Is SY all it's cracked up to be ?

[jassi]

Yes, let down by a police force who were convinced they'd already got their man, despite a complete lack of evidence and a stubborn refusal to consider the alternatives.  Lessons the Met have hopefully learned by now, let's hope the PJ have learned from their similar failings in the Madeleine McCann case.

Indeed.

[faithlilly]

Yes, let down by a police force who were convinced they'd already got their man, despite a complete lack of evidence and a stubborn refusal to consider the alternatives.  Lessons the Met have hopefully learned by now, let's hope the PJ have learned from their similar failings in the Madeleine McCann case.

Doesn't seem like SY have learned anything in the intervening years.

[Alfred R Jones]

Doesn't seem like SY have learned anything in the intervening years.

And why do you say that Faithlilly?  Do you think the Met should be taking lessons from the PJ who behaved very much like the Met did in the Rachel Nickell case when investigating the Madeleine McCann disappearance?

[faithlilly]

And why do you say that Faithlilly?  Do you think the Met should be taking lessons from the PJ who behaved very much like the Met did in the Rachel Nickell case when investigating the Madeleine McCann disappearance?

Any police force in the world would investigate those closest to the victim first. That is what the PJ did.

[ferryman]

Any police force in the world would investigate those closest to the victim first. That is what the PJ did.

And reached the right conclusion (that the McCanns had/have no case to answer).

But they took much longer to reach that conclusion than they should have.

And in the meantime, chances of nailing the true perpetrator(s) of crime(s) against Madeleine steadily receded.

There lies the real tragedy ...

[Alfred R Jones]

And reached the right conclusion (that the McCanns had/have no case to answer).

But they took much longer to reach that conclusion than they should have.

And in the meantime, chances of nailing the true perpetrator(s) of crime(s) against Madeleine steadily receded.

There lies the real tragedy ...

Well said Ferryman. 

[Alfred R Jones]

Any police force in the world would investigate those closest to the victim first. That is what the PJ did.

Not that long ago you were opining that Andy Redwood was forced to say on TV that the McCanns are not suspects in order not to feed speculation and you seemed to be suggesting that the Met still had the McCanns very much in their sights.  Has your opinion now changed, and if so why? 

[Miss Taken Identity]

Any police force in the world would investigate those closest to the victim first. That is what the PJ did.

Indeed, and continue to do so now!