Chapter 6: The arrival of the English Police. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. An ex-pat living in Spain, Jon Clarke, had created a successful newspaper for ex-pats, the Olive Press. Chapter 8: A man with a child in his arms. In such a scenario, how likely is it that all six friends would have agreed within, say, 5-10 minutes that they would all play their roles in a fake abduction? He most certainly has done that in the Madeleine McCann case. The children were sleeping at the back of their apartment, so there was nothing for the McCanns to see from the Tapas restaurant. Hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner found in Krokowskis apartment. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. Gerry McCann had met Sahlke before he helped with the search but did not show any concern for his death. A preliminary point to raise is: were the twins present when, according to the PJ theory, Madeleine died? A cadaver dog had alerted to the odour of a corpse which suggested that Eugene Zapata had moved his wifes body twice. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were considered . Ok first of all I have always believed that Maddie died in the apartment because the only creature that wouldn't lie in this Then there would be questions about how the abduction hoax was going to be performed. 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. She did not make her statement until 20 August - over three-and-a-half months after the event. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger subsidiary company, Resonate, had flown out to help Mark Warner just days before, possibly on Monday 30 April. On Friday 4 May, the McCanns friend Jane Tanner gave a description of a man she said she had seen, carrying a child, at 9.15pm on the night Madeleine was reported missing. Shortly afterwards, he was removed as a translator. Even had they all rapidly agreed to go along with an abduction hoax later that evening at 10pm, there would be all manner of questions and suggestions. The Daily Telegraph described the disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". 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. On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. What about a description of the abductor? Madeleines 4th Birthday Just 9 days after her parents reported her disappearance and claimed that she had been abducted by a paedophile gang. Immediately following the reported disappearance of Madeleine, the holiday company who arranged the holiday, Mark Warner, brought their PR company, Bell Pottinger, to Praia da Luz. 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). 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. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. In this respect, the fact that the only fingerprints found on the opened window was that of Kate McCann is highly significant. Employing disreputable and dishonest private investigation agencies, such as Metodo 3 and Oakley International. We do not therefore accept it as evidence that Madeleine was alive on Tuesday. However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two Last Photo threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. There is, further, evidence that Catriona Baker was already known to the McCanns. 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. 8. The damage done to the shutters by Gerry McCann on the Sunday or Monday morning. We do not set out here all the multiple contradictions about the alleged high tea on 3 May; these have been more than adequately analysed in many places on the internet. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. Then there would be another very tricky question to answer: Just our very good friends David and Fiona? April 2017: The only four . It was a wild goose chase. If there had been a bad accident, or something equally bad had happened, who would clean the room? 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. She did not make her statement until 20 August - over three-and-a-half months after the event. 2017 - April 30: The McCanns prepare to mark . Eileen McCann, Madeleine's paternal grandma, died from coronavirus weeks before police publicly announced a new suspect in the little girl's 2007 Algarve disappearance. Tavares 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. Later, when re-interviewed by the Portuguese police on 10 and 11 July, after police had interrogated his mobile phone, and discovered that the account he had earlier given of his movements was false, he completely changed his story, claiming he had been too tired on 15 May to tell the truth. Madeleine McCann 'sold to rich family', says former policeman. 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. If that analysis is correct, this shows evidence of cunning planning and deception, amounting to perverting the course of justice. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. Aged care in-home We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. In the very early weeks after Madeleine was reported missing, John Stalker, an experienced and respected detective chosen to work on the alleged Shoot to Kill policy in Northern Ireland, stated that in his opinion: My gut instinct is that some big secret is being covered up. Perhaps even more significantly, he said that there were seven children being cared for that way each night. However, a subsequent review of the samples determined that they had been contaminated by government Forensic Science Service staff. Mitchell once boasted that his job was to control what comes out in the media. Was this an accident? 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. New research in this section points to Madeleine's death being on the Sunday or Monday and not Thursday 3rd May. For example, on 3 June 2007, just one month after Madeleine went missing, Gerry McCann was planning a big event to mark Madeleines abduction, telling the press: We want a big event to raise awareness that she is still missingIt wouldnt be a one-year anniversary, it will be sooner than that. He wanted Elton John to front a major fund-raising concert. It appeared in a short film made by Madeleines godfather, film-maker Jon Corner. Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. Credit: PA. On both, her hair length was the same. 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 . She had a pink hair bead on her. Robert Murat was a well-known long-term resident of Praia da Luz, his mother having lived there for much of her life, 3. 7. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. They could say that Madeleine must have wandered off somewhere, They could say that they took her down to the beach and she got swept out to sea, Or could we get away with faking an abduction. We suggest, given what we know, that there are two main possibilities: A deliberate violent act against her (not necessarily by one of the McCanns) , or. 