Madeleine McCann: Case Closed, Reported Claims And Olegario Sousa Explains
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “McCann case ‘to be axed’”
Not axed by the Mirror, which maintains a hack in Praia da Luz to read the local press, rather by the police
“The McCanns could be cleared over daughter Madeleine’s disappearance in months as police plan to shelve the case, it was claimed yesterday. Top detectives believe the case will never be solved and are thought to be preparing public opinion for the fact no one will be charged”
“Claimed.” “Believe.” “Thought.” Can the Mirror be any more certain?
The McCanns spokesman Clarence Mitchell says: “Gerry and Kate want to be cleared but they will never give up the search. We still believe Madeleine could be alive”
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE CASE CLOSED – Police finally admit they will never find body”
“Police are to close their investigation into the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann.”
The Star is certain
“MADDIE PROBE – CASE BUNGLED - EXCLUSIVE”
“Sources close to the investigation yesterday said detectives are ready to admit defeat and clear her parents of suspicion. They claim top brass are trying to prepare the public to cope with their failure to find whoever was responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance”
So the case has not been closed?
“And yesterday a senior police sources claimed: ‘By admitting being hasty in making Madeleine’s parents suspects, the national director of the Policia Judiciaria is preparing public opinion for the possibility that no prosecution will ever be brought because of a lack of consistent evidence’”
But Mr Ribeiro clarified his comments, at least he sought to. He called it a “slip of the tongue”. Although the Star never reported his most recent words, just the ‘hasty’ part…
THE STAR SAYS: “COPS ARE CLUELESS…This lot would make the Keystone cops look good”
DAILY MAIL (online): “Madeleine police ‘to clear McCanns but admit case will be never be solved’”
“Sources said comments by Alipio Ribeiro, the head of the Policia Judiciaria, showed he was preparing an ‘exit strategy’ to allow the investigation to be filed”
But Mr Ribeiro said his comments were made under pressure, he never meant to say hasty
“One high-ranking official told the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias: ‘He has dropped the case.’
“The newspaper reported: ‘In admitting there was haste in making the McCanns arguidos, the national director is preparing public opinion for the possibility of no charges being brought, because of a lack of evidence’”
So it wasn’t a slip, a mistake rather it was a deliberate ploy to gage public mood? Clever stuff…
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE DETECTIVES ‘SET TO CLEAR MCCANNS’”
“Police in Portugal are preparing to shelve the investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, it was reported yesterday”
Reported
“Senior detectives are also planning to revoke her parents’ status as official suspects, it was claimed”
Claimed
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We don’t want the case to be archived in any way. We still believe Madeleine could be alive, so the police must keep an operational inquiry going, looking for a missing person. Of course we want Gerry and Kate to be cleared as suspects, but we do not want the police to stop looking for Madeleine. We will never give up the search for her”
THE SUN: “Kate and Gerry ‘in clear’”
Well, if the case is closed, then something will have to done with their situation, no? So why not “clear” them?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Police ‘ready to shelve Madeleine McCann case’”
“Senior police officers are said to be preparing public opinion for the idea that the case will be “archived” and may never be solved because of a lack of evidence. But the decision is said to have caused outrage among the Portuguese public who believe it is being dropped because of political pressure from the United Kingdom”
Olegario Sousa, spokesman for the Policia Judiciaria, says: “Naturally if we do not have any definite culprit or culprits, the case will be sent to the archive. If at any time new and important facts come to light, the investigation could be re-opened”
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February 9th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Sadgit: earlier this evening attempted this as humour:
Totally understand, sorry thought this was an anti-mccann site just like us. Guess you must be paid by the McCann alliance just like the rest of the media. sorry for bothering you.
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Administrator: Do you know Anorak’s policy on parasitic organisms like Sadgit?
Worming tablets. They are then flushed away.
February 9th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Totally understand, sorry thought this was an anti-mccann site just like us. Guess you must be paid by the McCann alliance just like the rest of the media. sorry for bothering you.
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Mods and Admin
we allow all Opinions, we are not a MM site we are Anorak.Would you like it if we appeared with a begging bowl?
Your post will now be brought to Admins attention
February 9th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I apologise didn’t know it was a no no. I will not attempt to fundraise for our website again.
