Has Martin Smith Changed his Opinion ?

[pathfinder73]

"...Everything else remains the same in relation to what we said to the police and the media at the time."

He never told the media about his Gerry-doubt, did he? If not, when is "at the time"? Has he spoken to the media since the not-Murat episode?

Here are a couple of quotes regarding Mrs Smith in the media:

Mary, 59, said: "We saw a man carrying a blonde child. It was just such a normal thing to see in a holiday resort — we didn't think anything of it at the time."

Martin said: "The one thing we noted afterwards was that he gave us no greeting.
 
"My wife Mary remembered afterwards that she asked him, 'Oh, is she asleep?' But he never acknowledged her one way or another.
 
"He just put his head down and averted his eyes. This is very unusual in a tourist town at such a quiet time of the year."

[faithlilly]

"...Everything else remains the same in relation to what we said to the police and the media at the time."

He never told the media about his Gerry-doubt, did he? If not, when is "at the time"? Has he spoken to the media since the not-Murat episode?

I think the 'said to the police' may be more pertinent, don't you ?

[ferryman]

I think the 'said to the police' may be more pertinent, don't you ?

Martin Smith evidently doesn't.

What does it matter what anyone else thinks?

[faithlilly]

Martin Smith evidently doesn't.

What does it matter what anyone else thinks?

Doesn't he ?

[stephen25000]

"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." "

[faithlilly]

"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." "

Notice the 'we'.

[stephen25000]

Notice the 'we'.

Indeed. A point some would rather ignore, or alter.

[Alfred R Jones]

So two almost identically dressed fathers were carrying two almost identical looking young girls, both with their feet uncovered, around PDL that night. Two fathers without a buggy. Do you really believe that ?

As one of these fathers has been positively ID'ed and eliminated then the answer must be either that there was another similar looking father, or that the same father decided to take his child for an evening walk 45 minute later or the Smiths had a mass hallucination.  What explanation do you have? 

[Alfred R Jones]

SY would have investigated every parent at the creche. Not one matches to Smithman.

You know for a fact that they have investigated every parent at the crèche and been able to eliminate them all do you?  Did they inform you of this fact?

[ferryman]

Doesn't he ?

If Martin Smith is loosely interpreting private investigators as the police (highly plausible), then what he told them (that he no longer believes he saw Gerry) hasn't changed.

[pathfinder73]

You know for a fact that they have investigated every parent at the crèche and been able to eliminate them all do you?  Did they inform you of this fact?

It's a no brainer. CW even said how many parents were there that night. That came from SY.

[faithlilly]

As one of these fathers has been positively ID'ed and eliminated then the answer must be either that there was another similar looking father, or that the same father decided to take his child for an evening walk 45 minute later or the Smiths had a mass hallucination.  What explanation do you have?

Similar looking father. Really ?
Same father who didn't then eliminate himself again from the enquiry. Really ?

[faithlilly]

If Martin Smith is loosely interpreting private investigators as the police (highly plausible), then what he told them (that he no longer believes he saw Gerry) hasn't changed.

I think you're now clutching at straws ferryman.

[Alfred R Jones]

Similar looking father. Really ?
Same father who didn't then eliminate himself again from the enquiry. Really ?

Again, what explanation do you have?  You seem to think it's highly plausible that a father should carry the uncovered corpse of his dead child through a holiday town past holidaymakers in order to find a suitable bin to throw it in, so clearly your threshold of credibility is quite high. 

[ferryman]

I think you're now clutching at straws ferryman.

The straw-clutching is by those who think Martin Smith (or, for that matter, his wife, Mary) would have produced efits of a man either thought was Gerry (and Mrs Smith is on record, since publication of the files) as saying that they stand ready to help the McCanns in any way they can.