Hopelijk het laatste Maddy McCann topic, maandag is d-day.

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PJ admitted a simulation of the scenario

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The arrival of the dogs that detected cadaver odours and blood traces led the PJ to admit that some of the details where Maddie had been sleeping had been staged to sustain the abduction theory. One of the examples that were pointed out in one of the many reports that were written by the investigators was the fact that the soft toy was on the bed where Maddie slept, a bed that was partially undone. The animals detected odours on the child’s toy, but they did not mark her death on that spot. Which led the PJ to admit that Maddie had died in another area of the house, and then the toy was taken to the bed because it was the most likely spot in case of an abduction. Other details were analysed, like the fact that the furniture was too well positioned and the sofa was completely pushed against the wall.

Details

Investigated leads – The final report is clear. All the leads were investigated, the abduction theory was verified into detail. But the investigation’s main conclusions pointed towards the death of the child in the apartment, on the 3rd of May.

300 policemen were looking for Madeleine McCann during the first days. The PJ stresses that many among them spent several weeks sleeping only a few hours.

2000 diligences were made by the Judiciária during their search for Madeleine. International cooperation was requested on several moments, to exclude several cases of false sightings.

High costs – The PJ spared no costs throughout this investigation. Millions of euros were spent on the investigation into the disappearance, namely on the high payments that were made to the labs that collected the genetic profiles.

Suspicions – Dave’s involvement is considered again
Parents refused technical help

Works with endangered children and approached the McCanns in the Algarve. Found the behaviour strange

Yvone, who earned credentials from the English government to work in situations that involve endangered children, was in the Algarve when Maddie disappeared but the McCanns refused her help. The specialist told the PJ, during two depositions that were made one month apart from each other, that she approached the couple after the first few hours and that the behaviour from both left her with suspicions about their involvement in the disappearance.

The behaviour of David Payne, who was accused by a couple of doctors that spent holidays with him in 2005, of having attitudes that indiciated paedophile practices, also left Yvone intrigued. The McCanns’ friend had called them aside and advised them not to speak to the technician.

Yvone found another detail strange. David’s face was not unfamiliar to her, and the technician believes he might have been inquired before, within some case of sexual abuse. She tried to remember when but failed to locate moment and the circumstances under which she had met him.

The days went by and Yvone continued to think about the issue. She then sent a letter to the English police, where she pointed out the details that she had perceived. Namely, that the bedroom window had not been forced open, that it was not normal for a couple of doctors to leave their children alone and that Kate had reacted in an aggressive manner when she had approached her. She also alerted to the official statistics, that point towards the majority of these cases to involve a cover-up from the families.

Gonçalo Amaral’s book upsets the English

A delegation from the British justice left for London yesterday after having tried, in Portimão, to keep some details of the process under secrecy.

The English, who according to what CM was able to establish, are upset about possible revelations that the book from the former coordinator of the PJ in Portimão may make, tried to request the instruction judge to maintain the secrecy on the forensics reports about the blood traces and cadaver odour that were collected from the apartment at the Ocean Club, but also other parts from the process.

As far as CM was able to establish, the pretentions from the English delegation were denied, except in the case of the identity of persons that have condemnations or a police record of paedophilia which reside in the Algarve or were spending holidays in the region when the facts took place.

The British that were in Portimão are policeman Stuart Prior, one of the senior liaison officers with the Portuguese police, a magistrate and a jurist from SOCA, the British agency that specializes in investigation organized crime.

It is not known whether the trip was made under a rogatory letter or politically negotiated between the governments of both countries.

“In defense of my good name”

The book by Gonçalo Amaral is written in defense of his honour. “I felt the need to reinstate my good name, which was publicly rubbished while the institution that I belonged to for 26 years, the Polícia Judiciária, didn’t allow me to defend myself, or did so institutionally”, Gonçalo Amaral states in a text that justifies the book. In order to carry out that defense, he requested permission from the national directory but never obtained it. The book, which will be presented by Marques Vidal, a former director of the Judiciária, is launched on the 24th of this month, during a session that is scheduled for El Corte Inglés, in Lisbon. source: Correio da Manhã 19.07.2008, paper edition

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Loose notes:

Laboratory | Decisive test – The final report ended up being decisive for the foreseeable archiving of the process. In that document, which CM revealed, the possibility of DNA contamination was admitted.

Archived | AG announced – The day after tomorrow, the AG will release a communication that will most likely announce the archiving of the process. The case will remain pending in Portimão’s Public Ministry, waiting for better evidence.

