No satisfactory explanation for this has ever been provided. 28 votes, 55 comments. If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. Could they chat away merrily to the Carpenter family and their children, for example (as indeed they did that night), knowing that their first-born daughter had suddenly died within the past three hours? (v) Would we be investigated by the police? Cleaned the curtains of blood spatters and any other traces of what really happened? Repairs to the shutters of the McCanns apartment were needed on the Monday; Ocean Club staff came to mend them that day. - October 28: Scotland Yard cuts the number of officers working on the inquiry from 29 to four. When the film was published, the McCanns claimed she had been playing with Mummys make-up box, but that story didnt stand up to scrutiny. 8. A suspect has been identified in the 2007 case of missing toddler Madeleine McCann. Gerry McCann gleefully quoted this case to try and prove his claim that cadaver dogs were unreliable. AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. She had a pink hair bead on her. Until they do speak, we will never know everything. If we stop and pause for a moment to consider the above list, it is truly hard to conceive how they could possibly have made all these decisions, and carried them out, whilst all sitting down together for dinner in a public place at about 8.30pm until 10pm as if nothing had happened. But many people did know about Freuds conduct and likewise kept it secret for decades. 2 min read. Gerry McCann tried to claim that cadaver dogs, and sniffer dogs generally, were incredibly unreliable. Madeleine McCann, 3, went missing from her family vacation in Portugal in 2007. . We have given evidence that we cannot rely on the claims by Catriona Baker and the McCanns that Madeleine was alive at an alleged 'high tea' on . She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. We refer in particular to her article on CMOMM posted on 28 September 2015, on the lack of credible evidence that Madeleine was seen alive after Sunday, link here: http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t11921-was-madeleine-seen-after-sunday-no-credible-evidence-that-she-was-watch-the-video? In April, Portuguese police arrived in the United Kingdom to observe questioning conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' dinner guests on the night Madeleine vanished. Here we rely mainly on the analyses by long-time Madeleine McCann researcher HideHo, who has examined all claimed sightings of Madeleine from Monday onwards, and found each one to be either vague, otherwise unsubstantiated or uncorroborated, or subject to contradictory evidence. Besides that, the times shown for Madeleine being in the creche do not even agree with what Kate McCann says in her own book about the events of that week. Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of missing British child Madeleine McCann, at a press conference in Rabat, Morocco in 2007. identifying an imprisoned German child abuser, Madeleine McCann's parents 'still have hope' 10 years after her disappearance. We think there are good grounds for suspecting that the two photos may have been taken on the same day, and that Madeleines very sad appearance could be connected in some way to her having died later that same day. Later, Robert Murat claimed that Mrs Fenn had phoned, Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/f57-mccann-case-the-most-important-areas-of-research, http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.co.uk, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12362-new-film-by-richard-d-hall-when-madeleine-died. It follows from all that we have said above that, if Madeleine did indeed die on Sunday 29 April, those who knew she had died must have carefully planned an audacious hoax over a period of four days, so cunning and clever that most people still believe that she was abducted. The problem with the Tennis Balls Photo. Could they have discussed this desperate situation bilaterally? Its Head of Risk, Alex Woolfall flew there the very next day (4 May) and he was later joined by another top Director of the company. After Madeleine was reported missing, the McCanns were able to claim that they had been eating at the Tapas restaurant each night, but were checking their children every half-hour. ANSWER: We reject her evidence for several reasons. Arranging two bogus week-long searches of a dam in Portugal, the Arade Dam, pretending that they knew nothing about this search, when in fact they had paid a lawyer, Marcos Aragao Correia and men form Metodo 3 to conduct the search. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. His conduct during his translations was so outrageous that an inspector sent an urgent report to Dr Amaral, complaining about his conduct. Why did he say seven children, and not eight? The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. A raft of evidence, but especially comparative weather records for the week, point in that direction. In early 2009, Brian Kennedy, the Cheshire businessman who led the McCann Teams private investigations, helped to create a bogus private investigation company, ALPHAIG Ltd. Updated. Although it was a five-hour journey from his cottage in the countryside around Ronda, Spain, he managed to reach Praia da Luz. H. Clear photographic evidence that the same pyjamas Madeleine had with her on holiday in Praia da Luz were later held up by the McCanns at two press conferences, one in London on 5 June 2007, the other in Amsterdam on 7 June . Keeping the shutters, windows and curtains in the childrens bedroom shut all week, allegedly to keep the heat out even though the room was not used during the day and was actually chilly at night-time. In our view the involvement of Robert Murat in this case is another significant pointer to Madeleine having died on the Sunday. Mrs Fenns statement was trailed in advance in the British press in articles which showed every sign of being planted by the McCann Teams PR agent, Clarence Mitchell. It was Wojchiech Krokowski, a man from Poland on holiday with his wife for the week. Excerpts from the book by Gonalo Amaral, who believes that Madeleine McCann died inside the apartment at Praia da Luz. German police said earlier that the suspect, who lived near Praia da Luz, has been sentenced on numerous occasions