News blackout continues in the UK and Ireland

Based on the history of the British / Irish media (who covered the McCann's initially successful attempt to silence Goncalo Amaral with relish and subsequently refused to publish the fact that the Lisbon Appeals court ruled to OVERTURN the ban on "The Truth of the Lie")  is it no surprise that we must turn to Portuguese news sources to stay updated?

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Thoughts ...

After acquainting myself with everything I could learn about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, trying to study the files released by the Portuguese PJ, watching video interviews, reading every news article I had time to read, I knew that there was something quite wrong with the story told by Madeleine's parents and their friends.  So much has been already said about that, all over the internet there are people, like me, expressing the reasons why - there is no need to go into that here and now.

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Adjectives used by the British Press to describe Goncalo Amaral

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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Adjetivos usados pela imprensa britânica para descrever a Gonçalo Amaral

Inglês para Português tradução do Google. Lamento - este é o melhor que posso fazer!

Adjetivos usados pela imprensa britânica para descrever a Gonçalo Amaral e / ou a polícia Português

(Fonte: Banco de dados Factiva):

Nota: Até à data, não consigo encontrar um único artigo, com uma bio objetivo de Gonçalo Amaral. Nem um. Por favor, envie-me um link, se você encontrar alguma coisa (news.winnow at gmail dot com). (Obrigado!)

53 artigos: "embriagado" ou "bêbado"

418 artigos: "desgraça, vergonha, vergonha"

440 artigos: "ultraje, etc" ultrajante

37 artigos: "estragando"

23 artigos: "Keystone Cops" (ou Kops) (ou cretinos Keystone)  ("Keystone Kops" referência é insultuoso para personagens de um filme antigo. Eles eram agentes da polícia estúpidos que sempre foram enganados pelos criminosos. É uma maneira de dizer que a polícia Português foram incompetentes.)

26 artigos: "almoço de duas horas" (mais do que isso, mas realmente não estou lendo o texto integral - muitos o acusam de "embriagado três horas de almoço", etc, mas eu vou ter de passar por eles para obter uma contagem precisa)

42 artigos: "Gonçalo Amaral" e "almoço" (inclui todos os almoços embriagado "," duas horas de almoço ", etc)

45 artigos: "inepto"

220 artigos: "despedido" ou "fogo" (Nota: o fato é que Amaral foi transferido para fora do caso Maddie e, em seguida, escolheu para sair.)

49 artigos: "prejudicado" dificultar "prejudicado" perturbar "(a investigação);

43 artigos: "explosão" (a respeito de sua nova declaração: McCann ea polícia britânica)

43 artigos: "vergonhosa" vergonha "envergonhado"

14 artigos: "mal"

146 artigos: "tortura", "torturado" atacado "(Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Outros termos utilizados para descrever este policial honrado e / ou seus colegas. (Esta lista também contém referências para os cidadãos Português.)

* Oafish suado (Um idiota pode ser traduzido como um idiota, um tolo desajeitado.)

* Inspetor Clueless ("Clueless" pode ser traduzido como "sem a menor idéia".)

* Figura corpulenta em uma jaqueta doente-encaixe

* Gordura, cop suado

* Fora de sua profundidade

* Mentiroso

* Preguiçoso

* Chefe de polícia não

* Ego gigante

* Fabricação de um caso

* Sujeira dishing ((Côncavo significa "repartir" - para "dar fora", por isso seria algo como "dar a sujeira das pessoas.")

* Inventando coisas

* Manchas de alimentação para a imprensa

* Gasta centenas de libras por semana em Carvi restaurante de peixe

* Caça às bruxas

* Stupendously estúpido (? Stupendously might translate "Admiravelmente"? Stupendous - "Estupenda")

* Orgulho macho frágil

* Swaggering plods ((Swagger "é uma palavra usada para descrever uma forma de caminhar - quando um homem pensa que ele é importante, é dito que ele anda com um ar de superioridade. "Plods" é também uma maneira de andar - um termo insultuoso para alguém que caminha junto.)

* Caipiras lumbering ("lumbering" outro termo insultuoso para a forma como alguém anda - sem uma direção clara)

* Clueless ("clueless" significa sem uma pista)

* Corruptos

* Tendenciosa

* Algozes Português

* Informações vazadas para a mídia

* Prova vital foi cavado

* Documentos importantes foram ignorados

* Semana foram desperdiçados

* Uma confusão desde o início

* Avistamentos ignorado

* Trabalhou apenas quatro horas por dia

* Truques sujos

* Inquérito policial scarily amador

* Inquérito falho

* Polícia sitiado

* Sugestões do mal (re: os McCann)

* Alegações bizarras

* Só quero uma confissão conveniente, verdadeiras ou falsas

* Carreira em frangalhos

* Abissalmente mishandled inquérito policial Português ("mishandled" - que significa não lidar com algo corretamente)

* "Amaral foi o principal motivo de Kate e Gerry foram apontados como suspeitos, apesar de não haver uma prova de que o casal estava envolvido"

* "Life on Mars" (polícia se refere a um programa de televisão britânico, artigos extremamente insultuoso) (Vida em Marte - o planeta Marte.)

* "Foi muito ruim para os McCann que a criança foi raptada. Foi pior sorte ainda para que aconteça em um remanso policiadas por incompetentes."