Reconstitution | Stopped – The reconstitution of the evening of the disappearance was a diligence that was seen as essential in the process. It was stopped because some of the McCanns’ friends did not accept to return.

Wardrobe | Odour detected – The English dogs signaled traces of Maddie’s death behind the sofa and in the bedroom wardrobe. On the bed, the animals didn’t detect anything.

Contamination | Traces – The authorities have no doubts that the contamination of the location made the investigation more difficult. During the first few hours, tens of people entered the bedroom.

Removed | By phone – Gonçalo Amaral was the target of various attacks and was removed by Alípio Ribeiro, by phone, after making a statement to a newspaper.

Letter | Paedophile register – Yvone, in the letter that she sent to the English police, wanted the authorities to verify whether Dave had a register of paedophile activities.

source: Correio da Manhã 19.07.2008, paper edition

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Op zaterdag 19 juli 2008 14:57 schreef livelink het volgende:
Ik krijg als ik dit zo allemaal lees en vooral dan weer het nieuwe verhaal met betrekking tot David Payne heel sterk het gevoel dat er nog een enorme beerput aan ellende open moet komen. Je zou bijna zeggen dat alle indertijd aanwezige kinderen van de Tapas nagekeken zouden moeten worden op sporen van misbruik.

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British don't want the disclosure of the identities of referenced for pedophilia, in the Algarve

The British police wishes to maintain confidential the names from a list of British citizens referenced for having pedophile practices, residing in the Algarve, that were identified during the Maddie’s case investigation. This list is part of the disappearing process of Madeleine Mccann whose archiving will be announced next Monday.

The maintenance of this list under confidentiality is one of the pretensions of the English police, under the argument that the divulgation of the identities of those individuals would be an intrusion in the domain of the private life.

Monday the General Attorney’s Office is going to release the final dispatch from the Public Ministry that decides on the archiving of Maddie’s case, for lack of evidence to sustain any accusation. With this dispatch, Kate and Gerry McCann (Madeleine’s parents), as well as the British citizen Robert Murat, will cease being arguidos.

The fact that the process may be archived, does not obviates that it may be re-open in the future. However, that would occur only if appear new elements of proof that invalidate the fundaments invoked by the Public Ministry, as it is established by the Penal Process Code, artº 279º.

The decision to archive may be appealed. Only when that timing is extinguished, will the process be open to the public.

[by] Amaral in book

Many details of the investigation may, however, become known before, through the reading of a book written by the inspector of Policia Judiciária (PJ) that leaded the investigation, Gonçalo Amaral, and that will be launched, next 24th in Lisbon.

At least, that is what the author promises, who ended up by being removed from the investigation, in the sequence of declarations considered offensive to the English police.

With the opening of the process, it will be possible to clear the doubts, to know what diligences were made, what was the level of the English police participation in the investigation and to know the real motives that took the police and Public Ministry to constitute Murat and the McCann couple, arguidos. It will be also possible to detect the incoherence’s and contradictions in the investigation, as well as the falsities that were divulged publicly.

There is also interrogations about the destiny of Paulo Rebelo, the coordinating inspector that replaced Gonçalo Amaral in Maddie’s case investigation, and on whom were put so many hopes of success.

Paulo Rebelo was installed in Portimão and surrounded himself with the best investigators of the PJ from all the areas. The effort was fruitless. Rebelo was unable to repair some errors committed on the initial phases of the investigation. He was also unable to advance for new leads.

With the conclusion of the case, Rebelo hopes that the PJ Directory decides quickly to substitute him in the direction of the department, in order to put him again, in Lisbon, in a place compatible with his curriculum.

by: Paula Torres de Carvalho (the journalist that also wrote " PJ admits hastiness in Madeleine McCann Case" - http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1318465&idCanal=62

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English defended the use of the dogs - Correio da Manhã

Traces – Finding the trail of a death changed the direction of the investigation



English defended the use of the dogs

An exhaustive report explains the possible scenarios to hide a body and defends the animals’ reliability

Mark Harrison, the English police who was designated to help the Polícia Judiciária in the search for Madeleine McCann, wrote a report last summer, in which he defended the usage of the dogs that are experts in the detection of cadaver odours and blood traces. The discovery of the residues and the signaling of the trail of a cadaver thus ended up formally changing the direction of an investigation that had been limited to the theory of abduction until then.

The report, which praises the Portuguese authorities’ work, suggested that the animals should be taken to all the locations where the body might have been hidden. From the apartment that had been rented by the McCanns up to the crèche, through the beach and the church area.



