Gonçalo Amaral claims to have met the McCanns yet Kate denies it?

[Lyall]

Well whatever he means, it wasn't meeting them. We all now, what meeting someone means and it isn't passing them in the street, seeing them through a window, or viewing them from afar. Very odd thing for him to say. IMO

He's said odder

[Anna]

He's said odder

How very true, In fact we wonder, what odd remark will be heard of next  What was I thinking of.

[Lyall]

Whatever anyone thinks his true motive for writing the book was, he was the only one who put his neck on the line in 2008 for what many others than just him believed in. And it's been a very long struggle.

It's just like the end of Gladiator (... a bit)

"A striking story. Now the people want to know how the story ends."

[Mr Gray]

Whatever anyone thinks his true motive for writing the book was, he was the only one who put his neck on the line in 2008 for what many others than just him believed in. And it's been a very long struggle.

It's just like the end of Gladiator (... a bit)

"A striking story. Now the people want to know how the story ends."

you have your opinion..I have mine...first amaral is a disgraced cop...proved in the Portuguese courts...second he wrote the book to make himself some money ...IMO...hopefully soon he will have a large proportion confiscated by the courts....an absolutely vile person IMO

[Lyall]

you have your opinion..I have mine...first amaral is a disgraced cop...proved in the Portuguese courts...second he wrote the book to make himself some money ...IMO...hopefully soon he will have a large proportion confiscated by the courts....an absolutely vile person IMO

You'll admit to being biased. Me too. But truthfully there are no innocents in this story, apart from the children. GA's character doesn't really matter, the fact is he isn't alone in that courtroom and the other defendants still being there after all this time I think means more than you'll admit.

[Brietta]

You'll admit to being biased. Me too. But truthfully there are no innocents in this story, apart from the children. GA's character doesn't really matter, the fact is he isn't alone in that courtroom and the other defendants still being there after all this time I think means more than you'll admit.

It would have been so easy to write a book which did what it claimed on the cover and that was to tell the truth and do it without libelling anyone, however wrong thread for that one.

Let me see now, why should anyone place any reliance on statements being made by a man with a criminal conviction for telling lies?  While disbelieving everyone else who contradicts or deviates from his script.

I am sure that had Mr Amaral and the Drs McCann ever had a face to face meeting as he constantly implies ... someone would be able to confirm that ... similarly the fact that there is no corroboration confirms Dr Kate McCann's assertion.

What is so difficult to understand about that?

[Carana]

11-09-2008
Thanks to 'Ines' for translation

Q: What relationship do you have with the McCann couple?

I was the head of the department investigating the case within the PJ in Portimao. I was responsible for organising the work of the investigation and ensuring myself of following the direction of the investigation, and therefore I was with the couple once or twice as well as with all the witnesses and with inspectors working on the case. (...)

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id165.html

[Mr Gray]

You'll admit to being biased. Me too. But truthfully there are no innocents in this story, apart from the children. GA's character doesn't really matter, the fact is he isn't alone in that courtroom and the other defendants still being there after all this time I think means more than you'll admit.

I don't admit to being biased..but it seems you do. My opinion of the McCanns is based on looking at and assessing evidence from both sides...having done this I don't believe they have committed any criminal acts

[sadie]

11-09-2008
Thanks to 'Ines' for translation

Q: What relationship do you have with the McCann couple?

I was the head of the department investigating the case within the PJ in Portimao. I was responsible for organising the work of the investigation and ensuring myself of following the direction of the investigation, and therefore I was with the couple once or twice as well as with all the witnesses and with inspectors working on the case. (...)

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id165.html

Thanks Carana

But was the "meeting " thru one way glass ? .... cos Kate wasn't aware of it.

Only speculating.

[Benice]

11-09-2008
Thanks to 'Ines' for translation

Q: What relationship do you have with the McCann couple?

I was the head of the department investigating the case within the PJ in Portimao. I was responsible for organising the work of the investigation and ensuring myself of following the direction of the investigation, and therefore I was with the couple once or twice as well as with all the witnesses and with inspectors working on the case. (...)

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id165.html

From memory so apols if I'm wrong -  but -  I have not seen a statement which shows who the interviewing officer(s) were.  I presume on the original statements -  the names of all those present would have been recorded.  So if he had been present - he would have no difficulty in providing the evidence.  So why hasn't he pointed that out?

IMO he deliberately set out to give the impression that he had personal contact with the McCanns throughout his time in office  - because a first hand account of the case would be so much more convincing than a book based in it's entirely on second/third hand information - obtained by interpreting other people's reports, opinions and comments and putting his own spin on them.     Not the same thing at all is it.

I will always maintain that to deceive his readers in that way was thorougly dishonest.

 

[Benice]

No I'm not.

In case you hadn't noted, davel has claimed to be 'not biased', and that is pure bull.

IMO you do back Amaral 100%.   You don't accept the explanations given to you as to why people support the McCanns so why should I accept your denial re Amaral?

Maybe if you stopped posting your assumptions of why people think differently to you  - ad nauseam  - then there would be no need for anyone to post their similar assumptions about yourself.

IMO for both 'sides' to continue in that vein adds nothing to the debate.   

Agreed?

[stephen25000]

IMO you do back Amaral 100%.   You don't accept the explanations given to you as to why people support the McCanns so why should I accept your denial re Amaral?

Maybe if you stopped posting your assumptions of why people think differently to you  - ad nauseam  - then there would be no need for anyone to post their similar assumptions about yourself.

IMO for both 'sides' to continue in that vein adds nothing to the debate.   

Agreed?

I really don't give a monkeys as regards whether you believe I support Amaral 100% or not.

However, i'm proud to say  i make no attempt to attach myself to the mccanns as some here do, metaphorically or physically.

[Carana]

Thanks Carana

But was the "meeting " thru one way glass ? .... cos Kate wasn't aware of it.

Only speculating.

Hard to tell, Sadie... I don't see how he would have had time to sit in on interviews with all the witnesses, for example.

[Benice]

I really don't give a monkeys as regards whether you believe I support Amaral 100% or not.

However, i'm proud to say  i make no attempt to attach myself to the mccanns as some here do, metaphorically or physically.

Well there you go then.   If you assume from their posts that people on here are 'attached' to the McCanns - then you can have no objection when I assume from your posts that you are similarly 'attached' to Amaral, and worship the ground he walks on.

Your turn.

Daft innit?

[Mr Gray]

I really don't give a monkeys as regards whether you believe I support Amaral 100% or not.

However, i'm proud to say  i make no attempt to attach myself to the mccanns as some here do, metaphorically or physically.

and no one gives a monkeys to what you think and the rubbish you post..simple