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Mods and Admin
Anorak has this site to pay for, and we don’t fundraise from our posters, or yours!!!,BUt the reason you are blocked, you have posted 3 times once as Sadgit and also as Sadgitt,I’ll let you through now, but if you varythe user IP of email you won’t get in
February 9th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
All donations welcome.
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Hi Sadgit , good to see you, but please do not fundraise for anything, well my bar bill, but apart from that….
February 8th, 2008 at 10:19 am
1021
Saturn
You are so right
February 8th, 2008 at 8:03 am
NEW THREAD
February 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Good morning all! Friday again, any breaking news?
February 8th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Doctors post copied over………..
I think you’ll find this man is not a medical doctor but a psychologist who has studied the forums extensively. (fora..)
I think it is interesting…….
February 8th, 2008 at 7:53 am
1019
mrs pigeon aka brandon f Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 7:30 am
hannahsus
” Look at it and wonder about the moral degeneration of our society.”
Thats what we did when they left her and showed no remorse.
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Yes, me too. And then I read that mixed-up hodge-podge of an essay and wondered about the moral degeneration of its author, who seems to delight in trashing anyone who despises the McCanns.
Strangely, the author is too timid to name the website discussed, which means all the points made are even more worthless. She writes, ” I cannot give a direct link to the worst site as our legal advice is that a simple link to it might be seen as assisting libellous statements, but Google the3arguidos and look for links from there.”
Talk about irrational and self-important. Why would anyone bother to go look around the Internet to find the posts at which she has aimed such a stupid little tirade?
February 8th, 2008 at 7:51 am
funny how the doctor doesnt include the sedation theory!
February 8th, 2008 at 7:39 am
1018 hannasus
“Brandon aka,
I thought doctors could not write.”
Oh yes, they can write - problem is no one can read it! Amazed the PJ managed to decipher Kate’s diary at all!!
February 8th, 2008 at 7:30 am
hannahsus
” Look at it and wonder about the moral degeneration of our society.”
Thats what we did when they left her and showed no remorse.
February 8th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Brandon aka,
I thought doctors could not write.
I like the bits about Kate’s mammary glands.
The scary thing is about Our Madeleine.
February 8th, 2008 at 7:18 am
hannasus
It was written by a doctor !!!!!
February 8th, 2008 at 7:05 am
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SteveT Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
472
Saturn
We would all like to know if she had a partner/friend with her as she was obviously not there to help with baby sitting.
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I would settle to know a few details, such as is “Webster” her maiden name or not? Does she have a husband, and if so is it her first marriage? etc etc. Does she live in the UK, or in the USA? Is she related to David Webster, of the Royal Bank of Scotland? And it is very peculiar that no one in the media went after that story, especially as she provided one of the first fundamental contradictions in the alibis.
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Stevo Says:
February 7th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Saturn
Read your posts about RBS but can’t see any shenanigans with it to be honest.
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I admire your work, but I think you tend to overlook little things with big significance. And this is one of them.
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I posted on my website ages ago about banks helping in these circumstances - usually offering their banking/teller services for free as it’s good advertising and achieves the objective of a bank drawing customers in through their doors.
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If you read the news articles from May 2007 (and also something on Gerry’s blog), you will see that ordinary deposits into a particular account number were available before the special “over-the-counter cash donation” procedure, which was only available starting May 17th. And this latter procedure was not available at all banks — only at Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest banks.
Therefore, I am correct that the Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest procedure was not an ordinary one. And it was not presented that way in the media, either. They were the only banks mentioned (and it was not even mentioned that NatWest is owned by RBS). It was not written that one could go into any bank and make these cash payments.
Another thing is that it was specifically written that there would be no charges for these “donations” — deposits and cash payments.
So it appears RBS made a special effort to encourage people to give money to the McCanns’ cause. And yes, the media helped out by giving RBS free advertising with those sympathetic news articles.
The special over-the-counter cash payment procedure was available from May 17th. On May 21st it was announced that Brian Kennedy’s company Patrick Properties would receive a whopping pounds 60 million financing. Then, months later it emerges that Brian Kennedy is the “mysterious benefactor” who feels “compelled” to help the McCanns, whom he has never even met. IMO, there is almost no chance that this is a coincidence.
To put it succinctly, the primary mover in “helping the McCanns” is none other than the Royal Bank of Scotland (ie. someone of high rank there). Brian Kennedy was merely enlisted by RBS to continue long-term assistance to Team McCann/Metodo3, etc. So Clarence Mitchell may have been in fact installed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, IMO. Brian Kennedy offered to give Clarence Mitchell a job, on whose recommendation? RBS, of course. Now, after all the deception and lies associated with Clarence Mitchell, he is still on the job! Brian Kennedy is thus satisfied with the performance.
