Madeleine McCann: The Truth Of The Lie, The Missing Pages And Blonde Lawyers
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
A girl has disappeared. We spent over a year watching the parents via the press. The McCanns have been formally cleared of involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance. But we are still watching them…
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Maddy’s parents turn to their lawyers as book hits shelves”
Kate and Gerry McCann consulted lawyers yesterday after the publication of extracts from a book by a former senior Portuguese detective containing allegations against them. Goncalo Amaral, former head of the investigation into the disappearance of the couple’s daughter Madeleine, affirms that the young girl died in her family’s holiday flat.
His book, entitled ‘The Truth Of The Lie’, will be published today but excerpts were printed in the Portuguese paper ‘Correio da Manha’ yesterday.
Do we dare repeat what the book says? Is any publicity bad publicity?
The McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “Mr Amaral will face immediate and swift legal action if he in any way implies, either directly or indirectly, that Kate and Gerry were involved in the disappearance or harming of their daughter.”
SKY NEWS: “Ex-Cop’s Madeleine Book Published”
He criticises the McCanns, their friends, Gordon Brown and the British police.
Many do. Any other key facts?
The book’s publishers remind readers that Mr Amaral was a successful detective and top of his class of police cadets 27 years ago. But they make no mention of the perjury charge he faces over another missing child investigation.
But Sky News does.
THE SUN: “How could he?”
He is now facing perjury charges over an earlier case involving the disappearance of a girl.
The cad. The Sun just sticks to the facts.
But the ex-cop still churned out his 214-page book Maddie — A Verdade da Mentira, which translates as Maddie — The Truth of the Lie.
Isn’t it 224-pages long? We demand to know what happened to the 10 missing pages. We demand the truth! Are there two books?
The £10 book — with an initial print-run of 40,000 — is being published only in Portugal for fear of libelling the couple. In March doctors Kate and Gerry, both 40 and from Rothley, Leics, received £550,000 from Express Newspapers for printing false claims.
The Express. Libel. For shame. The Sun would never get it so utterly wrong, would it?
In any case, the Portuguese police case is over, the papers told us so:
Though the case has been shelved, Portugal’s top cop Almeida Rodrigues insisted yesterday: “We will continue to chase up every credible lead we receive. We will travel to the ends of the Earth if needs be.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Kate and Gerry McCann threaten legal action over Madeleine book”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Amaral is seeking to make money out of Madeleine’s situation and is seeking publicity – it’s quite disgusting,” he said admitting that legal advice had been taken.”
Does Clarence Mitchell get paid to be the McCanns’ spokesman, to speak on behalf of the parents of a missing child? And now the McCanns are no longer suspects, and all too used to dealing with the media, do they need him?
Does he need a new job. Do you have a missing child?
DAILY MAIL: “I took my little grandson to plaiy in the woods. So how on earth did we end up being frogmarched home by police?”
Writes Dorothy Judd, a “pensioner”:
We are in woods bordering a vast park in a suburb of a northern city. Wild and muddy, they are sordid with litter, but nature triumphs with abundant fungi, ivy, brambles and the extraordinary roots of vast trees that Max climbs on…
Earlier, in a supermarket, Max was obscured for a second behind someone else. I felt a panicked ‘What if . . .’ before seeing him again.
Quick, granny, it’s the rozzers:
‘Police!’ says Max, sitting up in astonishment.
I turn around to see a large policeman in a fluorescent jacket approaching across rough ground. He asks what we are doing. ‘This is my grandson, Max. We’re making a den, as you can see. But I was just saying we should be getting back for tea.’
‘You all right, Max?’ he asks. The little boy looks bemused and rather shy. ‘Yes,’ he says quietly, glancing at me inquiringly. The policeman says there have been two reports from people who are worried or suspicious as to what is going on.
