Vermoedellijk betreft het de Ierse getuige Mr. Smit, die mogelijk toch nog wordt gehoord, eerder gebeurde dat niet omdat de PJ in de verhoor-verzoeken alleen de UK had genoemd en dus niet Ierland.quote:"I was removed because of the direction the investigation was heading"
The former PJ inspector believes he was removed because he didn't wish to abandon the homicide theory. He maintains that Maddie is dead and the only reason there isn't more evidence is because he wasn't allowed to continue to the end of the investigation.
Amaral: We were doing the last diligences related to a very important witness who was coming to Portugal.
Expresso: And the witness came to Portugal?
Amaral: As far as I know, the witness never came.
Expresso: But this was truly an important witness?
Amaral: Very important.
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Expresso: You believe Madeleine is dead?
Amaral: I believe it. That is my conviction.
Expresso: Do you believe that the parents are involved?
Amaral: erm...........
Expresso: Hiding a cadaver?
Amaral: erm....... I can't say anything about this during the secrecy of justice. We can only talk about this when the secrecy is lifted."
Translation by Debk
Note: Tomorrow Expresso will publish the full interview. The book is FINISHED. 200 pages. Ready for publishing "immediately" upon the secrecy being lifted. Also notice Mr. Gonçalo Amaral has a good sense of humour, his already grilling some sardines. Source: Expresso
http://www.telegraph.co.u(...)tish-detectives.htmlquote:McCanns hire new team of British detectives
By Nick Britten
Last Updated: 4:00PM BST 02/07/2008
Gerry and Kate McCann have hired a new team of British detectives after the Spanish firm they employed failed to find Madeleine.
EDDIE MULHOLLAND
Gerry and Kate McCann speaking at the Ocean Club Resort in Portugal the night after Madeleine disappeared
The couple have been paying Spain-based Metodo 3 £50,000 a month for nine months but they have not located Madeleine's whereabouts or found out what has happened to her.
Now it is understood they have been placed in an £8,000 retainer while a new team has been assembled in London, primarily in the hope that the police files into the investigation will be released, giving them new clues to follow up.
The McCanns are expected to have their arguido status lifted in the coming weeks. When it is, their lawyers will demand access to the paperwork.
The files, thought to run to several boxes, will be passed to a team of private detectives to pour through looking for fresh leads. They are believed to contain no theory about what may have happened to the four-year-old, but may well throw up new leads.
Details about the new team, and what they are being paid, are being kept under wraps.
A source close to the McCanns said today: "There is a new team working on it, based primarily in the UK although there are elements working abroad.
"They don't want to be identified for operational reasons. If we get access to any official documentation - either from Portugal or Britain - it will be examined by them.
"Any active leads it is felt the police have not followed up properly or left open-ended, they would move on."
Friends and neighbours of Gerry and Kate McCann this morning vowed to stand by the couple and called for the Portuguese police to “leave them alone”.
After news emerged that Portuguese police are closing their inquiry into Madeleine's death, residents in Rothley, Leics, accused the police of bungling the investigation and called for the couple's status as suspects to be lifted immediately.
Mr McCann, 39, and his 40-year-old wife have been told they will know their fate by the middle of August.
Technically the public prosecutor could still press ahead with a prosecution but in the light of such lack of evidence and the police shelving their investigation it is virtually inconceivable.
Hoi Kahaarin. Ach ach, het is idd nooit om Madeleine gegaan. Ik geloof niet eens dat er nieuwe PI's zijn ingehuurd, misschein eentje of zo, als hulpje, voor Mitchell. Net gelezen, die hearing op 7 juli gaat inderdaad gewoon door zoals ik al dacht:quote:Op vrijdag 4 juli 2008 13:50 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
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http://www.telegraph.co.u(...)tish-detectives.html
Dit is al een ouder artikel, volgens mij al een keertje voorbijgekomen, wat mij hier opvalt is dat de McCanns zich aan het ingraven zijn, de PI's worden uit het voetlicht gehouden en CM spin druipt er van af, als ze geen arguido meer zijn dan gaan ze inzage eisen en natuurlijk mogen de familie en vrienden een duit in het zakje doen.
Maar wederom niets over Madeleine zelf, Metodo3 sucks blijkbaar nu en de Portugezen moeten maar snel de arguido status liften, oh ja, de arme ouders hebben het zwaar en moeten maar snel de dossiers inkijken.......
Dit sluit imho heel mooi aan bij de artikelen die jij aanhaalt Suko, goedemiddag trouwens , modder gooien en straatjes schoonvegen, dat is alles wat we nu zien.
Ik heb wel zin om heel hard te roepen: "HALLOOHOO, ER IS EEN KINDJE WEG!"
Als iedereen alle energie had gestopt in zoeken ipv over en weer met het vingertje te wijzen en de straatjes schoon te vegen dan had het er wellicht heel anders uitgezien nu......