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As a donor could walk into any branch of RBS, it would require a massive widescale fraud to do anything with the money other than to pay it in to the account setup for the fund.
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You are missing the main point, IMO, by focusing on “fraud” which of course never took place (and I never said it did). It is the McCann side that failed to include cash payments in their total which was published back then. Of course the bank did not commit fraud. Neither did the McCanns, in a legal sense — they simply gave a misleading total, by not mentioning cash payments. The result is that no one knows how much was taken in by way of these cash payments. Most certainly it was an enormous sum. As for the FindMadeleine Ltd, it can use that money to pay the McCanns’ mortgage or whatever, and there still would be no fraud.
I’m simply pointing out that RBS has been the main force behind Team McCann and Metodo3. The initial huge sum of cash payments generated by RBS, and hidden by the McCanns, are just a sign of this force. The tip of the iceberg. I have not mentioned Richard Branson, because his ties to RBS are even more obvious.
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You know me - I’m always on the lookout for something lurking under some unturned stone, but with the RBS I really can’t see any true connection with them and Mr Kennedy’s large mult-million loan.
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Well, we disagree, that’s all. I think the connection is glaringly obvious. At exactly the same time someone in the RBS was scurrying around, frantically finding ways to help Team McCann, Brian Kennedy was there negotiating for a big loan. It is unimaginable that Brian Kennedy made his decision to help the McCanns weeks later, after reading about them in the paper, and feeling that they needed someone to defend them. Impossible. His moves are all business moves.
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I checked out the Payne/Croydon stuff but there wasn’t anything in there other than the details of where Fiona Payne works and her work with free condoms and an anti-smoking committee. Did you find out anything else?
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I’m trying to find out more about her mother Dianne Webster, but I cannot say I have found out much. As far as Fiona’s job goes, her leadership role in administration is interesting, and the ties to NHS.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Daily Express pulled their story that the case was to be dropped.
Found this on 3 Arguidos. Do you think it could be about us?
Shock horror, call the press.
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The Cult of Vengeance
Pitchforks and Witch-hunting- The Internet and the McCanns.
The McCann story has fallen off the news agenda for the press and broadcast media alike. With only the rare mention of a development in the case, most people are forgetting about the ‘Story of the Decade’ last year. Most right thinking people believed the McCanns were foolish and desperately unlucky to have lost a daughter in the way that they have; many would like to see a prosecution for child neglect to send a message to other parents tempted to do the same. But to see the potential harm in the McCann’s way, one needs to look at the cult of vengeance brewing on the internet.
I was directed to several sites on the internet which are discussing the case. One site was closed down for further discussion of the case because of the libellous and scurrilous nature of the posts- however, this is retrievable from our friend Google and from a helpful cache from my informant. This lady told me that she had been following the story on various sites connected to the media (Sky, Mirror, Daily Express) or on independent discussion forums since last May. She describes a polarisation of views into three main camps- People who blindly support the McCanns, people who are withholding judgement until more real news is available, and people who are convinced of the McCann’s guilt. Some forums are very Pro-McCann, and these tend to be saccharine sweet and slightly religious in nature; they do no harm. There are no sites that I could find that discuss the problem of the McCanns even-handedl; so the group one might call ‘fence-sitters’ inhabit other sites on the Pro and Anti-Mcann sites. It is the Anti-Mcann forums and their denizens that are my concern here.
LIBEL AND DEFAMATION
These sites include considerable ‘information’ that if printed or broadcast would not only attract libel suits, but would also be severely censured by the Press Council and Broadcast regulators. The worst of these sites are those that have developed into self-serving confirmatory support groups for people who hate the McCanns; these sites have banished anyone with contrary opinions by the use of bullying tactics, shouting down of dissent or by simple banning by forum administrators. I cannot give a direct link to the worst site as our legal advice is that a simple link to it might be seen as assisting libellous statements, but Google the3arguidos and look for links from there.
