Has Martin Smith Changed his Opinion ?

[stephen25000]

For some curious reason, idle speculation (that denigrates the McCanns or anyone who supports them) is allowed.

Meanwhile, hard facts (about a certain dog-handler) tend to incur sin-bin points, and posts (of hard fact) removed.

All by the same moderator.

Curious way to run a board ....

Rubbish.

[ferryman]

Martin Smith has changed his opinion.

He no longer believes he saw Gerry McCann.

[G-Unit]

I have stated a fact.

That you seem not to like very much ....

You stated something from a newspaper. Not a fact, no source quoted. Newspapers don't always get it right, did you know that?

[ShiningInLuz]

The police use a software programme called  Efit-V and then they use Adobe Photoshop to add features such as ageing lines etc. They begin by choosing a face shape from nine possibles, then a hairstyle. Other features follow. I don't know if Oakley would have had access to such a computer system.
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/west-yorkshire-police-e-fit-9064751

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)?

[ferryman]

You stated something from a newspaper. Not a fact, no source quoted. Newspapers don't always get it right, did you know that?

Do you prefer idle speculation that Martin Smith was coerced into producing the efit?

[stephen25000]

Martin Smith has changed his opinion.

He no longer believes he saw Gerry McCann.

Where is your proof ?

[slartibartfast]

Martin Smith has changed his opinion.

He no longer believes he saw Gerry McCann.

Cite or withdraw.

[ferryman]

Cite or withdraw.

Provide something more solid than idle (indeed defamatory) speculation about why Martin Smith might have produced an e-fit of a man he believed was Gerry (or, for that matter, why his wife would have done the same)

[Mr Gray]

Cite or withdraw.

just made a screenshot of that

[faithlilly]

Provide something more solid than idle (indeed defamatory) speculation about why Martin Smith might have produced an e-fit of a man he believed was Gerry (or, for that matter, why his wife would have done the same)

It would appear Martin Smith was one of the individuals who participated in the construction of the Oakley efits. Martin Smith claimed that he was 60-80% sure that the man he saw that night was Gerry and he has never publicly wavered from that opinion, in fact in a direct quote from the Mirror he actually said that nothing had changed from the time he had first talked to the police. Now we can speculate as much as we like as to why he constructed the efits if he believed them to be Gerry McCann but that's all it will ever be, speculation.

[Alfred R Jones]

It would appear Martin Smith was one of the individuals who participated in the construction of the Oakley efits. Martin Smith claimed that he was 60-80% sure that the man he saw that night was Gerry and he has never publicly wavered from that opinion, in fact in a direct quote from the Mirror he actually said that nothing had changed from the time he had first talked to the police. Now we can speculate as much as we like as to why he constructed the efits if he believed them to be Gerry McCann but that's all it will ever be, speculation.

How come a direct quote in the Mirror is to be believed, but direct quotes and photos of documents from the police files  in the Telegraph are to be doubted?

[ferryman]

It would appear Martin Smith was one of the individuals who participated in the construction of the Oakley efits. Martin Smith claimed that he was 60-80% sure that the man he saw that night was Gerry and he has never publicly wavered from that opinion, in fact in a direct quote from the Mirror he actually said that nothing had changed from the time he had first talked to the police. Now we can speculate as much as we like as to why he constructed the efits if he believed them to be Gerry McCann but that's all it will ever be, speculation.

Wrong again.

Martin Smith no longer believes he saw Gerry, as is self-evident from the fact that he produced an efit of the man he saw ...

[ferryman]

That Martin Smith might have been coerced into producing an efit is idle  (indeed defamatory!) speculation.

That he changed his mind (about the man being Gerry) and acknowledged that he had been mistaken (in that belief) following publication of the files is opinion based on both fact and common sense.

[Brietta]

That Martin Smith might have been coerced into producing an efit is idle speculation.

That he changed his mind (about the man being Gerry) and acknowledged that he had been mistaken (in that belief) following publication of the files is opinion based on both fact and common sense.

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??

[faithlilly]

Wrong again.

Martin Smith no longer believes he saw Gerry, as is self-evident from the fact that he produced an efit of the man he saw ...

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