LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE HELP IN THEIR LABOURS

Hmm - Tricky one this, but bound to be good for a few votes!
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Being such "important people" and more deserving that the rest of the UK population Kate and Gerry McCann have sought the assistance of  David Cameron to help find their daughter Madeleine at a half hour private meeting with the Tory Leader.  Well, almost private, as Andy Coulson, the Tory director of communications, and Clarence Mitchell were also present.

Apparently, Cameron said that if he became Prime Minister he would do all he could to give the case priority and do anything in his power to discover what happened to Madeleine and relieve the frustration and disappointment the McCanns had suffered.

It has also been disclosed that last week the McCanns also had a private meeting with Home Secretary Alan Johnson.  His reaction seems to have been less positive.

We cannot understand if this latest publicity stunt was for the benefit of Madeleine, her Parents "search" Fund, the would be PM Cameron, or Clarence Mitchell who is hoping to win a seat at the next General Election?  Your guess is as good as ours.

It is also reported that on Friday last, Kate McCann was very tearful as she spoke of the “heartbreaking” failure by police to follow up new leads.    Did their own Private Dicks do any better we wonder, apparently not!

Maybe if Kate and Gerry got off their arses and started actually looking for Madeleine themselves they may find her.  After all they were the last ones to see her alive!  They could start in PdL and the surrounding area.

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REMEMBER, REMEMBER - THERE IS GUILT

Gerry and Kate McCann, no matter what they say, do, or who they sue, will ALWAYS be GUILTY of leaving their three young children alone and unattended and open to danger on the evening of 3rd May 2007.  Irrespective of the final outcome of the alleged abduction of Madeleiene they will forever have to carry this guilt on their shoulders and in their hearts.

It seems to us that throughout the period of the investigation the simple fact of their treatment of their children on that fateful evening has been given second place.  Perhaps if they had been prosecuted for this act of neglect at the outset the enquiries could have taken a different turn and the Police efforts given a useful boost.
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JOIN THE PARTY

Now we see that the McCanns have organised a "celebration" party for the rich and affluent at a cost of 150 UKP per head to commemorate the 1000th day since Madeleine went missing.
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We just hope that all those who will so generously give at the event will remember that Maddie went "missing" as a result of being left alone, unsupervised and unprotected by those same "parents" who will greet them at this gastronomic dinner.
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Maybe Maddie is, in fact, better where she is now than being connected with such hypocritical guardians.
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BRANSON, KENNEDY and the rest would be better giving to a more worthwhile charity that the McCann survival fund, for that it what it seems to have become!
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It is presumed that the doting parents are NOT expecting to find Maddie prior to the big day?  That should ring a thousand bells to any half intelligent policeman!
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THE WITNESSES

The seven witnesses that Dr.Amaral will call during his trial (hearing) with the Mccanns commencing on 12 January 2010.
1) Magalhães e Meneses, the Public Ministry prosecutor who held the main prosecution file on Madeleine
2) PJ Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida, the detective who compiled the powerful report dated 10 September 2007 which concluded that there were strong indications that Madeleine had died in Apartment 5A, adding in his report that “from what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleine’s corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died”
3) PJ Inspector and McCann family liaison officer, Ricardo Paiva, who was at the heart of the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance
4) National-Joint Director of PJ in Faro Guilhermino Encarnação,
5) The PJ's Serious Crime Unit Director Luís Neves,
6) The former Judiciary Police Inspector and Criminologist, Francisco Moita Flores, the one who famously said that it would be ‘one of the 10 or 12 individuals’ in what has been called the ‘Tapas 9’ group that was most likely to know what really happened to Madeleine, and finally,
7) Scotland Yard Inspector, José Freitas
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Above courtesy of Ironside
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Should be an interesting following what happens!
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ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY LOOMS! ...

....and more publicity and heart wrenching activity from the McCann camp and all its followers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/8864543

It is reported that the McCanns will be marking yet another "special" day for their Daughter, Madeleine, who disappeared after she was so cruely left alone with her two younger siblings whilst her parents left for an evening of revelry with their friends.

January 2010 will mark the 1000th day since little Maddie went missing.

Why, oh why do these McCanns keep almost "celebrating" these days and expecting the rest of us to do likewise?  We would prefer to celebrate the day that Maddie was found, or they were brought to justice for at least the act of abandoning their children on that fateful evening.   The law has let them off completely whereas others doing a similar act would be encarcerated in one of her Majesty's penal institutions.

