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 10:55 am
94 maura
what do you mean by scrutinised?
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 am
93 - lol I ask my angels!!! The ‘Parking Angel’ is particularly useful…
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 am
The real stig 66
Re Soc.Svcs breathing down their neck…?
The Mcanns were the ones who insisted that they get a Soc.Svcs visit not the way you are trying to portray it.
Incidently the Soc Svcs did carry out the checks that are mandatory to all parents in this situation. The result was that they were happy with what they saw.
dont forget KMc was a part time doc to enable her to be with the family more. Her neighbors /family/ friends all have come out in support of them as loving parents who have never even slapped their children. The arrnagements in Portugal were stupid and if you like neglectful but I know many many parents who are stupid and neglectful and may I say I have never met a parent who isnt stupid and neglectful if scrutinised so much. Can you say you have never been stupid and neglectful??? I doubt it as much as I doubt anyone.
BUT these children were obviously well loved and no amount of make up stories or smear tactics can ever take that away from them.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:51 am
I wonder if they have prayed to St Anthony ?
He always finds things i’ve lost after looking for them for ages
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:51 am
Brenda 79,interesting observation about the Papal visit,IMO the answer to this mystery lies with the priest,the complex management have confirmed that GM called for the priest at 2a.m. 3 hours after Madeleine was reported missing,a strange reaction to say the least,it also appears that all traces of the McCanns have been removed from Vatican web sites,yet again strange.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 am
87 amanda
If you took all three, how big a case would that have made and what chance would you possibly have of ever fitting up the parents for it? You would create furore that would never go away as well as kill family tourism to Portugal.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 am
76 Amanda
(SORRY SENT BY ACCIDENT)
I’m not trying to “expose” anyone!
I’m not trying to open the Di debate
Let’s face it; on the McCann controversy EVERYONE support one conspiracy or another….
The parents are covering something up with their friends…possibly withwell placed people.
Or
The police are trying to frame an innocent family.
The point (and I guess you missed it despite my best efforts) is to see whether there’s a correlation one way or the other vis-à-vis the other controversy.
I honestly don’t see the harm.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:49 am
83 Brandonflour…… No its not true. If you check out Paolo Reis’ blog you’ll see that he issued an apology for saying it in the first place. Mistaken identity!
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 am
79 brenda
This is a repeat of something I posted yesterday:
“They have been looking - they have orchestrated and maintained an unprecedented media campaign to ensure millions of pairs of eyes are on the lookout for Madeleine - the fact there have been so many sightings is proof it has been effective. That none of these sightings has come to nothing is not their fault.
They have hired Controlled Risks to carry out clandestine activities related to the search for Madeline - they did this weeks ago. Within a week of Madeline going missing they asked the public for suggestions and ideas of what could be done to help find her - the UK Police seem to have acted on at least one of those suggestions which was to ask people to submit their holiday photos so they could be looked at to see if any contained clues like people in the background watching the McCanns.
Have you ever thought they may have taken other measures which have to remain secret? I bet they have done that as well. I think they have spent about a third of the fund to date.”
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 am
If the points in 64 and 78 were the case, then surely the situation we are left with currently is much worse than the reality of exposing paedophile rings. Sorry, but you should perhaps get real on this. If paedophiles were involved why not take the twins too???? Duh!
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 am
80 Stig - A comment of ‘ we advise you to go no further’ from some very senior legal players - sounds like a threat to me, and not a comment i would expect from someone who is ‘ethically above reproach’.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 am
can i ask the better informed majority here - did not one of the other kids allegedly have some kind of vomiting bug?? and if so, judging from own experience, they spread easily.
might not madeleine have caught it and being sedated might have choked?
oh either way, overdosed or accident or sickness plus sedated plus pure neglect, there would have been an investigation and blame put on them. career done. forever. not even poor NHS would employ someone with a history like this. although they tend to employ almost everyone, really
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 am
67 Elliott
Why would there be a cover up.
Even if their paid advisors and solicitors are protecting them, then the detectives / British police are not.
