reporter's words, not Mr Healey's.
