I'm sorry if I 'put words into your mouth'. If you choose to answer my question below using your own words that will clarify the matter.
You chose to post your opinion of the Smith e-fits.
Your opinion doesn't appear to be shared by OG or, as far as I know, the PJ.
You appear to believe that they are the expert professionals who probably know a lot more than you do.
Do you think they got it wrong by publicising e-fits which, in your words, 'are not worth the paper they are printed on'? (post 32)
In my opinion the debate has moved way beyond your invitation to me regarding your questioning: for example did you miss Shining and Misty's excellent posts on the matter, one of which illustrates that more efits than the one I described as "not worth etc ... ..." were shown by DCI Redwood on Crimewatch which was broadcast way back at the reopening of Madeleine's case when all the bases neglected or otherwise were being checked out?
Based on the fact that no-one other than the police who are privy to all available information in Madeleine's case, has the slightest inkling of what prompted the information imparted during the programme including various efits.
Without being privy to what was going on at the heart of the investigation criticism of what was imparted and why would in my opinion be plain silly.
Made doubly so that as well as ignorance of what the police knew, what they wanted to know and the reasons behind their mode of procedure to get it, taken in conjunction with the lack of knowledge of what the result of their information seeking exercise was ... apart from information about more assaults on the children of holidaymakers than had been known about ... makes ill informed conjecture futile.
Not to mention the sick campaign encouraging time wasters to phone in to a programme broadcast with the intention of gathering information to help a missing child, to name the child's father as the man in the Smith efits.
So given that we are privy to little of the information gleaned from the Crimewatch programme ... the Smith efits could have relevance and could have been worth pursuing or they may indeed have been found "not worth etc ... "
Who knows? Maybe time will tell and in my opinion there is an excellent chance of that.