* Espectacularmente estúpidos, a polícia cruel Português " ("cruel" os extremamente indelicado)

* Suínos

* Filth ("Filth" meio extremamente sujo)

* Montagem de seus pais

* É a polícia Português, que são os palhaços

* Cruel, estúpido, palhaços rancoroso ("cruel" os extremamente indelicado)

* Bando de amadores clueless

* Voltaram sua ira sobre os McCann


Cidadãos Português

* Caipiras leering ("Leering" significa que alguém está dando uma olhada sugestiva ou sarcástico ou sorriso.)

* Comedores de sardinha

(continua)

Na minha opinião, este é um profissional, orquestrado esforço para destruir a reputação de um homem que não está disposto a trair a verdade.

O exemplo mais recente do tratamento ultrajante do Dr. Amaral é a transmissão da BBC errada afirmando que ele tinha dito "F *** os McCann", quando na verdade, disse Amaral (em sua Português nativo - ELE NÃO FALA INGLÊS) "Pergunte ao casal McCann" .

Estou actualmente a escavação para tentar encontrar nenhum artigo anterior BBC corretamente afirmando que Amaral não falam Inglês. Se assim for, os editores não têm absolutamente nenhuma desculpa para permitir que o relatório do ar. Por uma questão de fato, eles não têm desculpa a todos - ele tem sido amplamente relatado que Amaral não falam ou entendem Inglês.

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The British Media versus the Portuguese police / Dr. Goncalo Amaral

These are the first 100 Headlines of Articles archived in the Factiva database regarding Goncalo Amaral. I'll add the rest as time allows; there are over 1000 articles to review.


Headlines are sorted oldest to most recent.

• Note the number of articles that ran about the alleged TWO HOUR LUNCH. These all sprang from allegations made by a diner at a fish restaurant in Portimao. The diner saw a bottle of wine and what *may have been* a bottle of whiskey on the table.  Since that time, the British press has continued to refer to Goncalo Amaral as the "boozy, bumbling cop."  In my opinion, it is a blatant attempt to sway public opinion.  It is a classic propaganda technique.  Note the highly emotive adjectives used when referring to the McCanns and compare them with the adjectives used to describe Amaral.
  
  
• Note also the number of articles that ran about the Joana Cipriano murder case.  For details about the Cipriano case, see: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/10/cipriano-case-in-past.html (or search Google for the facts of the case regarding incest and the mutilation of little Joana''s body.) This is a photo of Leandro Silva with Leonor. Leandro Silva (common law husband of Leonor) is quoted in many of the articles below.  (One wonders if an investigation into his current finances might be in order.)

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HEADLINES

Govan, Fiona. "The detectives working as the world watches." The Daily Telegraph. 26 May 2007. The Portuguese police have been widely criticised for their handling of the investigation into the abduction.(This article focuses on Guilhermino Encarnação, but mentions Amaral and planted the seed re: the Cipriano case. Note the date - May 26, less than a month after Maddie "disappeared".)

Gammell, Caroline. "Madeleine police 'seen at two hour lunch'." Press Association. 7 June 2007. Portuguese police working on the Madeleine McCann case have defended their reputation after they were seen enjoying a two hour lunch.

Brown, David. "Officers defend two-hour lunches." The Times. 8 June 2007. Senior officers involved in the search for Madeleine McCann have been seen regularly going out for two-hour lunches.
 
Harris, Ed. "Maddy police defend long lunch break." The Evening Standard. 8 June 2007. Portuguese police working on the Madeleine McCann case defended their reputation today after they were seen enjoying a two-hour lunch.

The diner said they had what looked like a bottle of white wine and whisky on the table.

Hagan, Lucy. "Cops' booze shame." The Sun. 8 June 2007. The cop leading the Maddie hunt was blasted yesterday after he and two colleagues spent two hours boozing - at lunchtime.

"When I left, one was still slumped in his chair.".

"Police go on bender." Daily Star. 8 June 2007. Portuguese detectives hunting Madeleine cracked jokes during a boozy lunch as her parents flew across Europe to try to find her. Senior officers laughed as they knocked back wine and whisky as a news programme showed the McCanns in Berlin ...

Brown, David.and Thomas Catan. "Madeleine officers defend their regular two-hour lunches." The Times. 8 June 2007. Police 'laughed at parents on TV news' McCanns told of 'credible call' lead Senior officers involved in the search for Madeleine McCann have been seen regularly going out for two-hour lunches.

Detectives' boozy lunch." The Daily Express. 8 June 2007. Police leading the hunt for Madeleine McCann enjoyed a two-hour lunch on the same day her parents were forced to deny accusations they played a part in the little girl's disappearance, it emerged last night.

Gammell, Caroline. "Madeleine probe policeman charged over attack." Press Association. 10 June 2007. A senior Portuguese police officer working on the Madeleine McCann case has been charged over an attack on the mother of another missing girl, it was revealed today. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Greenhill, Sam. "Chief Madeleine detective charged over 'beating' of suspect in another missing girl case." Daily Mail. 11 June 2007. The detective leading the hunt for Madeleine McCann has sensationally been charged over his conduct in another missing child case. Goncalo Amaral, head of the regional Judicial Police, is one of five officers accused over the beating-up ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano) 
 
(Note the slant. Amaral was not accused of beating Leonor.  Many of these articles also inaccurately report this, or manipulate the wording to infer he was accused of physically touching Cipriano.)

