So could this TV reconstruction end the distasteful slurs about Kate and Gerry?

@jeanmonroe wrote:tiny
And she went into great DETAIL about the 'abductor' even down to his SHOES! at 9:20pm

@nomendelta wrote:The thing is SY are putting out photofits, there's still talk of abduction but no talk of dogs...I don't know how exactly but I really do think that at the very least this new timeline is going to aid the McCanns version of events and leave their character untarnished.

There are already massive contradictions in the various statements - in fact you could write a book on the contradictions the McCanns themselves have uttered. I suspect that with breathtaking arrogance all previous statements and timelines will be swept away as if to suggest the Portuguese didn't listen and there were translation problems and that THIS is the true version of events which leave Kate and Gerry holier than thou (well apart from the thorny issue of leaving the kids unattended in the first place).

@MrsC wrote:

@nomendelta wrote:The thing is SY are putting out photofits, there's still talk of abduction but no talk of dogs...I don't know how exactly but I really do think that at the very least this new timeline is going to aid the McCanns version of events and leave their character untarnished.

There are already massive contradictions in the various statements - in fact you could write a book on the contradictions the McCanns themselves have uttered. I suspect that with breathtaking arrogance all previous statements and timelines will be swept away as if to suggest the Portuguese didn't listen and there were translation problems and that THIS is the true version of events which leave Kate and Gerry holier than thou (well apart from the thorny issue of leaving the kids unattended in the first place).

Perhaps some clever person could write just such a book? The McCann's couldn't object to it if it only includes their utterings.

Cherry wrote:I once worked as a producer in the BBC crime unit. I directed many reconstructions and spent my second pregnancy producing new investigations for Crimewatch. Detectives would call me daily, detailing their cases, and some stories stay with me still, such as the ones about a girl being snatched from her bath, or her bike, or her garden and then held in the passenger seat, or stuffed in the boot. There was always a vehicle, and the first few hours were crucial to the outcome. Afterwards, they would be dumped naked in an alley, or at a petrol station with a £10 note to "get a cab back to Mummy". They would be found within an hour or two. Sometimes.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/14/ukcrime.madeleinemccann

@Truthandjustice wrote:

Cherry wrote:I once worked as a producer in the BBC crime unit. I directed many reconstructions and spent my second pregnancy producing new investigations for Crimewatch. Detectives would call me daily, detailing their cases, and some stories stay with me still, such as the ones about a girl being snatched from her bath, or her bike, or her garden and then held in the passenger seat, or stuffed in the boot. There was always a vehicle, and the first few hours were crucial to the outcome. Afterwards, they would be dumped naked in an alley, or at a petrol station with a £10 note to "get a cab back to Mummy". They would be found within an hour or two. Sometimes.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/14/ukcrime.madeleinemccann

Interesting 'there was always a vehicle'.  Makes me think how odd it would be for and abductor to be wandering about town with a child in his arms.

@jeanmonroe wrote:So could this TV reconstruction end the distasteful slurs about Kate and Gerry?
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@jeanmonroe wrote:So could this TV reconstruction end the distasteful slurs about Kate and Gerry?
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Erm, er, umm, y'know..........................NO!

@nomendelta wrote:

@PeterMac wrote:

@gbwales wrote:Maybe after so much cowardice and pussyfooting the press are starting to find their feet and are just bit by bit testing the waters with what they can say....?
If they feel sufficiently brave perhaps the wall will break and we'll see a proper 'tidal wave' as KM puts it. Enough to turn Gerry's chinos a much deeper brown.

exactly.
By tomorrow all the press will be able to say, without any threat of come-back from Shhh you know who
that one each, at least, of the stories about the shutters, curtain, windows, in or on the bed, regular checking . . . . and so on
was a LIE.

Gonçalo Amaral will be able to show that their "lack of candour" prevented him from making any decent investigation
TB will be able to trawl back through his bundle of papers and if he can find a single example of a "material inaccuracy" be able to argue that his original prosecution was malicious.

And to act as advocate for the McCanns for a moment -
Why the hell have they done this ?
What are their lawyers thinking of ?   (Apart from money- obviously)
Why have Carter-Ruck not stopped this a long time ago ?

PeterMac you are one poster I respect above all others but I am afraid I don't see things this way. I am convinced the parents (who are interviewed as part of the programme) aren't going to expose themselves to weakening their status in any way. This is going to be a new, unified timeline which somehow makes everything they've said still stand but be slightly tweaked to allow for an abduction.

I think they'll be strengthened tomorrow rather than weakened but I hope otherwise.

@gbwales wrote:I sincerely hope the various useful legal and PR people are remembered for their part in it all.

