£1m McCann court battle

12/12/2011 Posted by Winnower


12 December 2011
Scottish Daily Record
Tom Worden

GERRY and Kate McCann's £1million lawsuit against the cop who bungled the hunt for Madeleine will be heard in two months.

The civil case against Goncalo Amaral will take place in Lisbon on February 9 and 10, a source close to the couple said yesterday.

Amaral, 52, ran the investigation into the three-year-old's disappearance in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in 2007 for five months before being removed.

He later made a fortune selling a book and TV documentary claiming the youngster was dead and wrongly accusing her parents of staging a cover-up. The McCanns lodged a 36-page writ in the Portuguese capital in June 2009 accusing him of libel and breaching their human rights.

The source said: "Amaral has made the McCann family's life hell and himself rich in the process.

"Kate and Gerry want to stop him spouting malicious lies about them and profiting from their pain.

"The only way to do that is by going to court."

In their writ, the McCanns describe the now-retired detective as a self-obsessed, manipulative money-grabber with no morals.

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Blogger Note:

Perhaps it may be helpful to compare the content of the above article to this one:

Gonçalo Amaral: “Justice works in Silence”
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British police helped develop evidence against Madeline McCann's parents

12/14/2010 Posted by Winnower

14 December 2010
WikiLeaks: British police helped 'develop evidence' against Madeline McCann's parents
Daily Telegraph
Nick Britten

British police helped the Portuguese authorities 'develop evidence' against Madeleine McCann's parents, according to the latest revelations by WikiLeaks.
Leicestershire police acted as a liaison between their Portuguese counterparts and the McCanns

The website claims that two weeks after Kate and Gerry McCann were formally declared as “arguidos” – people of specific interest to the investigation, or suspects – a meeting took place between the US ambassador, Al Hoffman, and the British ambassador, Alexander Wykeham Ellis.

In a diplomatic cable marked confidential, the US ambassador reported:
"Without delving into the details of the case, Ellis admitted that the British police had developed the current evidence against the McCann parents, and he stressed that authorities from both countries were working co-operatively."
The comments attributed to the ambassador throw fresh light on the case built against the McCanns, which was widely believed to have been driven by the Portuguese police, and in particular the extent of the involvement of the British police and authorities.

Led by a unit at Leicestershire police, their main involvement with the inquiry was acting as liaison between their Portuguese counterparts and the McCanns, and gathering evidence of suspected sightings or other allegations that were called in by British residents or citizens living abroad.

However, at least one sniffer dog was used in the investigation and, according to reports, was said to have picked up the scent of a dead body in the apartment.

In November 2007 – two months after the ambassadors’ alleged discussion – Portuguese and British police came face to face for the first time since Madeleine’s disappearance six months earlier from her hotel complex in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz, for three days of talks in Leicester.

In one heated meeting, it is believed that the Portuguese police were furious that DNA tests taken from the McCanns’ hire car and analysed at the Forensic Science Services laboratory near Birmingham, failed to show anything conclusive.

In one of two cables referring to the case, the US ambassador wrote:
"Madeleine McCann's disappearance in the south of Portugal in May 2007 has generated international media attention with controversy surrounding the Portuguese-led police investigation and the actions of Madeleine's parents."
He reported that his British counterpart thought
"that the media frenzy was to be expected and was acceptable as long as government officials keep their comments behind closed doors".
It was not until 21 July 2008 that the Portuguese authorities shelved their investigation and lifted the McCann’s arguido status.

Yesterday a spokesman for the McCanns said:
"This is an entirely historic note that is more than three years old. Subsequently, Kate and Gerry had their arguido status lifted, with the Portuguese authorities making it perfectly clear that there was absolutely no evidence to implicate them in Madeleine's disappearance whatsoever.

"To this day, they continue to work tirelessly on the search for their daughter, co-operating when appropriate with both the Portuguese and British authorities."
A spokesman for Leicestershire police said that their involvement in the investigation was limited to coordinating UK-based inquiries on behalf of the Portuguese authorities.
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British police helped build case against McCanns

12/14/2010 Posted by Winnower

British police helped build case against McCanns
WikiLeaks cable reveals British police helped Portuguese create Maddy cover-up allegation
14 December 2010
The First Post
Robin Henry

Although Portuguese police were always blamed by Kate and Gerry McCann for suggesting they were somehow involved in a cover-up over the disappearance of their daughter, Madeleine McCann, it now transpires that British police helped their opposite numbers on the Algarve build the case against the couple.

In the months following Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007, the Portuguese police were branded "imbeciles" by furious relatives of the McCanns, who later threatened to take legal action against the force after they were cleared.

The revelation that police in Britain "developed the evidence" that led to the McCanns being treated as formal suspect – or arguidos - comes with the latest leak of US embassy cables by WikiLeaks.

A cable detailing a meeting between the British ambassador to Lisbon, Alexander Wykeham Ellis, and US ambassador Al Hoffman, two weeks after the couple were declared arguidos in September 2007, is published today by the Guardian.

"Without delving into the details of the case, Ellis admitted that the British police had developed the current evidence against the McCann parents, and he stressed that authorities from both countries were working cooperatively," Hoffman said in the confidential report back to Washington.

Ellis also urged Hoffman to keep any comments regarding the case "behind closed doors".

The cable sheds new light on the fraught months following the disappearance of Madeleine from a holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.

At the time, the McCanns claimed that Portuguese police were turning their focus on them to protect the region's tourism and deflect attention away from their failure to find the three-year-old.

The couple were monitored and questioned by investigators, who believed that they had discovered sufficient forensic evidence to suggest that Maddy had died in their apartment, before being stowed away in a hire car.

The case against the parents was finally dropped in July 2008 and their daughter's disappearance remains a mystery.

A spokesman for the McCanns played down the significance of the WikiLeaks revelations, telling the Guardian:
"This is an entirely historic note that is more than three years old... Subsequently, Kate and Gerry had their arguido status lifted, with the Portuguese authorities making it perfectly clear that there was absolutely no evidence to implicate them in Madeleine's disappearance whatsoever."
Dozens of British police officers and forensic specialists were drafted in after Maddy's disappearance, but it is still not clear exactly what role they played.

A spokesman for the Leicester police, in the McCanns' home county, told the Guardian they simply coordinated the Portuguese investigation on a local level.
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British police 'developed' McCann case

12/13/2010 Posted by Winnower

UK police 'developed' case against McCanns: British police 'developed' McCann case
Ben Quinn
14 December 2010
The Guardian


British police helped to "develop evidence" against Madeleine McCann's parents as they were investigated by Portuguese police as formal suspects in the disappearance of their daughter, the US ambassador to Portugal was told by his British counterpart in September 2007.

The meeting between US ambassador Al Hoffman and the British ambassador, Alexander Wykeham Ellis, took place a fortnight after Kate and Gerry McCann were formally declared arguidos, or suspects, by Portuguese police. The McCanns have said that there was "absolutely no evidence to implicate them in Madeleine's disappearance whatsoever."

In a diplomatic cable marked confidential, the US ambassador reported: "Without delving into the details of the case, Ellis admitted that the British police had developed the current evidence against the McCann parents, and he stressed that authorities from both countries were working co-operatively."

The comments attributed to the ambassador appear to contradict the widespread perception at the time that Portuguese investigators were the driving force behind the treatment of the McCanns as suspects in the case.

The disclosure comes as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to court today in an attempt to secure bail following his arrest last week at the request of Swedish authorities who want to interview him over allegations of sexual assault. A number of other cables released by the whistleblowers' website shed new light on aspects of the financial crisis. Revelations include:

* RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton said the board of the bank breached their "fiduciary responsibilities" by allowing the takeover of the Dutch bank ABN Amro.

* The Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, was so worried about the health of the banks that he proposed a secret international fund to recapitalise them six months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

* US officials expressed doubts in October 2008 over whether Ireland appreciated how much trouble its banks were in.

In one of two cables referring to the McCann case, the US ambassador notes: "Madeleine McCann's disappearance in the south of Portugal in May 2007 has generated international media attention with controversy surrounding the Portuguese-led police investigation and the actions of Madeleine's parents."

He reported that his British counterpart thought "that the media frenzy was to be expected and was acceptable as long as government officials keep their comments behind closed doors".

It was not until 21 July 2008 that the Portuguese authorities shelved their investigation and lifted the arguido status of the McCanns.

Responding to the contents of the cable, a spokesman for the McCanns told the Guardian: "This is an entirely historic note that is more than three years old. Subsequently, Kate and Gerry had their arguido status lifted, with the Portuguese authorities making it perfectly clear that there was absolutely no evidence to implicate them in Madeleine's disappearance whatsoever.

"To this day, they continue to work tirelessly on the search for their daughter, co-operating when appropriate with both the Portuguese and British authorities."

British authorities had substantial involvement in the investigation launched after Madeleine disappeared in May 2007 from the holiday apartment where the McCanns had left their three children in bed before joining friends at a nearby restaurant in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz. At least one British sniffer dog was used in the investigation and, according to reports, was said to have picked up the scent of a dead body in the apartment.

In 2008, when a dossier detailing investigations by Portuguese police was made public, it emerged British scientists had warned that DNA tests on a sample from the McCanns' holiday hire car were inconclusive days before they were made suspects. It is known that the Forensic Science Service analysed material sent to Britain by Portuguese police. A spokesman for Leicestershire police said their involvement in the investigation was limited to co-ordinating UK-based inquiries on behalf of the Portuguese authorities.
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UK cops 'developed' McCann evidence

12/13/2010 Posted by Winnower

UK cops 'developed' McCann evidence
Daily Express
14 December 2010

British police helped "develop" evidence against Madeleine McCann's parents as they were investigated by Portuguese authorities looking into their daughter's disappearance, according to diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks.

Britain's ambassador to Portugal, Alexander Wykeham Ellis, reportedly made the claim to his American counterpart on September 21, 2007 - two weeks after Portuguese police named Gerry and Kate McCann as "arguidos", or formal suspects, in the case.

In a cable to Washington, US Ambassador Al Hoffman wrote: "Madeleine McCann's disappearance in the south of Portugal in May 2007 has generated international media attention with controversy surrounding the Portuguese-led police investigation and the actions of Madeleine's parents.

"Without delving into the details of the case, Ellis admitted that the British police had developed the current evidence against the McCann parents, and he stressed that authorities from both countries were working co-operatively.

"He commented that the media frenzy was to be expected and was acceptable as long as government officials keep their comments behind closed doors."

The cable does not specify what evidence British police are alleged to have gathered, or whether UK investigators were involved in the decision to formally name the McCanns as suspects.

They remained under official suspicion until July 2008 when Portuguese police shelved the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance and lifted the McCann's status as arguidos.

