What makes you think they were surprised? Why would the PJ be surprised that the Yard accepted their approval of the Yard's request?? That makes no sense.
Do you think it was the intention to have digs of this nature going on during the tourist season?
I think we have not been told in advance about the digs in the same way we were about the burglars. That should give some indication as to the nature of the evidence and information underpinning these particular requests. I also think the request was agreed to because it had significant enough foundation with which to help resolve this case, irrespective of whether it was tourist season or not.
I do not accept at all that SY threw in this request as some sort of carpet bombing strategy to see which ones they could get the PT to agree to.
That is a nonsense.
So you think the Yard asked on the basis that they thought it would be turned down?
Don't you think it is far more likely the PT authorities believed this request had more foundation to it than the others?
I don’t know if you deliberately misinterpret what I am saying or if I am not making myself clear enough.
NSY made this request along with many others in the expectation that the Portuguese authorities would accede to all the requests or the majority.
It seems that has not happened and access has been denied for most if not all and as far as we can know except for this one. There can be no doubt NSY has been obstructed from carrying out elementary investigation to rule evidence in or out.
No i am not misinterpreting anything i am replying directly to your written words. You did say after all:
I believe it came as a surprise to the Portuguese authorities that NSY accepted their permission to dig in the environs of PdaL.
We do not know if this request was made at the same time as the others at all. I would argue given the helicopter business and the SY team being there last week that this request was made some time, given it needed approval.
So we cannot say it was one of many requests made at the same time.
We also have no evidence of obstruction. What we have is the Portuguese authorities requiring sufficient evidence to cede to SY's requests. One can only presume that the evidence presented to the Portuguese for the other requests was not sufficient to satisfy the requirements under Portuguese law.
That is not obstruction, it is about the Police of one country having to respect the law and due process of another country it wants to try and operate in.
The original investigation was criticised for concentrating too much on what happened around PDL by supporters of the family and the family themselves. etc
I won’t go through the recognised protocols usual when a child goes missing, merely to say that it must be highly unusual not to alert borders and check vehicles when the initial search must be for a living child.
Well let's be clear Gerry McCann wanted and stated the border closing, can you show me a protocol where a country any country does that when a child goes missing.
The point is for 7 years supporters of the family castigated the investigation for concentrating on the events and inhabitants in and around PDL too much, and that they should have widened the investigation scope to include boats, cars, Morocco and Victoria Beckham look alikes around the world.
Now that digs are planned in PDL the supporters of the family are now blaming the PJ for not investigating enough around PDL!
That's hypocriosy and revisionism.
That's utter revisionism and hypocrisy.
I have absolutely no idea why you think that comment is relevant to anything, I find it applicable to nothing posted by me.
Let's get this straight and I hope I make myself understood this time
NSY submitted letters of request to enable them to carry out their investigation on Portuguese soil under the lead of the PJ
Within that list was a request to dig should that prove necessary
IMO the request to dig is the only request that has been approved
IMO it was not expected by the Portuguese that NSY would agree to dig because the psyche of the Brits wasn't taken into consideration, I think it was expected they would refuse.
I don't think you have come up with anything to refute my opinion.
There is no evidence one large shopping list of requests was sent in one lump.
We do not have any evidence to know if any other requests were approved. We have no evidence that states ALL other requests were turned down.
I am sorry but your opinion about Portugal not expecting SY to accept the permission that the Portuguese gave to the request that SY made to dig is just, frankly, preposterous.
I am saying it is my opinion and indeed common sense that SY provided a request to dig, provided the evidence they had, and perhaps in conjunction with the information already gathered by the PJ, they agreed to dig.
I can't see the logic in SY asking for a request and then being surprised it was accepted nor that Portugal was then surprised that the Yard took them up on it.
It just makes no sense.
