It's not about the money, money, money...

28 April, 2015 - Statement from Gerry and Kate Regarding Libel Case

"We want to emphasise that the action was never about money. It has always been focused on the effects of the libels on our other children and the damage that was done to the search for Madeleine."

Ah, noble words indeed from Mr and Mrs Parent 2007. So why then, are the gruesome twosome, claiming that they're "delighted" with the outcome, given that the judge ruled that no damage had been caused by Goncalo Amaral, to any of the McCann children, that he didn't hinder the investigation, and that no child suffered in any way due to his actions?

With regards to the McCann's three children, this is what the parents set out to get from Goncalo Amaral:

I-Payment to each of them of damages with a global value not inferior to 1.2 million Euros , being 500.000 Euros to the 3rd applicant (MBM), 100.000 Euros each for the 4th (SMM) and 5th (AEM) applicants.

A total of 700,000 Euros.

The following figure is what they were awarded:

0 Euros.

In fact the only people to be awarded anything in this case, pending Goncalo Amaral's appeal, on paper for the moment, is Kate and Gerry McCann.

Put simply like this, it is the children who have lost, and the parents who have won. Much the same as it was almost 8 years to the day. The twins lost their sister, and Madeleine Beth McCann, in all probability lost her life, and in almost mirror fashion, we have the parents claiming that they're delighted, just as their faces showed back in 2007 when they were pictured laughing and joking only days after Madeleine was reported missing.

But back to the present day.

The Judge ruled that the book was factual, so all you pros can quit with the "Amaral lied" bullshit, he didn't. The only liars are those who state that Goncalo lied.

"Point I – The book is reporting facts that were present in the investigation and there is nothing new there and can, in fact, be confirmed in the report of Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida (n9) and was pursued in the investigation process (ns 10 and 11), resulting in the constitution of Arguidos of the applicants and this was presented to the media and to the general public through the publication of the copy of the Investigation. (n 65 and 66)"

The only reason it is to be banned again, is because the judge ruled the the McCanns had a right to be presumed innocent, and there my friends, is the key word, PRESUMED. Nowhere in the summary does it say that Kate and Gerry were innocent. Nowhere does it say that it is proven that anyone other than the McCanns harmed Madeleine, and concealed both her death, and her body.

Yet still the McCann's are delighted.

The only thing the McCanns can take from this is some money, which according to them it was never about, and the knowledge that a book never published in English, will be banned.

Of course the vast majority of Portuguese people don't believe the McCanns for one second. As can be seen in the video, their own lawyer, Isabel Duarte admitted the following:

"I feel alone, because I don't feel support, er, not in public opinion, erm, I have friends that don't want to talk to me about the case................because everyone believes in Goncalo Amaral"

Well Isabel let me tell you a little story about what happens when things are banned, they become far mightier than when they were freely available, people want to see what they are being told they can't.

And people will read:

http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/maddie-truth-of-lie.html

They will watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZdDTsFC2g

And Goncalo Amaral will have more support than ever before.

To coin a famous movie quote:

"If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"

So Kate and Gerry, still feeling victorious?

Or are you secretly wishing you'd never started a contest, that no matter what, you will never win.

The plot thickens - Isabel Duarte gets inside information

Yesterday, 28th April 2015, the media reported that the McCanns had been awarded varying figures from the damages trial they instigated against Goncalo Amaral. We were very sceptical as to whether the news was genuine, or whether it was simply more dirty tricks from team McCann, the like of which we saw on January 21st 2015, when someone, rumoured to be Isabel Duarte, the McCann's lawyer, told the Lusa News Agency that the McCann's had won the trial against Goncalo.

For those of you who don't know what the Lusa News Agency is, it is basically a 51% state owned organization, that gathers reports and articles, press and news companies can then access this information, and use it to publish news through their outlets. As Sky News and various others did yesterday.

What took us all by surprise as events unfolded, was that the press were getting these stories before Goncalo's legal team were. This just didn't make sense at all The verdict was always supposed to be sent to both parties in writing.

So why didn't Goncalo's team have the documentation?

The answer to that is quite astonishing.

Isabel Duarte got her hands on the document before it passed through Citius, the judicial network, she then passed it on to several journalists.