The three-year-old went missing from an apartment in the Algarve on May 3, 2007 while her parents dined with friends in a nearby restaurant.

Speaking at the time the suspect status was lifted, Mrs McCann said:
"It is hard to describe how utterly despairing it was to be named arguidos and subsequently portrayed in the media as suspects in our own daughter's abduction."

A spokesman for the McCanns [named in other articles as Clarence Mitchell] said:
"This is an entirely historic note that is more than three years old. Subsequently, Kate and Gerry had their arguido status lifted, with the Portuguese authorities making it perfectly clear that there was absolutely no evidence to implicate them in Madeleine's disappearance whatsoever. To this day, they continue to work tirelessly on the search for their daughter, co-operating when appropriate with both the Portuguese and British authorities."

[Note, as is the pattern - the earlier Press Association Newswire is basically quoted verbatim.]
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UK cops 'developed' evidence against McCanns - Wikileaks

12/13/2010 Posted by Winnower

13 December 2010
UK POLICE 'DEVELOPED' EVIDENCE AGAINST McCANNS - WIKILEAKS
By Raf Sanchez, Press Association
13 December 2010
03:28 PM
Press Association National Newswire


British police helped "develop" evidence against Madeleine McCann's parents as they were investigated by Portuguese authorities looking into their daughter's disappearance, according to diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks.

Britain's ambassador to Portugal, Alexander Wykeham Ellis, reportedly made the claim to his American counterpart on September 21, 2007 - two weeks after Portuguese police named Gerry and Kate McCann as "arguidos", or formal suspects, in the case.

In a cable to Washington, US Ambassador Al Hoffman wrote:

"Madeleine McCann's disappearance in the south of Portugal in May 2007 has generated international media attention with controversy surrounding the Portuguese-led police investigation and the actions of Madeleine's parents.

"Without delving into the details of the case, Ellis admitted that the British police had developed the current evidence against the McCann parents, and he stressed that authorities from both countries were working cooperatively.

"He commented that the media frenzy was to be expected and was acceptable as long as government officials keep their comments behind closed doors."

The cable does not specify what evidence British police are alleged to have gathered, or whether UK investigators were involved in the decision to formally name the McCanns as suspects.

They remained under official suspicion until July 2008 when Portuguese police shelved the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance and lifted the McCann's status as arguidos.

The three-year-old went missing from an apartment in the Algarve on May 3, 2007 while her parents dined with friends in a nearby restaurant.

Speaking at the time the suspect status was lifted, Mrs McCann said:
"It is hard to describe how utterly despairing it was to be named arguidos and subsequently portrayed in the media as suspects in our own daughter's abduction."

A spokesman for the McCanns said:
"This is an entirely historic note that is more than three years old. Subsequently, Kate and Gerry had their arguido status lifted, with the Portuguese authorities making it perfectly clear that there was absolutely no evidence to implicate them in Madeleine's disappearance whatsoever. To this day, they continue to work tirelessly on the search for their daughter, co-operating when appropriate with both the Portuguese and British authorities."
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Madeleine's Telegram- historical note says spokesman

12/13/2010 Posted by Winnower

WikiLeaks: Madeleine's Telegram on "historical note", not today - a spokesman for the McCanns
13 December 2010
Agência Lusa - Serviço Internacional

[Portuguese to English translation - Google]

London, November 13 (AFP) - A spokesman for the McCanns today devalued the reference by the then British ambassador to Portugal that had been the British police to find evidence against Madeleine's parents, considering it a "historical footnote completely" , out of date.

Reference is made in a conversation between Allexander Wykeham Ellis, British ambassador in Lisbon in 2007, and U.S. counterpart in the Portuguese capital, Alfred Hoffman, who reported that a confidential diplomatic telegram today revealed by the Spanish newspapers El Pais and the Guardian.

Dated September 28, 2007, the document refers to a meeting between the two diplomats, on 21 September in Lisbon, where they discussed, among many themes, Russia, Zimbabwe and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, in Algarve in May of that year, at a time when it had great media attention on the subject.

"No further details of the case Ellis admitted that British police had developed the current evidence against McCann parents, noting that the authorities of both countries [Portugal and the United Kingdom] were cooperating," writes the ambassador described as the telegram " confidential.

The British law also admitted to U.S. ambassador to the attention of the press was expected and "acceptable" since "the government officials keep their comments to the closed door."

In comments to Lusa news agency today, the spokesman for the McCanns said: "This is quite a historical note that has more than three years" and must be read taking into account the context in which it occurred.

Clarence Mitchell recalled that since then, "Kate and Gerry have seen their status as defendants raised with the authorities to make it perfectly clear that there was absolutely no evidence that would imply the disappearance of Madeleine."

"To this day, continue to work endlessly in search of their daughter, when it is appropriate to collaborate with both the British and Portuguese authorities," he concluded.

Madeleine McCann disappeared a few days before doing 4 years, 3 May 2007, the room where he was sleeping with her twin brothers, the youngest, in an apartment in a resort in Praia da Luz, Algarve.

Parents Kate and Gerry McCann, dined at that time with a group of English friends in a restaurant about 50 meters from the apartment.

The child's mother, Kate, and father, Gerry McCann, were made defendants by the Portuguese authorities in July 2007.

But the July 21, 2008, the Attorney General's Office announced the filing of the suspicions against the couple and a third suspect, Robert Murat.

Also in 2007 created a fund to finance the search, which has paid the ex-police to investigate, but the parents of Maddie regret not having access to "all information that the authorities in the UK and Portugal have."

The newspaper El Pais reports that this is the only telegram - the range of 250 000 obtained by WikiLeaks organization - which mentions the case of Madeleine's disappearance from Praia da Luz, but the Guardian mentions the existence of two post offices where the subject is reviewed.

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UK police 'developed' McCann evidence

12/13/2010 Posted by Winnower

13 December 2010
Wikileaks cables: UK police 'developed' McCann evidence
BBC
Kate and Gerry McCann Kate and Gerry McCann were at one stage official suspects in the Portuguese investigation

UK police helped "develop" evidence against Madeleine McCann's parents, according to the latest US diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks.

The American ambassador to Portugal, Al Hoffman, said the claim was made by his British counterpart, Alexander Wykeham Ellis, at a meeting in September 2007.

The cable did not specify what evidence was alleged to have been gathered.

The McCanns said Portuguese authorities had subsequently said there was no evidence against them.
'Media frenzy'

Details of the cable, which was sent to Washington by the US ambassador, have been published in the Guardian newspaper.

Mr Hoffman wrote: "Madeleine McCann's disappearance in the south of Portugal in May 2007 has generated international media attention with controversy surrounding the Portuguese-led police investigation and the actions of Madeleine's parents.

"Without delving into the details of the case, Ellis admitted that the British police had developed the current evidence against the McCann parents, and he stressed that authorities from both countries were working co-operatively.

"He commented that the media frenzy was to be expected and was acceptable as long as government officials keep their comments behind closed doors."
'Historic note'

Madeleine McCann was aged three when she disappeared from a holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.

Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann had official status as suspects, or arguido, until the Portuguese authorities shelved their investigation in July 2008.

A spokesman for the McCanns said:
"This is an entirely historic note that is more than three years old.

"Subsequently, Kate and Gerry had their arguido status lifted, with the Portuguese authorities making it perfectly clear that there was absolutely no evidence to implicate them in Madeleine's disappearance whatsoever.

"To this day, they continue to work tirelessly on the search for their daughter, co-operating when appropriate with both the Portuguese and British authorities."

The details are contained in the latest in a series confidential US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks to appear in the Guardian and several other newspapers around the world.
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McCanns demand action on missing Madeleine

11/03/2010 Posted by Winnower

3 November 2010
The Irish Examiner
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Spot the Spin Exercise

10/20/2010 Posted by Winnower

Madeleine McCann book ban overturned by Portuguese court
20 October 2010
Guardian Unlimited
Giles Tremlett
Appeal court lifts block on sales of book by former detective alleging Madeleine is dead and abduction story was fabricated

Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing Madeleine, suffered a setback today in their legal battle with a Portuguese police officer when a Lisbon appeal court overturned a ban on his book about the case.

The book by former police detective Gonçalo Amaral, who led the Madeleine investigation in the first five months after the three-year-old's disappearance, can now go back on sale.

In September last year the McCanns obtained the ban on Amaral's book Maddie – The Truth about the Lie, in which he claims they were involved in the toddler's disappearance.
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McCanns Want Amaral's Family Home

9/08/2010 Posted by Winnower

Sofia Leal & Gonçalo Amaral have been married for the last eight years and have two young daughters

“I will not get divorced. That would be a fraud. Our family lives in full communion [unity].”

Sofia Leal, who has been married for the last eight years with the former Judiciary Police coordinator Gonçalo Amaral, reacted indignantly upon being notified with a citation requested by the McCanns, to proceed with a separation of assets in order to allow the arrest of a house in the municipality of Olhão, within the scope of a 1.2 million euros claim.

By Paulo Marcelino

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ANTONELLA LAZZERI - ARTICLES RE: McCANNS

6/16/2010 Posted by Winnower

ANTONELLA LAZZERI - ARTICLES LISTED BY DATE



2007 May 05

NOTHING DESCRIBES ANGUISH FOR OUR MADDIE; HUNT FOR LOST MADDIE John Askill and Julie Moult in Praia da Luz, Portugal, and James Clench in London
1309 words(Lazzeri noted as part of "Sun team".)

SHUTTERS HAD BEEN JEMMIED.. MADDIE WAS GONE John Askill and Julie Moult in Praia da Luz, Portugal, and James Clench in London (Lazzeri noted as part of "Sun team".)

2007 September 24

KATE WEEPS AT MOVING MASS; THE BATTLE GOES ON FOR BRAVE MCCANNS
226 words

TWIN'S LIFT FOR MUM AND DAD; THE BATTLE GOES ON FOR BRAVE MCCANNS
237 words "rare moment of happiness"

SAS HEROES BOOST HUNT FOR MADDIE; THE BATTLE GOES ON FOR BRAVE MCCANNS (With Nick Parker)
427 words

2007 September 25

MADDIE LAW CHIEF: NO BODY, NO CASE (With Nick Parker)
370 words ...Kate and Gerry furious at 'let-off' slur

NANNY BACKS COPS OVER KATE SCREAM (With Nick Parker)
380 words "Kate McCann DID scream "they've taken her, they've taken her" ...witness claimed...

