1st -goodness

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!! ::smile:

Do you not find it a bit cheeky that kate wants murat to tell the truth? kettle and pot?

good morning. why all the slurs on murat all of a sudden? Happy new year himself by the way, have you got a hangover?

The Murat smears got my back up this morning, I don’t normally write about the fragrant pair but I made an exception today.

This is all so staged. What do they hope to achieve? The fragrant pair have the same status as murat, they know the majority of the public dont believe them, so why point the finger after so long, are they clutching at straws?

See you himself

hello hannasus, happy new year

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PeterMac

I would probably leave if they turned up!

SKY TV’s NEW YEARS RESOLUTION?

Has SKY TV made a New Year’s Resolution?

To open up debate about the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann?

They’ve just opened up a comments page, following a blog by Martin Brunt.

And here’s the first comment! And there’s lots more.

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We now have a report by two British sisters who claim to have seen two men on a balcony of an apartment at Ocean Club?

We now also know from Martin Brunt’s report that these apartments are not all owned by Mark Warner. Some are privately owned, as is the one the McCanns rented.

Could these two blonde gentlemen on the balcony, have been the owners, checking out their property? Prospective buyers?

The sisters say, from the balcony, the men could see the whole Ocean Club Resort, and, the apartment rented by Mr. Mrs McCann.

Well, yes, if they could see the whole club from this point, it would indeed, include the McCann apartment!

One of the sisters, Mrs Wiltshire said, that it was odd, as she had not seen these men before.
People arrive daily at these resorts.

Did they feel this way, each and every time they saw a new face?

When Mr. Mrs McCann arrived, if say, perhaps Mr. McCann had gone onto the balcony and looked out.

Would they have found this/him strange too?

If Madeleine was abducted, and these two men were the abductors. Would they really have exposed themselves in this way?

The sisters say the sighting of the men was hours before Madeleine was reported missing.
What time was it then?

8:00 p.m. is hours before she was reported missing, as is 2:00 p.m.

If it was, at an hour when it was dark, could these men then have seen clearly the WHOLE of the Ocean Club?

Did the sisters see the men clearly?

If about to abduct a child, would they have stood so openly were all could see them?

If in darkness, are the sisters sure of what they saw - two blonde curly haired men?

Or was it in the afternoon, in daylight, when most likely, even more people would have seen them?

The men don’t appear to have been trying to go unnoticed!

Mrs. Wiltshire, said one of the men came down the stairs, and, as she looked at him, he turned and walked back up and spoke to the other.

Did she hear what he said? Was it in English?

Did he perhaps say - ‘this apartment is ideal, the wife and kids will love it here?’

Was she standing at the bottom of the stairs? across the street? looking over from her own balcony?

Did she not wait to see what they did next?

Did they enter the apartment?

Did they both/one walk off?

If perturbed, why not report it to the staff at resort?

This report tells us nothing!

What was interesting, is that they say they were in the Tapas Bar at the same time as the McCann party.

The report states in reference to the sisters-

‘neither of them remember the doctors being rowdy or drinking heavily that night, as other witnesses have suggested.’

Were the sisters watching so closely as to the amounts of alcohol being consumed by each member of the McCann party?

Mrs. Jensen, one of the sisters (who just happens to be a bar manager) said

“They were not noisy or dominating the restaurant. They were just a party of friends enjoying a meal.”

In Panorama Mr. McCann stated, that when he and Mrs. McCann arrived at the restaurant, there was one other group people. They spoke to these people while they waited on their friends to arrive. As the McCann party arrived the other diners left.

Mr. McCann said that his party was the only one left in the restaurant?

How then would these sisters know if McCann party were rowdy or not/drinking heavily or not?

Mr. McCann said there was no one else there.

The witnessess who say that McCann party did drink quite a lot -
were they the staff at Tapas?

The bar staff, would, I imagine, know the answer to this.

The sisters, say that they finished their meal, and left to walk down into the village for a nightcap.

On their way to the bar, they heard the hue and cry about a missing child.

Word about Madleine wouldn’t have reached McCann party until after 10:00 pm.

Mrs. McCann had searched apartment 3 times, before heading back to tell Mr. McCann.

It would be a little later for it to filter to the ’sisters’ I would think.

If we are to believe the sisters, they would have been, still, in the Tapas up until the time/almost until the time, that Mrs McCann went to check on the children.

The reason being, they hadn’t even reached the bar in the village to which they were headed after leaving the tapas bar, only -

‘on their way to it,’ when they heard a child was missing.

If still ‘on their way’ they must only have left the tapas minutes beforehand!

From what they say, they were observant enough to notice, the amounts of alcohol being drunk by McCann party. They observed them to be ‘quiet’ not ‘rowdy.’

They noticed a lot about this party.

Would they have noticed also, if and when members of the party left the table to check on the children?

Were the sisters already in Tapas when Mr. Mrs McCann, or any members of their party arrived?

Did they arrive later in the evening, and it is the case that Mr. McCann, just didn’t notice any other diners?

Did the sisters spot the two blonde men, whilst on their way to the tapas bar?

The report by the sisters is very vague to say the least!

MURAT - One of the sisters said that she saw Mr. Murat, after Madeleine was reported missing, on a street corner close to McCann apartment.

Some of the McCann party have also stated this.

Mr. Murat has witnesses who state otherwise.

Whether he was/wasn’t none of us know.

Police in Portugal, did speak to these ladies on 3 occasions, they themselves stated this.

They made a report here in the U.K. on their return home from Portugal.

British Police, did not interview them until quite recently. Leicestershire Police apologised apparently for this lapse.

