Madeleine McCann: Anjos Calls Mitchell A Liar And Madeleine One Year On: Campaign For Change
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THE SUN: “Cop: McCanns’ spokesman ‘lies’”
Carlos Anjos, president of Portugal’s Police Federation, says of Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “He lies with as many teeth as he has in his mouth.”
The accused the former BBC man of leaking police statements Kate and Gerry made within hours of Maddie disappearing last May. These were aired on Spanish TV last week. Anjos said the aim was to give the McCanns an excuse not to attend a reconstruction.
Says Mr Mitchell: “It is categorically untrue that I leaked them. There was absolutely no benefit for us to do that.”
THE TIMES: Andrew Billen on TV:
“It was going to be called Madeleine McCann, but now ITV1’s exclusive, has a longer name: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change. The programme will follow her parents as they campaign for an American-style Amber Alert system, in which law enforcement agencies are empowered to commandeer airtime when a child goes missing. Ah, lack of television coverage. That must have been the problem.”
Indeed.
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April 17th, 2008 at 9:32 am
No, never saw that video, is it in youtube? Do you have a link Ian?
April 17th, 2008 at 9:32 am
do you have a link to it Ian?
April 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am
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xklamation
Ferdinand is looking for a different message - extracting cmments for negative spin against the Portuguese.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Has everyone seen the video from which that picture above came, the Mothers day video? Anyone with any doubt that those two reprobates were not as honest as they might have been only has to watch them speaking in higher octaves and screwing their faces up!
The little bit of video where Kate glares at the camera person inside the church seems to have vanished from the archives!
April 17th, 2008 at 9:29 am
OK thanks Ian
April 17th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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firestar Says:
April 17th, 2008 at 9:22 am
But the latest statements from Portugal all bear the scent of despair and frustration.
i read it as the portuguese saying that mitchel and the telegraph are lying.
Exactly firestar!
April 17th, 2008 at 9:27 am
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just_me
Mine is fine, must be your laptop.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:27 am
The attempts by Clarence to do what Ferdinand also seeks to do have failed and its exploded in his smug face.
The illusion that the McCanns and the backers of dubious morality can get away ‘with murder’ is dispelled at last.
This isn’t about the people of the UK v Portugal, but about the controlling class in the UK v Portuguese state.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Is anorak slow today or is my laptop playing up again?
April 17th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Morning All
Seems to me that the comical one should be charged with perverting the course of justice.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:22 am
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Ferdinand
Stop putting pro McCann anti Portuguese spin on it.
These poorly translated (by necessity - I’m not shooting the messenger!) articles should not be used to ‘prove’ confusion using documents own inherent confusion.
I’m sure you have your reasons for not liking the Portuguese people and being pro-neglectors and abusers of position, but please use honourable methods tocommunicate your ideas and not the same disgraceful methods employed by Clarence and the dirty doctors.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:22 am
But the latest statements from Portugal all bear the scent of despair and frustration.
i read it as the portuguese saying that mitchel and the telegraph are lying.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:21 am
1539 M.&A.
It will come and go ……and the whole process will repeat itself and when we are in our armchairs and reminiscing about the past….many ……., sadly.will have passed IMO.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am
1536 xklamation Quotes:
“The problems with the international press do not end, yesterday, it was the Telegraph turn to advance declarations from Guilhermino Encarnação, where after a meeting with the Public Prosecutor, would have said that ‘The investigation will bring its results, whoever they hurt ‘, a source close to the to the responsible of the Faro’s PJ guarantees to the CM that none of this is true.
Source: Correio da Manhã”
It would have been too good to be true.
Seems that the whole affair is now turning into an internal portuguese scandal. I had long hoped that the whole PJ mess about the interviews and all that was only a smokescreen, and that they were in truth secretly onto something, with a little help from the british authorities of course. But the latest statements from Portugal all bear the scent of despair and frustration. So maybe they really have no clue at all.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Weren’t the private detectives employed by the McCanns anyway.
It is now April, Easter has gone, summer holidays will soon be here, then Christmas again. No Madeleine!
M and A
LYn please do NOT mention Xmas, not yet!!!!
April 17th, 2008 at 8:57 am
So, basically, the depositions which were released by Carlos Nachos to coincide with the McCanns having completed their press interviews and travelling home, were her attempts to reproduce the interviews to a private investigating company.
These were held by only three groups, the UK police, the McCanns and the private detective company.
