Wandering Off Topic

[G-Unit]

yes, he peddled an incomplete account of the investigation, so not my opinion but an actual fact, thanks for confirming.

But he didn't pretend it was complete, although you accused  him of 'dressing it up as some sort of  definitive account'.

[Eleanor]

But he didn't pretend it was complete, although you accused  him of 'dressing it up as some sort of  definitive account'.

Didn't Amaral write another one.  What did that say?

[Vertigo Swirl]

But he didn't pretend it was complete, although you accused  him of 'dressing it up as some sort of  definitive account'.

Did he reference the continuing investigation at all?  Did he acknowledge that the final report confirmed there was a lack of any evidence against the McCanns?  I don't remember that chapter.  His book was as useful as a half time summary of a football match but presented as "The Truth Of The Lie" - what truth did it purport to tell, pray tell? 

[G-Unit]

Didn't Amaral write another one.  What did that say?

Is it relevant?

[Eleanor]

Is it relevant?

Obviously not to you.

[Eleanor]

Amaral wrote a book that he thought would earn him loads of money because his friend Cristavao had done the same thing.  The Truth never came into this because no one knows what The Truth is.  Amaral thought that he could make his own truth.  He failed miserably, which is what we are now left with.

Amaral is a monster of his own making.  Only fools and horses believe him.  He has no proof, and so he chooses to pervert the course of Justice.

[Brietta]

Amaral wrote a book that he thought would earn him loads of money because his friend Cristavao had done the same thing.  The Truth never came into this because no one knows what The Truth is.  Amaral thought that he could make his own truth.  He failed miserably, which is what we are now left with.

Amaral is a monster of his own making.  Only fools and horses believe him.  He has no proof, and so he chooses to pervert the course of Justice.

Perfect summation.
This egocentric man has taken people for fools all for his own ends and they are content to allow him to do so.

[Vertigo Swirl]

The speed with which he turned that book around speaks volumes, cash in quick while the going’s good, all written and ready to hit the book shelves the very minute he’s legslly entitled to publish kerching kerching kerching $$$

[Eleanor]

Perfect summation.
This egocentric man has taken people for fools all for his own ends and they are content to allow him to do so.

Actually it is a bit more serious.  Although God knows how this happened.  But Portugal didn't integrate at the time of the Two Revolutions.  They just reinvented themselves.  And the Old School returned, of which Amaral was one.
Amaral had colossal debts from unpaid taxes, unpaid mortgages and from robbing is brother.  Which was all proven In Court.  This was a very bad man.

And then along came The McCanns.  What joy that must have been to Amaral.

[G-Unit]

Did he reference the continuing investigation at all?  Did he acknowledge that the final report confirmed there was a lack of any evidence against the McCanns?  I don't remember that chapter.  His book was as useful as a half time summary of a football match but presented as "The Truth Of The Lie" - what truth did it purport to tell, pray tell?

The final report couldn't even identify the crime committed. It didn't deter the McCanns from promoting their opinion of the crime committed though. Why shouldn't Amaral promote his opinion?

[Eleanor]

The final report couldn't even identify the crime committed. It didn't deter the McCanns from promoting their opinion of the crime committed though. Why shouldn't Amaral promote his opinion?

He was supposed to be a Police Detective for God's sake.  Not Jury and Executioner.

[Vertigo Swirl]

The final report couldn't even identify the crime committed. It didn't deter the McCanns from promoting their opinion of the crime committed though. Why shouldn't Amaral promote his opinion?

I think it’s pretty sick to desciribe the McCanns determined effort to find Madeleine as promoting something as if it was a commercial enterprise but even if that’s what it was it did not defame or accuse anyone in particular, unlike Amaral promoting his money making book of the the notion that the parents sedated their child, hid her body in a freezer and drove around with her 23 day old thawing corpse in the back of the hire car.  If you can’t see the difference between the two “promotions” then you need to go to Specsavers.  IMO.

[Eleanor]

The final report couldn't even identify the crime committed. It didn't deter the McCanns from promoting their opinion of the crime committed though. Why shouldn't Amaral promote his opinion?

Do you not understand who Amaral was?  He was supposed to be solving a crime.  And not telling all and sundry who done it, without proof.

[Mr Gray]

The final report couldn't even identify the crime committed. It didn't deter the McCanns from promoting their opinion of the crime committed though. Why shouldn't Amaral promote his opinion?

That's quite a stupid post

[Wonderfulspam]

I think it’s pretty sick to desciribe the McCanns determined effort to find Madeleine as promoting something as if it was a commercial enterprise but even if that’s what it was it did not defame or accuse anyone in particular, unlike Amaral promoting his money making book of the the notion that the parents sedated their child, hid her body in a freezer and drove around with her 23 day old thawing corpse in the back of the hire car.  If you can’t see the difference between the two “promotions” then you need to go to Specsavers.  IMO.

Yes Yes. The innocent parents of an abducted child. Innocently doing everything they can to find Madeleine.
Bit strange their determined efforts to find Madeleine didn't involve releasing the Smith E-Fits, but it's probably not important.