[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Been vindicated in what, the article might cause a bit of suspicion but it still doesn't prove anything and is not unexplainable

Vindicated in that there is questions that haven't been answered. That there were things covered up, withheld, and undisclosed that could have impacted on the case at the time.
They do not reopen cases to cause suspicion, it has not been explained for several years so i'm hoping it can be explained now.

[Vicky.]

LOL at too expensive. Thats a pathetic excuse

The rest seems to be..it made the parents look guilty :S

[Vicky.]

Even without the rest of the report..she somehow found the cash to publish efits of various people in her book. Funny how it suddenly ran out for the smith sighting eh?

Also it costs nothing to add a photo to your webpage.

Or they could have passed the photos on to the police. But no, they sat on them until the police had to REQUEST them. NOT the actions of parents who want to find their daughter. By any stretch of the imagination.

[Kazanne]

I am glad Chuff posted those links as it has opened my eyes to the case,I was never overly interested in this case until she posted them,and now I have read some stuff I am confused as to why they were so bloody 'awkward' in helping all they could.

[MTVN]

So publishing the findings of a private investigation implying possible guilt at a time when they are being very highly scrutinised and suspected would harm what they considered to be the real search for the truth (this is obviously presuming their innocence)

And the firm does sound a bit dodgy, it's a private investigation so none of its findings are official or necessarily reliable and there is not as much accountability either, if what they say is true the other private investigators didn't trust the firm and its findings either, and presumably Scotland Yard didn't either if again it is true that all information was passed on to them

Yes it does seem suspicious but it's not as simple as just a blatant attempt to hide the truth and knowingly hinder the search. Easy to say with hindsight that they should have publicised the e fits but it seems that not many people considered the Smith sighting as important at the time, he himself has accused the Portuguese police of not taking it seriously

[Vicky.]

They didnt have to publish the findings, handing them over to the police would have sufficed.

Or at least mentioning it when asking for our police to reassess the case..

[chuff me dizzy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

So publishing the findings of a private investigation implying possible guilt at a time when they are being very highly scrutinised and suspected would harm what they considered to be the real search for the truth (this is obviously presuming their innocence)

And the firm does sound a bit dodgy, it's a private investigation so none of its findings are official or necessarily reliable and there is not as much accountability either, if what they say is true the other private investigators didn't trust the firm and its findings either, and presumably Scotland Yard didn't either if again it is true that all information was passed on to them

Yes it does seem suspicious but it's not as simple as just a blatant attempt to hide the truth and knowingly hinder the search. Easy to say with hindsight that they should have publicised the e fits but it seems that not many people considered the Smith sighting as important at the time, he himself has accused the Portuguese police of not taking it seriously

McCanns hired them ,even though they had never worked on a missing child case before and were charged with money laundering ,the firm still owes the"fund" £300,000 ,the McCanns have never sued to get it back ,you have to question why they thought pensioners money should be wasted and not even tried to retrieve it back even when the boss of the firm Kevin Halligen was arrested to be deported on money laundering offences , hush money by any chance

[Vicky.]

Surely the libel case must be thrown out now? (not that they would win anyway)

Afterall, their 'problem' with the book is that it hindered the search for Madeleine apparently. However, they themselves have hindered the search more than anyone else, by allowing the police to focus on the wrong person all of these years, and purposely withheld Efits of what has now turned out to be the prime suspect.

I await them suing themselves for hindering the investigation

[Livia]

If only the Portuguese and British police were privvy to the information that some forum members seem to have access to, the case would be cut and dried. If only the police services in both countries were as smart and savvy as some of our amateur detectives and conspiricy theorists. Unless... these theories and this information is awash with conjecture and inaccuracy, of course.