Madeleine McCann: Amaral Policing, Secrets Out And EastEnders
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: PORTUGUESE POLICE CHIEF IS SACKED AFTER AMAZING OUTBURST.”
Page 9: “Madeleine detective kicked off case after blasting British police” – Chief inspector Goncalo Amaral says: “The British police have only been working on what the McCann couple want them to and what suits them.”
Says Amaral: “The Ocean Club is in Praia da Luz, not in London…It won’t be an email, and an anonymous one at that, which will distract our line of investigation.”
Mr Amaral is making reference to the email sent to the official website of the Prince of Wales last week claming a vengeful nanny had abducted Madeleine.
Pages 30 and 31: “HAIR-RAISING TRUTH ABOUT THE PSYCHIC BARBER – During the day Gordon Smith cuts hair, at night he claims he communes with the spirits. So does he really think he can help the McCanns find Madeleine?”
THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER confirms that former EastEnders actress Michelle Collins is a “BELIEVER”.
DAILY MAIL page 7: “Off the case. Madeleine police chief demoted after amazing rant against McCanns and British detectives”
Say Amaral: “They [the English] have been investigating tip-offs and information created and worked upon by the McCanns”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: CHIEF COP SACKED.”
Page 10: “INSPECTOR CLUELESS GETS THE BOOT”
Page 11: “If Maddie IS dead she will tell me where he body is” – Says Gordon Smith
DAILY MIRROR front page: “Maddy copper is axed”
Page 7: “OFF THE CASE – Boozy cop is demoted after furious outburst against the McCanns”
THE SUN page 7: “MADDIE COP FIRED FOR McCANNS RANT – storm as bungler says family duped Brit police”
Comments Clarence Mitchell: “I can confirm that Kate and Gerry are aware of this development but we cannot comment”
THE GUARDIAN page 7: “Detective leading hunt for Madeleine sacked after blast at UK police” – Mr Amaral is 47. He has been demoted. He is 48 in the Sun. Such are the facts
Carols Pinto de Abreu, the McCanns’ Portuguese lawyer, says: “The McCanns cannot confess to something they did not do and cannot and should not lie to please the police”
THE INDEPENDENT page 8: “Detective leading Madeleine hunt dropped from case after outburst” – Amaral is being investigated over an alleged attack on the mother of a different missing girl. Read about that here
THE TIMES front page: “Detective in charge of McCann case sacked”
Page 9: “Madeleine detective sacked after outburst”
Alipio Ribeiro, Amaral’s boss, says: “The police should be discreet and keep quiet, but there is always someone who talks” – So much for those secrecy laws
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 15: “Madeleine inquiry chief sacked after attack on British police”
A “family friend” of the McCanns says: “What he [Mr Amaral] is saying is just plain wrong. Leicestershire Police are not doing anything on Kate and Gerry’s behalf. They are simply there for liaison. There is certainly no strategy to distract form the Portuguese investigation”
What investigation?
Posted: 3rd, October 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,208) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
1011 Julie- why do you think Madeleine was abused?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
the law is an ass.
let me just find something and i’ll show you.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
997 Krissie
I don’t think Tony, nor anyone else for that matter, has suggested that ALL of the Tapas 9 lied. If the “It was the parents what done it” scenario is ever proved correct it seems to only require one, possibly two, of the others to be complicit. The rest may simply have been duped into being innocent bystanders. i.e. They were at dinner with them.. The reality is that no one in here really knows the answers (unless they are in some way directly connected with the case.)
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Michael, is it just me, or are you yelling? So what’s your point? Gerry is smug? Does this relate to anything?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Lawyer 1000
Your post is arrogant. Maybe borne of the same “knowledge” that the McCann’s had to take the risk in leaving their children. After all there were medical risks as well.
While you may be trying to be helful by supplying counsel’s advice, the issue in my mind, made clear in my posts, is that the act if illegal, should be punished. If it is not illegal then changes or better definitions should be made to existing law. The law is fluid as you well know. This I belive is an important debating point.
By the way I did have senior counsel’s advice and that is how I was able to resolve the matter.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
1011
i can’t help it if he reminds me of that bloke from the fast show.
the one with the leather chair.
i mean, he steals road signs for christ’s sake.
what more can i say?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
1008 Andy- Please prove to me that Gerry went jogging the day after Madeleine disappeared.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
1003 viewer
I would assume it’s all recorded in her medical history? I doubt if the McCanns’ medical friends would be unaware of these possibilities?
Presumably it will have been considered. If not, it’s a very easy point to check. At least, it is for the proper authorities! Not for us!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
1011
i wouldn’t dare
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
AND IS IT TRUE THAT K WORKED WITH HAROLD SHIPMAN WHEN SHE WAS TRAINING?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Firestar … you’re not going to start with me now are you?
