Madeleine McCann, nog steeds geen nieuws.

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Op vrijdag 1 mei 2009 13:08 schreef Suko het volgende:
De docu vsn Amaral, nu met Engelse ondertiteling, en natuurlijk....niet vertoond in de UK.

The documentary the McCanns don't want you to see

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Madeleine probably snatched after going in search of her parents, says expert

Published Date: 01 May 2009
Madeleine McCann was probably abducted after walking out of her holiday flat in search of her parents, an expert on her disappearance says.


Criminologist Mark Williams-Thomas said today that it was unlikely an abductor entered apartment 5a at the Ocean Club in Praia Da Luz, Portugal.

The former detective said Madeleine was probably snatched by an opportunistic paedophile as she looked for her parents as they ate with friends at a nearby tapas bar.

He said publicly-available evidence leads him to believe the three-year-old arranged her toys on her bed and left through the unlocked patio door.

Mr Williams-Thomas said the case bears striking similarities to the murder of Sarah Payne, who was snatched from a West Sussex field nine years ago.

He said: "Is it unreasonable to presume that Madeleine woke up and then went in search of her parents at a restaurant within a holiday complex that she had grown familiar with over the course of her holiday?

"Neatly tucking up her toys – as her parents had done to her – she slipped out of the apartment through an insecure patio door.

"This seems all the more credible given what we know happened to eight-year-old Sarah Payne, who was abducted in July 2000 even though she was only out of sight of her family for a matter of seconds."

Mr Williams-Thomas has made his comments after reviewing more than 10,000 documents amassed by Portuguese police during their investigation. He said an abductor would not have arranged the toys on the bed as he would have wanted to escape as quickly as possible.

The expert said a paedophile may have also chosen to take one of the younger and more defenceless twins, Sean and Amelie, sleeping nearby.

Mr Williams-Thomas said: "Based on the evidence provided from within the case files it is more likely that she was abduc-ted after she had left the apartment. A number of factors sugg-est that this is the likely scenario."

Parents Gerry and Kate McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, will mark the second anniversary of her disappearance this weekend.

They said the search for Madeleine continues with the "same strength and determination" and they are convinced someone knows where she is.

The McCanns have been left to co-ordinate their own inquiry after the Portuguese police investigation was closed.

Mr Williams-Thomas criticised several aspects of the Portuguese investigation, including botched searches and a complete failure to secure the crime scene.

He said reliance on evidence of dogs trained to detect dead bodies was "significant and damaging", leading police to mistakenly focus on the McCanns.

The couple were made suspects, or arguidos, as a result of ambiguous evidence from specially-trained British dogs and their handlers, he said.

And he said Portuguese authorities must act to register known paedophiles.

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COPS FAILED TO PROBE £1M MADDIE RANSOM

Police hunting Madeleine McCann ignored a £1million ransom demand from a man who said he had her, a shock report claimed last night.

The man asked for the money in a call to a staff member at the Portuguese holiday apartment where the four-year-old was last seen nearly two years ago.

He left the message on a phone belonging to a worker at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz – with a child’s voice speaking English in the background.

Police put a trace on the phone but the caller never rang back.

The bombshell was revealed yesterday in a new report by criminologist Mark Williams-Thomas, a former UK detective who has worked on the case since Maddie vanished on May 3, 2007. “The demand was received via a voicemail,” he said. “Although an intercept was placed on the line, no further calls were received.”

Mr Williams-Thomas believes Madeleine was snatched after waking in the apartment and going to look for her parents.

But his report concludes that the girl is probably now dead.

He has sent the report to Madeleine’s parents Kate, 41, and Gerry, 40, of Rothley, Leics, who last night declined to
comment.

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Op woensdag 6 mei 2009 11:38 schreef Suko het volgende:
Portugese inspecteur schrijft boek over Maddie
Publicatie: 05/05/09 22:32 Laatst gewijzigd: 05/05/09 22:55 Gonzalo Amaral heeft een spraakmakend boek geschreven over de verdwijning van de Engelse kleuter Madeleine McCann.

