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 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 am
I was just reviewing the absolute evidence of an abduction:
1. It sits comfortably in our human comfort zone.
2. The MC’s said it happened.
3. It sits comfortably in our human comfort zone.
4. The Police in Portugal aren’t as clever as us.
5. It sits comfortably in our human comfort zone.
6. Children have been abducted in the past
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:46 am
181 man on a hill
Probably doesn’t read your posts either if they don’t appear on the official reading list lol
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:45 am
No I still think Maddie was OB thats why he doesnt care and his life is getting back to normal with his twins
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:45 am
164 The Real Stig Says:
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 am
69 Susanna
“Anyway I believe the rumors that she met fists in prison.
Prison is an awful place for child killers. Especially when they are mothers.”
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It was indeed a pre-trial accident, as the Portuguese Plod tell it, she confessed and, in the customary fashion, fell/threw herself down the stairsl.
Police stations in most countries have stairs, but some are seemingly more dangerous than other.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:45 am
Maybe off the subject a bit, but something that has been bothering me. BRITISH sniffer dogs were brougt in to assist in teh case. These dogs were the ones that detected all the evidence that is being used against the Mccanns. And yet it is the British people who are defending teh Mccans coem hellor high water. Are they all saying that their own police systems are incompetent????????????? and now they are involved with the investigation
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:44 am
173 Maura. Do i have to repeat my question to?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:44 am
The real stig 164 - that’s where you are wrong - and I wish people knew about things before bringing up the whole case of Joana. I don’t know everything, but i just base my judgement on what i read in the portuguese press.
Joana’s mother was made an arguido and put in preventive arrest. It was only 5 days after she went into prison (awaiting trial) that she complained that someone had beaten her.
Now, there are two versions: She says that PJ beat her up, but that she was afraid of complaining and it was only after her “cell mates” convinced her to do it that she asked for the picture to be taken (hence the 5 days) and made a complaint. The other version (confirmed by the prison services) is that when she arrived in prison she did not have any signs of violence.
Joana was repeatedly raped with the knowledge of this woman (her so-called mother), her partner and at least 5 family members. Maybe this will help you put things into a different perspective.
Final thought - this week a survey in Portugal confirmed that 90% of portuguese trust the PJ investigation. Maybe it’s because in Portugal they’re old lunatics that like fat detectives who beat up women… oh no, wait maybe it’s because they don’t have sky news…
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 am
173 Maura
Maybe if you did read the posts and dare I say it your own cut and paste jobs you wouldn’t be so closed minded.
94 Maura
‘The Mcanns were the ones who insisted that they get a Soc.Svcs visit not the way you are trying to portray it.’
Have Leicestershire Social Services confirmed this?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 am
how about this one… it was Gerry who had the fertility problem and they used donated sperm for Maddie, however when it came to wanting more children they couldn’t afford it so Kate had a fling with Gordy and the twins are his????
Gerry then discovers that Maddies dad was a ‘Conservative’ and couldn’t love her anymore…..
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 am
175 noseycow. ty - didn’t know and was just asking!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 am
172
Jade goody?
no sorry not funny
i dont know
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 am
Of course not Batman we don’t even know that it was Kate who had the fertility problem - just speculation…..
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:40 am
170 - Brandonflours. Is it confirmed that KM used donated eggs?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 am
Will 168 Can you repeat your questions I dont have time to read all the posts and I do not know what they are.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 am
WHO brandoflours?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 am
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brandonflours Says:
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:45 am
just having a trail trough past news and found this interesting in hind-sight
From LUCY HAGAN
in Praia da Luz
June 15, 2007
THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann reacted angrily yesterday after an anonymous tip from a psychic sparked a hunt for their girl’s body.
(21) Brandonflours
A Dutch newspaper received the unsigned letter claiming Maddie, four, was buried in a shallow grave ten miles from where she was snatched in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
More than 30 different media organisations are now in the area along with a British “crime enthusiast” accompanied by a sniffer dog.
But Kate and Gerry have branded the hunt “cruel and insensitive”.
They branded the psychic’s prediction and the half-hearted search that followed “cruel and insensitive” as they were looking with their eyes closed. Could their reaction be anything to do with the possibility that the prediction could have been true and they were implicated? I wonder if one of the psychics they are allegedly visiting now gave them the same sort of information whether they would have the same reaction? As Team McCann have laid the groundwork for the child ‘having been drugged’ by the ‘abductor’ are they now open to suggestions that she could be dead and buried somewhere, as ‘it ain’t us wot did it’, it was the abductor, silly’ ? To find Madeleine’s dead body somewhere now with the ‘abduction & killed’ label firmly on it would suit them fine.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 am
egg donation
dont poorer girls pay for their ivf by selling their eggs, and richer girls buy them?
maybe they found out their egg doner was ……..
and handed poor maddie on
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 am
Just for clarity, I’m in the camp that thinks the McCann’s, and/or their friends, know rather more about the events around and leading up to Madeleine’s alleged abduction. I base this feeling, and that’s all it is, a feeling, upon their lack of public action since their return to the UK. If I KNOW that I/we and our friends are 100% innocent and the lunatic police have just made us suspects in our own daughters disappearance I would be incandescent with rage and I would call their bluff the moment I was off Portuguese soil. i.e. I would challenge them to arrest me in a very public press conference in which I blurted their entire case against me.
This is not to suggest that I think they murdered, accidentally killed, drugged, sold, etc, etc. I frankly don’t have a clue what happened. Some of the theories posted here are more entertaining than possible, and just because something is possible it doesn’t mean it happened. Equally, just because a theory may be unpalatable to some, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t have happened.
