If that analysis is correct, this shows evidence of cunning planning and deception, amounting to perverting the course of justice. Is it possible that the McCanns and advisers were already planning to claim that the shutters had been jemmied open and smashed by the abductor on Thursday? (vi) Can we get all this done before 8.30pm, when were supposed to meet our friends for dinner? 24 April. In April, Portuguese police arrived in the United Kingdom to observe questioning conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' dinner guests on the night Madeleine vanished. Employing disreputable and dishonest private investigation agencies, such as Metodo 3 and Oakley International. Was there a meeting of some kind there that week? Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April. Do we go frantically pretending to look for her? Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April We have set out why we believe that Madeleine died, and why she could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, as claimed by Portuguese detectives. Even had they all rapidly agreed to go along with an abduction hoax later that evening at 10pm, there would be all manner of questions and suggestions. C. (If the twins were there) The McCanns would have had to make swift arrangements to move them out of the way whilst they decided what to do. (ix) Where shall we say she saw the abductor? Gerry McCann statement as Arguido 7th September . In addition, Antonio Giminez Raso was caught bribing people in Morocco to falsely claim that they had seen Madeleine. The minor, Madeleine McCann died inside apartment 5A of the Ocean Club in Vila da Luz, on the night of May 3rd 2007; If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? No satisfactory explanation for this has ever been provided. The Murder of Madeleine McCann. The apartment. However, in our view it is very unlikely that her death could have been a simple accident, otherwise the McCanns would have taken her to the local hospital. When they were told that the smell of death and blood had been found in their apartment and hire car, they hurriedly came up with a series of improbable explanations for this: Blood spatters on the walls could have been caused by mosquitoes crashing into the wall, Madeleine has grazed her knee climbing up the steps to the aeroplane, The dogs has alerted to rotting meat, not the odour of a corpse, The dogs had alerted to dirty nappies, not the odour of a corpse, Kate McCann had certified six deaths in the two weeks before going on holiday, thats why the smell of death was on her clothes. Her disappearance sparked an international search, with missing posters of the little girl's face papered across the world and celebrity appeals for information that could help track her down and bring her abductors to justice. That also seems unlikely. British girl Madeleine McCann went missing at the age of three while on holiday with her family in Portugal in 2007. . To give but one recent example, dozens of people, including police and celebrities, knew that Jimmy Saville was a serial paedophile. He and his team also (rightly) rejected claims by Dr David Payne that he saw all three of the McCanns children alive on a visit he and Kate McCann said that he had made to the McCanns apartment at about 6.30pm on 3 May. But, according to the PJ theory, they must have been. Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: They would first have to decide if Madeleine really was dead, or could be revived or resuscitated. There is, further, evidence that Catriona Baker was already known to the McCanns. over reports they were responsible for Madeleine's death. dogs has alerted to rotting meat, not the odour of a corpse, The Then there would be another very tricky question to answer: Just our very good friends David and Fiona? Just our other good friends Russell and Jane? He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. We refer here to a masterly study of issues concerning Madeleines pyjamas by Dr Martin Roberts. Amaral and his team (rightly) rejected all claims by the McCanns that Madeleine was alive after 6pm on 3 May because, obviously, they were made by someone who was not independent. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. Do we need someone to pretend to see an abductor? January 28 - A video of the McCann's search for Madeleine is shown at a fund-raising event in London in January to mark the 1,000th day since Madeleine's disappearance. Shortly afterwards, he was removed as a translator. Just months after this, Eugene Zapata made a full confession which proved that the cadaver dogs evidence had been 100% correct. 3. But many people did know about Freuds conduct and likewise kept it secret for decades. Then, again assuming that they had all agreed to a plan of action, there would be loads more questions about (a) the apartment and (b) how to execute the hoax. What about a description of the abductor? "We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.". Madeleine vanished from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3 in 2007, days before her fourth birthday. Support for this claim was found when it became clear that every night from Sunday to Thursday, one or other adult had not been at the Tapas restaurant for dinner each night (see below), either because one of the adults or one of the children was stated to be ill. Photographs taken of Madeleines pyjamas before 3 May - in Praia da Luz, and the mystery of the brown tea stain. Madeleine McCann, 3, went missing from her family vacation in Portugal in 2007. . We cannot say. Let us presume at this point that they decided to tell all their friends: Dave, Fiona, Russell, Jane, Matt, Rachael (I assume at this point that those who say that Madeleine died after 6pm fully accept that the McCanns must have let all their Tapas 9 friends know what had happened to Madeleine - and that they all agreed on a plan - though I am aware that some still maintain that maybe, in this scenario, the McCanns didnt say anything to any of their friends, none of whom therefore knew that Madeleine was dead). Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by slave traders and sold to a rich family in North Africa or the Middle East, a . Almost 15 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann while on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007, police . Then (assuming that they then decided that they are not going to inform the authorities of Madeleines death) there are more decisions to be made about what to do with Madeleines body: Or phone a trusted friend first and ask for advice? These have been fully analysed on CMOMM over the past few years. He was contacted by one of Britains mainstream press in the early hours of the morning, before the media storm broke at about 8am on the Friday morning. Operation Grange, which has cost around 13 million but has got absolutely nowhere. If Madeleine McCann's pyjamas were not in fact abducted, then nor was Madeleine McCann." Gerry McCann calls for example to be made of 'vile' internet trolls Brenda Leyland was doorstepped on 2 October 2014 by Sky reporter Martin Brunt who accused her of 'attacking' the McCanns. Why did he say seven children, and not eight? This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. But those who claim that Madeleine died after 6pm have to explain how the McCanns were able to pull off an audacious abduction within the four hours between 6pm and 10pm (when the alarm was raised) on Thursday 3 May. However, a subsequent review of the samples determined that they had been contaminated by government Forensic Science Service staff. (v) Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz. On the very night when the McCanns and their friends should have been distraught, following Madeleines sudden disappearance, some of them were busy contacting the TV and print media and claiming, even in the very first hours after they had raised the alarm, that the Portuguese police were incompetent and not organising a proper search for her. Friday 22 April 2022, 9:14am. Mitchell once boasted that his job was to control what comes out in the media. He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. 5. We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse) after 6pm on 3 May as The PJ Theory. Portuguese police believe Madeleine McCann died in a 'tragic accident' and that her parents hid her body. This booking appears to have been made on the Sunday night. We know for certain that three photographs were taken of Madeleine playing happily in the Ocean Club playground in Praia da Luz in the late afternoon or early evening of the first day of the McCanns holiday - Saturday 28 April (this disposes of the views of some people who have claimed that Madeleine was never on that holiday). 28 April 2007 - The McCann's arrive in Portugal Kate and Gerry McCann take their three children - Madeleine, three, and twins Amelie and Sean, two, on holiday to the Ocean Club complex in Praia da . Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. Credit: PA. British and German police appealed for information about the man and released photographs of vehicles a Volkswagen camper van and a Jaguar which he used at the time. But we believe we now have sufficient knowledge to be able to state with confidence what we say below. Tavares de Almeida and Goncalo Amaral suggested Madeleine might have had an accident, perhaps a fall, and been killed as a result of that fall - after about 6pm on Thursday 3 May. (iv) Where can we get a car quickly so as to hide it? A very strange photo of Madeleine was published two years after Madeleine was reported missing. An ex-pat living in Spain, Jon Clarke, had created a successful newspaper for ex-pats, the Olive Press. Within weeks of reporting Madeleines disappearance, the McCanns planned events to mark her disappearance, far in advance. A comparison was made between the Last Photo and the Make-Up Photo. It is a fact that from about 8am on Friday 4 May, the news of Madeleines reported disappearance rapidly became the top story in both Portugal and Britain for weeks - and has continued to make international headlines ever since. Chapter 5: The days that followed. Updated. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. This week's . Again there are many instances in history where large groups of people who know about a serious crime work together to keep the crime a secret. Evidence that a group planned in advance how to create a major news story on the morning of Friday 4 May. All of these circumstances simply serve to confirm the alerts of the dogs and show that the McCanns account of events was not correct and that Madeleine was NOT abducted. C. The absence of photographs of Madeleine taken after Sunday. What possible good excuse could there be for lying so many times about the fate of a missing child? Gerald Patrick McCann (born 1968 in Glasgow) attended Holyrood R.C. The McCanns refusing to give their holiday photos to the police. There is real doubt as to whether that is a genuine photo of Madeleine - for a start two different people claim to have taken that photograph and on two different days. We have given, above, some general considerations as to when Madeleine may have died. Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer Sentenced to Death in Oklahoma for 1997 Murder of Newlywed Teen. . There is evidence that the British Embassy in Portugal arranged for Murat to become the main translator for the Portuguese police in the days following Madeleine being reported missing. Instead, they used the Head of Risks at PR company Bell Pottinger, Alex Woolfall, and their cousin, Michael Wright, to edit, crop and delete photographs from the McCanns memory cards before they were given to the police, on 9 May. There is good evidence that the so-called Last Photo of Madeleine was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April and not at lunchtime on Thursday 3 May as claimed by the McCanns. The absence of confirmed photos of Madeleine on the holiday from the Last Photo onwards. What was the real reason for the change of plan? There is real doubt as to whether that is a genuine photo of Madeleine - for a start two different people claim to have taken that photograph and on two different days. In 1992 he qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD, a research degree, also from Glasgow. How did his editor in Britain know so early that this was going to be a major international story? holiday, thats why the smell of death was on her clothes. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? We think there are good grounds for suspecting that the two photos may have been taken on the same day, and that Madeleines very sad appearance could be connected in some way to her having died later that same day. 8. avares de Almeida and Goncalo Amaral suggested Madeleine might have had an accident, perhaps a fall, and been killed as a result of that fall - after about 6pm on Thursday 3 May. reminiscent of the death of Princess Diana in 1997.Her parents . . Later, the McCanns completely changed their tune. Finally, they would have to arrange the crime scene, that is, the childrens bedroom, to make it look like an abduction had occurred - moved the beds. But for the purposes of this paper, we shall assume that she was there at 6pm.. Later on, the evidence suggests that the McCanns and their friends dined at the Tapas restaurant. blood (as indeed they did so claim). Gerry McCann - statement 10th May 2007 [3] They continued with searches outside, around the various apartment blocks, the deponent having asked MATTHEW to go to the secondary reception in order to communicate the fact to the local police, since he had no doubt that his daughter had been abducted. Maybe they would have had other related questions. There is no other photo of Madeleine which with certainty can be said to have been taken after then, which we regard as hugely significant. After Dr Amaral was removed as the investigation co-ordinator in October 2007, he was replaced by Paulo Rebelo. A very strange photo of Madeleine was published two years after Madeleine was reported missing. Doubtful or contradictory stories about what they did with Madeleine after Sunday, for example: Claiming to have gone on a trip to the beach with the children one day - despite the creche records saying the children were in their creches at the time and promoting stories about things that she had allegedly said or done, Contradictory stories about an alleged incident of the children crying at night-time: on Thursday: (a) it was the twins (b) it was Madeleine (c) it was Madeleine and Sean and (d) it was Amelie on the Wednesday not the Thursday. On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. In the Last Photo, which appears to have been taken on Sunday, she was happy and obviously smiling at something that amused her. We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse). 6 from what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleines corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died. Besides that, when journalists tried to question the McCanns close friend David Payne about the events of their holiday in Praia da Luz that week, he refused to talk, saying: We have a pact of silence. Here we rely mainly on the analyses by long-time Madeleine McCann researcher HideHo, who has examined all claimed sightings of Madeleine from Monday onwards, and found each one to be either vague, otherwise unsubstantiated or uncorroborated, or subject to contradictory evidence. Chloe Corner, daughter of Jon Corner; Madeleines godfather, had been a Facebook friend of Catriona Baker well before 2007. This was meaningless. On Friday 4 May, the McCanns friend Jane Tanner gave a description of a man she said she had seen, carrying a child, at 9.15pm on the night Madeleine was reported missing. If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? To even list, let alone explain, all the circumstantial evidence would take pages. Deliberately creating stories about claimed sightings of Madeleine which they knew to be false. The damage done to the shutters by Gerry McCann on the Sunday or Monday morning. Jill Havern, forum owner -----The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016 But this Tapas restaurant booking represented a change of plan. The Portuguese police became convinced that this must be the man whom Jane Tanners evidence suggested had abducted Madeleine. That conclusion is greatly enhanced by the McCanns first and subsequent reactions to these dramatic findings, which we have set out in detail elsewhere. She had a gold-coloured necklace put around her neck. Madeleine would have been happily playing with her brother and sister, her friends in the Lobsters club, and her Mum and Dad for six days. dogs had alerted to dirty nappies, not the odour of a corpse, Kate This booking appears to have been made on the Sunday night. All other claimed sightings of Madeleine on 3 May are equally unproven and open to serious doubt. (vi) What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? Chapter 4: The real victim is the missing child. April 23, 2022 12:58pm. The 17 alerts by two cadaver dogs, used by dog top handler Martin Grime, to the odour of a corpse and to blood or body fluids, in locations associated with the McCanns or on their clothes, is prima facie evidence that Madeleine died (or was killed) in the McCanns holiday apartment. In his analysis, Dr Roberts publishes disturbing evidence that Madeleines pyjamas may have been photographed on a blue hessian background, similar to that of the settee in the McCanns apartment, earlier during the day (3 May) when the alarm about Madeleine was raised. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. The children were sleeping at the back of their apartment, so there was nothing for the McCanns to see from the Tapas restaurant. It seems unlikely. One example illustrates our point. A raft of evidence, but especially comparative weather records for the week, point in that direction. He queries, as many others have done, why anyone would need to wash a minor tea stain off a pair of pyjamas just two days before the McCanns were due to return home, 5. It is a fact that from about 8am on Friday 4 May, the news of Madeleines reported disappearance rapidly became the top story in both Portugal and Britain for weeks - and has continued to make international headlines ever since. It was a wild goose chase. (vi) Do we need someone to pretend to see an abductor? rom what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleines corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died. Kate McCann said that the dogs were only alerting to the conscious or unconscious signals from the dog handler, Martin Grime, a claim that basically accused Martin Grime of gross professional incompetence. "It is now important to present a summary of this case, based on our deductions: reject what is false, throw out what we can't show with sufficient certainty and validate that which can be proven. A regional prosecutor's office is investigating a 43-year-old German national on suspicion of murder. April 2017: The only four . . This was meaningless. Later, when re-interviewed by the Portuguese police on 10 and 11 July, after police had interrogated his mobile phone, and discovered that the account he had earlier given of his movements was false, he completely changed his story, claiming he had been too tired on 15 May to tell the truth. We believe that there are a considerable number of people who know what really happened to Madeleine but will not speak of what they know. Shortly afterwards, he was removed as a translator. If Madeleine died after 6pm on 3 May, what would the McCanns have had to do? However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two Last Photo threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. Portugal. G. The mystery of the strange 'Make-Up Photo' of Madeleine, which appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th April. A preliminary point to raise is: were the twins present when, according to the PJ theory, Madeleine died? Catriona Baker also had a holiday at the McCanns home a few months after Madeleine was reported missing, suggesting a close relationship between them.. Clear evidence that the McCanns pattern of behaviour changed after Sunday in the following ways: Taking breakfast every day after Sunday in their own apartment and not with their friends in the restaurant. If we stop and pause for a moment to consider the above list, it is truly hard to conceive how they could possibly have made all these decisions, and carried them out, whilst all sitting down together for dinner in a public place at about 8.30pm until 10pm as if nothing had happened. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. Could they have discussed this desperate situation bilaterally? Maybe they would have had other related questions. We cannot say. We reject her evidence for several reasons. On at least one occasion, Rebelo suggested that he had firm evidence that the McCanns and their friends had. That money appears to have come from donations made by the general public. Despite this, Kate McCann had the effrontery to mention this case in her 2011 book on the case, madeleine. towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. Coffs coast. To sum up, there is no photographic evidence that Madeleine was alive after Sunday lunchtime (apart from the Make-Up photo - see below). The Tennis Balls Photo purports to be a photograph of Madeleine collecting tennis balls from a tennis court where adults have just been playing tennis. but the remaining detectives continued to pursue a small number of inquiries described in April 2017 as significant. If we stop and pause for a moment to consider the above list, it is truly hard to conceive how they could possibly have made all these decisions, and carried them out, whilst all sitting down together for dinner in a public place at about 8.30pm until 10pm as if nothing had happened. We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. He took the early morning flight to Faro, Portugal from Exeter at 7am the very next day, Tuesday 1 May. Quite apart from anything else, why did he delay for six days reporting a man taking photos of children on a beach and who later that day tried to kidnap his daughter? Catriona Baker also had a holiday at the McCanns home a few months after Madeleine was reported missing, suggesting a close relationship between them.. All of these, we say, are wholly consistent with something very serious having happened to Madeleine McCann on the Sunday. She claimed in her statement that the crying she heard was that of a child more than two - but no-one can distinguish between the cry of a two-year-old (the McCanns twins) and three-year-old (Madeleine). Thu 20 Mar 2014 18.35 EDT. (v) Have we got anything we can carry her body out in, without anybody thinking there might be a body in it? There are four photographs from the holiday that we can accept as having been taken on the McCanns' camera on that holiday: the three 'playground' photos, which were clearly taken on the Saturday, and the Pool photo, which the McCanns insist was taken on Thursday 3rd May, but evidence clearly indicates was actually taken on Sunday 29th April. Madeleine McCann is "assumed" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in . There is evidence that he and Gerry McCann may have known each other before the McCanns holiday in Praia da Luz in 2007, 2. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. Madeleine McCann 'sold to rich family', says former policeman. If there had been a bad accident, or something equally bad had happened, who would clean the room? The initial DNA samples taken from the body fluids discovered in the McCanns apartment and in their car showed a 99.99% certainty that they belonged to Madeleine McCann. This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. Catriona Baker was in sole charge of the Lobsters creche of seven children (including Madeleine) the week the McCanns were in Praia da Luz. Here are our main reasons: The change of routines from Sunday night onwards and the absence of independent and corroborated sightings of Madeleine from then onwards (see above). (iv) Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? So the McCanns and their friends would be rapidly tossing these sorts of ideas around: Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. In such a scenario, how likely is it that all six friends would have agreed within, say, 5-10 minutes that they would all play their roles in a fake abduction? There was evidence that the photo was not taken in England as claimed, but in Portugal. The German man, who was not publicly named, lived in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and burgled hotels and holiday apartments as well as dealing drugs, German police said. certificates, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat. before mid-day, boasting that he was one of the first journalists on the spot. