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I don't doubt it! But it does help illustrate my point - we don't consider it out of order to send our own police to investigate. Does that mean we think we're better than them?

If they did dismiss them, then that adds some justification to those who think they aren't up to it, and gives me comfort that British police are involved. It would be gross incompetence to dismiss anything at a crime scene on first appearances. Only after rigorous forensic testing is complete can anything be dismissed.

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A forensic investigation does not just cover whats visible to the naked eye.

It's the time that it has taken for them to get to where they are that concerns me.

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What is starting to concern me is that the Portuguese police *haven't* got the investigation to where it now is. The blood stains were discovered by Leicestershire police. You have to wonder whether, without British involvement, they would ever have been found.

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Agreed entirely, their initial external investigation of the surrounding garden area in the original 'suspects' mothers house had to be all redone. Again this was done by British officers

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That's how I read it.

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And didnt that result in the same conclusion as the Portuguese search, i.e nothing new was found?

As I understand the Portuguese have invited police from the UK to review their investigation, most probably to see where they could have done things different. Its a shame that they weren't working together much earlier though.

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At work there has been quite a lot of dicussion regarding the whole investigation and the behaviour of the parents. The majority think the parents are potentially involved in this some way or the other.

Was interesting to see when they actually held a press conference for the sole purpose of being able to forensically analyze the parents behaviour.

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It does not matter wether something was found or not, what matters is that it should have been done properly the first time around !

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Link please ?

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No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with a convincing motive for the McCanns to have done such a thing. It just doesn't add up.

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That's from the daily mail article, so I'd take it with a rather large quantity of salt.

Let's not forget this is a holiday resort. I suspect the chances of finding minute blood specks on the wall of any room in a holiday resort are fairly large.

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It's rare but it's not unknown unfortunately.

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Unless there was an accident of some kind.

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So I gather there is no direct quote from any investigating officer then ? (Which of course there would not be in the first place)

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Absoloutely true, which makes it all the more imperitive that it's decided to be vital to the investigation or not.

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Which if so, why would they hide the body ? An accident is an accident

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Tbh it was bad enough having to give succour to those that did come over, at least when he was shot it was a genuine tragic mistake, how many hundreds of thousands of kids did Brazillian police get away with murdering for decades, their only crime was to be poor and homeless, perhaps we should have asked them how those investigations were going before accepting their help :mad:

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It's from the article I posted earlier :confused:

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Absolutely, I'm not saying 'parents never murder their kids' - just that in this case, I can't see any circumstances under which it would make sense. They're in a foreign country, in a busy holiday centre ... the very last place an intelligent adult would choose to do away with someone.

What reason could they have for covering up an accident and disposing of the body? This isn't a daytime soap opera.