Mark Harrison explained that it was necessary to analyse the scenarios of Madeleine having been killed that night and her body abandoned by a person on foot or by car. The expert added that despite of the high costs of that search, it should be carried out in order to clarify the case.

Dogs are reliable

In the report, Mark Harrison says that it us very unlikely that the body was buried in the sand. The English policeman defends that a launch into the sea is the most likely scenario, while the body should also be searched for within an area of cliffs and dense bushes that lies east of Praia da Luz.

The two English dogs were presented as an indispensable help to the investigation, after their abilities and the manner in which they are trained were explained in detail, as well as the fact that they both react to blood traces and cadaver odours, without a single episode of “false positives” in the investigations.

In his report, Mark Harrison listed cases of success that offered a guarantee of reliability. And he asserted that if the dogs came to signal Maddie’s death, then it would be a fact.

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High costs - Mark Harrison stressed the high costs of the dogs. Their daily rate amounted to one thousand euros; the cost of the trip for them and their handlers was of 2750. There was also the cost of the passport for the animals (450 euros), adding to the lodging, the food and the transportation of the vehicles that were necessary for the animals.

False positives – Eddie, the dog that specialized in cadaver odour detection, has never given a false alert. He has participated in approximately 200 searches in homicide scenarios in Great Britain and never signaled any products that derived from meat or any other food item.

Human blood – Keela was trained exclusively with human blood; blood that is subject to strict testing and which comes from hospitals. She locates contaminated guns, smells vehicles and clothing items, and accurately detects residues, even if the locations are subject to cleaning.

Kate refused to answer the PJ

Kate refused to answer tens of questions from the Polícia Judiciária. After the first day of questioning, when she appeared in the company of her lawyer but was heard as a witness, Kate changed her stance. Being made an arguida and the fact that the authorities assumed that they admitted her involvement in the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine, led her to adopt a different attitude.

She refused to reply, for example, why she left the twins behind in the bedroom in order to call her husband and friends at the restaurant, after finding out that Maddie had disappeared.



She also failed to explain why she had not searched for her daughter in the first moments, sitting on the bed almost without moving, and she offered no explanation for the fact that the preliminary test results from the English lab detected traces in the car boot and behind the sofa, traces whose DNA resembled Maddie’s.

Other details from her personal and professional life remained unanswered. Kate refused, for example, to explain whether or not it was true that before the holidays she had admitted she had a bad premonition. Whether or not she had ever complained that the twins were very restless or had ever admitted to deliver the guard of Maddie to a relative.

Kate also remained expressionless when she was confronted with the possibility that she had quit working because she could not handle the pressure of raising he three small children.

She did not explain how the cadaver odour was found on her clothes and on the soft toy that was normally used by Maddie, or why the dogs marked the death inside the apartment.

Kate also chose not to clarify who had called Sky News, nor did she reveal whom she had called in the moments that immediately followed the disappearance.

In her deposition, Kate was also confronted with the fact that her refusal to make a statement might hinder the discovery of her daughter’s whereabouts. Nevertheless, she kept her silence.

Mother’s DNA on the window

The window had been forced open and the abductor had taken the child through it. That was the first possibility that was advanced by Kate to the authorities that collected residues on location. But the tests that were done at the IML [Portuguese forensics institute] ended up isolating just one DNA which did not belong to the child but rather to Kate. To the PJ, it is also practically impossible for anyone to carry the child out of that window, which does not even open completely.



Gerry accepted to speak to the police

On the day that he was made an arguido, Gerry accepted to answer all of the Judiciária’s questions.

Doubts about surveillance on the children

The PJ found contradictions in the friends’ testimonies concerning the manner in which the children were watched over.

Denied the use of sedatives on the children

Kate and Gerry have always denied to the PJ that they medicated the children or used any sedative to make them sleep. Maddie’s parents thus stated that their children went to bed early simply because they were used to that, and it was not even usual for them to wake in the middle of the night. CM knows that months after Maddie disappeared, Kate suggested to the Judiciária that the twins should be tested in order to find out whether they had been sedated that night. Something that the investigators found strange, given the fact that being doctors, they both knew that any residue would have disappeared by then. This was considered to be another indicator that Kate and Gerry were not telling the whole truth about what happened on the 3rd of May, hiding what had happened to the child.

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Recorded | PJ taped action – The dogs’ search was recorded by the Polícia Judiciária. The handler also wrote an extensive report that translated the signs that had been detected by the animals during their search for traces.