PITCHFORKS AND WITCH-HUNTS
This site (and posts from its members on previous sites) make incredible claims about the Mccann’s actions, beliefs, practices, careers, sex lives, veracity and general character that would offend the person in the street. Such defamation would never be allowed in the general media. The level of discussion is juvenile and the main emotional feel is that of people engaging in a dirty act seeking to find peer support for their nasty little secret. One feels that there is some pseudo-sexual satisfaction gained by these people in their web of negative and defamatory statements about the McCanns.
SEXISM AND THE IMPOTENT
It is noticeable that many complaints on the board are about their own impotence in bringing about change in this case (although somewhat balanced by those making extravagant claims that their character assassination is being watched closely by the Portuguese Police and that somehow their little hidden website is a major plank in the investigation). Both the feeling of impotence and the over-blown self importance point to a deep inadequacy in the site members.
This is most noticeable in discussions of sexual matters. People have regularly posted on the board, speculating on the size of Kate McCann’s breasts, what sex acts the McCanns engaged in and when (whether they had sex after their daughter disappeared-how dare they!), whether Gerry McCann is impotent, whether the McCanns and their friends were part of a satanic sexual abuse ring with Madeleine as the victim, whether the group on holiday together were in fact engaging in an organised ‘swingers’ week for medical professionals, whether Madeleine was in fact the daughter of other parents- mother and father- within the holiday group. I could go on, but you probably get the feeling of amazement and of sexual inadequacy that I felt on reading these theories in depth.
THE SHERLOCK SYNDROME
Other posters express their impotence by trying to out detect the detectives- drawing up time-lines from press reports, compiling ‘evidence’ from published sources, posting ‘leaks’ from ‘well placed sources, imputing motives, discussing opportunities and generally claiming to have solved the case before the Portuguese Authorities have done so. The site has attracted ‘experts’ in police procedure, ‘forensic psychology’, legal matters (British and Portuguese), DNA technology, cadaver dog experts, criminal profilers and every kind of specialist one can imagine. Several people claim to be police officers or to be working closely with the ‘authorities’ on the case.
Many threads are full of deep analysis of the flimsiest of evidence using the most flawed reasoning imaginable.
THE UNBELIEVERS
Much effort goes into demonising and otherwise trying to disparage any person who does not believe in the received truth- that the McCanns killed Madeleine. Anyone suggesting an alternative view to that proposed by the board is undermined, accused of supporting child abuse or child abusrs, accused of being paedophiles, accused of being paid by the McCanns, or cast into any number of negative and distasteful roles. This is applied both to those close to the McCann (referred to disparagingly as TeamMcCann or the Mcpologists) or simply to a poster who writes a post that is off line. The website classes all people who post on the site who disagree with the consensus as ‘Chimps’ and delight in placing pictures garbed from the internet of chimpanzees in their posts.
INTERPRETATION OF NEWS AND NEWS SOURCES
Different news sources bring in both negative and positive information- negative and positive that is for the cultists. If a media source reports evidence that is to their liking, the story and the news source are gold plated; if the story is less than helpful, it is just McCann spin.
The next week the gold plated source may report unhelpful news- then it is denigrated as just a lackey of the McCanns. The posters seem blind to this!
VIGILANTES AND VENGEANCE
If the case cannot be solved by the Portuguese Police, then these message board members have the solution- demonstrations outside the McCanns’ house, trying to have their Medical Registration removed by writing to the General Medical Council, trying to use the Press Council to force newspapers to distribute their favourite propaganda, discussing how the McCanns can be made to suffer even if they emigrate.
Several threads suggest detailed ways in which extra-legal action could be taken against the McCanns if the outcome of the investigation is not to thir liking.
CONSPIRACY AND CLASS
One of the most compelling and obviously erroneous lines of reasoning is a dedication to the normal conspiracy theories that are all over the web.
This starts out with a half believable statement that the McCann’s protection comes from their middle-class status and support from the medical profession. This quickly degenerates into conspiracy theories- Gerry McCann serves as a Government advisor on Nuclear Fuel, hence it is a nuclear conspiracy, or that he is somehow linked to New Labour (is his secret father a Labour MP of old?) and is holding a great secret over the head of Gordon Brown, forcing Government support, or that because Gerry McCann is a Mason (is he?) then Branson and all the other supporters are engaging in a Masonic cover-up, aiding their brother.
Apparently, according to many threads, the Government is totally controlling the British and Overseas media and stopping the discussion of any negative material about the McCanns. If only the Government had had such control of the press last October, there would have been no ‘wobble’ and Labour would still be high in the polls now.