‘I’ll have to take down a few details.’ The policeman opens his notebook and asks my name, date of birth, Max’s date of birth and my address. I say I live in London, but am staying with my son and daughter-in-law’s family. Again, he asks: ‘You all right, Max?’
‘Yes,’ the little boy says apprehensively. Perhaps he is picking up my increased heart rate. ‘Why is he asking questions, Granny?’
‘He’s making sure we’re OK, Max. That’s all,’ I say, as nonchalantly as possible. But I don’t feel calm. The officer talks into his walkie-talkie.
‘Well, then, I’d better see you on your way. You know, complete the inquiry. I’m sure it will be all right. I’ll just pass by the house. You said you were going back anyway.’
And then the clincher:
Perhaps I have not moved with the times or fully realised that childhoods before the Seventies were different from the world we inhabit: that the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, CCTV, greater awareness of child abuse, more self-consciousness, have altered the climate.
Yeah, because in the 1940s, the UK was much safer place for children, right?
Changes for the better, in many ways. But increasingly society is losing, especially for our urban children, a sense of freedom, an unstructured and ’safe-enough’ physical environment, with dangers that can be tamed through play and imagination, where worlds - even a kind of magic - can be created.
Well, no. Lots of children are about in the urban sprawl after dark. Some wear hoods to keep out the chill.
TIMES ONLINE: “Lawyer of the Week: Lucy Moorman”
Yayyyy!. Let’s here it for the lawyers.
Lucy Moorman, an in-house barrister at Simons Muirhead & Burton, represented Robert Murat, who sued 11 British newspapers for libel over allegations that he was involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Last week the papers apologised in court and announced a record damages payout of £600,000.
Lucy is blonde.
What were the main challenges and the possible implications?
We were presented with three clients with devastated reputations (Michaela Walczuch and Sergey Malinka also recovered six-figure sums), a torrid tabloid media campaign spanning nine months and more than 100 seriously defamatory articles. It required great focus and formidable teamwork to get into a position to present the claims at the High Court. To have achieved such resounding vindication for the clients within just three months is immense.
Lucy is blonde.
Madeleine McCann: No end in sight
Posted: 24th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (729) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 17th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I’m English. I don’t believe the McCanns.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:13 am
A lot has happened and has been written and said but fact is Madeleine is still missing.
During the investigation it was said (on tv) that specially trained dogs were used to search for evidences (smell of corpses and/or traces of body fluids), which were found in both, the apartment where from Mady simply vanished and (quite important fact I think) in the car that was rented after the girls disappearance. What happened to this evidence, did they find anything?
August 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
What several friends and my wife and I cannot understand is that it is an open and shut case of criminal child neglect against the McCanns; but no charges yet? We have raised four children and would never, ever, even the safe Britain as it was 40 years ago, go out and leave even 10-year old children on their own. They have admitted that they went out of sight and sound several nights and the the evidence says that Madeleine was crying at being left alone in a strange room is a strange country, and no one seems bothered. The kids are reopted to hacve been left in a creche most days. What did they have kids for? We never did such a thing on holiday. The kids were with us enjoying themselves as we did their company.
We see mostly just pity for the McCanns not anger for what they did that allowed this situation to occur. No wonder the Continent is getting very disgusted with the British with their reputation for drunkenness, hooliganism and now child neglect. Lose a child and make a fortune, see the Pope for a private audience and have months of fame, not just 15 minutes.
Britain has indeed gone crazy. No wonder the moral standards are dropping rapidly.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Amaral’s Book is a copy of de police process.
Is the true.
The police will not stop search the truth
July 27th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
All the british that believe in the McCanns are assholes. The McCann´s should now be in JAIL !!!
Gonçalo Amaral does not fear the McCann´s ! He knows that, if necessary, he will have the support (moral, financial, …) of all the portuguese. I will happily donate 10000 € to support Gonçalo Amaral if required !!
ed&relaw0511
July 25th, 2008 at 8:05 am
new thread
July 25th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Hi Guys!