According to the first comment this post has received the McCann camp are now apparently establishing "time lines" as to when she will be found.  How absurd it is for them to suggest that a certain time will pass before Maddie is found!!  Unless, of course, someone knows where she is and is going to make the fateful "discovery" at some pre-ordained time and place in the future!  Maybe after they have sold all the merchandise!

Such comments do little to convince Joe Public that the group are less than innocent in the whole charade, which after all, is what it has almost become.
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The HEARING that was not HEARD

Yesterday the Court in Lisbon was to hold the Hearing regarding the ban on Amaral's Book, The Truth of the Lie. Due to the quarantine imposed on Amaral's Lawyer the case has been put back until 12 January 2010. The McCanns will have to wait until then to see if their claim for damages of £1M will be granted.

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The McCanns were in Lisbon for the start of the hearing.

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http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/12/video-mccanns-at-lisbon-court.html

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Courtesy of Ironside

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TELL ALL BEFORE YOU DIE!

Today's Daily Express reports that Raymond Hewlett, an admitted paedophile, is still being considered by the ex police officers** working for the McCanns, as being responsible for the demise of Madeleine. ** Dave Edgar and Arthur Crowley, who do not appear to have made one valuable contribution to the effort since being employed over a year ago!

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They say that he fits the description and pock marked person given in the description by Jayne Tanner. But if we remember rightly Ms Tanner could not have seen a pock marked face at the time, and in the gloom, of the night that she states. Also was the pock marked description only presented after Mr Hewlett had been mentioned as a possible suspect through having been in Luz at the time? And whatever happened to the "droopy" moustache? Who is trying to kid who?

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We don't know about other folk - but we think there is a case here of "lets pin the disappearance of Madeleine on this man who has just a short period to live and then we can put the case to bed and release the McCanns of any suspicion"!

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Despite Raymond Hewlett's confessions regarding other incidents in his life, he has strenuously resisted any effort to get a confession from him regarding Madeleine McCann's abduction or disappearance. If he had been involved in Maddie's disappearance, we think that having "cleared his concience" of his other transgressions, he would automatically have mentioned every incident with which he was connected.

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We consider that despite the man's past, and having made his peace with his God, he should be allowed to die with the dignity we all deserve at such a time, rather than being made a skapegoat for parents who are content to leave their young children unattended and open to danger whilst they follow their social activities.

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MADDIE ABDUCTOR -v- SCOTLAND YARD

Today's Press report that the services of Scotland Yard and Britains top abduction squad are being asked to get involved with the Madeleine McCann (alleged) abduction case. Perhaps if the McCanns had not been so keen to criticise the Portuguese Police and decide on their own course of action we may have seen the case solved and an arrest made long ago, in fact within days or weeks of the alleged offence. We have read The Truth of the Lie, by Detective Amaral and the evidence presented gives an indication as to where the truth is. The most convincing is the smell of death unearthed by the trained ENGLISH dogs who found this evidence by the sofa in the lounge, in a wardrobe in the parents bedroom and in the car they hired. The other evidence points out discrepancies in the statements given by the various members of the holiday group together with other evidence gleaned from ordinary people who were witness to various incidents that happened around the apartment and in Luz itself. The McCanns have spent a veritble fortune on publicity, travel, PR gurus, spokespersons and private detective agencies and the presently employed detectives all to no avail. The World will probably be delighted to see the specialist British squad get involved and the whole matter brought to a conclusion. The Portuguese will give them all the assistance they need. However, do not denegrate what the Portuguese Police have done as the McCanns themselves appear to do. They were operating in a difficult situation with un-cooperative people who condemned their actions from day one and according to Amaral's book were more interested in defending their own position than helping to find the answers. It cannot happen soon enough, the World is waiting!

MAIL ORDER MADDIE - NEW THEORY

It is now thought that Madeleine McCann may have been the subject of a "snatch to order".

MORE RED HERRINGS

This is a photograph of a littel girl seen in Sweden who it is suggested may be Maddie. A photographic comparison shows certain similarities in the facial characteristics which leads some to believe that it could be Maddie. Assuming that she is being seen openly in the area in which she was photographed it is, to our mind, extremely unlikely that she is the missing child.

The publicity machine continues to operate.

MADDIE MADNESS

The Sunday Express is at it again! They are obviously without a decent cover story so have filled the front page with further revelations of the Madeleine McCann investigation.

