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 5:09 pm
brandonflours,
I’ve been intrigued to find out a bit more on CHARGE syndrome since reading your post earlier on this thread. I’d previously thought nothing of the Colomba shown in Madeleine’s right eye, except that it would be a sure way of identifying her if she’s somewhere out there. Google throws up this link http://www.chargesyndrome.org - it’s the website of the CHARGE Syndrome Foundation.
I wonder to what extent Madeleine was affected by CHARGE syndrome.
Safe to leave a 3-year-old child like this alone?
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
James P, you must reject the straight-forward, but boring, abduction by stranger theory in order to get to the more exciting stuff - e.g Doctor parents, aided and abetted by their 7 friends, selling their daughter’s body to organ donor harvesters, feeding her body to pigs, burning the body in a pet cermatorium, storing it for weeks in a variety or places and then disposing of it elsewhere etc etc.
I know abduction by a stranger sounds far fetched in comparison with these other theories but there it is
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:07 pm
There is a name being mentioned of who “Lust” might be!
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Anon 542:
Sorry, that wasn’t very well phrased: I meant ‘pre-arranged’ abduction - a sort of alternative to legal adoption in the UK as a way of ‘disposing’ or handing-on a problem child.
…Perhaps a remote possibility for parents who wanted to avoid the social stigma of ‘disposing’ of an unwanted IVF product, now they had newer versions (a bit like people disposing of pets after Christmas). The fact that Gerry wanted to find a place in ‘public life’ (he’s certainly got one now!) would be a key factor in this scenario. Imagine a parliamentary candidate who’d passed on his first attempt at assisted childbearing for adoption. Wouldn’t help his career.
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
561. lol Elliot I think I did too! The pig’s name is “Lust”! Someone call the hotline pronto! (It’s amazing how fast Porky Lust can fly!)
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
James 562,because the infalible brit police say she most probably died on the stairs,or in that vicinity.
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:03 pm
564. What, like no hands?
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
562 James P. Because it doesn’t explain the forensic evidence that has been leaked, eg. dna in the wheel well in the hired car, blood in the apartment, the ’smell of death’ etc. Infuriating isn’t it.
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
557. Yes that’s of course true.
But the persistent McCann claims Madeleine could not have possibly opened the unlocked door are really odd. Unless Madeleine had a physical defect they don’t wish to share with the public.
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
560 you need treatment urgently,or gelding.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
But if someone had come through the front door, picked up Madeleine and walked off with her, surely there would be minimal evidence of abduction (and with all their friends coming and going in the apartment, that would only make matters worse.)
On the other hand, wasn’t there evidence that the window had been tampered with but from inside? And that this was what the McCann’s believed had happened, but which the PJ rejected for forensic reasons?
Before you all jump on me, I am deeply suspicious of the McCanns’s behaviour but I need to eliminate the most obvious explanation - that someone simply walked in, picked up the girl, walked out - before taking the next step. What are the reasons why this latter scenario can be discounted?
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:58 pm
557 I have just seen a pig flying past the window!!!
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Lust is a strange creature. One lusts after what is in front of their eyes - what they watch and see and encounter. Lust doesn’t think, oh I could buy a little girl on the black market and that would be so much better for me. Lust takes a walk and watches at the beach and sees the young lithe creature bending down to play in the sand and lust leaps at the chance - oh what if - this is what I want. I can do this. So lust follows and plans and plots and then gets sweet reward.
Maybe lust didn’t want to do it, tried to reform, spent time in AAA meetings or sexual defiant meetings, whatever, so it happen sone afternoon on a casual walk on the beach in the sunny Portuguese light and lust sees the pretty little blond girl named Madeleine.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
A Times article on October 1 included the following paragraph:
[QUOTE]]
(The McCann’s) “They hope to have this ridiculous situation sorted out long before Christmas,” the source said. “It could be a quiet word in an ear; at higher levels it could be a direct approach to the judge or prosecutors saying, ‘This is the case as it looks from our point of view, we would urge you not to go any further’.
[UNQUOTE]
However, the next day this damaging language was altered to read:
[QUOTE]
Madeleine’s parents are preparing a fresh legal bid to have their status as formal suspects in the disappearance of their daughter lifted and hope to clear their names before Christmas. Kate and Gerry McCann — who were made arguidos, or official suspects, in the case nearly four weeks ago — have instructed their lawyers to “explore every avenue” to have the status lifted, a friend said yesterday.
[QUOTE]
I stumbled across this on another forum on the Mirror: add http:// before http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=18541&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90 to find the post from ‘twinkletoes1′ on page 7.
If you put the beginning phrase of the original sentence into your search engine (They hope to have this ridiculous situation sorted out long before Christmas), it will still bring you up to the same link it originally had, but now with the altered paragraph.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t…..569943.ece
Interesting, isn’t it?
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I’m just following up from Murder’s post about “not wanting the post to be subject to autopsy”.
I think the vast majority of independent observers would agree that the abduction theory is unlikely for many reasons (not impossible). But assuming that Madeleine died in the flat, for me the key questions to substantiate this theory relates to their ability to dispose of the body.
They did not have any time or utensiles (I suspect) that would allow them to go around the church and dig a hole. They did not have a car at the time, they did not have a boat, they did not know the area that well.
Could they have used someone else’s help? That’s very unlikely also, because they would not have had the time to “hire” someone that could dispose of the body.
So the conflict in these theories is that although abduction looks unlikely, disposing of a dead body under these circumstances looks equally unlikely.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
550. Wow The Eye! That’s incredible. I hope PJ and British police and the McCanns special services unit is reading Anorak right now.