Gammell, Caroline. "Police in Maddie case face charge." Birmingham Post. 11 June 2007. A senior Portuguese police officer working on the Madeleine McCann case has been charged over an attack on the mother of another missing girl, it was revealed yesterday. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Shaikh, Thair. "Detective in McCann case is charged with assault." The Independent. 11 June 2007. A senior detective coordinating the hunt for the abductor of the missing four-year-old Madeleine Mc-Cann has been charged with criminal offences over another missing child case. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Gammell, Caroline. "Madeleine's parents' hunt takes them to morocco." Press Association. 10 June 2007. Armed with appeal posters written in Arabic, Kate and Gerry McCann are taking their search for Madeleine to north Africa today in the last of a series of visits designed to help find ...(Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Gammell, Caroline. "Britain: Time to grieve." Daily Post. 11 June 2007. Parents take Maddy hunt to Morocco, but admit with no new breakthroughs in the hunt for their missing daughter ...(Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Gammell, Caroline. "Madeleine officer accused of assault." Daily Post. 11 June 2007. Police charged over alleged attack on mother who killed daughter A senior Portuguese police officer working on the Madeleine McCann case has been charged over an attack on the mother of another missing girl, it was revealed yesterday. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Edwards, Richard and Fiona Govan. "Madeleine case detective accused of beating suspect." The Daily Telegraph. 11 June 2007. A senior detective investigating the abduction of Madeleine McCann has been accused of beating a suspect in a separate missing child case, it emerged yesterday. (Re: Leonor Cipriano) (Note: This article does not even attempt to slant the story, it clearly prints a lie.)

Brown, David. "Madeleine officer charged over another missing girl." The Times. 11 June 2007. Claims of torture and falsifying papers.  (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Leach, Ben. "Detective in madeleine case on criminal offence charge." The Evening Standard, 11 June 2007. The detective co-ordinating the hunt for Madeleine McCann has been charged with criminal offences over another missing child case.  (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Hagan, Lucy. "New posters appeal." The Sun. 11 June 2007. Maddie..the painful trail to Morocco Missing Maddie's parents flew to Morocco yesterday -before taking time out to grieve for the four-year-old. ("Portuguese police co-ordinator Goncalo Amaral is accused of torturing a confession from Leonor Cipriano -later convicted of murdering her daughter Joana, nine." (Note: This article does not even attempt to slant the story, it clearly prints a lie.)

Lawton, Jerry. "McCanns hunt for clues in morocco." Daily Star. 11 June 2007. Trek to child trade hotbed Madeleine McCann's parents arrived in the child trafficking hotbed of Morocco yesterday. It's the final leg of their desperate journey to find the missing tot. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"North Africa hope as Maddie's parents end their visits." Birmingham Mail, 11 June 2007. Armed with appeal posters written in Arabic, Kate and Gerry McCann took their search for Madeleine to north Africa today in the last of a series of visits designed to help find their daughter. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Madeleine policeman on charge." The Western Mail, 11 June 2007. A senior Portuguese police officer working on the Madeleine McCann case has been charged over an attack on the mother of another missing girl. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Detective's charges stun McCann investigation." Calgary Herald, 11 June 2007. The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was in chaos Sunday night after the detective co-ordinating the hunt for her abductor was charged with criminal offences over another notorious missing child case. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Detective in missing child case faces charges." Ottawa Citizen, 11 June 2007. The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was in chaos last night after the detective co-ordinating the hunt for her abductor was charged with criminal offences over another missing child case. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Policeman in Madeleine case charged." Yorkshire Post, 11 June 2007. A senior Portuguese police officer working on the Madeleine McCann case has been charged over an attack on the mother of another missing girl, it has been revealed. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Pilditch, David. "Madeleine: Police chief quizzed over torture of mother." The Daily Express. 11 June 2007. A Senior police officer investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been charged over a violent attack on the mother of another missing girl. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Maddy officer charged in another case." New Zealand Herald, 12 June 2007. The detective leading the hunt for Madeleine McCann has been charged over his conduct in another missing child case. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Brown, David. "Madeleine officer charged over earlier child case." The Australian, 12 June 2007. The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is in chaos after the detective co-ordinating the hunt for her abductor was charged with criminal offences over another notorious missing child case. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Maddie hunt cop charged." Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2007. The detective leading the hunt for missing toddler Madeleine McCann has been charged over his conduct in another missing child case. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Moroccan welcome brings ray of sunshine for McCanns." Irish Independent, 12 June 2007. Beaming for the first time in 39 days, Kate McCann was embraced by dozens of Moroccan children yesterday as she and her husband Gerry took the search for their kidnapped daughter to north Africa. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Brown, David. "Madeleine's parents take back seat after campaign moves to Morocco." The Times. 12 June 2007. Lack of progress prompts rethink. Couple 'will need time to grieve' (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Brown, David. "McCanns step back from search; Parents of missing Madeleine opt for low profile to grieve." Calgary Herald, 12 June 2007. The parents of Madeleine McCann will take a lower profile in the campaign to find their daughter after admitting they were no closer to discovering who abducted her from their holiday apartment in the Algarve.(Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Child hunt chaos." Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian, 13 June 2007. Police investigator facing charges : The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is in chaos after the detective co-ordinating the hunt for her abductor was charged yesterday with criminal offences over another ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Reminder: Please note in the articles that follow: The allegations that police were framing Kate McCann were made by the common law husband of a  convicted child murderer, Leonor Cipriano, who killed  her 9 year old daughter, Joana, after Joana caught her having incestuous sex with her brother (Joana's uncle, also convicted of the murder).  Joana was killed, then chopped into pieces by the uncle, stored in a cooler and eventually placed into a car that was driven to Spain and demolished.

