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An hypothesis – fact or thumb suck?
Updated: 17-Aug-2012
There are a few questions that I would like to ask Stephen Birch (Algarve Resident, July 13, Robert Murat to sue South African man for trespassing) and as his Facebook page is open only to friends and those who support him, I thought an open letter was the next best thing. Below are the questions that I put to him:
My first question is, why the rush? Why do you feel the need to make a big public song and dance about your findings. Surely you could have sent the information that you have gained to the MET investigating team and waited. Why the need to publicly pick a fight with Mr Murat and the McCanns?
Have you considered that the Met and the team looking for Madeleine might have more information than you have found in the public files, and that you might very well be muddying waters and hampering an ongoing investigation?
You state that you developed a hypothesis, in which you narrowed down and discarded all non-fitting information to suit that hypothesis. So in plain speak, you decided what happened first, and then using the limited information available to the public, squashed it into a shape to fit your theory?
You only had three suspects, because they were the only ones in the files and discounted all the other residents, holiday makers and transients that were in Praia da Luz on May 3 to come up with your findings. Isn’t that a bit narrow-minded and amateurish? How does this lead to a balanced finding?
Have you considered that if you are wrong, and Madeleine is not there, you have once again taken the public attention away from a findable little girl, by convincing more people that she is dead and there is no need to look for her?
Finally, if you are proven to be mistaken, will you set about with as much enthusiasm to redress the mistake that you have made and promote the fact that Madeleine still remains missing, and that in light of the fact that there is no evidence that she is dead, she is still a findable little girl?
Because that is what is needed here, a diligent member of the public, keeping their eyes open and spotting her.
JACCI RUDLING
Cape Town, South Africa
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