En zoal gezegd, ik geloof er niks van dat ze dit doen om de documenten eerder te mogen inzien, zie mijn eerdere post. Misschien gaan er een paar 3A's naar toe, het is Open Court tenslotte. En verder Expresso Exclusive Interview to Gonçalo Amara, het complete interview dus met hem. Reacties op het 3arguidoforum. Ik moet het allemaal nog lezen.quote:Court 20
Before MRS JUSTICE HOGG
Monday, 7 July, 2008
At 10:30 AM
IN OPEN COURT
FD07P01121 McCann
Applications/Summonses in Court as in Chambers
Zo is dat! Maar uit het originele interview vind ik deze uitspraak van Amaral veel omvattend: "Was the investigation's direction, homicide, disturbing the political power?" This case was more political than a police case.quote:Madeleine McCann: I am convinced she is dead, says former Portuguese police chief
The former Portuguese police chief who led the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has said he is "convinced" she is dead.
Goncalo Amaral said: "I am convinced of it, yes," Mr Amaral, 48, was removed from the case last October after publicly criticising British police.
He said today: "I am not saying that the English police were under the command of the McCanns, but they were influenced, as we were. "In a way, we were all influenced by the campaign that they organised, according to which the girl was alive and had to be found."
Mr Amaral retired earlier this week, saying he wanted to have "freedom of expression" over the case. He described the decision to remove him from the investigation as "unjust and dangerous" and is expected to publish a book as soon as judicial secrecy restrictions are lifted, probably in mid-August.
Portuguese police have already closed their investigation. The final case report has been passed to the Portuguese authorities who are due to review the completed file and decide if further action is required.
Madeleine went missing in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday, from a holiday flat in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant. The McCann family and the British media have strongly criticised the Portuguese judicial police's handling of the investigation and Amaral's lack of communication.
Amaral subsequently claimed that British police had "been investigating leads created and cultivated" by Madeleine's parents and had "forgotten that the couple are suspects in the death of their daughter."
--------------------------------------------quote:Amaral is looking for a British lawyer
The former PJ investigator's legal representative has contacted two British lawyers, to launch a libel suit against several British newspapers. The first lawyer contacted accepted to represent Mr. Gonçalo Amaral but, two weeks after, changed his mind. The same happened with a second lawyer. “I don't know what is going on, over there, but I'm convinced this is not a problem of Democracy. United Kingdom is a democratic country, with democratic laws, so everybody should have its rights (to a legal defence). I don't understand what's going on”, Mr. Amaral told to Lusa News Agency. Bron
Dat is nieuw, twee getuigen. Uhm....Kate en Gerry? Of wederom de Smith-jes uit Ierland, Russel O'Brien en Jane Tanner zouden ook nog kunnen, of twee luitjes die we helemaal over het hoofd hebben gezien... Reacties: SOS Maddie 4/07/08: two crucial witness statements! My woopsquote:Maddie: Investigation contnues and gains new momentum
"Despite all the advances in information media, especially the United Kingdom, the Judicial Police denied that the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann either abandoned or stored, what is confirmed by a source of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) put forward by the existence of two crucial witnesses who have not yet been communicated to the Portuguese authorities.
As a reminder, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and Leicestershire police have cooperated in the investigation of the Portuguese authorities, as was confirmed Patricia Scotland, Minister of State and Attorney General for England and Wales." sosmaddie.dhblogs.be
Ik las het, weet niet goed wat te denken, ik laat het voorlopig wel even allemaal op me af komen, 7 juli is al bijna, dan zal er hopelijk wel het 1 en ander loskomen.quote:Op vrijdag 4 juli 2008 21:36 schreef Suko het volgende:
Dat is schrikken, zelfs de telegraph drukt delen af van het interview met Amaral, (origineel) gosh...voor de rest hult de Britse pers zich in stilzwijgen...
Zo is dat! Maar uit het originele interview vind ik deze uitspraak van Amaral veel omvattend: "Was the investigation's direction, homicide, disturbing the political power?" This case was more political than a police case.
Afijn, ook Amaral gaat (proberen) z'n gram halen, net als voorheen de McCanns (met sukses) en Robert Murat, van deze laatste is nog niet bekend of dat al in gang is gezet.
Dat is nieuw, twee getuigen. Uhm....Kate en Gerry? Of wederom de Smith-jes uit Ierland, Russel O'Brien en Jane Tanner zouden ook nog kunnen, of twee luitjes die we helemaal over het hoofd hebben gezien... Reacties: SOS Maddie 4/07/08: two crucial witness statements! My woops
Kun je wel zeggen Kahaarin, en daar hebben de McCanns zelf de hoofdrollen in én de regie. Maar we zullen zien maandag, Clarence Mitchell, we know about 7 july...quote:Op vrijdag 4 juli 2008 21:52 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
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Ik las het, weet niet goed wat te denken, ik laat het voorlopig wel even allemaal op me af komen, 7 juli is al bijna, dan zal er hopelijk wel het 1 en ander loskomen.
Het wordt nu wel heel surrealistisch en verwarrend, als het een soap was dan zouden we zeggen dat het te ongeloofwaardig was.......
