It's lucky SY released those efits 5 years later or they may never have been released to the world. And you will be happy to know they are at the same place Amaral was in 2007 when removed - the Smiths sighting. That's the only real credible lead in this whole case. Blonk's suggestion that a whole family of 9 would cover for their great friend RM has no credibility at all. Actually it's embarrassing. We know who was trying to connect those two separate sighting from the start and that would rule somebody out of the later one. That is crystal clear to anyone with an open mind!
They are way beyond the place where Mr Amaral was in 2007.
Every investigation has a beginning ... a middle ... and an end. The beginning of the present expensive exercise came with a review of the evidence coordinated during and after Mr Amaral's tenure (probably a duplication of what the Rebelo investigation had to do).
Rebelo found nothing to implicate the Drs McCann and neither did Jim Gamble. I think it would be safe to say that neither did the new Portuguese investigators.
All these investigators are aware of the Smith testimony.
While internet detectives continue to spend their lives poring over and commenting on what they think is 'evidence' to the detriment of two people they really know nothing about ... the real detectives have analysed the real evidence and have broadened the scope of the investigation.
They are really not interested in Madeleine's parents ... they have been excluded as suspects ... there is no evidence to sustain any guilt on their part.
The PJ and SY are actively pursuing the abduction theory having looked at and discarded any other.
That really should lead the 'doubters' to realise they may have a problem. They doubt while the experience and expertise of the professionals has led them to dismiss the core beliefs which have been insidiously feeding the flame for years.
Portugese cops slammed for gaping holes in investigation. [Now edited to] Brits launch Maddie probe
Original Source: NOTW: SUNDAY 11 APRIL 2010
By Lucy Panton , 11/04/2010
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Failures in the original investigation are said to be "so gaping" that British authorities feel it is their duty to look at it again.
This time police will review all the leads using technology and standards expected in a homicide or kidnap case in the UK.
Mr Gamble, head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, found a basic failure to collate information and join up links that should have been made.
Telephone records were not properly analysed, missing early opportunities for leads.
And Kate and Gerry McCann were named as Arguidos, or formal suspects, by Portuguese police -
something that the review says would not have happened if the probe had been carried out in the UK.
Mr Gamble found no evidence sufficient to make them suspects. His findings have now been formally submitted to the Home Office with recommendations to re-investigate.
The damning review has now set the Association of Chief Police Officers the difficult task of trying to decide who takes on the mammoth task. It is already predicted to be "an extremely costly" investigation that, even if done properly, will probably never be solved.
A source said: "It is something that has to be reviewed. It is only right that the McCanns are given the satisfaction that everything that could be done has been done. It now comes down to who is up to the job."
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/press/36april10/NOTW_11_04_10.htm
