my experience of the portuguese police

[Yorkiegirl]

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MrMariella, Yorkiegirl's husband died of a heart attack whilst on holiday in Portugal last August, how come it took the Portuguese police until March this year to send her a letter saying that she had been ruled out as a suspect for murder?

Incompetence of the highest order and unbelievable insensitivity towards a grieving widow

There was a woman on TV this morning who lost her son while on holiday, 16 years ago now, still never found him.

She says she understands the parents backing the police as in her experience the more you critisize the less they are inclined to do.

The same report showed a journalist who had himself spoken to a woman who had seen a ouple tht she suspected but had not been asked for any details or been interviewed in any way. He urged her to report to the police again.

I knew of YG's tragedy.

As a UK force, we will have, and do, commit massive insensitivities of that scale.

again, YG's experience doesn't rule that which I have posted to be invalid.

"She says she understands the parents backing the police as in her experience the more you critisize the less they are inclined to do."

and this is likely to be a UK police response too!! Not just those johnny foreigners!!

what is your take on events, MrMariella? and what would have been done differently if in UK?

whaa?

I've no idea! Very unfair question of me, dinny.

None of us were there. And UK reporting is unreliable, in the extreme.

EVERY invesigation benefits from hindsight. This one no more.

I guess all I'm saying is a thread like this appeals, wrongly, to finger-jabbing, which is grossly mis-placed. That's all.

Yorky, so sorry for what you went through. However, I would imagine we could equally start a thread entitled ?mn?ers experiences of the brittish police?.

I?m sure Sally Clarke?s family do not speak in gushing terms of the Brittish police, or Angela Cannings. And when Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing, it took two weeks before someone was arrested, and before their bodies were discovered, and to my knowledge, they weren?t discovered by the police but by a member of the public. Were the police incompetent then?

Reality is that we don?t actually know how this investigation is being carried out because the Portuguese police aren?t telling. But it suits the media to say that they?re incompetent because they don?t have anything left to write, so they have to write something to keep this in the papers.

If Madeleine Mccann had been found within a day, but the police had still done things in exactly the same way, would the press still be saying they were incompetent? Somehow I don?t think so.