Madeleine McCann: The Age Of Jose Anes, Gerry McCann’s Fury And Murat’s Nannies Know Best
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN: “No one will ever stand trial”
Because no one has been charged with any crime?
Or: “NOBODY will EVER stand trial over missing Madeleine McCann because cops made so many vital blunders,” says the Sun. And so too says Jose Anes, 62: “Mistakes in the early hours demolished the entire case”
The ex-director of Lisbon’s police lab is “Portugal’s top forensic expert”, a billing the lab’s current director may dispute
Mr Anes says: “If the scene is not preserved in the first hours, all the hours of effort that follow are useless. I am utterly convinced — unless some new, concrete evidence suddenly emerges — the case will never reach trial”
But what of the evidence gathered so far, like the DNA samples found in the McCanns’ hire car?
“Maddie sniffer dog ‘was rigged’” - Gerry McCann is “FURIOUS” – as often he is. He “believes sniffer dogs used to find Maddie clues in the family’s hire car were MANIPULATED by cops”
Says a “source close to the couple”: “Gerry says a dog went up to the Scenic, sniffed around and went to head off. He watched the dog being brought back to the vehicle. Finally, it reacts around the boot area. Gerry was open-mouthed at that, he feels the dog was manoeuvred into a position where it could react”
And smell
“Murat pals ’saw him near flat’” – “SUSPECT Robert Murat was PALS with British holiday nannies who say they saw him the night Maddie vanished, it has emerged”
Good friends? “And at least two of the girls knew him well enough to be on first name terms”
That’s close, eh
“A source confirmed yesterday that he did befriend several girls, adding: ‘A lot are attractive and he made a beeline for them. When they were asked who was near the apartment that night, several mentioned Murat”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine: Forensics expert says inquiry is ‘complete waste’ because of police blunders at apartment”
Says Jose Manuel Anes: “Huge amounts of money were spent but if, in the first hours, the due precautions for the preservation of the crime scene were not taken, all this hard work goes down the drain. We can spend rivers of money which will all go down the drain if the crime scene is not properly isolated”
The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell says: “It is alarming to hear that Mr Anes has this view. All we want, and have done throughout, is to ensure the operational police side of this has been done in an effective and efficient manner as possible”
And why is Mr Anes – “the 62-year-old” - speaking out now? Because he’s making his comments known in a book called The McCanns’ Guilt – not that the case will ever, come to trial, you understand
“Madeleine: Gerry’s fury at ‘bungling’ dog handlers” – More Gerry McCann fury
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE COPS HIDE WITNESS”
Says the paper: “The key witness in the Madeleine McCann inquiry was in hiding last night after fleeing Portugal” – Jane Tanner? Kate McCann? Gerry McCann? No, the unnamed Portuguese tapas waiter…
“Pals say he is terrified his identity is about to be revealed and claim he is also scared of British and Portuguese government influence in the probe…Friends add that he is worried about the private eyes hired by Gerry and Kate McCann, both 39, to help find their daughter”
One former work colleague of the waiter says: “He does not want to be involved in any of this. Through no fault of his own he finds himself at the heart of this worldwide mystery”
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE: WITNESS GOES ON THE RUN ‘TO PROTECT HIS EVIDENCE’”
“THE key witness in the missing Madeleine McCann case was in hiding last night after fleeing Portugal”
“POLICE WERE ‘SIDETRACKED’ BY MCCANNS” - Former police crime scene chief Jose Manuel Anes is “ONE of Portugal’s top forensic experts”
The WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER investigates. Mr Anes is “71”
And “last night hinted that Kate and Gerry McCann were partly to blame for the flawed investigation into their daughter’s disappearance”. Although the Sun says it was those bungling Portuguese police (see above)?
“They should not have been thinking of the poor little parents but I understand the human dimension and the pressure which immediately involved the investigators. Sometimes the police are too human. The police must be absolutely objective. Somebody’s suggestions and complaints connected to a person’s disappearance should be set aside while the evidence is being gathered. In the moments immediately following the occurrence the goal is to gather everything and preserve everything”
Not bungling, rather too caring; too human
DAILY MIRROR: “McCann DNA clue ‘useless’”
Jose Manuel Anes is 62. He is the retired head of Portugal’s police science laboratory.
