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 12:28 pm
94 Maura.
BUT these children were obviously well loved and no amount of make up stories or smear tactics can ever take that away from them.
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Really ? Unless you intimately know the family you do not know this for a fact - so there is no “Obvious” about it..sorry.And even if you do know them, do you know what goes on behind closed doors.? No.
I had an ex husband who was psychotically violent yet everyone thought we were “perfect” and had no idea he was half killing me and my 4 sons behind closed doors.He looked like Jim Morrison so all assumed he was just so handsome and great. When we were all battered and bruised he locked us up, telling everyone with tears in eyes, we were sick. !!! I left quickly with my sons.
Point…. not even neighbours or family members let alone friends , really know what goes on with families in truth.!!
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
239 Green Girl.
Maybe we could use your guts to solve all difficult cases.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
For those without access to the British papers, and who want to know more about ‘psychic’ Gordon Smith
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/17059/-If-Maddie-IS-dead-she-will-tell-me-where-her-body-is-/
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Hi Green Girl
You have put the point very well.
As in all these cases its the borderline between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour which has to be drawn.
My view is that we don’t know where this line should be drawn and that the police and ss judge and act on cases that are extreme.
If we are going to improve parental care we need to define this boundary.
So is it OK to leave a couple of kids on their own (say aged 5 and 7) in a hotel room with balcony when they appear to be asleep and go and join other holiday makers at the pool?
I am sure this would be seen to be legally and by ss OK, even when there is no listening device and where there are irregular checks, if nothing happens.
If something does happen then maybe it isn’t ok.
The challenge of course is to set out precautionary standards which protect children in advance of something happening.
This probably is where legal and SS standards fail
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Will I have systematically avoided your posts because I found them rather boring and reptitive with no accord for debate or manners.
You change and twist things ie. you have somehow managed to twist my condemnation for a represetative of an organisation to be a condemnation of the organisation itself.
You are repeatedly foul mouthed and insufferable - so please stop and try to act grown up.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
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Maura Says:
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
“Judith C - body language - trembling like a leaf -???
Body in boot?
You are one sick dude.”
Isn’t “dude” male? Assuming it is, you Maura (respected on this forum I don’t think) are one sick boring dudette.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
236. Maura
Does that mean you’ll answer my question then…please…see 210
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
235.man on a hill
Unfortunately, as I am not involved int he legal process either here or in Portugal, I have no evidence of or access to anything other than my gut feeling about the case.
If you have genuine corroborative evidence which can clearly identify whether or not there is a likely indicative cause pointing towards what actually happened to Madeleine I would be interested to hear it. Alternatively perhaps your theory of what has happened in this matter would be interesting, so perhaps you could share that with us?
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
227. Maureece Says:
“sly fox, I dont understand the rotting meat thing. If they were bringing stuff to dumps then maybe it would contain spoiled food. If you are suggesting that Madeleine = rotting meat than where do you suppose they kept her in the interim.”
No, my question was genuine and not based on an assumption of innocence or guilt.
I was looking for a reasonable explanation as to why they would be ferrying rotting meat, not just spoiled food, about in the car. Assuming they were “bringing suff to the dump” it still doesn’t explain how rotting raw meat came to be in the bin bags. Or at least I am trying to think of how that could be the case.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
we all need to say what we believe in on here
no need to get sh!tty
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Maureece I will answer my own questions thank you.
and as much as I appreciate the support I think that its unfair to call people on here pervs sickos.
We have very different views I am convinced the Mcanns are 100% innocent of harming Madeleine there are people here that are 100% convinced she did and there are a various spectre in between. I realise that its because I am very much of the extreme : not on fence, that I will get the heat from the other side but I am neither phased not bothered nor put off.
Thank you all the same.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
231 Green Girl.
Alright, maybe you could tell me of any evidence that suggests there was an abductor?
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
chill, will..
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Just when they thought they’d got away with it too……….
From The Sunday Times August 26, 2007
McCanns to scale down their media campaign
THE father of Madeleine McCann, the missing four-year-old, has said the ceaseless media campaign to find his daughter would be scaled down.
