Gamble wasn't there when Madeleine disappeared.
People lie.
Now what did Gamble say about Murat ?
Have you forgotten ?
You appear to be under the misapprehension that a person of Jim Gamble's expertise could somehow be mesmerised to ignore professional practice that Madeleine's parents would as a matter of course be the first people to be investigated to be ruled in or ruled out of the investigation.
That would be a priority for him in the conduct of a scoping exercise the results of which were to be presented to the then Home Secretary.
Very heavy stuff in my opinion.
This man was not going to be left with egg on his face ~ he was working on behalf of the Home Office and as such would scrutinise the evidence very closely indeed.
He found nothing to implicate Madeleine's parents in her disappearance.
That in conjunction with the Drs McCann right to the presumption of innocence appears to me to be a bit of a clincher.
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KERRY O’BRIEN: Now, if I understand your position correctly, if you had been conducting an investigation like this, you’d have started with the parents and taken a very quick look and either established there was something suspicious, or you’d have ruled them out and moved on.
Now, if I understand it correctly, the Portuguese were kind of the other way around.
It took them some time to suddenly develop the view that the McCanns might have been suspicious.
JIM GAMBLE: Well, I think that’s a fair assessment.
When we carried out the scoping review, in order to be fair, what we did was, we said, “Let’s take a sleepy seaside town somewhere in the UK, and imagine that, you know, late in the evening, a couple had come to us who didn’t speak English as their first language, and who were Portuguese and said, ‘Look, our child has gone missing'”.
I think what we accepted immediately is we would have faced a complicated scenario similar to that which the Portuguese did.
You’re not sure whether the child has simply walked away or been taken away, and it does take a period of time to get that information together, so there were clearly difficulties, and we would all face those.
In the immediate aftermath, the systematic approach is what is key, and certainly as professional detectives, we use the phrase “clear the ground beneath your feet”.
Look at that which is immediately in front of you first of all. And the only difference between the Portuguese and myself would have been that the first suspects that I would have looked at would have been the parents.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/05/17/3504848.htm
