I have already covered that. I said the PJ would use this information at the right time. For all we know the lady in purple they were looking for 2 years ago has footwear size 5 - 6. Where is the lady in purple in the released file? Yet they had statements that Jennifer Murat had seen her.
It appears to be actual as I have pointed out. What makes you believe that the sightings of the FSS report reported in the papers was not real?
Beliefs are fickle things in general.
Robitty, it isn't a pick n mix regarding police deciding which evidence is recorded and which evidence is held back to be used at a later date.
In a criminal investigation every individual piece of evidence gathered has to be considered in relation to all the rest in order to make up the bigger picture. On its own one item of evidence might be irrelevant until considered in relation to all the evidence gathered. Remembering that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ... it is necessary that every piece of evidence has to be slotted into place.
Quite often we hear of cold case reviews turning up information which has been missed ~ as in Madeleine's case ~ and that can only happen if the information is there to be found and not floating around in some policeman's head.
There have been screeds written about the perfidy of the press at the time and the ridiculous unfounded stories they printed of which this is but one. For this bloody footprint not to have been included in the chain of the evidence harvested and processed by the Portuguese scientific services, would involve the collusion of many honest people in the crime of concealing evidence. It is inconceivable that they did that.
This is not a smoking gun or an Ace up anyone's sleeve ... it just did not happen.