2007 September 26

I WATCHED WOMAN IN HEADSCARF DRAGGING MADDIE ALONG BY THE HAND; COPS PROBE PHOTO AND NEW MOROCCO WITNESS (With Nick Parker)
827 words RE: Madeleine McCann in Morocco

GERRY & KATE: IT COULD BE HER; COPS PROBE PHOTO AND NEW WITNESS IN MOROCCO (With Nick Parker)
886 words RE: Madeleine McCann in Morocco

2007 September 27

ANGUISH FOR KATE
76 words RE: Madeleine McCann in Morocco- Bouchra ..."tearful" Kate McCann

I'M SORRY GIRL IS MISSING, BUT THIS IS MY DAUGHTER ..NOT MADELEINE (With Brian Flynn/Simon Hughes)  
470 words RE: Madeleine McCann in Morocco- Bouchra ...tearful Kate McCann... shattering the hopes of the lost tot's parents...

2007 September 28

POLICE PROBE LOST 2 HOURS; COPS' SHOCK CLAIM: MADDIE IS BURIED IN SPAIN (With Clodagh Hartley in Praia da Luz) Antonella Lazzeri in Rothley
729 words RE: Alleged claim that McCanns had buried Maddie during missing two hours from their trip to Huelva. "Kate and Gerry McCann were stunned" "outrageous theory" "Kate and Gerry have had enough." "Underneath all this rubbish are horrible accusations and rumours" "McCanns incensed" re: Morocco lead not followed up by police "bizarre theory that the McCanns hid their daughter's body in their hire car THREE MONTHS after she was reported missing." "latest in a string of controversial theories by the Portuguese - many of which have been discredited"

2007 September 29

PARENTS MARK 150 DAYS
118 words ...another agonising milestone...

2007 October 05

NOTHING'S AS BAD AS THAT NIGHT; KATE'S MADDIE ORDEAL
122 words ...torment (Kate McCann)

I WEEP FOR MADDIE..BUT WE STILL HAVE HOPE; ANGUISHED MUM OPENS HER HEART
936 words ...FRAGILE Kate McCann ... cries every day ...

2007 October 06

MADDIE HUNT: COP CASE IN MELTDOWN (With Clodagh Hartley) Antonella Lazzeri in Rothley
607 words Just 3 'tecs search for her ... Chief admits to daily crisis ...Mother was almost jailed ...

2007 October 08

MCCANNS: WE'LL BE SUSPECTS FOREVER (With Clodagh Hartley)
325 words ..."cloud of suspicion"...

2007 October 09

MCCANNS 'LIVING IN A TWILIGHT WORLD' (With Clodagh Hartley)
455 words ...Parents' anguish.. ...conflicting DNA theories... "living in a twilight world" ...as theories change DAILY.

2007 October 11

MCCANNS' DELIGHT AT PAEDO SWOOP (With Clodagh Hartley) Antonella Lazzeri in Rothley
598 words Family .. "encouraged" last night after 300 Portuguese cops smashed an 80-strong paedophile ring.

2007 October 12

I'M MADDIE'S FATHER..100% (With Clodagh Hartley) Antonella Lazzeri in Rothley
638 words RE: Alleged reports that Gerry was not Maddie's biological father. "reacted with fury" "horrified and distressed" "outrageous new allegation came from police sources" "outrageous claims that the McCann children were drugged ... furiously denied" McCanns plan to sue 24 Horas as soon as arguido status lifted ... (NOTE: Buried in the story is information regarding hair / DNA allegedly found in the McCann hire car.)

2007 October 20

MADDIE'S FINAL GIFT FOR GRAN (With Clodagh Hartley)
394 words RE: plate with Maddie's handprints. "poignant last gift from Madeleine McCann to her gran" ... "Susan also revealed her daughter Kate had been tormented by visions of Maddie at the family home"

2007 October 22

HOW COULD POLICE DROP ASH ON CLUES? (With Clodagh Hartley)
319 words ...Maddie parents' fury at evidence contamination... ANGRY Kate and Gerry McCann... "horrified" ...cops' CIGARETTE ASH could have contaminated evidence

2007 October 25

I FEEL IN MY HEART SHE IS OUT THERE; KATE WEEPS FOR MADDIE
89 words "DISTRAUGHT Kate McCann yesterday poured out her heartache and wept: "As Madeleine's mummy, I feel in my heart that she is out there." Wiping away tears, she added: "I don't know how anyone could harm anyone as beautiful as Madeleine." Kate, 39, showed her emotion as she and husband Gerry publicised a phone hotline to aid the Maddie hunt.

MADDIE NEEDS US; INTERVIEW; KATE MCCANN ; TEARS AS MUM GIVES DRAMATIC INTERVIEW (With Clodagh Hartley)
1171 words ...lonely... sobs Kate... SOBBING Kate McCann ..battled to contain her emotion ...

2007 October 26

MADDIE IN ARMS OF SNATCHER (With Clodagh Hartley)
305 words RE: McCann "abductor" drawing. "THIS is the man Madeleine McCann's parents believe abducted their tot - as he carries her slumped in his arms. Swarthy, aged around 35 with black hair curling round his collar, he hurries away from their holiday flat with Maddie..."

MADDIE IN ARMS OF SNATCHER PYJAMA 'PROVE IT IS HER' (With Clodagh Hartley)
464 words RE: McCann "abductor" drawing. "A TINY figure wearing pyjamas lies still and quiet in a man's arms - in an image thought to show the abduction of Madeleine McCann."

2007 October 27

'POKER FACE' KATE TO SUE (With Clodagh Hartley)
384 words RE: Fury over 'interview act' slur ..."angry Kate and Gerry McCann" sue over claims this week's emotional TV interview was "staged like theatre".

2007 October 30

FURY OF TAPAS 7; MCCANN FRIENDS HIT BACK
296 words RE: Allegations re: "Pact of Silence" - "Pals: There is NO pact"

2007 October 31

I SAW LURKER (With Clodagh Hartley)
490 words RE: Nanny claiming man in bushes outside Maddie flat

2007 November 01

GERMAN MAG'S SICK JOKES ABOUT MADDIE (With Clodagh Hartley)
313 words ...McCanns' horror...

2007 November 02

I'LL GIVE MADDIE SOME DOLLS WHEN I FIND HER (With Clodagh Hartley) Antonella Lazzeri In Rothley
388 words Private tec's vow ...has already bought dolls to give the snatched four-year old when he rescues her.

2007 November 03

MCCANNS ARE BACK IN FRAME; MADDIE SIX MONTHS ON..PARENTS' PLEA (With Clodagh Hartley) Antonella Lazzeri in Rothley
763 words ...Agony over new DNA claim... faced the heartache...shattered by FRESH claims they were involved...

MY BABY; MADDIE MISSING 6 MONTHS
79 words ...Kate plea after new DNA blow ..."heartbroken Kate McCann" ..."moving new appeal"...

2007 November 05

I JUST WANT HER BACK..KATE SOBS FOR MADDIE IN CHURCH
386 words ...Tormented Kate McCann collapsed in floods of tears...Kate began crying ...

2007 November 16

MADDIE COPS DIDN'T EVEN CHECK HER BED (With Veronica Lorraine)
421 words "Bunglers failed to do a DNA test"

2007 November 17

TAPAS JANE TELLS ALL
87 words "astonishing detail what happened the night Madeleine McCann disappeared" "emotional TV interview" RE: Jane Tanner

MY GUILT
1055 words "Jane breaks silence" "I saw Maddie abductor strike but did nothing" "Amazing new details" "wracked by guilt"

2007 November 19

WITNESS SAW HER HAND OVER CHILD (With Veronica Lorraine in Praia Da Luz)
511 words RE: Murat's girlfriend accused

2007 November 21

IS THIS WHERE MADDIE WAS HANDED TO PAEDOS? (With Veronica Lorraine in Silves, Portugal)
422 words RE: Trucker's sighting" "fear Madeleine McCann's abductors handed her over to a paedophile gang"

2007 November 23

'MADDIE IS DEAD' (With Veronica Lorraine in Praia Da Luz)
292 words RE: Attorney General Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro statement that kidnapper would have murdered Maddie because of the enormous publicity (See full text )

ABDUCTOR WILL HAVE MURDERED MADELEINE (With Veronica Lorraine in Praia Da Luz) 401 words "Grim verdict from Portugal's top law chief"

2007 November 27

'WHEN MADDIE SHOUTED HE HAD TO SHUT HER UP'; DETECTIVES: FIEND TARGETED MCCANNS "COPS' PERV THEORY (With Veronica Lorraine in Praia Da Luz) Antonella Lazzeri in Rothley
1145 words A pervert sneaked into Madeleine McCann's holiday apartment - and killed the terrified tot to shut her up when she screamed, police now believe."

2007 November 28

MADDIE: * NONE OF HER DNA IN HIRE CAR * MURAT LAWYER'S VILE SLUR
81 words "Forensic experts found NO trace of Madeleine McCann's DNA in her parents' hire car."

NO BLOOD, NO BODILY FLUID AND NO HAIR; MADDIE BODY 'NEVER IN CAR'; EXCLUSIVE
589 words "Forensic experts found NO blood, NO hair and NO body fluids from Madeleine McCann in her parents' hire car, it emerged last night. Scientists hired by Kate and Gerry McCann say there is no evidence whatsoever"

2007 November 29

CRUNCH DAY ON MADDIE
59 words "parents face D-Day"

D-DAY FOR GERRY AND KATE FORENSIC REPORT TODAY (With Neil Syson/Veronica Lorraine)
505 words "parents face D-Day" "forensic scientists and police chiefs meet to discuss crucial evidence"

2007 November 30

MCCANNS 'CLEARED' IN A WEEK
140 words Kate and Gerry's DNA hope DNA "evidence" against Kate and Gerry collapsed yesterday - and they could be cleared of involvement in Maddie's disappearance within a week.

2007 December 06

MADDIE COPS ROW OVER RUINED DNA
297 words "Brit experts dismiss 'blood' evidence DNA evidence found in the apartment"

2007 December 11

TAPAS 9 IN SECRET MEETING (With Veronica Lorraine)
337 words "Maddie pals together again for first time" * "It seems 'suspicious' say Portuguese cops"

2007 December 17

FAMILY XMAS VIGIL AT CHURCH
213 words RE: McCanns attending the midnight mass on Christmas Eve.

2007 December 19

XMAS GIFT ON MADDIE'S BED...HUGE PINK TEDDY BEAR WITH WHITE HEART / GRAN'S TOY HEARTBREAK
552 words "Distraught Eileen McCann"

2007 December 22

BE BRAVE MADDIE; MCCANNS' CHRISTMAS AGONY
90 words RE: video plea-Christmas message to daughter Madeleine "Be brave sweetheart."