The documentation that she was passing round yesterday, bore no official authentication. It couldn't possibly have done, as it hadn't passed through the full legal process.

http://www.eliphashardi.eu/

We will update this blog for you to judge for yourselves, just as soon as we have more information.

Some big questions remain though.

How was confidential information leaked to Isabel Duarte?

Did Isabel Duarte obtain these documents illegally?

Has Isabel Duarte breached legal protocol by passing unofficial documentation onto the press?

and most importantly, could this jeopardise the entire verdict?

Centre of a judicial storm, Isabel Duarte (above) 

One thing is for sure it opens the door for an official complaint from Goncalo Amaral's legal team, who yesterday couldn't publicly comment to the many calls from the media, as they didn't have any information with which to do so. 

More to follow..............

Some of the crowd are on the pitch.

Eight years to the day the McCanns embarked on a fateful trip to Portugal. A trip that would begin with a family of five going on holiday, and a family of four returning. So how would you expect the McCanns to be feeling today?

Distraught perhaps, that no matter which way you look at this, their actions led to the disappearance of their own daughter?

Guess again.

"The McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, said they are "delighted" with the judge's verdict."

The above quote was from today.

DELIGHTED!!!

How in the name of God, could any parent be feeling delighted with ANY news on today of all days?

Despite Miguel Cruz Rodrigues, the McCann's lawyer, not being given any confirmation of the verdict, it would appear that the McCanns have been awarded a sum of money. Not the full amount by a long shot, although that won't stop the disgraceful duo claiming they have won.

Of course Goncalo Amaral will have the right to appeal, in which case Kate and Gerry wouldn't receive a penny, until the outcome of  that trial is decided, and who knows what a trial at another court could bring. Let us not forget, the McCanns succeeded in getting Amaral's book, and documentary banned once before, only for the Supreme Court to over rule the ban.

But, let us not detract from what shall be known from this day forth as Kate and Gerry Day, a day that shall be remembered in McCann history as the moment the odious couple were "delighted"

"Some of the crowd are on the pitch, they think it's all over............"

Not yet!

Reliable dogs - written by Syn0nymph

Written by Syn0nymph

Cadaver are dogs unreliable eh Gerry? You may want to rethink that....

Judge rules that cadaver evidence IS relevant and admissible in missing Amir Jennings case 

http://t.co/g3ls4SWo

Sounds familiar, cadaver dogs smell death, witness sees man carrying child

http://t.co/bfmkYAX9

http://t.co/AeNMTGYX

Yet more cadaver success puts killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog behind bars 

http://t.co/CU1pvsaK

Cadaver Dogs Help Solve Cold Case. Two cadaver dogs alert in same place.. again 

http://t.co/G7qwapHB

In the Hadden clark case, Cadaver dog Dan alerted in Jan 1993 and Panzer alerted in Sept 95.

Two more murderers behind bars thanks to Eddie & Keela and Morse

http://t.co/OEPeO7lu

and Adrian Prout rotting in a jail thanks to yet another EVRD

http://t.co/252wfWC6

And thanks to Buster Suzanne Pilley's murderer is behind bars

http://t.co/wz7bpnn0

and yet another case where if it was not for EVRD dogs, Megan Sharpton would not have been found http://t.co/vWVOEVYj

Canine expert testifed on cadaver scent in Bianca Jones case

http://t.co/lXeZGotD 

And of course her father D'Andre Lane was found guilty of her murder. Cadaver scent detected by Morse, trained by, wait for it, Martin Grime who was the handler for the dogs on the McCann case!

Then we have the Tia Sharp case where her body was moved and dogs were not put in the attic as they struggle to walk on joists

http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/…/story-1737…/story.html 

Despite this a dog alerted towards the ceiling but his handler ignored it and was reprimanded for doing so when 2 days later when dogs were brought in again dogs again they alerted and the poor girl was eventually found. Human error prevented her being found earlier. Dogs did their job, humans failed

And lastly poor April Jones. A man is being held and charged with her murder based on the findings of cadaver dogs.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/jj0emm

Not so unreliable after all.