Morning Jo! Sorry that I was in therapy yesterday whilst all around were losing their heads and having a pop at you.
I saw some disgraceful comments on here.
‘Tis as if the World is to be brain-washed into believing that the M case is over.
Whoever you people really are - you should be thoroughly ashamed to have forgotten that in the midst of protecting the parents in this case, a little girl went unprotected.
The parents would not be facing such public condemnation if they had not repeatedly fucked off out and left their children.
This case must be kept alive - and the newspapers will not do it for us anymore!
I do hope that the posters who keep telling us that there is ‘no evidence’ understand that there is evidence - a lot of evidence - just not enough to stand up to the rigours of brilliant lawyers.
I am sad and disappointed that technicalities and points of law have prevented this case coming to trial.
The Portuguese will not give up on this case - according to my crystal ball.
I got caught shop-lifting a tin of sardines and a cheese and onion pie yesterday! - Does anybody know a really good clinical negligence lawyer who specialises in fraud and motoring offences? Oh - and extradition, libel and murder - just in case!
I need to be prepared! Coz you never know what could enfold.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Excellent posts by you last night, Jolie.
Well reasoned and very balanced.
Ignore the barbed attacks by the shrill ones.
The more they scream, the nearer you are to the truth of this sad case.
Peace !!!
July 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Before I head off to the bone shop………….remember there is no evidence against anyone, “that we know of”, , don’t invent any, remember Carter your gettin……….are watching…..
July 25th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I do hope that Justice Hogg has a very close look at Prior the Leics plodmans alleged statements, silly chappy.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:48 am
McCann case detective’s book to get English translation
Thursday, 24 July 2008
A controversial book by the former detective in charge of the Madeleine McCann investigation will be translated into English, it was reported today.
Goncalo Amaral maintains the young girl died in her family’s holiday flat in the work, called A Verdade da Mentira (The Truth Of The Lie), which was published in Portugal today.
Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, are consulting their lawyers over the book, which contains allegations against them.
Mr Amaral, who was removed from the case in October after reportedly criticising British police, argues in his book that investigators made the “mistake” of treating the McCanns “with tweezers”.
Detectives named the couple as “arguidos”, or formal suspects, in the child’s disappearance four months after she went missing.
But this week prosecutors announced they were shelving the case and lifting the McCanns’ arguido status because there was no evidence they had committed any crime.
Mr Amaral’s book also criticises British officers, claiming they held back a potentially important lead for six months and questioning their relationship with the McCanns.
An English translation of the book will be made but there is no firm date or distribution deal yet, the publishers Guerra e Paz told the Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias today.
McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said Mr Amaral would face “immediate and swift legal action” if he implied the couple were involved in the disappearance or harming of Madeleine.
He added that the McCanns’ lawyers were studying the book “as a matter of some urgency”.
Leicestershire Police did not want to comment on Mr Amaral’s allegations.
Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on May 3 last year as her parents dined with friends nearby.
Despite a huge police investigation and massive coverage in the Portuguese and British media, she has not been found.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/europe/mccann-case-detectives-book-to-get-english-translation-13920498.html
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Great advertisement for Amaral
July 25th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Triple jings and forsooth……… http://tinyurl.com/6r2bhb
July 25th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Chatta my silken clad minx, cadaverine is produced by humans, full stop, no cadaverine was identified in any tests indeed no post mortem evidence of any description was identified by the FSS.
Rene Hasee….. the mulled over email has gone, because you for your own reasons choose to doubt the case of Rene does not make his case or plight any less real.
Perhaps you are one of those paid posters we are hearing about.
As always my affection and thoughts of mysterious trysts with your silk clad Venus like form, are always to the fore front of my mind. Do have a wonderful day and may all your rays be bright and full of hope…….
I am, your faithful admirer Gandolf, Lord of the Astral plains and Ancient of the 9th isthmus.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aRok8VRZ_sk
July 25th, 2008 at 6:01 am
VQ that info was provided by the American Consulate and if there is another day of National Celebration I’ve promised to call them back so it can be added to references!
