From the article Shazza posted a link to in post 258:
Last Updated: 2:05am BST 17/08/2007
" . . .Mr Ribeiro, who denied that the parents had ever been suspects, said: "This is a very dynamic investigation. We cannot explain everything to them that we are doing." . . ."
docwho3 comments: Umm so they can't tell the family all about the investigation, that is the same way it is done in the USA. Family are not told the details of an ongoing investigation even if they are not suspects.
" . . . Mr Ribeiro also confirmed that there were contradictions in the witness statements of three British couples and a woman who were on holiday with the McCanns.
"The contradictions, in themselves, are worth little," he said. "We have to see what their relevance is.". . ."
docwho3 comments: So the contradictions are worthless at the moment unless some significant relevance can be established. Even honest witnesses may often differ in some details when recounting things from memory so we must see if anything significant is found in the contradictions.
" . . . He criticised officers who had leaked false information to Portuguese newspapers.. . ."
docwho3 comments: And yet people have relied heavily on those articles for posts to implicate the parents soooooo what parts of those articles were false? Did the staff really say the parents did not check on their children? Or what else may have been a false story?
" . . . "If I denied everything erroneous that had been published, I would have no time for anything else.". . ."
docwho3 comments: It sounds as if he is saying that very much information we have received in news reports is wrong, especially those things in the Portuguese papers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/17/wmaddy117.xml
Last Updated: 2:05am BST 17/08/2007
" . . .Mr Ribeiro, who denied that the parents had ever been suspects, said: "This is a very dynamic investigation. We cannot explain everything to them that we are doing." . . ."
docwho3 comments: Umm so they can't tell the family all about the investigation, that is the same way it is done in the USA. Family are not told the details of an ongoing investigation even if they are not suspects.
" . . . Mr Ribeiro also confirmed that there were contradictions in the witness statements of three British couples and a woman who were on holiday with the McCanns.
"The contradictions, in themselves, are worth little," he said. "We have to see what their relevance is.". . ."
docwho3 comments: So the contradictions are worthless at the moment unless some significant relevance can be established. Even honest witnesses may often differ in some details when recounting things from memory so we must see if anything significant is found in the contradictions.
" . . . He criticised officers who had leaked false information to Portuguese newspapers.. . ."
docwho3 comments: And yet people have relied heavily on those articles for posts to implicate the parents soooooo what parts of those articles were false? Did the staff really say the parents did not check on their children? Or what else may have been a false story?
" . . . "If I denied everything erroneous that had been published, I would have no time for anything else.". . ."
docwho3 comments: It sounds as if he is saying that very much information we have received in news reports is wrong, especially those things in the Portuguese papers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/17/wmaddy117.xml