Pandering police forces, visions and Jammie Dodgers

Leicestershire Police Force should hang there heads in shame. The manner in which they have pandered to the McCann's and the tapas 7 is nothing short of disgraceful. They have laughed and joked during questioning of the friends, whilst discussing important issues such as whether Jane "more stories than jackanory" Tanner would like jammie dodgers with her cup of tea, and "trying not to giggle" whilst interviewing Fiona Payne when she mentions that Jane Tanner left the table to "relieve Russell"

On the 16th May 2007 Katherine Gaspar made a statement to the Leicestershire Police force which raised some very serious concerns about David Payne who had organised the holiday to Praia da Luz with the McCanns and the rest of the friends more commonly known as the "tapas 9". In September 2005 Katherine Gaspar and her husband Savio holidayed in Majorca with the McCanns, David and Fiona Payne, and their respective children. Here are the most worrying quotes from that statement:

"I was sitting between Gerry and Dave and I think both were talking about Madeleine. I can’t remember the conversation in its entirety, but they seemed to be discussing a particular scenario. I remember Dave saying to Gerry something about ‘she’, meaning Madeleine, ‘would do this’.While he mentioned the word ‘this’, Dave was doing the action of sucking one of his fingers, pushing it in and out of his mouth, while with his other hand he was doing a circle around his nipple, with a circular movement around his clothes. This was done in a provocative way. There seemed to be an explicit insinuation about what he was saying and doing. I remember being shocked by that. I always felt it was something very weird and that it was not something anyone should say or do."

“I remember thinking whether he would look at my daughter and other little girls in a different way than I or others do. I imagined that he had perhaps visited internet sites related to little children. In a word, I thought that he could be interested in child pornography on the web. During our holiday in Majorca, each parent would bath the children in turn. I was keen to stay near the bathroom if Dave was bathing the children. I remember I said to Savio to be careful and to be close by if Dave was helping to bathe the children and my daughter in particular. I did this [stay hear the bathroom if Dave was bathing the children] quite obviously because hearing what he said had troubled me and I didn’t trust him bathing ‘A’ [our first child]. When I heard Dave say this for the second time, it reinforced what I had already been thinking concerning his thoughts about little girls."

Alarmingly this statement was hidden from the PJ for a total of 6 months, much to the concern of the Gaspars, by the time the PJ got hold of the statement Goncalo Amaral had already been removed from the case. Surely this was vital information that could have helped build a better picture of the sort of people the McCanns were in the company of, so why would the LP suppress it, particularly after other concerns raised by Yvonne Martin who had worked for 25 years in the area of child protection? Yvonne Martin concluded that she had seen David Payne in the course of her professional activity in child protection, not being able to discern if he was a suspect/arguido or witness.

On the flip side of the coin the LP made the most ludicrous request of the PJ. On May 8th 2007 Kate McCann spoke to D.C. 975 Markley of Leicestershire Constabulary, regarding a "vision" a friend of her Aunties had. This "vision" was about Madeleine being on a yacht. Markley wrote the following on a spare sheet of LC paper headed 'LEICESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY:

Continuation WITNESS STATEMENT,' the following:
INFORMATION FROM THE FAMILY

I spoke to Kate McCann on Tuesday 8th of May 07. She told me that a friend of her Aunt & Uncle from Leicester had a friend that had a strong vision that Madeleine was on a boat with a man in the Marina in Lagos.

This person arrived in Portugal and has spoke to Kate. They have visited the Marina and identified the boat as "SHEARWATER". They saw a man on the boat but this was not the same man that she had in her vision.

This is very important to Kate. I spoke to Glen Pounder if he could make some enqs with regards to the boat.

He has done this and the boat is registered to a Canadian National called Bruce Cook. Glen has told me that George Reyes at the police stn is now dealing with the matter with regards to doing PNC checks etc.

I spoke with Kate today and she has given me photographs of the boat. She has also given me a photograph of a man who had been on the boat. This is not the man that the woman had in her vision.

This matter is very important to her and she is very pleased that we are making enqs into the matter.

Once the enqs have been completed can we please let her know the result.

Thanks

The letter is then signed by DC Markley. An international letter of request to the PJ asking them to investigate this lead was then sent, all upon the basis of a vision, not a witness statement but a vision!!!! You couldn't make it up.

But it get's worse.........

