Lizzy HiDeHo Taylor
(Date Posted:10/02/2015 6:38 PM)

6. Why don't you let Amaral's mistakes, incompetence and criminal convictions be discussed but instead portray him as a saint and victim?

You pose this question as if it is a fact that Goncalo Amaral was incompetent and that he is portrayed as a saint and a victim and yet I have never seen anythng to back up your claims.

Gonçalo was the first to acknowledge his mistakes in the investigation. Not making the McCanns arguidos from the start, is one example.

"...I'd say rather that the mistake was in treating the McCanns "with tweezers." From the start of the investigation, we realised that certain things did not add up and yet, they continued to benefit from favourable treatment; that's what's not normal!"

His "criminal convictions" are reduced to one conviction with a suspended sentence, in a case where a small child Joana Cipriano was cut up by her mother and uncle and her body hidden, never to be found,

INCOMPETENCE?

Maybe you could explain to me exactly why you would consider Goncalo Amaral incompetant?

I fail to understand why you would consistently claim that he, alone, is responsible for the investigation!

I wouldn't have thought that you were naive enough not to know his role in the investigation but the alternative would be that you are hiding the truth from your members.

Gonçalo Amaral's role as the CO-ORDINATOR in the investigation was not to get up in the morning and go out alone to solve the case!

He was not only the coordinator of the Madeleine case, he coordinated the whole CID. His job was to coordinate the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ's Southern Directory. There were other cases, other investigations at the same time.

In the Madeleine investigation, as with Scotland Yard, there were several lines of investigation running simultaneously and approximately on the fifth day of searches there were approximately 180 Policia Judiciária, 60 GNR officers and approximately 20 civilian volunteers on the ground, investigating the case. He assigned their duties for the day and after they reported back to him he would relay the information back to his superiors in Faro and Lisbon.

Hundreds of 'sightings' came in from all over the world 24/7, and each one had to be dealt with and coordinated. The PJ had to decide what was worth checking out, and then relay it to Europol or Interpol if the sighting hadn't taken place in Portugal. There were hundreds of people to question, ground searches to execute and coordinate with the appropriate country and their police force. .

None of them amounted to anything worthwhile, there was not one result from the hundreds of sighting, except that they served the purpose: to distract from the investigation and to reinforce the abduction theory.

In the nearly 8 years following, and several MILLION pounds paid by British taxpayers has there been ANY further developments in the case to confirm a 'suspect'? I wouldn't even like to consider the statistical possibility of one or more perpetrators being able to avoid capture with with the enormous effort from 'private detectives' and the TWO police forces that have re-opened the case, but then again, we haven't yet heard any information on the SEVERAL LINES OF INQUIRY that they have been following

To portray Gonçalo Amaral, after his 28 successful years in the PJ, as incompetent, and to discuss as if he was soley reponsible for the investigation is beyond my comprehension. As mentioned, one would have to be very naive to think that way or to have chosen the alternative of failing to recognise the facts.

A SAINT? A VICTIM? You are getting your words mixed up with RESPECT for a man that made every effort to seek the truth about Madeleine's disappearance, fighting adversity and slurs against his character, but who believed in the investigations findings and, although he has never shown signs that he would be happy with those titles, many people all over the world recognise the enormous effort and tenacity to continue to seek the truth regardless of efforts to render him financially and emotionally drained.

The TRUTH IS HIS POWER and noone can take that away from him

You refer to the previous conviction.

Can you explain how this relates to the Madeleine case?

What exactly is the relevance?

McCanns face the TRUTH exposed in TRIAL against Gonçalo Amaral!