TIR | English address – Kate stated her identity and her residence and gave her English address. Therefore, the return home was not considered to be an escape from justice.

Return | Postponed promise – When they returned home, the McCanns promised to return if it was necessary to make a statement. The reconstitution was requested, but the friends boycotted it. source: Correio da Manhã 20.07.2008, paper edition

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Anyone Remember this Little Girl?

The Mccanns, Clarence Mitchell, Branson, Kennedy, Metodo 3, the Tapas 7, 8, or 9 should hang your heads in shame, you a the biggest bunch of spineless, arrogant, smug individuals that I have ever had to endure on the Tv and Media.

You have spent the last 14 months spewing your bile and contradictions to the entire world. Something happened on that night, the whole world knows that something happened, and not just that poor girls our disappearence.

Your are cool and calculated, you have shown and unbelievable lack of emotion. The silence of the Tapas Mooks is deafening, again, cool and calculating.

And today........... the news about Payne. I actually hope that this is not true, if it is, god help him. The story has overtaken what the ***k this case is all about, that little girl. But then the leak of Payne, I wonder, I just wonder where it came from.

My mother hit the nail on the head today. She said, in all her 74 years, in all the child abductions, she has seen on TV and in the Press, she said, ''the one thing that the parents do, is smell the clothes, the sheets, the toys of the missing girl or boy'' THEY DONT ****ING WASH THEM STRAIGHT AWAY. Now that is bizarre. Bizzare or Deliberate. Deliberate in my book.

They dont leave their children alone for 5 nights running, and then blame the British Public, because, 'everyone does it on Holiday' ..........its 'what you do'.............. You arrogant Bas*****. Dont try putting your Guilt that night, on the shoulders of the British or any other Nation.

Forget the DNA, forget the Police Files, forget your Holidays to Canada, forget Payne and his mates, what you have done over the last 14 months is try to offload your guilt that night, onto anyone that would listen. Anyone that would donate, put a poster up.

And finally to the little girl, who, through no fault of her own, has more than likely lost her life, due to your Neglect. Your Neglect, that regardless of the outcome on Monday, will stick with you and your cronies for the rest of your lives, you sad, sad apologies for something human.

Whether you like it or not, you are now the worlds biggest child neglectors. That is without question.

When you go to bed at night, just as you are dropping off to sleep, remember there is a child out there, that just wants to be cuddled and wrapped up warm...................and through no fault of her own, finds herself on the other side, lonely, sad and frustrated that her parents would rather fly to America, go to Canada, jogging, playing golf, walks in the park, than leave no stone unturned in the quest for her return, and all for the sake of the twins. Always for the sake of the twins.

Leaving no stone unturned. **** off. Liars the lot of you.

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Evidence of death convinces the PJ but fails in court - Diário de Notícias

Tests. On the day before the likely announcement by the Attorney General of the archiving of the Maddie case, DN knows from sources that are close to the process that the analyses from hair that was found in the McCanns’ car revealed that 16 out of 18 markers match the child’s genetic information

Judge mistrusts evidence used in an isolated manner

Tests that were performed on hair that was collected from the boot of the car that was rented by the McCanns in the Algarve have determined that 16 out of 18 markers match Madeleine’s genetic information. The information, which was released to DN by a source from the PJ, joins the results in the preliminary report from the Birmingham lab, in England, where it is verified that “15 out of the 19 genetic markers that were found in a residue that was collected from the couple’s car boot are a match” with the child.

“The evidence is unequivocal for the investigators”, the PJ source guarantees. “We are talking about a tuft of hair that was found in the spare tire well, in the car boot, which could not have fallen from the siblings’ clothes or have ended up on that spot by other means. The issue is that in order to make a solid proof in court, one has to reach 18 markers. But with 16, the investigators have no doubts left”, the policeman recognizes.

But for a judge that was contacted by DN, there is no reason for such certainties. “It depends on which markers are missing and if I had to decide only with a basis on that element of proof, I would not take a case to court, because the chances for success would be very small. This type of evidence always has to be articulated with other elements.”

Another source that is well positioned near the process, and with forensics knowledge, sustains the PJ agent’s version by defending that “these tests are like the collection of fingerprints, where a piece of evidence in court needs to detect 13 points, but from 11 onwards the police is already certain”.

For DN’s source, the conclusions from the tests that were performed on the hair that was found inside the Renault Scénic that was used by the McCanns were not included in the PJ’s final report merely because “if the evidence was not going to be used in court, the police did not want the Public Ministry to say that there is a persecution of the child’s parents”.

