Again you make a wild presumption. There is nothing in my posting which has ever suggested that I telephoned the MP or the PJ. Don't guess what you don't know.
Gilet, i have tried to leave this car crash of a thread alone but feel compelled to post.
Nowhere has any authority, either in the UK or PT, publicly come out and "trashed" the thesis of the PJ. In fact only a few days ago Hogan Howe came out publicly stating what a good job the PJ did in the initial investigation, against a difficult backdrop (mainly brought about by the parents media strategy).
You claim you are all about evidence and facts, yet you have no evidence or fact to support that assertion and you choose to ignore the one statement from SY supporting the initial investigation.
What you have is PUBLIC statements that state SY and the new PJ team are at this moment in time following abduction leads at this stage of a new and reopened investigation, which in the absence of clear and incriminating evidence against the family is the only place any investigation can start and restart respectively.
The results of SY's review (which it is not certain is even complete - it took 2 years for it to be two thirds complete in August, so logic would dictate the last third has not been completed in 3 months) is to eliminate the chief suspect, the one who the group built a narrative around over their later statements.
At this time that leaves Smithman as the sole concrete lead on an abduction. Now as much as your valiant, but ultimately intellectually lightweight arguments attempted to convince the forum Mr Smith was wrong in identifying with 60-80% certainty, Gerry, and lest we forget whose daughter identified trousers we know Gerry had in PT at the time, the fact remains the sole lead for abduction comes from an independent witness who was prepared to make a statement identifying Gerry McCann.
So based on public announcements together with information about the one remaining sighting, the number of suspects for abduction has just halved, and the remaining suspect has been identified (again to 60-80%) as being Gerry.
These are facts Gilet. Facts along with evidence you state you use. So why are you trying to bend these facts and suggest Mr Smith was wrong to fit in with your own theory? That's not using facts. That's twisting facts to suit your agenda.
You have then created this thread crowing about the "trashing" of Amaral's thesis because the investigations at this new stage are looking at abduction leads (and once again let's remember the witness for the one remaining lead identified Gerry McCann).
To suggest that a newly opened and reopened investigation which are at this stage looking at abduction, must automatically mean Amaral's thesis has been trashed, displays not just intellectual paucity but huge naivety as well.
In the absence of clear and compelling evidence against the McCann's it would have been tactically nonsensical and probably prejudicial to any future trial to publicly state they are suspects.
Given the history of the case it is natural to state publicly they are not suspects, and none of us know what is going on in the operation room and how true that statement is in the grist of the actual investigation.
Equally we know that suspects can change as leads and evidence change. In much the same way the Philpott's weren't suspects at the start of their case, and similarly Karen Matthews. Suspects and leads change as investigations progress and as lines of enquiry are exhausted and ruled out.
However the one things investigations do not do is to name suspects before they have what they think is enough evidence against them.
I am sure you know this, it is not rocket science, it is common sense.
The reason i have tried to avoid this thread because it is clear you simply wanted to come on here to gloat and you have over 10 or so pages displayed breathtaking arrogance, pomposity, an attempted air of superiority, condescension and rudeness coupled with faux outrage and disgust if others say something you do not like.
Then on top of this when posters have challenged you to name your main who gave Gerry an alibi at 10:00 you simply ignored them and the question!
I have no idea why you cannot simply engage with people in the correct manner. It does you and the forum a huge disservice.