Can you tell me where the antique Bulova watch my grandmother gave me is located? I’ve searched for it for 3 years now and still haven’t found it.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
If the door was left unlocked - then, aside from a child missing what evidence of abduction would there necessarily be? - there may be finger prints, but gloves could have been worn; there may be DNA traces, but the room was not sealed so who is to know, someone independant may have seen the abductor, but not necessarily.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Sorry: one final variation (5%?):
Madeleine was in fact abducted, but the parents are still trying to cover up unnecessary sedation. The whole thing has snowballed, but that’s all they did wrong, and have now become locked by the police and media into this crazy circus, unable to just say: ‘Yes we did sedate her, but that’s all, the rest is true, only we thought if we changed our story on that you wouldn’t believe all the rest either, and we thought that thee was no way the sedation could be proved. OK we were wrong on that, and foolish to effectively deny it for so long, but now covering up that minor misdemeanour has thrown out the whole investigation’.
Not impossible, but (very) highly unlikely.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Cows can be heard mooing near Madeleine. Mist from the water circles in the air. The clouds are bright pink.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
552. James P that’s one of the few hard cold facts we have direct from the mouths of the McCanns. The apartment door was left unlocked. Why there isn’t evidence of an abudction? I have no freak’n idea unless maybe the McCann abduction story by a stranger is a lie?
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I suggest another line of investigation:
What about Madeleine eyes? Didn’t any of you think about them?
Although beautiful they show Heterochromia iridis sydrome, more specifically Sectorial Heterochromia iridis…
(the dark mark under her right eye)
Heterochromia iridis results either from one eye becoming darker - Hyperchromia, or lighter - Hypochromia. Hypochromia as the result of eye trauma is what gives David Bowie’s eyes their mismatched look.
(look at her left eyes as well)
Heterochromia may also be caused by Waardenburg Syndrome, Neuroblastoma, Pigmentary Glaucoma, Neurofibromatosis, Horner’s Syndrome, or it may be idiopathic.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=940556
it could be congenital, but it is much more frequently associated with Horner’s Syndrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horner’s_syndrome
Horner’s Syndrome is frequentelly associated with blunt trauma in the sympathetic nervous system or, Iatrogenesis
Iatrogenesis literally means “brought forth by a healer” (iatros means healer in Greek); as such, it can refer to good or bad effects, but it is almost exclusively used to refer to a state of ill health or adverse effect or complication caused by or resulting from medical treatment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenic
Now my questions:
1 - Was Madeleine born with Heterochromia iridis sydrome or did she acquired the Heterochromia iridis syndrome?
2 - If it was acquired, when was it, and what was the cause?
3 - Could it be associated to Madeleine been injured in the past, by trauma or by Iatrogenesis?
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Murder I thought the entire “confess and cooperate and you’ll only get 2 years” was a fabricated story by Camp McCann? I don’t think PJ work that way?
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
With so much info flying about, I find myself forgetting what we know for sure. Is it admitted by the McCann’s that their apartment front door was unlocked and could have been opened by anyone? If that was the case, is that why there is no clear evidence of an abduction.
Sorry for being ignorant…
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I should perhaps have added that after the ‘accidental death in the apartment that had to be covered up’ hypothesis, I consider the next-most-likely scenario to be preplanned ‘DIY euthanasia’, at something like 10-15%.
My subjective assessment of the likelihood of this hypothesis increased after the McCann’s refusal to ‘cooperate’ with the police in their last interrogations.
The PJ then wished, I believe, to test the ‘accidental death followed by cover-up’ to the limit, by checking the parent’s reactions to a number of very compromising scenarios as represented by various ‘leading questions’, as well as presenting the parents with 2 alternative scenarios for further developments:
- Confess and cooperate, and you’ll probably get something like 2 years for Kate (served in an English jail) and no custodial sentnce for Gerry.
OR:
- Stick to your constantly changing story, and it’s more work for us, but you’ll both end up in jail for a long time, without your children.
The fact that the parents didn’t cooperate appears to have made the PJ take a ‘premeditated unlawful killing’ hypothesis more seriously than before, as this would be one good reason for the parents to refuse to reveal the location of a body (assuming, of course that they were indeed responsible for their daughter’s death, and thought they’d disposed of the body pretty well, rather than just ever-more-distraught but innocent victims of a simple abduction).
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Maddie is floating in water and caught in against a metal grate. She is near the resort.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
545. I know Elliot it is a very sad story. Then to find out how much the British police and UK government lied in an attempt to cover up! It’s funny to read all the pro-British police/detective/government crap on Anorak. They seem to know all the negatives about other countries but not one f*cking clue into their own deteriorating corrupt culture.
I wonder if the Menezes trial will really bring any justice at all? I mean not one person in government or from the police were found guilty of anything during the inquiry (ies). And I loved that the cops or tube authorities claimed the CCTV footage of the police attacking Menezes was “lost” or “never existed”? Unbelievable.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
410 Stevo.
Peter Falconia case in Aus was heard without a body, and minimal evidence. I still have doubts they have the right person banged up on that one.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Lust got Maddie. She was spotted at the beach by an insatiable pervert and the rest is history
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
DNA evidence won’t matter much as Sir Alec Jeffrey’s (yes I know Stig he’s a really brilliant man so that means he must be unbiased and noble) has already dismissed the evidence in the public trial. Oh and he’s willing to defend the McCanns in the court trial too (as if?!).
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
de Menezes,now there is something you would think could only be made up,six bullets in the head of an innocent young lad,by trigger happy brit police cowboys,and no one gets their arse kicked,only commended.Now there is an inquiry under the auspices of the elf’n’safety executive into the debacle,50 quid fine and slap on wrists coming up,and the brit press has the nerve to ridicule the PJ,the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.