Three arguido's forum for the win! Ik hoop echt op een beetje meer duidelijkheid, ik snap er zo langzamerhand niets meer van.....quote:Op vrijdag 4 juli 2008 22:25 schreef Suko het volgende:
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Kun je wel zeggen Kahaarin, en daar hebben de McCanns zelf de hoofdrollen in én de regie. Maar we zullen zien maandag, Clarence Mitchell, we know about 7 july...
* Reminder:
Court Hearings – Family Division
Court 20
Before MRS JUSTICE HOGG
Monday, 7 July, 2008
At 10:30 AM
IN OPEN COURT
FD07P01121 McCann
Applications/Summonses in Court as in Chambers
Vermoedelijk zal de uitkomst niet direct bekend worden, en mogelijk niet eens openbaar gemaakt. Maar we zullen zien, hier en daar zijn er slimmerds met een missie, ook die vlakbij Londen wonen...
Nee maar dat geeft niet Kahaarin, alleen ongeduldige mensen lossen vaak de zaken op...quote:Op vrijdag 4 juli 2008 22:33 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
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Three arguido's forum for the win! Ik hoop echt op een beetje meer duidelijkheid, ik snap er zo langzamerhand niets meer van.....
Wel inzage, geen inzage. Wel bewijs, geen bewijs. Wel een aanklacht, geen aanklacht......
Afwachten is niet mijn sterkste kant, misschien was je dat al opgevallen.......
Whahahahaha.....! Iedereen heeft inmiddels al het geduld verloren, me to. Maar het is zo lullig zomaar halverwege af te haken, en die McCann-zooi niet meer lastig te vallen met mogelijke lastige forum- en blogberichten. Wel is het zo dat als er lange eindeloze rechtszaken komen ik ook vaarwel zeg, net als vele anderen, mogelijk wordt dan ook het 3arguidoforum e.d. opgeheven want daar zit niemand op te wachten. Geen zin ook in het wederom afkraken van weer een sighting, dat is inmiddels al tig keer gedaan, of gewoon hen afkraken, hoe terecht ook, het wordt zo eentonig en levert geen nieuws op. Ik geef het de tijd als er toch documenten vrijkomen, mogelijk alleen via de Portugese pers, want de McCanns zullen echt alles doen om publicaties te voorkomen. Het moet maar eens afgelopen zijn vind ik. Justice for Madeleine zal misschien niet letterlijk gebeuren, maar je kan wel stellen dat het meisje voor eeuwig een plek heeft gekregen bij zoveel mensen. Mogelijk draagt dit alles er toch toe bij dat een vakantieuitje iets voor én met de familie is, stal je kids niet constant bij oppassers, en indien niet aanwezig....blijf dan bij je kids, neem als ouder je verantwoordelijkheid, waar dan ook. Madeleine staat imo model voor deze tijd, wel kinderen willen hebben maar dat moet wel passen in een stressy druk schema (met als mogelijke consequentie dat ouders flippen als het ff niet lekker loopt) van werken, clubjes, sporten, vergaderingen etc etc, terwijl dat eigenlijk andersom zou moeten zijn. Ohw, tijd voor wat anders, ik ga slap ouwenelen zie ik....quote:Op vrijdag 4 juli 2008 22:33 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
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Three arguido's forum for the win! Ik hoop echt op een beetje meer duidelijkheid, ik snap er zo langzamerhand niets meer van.....
Wel inzage, geen inzage. Wel bewijs, geen bewijs. Wel een aanklacht, geen aanklacht......
Afwachten is niet mijn sterkste kant, misschien was je dat al opgevallen.......
Halverwege afhaken doe ik niet, ik blijf gewoon hier totdat er duidelijkheid is, dat zal ze leren....quote:Op vrijdag 4 juli 2008 23:34 schreef Suko het volgende:
Whahahahaha.....! Iedereen heeft inmiddels al het geduld verloren, me to. Maar het is zo lullig zomaar halverwege af te haken, en die McCann-zooi niet meer lastig te vallen met mogelijke lastige forum- en blogberichten.
Eindeloze rechtzaken zie ik er niet van komen, er is imho weinig om over te procederen, hopelijk komt er nog boven tafel wat er nu daadwerkelijk met het meisje is gebeurt.quote:Wel is het zo dat als er lange eindeloze rechtszaken komen ik ook vaarwel zeg, net als vele anderen, mogelijk wordt dan ook het 3arguidoforum e.d. opgeheven want daar zit niemand op te wachten. Geen zin ook in het wederom afkraken van weer een sighting, dat is inmiddels al tig keer gedaan, of gewoon hen afkraken, hoe terecht ook, het wordt zo eentonig en levert geen nieuws op. Ik geef het de tijd als er toch documenten vrijkomen, mogelijk alleen via de Portugese pers, want de McCanns zullen echt alles doen om publicaties te voorkomen.
