Exactly, Eleanor.
I also had these suspicions as do some others.
However there is no proof of anything, connected to that apartment because it was not investigated(that we know of)and nothing was found that can be classed as hard evidence, relating to the crime being discussed.
OK lets try and define what hard evidence is.
It was my understanding that anything found and proved to be associated with the crime, but not witness statements, as they cannot always have the proof to substantiate them.
The dogs smelling rotten meat is only evidence that the dogs smelled rotten meat.
I agree that this should have been investigated further, since a cleaner would have cleaned the apartment after the departure of a guest, unless of course the owner made her own arrangements for cleaning……………..Anyway it should have been checked out, but was not.
Therefore in the instance of the rotten meat, there was no hard evidence of the crime which was being investigated.
If you disagree with this then please supply a site that proves otherwise.
The search & rescue dogs were looking what was supposedly
Madeleine's scent, nothing else. Do search & rescue dogs show an interest in every dead animal they come across whilst searching the mountainside? Or do they only signal to their handlers when they scent what they are trained to?
Illicit sub-letting or otherwise - someone unknown had recently put food in that apartment, presumably with the intention of it being eaten within the apartment. Surely, when a child goes missing, and there is hard evidence a stranger HAD been in 5J but was no longer there, that person should have been looked for/at as a matter of priority?
