But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. That would take some time and probably they would have had to take them to one of their friends apartments. Gerry McCann had met Sahlke before he helped with the search but did not show any concern for his death. Now lets examine why we say she died on the Sunday. That also seems unlikely. Our views are unlikely to change unless significant new evidence emerges. 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. 28 votes, 55 comments. AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. It was the strong conviction of Dr Goncalo Amaral and his team of investigators that, based largely on the evidence of Catriona Baker, Madeleine was alive and present at a high tea at the Tapas restaurant on 3 May 2007. The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. In such a scenario, the McCanns would probably contact their friends on their mobiles. When examined in detail, Lourencos claim that his daughter was nearly kidnapped by Krokowski falls apart. She had a pink hair bead on her. 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. In addition, Antonio Giminez Raso was caught bribing people in Morocco to falsely claim that they had seen Madeleine. 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. (iv) Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? (viii) What time shall we get her to say she saw someone? 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. Gerry McCann tried to claim that cadaver dogs, and sniffer dogs generally, were incredibly unreliable. 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. 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. The strange booking on Sunday night of the Tapas restaurant for the evening meal of the McCanns and the Tapas 7 all week. Is it possible that the McCanns and advisers were already planning to claim that the shutters had been jemmied open and smashed by the abductor on Thursday? But those who claim that Madeleine died after 6pm have to explain how the McCanns were able to pull off an audacious abduction within the four hours between 6pm and 10pm (when the alarm was raised) on Thursday 3 May. 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. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? Some of the men the McCanns employed were out-and-out crooks, like Antonio Giminez Raso from Metodo 3 and Kevin Haligen of Oakley International, both of whom spent four years in jail for crimes, respectively, of corruptly assisting a major drugs gang, and major fraud. Do we go frantically pretending to look for her? They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. 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. 6. Let us presume at this point that they decided to tell all their friends: Dave, Fiona, Russell, Jane, Matt, Rachael (I assume at this point that those who say that Madeleine died after 6pm fully accept that the McCanns must have let all their Tapas 9 friends know what had happened to Madeleine - and that they all agreed on a plan - though I am aware that some still maintain that maybe, in this scenario, the McCanns didnt say anything to any of their friends, none of whom therefore knew that Madeleine was dead). 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. Can we get all this done before 8.30pm, when were supposed to meet our friends for dinner? Here are our main reasons: The change of routines from Sunday night onwards and the absence of independent and corroborated sightings of Madeleine from then onwards (see above). 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. B. (ii) What shall we all do after we raise the alarm? (vi) What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? He and his team also (rightly) rejected claims by Dr David Payne that he saw all three of the McCanns children alive on a visit he and Kate McCann said that he had made to the McCanns apartment at about 6.30pm on 3 May. Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of the missing 4-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, hold up a picture of Madeleine during a press conference on June 6, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. It was a tragic accident in the apartment that night.'. Catriona Baker was in sole charge of the Lobsters creche of seven children (including Madeleine) the week the McCanns were in Praia da Luz. In the same interview, she was asked a 49th question: Are you aware that in not answering these questions you are jeopardising the investigation into your daughters disappearance? Kate McCann answered: Yes, if thats what the investigation thinks. "We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.". 29 Jul 2020. 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. 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? 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. But they all kept silent. 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. 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. Colin Sahlke died suddenly in mysterious circumstances with a significant amount of morphine in his system. 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. On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. Jill Havern, forum owner -----The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016 Just our other good friends Russell and Jane? He tried to prove this by quoting from a legal judgment in the United States, in the case of Eugene Zapata, accused of murdering his wife. . We reject her evidence for several reasons. 6. . 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. They even got the German police to search the plane for Madeleine at Berlin Airport. he room forensically cleaned of any blood? We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse) after 6pm on 3 May as The PJ Theory. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. 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. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. He kept pestering the police with plausible suggestions about lines of enquiry that they should be following. If that analysis is correct, this shows evidence of cunning planning and deception, amounting to perverting the course of justice. By Reuters. Gerry McCann gleefully quoted this case to try and prove his claim that cadaver dogs were unreliable. On both, her hair length was the same. April 7, 2008 . Hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner found in Krokowskis apartment. British girl Madeleine McCann went missing at the age of three while on holiday with her family in Portugal in 2007. . Kate McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle Cat, to work with her whilst she visited homes to issue death certificates, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat. Here is what each of the two men actually wrote: This was how Tavares de Almeida expressed the investigations preliminary conclusion I will just reproduce his first six points: From everything that we have discovered, our files result in the following conclusions: he minor Madeleine McCann died in Apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, on the night of 3 May 2007, imulation - a staged hoax - of an abduction took place, n order to render the childs death impossible before 10.00pm, a situation of checking of the McCann couples children while they slept was concocted, Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann are involved in the concealment of the corpse of their daughter, Madeleine McCann, t this moment, there seems to be no strong indications yet that the childs death was other than the result of a tragic accident. Never being seen out together with the twins from Monday onwards. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. It seems unlikely. Did Madeleine McCann die on Sunday 29th April 2007, four days before . To give but one recent example, dozens of people, including police and celebrities, knew that Jimmy Saville was a serial paedophile. 29, 11 Jun 2020; This week's . Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April. When he was asked at an interview under caution in Portugal on 15 May 2007 what he had been doing in Portugal during his first four days there (1-4 May), he lied about his actions in at least 17 material respects. 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. Again there are many instances in history where large groups of people who know about a serious crime work together to keep the crime a secret. Chapter 4: The real victim is the missing child. (ix) Where shall we say she saw the abductor? Instead, they used the Head of Risks at PR company Bell Pottinger, Alex Woolfall, and their cousin, Michael Wright, to edit, crop and delete photographs from the McCanns memory cards before they were given to the police, on 9 May. How long this initial phase lasted can only be guessed at. Point 5. There is real doubt as to whether that is a genuine photo of Madeleine - for a start two different people claim to have taken that photograph and on two different days. 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. Getting all the children changed and ready for bed and asleep before they set off for dinner? There is real doubt as to whether that is a genuine photo of Madeleine - for a start two different people claim to have taken that photograph and on two different days. 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. Similarly, taking lunch in their own apartment every day after Sunday and not with their friends on the Payne's balcony. She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. "The public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig is investigating a 43-year-old German national on suspicion of murder.". Loading Just three years old at the time, Maddie disappeared from her parent's apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on 3 May . Despite this, Kate McCann had the effrontery to mention this case in her 2011 book on the case, madeleine. McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle We find this a curious incident. 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. A convicted paedophile and rapist named as a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann allegedly told his former lover he 'knows what happened to little Maddie'.. Christian Brueckner, 44 . Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. A cadaver dog had alerted to the odour of a corpse which suggested that Eugene Zapata had moved his wifes body twice. Friday 22 April 2022, 9:14am. Was this an accident? Madeleine McCann may have been sold to trafficking ring before death: prosecutor . Do we need someone to pretend to see an abductor? But we believe we now have sufficient knowledge to be able to state with confidence what we say below. 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. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. No-one else heard a child crying loudly for 75 minutes that night. However, she (of course) failed to mention that the dog had been right all along. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. 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. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. If Madeleine died after 6pm on 3 May, what would the McCanns have had to do? No satisfactory explanation for this has ever been provided. If Madeleine died after 6pm on 3 May, what would the McCanns have had to do? 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. Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer Sentenced to Death in Oklahoma for 1997 Murder of Newlywed Teen. (ii) Just our very good friends David and Fiona? There is agreement from the McCanns, their friends, other holidaymakers and Ocean Club staff that they were all settled at their table at around 8.30pm to 8.45pm. All other claimed sightings of Madeleine on 3 May are equally unproven and open to serious doubt. "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. C. The absence of photographs of Madeleine taken after Sunday. 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. A very strange photo of Madeleine was published two years after Madeleine was reported missing. 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. 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. 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. 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. There would then have to be a rapid decision-making process during which all the following decisions would have to be taken: Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? 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. Repairs to the shutters of the McCanns apartment were needed on the Monday; Ocean Club staff came to mend them that day. 