Madeleine McCann: Alipio Ribeiro’s Thinks, Clarence Mitchell Knows And A Birthday
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY: “MADDIE COPS SAYS SORRY – Police ‘too quick’ “to blame parents”
“A top policeman has sensationally admitted that making Gerry and Kate McCann suspects over their daughter Maddie’s disappearance was too ‘hasty’. Alipio Ribeiro, boss of the Portuguese department in charge of the investigation, dropped his bombshell in a radio interview”
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns spokesman: “Now that the national director of the Policia Judiciaria apparently acknowledges that they should never have been made arguidos, it follows there is no case for them to answer.”
SUNDAY EXPRESS: “POLICE ‘TOO HASTY’ OVER MCCANNS”
“As the couple bravely celebrated the third birthday of their twins, Sean and Amelie, one of Portugal’s most senior detectives admitted that making them suspects had been a “hasty” mistake”
Did Mr Alipio Ribeiro say “mistake” in his radio interview?
Says the paper: “The couple, both 39, said the official’s comments were tantamount to an admission that Portuguese detectives had bungled by centring their investigation on them.”
Says Mr Ribeiro to Portugal’s Radio Renascenca, owned by the Catholic Church:
“At this moment in time and speaking with the experience I have of Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service and the constitution of arguidos, I think there perhaps should have been another assessment before the McCanns were made official suspects.
“I don’t have any doubt about that. The national director of the Policia Judiciaria doesn’t give out orders on the constitution of arguidos but there was a certain hastiness”
Says the paper: “Last night Ribeiro was under growing pressure to stand down as national director of their country’s Policia Judiciaria”. Pressure from, whom?
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “”Police chief: We were too quick to make Gerry and Kate ‘arguidos’”
Says the Mail: “Kate and Gerry McCann’s bid to clear their names over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine has been given a massive boost after the head of Portugal’s police admitted it had been a mistake to rush into making them official suspects”
Mr McCann says: “We need a breakthrough and this looks like it could be one. It is fantastic news. We still have a long way to go but people in Portugal need to understand what has been happening and what we have been going through. We know it will take the police a long time to accept what has been happening is wrong but it is an important step towards that”
Says the McCanns’ lawyer in Portugal, Carlos Pinto de Abreu: “Many people who may have vital information have possibly not come forward as they wrongly suspected the McCanns”
What about that huge reward, and doing the right thing? People may be deterred from coming forward for fear of being named in the media and questioned by Metodo 3, the McCann’s private investigators. But let us not speculate
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “MADDIE U-TURN - EXCLUSIVE Cops admit mistake on twins’ birthday”
“Kate and Gerry McCann threw a birthday bash for their twins yesterday - as a top cop admitted it was WRONG to name them as suspects over missing Maddie”
Well, Policia Judiciaria “boss” Alipio Ribeiro, said the police acted too hasilty. “Ribeiro last night faced calls to resign over the astonishing U-turn” – although from whom, the paper does not bother to say
Say the McCanns: “The support we have had from around the world has been amazing. It’s helped maintain our strength and hope and this has helped the search for our precious Madeleine. We believe there is a very good chance she is still alive. She deserves the love and security of her family. She needs to be back home with her mummy and daddy, brother and sister”
THE GUARDIAN: “Police chief says ‘we were too hasty’ in naming McCanns as suspects”
“In an interview to be aired on Portuguese radio today, Alípio Ribeiro, the national director of the Polícia Judiciária, will concede that police may have acted too soon in making Kate and Gerry McCann formal suspects, known in Portugal as arguidos. His comments were interpreted last night by the McCanns as a tacit admission that the police were wrong to name them as being involved in the disappearance of their four-year-old daughter”
Madeleine McCann: speculation, suspicion and sensation
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February 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
What U-turn?????? There hasn’t been any U-turn. They admit to have hasted as they warmed unnecesarily the enemy and gave them time to react and prepare a contraatack
What U.turn??
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
473 Marie Nicholas
Liquorice can raise the blood pressure. It has an effect on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and can cause imbalance of the sodium/potassium ratio, raising the sodium and lowering the potassium, thus raising the blood pressure. Some studies have supposedly shown that this can happen quickly and with only moderate amounts of liquorice as well. In fact, I read a few months ago of a patient who was taking large quantities of Pontefract cakes (liquorice sweets) and apparently needed hospital admission because of the dangerously low potassium which left the person virtually prostrate with exhaustion. This is very unusual and I was amazed to hear of this because it is usually acknowledged that liquorice confectionary has very little real liquorice extract in it. However, this person was eating several bags of it a day, I believe!
I have never come across anyone in whom liquorice, taken responsibly, DID actually raise the BP but this possibility should always be considered when prescribing liquorice (which can be bought freely in the health shop anyway). If anyone already has hypertension, then their BP should be frequently monitored, and perhaps it is not the best treatment. There would no doubt be other herbs that could be used instead for whatever condition they may have. But liquorice is a wonderful adrenal support, for stress and other conditions which take their toll on the adrenal glands. It is also a wonderfully mucilaginous herb which it soothing to the stomach for ulcers etc and, despite it being a so mucilaginous, it is also good for combatting mucousy conditions of the respiratory tract. In Chinese medicine it is used generously and is one of the main herbs and it is also used a lot in western herbalism. Most people who take it think it’s great but just keep an eye on the blood pressure. If it starts to go up, just stop the liquorice.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Is Garth especially grumpy today?
