On 12/9/2013 he had not read the complete files.
GP – Did you have access to the criminal process?
DE answers that he read parts of the files in the translation that the McCanns asked to be done.
GP – How did you manage to conduct an investigation without analysing all the process? Whom did you contact in Portugal?
DE says he contacted an informant who passed information to both the UK and Portuguese authorities. He doesn't want to say to whom he spoke, but says he spoke to someone from the PJ.
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Uh huh ... "GP –
How did you manage to conduct an investigation without analysing all the process? "
That would be the process which ... was abandoned and shelved having failed to find a single clue as to what happened to Madeleine McCann.
Why should Dave Edgar be criticised for not raking over the old coals of a fatally flawed and failed investigation. His job was not to replicate the failures of the Policia Judiciaria process which had singularly given up on Madeleine McCann.
No serious investigator worth his or her salt would give the files as they were left in 2008 the same weight that the Portuguese judiciary apparently do.
Edgar was employed to find Madeleine ... to use the files to assist in that would require I imagine that he took from them only that which was relevant to that objective.