Has Martin Smith Changed his Opinion ?

[ferryman]

No ferryman that is simply what you're reading into a set of actions.

Try again.

[Eleanor]

Who on earth came up with the idea that the e-fit looks like Gerry?  It isn't in the least bit like him.

[faithlilly]

Try again.

No need to try again.

[ferryman]

No need to try again.

Agreed.

The argument (that Martin Smith changed his mind) has been won, hook, line and sinker.

[pegasus]

Do you have any thoughts on why the two e-fits appear to have been constructed by two entirely different methods (one like a diagram/carton, the other like a photo composite)?

Because the 2 efits were done on two different computers, using different software, with two unrelated witnesses from different countries IMO.

Probably one efit is by one of the Irish group, possibly one of the children? It was children in the group who (unlike the adults) observed the girl's long sleeves, and her bare feet, and the man's black jacket/coat.

And one efit is probably is by the english female tourist, who reportedly saw a man walking along carrying a child and at the same time speaking on his mobile phone in english language, with a british (not foreign) accent. Source is a paper edition of Correio da Manha in July 2014.

[faithlilly]

Agreed.

The argument (that Martin Smith changed his mind) has been won, hook, line and sinker.

Martin Smith did not change his mind with regard to his identification in fact quite the opposite :

“Apart from that from our point of view everything else remains the same in relation to what we said to the police and the media at the time. We have nothing more to add.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-key-witness-accuses-2433328

[misty]

Why would MS choose to make an efit for a firm of PI's yet conceal this fact from Leics police & the PJ?

[ferryman]

Why would MS choose to make an efit for a firm of PI's yet conceal this fact from Leics police & the PJ?

Where's the evidence that anything was concealed?

[faithlilly]

Why would MS choose to make an efit for a firm of PI's yet conceal this fact from Leics police & the PJ?

Why would the McCanns for almost a year and a half ?

[ferryman]

Martin Smith did not change his mind with regard to his identification in fact quite the opposite :

“Apart from that from our point of view everything else remains the same in relation to what we said to the police and the media at the time. We have nothing more to add.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-key-witness-accuses-2433328

Martin Smith (and his family) each gave one statement. 

No one altered the details of those statements.

And your point is?

[misty]

Where's the evidence that anything was concealed?

Neither LP nor the PJ knew anything about them within the duration of the PJ investigation?

[ferryman]

Neither LP nor the PJ knew anything about them within the duration of the PJ investigation?

Martin Smith changed his mind (about the man being Gerry) and agreed to produce them after the files were released.

[faithlilly]

Martin Smith (and his family) each gave one statement. 

No one altered the details of those statements.

And your point is?

Martin Smith made two statements. He gave a statement to the Garda that he was 60-80% sure the man he saw on the night of the 3rd was Gerry McCann. He has never publicly wavered from that belief.

[pegasus]

Probably read Mr McCluskey's addition to his statement as a result of watching a news programme showing the McCann family disembarking from a plane ... and thought ... hmmm??

IMO the McCluskey sighting, the Smith sighting, and the JT sighting, are all irrelevant.
All open carrying sightings are irrelevant IMO - it would be contrary to all the instincts of a perpetrator.
The Hatton Garden crooks were low IQ but even they didn't carry armfuls of gold openly along the streets of London did they?
Yet the whole of this PDL investigation is focussed on that farcical assumption.

[ferryman]

Martin Smith made two statements. He gave a statement to the Garda that he was 60-80% sure the man he saw on the night of the 3rd was Gerry McCann. He has never publicly wavered from that belief.

Yes he has.

John provided the quote.