De Portugese hoofdinspecteur die het politie-onderzoek naar de zaak leidde, schrijft daarin dat Maddie dood is en beschouwt Maddie’s ouders nog steeds als verdachten. Hoewel het onderzoek naar het meisje vorig jaar werd gestaakt, houdt de zaak de inspecteur nog altijd bezig. En zijn boek, dat nu in Nederland uit is, is zo omstreden, dat in Engeland niemand het durft uit te geven. Hart van Nederland

Ook een artikel (transcript) van Kazlux, inclusief een filmpje/interview met Amaral.

* Reacties op het 3 Arguidos-forum

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Op woensdag 6 mei 2009 13:08 schreef Suko het volgende:
Hooooooooooi Kahaarin! Nee, dat niet maar de McCanns hebben genoeg publiciteit gehad. Alle Engels bladen stonden dit weekend bol van de nieuwe reconstructiefoto van Madeleine en hoe moeilijk ze het weer hadden.

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De PR van Mitchell is een goed geoliede machine. Je begrijpt werkelijk niet waar de echte Engelse journalist is gebleven, wat een achterlijk westers land is de UK geworden. McCann-kritiek wordt niet geduld, laat staan gepubliceerd, om maar te zwijgen over het uitgeven van het boek van Amaral. Bij alle vragen die de McCanns hebben en de kritiek op het onderzoek, dan snap je toch echt niet waarom er geen verzoek tot heropening is geweest, maar nee, die termijn hebben ze gewoon laten overschrijden, er was geen reden toe, nee...nog steeds niet.

McCanns have not demanded reopening of the process

En verder schrijft Joana Morais nav een stukje uit het interview met Oprah Winfrey: "So why didn't the McCanns request for the reopening of the process, as it was their legal right to do so? Dat is hier te lezen.

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Madeleine McCann: Oprah Winfrey Community Blames McCanns


MADELEINE McCann Watch: Introducing Daniel Morcombe and Oprah’s online community point the finger at the McCanns…

Brisbane Times: “’Keep searching’ Morcombes tell McCanns”

The disappearances of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe and British toddler Madeleine McCann, who vanished in completely different circumstances and different time zones, have drawn together families both desperate for closure…

One fact links the two: someone’s child is missing.

Mr Morcombe said he and Denise had considered releasing a computer-generated image of Daniel, as he may look aged 19, but decided it was not relevant to his case.


“As grave as it sounds, we think that it’s incredibly unlikely that Daniel is still alive. We don’t think that an (age-progressed) computer-generated image would help the investigation,” he said.

Idaho Statesman: “McCanns to Winfrey: Madeleine is still alive”

In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their daughter’s alleged abductor to “tell us where she is.”

Does the Idaho Statesman not believe the McCanns? You can’t libel a namesless abductor, but you can lible the McCanns:


Kate and Gerry McCann said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that they believe a man took their daughter, Madeleine, and she is still alive. The girl was almost 4 years old when she disappeared in May 2007.

“It’s not too late to do the right thing,” Gerry McCann said when Winfrey asked the parents what they wanted to say to the person who took Madeleine.

“You know, they can give her up, they can tell us where she is,” he said. “They can hand her over to a priest or someone in authority.”

And Kate McCann?


“This man is known to somebody,” she said. “He’s someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s cousin, someone’s neighbor, someone’s colleague, someone’s partner, so he’s known to someone. And even if these people don’t know that he definitely did it, they might have a suspicion, and it’s just, I guess, somehow reaching out to them and saying please come forward.”

Facts. And now a few more facts from the good people at Oprah Winfrey’s community website:

Note: Many of the comments on Oprah’s libel the McCanns and we will nto repeat them here.

No she did not say that at all and the prime minister was not Gordon Brown at the time when Kate kept her diary, the prime minister was Tony Blair. Please adhere to the facts.

Tony Blair actually rung Kate and Gerry and before you go making a big deal out of this, I know for certain that Tony Blair used to make a habit of ringing people he thought may need him and sometimes he would ring people completely out of the blue who had written to him, regardless of who they voted for – Diarubyem

I am a mother of 3 grown boys. This story gave me nightmares even though I have kept up with it since it happened two years ago. I am appalled at the number of people who think these parents are guilty and have such anger and hatred toward them - loridushki

And so after appearing on the Oprah Woinfery show, a news nation is watching the parents…

And from Oprah’s staff, no mention of libel, just:

The little girl who vanished from her family vacation. In their first interview in America, Madeleine McCann’s parents talk to Oprah. See what life is like now.