There is little doubt in my mind as to how they should have come to be available to Carlos at the right time to create a furore. Poor old Clarence, fingers burnt!
April 17th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Good Morning to all and those are the latest new in the Portuguese press today.
have a good day
April 17th, 2008 at 8:50 am
PJ of Portimão takes legal action against McCann’s spokesman
Controversy: Kate’s statement to detectives
The declarations of Kate McCann remembering a conversation with her daughter Maddie, on the day in which she disappeared, on the fact that in the previous night Kate left the girl crying in the bedroom are not in the official process secured by the Judiciary Police, established the CM. They were reproduced by the Spanish TV channel Telecinco, the journalist Nacho Abad says to have proofs that they are true - but they are accounts given by Kate to private detectives.
The process continues in secrecy of justice, but, ‘on the day that the process is opened to the public, it will be easy to prove that those declarations are not there ‘, said a source close to the investigations. Therefore, this leak of information could never have appeared from inside the Judiciary Police.
‘On the day in which this situation is clarified accurately ‘, Clarence Mitchell will be the target of a process for the damages caused against the image of the elements of the Department of Criminal Investigation of Portimão, after they had been ‘unfairly accused’ by the McCann’s spokesman of passing informations that are part of the process to the Media.
Besides, the British police also know that Kate’s declarations, about her difficult relationship with the daughter, are not in the process. When the Spanish TV channel reproduced them a PJ’s team was in Leicester, in the period in which the McCann’s friends were heard, and the English authorities confirmed to be Kate’s account to the private investigators. It is a company that worked for the couple before the Metódo3 agency and, in the end, they printed a report where these sentences are in. According to our sources, only three parts kept copies of these documents: the company, the McCanns and the British authorities.
The problems with the international press do not end, yesterday, it was the Telegraph turn to advance declarations from Guilhermino Encarnação, where after a meeting with the Public Prosecutor, would have said that ‘The investigation will bring its results, whoever they hurt ‘, a source close to the to the responsible of the Faro’s PJ guarantees to the CM that none of this is true.
DETAILS
ASFIC SUPPORTS PROCESS
Contacted by the ‘CM’, the president of the Criminal Investigation Officers’ Union, Carlos Anjos, guarantees to be available for the whole legal support that the investigators of Portimão need if they understand to sue the McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell, McCann, for damages against the image of the department.
RE-ENACTMENT
Carlos Anjos believes that the controversy created around Kate’s declarations, with accusations to the PJ for the eventual leak of information which damages the couple credibility, ‘is nothing more than a stratagem in order that they do not have to collaborate with the Portuguese justice’. In question there is a re-enactment of the crime, requested by the PJ but that, according to the couple’s spokesman, will only happen if they stop being arguidos.
Source: Correio da Manhã
April 17th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Telecinco Journalist refutes the Judiciary Police statement
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The denial of the Judiciary Police (PJ), in a declaration issued on Monday, to the news piece aired by the TV channel Spanish Telecinco, where it was revealed an alleged statement of Kate McCann given to the police, a statement that would be under the secrecy of justice, where Kate criticized her daughter Madeleine, just a few hours before the girl disappeared on the 3rd of May of 2007, from the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz, near to Lagos, deserve a reaction from the author of the surprising revelation.
In declarations, yesterday to the DN, the journalist Nacho Abad reaffirmed that it “is truthful” the content of the information disclosed by the Spanish TV channel, guaranteeing to have access to documents that can prove it.
“It surprises me that the McCann family says that it is true and that the Portuguese police say that it is false. But I do not want to take part in any battle between the McCanns and the PJ. I am going to keep on doing my work and try to find the truth about Madeleine’s disappearance “emphasized Nacho Abad.
The journalist denied to have had as a source the McCann’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell - a conviction inside the PJ who thought that this situation was instigated in order to try to discredit the investigation and to find a pretext to avoid the re-enactment of the events in the night in which the child disappeared - or the Spanish agency of detectives Método3, hired since September 2007 by the McCanns. And he didn’t say anything further, stating that: “Obviously, I have to protect my source”.
The case originated in a news piece aired last week by Telecinco about an alleged statement where Gerry and Kate McCann described to the PJ that hours before Madeleine had disappeared, their daughter questioned them on their absence in the previous night.
