Because of this statement from DCI Redwood:
''We have conducted a forensic analysis of the timelines and there is clearly opportunity for Madeleine McCann to have been removed from that apartment alive.''
Unquote.
How could an accurate physical recon. take place if people could only give approximate times of their movements?
I ask again.
How would Jez Wilkins know what time to set out - if didn't know the exact time to begin with, What if he guessed the wrong time and because he was a couple of minutes out - he missed Gerry altogether? How would the PJ advise him to proceed if he pointed this out to them?
The same applies to other witnesses who no doubt would be asking the same question about which part of their approximate times they gave in their statements they should use. What would the PJ say to them?
Benice
Just because you don't know how or can't see the merits of why is neither here nor there in the scheme of things.
This is a diligence which is in the Penal Code because clearly the Portuguese feel there is some benefit in these types of practices actually helping an investigation move forward.
They are professional investigators and will have done this kind of thing before.
It's a bit disingenuous of you to be questioning and second guessing why it was asked for, how it would have worked and what the benefit was given you are not Portuguese nor a detective.
Leave it to the experts, just go along with it, and everything else asked, to help keep the search for your missing child alive.
As Ferryman has kindly pointed out the friends refusal to take part coupled with Mitchell's statement that the McCann's lawyers would block their return to Portugal PREVENTED the Portuguese from discovering the same window of opportunity in the timelines that SY say they have found 7 years later.
That's the real killer blow which has come out of this thread.
I am still gobsmacked by the significance of it and surprised that it hasn't come up before.