He tells the Mirror, and everyone else: “I fear the case will never reach trial” - and even if it did, no jury would be able to convict anyone.
BBC: Audience for BBC News 24 peaked in 2007 at 8.2 million in the week ending 1 July for the bomb attack on Glasgow Airport and at 7.9 million for the story of the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann in the week ending 13 May
Madeleine McCann: The ratings winner
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December 18th, 2007 at 11:04 am
121
Ferdinand Says:
105 Hideki Says:
“Well, no watching at all would also be a system and allow even more for an abduction.”
In that case, maybe the McCanns should change their story again, eh?
December 18th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Daily Mail at 10.17 today “McCanns ‘back in the frame’ after new Maddy apartment evidence is sent to the UK”
December 18th, 2007 at 11:02 am
118 Increasingly Incredulous
But the article says the letters will be sent this week and have been approved by the Ministerio Publico (that means the public prosecutor!).
Concerning your comments about the PJ interview:
1. We don’t know which questions were asked and how (other than what the british tabloids report). Zll interviews were recorded in paper translated and signed by the interviewees. So in January we’ll be able to discuss this a bit more.
2. Separation between laywer and suspect. The PJ cannot do that and would not do that - especially not with the lawyers the McCann’s have hired. For your information in Portugal (and in most countries) witnesses are not required to have legal counsel assisting their interviews. Note that when the McCanns walked into the police station (still has witnesses not suspects) they were already accompagnied by their lawyers. This confirms the recent account of events published in the times that the McCanns were informed before the interviews that they could be made official suspects and theferore would require a lawyer. Why would the PJ inform the McCanns of this - if they didn’t want them to be together with their lawyer? Do you think that their lawyers (head of the portuguese law society) would keep quiet if that had happened???
I’m afraid you’re talking about myths that are reported in tabloids. Why don’t you comment on what we know? We do know that the MET doctored pictures of Jean Charles de Menezes to make him look like the terrorist. Yet the officers are still working and the head of the met is still hapilly getting his salary. Why don’t you comment on confirmed cases rather than coming into this forum with myths about the police forces of another country?
December 18th, 2007 at 11:02 am
153 Brandon
Yes, the abductor was dripping with it.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:01 am
145 Yet another good post from you!
I think anyway, there are those that might not!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Does Portugal have any oil ?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:59 am
* ludicrous
December 18th, 2007 at 10:59 am
148 -
Gerry ” well its lidicrous to suggest someone sedated them, as i had already sedated them before I went out that evening”
December 18th, 2007 at 10:58 am
ok harry whats your view why they wont take a polygrapgh test?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:58 am
144
Pepe Says:
“Why should we believe that help from UK came on the 4th? If M. was dead on the 1 or 2 May, maybe they got professional help throughout all this process.”
Exactly. A few days of quiet “preparations” to launch the campaign, etc. I wonder who was commander of the operation?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Dr Mc Cann you are an expert on the effects of drugs etc……..
did you suspect your children were drugged/sedated that fateful night?
Please explain to the jury why you did not have them checked out?
YOU a DR whos daughter has be ” taken” by a suspected ring of paedophiles ?
please explain why ?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:57 am
i am all ears ian tell me what happend then where is she and who is responsible.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:56 am
116
bountyhunter Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 10:35 am
HARRY HIND SIGHT is obviously as blind as a bloody bat ans stupid as well, also a well paid troll so Voertsek Harry.
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Top of the morning to you too Bounty.
Does anyway else seriously believe that people would actaully be paid money (by the Doctors McCann, or anyone else) to post ……..why would anyone care what we rant about here.
I am well paid - no one has ever accused me of being value for money - reassuringly expensive is old Harry Hind Sight - but I am not paid to trade insults with the truth hounds . This is old Harry Hind Sight acting pro bona … a world first what what hey hey
December 18th, 2007 at 10:55 am
122
Salomon ES Says:
“Ian 103 - do you also find it bizarre that the McCanns were well-informed enough to hire top lawyers (including specialists in fighting extradition), but lacked so much judgement in hiring Metodo 3? A company without any credentials in child abductions let alone in Morocco.”