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. His co-author, Robbyn Swan, said: "Essentially the Portuguese cops' case against the McCann's involved the following: that she died by accident on May 3; that the supposed checks on the children . In this respect, the fact that the only fingerprints found on the opened window was that of Kate McCann is highly significant. Madeleine McCann's parents have welcomed news that a German man has been formally made a suspect over the three-year-old's disappearance. On both, her hair length was the same. The absence of any undisputed confirmed sightings of Madeleine on or after Monday 30 April. Madeleine could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May. The reason given by the McCanns and their friends for making this booking is even stranger. 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. rom what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleines corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died. He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. One example illustrates our point. They then will have to consider what possible excuse they could have for not having Madeleine anymore? Excerpts from the book by Gonalo Amaral, who believes that Madeleine McCann died inside the apartment at Praia da Luz. We have set out why we believe that Madeleine died, and why she could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, as claimed by Portuguese detectives. This was meaningless. For over 15 years, police have been searching for Madeleine McCann. On at least one occasion, Rebelo suggested that he had firm evidence that the McCanns and their friends had. He took the early morning flight to Faro, Portugal from Exeter at 7am the very next day, Tuesday 1 May. Madeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors. We finally decide to question her (Kate McCann) as a witness, but not to pose questions on the events after 5.30pm, the time at which she returned to the apartment with her three children. 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. Point 5. Secondary School before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in physiology/sports science in 1989. We refer here to a masterly study of issues concerning Madeleines pyjamas by Dr Martin Roberts. Is that when Jane Tanner was briefed to give a description of Krokowski when she was questioned by the Portuguese police? Aged care in-home McCann had certified six deaths in the two weeks before going on The apartment. before mid-day, boasting that he was one of the first journalists on the spot. Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. (iii) Just our other good friends Russell and Jane? 7. As we saw above, two different people say they took the photo, and they disagreed about which day it was taken on. A suspect in the Madeleine McCann case who may have sexually assaulted five British girls in the Algarve up to 10 years ago died in 2009, according to a source close to . 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. 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. He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. "It is now important to present a summary of this case, based on our deductions: reject what is false, throw out what we can't show with sufficient certainty and validate that which can be proven. Ok first of all I have always believed that Maddie died in the apartment because the only creature that wouldn't lie in this There are two different versions of who made the booking, which in itself is strange. The minor, Madeleine McCann died inside apartment 5A of the Ocean Club in Vila da Luz, on the night of May 3rd 2007; If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. The Murder of Madeleine McCann. Not only was Dr Payne not independent, being a very close friend of the McCanns, but there were 20 or more significant contradictions between the accounts of Dr Payne and Kate McCann about what took place at that meeting, how long it lasted etc. Lourenco had evidently. 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. We agree with his explanation, which can be viewed here: http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-nightwear-job-by-dr-martin-roberts.html, Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April. 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. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, The He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. Recommended Stories The . The Daily Telegraph described the disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". The McCanns issued sketches of a suspect on January 20th, based on a description of a "scary man" observed at the resort by a British holidaymaker. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. Not only was Dr Payne not independent, being a very close friend of the McCanns, but there were 20 or more significant contradictions between the accounts of Dr Payne and Kate McCann about what took place at that meeting, how long it lasted etc. In our view the involvement of Robert Murat in this case is another significant pointer to Madeleine having died on the Sunday. This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. A very strange photo of Madeleine was published two years after Madeleine was reported missing. G. The mystery of the strange 'Make-Up Photo' of Madeleine, which appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th April. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. (iii) Or phone a trusted friend first and ask for advice? His conduct whilst a translator in those early days after Madeleine was reported missing was bizarre and suspicious. 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. This support continued even after the McCanns became the Portuguese polices prime suspects when the McCanns were arrested and made official suspects on 7 September 2007. Madeleine McCann, 3, went missing from her family vacation in Portugal in 2007. . A raft of evidence . Mitchell once boasted that his job was to control what comes out in the media. 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? Then there would be another very tricky question to answer: Just our very good friends David and Fiona? 6 from what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleines corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died. Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal. 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.
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