The PJ requested that the Leicestershire Police Force interview the tapas 7, and send them a list of questions they would like to be asked. All the statements are viewable by searching "McCannfiles rogatory statements" on your web browser. Have a read through them and you will see what I mean by pathetic pandering. Yes the questions were asked, and the motions gone through, but make no mistake this was all that happened. There was no hard line follow up questions, no pressure applied, even when the replies were so obviously ones of guilt or of a person who knew more than they wanted to let on the Police simply moved on, even in some instances changing the subject. Here's an example:

1485 ”What about a kit bag? Would they have a kit bag with them?”

Reply ”Err he certainly didn’t have a great big tennis bag or a, you know, err I mean I used to be a squash, a semi-professional squash player and you know they certainly didn’t have anything that I would call a kit bag from days when I played…”

1485 ”Yeah.”

Reply ”You know, a lot of sport, err if they had a rucksack with some water in that would be, you know, about as big as it got, you know a small rucksack. But it certainly wasn’t a big tennis, you know, things that you could put a tennis racquet in.”

1485 ”Yeah.”

Reply ”There was nothing of that size that you could hide a, a tennis racquet in or anything like that, it would have been just purely, if they had anything…”

1485 ”Yeah.”

Reply ”It would have been something that had their water in.”

1485 ”So as opposed to a bag it’d be something like a rucksack, if at all?”
Reply ”If, if at all, yeah.”

1485 ”Yeah.”

Reply ”Yeah.”

1485 ”And is that the same for Kate?”

Reply ”Yeah, yeah.”

1485 ”You mentioned early on, on the last interview as well, about a photo. You spoke brief about a photo you’d shown, you’d shown a photo.”

.........and so the subject is changed

Clearly David Payne has dropped himself right in the clart with his replies to this line of questioning, but instead of pushing him further into saying something incriminating, he was steered away from doing so.

There are many instances of this throughout all the statements. The Leicestershire Police even put a link to the McCanns page on their own website so anybody with information could contact them. These people were suspected of being complicit in the disappearance of their daughter, and yet our police were encouraging people to contact the McCanns with information, they even took them flowers!!!

Instead of covering for the McCanns, instead of treating the witnesses with kid gloves and instead suppressing evidence whilst pandering to the McCanns ridiculous whims why weren't Leicestershire Police doing what a police force should be doing? Is it to much to ask for a Police force to be seen to do it's job properly? No stone unturned? You're having a laugh!!

What's this about a football match Jane?

According to the police statements and the timeline created by Russell O'Brien, Gerry McCann left the table to check on Madeleine and the twins at 9:10pm on the 3rd May 2007. Jane Tanner left the table at 9:15pm and saw Gerry talking to Jez Wilkins on the street outside the McCanns apartment, 5a at 9:20pm. Nothing untoward about that version of events, even if it did take two attempts to draw up the timeline torn from the pages of Madeleine's sticker book. However, in a cutting edge documentary, Jane and Gerry have a discussion during which Jane talks about seeing Gerry on the street talking to Jez Wilkins:

"If you'd have been looking at me, coz I would have said something, coz Kate had been moaning that you'd been gone a long time watching the football"

Whoa, hold up! What football? There's no mention in the statements of Gerry being away watching football. 

Gerry doesn't even query this claim by Jane. What bothers me about this though, is that if Gerry did, as he says, leave the table at 9:10pm and Jane left at 9:15 that only leaves 5 minutes. The walk to the apartments takes approximately 2 minutes at a steady pace, that's 4 minutes there and back, 5 minutes if you allow a minute to check on the children. It's hardly long enough for Kate to be complaining that Gerry had been gone a long time watching the football. Although Russell O'Brien and Matt Oldfield did checks at 9:30 and 9:35 respectively, neither of them can confirm they actually saw Madeleine, which places Gerry, on record at least, as the last person to see Madeleine, and now it would seem away from the table for some time, and with no alibi for any more than 2 minutes, when Jez Wilkins and Jane Tanner saw him.

Another area for concern, is that during the cutting edge documentary, Gerry tries to contradict Jane and Jez's version of exactly where the conversation between himself and Jez took place. Gerry claims that he crossed the road to talk to Jez. whilst Jane is adamant this isn't true, she believes she saw Gerry on the same side of the road as apartment 5a. We know that Eddie, the cadaver dog, alerted to a light scent in the flower bed outside 5a, we also know Keela did not which strongly suggests that a human corpse was briefly placed in the flower bed. Almost as if it was in the process of being moved and had to be laid down temporarily. What could cause somebody to lay a dead body down outside the apartment it came from? Could it be the perpetrator was disturbed whilst moving the corpse, perhaps by somebody they knew? An abductor, surely would have hurried past a stranger in the street, much like the man Martin Smith saw did. If however Gerry was in the process of moving Madeleine, and he had spotted someone he knew walking towards him, he may well have laid Madeleine down out of sight, in the flower bed until the coast was clear. 