I’d assume that Team McCann was astute enough to hire the people they needed to do what they thought might have to be done. Extradition was a possibility so they hired an expert. Metodo3 was their choice for laundering money, staging sightings, etc. and to possibly eventually recover the body or to “find” a fake Madeleine.
“IMO the only aspect that is worth considering is why now the McCanns are now trying to distance themselves from the PIs that they hired and paid a millionaire sum. Could it be because Metodo 3 screwed up (trying to pay up fake witnesses) and the PJ knows about it and could use it as yet another piece of evidence agaisnt the McCanns abduction theory?”
Paying for fake witnesses would enable the police to make further charges of obstructing justice, etc. It could be that Metodo3 “screwed up” by getting caught.
“could it be that Metodo 3 is and has always been from the very beginning an integral part of the plan to find Madeleine somewhere in Morocco… and these comments from the spanish detective have further confirmed that this was a scam?”
It is BOTH, I think. Various mistakes have been made, and “the plan” (just one contingency plan) to find the body or to find the fake Madeleine is now impossible. Probably the PJ has located the body, can prove that Metodo3 was paying for fake witnesses, etc etc. They may even know the location at which the body was to be planted, or the fake Madeleine was to appear.
These plans are no longer viable, and so Metodo3 is an unnecessary liability. There are other ways to launder money, if there is any left to launder.
All hypothetical speculation.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:55 am
The evidence was screwed up by the killers.
They used detergent and contaminated the scene of the crime, BEFORE calling the Police.
This is no amateurs work. It shows cold blood and professionalism.
Why should we believe that help from UK came on the 4th???
If M. was dead on the 1 or 2 May, maybe they got professional help throughout all this process.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:55 am
141 That Madeleine McCann was NOT abducted by a stranger.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:54 am
138
Witness number 1.
Gerry? So, Gerry, why didnt you have the twins tested immediately if you suspected they had been sedated?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:54 am
i know what ian, bountyhunter is a knobend yes i know that anything else you think i should know.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:52 am
135 Ferdinand
I dont think her fellow inmates would be so respectful of the law as we are. She may well have learned some new tricks - but decided maybe she ought to be a bit more direct in her answers to the police.
I wonder if the surgeries she worked at have been approached by press or police to find out who all the dead people were?
I mean, surely a denial would be mroe sensible than trying to make such an excuse? It was as if she knew that there was a cadaver smell and an excuse was required.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Harry
Be careful what what
The lead singer from the Killers might sue you for libel
December 18th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Brandon Flowers has cut to the chase - a serious allegation - but can it be proved. Brandon, please call you first witness.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:49 am
133 Come on, deep down, brutally honest with yourself - you know, we all do.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:49 am
bountyhunter ok your a bawbag knobhead so spin massa bwana!!!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:48 am
111 soothsayer Says:
“ferdinand there was enough to bang kate up for neglect according to Amaral and others, but not the prosecutor.”
Who would you expect to judge that better, a prosecutor or a police officer?
“a cell might have made kate more forthcoming”
Or maybe not. Can you imagine the headlines if Mrs. McCann would by now still be jailed, without charges, without forensic evidence as you have assured us? Do you think the prosecutor is willing to ruin his career about that case?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:48 am
132
129
Stop beating around the bush and say what you really think about him/her.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:47 am
see the post at 112
December 18th, 2007 at 10:46 am
no ian i thought i new because i was told some things that are now doubtful, so if i am honest i may have suspicions, but withour prove thats all they are suspicions. also the way the libel word is getting tossed about on here by mods it is better to be careful about what is said, as i understand it the board is resposible for what is posted not the poster, fukc that for a game of soldiers.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:45 am
129 lol
December 18th, 2007 at 10:45 am
124 Harry
Only members of the T9 know that Harry!
One thing though, neglect is still the most likely cause.
The charge would minimum be perverting the course of justice, illegal disposal of a corpse. I’m not familiar with portuguese law, but assume these are likely issues which might attract a charge.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Ian 119
spot on