Scotland Yard about to commence digs in and around Praia da Luz.

[pathfinder73]

"Me and Gerry you know I’m not sure what time it was, it was you know between three and four o’ clock when, again looking for her. We went down err through past the Ocean Club reception, we went down err to the beach." (DP)

[John]

It is literally a minefield, like looking for a needle in a haystack.  The terrain east of Praia da Luz in particular is easily accessible for anyone wanting to hide a body.

[peter claridge]

If the PJ conducted a proper search then why are diggers only just now (allegedly) being deployed?  Where did the PJ dig?

Where would they have been expected to dig?  If this digging does commence it will be interesting as to how they know where to carry this out.

[Alfred R Jones]

Where would they have been expected to dig?  If this digging does commence it will be interesting as to how they know where to carry this out.

I expect the digs will take place in the most logical places to dig, places where a body most likely would have been hidden in PdL and its immediate environs, that would be a starting point wouldn't it? 

[Alfred R Jones]

[quote removed as speculative]

No, he decided on the 4th of May who dunnit and then tried desperately hard (but failed) to find any evidence to fit his theory.  He then wrote up his theory in the form of a book from which to make lots of money,  only problem was his theory was utterly implausible based on nothing more than an overactive imagination.

[jassi]

Do you think it doesn't matter that the PJ didn't conduct proper searches?  I  think it does actually.

Only if  Madeleine's remains are discovered  in this bout of digging will it be justified in criticising any earlier dig - After all nothing may be found this time, either.

[Alfred R Jones]

I have no idea and quite frankly, my dear, I couldn't give a damn whether he was or wasn't.

If you genuinely have any interest in the fate of Madeleine McCann or in justice generally I would have thought you would care whether or not the policeman in charge of the case of a missing child was competent.  Personally it saddens and angers me that the man performed in his role so poorly, and then had the temerity to cash in using his half-baked "thesis".

[pathfinder73]

"Kate was going to provide us, indirectly, with indications about where her daughter’s body was to be found. Thus, at the beginning of June, she informed us that the body could have been hidden in the outlet of a sewer pipe at Praia da Luz, or on the cliffs to the west of the beach, where she happened to run. She will say later that this information had been given to her by mediums possessing psychic power." (Truth of the Lie)

[jassi]

People are going to have to do an awful lot of revision, if this digging turns up anything definite.

[Alfred R Jones]

People are going to have to do an awful lot of revision, if this digging turns up anything definite.

Well I won't for a start.  I have always thought the most likely outcome is that her remains will be found within a short radius of where she went missing.  That's not to say I haven't also hoped to be wrong and that she is still alive somewhere.

[Mr Gray]

People are going to have to do an awful lot of revision, if this digging turns up anything definite.

why....

[jassi]

For a start, if a body is found, that will discount all the sighting theories - except perhaps one.

[Mr Gray]

For a start, if a body is found, that will discount all the sighting theories - except perhaps one.

all the sightings probably are false...the best case scenario would be if maddie was found alive...but if she is found dead then at least there will be closure and some questions hopefully answerred

[jassi]

all the sightings probably are false...the best case scenario would be if maddie was found alive...but if she is found dead then at least there will be closure and some questions hopefully answerred

Of course they are, but people still  believe them.

[Mr Gray]

Of course they are, but people still  believe them.

They may be right...no body knows