Gewoon slap blijven ouwenelen, je hebt gewoon gelijk, als er dan iets goeds uit moet komen dan is het dit wel.quote:Het moet maar eens afgelopen zijn vind ik. Justice for Madeleine zal misschien niet letterlijk gebeuren, maar je kan wel stellen dat het meisje voor eeuwig een plek heeft gekregen bij zoveel mensen. Mogelijk draagt dit alles er toch toe bij dat een vakantieuitje iets voor én met de familie is, stal je kids niet constant bij oppassers, en indien niet aanwezig....blijf dan bij je kids, neem als ouder je verantwoordelijkheid, waar dan ook. Madeleine staat imo model voor deze tijd, wel kinderen willen hebben maar dat moet wel passen in een stressy druk schema (met als mogelijke consequentie dat ouders flippen als het ff niet lekker loopt) van werken, clubjes, sporten, vergaderingen etc etc, terwijl dat eigenlijk andersom zou moeten zijn. Ohw, tijd voor wat anders, ik ga slap ouwenelen zie ik....
----------------------------------------------------quote:The former Polícia Judiciária investigator criticized the PJ director and the Justice minister, on a interview, tonight, with TVI, a Portuguese channel. Asked if he believed that Madeleine was dead, Gonçalo Amaral said that he was “convinced” she was dead “based on the evidence collected”. When the journalist asked: “Was she killed, there (in the apartment)?”, the former PJ inspector said: “She died there”. About Madeleine's parents being named as formal suspects, Amaral spoke about “strong evidence” as the base for the decision and referred that “there was a common understanding”, between Portuguese and British police officers involved in the investigation, about the fact that Madeleine was dead.
“There was evidence, about two different crimes – which were referred by the defence lawyer, Pinto de Abreu, in a public statement – and it was hiding a body and a criminal simulation. That was the situation, when I left the investigation,” Mr. Amaral said. The former PJ inspector, who has a Law Degree from Lisbon University, mentioned the fact that “these kind of cases of disappearance, frequently bring with it other crimes, sometimes fake statements or physical abuse”.
Als je bedenkt dat de Daily Mail op dinsdag 1 juni j.l. meldt dat ze op vakantie zijn, dus mogelijk de dag ervoor en dan op maandag 7 juli niet voor het Hooggerechtshof kunnen verschijnen wegens nog steeds op vakantie?quote:"There is no evidence that the PJ are leaking or spinning or whatever. The investigative phase of this case is ending, that is all. The rest is Clarrie rubbish. If the prosecuting judge comes to the conclusion that there is insufficient evidence of guilt he can either order the case be shelved pending the coming to light of new evidence in the future - files remain secret and arguido status remains in place - or he can send the files back to the PJ and order them to continue with the investigation. He can extend the secrecy of justice at intervals if he concludes this is necessary to the investigation. To suggest that the judiciary is playing silly games to somehow make themselves and the PJ look better is to misinterpret what is in fact going on. Public opinion is of no importance: the civil code system is aimed at getting at the truth of a case. IMO the recent 'leaks' in the Portuguese press did not originate from Portuguese sources; I think what we are seeing is an elaborate smokescreen of PR and misinformation to disguise from the public that the macs' holiday is no such thing and that they have been told to go back to Portugal."
quote:The animals detected cadaver odor in the apartment, the stuffed animal and Kate’s clothes
DOGS DECISIVE FOR PJ
British animals [both] agreed on the scent of “indications” in various places and objects
The alerting of the British dogs specially trained to detect cadaver odor and human blood was decisive in making Kate and Gerry arguidos.
Faced with the coincidence of the alerting of both animals, which signaled the same locations and objects related to the McCanns, the authorities were obliged to admit a possible involvement of Kate and Gerry in the disappearance of their daughter and to make them arguidos in order to confront them with evidence which could result in their incrimination – for, as [merely] witnesses, they could not opt to remain silent.
According to what CM has discovered, in the final investigation report produced by the PJ the investigators explained that the animals only gave their detection signals in places and objects related to the McCanns: in the apartment where Madeleine disappeared (in the parent’s bedroom, the living room and next to a side window), in the back patio, the family’s car (rented 24 days after the girl disappeared), two pieces of Kate’s clothes and Maddie’s stuffed animal – the one Kate never released in the days following the disappearance.
In the McCann’s friend’s apartments, in the Luz village and in all the vehicles used by Robert Murat, the first to be made arguido, nothing was found by the dogs. Given these indications, reinforced by other detailed tests done in Portugal and England, the PJ interrogated Kate and Gerry and made them arguidos. The animals, Springer Spaniels, are heavily used in the UK in the search for missing people or homicide victims, with positive results.
KATE JUSTIFIES DEATH ODOR
Kate McCann didn’t negate the fact that her two pieces of clothes and the stuffed animal had been signaled by the English dogs trained to find cadaver odor and justified it by her profession. Madeleine’s mother alleged that as a doctor at the Leicester health center, she was present at six deaths directly before she came to Portugal on holiday, giving the same excuse for Madeleine’s stuffed animal, that was with her in the months after her daughter disappeared.
