If Only....!

[pathfinder73]

You have missed the point.

What has that got to do with the fact that because Eddie alerts it does not automatically prove that a cadaver was present at that location or ever had been present - which is what some sceptics strongly believe.

I am not disputing that Eddie alerted to cadaverscent.   It is the sceptics reason why that scent was present which I am disputing - based on the expert opinion of both Grime and Harrison. 

 

After eliminating other possibilities the police work on the belief that a cadaver was present. That's why their digging in Luz for the evidence of it.

[Carana]

Back to Faith's OP:

If only the Portuguese had taken this course of action when Kate McCann claimed she had been offered a deal by them.

http://news.sky.com/story/1499912/amanda-knox-faces-trial-in-italy-for-slander


Why do say "if only", Faith?

[Alfred R Jones]

Back to Faith's OP:

If only the Portuguese had taken this course of action when Kate McCann claimed she had been offered a deal by them.

http://news.sky.com/story/1499912/amanda-knox-faces-trial-in-italy-for-slander


Why do say "if only", Faith?

I would imagine that what she means is it would have been some comfort for Faith to know that Kate had faced some sort of legal action, if only for the act of slander against the police.  People like Faith want the McCanns to pay in some way, but they know they are unlikely to ever be going to jail for that which they suspect them of, so they root around for other things that they think they could be charged with.  What a sad pastime!

[ferryman]

Eddie's alert got Prout and many others. Police don't ignore his alerts or you are living in fantasyland.

Eddie's alert was excluded from the Prout trial, because it was unconfirmed.

[G-Unit]

Eddie's alert was excluded from the Prout trial, because it was unconfirmed.

It was, to quote Mark Harrison, an 'unconfirmed indication'. I'm sure the indication was noted and that it encouraged officers to search harder for the body. I very much doubt if it was dismissed as of no consequence. Of course he was proved correct in the end.

[pathfinder73]

Eddie's alert was excluded from the Prout trial, because it was unconfirmed.

It confirmed to the police who was involved so he now became the focus of the investigation.

[ferryman]

My speakers don't work, so I can't comment on your video.

Howeve r, I do know a bit about the Prout investigation.

At his trial, the dog alert was excluded because there was no forensic corroboration.

The conviction was based on circumstantial evidence such as that Kate Prout's bank accounts were untouched.

After the trial, it emerged that Eddie had alerted in the Prout home, a few hundred yards from the outhouse where Prout strangled, then buried, his wife.