Who handled the information received following other appeals when there was no live police investigation?
I don’t know why you’re even discussing the Smith family: Martin Smith said YEARS ago that he must have been mistaken.
Interestingly, when he said he watched the news and saw Gerry McCann walking down the steps of the aircraft & had a sudden “flashback”, his wife blatantly refused to agree with him and told the police so, too. So she didn’t “see” what MS thought he saw.
Furthermore, he and his family had arrived in Portugal from Ireland that day and had spent a good few hours in a bar drinking. How much he’d drunk isn’t known, but he must have downed quite a few in those good few hours. But given his door-to-door journey time, and how tired he probably was on top of all his booze, it’s surprising he took in so much detail — and in the dark too...
The two photo-fits he and his family gave are quite different, too...which begs the question: either he or his family were wrong, or couldn’t see properly...
That flashback he had was probably “false memory syndrome” and whatever man had walked down those aircraft steps would have triggered a wrong impression in his head.
In the event, none of it matters as it’s been irrevocably proved that Gerry was inside the Tapas Bar at the time he claimed he saw this man and child.
But looking again at the photo-fits, and studying them with allowances for error, I can actually see a resemblance to to CB. Same hairline. Same long upper lip. Chiselled jaw (in one of the two pics), and going by his description of age, build (slim) it resembles CB in some ways.
Having said that, I doubt CB had his car/van parked that far away...so it’s probably a totally innocent man who never even knew he’d been put in the frame
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