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?

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.

ed&relaw0511

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.

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 !!!

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

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

I’ll see what I can turn up.

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 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.