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. Colin Sahlke died suddenly in mysterious circumstances with a significant amount of morphine in his system. A high-level meeting is taking place between their Portuguese lawyer and senior detectives involved in the long-runn On at least one occasion, Rebelo suggested that he had firm evidence that the McCanns and their friends had not been leaving their children and checking on them regularly each night as claimed, but that, instead their children were all being cared for in one of the friends apartments each night. 28 votes, 55 comments. So, if she had died, say shortly after 6pm, as suggested by both Goncalo Amaral and Tavares de Almeida, what would the McCanns have had to do first? ontradictory stories about which of them read the children a story on the Thursday evening. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. No body has ever been found. We do not set out here all the multiple contradictions about the alleged high tea on 3 May; these have been more than adequately analysed in many places on the internet. But those who claim that Madeleine died after 6pm have to explain how the McCanns were able to pull off an audacious abduction within the four hours between 6pm and 10pm (when the alarm was raised) on Thursday 3 May. Kate McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle Cat, to work with her whilst she visited homes to issue death certificates, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat. These and a number of other considerations about Robert Murat lead us to think that he was summoned to Portugal during Monday 30 April because something serious had happened to Madeleine the previous day, and that his help was needed to cover this up. When examined in detail, Lourencos claim that his daughter was nearly kidnapped by Krokowski falls apart. In early 2009, Brian Kennedy, the Cheshire businessman who led the McCann Teams private investigations, helped to create a bogus private investigation company, ALPHAIG Ltd. Numerous changes of story by the McCanns, their friends, and others closely associated with them. The McCanns issued sketches of a suspect on January 20th, based on a description of a "scary man" observed at the resort by a British holidaymaker. Not only was Dr Payne not independent, being a very close friend of the McCanns, but there were 20 or more significant contradictions between the accounts of Dr Payne and Kate McCann about what took place at that meeting, how long it lasted etc. ANSWER: Look at the analysis of these sightings by HideHo that we referred to above. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. Our views are unlikely to change unless significant new evidence emerges. BERLIN Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is dead, Germany's prosecutor said on Thursday after . In short, there is multiple evidence, beyond what weve said here, that her statement was fabricated. It appeared in a short film made by Madeleines godfather, film-maker Jon Corner. A suspect in the Madeleine McCann case who may have sexually assaulted five British girls in the Algarve up to 10 years ago died in 2009, according to a source close to . She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. All of these circumstances simply serve to confirm the alerts of the dogs and show that the McCanns account of events was not correct and that Madeleine was NOT abducted. The absence of any undisputed confirmed sightings of Madeleine on or after Monday 30 April. How very true, over nine years later, has that prophecy come true. (The McCanns incidentally paid the amazing sum of 500,000 to Bell Pottinger to keep Madeleines name on the front pages of Britains newspapers for a year. German authorities believe they have evidence that Madeleine McCann is dead. Gerry McCann gleefully quoted this case to try and prove his claim that cadaver dogs were unreliable. There was evidence that the photo was not taken in England as claimed, but in Portugal. June 4, 2020, 5:01 AM PDT. There is evidence that the British Embassy in Portugal arranged for Murat to become the main translator for the Portuguese police in the days following Madeleine being reported missing. Were they sent ahead of Bell Pottinger as a kind of advance party because something serious had already happened to Madeleine? 29, 11 Jun 2020; He tried to prove this by quoting from a legal judgment in the United States, in the case of Eugene Zapata, accused of murdering his wife. A German court . Getty Images. and claimed that she had been abducted by a paedophile gang. Evidence that an abduction hoax was planned over a period of four days. AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. Most people going on a weeks holiday dont plan on washing clothes. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. We also need to bear in mind that on the basis of the PJ theory as it stands, this was a holiday to a place the McCanns had never been to before. They refused to hand over their photographs without first selecting exactly what they wanted the police to see and what they didnt want them to see. