Kate McCann admits in her book that private criminal investigations in Portugal were illegal.

[Angelo222]

So, you accept that the McCanns are innocent do you?

Innocent of what?  As far as the thread theme is concerned its guilty all the way technically or otherwise.

[Eleanor]

So your advice to any individual who is being interviewed by the police as a suspect … would be to ignore the advice of their lawyer and answer 'a few lousy questions' which have been framed to allow them to incriminate themselves.

Taking such co-operation to it's logical conclusion in Madeleine's case ... a theory had been formulated ... so why not just "confess" to fit the theory.

Then we would have hit another 'lousy question' ... which would have followed the line of ... "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE BODY??"
A difficult one that ... ask Leonore Cipriano.

I don't suppose they would have had to worry about what they did with the body.  Amaral would have told them that.

[Carana]

So your advice to any individual who is being interviewed by the police as a suspect … would be to ignore the advice of their lawyer and answer 'a few lousy questions' which have been framed to allow them to incriminate themselves.

Taking such co-operation to it's logical conclusion in Madeleine's case ... a theory had been formulated ... so why not just "confess" to fit the theory.

Then we would have hit another 'lousy question' ... which would have followed the line of ... "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE BODY??"
A difficult one that ... ask Leonore Cipriano.

Quite.

[sadie]

I don't suppose they would have had to worry about what they did with the body.  Amaral would have told them that.

I love your dry humour Eleanor.

[ferryman]

This is madness.  How long would it have been between being charged and a verdict in court? Meanwhile are the police going to be looking for the actual perpetrator and your daughter?n Please be reasonable.

Agreed.

It matters when innocent people are wrongly accused -- however strong the basis for the false accusation (and where the McCanns are concerned, the basis was weak).

[Alice Purjorick]

I think the investigators would be where the suspects were...that's why SY are on Portugal...questioning suspects with the help of rogatory letters...

Suspects, persons of interest or witnesses?
Perseverance with the investigation has been not inconsiderable in time and endeavour of the proletariat.
Remind me sir how many people have thus far been charged with an offence resultant from all this toil?
Although I would concur, sir, the logical place to carry out the work is where the events took place and where the weightier portion of the papers are archived. Where the guilty reside is yet to be determined. Spain, Portugal, Holland, Australia, United Kingdom and any one of the Scandinavian countries all have been mooted as possible. A veritable United Nations assortment. Actually it is yet to be determined what happened, I don't recall the British or Portuguese authorities broadcasting that do you? Other than several possibilities of "lines of inquiry"
One hopes it will all be resolved adequately e'er long.

[Mr Gray]

I have not seen any statement where Kate admits to illegal activities. Only posters putting their own spin on what she says

[Angelo222]

I have not seen any statement where Kate admits to illegal activities. Only posters putting their own spin on what she says

It really is very simple.  Kate McCann states in her book of thoughts that private investigators were technically illegal in Portugal but then what had the McCanns already done?  They employed private investigators to work in Portugal. 

[stephen25000]

It really is very simple.  Kate McCann states in her book of thoughts that private investigators were technically illegal in Portugal but then what had the McCanns already done?  They employed private investigators to work in Portugal.

......and that is precisely the point.

[Mr Gray]

It really is very simple.  Kate McCann states in her book of thoughts that private investigators were technically illegal in Portugal but then what had the McCanns already done?  They employed private investigators to work in Portugal.

It was private investigations that were illegal in Portugal ...check the opening post....so they employed a Spanish company...that is not illegal...what that company did was its own responsibility...not the mccanns...

it seems that the PJ were quite happy with M3 so that would indicate that they had not broken any laws

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[Mr Gray]

It really is very simple.  Kate McCann states in her book of thoughts that private investigators were technically illegal in Portugal but then what had the McCanns already done?  They employed private investigators to work in Portugal.

They could not have a contract to carry out an illegal act

[Angelo222]

It was private investigations that were illegal in Portugal ...check the opening post....so they employed a Spanish company...that is not illegal...what that company did was its own responsibility...not the mccanns...

it seems that the PJ were quite happy with M3 so that would indicate that they had not broken any laws

"...was its own responsibility"!!   Soooo davel you are expecting us to believe the McCanns didn't know what M3 were up to in Portugal and being paid handsomely for the privilege?  That my friend is a claim too far even for you. 

At least you have now admitted that M3 were acting illegally, that must be a lightbulb moment.

[Angelo222]

They could not have a contract to carry out an illegal act

You mean like culpable homicide or did you mean concealing a cadaver and faking an abduction?  Oops that's three illegal acts.

[Mr Gray]

"...was its own responsibility"!!   Soooo davel you are expecting us to believe the McCanns didn't know what M3 were up to in Portugal and being paid handsomely for the privilege?  That my friend is a claim too far even for you. 

At least you have now admitted that M3 were acting illegally, that must be a lightbulb moment.

I haven't admitted they acted illegally and you have been unable to cite the law that they were supposed to have broken....

The PJ were complicit with M3 so I don't see how they could have broken the law

Doesn't matter what the McCanns know if it was illegal it was M3 breaking the law...

if I hire a taxi to get me home asap....who gets the speeding ticket...

You have failed imo to show the mccanns broke the law...it is simply YOUR interpretation