Cut the crap Coleman

Currently doing the rounds is a blog entitled RIP Madeleine. When we think of the abbreviation RIP, it evokes thoughts of respect, something the Coleman blog lacks in abundance. What is plainly obvious from the outset is that this is just another sensationalist, written by someone too lazy to research the case fully, or worse someone who thrives off putting totally untrue information into the public domain.

The blog states as fact that Madeleine was "brutally raped and tortured in a bloody Satanic ritual"

UTTER BOLLOCKS

...and here's why. It all boils down to this, the person who wrote the blog has based their "findings" upon fictitious "evidence" and on doing so has merely contributed to the mass of lies circulating the internet about the case. Let's look at some of the claims this blog makes:

"Her death was the culmination of many months of horrific, sadistic abuse."

"She was being raped regularly by several members of a high-level paedophile ring and her abuse was being shared with many on the internet."

If indeed that was the case, then why do we see photographs of a happy Madeleine, a child who plays with a wide smile, playing happily? Hardly fits the bill of a child regularly abused, and tortured. Not only that, but if this blogger, had any evidence of abuse being shared on the internet, why simply state it, why not name and shame the sites that were showing it? Why?

 Because Billy Blogger is the bringer of bullshit!

The lies continue as old Billy lists his reasons for his outlandish and sick claims, here are some of those claims:

"That’s why Gerry stated so clearly on video that he was not in Praia de Luz for a holiday."

Gerry McCann didn't state that at all, what he actually said was "Fuck off, do you think I'm here to enjoy myself"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUcVncYr6xc

Crass? Yes. Inappropriate? Undoubtedly. A clue that he intended to partake in the Satanic abuse and murder of his daughter? Only if you live on planet Zog!

"That’s why Dr David Payne spoke so graphically about his sexual feelings towards Madeleine."

Make your own mind up about this one,  what Billy is referring to is a statement from Katherina Gaspar, who on a previous holiday, overheard a conversation between Gerry and David Payne,  in which she believes Payne was making a sexual gesture. No names were mentioned, and she didn't think to mention it until years later. Without doubt it should be investigated, but to cite the Gaspar statement as proof, is disingenuous. 

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/Gaspar.htm

"That’s why Gerry’s paedophile past was wiped from the CATS sex-abuse register."

Where's that brick wall? This claim is not only untrue, but it couldn't be true. There is no such thing as a CATS sex abuse register. The CATS system, or Case Administration Tracking System, was set up as a one stop shop for all cases regarding crimes involving children. It was a location that all agencies involved in the case could pool their investigations, so all parties could sing from the same hymn sheet. 

http://www.wpcsoft.com/products/cats.aspx

Both Kate and Gerry McCann's name was on this file, that was opened in 2007, it is not the sex offenders register.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MCCANNS_BACKGROUND.htm

Now if Billy Blogger had done his research he could have questioned why Jim Gamble, former head of CEOP denies the file ever existed, despite proof to the contrary, but no, he simply lies to thousands, and calls it the sex abuse register. Smart!

"That’s why Clarence Mitchell, who had already covered-up Jill Dando’s murder, was called in to cover-up Madeleine’s."

Now Clarence "Porky Pie" Mitchell, is without doubt a dirty, cash for lies, piece of shit. He told countless lies as PR spokesman for the McCanns, he worked for the government as head of media monitoring, but did he cover up the Jill Dando murder? Hardly, he didn't even work for the Government at the time of Jill Dando's death, he was a journalist. Yes he covered the case, but so did many others. Billy is just making the facts suit his agenda here.

"That’s why Gerry and many of his friends were allowed to escape, scot-free, from Operation Ore when police were about to expose high-ranking, child-raping scum."

Here we go again, there are many rumours that Tony Blair slapped a D notice on findings from Operation Ore when the investigation uncovered many of his Government colleagues. Do I believe it? Yes I do, it's totally feasible, but our super reliable Billy, is just throwing Gerry McCann in there to further his crazy claims. I have NEVER seen McCann's name linked to Operation Ore. 