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: (iii) Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? The conclusion that Madeleine died on the holiday is also strongly supported by a wealth of circumstantial evidence. A third (but we say unlikely) possibility is that she did suffer a genuine accident, but that the McCanns did not produce her to the local hospital because there may have been indications that Madeleine had previously suffered some form of harm or abuse. By now, if she had really died, someone would have broken ranks and revealed the truth. (iii) Or phone a trusted friend first and ask for advice? BERLIN Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is dead, Germany's prosecutor said on Thursday after identifying an imprisoned German child abuser as a murder suspect. German police said earlier that the suspect, who lived near Praia da Luz, has been sentenced on numerous occasions to prison terms for sexual abuse of children in the past. Perhaps even more significantly, he said that there were seven children being cared for that way each night. In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. The unconvincing and vague evidence given by creche nanny Catriona Baker about what Madeleine was actually doing in the crche all week. It has happened many times before in many other similar cases. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger. The absence of any genuine photographs of Madeleine taken after lunchtime on Sunday 29 April (see also below). A judge refused to hear the dog handlers evidence, saying that sniffer dogs evidence was too unreliable. This may or may not have taken some time to decide. Is that when Jane Tanner was briefed to give a description of Krokowski when she was questioned by the Portuguese police? Is that when Jane Tanner was briefed to give a description of Krokowski when she was questioned by the Portuguese police? The conclusions my team and I have arrived at are the following: 1. She did not make her statement until 20 August - over three-and-a-half months after the event. However, in our view it is very unlikely that her death could have been a simple accident, otherwise the McCanns would have taken her to the local hospital. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were considered . Chapter 7: Suspicious behaviour and contradictions. There is agreement from the McCanns, their friends, other holidaymakers and Ocean Club staff that they were all settled at their table at around 8.30pm to 8.45pm. 2017 - April 30: The McCanns prepare to mark . Madeleine's whereabouts remain unknown, although German prosecutors believe she is . However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two 'Last Photo' threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. If that analysis is correct, this shows evidence of cunning planning and deception, amounting to perverting the course of justice. Eileen McCann, Madeleine's paternal grandma, died from coronavirus weeks before police publicly announced a new suspect in the little girl's 2007 Algarve disappearance. Her accounts lack any real detail of what Madeleine actually did in the creche that week. A cadaver dog had alerted to the odour of a corpse which suggested that Eugene Zapata had moved his wifes body twice. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. The McCanns using different doors when entering and leaving their apartment. These have been fully analysed on CMOMM over the past few years. Link Madeleine McCann; prime suspect Christian Bruckner Getty Images. Later, Robert Murat claimed that Mrs Fenn had phoned, Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/f57-mccann-case-the-most-important-areas-of-research, http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.co.uk, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12362-new-film-by-richard-d-hall-when-madeleine-died. The lack of any credible, independent evidence by anybody that Madeleine McCann was seen alive after Sunday 29th April. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. They even got the German police to search the plane for Madeleine at Berlin Airport. Ok first of all I have always believed that Maddie died in the apartment because the only creature that wouldn't lie in this On the very night when the McCanns and their friends should have been distraught, following Madeleines sudden disappearance, some of them were busy contacting the TV and print media and claiming, even in the very first hours after they had raised the alarm, that the Portuguese police were incompetent and not organising a proper search for her. For example, on 3 June 2007, just one month after Madeleine went missing, Gerry McCann was planning a big event to mark Madeleines abduction, telling the press: We want a big event to raise awareness that she is still missingIt wouldnt be a one-year anniversary, it will be sooner than that. He wanted Elton John to front a major fund-raising concert. Jane would need to have a believable description to give to the police. Her accounts lack any real detail of what Madeleine actually did in the creche that week. No-one else heard a child crying loudly for 75 minutes that night. Aged care in-home; NDIS disability support; Respite care; Cleaning & gardening; Family support (VOOHC) Hunter region. Maddie 'killed by sleeping pill overdose'. 7. There would then have to be a rapid decision-making process during which all the following decisions would have to be taken: Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? Some of the men the McCanns employed were out-and-out crooks, like Antonio Giminez Raso from Metodo 3 and Kevin Haligen of Oakley International, both of whom spent four years in jail for crimes, respectively, of corruptly assisting a major drugs gang, and major fraud. A basic check of other . It follows from all that we have said above that, if Madeleine did indeed die on Sunday 29 April, those who knew she had died must have carefully planned an audacious hoax over a period of four days, so cunning and clever that most people still believe that she was abducted. It was a tragic accident in the apartment that night.'