http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/0 ... n.portugal
New details about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are emerging after the publication on Monday of thousands of pages of Portuguese police files. Anil Dawar looks at some of them
Portuguese prosecutors ridiculed detectives investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance for uncovering "very little" conclusive evidence about the child's fate, the newly released files have revealed.
The damning report, made public as part of the massive dossier of evidence assembled over more than 14 months, even compared local investigators unfavourably with Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.
Written by public prosecutors in Portimao and dated July 21 – the day the case was officially shelved – the document said the investigation had not been able to find any proof which would allow "the formulation of any lucid, sensible, serious and honest conclusion" about the circumstances of the girl going missing. It continued: "This includes the most dramatic thing, ascertaining whether she is still alive or dead – or which seems the most probable."
"The investigators are fully conscious that their work is not exempt from imperfections. They worked with an enormous margin of error and they achieved very little in terms of conclusive results, especially about the fate of the unfortunate child.
"This is not, unfortunately, a detective novel, a crime scenario fit for the investigative efforts of a Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, guided by the illusion that the forces of law and justice can always re-establish order."
The 58-page report written by public prosecutors Jose de Magalhaes e Menezes and Joao Melchior Gomes was contained in the final volume of the files released to the media this week.
Prosecutors on McCanns' actions and their treatment by police.
The prosecutors' report said Madeleine's parents did not "act with intent" in leaving their children alone in their holiday apartment the night the child went missing.
"They could not predict that in the resort they chose to spend their holidays they could place the life of any of their children in danger."
They also noted that: "We must also recognise that the parents are paying a heavy penalty — the disappearance of Madeleine — for their carelessness in monitoring and protecting their children.
It went on: "While it is a fact that Madeleine disappeared, the circumstances of how this happened is not known.
"Even if, as a hypothesis, that Gerald and Kate could have been responsible for the death of the child, it would always be left to explain how, where, when, with what means, with whose help they disposed of the body."
It highlighted their "normal behaviour adopted before and after the disappearance."
It said: "In reality, none of the suspicions which led to them being made arguidos came to be confirmed later."
Right Bennett the OFFICIAL FINAL REPORT said the McCanns were not to blame, the FINAL REPORT SAID their behaviour is normal.
SO WHERE ON EARTH DOES IT SAY THE McCANNS KILLED THEIR DAUGHTER?
TAKEN FROM PFA2
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