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: This was confirmed by Kate McCanns own account of the events of that week, in her book, Madeleine, which did nothing to remove all the question marks about the many contradictions and inconsistencies about what really happened that week. 29, 11 Jun 2020; 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. Just our other good friends Russell and Jane? holiday, thats why the smell of death was on her clothes. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: They would first have to decide if Madeleine really was dead, or could be revived or resuscitated. June 30, 2020 7:03pm. The conclusion that Madeleine died on the holiday is also strongly supported by a wealth of circumstantial evidence. At the Inquest the coroner said there was no evidence as to how he had come to take morphine, and no needle mark was found. 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. With the body already hidden by that time? Later, the McCanns completely changed their tune. However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two Last Photo threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. They claimed that they were leaving their children on their own and checking on them, but still wanted to be able to see their apartment from the restaurant. Do we need someone to pretend to see an abductor? Our views are unlikely to change unless significant new evidence emerges. Lourenco had evidently. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger. However, she (of course) failed to mention that the dog had been right all along. The Last Photo shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. Where can we get a car quickly so as to hide it? But, according to the PJ theory, they must have been. Amaral and his team (rightly) rejected all claims by the McCanns that Madeleine was alive after 6pm on 3 May because, obviously, they were made by someone who was not independent. 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? Similarly, taking lunch in their own apartment every day after Sunday and not with their friends on the Payne's balcony. 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. The unconvincing and vague evidence given by creche nanny Catriona Baker about what Madeleine was actually doing in the crche all week. In addition, the Portuguese police appear to have received the images on a black-and-white program which only reproduced them as grainy greyscale images which made them very difficult to analyse. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, The No DNA of Madeleine was found in the McCanns apartment, nor on her clothes nor on objects she had used or come into contact with on holiday, e.g. Multiple contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts of the McCanns and their friends about the events of that week from Monday onwards. They then will have to consider what possible excuse they could have for not having Madeleine anymore? He had carefully fitted up Krokowski. 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. 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. Police said they wanted to speak to a thus-far unidentified second person who spoke with the German suspect from a Portuguese phone number on May 3, 2007 at the time of McCann's disappearance. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. 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. Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. In the Last Photo, which appears to have been taken on Sunday, she was happy and obviously smiling at something that amused her. This was confirmed by Kate McCanns own account of the events of that week, in her book, Madeleine, which did nothing to remove all the question marks about the many contradictions and inconsistencies about what really happened that week. Kate and Gerry McCann said it reflected progress in the . Further to the above point, hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner were found at Krokowskis apartment when it was searched by the police. - somewhere where no-one could find it? They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. These and a number of other considerations about Robert Murat lead us to think that he was summoned to Portugal during Monday 30 April because something serious had happened to Madeleine the previous day, and that his help was needed to cover this up. towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. He is currently in detention over a different matter. The problem with the Tennis Balls Photo. Scotland Yard began a review of the investigation, known as Operation Grange, in May 2011, and . Besides that, when journalists tried to question the McCanns close friend David Payne about the events of their holiday in Praia da Luz that week, he refused to talk, saying: We have a pact of silence. Operation Grange, which has cost around 13 million but has got absolutely nowhere. Quite why the British Embassy would promote Murat to do this job is uncertain, unless he had a significant prior connection with the Embassy, and was co-operating with them in some way. If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. 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? Her accounts lack any real detail of what Madeleine actually did in the creche that week. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment almost 15 years ago. 2 min read. Less than a month later, on 28 June 2007, Dr Gerry McCann said: I have no doubt we will be able to sustain a high profile for Madeleines disappearance in the long-term. What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? (v) Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. 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. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. He was contacted by one of Britains mainstream press in the early hours of the morning, before the media storm broke at about 8am on the Friday morning. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. Evidence that an abduction hoax was planned over a period of four days. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? 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. The Portuguese police investigation into her disappearance closed in July 2008. None of them stand up to serious scrutiny. There is evidence that he and Gerry McCann may have known each other before the McCanns holiday in Praia da Luz in 2007, 2. (as indeed they did so claim). Catriona Baker also had a holiday at the McCanns home a few months after Madeleine was reported missing, suggesting a close relationship between them.. Clear evidence that the McCanns pattern of behaviour changed after Sunday in the following ways: Taking breakfast every day after Sunday in their own apartment and not with their friends in the restaurant. It showed Madeleine in make-up. (ix) Where shall we say she saw the abductor? "Kate McCann and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter, Madeleine McCann" George Moras, Honorary Chief Commissioner of the National French Police "Today, the only person prosecuted in the case of the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann is the officer who conducted the investigation. Gerry McCann gleefully quoted this case to try and prove his claim that cadaver dogs were unreliable. We do not think it was. towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. 