I'm not at all knowledgeable about Lee Rainbow Faith. This is all I can find on the Rainbow report. Is there more plz?
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The potential involvement of the family in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cannot be discarded, and it can be considered that, when pondering the basis for research, this hypothesis deserves as much attention as the criminal with sexual motivations that has been previously prioritised.
“It should be stressed that there is no evidence to directly support an involvement of the family, yet given the absence of decisive evidence to prove the contrary, such a scenario has to be explored.” At court last week, Mr Amaral’s lawyer, Antonio Cabrita, read out a section of 37-year-old Mr Rainbow’s report which said: “The family is a lead that should be followed.”
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I understand this report was submitted a couple of months after Madeleine's disappearance (July 2007?)
Apart from recommending that the family should be investigated - which is normal procedure anyway - in order to rule them in or out - I cannot see anything which would denote his report would be regarded as a turning point in the case.
What is in the report which the PJ didn't already know about and came as such big news to them that it put a whole new complexion on the case?
Just another example of the mindset which seemed to govern the incompetent manner in which Madeleine McCann's case was conducted.
A dream is described as a 'turning point'. Generic information on how to conduct the inquiry is misinterpreted to become another 'turning point' to justify suspicions against her parents ... which we are told had been held from the first day of the inquiry.
The requirement to supply advice on standard police procedures would imply that Portugal had no equivalent at that time. I can't quite take that on board ... I think the local situation which was very sensitive was known and this was the way chosen to sort it out in a diplomatic manner.
They obviously really had no idea about just how obtuse their opposite numbers were.
The advice was misconstrued at the relevant time when it could have been useful to progress the investigation.
That is compounded by the continued lack of comprehension which led to it being produced in court with probably the addition of an opinion not Lee Rainbow's to boot.
A disaster from start to finish.
If the names were changed to Smith and Jones with the venue changed to Brighton ... one wonders if people would have dug deep over the years to defend ex Chief Inspector Smith's sense of his own importance and honour.
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A spokesman said last night: 'In disappearance cases it is common for the NPIA to advise officers to consider the possibility of the involvement of family and close friends.
'This is good practice for investigating cases. The NPIA gave similar generic advice to Portuguese police.'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250084/How-letter-UK-police-turned-spotlight-Kate-Gerry-McCann.html#ixzz3iPsex2hq