VESTIGES OF A CRIME
Two specially trained dogs, used as criminal investigation assistants, detected cadaver odor in the McCann’s bedroom, the living room, Kate’s clothes, the girl’s stuffed animal and the car key, as well as spots of blood in the boot of the car and the apartment living room. Source: Correio da Manhã
Gaan we eens rustig teruglezen....quote:Main Article: PJ couldn't find child's body
INVESTIGATION REVEALS ABDUCTION IMPOSSIBLE
Final report describes dozens of diligences and unravels incongruences in the theory proposed by Maddie's parents
Thirteen months after Madeleine disappeared, the PJ ended the investigation that continues to be marked by uncertainties. The final report, the CM today exclusively reveals, does not determine guilt but leaves new and strong doubts about the theory presented by the English child's parents. It describes in great detail the diligences done by the investigators – who tried, in every possible way, to confirm their hypothesis – and reveals that it was theoretically impossible to have happened. The witnesses don't make sense, especially not the way that one of the friends said she saw a man carrying a child almost an hour before the alert about the disappearance occurred. This would be Jane Tanner, who guarantees she surprised the unknown man in a street where Maddie's father and another witness also were. Both guarantee that they saw nothing, even though they were in the same line of sight. Tanner, who much later made a photofit of the supposed abductor, also said that the man carried the child in a horizontal position. The size of the window reveals that this could only have happened if the child were carried vertically.
Being that as it may, the PJ tried through all possible means to find who could have taken Maddie. They did dozens of diligences related to suspects of sexual abuse. Elements were collected about those registered that could have been on holidays in the Algarve during that time period, in order to verify if there could have been any connection with little Maddie.
In addition, all the other residents of the village were investigated. The PJ entered more than 400 houses surrounding the Ocean Club and found nothing. On the window where Kate guaranteed that Maddie was taken no vestiges of the girl were found. Only marks that confirmed the DNA of the girl's mother.
The PJ's final report shows the details of an investigation that reached unprecedented levels. A couple was investigated that had allegedly tried to abduct another child, a fine toothed comb was used to research the clues that Maddie had been seen at a gas station. A crematorium was searched and Maddie’s genetic profile was compared to that of a child’s body found on the coast of the United States.
The PJ investigated a supposed beggar and followed thousands of clues around the world. In vain. Nothing confirmed the proposed abduction theory.
Change of versions: Laboratory was no longer certain
ENGLISH RETREATED ON THE EXAMINATIONS
They said the vestiges were compatible with Maddie's DNA, then later denied it.
Dog's indications were not corroborated by science
It was the strangest about-face in the investigation. The first examinations done by the English laboratory, a pioneer in the analysis of biological vestiges, said it was probable that the residues collected in the McCann's car were compatible with Madeleine's genetic profile.
Months later – after the PJ had made the parents arguidos, according to the final report only because of indications that they had hidden the child's body – the laboratory ended up correcting their initial information. In the end, the examinations of the vestiges collected from the Renaul Scénic rented by the McCanns were not conclusive and it wasn’t even possible to determine the quality of the material, that is, to know whether it was bodily fluid or vestiges of blood.
This scientific alteration, still not completely clarified, ended up leading the investigation to a dead end. The utilisation of the dogs that detected cadaver odors and blood are not valid within the Portuguese judicial system and it was necessary to scientifically corroborate the dog's detections.
The PJ's decision to send the analyses to England was based on a question of credibility. The investigators didn't want the results to be disputed by the English, accepting therefore that the vestiges should be analysed in that country.
USELESS TRIP TO ENGLAND
In April of this year, Paulo Rebelo and two of the investigators for this process who were trying to understand the puzzle of Madeleine's disappearance went to Leicester to interview the British who spent holidays in Praia de Luz with the McCanns. From the final report, we now know that nothing conclusive was discovered from these interrogations.
The PJ maintained the same close collaboration with the local police, but from the depositions they brought nothing new. The McCann friends limited themselves to confirming what they had said in the earlier interviews and the PJ left with empty hands from that city just north of London.
OVER ONE HOUR CRYING
Pamela Fenn remembers hearing the child uncontrollably crying
Madeleine parents never contradicted that it was already a habit for their three children to be all alone inside the Praia da Luz apartment while they dined; a fact corroborated by several witness statements - the Oceans Club employees.
Although the parents defended themselves by stating that they visited the children every half an hour, every night, the witness statement of neighbour Pamela Fenn crumbled the McCann couple's version, when she guaranteed to the PJ that she had heard Maddie crying out loud for one hour and fifteen minutes, two nights before the crime. The British woman lives at the first floor, just above the apartment rented by the McCanns and she told to the inspectors, that on the night of the 1st of May, at 22:30, she heard a child crying, and by the sound it was Madeleine.
