Yes Redwood did say he thought Madeleine was alive, and he did say she may be dead, in other words IMO whoever abducted her had murdered her. Not that the McCann's had hidden her body.
The Police were digging the waste ground in Portugal, but I believe that was because someone came forward and said they heard men talking and one said 'why did you bring the body here'. So IMO they were digging up the waste ground to see if she had been buried there. They found nothing.
What risky abduction are you talking about? The police believe they had been watching 5a they knew the children were alone every evening. They knew the parents checked and when they checked they had it all planned out. The only hiccups were that firstly Gerry met Jez and they were talking in the road, secondly that Jane was going to take over looking after her daughter who was ill both of these were not planned for. Otherwise they knew they had half an hour before anyone went to 5a again.
So you know that no child is ever taken to be trafficked n Portugal do you? Without a doubt? Amaral said no one could have entered the apartment with the door locked. Yet a man was entering apartments to sexually abuse children, when the apartments were secured and the parents were in the apartments. Nothing is ever bullet proof.
I believe she is more likely dead as P.J. have said in 2008 and Redwood and S.Y. were giving this serious thought and investigating it 'systematically'. The whole point of investigating that theory is to figure out who did it and how, something Amaral was attacked for, not when he questioned Murat but at least the McCanns.
We have no idea what led them to dig on waste ground in 2014 and what's in the papers from anonymous sources is speculation. S.Y. were using cadaver dogs on that search though, which is a fact. They obviously have some amount of faith in them.
A stranger abduction would be 'risky' in my opinion because it was going into a house in between parents and friends checking the house and going up and down the road constantly. Most children are lured away into vehicles or snatched from crowded places. If there was evidence of an abductor in the apartment then of course that trumps a statistic - but there isn't yet.
I didn't say no child has ever been trafficked from Portugal, in fact I mentioned 1 boy was confirmed as trafficked over many years compared to a few hundred being brought
into Portugal. What I was saying is that in most cases children are trafficked IN to Portugal and are older, 11 +. I provided evidence. The sexual abuse of children in homes or outside them is not the same as child trafficking.