@sami wrote:

@nomendelta wrote:The thing is SY are putting out photofits, there's still talk of abduction but no talk of dogs...I don't know how exactly but I really do think that at the very least this new timeline is going to aid the McCanns version of events and leave their character untarnished.

There are already massive contradictions in the various statements - in fact you could write a book on the contradictions the McCanns themselves have uttered. I suspect that with breathtaking arrogance all previous statements and timelines will be swept away as if to suggest the Portuguese didn't listen and there were translation problems and that THIS is the true version of events which leave Kate and Gerry holier than thou (well apart from the thorny issue of leaving the kids unattended in the first place).

Except the timelines and statements were upheld in the really truthful book, penned by the fair hand of Kate herself.  The PJ cannot be blamed for that.

@tiny wrote:

@jeanmonroe wrote:tiny
And she went into great DETAIL about the 'abductor' even down to his SHOES! at 9:20pm

yes ,so she cant say she was mistaken and sy cant say she was mistaken

@jeanmonroe wrote:If, IF, SY/Met DARED to 'retrofit' timelines to suit their 'clients' they do realise, don't they, that there are mulitudes of people OUTSIDE of the UK that will INSTANTLY report a (cover up) online and TV and press abroad!

Wendy Murphy, Pat Brown etc

Not UK Madia BUT real, RESPECTED professionals.

@Portia wrote:

@tiny wrote:

@jeanmonroe wrote:tiny
And she went into great DETAIL about the 'abductor' even down to his SHOES! at 9:20pm

yes ,so she cant say she was mistaken and sy cant say she was mistaken

If she had seen 'The Abductor' with trainers on his feet, she might have tried to hide that fact and introduce regular footwear: brogues?

@Mirage wrote:

@jeanmonroe wrote:If, IF, SY/Met DARED to 'retrofit' timelines to suit their 'clients' they do realise, don't they, that there are mulitudes of people OUTSIDE of the UK that will INSTANTLY report a (cover up) online and TV and press abroad!

Wendy Murphy, Pat Brown etc

Not UK Madia BUT real, RESPECTED professionals.

Hi Jean, I completely agree with you on the Wendy Murphy, Pat Brown angle. I believe this investigation is in deepest doo doo and the outside world, predominantly the USA (oh the irony) will have to help us Brits out.
 SY are sounding increasingly gaga and the utterances I've heard from AR and BBC reportage whilst travelling all day have left me aghast. One of the last comments I caught from AR was that he wanted to "play down" the idea that something was imminent. Really !!!! After the massive build up to a revelatory experience, complete with dramatic cinema trailers.
 As far as I can work out, that leaves us with two diametrically opposed e-fits of one man who may or may not be a suspect/witness, aged quite elastically between 20 and 40. Then there's a new character, seen traipsing about PdL - operating within a more convenient time-line and carrying an inert child answering to the description of MBM - blonde hair, wearing pyjamas.
  And for good measure they can't reveal why this information has been un-revealed for over 6 years, plus the time it's taken them to cobble together the unlikeliest yarn you ever heard.
  I don't think the adage "confusion is good" cuts it these days. No, they're going all out for addling of the brain. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd organised a subliminal memory wipe-out for the masses. Calling America????? Heeeeeelp.

@Smokeandmirrors wrote:

@Mirage wrote:

@jeanmonroe wrote:If, IF, SY/Met DARED to 'retrofit' timelines to suit their 'clients' they do realise, don't they, that there are mulitudes of people OUTSIDE of the UK that will INSTANTLY report a (cover up) online and TV and press abroad!

Wendy Murphy, Pat Brown etc

Not UK Madia BUT real, RESPECTED professionals.

Hi Jean, I completely agree with you on the Wendy Murphy, Pat Brown angle. I believe this investigation is in deepest doo doo and the outside world, predominantly the USA (oh the irony) will have to help us Brits out.
 SY are sounding increasingly gaga and the utterances I've heard from AR and BBC reportage whilst travelling all day have left me aghast. One of the last comments I caught from AR was that he wanted to "play down" the idea that something was imminent. Really !!!! After the massive build up to a revelatory experience, complete with dramatic cinema trailers.
 As far as I can work out, that leaves us with two diametrically opposed e-fits of one man who may or may not be a suspect/witness, aged quite elastically between 20 and 40. Then there's a new character, seen traipsing about PdL - operating within a more convenient time-line and carrying an inert child answering to the description of MBM - blonde hair, wearing pyjamas.
  And for good measure they can't reveal why this information has been un-revealed for over 6 years, plus the time it's taken them to cobble together the unlikeliest yarn you ever heard.
  I don't think the adage "confusion is good" cuts it these days. No, they're going all out for addling of the brain. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd organised a subliminal memory wipe-out for the masses. Calling America????? Heeeeeelp.