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. We suggest that it is unlikely in the extreme. (vi) What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? 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. "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. (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. 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. The Portuguese police investigation into her disappearance closed in July 2008. The Madeleine McCann Research Group (MMRG) was set up in 2009, around the time that I created what was to become the most popular Madeleine McCann discussion forum on the internet: The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann (CMOMM). 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. Employing disreputable and dishonest private investigation agencies, such as Metodo 3 and Oakley International. Madeleine McCann is a British child who went missing on the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday, from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while on holiday with her family in Portugal.. How long this initial phase lasted can only be guessed at. 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. 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. (i) They could say that Madeleine must have wandered off somewhere, (ii) They could say that they took her down to the beach and she got swept out to sea, (iii) Or could we get away with faking an abduction. German prosecutors said they have "strong evidence" that missing UK toddler Madeleine McCann is dead, as . 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. Gerry McCann gleefully quoted this case to try and prove his claim that cadaver dogs were unreliable. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. She had a gold-coloured necklace put around her neck. He took the early morning flight to Faro, Portugal from Exeter at 7am the very next day, Tuesday 1 May. Coffs coast. 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. G. The mystery of the strange 'Make-Up Photo' of Madeleine, which appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th April. All of them back to their apartments and showering or washing and getting changed for dinner? Chloe Corner, daughter of Jon Corner; Madeleines godfather, had been a Facebook friend of Catriona Baker well before 2007. How very true, over nine years later, has that prophecy come true. 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. As a Netflix documentary sparks new interest in the case, we look at the v It seems unlikely. 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. Then there would be questions about how the abduction hoax was going to be performed. Similarly, taking lunch in their own apartment every day after Sunday and not with their friends on the Payne's balcony. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. Photograph: PA. Amaral released his book, The Truth of the Lie, three days after the Portuguese attorney general decided to end the search for . It is said to prove that she was alive and well on the Tuesday that week. That money appears to have come from donations made by the general public. 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. 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? That theory would require Gerry McCann to have made an extremely risky, not to say crass, decision to walk for some 15 or 20 minutes across the village, carrying his dead daughter, at the very moment that his wife and/or others was raising the alarm. 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. The McCanns seemed to know influential people in the TV media and were successful in contacting them in the early hours of the morning and getting headline news about Madeleines disappearance onto the early Friday morning bulletins. 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. He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. 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. It was Wojchiech Krokowski, a man from Poland on holiday with his wife for the week. . We finally decide to question her (Kate McCann) as a witness, but not to pose questions on the events after 5.30pm, the time at which she returned to the apartment with her three children. The problem with the Tennis Balls Photo. Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. 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. has grazed her knee climbing up the steps to the aeroplane, The There are indications which point in either of these directions, but not enough information to say which. Portuguese police believe Madeleine McCann died in a 'tragic accident' and that her parents hid her body. He also described the man as of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. . He demonstrates that photos of Madeleines pyjamas were taken inside the McCanns own apartment and while the pyjamas were drying. What time shall we get her to say she saw someone? 7. 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). The explanation for this conduct is inexplicable unless, for example, the room was empty and being cleaned. 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. Less than a month later, on 28 June 2007, Dr Gerry McCann said: I have no doubt we will be able to sustain a high profile for Madeleines disappearance in the long-term. Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago when she was 3-years-old when . From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. A judge refused to hear the dog handlers evidence, saying that sniffer dogs evidence was too unreliable. Madeleine vanished from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3 in 2007, days before her fourth birthday. 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. (iv) Where can we get a car quickly so as to hide it? Tony and Cherie Blair also gave personal support to the McCanns, while David Cameron set up the five-year-long Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleines reported disappearance. The absence of confirmed photos of Madeleine on the holiday from the Last Photo onwards. 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. There was evidence that the photo was not taken in England as claimed, but in Portugal. 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 . Have we got anything we can carry her body out in, without anybody thinking there might be a body in it? Point 5. We do not think it was. 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. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. There would have been a severe emotional reaction and initial panic, and maybe a series of irrational responses, before they could properly gather their thoughts and begin to come to terms with the shock of losing their daughter and start planning how to cover it up. We find this a curious incident. 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? 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. Besides that, the times shown for Madeleine being in the creche do not even agree with what Kate McCann says in her own book about the events of that week. 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. (as indeed they did so claim). Later, Robert Murat claimed that Mrs Fenn had phoned him, not Mrs Glyn, about the alleged crying. The apartment. The conclusions my team and I have arrived at are the following: The minor, Madeleine McCann died inside apartment 5A of the Ocean Club in Vila da Luz, on the night of May 3rd 2007; Kate Healy and Gerald McCann were probably involved in the concealment of their daughter's body. Kate and Gerry McCann said it reflected progress in the . 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. How did his editor in Britain know so early that this was going to be a major international story? Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. The damage done to the shutters by Gerry McCann on the Sunday or Monday morning. There is, further, evidence that Catriona Baker was already known to the McCanns. 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. An urgent new arrest warrant has been issued for the prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann over a series of rapes and horrific child sex abuse. 7 April: Three . What was it that galvanised them all into sending reporters there so soon? We reject her evidence for several reasons. ANSWER: We reject her evidence for several reasons. Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal. (iv) In a derelict house in Praia da Luz? On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. With the body already hidden by that time? he room forensically cleaned of any blood? In the Last Photo, which appears to have been taken on Sunday, she was happy and obviously smiling at something that amused her. Her mother came to fetch her at 12.25 for lunch and took her back at 2 o'clock. 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 . 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. (viii) What time shall we get her to say she saw someone? When the film was published, the McCanns claimed she had been playing with Mummys make-up box, but that story didnt stand up to scrutiny. and claimed that she had been abducted by a paedophile gang. Madeleine could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May. There is evidence that he and Gerry McCann may have known each other before the McCanns holiday in Praia da Luz in 2007, 2. Gerry McCann tried to claim that cadaver dogs, and sniffer dogs generally, were incredibly unreliable. By now, if she had really died, someone would have broken ranks and revealed the truth. 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. 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. Rightly, Dr Roberts queries what was the point of the McCanns taking these photographs? This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. 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. 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. We have given, above, some general considerations as to when Madeleine may have died. Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April. (v) Would we be investigated by the police? 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. 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. Cat, to work with her whilst she visited homes to issue death This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. All other claimed sightings of Madeleine on 3 May are equally unproven and open to serious doubt. German authorities believe they have evidence that Madeleine McCann is dead. 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. There was evidence that the photo was not taken in England as claimed, but in Portugal. 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. 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. After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. 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. McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle We have said that Madeleine was seen alive on Sunday 29th April at lunch-time. Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007. All other claimed sightings of Madeleine on 3 May are equally unproven and open to serious doubt. 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. Were they sent ahead of Bell Pottinger as a kind of advance party because something serious had already happened to Madeleine? They then said that the samples could have been from Madeleine but also that this could not be stated with any certainty. It was a wild goose chase. The appointment by Tony Blair of his most senior PR officer, Clarence Mitchell, the Director of the Media Monitoring Unit at the Central Office of Information, and responsible directly to the Cabinet Office, to head up the governments PR initiative in support of the McCanns. Here, quite apart from the matters dealt with above, are several other specific indications that an abduction hoax was indeed planned over a four-day period: The relevant facts are these. before mid-day, boasting that he was one of the first journalists on the spot. http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-nightwear-job-by-dr-martin-roberts.html. In short, there is multiple evidence, beyond what weve said here, that her statement was fabricated. AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. However, a subsequent review of the samples determined that they had been contaminated by government Forensic Science Service staff. 28 votes, 55 comments. It is time for us now to be still more specific about why we think she died on the Sunday that week. 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. Dr Roberts article carefully analyses a series of photos of Madeleines pyjamas, and of other similar pyjamas, published after she was reported missing. 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: http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t11921-was-madeleine-seen-after-sunday-no-credible-evidence-that-she-was-watch-the-video? Multiple contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts of the McCanns and their friends about the events of that week from Monday onwards. 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). This was meaningless. A suspect has been identified in the 2007 case of missing toddler Madeleine McCann. 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? But this Tapas restaurant booking represented a change of plan. The body, the existence of which has been confirmed by the EVRD and CSI dogs but also by the results of the preliminary laboratory analyses, cannot be found. We refer here to a masterly study of issues concerning Madeleines pyjamas by Dr Martin Roberts. Immediately following the reported disappearance of Madeleine, the holiday company who arranged the holiday, Mark Warner, brought their PR company, Bell Pottinger, to Praia da Luz. 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. 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. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. In this respect, the fact that the only fingerprints found on the opened window was that of Kate McCann is highly significant. 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. Madeleine could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May. 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. Lourenco had evidently. Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by slave traders and sold to a rich family in North Africa or the Middle East, a . Then we come to them all sitting down for dinner at 8.30pm to 8.45pm. We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. 15 minutes to defend yourself against the death penalty. The very next day, early in the morning, a man called Nuno Lourenco rang the Portuguese police and said that, six days previously, a man was taking photographs of children on a beach had tried to kidnap his child at a tiny village called Sagres. 24 April. These are the relevant extracts from Goncalo Amarals book (AnnaEsses translation): On the fateful day of May 3rd, the attendance register at the play centre indicates that Madeleine arrived at 9.10, accompanied by her father. It includes such things as: A huge number of contradictory statements by the McCanns, their friends (David and Fiona Payne and Fionas mother Dianne Webster, Russell OBrien and Jane Tanner, and Matthew and Rachael Oldfield), and others closely associated with them.
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