So when were the McCann's and their associates, re-interviewed as key witnesses, under caution or otherwise, by either SY or the 'current' PJ investigation ?
Answers on a postcard.
When was the innocent tourist carrying his child home from creche interviewed?
When were those who were children at the time they were assaulted by an intruder interviewed by the police?
In my opinion the expectation is risible that the police publish to fanfares every step of the investigative strategy into the case of a missing child.
It is equally risible that a retired police officer with so many years of experience beneath his belt has gone on record to speak on issues which he has admitted to knowing absolutely nothing about ... apart from tittle tattle concerning the case at a time it was thought unlikely it would ever see the light of day again.
In my opinion it is enlightening that out of everything written and said ten years after Madeleine McCann's disappearance that the tunnel vision which so damaged any hope of finding her in 2007 has been espoused yet again in the words of the retired officer. Who admits not to have studied the case in any great depth.
We know Madeleine is being looked for after her case being in the wilderness for so long. There are officers who have actually worked on the present investigation now retired ... none of whom have either leaked or stated openly their dissatisfaction with how it is being conducted.
Mr Sutton has never been associated with Madeleine's case.
His access is via exactly the same files available to us; his police experience perhaps entitles him to a generic observation it will never allow him an in-depth analysis because he will never have access to the information available to the present investigations being carried out by the Policia Judiciaria and Scotland Yard.