"That’s why everybody gathered at Mark Warner’s to have their pick of young children to rape and also to witness the death of Madeleine."

"Everybody", who is everybody? Where are these other children that were "raped", the resort was full of young children, there isn't a scrap of evidence, not even a whisper to suggest any other children came to any harm. 

"That’s why highly trained sniffer dogs, Eddie and Keeler, picked up the scent of Madeleine’s blood in 10 locations."

What a crock of shit, Eddie and KEELA, (Billy is so aware of their work, he can't even get Keela's name right) did alert, and their alerts would prove to be the crux of the investigation, but 10 alerts to Madeleine's blood? Billy is either totally misinformed or has made this up. Eddie's alerts are pretty damning, especially toward Kate McCann. He was trained to alert to the scent of human blood, and human cadaver, (the scent of a dead body) Keela was trained to alert to human blood only. Both dogs alerted to areas within the McCann's apartment, there was however no blood traces found that could be directly linked to Madeleine. It would be very easy to say, "Keela alerted, that must be Madeleine's blood", but it is simply unfounded. The alerts to concentrate on are Eddie's. He alerted to the scent of cadaver on Kate McCann's trousers, her top, a T-shirt said to belong to Madeleine, the flower bed outside. These alerts, weren't corroborated by the blood only dog, therefore it is a safe bet that by ruling out blood, that Kate McCann had been in direct contact with a human corpse. Only one person was missing, you do the maths. Here is a list of where the dogs alerted:

Keela alerted to human blood in:

The living room, behind the sofa, close to the external window of the apartment.
In the McCanns’ hired Renault Scenic, hired 25 days AFTER Madeleine's disappearance.
On the car key.
In the interior of the car boot.

Eddie alerted to the scent of human cadaverine:

The wardrobe in the McCann's bedroom.
In the living room, behind the sofa, close to the external window of the apartment. (the same place as Keela).
The veranda of 5a.
In the garden of the apartment.
The flower beds in the back of 5a.
The steps leading down from the patio.
Also, a ‘lighter’ scent of death was found in the flower beds in the back yard, near the foot of the steps leading down from the patio.
On two items of Kate's clothing.
On a T shirt belonging to Madeleine.
On cuddlecat (Madeleine's soft toy)
Not only that, but out of several cars in a car park Eddie only alerted to one, the McCanns' hire car.

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id161.html

"That’s why Madeleine was also raped after her death ( necrophilia- just like Jimmy Savile )."

Where the hell does Billy pluck this one from? Totally baseless, unsubstantiated, disrespectful BULLSHIT!

"That’s why a photo of a dead Madeleine was posted around the world."

Which world was that then? certainly not earth, where the rest of the human race live.

"That’s why a clue was deliberately left , hidden in plain sight , for us by pretending to call Madeleine, Maddie ( anagram :I’M DEAD)."

A clue? The only clue posting that gave us is that the person, (Billy Bullshit), who posted this blog is a desperate fantasist. The stuff he has posted as fact, simply isn't, his theory has more holes than a sieve. It's not even as theory, not one iota of it is fact. 

Gerry McCann once said:

"And, in fact, one of the slight positives in all of this is that there is so much rumour about what did and didn't happen, it's actually very difficult, if you're reading the newspapers, watching TV, to know what is true and what's not." 

I Put it to Billy, that the purpose of his blog is to set as many people as possible off on a wild goose chase. Sensationalism sells, it's easier to digest than facts, you only have to look at the MSM to see that.

Do I think the McCann's murdered their daughter as described by Billy? Absolutely not.

Do I think they covered her death up? Yes. 100% 

Do I know what is fact and what is fiction? Yes.

Where did I find out the facts?

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/

Where did I find out more?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JusticeForMadeleine/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheMadeleineMcCannControversy/?fref=ts

http://textusa.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/

What's this waffle of whooshing?