It is not long before the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group and even David Icke and his Saurians raise their ugly heads- all apparently responsible for the dreadful miscarriage of justice that is this case.
TOTAL CRAZINESS
Many threads are started by people claiming astrological powers or spirituall beliefs making predictions about the case that rest on information from the Astral Plane. Starngely, in the environment of the board- paranoid, vindictive and irrational- these gentle new age folk seem quite pleasant.
THE FEEDBACK LOOP OF BELIEF
All of this takes place in a rarefied atmosphere where dissent has been suppressed and only a single theme is allowed- that of the total guilt of the McCanns. Even those who are critical of the child-care arrangements, but say that apart from that there is no evidence, are pilloried and derided. Unless one is a true believer (or seen as a harmless buffoon) dissenters will be cast out.
This ensures that there is no real questioning of evidence or methods of reason and the site continues to descend into an abyss of its own making- by outlawing dissent they are ensuring its moral and intellectual decline.
The owner of the site has started excluding people for not ‘being with the programme’. At the same time the site promotes itself as the Free-speech antidote to the gagged mainstream media!
THE ULTIMATE DISRESPECT
The forum discusses in depth the minutiae of the disposal of the body of Madeline McCann- sexually abused, beaten, thrown from a balcony, tossed in a volcano, sunk in a lake, abandoned at sea, sold by the McCanns as a sex slave, bundled into a tennis bag and carried around by the McCanns for three weeks, buried in Spain, shipped to England and buried at a Masonic Hotel near to the McCann’s house.
This is where the discussion becomes the most prurient- evil conspirators egging each other on with more outlandish theories about how a body (Madeline’s body) might be abused and disposed of. Their lack of awareness about this lapse of taste is abysmal.
There were related threads about Madeleine, accusing her of having behavioural disorders, Down Syndrome, Autism, Aspergers Syndrome, Brittle Bone Disorder, Cancer, side-effects of being a clone, AIDS, and a variety of other medical and social conditions.
And even worse is the case of the second Madeleine McCann- a baby girl was born to a Mr McCann who married a woman called Healy (also Kate McCann’s maiden name) about six months before Madeleine (Our Madeleine) was born; her name was also Madeleine- a coincidence. People have used genealogical websites to pinpoint the whereabouts of this poor innocent and try to establish if she and her parents are in some way connected to the story, setting amateur sleuths to track down this family to establish whether this is some sort of ‘cloning project’. No one is safe.
THE CULT OF THE PITCHFORK AND THE WITCHES
In olden days these people would have been gathering the farm implements and searching down the witches to burn. Modern laws about libel and harassment stop this outflow for their murderous animus and so their effluvium is found on a nasty little backwater of the internet. Look at it and wonder about the moral degeneration of our society.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:46 am
1013
Yeah, it’s different
February 8th, 2008 at 4:45 am
been away for a few days.
hard drive failed and had to get pc rebuilt.
gosh, it is much, much quieter here now.
i don’t hear so much hammering in the background.
what a relief.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:23 am
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Mods and Admin
Can you give Julie my email address.
Thanks
February 8th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Last!
February 8th, 2008 at 2:47 am
1009 markskidd Says:
Verit I meant!
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got it, sleep well
February 8th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Verit I meant!
February 8th, 2008 at 2:39 am
well Vent, looks like it’s just you and me so off to kip. Thanks for aknowledgement. Night mate.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Sure, it’s been scripted but real
February 8th, 2008 at 2:34 am
1005 markskidd Says:
UK lives on continued stories, soaps etc., I hate them too, but this one is real.
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Agreed, sadly . ..
February 8th, 2008 at 2:34 am
UK lives on continued stories, soaps etc., I hate them too, but this one is real.
February 8th, 2008 at 2:30 am
just a light hearted pork, sorry poke at the Orwellian society we now live in. You will probably not see anything at all. (not meant to be literal)
February 8th, 2008 at 2:27 am
1001 markskidd
February 8th, 2008 at 2:26 am
to be continued………….
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hit/shit, I hate continued stories
February 8th, 2008 at 2:26 am
999 markskidd Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 2:22 am
take a close look at CM’s hands,……. there feet!
–what will I see if I look closely , give me a hint
February 8th, 2008 at 2:26 am
to be continued………….
February 8th, 2008 at 2:23 am
fksake my spelling! they’re I should say