Sedating children – our children are in a regular routine and on the whole go to bed and sleep at much the same time every evening. Yes, even when on holiday abroad – allowing for settling in time due to change of clocks/location. To be fair the youngest hasn’t yet been abroad. Now, I know that many parents are not so lucky but we feel we have achieved this by implementing a reasonably rigid bedtime routine from a very early age albeit this has at times meant curbing our social/extended family life and yes possibly just a bit of luck. Yes, you get the odd night when a child won’t go to sleep and that’s just tough and you have to deal with and cancel/amend whatever you had planned. We for instance will NOT leave our trusted baby sitter in charge if one of the children is not asleep or indeed is in anyway ill. So, not all children need to be sedated to sleep.
They won’t answer the 22, 40 or is it 50 questions…. Forgive me, but we have no idea WHAT the questions are. “Have you ever shouted at your children? Have you ever lost your patience with your children? Have you ever ‘made’ your children cry? Do you ever feel at you wits end with your children? Do you ever sometimes wish your children would just ‘go away’? Are you ‘relieved’ whenever someone offers to take your children off your hands for a few hours/couple of days?” And so on and so forth… I don’t know if that’s the type of questions that were asked, probably much more subtle if that’s what they were trying on.. And yes officer, you could take me away and lock ME up based on my answer to those questions..
Arguido status – I’ve seen contradictory statements in here about whether the McCann’s themselves requested this status or the police imposed/advised it?
However, something about the events of that day, or possibly even the days leading up to May 3rd, the people(s) involved, or the need to make it look like the children were checked regularly has at best confused the genuine time line of events.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 am
Maura could you please answer the two questions I previously asked you? Thank you.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 am
144. Maura.
“How unprofessional is that? Madeleine in just one child….Isnt that what ’save the children’ is about each and every child. I think that this woman should be removed post haste from her position.”
Unfortunately Madeleine is just one child. One child who, thanks to her parents and a vast circus of hangers-on, is domininating the spotlight. Her parents and spokespeople might like to think that Madeleine’s case is bringing attention to other missing children but it isn’t.
How many missing children can you name since Madeleine went missing? How many papers or TV programmes have carried first item headline news about other missing children since Madeleine went missing?
How many sightings of other missing children have people reported since Madeleine went missing?
Madeleine’s high profile is not helping other missing children it is hindering the search for them.
Personally, I agree with the woman you quote. I simply don’t care about this family any more. I am interested in the case, yes, but the people are neither here nor there and it’s because of all the publicity.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 am
158 Maura. Where is the evidence that suggests Madeleine was taken by a “creep”?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 am
158 - Maura. So why hasn’t Murat been afforded the same backing by the British Govenment etc. etc. to clear his name, that has also been muddied?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 am
69 Susanna
“Anyway I believe the rumors that she met fists in prison.
Prison is an awful place for child killers. Especially when they are mothers.”
The photos of her beaten face were probably taken by her lawyer - it happened before she ever went to court or had a trial.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 am
This whole case just smack of absolute imbecility
Firmly believed that the McCanns are guilty as shit.
Still do, but maybe someone can convince me otherwise.
Perhaps the Mc’s are actually on excellent terms with the PJ.
Maybe it is all just an exercise with Murdoch’s muscle etc to actually crack the case.
Please be patient, I know it is a pathetic attempt on my part but I really need to believe these people actually care for their child.
And the reasons for the lies and allegations etc. are so that an abductor behind it might see that the case is focussed elsewhere and can be spotted more easily.
Give them time to crack some paedo rings.
The disputes and crack ups are just to buy time and take focus away.
Please God let there be hope that she is alive and that she can be found.
Don’t shoot me down, I have to continually look for other reasons.
The most common detractor of an abductor on this site is that he would have taken the younger children or all three.
One person can one child, and a four year old could be more preferable to a two year old.
I don’t know.
I just wish everyone would stop stabbing each other in the back and justice be allowed to do its thing.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
153 - noseycow. And lets face it those Portugese all strike an uncanny resemblance to those awful Al Fahids. You’ve cracked it!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
I have read and re-read many of the different scenarios of what may and may not have happened on the night .I like most others cannot make any sense of it all as the comments people who where there do not tally with each other. The only oppinion I can put any likelyhood to is the abduction theory (by whom I have no idea) ..upon saying that I cannot believe it was a random abduction it all seems to meticulous. Any of the other theories are possible but to think they may be true is beyond any parents believe.I do though believe GM has the attitude of ‘he’s knows best’ if it wasn’t such a sad case I’d go as far as saying he actualy feels important with all the media coverage he is getting..
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
94 maura
I don’t think you have been reading any of my posts, have you?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
hee, nosey, you better stay out of the bad weather…
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
Andy
“In fact, regarding this move by the lawyers to present evidence that will “clear” the McCanns, do these lawyers not know that the McCanns have not yet been charged and so there is nothing to clear their names of?
Presenting evidence to prove your innocence before being named as guilty seems strange. A little like Bart Simpsons cry of “I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it.”
If my name had been muddied the same way as the Mcanns had then I too would want to ‘clear’ my name.
These people have lost a child to God knows what sort of creep. There is no way I believe that they had anything to do with it. It they had they would be behind bars long ago. Instead they must endure this on top of not knowing what or where there daughters situation is. I think while the child traficking paedo abduction theory is far far more likely and much more of a threat to the likes of you or I than I find it difficult to see how you can dismiss it so readily and condemn this family to sheer hell based on ‘leaks’ from a police force who themselves are under investigation for corruption.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
Don’t they already have connections with Gary Glitter??