MADDIE, IT'S MUM AND DAD HERE..OUR ONLY WISH FOR XMAS IS FOR YOU TO BE HERE; MCCANNS' HEARTBREAKING TV PLEA
763 words "anguished Kate McCann" "summons the courage" "heart-rending TV appeal"

2008 January 08

ANGUISH OF MCCANNS AT 'WILD' NEW DNA CLAIMS; BLOOD SPECKS BEHIND SOFA AND IN CAR 'ARE MADDIE'S' (With Veronica Lorraine/Gary O'Shea in Praia da Luz)
510 words RE: Portuguese newspaper Correio Da Manha report re: blood specks in their hire car and behind a sofa "tormented parents" "reacted in fury"

2008 January 09

MADDIE: THE MOVIE; McCANNS' FUND BOOST Antonella Lazzeri in Praia Da Luz
323 words RE: Film chiefs in talks with McCanns- set to turn Madeleine's story into a film. The couple believe the movie could raise money for the dwindling Find Madeleine fund...

THEY PRAY THAT MOVIE WILL HELP FIND MADDIE; MCCANNS' FILM BID (With Gary O'Shea in Praia Da Luz)
433 words McCanns' hope film might help fund their search for Madeleine - even though it could spark accusations of bad taste.

2008 January 24

MADDIE WEIRDO HAD ACCOMPLICE; 2ND PROWLER SPOTTED
226 words "oddball suspected of seizing Maddie McCann" "second prowler seen at the McCanns' resort using the same bogus cover story as the scruffy man shown in a drawing" ...

2008 March 15

MCCANNS' AGONY AS BONES FOUND (With Tom Worden)
620 words "fresh torment" re: reservoir search/bones found

2008 March 24

MADDIE SUSPECT IN CLEAR
149 words RE: Robert Murat's belief he will be cleared within weeks

2008 April 08

'FAMILY' BEG FROM MCCANNS; EXCLUSIVE
338 words RE: people claiming to be relatives of Shannon Matthews begged for cash from the McCanns.

2008 April 09

RETURN TO HELL
351 words RE: Request for McCanns to return for kidnap reconstruction "cops in Portugal want to haul Madeleine McCann's parents back to stage a harrowing reconstruction"

2008 April 10

SMILING KATE'S MADDIE MISSION  
139 words "smiling Kate McCann" RE: Brussels/child alert system

2008 April 11

'MUMMY, WHY DIDN'T YOU COME WHEN WE WERE CRYING LAST NIGHT'; MCCANNS' POLICE STATEMENT
138 words "bewildered Madeleine" (See full text)

WE AGREED TO KEEP A CLOSER EYE ON THE KIDS..HOURS LATER MADDIE HAD DISAPPEARED; MCCANNS' FURY AT POLICE LEAK
1009 words (See full text)

2008 April 12

LEAKS AND SMEARS...NOW PLANE LIES; NEW MADDIE OUTRAGE  
718 words "THE CLAIM:'McCanns and pals wanted private jet and five-star hotel' THE REPLY:'No demands were made. It's complete and utter rubbish'

2008 April 14

MCCANNS WANT AN FBI PROBE
162 words ...McCanns calling for full probe involving FBI into Portuguese cops' handling of case"

2008 April 15

MCCANN COPS HIT BACK AT 'SMEARS' (With Veronica Lorraine)
186 words RE: cops in Portugal response to McCanns claim that statements were leaked to smear them...saying family's accusations were "unsubstantiated".

2008 April 24

KATE: WE CHECKED OUR KIDS
196 words McCanns parents...devised their own baby-listening service because the complex they were staying in had none....

2008 April 24

KATE: WE CHECKED OWN KIDS
127 words McCanns parents...devised their own baby-listening service because the complex they were staying in had none....

2008 April 26

'LIES' OF MADDIE PARENTS
161 words "disgraced cop" "has written a money spinning book" Amaral "booted off the case" etc.

2008 April 30

I SEE MADELEINE'S BEST FRIEND AND WONDER WHAT MY DAUGHTER WOULD BE LIKE; PART 3
1833 words "Maddie A Year In The Darkness"

KATE'S TEARS OVER HATE MAIL THREATS
434 words "vile abuse" "tearful Kate and Gerry McCann" "shocking hate mail"

2008 May 02

DUNGEON RESCUE GIVES ME HOPE MADDIE IS ALIVE; INTERVIEW; GERRY AND KATE MCCANN ; ONE YEAR ON: MCCANNS TALK TO SUN
900 words "astonishing rescue of Austrian dungeon girl Elisabeth Fritzl" "fresh hope that her daughter is still alive"

2008 May 05

MCCANNS IN BOOST FROM LEGAL CHIEF; MADDIE: ONE YEAR ON
386 words "hints couple will be cleared"

2008 May 14

MADDIE 'IN BRAZIL' (With Veronica Lorraine)
255 words RE:Interpol probe- Madeleine McCann in Brazil.

2008 May 30

'SUSPECT' FEARS OF TAPAS 7
152 words "refused to return to Portugal because they feared being made suspects" RE: refusal to take part in requested reconstruction

2008 July 02

NOW CLEAR MCCANNS; AS COPS GIVE UP MADDIE HUNT, WE SAY
59 words "The Sun today calls on Portuguese police to clear Kate and Gerry McCann of involvement in their daughter Madeleine's disappearance - as it was revealed the case is to be closed, leaving them still ..."

LIFE UNDER SUSPICION IS INHUMANE; McCANN PLEA TO COPS
543 words "nightmare possibility that they could remain suspects FOREVER. That would be both "immoral and inhumane" for tormented Kate and Gerry McCann, their spokesman said."

2008 July 07

TEARS AS KATE CALLS MADDIE WITNESS; EXCLUSIVE
167 words RE: Kate's "tearful call" to Paul Gordon, a holidaymaker who reported a man acting suspiciously before her daughter disappeared.

2008 July 08

JUDGE BEGS MADDIE FIEND: WHERE IS SHE?
395 words RE: Mrs Justice Hogg urging abductor to show "compassion and mercy" - and surrender to cops.

2008 July 11

MCCANNS' LOST CHILD ALERT WIN
219 words "Kate and Gerry McCann have won their battle to have a Europe-wide alarm system set up to find missing children."

2008 July 12

WISH YOU WERE HERE; McCANNS' HOL ANGUISH WITHOUT MADDIE
222 words RE: McCann 3 week holiday in Canada. "heartache"

2008 August 07

I SAW 'MADDIE' TOO; HER EYES TOLD ME IT WAS HER SAYS HANNIE SECOND SIGHTING OF TOT IN AMSTERDAM Lucy Hagan in Amsterdam/Veronica Lorraine in Praia da Luz (Additional reporting: Antonella Lazzeri)
859 words RE: Pensioner Hannie Weichmann sighting "second possible sighting of Madeleine McCann in Amsterdam" (See full text)

2008 October 23

MADDIE'S LEECH COP
214 words RE: Goncalo Amaral ..."parents' fury" "shamed 'tec cashes in AGAIN...with film" "shamed cop"

2008 November 11

MCCANN AGONY AT BLANK IN COP FILES (With Veronica Lorraine)
177 words "new blow" to McCanns - police case files had fewer clues than they hoped

2008 December 04

XMAS TV APPEAL IN HUNT FOR MADDIE
178 words RE: worldwide television appeal launched at Christmas

2008 December 05

MCCANNS PLEDGED POUNDS 25K TO HUNT; EXCLUSIVE; PURE EVIL: BID TO FLEECE MADDIE FUND; COPS WARNED THEM OFF (With Alastair Taylor)
625 words "Madeleine's heart-broken parents pledged Pounds 25,000 to help find missing Shannon - but cops warned them not to touch her family with a bargepole"

2008 December 22

GIFTS FOR MADDIE
63 words RE: "Christmas presents for their missing angel"

McCANNS' FESTIVE GIFTS FOR MADDIE; PARENTS RELEASE VIDEO
316 words "parents...wrestled with their anguish to buy her gifts — on their second Christmas without her." "heart-wrenching decision " etc.

MADDIE'S XMAS GIFTS ARE LYING UNDER THE TREE; POIGNANT NEW VIDEO APPEAL
425 words "parents...wrestled with their anguish to buy her gifts — on their second Christmas without her." "heart-wrenching decision as they released a fresh video appeal to find her.

2009 January 14

CRACK BRIT TEAM IN NEW MADDIE HUNT; EX-COPS AND SPIES HIRED *EXCLUSIVE* (With Mike Sullivan)
393 words RE: "elite team of ex-cops and secret agents"

MADDIE SQUAD; MCCANNS HIRE CRACK BRIT TEAM FOR NEW HUNT *EXCLUSIVE* (With Mike Sullivan)
527 words RE: "elite team of ex-cops and secret agents"

CRACK BRIT TEAM IN NEW MADDIE HUNT; EX-COPS AND SPIES HIRED *EXCLUSIVE* (With Mike Sullivan)
568 words RE: "elite team of ex-cops and secret agents"

2009 January 15

MADDIE HUNT TRIP GIVES GERRY HOPE
318 words RE: Gerry McCann's "positive" talks in Portugal ... "to improve strained relations with the authorities."

2009 April 22

NEW SUSPECT IN MADDIE SEARCH; AS SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF HER DISAPPEARANCE LOOMS... *EXCLUSIVE*
280 words RE: "mystery new suspect" "second anniversary of her disappearance"

NEW SUSPECT; MADDIE HUNT LEAD AS 2ND ANNIVERSARY LOOMS
489 words "new suspect is being hunted over Madeleine McCann's abduction"

2009 April 23

WE SAW MADDIE
163 words RE: Brian and Glenice White - British couple claim to have seen Madeleine playing in a square in Malta

2009 April 25

KATE'S TV TEARS; SHE BREAKS DOWN ON OPRAH OVER MADDIE PICTURES
254 words "Kate McCann wept"

2009 May 01

MADDIE 'SEIZED AS SHE LOOKED FOR PARENTS'
246 words "Madeleine...was probably abducted as she went looking for her parents, an expert claimed yesterday. Criminologist Mark Williams-Thomas said it was unlikely that an abductor entered Maddie's holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal."