President of the Bar Association criticizes PJ
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On the other side, in accordance with the TV Globe’s Site, the President of the Bar, António Marinho Pinto, affirmed, on Monday, in a meeting in Lisbon with international correspondents, that the PJ ” failed to recognize the lack of advancements in the Madeleine McCann’s case”, having the investigation of the case, in his perspective, arrived to “a dead end” and that “the police is unable to acknowledge that fact”. For Marinho Pinto, the PJ dedicated the first months of the investigation “sending messages through the press about who were the guilty persons”.
In this period, remembered the President of the Bar, the headlines of the press “were implying” that Gerry and Kate McCann were involved in Madeleine’s disappearance, reinforcing in this sense criticism to the police actions in a country where much “is investigated for the newspapers”, besides existing, in some cases, “frictions” between the different forces of national security.
Source: Diário de Notícias
April 17th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Joana Cipriano’s Case Back in Court
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The coordinator of the Judiciary Police (PJ) that led the investigation to the Joana Cipriano’s case, Gonçalo Amaral, presented a criminal complaint for slander against the lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia. In question is a report that the lawyer spread in the Internet, after a visit to Leonor Cipriano in the Odemira penitentiary, where she serves a sentence for the murder and corpse’s occultation of her own daughter.
In the report, Aragão Correia says to be “convinced” that the recluse was victim of “a crime of torture perpetrated by PJ officers”. The lawyer had a meeting, with the director of the prison, Ana Calado, and revealed excerpts of the conversation. “She confirmed, with courage, what Leonor Cipriano had reported to me”. According to Aragão Correia, the person in charge of the penitentiary told that “a team of two inspectors of Lisbon” tried to negotiate” a distribution of blames, between the PJ and the penitentiary, regarding the aggressions”. Another ex-inspector of the PJ, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, who contributed to the investigation, also presented a criminal complaint.
In the process of the aggressions the Leonor, Amaral is accused of omission of denunciation and false evidence, and Cristóvão of crime of torture. The JN knows that the lawyer of Gonçalo Amaral, António Cabrita, will make a complaint of the colleague to the Order of the Lawyers. In spite of the various attempts to contact the lawyer, it was not possible to get in touch with Aragão Correia.
Note: Marcos Aragão Correia is the same lawyer who said that he knew Madeleine’s body was in the dam of the Arade, in Silves. Marcos Aragão Correia asked around 5 thousand euros to pay the searches in the dam , and in return, he promised to publicise the name of the companies to all the Portuguese and foreign media that covered the searches. “The exclusive sponsor benefits from huge, unique publicity”, said the lawyer at the time.
Marcos apparently told Método3 that Madeleine’s body was in the Arade’s dam following”an underworld tip-off”, later on this man was exposed as a fantastist. A source close to the inquiry revealed at the time: “When we asked him what he was basing his evidence on, he said, ‘I had a dream’.” From the search only some cat bones, a sock, several ropes, a plastic bag were found, all this material went to Barcelona, were the Método3 agency is supposed to be analysing the discoveries.
Source: Jornal de Noticías
April 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am
‘We’ll get result on Maddy’
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News picturesPolice in Portugal yesterday insisted they will solve the Madeleine McCann mystery.
Faro police chief Guilhermino Encarnacao promised the investigation would “bring results, whoever they hurt”.
He spoke after officers travelled to Britain to question the Tapas Seven - the friends Gerry and Kate McCann dined with on the night Madeleine, four, disappeared. Dr Encarnacao said: “Everything’s going well. The inquiries carried out in the UK are progressing in the best way possible.”
But the president of Portugal’s Bar Association criticised the police investigation and said his country’s legal system was out of date.
Antonio Marinho e Pinto said: “They have reached a dead end and don’t know how to admit it.”
April 17th, 2008 at 1:42 am
At the risk of being repetitious, where’s Garth, Gandolf and Dave
April 17th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Chatelaine, you remain as ever a shining light here.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Sorry BF I was across two posts
April 17th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Night Chatelaine Night BF Night all
XX
April 17th, 2008 at 1:22 am
:-*
April 17th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Sancho pansa, says:
Whatever you say.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:20 am
PS: I’ve been to Cervantes house years ago. Beautiful
April 17th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Saul
Sorry I thought you were responding to my………
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brandon flours Says:
April 17th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Saul
Did you know the mc canns uncle said that same phrase to the Mc canns the sat morning after on breakfast tv……..never seen again !!
He was outside the rothley war memorial……….the reporter asked him if he had a message for the parents!
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No worries
April 17th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Saul [Sancho]. We’ll attack the sheep tomorrow. I bid you good night