Four Corners - Interview with Jim Gamble

The transcript of this excellent interview is here:

http://regretsandramblings.com/2012/05/21/madeleine-mccann-four-corners/

It's a long piece, with much food for thought, but this sums up very well the damage that Amoral has done:

KERRY O’BRIEN: What was your reaction to the book that came out from the former leader of the Portuguese investigation, particularly when essentially the finger was being pointed at the McCanns?

JIM GAMBLE: Well, first of all, I think it was unprofessional, and secondly, I think it was unhelpful. The fact that this individual perpetrates a view that is clearly his – that the McCanns are guilty, or suggests that the McCanns are guilty of this offence – that’s troublesome from a number of issues. That’s an issue for a court to decide, and secondly, when a professional police officer, when someone with the access to information that that role would suggest that individual has, starts going down one specific line, it takes our eye off the broader picture. It stops being looking, because they believe, “Well, there’s no point, we know who did it”. Now, I’m aware of cases myself that I’ll not go into in detail here, where because certain individuals have assumed that one person was guilty, the real person, the real culprit, when free for many, many more years than they actually should have, simply because everyone said, “Well, there’s no point. We know who did it, we can’t prove it, so let’s carry on with our day jobs”. I think what he’s done is foolish.

The interview makes Tony's post very pertinent indeed:

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/is-madeleines-abductor-sitting-on.html

I think it would be incredible if the abductor had not visited the #McCann tag and various FB pages. Whether they would post or not is another matter but I think there is a strong chance that they would do so to gain some kind of morbid satisfaction.

No, I don't think the abductor/s would actually post, but I would be amazed if they didn't keep an eye on the internet, not least to see which way the wind was blowing.

For me, more important then to know what happened to her, we know that this was an abduction, the motive we don´t know, but, for me, although important to know the motive of this abduction, it is more important to find her, to bring her home, safe and sound, because the fact of finding her, bring her home, leads to the motive of this abduction to be known.

take a good look at Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, Natascha Kampusch.

Pedro Silva wrote:For me, more important then to know what happened to her, we know that this was an abduction, the motive we don´t know, but, for me, although important to know the motive of this abduction, it is more important to find her, to bring her home, safe and sound, because the fact of finding her, bring her home, leads to the motive of this abduction to be known.

take a good look at Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, Natascha Kampusch.

Bravo, Pedro.

Yes lily, thank you.