Mendick, Robert. "Police 'framing Maddy mother'; Detective in charge 'jailed my innocent wife for child killing'." The Evening Standard, 8 August 2007. Kate McCann is being set up Portuguese police to take the blame over Madeleine, it was claimed today. The husband of a woman serving 16 years in another missing child case in the Algarve said: 'I am worried Kate will be framed for a ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Mendick, Robert. "Maddy police 'framed my wife and are doing the same to the McCanns'." The Evening Standard, 8 August 2007. Kate McCann is being set up the Portuguese police to take the blame over Madeleine, it was claimed today. The husband of a woman serving 16 years in another missing child case in the Algarve said: 'I am worried Kate will be framed for ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Sanderson, David and Yepoka Yeebo. "The police are conducting a smear campaign against Kate McCann, says friend." The Times. 9 August 2007. Fears that Madeleine's mother is being set up. Confidentiality means parents can't speak out. A close friend of Madeleine McCann's parents said yesterday that a "hurtful and ludicrous" smear campaign was being conducted against the ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Lawton, Jerry. "Fear for Kate." Daily Star. 9 August 2007. Madeleine McCann's mum is being set up Portuguese police to take the rap for her daughter's disappearance, it was claimed last night. The husband of a woman serving 16 years in a Portuguese jail in a similar missing child case said he ...(Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Moult, Julie. "Cops 'smearing Maddie parents'." The Sun. 9 August 2007. Friend hits out at wild reports on missing tot ONE of Gerry and Kate McCann's holiday friends yesterday said Portuguese police may have leaked "untruths" over the kidnap of the pair's missing four-year-old Madeleine.(Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Pilditch, David. "Madeleine." The Daily Express. 9 August 2007. Police intercept parents' phone calls and spy on their emails The parents of Madeleine McCann have been bugged by police investigating the disappearance of their four-year-old daughter, it was sensationally claimed last night.(Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"McCann case highlights danger of media hype." Canberra Times, 10 August 2007. The parents of Madeleine McCann are reported as having found recent speculation in the press about their daughter, and the possibility that she is dead, to have been hurtful. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Fricker, Martin. "Blundering police chief under the microscope." Mirror, 10 August 2007. THIS is the bungling police chief leading the shambolic hunt for missing Madeleine McCann. Guilhermino Encarnacao, 59, dubbed Inspector Clueless, has presided over an astonishing list of blunders during the 13 week-long investigation. (Re: Leonor Cipriano) Note:  This article describes Guilhermino Encarnacao as: bungling, Inspector Clueless, a "desk strategist", experience of abduction cases was limited, reputation for having long lunches with other detectives in charge, McCanns friends were "less than impressed" by him, he was EMBROILED in controversy over the Cipriano case and he refused to speak in English even though the majority of the media present were from the UK. The investigation was described as: a shambolic hunt, astonishing list of blunders.

Edwards, Richard. "Madeleine police say she may have died accident." The Daily Telegraph. 23 August 2007. Detectives leading the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are focusing on the theory that she suffered an accidental death in the apartment on the night she disappeared.

Edwards, Richard. "'Maddie died in apartment on night she disappeared'." Evening Herald. 23 August 2007. Accidental death: abduction is no longer the main lead and accidental death is the strongest theory that the authorities are now working on in the missing girl's case 

Fricker, Martin. "Cops: we have the evidence." Mirror. 23 August 2007. The three senior detectives leading the Madeleine McCann investigation insist they have evidence to show she died in her parents' flat. Guilhermino Encarnacao, Goncalo Amaral and Luis Neves made their claim at a meeting with Portuguese ...

Fricker, Martin. "Madeleine cops: 'She died accident in the flat'." Mirror. 23 August 2007. Senior detectives have told prosecutors they believe Madeleine McCann was killed accidentally in her holiday flat.

Evans, Martin. "Was she killed accident?." The Daily Express. 23 August 2007. Police probe new lead on Madeleine. Detectives investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance are working on the theory she was killed accidentally on the night she went missing.

Note: In the articles that follow the naming of Kate as a suspect in September 2007, Leonor's common law husband Leandro Silva was interviewed.  The timing of this is noteworthy and it is unlikely that Silva sought the media out.  I'd add also that he is amazing articulate, given what is known about this background.

Walsh, Tim. "Madeleine detective faces charges over attack on suspect." Press Association. 7 September 2007. Kate McCann's naming as a suspect in her daughter Madeleine's disappearance comes after the detective leading the investigation was charged over an alleged attack on the mother of another missing girl. (Re: Leonor Cipriano) 

"Beyond belief; Sun says." The Sun. 8 September 2007. The Portuguese police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been shambolic. Failure to secure evidence, forgetting to close borders and keeping secret vital information that could have helped track down the missing...