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Please stop talking about food. Woman on the hill bought a dehydrator recently and as a consequence i have more disgusting dried things in my larder than leatherface. Thank god for drugs.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:13 pm
What should of said Pilimary is that it suited you then and it suits us now!
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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Pilimary Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
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I’ll tell you what the real U turn is……………its the change around from all the crap that was bleated in the Portuguese press leaked by the PJ which gave grounds for you and all othe followers to cast stones at the McCanns due to unsubstantiated nonsense!
Suits you I would say!
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I meant 1,000,000 copies of the sketch, not 1,000
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Ian, Jo, Stevo, whoever…
somebody help me to cope with this…
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I’m going to write the Spanish TV correspondan in Portugal to ask him about (although, I’m afraid he has been removed from the Portugal office, as todays “news” were given by a new correspondent. Horribly nauseating..
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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JuneJohnson Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Chenier
Think waitrose have an online delivery service, save you going out in the cold, and you could use the time saved in snarling at Orange…
just a thought
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Thank you June; that’s a great idea but the absence of broadband trashed my plans for online shopping.
Fortunately I had a well stocked freezer but by today I was down to eating cereal with long life milk, hence the expedition.
But once I have had some dinner I shall see if I can sort out an order online
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and before Glenlivet becomes ‘the ‘ of choice on Anorak, that dreadful Duncan person no less! Bit partial to Laphroaig myself…
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Ian
Yes! media are in Clarences’ pocket. Im furious today, because in the Sunday TV news (public TV, the most followed and seen) they said: sensational u-turn in Madeleine case: the PJ admit to have acted with precipitation naming the couple “arguidos”… bla bla…
Weeks ago, more “sensational” news were broadcasted in relation to the sketch of the creepy man, 1,000 of which were suppossedly delivered in all the hot areas (Morocco, Spain)…
HOW THE F…… HELL MAY THE SPANISH PUBLIC TV GIVE THOSE “NEWS”, THE FIRST COMPLETELY UNNACEPTABLE (AS SEEN) AND THE OTHER COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT??? PLS ARREST THAT LIAR, THAT MANIPULATOR, SHAMELESS, LUDICROUS MCCANN SPOKEMAN!!!! Nnnoooooooo!!! It simply cannot be true such manipulation of public opinion
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
459 JuneJohnson Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Chenier
Think waitrose have an online delivery service, save you going out in the cold, and you could use the time saved in snarling at Orange…
just a thought
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Mrs Peter O was absolutely delighted to discover that Waitrose now deliver to our rural location….. Much to our “cost”…. Seemingly Tesco, Asda nor Sainsbury’s are good enough my dear!
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One has Sainsbury’s, the nearest Waitrose ( 10 miles) is too far to browse for real, Sainsbury’s is a mere two miles away. Tesco’s wine range is brilliant though
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
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bountyhunter Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER
Would you and amused like to forecast who the next US President will be.
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Clue: He invented oven chips.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Ian 478
Which ever way you look at it its an admission by Ribeiro that the PJ should not have made the McCanns arguidos when they did.
It appears to be a justification for the amount of time the PJ are taking and the reason for the request for an extension.
Probably no more than that if Im honest.
However, it could also be taken as an indicator that the PJ havent got the evidence they need to bring about a charge now or in the future!
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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Logic Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
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Thank you for your good wishes, and the timely advice to go easy on the Glenlivet. I hope the pleasure made up for the hangover!
The whole broadband thing is a nightmare; I came to realise that there is a set script and if the set script doesn’t work then they are just as clueless as I am.
Indeed, some of them are rather more so…
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
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Increasingly Increduloous Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Errrmmm,
Chenier…
“And that the file was reviewed by a magistrate, not the PJ, for the extension of arguido status.
And it was granted…”
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what extension of Arguido status?
The McCanns status isn’t up for review until April..The extensions were of Murat’s arguido status, and the coverage of judicial secrecy……
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Then I suggest that you tell Clarrie that, for he is under the impression that it is….
Or are you suggesting that Clarrie might misrepresent the position?
After all, his comment that:
“Now that the national director of the Polícia Judiciária apparently accepts that they should not have been made arguidos, it follows that there is no case for Kate and Gerry to answer.’
can only be charitably described as an unfortunate misrepresentation of Alípio Ribeiro’s comments, so I suppose that he might be described as having form…
Perhaps you could explain how a supposedly intelligent man could manage to derive his claim from Alípio Ribeiro’s comments?
After all, it is an important question.
Clarence has attempted to usurp the role of the judiciary in this country by demanding that people account, not to the proper authorities, but to him for their actions, or stand accused of being involved in the abduction of a small child as an agent of a paedophile gang.
Or was he hoping that small point might be overlooked?
