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JE attacker had 3 distinguishing features:- Rabbit front teeth Marks/scars all over his body A bandage on his arm, presumably covering some sort of wound. The prosecution have surely established from friends/girlfriends of CB around the time of the attack whether or not he bore all those...

One aspect of criminal trials in Germany I have just read about is that the lay judges are not allowed access in the main to the full prosecution files. As those same judges are guided by the presiding judge I can now see why it's so important all 3 of the judges in the current trial are...

IMO JE's certainty would have been increased by the public release, in July 2020, of a video taken less than 2 weeks before she was attacked. Not only could she view him from several angles, she could also hear the tone of his voice. The photo ID process had already taken place...

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-12520-2_3 *snipped* The German procedural system places great emphasis on the determination of the “substantive truth” as a basis for a just and fair outcome of any criminal case.Footnote2 The criminal process is conceived as a sequence of two...

Wasn't the trial originally scheduled to have been concluded by the end of June 2024? I think there is only a certain amount of time in Germany that a suspect can be detained under an arrest warrant. FF and his team have been responsible for some delays since the warrant was issued (appealing...

I wonder if Ophelia was asked if, when she saw him, Jay was wearing his sunglasses or carrying the cross-body man bag, both of which he was pictured with at the festival?

The judge will have seen the body scans of CB, taken by German police well before these cases reached trial, showing the presence of a scar in the upper thigh even if it has since been removed. Depending on the scale of the body scan, the presence of multiple marks would add weight to witness...

All the crimes currently being tried have more than one witness to them.

Did Jay fly out to Tenerife with Lucy, does anyone know, or was she already there when he arrived?

I don't think Portugal had the technology to extract DNA from hairs in 2005. <modsnip: no source link> My own opinion is that PJ treated the HaB rape case as a "domestic" (because of JC's DNA being found in her underwear) which would explain why her file wasn't sent to BKA in 2018 along with...

I find it more strange that the evidence in the HeB case was ordered by PJ to be destroyed less than 3 years after the crime. The order was issued 3 months after CB had been released from prison and less than 2 months before Madeleine disappeared.

If not precisely recalling the contents of 2 short videos MS witnessed almost 20 years ago makes him an unreliable witness, then yes, he is, just as most people over a certain age would be. However, what he saw on tape clearly left a strong impression.

They both saw the clip of the young girl's rape whilst tied to a post in CB's property.

Possibly because the only witness (MS) to the 3rd clip (approx.5 mins seen) showing the Italian-speaking victim couldn't recall enough facts and what he did recollect couldn't be corroborated by HeB. The first clip of an elderly woman, seen only by HeB, lasted approx 30 mins and much more...

Thank you, Hygge. That report reflects the wording in the trial document which I have seen.

Perhaps the judge should establish the order in which the 2 witnesses viewed the alleged rapes on the tape and the duration of each. It's entirely possible HeB & MS viewed 3 rapes between them, with the one featuring the young girl tied to a post being the only excerpt they both saw.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13498015/Christian-Brueckners-emails-link-Madeleine-McCann-case-investigators-claim.html The "mother and daughter" story.

Wasn't the same data on the (illegally acquired) USB's also found on the hard drive handed over by someone to BKA in Portugal?

Isn't it down to the judge's discretion as to whether any evidence of a different serious crime found by chance during an illegal search in another case can be used by prosecution?

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