Harvey, Oliver. "I fear for Kate...these cops framed my wife for murdering her child; Interview; Leandro Silva." The Sun. 8 September 2007. Husband's warning after case with chilling parallel to Maddie The husband of a Portuguese woman jailed for the murder of her child spoke last night of his fears for Kate McCann. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Leading detective charged." The Scotsman, 8 September 2007. 194 Kate McCann's naming as a suspect in her daughter Madeleine's disappearance came as the detective leading the investigation was charged over an alleged attack on the mother of another missing girl. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Detective in charge faces claims of assaulting female suspect." Yorkshire Post, 8 September 2007. Kate McCann's naming as a suspect in her daughter Madeleine's disappearance comes after the detective leading the investigation was charged over an alleged attack on the mother of another missing girl.

"McCann detective charged." Evening Express, 8 September 2007. The detective leading the McCann investigation was charged over an alleged attack on the mother of another missing girl. Goncalo Amaral is one of five men accused of "scenes of aggression" against Leonor Cipriano. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Johnson, Andrew. "Portuguese police framed my wife." Independent On Sunday, 9 September 2007. The husband of a woman jailed in Portugal for killing her child in a case with uncanny similarities to that of Madeleine McCann has spoken of his fear that Madeleine"s parents may be framed for their daughter"s ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Johnson, Andrew. "'Portuguese police framed my wife'." Belfast Telegraph, 10 September 2007. Leonor Cipriano, 36, is serving a 16-year jail sentence following the disappearance of her daughter, Joana, nine, in September 2004, just seven... (Refers to Leandro Silva / Leonor Cipriano)

Rajanin, Amol. "Controversial past of policeman leading the McCann investigation." The Independent. 11 September 2007. As the Portuguese press continued to round on the McCanns yesterday, newspaper columns remained pointedly silent on a separate investigation into the police officer leading the hunt for ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Senior Maddie cop in witness abuse probe." Evening Herald, 11 September 2007. As the Portuguese press continued to round on the McCanns, newspaper columns remained silent on a separate investigation into the police officer leading the hunt for Madeleine. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Rajan, Amol. "Controversial past of policeman leading the McCann investigation." Belfast Telegraph, 11 September 2007. Despite the recent furore surrounding Kate and Gerry McCann being made suspects in their daughter's disappearance, Goncalo Amaral – head of the... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Marsden, Sam, and Tim Walsh, Press Association, 14 September 2007. Portuguese police appeared to take a step back from charging Madeleine McCann's parents today after a senior officer said they had 'nothing concrete'' to implicate them in her ...

Marsden, Sam and Vicky Shaw. "Mixed messages on missing Madeleine." Press Association. 14 September 2007. Mixed messages are coming from the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance, eight days after her parents were named as suspects.

Brown, David, Steve Bird and Patrick Foster. "Portuguese police to extend their inquiry to Leicester." The Times. 15 September 2007. Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are preparing to travel to Britain to carry out further inquiries, amid concerns that her parents are under an intolerable strain.

"Nothing concrete to implicate McCanns, senior officer reveals." Aberdeen Press and Journal, 15 September 2007. Portuguese police appeared to take a step back from charging Madeleine McCann's parents yesterday after a senior officer said they had "nothing concrete" to implicate them in her disappearance.

Lamb, Christina. "Police leaks, gossip and a clash of cultures engulf the McCanns." The Sunday Times, 16 September 2007. Portuguese hostility towards the McCanns grows with every twist... The two men in dark suits coming out of the Portimao restaurant adjusted their ties and jackets after what had clearly been a ...

Rose, David. "Maddie police torture trial." The Mail on Sunday, 16 September 2007. The senior Portuguese detective jointly in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is set to face a criminal hearing into an alleged cover-up involving another missing girl.

Rose, David. "Lies, beatings, secret trials: the dark side of Portugal's Life on Mars police." The Mail on Sunday, 16 September 2007. According to his friends, Chief Inspector Goncalo Amaral of the Portuguese Policia Judiciaria, co-leader of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from the Mark Warner Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, is a dedicated and ...

"A week on the roller coaster." Sunday Tribune, 16 September 2007. SUNDAY The McCanns arrive back in England, and Gerry says he and Kate are "entirely innocent". "In terms of what Kate knows about me, I was away from her for just 10 minutes," he says.

Rose, David and Charles Miranda. "Maddie detective accused of child-kill confession cover-up. Cop torture claim." Herald-Sun, 17 September 2007. The top cop in the Madeleine McCann case has been accused of covering up evidence that police tortured the mother of another missing girl into confessing to murder. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Rose, David. "Senior police under suspicion - Maddie cops face torture investigation." Daily Telegraph, 17 September 2007. The senior detective jointly in charge of the investigation into the Madeleine McCann disappearance is to face a criminal hearing into an alleged cover-up involving another missing girl. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Portuguese police in turmoil." Daily Mail. 17 September 2007. The official police spokesman in the Madeleine case has quit over the way the McCanns were treated, it emerged last night. Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa resigned in disgust at the way fellow officers were briefing 'friendly' Portuguese ...

"Senior police under suspicion - Maddie cops face torture investigation." Daily Telegraph, 17 September 2007. The senior detective jointly in charge of the investigation into the Madeleine McCann disappearance is to face a criminal hearing into an alleged cover-up involving another missing girl. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Parsons,Tony. "End this witch hunt and find Madeleine." Mirror. 17 September 2007. The real crime and the real tragedy is that nobody is looking for Madeleine McCann anymore. That little girl is out there somewhere, either dead or alive, but all of the energy of those Keystone cretins, the Portuguese police, are being ...