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
482 Ian
Carmen, I mean the role, not bringing a case.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
485 Ian
The word ‘is’ after ‘who’ is an error!
error removed, before I start on the merlot
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
483
False Flag
I have a friend who only reads the Daily Mirror (a bit sad that isnt it - Anyway..) she completely believes anything she reads in it. She is convinced the McCanns are truly sorry at having neglected Madeleine and she says they have said it, she also completely believes that this latest report is the PJ admitting the McCanns are completely innocent (spoke to her and her husband today).
Luckily her husband is a policemen and he has told me he believes something very unsavoury underlies the whole thing and is convinced the McCanns did something terrible. So I’m in between the wife and husband (in terms of beliefs, I hasten to add!).
He reads the paper but knows what they are like.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm
478 Garth
Hi Garth, come on now, apply your common sense to the words of the PJ head and tell me if Clarence has read a little bit more into it than he can.
Also, whats your view about the way the papers have run it on the basis of Clarences interpretation?
Can you park anti PJ and pro-McCann bias and be completely frank and honest?
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Chateleine says:
“It is my experience that most people, who are not on a forum like this, completely rely on their information via the media. And take it for granted…”
And not only that, I have heard very intelligent people scornfully implying that those who formulate their opinions via internet, blogs etc are the ones who are naive and deceived !
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
474
Carmen
Do tell me more!
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
473 Logic
I have been told liquorice increases blood pressure. Is it true?
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
471 Jez
It is outrageous, the media really are in Clarences pocket.
I wonder if this is because there is a class of person who actually does regularly act with negligence regarding the care of their children and they think ‘there but for the grace of god go I?’
Has the portuguese press responded to the radio interview? I wonder if there is a transcript available?
The PJ man really ought to contact the press and correct the misrepresentation.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hello all,
Looking at the spin of one single phrase into several days of newspaper acticles, and reading the yesterday Daily Mail through with the new “anorak eyes”, I can present the
“general scheme of making up news for a british r tabloid”:
Headline: ASTONISHING DISCOVERY: XXX!!!
Start of the article: Scientists are on their way to discover previously unattainable XXX!
Middle of the article: Dr. YYY, of Surrey, said that in the next 20 years progress could be made towards the possible discovery of XXX.
End of the article, small print: Although some experts say that discovery of XXX is scientifi cally proven to be impossible, some research exists to suggest some possibility in the future.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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bountyhunter Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
CANT SAY NO
HI dont worry we are not fooled by the macs and their roaring comical lion. they will not get away with it, sooner or later thet will have to face the music. pj are not fools.
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Well that one’s cheered me right up!
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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Increasingly Increduloous
Absolutely - I never post anything I cannot support with sources or logical argument, unlike some (like sledgehammer) I dont see the point of making claims that later are revealed as so much hot air.
I take it this was an attempt to send me scurrying off for sources? Well, that will not work, I have too much work of that nature to do in any case (unrelated to this case).
However, my sources are well known and easily obtainable should you wish to find them for yourself.
‘About 9:10′ Gerry claims he was seeing Madeleine for the last time (several sources), at ‘about 9:15′ Jane Tanner said (on video) she saw an abductor, Gerry posted later on his blog that Tanner saw the abductor at 9:10.
Only one example of many, a small but absolutely critical example however.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
awww logic -
one of my favourite topics - as you know - but hubby is getting vvvvveeeeerrrryyy irate and has even started peeling pots himself - ugh 
so must dash - you around tomorrow???? 
anorak - you know any good divorce lawyers
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Ian - i read that and had no idea what he was talking about - i thought he was just trying to get an insult in (makes him feel important imo
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really going now -
divorce pending…….
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
455 Noseycow
The course is a story in itself - it’s something of a joke. It’s not really run the way a degree course should be run and in fact I don’t mind saying it’s run by a gang of idiots. I did a degree many years ago and things were quite different then. The lecturers on this course are wannabe doctors who couldn’t diagnose a pain in the rear. Needless to say, I do point out their inaccuracies (which are many, believe me) so I think it is fair to say I’m not the most popular person there!!
I’m thinking of using the experience to write a comedy sit-com about it - all the characters are there and the plot is unbelievably funny. What goes on is incredibly frustrating but when I relate all the various incidents to friends, we all end up virtually on the floor laughing.
However, herbalism, practised properly and with real knowledge, is absolutely fascinating and no-one should be in any doubt that herbs can offer some amazing treatments. The herb that originally led to most of my interest in the subject was Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice) which I had used personally and find incredible. But of course there are hundreds of others in regular use, often with very good effect.
I know that there are some drugs which are really useful, such as antibiotics when they are really necessary but, when you look at the figures (even the official ones which are no doubt greatly underestimated) of the hospital admissions (and worse) that pharmaceutical drugs cause, it has to be a good thing to look into alternatives. I’m sure you’ve seen the polypharmacy that is prescribed for many patients and, with so many drugs prescribed together, absolutely no-one, despite their greatest effects, can know how they will interact. I’ve got to say that I think the prescribing situation is getting worse as well, with so many drugs, eg the statins, being prescribed willy-nilly without (in my opinion) convincing proof that they are the answer.
What do you think, noseycow?