Has Martin Smith Changed his Opinion ?

[mercury]

Heh, I may actually take you up on that someday. Portugal is somewhere I have wanted to go for a while.

Thank you. I haven't read the whole thread or anything but I would have thought I was not the only person to point out how ridiculous the Smith signing was. Not the sighting in itself, but the identification of Gerry some months on. You cannot identify someone by the way they carry a child, as if each way of holding is unique to each person...its crazy

Not to smear Smith or anything, but my gut feeling was that  Gerry was fingered purely to get the blame off Murat (who I also think is innocent, weird, but innocent) given part of his statement was that the person he saw was definitely NOT Murat...

I don't think Smith had to finger anyone to just state it wasn't Murat and IIRC (I could be wrong) he said it wasn't Murat before he said the man reminded him of Gerry

[ferryman]

I think that the doubts which suddenly beset Mr Smith classically illustrate why, in England, we have sub judice laws; precisely to avoid the type of bias that can arise from intense publicity and speculation about the facts surrounding a criminal enquiry ....

[Vicky]

I don't think Smith had to finger anyone to just state it wasn't Murat and IIRC (I could be wrong) he said it wasn't Murat before he said the man reminded him of Gerry

Yeah I guess thats true. I just always found the Smith thing weird because he said he was so sure it was Gerry then went on to say it was the way the child was being held. Which is...strange. I could not identify someone I saw months ago by the way they held something, I don't think 

[misty]

Yeah I guess thats true. I just always found the Smith thing weird because he said he was so sure it was Gerry then went on to say it was the way the child was being held. Which is...strange. I could not identify someone I saw months ago by the way they held something, I don't think 

I can't get past the fact MS didn't sleep for 2 weeks before he finally got around to speaking to the police again regarding his revelation moment.

[mercury]

Yeah I guess thats true. I just always found the Smith thing weird because he said he was so sure it was Gerry then went on to say it was the way the child was being held. Which is...strange. I could not identify someone I saw months ago by the way they held something, I don't think 

I see what you mean, but sometimes a small thing that is especially standing out might trigger a memory

Thepolice said he was shaken when he made the phone call....I don't doubt his honesty! no one knows if it was Gerry or not, apart from Gerry and the abductor if he exists

[Alfred R Jones]

I see what you mean, but sometimes a small thing that is especially standing out might trigger a memory

Thepolice said he was shaken when he made the phone call....I don't doubt his honesty! no one knows if it was Gerry or not, apart from Gerry and the abductor if he exists

and all the people who were with Gerry at the time of the sighting.

[faithlilly]

and all the people who were with Gerry at the time of the sighting.

None of who were independent witnesses.

[Alfred R Jones]

None of who were independent witnesses.

independent of what?

[mercury]

and all the people who were with Gerry at the time of the sighting.

a bunch of probBly half drunk people? Who couldn't remember what day it was half the time in their statements, yea, ok

[Alfred R Jones]

a bunch of probBly half drunk people? Who couldn't remember what day it was half the time in their statements, yea, ok

How drunk were the Smiths then?

[mercury]

How drunk were the Smiths then?

Irrelevant isn't it and changing goalposts again?

[Eleanor]

How drunk were the Smiths then?

Oh, very drunk, I would say.

[Alfred R Jones]

Irrelevant isn't it and changing goalposts again?

No it's not irrelevant.  You have made an unsubstantiated claim that the Tapas Group were "half-drunk" and therefore their witness testimony that Gerry was with them at the time of the Smith sighting cannot be relied on.  My question is: how reliable is the Smiths testimony if they had been drinking too?  After all, they seemed to have very severe short term memory problems in the aftermath of the disappearance!

[faithlilly]

independent of what?

The McCanns of course.

[Alfred R Jones]

Oh, very drunk, I would say.

yeah, at least half-drunk, maybe three-quarters even!