Although he mistrusts this isolated type of evidence, the judge that was heard by DN argues that there is matter to take the parents of Maddie McCann to court. “They could be judged over the crime of endangering a minor, because leaving their daughter alone inside a hotel room while they go to dinner is not acceptable within the social patterns, and over obstruction of justice. It is better to remember that the child’s parents called the televisions before they called the police.” Source: Diário de Notícias, 20.07.2008

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Op zondag 20 juli 2008 13:47 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
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Ik heb de commentaren van de journalist schuingezet, het leest nu wat makkelijker, vooral die link tussen Murat en Stagg vind ik interessant, het maakt blijkbaar niet zoveel uit of ze de echte dader hebben, een zwart schaap in de kudde die ze kunnen beschuldigen is genoeg, de dader is geidentificeerd en het leven kan gewoon doorgaan.
Ik heb het idee dat dit tov Murat is mislukt en dat die paranoia van nu komt omdat er geen 'dader' is gevonden en men dit dus gevoelsmatig niet heeft kunnen afsluiten. (Just my 2 cents. )

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Dear Mr. Editor………

I’m quite sure that you are very busy, organising your hacks and other staff, clearing away space on the front pages of your newspapers to make way for tomorrows joyous headlines, not to mention the inevitable ‘’pull out and keep’’ 10 page insert guide, explaining the tragic chain of events that have had to be endured by Saint Gerry & Kate of Rothwell.

“Bungling/Boozy/Inept/ Sardine Munching Porto Plods finally admit defeat!!”, “The agony goes on for our Kate & Gerry” and “Vindicated at last!!”,

Just some, I am CERTAIN, of the headlines that we will all be reading about in the next couple of days. Readers will then be subjected to innumerable column inches over the coming weeks, with poignant articles from Richard Madely, Amanda Pearson, Carol Malone et al, explaining how they had all ‘been there’ for our illustrious golden couple, supporting them in their hour of need, joining forces to combat and admonish those ‘vile evil whisperings’ that were emanating along the corridors of certain internet forums and blogs.

No doubt, celebs’ agents are already in negotiation with tabloid editors, all lining up to prepare their clients to express their solidarity by way of ‘exclusive interviews’; “as a parent myself, I can’t imagine what hell they have had to go through………by the way, my new book, which is out this Monday……………………….”

Who knows?. Almost certainly an OBE or two will be in the pipeline, especially if the McCanns are allowed to take credit for the European ‘AMBER ALERT’.

Clarence Mitchell will almost certainly be given greater impetus, either directly or otherwise, to organise the Government’s Media Monitoring Unit, to clamp down and to CLOSE down those websites and bloggers that influence sufficient numbers of people to be potentially detrimental to New Labours diktats, (as he did the MIRROR Forum).

Tony ‘Glenda’ Parsons, will undoubtedly have accrued sufficient soundbites to keep his Mirror column going for the next 2 years.

But, Mr. Editor, just before you fall asleep at night in your bed, having finished the proof reading to your simpering, sycophantic, subservient homage to Clarence Mitchell’s release, please give a little thought to the following:-

Irrespective of what the Portuguese announce on Monday, the 20th July, there are a number of serious issues and questions which, FAR from being answered, have actually never been ASKED.

It may very well please you and whoever is dictating your editorial policy to perpetually vilify and BLAME the Portuguese authorities, their police or even their subjects for every aspect of the Madeleine McCann tragedy, but that would not explain, in any way, the following:--

The suspicions surrounding the McCanns and their possible involvement in the disappearance of their daughter arose, NOT because the Policia Judiciaria were inept and clueless, but because the McCanns made inaccurate statements, from the outset. Inaccurate statements about their movements, the movements of their friends, inaccurate statements about the state and condition of how they found the apartment and the shutters, inaccurate statements about what they discovered and discussed.

We know that they made inaccurate statements because what they said directly contravened and countered what the other stated, as well as what some of their friends stated. And they can’t ALL have been correct. Inaccurate statements, Lies or omissions?

Likewise, it wasn’t the ‘bungling Porto plod’ who strongly suspected or suggested that Madeleine may have died in the apartment.

It was a couple of British dogs. Specialist canines, who have a LONG and proven history and success rate in determining and locating the precise areas of residual tissue and and materials relating to cadavers. Specialist dogs who are currently proving to be both CRUCIAL and instrumental in unraveling the ongoing horrors being unearthed at Haut de la Garenne in Jersey.