. (iv) In a derelict house in Praia da Luz? This issue was very fully addressed in Richard D. Halls third film about Madeleine McCann: When Madeleine Died? Without necessarily agreeing with every specific point he makes in that documentary, we adopt his main conclusions, so far as they go. There are too just many sightings of Madeleine all week; all those people cant be mistaken. Rightly, Dr Roberts queries what was the point of the McCanns taking these photographs? Repairs to the shutters of the McCanns apartment were needed on the Monday; Ocean Club staff came to mend them that day. Until they do speak, we will never know everything. German investigators announced that a 43-year-old German man, who was in prison for raping a 72-year-old woman in 2005, in the same town where Madeleine went missing, was a new suspect in the case . No-one else heard a child crying loudly for 75 minutes that night. To give but one recent example, dozens of people, including police and celebrities, knew that Jimmy Saville was a serial paedophile. Could they chat away merrily to the Carpenter family and their children, for example (as indeed they did that night), knowing that their first-born daughter had suddenly died within the past three hours? From that moment on, no other person saw the little girl, apart from her parents and their friends. Kate There is agreement from the McCanns, their friends, other holidaymakers and Ocean Club staff that they were all settled at their table at around 8.30pm to 8.45pm. What time shall we get her to say she saw someone? (iii) Just our other good friends Russell and Jane? After Madeleine was reported missing, the McCanns were able to claim that they had been eating at the Tapas restaurant each night, but were checking their children every half-hour. There is no other photo of Madeleine which with certainty can be said to have been taken after then, which we regard as hugely significant. Doctors, despite being trained not to show emotion over the circumstances of their patients, are also human beings, and in this case parents. "All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice," her parents, Kate and Gerry, said in a statement issued before the German prosecutor spoke. It was very early - Madeleine might very well have been found alive and well later that Friday - but on that very day, many media editors immediately despatched reporters to Praia da Luz. Madeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors. All kinds of dangers could have befallen the children while the parents were absent It is our view that the booking of the Tapas restaurant may well have been connected in some way with Madeleine already being dead or having suffered a fatal injury. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. Although it was a five-hour journey from his cottage in the countryside around Ronda, Spain, he managed to reach Praia da Luz. Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of the missing 4-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, hold up a picture of Madeleine during a press conference on June 6, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. H. Clear photographic evidence that the same pyjamas Madeleine had with her on holiday in Praia da Luz were later held up by the McCanns at two press conferences, one in London on 5 June 2007, the other in Amsterdam on 7 June . These and a number of other considerations about Robert Murat lead us to think that he was summoned to Portugal during Monday 30 April because something serious had happened to Madeleine the previous day, and that his help was needed to cover this up. There are indications which point in either of these directions, but not enough information to say which. Over thirteen years ago, on 3 May 3 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal's Praia de Luz, while her parents Kate and Gerry . It was not public knowledge, until earlier this year, that Sir Clement Freud - who twice invited the McCanns to his Praia da Luz home for eats and drinks in the weeks that followed Madeleines disappearance - had been a serial paedophile for decades. No DNA of Madeleine was found in the McCanns apartment, nor on her clothes nor on objects she had used or come into contact with on holiday, e.g. What was it that galvanised them all into sending reporters there so soon? He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. Spending vast sums of money - much of it from the public - on expensive lawyers (including Michael Caplan QC, the top barrister who successfully stopped General Pinochet being extradited to Chile) and PR advisers, when none of these could have realistically helped to find Madeleine, The McCanns body language, including their obvious lack of raw emotion after the loss of their first child, Madeleines 4th Birthday Just 9 days after her parents reported her disappearance. What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? 19 March: Kate and Gerry McCann accept 550,000 libel damages and front-page apologies from Express Newspapers over allegations they were responsible for Madeleine's death. All of these, we say, are wholly consistent with something very serious having happened to Madeleine McCann on the Sunday. His conduct whilst a translator in those early days after Madeleine was reported missing was bizarre and suspicious. Madeleine McCann was born in Leicester born to her parents Kate and Gerry McCann know all about her Parents Net worth, Nationality, Ethnicity and Occupation . It showed Madeleine in make-up. When he was asked at an interview under caution in Portugal on 15 May 2007 what he had been doing in Portugal during his first four days there (1-4 May), he lied about his actions in at least 17 material respects. There are two different versions of who made the booking, which in itself is strange. February - Mr Amaral fails . These bogus stories were then fed to the media. Madeleine could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May. At the Inquest the coroner said there was no evidence as to how he had come to take morphine, and no needle mark was found. Is it possible that the McCanns and advisers were already planning to claim that the shutters had been jemmied open and smashed by the abductor on Thursday? Madeleines 4th Birthday Just 9 days after her parents reported her disappearance and claimed that she had been abducted by a paedophile gang. From that moment on, no other person saw the little girl, apart from her parents and their friends. It is said to prove that she was alive and well on the Tuesday that week. What indications do we have about when she died? Lourenco had evidently planned to call the police and already knew of the description that Jane Tanner had given to the police. 