Townsend, Mark. "Maddie case police: we blundered." The Press (Christchurch), 17 September 2007. The McCann family releases new pictures and announces a fresh campaign as police admit that confusion and infighting wrecked the early days of the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

Narrandes, Nidha. "More controversy as Maddie case official walks out." The Star, 17 September 2007. The official police spokesperson in the Madeleine case has quit over the way the McCanns were treated, it emerged last night. Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa resigned in disgust at the way fellow officers were briefing “friendly” ...

Gammell, Caroline. "Detective accused in case of missing girl." The Daily Telegraph. 17 September 2007. The disappearance of Madeleine McCann is not the first high-profile case of a missing girl that the Portuguese police have had to investigate - and not the first time they have been criticised over their handling of the situation. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Evans, Martin and David Pilditch. "Let me speak out, demands judge." The Daily Express. 17 September 2007. He may be set to press charges on Madeleine The judge examining evidence against Kate and Gerry McCann has asked for consent to speak out. Judge Pedro Daniel Dos Anjos Frias has applied to override Portugal's strict secrecy laws and discuss ...

Hunt, Liz. "At least DCI Hunt had sound instincts." The Daily Telegraph. 19 September 2007. If I were DCI Gene Hunt, I'd sue. The beyond-parody inquiry by Portuguese police into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is likened to an episode of Life on Mars, the acclaimed cops and robbers TV drama of which Hunt is the star-turn.

Under the circumstances, I do not find it surprising that Gerry McCann has taken to briefing the British press himself, something for which he has been criticised. What other opportunity does he have of counteracting the tidal wave of accusations still flooding out of the Portuguese media courtesy of the sieve-like PPJ? Yes, it means that hurtful, distasteful and often quite incredible theories are reiterated in print and on air here in Britain. But it also ensures that the flaws and errors inherent in them can be exposed and addressed, too. Apparently, Portuguese law takes "prejudicial'' reporting very seriously. You'd never have guessed it, would you?

"Portuguese police also under the spotlight." The Daily Express. 21 September 2007. I was shocked and dismayed to read that one of the leading Portuguese detectives on the McCann's case, Goncalo Amaral, along with four other detectives has been reportedly charged with serious offences in connection with a strikingly ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Fricker, Martin and Ryan Parry. "McCanns tell police: Charge us or clear us." Mirror. 22 September 2007. Kate and Gerry McCann last night made a desperate plea to Portuguese police - charge us or clear us. They are furious the search for four-year-old Madeleine is on hold while they remain suspects.

Thornton, Lucy and Ryan Parry. "My daughter's girl vanished just like Maddy. The police beat her until she falsely confessed." Mirror. 22 September 2007. Jailed Leonor Cipriano was facing her mother in a prison waiting room... when she began weeping for Kate and Gerry McCann. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Wickham, James. "'Police beat me up'." Daily Star. 22 September 2007. Russian computer expert Sergei Malinka last night alleged that police investigating Madeleine's disappearance beat him up. He was questioned because of his links to British ex-pat Robert Murat, 33, who was named as an official suspect ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Follain, John. "Madeleine police tortured me, says mother behind bars." The Sunday Times, 23 September 2007. The senior detective leading the Madeleine McCann investigation is facing calls to step down after a woman jailed for the murder of her daughter claimed that his officers tortured her into confessing. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

"Madeleine inspector under fire." Ottawa Citizen, 23 September 2007. The senior detective leading the Madeleine McCann investigation is facing calls to step down after a woman jailed for the murder of her daughter claimed that his officers tortured her into confessing.  (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Follain, John. "Maddy investigator faces criminal hearing over torture claims." The Australian, 24 September 2007. The senior detective leading the investigation into missing British girl Madeleine McCann is facing calls to step down after a woman jailed for the murder of her daughter claimed that his officers tortured her into confessing. (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Randhawa, Kiran. "Detective has only been on two child murder cases." The Evening Standard, 24 September 2007. The detective leading the Madeleine McCann inquiry has investigated only two child murders in his 26-year police career in Portugal. Goncalo Amaral, head of the regional Policia Judiciaria, has already faced criticism for his handling of ... (Re: Leonor Cipriano)

Evans, Martin and David Pilditch. "Ex-SAS men join the hunt." The Daily Express. 24 September 2007. The parents of Madeleine McCann have hired a security firm which employs ex-SAS men to find their daughter. They have taken this dramatic step because police are no longer hunting an abductor.

Hodgson, Grant. "He has 3-hour boozy lunches, works only four hours a day and has openly accused Kate & Gerry of killing their daughter.. this is the cop leading the hunt for Madeleine.. It's just sickening." The Sunday Mirror. 30 September 2007.Exclusive the search for Madeleine day 150. Puffing on a cigarette and knocking back beers, the man leading the world's biggest missing child inquiry enjoys yet another long, boozy lunch.

"McCanns to answer 4O 'key' questions." Daily Post. 1 October 2007. The parents of missing Madeleine McCann were last night waiting for police to ask them 40 "key" questions about the disappearance of their daughter. (Note: the 40 questions grew to be 48 questions and Kate McCann refused to answer any of them.)

