Has Martin Smith Changed his Opinion ?

[Alfred R Jones]

The McCanns of course.

so now it's a conspiracy involving seven accomplices.

[faithlilly]

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

Wasn't Aofie under the legal drinking age and another member of the group pregnant ?

[Alfred R Jones]

Wasn't Aofie under the legal drinking age and another member of the group pregnant ?

Who cares, let's smear them anyway!

[faithlilly]

Who cares, let's smear them anyway!

So at least half the group, children and pregnant women, hadn't touched a drop. Is the correct ?

[faithlilly]

so now it's a conspiracy involving seven accomplices.

I said the McCann's friends weren't independent witnesses. I said nothing about them being involved.

[Eleanor]

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

At least as drunk as The McCanns, who were nearly legless, according to popular opinion.

[faithlilly]

At least as drunk as The McCanns, who were nearly legless, according to popular opinion.

Not legless but certainly over the drink drive limit.

[mercury]

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!

You seen the smith family bar statements...hardly a drunken bawl! The tapas group are on record from waiter statements of having 8 bottles of wine a night...that's before they had anything at home before going out...to call them half drunk is not wild speculation when trying at the end of the fight to remember who was where and what was happening

[Eleanor]

So at least half the group, children and pregnant women, hadn't touched a drop. Is the correct ?

Who knows?  The children could have been drinking, just for fun.  But most of them weren't interviewed.

[Eleanor]

Not legless but certainly over the drink drive limit.

They weren't driving, were they.  But then nor were The Smiths.

[Eleanor]

You seen the smith family bar statements...hardly a drunken bawl! The tapas group are on record from waiter statements of having 8 bottles of wine a night...that's before they had anything at home before going out...to call them half drunk is not wild speculation when trying at the end of the fight to remember who was where and what was happening

How much did The Smiths drink while they were eating?  Tell me that.

[Alfred R Jones]

So at least half the group, children and pregnant women, hadn't touched a drop. Is the correct ?

Who knows?  In any case who were the ones who pointed the finger at Gerry?  The tee-totallers, or the ones who'd been on the sauce?

[Alfred R Jones]

I said the McCann's friends weren't independent witnesses. I said nothing about them being involved.

If there werent' "involved" then they're testimony is independent and valid. 

[Alfred R Jones]

You seen the smith family bar statements...hardly a drunken bawl! The tapas group are on record from waiter statements of having 8 bottles of wine a night...that's before they had anything at home before going out...to call them half drunk is not wild speculation when trying at the end of the fight to remember who was where and what was happening

Fine they were all pissed as newts and that explains all the inconsistencies in the statements -will that do you then?

[Alfred R Jones]

How much did The Smiths drink while they were eating?  Tell me that.

How much had they had before eating, they might have been drinking all day long!