“Murat was also an arguido, was he not?”

Yes.

Exactly right, a body search to find evidence. Dogs making an indication is not evidence. Sniffer dogs have been shown to get it wrong 75% of the time, so you really can’t assume their indication is evidence.

The same pertains to the cadaver dogs, they gave indications, but no evidence whatsoever was found where they made their indications, so to then assume their indications were ‘correct’, without real evidence to back it up, is ludicrous.

I am astounded that people persist in thinking the dogs indications were significant, in light of nothing to back them up, in PDL or Jersey.

“Fernando José Pinto Monteiro, the Portuguese Attorney General, said on 1 July that prosecutors had received the final police report.[123][124] He announced, on 21 July, that the case would be closed due to lack of evidence that any crime was committed by the persons placed under formal investigation.”

persons placed under formal investigation = arguidos = McCanns

Moderator _ Murat was also an arguido, was he not?

Thanks for accepting the next post! I’ll be extremely careful how I word my posts in future. I’ll try to include the word “speculation” in them. It’s true anyway…only speculation.

Right! Unlikely that he will be able to demonstrate that his case against the Mcs is sound, given that the official Portuguese investigation itself, led by a detective with an outstanding reputation, found no evidence of any crime.

In my personal opinion, most people watching Amaral’s film would probably find his theories somewhat absurd anyway, even without the fact that the PJ came to the conclusion that there was no evidence of anything against the Mcs.

As to his motives, one can only speculate. Whatever they are, he seems to have made a lot of money out of this case. His conviction for perjury (if upheld…he still has his appeal) is hardly likely to make people more inclined to believe him.

Moderator _ He may have been found guilty of perjury, but it wasn’t proven about the assault and battery. Its a fine line and Anorak could be in the firing line as a result, a Litigation Court may not agree with you or Cheryl.

Now, where does a missing child go missing to? Well, if a paedo abducted her they are not known to hang around with the child they abducted waiting for the authorities or search parties to hand the child back over. Over here when a paedo takes a child, which unfortuantly happens too often, the police have found the bodies of abducted children: 1) laying along side mountain roads; 2) buried alive in a garbage bag in a yard but found too late to save; 3) laying out in the desert and only way to tell when that young child was dumped was studying the development of maggots and other insects that had invaded the dead child’s body; 4) buried in shallow graves in the woods; 5) dumped in creeks. Many times years go by and someone walking in the woods or hunting dogs will stumble across human bones.

Moderator _ He was accused of beating up someone, but it was unproven as to who by and where she was beaten up, either in police custody or in jail. Please be factual.

His case is that the evidence gathered, and which is detailed in the files, supports his opinion that the McCann’s were the culprits. The opinion of the most senior legal and investigatory experts in the Portuguese judicial system - who are more than a few rungs up the ladder from Amaral - is that the evidence in those files contains no evidence against the McCanns whatsoever.

For Amaral to win, a conclusion would have to reached that the highest echelons of the Portuguese legal system are wrong and that a small town provincial detective with a conviction for perjury is right.

That isn’t going to happen. He can not win.

As I mentioned previously, he can’t have any unrevealed evidence up his sleeve or he really will be doing time in jail for perverting the course of justice by withholding crucial evidence.

No, his goose is cooked.

Crackling anyone?

Lyn:

If a drug sniffer dog picked you out at an airport and indicated you were carrying drugs, would you consider the dogs behaviour to be sufficient evidence to try and convict you for possession of drugs, or would prefer that they actually had to search you and find some drugs?

Moderator - Weren’t the findings of no evidence of criminal activity, or did they specifically mention the McCanns and Murat , as all 3 were released from ‘Arquido’

The Mcs have every right to stop Amaral’s accusations if they are lies. Wouldn’t you?

Kate did exactly what her lawyer told her. Wouldn’t you? Especially if you were being accused of crimes of which you were innocent? One does not hire a lawyer only to ignore his/her advice. That’s the point of the arguido status.

What precisely are they trying to control now? You mean hiring investigators to continue the search for their child instead of just leaving it? Wouldn’t you…or would you just give up? They vowed “no stone unturned”. That’s all they’re doing. Wouldn’t you?

They have been, of course, VERY careful NOT to accuse Hewlett. They did not put the story in the press. They are just saying they are aware of him and of what the papers are saying. Given their experiences to date, they’re unlikely to take any one “lead” very seriously anyway. The British police seem to be after this man for various offences. They are not saying he had anything to do with Madeleine. Just one possible lead, that’s all. Sounds reasonable enough to me, a known paedophile who was in the area at the time. Fair enough to check his alibi carefully. (And maybe the PJ DID do that anyway. Rebelo seemed very thorough.) The Mcs are not responsible for what the rags make of the story.

I can’t work out why anyone could possibly object to their continued efforts to find out what happened. Almost as if some people don’t WANT them to find out because it would spoil a good hate campaign.

If the cadaver dogs have done their job, why havent the Mccanns been convicted????

Did not the Portugese Police Hierarchy remove him from the McCann case? Why do you think they did? For the exemplary job he was doing in handling the case? The first four months of that case was worse than a nightmare, imo! By the time they brought Rebelo in to handle the case with professionalism and proper police procedures the investigation had to be started all over again from scratch. Then Amaral has had the unmitigated gall to write cya books, imo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1186727/Madeleine-chief-detective-convicted-falsifying-evidence-separate-missing-child-case.html

Of course it’s speculation on my part. We await the result of the next court case.

Don’t think many would go so far as to suggest he’d got away with murder. He’s certainly tried to get away with murdering the good name of the McCanns, with no evidence (just watch his film!) and fuelling an appallingly vicious hate campaign against them. There certainly ARE many injustices in this world.

Yep! That’ll be the next thing!

Yaaawn!

Agree it’s unlikely he’ll back out but I wonder if he “wants” to do it! Shouldn’t think the Mcs care either way. They have other concerns to worry about personally. It’ll be mainly their lawyers.