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 6:19 pm
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noseycow Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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Yes electronic talking posters would have been good.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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Jolie Says:
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Agreed, personalities are quite complex and some people are very shallow, and forget if there was no fat there would be no thin and if there was no tallness there would be no shortness and so forth, but we do have to go by known facts to some degree with body language.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
339 dcb
What is this? Catch me out?
I was merely making an observation based on the only two family photos I have really seen.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Jolie - i suppose thats a possible reason, but i’m trying to think back to other cases where a child has gone missing and i’m sure i remember seeing video clips ( i think..
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February 10th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
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Denzylle Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
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I notice you didn’t copy the point of my post which I will repeat “My comment was the pictures that have been “released” for publication - not pictures “taken”.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
329 just_me
I like to leave no stones unturned!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
335 Noseycow
I just think they have lost sight of reality. A totally vulnerable child cannot just disappear off the face of the Earth, and if they really know nothing of where she is, and with who, they would be at the ends of their tethers, imo barely functioning.
It makes me furious that they may walk away from this, escaping charges of neglect, when they have done fuck all, except meet the pope, go jogging (oh and get a friend to launch a website).IMO.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
339 Chatelaine
Correction, insert Computer after bl…y, see what I mean?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
val - as i posted before the mcc’s nanny still works for them so i don’t think that ms baker now has a job with them - maybe one of their friends however?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
341 noseycow
My opinion is that someone could use Madeleine’s voice in a phony ransom demand. I think it is wise that they keep access to the sound of her voice private.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Tony Bennett
This is vitally important….
Madeleine’s Fund specify the Code of Good Governance as their policy document. I urge you to read it - it’s too long to copy in here but Principle 7 is extremely interesting:
Principle 7: Board openness
The Board should be open, responsive and accountable to its users, beneficiaries, members, partners and others with an interest in its work.
The supporting principles are:
Communication and consultation: Each organisation should identify those with a legitimate interest in its work (stakeholders), and ensure that there is a strategy for regular and effective communication with them about the organisation’s achievements and work.
Openness and accountability: The Board should be open and accountable to stakeholders about its own work, and the governance of the organisation.
Stakeholder involvement: The Board should encourage and enable the engagement of key stakeholders, such as users and beneficiaries, in the organisation’s planning and decision-making.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
dcb - so why do you think no video footage has been released showing maddie talking - surely knowing her voice / accent may help someone ’spot’ her??
February 10th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
327 MOAH
Perhaps for experts, but not the average layperson, and isn’t that what we’re talking about here? Our own reactions to people’s appearances and behavior. How many here can claim to psychiatrists or experts in character evaluation and sexual dysfunction?
I feel that I am a bit argumentative today. No harm intended, just antsy and ambivalent about this case’s status today.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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There is a family portrait - first picture in the gallery on the website - what more do you need?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
299 Chatelaine
Yes I read that about Ms Baker and was going to mention it in my last Post to you, but had to
sort out Dinner.
Ms Baker is obviously regarded as a pro-McCann witness, maybe she is their nanny now and
living with them, hence the need to keep her address a secret IMO.
If the PJ want to interview her they must know she is in the U. K.
Well, it”s all happening and hard to know what the outcome will be, I suspect the case will be
shelved and we will all go home sad because we probably will never know what happened
to poor little Madeleine.
Without wishing to seem uncaring, one good thing for me will come out of this is that I
will understand this bl…y better!!!!!!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
dcb
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I have a real problem with your comments - the pictures released are to raise awareness of madeleine - not family snaps.
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dcb
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My comment was the pictures that have been “released” for publication - not pictures “taken”.
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If you mean that the pictures were not taken originally for the purpose of publication (?), that doesn’t alter the fact of where MM is included in the picture.
dcb
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I have plenty of pictures of my children on their own, with one of their siblings or both, with one parent, with both parents.
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Where do your own children come into this? - unless you’re the parent of the child whose photographs we are discussing?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
334 dcb
Fair dos.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
ppy - it makes you wonder doesn’t it .. also why the description of maddie on their website was so - trying to find a word to describe it - generic, until recently
February 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
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pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
332 dcb
I suppose they felt they didn’t need to release any? The whole thing is so weird. Poor little thing.
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It’s not weird at all - the pictures have been released to raise awareness of Madeleine - not as a family album for all to dissect.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
332 dcb
I suppose they felt they didn’t need to release any? The whole thing is so weird. Poor little thing.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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There’s no pictures with grandparents, aunts or uncles.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
stevo - will be interesting to see if the board of directors do release the figures to the public…
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The Fund’s board of directors met yesterday to decide how to use the money. The exact figures for what the donations are spent on will not be disclosed until the end of the financial year when the accounts are made public, said director Esther McVey’ unquote
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id29.html
or will esthers resignation change this do you think???
February 10th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
325 denzylle
Absolutely. Just my motherly instinct always thinks “she looks a bit left out”
I am all too well aware of the difficulty in keeping toddlers still for cameras, just obviously not the “swish clunk method”, bit severe for my liking!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
flippin eck Stevo, you never cease to amaze lol… will be interesting to see if the files get deleted now you have mentioned it on here wont it. Why on earth would they not want the freephone number? surely anyone would want to make it as easy as possible for anyone who thinks they can help to get in touch. The more you dig up the more I feel there is so much more to this case and the more I feel they are forgetting about their missing child.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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Denzylle Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I don’t doubt you’ll have a problem with either of those suggestions.
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Yep you are right. I have plenty of pictures of my children on their own, with one of their siblings or both, with one parent, with both parents.
My comment was the pictures that have been “released” for publication - not pictures “taken”.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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Jolie Says:
“Many sociopaths would have no trouble lying and being completely convincing about it, body language and all.”
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Don’t judge everybody by your own standards. An expert in character analysis and sexual disfunction would stop them in their tracks, that’s what good psychiatrists do after all.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
316 dcb
Absolutely, but it was a general observation. Madeleine almost appears to be an afterthought, in most of the photos published IMO. They could have had the twins on their mums lap and madeleine on her dad or vica versa.
I am not making out anything sinister, it just strikes me as odd.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
dcb
316
I have a real problem with your comments - the pictures released are to raise awareness of madeleine - not family snaps.
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But - they were family snaps when they were taken. Unless -
i) they were taken with a view to releasing them in the future ‘to raise awareness of Madeleine’, or
ii) they never were family snaps but are fabricated reconstructions.
I don’t doubt you’ll have a problem with either of those suggestions.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Tony Bennett
Hi Tony. I’ve been researching the Governance Guidelines used by Madeleine’s Fund. This paragraph within the document itself sums it up to a tee:
The Code is based on the principle of “comply or explain”. This means that it is not a legal or regulatory requirement. Organisations using it should be able to “comply” with the main principles of the code, or “explain” why they don’t apply in the particular circumstances.
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So basically, Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned Limited does not comply or explain and violates the very code it claims to follow.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
dcb - 316 - so were they taken to raise awareness of madeleine or as family snaps???
actually when you have two such little children i do think it natural that the older child is sat on their ‘own’ as in the pictures. I don’t think there is anything sinister in this - just that toddlers are notoriousley difficult to keep sitting still IMO.