Not, I am sure, that you will give much credence or space to their findings in Portugal, but HOW would you propose to explain away their behaviour in Praia da Luz, in the apartment, on Kate McCanns clothes and belongings? Having a bad day? Inconclusive? The fact that it is not wholly admissible in a Court of Law?

And what about that car boot sample? The Birmingham FSS, the acknowledged, finest Forensic science laboratory in the world? Martin Brunt is STILL on the Sky News website video, reporting a “100% DNA Match to Madeleine McCann”. Was he misinformed? Contaminated sample? Mistaken Process? Total fabrication? We may never know, especially given that the British authorities are fighting to ensure that particular aspect of this case remains secret. (Have you ever asked yourself why?, Mr. Editor, or are you simply not permitted to question Mr. Mitchells rhetoric?)

Are you also, Mr.Editor, going to lambast those bungling, inept, incapable LEICESTERSHIRE police, who were also widely reported as concurring, and in some cases even SUGGESTING, that Madeleine died in the apartment on that first night in May?

“ Licentious, lacklustre, Leicester Police loonies!” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it Mr.Editor?

Friends in high places? Curious RICH associates and backers, underhand Government assistance? Prime Ministerial blessings, chats and advice?. Papal divine intervention, European and world leaders hob-nobs?. It’s all there Mr. Editor. Enough material to sell a billion Sunday journals. So why no interest?

You see, Mr. Editor; I don’t really know what happened in Praia da Luz in May of last year. I don’t know why, how or when. I wasn’t there. Neither were you. We can only listen to those that are either close to, or aligned to, the proceeding in question.

It boils down to who and what you want to believe. I am reminded of Herman Goering. He once stated, “it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy” How right he was.

I realised just how right he was when George Bush convinced the majority of his people that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11, just before he embarked on the massacre of an estimated 600,000 Iraqi men, women and children, just so that Halliburtons could procure the rich oil fields; (FAT lot of good THAT did with the current oil price, but I digress.)

What I particularly hate about that atrocity, is that the British went ahead and held his hand while he did it. Only at least Blair gave the British people SOME credit. He knew we wouldn’t buy the 9/11 angle, so he made up the WMD’s story, inventing documents, dossiers and ‘intelligence’ as he went along.

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy”

Charles de Mendez? We would know for sure, exactly what happened to him, poor chap, were we to examine the countless surveillance video of the event. Except, for some reason, we can’t. Because the tape is apparently damaged or lost, or the cameras malfunctioned or were facing the wrong way or were broken or vandalised. Or all of the above.

And of course, when Neil Mackay sensationally reported in 2003 that “senior members” of the Labour Government were being investigated for “pedophilia and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography”, as part of the infamous ’Operation Ore’, Tony Blair very quickly and effectively served a DA NOTICE on the press and media, banning details of these matters being reported. A ban that still stands today. A sublime example of how a Government and its press can lie, mislead and fool its people.

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy”
So, you see, Mr. Editor. You will have to forgive me if I choose not to believe a single word that your paper publishes on the Madeleine Mccann case.

You will have to excuse me if I do not join in the rejoicing and celebrations when the illustrious couple are exonerated , nor contribute to their inevitable NEW fund to help them “find their daughter”.

Because, although it may be ultimately true that there is insufficient evidence to prove the culpability of the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter, there is most definitely AMPLE and OVERWHELMING evidence that the authorities of this country do not wish for the truth to ever come out.

BUT; if there IS a god, and the leaders who presided over this debacle and cover up ever have to stand and atone before him, then rest assured that their minions:- the paltry, gutless, servile cowards who spread their lies and diktats in their respective newspapers, will have to atone also.

That’s YOU, Mr. Editor.

Perhaps you’d care to dwell on that point before you fall asleep tonight.

That, and the image of a precious, angelic and innocent little girl for whom, with your able assistance, Justice was denied

Godbless, Madeleine. Wherever you may be.

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Rogatories – Judge didn’t validate the diary immediately

PJ wanted to hear the McCanns again

Today, the process is most likely to be archived. Ten months ago, the PJ asked for the reconstitution of the crime and a new questioning of the couple

Pinto Monteiro promised a solution for the Maddie case for today. The archiving of the process is most likely to be announced on the General Attorney’s Office’s website, after more than a year of an investigation that was made of breakthroughs and retreats.

