Madeleine McCann: Amaral Policing, Secrets Out And EastEnders
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: PORTUGUESE POLICE CHIEF IS SACKED AFTER AMAZING OUTBURST.”
Page 9: “Madeleine detective kicked off case after blasting British police” – Chief inspector Goncalo Amaral says: “The British police have only been working on what the McCann couple want them to and what suits them.”
Says Amaral: “The Ocean Club is in Praia da Luz, not in London…It won’t be an email, and an anonymous one at that, which will distract our line of investigation.”
Mr Amaral is making reference to the email sent to the official website of the Prince of Wales last week claming a vengeful nanny had abducted Madeleine.
Pages 30 and 31: “HAIR-RAISING TRUTH ABOUT THE PSYCHIC BARBER – During the day Gordon Smith cuts hair, at night he claims he communes with the spirits. So does he really think he can help the McCanns find Madeleine?”
THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER confirms that former EastEnders actress Michelle Collins is a “BELIEVER”.
DAILY MAIL page 7: “Off the case. Madeleine police chief demoted after amazing rant against McCanns and British detectives”
Say Amaral: “They [the English] have been investigating tip-offs and information created and worked upon by the McCanns”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: CHIEF COP SACKED.”
Page 10: “INSPECTOR CLUELESS GETS THE BOOT”
Page 11: “If Maddie IS dead she will tell me where he body is” – Says Gordon Smith
DAILY MIRROR front page: “Maddy copper is axed”
Page 7: “OFF THE CASE – Boozy cop is demoted after furious outburst against the McCanns”
THE SUN page 7: “MADDIE COP FIRED FOR McCANNS RANT – storm as bungler says family duped Brit police”
Comments Clarence Mitchell: “I can confirm that Kate and Gerry are aware of this development but we cannot comment”
THE GUARDIAN page 7: “Detective leading hunt for Madeleine sacked after blast at UK police” – Mr Amaral is 47. He has been demoted. He is 48 in the Sun. Such are the facts
Carols Pinto de Abreu, the McCanns’ Portuguese lawyer, says: “The McCanns cannot confess to something they did not do and cannot and should not lie to please the police”
THE INDEPENDENT page 8: “Detective leading Madeleine hunt dropped from case after outburst” – Amaral is being investigated over an alleged attack on the mother of a different missing girl. Read about that here
THE TIMES front page: “Detective in charge of McCann case sacked”
Page 9: “Madeleine detective sacked after outburst”
Alipio Ribeiro, Amaral’s boss, says: “The police should be discreet and keep quiet, but there is always someone who talks” – So much for those secrecy laws
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 15: “Madeleine inquiry chief sacked after attack on British police”
A “family friend” of the McCanns says: “What he [Mr Amaral] is saying is just plain wrong. Leicestershire Police are not doing anything on Kate and Gerry’s behalf. They are simply there for liaison. There is certainly no strategy to distract form the Portuguese investigation”
What investigation?
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November 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 am
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October 4th, 2007 at 9:31 am
1072 Andy
Probably won’t read this but I’ve looked at the cases you refer to, and others.
I think the difference with this case would lie in the definition of “substantial” with regard to the period of the time the children were left alone. This looks to be no more than 30 minutes at a time, probably often less if the timeline on the night in question, as reported (???!!!) is to be believed. That is NOT like leaving kids for THREE hours!! The children were said to be fast asleep unlike the little boy strapped into the car who was also left for a substantial period of time.
This case was analysed by another lawyer in the Times very early on. The only thing which was thought to indicate possible neglect was the unlocked patio windows. (It appears from what the Mark Warner staff said that many tenants did not double lock those windows.) This seems to have been for ease of access by anyone checking the children from the group of friends. I still believe (could be wrong, it would depend on who was hearing the case) that this would not be seen as neglect. They were too near (80 paces, 50 yards), the apartment was partially visible from the terrace of the tapas bar where they were sitting on the other side of the pool, the children were asleep and the checks were frequent and regular. They have no history of neglect and are generally seen as responsible people.
All these factors make in unlikely, in my personal view, that a prosecution would stick, particularly as it could safely be assumed that they have learnt their lesson over leaving children. Obviously I can’t be certain. These legal matters depend on the interpretation of the wording of regulations.
In any case, it still seems a pointless exercise. Nobody else will be deterred by any charges being brought if they haven’t already been deterred by the disappearance of the child, however rare an event a kidnapping might be. People’s behaviour has already been affected by this case. Ask anyone who has holidayed since then in a similar sort of site. A lot more young kids are in the restaurants, it seems. Admittedly I base this on anecdotes from friends who tell me that the waiters say behaviour has changed and their own observations of the numbers of young children around who would in the past have been already in bed, and also on an interesting article in the Times a few weeks ago. The writer suggested that many British holiday makers felt their holidays were now ruined because they could no longer do what they had always done before, ie pop down to the bar or restaurant once their kids were “safely” tucked up in bed or sit having a drink by the pool while their children slept.
