You didn't understand my point? If Amaral only influenced 'a few' people surely there's no need to keep moaning about him for twelve years? Perhaps you need to move on.
I understand your point only too well just as I understand the point of the puerile deflections which plague the board and would be better discussed on the thread about improvement if anyone was really interested.
Perhaps those who really should realise that everyone else has "moved on" are those stuck with the flies in the web of Amaral's lies daily regurgitating every false premise he ever dreamed up in the hopes of saving and furthering his career.
After clearing up the mess he and his theories left behind him the authorities are doing now what he was incapable of doing and that is properly conducting an investigation at the time into what happened to Madeleine McCann.
Please don't insult yourself by claiming "a big boy dunnit and ran way"; Amaral "dunnit" and has been the poster boy for it by dint of extolling that fact for over twelve years.
Amaral's influence on Madeleine's case was a total and utter disaster. His baseless theories are the stuff of nonsense and none more so than his hypothesis involving a deep freezer complete with his anonymous eye witnesses who appear nowhere but in his imagination.
Snip"The little girl died in that apartment" - Gonçalo Amaral on TVI
GA: If we take into account that, if we consider the traces that were found in the car boot…
JP: … which are in fact…
GA: … which are in fact from the little girl. In order to justify that bodily fluid as the lab says, it could only have been preserved and conserved in the cold because otherwise it would have been…
JP: That means that…
GA: … in an advanced state of decomposition, at least it’s a hypothesis. Therefore it’s a question of a deep freezer, or something similar, and there we had to search for it and that was what we were doing. This means, the contacts that they had, where they went, where they were seen… There are people who say that they were seen entering an apartment block near the cemetery in Praia da Luz. At that point in time we weren’t able to detect which apartment they entered, who lived there, because it’s also a bit complicated because you have to understand it’s a tourist area and often it’s not known who the apartment belongs to.