She guaranteed to the Judiciary Police that the child was uncontrollably crying for one hour and fifteen minutes, until the parents arrived. The neighbour heard the noise of the door at 23:45, when Kate and Gerry ended their usual gathering with their friends at the Tapas Bar – the Oceans Club restaurant at the pool side, where they had dinner daily. This testimony contradicts the daily routine of visits that the couple declared to have with their children – and the McCanns are not free from criticism by another British woman. Yvonne Martin, a British Social Care worker on holiday in Luz, who also blamed the McCanns negligent behaviour.
On the Side
CHANGES
Paulo Rebelo, the new leader of the investigation after Gonçalo Amaral's exit, was at the Ocean Club several times, from which were collected a variety of vestiges. He was also in England, where he heard testimonies.
NUMBERS
443
door to door interviews at Ocean Club apartments, done by the PJ, are part of 2000 diligences, formal and informal, undertaken during the investigation
134
village employees were heard by the inspectors in the days following the crime. The PJ also spoke with the 12 GNR officers that went through the apartment on the night of 3 May.
130
police and civil guard workers were involved in the first 24 hours of the search. On the following day, this number increased to 300.
188
garbage bins were searched with a fine-toothed comb in Praia da Luz, Lagos, in an attempt to find Madeleine's body.
30
square kilometers is the area covered in searches by all the land forces during the first days, in addition to the Maritime Police. Source: Correio da Manhã Bron: Joana Morais
Translations By Debk and JM
Ik mis gewoon iets in dit verhaal en ik weet niet precies wat, maar goed, net wat Amaral al zei: "There was more politics than police.”quote:Pamela Fenn remembers hearing the child uncontrollably crying
Madeleine parents never contradicted that it was already a habit for their three children to be all alone inside the Praia da Luz apartment while they dined; a fact corroborated by several witness statements - the Oceans Club employees.
Although the parents defended themselves by stating that they visited the children every half an hour, every night, the witness statement of neighbour Pamela Fenn crumbled the McCann couple's version, when she guaranteed to the PJ that she had heard Maddie crying out loud for one hour and fifteen minutes, two nights before the crime. The British woman lives at the first floor, just above the apartment rented by the McCanns and she told to the inspectors, that on the night of the 1st of May, at 22:30, she heard a child crying, and by the sound it was Madeleine.
She guaranteed to the Judiciary Police that the child was uncontrollably crying for one hour and fifteen minutes, until the parents arrived. The neighbour heard the noise of the door at 23:45, when Kate and Gerry ended their usual gathering with their friends at the Tapas Bar – the Oceans Club restaurant at the pool side, where they had dinner daily. This testimony contradicts the daily routine of visits that the couple declared to have with their children – and the McCanns are not free from criticism by another British woman. Yvonne Martin, a British Social Care worker on holiday in Luz, who also blamed the McCanns negligent behaviour.
Ga we nog ernstig bestuderen maar nu al zie ik wat een ongelofelijk bull de kranten al die tijd hebben geschreven... De eerste reacties > klikquote:Maddie Case - Final Report – ‘CM’ exclusively reveals all the steps of the investigation
English combined depositions
The Polícia Judiciária apprehended a memo that was typed by the McCanns and their friends, which describes in detail what each one of them did on the evening of the disappearance
Article by: Eduardo Dâmaso/Tânia Laranjo
The Polícia Judiciária calls it a “typed report”. It was appended to the process with the number 886 and elaborated by the English before they were formally questioned by the Polícia Judiciária from Portimão after Madeleine’s disappearance.
For the authorities, the minute manner in which the description was made reveals that the group of English people intended to “remember the steps that they made on that evening”. They described the facts, temporally and spatially, and those were the details that they revealed to the investigators.
Everything in an absolutely coherent form, closing the door to emotion. It is never explained, for example, how the group, that also had their children asleep in their rooms within the resort, never followed the instinct of confirming whether they were safe, after Kate launched the alert over her daughter’s disappearance. They came looking for Maddie, but failed to check if their own children had been abducted.
This document is considered important and was taken into account in the final report, whose contents CM reveals in an exclusive. It is fundamental as far as it has removed any spontaneity from the depositions made by the English, including the McCanns, whose description of the hours prior to the disappearance were fundamental for the investigation.
The final report contains a comprehensive description of the routines and of the last moments when Madeleine was seen alive, in order to clarify doubts and to try to overcome apparent incongruities.
Gerry McCann guarantees that on that day – and contrary to what was usual – failed to accompany his friends during the afternoon snack at the beach area. Only the McCanns returned to their apartment earlier, as confirmed by the surveillance cameras at the restaurant where the friends were.
The father assured that they collected their children at the crèche at around 5 p.m. and that on that day they immediately went to their lodging with the children. At 7.30 p.m. they put them to bed, and around 8.30 p.m. they left for the Tapas bar, which is located near the resort’s swimming pool.
Around 9 p.m., Gerry guarantees that he went to check on his children: but he failed to enter Madeleine’s bedroom and only later gave importance to the fact that the door was more open than he had left it. The alert to the little girl’s disappearance was given at approximately 10 p.m., and one hour later the GNR was informed about the event. The English guarantee that they only alerted BBC at around 2 a.m.