2009 May 02

MADDIE AGED 6
79 words "A shy smile, sweet dimples and those unmistakable eyes, this is how missing Madeleine McCann would look NOW — on the brink of turning six." "Kate, 41, wept"

JUST LIKE MUM; KATE WEPT WHEN SHE SAW HAUNTING IMAGE OF DAUGHTER MADDIE: HOW SHE'D LOOK AGED 6
858 words "Kate McCann sobbed"

2009 May 04

MADDIE LOST HER IDENTITY: EXPERTS *EXCLUSIVE*
65 words "Madeleine McCann might not even remember her name" "heartbreaking possibility"

IF MADDIE IS ALIVE SHE MAY NOT ANSWER TO THAT NAME OR REMEMBER WHO SHE WAS; 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF TOT'S DISAPPEARANCE *EXCLUSIVE*
954 words "Madeleine McCann might not even remember her name" "heartbreaking possibility"

2009 May 07

MAN WHO STOLE MADDIE; FACE OF 'KIDNAPPER' SCARFACE IS PRIME SUSPECT
59 words "weirdo with a face pock-marked by acne scars" "prime suspect"

MADDIE: HUNT FOR SCARFACE; SKETCH OF 'KIDNAPPER' NEW SUSPECT SPOTTED OUTSIDE HOLIDAY FLATS  
77 words "weirdo with a face pock-marked by acne scars" "emerged as the prime suspect"

UGLY AND FRIGHTENING; 3 WITNESSES SAW WEIRDO STALKING HOL FLAT BEFORE KIDNAPPING MADDIE: FIND MYSTERY MAN OF PRAIA DA LUZ
1403 words RE: Three witnesses McCanns claim ignored by Portuguese police who saw "scary weirdo who may have masterminded the abduction of Madeleine McCann"..."ugly suspect" "big nose and thin pock-marked face" "gawping weirdo" ("Clarence Mitchell said: "This man needs to be traced urgently. "The witnesses did talk to the Portuguese police but it appears that nothing was done to find him. He is a vital part of the jigsaw. "Kate and Gerry believe the testimony is critically important but has not had the attention it deserves.") "tearful Kate" "Kate sobs" "tears and regrets of sad Jane" "regretful Jane Tanner is seen weeping in the documentary"

2009 May 08

GIRL, 12: I SAW UGLY MAN STALK MADDIE *EXCLUSIVE*
213 words RE: 12 yr. old British schoolgirl's claim that she noticed "scarily ugly" man twice watching the terrace where Maddie used to play

2009 May 09

MARKET GIPSY IS MADDIE SUSPECT; BRIT 'TECS FIND HIM *EXCLUSIVE* (With Simon Hughes)
330 words RE: market trader "of gipsy appearance" "key suspect" "Portuguese man was traced by private detectives and placed under surveillance"

2009 May 12

SCARFACE WITNESS: POLICE IGNORED ME; MADDIE SUSPECT BLUNDER
287 words RE: "witness" who sparked the hunt for a scarfaced suspect ... never been questioned by police ... twice saw "Mr Ugly" loitering near the McCann apartment ...

SCARFACE WITNESS: POLICE IGNORED ME; WOMAN REVEALS NEW MADDIE HUNT BLUNDERS
431 words RE: "witness" who sparked the hunt for a scarfaced suspect ... never been questioned by police ... twice saw "Mr Ugly" loitering near the McCann apartment ...

2009 May 22

MADDIE: PAEDO SUSPECT; BRIT CHILD RAPIST FACES QUIZ DETECTIVES *EXCLUSIVE* (With Simon Hughes)
98 words RE: HEWLETT / GERMANY

MADDIE: PAEDO SUSPECT: BRIT CHILD RAPIST FACES QUIZ (With Simon Hughes)
107 words RE: HEWLETT / GERMANY

IS THIS THE PAEDO BRIT; MADDIE SUSPECT MATCHES SKETCH *EXCLUSIVE* (With Simon Hughes)
496 words RE: sketch of suspect...chilling similarity to a British paedophile living in Portugal at the time she vanished.

ON RUN IN GERMANY, THE CHILD SEX BEAST IN MADDIE PROBE; RAPIST WHO LIVED NEAR McCANNS' HOLIDAY TOWN (With Simon Hughes)
1112 words "sensationally named as a key suspect" RE: HEWLETT McCann "detectives" suspicions raised by Alan and Cindy Thompson. (Full Text)

2009 May 23

WAS IT HIM? MCCANN TECS QUIZ GIRL OVER BRIT PAEDO *EXCLUSIVE* (With Mike Sullivan)
218 words RE: 12 yr. old British girl - shown photo of Hewlett and asked if he was man she saw

WAS IT HIM YOU SAW? MCCANNS' TECS QUIZ GIRL WITNESS OVER BRIT PAEDO *EXCLUSIVE* (With Mike Sullivan)
493 words RE: 12 yr. old British girl - shown photo of Hewlett and asked if he was man she saw

2009 June 06

I SAW MADDIE TWICE, ADMITS PAEDO SUSPECT; SENSATIONAL CONFESSION TO COPS
602 words re: "child sex fiend" "Raymond Hewlett has sensationally admitted he TWICE saw Madeleine McCann before she vanished"

2009 June 25

MADDIE SUSPECT LINK TO ABDUCTED BOY, 7: TEST TO QUIZ PAEDOPHILE FACING MURDER TRIAL
391 words RE: Jeremy Vargas case

2009 June 27

FORENSIC CHECKS ON MADDIE PERV'S VAN (With Simon Hughes)
230 words RE: HEWLETT'S VAN "Private detectives believe forensic checks could provide crucial evidence about the toddler's disappearance."

2009 June 29

COPS LET MADDIE SUSPECT OFF HOOK *EXCLUSIVE* (With Simon Hughes)
163 words RE: Unnamed suspect being investigated by unnamed McCann investigators (See full text)

2009 July 13

MADDIE PARENTS SUE COP FOR £1M
182 words RE: McCann claiming £1 million damages from Amaral "Anguished Kate and Gerry" "Amaral "totally destroyed" them"

2009 August 06

FIND MADDIE AUSSIE; HUNT FOR WOMAN WITH 'VITAL CLUES' *EXCLUSIVE*
302 words RE: Australian "Posh" lookalike

2009 August 07

HAVE YOU BROUGHT MY NEW DAUGHTER?
57 words RE: Australian "Posh" lookalike

HAVE YOU GOT THE CHILD?
100 words RE: Australian "Posh" lookalike

72 HRS AFTER MADDIE KIDNAP SHE WAITED FOR GIRL TO BE HANDED OVER; HUNT FOR POSH LOOKALIKE
696 words
RE: Australian "Posh" lookalike

2009 August 08

TIPS ON 'POSH'
52 words RE: Australian "Posh" lookalike

MADDIE: HUNT FOR AUSSIE MOTORBOAT; CRAFT WAS AT MARINA WITH 'POSH' SUSPECT KIDNAP HAD ALREADY BEEN LINKED TO OZ *EXCLUSIVE* (With Alex West in Barcelona)
466 words RE: Australian "Posh" lookalike

2009 August 10

MCCANN 'HOPE' AT NEW LEAD 127 words RE: Australian "Posh" lookalike

2009 August 15

MADDIE VILLAGERS GET 'BLAME McCANNS' MAIL
223 words Re: leaflets sent to McCann's neighbors

MADDIE VILLAGERS GET 'McCANNS DID IT' LETTER
239 words Re: leaflets sent to McCann's neighbors

2009 September 10

UNFORGIVABLE; MADDIE DAD'S FURY AT PORTUGAL COP'S BANNED BOOK
260 words "unforgivable" "sacked Portuguese cop" "unfounded allegations" "smears that he and wife Kate were involved" etc.

2009 September 24

TEARFUL KATE IS BACK IN HER HELL
437 words RE: return to Portugal "brave Kate McCann" "fought back tears" "suing a cop over cruel claims he made about them in a book."

TEARFUL KATE IS BACK IN HER HELL
611 words RE: return to Portugal "brave Kate McCann" "fought back tears" "suing a cop over cruel claims he made about them in a book."

2009 October 07

MCCANNS SET TO RETURN TO PRAIA
152 words RE: return to Praia da Luz "brave Kate and Gerry McCann"

KATE AND GERRY SET TO RETURN TO PRAIA; EMOTIONAL VISIT TO MADDIE RESORT
314 words RE: return to Praia da Luz "brave Kate McCann" will return to for a first visit

2009 October 10

SEARCH FOR MADDIE-LIKE GIRL PICTURED IN SWEDEN
236 words RE: detectives "desperately hunting a girl photographed in Sweden"

MCCANNS:FIND GIRL IN SWEDISH PHOTO *EXCLUSIVE*
308 words RE: detectives "desperately hunting a girl photographed in Sweden"

MCCANNS: FIND GIRL IN SWEDISH PHOTO *EXCLUSIVE*
596 words RE: Sweden "sighting" - computer matching

2009 October 21

MADDIE T-SHIRTS FOR FANS
147 words RE: EVERTON football club -6,000 T-shirts with picture of Madeleine handing out to fans

2009 October 30

IMAGINE SHE WAS YOUR KID; MADDIE PARENTS' NET PLEA
290 words RE: "poignant internet appeal"

2009 November 03

AFRICAN MADDIE; COPS' PICTURES OF HOW SHE MIGHT LOOK ABROAD *EXCLUSIVE* (With Mike Sullivan)
453 words RE: "startling new images" "Madeleine ..appearance could have dramatically changed if kidnappers are holding her in North Africa, as detectives believe."

2009 November 04

WHERE'S MADDIE? TWINS' ANGUISH FOR SISTER
332 words RE: MCCANN TWINS: Sean and Amelie "demand to know why she was taken — and want to FIGHT her abductor, her parents disclosed yesterday."

WE WILL FIGHT MAN WHO TOOK OUR SISTER MADDIE; McCANNS TELL HOW TWINS TALK OF LOST PLAYMATE
467 words RE: MCCANN TWINS: Sean and Amelie "demand to know why she was taken — and want to FIGHT her abductor, her parents disclosed yesterday."

2009 November 26

'MADDIE RAT TRIED TO SUE FUND FOR £150K'; HALLIGEN'S FEES DEMAND *EXCLUSIVE* (With Tom Wells)
498 words RE: "fraudster" Kevin Halligen "tried to SUE the FindMadeleine fund for £150,000" "Conniving Halligen was sacked by the charity — which had already paid him £300,000" (NOTE: THE MCCANN FUND IS *NOT* A CHARITY!)

2009 December 02

'MADDIE LIE' COP TO FACE MCCANNS IN COURT FIGHT *EXCLUSIVE*
270 words RE: McCanns plan to fly to Portugal -£1million libel suit against Amaral

2009 December 11

MADDIE SHOWDOWN; PARENTS IN COURT TO SUE AXED COP CHIEF
241 words RE: "dramatic court showdown" with Amaral

2009 December 12

MCCANNS ARE BACK IN PRAIA
93 words RE: "emotional Kate and Gerry McCann" return to Praia da Luz

IT'S PLACE KATE FEELS SHE'LL BE CLOSET TO HER MADELEINE; McCANNS' EMOTIONAL RETURN TO PRAIA
256 words RE: McCann return to Praia da Luz "devastated mum" "heartbreaking trip" "spur of the moment" (Question: Was Lazzeri traveling with them?