The Judiciária lost some battles and diligences that were not carried out may have compromised the discovery of the truth. That is the understanding of Gonçalo Amaral, who launches the book ‘The Truth about the Lie’ next week, in which he promises to explain the reason why he believed in the child’s death and in the involvement of the parents in concealing the cadaver.

CM knows that Gonçalo Amaral was not alone in this fight. Only days after Kate and Gerry were questioned and after they returned to England, the PJ inspector who was in charge of the process defended that he wanted to hear the couple again and that they should be subject to a more serious coercion measure. He also requested the reconstitution of the facts.

In a dispatch that is dated September 19, Magalhães Menezes, a prosecutor of the Republic, manifested himself against it. He said it was an unnecessary diligence, because Kate had refused to answer and Gerry had clarified little or nothing.

Concerning the change in the coercion measures, he said there was no legal basis for any modification. The couple had given their English address when they were made arguidos, and remained available to be contacted at that residence.

Later on, when the PJ made the requests again, the magistrate ended up admitting to the new questioning. But he postponed the decision for a later moment in time, because he understood that hearing the friends and the numerous persons that the PJ had requested might raise new questions.

It should also be noted that the judge kept some reservations about the requests that were made by the Judiciária’s investigators. Concerning Kate’s diary, for example, the judicial magistrate argued that only later would it be possible to know whether it could be validated, because it revealed facts from Maddie’s mother’s private life.

Judge Pedro Frias refused the Public Ministry to access the text messages that were sent and received by Gerry McCann, alleging that the messages were telephone interceptions and that judicial authorizations could not be given after the occurrence.

Mysteries of the process

Investigating the friends – A strong suspicion, prompted by three testimonies, fell over one of the McCann couple’s friends. But that doctor returned to his country after the disappearance and he did not explain many of the questions for which the PJ had no answers. The Judiciária failed to understand his life story.

Reconstitution – Right after the interrogation of Kate and Gerry, the PJ requested the reconstitution of the facts. The English were asked to return to Portugal for the diligence to be carried out. Kate and Gerry ended up accepting, but the friends denied it. The Polícia Judiciária did not carry out the reconstitution and the archiving of the case, waiting for better evidence, renders the diligence useless.

Irishman not heard – An Irish citizen who stated he saw Gerry carrying a child on the evening of the 3rd of May should have been questioned again through a rogatory letter. But that was not fulfilled, and his deposition ended up not being obtained. What was known was that the witness made himself immediately available for a deposition.

Text message register – The PJ wanted to access the contents of the text messages that were sent and received by Gerry during the hours immediately before and after his daughter’s disappearance. The Public Ministry validated the request, but the judge did not defer the pretention, considering that it would be equal to listening operations. And that at that point in time, there was no judicial permission for them to be carried out.

Clinical records – The Public Ministry decided that the PJ should not access the clinical records of Madeleine and the twins Sean and Amélie. The prosecutor sustained that such would violate the privacy of the children and their parents, and the evidence might be considered null. For the magistrate, the request was not duly sustained, either.

To find out whether Dave saw Madeleine in the apartment

The last time that Maddie was seen by someone outside the group was at around 5.30 p.m. on the 3rd of May. After that, only David Payne asserts to have seen Maddie in the apartment, when he went there to exchange a few words with Kate. The PJ mistrusts that thesis and ends up having doubts about the time span of the disappearance. There are also contradictions about the time that Dave spent inside the apartment. Kate says they only exchanged two or three words, but Gerry guarantees that his friend stayed inside the house where his children were, for half an hour. The fact that three witnesses launch suspicions about Dave made it fundamental to clarify this situation.

Brother-in-law washed the car due to fish smell

Gerry’s brother-in-law was also heard in a rogatory letter. He was the usual driver of the Renault Scénic and he explained to the police that he had washed the car boot because one day he had perceived that fish blood had spilled from the bag that he had just acquired at the supermarket. Alexander also added, in April this year, when he was questioned by the investigators, that one day he had noticed a strange smell in the car. But he guaranteed that was due to the fact that they usually transported waste in the car boot. He also said that the twins’ nappies were usually placed there, and that was the reason for the intense smells.

Trip to London without results

It was the last great hope for the investigation. Already in the possession of the final documents from the English lab, which launched strong doubts and rendered the results from the residues that were found inside the car that was rented by the McCanns 22 days after Maddie disappeared inconclusive, the Polícia Judiciária from Portimão made themselves available to watch the questioning of the McCanns’ friends. Paulo Rebelo, who had substituted Gonçalo Amaral, and two other investigators went to Leicester, but returned empty-handed.