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. We find this a curious incident. . The absence of any genuine photographs of Madeleine taken after lunchtime on Sunday 29 April (see also below). But many people did know about Freuds conduct and likewise kept it secret for decades. . 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. On both, her hair length was the same. 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 apartment. Coffs coast. It appeared in a short film made by Madeleines godfather, film-maker Jon Corner. Recommended Stories The . Madeleine's whereabouts remain unknown, although German prosecutors believe she is . Kate McCann said that the dogs were only alerting to the conscious or unconscious signals from the dog handler, Martin Grime, a claim that basically accused Martin Grime of gross professional incompetence. 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 presence of the Director (and his deputy) of a Bell Pottinger subsidiary company - the PR company, Resonate - in Praia da Luz during the days before the alarm was raised. To sum up, there is no photographic evidence that Madeleine was alive after Sunday lunchtime (apart from the Make-Up photo - see below). He took the early morning flight to Faro, Portugal from Exeter at 7am the very next day, Tuesday 1 May. There is good evidence that the so-called Last Photo of Madeleine was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April and not at lunchtime on Thursday 3 May as claimed by the McCanns. 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. Madeleine McCann is "assumed" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in . Catriona Baker was in sole charge of the Lobsters creche of seven children (including Madeleine) the week the McCanns were in Praia da Luz. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. 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. But, according to the PJ theory, they must have been. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: (iii) Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? 3 May Madeleine disappears from a holiday apartment at the Ocean Club resort in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, dine with friends at a nearby tapas . Maddie 'killed by sleeping pill overdose'. Friday 22 April 2022, 9:14am. No-one else was reported to have ever died in that apartment. We reject her evidence for several reasons. The Tennis Balls Photo purports to be a photograph of Madeleine collecting tennis balls from a tennis court where adults have just been playing tennis. . In addition, Antonio Giminez Raso was caught bribing people in Morocco to falsely claim that they had seen Madeleine. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. Tony and Cherie Blair also gave personal support to the McCanns, while David Cameron set up the five-year-long Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleines reported disappearance. Secondary School before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in physiology/sports science in 1989. 24 April. he room forensically cleaned of any blood? 28 votes, 55 comments. We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse) after 6pm on 3 May as The PJ Theory. A basic check of other . Evidence that an abduction hoax was planned over a period of four days. Lourenco had evidently planned to call the police and already knew of the description that Jane Tanner had given to the police. Was there a meeting of some kind there that week? Support for this claim was found when it became clear that every night from Sunday to Thursday, one or other adult had not been at the Tapas restaurant for dinner each night (see below), either because one of the adults or one of the children was stated to be ill. Photographs taken of Madeleines pyjamas before 3 May - in Praia da Luz, and the mystery of the brown tea stain. 3. The conclusions my team and I have arrived at are the following: 1. From that moment on, no other person saw the little girl, apart from her parents and their friends. We have given, above, some general considerations as to when Madeleine may have died. Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. (AP) One of the prosecutors investigating the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance has claimed she . Here are our main reasons: The Last Photo shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. It was very early - Madeleine might very well have been found alive and well later that Friday - but on that very day, many media editors immediately despatched reporters to Praia da Luz. "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. Then, again assuming that they had all agreed to a plan of action, there would be loads more questions about (a) the apartment and (b) how to execute the hoax. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. A very strange photo of Madeleine was published two years after Madeleine was reported missing. 19 March: Kate and Gerry McCann accept 550,000 libel damages and front-page apologies from Express Newspapers over allegations they were responsible for Madeleine's death. Shortly afterwards, he was removed as a translator. 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 . In the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe . A German prosecutor has said he is "sure" that Madeleine McCann -- the British girl who disappeared from a resort in Portugal in 2007 at the age of three -- was killed by suspect Christian Brckner. This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. Then we come to them all sitting down for dinner at 8.30pm to 8.45pm. This booking appears to have been made on the Sunday night. He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. In addition to all these considerations, for Martin Grimes cadaver dogs to have alerted to the scent of a corpse, no longer present, some three months after the McCanns had vacated their holiday apartment, Madeleines body must have been lying in the McCanns apartment for at least 90 minutes, probably two hours or longer. They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. . The Murder of Madeleine McCann. 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. 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