Met given 6 months and £2 million more to find Maddie. Is this the end?

[Mr Gray]

Competence or incompetence doesn't come into it - its a matter of whether a certain line of investigation is  considered justified  by the  Portuguese Judiciary.

it is incompetence when the SIO completely misunderstands the evidence

[Eleanor]

Hounded her? They let her husband sit in the room with her for the first interview, and didn't see her again formally for four months. That's hardly hounding!

Oh really.  And then they presumed.  Times must as the going comes.

[Mr Gray]

The first thing they needed to do was make sure the police didn't consider them suspects. Unfortunately most of their actions had the opposite effect.

they were suspects because the police did not understand the evidence if you read the archiving report

[slartibartfast]

they were suspects because the police did not understand the evidence if you read the archiving report

Parents of a missing child will always be suspects.

[Mr Gray]

Parents of a missing child will always be suspects.

not for the length of time the mccanns were...because the police misunderstood the evidence as the archiving report confirms

[Lace]

Another point worth raising is why didn't the McCanns undertake private searches after the Portuguese investigation was shelved?  That was the ideal time to carry out searches, when they had sufficient funds to do so and before any potential trail went ice cold.

I must admit I find this belated supposed urgency quite sickening.  Had it been my kid I would have been out there ever possible day searching and digging for the truth.  There are no excuses imo.

The McCann's employed private investigators John.

[Alice Purjorick]

I need to remind you as we have had the same conversation before...the court of public opinion....you are playing silly semantic games trying to score points...you are scoring points but they are all own goals I'm afraid...

and yes...in the real world there are different levels of exoneration...just as there are different levels of innocence...as in Barry George...not innocent enough to receive compensation

There is no such thing.

[Mr Gray]

There is no such thing.

Barry George has been described as not innocent enough.....language evolves


remember we were monkeys once

[Mr Gray]

so to get back on track...

If SY don't solve the case I do see them making a statement that totally exonerates the parents...not that the die hards will accept it

[mercury]

Can you give some examples of what you consider to be recent press slurs against the Portuguese police please?

The better question is when? have most,if not all, of the U.K. media "not" slurred the Portuguese police and its members, or even applauded what they actually did do well

 

It really is a sad state of affairs when journalists even gloat at a policeman's death as it is "an obstacle removed"  ... And that from a "respectable" broadsheet!!


 

[mercury]

so to get back on track...

If SY don't solve the case I do see them making a statement that totally exonerates the parents...not that the die hards will accept it

That's  not the issue under discussion, read the thread title

[Mr Gray]

The better question is when? have most,if not all, of the U.K. media "not" slurred the Portuguese police and its members, or even applauded what they actually did do well

 

It really is a sad state of affairs when journalists even gloat at a policeman's death as it is "an obstacle removed"  ... And that from a "respectable" broadsheet!!


 

the problem the Portuguese police have is that calling amaral a disgraced cop is not libellous as it is the truth. The Portuguese themselves have admitted the investigation was handled badly so I don's see a problem

[Lyall]

so to get back on track...

If SY don't solve the case I do see them making a statement that totally exonerates the parents...not that the die hards will accept it

No they won't, not officially. They'll do what they did in 2011 & 2013 - have someone speak in a documentary (or documentaries).

[Mr Gray]

That's  not the issue under discussion, read the thread title

yes it is and is far more relevant than the post you just made

[Mr Gray]

No they won't, not officially. They'll do what they did in 2011 & 2013 - have someone speak in a documentary (or documentaries).

I think they will...