Gemma O'doherty. Her forthcoming Analysis of McCann Case.

Grom wrote:I think the evidence she was craving has now been found and links provided. .

She and bittyblob can't stop the nitpicking. Add Misty to that as well.

This article and admission that the BBC lied have really driven them over the edge.

Has it never occurred to the McCann supporters, that the more they attack Mr. Smith's 60 to 80 % 'observation', the more credence it gives it.

Ditto, when they attack Martin Grime.

What else have they? They avoid evidence like the plague because what evidence there is doesn't support their beliefs.

Grom wrote:What else have they? They avoid evidence like the plague because what evidence there is doesn't support their beliefs.

Indeed, nothing else.

The rancid nature of their posts has increased. True desperation.

An optimist writes: Some may have noticed a change in the McCann case recently. Twitter and other places are  being forced by events to leave the realm of the imaginary and, instead, exchange insults about the very subjects that the police have been studying.

The passage of years and the fact that imaginary – i.e. non-evidence based – theories cannot survive in the long run without new confirmatory input means the affair is moving, or being dragged, into a different phase.

Wayback theories, M/S Brown’s contemptible insistence that Grange consists entirely of bent police officers, the Morais stuff about the all-powerful  ambassador, the malevolent Hididho rubbish, Goncalo’s understandable but false belief in MI5 involvement, Baldie’s libelling of innocents by the dozen, the claim that the PJ attempted to frame the couple, the claim that the child was “abducted”  – all of these were gripping, potentially devastating game-changers.

And none of them has ever led anywhere.  Not a single centimetre.

The documents never turn up, nor do any guns, smoking or otherwise, no emails, forensics, confessions, additional witnesses. Each claim, starting with the MSM abduction screams, is starved of factual fuel to keep it flying, since confirmation never comes, only rumour.

In contrast, in the world of investigation, police and judicial, there has been a cumulative process, a clear trajectory of findings over ten years, regularly fuelled by new facts, all moving in the same direction.

The Archiving Summary reconstruction section, the rogatories, with their revelations of  evasion and stalling; Lisbon 2009 with  the demolition of the “rogue cop Amaral” theory and confirmation that the Nine had lied about the checking; Lisbon appeal court 2010 with  GA’s interpretation of the evidence found of equal validity to the “type of crime unknown” finding.

2011 and KM’s book confirming  she and GM had lied about being under suspicion  and that KM did not dismiss their lawyer’s suggestion that they confess to body disposal but discussed the pros and cons for hours until GM (“they’ve got nothing!”), not her, said no.

2013, the extension  of the accepted timeline by Grange, making more room for Smithman and the reappraisal of the JT sighting making less room for Bundleman. 2016, Amaral’s first appeal victory, together with the reasons; January 2017 the Supreme Court win and the judicial repudiation of the “exoneration” claim; April/May 2017, Scotland Yard and the PJ make statements about their investigation parameters for the first time, while refusing to go anywhere near the implications of  Bundleman or Smithman. Nothing from them about the evidential status of abduction, even though the right words would lift the burden from the McCanns.

Just listing this progress is like watching an arrow flying through the air towards its target.

I am looking forward to this investigation. She has intergrity and true journalist credentials. The Ireland things is very interesting indeed.

I find it very un nerving and unsettling that the parents screamed and wailed demanding a priest to attend them 'THEM' when their daughter was going trough god knows what (going by the abductor theory as they insist) Selfish ans self centered doesn't even cut it... and they got to meet the pope in person, very,very few get that. Something is not right, I hope someone has the guts to expose all of it.