Bonnici, Tony and David Pilditch. "Madeleine: she is in Morocco" The Daily Express. 1 October 2007. I saw her, says reliable new witness . . . but police say she fell down steps (Note: the "reliable new witness" led to the media hounding an innocent Moroccan family whose daughter the "reliable witness" had photographed.  Controversy over this false lead remains to date - 2010.)

Hatton, Barry. "Portuguese official removed after chiding UK police over Madeleine McCann investigation." Associated Press Newswires, 2 October 2007. A Portuguese detective investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was removed from the investigation Tuesday after scolding British police, saying they were being misled by the girl's parents...

"Portuguese police accuse Madeleine's parents of hindering inquiry." Agence France Presse, 2 October 2007. A senior Portuguese detective has accused the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann of misleading British police investigating the case, a report said Tuesday.

Greenwood, Chris. Press Association. 2 October 2007. The Portuguese detective in charge of the Madeleine McCann inquiry today accused her parents of manipulating British police.

"The Portuguese detective in charge of the inquiry into missing Rothley girl..." Press Association. 2 October 2007. The Portuguese detective in charge of the inquiry into missing Rothley girl Madeleine McCann has accused her parents of manipulating British police.

"Chief investigator in missing Madeleine case dismissed." Agence France Presse. 2 October 2007. The detective leading the inquiry into the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal was dismissed Tuesday over his criticism of the British police, media reports said.

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Censorship, Cipriano case, Clarence Mitchell, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Grant Hodgson, Joao Cipriano, Keystone cops, Leandro Silva, Leonor Cipriano, Luis Neves, Mirror, Policia Judiciaria, Press Association, The Truth of the Lie

Victims of bungling and incompetence

Victims of bungling and incompetence
Paddy Shennan
22 July 2008
Liverpool Echo

Chief feature writer Paddy Shennan reports on how Madeleine McCann has been badly let down by those investigating her disappearance

Move over Inspector Clouseau and the Keystone Cops, you no longer appear to be quite so clueless.

So this was what Portugal's attorney general, Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro, meant by a "solution" was it?

A near 15-month-long case, characterised by gross incompetence and almost unbelievable ineptitude, is being shelved, with the police having about as many clues no was they did on day one.

Some solution.

Calamitous cock-ups together with diversionary and devastatingly damaging leaks to the press solved nothing, but caused untold misery and heartache.

There are many innocent victims of what has laughably been called the "investigation" into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - but Madeleine, herself, is the biggest victim of them all.

How refreshing - and honest and right - it would have been if those at the cutting edge of this inquiry had come out and begged for Kate and Gerry McCann's forgiveness.

But instead of receiving the apology they so richly deserve for being so badly let down, Madeleine's parents have instead been basically told: "We haven't got a clue - so we're giving up."

Again, I would have been expecting too much for the police to say: "We've not only made a pig's ear of looking for your daughter, but added insult to injury by dragging your good names through the mud."

No one is disputing that this, the abduction of a young child in a sleepy holiday resort, presented the Portuguese police with a particularly difficult challenge.

But the seemingly overawed detectives didn't help themselves by making fundamental mistakes - like failing to preserve the crime scene.

And unused to being under the glare of the international media, they were like rabbits caught in headlights - frozen in fear and unable to act. Yet they alienated people by appearing arrogant. They were not going to be rushed - either by desperate parents at the end of their tether or an army of reporters hungry for information.

Their stubborn, blinkered and bloody-minded approach was aided and abetted by Portugal's secrecy laws, which hindered rather than helped.

Within hours of Madeleine's disappearance, an ocean of goodwill engulfed Praia da Luz. Everyone wanted to help because everyone wanted the same thing. A little girl had gone missing and her family, the mass media and countless millions of people wanted her to be found safe and well - and as quickly as possible.

Portugal's secrecy laws are supposed to smooth the wheels of justice, but they ended up sending this investigation careering off the rails. By building and then maintaining their deafening wall of silence, the police caused dismay and created distrust.

They also created a vacuum, which the more irresponsible members of the Portuguese and British press were happy to fill.

It was a calamitous cocktail of precious few facts mixed together with a mountain of fiction.

The biggest and most poisonous of smokescreens began choking our senses last September, when Madeleine's mum and dad were made arguidos.

As Kate's despairing father, Brian Healy, said at the time:

"I think Charlie Cairoli the clown must be in charge of the investigation."

Justine McGuinness, the McCann family's then campaign manager, said police believed Madeleine's DNA had been found in the couple's car ... hired 25 days after she went missing.

If there had been disquiet at the circus surrounding the first named arguido, Robert Murat - who sections of an out-of-control media appeared to presume guilty on the basis that they thought he looked shifty - it now seemed clear that this was an investigation with no place whatsoever for reason and common sense.

That it has taken this long to lift their arguido status is another indictment of the police.

Amid all the lies and distortions being peddled in Portugal, an enlightened piece of journalism appeared in the leading Lisbon newspaper Diaro de Noticias last December.

Columnist Joao Miguel Tavares talked of the need for the media in Portugal to "make a serious analysis of its role in the tragedy and activate mechanisms to stop it from behaving again as a ping-pong table throwing too many lies and too little information".