After the last one about the alleged perpetrator being IN the apartment whilst Gerry was inspecting the children, it now seems that according to these investigative, ex-police, professionals, the person obtained entry by the use of a KEY, possibly left under the door mat! **

What utter CRAP! We have been going to the Algarve for almost 40 years and have never yet seen a door mat outside the front (or back) door of any Algarvian property. The McCanns have these so called Detectives clutching at straws in an effort to keep the investigation and publicity machines alive and remove any suspicion away from themselves, who so blatantly left their three young children alone whilst they went to enjoy themselves.

In the same issue of the paper(sic) they suggest that the British Government should supply funds to give added impetus to the investigation and go over all past evidence and seek for new clues. We are sure that there are thousands of people who would welcome this suggestion on the basis that Kate McCann first answered all the questions she so carefully refused to answer when she was confronted with them by the PJ in Portimao.

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**If one thinks about it why would the McCanns need to leave a key under the door mat, even if there was one?

McCann - v - Amaral

Following on from the European ban on the sale of Detective Amaral's book, "The truth of the Lies", the McCanns now appear to be after blood according to a further report in the press. Surely the McCanns must realise that a European ban will only serve to create a much larger demand and one will be able to obtain copies through the Internet from places far and wide. There will also be a secondary market for the book in other languages and we can just see the translators already getting their heads down over their desks and other language volumes will be available within days if they are not already.

Despite the book ban there is a 6 part video available on the internet where Amaral explains in graphic form his findings and theories (with English translation). This is the first part. It may be illegal to watch it, we don't know, but we are sure many people have and many people will continue to do so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB__7F-Ghpo

We think everyone has formed their own opinions on what may have or may not have happened to Madeleine McCann. One thing we cannot understand is why the McCanns are so anxious to suppress Amaral's words! Surely whatever he has said will stimulate thoughts in other people and keep the matter of the missing child before the public at large. Their attention should be 100% on the job of finding the child, dead or alive, whichever the case may be.

This is the link to another video and an English transcript but is marked as "censored" in the UK.

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/04/maddie-truth-of-lie-documentary.html

McCanns silence the Book

In today's Daily Express there is a very small article that reports the McCanns successful application for an Injunction to have the Book "The Truth of the Lies" removed from the Bookshelves of European retailers. This is the book written by Gonzales Amaral, the Senior Detective initially acting for the Portuguese Police in the case of the missing Madeleine McCann. A TV Documentary suffered the same fate.

330,000 copies have been sold and considering that it is only available in Portuguese it has proved very popular. (We have a copy in Portuguese if anyone wants to have a shuftie.)

The McCanns are reported as saying, "Mr Amaral's central thesis has no evidence whatsoever to support it." Excusing the bad grammar, we wonder how the expertise of a Senior Detective and his team can be less reliable than that of two professional adults who chose to leave their three very young children unattended whilst they went out on an evening of drink and food.

Cann the Red Herrings!

Over past weeks there has been a number of so called "leads" in the Madeleine McCann abduction case.

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First we had the British paedophile who was languishing in a German Hospital but who had "been seen" near to the Algarve apartment from which Maddie was "snatched". This lead seems to have fizzled out.

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Then came the mysterious woman who approached the skipper of a yacht in Barcelona asking if he had her "new Daughter". Despite an excellent description of the suspect as being a Victoria Beckham look alike, nothing more seems to have come from that lead.

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Following on from this was the Australian yacht that never was in the Algarve but that gave the hired "dicks" the chance to have a few weeks in the Antipodes at the expense of the Maddie search fund. Like all the other leads and pieces of information nought has yet come from Oz.

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How many more of these red herrings will we be subject to before someone comes up with something really worthwhile? One question many ask is, are these Detectives employed by the McCann fund, only restricting their enquiries to such pieces of information or are they retracing all aspects of the case including investigating those persons who were made Arguidos by the Portuguese Police? It could be that by going over old ground some aspects of the case could be interpreted in a different way and alternative conclusions realised.

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TINNED McCANN

Today's Express is once again giving front page news to the case of the missing Madeleine McCann. It seems that a well respected businessman, a Banker no less, was approached by a Victoria Beckham look alike just 72 hours after Maddies disappearance, who asked him if he was "delivering" her new Daughter. This happened in Barcelona just a short days hop from the Algarve where Maddie was allegedly abducted.

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Can this be real? Or is it just another red herring to keep the publicity machine going? How on Earth can a Banker, who one would regard as having more than a few grey cells, keep such information to himself for over two years? Where was he in the few days after Maddie disappeared? Did he not read newspapers or watch television? And why has he now come out of the woodwork to splash this information around the media?

