IMO there were no sexual assaults on British kids in PDL.

[Carana]

Serious investigation or no, I would still want to warn other families, that is exactly what I would do.

I can understand your wish to, but I doubt that you would have done so if you'd been advised not to for the sake of your own child and for the sake of any investigation underway (if any actually were at the time).

Would you seriously blow a fuse to the tabloids if you had reported it to the UK police and they had asked for your discretion in order to actually catch him?

Would you be proud of yourself if you'd blown an undercover investigation and the guy had got away?

[Wonderfulspam]

I can understand your wish to, but I doubt that you would have done so if you'd been advised not to for the sake of your own child and for the sake of any investigation underway (if any actually was at the time).

Would you seriously blow a fuse to the tabloids if you had reported it to the UK police and they had asked for your discretion in order to actually catch him?

Would you be proud of yourself if you'd blown an undercover investigation and the guy had got away?

Have no doubts, I f**king well would, in any scenario you care to imagine.

[Carana]

Have no doubts, I f**king well would, in any scenario you care to imagine.

Ok. I understand your emotional reaction, but I still don't understand the logic.

- You started by stating that there were no sexual assaults on kids in PdL.

- Then you change your viewpoint. Why are you getting emotional about attacks that you state never happened?

- If there had been, you'd have been telling all the tabloids about it in order to hypothetically save other children even if doing so compromised an undercover investigation to actually identify and catch him?

- Who does that help and how?

[Lace]

Wonderfulspam,  you say you don't believe these assaults happened,   then how do you explain the witnesses coming up with the same description of the man?

[jassi]

Wonderfulspam,  you say you don't believe these assaults happened,   then how do you explain the witnesses coming up with the same description of the man?

Well, it could be called 'singing from the same hymn-sheet'   

[Mr Gray]

I just hope none of these children who have been abused realise that posters online want to call them liars

[Lace]

Well, it could be called 'singing from the same hymn-sheet'   

How would they have known what the other witnesses had said?

[Alfred R Jones]

... or to protect or entrap individuals.

In the Colin Stagg case, the police used entrapment, the so-called honeytrap.

Lord Justice Ognal took one look at the evidence, blew a gasket, turned apoplectic and dismissed the prosecution evidence.

The whole case collapsed.

The police did not invent a crime in order to entrap Colin Stagg, I asked for an example of police inventing criminal acts, as they have (according to some on here) allegedly invented the sex attacks on the Algarve.

[Alfred R Jones]

Plebgate.

BHH excelled himself with that one.

Which criminal act was invented by the police in that case?

[jassi]

How would they have known what the other witnesses had said?

I'll leave that to your imagination 

[Lace]

No,  answer if you can.

The police have been to interview these people,    they have given a description of the man they saw,   the police wouldn't have disclosed what one set of parents had said.   So how do you suppose other sets of parents have given  the same description of the man?

[jassi]

No,  answer if you can.

The police have been to interview these people,    they have given a description of the man they saw,   the police wouldn't have disclosed what one set of parents had said.   So how do you suppose other sets of parents have given  the same description of the man?

You might like to refer to my earlier reply.

[Alfred R Jones]

Kate McCann writes in her best-selling and widely read book that the (I think) UK Ambassador in Portugal was the first one to alert her to the sex attacks on children in the Algarve.  Now, this man is no longer Ambassador but presumably he is still alive and would be aware, if not very interested in Kate's book and surely would have something to say if she had lied about what he had told her - or are we to believe that he is in on it too?

[jassi]

Kate McCann writes in her best-selling and widely read book that the (I think) UK Ambassador in Portugal was the first one to alert her to the sex attacks on children in the Algarve.  Now, this man is no longer Ambassador but presumably he is still alive and would be aware, if not very interested in Kate's book and surely would have something to say if she had lied about what he had told her - or are we to believe that he is in on it too?

I'm sure his lips are sealed.

[Wonderfulspam]

Interview with Paul Luckman, editor of Portugal News.

@ 2hrs 38 mins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418mms