IT'S PLACE KATE BELIEVES SHE'LL FEEL CLOSEST TO HER MADELEINE Antonella Lazzeri in Praia da Luz
545 words RE: McCann return to Praia da Luz "devastated mum" "heartbreaking trip" "spur of the moment" (Question: Was Lazzeri traveling with them? Reporting from PdL...)

2009 December 14

McCANNS TO TAKE THE TWINS BACK TO PRAIA; TRIP PLEA AS KATE AT CHURCH Antonella Lazzeri in Praia da Luz
249 words RE: McCanns plan to take twins back to Praia da Luz — "Sean and Amelie, now four, have told their devastated parents they want to return to the ..."

MCCANNS TO TAKE THE TWINS BACK TO PRAIA; TOTS: LET US REVISIT SCENE Antonella Lazzeri in Praia da Luz
263 words RE: Cancellation of plans to go to PdL. "Sean and Amelie, now four, have told their devastated parents they want to return to the resort where Maddie vanished in May 2007."

McCANNS TO TAKE THE TWINS BACK TO PRAIA; TRIP PLEA AS KATE RETURNS TO CHURCH Antonella Lazzeri in Praia da Luz
379 words RE: McCanns plan to take twins back to Praia da Luz — "Sean and Amelie, now four, have told their devastated parents they want to return to the ..."

2009 December 18

MADDIE PARENTS RELEASE NEW PIC
146 words RE: Photos posted on Findmadeleine.com website "smiling Maddie is wearing a red Disney princess dress with her hair in a ponytail"

2010 January 04

MADDIE COPS WILL KEEP FILES 'A SECRET'  
135 words RE: "thousands of pieces of evidence" never be made public

2010 January 12

MCCANNS WILL FACE DETECTIVE 'LIE' CLAIM
159 words "...Kate and Gerry McCann today face being wrongly accused in court of hiding the body of missing daughter Maddie...

2010 January 13

MADDIE IS DEAD AND YOU HID HER  
136 words ...outrageous claim... RE: court testimony by Portuguese cops that Maddie was dead and McCanns hid her body

KATE DREAMT MADDIE'S BODY WAS ON A HILLSIDE; COPS ACCUSE McCANNS IN COURT
786 words RE: Kate's dream about Maddie's body on hillside

2010 January 14

VILE COP: F*** THE McCANNS; NEW ATTACK ON PARENTS (With Tom Wells) Antonella Lazzeri in Lisbon
471 words RE: "four-letter tirade against the missing child's parents"...Brazen Goncalo Amaral spat, "F*** the McCanns"... (NOTE: AMARAL DOES NOT SPEAK ENGLISH AND DID NOT SAY F*** THE MCCANNS. HE WAS OVERHEARD BY PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS SAYING "TALK TO THE MCCANNS" IN REPLY TO THE REPORTER'S QUESTION.)

2010 January 16

MADDIE SECRECY RULE WAS 'BROKEN'  
159 words RE: McCann allegations Amaral breached secrecy laws...

2010 January 27

MCCANNS FACE 2ND BOOK SLUR *EXCLUSIVE* (With Neil Syson)  
199 words "Madeleine McCann's parents face more heartbreak" "second vile book claims they lied about her disappearance."

KATE: OUR 1,000 DAYS WITHOUT LOST MADDIE *EXCLUSIVE* (With Neil Syson)  
230 words RE: thousand days since maddie vanished /fundraising dinner ...

NEW MADDIE SLUR; MCCANNS FACE 2ND VILE BOOK..1,000 DAYS AFTER SHE VANISHED *EXCLUSIVE* (With Neil Syson)  
260 words "Madeleine McCann's parents face more heartbreak" "second vile book claims they lied about her disappearance."

2010 February 01

BIRTHDAY GIFT 'FROM MADDIE' FOR TWINS  
141 words RE: twins birthday

2010 February 11

CRACKER' BLAMED McCANNS  
177 words RE: Lee Rainbow testimony - Lisbon court

'CRACKER' BLAMED MCCANNS; MADDIE 'KILLED' 274 words RE: Lee Rainbow testimony - Lisbon court

QUIZ THE MCCANNS; WHAT BRIT 'CRACKER' TOLD COPS HUNTING MADDIE
275 words RE: Lee Rainbow testimony - Lisbon court (NOTE: In my opinion, these 3 versions of the same news report are uncharacteristically lacking in slant.)

2010 February 19

MCCANNS DELIGHT AT BOOK BAN  
157 words McCanns "delighted" as a ban on a book about missing daughter Maddie was upheld.

McCANNS CHEER AS COP LOSES 'MADDIE LIE' CASE; COURT UPHOLDS BOOK BAN
219 words McCanns "delighted" as a ban on a book about missing daughter Maddie was upheld.

2010 February 20

THEY DO BEST TO BLOCK HUNT FOR MADDIE... IT'S INHUMANE; McCANNS BLAST PORTUGAL COPS  
548 words ..."tearful Kate McCann" "branded Portuguese police "inhumane" ...continuing to block the search ... "voice cracked with emotion" ... "poured out her anger and frustration" ...

2010 March 03

UNCHECKED ..UNSOLVED; MADDIE FILES: SECRET 'SIGHTINGS' OF LOST GIRL PORTUGAL COPS IGNORED CLUES
1360 words RE: 2,000-page file ...shocking Portuguese failings in the hunt for Madeleine McCann...

2010 March 04

WAS THIS RAG DOLL GIVEN TO MADDIE BY HER CAPTORS; RIDDLE OF NEW SIGHTING Antonella Lazzeri in Portimao, Portugal
793 words RE: Jean Godwin "sighting" and McCann "investigators" claims re: Silves, Portugal. The article NAMES holiday home cleaner Yvone Albino and teacher Jorge Vitorino Cabral Martins and his girlfriend Maria Alice dos Santos Silveira (who deny ANY involvement and were already investigated by PJ)

2010 March 05

LOST: MADDIE DOUBLE WHO CRIED 'HELP ME'; NO PROBE OVER HOTEL GIRL  
383 words Antonella Lazzeri in Portimao, Portugal RE: Austrian girl sighted by tourists at Hotel Landzeit. "NOTHING was done"

2010 March 06

MADDIE: PRESSURE ON COPS FOR HUNT; FRESH CALL TO REOPEN CASE Antonella Lazzeri in Portimao, Portugal
221 words "COPS in Britain and Portugal are under increasing pressure to reopen the Maddie McCann case after The Sun revealed how sightings of her had been ignored." (NOTE: written as "sightings of her" NOT "alleged sightings" - there have been NO credible sightings of Maddie)

McCANNS: TIME FOR NEW HUNT Antonella Lazzeri in Portimao
264 words RE: Sun's revelations that "sightings of her had been ignored"

2010 March 11

KATE: I VISIT MADDIE'S BEDROOM TWICE A DAY
215 words

2010 April 05

MCCANNS DELIGHT AT COPS' 'MADDIE ALERT'; COUPLE HAIL NEW NETWORK TO FIND MISSING KIDS
340 words

2010 May 01

MADDIE AGONY WAS SO BAD I WISHED WE WERE ALL DEAD; KATE ON HOW SHE LOST WILL TO LIVE
299 words

2010 May 03

RIBBON AND PRAYER FOR OUR SIS MADDIE; TWINS' SAD TRIBUTE 3 YEARS ON
231 words RE: Anniversary of "disappearance"/twins Sean and Amelie

2010 May 04

TWINS STILL SAVING TREATS FOR MADDIE
(THREE versions - 150 words, 242 words, 260 words ) RE: twins Sean and Amelie

2010 May 11

KATE'S A MUM LIKE ME WHO LOST A CHILD..MINE'S SAFE IN HEAVEN NOW BUT MADDIE'S MISSING. THE PAIN MUST BE UNBEARABLE -MURDERED JIMMY MIZEN'S MUM MARGARET YESTERDAY; GRIEF OF MIZENS AND MCCANNS (With Anthony France)
421 words RE: mother of murdered teenager Jimmy Mizen

2010 May 12

PARTY FOR MADDIE ON HER 7TH BIRTHDAY
145 words RE: Madeleine McCann's seventh birthday

2010 May 25

I SAW MADDIE IN PYJAMAS THE DAY AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED *EXCLUSIVE*
507 words RE: white van sighting

2010 June 11

KILLER PAEDO IS MADDIE SUSPECT; *EXCLUSIVE* BEAST GUILTY OF MUM'S SLAUGHTER HE'S LINKED TO MISSING CHILDREN (With Irina Nelson)
401 words RE: Charles O'Neill

LIFE FOR MURDER PAEDO WANTED BY MADDIE TECS *EXCLUSIVE*
355 words RE: Charles O'Neill

2010 June 14

'JAILED KILLER HOLDS KEY TO MADDIE HUNT'; PLEA BY LOST LAD'S MUM
252 words RE: Charles O'Neill

'JAILED KILLER HOLDS KEY TO MADDIE HUNT' *EXCLUSIVE* Antonella Lazzeri in Gran Canaria
257 words RE: Charles O'Neill
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Adjectives used by the British Press to describe Goncalo Amaral

3/02/2010 Posted by Winnower

Adjectives used by the British Press to describe Goncalo Amaral and/or the Portuguese police 
prior to March 2010
(Source: Factiva database):


53 articles: "boozy" or "boozer" (Examples)

418 articles: "disgraced, disgraceful, disgrace" (Examples)

440 articles: "outrage, outrageous" etc. 

37 articles: "bungling"

23 articles: "Keystone cops" (or Kops) (or Keystone cretins)

("Keystone" cops has been used by English speaking people to describe bumbling or inept cops; based on old movies of the Keystone Kops.  Extremely insulting articles.)

42 articles: "Goncalo Amaral" and "lunch" 

(Includes all the "boozy lunch" "two hour lunch" etc. Why is it newsworthy that a man eats lunch?)

45 articles: "inept"

220 articles: "sacked" or "fired" 

(Note: Amaral was TRANSFERRED off the Maddie case and then chose to quit.)

49 articles: "hampered" "hampering" "hindered" "hindering" (the investigation);

43 articles: "outburst"

(regarding his statement re: McCanns and the British police)

43 articles: "shameful" "shame" "shamed"

14 articles: "evil"

146 articles: "torture" "tortured" "attacked" (re: Leonor Cipriano)

Other terms used to describe Goncalo Amaral and/or his colleagues.: 
  • "Oh, up yours, senor" (Title of column in the Daily Mirror by Tony Parsons - about which the Press Commission received 485 complaints.)