to prison terms for sexual abuse of children in the past. There is no other photo of Madeleine which with certainty can be said to have been taken after then, which we regard as hugely significant. Portugal's Attorney General agreed to reopen the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance in October 2013, more than five years after it was archived, following a formal request . (iv) Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? There is evidence that the British Embassy in Portugal arranged for Murat to become the main translator for the Portuguese police in the days following Madeleine being reported missing. towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. It is a fact that from about 8am on Friday 4 May, the news of Madeleines reported disappearance rapidly became the top story in both Portugal and Britain for weeks - and has continued to make international headlines ever since. Madeleine McCann was a 3-year-old British toddler when she went missing on the evening of May 3, 2007, during a family holiday trip in Portugal. Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007 (PA) 2014 . An urgent new arrest warrant has been issued for the prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann over a series of rapes and horrific child sex abuse. This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. A comparison was made between the Last Photo and the Make-Up Photo. Evidence that the children of the McCanns and their friends were cared for in one room from Sunday night onwards, After Dr Amaral was removed as the investigation co-ordinator in October 2007, he was replaced by Paulo Rebelo. He also described the man as of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. On Monday 30 April, he was hastily summoned to Portugal, allegedly by his girlfriend, but possibly by others - Murats account of the phone call or calls that led him to take a hasty flight to Portugal is not convincing, 5. No-one else heard a child crying loudly for 75 minutes that night. That also seems unlikely. Operation Grange, which has cost around 13 million but has got absolutely nowhere. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. That conclusion is greatly enhanced by the McCanns first and subsequent reactions to these dramatic findings, which we have set out in detail elsewhere. 3. (ix) Where shall we say she saw the abductor? Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. Madeleine vanished shortly before her fourth birthday while her parents were eating dinner with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant, and would have turned 17 last month. Michael led the team of investigators which in 2007 located the boat on which Madeleine was being held and who were denied permission to launch a rescue bid, to their intense frustration. The strange booking on Sunday night of the Tapas restaurant for the evening meal of the McCanns and the Tapas 7 all week. If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. A very strange photo of Madeleine was published two years after Madeleine was reported missing. Whilst this doesnt prove that Jane Tanner and Robert Murat were in Krokowskis apartment that week, it certainly raises at least the possibility that they were. In his analysis, Dr Roberts publishes disturbing evidence that Madeleines pyjamas may have been photographed on a blue hessian background, similar to that of the settee in the McCanns apartment, earlier during the day (3 May) when the alarm about Madeleine was raised. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. C. (If the twins were there) The McCanns would have had to make swift arrangements to move them out of the way whilst they decided what to do. Scotland Yard began a review of the investigation, known as Operation Grange, in May 2011, and . How long this initial phase lasted can only be guessed at. None of them stand up to serious scrutiny. What was it that galvanised them all into sending reporters there so soon? In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. There is no other photo of Madeleine which with certainty can be said to have been taken after then, which we regard as hugely significant. That money appears to have come from donations made by the general public. Chapter 6: The arrival of the English Police. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. We believe that there are a considerable number of people who know what really happened to Madeleine but will not speak of what they know. He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. Here are our main reasons: The Last Photo shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. Numerous changes of story by the McCanns, their friends, and others closely associated with them. The Madeleine McCann Research Group (MMRG) was set up in 2009, around the time that I created what was to become the most popular Madeleine McCann discussion forum on the internet: The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann (CMOMM). Madeleine would have been happily playing with her brother and sister, her friends in the Lobsters club, and her Mum and Dad for six days. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. New research in this section points to Madeleines death being on the Sunday or Monday and not Thursday 3rd May. Other problems with the photo have been discussed in many places on the internet. All of these circumstances simply serve to confirm the alerts of the dogs and show that the McCanns account of events was not correct and that Madeleine was NOT abducted. