lets start with this statement you made today...
Even D C I Redwood of Operation Grange said there was EVIDENCE that she might have died 'in the apartment' - that was in a statement he made in early 2013 IIRC. That means 'before her body was removed from the apartment'.
could you show where Redwood said there was evidence........what you are saying is untrue
I will happily once again answer your challenge - if you will also have the courtesy to answer my earlier challenge - i.e. please provide a cite for where I have ever stated as a fact that there was a 100% DNA match for the body fluids and Madeleine's DNA body. Otherwise please withdraw your allegation.
If you read my reply earlier, I quoted a press report which had Redwood clearly saying that he had a basis for the view that Madeleine had died before she left the apartment. Clearly if he had a basis for saying that, he must have had evidence for making that statement, whether he actually used the word 'evidence' or not. Evidence is of course not proof, as we know.
Here is the actual quote again, the initial source I used:
"Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood admitted that what they have uncovered means Madeleine might not have left the apartment alive".So my question remains, though I will happily re-phrase it: what is the basis, the evidence, the indications, call it what you will, for thinking, as he said, that
'Madeleine may have been dead before she left the apartment' ?
Doing my best to shine a light on what he did actually say, I note that the flurry of press reports were all dated 19 March 2014 and appear to follow some sort of 'press conference'. Possibly this was in the form of some press briefing, possibly not intended for the cameras, because we appear AFAIK not to have any physical record of his actual words.
What he did actually say appears, now I've checked up on it, not to be entirely clear.
The
Guardian amended one of its two 19th March reports two days later - Friday 21 March.
Here is the link:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/19/madeleine-mccann-police-intruder-girls-algarve...and here is the relevant extract from the report:
QUOTE
• This article was amended on 21 March 2014. The earlier version stated that Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood had said the assumption that Madeleine had been alive when she left the apartment "may not follow with all our thinking" on the case. To clarify: those quoted words actually came after Redwood had referred to the assumption that Madeleine had been abducted. However, Redwood did say during the same press conference that police were considering the possibility that Madeleine was not alive when taken from the apartment as well as the possibility that she was.UNQUOTE
It looks, then, as though reporters were taking notes or recording his words, and manifestly he said to the reporters that (quote above)
"the possibility that Madeleine was not alive when taken from the apartment".So I will put the question another way: on what basis could Redwood suggest it was possible that Madeleine was dead when taken out of the apartment?
