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

[Redblossom]

Yes there are several independent witnesses that can verify that fact.

Dozens according to the Mail...thats at least 24 or 36 or more even......wow


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2462431/Madeleine-McCann-Police-say-Irish-family-seen-Maddie-taken.html

[pathfinder73]

Yes they had to be at the tapas bar - a good alibi but not good enough. Bringing the timeline forward to 10pm, the same time of the sighting, won't fool top detectives working on this case.

[Carana]

Catching up on here.

Stop repeating the lies the McCannorder the journos to publish. Neither the efits nor the report was ever sent to Portugal, and I even doubt they were sent to Leicestershire Police "call me Stu". Otherwise why would the SY need a special authorization from the Fund??? Are we all mad or are they wanting to make us?

Do you know that for a fact, or is that your opinion that you are stating as fact?

[Redblossom]

Catching up on here.

Do you know that for a fact, or is that your opinion that you are stating as fact?

isnt the answer in the latter part of that post? If the report and efits were in the LP or PJ files, SY who had the files from all sources on the case, would not have had to go direct to Oakley to ask for them, and then get told you need special permission from the Fund!

 >@@(*&)

[Mr Gray]

isnt the answer in the latter part of that post? If the report and efits were in the LP or PJ files, SY who had the files from all sources on the case, would not have had to go direct to Oakley to ask for them, and then get told you need special permission from the Fund!

 >@@(*&)

How do you know they had to ask Oakley...are you basing this on a discredited times article...no wonder you have everything back to front

[ferryman]

So there we have it, the Sunday Times got it wrong.  The McCanns didn't withhold the Smiths e-fits for 5 years, they only withheld them for nearly 3.   That'll be alright then?   What a fiasco!!

Only withheld them for nearly 3 years?

When did Martin Smith produce this efit?

Do we know?

We know that at the end of January 2008 he hadn't, because this is from his statement to the Irish Gardia police at that date:

He [Mr Smith] has been contacted by Mr Brian Kennedy who is supporting the McCann family to take part in a photo fit exercise. He has given no stories or helped in any photo fits.

[Redblossom]

Only withheld them for nearly 3 years?

When did Martin Smith produce this efit?

Do we know?

We know that at the end of January 2008 he hadn't, because this is from his statement to the Irish Gardia police at that date:

He [Mr Smith] has been contacted by Mr Brian Kennedy who is supporting the McCann family to take part in a photo fit exercise. He has given no stories or helped in any photo fits.

Sometime between employing and not emloying Oakley ie late spring to November 2008 when Edgar and Cowley were brought in.....

read my post 63 on this thread and the link...September according to the Irish Times

[Redblossom]

How do you know they had to ask Oakley...are you basing this on a discredited times article...no wonder you have everything back to front

the whole article is discredited because the Times issued an apology to readers who may have assumed they were insinuating the Mccanns kept the efits and report by Oakley from the authorities? OK then


 

They just made it all up......off the top of their heads.....there doneand dusted....

 

[slartibartfast]

the whole article is discredited because the Times issued an apology to readers who may have assumed they were insinuating the Mccanns kept the efits and report by Oakley from the authorities until SY requested the report? OK then


 

They just made it all up......off the top of their heads.....there doneand dusted....

 

[Redblossom]

Yes, more spin is required here......and stating a whole article is discredited doesnt cut any mustard......at all

[Mr Gray]

Yes, more spin is required here......and stating a whole article is discredited doesnt cut any mustard......at all

Sorry ...my apologies....they got the date right

[ferryman]

So it looks as if the police waited until what they deemed the right moment ( the crimewatch programme) to release the e-fit, after the investigation had been resumed.  The police had had the e-fits in their possession for 3 years before that.

Why does anyone have a problem with that?

[Lyall]

So it looks as if the police waited until what they deemed the right moment ( the crimewatch programme) to release the e-fit, after the investigation had been resumed.  The police had had the e-fits in their possession for 3 years before that.

Why does anyone have a problem with that?

We don't have a problem, you guys do: Mitchell's press conferences, in which he used everything - everything except the 10pm sighting efits. >@@(*&)

[Lyall]

Just admit you can't spin it guys

[Victoria]

So it looks as if the police waited until what they deemed the right moment ( the crimewatch programme) to release the e-fit, after the investigation had been resumed.  The police had had the e-fits in their possession for 3 years before that.

Why does anyone have a problem with that?

Because, despite it being the truth, if it doesn't fit with their pet theories it gets ignored.