Madeleine McCann's parents lose libel case with the European Court of Human Rights

[Brietta]

I thought it was more to do with getting The McCanns indicted.

This isn't going to happen.

Had they been illiterate Portuguese peasants they would be doing time yet.  The fact that they are innocent would not have provided any protection for them.

I think it is well past time that Madeleine be given her day and police investigations be allowed to proceed in whichever direction the evidence leads.
As we have seen - never at any time did it veer towards her parents except when the shattering error of the dogs was engineered to that end.

[Brietta]

GA was entitled to express his theory so long as it was based on the evidence in the files. It was. The question of whether that evidence was true or false was for the judges in any criminal trial to decide.

It was so incompetent that there was never any danger of it being progressed anywhere near a criminal trial.

No evidence = no trial.  And 'no trial' is exactly what didn't happen over fifteen years ago.

[Wonderfulspam]

What gets me about it all is the smattering of malcontents who actually do not want Madeleine's case to be solved.

It was solved 15 years ago.

[Mr Gray]

GA was entitled to express his theory so long as it was based on the evidence in the files. It was. The question of whether that evidence was true or false was for the judges in any criminal trial to decide.

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So what you are saying is the McCanns loss was due to lies in the files

[Mr Gray]

They wernt further. They clearly identified when the book was in development, thus ruled, as you say, it was as a result of the investigation.
Rulings rarely get more unequivocal and it's of no little amusement to me that some are attempting a transpicuous version of double speak to explain what amounts to an absolute drubbing.

A drubbing based on lies

[The General]

That didn't go well.

Well it proved rather telling when delierbating over this latest crushing defeat for the pair.

[The General]

A drubbing based on lies

Conclusions, dear chap. Conclusions based on the weight of evidence as they saw it.
For the purposes of the exercise, it doens't matter the content, but ratrher the result.

[Wonderfulspam]

Conclusions, dear chap. Conclusions based on the weight of evidence as they saw it.
For the purposes of the exercise, it doens't matter the content, but ratrher the result.

The abduction evidence didn't weigh very much, to be fair, as the 3 investigative forces have discovered.

[Mr Gray]

Conclusions, dear chap. Conclusions based on the weight of evidence as they saw it.
For the purposes of the exercise, it doens't matter the content, but ratrher the result.

A victory based on lies... And that's a fact

[Vertigo Swirl]

A victory based on lies... And that's a fact

Not lies, just facts that weren't true. 

[The General]

A victory based on lies.

I imagine all losers have to come up with some explanation. It's never their fault they lost.
£2m though.....that'll dent the coffers.

[The General]

Not lies, just facts that weren't true.

Have a meeting and come up with a consensus already.
Dav says lies, you say untrue facts.

[Wonderfulspam]

I imagine all losers have to come up with some explanation. It's never their fault they lost.
£2m though.....that'll dent the coffers.

There's still room for appeal, might even be a new trial, with davel & Wolters as expert witnesses.

[Mr Gray]

Not lies, just facts that weren't true.

There's enough evidence in the files to show they were lies

[Vertigo Swirl]

There's enough evidence in the files to show they were lies

I'm still coming to terms with the concept of facts that are untrue.