General discussion about the latest news (not search related)

[Brietta]

Did I say that ?

In effect you did.

I was under the impression Gordon Brown had been blamed for the global recession ... now it seems Madeleine McCann has single handedly destroyed tourism and jobs in Portugal in the midst of it.

Well, well.

[Eleanor]

In effect you did.

I was under the impression Gordon Brown had been blamed for the global recession ... now it seems Madeleine McCann has single handedly destroyed tourism and jobs in Portugal in the midst of it.

Well, well.

Well Madeleine must have affected UK bookings to France as well.  These have dropped over the last seven years.

Personally, I thought it was the exchange rate.  It's played havoc with my pension.

[Brietta]

An interesting phrase in
http://portugalresident.com/madeleine-new-shock-as-tour-operator-drops-%E2%80%9Cinfamous%E2%80%9D-ocean-club-resort

"One day I would love to break my silence"

Only last month, Ocean Club manager Donna Hill told us: “I really cannot comment. One day I would love to break my silence”.

Wouldn't it be great if he confided in the PJ and SY if he is referring to Madeleine McCann ... if he doesn't we can only assume he has other concerns in which Madeleine's disappearance doesn't figure.

[pegasus]

Will she write a book on her hypothesis of The McCann's guilt if she fails to solve the case?
Personally, I doubt it.

She will have no need to as, unlike Mr Amaral, she is not going to be forced of the case by pressure applied by a foreign government.

Will UK journo Drose write an article about Detective Wall while she is working on this case containing fifty pathetically childish insults about her such as "corpulent" and "sweaty"?
Nope.

[Brietta]

Will she write a book on her hypothesis of The McCann's guilt if she fails to solve the case?
Personally, I doubt it.

 
didn't see that on the remit ... but since she will be entitled to a full pension on retiral, she probably won't need the money

[Brietta]

Another interesting point in
http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/04/04/may-2013-vogue-true-crime

In the section about Detective Stewart:
 "I probably wouldn't meet the witness".
and
"how rarely she even interviews the suspects"

So it is fairly standard SY procedure for the investigation leader to not meet with the main witnesses and not meet with people being investigated.
Yet some peeps have been criticising Mr Amaral for adhering exactly to that SY practice.

I hope very much that the new investigation leader Detective Wall will follow this good practice exactly like Mr Amaral did, and not personally have meetings with the main witnesses.

Yeah I did notice that ... but I also noted the disciplines allocated to the officers under her command ... one of whom was responsible for recovering CCTV footage.

I wonder if you would care to enumerate any instances you consider good practice in the conduct of the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

[Eleanor]

She will have no need to as, unlike Mr Amaral, she is not going to be forced of the case by pressure applied by a foreign government.

Will UK journo Drose write an article about Detective Wall while she is working on this case containing fifty pathetically childish insults about her such as "corpulent" and "sweaty"?
Nope.

Too late.  She is already being dissed elsewhere.

[Brietta]

She will have no need to as, unlike Mr Amaral, she is not going to be forced of the case by pressure applied by a foreign government.

Will UK journo Drose write an article about Detective Wall while she is working on this case containing fifty pathetically childish insults about her such as "corpulent" and "sweaty"?
Nope.

She's 'getting it' quite simply because she is the antithesis of 'corpulent and sweaty'.

Nobody wins in the name calling game, sometimes even if the cap fits really well it is much better just to ignore it.

[pegasus]

 
didn't see that on the remit ... but since she will be entitled to a full pension on retiral, she probably won't need the money

Mr Amaral did not write his book to make money.
Mr Amaral wrote the book IMO because he is determined that this case will be solved.
His book reaches an inaccurate conclusion, but his ethics are way up there.

[Anna]

She's 'getting it' quite simply because she is the antithesis of 'corpulent and sweaty'.

Nobody wins in the name calling game, sometimes even if the cap fits really well it is much better just to ignore it.

Thank goodness, she can't have Socrates to interfere.

http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/december-socrates/33512

[Brietta]

Mr Amaral did not write his book to make money.
Mr Amaral wrote the book IMO because he is determined that this case will be solved.
His book reaches an inaccurate conclusion, but his ethics are way up there.

I wasn't aware that Dr Amaral had pledged profits from his book to charity ... I have read that one of his intentions on retiral was to launch a career as an author and make a living from it.  But there you are, you learn something new every day.

You and I are diametrically opposed in opinion as to the nature of the man and his motivation for writing his book.

[pegasus]

She's 'getting it' quite simply because she is the antithesis of 'corpulent and sweaty'.

Nobody wins in the name calling game, sometimes even if the cap fits really well it is much better just to ignore it.

The childish insults article was a part of a destroy campaign launched from the UK against Detective Amaral while he was still working on the case. The peeps orchestrating that attack only got away with it because he was a foreign Detective. They now will be completely powerless if they don't like the way the SY current investigation goes.

[Anna]

The childish insults article was a part of a destroy campaign launched from the UK against Detective Amaral while he was still working on the case. The peeps orchestrating that attack only got away with it because he was a foreign Detective. They now will be completely powerless if they don't like the way the SY current investigation goes.

So he punished them back, by launching a book, to destroy a family?

[pegasus]

I wasn't aware that Dr Amaral had pledged profits from his book to charity ... I have read that one of his intentions on retiral was to launch a career as an author and make a living from it.  But there you are, you learn something new every day.

You and I are diametrically opposed in opinion as to the nature of the man and his motivation for writing his book.

Yes I have a very high opinion of this man's integrity.
But I am not claiming he made no investigative mistakes. Several of his investigative deductions (for example about the window, and especially about the clothes) are IMO drastically incorrect, and so this led to the conclusion of his book being inaccurate.

[Alice Purjorick]

I wasn't aware that Dr Amaral had pledged profits from his book to charity ... I have read that one of his intentions on retiral was to launch a career as an author and make a living from it.  But there you are, you learn something new every day.

You and I are diametrically opposed in opinion as to the nature of the man and his motivation for writing his book.

Neither has Kate McCann so waht is your point ?
It was his money with to do what he wished.