I await your description of how the re-enactment could be achieved with the degree of accuracy that would be necessary from each person in order to recreate their movements of a year before - minute by minute - when 9 of the 10 people didn't know what times they did different things - and could only give approximations.
For instance explain how the PJ would deal with the problem of JT not knowing whether it was 5 or 10 minutes, or sometime inbetween that she left the table after Gerry. If she got it wrong and went only ONE minute earlier than she had a year earlier - then she could have reached the top of the street before Gerry had even left the apartment. What would the PJ have done about that?
Keeping in mind they were only going to get one go at this recon - how would the PJ have dealt with the inaccurate recreation which, because 9 people could only give approx times, would have inevitably been the result IMO Do tell.
Ricardo Paiva who acted as a liaison officer for the Drs McCann because of his command of English, who dined with them, who invited them to his house and whose children played with his children ... reported nothing suspicious or untoward in their behaviour.
Thus the first plank in the process of justification in arousing suspicion was his allegation that Kate had a dream.
Not any observation of word or deed ... but the allegation which is denied by Dr McCann ... "that Kate had a dream."
Didn't quite see that in the guidlines for FLO ... there again the practice in Portugal may be quite different.
http://www.acpo.police.uk/documents/crime/2008/200809-cba-family-liaison-officer.pdfThe second plank in the process was the DNA fiasco ...
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DNA samples that are a "100 per cent match" to Madeleine McCann have been found in her parents' hire car and holiday apartment, it has been claimed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1562710/Madeleine-McCann-DNA-an-accurate-match.html**snip
But the final report from the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham several weeks later said that the DNA evidence in the case was inconclusive, and did not support the police's theory.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036898/The-dodgy-DNA-evidence-lead-McCanns-suspects.html#ixzz3QDEuCbb5 Not forgetting the "evidence" of the dogs.
**snip
It is clear from reading the police files that form the basis of this review that the hypothesis that Madeleine had been accidentally killed, and her body hidden, took on a greater significance when the police were under greater pressure, and after the use of “Cadaver Dogs”.
Recommendation -
The use of cadaver dogs should be very carefully considered by any future senior investigating officer. Also when used very careful consideration should be given to relying solely on their evidence
http://williams-thomas.co.uk/sites/default/files/Review%20of%20Madeleiene%20McCann%20Investigation.pdfNow all that is left of the PJ case to justify making the Drs McCann arguidos are alleged "discrepancies" in their statements.
What better way would there have been of illustrating those alleged discrepancies than to have had everyone running around like headless chickens in a reconstitution that was doomed to failure right from the start ... but one man's failure may be another man's success.
There was a reason behind the demand for this reconstitution which I thought was to enable justification to have the case shelved with the blame firmly passed from the PJ to others (and as this thread proves ... that seems to have worked a treat) but maybe that wasn't the rationale behind it at all.