So says “HARPOBear” - who delivers the Oprah Winfrey call to arms:

Welcome to Oprah.com! Get inspired. Reach for your dreams. Feel empowered and energized every day to make choices that will lead to a happier, more fulfilling life. Be delighted. Grow. Connect. Give back. Live your life as if it really matters, because it does.


The show is not to help in the hunt for the child. The show is about watching the parents and getting off on their pain. And playing armchair detective, engaging in debate over their innocence or guilt.

It’s the kind of thing what many readers of Anorak send it - but we don’t post nearly all the commetns. We modertate.

In any high-profile story, the publication walk a tightrope between trying to satisfy public hunger for information and staying within contempt laws.

It is not “fair comment” to say the McCanns killed their daughter - its is speculation. It is libel. Libel. Libel. Tabloid TV, like the tabloid press, can do more harm than good.

Ask Robert Murat.

Madeleine McCann is missing - after two years, the Our Maddie show has become a circus…

Did you see them with the Pope - “a British public spectacle; an emtional national experience”?

Pull up a chair. Tissue or a red hot poker, sir, madam? Enjoy…

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The police chief who led the botched investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann yesterday finally admitted Portuguese police bungled the job.

Goncalo Amaral said: Its true. At the time there was no set procedure for a missing child. The crime scene was not well looked after.

He also admitted a reconstruction should have quickly been organised. Madeleine was three when she vanished from her parents holiday apartment in Praia de Luz two years ago last Sunday.

Retired Amaral, 49, moved off the inquiry after five months, is now plugging a new book in France and demanding cash for interviews.
In an article published in Le Parisien newspaper yesterday, he accused Madeleines parents Kate and Gerry of covering up the truth despite the fact they were officially cleared by Portuguese police last July.

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TV documentary throws up new Madeleine clues

Saturday, 9 May 2009

A former RUC man is pursuing “potentially significant” information received after the broadcast of a new TV documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, her family’s spokesman has said.

More than 50 calls were made to the McCanns’ investigative hotline following the airing of Thursday night’s programme, which highlighted three separate sightings of a suspicious man before the little girl vanished.

The callers offered “real, new information”, including details of possible sightings of the missing child, family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said.

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby.

The new documentary highlighted three witnesses who saw an odd stranger who appeared to be watching the McCanns’ apartment in the days before the little girl disappeared.

An artist’s impression based on one account of the man, who was described as “very ugly” with pitted skin and a large nose, was also released this week.

Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, are employing two retired British policemen to continue the search for their daughter.

The former officers — ex-RUC detective inspector Dave Edgar, (52) and ex-detective sergeant Arthur Cowley (57) — scoured thousands of pages from the official Portuguese case files looking for clues. They put the three reports of a suspicious stranger hanging around the McCanns’ apartment together with two sightings of a man carrying a child away from the flat on the night Madeleine vanished.

Mr Mitchell said there was a good response to Thursday night’s programme — Madeleine Was Here — which was watched by 2.6m people on Channel 4.

He said: “The investigative phone line has had at least 50 calls since the documentary.

“It’s a very encouraging response because there is real, new information being given in some of these calls, information that the investigators are now able to set to work on.

“Some of the calls are coming from Portugal, and that’s exactly where we need the information from.

“We will not go into detail but the investigators are very pleased with that response.”

He added: “Many of the calls are offering real information that’s potentially significant and can be worked upon. It’s not speculative or vague.”

The documentary will be shown by Portuguese broadcaster SIC on Monday and negotiations are under way to air it in other countries.

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A WOMAN was seen acting suspiciously outside Kate and Gerry McCann’s apartment just an hour before their daughter Madeleine was abducted.


The slim, Portuguese-looking woman in a plum-coloured top and white skirt with long, dark, swept-back hair acted furtively when she was spotted at 8pm on May 3 in 2007 near the Mark Warner Ocean Club complex.

She was standing under a streetlight at a crossroads only 40 feet from where Madeleine was sleeping with her brother Sean and his twin sister Amelie.

Investigators are being urged to find her to see if she was in any way connected to a pockmarked prowler seen several times outside the apartment in the day leading up to the kidnap.

