No grounds for appeal IMO. Seeing most insisted it involved GA...an not portugal GA has just won the mccs again in that case.
Just as the case it seems was shelved because of lack of evidence....not that there was no evidence or they were innocent of any involvement.
Article 6 complaint _ Not even admissible in court. [ They use the words manifestly ill-founded ... and, as such, inadmissible.
Article 8 complaint - admissible, but rejected on the simple grounds that the Supreme Court did NOT say they were guilty.
It merely pointed out that the decision to shelve the case was on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
The irony is that the Obiter statement came after they had Appealed to the Supreme Court to reverse its OWN judgment.
They trod on the tail of the serpent, and it turned and bit them.
Just is case there are any McCann supporters reading this, the Obiter said this
"“"It should not be said that the appellants were cleared via the ruling announcing the archiving of the criminal case. In truth, that ruling was not made in virtue of Portugal's Public Prosecution Service having acquired the conviction that the appellants hadn’t committed a crime.
"The archiving of the case was determined by the fact that public prosecutors hadn't managed to
obtain sufficient evidence of the practice of crimes by the appellants.
"There is therefore a significant, and not merely a semantic difference, between the legally
admissible foundations of the archive ruling. It doesn't therefore seem acceptable that the ruling,
based on the insufficiency of evidence, should be equated to proof of innocence."
They added: "It's true that the aforementioned criminal inquiry ended up being archived, namely
because none of the apparent evidence that led to the appellants being made 'arguidos' was
subsequently confirmed or consolidated.
"However even the archive ruling raises serious concerns relating to the truth of the allegation that
Madeleine was kidnapped."