It was in April this year and the hearings were held at the English police’s headquarters, a few kilometers from the couple’s house. But the witnesses added little or nothing and in many moments pointed towards what they had already told the Portuguese authorities after the disappearance. The PJ’s final report, which is most likely to prompt the dispatch for archiving by the Public Ministry today, reinforces just that and it is ultimately accepted that the investigation has reached a dead end.

Many situations remain unclear, namely how it was possible for Jane Tanner to have seen a man carrying a child while Gerry, who was standing two or three metres away, saw nothing; and how an abductor could have carried a child horizontally, through a small window that only half opened.

Notes

Teachers | Heard – The PJ heard Madeleine’s teachers through a rogatory letter. They guaranteed that Madeleine was happy with the McCann couple and that there had never been any incident.

Mitchell | Guaranteed innocence – Clarence Mitchell, the couple’s spokesman, was questioned on the 28th of April. He guaranteed that he had accepted to work with the McCanns because he had believed in their innocence. source: Correio da Manhã, 21.07.2008, paper edition

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Goedemorgen Suko en de rest!

Wachten duurt lang......

Waarschijnlijk heb je gelijk wbt team McCann, het wachten is op de eerste Clarrie spin in de Britse media en op de Portugese kranten....
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Inderdaad zeg, ik dacht dat je in eerdere posts over die snifferdogs had staan dat vergissen heel weinig voorkwam? Natuurlijk net nu.....

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Madeleine police inquiry shelved

The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been shelved. Portugal's attorney general Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro has told police to halt their inquiry. He also confirmed that suspect status has been lifted from the child's parents and a third British national, Robert Murat.

Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, disappeared from her holiday apartment in Portugal on 3 May 2007, aged three.

'Most important'

Portuguese media had previously reported that the 14-month long investigation would be closed because of a lack of evidence. Detectives submitted their final report at the start of July to prosecutors.

Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine's parents, have said they want their own private investigators to see detectives' files so they can keep looking for their daughter. Mr and Mrs McCann's spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said the couple would not comment in advance of the attorney general's official statement. He added: "Obviously they are aware of numerous reports suggesting that the case is about to be shelved.

"If that is the case they hope that it is made very clear that their arguido status is revoked and they hope to gain access to the police files so that their private investigators can continue the search for Madeleine. "At the end of the day that is the most important thing - finding their daughter and keeping the search going."

Last week Mr Murat received a £600,000 settlement and apology after a libel claim over allegations in 11 UK newspapers. In March Mr and Mrs McCann reached a libel settlement and got an apology from Express Newspapers for suggesting they were responsible for her death.

The McCanns and Mr Murat both strongly denied any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.

'Good job'

In an interview with the BBC, Goncalo Amaral - the former police chief leading the Madeleine inquiry - said he believed she was dead. "The evidence that we had gathered by the time that I left the case pointed to the girl being dead - and having died inside the apartment," he said.

"I don't know what happened next, I can't say. We'll have to wait for the case files to be made public." Mr Amaral was removed from the case last October after reportedly criticising the British police. He is now publishing a book about the investigation and denied that Portuguese police had failed to carry it out properly.

"Let's wait, and people will see that the Portuguese police and the British police did a good job - because various British agencies were involved. "We tried and we worked hard, so we can't be accused of incompetence or failure."

Mr Amaral also insisted that despite them being made formal suspects, there was "no persecution" of the McCanns. "The police don't want to persecute anyone - just to investigate what happened in a given case," he said.

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PRESS RELEASE

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By the dispatch with today's date (21.07.2008) emmitted by the two magistrates of the Public Ministry competent for the case, it was decided the archiving of the inquiry related with the disappearance of the minor Madeleine McCann, for not having been obtained proof of the practice of any crime by the arguidos.

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The condition of arguido of Robert James Queriol Evelegh Murat, Gerald Patrick McCann an Kate Marie Healy cease here, being declared extinct the coertion mesures superimposed to them.

III

There may be place to hierarchic appeal, a request to the opening of the instruction or the re-opening of the inquiry process, if requested by who has legitimacy t do it.

IV

The inquiry may be re-opened by the initiative of the Public Ministry or at the request of someone interested if new elements of proof emerge that may originate serious, pertinent and consequent diligences.

V

After the legal timings are passed, the process may be consulted by any person that reveals to hold a legitimate interest in it, as long as all the formalities imposed by law are observed.

Lisboa, 21 de Julho de 2008

The Press Office

Ana Lima

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