  • sweaty oafish

  • Inspector Clueless

  • corpulent figure in an ill-fitting jacket

  • fat, sweaty cop

  • out of his depth

  • liar

  • lazy

  • failed police chief

  • giant ego

  • manufacturing a case

  • dishing dirt

  • making stuff up

  • feeding smears to the press

  • spends hundreds of pounds per week at Carvi fish restaurant

  • witch hunt

  • stupendously stupid

  • fragile macho pride

  • swaggering plods

  • lumbering yokels

  • clueless

  • corrupt

  • biased

  • Portuguese tormentors

  • leaked information to the media

  • vital evidence was ditched

  • crucial documents were ignored

  • weeks were wasted

  • a shambles from the outset

  • ignored sightings

  • worked only four hours a day

  • dirty tricks

  • scarily amateur police investigation

  • flawed inquiry

  • beleaguered police

  • evil suggestions (re: the McCanns)

  • bizarre allegations

  • vile slurs

  • just want a convenient confession, true or false

  • career in tatters

  • abysmally mishandled Portuguese police investigation

  • "Amaral was the main reason Kate and Gerry were named as suspects, despite there not being a shred of evidence that the couple were involved"

    (Blogger note: cadaver dog alerts to McCann items only, Gaspar statement, Smith family sighting, refusal to answer police questions or return to Portugal for reconstruction, changes to statements re: the night Maddie disappeared, etc.) 

  • "Life on Mars" police (refers to a British television program, extremely insulting articles)
  • "It was bad enough for the McCanns that their child was snatched. It was worse luck still for it to happen in a backwater policed by incompetents." 

    (In other words, Portugal is a backwater country and it's police force is incompetent.  A general statement rather than a specific complaint about this particular case.)
  • spectacularly stupid, cruel Portuguese police”

  • pigs

  • filth

  • fitting up her parents

  • it is the Portuguese police who are the clowns

  • Cruel, stupid, spiteful clowns

  • bunch of clueless amateurs

  • turned their rage on the McCanns


Portuguese citizens
 
  • leering bumpkins

  • sardine munchers

    (This began when Tony Parsons said about the Portuguese Ambassador to Britain "If you can't say something constructive about the disappearance of little Madeleine, then you just keep your stupid, sardine-munching mouth shut."    )
  • "... a scathing attack by on the Portuguese media...

    'The Portuguese press have behaved abysmally, fed inaccurate stories by the Portuguese police, which all turned out to be a load of garbage,'  ~Sir Richard Branson quoted in The Observer 30 Sept. 2007
  •  The BBC's refusal to publish an appropriate apology regarding their broadcast in which it was claimed Dr. Amaral had replied to a reporter's question by saying "Fuck the McCanns". This was not true, as was eventually (inadequately) admitted by the BBC. The lie was echoed by many other British newspapers. None have corrected their error. Goncalo Amaral does not speak English and had replied politely to the reporter in his native Portuguese.

    See:
    How the Lie Spread through the British Press
    BBC Formal Response
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Goncalo Amaral - Boozer

3/01/2010 Posted by Winnower

The following articles describe Goncalo Amaral as a "boozer" or "boozy"; or they refer to the original "two hour boozy lunch" controversy - a story blown up in a very suspicious manner. (See "The Carvi Seafood Restaurant Scandal" for details.)

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Transcripción y Vídeo de “Reme” - Goncalo Amaral & The Truth of the Lie

2/24/2010 Posted by Winnower

Please see original translation and video here:
Transcripción y Vídeo de “Reme”
Traducción de Mercedes
With thanks to "Himself"for English grammar

Concha García Campoy: Tenemos novedades en el caso “Maddie”.
El libro “Maddie: La Verdad de la Mentira” que fue escrito por el ex-policía Gonçalo Amaral, seguirá prohibido en Portugal como aquí les hemos contado.

00:55 - Concha Garcia Campoy: We have news in the "Maddie" case. The book "Maddie: The Truth of the Lie" that was written by former Police Coordinator Gonçalo Amaral, will remain prohibited in Portugal as we informed here previously.

Hace unos meses, fue retirado cautelarmente de las librerías a petición de los McCann y ahora los Tribunales acaban de ratificar esta medida. Jerónimo Boloix ¿cómo estás? Buenas tardes. Y además tenemos a una persona que sabe mucho sobre este caso, autora de un blog, Mercedes ¿cómo estás?

Earlier this year, it was provisionally withdrawn from the bookstores at the request of the McCanns and now the courts have just ratified the measure. Jerónimo Boloix, how are you, good afternoon. And we have a person who knows much about this case, the author of a blog, Mercedes how are you?

¿Se puede interpretar lo que ha pasado como una nueva victoria de los McCann?

Can we interpret what happened as a new victory for the McCanns?

Invitada: Una victoria, una victoria momentánea. El hecho de que alguien prohíba hablar a un policía o a cualquier persona, es muy, muy, complicado de mantener judicialmente, Gonzalo Amaral está dispuesto a recurrir hasta el Tribunal Europeo y lo hará, es un hombre fuerte y es una lucha que tienen entre ellos y yo creo que al final...

Guest: A momentary victory. The fact that someone bans the freedom of speech of the police or any person, is very, very, difficult to maintain in a court, Gonçalo Amaral is prepared to appeal to the European Court, and he will, he is a strong man and this is a struggle they have between them and I think in the end ...

Concha: Parece ser que es verdad que la lucha es porque se reabra el caso ¿verdad Jerónimo?, lo que quiere es saber la verdad... se la está jugando y se la juega desde el primer momento..

Concha: It seems it is true that the struggle is to reopen the case, is that right Jerónimo? What he wants is to know the truth ... is taking a risk, a risk from the very start...

Invitada: Si

Guest: Yes

Jerónimo Boloix: Yo creo que incluso esta primera sentencia aunque es contrario a los intereses de Amaral, puede facilitar puede facilitar la reapertura del caso, yo creo que Gonzalo Amaral debe, debe de recurrir esta sentencia y aportarlo a la cosa. A mí lo que me sorprende mucho es que se está intentando silenciar ese libro, y acabamos de ver hace unos segundos las declaraciones del forense del caso (se refiere a las de Paulo Sargento)

Jerónimo Boloix: I think that even though this first ruling is contrary to the interests of Amaral, it may facilitate the reopening of the case, I think Gonçalo should appeal this ruling and contribute to the case. What surprises me greatly is that they are trying to silence the book, and we have just seen a few seconds ago Paulo Sargento’s statements.

Concha: Espérate un momento, ahora que lo citas porque es una declaración en Exclusiva, es el forense que ha llevado el caso desde el primer momento, y Alejandro Vázquez ha estado con él y efectivamente es absolutamente concluyente. Escuchen.

Concha: Wait a minute, now that you mention this, because it is an exclusive statement of the forensic psychologist, who has been involved in the case from the start, and Alejandro Vazquez has been with him and actually he is absolutely certain; listen.

Entrevista Exclusiva a Paulo Sargento

Exclusive Interview with Paulo Sargento.

Entra video:

Video

Imágenes de Madeleine, jugando con sus hermanos

Pictures of Madeleine playing with her brothers (siblings)


Alejandro Vázquez: Tú has trabajado en el caso de Madeleine desde el principio

Alejandro Vázquez: You've worked on the Madeleine case from the beginning

Paulo Sargento: Si, desde el principio, desde el segundo día después de la desaparición

Paulo Sargento: Yes, from the beginning, from the second day after the disappearance

Alejandro Vázquez: ¿Y cuál es tu teoría?

Alejandro Vázquez: And what's your theory?

Paulo Sargento: Lo que creo es que ha ocurrido la muerte de la niña el día 3 de mayo y sería completamente imposible haber ocurrido el rapto. El rapto ha sido una construcción mediática solo porque no hay un único criterio (para ello).

Paulo Sargento: I think the girl died on May 3, and it would have been utterly impossible for the kidnapping to have taken place. The abduction has been a media construction only, because there is not one supporting fact to support this.

Alejandro Vázquez: ¿Y por qué los McCann dicen ahora que no hay ninguna evidencia de que Madeleine esté muerta?

Alejandro Vázquez: Why the McCanns are now saying that there is no evidence that Madeleine is dead?

Paulo Sargento: Porque su interpretación es contraria a la muerte porque hay evidencias: hay olor a cadáver, olor a sangre humana y hay un conjunto de pruebas forenses, evidencias de que la niña, infelizmente está muerta.

Paulo Sargento: Because their (the McCann’s) interpretation is contrary to death, in fact there is evidence: corpse odour, the scent of human blood and there is a set of forensic evidence, evidence that the girl is dead unfortunately.

Alejandro Vázquez: Cómo se puede explicar que con esas evidencias de que ha podido ser un asesinato, un homicidio…

Alejandro Vázquez: Can your surmise that with such evidence that there has been a murder, manslaughter...

Paulo Sargento: Si

Paulo Sargento: Yes

Alejandro Vázquez:.. se haya cerrado el caso

Alejandro Vázquez: ...the case has been shelved.

Paulo Sargento: Yo estoy seguro que si fuera un matrimonio portugués el tratamiento no hubiese sido así. Las evidencias forenses se constituyen como pruebas y probablemente el matrimonio estaría en prisión.

Paulo Sargento: I am sure that were it a Portuguese couple, the treatment wouldn’t have been the same. The forensic evidence would have been constituted as proof, and probably the couple would be in prison.

Alejandro Vázquez: ¿Y cómo, el comportamiento de el Gerry y de Kate, cómo podrías definir..?

Alejandro Vázquez: How would you define Gerry and Kate’s behaviour?

Paulo Sargento: Han cambiado los papeles o los roles, también asesorados por asesores de imágenes desde el inicio el peluche en la mano, y después hemos visto que Kate desaparecía de escena y Gerry ha tomado el mando. Gerry es muy agresivo., es muy, muy agresivo, es un hombre que es muy impulsivo,…ahhh, Maddie desapareció, entre comillas, Gerry McCann ha pedido un cura, a mi si me desaparece la hija yo pediría a toda la policía… después ha pedido un asesor de imagen, para mí sería mejor pedir más policías. Venga la primera evidencia de rapto y yo me callo para siempre, pero que sea discutida de una forma lógica

Paulo Sargento, They have changed the roles, also advised by image consultants, from the beginning Cuddle Cat in her hands, and then we saw that Kate disappeared from scene and Gerry took over the leadership. Gerry is very aggressive. He is very, very aggressive, he is a man who is very impulsive... ahhh, Maddie disappeared, between quotes, and Gerry McCann asked for a priest, if my daughter disappears I would ask for more police ... after that he requested an image consultant, to me it would be better to ask for more police. If somebody presents me the first piece evidence of an abduction, I'll shut up forever, but real evidence and discussed in a logical manner.

