Tavares Report wrongly claims EVRD Eddie alerted within the boot of the hire car

[ferryman]

Was it driven or towed?

I believe it was driven.

But Gerry's DNA was extracted from the key card.

[Carana]

I wouldn't have thought that they would have been driven. However, I haven't found anything in the files to clarify.

Amaral's book is also vague on this issue.

Driven by the investigators, the cars are parked in the reserved areas, doors closed and windows raised, with a space of 10 metres from one to another to avoid contamination.

The original:

As viaturas foram conduzidas para aquele local por investigadores e dispostas pelos lugares de estacionamento, mantendo uma distância de cerca de dez metros entre cada uma delas, para evitar eventuais contaminações.

[Mr Gray]

I wouldn't have thought that they would have been driven. However, I haven't found anything in the files to clarify.

Amaral's book is also vague on this issue.

Driven by the investigators, the cars are parked in the reserved areas, doors closed and windows raised, with a space of 10 metres from one to another to avoid contamination.

The original:



As viaturas foram conduzidas para aquele local por investigadores e dispostas pelos lugares de estacionamento, mantendo uma distância de cerca de dez metros entre cada uma delas, para evitar eventuais contaminações.

I seem to remember at the time that it was reported that the car was driven by  a member of the pj

[pegasus]

An accurate and truthful account how the vehicle was delivered to Portimao on 6th August and where it was impounded is found in chapter 14 of the book by KM.

[AnneGuedes]

An accurate and truthful account how the vehicle was delivered to Portimao on 6th August and where it was impounded is found in chapter 14 of the book by KM.

This is how Mr McCann tells the way he (not his wife) delivered the car to the police :
6 August 2007
I went to a large office store in Portimao to buy a new printer and ink, both of which were badly needed after all the posters we produced this last week.
There has been lots of media attention on the latest police searches.
We are pleased that the investigation remains so active and we are cooperating fully with the Portuguese and British police, as we have done since day 1.

[Mr Gray]

This is how Mr McCann tells the way he (not his wife) delivered the car to the police :
6 August 2007
I went to a large office store in Portimao to buy a new printer and ink, both of which were badly needed after all the posters we produced this last week.
There has been lots of media attention on the latest police searches.
We are pleased that the investigation remains so active and we are cooperating fully with the Portuguese and British police, as we have done since day 1.

this post doesn't mention a  car

[AnneGuedes]

Quod erat demonstrandum.

[Mr Gray]

Quod erat demonstrandum.

no...it doesn't describe how the car was delivered to the pj

[pegasus]

The source I mentioned above:

Monday 6 August ....... At the PJ’s request, Gerry went off to meet them at a café in Portimão. They didn’t need me ....... Gerry returned minus the car. While he’d been in the café, the police had impounded it for forensic testing and brought him back to Praia da Luz themselves.

Wednesday 8 August ...... João Carlos returned our car at lunchtime (albeit with a piece missing from the boot).

[AnneGuedes]

While he’d been in the café, the police .....brought him back to Praia da Luz themselves.

How sweet, those PJ inspectors ! No media interference..

[Mr Gray]

How sweet, those PJ inspectors ! No media interference..

so who drove the car away from the cafe

[pegasus]

so who drove the car away from the cafe

Is it possible that compounds were transferred from the driver's hand to the keycard?

[Mr Gray]

Is it possible that compounds were transferred from the driver's hand to the keycard?

according to Grime ...yes

[AnneGuedes]

Is it possible that compounds were transferred from the driver's hand to the keycard?

A driver who just before had been moving a cadaver or two without gloves ?

[pegasus]

Notice that the most factual account we have on how the car got from PDL to Portimao comes from the book I quoted.
I suggest that another account from the same book, that she found the window already open, is equally factual.