The Sunday Times Apologises...yet e-fits withheld from public view for 5 years?

[sadie]

If they were afraid they made a good job at hiding it. Until now nobody heard about them anymore.

They made sure their asses were never to be back in Portugal and didn't bother about the poor missing child. >Marvelous people!

Well certainly Kate, Gerry and Jane have returned.  And am I remembering correctly that Fiona came over with Kate for part of one of the Amaral trials?  Please correct me if I am wrong.

Btw, Luz, how do you know if they have been back or not?

[AnneGuedes]

I doubt very much that MS collaborated in an e-fit after having said that Smithman could be Mr McCann. For the same reason I doubt that MM did. And I don't think they would have let their minor daughter AS assume such responsibility.

[Sherlock Holmes]

I doubt very much that MS collaborated in an e-fit after having said that Smithman could be Mr McCann. For the same reason I doubt that MM did. And I don't think they would have let their minor daughter AS assume such responsibility.

So who would have been involved then?

[pegasus]

Interesting question, pegasus. What do you think is the significance of which witness did which e-fit?

IMO possibly AS got better view than MS.

[Sherlock Holmes]

IMO possibly AS got better view than MS.

Interesting, I will have to have a look at their statements again.

[pegasus]

According to the Sundae Times apology the PIs submitted the report on unspecified date in 2008, and the info was passed to police in Oct 2009.
That is at maximum about 1 year and 9 months, or at minimum about 9 months.
Doesn't alter the fact that any delay is too long but just pointing out "over two years" in thread title is a slight overstatement?
 

[AnneGuedes]

So who would have been involved then?

PS and his wife.

[pegasus]

It seems very likely it was two members of that Irish group who did the efits for PIs IMO.
Agreed, which ones may be debatable.

[AnneGuedes]

According to the Sundae Times apology the PIs submitted the report on unspecified date in 2008, and the info was passed to police in Oct 2009.
That is at maximum about 1 year and 9 months, or at minimum about 9 months.
Doesn't alter the fact that any delay is too long but just pointing out "over two years" in thread title is a slight overstatement?

The ST rectification only mentions the e-fits, not the report. concerned by a clause of confidentiality.
All we know is that the e-fits can't be posterior to Sept 2008, when Brian K. reckoned that Halligen was crooking him and broke the contract.
They sent the e-fits to the LC and the PJ, but didn't published them on the official site. Why? What were the LC and the PJ expected to do exactly with those e-fits ?

[AnneGuedes]

It seems very likely it was two members of that Irish group who did the efits for PIs IMO.
Agreed, which ones may be debatable.

Only two adults hadn't "recognized" Smithman and therefore wouldn't unconsciously introduce a bias in the e-fits : PS and his wife SS.
I would find very unfair to ask a minor (AS was 12).

[pegasus]

Comparing efits with statements maybe broad face is by AS and thinner face by MS?

[Mr Gray]

Does anyone really know when these efits were made....I think the answers no

[Lyall]

Does anyone really know when these efits were made....I think the answers no

Of course we do. 2008.

[Wonderfulspam]

Does anyone really know when these efits were made....I think the answers no

John Snow:

"Officers predict a long hard slog in their efforts to solve the mystery of Madeleine McCanns disappearance.
They've released 2 e-fit images of a man, compiled in 2008, a year after she disappeared but never seen in public until today, based on information from 2 witnesses who were staying in the resort of Praia da Luz at the time.
Our home affairs correspondent Simon Israel has more"

Simon Israel:

" These are 2 e-fits of the same man. A man who may hold the key to Madeleine McCanns disappearance.
They've been shut away in a private investigation file for 5 years.

They were compiled from 2 witness accounts on the night Madeleine disappeared, but never handed over to the Portuguese investigation. Now British police are treating them with the utmost importance"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5w21mREDqtI

[Mr Gray]

Of course we do. 2008.

What month and whats your source