During an interview in 2008, Kate McCann entered herself into the running for best actress in a documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhACS6ck-Dw

“I did my check about ten o’clock and went in through the sliding patio doors, and I just stood actually, and I thought, uh, all quiet. And to be honest, I might have been tempted to turn round then, but I just noticed that the door, the bedroom door where the three children were sleeping, was open much further than we’d left it. I went to close it to about here, and then as I got to here, it suddenly . . . slammed, and as I opened it, it was then, that I just thought I’ll just look at the children. I see Sean and Amelie in the cot . . . .I was looking at Madeleine’s bed which is here, and it was dark and I was looking and I was thinking is that, is that Madeleine or is that the bedding and I couldn't quite make her out, and it sounds really stupid now, but at the time I was just thinking I didn’t want to put the light on because I didn't want to wake them, and literally as I went back in, the curtains of the bedroom which were drawn, [demonstrates with both forearms together] that were closed.........whooosh’ like a gust of wind kind of blew them open, and cuddle cat was still there, and the pink blanket was still there. I knew straight away that, err, she’d been . . . taken, yer know.”

Ok so let's take a look at this fantasy of Kate's, because if that's the truth then Pam Gurney isn't on twitter, and the earth is flat.

Why did Kate even bother to walk all that distance if she wasn't going to follow up her check? It beggars belief that she would merely stand and not check in the room, and that her only reason for investigating further was 

"the bedroom door where the three children were sleeping, was open much further than we’d left it."

I'm assuming by "we" she means her and her lousy excuse of a man Gerry. So why would that be odd? both Gerry and Matt Oldfield had checked on Madeleine earlier in the evening, Kate would surely have remembered Gerry's check as Jane Tanner stated, when discussing Gerry's check at 9:05..... 

"Kate had been moaning that you'd been gone a long time watching the football"

Moving onto the next oddity, and this one is a classic. The whooshing of the curtains. Kate clearly demonstrates with both arms how both curtains were drawn and then.......

"whooosh, like a gust of wind kind of blew THEM open" 

The weather was checked that evening, it was mild with a gentle breeze (14.4 kmph at 10pm to be precise) which wouldn't be enough to blow out the candles on a birthday cake, let alone force one of them out from behind the bed it is clearly tucked behind, and replace it before the police arrived and took photographs that evening. It just isn't possible, not only that but Kate failed to mention any of the above in her police statement.

Finally the last section.....

"cuddle cat was still there"

......so not on the imaginary shelf Kate told the PJ she found it on, which created the scenario of an adult intruder having placed it there. As for that pink blanket on Madeleine's bed, what ever happened to that? Kate seems a little confused in the above interview she say's.....

"and the pink blanket was still there."

......however during an interview with Oprah Winfrey Kate states........

"I hope that whoever has her gives her her blanket, I hope that whoever has her is keeping her warm"

What blanket would that be then Kate, the one you never reported missing, the one we can see in the photographs still on Madeleine's bed after she was reported missing, the one the GNR tracker dogs used to attempt to track Madeleine's scent, the one that Goncalo Amaral was desperate to locate after it mysteriously disappeared in the days after you reported Madeleine missing, the same blanket that fibres found in the back of the McCann's hire car were linked to it, the very same blanket Goncalo suspected to have been used to wrap Madeleine's body in? Whatever it was used, for it is no longer anywhere to be found, neither is Madeleine, and the one thing that links those two losses is Kate McCann.

Gordon Brown comes to town

Much has been said about the influence Gordon Brown had upon the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine Mccann. Certainly the political intervention in this case was something the like of which had never been seen before. 

In her diary, Kate McCann wrote:

"WEDNESDAY, MAY 23: Gordon Brown (then Chancellor and PM in waiting) called and spoke with Gerry -very kind and giving encouragement.

Feeling a bit emotional afterwards."

On the 27th May 2007, and with the original source being the Guardian, Brendan de Beer wrote:

"Gordon Brown has personally intervened in the search for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann after her parents became frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation.

After a series of telephone conversations with Madeleine's father, Gerry McCann, in recent days, the Chancellor requested assistance from the Foreign Office and the Home Office. He asked that pressure be brought to bear on the Portuguese authorities to allow more information about the inquiry to be made public.

Gerry and his wife, Kate, have been desperate for a description of a man seen carrying what appears to have been a child on 3 May to be made public, but Portuguese police refused for three weeks because of the country's laws, which forbid the details of an investigation being released.

