The Smith sighting revisited.

[Anna]

Because he didn't want to be ripped apart by Trolls?

However, I think that Tanner man was Smith man.  And I think he was hiding somewhere in the interim to get directions.  If there was a boat off shore then a rendezvous had to be arranged.

Call me daft if you like, but I always hope for the best.

I also believe that JT saw someone other than the one that came forward....Not comvinced of Smithman.
I believe she was taken on a boat as well, otherwise where is she..No body, nothing.
 How do you dispose of a child, so completely?

[Anna]

Just explain how it happened Eleanor.

How did tannerman, or anyone for that matter, fitting in with the evidence, extract Maddie from 5a?

There is only the culprit/s can tell you that. I do not claim to KNOW anything that is still unknown.
  Just little speculators us all

[Eleanor]

Just explain how it happened Eleanor.

How did tannerman, or anyone for that matter, fitting in with the evidence, extract Maddie from 5a?

I can see how it could have happened.  But it would be a waste of my time to explain.  And I am not obliged to anyway.

However, a few common sense posts from you might help with regard to your credibility as anything other than a WUM.

[Brietta]

Erm... who says that innocent people hadn't come forward at some point during the general chaos, and whose communications hadn't been correctly recorded or lost?

Tannerman may indeed be an innocent dad carrying his child, as might Smithman.

Shouldn't people in the area carrying a child have been thoroughly checked and eliminated as part of a logical process right at the beginning?

The PJ leaks to a frenzied media may have put some people off, and the general chaos may mean that some attempts to communicate with the police / hotline weren't noticed at the time.

DCI Redwood did say during the Crimewatch appeal that even if people had given information to the police at the time not to assume that the present investigation knew about it and asked them to come forward again. 

Given the amount of information flooding in it would be surprising if there hadn’t been instances of some of it getting lost or misfiled.

[Brietta]

I also believe that JT saw someone other than the one that came forward....Not comvinced of Smithman.
I believe she was taken on a boat as well, otherwise where is she..No body, nothing.
 How do you dispose of a child, so completely?

I think Jane Tanner saw Madeleine and her abductor ... there probably was an innocentman ... but there has always been something a bit 'non specific' about the SY approach to the sightings and the efits.

I  have no doubt they know a great deal more about this sequence of events than has been released.

[Wonderfulspam]

I think Jane Tanner saw Madeleine and her abductor ... there probably was an innocentman ... but there has always been something a bit 'non specific' about the SY approach to the sightings and the efits.

I  have no doubt they know a great deal more about this sequence of events than has been released.

She didn't.

[slartibartfast]

I think Jane Tanner saw Madeleine and her abductor ... there probably was an innocentman ... but there has always been something a bit 'non specific' about the SY approach to the sightings and the efits.

I  have no doubt they know a great deal more about this sequence of events than has been released.

So do SY know stuff or not, you seem to be selective in your acceptance of their skills.

[Brietta]

So do SY know stuff or not, you seem to be selective in your acceptance of their skills.

Sorry ... you have lost me there ... you will have to give me examples of where I have been selective.

[slartibartfast]

Sorry ... you have lost me there ... you will have to give me examples of where I have been selective.

Good grief, in the same post you disagree with SY who say Tanner's sighting was an innocent tourist at same time they know a great deal more than has been released... &%+((£

[Brietta]

Good grief, in the same post you disagree with SY who say Tanner's sighting was an innocent tourist at same time they know a great deal more than has been released... &%+((£

You may have failed to notice ... it doesn't really matter what I think ... I'm not tasked with solving the case ... I am quite content to leave that sort of work to the professionals of the Met.

So my opinion means zich ... although I am certain ... totally and absolutely certain ... that in an active investigation ... they will decide what it is helpful to have in the public domain ... and what it is not.

I fail to see the contradiction in that ... but if it pleases you to see one ... who am I to argue?

[slartibartfast]

You may have failed to notice ... it doesn't really matter what I think ... I'm not tasked with solving the case ... I am quite content to leave that sort of work to the professionals of the Met.

So my opinion means zich ... although I am certain ... totally and absolutely certain ... that in an active investigation ... they will decide what it is helpful to have in the public domain ... and what it is not.

I fail to see the contradiction in that ... but if it pleases you to see one ... who am I to argue?

Deflecting...

[Brietta]

Deflecting...

Actually it seems to be you doing the deflecting ... the thread isn't entitled what I think of the Met ... it is actually about the Smith sighting which is closely allied to Jane Tanner's sighting.
So if you have an opinion on either ... it could be helpful in keeping us on topic.

[Alice Purjorick]

Actually it seems to be you doing the deflecting ... the thread isn't entitled what I think of the Met ... it is actually about the Smith sighting which is closely allied to Jane Tanner's sighting.
So if you have an opinion on either ... it could be helpful in keeping us on topic.

This is an interesting proposition. Would you be so kind as to share you reasoning wrt how they are closely allied?

[Alfred R Jones]

if Gerry is smithman...why ahs he not been arrested?

Good question.  there are some "sceptics" who KNOW that Gerry was Smithman, presumably because of thr overwhelming evidence, so why haven't the police at the very least made him an arguido again?

[Brietta]

This is an interesting proposition. Would you be so kind as to share you reasoning wrt how they are closely allied?

You haven't been reading my posts ... I'm hurt.

If you scroll back I'm sure all will be revealed ... I remember going into the Smith and Tanner sightings in some depth ... so you shouldn't be disappointed.