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Tapas 9 deliberately hamper police investigation

By John Hirst

Tapas 9 deliberately hamper police investigation

The Daily Telegraph is reporting: Madeleine McCann reconstruction 'called off by Portuguese Police'. The Daily Telegraph is quoting Sky News as its source of the story. However, blogs and forums were running with the story first and Sky News jumped on the bandwagon when it was already rolling.

It is true to say that the Portuguese police have called off the intended reconstruction. This is because, in the view of the PJ, all members of the Tapas Bar 9 needed to attend to complete the picture. I can see the logic of this.

It is not true to claim that several members of the Tapas Bar 9 were not able to attend. They were all able to attend. They just did not want to assist in the police inquiry. This may have escaped the Mainstream Media's attention, but it is highly significant. I would say that innocent people would have had no fear of attending a police reconstruction. However, given that both Gerry and Kate McCann's statements contain flaws, as do several of the other Tapas Bar 9, it is for this reason that none of the Tapas Bar 9 wish to go back to Portugal.

Instead the Tapas Bar 9 are claiming that they cannot see how a police reconstruction will assist in finding Madeleine. I was under the impression that it is the PJ and not the McCanns and the rest of them who are in charge of the police inquiry. It is for the PJ and not the Tapas Bar 9 to determine the relevance of a reconstruction to the police investigation. The McCanns may be in charge of the private investigation being conducted by Metodo3, but this is not the same thing. Under the latter private investigation, the McCanns are not suspects. However, let us not forget, they are suspects in the police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine. I don't think it is a good idea to have suspects dictating the nature of the police investigation. There is a tendency for the McCanns to leave themselves out of the inquiry as to what happened to Madeleine.

I don't think the McCanns are doing anything to help find Madeleine as they laugh all the way to the bank to spend the donations. It is time that the Serious Fraud Office froze the findmadeleine account until such time as the McCanns are cleared of all guilt in the disappearance of Madeleine.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).