BIB - I just don’t think that necessarily follows. Why should a failure to gather sufficient evidence against a particular suspect mean that abducted by a stranger theory is incorrect? That makes no sense to me.
Initially my thoughts were that the "only" evidence would be written confessions (autobiographic texts) corroborated (autonomously) by independent testimonies in more than one case (MM included). But, even so, this seems poor for a normally cautious and conservative BKA to get involved and to has proceeded with that worldwide appeal.
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He is then said to have carried out the degrading rape, videotaping the whole ordeal and ripping off his own mask at the end of the attack before stealing cash and a computer, according to evidence heard at CB’s trial last year in Braunschweig, near Hanover.
But that only points to circumstantial evidence, two of the points you make would be easily contested imo , the phone call, unless the caller definitely confirms it was CB they talked to and the Jag re-reg that's just a coincidence again imo, a paper trail is left the car didn't disappear, if it was torched the day after then yes that would have been more suspicious in my eyes at least .IMO again there is nothing solid and tangible that currently links CB to MM , that being forensics, and or the girls body, what ever is missing the BKA possibly thought it might have been at the Arade dam area, hence the recent digs.
The passage of time is suggestive its unobtainable.
Agreed look back to the 2020 appeal and specifics of, they wanted to know of his whereabouts between 9 and 10pm on the night in question, the two vehicles and movement of ,the phone call (it must be noted it only said number almost certainly used by CB) recieved a call, the appeal was for who made the call,finally the bit about persons who almost certainly have concrete knowledge of the crime and maybe the place where the body was left.
Good discussion. Cheers Richard.
One salient point is that at the time of MM's disappearance CB had access to a variety of vehicles.
If this witness is correct, then the premise of MM being murdered within a day or two of abduction is incorrect.One salient point is that at the time of MM's disappearance CB had access to a variety of vehicles.
Another is that none of these were forensically checked.
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British detectives believe the 43-year-old was living out of a battered VW T3 Westerfalia campervan in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz at the time of MM’s disappearance.
According to the witness, MM was seen at 11am on May 28, 2007 – three weeks after she vanished – coming out of popular local restaurant Tunnels in Alcossebre, some 600 miles from Praia da Luz.
At the time, Leicestershire Police Detective Constable John Hughes issued an international Interpol alert with a ‘risk to life missing person’ warning demanding that Spanish and German police investigate.
He urged Spanish police to check the location for CCTV and witnesses and asked for the German vehicle keeper details. It is unclear what checks were made.
The police report, issued as part of Operation Task, says: ‘A caller has reported a possible sighting of MM, 11am, 28th May 2007.
‘Location given as a restaurant called Tunnels, in an old castle at an area called Cap Y Corp, Alcossebre, Spain. She was seen to leave with a man in a Volkswagen van.
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As part of the appeal for information, the Met Police said in a statement that the suspect had ‘access to this van from at least April 2007 until sometime after May 2007’.
It added: ‘We believe he was living in this van for days, possibly weeks, and may have been using it on 3 May 2007.
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Last night, The Mail on Sunday asked Scotland Yard whether the van’s registration was the same as the one identified in the 2007 sighting, but the force said it was not revealing those details.
Witness 'saw Madeline McCann in German-owned VW van with unknown man'
A witness claimed to have spotted Madeleine McCann getting into a German-owned VW van with a man just weeks after her disappearance, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.www.dailymail.co.uk
Interesting though that so many years after the event information about the vehicle is not being released.
If the child seen by the witness was MM and this can be proved, it raises many, many more premises than that one