Alejandro Vázquez: ¿Cómo se puede entender ahora que sea Gonzalo el acusado...?

Alejandro Vázquez: How can we understand now that the accused is Gonzalo...?

Paulo Sargento: Gonzalo Amaral representa simbólicamente aquí, lo que Gerry y Kate no quieren, la muerte, más su participación y/o ocultación de cuerpo. Porque ha sido el Inspector Jefe, ha salido, ha publicado un libro que dice lo mismo cosa que dice el proceso.

Paulo Sargento: Gonçalo Amaral represents symbolically, what Gerry and Kate do not want, the death, and their participation in concealing the body. Because he has been the Chief Inspector, has left the police, has published a book that says the same as the process.

Alejandro Vázquez: Tú tienes confianza que en algún momento se pueda saber la verdad, que se reabra el proceso.

Alejandro Vázquez: Are you confident that at some point the truth will be known, and the process reopened?

Paulo Sargento: Yo soy un amante de la Justicia, yo creo que se hará Justicia, no sé cuando

Paulo Sargento: I believe in justice; I believe that Justice will be done, I don’t know when.

Alejandro Vázquez: Muchas gracias por todo

Alejandro Vazquez: Thank you for everything

Paulo Sargento: A ti.

Paulo Sargento: Thank You.

Acaba el video de la entrevista.

End of the Video

Concha: ¡¡Madre mía!! Habla claro, rotundo, absolutamente, eh.. ¿Creéis vosotros también que si como él dice que si los McCann fuesen portugueses estarían en la cárcel? ¿Qué sensación tienes Mercedes?

Concha: Mother! He speaks clear, categorical, absolutely, eh... Do you think, as he says that if the McCanns were Portuguese they would be in jail? What do you feel Mercedes?

Invitada: Por supuesto, sin ninguna duda. Unos padres que reconocen que dejaban solos a tres niños pequeños, por debajo de cuatro años, para irse a cenar y que dicen que pasaban por allí cada media hora, cosa que se ha demostrado, que por lo menos la noche anterior no fue cierta, hay una declaración que consta en el Sumario, de una vecina que oyó llorar a la niña durante una hora y media pues eso para cualquier otro matrimonio…

Guest: Of course, without a doubt. Parents who recognize that they left three small children alone, under four years of age, to have dinner and they say they were passing by every half hour, which has been shown, that at least the night before this was not true, there is a statement that appears in the Process of a neighbour who heard the girl crying for an hour and a half the night before, that for any other couple...

Alfonso Egea: No es que sea una hipótesis, es que ha habido ya, ejemplos en Portugal. Hubo un caso de una niña y la madre no solamente no fue sospechosa sino que no estuvo en prisión, evidentemente la nacionalidad de los McCann, aquí juega un papel importante. Ahora después de escuchar al forense (Paulo Sargento) imagino...

Alfonso Egea: It's not a hypothesis; there have been examples in Portugal. There was one case of a child and the mother was not only suspected but was imprisoned, obviously the nationality of the McCanns plays an important role here. Now after hearing Paulo Sargento imagine...

Concha: Es que él es taxativo, que está muerta. Que no hay dudas forenses.

Concha: Because he is precise, she is dead. There are no forensic doubts.

Alfonso Egea: Imagino que la próxima maniobra de los McCann será pedir también que este hombre se calle y si por ellos fuera, que se calle todo el mundo…

Alfonso Egea: I guess the next move for the McCanns will be to request this man to shut up too and if this was up to them, everyone should shut up ...

Jerónimo Boloix: Es que es lo más vergonzoso de todo esto es que como bien ha dicho el forense, el libro lo que hace es recoger el estado de la investigación. Y es que este señor que ha hablado es el forense que ha analizado todas las pruebas forenses de este caso. Acaba de decir blanco y en botella. Lo único que le ha faltado por decir es cuando deben ingresar en prisión estos señores. Pero aquí vamos a ser realistas, aquí lo que está pasando es una lucha política por parte del Gobierno inglés contra el Gobierno portugués impidiendo además que este caso se aclare y desgraciadamente, estamos en una situación donde se está produciendo posiblemente, una mentira judicial, y hay un tema que no debemos de olvidar, esta niña desapareció el día 3 de mayo, tres años ya, y nadie la está buscando porque a nadie le interesa buscarla. Y hay instrucciones por parte de los padres y las personas y las instituciones que apoyan a los padres de que no se busque

Jerónimo Boloix: The most shameful of all this is that, as Paulo Sargento said, the book reflects the status of the investigation. The person who spoke is a forensic psychologist who has been involved with the case from the beginning. He said white and in a bottle... (Spanish riddle: white and in a bottle... The obvious answer is: milk). The only thing he didn’t say is when these people should go to prison. But let's be realistic here, what is happening, is a political struggle by the British Government against the Portuguese Government, this is preventing further clarification, and unfortunately, we may be in a situation of a judicial lie. There an issue that we must not forget, this little girl disappeared on May 3, three years ago, and no one is looking for her because no one cares for her. There are instructions from the parents, individuals and institutions that support the parents in their bogus search for the girl.

Concha: Bueno, es verdad, que además lo que ha dicho Mercedes y este hombre, es que claro, es que desaparece una hija y lo primero que haces es llamar a un cura, es que claro, yo lo primero que haría es llamar a un policía, quieres que tal, buscas un asesor de imagen, no más policía para investigar, eso sí que es

Concha: Well, it's true that, in addition to what yourself and Paulo Sargento have said, it is clear that, when a child is missing and the first thing you do not do is call a priest, the first thing I would do is call the police, here they requested an image consultant, not more police to investigate, now that's...

Invitada: Yo puedo afirmar que el primer artículo publicado, se publicó a las 12 y un minuto del día 4 de mayo. Consta en el Sumario que la primera llamada a la policía desde la recepción del Ocean Club, fue a las once menos veinte de la noche..ummm, van un poco justos

Guest: I can say that the first article was published at 1 minute past 12 of May 4th. We can see in the process that the first call to police from the Ocean Club’s reception was at twenty to eleven PM... ummm, the timings just don’t fit.

Alfonso Egea: Tú lo sabes muy bien, aquel verano, compartía época de veraneo con los McCann, un productor de televisión, que es la segunda persona que recibió la llamada, incomprensible…

Alfonso Egea: You know very well that, that summer, they shared time with a television producer, who was the second person to receive a call, incomprehensible...

Invitada: Efectivamente...

Guest: Actually...

Jerónimo Boloix: Tan incompresible es, eso de que ellos teniendo acceso al futuro primer ministro británico, Gordon Brown, no le pidan que les envíe a los máximos especialistas, a Scotland Yard, sino que le ceda a su asesor de imagen, esto es pura y llanamente un instalarse en que la imagen de los McCann no puede quedar manchada bajo la sospecha que tienen que ver algo con su hija...

Jerónimo Boloix: Equally incomprehensible is that having access to the future British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, they didn’t request top British specialists, Scotland Yard, but this image consultant, this is pure and simply an agreement in that the image of the McCanns must appear above suspicion in the matter of their daughter’s...

Concha: A mí me sorprende más, además, Mercedes, que ya algunos piensan y yo creo que con fundamento, debes ser la que más sabe de este caso, porque lo has recopilado,..Hasta que se sepa la verdad. Bueno ¿qué empeño, no? Le has puesto un empeño a lo Gonzalo Amaral y crees que se puede saber si gente como tú no tira la toalla...?

Concha: It surprises me more, Mercedes, and some will think and I believe with good reason, you must be the person that knows more about this case here, because you have collected most of the information... “Until we know the truth”. Well, what a commitment, no? You’ve made a commitment to Gonçalo Amaral and, do you think that we will know the truth if people like you don’t throw the towel...?

Invitada: Yo creo que estamos tirando unos de otros, en la red, que en este momento hay muy pocos medios de comunicación que estén tratando esto, como hoy, de una forma seria, nadie quiere acribillar a los padres , lo que se pretende es que permita a la policía hacer su trabajo, nada más. Y se ve clarísimamente que ha habido una presión externa, no importa de quien, ha habido una presión para cerrar un caso que tiene muchísimas diligencias sin hacer, algo inaudito, en cualquier investigación

Guest: I think we are all helping each other on the internet, there are currently very few media outlets that are treating this, like today, in a serious way, nobody wants to censure the parents, the aim is to allow the police to do their job, nothing more. You can see very clearly that there was external pressure, no matter from whom; there has been pressure to close a case that was ongoing, something that is unprecedented in an investigation of this nature.

Jerónimo Boloix: Yo quisiera preguntarle a Mercedes si tú sabes la razón por la que en este juicio que se ha celebrado ahora, contra el libro, ehh, de Gonzalo Amaral, porqué no se han admitido los testigos o no han comparecido los testigos ingleses.

Jerónimo Boloix: I want to ask Mercedes if you know the reason why this trial that has been held now, against Gonçalo Amaral’s book, why haven’t they admitted a witness or why haven’t the English witnesses appeared?

Invitada: Estaban presionados. Alegaron que estaban bajo secreto de Estado. El secreto de Estado es algo que se ha invocado en varias ocasiones. Hay periodistas que han solicitado información y les han contestado que no se la podían facilitar porque el caso estaba bajo secreto de Estado.

Guest: They were pressured. They claimed they were under official secret. Official secrecy is something that has been invoked on several occasions. There are journalists who have requested information and reply they have received, is that it could not be provided because the case was under the Official Secrets Act.

Concha: Si hay un primer ministro relacionado.

Concha: If a Prime Minister is related....

Jerónimo Boloix: Pero la Justicia y el aclarar que ha pasado con una niña de tres años yo creo que está por encima…

Jerónimo Boloix: But Justice for the girl and ascertaining what happened to her, I think it is paramount...

Concha: Pues Mercedes, ha sido un placer, muchísimas gracias. Contaremos contigo cuando tengamos que seguir tirando del hilo que a mí me parece muy interesante.

Concha: Well Mercedes, it has been a pleasure, many thanks. We will contact you again when we review this case that I find so very interesting.

Invitada: Gracias. Gracias por tratarlo de forma seria y darle la oportunidad a Madeleine. Todo el mundo les da la oportunidad a Kate y a Gerry McCann.

Guest: Thank you; thank you very much for addressing this issue seriously and for providing an opportunity for Madeleine. Everyone gives the opportunity to Kate and Gerry McCann.

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End of translation.  Please visit Mercedes' Blog: http://mercedessigueaqui.blogspot.com/
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