The McCanns defence crumbles
The Daily Telegraph reports on what it claims to be the case for the defence of Kate McCann.
The report concludes: "On a procedural level, a catalogue of blunders by the police, who failed to seal off the crime scene, would be likely to render any forensic evidence unreliable". I beg your pardon, but it was the McCanns themselves who allowed up to 20 people into the apartment, prior to the police being called and arriving, thereby ensuring contamination of a possible crime scene. Very unprofessional of them at best, at worst, they had a motive.
"Furthermore, could she really have gone through 127 days of constant interviews and media exposure without once showing any signs of guilt?". I am sure that psychological profilers, like me, would have picked up many signs of guilt from both Gerry and Kate McCann during the interviews. For example, the licking of lips, eyes going to the left, and gulping, as if they had difficulty swallowing their own lies. The now famous tugging of his left ear by Gerry, and Kate's initial failure to answer a simple question "was Madeleine asleep when you left for the Tapas bar?".
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
Can't help but feel that the trashing of what became forensic evidence was deliberate. Even the spotty, single mother would have possessed the wit to realise that a room from which a child was supposedly taken would be a potential crime scene, and therefore not one to interfere with. For doctors to not only not consider this but to actively encourage so many people to view an empty room is astonishing.
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ReplyDeletePolice/crime dramas are a part of British culture and have been for many years. No excuses for the McCanns on this front.
Regarding the purposeful contamination of evidence... A friend of mine came up with the idea that this is why Kate carries that cat toy around everywhere. Something a child is supposed to be inseperable from would surely be covered in something if she was murdered/died. What better way to cover that up than to keep it away from the police, put it in different places, get people to touch it etc. It even attracts sympathy...
ReplyDeleteOh come on now, I think we're all getting carried away, who knows what we would do and how we would behave given these horrid circumstances.
ReplyDeleteAs the report clearly say's...how and when could she/they do the deed when all eyes were on them?
I still have not seen hard forensic evidence of prove of guilt.
So calm yourselves and await the evidence.
the BBC are still being incredibly biased. Heard Radio 2 news earlier, after saying both McScams have now been charged, the reporter said "it looks like the Portuguese police are looking for a quick solution - they aren't wanting to do any more detective work to find the killer, they are just going for the people in front of them". Funny that they didn't say that when poor Robert Murat was being victimised.
ReplyDeleteYou've been consistent on this: I don't know whether or not you are correct but it's certainly a reasonable position. There's no independent evidence - in the public domain at least - to refute it; statistically it's at least as likely as a roaming predator.
ReplyDeleteWhat is not reasonable is the 'she couldn't have done it' position.
The police should from the start have considered this possibility: maybe they did behind the scenes. Did all the "They are not suspects statements" leaks just refere to their formal position?
"The police should from the start have considered this possibility: maybe they did behind the scenes."
ReplyDeleteSince almost the beggining of the case, that a former officer of the Policia Judiciaria, who today is a press columnist, was saying, in his column, things like "We shouldn't look only to the abduction version; we have also to think in other hypothesis, like a domestic accident".
I suspect that he, as a former agent, had some "inside information".
Hmmm i wonder where all these conspiracy theories come from.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter disappeared from her room one night when she was in her early teens...Thank god she turned up safe and well, but the last thing on your mind is " contamination of evidence"
I was in a state of shock, there were members of my family and neighbours searching all over my house and garden, whilst waiting for police to arrive...