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

[DCI]

He was still here long enough to organise a meeting with the McCanns.

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[Eleanor]

He was still here long enough to organise a meeting with the McCanns.

Why would Rebelo want to arrange a meeting with The McCanns?  They were Arguidos, and not obliged to answer any dubious questions.  So it would have been a pointless exercise.

[faithlilly]

Why would Rebelo want to arrange a meeting with The McCanns?  They were Arguidos, and not obliged to answer any dubious questions.  So it would have been a pointless exercise.

I assume for the same reason that some believe Amaral should have, to 'get their measure'.

I mean how can you know how lovely the McCann couple are and how incapable they were of committing any crime if you haven't met them !!!

[Eleanor]

I assume for the same reason that some believe Amaral should have, to 'get their measure'.

I mean how can you know how lovely the McCann couple are and how incapable they were of committing any crime if you haven't met them !!!

Rebelo did say that making them Arguidos was hasty, so perhaps he didn't want to apologise.

[Brietta]

Why would Rebelo want to arrange a meeting with The McCanns?  They were Arguidos, and not obliged to answer any dubious questions.  So it would have been a pointless exercise.

I think probably of more importance than reinterviewing three arguidos who could safely be consigned to the back burner until he was up to speed with the case and who could be spoken to at any time of his choosing ... might have been a 'handover' from his predecessor.

Is there a record of such a meeting?

[ferryman]

I think probably of more importance than reinterviewing three arguidos who could safely be consigned to the back burner until he was up to speed with the case and who could be spoken to at any time of his choosing ... might have been a 'handover' from his predecessor.

Is there a record of such a meeting?

I know there was one report from the bad ol' British press (Daily Mail, if memory serves right) that Rebelo was incandescent with rage at the pot mess he inherited from his predecessor in that position.

[faithlilly]

Rebelo did say that making them Arguidos was hasty, so perhaps he didn't want to apologise.

No he didn't. That was Ribeiro.

[slartibartfast]

The use of the word 'we' in that context clearly implies to the reader that Amaral was there and was also personally 'astonished' by what he was witnessing first hand.      Why didn't he say 'My officers told me they were astonished'?

It just as easily means the PJ. If Redwood said we you would assume he was talking about SY.

[John]

Apologies for introducing so many new threads at once, can't be helped unfortunately.

[Anna]

He was still here long enough to organise a meeting with the McCanns.

I thought that the McCanns were out of the country when he was here. Am I mistaken?

[Anna]

What reason could Kate have, for saying she did not meet Amaral, if she did?

And if Amaral says that he did meet her, why does he not tell us where, exactly this meeting took place and who else was present? Is it in his book?

[Lyall]

What reason could Kate have, for saying she did not meet Amaral, if she did?

And if Amaral says that he did meet her, why does he not tell us where, exactly this meeting took place and who else was present? Is it in his book?

Maybe he means observing them?

It's not in his book. To be honest he - and everyone else - is remarkably reticent about what went on inside that police station in those two days in September. Which is precisely in 2008 what I hoped he would write about

[Anna]

Maybe he means observing them?

I think that must be it, Lyall. So a translation fault then? Because you can't meet someone through a window or mirror.

[Lyall]

I think that must be it, Lyall. So a translation fault then? Because you can't meet someone through a window or mirror.

It's a small town so at some point in May 2007 they perhaps were more or less in the same place at the same time? Maybe he means something like that.

Though I guess he spent most of his time in Portimao.

[Anna]

It's a small town so at some point in May 2007 they perhaps were more or less in the same place at the same time? Maybe he means something like that.

Though I guess he spent most of his time in Portimao.

Well whatever he means, it wasn't meeting them. We all know, 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