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With this information at their fingertips, surely the detectives should have kept it to themselves, which would have given them a chance of finding the suspect without alerting her to the hunt? Or is it just an excuse for a jaunt off to the Antipodes for these Private Dicks who so far appear to have achieved very little in the quest to find Maddie? Time will tell!

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Watch out for the next exciting episode. Which has come quicker than anticipated!

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The day following the above report, new headlines tell of a "mystery yacht" that upped anchor from Portimao Harbour the day after Maddies disappearance and has not been seen since! The Captain, if the helmsman of a 40 foot yacht can be called such, told the harbour authorities that he was going to Albufeira about 30 miles along the coast. Apparently it did not call into Albufeira - maybe there was a change of mind as to where they would sail next, or did they say something that sounded like Albufeira?

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The incident was made known to the Portuguese Police and searches have failed to find any trace of the yacht. Apparently the yacht was Swedish registered but the name of the vessel has not been publicised, if it were indeed known. With the thousands of motor yachts in and around Europe looking for a white yacht whose name is not known could prove very difficult, but will no doubt give the detectives another month or so in employment.

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Madeleine was here - Channel 4 - 7/5/09

Last night, like many other people who are also intrigued with the Madeleine McCann disappearance, we watched the program on Channel 4, "Madeleine was here".

I did not find the program particularly enthralling as it seemed to have been made up of a few shots here and a few shots there. Nevertheless, very good publicity for the McCanns.

I did find one of Gerry's comments rather strange during the piece with the people updating Maddie's image. He said, "We remember the last day she was in Portugal and what she looked like." I thought this was a most peculiar statement, and it begs the question was this just a slip of the tongue or what was Maddies "last day in Portugal" in his mind? What did he actually mean by this statement?

One other thing bothered me. The "person" seen carrying a child had the child over his arms. It is normal for a small child to be carried over the shoulder - this being the most comfortable for the carrier and the carried. It is unusual for a child to be carried in the way shown, unless it was not a child. The only other thought I have is that it could possibly be a lifeless body which would be carried in such a way. If it were a lifeless body why would an abductor bother to carry it anywhere? The reverence with which it was being carried may also tend to indicate that there may have been a connection between the person and the body.

If the body were Maddie then who was the person?

As the mystery of Maddie's disappearance continues, so will the questions, and one day the final truth of the matter will emerge.

WHERE IS MADDIE?

The Parents of Madeleine McCann have once again kicked their publicity machine into action in an effort to revitalise the search for the return of their Daughter who was apparently abducted in Portugal 2 years ago.

The photograph has been updated to give an impression of what Maddie may look like now that she is 6 years old and this is being shown on new publicity material being handed out.

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Maddies disappearance was certainly a mystery with no real witnesses to any abduction and the peculiar circumstances during the dinner of the parents and their friends. Questions that keep cropping up are why did the parents leave the 3 children alone, and why was Maddie the one chosen to be abducted when taking one of the twins would have been much simpler and would have been easier to conceal in the long term? Was it an opportunist abduction or something that was pre-planned? Why was so much effort put into pointing the finger at Murat, or was this just a red herring to divert attention away from other possible suspects? Sadly the initial investigations left much evidence untouched and unchecked which put the the whole solving of the case in jeapody. Later forensic evidence was unreliable and it is now obvious that the case will only be solved if Maddie is found.

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We wish the McCanns well and hope that they will see a positive outcome in the near future.

McCANNS AND MADDIE

At last the McCanns have been released from their arguido status by the Portuguese Police. In the short time since then they have apparently launched an attack on the Portuguese Police complaining that the investigation into the "disappearance" of their Daughter had been badly handled.
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Bully for the McCanns! Will they also complain about Metodo 3 who have been paid thousands of pounds over a nunber of months and have also come up with little or nothing? It seems that the McCanns are relying on everyone apart from theirselves in solving the "crime". Whilst they swan around the World ordinary people are still contributing to their Maddie Fund and supporting all the efforts to find the child.
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Perhaps it would be as well for them to remember that it was THEY who left their children unattended, it was whilst THEY were eating and drinking and having a merry old time that Maddie "disappeared". And yet THEY calmly carry on without attatching any blame to themselves.
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For the child's sake we hope she is found alive and well, despite the fact that this now looks a somewhat unlikely result.