The Observer understands that Brown gave the McCanns an assurance he would do 'anything he can' to help. The British embassy duly applied pressure on the Portuguese authorities to find more flexibility in their secrecy laws. British ambassador John Buck visited the Algarve last Thursday. A day later Portuguese police made a U-turn and issued a detailed description of the man, said to be white, 35 to 40, 5ft 10in and of medium build, with hair longer around the neck, wearing a dark jacket, light beige trousers and dark shoes.

Asked whether Brown had influenced the decision, Clarence Mitchell, a Foreign Office spokesman for the McCann family in the Algarve, said: 'Draw your own conclusions.' He said in a statement: 'I can confirm that telephone conversations have taken place between Gerry McCann and Chancellor Gordon Brown. During them, Mr Brown offered both Gerry and Kate his full support in their efforts to find Madeleine, although details of the conversations will remain private.''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhACS6ck-Dw
This efit was of course the man Jane Tanner saw, that sighting eventually amounted to nothing. I find it very strange the McCanns didn't push the Smith sighting with such vigour, but then from all of Tanners many descriptions, none looked like Gerry.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=636841639696920&set=gm.588012627961482&type=1

Clarence Mitchell of course denied that any political pressure was being applied on the investigation. In an interview with the very likeable Sandra Felgueiras, Mitchell was adamant that no political interference was taking place. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiQDtMefnZM&feature=youtu.be

A rather odd comment to make considering it was Mitchell himself who was sent by the British Foreign office, and who was directly accused of hindering the police investigation. Carlos Anjos, head of the Portuguese police federation said of Mitchell:

"Mr Mitchell wants to discredit the Policia Judiciaria and invent excuses so the McCanns do not come to Portugal to participate in the reconstruction of the night she disappeared."

"He lies with as many teeth as he has in his mouth. Finally we know what side truth is on."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-559675/Portuguese-police-accuse-McCanns-spokesman-Clarence-Mitchell-lying-teeth.html

As can be seen here, Clarence with his usual smugness, claims that it was him who was responsible for Gordon Brown contacting the McCanns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNXqChAVCkY&feature=youtu.be

Of course here we have a conundrum, as Jill Renwick, a friend of the McCanns, and also one of the first people the couple phoned with the false tale of the "broken" shutters, claims that she asked John Brown, the brother of Gordon to ask the PM in waiting for his help:

"I stopped him (John Brown) in the street the day afterwards and said, 'These are my friends. Do you think you could speak to Gordon about it?' And he said of course. I don't know if anything came about that way."

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/02/ukcrime.comment

What was blatantly obvious though was that Gordon Brown was firmly on the side of the McCanns. He made the following statement that said as much:


"Every parent will be sympathising in their hour of need."


Goncalo Amaral had this to say about the political intervention:


“I don’t regret what I did, I did it with conviction, I did it to defend the investigation model, what a criminal investigation is supposed to be. Earlier, you spoke about the politically correct, the politically correct policeman. It is my understanding that criminal investigations cannot be politically correct, because they can’t be concerned with politics. And what happened, and continues to happen, is that we have to be politically correct, subordinate to the English power. That happens, it happened on the 2nd of October [of 2007] at the Lisbon Treaty, there were discussions between José Sócrates, then prime minister, and Gordon Brown, the English prime minister, who told the newspapers that he had asked the Portuguese prime minister about the [Maddie] case. So even before that it was already a political case. And when politics intrude into a criminal investigation, nothing will end well, whether the criminal investigation relates to a homicide, a burglary, a disappearance, or corruption.”

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/press/83march14/portocanal_14_03_2014.htm


Relationships appeared to turn sour though, when in an article published by The Daily Mirror, dated Saturday the 20th February, it was reported that:


Kate and Gerry McCann yesterday accused the British Government of hampering the search for their missing daughter. They claim Portuguese cops have leads to Madeleine's disappearance but they have been unable to access them. The couple say despite meetings with Gordon Brown and top UK officials, the three-year investigation has stalled. And they claim red tape is blocking their own inquiries using private detectives. After their successful attempt to maintain a legal ban on publication of a book which claims Madeleine is dead, Gerry, 41, called for a complete review of the case. He said: "There are certainly instances where information we think is very credible and worthy of further investigation has not been actioned.


It seems Kate and Gerry like to live their lives through the press when it suits, and if you dare to not be bending over backwards for them, they'll let the world know in an attempt to gain yet more sympathy.