I do NOT condone what happened but I still think it quite likely that nothing would come of any attempt at prosecution. It would be small change to the McCanns anyway. They’ve already been punished for what they did infinitely beyond anything any court might impose. I also think that for that very reason, any court would be pretty disgusted by any attempts at prosecution.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Jenna,
This might strike you as strange, but I am not particularly interested in sitting on a lot of moola.
Especially with the crash coming at least being broke means I have absolutely nothing to lose.
You, on the other hand had better put mommy;s lipstick away before she catches you with it.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:09 am
lets hope she forgot to lock up the diazepam too
October 4th, 2007 at 8:05 am
I think some ones mummy left the computer on last night
October 4th, 2007 at 8:04 am
1172 - I wasn’t on here from 3-5 pm and 5pm yesterday till now!
I don’t think I asked for your itinerary. You’re just a loser, it’s obvious. Nothin’ better to do - on your employers time and dime.
Are we a bit defensive Brandon Flours?? LOL! What a great name - not!
October 4th, 2007 at 8:02 am
1171 - susannah Says:
October 4th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Jenna,
I am concerned you still feel it is okay to use the surname Bush.
Are you not that up on megalomaniac ratings.
You must be daughter of the less famous Jed.
It’s true what they say about you, you’re a dummy dumb dumb. That’s not a good thing, in case you’re wondering.
Jenna Bush is one of the “First twins”. GWB’s daughter, you idiot. And that’s me!!
I’m getting married soon. Just got engaged…..wish me luck!
Don’t be concerned, I use the name Bush because it IS my last name. Besides, if you saw how much moola I’m sitting on in the trust fund, you’d be using it too. I’m set for life. Can you say the same? Doubt it sucker!
October 4th, 2007 at 8:01 am
1104 Andy says (October 4th, 2007 at 12:48 am)
“Perhaps Tony Bennett and others (myself included) would like to make a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about the way this case has been handled by the UK media?”
REPLY: Not applicable, I’m afraid. The Press Complaints Commission only deals with cases where you or your organisation has been misrepresented by factual errors or distortion - read the Press Complaints Code on the Press Complaints Commission website on the Net.
P.S. Away now on the Lee Balkwell Inquest (see Wikipedia entry) from 4 to 12 October - 7 full days - but will visit Anorak during the evenings when I can. We learnt just 2 days ago that the chief ’suspect’ in the case, David Bromley, has been extradited to Germany to face an armed robbery charge, thus neatly preventing him from attending the Inquest.
An application by fax yesterday to adjourn the Inquest until he can be produced has been refusd by Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray (same Cororer who mishandled the Stuart Lubbock Inquest). The father of the dead man Mr Les Balkwell had learnt on the grapevine about Bromley’s probable extradition as long ago as 18 August, and David Bromley actually went to Germany on 19 September. So why wasn’t he and his legal team told until late Tuesday this week that Bromley had been extradited?
Barrister Tony Venthan will re-apply for an adjournment this morning, or failing that will ask for a video link from a German jail so that he can give evidence to the Inquest. It promises to be a livley first day!
The Bromley family claim Lee was mangled to death in a concrete mixer at 1.00am on 18 July 2002 at their farm near Upminster; the Inquest has been delayed for over 5 years. The father has evidence that his son was done to death by members of the Bromley family an hour or so beforehand and the concrete mixer was a cover. There are very credible claims of a cover-up by Essex Police at a high level. Two of the Bromleys are in jail for serial drug-dealing and firearms offences, and are known police informers.
Is this case, like that of Madeleine McCann and Stuart Lubbock, another
’smokescreen’ case to cover a violent attack?
October 4th, 2007 at 8:01 am
1170
I was on here during my working hours yesterday,
I wasn’t on here from 3-5 pm and 5pm yesterday till now!
I work on a computer, i am self employed, and can manage windows quite successfully thank you
I prefer this site to the current media in the uk as in the wake of this case it has shown us what crap it feeds us, when it suits them.
why are you on here ?
So what if I pop in when I am working on the computer?
I am capable of doing 2 things at once
and any ebayer seller knows theres alot of waiting , printing, and uploading to do.
So go on jenna go off to your boring job where you cant do as you please,
you obviously have issues with those who can !
October 4th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Jenna,
I am concerned you still feel it is okay to use the surname Bush.
Are you not that up on megalomaniac ratings.
You must be daughter of the less famous Jed.
And no, we don’t sleep, we keep revved up on the injustices
that are happening.
If more people woke up we would not be laying Mr Common Sense to rest.
October 4th, 2007 at 7:43 am
1168 - Big brother is not only watching us , hes feeding, gagging and now choking us too
You got that right and he’s running this site too.
The censorship is out of control on here. They are so stupid.
Once this Maddy thing is over, no one’s gonna hang out here. They’ll be wishing they didn’t play the capture the comments game. So stupid. So British. So worthless.
Brandon - do you EVER Sleep?? How can you post all day and allnight and up at the crack of dawn. STRANGE. Are you a shut in??