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. Lourenco had evidently. Or quickly nip round and knock on their doors. She had a gold-coloured necklace put around her neck. Her accounts lack any real detail of what Madeleine actually did in the creche that week. Employing disreputable and dishonest private investigation agencies, such as Metodo 3 and Oakley International. If Madeleine died after 6pm on 3 May, what would the McCanns have had to do? Over thirteen years ago, on 3 May 3 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal's Praia de Luz, while her parents Kate and Gerry . It appeared in a short film made by Madeleines godfather, film-maker Jon Corner. They said they were treating the case as a suspected murder and had determined the method used to kill McCann. A raft of evidence, but especially comparative weather records for the week, point in that direction. Do those who suggest Madeleine had died after 6pm honestly believe that all nine of the Tapas 9 could have, with every appearance of calm, nonchalantly sat down for dinner that night as though nothing had happened? This issue was very fully addressed in Richard D. Halls third film about Madeleine McCann: When Madeleine Died? Without necessarily agreeing with every specific point he makes in that documentary, we adopt his main conclusions, so far as they go. No-one else was reported to have ever died in that apartment. Here, quite apart from the matters dealt with above, are several other specific indications that an abduction hoax was indeed planned over a four-day period: The relevant facts are these. January 28 - A video of the McCann's search for Madeleine is shown at a fund-raising event in London in January to mark the 1,000th day since Madeleine's disappearance. It showed Madeleine in make-up. In the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe . Here are the relevant considerations we have in mind regarding Murats involvement: There is evidence that he and Gerry McCann may have known each other before the McCanns holiday in Praia da Luz in 2007, Robert Murat was a well-known long-term resident of Praia da Luz, his mother having lived there for much of her life, He was on an extended stay in England (Devon) when the McCanns went on holiday to Praia da Luz in 2007, On Monday 30 April, he was hastily summoned to Portugal, allegedly by his girlfriend, but possibly by others - Murats account of the phone call or calls that led him to take a hasty flight to Portugal is not convincing, He took the early morning flight to Faro, Portugal from Exeter at 7am the very next day, Tuesday 1 May. All kinds of dangers could have befallen the children while the parents were absent It is our view that the booking of the Tapas restaurant may well have been connected in some way with Madeleine already being dead or having suffered a fatal injury. She claimed in her statement that the crying she heard was that of a child more than two - but no-one can distinguish between the cry of a two-year-old (the McCanns twins) and three-year-old (Madeleine). His conduct whilst a translator in those early days after Madeleine was reported missing was bizarre and suspicious. What was the real reason for the change of plan? It was not public knowledge, until earlier this year, that Sir Clement Freud - who twice invited the McCanns to his Praia da Luz home for eats and drinks in the weeks that followed Madeleines disappearance - had been a serial paedophile for decades. A comparison was made between the Last Photo and the Make-Up Photo. But, according to the PJ theory, they must have been. McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz. Surely not. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. So the McCanns and their friends would be rapidly tossing these sorts of ideas around: Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. We also need to bear in mind that on the basis of the PJ theory as it stands, this was a holiday to a place the McCanns had never been to before. avares de Almeida and Goncalo Amaral suggested Madeleine might have had an accident, perhaps a fall, and been killed as a result of that fall - after about 6pm on Thursday 3 May. "All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice," her parents, Kate and Gerry, said in a statement issued before the German prosecutor spoke. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. The Portuguese police investigation into her disappearance closed in July 2008. BERLIN Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is dead, Germany's prosecutor said on Thursday after identifying an imprisoned German child abuser as a murder suspect. Madeleine McCann was born in Leicester born to her parents Kate and Gerry McCann know all about her Parents Net worth, Nationality, Ethnicity and Occupation . But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger. Almost 15 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann while on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007, police . She did not make her statement until 20 August - over three-and-a-half months after the event. It was a wild goose chase. He had carefully fitted up Krokowski. Portuguese police believe Madeleine McCann died in a 'tragic accident' and that her parents hid her body. It showed Madeleine in make-up. This hoax couldnt be true; there would just be too many people who would know that Madeleine had died on Sunday. It would also be consistent with the apartment having been forensically cleansed before the alarm was raised and Madeleines clothes and other items having been removed or disposed of. Within weeks of reporting Madeleines disappearance, the McCanns planned events to mark her disappearance, far in advance. The appointment by Tony Blair of his most senior PR officer, Clarence Mitchell, the Director of the Media Monitoring Unit at the Central Office of Information, and responsible directly to the Cabinet Office, to head up the governments PR initiative in support of the McCanns. 5. These are the relevant extracts from Goncalo Amarals book (AnnaEsses translation): On the fateful day of May 3rd, the attendance register at the play centre indicates that Madeleine arrived at 9.10, accompanied by her father. The 17 alerts by two cadaver dogs, used by dog top handler Martin Grime, to the odour of a corpse and to blood or body fluids, in locations associated with the McCanns or on their clothes, is prima facie evidence that Madeleine died (or was killed) in the McCanns holiday apartment. The Portuguese police became convinced that this must be the man whom Jane Tanners evidence suggested had abducted Madeleine. 24 April. What about a description of the abductor? Well, that depends on whether or not one accepts as gospel the claims of Gerry and Kate McCann, Catriona Baker and Charlotte Pennington that Madeleine was at a high tea in the Tapas restaurant from (according to Gerry McCann) 4.45pm onwards to about 6pm. This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. 15 minutes to defend yourself against the death penalty. The absence of any undisputed confirmed sightings of Madeleine on or after Monday 30 April. The apartment. 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