6. Arranging two bogus week-long searches of a dam in Portugal, the Arade Dam, pretending that they knew nothing about this search, when in fact they had paid a lawyer, Marcos Aragao Correia and men form Metodo 3 to conduct the search. On Friday 4 May, the McCanns friend Jane Tanner gave a description of a man she said she had seen, carrying a child, at 9.15pm on the night Madeleine was reported missing. Quite apart from anything else, why did he delay for six days reporting a man taking photos of children on a beach and who later that day tried to kidnap his daughter? What shall we all do after we raise the alarm? 6. In addition to all these considerations, for Martin Grimes cadaver dogs to have alerted to the scent of a corpse, no longer present, some three months after the McCanns had vacated their holiday apartment, Madeleines body must have been lying in the McCanns apartment for at least 90 minutes, probably two hours or longer. He demonstrates that photos of Madeleines pyjamas were taken inside the McCanns own apartment and while the pyjamas were drying. What possible good excuse could there be for lying so many times about the fate of a missing child? Madeleine McCann went missing, aged three, in 2007. With the body already hidden by that time? She said she spoke to a friend of hers, Edna Glyn, while the crying was going on, but neither of them did anything about it. 2 min read. (as indeed they did so claim). Madeleine McCann was a 3-year-old British toddler when she went missing on the evening of May 3, 2007, during a family holiday trip in Portugal. He queries, as many others have done, why anyone would need to wash a minor tea stain off a pair of pyjamas just two days before the McCanns were due to return home, and then photograph them. Never being seen out together with the twins from Monday onwards. But, according to the PJ theory, they must have been. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. We refer in particular to her article on CMOMM posted on 28 September 2015, on the lack of credible evidence that Madeleine was seen alive after Sunday, link here: This was confirmed by Kate McCanns own account of the events of that week, in her book, Madeleine, which did nothing to remove all the question marks about the many contradictions and inconsistencies about what really happened that week. The following are some of the main factual issues we have taken into consideration in arriving at our conclusion that Madeleine McCann died on Sunday 29 April: The complete absence of any of Madeleines DNA in Praia da Luz. The Portuguese police investigation into her disappearance closed in July 2008. The explanation for this conduct is inexplicable unless, for example, the room was empty and being cleaned. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. We suggest that it is unlikely in the extreme. "Kate McCann and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter, Madeleine McCann" George Moras, Honorary Chief Commissioner of the National French Police "Today, the only person prosecuted in the case of the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann is the officer who conducted the investigation. Then we come to them all sitting down for dinner at 8.30pm to 8.45pm. This suggests that Lourenco was part of a group of people who planned to deliberately sabotage the Portuguese polices investigation and send them off in entirely the wrong direction. Police said they wanted to speak to a thus-far unidentified second person who spoke with the German suspect from a Portuguese phone number on May 3, 2007 at the time of McCann's disappearance. Then there would be questions about how the abduction hoax was going to be performed. New research in this section points to Madeleine's death being on the Sunday or Monday and not Thursday 3rd May. In the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe . Chapter 6: The arrival of the English Police. Mr McCann . Mrs Pamela Fenn, a widow who lived above the McCanns, heard Madeleine crying between 10.30pm and 11.45pm on Tuesday night. We think there are good grounds for suspecting that the two photos may have been taken on the same day, and that Madeleines very sad appearance could be connected in some way to her having died later that same day. Madeleine McCann may have been sold to trafficking ring before death: prosecutor . Recommended Stories The . We have set out why we believe that Madeleine died, and why she could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, as claimed by Portuguese detectives. Here are the relevant considerations we have in mind regarding Murats involvement: 1. AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle She had a pink hair bead on her. After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. We have given evidence that we cannot rely on the claims by Catriona Baker and the McCanns that Madeleine was alive at an alleged 'high tea' on . Further to the above point, hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner were found at Krokowskis apartment when it was searched by the police. Here is what each of the two men actually wrote: This was how Tavares de Almeida expressed the investigations preliminary conclusion I will just reproduce his first six points: From everything that we have discovered, our files result in the following conclusions: he minor Madeleine McCann died in Apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, on the night of 3 May 2007, imulation - a staged hoax - of an abduction took place, n order to render the childs death impossible before 10.00pm, a situation of checking of the McCann couples children while they slept was concocted, Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann are involved in the concealment of the corpse of their daughter, Madeleine McCann, t this moment, there seems to be no strong indications yet that the childs death was other than the result of a tragic accident. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. Point 5. "The public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig is investigating a 43-year-old German national on suspicion of murder.".

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