There is either nothing to hide or something will come out eventually. If they are guilty they may be able to beat being prosecuted because of the way the evidence was treated at the time (letting their room be hired out by two families after Madeleine disappeared etc), but if they are guilty then they would at least be questioned by police here. Just because it happened abroad would not stop that.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 am
http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/176297.html
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Mods and admin is this true?
Late father of Gerald (“Gerry”) was a Labour Party high ranking politician
Jack McCann, father of Gerald (“Gerry”) McCann was an influential politician from the Labour Party, elected as a Member of Parliament in a 1958 by-election, in Rochdale, near Manchester. This campaign is in Media history books, as the first by-election to be covered by television. BBC has decided not to cover it, but Granada TV, an ITN franchise, decided to report the campaign. After the Labour Party smashing victory, Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963, decided to give his first TV interview as Prime-Minister, talking to a BBC program called “Press Conference” and on a ITV “Tell The People.”
Jack McCann (1910-1972) studied at elementary school and then at classes of the National Council of Labour Colleges and Workers’ Educational Association. An engineer, he served as councillor on Eccles Borough Council in 1945 and was leader of the Labour Group. Elected in 1958 to the Parliament, in 1964 he was appointed to the Government’s Whips’ Office as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, than in 1966 as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, returning to be a Lord of the Treasury 1967–69.
The fact that Gerald (“Gerry”) McCann is the son of a late Labour Party high ranking politician may help to explain how the couple was able to build the Media machine that took Madeleine McCann case to all over the world, from the Vatican to near the White House. And also why there has been a connection so strong between the nº 10 of Downing Street and the father of the missing child. As we first referred, on August 26, it was the British Prime-Minster, Gordon Brown, who suggested to Gerald McCann, on the eve of the MediaGuardian Edinburgh Television Festival, that it was time to scale down the campaign to find Madeleine.
But in the last days there have been some signals that show the support for McCann family is starting to loose speed and strength. Gerald McCann gave an interview, on August 28, to the Independent Catholic News, where he felt the need to explain that the couple meeting with the Pope has nothing to see with his high profile campaign. Gerald McCann said that Cardinal Cormac, who was the middle-man who moved things in order to get that meeting, had told them that Pope Benedict would meet “other Catholic parents” in similar circumstances. “The cardinal made clear that it wasn’t necessary to have a high profile media campaign to be given this opportunity,” Gerald McCann told the newspaper.
Now, that Kate McCann could be charged in connection with her daughter disappearance, according to family sources and her lawyer, quoted by Sky News, some other strong supporters may be thinking twice. Like, for example, some of the hundreds of policemen who gave Gerald McCann, a standing ovation during the ceremony to present the Police Bravery Awards.
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Mods and Admin
Apparently not, according to Michael McCann who claims that the MP in question is his father, and nothing whatsoever to do with the Good Doctors,
I’lltry to find the post and xlink it
The link in question http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=587&replies=2
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:45 am
76 Amanda
I’m not trying to “expose” anyone!
I’m not trying to open tha
Let’s face it; on the McCann
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 am
79 - I believe they drove to spain on a public holiday to distribute leaflets….lol
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 am
72 Elliot
Thanks for that, very interesting. I hope people can see around their anti-McCann blinkers that some of the players here are likely ethically above reproach and are Portuguese so they must be deeply concerned by things that have been discovered independently.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 am
Just a quick question for people on here…can anyone tell me of any possitive reports that the mccanns have done personaly to search for thier daughter since she went missing. I know they have been to see the pope and been to the states but have they actualy done any physical searching themselves of the less populated surrounding areas where they were staying.I’m just curiuos thats all..
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 am
No 1 WELL SAID.
“As criminal networks and child exploitation are undeniable facts, there is not the slightest justification to wipe such lead out of an inquiry on a missing child.”
thank you for an excellent posting.
This is the point that the few and the many seem to be divided on. Of course it is dressed up as teammcann and teamantimcann but the real issue is humanitarian. The English and Irish governments I believe are also joining resources to combat the insidious crime of traficking.