Gerry McCann added that, while there would be no let-up in the family’s efforts to find Madeleine, he and his wife Kate had to consider trying to return to work and family life in Britain.
The move might prove particularly helpful for the couple’s two other children, added McCann, who had flown to Edinburgh for the day to speak at the television festival.
“I do not feel that it is necessary to have her [Madeleine’s] image on the news constantly,” said McCann. “We cannot sustain that level of interest and Kate and I want to withdraw from the campaign.”
Madeleine McCann: the key questions
Why are the “Tapas 9″ key to solving the Madeleine mystery?
Madeleine disappeared from her room in the resort of Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3 as her parents were dining nearby.
Despite an international search and a high-profile publicity campaign orchestrated by her parents, there has been no sign of her since.
McCann continued: “There is no final decision about when to come home . . . Part of it may be that staying in Portugal might have become counterproductive. But the very real difficulty is the emotion of leaving Portugal as a family of four when we went there as a family of five.”
McCann, a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield hospital, Leicester, also said he had started to think about working again.
At the moment he is on unpaid leave to search for his daughter. “You cannot be an emotional wreck 24 hours a day . . . I have spent a lot of time training to gain my specialist skills,” he said.
In his address McCann compared Madeleine’s disappearance to last week’s murder of Rhys Jones, 11, who was shot in Liverpool by a youth on a BMX bike. Photographs of both children show them wearing the shirts of Everton, their favourite football team.
“Kate and I were incredibly shocked to hear of the news [of Rhys Jones]. It is a terrible waste of a young life. They, of course, have our sympathy,” he said.
He added that he hoped Rhys’s parents were given time to grieve. But he revealed some of his own torment in a direct comparison between the McCann and the Jones families.
“Both sets of parents are in the middle of terrible traumas. They, however, will have closure. We don’t,” he said.
McCann said the couple had been unprepared for the reaction to Madeleine’s disappearance. He compared the coverage to a “tidal wave”.
The couple have been hurt by speculation in the Portuguese press that they or friends might have been involved in the disappearance.
“In the early days the campaign to find Madeleine and the news agenda were as one,” he said. “Now they are very different.”
McCann said the Portuguese media often ran with a rumour that was then picked up by the British press. The next day the Portuguese would present the rumour as validated because it had appeared in the UK.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 pm
228 The Real Stig
Agreed - I would rather she hadn’t made those comments and who knows maybe she regrets them upon seeing them in black and white, here’s hoping.
Don’t know her personally but the organisation she works for does some great work imho.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
191…. actually, the Wells and the Chapmans reacted completely differently leading to a distancing between the two families. Mr Wells was very angry and vocal (quite rightly) and Mr Chapman was very quiet and sad (quite rightly).
It was mr Wells who wrote the book about it.
One tragedy, two different families and two different reactions. Human nature.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
220 Maura
I have posted this question now three times
Empty headed? By god that is rich coming from you!
Here we go again
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?
you have admitted you dont read posts on here that is because you act like a robot, not interested in debate just cutting and pasting the same old shit over and over again.
Me get a life? Yeah you are right - of course you are right.
Maybe a suggestion to Anorak - any chance of an intelligence test to access the site - would exclude the likes of Maura methinks.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
196 will
You are right, perhaps I was a bit intemperate there. Perhaps she was tired, but I thought her statement as nearly outrageous as some of Philomena’s outbursts.
The McCanns have a right to publicise their case as loudly as they can - I don’t think she should be complaining about the volume, she should be applauding it.
So I take back what I said but think she was out of order.
“I almost don’t care. I’m sorry ’cause we’re talking about a child here, and we do discuss it in the cantina in the “Red Barnet”-office. But this is completely out of proportions and way beyond all limits.”
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
sly fox, I dont understand the rotting meat thing. If they were bringing stuff to dumps then maybe it would contain spoiled food. If you are suggesting that Madeleine = rotting meat than where do you suppose they kept her in the interim.
