Madeleine McCann: ‘Screaming Contradictions’, Scotland Yard And Francisco Marco Interviewed
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SUNDAY EXPRESS (front page): “MADELEINE – News call for Scotland Yard probe”
Are Scotland Yard for hire? Benazir Bhutto. And McCann? Have the discovered who killed Rhys Jones yet?
“Retired Chief Superintendent Dai Davies, former head of the Yard’s Royal Protection unit, says that if the Yard can send detectives to probe the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, then they should also fly to Portugal to try and solve the Madeleine mystery”
He says:
“The Portuguese investigation has quite simply not solved the crime and it is now looking increasingly likely that it will be shelved. I would suggest that this is the time to call on the Yard to take the lead and to get them to form a team of detectives to work on the case”
Retired copper suggests his old boys are the best – Read all about it!
GLASGOW SUNDAY MAIL: “Police Ready To Clear McCanns Over Maddie”
“Police in Portugal are set to clear Kate and Gerry McCann as suspects, it was claimed last night”
A fact claimed by “insiders” who say “officers did not have a shred of evidence against the 39-year-old couple”
The McCanns’ spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, says: “This report is extremely encouraging”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “Kate and Gerry ‘in the clear’”
“Police do not have a shred of evidence against Gerry and Kate McCann and they are set to be cleared as suspects, it was claimed yesterday. The couple’s status as ‘arguidos’ in the case of missing daughter Maddie, four, will be lifted unless they make ‘screaming contradictions’ in a new police quiz, said Portugal paper Expresso”
How does Expresso know? The paper does not say
SUNDAY MIRROR: “McCann cops: No evidence”
“A review of the case by homicide experts from the Judicial Police has turned up no proof that Kate and Gerry McCann played a part in four-year-old Madeleine’s disappearance.
“Attorney General Fernando Pinto Montiero told respected Portuguese newspaper Expresso: ‘The couple’s legal status will be considered at the appropriate moment, depending on various elements still to be obtained’”
Says Expresso: “They will only remain arguidos (suspects) if there are screaming contradictions revealed in the answers to the letters sent to England”
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY: “MCCANNS TO BE CLEARED”
“Last night the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the sooner they are questioned the better”
He says: “There won’t be any screaming contradictions and hopefully the emphasis can then be put on finding Madeleine, who we believe is still alive”
Says the paper: “Legal letters outlining the 40 questions are to be sent to the Home Office this week. Interviews are then likely to be carried out by detectives from Leicestershire police, the McCanns’ local force”
Says Gerry McCann’s brother John McCann: “Any sensible person realises Madeleine was abducted. We didn’t anticipate being in this position after nine months”
THE SUNDAY TIMES: “Madeleine McCann and Metodo 3: Private eyes, public lies”
“Paid £50,000 a month to find Madeleine McCann, the Spanish detective Francisco Marco said he hoped to have her home for Christmas. He issued this photofit of a suspect last month; it set off a media frenzy, but Portuguese police say it has ‘no credibility’. Christine Toomey turns the tables on a private eye who is anything but…
An interview with Francisco Marco. His company is being paid £50,000 a month by the McCann’s fighting fund
“We won’t answer any questions about Maddie. Maddie is off limits – is that understood?” Marco’s cousin Jose Luis, another of the agency’s employees, warns me sternly”
But they are not the police. What can they not talk about the big case? It was Mr Franciso who told he’d find Madeleine by Christmas – last Christmas
“I cannot ask him to clarify what he did say, or whether talking about an ongoing investigation is potentially detrimental. Instead, I am left to discuss the matter with a handful of other private detective agencies in Barcelona, the private-eye capital of Spain. What they tell me is disturbing”
Marco walks in. Does he bring his Maddy dolly? And:
“Marco slaps on the table a 144-page pre-prepared dossier of articles written in the Spanish press about himself and M-3. He goes on to list some of those in the city he says I have already been speaking to about his company. Had my movements been monitored? If so, why would a private detective agency be interested in this at a time when they were supposed to be tirelessly searching for the most famous missing child in the world?”
Fame.
“In most of the many pictures of himself included in the material he hands me”
Metodo 3 is the most famous private detective agency in Europe
“He seems eager to please. He summons a female assistant on several occasions to bring me material, including a book he has recently written, to illustrate what he is talking about. Even when I make it clear this is not necessary – aware that these distractions eat into the time we have to talk – he insists, partly showing off”
Then:
“When I ask about his background, Marco summons her [secretary] to photocopy the first pages of his doctoral thesis on private investigation: he has a master’s degree and a PhD in penal law”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCanns to be cleared as no evidence found”
Attorney General Fernando Pinto Montiero told Expresso: “The couple’s legal status will be considered at the appropriate moment, depending on various elements still to be obtained.”
Madeleine McCann: Money. Speculation. Sensation. A child is missing…
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February 10th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
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Does a foreign inquest have the same legal status as on ongoing criminal investigation?
February 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
227 DCB… no that isn’t what I said… Arguidos are different, but witnesses can do what they like.
how about the Paris photographers who were witnesses to the Diana crash… they just refused to answer questions and refused point blank to come here for the inquest. (Thats the equivalent scenario that was quoted to me)
I’m not saying who will or won’t do what.. just that the witnesses don’t have to do anything except steer clear of Portugal in the future!
February 10th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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coolandcalm
You believe that so much IN ONE DIRECTION. OK, prove me wrong, do you believe that Madeleine was abducted or disposed of after an accident?