Passional crime was equated
Apart from abduction, the PJ followed other leads. One of them was the possibility that a passional crime had taken place. In the final report, the investigators remember that they studied the possibility that the abduction was due to a vengeance against the parents. Nothing was discovered in that sense either, despite the fact that the life of the McCanns and the other English people was investigated.
Details
Several interrogations – In their final report, the PJ stresses that the English were comprehensively questioned in detail, on several occasions, with the purpose of collecting all the elements that were deemed relevant.
Testing details - From the analysis of the interrogations, the PJ mentions in their final report that there were “important details that were not fully understood and integrated”, which, according to the PJ, needed to be “tested and connected on the location of the event”.
Four questions that remained unanswered
In its final report, the PJ lists the four questions that it would like to see answered during the reconstitution of the facts. A diligence that was not made because some of the English refused to return to Portugal.
The first one concerns the real and effective proximity between Jane Tanner, Gerry McCann and Jeremy Wilkins (a witness that stood talking to Maddie’s father at around 9 p.m.). It is mentioned in the report that it is “unusual” that Gerry and Jeremy failed to see the alleged abductor that was seen by Tanner, given the fact that they were standing within the same small space.
Another question that the PJ wanted to clarify was the situation of the window to the bedroom where Maddie was sleeping. According to Kate, it was open, but it was important to verify whether there was a draft that would allow for the curtains to move.
The verification of the manner in which the children were checked upon also seemed important. If it was as intense as the witnesses stated, it made the entrance of an abductor almost impossible, who could only pass with the child in a vertical position, not a horizontal one, as Jane Tanner says she saw a man with a child.
Finally, the inspectors wanted to know exactly what happened between 5.30 p.m. and 10 p.m. – the time at which Maddie was seen last, and the moment when the alert to the disappearance was given.
Captions of photos:
Gonçalo Amaral tried the reconstitution shortly after the facts. Then it was Paulo Rebelo’s turn to suggest it. It was never done, because the English didn’t want it
Gerry and Kate’s versions failed to convince the investigators
Other notes:
PGR [State Prosecutor] | Read the report already – Pinto Monteiro said yesterday that he has already read the final report, but excused himself from advancing what will be the Public Ministry’s dispatch, in a case whose secrecy may end as soon as this month
Concluded | No diligences – The PJ makes no suggestions concerning the manner in which the Public Ministry should act. It only says that it does not see any further diligences that could be useful to the investigation
Nothing new | English
The PJ says that the diligences that were requested through a rogatory letter, brought nothing new to the investigation. Which means that what happened on the evening of the 3rd of May was not established Source: paper edition of Correio da Manhã, July 6, 2008
Met dat laatste stukje ben ik het natuurlijk niet eens maar wie zegt mij dat Gerry&Kate en sommige van de Tapas 7 niet net zo goed ontvoerders/moordenaars kunnen zijn? Carole Malone doelt met excuses aan Kate en Gerry van kranten zoals van 'reporter' Lorraine Kelly in The Sun, collegablad van NOTW !, stukje is hier te lezen, en The Sunday Mirror. (columniste Fiona Mcintosh), en Allison Parsons in de Daily Mail schrijft over een public apology aan de McCanns. Hoe krijgen ze het uit de pen/pc...quote:From todays news of the world.
Do people seriously think that Portuguese and British cops have kept the file on Maddie McCann open for more than a year in order to embarrass, humilliate and torture her perents Kate and Gerry? Hasn't it occurred to anyone (especially the McCanns) that this file has been left open and questions have continued to be asked because coppers (as inept as some of them have been) really want to find Maddie, preferably, alive?
Why should Kate and Gerry get an apology now the case files look like it's about to be closed? It has always been in their best interests to have it kept open so Maddie abductors (or killers) can be found. And by closing the file the police aren't saying anyone is guilty or innocent. They are simply saying they can't find or prove who took her. Yes the police have made stupid mistakes. But then so did Kate and Gerry by leaving their children alone in an unlocked apartment for five nights in a row while they went out eating and drinking with friends. And if the McCanns as rumors suggest are not going to be charged with neglect they ought to be grateful.
Because while those charges might not be brought very often in Britain they are routinely brought in other european countries, where society and the legal system seem to value kid safty more than we do. (if you think Britain cares about its children ask yourselves why convicted paedophiles are freed by courts to wander among our kids, when even they tell us thay can't be cured). The tragedy here isn't Kate and Gerry's hurt feelings over the investigation, it's that Maddie's still missing, and closing the file means her abductors have got away scot-free.