He also wrote that it was now "as likely that the case will be solved as penguins starting to fly" and referred to the "it will go away" attitude that people in Portugal have, adding: "I suppose this is now also the strategy of the detectives leading this case - let's keep quiet and soon nobody will remember ... In the PJ (Policia Judiciaria) all they dream about now is the silence of the archives."

And now, they have it.

But while the police in Portugal may have given up on Madeleine, her family haven't - and they never will.

Kate's Liverpool-based mum and dad didn't want to comment on the news from Portugal. They instead wished to focus on the family's ongoing search.

Susan Healy told me: "We yearn for the safe return of Madeleine and we thank all the many people who have supported us with their prayers and good wishes.

"We ask that they continue to support us as we continue to search for Madeleine. May God bless them all, we will never forget their kindness."

Their dignity is in stark contrast to the crass opportunism being shown by the disgraced former head of the investigation, Goncalo Amaral, whose grubby book, out this Thursday, reportedly promises "explosive revelations" about the inquiry.

Just in case he, and anybody else, needs reminding, Madeleine McCann went missing 446 days ago - and she is still missing.

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, DISGRACED, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Keystone cops, Policia Judiciaria, The Truth of the Lie

End this witch hunt

End this witch hunt and find Madeleine
Tony Parsons
17 September 2007
Mirror

The real crime and the real tragedy is that nobody is looking for Madeleine McCann anymore.

That little girl is out there somewhere, either dead or alive, but all of the energy of those Keystone cretins, the Portuguese police, are being poured into attributing guilt to Kate and Gerry McCann.

We are little better. Back home, the search for Madeleine has been reduced to a grotesque who dunnit, adult entertainment of the blackest kind.

The big question is no longer "What happened to Madeleine McCann?" The question now is "Which side are you on?"

Are you still completely convinced of the McCanns' innocence? Or are you one of those sad, spiteful souls - and there are plenty of them - who is asking for a refund of the money you donated to the Find Madeleine fund?

I cannot recall a news story that so totally divides public opinion.

We were told all along that the McCanns were brilliant media manipulators, but I wonder if they truly understand the nature of the beast. The media - like the mob - can turn in a moment.

I would not have thought it possible, but with frightening speed Kate and Gerry McCann have gone from tragic victims to the worst thing in the world - suspected murderers of their own child.

I don't believe for one second that they did it. If they did, then they are the greatest actors who ever lived.

The bewilderment, the grief, the overwhelming sense that their world has collapsed - it was there at the start and it is there now.

Kate and Gerry McCann would need to be better than Streep and DeNiro to play the roles they played in front of the world's media.

They would also need to be criminal masterminds. To kill - accidentally or otherwise - little Madeleine, and then court the attention of all those cameras and reporters, and then dispose of the body under that glaring spotlight. They did not do it.

I do not much care what the Portuguese spoon-feed their tame hacks in the local rags - that man and woman are innocent, and it is an obscenity that the world is playing Cluedo with their lives and the fate of their little girl.

No smoke without fire, right? But there is no smoke.

A lot of the innuendo and propaganda that the Portuguese cops have slipped to their flunkies in the Portuguese press turns out to have absolutely no basis in the real world. We were informed that the woman who lives above the apartment where the McCanns were staying often heard Madeleine crying and "sounds of violence."

Now the real woman - Pamela Fenn, 81 - says that these claims are "absolute rubbish."

Reports of hair in the hire car, blood on the curtains, the 'smell of death' in the apartment - none of these lurid titbits prove that Madeleine McCann is dead, and still less that her parents murdered her.

Forensic experts in this country say that all the evidence stacked up against the McCanns would never lead to a conviction in a British court. We are told Kate McCann "struggled to control" three children under the age of five.

Well, who the hell wouldn't? Most of us struggle with just one.

That doesn't make her any less of the calm, loving mother that she has always appeared to be.

But chuck enough dirt and it will stick. The Portuguese cops seem stupendously stupid - but they are smart enough to understand that.

It is right that the McCanns should be potential suspects. But it should all have been done months ago - not when the Portuguese cops have become a sick joke because of their blundering incompetence.

Those swaggering plods in their dark glasses clearly wanted the media circus to go away from their sleepy, sunny doorstep, and they have been granted their wish.

As the months have dragged on, they must have felt like lumbering yokels, despised by their north European neighbours. They are not the type who would enjoy that feeling.

Chief Inspector Goncalo Amaral, the fat, sweaty cop who is co-leader of the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, faces investigation himself for the torture of Leonor Cipriano, the mother of an eight-year-old girl who disappeared in the Algarve in 2004.

Official mug shots show the mother with her eyes battered so badly that she is unable to open them. She allegedly confessed to the crime and is now serving a 16-year-jail sentence.

The missing child has never been found.

That is Portuguese policing in action, and I would suggest that the smear campaign that has been unleashed on the McCanns is just as bad as being given a kicking in a police cell.

The Portuguese plods are not desperate to solve this crime - such a task was way beyond them.

They just want a convenient confession, true or false.

They just want the case of Madeleine McCann to go away so they can salvage what is left of their fragile macho pride and return to their siesta.

And somewhere a tiny child is still out there, whether she is dead or alive, separated from all she ever knew and loved.

Continue Reading... Labels: Cipriano case, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Joao Cipriano, Keystone cops, Leandro Silva, Leonor Cipriano, Policia Judiciaria