July 25th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Not, according to my childhood memory.
I’ll see what I can turn up.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Wow, Kris…
I don’t think you have to be angry to have a strong opinion about something and voice it. We don’t see things the same way, it’s obvious, and that’s okay.
I have confidence in Amaral’s accounting of what the investigation was pointing to–the death of Madeleine in Apt. 5A. I think the McCanns are very likely to be guilty of more than neglect, btw.
The McCanns callously chose their own entertainment and relaxation for their evenings without making arrangements for responsible child care for their very young children during their vacation. Most responsible parents would NOT do what they did and would know better. Kate McCann, as a family doctor trained to detect neglect and abuse in her patients and to educate parents in the proper care of young children, would know that leaving children of that age alone unsupervised was a risk, not because of the chance of abduction, although it could be a possibility, however small, but for the very real dangers that could befall little ones who are so vulnerable and cannot assist themselves properly. There is NO EXCUSE for what they did. They made a very bad choice, night after night. Whatever happened to Madeleine was likely a result of that neglect (unless there was something more sinister that occurred that resulted in her death while she was with an adult).
You are welcome to forgive them. The law has chosen not to prosecute them for neglect. In my mind, they have broken the laws of Portugal by the repeated abandonment and neglect of their three children during their stay in Praia da Luz.
When people are sincerely remorseful for their mistakes and actions, it is easier to be lenient and more forgiving with them. The McCann couple have behaved arrogantly and tried to present their behavior as responsible parenting–it was not! They have blamed everyone else but themselves for the fact that their daughter is no longer with them and have caused untold misery to many people who have been caught up in this case. They have not physically looked for their own child, not even in the first days, as admitted by Kate McCann in a televised interview, while hundreds of heartsick strangers and police officers took to the streets day after day looking for her. They have allowed a xenophobic campaign against the PJ and the Portuguese people to be waged in their name in the media. They used their daughter’s disappearance (death?) as a marketing tool to raise millions and continue to seek even more donations in her name. I could go on and on and on with the things about the McCanns that make me suspicious of them and make me despise them but it all has been said here on this forum, over and over again, and I doubt you’d care to read it all.
I have no sympathy for them. None. They have created their own circumstances and now have to live with it. Kate and Gerry McCann do not have to be physically imprisoned. They are in a jail of their own making and will be for the rest of their lives. There is nothing that will completely free them from their reputation, with the exception of the return of a living Madeleine and a believable, provable explanation for where she has been all these many months and who with. But I am almost certain that will never, never happen. And they will have to live with that.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Ok VQ here is what I’ve come up with.
27th July was National Korean War Veteran’s Armistace Day, ceased in 2003.
Parents Day declared in 1994 on 4th Sunday in July.
Either of these correct?
July 25th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Sounds like you are still off course Kris.
Have you considered anger management?
A critical thinking course?
How about good parenting?
July 25th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Wow Jolie and James, what a comment, you must both be very angry people hey… what good is neglect charges going to do now, do you think that the twins should be without their parents as well as their sister… I guess it must make it easier for you both to think in such an angry way but it is probably best if you just stop reading about the case!!! So many parents have done the same thing by leaving their children (as we are not all as perfect as some!!, and by leaving children, I mean there are many different circumstances that this happens, one being… feeling secure in a resort complex) but have been lucky that no one has kidnapped them and unfortunately the Mccann family have learn’t the hard way and have to live with the guilt for the rest of their days. They have had to endure enough torture. The person that everyone should be angry at is the person or persons that are still out there that have Madeleine, and may well be taking other children, so alot of people need to get over the blame of the Mccanns and put some positive thought into what could be done to find Madeleine and the sick people that took her.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:04 am
veritablequandary Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Cheryl.
I know of no one who says “over here” or “over there.”
Where in the world did you grow up?
