How did Amaral get it so right one wonders,perhap's he was far better than some detractors wish to admit.
Just a polite reminder ... the Portuguese sacked Amaral as coordinator of Madeleine McCann's case ... the investigation was placed in the entirely capable hands of Rebelo who according to the Portuguese press of the time took over the entirely disorganised mess left behind by his predecessor.
The new team that is led by Paulo Rebelo, the new coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of Policia Judiciaria (PJ) in Portimao, already has the Maddie case process digitalized into the personal computers. "It was a hideous amount of work", because the process' paperwork was "anarquically spread out", according to a source with PJ, who criticises the inexistence of a centralising figure in the former team, who "would know how to distribute the work".http://themaddiecasefiles.com/paulo-rebelo-calls-in-biggest-homicide-expert-20-1-t2333.htmlIn my opinion the best spin possible has been put on Amaral's sacking as reading his book will confirm ... but it is contrary to press reports at the time which confirm his incompetence.
Rebelo took over a mess left behind by an incompetent ... he digitised and coordinated the information which had been left lying around on scraps of paper. Therefore the praise merited by and given to the Portuguese investigation by Scotland Yard and the fact they were able to use it, lies fairly and squarely with the foot soldiers who initially collected the uncollated information left lying around by the incompetent Amaral regime and Rebelo and his team who put it into some sort of workable order.