On the other subject … I brought up the point about 2 months ago … I suspected that Madeleine was an abused child … I was thrown down in flames for even thinking it!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
1006
appendix 2 sect(ii)
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:24 pm
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES K HAVE A VERY SPITEFUL EVIL FACE AND G HAVE A SMUG SELF SATISFIED EXPRESSION?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
997. Krissie.
Sure 5 months and jogging would be ok, as would be going back to work. But the McCanns went jogging the day after Madeleine disappeared.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:22 pm
913 DeeDeeDee
re: the confusing timelines…
Please see my post 985 on this subject
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:22 pm
999
he’d get a lot less lambasted if he posted himself in small chunks.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Viewer- 554 What is the difference between what you describe Madeleine’s eye condition to be, and the “Colomba” as has been described by others? Are these mutually exclusive, one and the same, or what?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Thank you Maria, 996
I believe that if Madeleine got those syndromes later in life, than that’s something that might show evidencies of mistreatment on her past. Don’t you think it has a good chance of being true?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:20 pm
940. Jolie. Sorry I didn’t reply sooner having a bit of a drink!
Unfortunately not a lot of people have heard about that story because of… Yep, you guessed it
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:20 pm
#554 Good question but other than the relatives who callously broadcasted the fact that Maddie and her siblings are IVF babies, no one is releasing any information about Maddie’s personal health. I don’t know if the report by the private detective agency (Smallwood or something) is true but they reported that Maddie was autistic. I’ve only seen one photo of Maddie in which I thought she appeared unusually immature. The later photos show a child at the proper level of maturity for her age. Doubt there’s much if any autism but it did appear in a serious report.
By the way, autism is rapidly increasing. Researchers don’t know why.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:19 pm
993 Maria and 994 Roger
Do the two of you have a chemistry thing going on because it is becoming tiresome.
Negligence is not relevent in respect of family proceedings.
Negligence needs to be proved in order to achieve a criminal conviction of manslaughter.
The McCanns were negligent in my view however DO STOP CONFUSING the legal issues. Negligence is not relevant in pursuing a criminal action against anybody until the body is found. You also need Mens Rea and Actus Reus for a murder charge.
Opinions and viewpoints are one thing but do stop using legal terminology to back up ill informed perspectives!!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
985 Tony … you’re sharp, very sharp … and expressed exactly what I have been thinking for some time now!
1. G talking to JW in pathway - a distraction to avoid him seeing what was actually happening!
2. Half hour checks … never happened …. there wasn’t enough time between arrival at the Tapas and discovery of missing child to even try and claim 30 MINUTE checks!
3. MO never checked on the children, this was a “smoke screen”
4. RO’B arriving 5 minutes before Kate found Madeleine missing … was he the signal for Kate to go and check and “announce” the abudction?
Like your way of thinking and expressing yourself. I’ve seen you “lambasted” by other posters here, but they have no justification doing so …. you are pointing out “oddities” which people are scared to question!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
what surprises me is that the english police aren’t leaking like sieves.
doesn’t anyone on here know any leicester coppers?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Some of Gerry’s previous blogs have bothered me, but this one does not. It’s been five months. Is he supposed to refrain from jogging forever? I don’t get it.
Tony Bennett, I don’t know what you are trying to prove, but your long post today simply helps push me back in the direction of believing the McCanns are more likely innocent. Your version of events is based on absolutely nothing, and it’s patently and obviously absurd to think ALL NINE of the group are simultaneously lying. Do you, sir, in your daily life, know EVEN A SINGLE PERSON who would be willing to cover up the death of a beautiful 4-year-old girl to protect her evil-doing parents? I, for one, do not know a single person who would do this. Despite having many friends, some of them going all the way back to elementary school, I do not have a single friend who would help me cover it up if I killed my daughter on purpose or on accident. So to me, your presumption that SEVEN PEOPLE other than Kate and Gerry are lying and covering for some kind of fatal accident/crime is bizarre beyond belief.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
990 viewer
Just read them but don’t know the answers. I should imagine her parents, being doctors, must have been aware of the many possibilities and the facts in her particular case.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Please read 554. I have 3 questions unanswered!!!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:12 pm
962
In my own investigations of the practice of leaving kids alone in an hotel room, one tour operator said it was quite common in their hotels because these were quite safe. They took over the hotels 100% for their groups and they catered exclusively to Christians. There were no baby sitting arrangements available in the hotel of particular interest to me, and no listening services or devices available according to the tour operator.
But wait for it! The drew a line on leaving children aged 3 or under on their own. They did not allow it. The McCann twins are under 3, and madeleine was 3 (albeit nearly 4).
So maybe the issue of negligence becomes even more important and maybe even to social services when very young children are considered.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 pm
972 The Eye
I know people (relatives of friends) whose toddler drowned in their pool in the garden of their holiday home in Spain. They took their eye off her for a short time thinking she was playing in the sand pit and that the older child was staying with her.
The family grieves desperately every single day and the mother will never, ever forgive herself.
They were never charged with negligence. Maybe they should have had an absolute rule that the pool was covered or that an adult would ALWAYS be in the garden when the little one was around?
I notice some countries now have rules about pool alarms. That indicates that many accidents occur as a result of “negligence”. How many such parents are actually charged? Yet there is far more likelihood of a serious accident with pools than with what the McCanns did. They seem to have been checking themselves, or had someone else checking, even more often than every half-hour. It shouldn’t have been done but it was quite simply not a crime as such.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Keep the fires burning guys. Catch ya later!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Another thing for those who favor the abduction theory.
The fifteen minute time gap between checkings by parents or friends only covers the known activity of the McCann’s and friends. Add to that the various people who were also coming and going and it is further narrows the window of opportunity.
Hope the timing was not tied to the news hour but stranger things are happening.