Were you spoon-fed Yankee Doodle Dandee?
Your vernacular is 50 years out of date.
Fess up, it’s good for the soul.
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I say over here or over there on purpose so people know I don’t live over in the UK, as some have thought in the past. Now, I could start saying ‘over the pond’ as I’ve had friends say.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:59 am
veritablequandary Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Good grief Cheryl, I know more than you do simply by watching the evening news.
Why are you always speaking of your connections? Crap, I say.
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What are you talking about - the case in Florida? I don’t have the chance to always watch the news as I was doing….catch it in bits and pieces. What have you heard is the latest?
July 25th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Cheryl.
I know of no one who says “over here” or “over there.”
Where in the world did you grow up?
Were you spoon-fed Yankee Doodle Dandee?
Your vernacular is 50 years out of date.
Fess up, it’s good for the soul.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:41 am
star Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Cheryl - in reference to the woman who recently cut the baby from it’s mother. Did you read this:
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Yes I saw that and it blew my mind! Do you remember the one near Pgh. the other year where a woman tried to cut the baby out of the woman in the woods and it was stopped by a young man who ran home to get his father when he heard the yells for help? And one for all those who raise dogs and/or advertise on the net - remember a couple of years ago a woman advertised her puppies for sale on the net, a woman contacted her found out in the conversation she was preggie and went to buy a puppy and killed her and cut out the baby and took the baby home and passed it off as her own?
We have all kind of weirdos over here.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Good grief Cheryl, I know more than you do simply by watching the evening news.
Why are you always speaking of your connections? Crap, I say.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:27 am
star Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
i was just reading an article about that lil missing Florida girl..missing since the beginning of june and never reported by her mom. Mom is being held on a high bond for neglect. What made me stop was the cadavar dogs got a hit on the trunk….and now gramma says the smell was from decaying PIZZA?!?!?!? Sounds about as lame as the dirty diaper story.
Also gramma says there have been sightings of Caylee? But the news article states they believe this is now a homicide?
Alot of the same here…but mom is in jail in this case!!
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This is a strange case! The judge set bail today but I think too high for even the parents to meet it to get her out. How do you lose track of a child you say you gave to a friend to watch and don’t know where the friend is now. Possible, I guess… The Grandparents are the ones who called the police to begin with now they are standing behind her and her story so who knows..I”ll call a friend of mine down there who is a GAL with the court and snoop around for us!
July 25th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Mand A
Cheryl I actually know the road and the area where this event happened, it was on a country lane in the dark on Boxing Night (26th Dec you don’t do Boxing day , do you?) The lanes are unlit, except by car headlights, and have very high hedges. It was understood on the 27thDec that the events occured in daylight, but all the locals were horrified when they found out the true facts.
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I just ran across this - I’m searching post by post trying to find the link Chenier gave me for the accident she told me about and can’t find it but still searching.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Well, Annie1, hope to cross paths with you again.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Night - Looks like the McSaga is set to carry on - we shall see
July 25th, 2008 at 3:31 am
sorry, that should be, there are gambling . .
I am tired what with my busy day on line . . . not to mention my birthday earlier in the week
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
July 25th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I do know exactly what you mean - and I must admit that most of my “gambling” has not involved any huge sum of money. I have my own income and have never spent more than I can affod to lose - and never ever spent and “family” money. My husband is not a gambler - not atall - but he does ask me how I got on in a game - I am not even tempted to go beyond my means - If I lose on line poker = I revert back to “play for fun” for a few weeks. Its a good community on line - I enjoy it. Anyway - just heard tht Gordon Brown and the Labour party have lost the by Election in Scotland - so I shall now go to my bed in peace - it is 3am and I am feeling just a bit jaded..
Goodnight everyone
July 25th, 2008 at 3:24 am
True, Annie, you are professional.
But their are gambling addicts that waste away food for their families.
Well that is admittedly a provocative statement, but what is your take?