Details of the mystery woman have only just become known after a Sunday Express investigation into the baffling case was alerted by an elderly British woman who has lived in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve for more than 30 years.

Speaking from her villa near the Ocean Club, the woman, who has asked not to be named, recalled: “On that night I went to the supermarket at the bottom of the road just before it closed at 8pm.

“As I drove past the entrance to the Ocean Club I saw a woman standing opposite Apartment 5A the McCanns were staying in.

“Even at that time of night the streets were deserted, so I was surprised to see someone there. I remember thinking it was unusual because it is just not the sort of place you would hang around.

“As I drove up to the junction she stepped around to the other side of the street lamp as though she didn’t want me to look at her. She was not carrying a bag or a mobile phone. I thought she might have been waiting for a lift but no car came along while I was there.

“I turned right and could see quite clearly she was looking at Apartment 5A.

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Op zondag 17 mei 2009 11:00 schreef voyeur het volgende:

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Ik ga mijn avatar niet weer veranderen!

Overigens gaan de McCanns juridische aktie nemen tegen onze Portugese inspecteur's boek.

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Parents of Madeleine McCann to sue police chief who branded them killers
May 17 2009 by Paul Cole, Sunday Mercury

THE parents of missing Midland girl Madeleine McCann are to sue disgraced former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral.

Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were branded killers after Amaral suggested that they had been involved in the three year-old’s death, and had concealed the body.

In a statement last night, the McCanns said: “We, together with our three children Madeleine, Sean and Amelie, are taking this legal action against Goncalo Amaral.

“It is over his entirely unfounded and grossly defamatory claims that Madeleine is not only dead, but that we, her parents, were involved in concealing her body.”

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Madeleine McCann: British paedophile Raymond Hewlett is 'significant new suspect'
Raymond Hewlett, a convicted British paedophile responsible for a number of sex attacks in the last 40 years, is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it has emerged.

Hewlett, a former soldier, is believed to have been living an hour's drive from the resort of Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when she disappeared in April 2007, reports said.

The 64-year-old has a long record of sex attacks on young girls and is wanted by police in Britain and Ireland.

The new information is thought to have emerged after Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, made a string of international media appearances to issue a fresh appeal for information on the second anniversary of her disappearance.

New material released included a computer-aided image of what she may look like now, aged six, while another was a sketch of a suspect seen near the holiday complex.

Hewlett, described by detectives as "cunning" and a "danger to children", is a former Scots Guardsman who has worked as a trawlerman and fairground operator.

He has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls.

Hewlett is also wanted by some British police forces for questioning about sex attacks stretching back nearly 30 years.

It is not known if he was interviewed by Portuguese police but they have been informed he may have been involved in her disappearance.

The search for Madeleine is headed by two retired UK policemen, Dave Edgar, a former RUC and Cheshire Police officer, and Arthur Cowley, previously of Merseyside Police, who run Alpha Investigations Group and have been hired by the Find Madeleine Fund to investigate missed leads.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCann family, said: "My understanding is he is currently receiving hospital treatment and is currently in Germany.

"Kate and Gerry are fully aware of the development and have been for a little while.

"This is one line of inquiry in an ongoing investigation led by two former police officers.

He added that he believed a number of British police forces had been looking for Mr Hewlett for some time.

"Three police forces have an interest in him and want to talk to him, I believe, about other matters," he said.

"He has a background that would be of interest to any police force. It is potentially significant but I will go no further than that."

He refused to comment on whether Hewlett was in police custody.

The alarm was raised about Hewlett by a couple who met him while on holiday in Portugal.

When Alan and Cindy Thompson met Hewlett, he was living with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck travelling from campsite to campsite.

Mr Thompson told the Daily Mirror: "Hewlett befriended us but kept quiet about his terrible past.

"We were mortified and disgusted to discover the truth."

They also described a conversation in which Hewlett said he was approached by some "Gipsy tourists" offering to buy his daughter just before Madeleine went missing.

Mrs Thompson said: "We didn't think too much of this at the time. Ray and his family led a desperate hand-to-mouth lifestyle and someone may have thought he'd be tempted to sell one of his six children."

They also recalled him mentioning a "business" trip to Morocco where there were several alleged sightings of Madeleine in the months after her disappearance.