Er was toch ook DNA van Maddy gevonden?quote:Text beside dogs:
Red dog (Eddie): 'Places where cadaver odour was detected'
Orange dog (Keela): 'Places where biological vestiges were detected'
Cadaver/Biological vestiges: 'Behind the sofa' (living room)
Cadaver: 'To the side of the wardrobe' (parents bedroom)
Cadaver: 'In a seedbed of the yard' (outside patio door entrance)
Text beside other items:
'Other vestiges' (sporen)
Cadaver: 'Piece of Madeleine’s clothing'
Cadaver: 'Soft toy'
Cadaver: 'Two pieces of clothing or Kate Healy McCann'
Cadaver/Biological vestiges: 'Luggage area and car keys of the McCanns'
Ik ben zelf, en velen met mij, daar zeer verward over. Als men de laatste 'onthullingen' moet geloven die de Portugese krant Correio Da Manha deze dagen heeft gepubliceerd uit de nog vrij te geven documenten...?quote:Op maandag 7 juli 2008 08:57 schreef yyentle het volgende:
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Er was toch ook DNA van Maddy gevonden?
En als je bedenkt wat diezelfde krant Correio Da Manha in januari van dit jaar 'onthulde': en overgenomen door veel kranten:quote:"It was the strangest about-face in the investigation. The first examinations done by the English laboratory, a pioneer in the analysis of biological vestiges, said it was probable that the residues collected in the McCann's car were compatible with Madeleine's genetic profile.
Months later – after the PJ had made the parents arguidos, according to the final report only because of indications that they had hidden the child's body – the laboratory ended up correcting their initial information. In the end, the examinations of the vestiges collected from the Renaul Scénic rented by the McCanns were not conclusive and it wasn’t even possible to determine the quality of the material, that is, to know whether it was bodily fluid or vestiges of blood.
This scientific alteration, still not completely clarified, ended up leading the investigation to a dead end. The utilisation of the dogs that detected cadaver odors and blood are not valid within the Portuguese judicial system and it was necessary to scientifically corroborate the dog's detections. The PJ's decision to send the analyses to England was based on a question of credibility. The investigators didn't want the results to be disputed by the English, accepting therefore that the vestiges should be analysed in that country."
Nou geloof ik niet dat het wereldberoemde Forensisch lab (FFS) in Birmingham fouten maakt of resultaten achterhoudt, maar mogelijk wel diegene die er over gáán, tenslotte is is het nu wel duidelijk dat het meer om een politieke kwestie (veel mensen hebben veel te verliezen) gaat dan om een politieonderzoek, zoals de Portugese ex-copper Amaral onlangs in interviews heeft gezegd. En dit zinnetje uit het artikel blijft ook vaag. "This scientific alteration, still not completely clarified, ended up leading the investigation to a dead end."quote:"Blood found in a car hired by her parents weeks after she disappeared definitely came from the British girl, it was reported yesterday. The Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha cited police sources as saying new tests on blood found in the hire car conclusively showed it was Madeleine's. "The definitive result of the tests leave no doubts for the Policia Judiciaria. The blood found in the McCanns' car is that of Madeleine as well as those samples detected in the flat," the paper said." Bron
Reacties op het 3arguidoforum.quote:Carter Ruck will advise 'Tapas 7'
By Tom Peck and Robert Verkaik Monday, 7 July 2008
Four months after Gerry and Kate McCann won apologies and a £550,000 libel pay out from four newspapers for "grotesque and grossly defamatory" articles concerning the disappearance of their daughter, Madeleine, seven friends of the couple have employed the same lawyers to act against at least one national newspaper.
The Carter Ruck libel firm is advising the so-called "Tapas Seven" group who were with the McCanns on the evening of Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007 in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz. Matthew Oldfield, Rachel Oldfield, Russell O'Brien, Jane Tanner, David Payne, Fiona Payne and Diane Webster are in talks with the Carter Ruck partner Adam Tudor, with action expected within weeks.
Mr Tudor, who acted for the McCanns, yesterday commented: "I can confirm I and my firm are advising the seven friends." He declined to elaborate or specify which newspaper they were considering suing. At the centre of possible action would be suggestions that the friends kept a "pact of silence" in their dealings with police, and that they refused to take part in a reconstruction of the night Madeleine disappeared. Bron
Ik had begrepen dat het iets te maken had met nieuwere technieken die in Engeland (nog) niet als bewijs mochten worden gebruikt.quote:Blood found in a car hired by her parents weeks after she disappeared definitely came from the British girl, it was reported yesterday. The Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha cited police sources as saying new tests on blood found in the hire car conclusively showed it was Madeleine's. "The definitive result of the tests leave no doubts for the Policia Judiciaria. The blood found in the McCanns' car is that of Madeleine as well as those samples detected in the flat," the paper said." Bron
http://www.telegraaf.nl/b(...)_appartement___.htmlquote:AMSTERDAM - Het officiële onderzoek naar de verdwijning van Madeleine McCann is dan wel gesloten, de voormalige leider van het onderzoek heeft nog een opmerkelijke onthulling gedaan...
Volgens de inspecteur Goncalo Amaral is Maddie namelijk gestorven in het appartement waar de familie McCann vakantie vierde. Hij benadrukt wel dat het meisje niet vermoord is, meldt The Sun.
De onderzoeker heeft gezegd dat hij ervan overtuigd is dat Maddie nooit meer levend terug gevonden wordt.
Amaral was van het onderzoek gezet nadat hij kritiek had geleverd op de Britse politie
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