Now that it has been noted by the British Police, I take it that the sisters are satisfied?

Or was it the case, in their eyes, that as the Portuguese Police had not charged Mr. Murat in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine - that nothing was being done?

I suspect so.

The Portuguese Police, British Police, Metodo 3 and of course Clarence have all now been informed.

Did it change anything re Mr. Murat?

They say he was odd, and that their holiday companion the barrister thought this also.

Being odd, is all a matter of how one perceives another. Opinions differ as to what makes someone/something ‘odd.’

Mr. Murat, may indeed appear odd to some. Sometimes, we cannot understand when someone is just genuinely a kind and helpful person. A sad reflection on today’s society.

Mr. Mrs McCann, appear to me to be more than odd as parents.

I truly don’t understand their reasoning, in believing it is ok to leave three babies alone?
Mr. McCann still maintains it was ok. He has received hundred of letters from people telling him they would do likewise (I doubt that)and he takes comfort from this, confirms for him that it was ok.

Now I find, in the circumstances, that, to be not just odd, but callous in the extreme.

Mr. McCann is so confident that it was an okay thing to do.

This for me, is not just odd, but so terrifyingly frightening, that both he and Mrs McCann are in charge of children, when they have this mindset.

I do sincerely hope that Social Services are working with them in this respect, because it needs to be changed and quickly.

All of that said, it doesn’t mean they killed Madeleine.

Others think Mr. Murat is odd - doesn’t mean he harmed Madeleine either!

Aren’t the reasons for each of these parties being thought odd, odd in themselves?

Mr. Murat for being too helpful and having a dodgy eye?

Mr. Mrs McCann, parents leaving three babies alone in an unlocked apartment in a foreign country, (and they are sill after losing a daughter, saying it was okay to do so?)

Who is the odd one?

[Posted by: A.Miller 31 Dec 2007 12:31:18]

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Châtelaine

No photos, but found this fom Clarry:

“Q- What advice would you give someone climbing the career ladder?
A- Know what you want to do, absolutely focus on it and keep ploughing away. Eventually people will start taking your seriously. That applies to journalism, to PR, to any walk of life”

http://www.brandrepublic.com/InDepth/Features/769746/PROFILE-Clarence-Mitchell-spokesman-McCann-family/

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They have that affect on people.

Jensen and Annie Wiltshire. I think that these two women have dropped themselves (or possibly been dropped by others) into a massive pile of shite. They are now linked to Gerry playing tennis, the t9 at dinner, and Robert Murat. They are crucial witnesses to many things - yet they have never been mentioned before?????

20 Chatelaine

Not quite what you were asking for regarding the pink-shirted one, but this from the transfattyacid blog on 21 September 2007 may be of interest:

For Whom was Clarence Mitchell Working?
[Regular readers will recall this anomaly]

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On the 8th September, News 24, a South African website carried this report:

“Clarence Mitchell said father Gerry McCann told him that he and his wife expected clarification of their legal status within 48 hours. Their lawyer said late on Friday that police had declared the parents suspects in the May 3 disappearance.

“They are in broad agreement that they should get out as soon as they can,” Mitchell told The Associated Press by telephone from Britain. Whether Portuguese police will allow them to leave is unclear, though their passports are not believed to have been seized up until now.

Mitchell said Kate and Gerry McCann had previously intended to leave southern Portugal, where they have stayed since their daughter vanished from a hotel room during a family vacation, on Sunday night.

“They are determined to prove this is a travesty … and clear their names,” Mitchell said of the police allegations about their possible involvement.”

You will recall that at the time, Clarence Mitchell was the working as director of the Media Monitoring Unit and the spokesperson for the McCanns was Justine McGuinness.

This puzzled me, so I decided to do a piece of citizen journalism.

On the COI website I noticed that it was possible to request infromation under the Freedom of Information Act. And so I sent the following email:

“I am writing to ask what notice period a senior member of the COI would be expected to give before leaving their post.

Also are members of the COI allowed to work for clients outside of their role as COI employees? For instance working as a spokesperson for a third person.”

Today I recieved a reply:

“According to COI’s HR policy, staff who decide to leave COI are expected to give anything from one week to three months notice. However, at the time of resignation COI may, by agreement with the employee concerned, accept a shorter period.

I presume your enquiry was prompted by Clarence Mitchell’s recent departure from COI to work for the McCann family. Clarence resigned from his post as Director of the Media Monitoring Unit on 17 Sept 2007, with immediate effect.

To clarify, earlier this year Clarence was seconded from COI to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to help provide media liaison support through the British Consulate in the initial stages of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine, he was not in a client relationship with the McCann family.

Questions relating to the reasons for his resignation and subsequent employment by the McCann family are for him to answer and I refer you to the McCann press office.”

This reply does not clarify why Mr Mitchell should have been giving interviews to the Associated Press Agency, when working as a government employee. Nor does it explain why other enquires made to the Foreign Office about Mr Mitchell’s work, should have been returned with a request to contact the COI. Since this makes clear that Mr Mitchell was on secondment to the Foriegn Office.

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COMMENT:

It would be interesting to know what was the ‘public relations’ pecking order in Team McCann at this time (August/September):

I suggest the following roles:

Gerry McCann - Managing Director
Kate McCann - Wife of Managing Director
Clarence Mitchell - Chief Executive Officer
Justine McGuinness: Assistant/dogsbody/gofer on £51,000 for 3 months’ work

IMO the silly sisters have been introduced as spoilers, to re-focus events on May 3rd – when so much is now pointing to the Chaplins’ night of May 2nd.

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Jez

I think you are right.