QUOTE “Hogan International: an apology

On January 13 we published an article headed “Fears that new Maddie detective is ‘not up to task’” in which we wrongly claimed that Noel Hogan’s investigation agency had taken over the private investigation into Maddie’s disappearance and accused it of being “not up to the task.”

We wish to withdraw unequivocally the suggestion that either Mr Hogan or his agency are incompetent or had misled the McCanns about their capabilities. We are happy to clarify that Mr Hogan’s company has been retained by Metodo 3, the Spanish agency who work for the McCanns, to carry out work in the UK.

This is part of a long-standing arrangement between the two agencies to instruct each other for work in their respective countries. The impression we gave that there is animosity between them and that Mr Hogan breached professional confidences was also wrong.

We apologise to Mr Hogan for the embarrassment and distress caused by our article and have agreed to pay him and his agency compensation and legal costs.”

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this is already onsite posted yesterday jj 25th

January 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm
675 Totje says (January 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm)

“re: 655 Tony Bennett re twins [being left by McCanns in the creche every day] after disappearance of MM: [I say this was an emotional stressy situation [protecting the twins from that], questioning by police, searching, focussing on what’s happened to MM, focus on Madeleine and finding her. Not that strange imo”.

REPLY: I have an idea that 99% of mothers out there would disagree with you. And with a paedophilic predator or gang on the loose?

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REPLY: I guess I’m that one percent that agrees with her, Tony B. I’ve stated that earlier today on here my thoughts of wee ones not being around stressful, emotional and upsetting situations. Any mother wants to protect her child from that. Children feel it, sense it and react to it negatively. Best they be kept out of it and preoccupied with playing with others in a calm environment. I believe every mother knows that if a young new mother is nervous around her new baby or young one her child reacts accordingly. You get a screaming baby in your arms and you get upset and nervous and tense the baby screams all the longer. Hand your baby to a calm person to hold the baby calms down. The same applies as they grow even at 1, 2 or on up. The parent seems sad the child changes in their own mood and if older asks questions and becomes puzzled and concerned. Children react to emotions around them as do adults. However, adults can usually understand whatever the emotion may be about but children don’t always. Yes, in one’s grief you want to hug your child and hold them very close and not let let them out of yours arms. Is it fair to your child to cling tightly to them when they are too young to understand why and they become agitated and start acting out sensing the change in Mommy and/or Daddy?

We may all react differently.

But what is the difference between :

1. Seeing that someone isn’t showing standard signs of grief and assuming that they’re not feeling it

2. Seeing someone isn’t showing standard signs of grief but assuming that they must be feeling it because that would be normal.

Except that one is a suspicious interpretation and the other is a generous interpretation - neither is more objectively right or wrong than the other.

January 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
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the watcher Says:

with respect to TONY BENNET and CO
all your information time lines etc are based on newspaper stories.
this is all worthless.
only the police truly know the evidence that has been gathered so to rely on so called leaks to the papers is foolish.
we actually know nothing.
just like the papers.

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Excellent point, watcher. Yet here we have a solicitor (active, retired, or former solicitor depending on which accounts you read) and a number of clearly well educated people who are prepared to condemn suspects, largely on the basis of distorted information and leaks reported in newspapers or in TV reports - plus a whole industry of contradictory rumours circulating on the internet.

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REPLY: Jane, you may agree or not, but fiction can be quite exciting for the readers or even the author when writing. One can embellish, write their wildest thoughts and dreams, and write for the readers who enjoy such books. You buy a well-written fiction and one can possibly fantasize through it as the hero, heroine or even the villain! Non-fiction books can be quite blah frankly depending on the subject it covers.

I haven’t read ‘All that Remains’, but if the McCanns wanted to hide something they would have the knowledge to hide it. Although, if they really did say that they transported used nappies and rotting meat in the back of the hire car, then they may not have the sense to cover things up.

January 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
674 Cheryl

Re: Your post on “Normal–You said: “Here we go again - just what is “Normal” - I’ll let you in on a little secret - NONE of us are the same and we all react differently.”

But in fact, this isn’t true, is it?

Most people react very similarly to an X kind of situation. This is why polls are paid attention to. This is why certain aspects of human behavior can be quantified. This is what statisticians do all day long!

Are you just spreading around self-serving Maccanite rationalizations?

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REPLY: First of all it does not good to attempt to explain my th0ughts on how what you said are wrong as your statement “Are you just spreading around self-serving Maccanite rationalizations?” tells me you are closed minded, as you think I’m a pro-McCann. In fact, I’m right in the middle of the fence waiting for the real FACTS which will only come from the Investigators for me to know the truth. Do I think they may not have done bodily harm to her - yes I do think that and have thought it through carefully in my own mind from my own thoughts from following the case very closely. Do I think they could have - yes but I can’t put all the pieces together to figure out how and how they could have carried a charade this long without someone breaking down to tell the truth. BUT I will not be ‘normal’ , I guess according to your calling normal for most people, who in my eyes lose their own identity when ‘following the crowd’, and follow all the others on here in their reasoning one way or the other and thus prejudge the McCanns one way or the other. I have my standards and beliefs thus I will not prejudge the McCanns. Once again, what is normal for one person to react to in a certain way is not necessarily normal for another person to react that way - we all have different make-up in our personalities from how we were raised and how our personalities were formed from childhood on up.

Bringing things back on topic-

- and since you refer to Cornwell -

what do you infer (on topic) from:

i) the defecating dogs in ‘All that Remains’ ; and

ii) the use of oxidates being used in lightening hair to render negative evidence of drug use?

Cheryl , don’t always believe what you see - my ‘welcome’ was as frosty as he deserved, and he was moderated throughout his sojourn here.
No one on here has ever made fun of or at Madeliene, they are very aware she is the innocent victim, and is sadly being overshadowed by the black drama being played out.
The poster concerned was revelling inthe thought of violence, had it not been a little girl it would have been someone else. These posters crop up on here for their own reasons.

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Respectfully I’m not going to disagree over it on here with you. I read what they were saying one way and others obviously the other. And also will say I did not read any other of their postings on here to possibly see a different slant - that was a hit and miss day for me on here with other things going on over here.

I’m not American, what’s happening on UK TV?

I am interested in who wins though. I don’t think the Republicans deserve to get back in, not so much for the War - any government can get war fever - but they couldn’t even sort out New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

January 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
439 Stevo says (January 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm)

“If the McCanns are found guilty, I think their sentence should be doubled or trebled for the hoax factor. It’s one thing to commit a serious crime but to go to elaborate lengths to conceal it is almost as bad as the original crime IMO”.

Mods and Admin:

“Fraud also?”

REPLY: Theft Act 1968: Obtainig a pecuniary advantage by deception…

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REPLY: Tony B., you’ll find this case interesting. Over 20 plus years ago here in VA a boy ‘disappeared’ from his house. Police spent time investigating his disappearance as to what could have happened to him and where he was. They found a blood stain on a corner table in the living room and then it all came out. He and his brother had been rough housing in the house while the mother was at work. The boy got knocked against the table and died. Turns out mother to cover up what happened between the two boys, buried his body in backyard. Since it was an accident on one son’s part no charges against him. BUT only charge they could get the mother on in covering up was it was against the law in VA to bury a body in your backyard!

January 4th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Obama seems nice. Do you think the Democrats will win though?

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REPLY: Karen, I think the Democrats will win next election. Bush has ruined it for any good Republican candidates. And also too many scandals for the Republicans to overcome in time. I thought we’d see a Clinton/Obama ticket and still may but I think this country is finally ready to vote in a Black President, at last. In fact, if Colin Powell had run years ago when he was asked to we would have had one then.