Australian Ch7 documentary claims new lead in search for missing Madeleine McCann.

[jassi]

So the program basically , as expected, was a waste of time.

Of course, but no doubt it met someone's creative need & kept a few people employed for a while.

[Mr Gray]

So the program basically , as expected, was a waste of time.

no it was good to see a sensible view of the theories of amaral and brown and a sensible view of the mccanns

[stephen25000]

I have always found Paul Luckman to be very supportive of Amaral as well as playing down on every occasion the level of criminality in the Algarve.

What can I say about about Cristóvão (who was not interviewed by Channel 7)?

I find the relaxed opinions of both regarding possibilities they certainly did not previously promote of interest.

I can fully understand why Pat Brown is apparently in meltdown on Twitter ... wonder how much of her is on the cutting room floor.

I didn't see anything new in the programme; I don't think anyone with an interest in Madeleine's case would.  But I imagine that there are people who have never seen the story portrayed in the even handed manner of the Australian report, who have been given a lot of food for thought.

I would say the interviewer was overly friendly to the McCann's , and certainly hostile towards Brown.

Hence her reaction afterwards. She got suckered in by the program makers.

[stephen25000]

no it was good to see a sensible view of the theories of amaral and brown and a sensible view of the mccanns

The non-verbal responses of the McCann's, said a great deal.

[Mr Gray]

The non-verbal responses of the McCann's, said a great deal.

says agreat deal to the conspiracy theorist but nothing to those who understand taht body language is not an exact science...far from it

[Eleanor]

Pat Brown is suing somdebody.

[John]

Part 2 introduces the lead investigator Gonçalo Amaral who repeats his claims concerning the parents.  No evidence of abduction but evidence that body was hidden. Claims parents lied about the open window.

01.00 "The club's manager initiated an emergency warning system". Surely it was the crèche supervisor?
01.10 "Police joined the search two hours later". ie 12.20 am.  Another false claim since we know PGR officers searched almost immediately they arrived at 11pm.

[stephen25000]

says agreat deal to the conspiracy theorist but nothing to those who understand taht body language is not an exact science...far from it

You can tell a great deal from it.

 

[jassi]

Part 2 introduces the lead investigator Gonçalo Amaral who repeats his claims concerning the parents.  No evidence of abduction but evidence that body was hidden. Claims parents lied about the open window.

01.00 "The club's manager initiated an emergency warning system". Surely it was the crèche supervisor?
01.10 "Police joined the search two hours later". ie 12.20 am.  Another false claim since we know PGR officers searched almost immediately they arrived at 11pm.

Surely these were clips from much earlier interviews, so no surprises there.

[Mr Gray]

You can tell a great deal from it.

 

you may be able to tell things from it...if it was exact we would not need juries ...evidence...courts...its unreliable

[jassi]

you may be able to tell things from it...if it was exact we would not need juries ...evidence...courts...its unreliable

Juries aren't always reliable, either

[G-Unit]

Surely these were clips from much earlier interviews, so no surprises there.

They don't seem to have had input from the McCanns, although they present it as if they did. I thought I'd heard 'No, that's an emphatic no' before; [2011 interview]

They are also suggesting in the “landmark television event” they have secured a new interview with Kate and Gerry, which their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said today is “simply not true".

A pal close to the anguished couple said: “It seems cruel for television bosses to be making out Kate and Gerry are on the show and then running old clips of them being asked a hideous question, for shock purposes, about them killing Madeleine.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3384000/kate-gerry-mccann-tv-doc-madeleine-disappearance/

[John]

Part 3 starts with Amaral repeating his claim that Kate was there when something happened to Madeleine. Gerry refutes this claim that a body could be hidden as just nonsense.  Clarence Mitchell adds that claims they hid the body and moved it two weeks later in a rental car are laughable. Forensic investigator Prof Dave Barclay says he is not in favour of cadaver dogs being used as evidence. He agrees that the theory that Madeleine may have got out and been run over by a drunk driver is a distinct possibility  "...that's an incentive for him to pick up the body and conceal it somewhere".

Paul Luckman says Amaral was removed from the investigation because "he was fixated on one single solution when clearly you had to look wider".

Pat Brown repeats the claim that Madeleine may have been over sedated and had a fall. She says there are other cases where parents have tried to move the blame to cover for neglect or abuse. She also claims the friends are complicit in the coverup. It is noticeable that the interviewer has a permanent smirk on her face at Browns claims.  When asked how a body could be hidden on the beach for three weeks Brown suggests it was put in a bag and hidden in a crevice in the rocks. Asked how the McCann knew where to hide the body on the beach Brown replies that they walked on the beach regularly and "...it's possible they just got lucky".

[Alfie]

They don't seem to have had input from the McCanns, although they present it as if they did. I thought I'd heard 'No, that's an emphatic no' before; [2011 interview]

They are also suggesting in the “landmark television event” they have secured a new interview with Kate and Gerry, which their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said today is “simply not true".

A pal close to the anguished couple said: “It seems cruel for television bosses to be making out Kate and Gerry are on the show and then running old clips of them being asked a hideous question, for shock purposes, about them killing Madeleine.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3384000/kate-gerry-mccann-tv-doc-madeleine-disappearance/

I watched a few minutes of it and there was definitely a bit of footage showing a female interviewer walking with both McCanns in Portugal recently asking them questions.

[Mr Gray]

They don't seem to have had input from the McCanns, although they present it as if they did. I thought I'd heard 'No, that's an emphatic no' before; [2011 interview]

They are also suggesting in the “landmark television event” they have secured a new interview with Kate and Gerry, which their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said today is “simply not true".

A pal close to the anguished couple said: “It seems cruel for television bosses to be making out Kate and Gerry are on the show and then running old clips of them being asked a hideous question, for shock purposes, about them killing Madeleine.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3384000/kate-gerry-mccann-tv-doc-madeleine-disappearance/

it looked very much to me as though Kate and gerry were on the show....i would ahve to look again but unless there was some very very clever editing...they were interviewed