Madeleine Bombshell - police net closes in on just one man who is key to the mystery

unreorganised wrote:I wonder how much Met Policing £14000/month gets you? Can't be more than two full time officers at most, surely?

I can't really see how this - honorable mention by the BBC aside - is really "news". The Prince Charles thing is interesting though; what's that about?

candyfloss wrote:
Here is the story......

canada12 wrote:If it is Smithman, Kate and Gerry won't be pleased - considering how much time and effort has been spent trying to discredit the Smith family, who are, after all, the source of the Smithman sighting. They tried to hide the e-fits. The e-fits show a remarkable likeness to Gerry. Gerry carried Sean off the plane in the same way that the Smiths described the person they saw carrying the little girl (the coincidence is what jogged th Smiths' memories). Smithman has never come forward to identify himself, in spite of masses of publicity.

One might suggest that, having eliminated absolutely every other possibility, OG has come down to this final solid lead after keeping it on the back burner throughout the investigation. I don't believe it was forgotten about at all, nor do I believe it's a last throw of the dice. I believe the dice were always there, waiting in the wings.

And we can't forget that the Smiths have been available, as witnesses, from the start, and we have no idea whether the police have interviewed them again, indepth.

It will be interesting to find out (if we find out) whether it is Smithman. I personally hope that it is, and that OG has much more information than they're releasing publicly. If anything is likely to make Kate and Gerry nervous it will be Smithman. Publicly, they should embrace the sighting enthusiastically, because it backs up their argument that Madeleine was abducted and should, if it was anyone but Gerry or another Tapas member, provide a concrete lead. Privately, they could be sh*tting bricks.

Bampots wrote:Or perhaps justice implied? Which of course is no justice!

It's the way things have been evolving.....toy car=we know what happened.....overweight bin=we know what happened!!

Dee Coy wrote:

Ok, so it finally boils down to Smithman, who is not a new lead at all, but has been pivotal from day 1.

Dee Coy wrote:Bampots, what is toy car and overweight bin? Have I missed something?

Freedom wrote:

Dee Coy wrote:Bampots, what is toy car and overweight bin? Have I missed something?

He's referring to the Ben Needham and Corrie McKeague cases respectively.

niklasericson wrote:The money keeps rolling in.
I seriously start to believe that the McCann's have catches on people in the establishment.

Andrew wrote:http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/andrew-castle/money-on-madeleine-mccann-is-money-well-spent/

Andrew: Money On Madeleine McCann Is Money Well Spent

I didn't say that.

Andrew wrote:http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/andrew-castle/money-on-madeleine-mccann-is-money-well-spent/

Andrew: Money On Madeleine McCann Is Money Well Spent

I didn't say that.

unreorganised wrote:

Dee Coy wrote:

Ok, so it finally boils down to Smithman, who is not a new lead at all, but has been pivotal from day 1.

FWIW, I never thought that the e-fit that is often claimed to do so particularly resembled GM. The pair of them do, however, resemble the Podestas. Now we are not privy to what Exton was playing at. He could have just been taking the piss. Can you dismiss an e-fit without dismissing the underlying witness testimony? Maybe the reason the e-fits were sat upon were because they weren't actually what the Smiths drew up - they were completely fabricated? It always troubled me that, having previously ID'd GM, Martin Smith would be involved in cooking up an e-fit that didn't look exactly like him - if it was me, I would just say, well, print out a picture of Gerry McCann.