Does this answer your question?
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
111. About Amaral and the Cipriano case, you will find the report made before the sentence here:
http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=10046
This is an article that explains the Amaral gang believed she had chopped her child in pieces and gave her for the pigs to eat because “there was no other traces of her, unless blood in the freezer”.
In Portugal, they seem to find normal to beat a woman “because she was so horrible”, normal that pigs are so hungry to eat a nine years old child, that sniffer dogs don’t find the bones in the pigsty…
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/07/truth-about-leonor-cipriano-mother-of.html
Amaral seemed to have been charged for having hidden the mother was beaten.
Here is an article in Portuguese where it was said the officers had filed a complaint against Leonor Capriano for “defamation”, and then they dropped it!
http://www.observatoriodoalgarve.com/cna/noticias_ver.asp?noticia=3677
Is to the police to judge and sentence people or to inquire and let the judges to judge?
She is reproached to have waited two days before reporting to the police. I don’t know what she answered, but it is a small village. Maybe she thought Joana had run away to some grand-parents, or other family members? It also seems to be an old tradition of Portuguese police to beat people for testimony, so in that case, it is rather normal one would try to find the child without having to go through that sort of beating.
Normally, there is a principle in the law that prevents to condemn someone when there is a doubt. One of the judges thought she was innocent, but she was all the same sentenced to 16 years prison. Now, the main witness says she has not done anything. That should mean that the little girl has just vanished?
Maybe Amaral will have to answer for having talked to the press, whereas the parents are threatened prison if they do.
The McCann’s should try the European Parliament: it is against the fundamental right to ban people from their freedom of expression, except for the people who are tied to professional secret.
One of our colleagues was sentenced in Belgium to a ban to talk to the press, with a threat of two years prison if he did. He is the one who brought the evidence on the Zandvoort network (90.081 victims) that Belgian justice refuses to inquire. The tribunal justified the ban to talk to the press for so-called “medical reasons”. We have brought the case to the European Parliament. He just had a telephone call from the tribunal saying the ban to talk to the press was waived.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Maura - you go girl - give those sicko pervs a run for it they are no more interested in Madeleine than my cat is.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
216. Maura
Do you not want to answer my question re rotting meat? You may have missed it. See No. 210
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 pm
201 Roger
I agree but in regard to the legal issues, it may depend upon which jurisdiction the child was in and how the matter is brought before the court.
In England, for example Social services have a statutory duty to act to protect children who under the Children Act threshold criteria are considered to be “at risk of harm” or who “have suffered harm.” The ability for social services to intervene depends on whether they have funds in the their budget to do so.
If the police believe that a child is at risk of harm they can apply for an emergency protection order. Taking any action to protect a child requires that the matters are brought to the attention of the authorities who may often not have the money or the resources to do anything. A couple like the McCanns would pass the socially acceptable test and already appear to have done so.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 pm
see you later,nosey
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
bfn noseycow
keep them peeled
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
218 noseycow
The PJ - everystep you take
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Will where are these questions that you keep on about that I havent answered??
I have answered every one that I possibly can.
Or are you just another insulting empty headed git on this web site that has nothing else than sheer nasty crap going on in your life that you can try to bring everyone else down to your level.
As I said… cut the crap and show me these famous questions or else do us all al favour and just shut up.
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Maura , Would you just stop insulting other posters, you have chosen to ignore their requests for you to reply to their questions, which are quite reasonable requests, and yet you reply with insults.
You are becoming increasingly tedious once again.
If you wish to support the MCcanns that fine by all of us, but do so in a way that doesn’t resort to mindless insults to those who disbelieve them.
Surely, at the end of the day everyone should be supporting the innocent victim in all of this: Madeleine
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
No Harry 206,it’s just that some are less innocent than others,if you get my drift over Leicster way.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
or K & G - It takes two…
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
am off now - i promised myself that I wouldn’t waste another of my hard earned days off speculating…..it has been fun though - looking forward to McCandle in the wind (elton) or Ain’t no mountain high enough (Gary Glitter)….