February 10th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
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clouseau Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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See post 63
February 10th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Tanner the star witness….her evidence would get ripped to shreads in a court
February 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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Tanner said she would go back “tomorrow” if it helped to find madeleine.
But what you are saying is get out of Portugal arguido or not and nothing can be done?
February 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Chloe 223.
Yes, if they were still in Portugal but not in UK.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Saturn
The RBS/AstraZeneca connections seem as clear as can be. The million dollar question is “what is/was AstraZeneca’s involvement in the disappearance/demise….if at all?”
February 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Jolie said….
Too often, I think, we question and criticize that which conflicts with our view of things, but willingly accept information without reservation that which confirms it. That is a trap to be wary of, I think.
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I agree with that so much…. both sides of the argument should be able to be logical.
I keep reading about the curtains being washed but it was stated way way back that the MW cleaners disnfected the apartment and washed the curtains / bedding etc because they thought the investigations were over and the apartment was then re-let.
Then the Brit police were called in. Ooops. too late……
True, but not as excitng.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
217 coolandcalm
I think it’s the other way round. One of the “advantages” of being an arguido is that you can refuse to answer questions, whereas a witness can’t.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
205 dcb
Thanks, but I am half watching my T.V. and trying to keep up with what” going on here.
I was posting on here when Wales played England, and,got so excited I thumped my laptop,
luckily without causing damage. Sorry, I am Welsh so we have divided loyalties I suspect.!!!!
February 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
33 Saturn
Yes, it seems the connections are becoming clearer by the second. Brian Kennedy is also involved with the Scottish Rugby Union and on their website they have a link to do with anti doping in sport or words to that effect. We already know GM has written papers on this subject.
I’d like to know if AstraZeneca has any large loans with RBS. This seems the most obvious reason for a bank to want to assist a client. A drug company facing litigation can have millions wiped off its share value or even go out of business (TeGenero). In such situations the bank will be extremely exposed.
Easier to pay a few million out in “favours” than to risk hundreds of millions eh?
Saturn - email me sometime. I don’t always get to read in here but email is always checked.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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If the police are not allowed to interview witnesses how do they solve any case?
February 10th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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coolandcalm
Lets hope their status will be lifted up then to FORCE them to tell the f….truth
February 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
214 Jolie well said.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
There’s not a lot of point putting everything on the interviews.
Speaking with a policeman neighbour a while ago (works at Paddington Green) apparently only the The mcCanns have to agree to be re-interviewed because of being Arguidos and agreeing to it as part of being given permission to leave Portugal.
Every single one of the others named, nannies, holidaymakers, friends, etc etc can refuse. They are only witnesses and under no obligation to see anyone let alone speak to them…..
Forget the interviews ‘catching them out’….. can’t happen.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
189 Gandolf
It is noticeable that you are now becoming more lucid and I did suggest the Priest in PDL
was your reference. This would coincide with your referring to the “Whore of Rome”, and M &A telling me it meant the RC church. Are you now saying the answer lies in Portugal
and that the Priest in PDL is involved.
Could it be because the McCanns were given a key to use the Church for prayer or solace at any time, the Priest found out something damaging to the McCanns but could not reveal
what it is because of confientiality.
Your explanation of the Eric Cantona is as clear as mud.!!!!!!
February 10th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Brilliant try england
February 10th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
188 Ian
Apology accepted.
We ‘live’ in a rarified atmosphere here, where most of us have similar viewpoints and a wish for certain action to be taken to ensure justice. However, even though many of us think we know certain parties are guilty and complicit in Madeleine’s disappearance, we do not have access to the case files or know what the true facts are (other than we know what the McCanns and their friends, family, and supporters have said).
We must be careful not to get carried away by emotion and gut feeling or group think and insist on being skeptical of information whether it supports or goes against what we believe to have happened in Praia de Luz. Too often, I think, we question and criticize that which conflicts with our view of things, but willingly accept information without reservation that which confirms it. That is a trap to be wary of, I think.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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jo Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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The Mccann’s must be feeling quite hopeful now mustn’t they….heh heh.
Off into the sunshine again.
Til later.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
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Jolie
British cops have no jurisdiction over the case.If I am correct in the case of Benazir Bhutto,her family asked S.Yard to look into it.
Anyhow,if it would come to this (Yard taking it into its hands) would the fund pay for it?????
February 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I think I have scared Tony Bennet with my bad english
but Val was asking a very good question:
….”what would happen if Ket refuses AGAIN to answer teh PJ….”
Any clue?
February 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
How could Scotland Yard conduct an investigation in this case? (Not that it’s likely, I understand.) Even if the case is archived by the PJ, it is still a Portuguese matter, isn’t it, and given further evidence being discovered, charges could be pressed some time in the future. Isn’t that right? What right does another country have to come over and take over an investigation that is not in their jurisdiction? Wouldn’t that break Portugal’s laws?
February 10th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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lol
February 10th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
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clouseau
…with Silly Bang-bang????
February 10th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
afternoon all…..lovely day here…..see we still have some prime suspects…..just washed my curtains ( as we brits do even when where on holiday…its the British way you know)
February 10th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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slyfox
This is what I have been thinking since Ribeiro”s “precipitated” announcement.
It may well be strategy
So,may be it is not all lost….
February 10th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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val Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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Val if you are in UK you can watch it live on here from the BBC website
February 10th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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jo Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
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slyfox
Thank you for this.
I will be “high” for 5 minutes now.
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Pleasure..just five? Come on loosen up! (-:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
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slyfox Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
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I’m sure he was the warm up act.