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?
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October 4th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Oh crap! I think someone connected to the McCanns has been reading my posts and they’ve somehow managed to isolate me so that I’m posting on my own!
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October 4th, 2007 at 1:04 am
1104
get bennet to organise something everyone can send.
then we can put it all over the internet.
although by the time anyone’s finished reading it we’ll probably all have died of either old age or tedium.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:58 am
you can do whatever you want with my abilities.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Hello, hello, hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home?
Has everyone gone to celebrate Bulldump’s birthday?
October 4th, 2007 at 12:56 am
1096
of course you can.
test away.
if i don’t know i’ll make something up.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:53 am
1101. Miss Take.
Mr Mitchell is not being payed £75000 pa to sit on his arse and let little things like 3200 SA miners trapped underground take him off the front pages,
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286898,00.html?f=vg
October 4th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Perhaps Tony Bennett and others (myself included) would like to make a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about the way this case has been handled by the UK media?
http://www.pcc.org.uk/contact/index.html
Our Address:
Press Complaints Commission
Halton House
20/23 Holborn
London EC1N 2JD
Helpline: 0845 600 2757 (a local rate call charge throughout England)
Switchboard: 020 7831 0022
Facsimile: 020 7831 0025
Textphone: 020 7831 0123
E-mail: complaints@pcc.org.uk
October 4th, 2007 at 12:43 am
TonyB 761:
I think the blood on the wall was later said not to match Madeleine’s DNA.
But anyway… No… sedation ‘alone’ doesn’t seem to explain the reported blood patterns, although there are probably scenarios in which, say, coughing up blood or stomach bleeding might be associated with adverse reactions (I’m not a medical doctor – perhaps the well-informed Miss Match could comment).
On the other hand, many ‘lethal trauma’ scenarios would either not explain the blood patterns, or could be presented as ‘tragic accidents’ (not requiring the ‘disappearance’ of the body).
An attack with a knife, certainly, would present obvious PM problems; and a bruised body also.
Perhaps I should reduce the (subjective) probability of the sedation + (bloody) emergency intervention scenario to take better account of those possibilities, but I guess I’d still list sedation + failed medical intervention as ‘most likely’. Maybe it was all those early reports of ‘neck injuries’ (ANYONE have any idea what that might have been based on???) – that got me thinking about an allergic reaction on 3 May to a new drug first used on 2 May (after the reported 1¾ hours crying for Daddy on 1 May), causing laryngeal oedema (blocking the throat) and prompting improvised emergency tracheotomy (probably by Gerry & Russell).
To some extent this is an intuitive response to the role ‘sedation’ appears to have played in the McCann and O’Brien party lifestyle up to 3 May, and also the key part it has played in the McCann’s interactions with police and media since then. Partly it’s to do with Kate & Russells backgrounds in anaesthetics and pharmacology, and also the fact that to me systematic unnecessary sedation seems more compromising to the key suspects (I use the term informally) than the momentary madness of a perhaps disturbed mother.
But I’ll think it through more carefully, and get back to you with a more reasoned, and less intuitive assessment.
The key point I’ve been trying to make, howeer (and I think we and most others agree on this) is that the McCann’s behavious can best be explained by the perceived need to avoid an autopsy (for whatever reason).
October 4th, 2007 at 12:41 am
1100. Julie.
It does indeed. Another thing that surprises, and dismays, me is, what happened to all the investigative reporters? These days it appears that nothing is investigated before being reported, Things appear in print or on TV before facts are checked because the media is only interested in being the first to report on something. A few years ago reporters would have been investigating the past of the Mccanns and their friends. They would have walked the distance from the restaurant to the apartment (see firestar’s post earlier) and timed it as well. They would have questioned why an ordinary couple command such attention from so many rich and influencial people and questioned the motives behind those rich and powerful people.
Unfortunately it seems that today’s journalist waits for the stoy to come to them.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:30 am
So much for my speculation above of a media amnesty… Can’t they stop briefing the press? Is it the same as an Anorak addiction?
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/20957/Kate-and-Gerry-We-ll-fly-back-to-Portugal
October 4th, 2007 at 12:24 am
1099 Andy … it leaves you wondering who else is behind the whole saga!?!?
October 4th, 2007 at 12:23 am
1078. firestar.
I can’t understand why the McCanns haven’t been charged with neglect though.
According to the Hague Conference on Private International Law, 34: Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children
“Article 17
The exercise of parental responsibility is governed by the law of the State of the child’s habitual residence. If the child’s habitual residence changes, it is governed by the law of the State of the new habitual residence.”
So even if the McCanns aren’t prosecuted in Portugal they could be under UK law as described in the Offences under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933
s1 Cruelty to (including assault, ill-treatment or neglect) a person under 16
October 4th, 2007 at 12:19 am
1097 - thanks. That was the only “source” I’d seen. Was though intrigued to see it repeated as fact by a poster here.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:17 am
1069 miss take
It is my understanding that the rumour was started by recently retired Chief Inspector Paulo Pereira Cristovao. He has been writing a column on the case for a Portuguese newspaper and is probably the source of a lot of the disinformation - I mean leaked information - coming out from ’sources’ close to the investigation. He also has his very own little aguido cloud hanging over him, vis a vis the Cipriano case.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Firestar, Can I test your abilities?
October 4th, 2007 at 12:14 am
1093 - many thanks
October 4th, 2007 at 12:13 am
i heard it’s a doctors meeting place.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:13 am
1090
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October 4th, 2007 at 12:12 am
1091 - how?
October 4th, 2007 at 12:11 am
you can find out when it was last registered.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:10 am
1086 - any way of knowing when the site started? I’m technologically incompetent.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:10 am
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October 4th, 2007 at 12:09 am
#649
I’ve stated for weeks now.
The parents were involved in selling her, then they backed down, but they came for her anyway.
‘They’ve Taken Her’ is allegedly what KMc said.
The reason they do not look upset is because, they know who has her and she is safe.
the blood DNA etc in the apartment can be explained away, as residual marks as the perpetrators left.
I expect the Security Firm with Tip-Offs from the McC’s to bring her back.
At which point if the alleged sale comes out they will deny it.
Then the McC’s are vindicated
October 4th, 2007 at 12:08 am
have you all seen the graph of the tapas bar distance?
October 4th, 2007 at 12:08 am
1082
tell you the truth, i was pretty surprised when i typed it in.
i noticed the other week, i expected a toy shop.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:08 am
1079 Patience. Swingers are people who swap sexual partners.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:07 am
“I think it has been proven, without reasonable doubt, your Honour, that the Tapas Bar was not an appropriate observation point from which to observe minor children who had been left without adult supervision, for any length of time, so as to ensure their safety.”
END OF LESSON!
October 4th, 2007 at 12:07 am
1072 Andy
Many thanks for posting all of that.
It will be extremely useful if we go ahead with our private prosecution of the McCanns for child neglect under 1933 Children and Young Persons Act
October 4th, 2007 at 12:06 am
1071 firestar Says:
October 4th, 2007 at 12:01 am
1070
weirdly enough, you can find them on
http://www.cuddlecat.com
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It is simply ludicrous
to imply that this is anything other than an unfortunate co-incidence.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Re: Cuddlecat.com.
There are so many bizarre things about this case, it’s pushed me right over the edge. Off I go. Wheeeee!
Bye guys.