The Madeleine Mcann case is no doubt going to put the wind up many paedophile rings as they try and try as they might to blame the parents to cover their own tracks.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:39 am
there was never anythin odd thought about the mix of Irish Catholicism and superstition, although i think there is less of it nowadays. So bringing in Psychics would be a natural development.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
71. Anonymous. You sound as though you are trying to expose the contributors to this as “conspiracy theorists.”
The Princess Diana debate has been done extensively and is an issue on which we may never really know, I think it is inappopriate to ask the question here.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
64 batman
I had a crazy thought concerning what you said. A few years ago there was that terrible case of a big pedophile ring in Portugal with some very powerful and influential people involved.
What if it still existed and was involved in this case and MI6 knows this and told Gordon Brown. He can’t come out and make such an accusation openly for political reasons so the best he could do was provide the McCanns with powerful backing to prevent them getting steamrollered.
Far fetched, but conspiracy theories are hard to resist sometimes.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
jacqueline, at least you will surely remember melissa’s and julie’s parents. did they ever give a performance like the mccanns? i think these peopke are very strange. they give me the creeps, to say the least.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:37 am
The poor McCann’s won’t they g on half pay after six months off?
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
As I said previously,only in your wildest dreams———http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/10/mccann-lawyers-warning-to-prosecutor.html
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:33 am
A question for the posters on here….
I’ve been thinking about this case and the fact that the Princess Di controversy is back. Is there a correlation between people’s opinions on the two cases?
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1) Regarding the disappearance of Madeleine, do you think the McCanns are;
a) “involved”
b) on the fence
c) “not involved”
2) Regarding the death of Princess Di, do you think she;
a) died in “suspicious circumstances”
b) on the fence
c) died in a “normal” car accident
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Personally, I’m in the “1-a 2-c” camp (could change with more info).
Maybe Mods/Admin can keep tabs on people’s feedback to see the number of each combination that was voted for…..?
(Note: the object isn’t the absolute McCann “involved” or Di’s death “suspicious” vote, but correlations in opinions between the cases)
I’ll repost later as we have waves of different posters during the day.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 am
66. Stig. I agree that they should have said nothing. But what they did say is much worse than saying nothing, and to me it says a lot about what type of people they are. Just my viewpoint and I know you are coming from a very different place on this.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:30 am
I am far from psychic but I think some part of me is trying to solve this crime and hence the nature of the dreams i am having.
last night I had a dream I was on the beach when someone on a boat just off shore
started dragging something out of the water.
Body of a child.
Not that it means anything.
Just read on Gazetta Digital how the Mcs lawyers have told the Portuguese Prosecutor
Luis Verao “We advice you to go no further”.
A little warning to the McCanns legal team -
Sometimes, not often enough, the powerful are humiliated despite the best defense possible.
I regard myself as a compassionate being, and I do have compassion for Kate for some reason but not Gerry and I would always insist on a fair trial.
But we are not even on trial here and there is absolutely no fairness.
An entire media show has discredited the police.
And if any of you pro Mcs were policing a case where you were convinced a woman had butchered her 8 year old daughter, I challenge you to remain passive.
Anyway I believe the rumors that she met fists in prison.
Prison is an awful place for child killers. Especially when they are mothers.
By the way Stevo when is the moment of silence going to be held?
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:29 am
There is just something “suspicious” about the McCanns and I have thought this from the very beginning. There can never be a right or wrong way to handle losing a child in whatever context which is dreadful for any parent, however, there is something about them that I can’t put my finger on
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:28 am
Do not hold your breath waiting for justice to be served in this case,for that is the last thing that will happen.A cover up of a magnitude that you could only invent in your wildest dreams is taking place,and the life of this poor little mite has been rendered of no account.Human nature has been trumpeted as a major loser in this case,that will be the human nature that is made up of lying cheatinf stealing and killing,some very naive people out there,it appears the McCanns have all the people in place,who matter,even as far as controling(HINDERING) the inquiry from the UK,it makes me sick.