I don’t think that’s the case. Investigations simply do not work like that, photos or evidence do not get released publicly to prove anything. Do you think the starting point of the investigation was ‘well, let’s see you prove your daughter was alive earlier in the day and you need to release this proof publicly’? Of course not. In any event, the tennis photo is said to have been taken two days before, and nothing trammels that, including the scattergun blog post.
Have you used an SLR camera before? Their light settings are quite sensitive, it would be very easy for an inexperienced or casual user to take a grainy photo in overcast or dusk conditions. The blogpost acknowledges it’s a bad photo given it is so zoomed out and poorly composed, if that’s the case then it’s quite logical the person taking the photo would have not used the right light setting either.
But these assertions simply are not true. While cadaver dogs are not 100% – and what is, bar DNA evidence? – they are considered a highly indicative resource.
The McCanns’ ráiméis about dirty nappies and rotting meat in tje boot of their hire car spoke volumes. They knew the dogs did bark, so to speak.
And I’d say they’ve been appalling. They publicly accused him on the basis of what sounds like zero evidence, without charging him for months. Appalling behaviour. You are obviously comfortable with this as you are comfortable as an organ of the state.
The behaviour of the German prosecutor/police has to my mind been reprehensible. Given there appears to be no hard evidence, have you thought about their behaviour given he may be innocent.
You must have been entirely satisfied with the public accusations against that poor Gonzalez chap at the time too. Groundless yet destroyed his life.
Since the Germans first publicly accused your man, they have been trying for months and months to find any evidence. They don’t seem to have. Are you genuinely happy with a police force publicly stating they have almost enough evidence to charge a named individual, but not quite? It’s the modern equivalent of releasing a black man against whom they can’t find any evidence at a denoted time and place back in Alabama. We know how that ends up.
There is likewise the point made about the timeline involved in taking that tennis photograph on the Thursday – on Kate McCann’s own words.
Look, if you are interested in this topic, go off and do a bit of reading on it. You have to cut through the thicket of cranks and all the rest. The reality is that a child abduction in the circumstances that obtained was vanishingly unlikely. The fact that Kate McCann initially screamed “They have taken her!” is dubious. The natural cry was something like “Where’s Maddie?!” The McCanns and associates immediately tried to frame their daughter’s disappearance a certain way, invoking paedophiles and so on. The whole thing smacks of calculation. On their own admission, they did not join the searches. Anyone who would not find these aspects dubious, along with many other aspects, is more than a bit gullible in my view.
I’d add, that whilst the McCann flat was pretty close as the crow flies, it didn’t feel that close, it was on the ground floor, and had a door pretty much out onto the public road which was fairly busy. The McCanns repeatedly stated how close it was, but it wasn’t really. You couldn’t see it from where they were sitting, and even I, as negligent a parent as you’ll happen across, wouldn’t have felt comfortable leaving one child, never mind three. I can’t fathom how they did it again after the kids had woken crying for them the night before, but this is easy enough to say from the ditch, and they were probably hot, tired, half hungover and stressed. Being on a lot of holidays carries its own stress.
Look, go and do your own hoof work. I am not here to hold your hand.
More to the point, why will you not deny in public you created that Twitter account to frame yer man instead of sending me a private message doing so? Why are you afraid of saying so in public?
I mistrust many so called organs of justice yes. I’ve read seen and heard too much to trust many or any of them.
I read about this German chap when the story first broke. The main plank of their argument was a jailhouse snitch, and the fact he was a convicted (adult) rapist, living in praia de Luz at that time. They have no remains (they very publicly dug over some of his properties at the time), no hard evidence I suspect. Why do I think this? Because they have publicly accused him,publicly searched his properties and grounds, and if they had found something, they would have leaked it for sure. His lawyer is adamant this is a witch hunt with no evidence, and unfair.
He is certainly a plausible suspect, but there are a good few of them I’d say. I’m uncomfortable with the open named accusations. The German police themselves have previously stated he’s a danger to society, and approaching the end of his sentence. They made a pot they had to shit or get off. They’ve decided to do the former.
All fair points. I think leaving the children unattended the way they all did was unconscionable. Apart from anything else, they appear to have been cheapskates, skimping on babysitting costs. Yet there might likewise be the inference that the McCanns did not want a babysitter there if an ‘abduction’ plan had been hatched. They had a strange preoccupation with whether their shutters could be “jemmied” early in the week.
There is a world of unsettling detail in this case. I personally came to the conclusion that the McCanns felt they had to save their careers by taking a tragic path.
I disagree. I don’t think a conspiracy would hold. The tapas nine didn’t know each other that well, and probably didn’t even like each other that much. The British middle class would elbow Anne Frank into the street to remain pearly white. I think the truth of the statement discrepancies is each couple trying to bend the timelines to keep themselves above reproach, as they all left their children at one time or another. Only Madeleine and the McCanns paid the price.
The dog evidence I completely discount as voodoo.
No, the Tapas nine all knew each other quite well to very well. This aspect is well established fact.
The problem with the timelines of the various parties is that they seemed a bit too neat, if anything.
The dog evidence is far from “voodoo”. Hence the desperate attempts by the McCanns and their associates to account for the dogs’ reaction to that hire car.