Extract from Jon Clarke's new book: 'My Search for Madeleine McCann'

Sorry, I thought @Silentscope  meant the photo the witness took at the time was not shown.

sharonlUpdate: wrote:

This novel is doing better than I thought

Kindle           21,864
Paperback   11,567

Kindle           27,405

Paperback     18,705

PeterMac's FREE e-book has had 212,006 hits since JC's bewk came out a couple of days ago 

Down a quid already 

New book explores 14 years of Investigating Madeleine McCann case by the Olive Press in Spain and Portugal

In new book My Search for Madeleine, Olive Press editor Jon Clarke explains how he probed the Maddie mystery from the beginning.

By Jon Clarke (Publisher and Editor) - 11 Sep 2021 @ 10:00

I first investigated the Madeleine McCann case on Day one in May 2007, when I was up and out of my house near Ronda before 7am and on the road to the Algarve.

A missing child story in Portugal wasn't too out of the ordinary.

What was different though, was the family involved.  The professional, middle-class doctors Kate and Gerry McCann were not your typical Brits abroad-type victims - the least likely of tourists to want to get involved with the press, particularly on holiday.

But they were clearly in desperate need for help.

Conjuring up a legion of journalists to help in their hunt for their missing daughter seemed the best way forward.

I was working for a handful of national British newspapers and ended up spending almost two weeks there in the first month alone.

The story had first appeared on Sky News at around 7.45am in the UK,and I figured it would be over by the time I got there:  she would be found, like the vst majority of other kids who wander that wander off during their holidays, either dead or alive, in a swimming pool or a ditch somewhere.

It wasn't hard to locate the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz and I was the first British newspaper journalist on the scene.

Read on:  https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/09/11/new-book-explores-14-years-of-investigating-madeleine-mccann-case-by-the-olive-press-in-spain-and-portugal/

crusader wrote:Sorry, I thought @Silentscope  meant the photo the witness took at the time was not shown.

No problem!

You know as well as I the importance of sticking to truth and evidence as far as humanly possible - dogs included.

It's taken a long time to rid the forum of the typical social media element, the idle gossip-mongers who don't have the time nor inclination to check what they repeat, we don't want to go back there.

Of course there will always be the odd stray but providing erroneous information is corrected before growing legs, all is good.

How are you getting on with 'the book' ?

From the bits I've seen so far, like the above latest report by the Olive Press ^^^ by the mighty pen of Jon Clarke himself, the content lacks substance and above all else .... 'evidence'.

Anyone can say they did this that or the other but without some degree of evidence to back the claims, it's essentially worthless.

I don't think Mr Clarke will enrich himself in any way shape or form by this work of unsubstantiated twaddle.

Poetic licence personified.

I confess, I've crumbled under the pressure - for no other reason than the fact I don't like commenting on anything I haven't read with my very own mince pies.



I've ordered from Amazon International, still have to pay over the odds for delivery but not 40 quids worth of over the odds.

The order hasn't yet been processed so I haven't a clue what the estimated delivery date is to be.  Probably in time for Christmas, by that time it will be over and done with.

At least it can gather dust, or maybe I'll use it as a novelty garden planter.

@PeterMac wrote...Have we ever seen that handout ?  
And from where did three local women get a photo of Madeleine in her pyjamas ?








I wonder where the ex pat woman had got the photo from and so early. He said he grabbed a stack- probably about a dozen.

Could it be the photo that was printed by the Ocean Club and reproduced by this woman.

From what I have read so far, He is convinced the McCann's are totally innocent, the book is about Christian Brueckner and Nicole Fehlinger being the guilty pair.

Quite a lot in the book is what is already known, he does give some extra details which I didn't know about and found interesting.

I think the chapter on Petermac is unfair and brings nothing of any value to the book .

He is shameless alright.

In his Olive Press yesterday, he has a photograph of Goncalo Amaral and a statement that says he was charged with covering up a missing child case one day before Madeleine went missing.

Clarke is evil.

Chapter 9 Quote
It is a little known fact that Amaral himself had actually been made an arguido in another still very murky case just ONE DAY before Madeleine went missing.

crusader wrote:@PeterMac wrote...Have we ever seen that handout ?  
And from where did three local women get a photo of Madeleine in her pyjamas ?

I wonder where the ex pat woman had got the photo from and so early. He said he grabbed a stack- probably about a dozen.

Could it be the photo that was printed by the Ocean Club and reproduced by this woman.

I can offer no proof but I strongly suspect said photograph of Madeleine to be the same image given to the PJ - it could easily be said the pink top is pyjama..





It appears to me Jon Clarke likes to take things from the PJ files and other more reliable sources and weave them into his own 'version' - his story. Like as not he did talk to these people when pursuing his 'investigative journalist' venture.

Yes, that sounds about the right version of events to me.

crusader wrote:Chapter 9 Quote
It is a little known fact that Amaral himself had actually been made an arguido in another still very murky case just ONE DAY before Madeleine went missing.

Again it would appear Jon Clarke is using fact and/or documented evidence to weave his web of intrigue. This instance in all probability he is referring to the charges made against Snr Amaral in connection with the Joana Cipriano case, I don't recall the time span of the incident, if I ever knew, but there was a lot made of it at the time of the investigation into the Madeleine Mccann case.

I've plucked this from nowhere only as an illustration of the scandal at the time, can't vouch for the accuracy but it gives an idea of what was being reported at the time..

wikipedia wrote:Joana Isabel Cipriano (born 31 May 1996) disappeared on 12 August 2004 from Figueira, a village near Portimão in the Algarve region of Portugal. An investigation by the Polícia Judiciária, Portugal's criminal police, concluded that she had been murdered by her mother, Leonor Cipriano, and her uncle, João Cipriano, after witnessing them engaged in incestuous sex. There was no evidence to support this but the police beat a confession out of her . Her body was never found. There is no real evidence she is dead.

The mother and uncle confessed to police in October 2004; the uncle said he had cut the girl's body into pieces before disposing of it by throwing it into a nearby pigsty. Joana's mother withdrew her confession the day after signing it, alleging that she had been beaten during a 48-hour-long interrogation. The police officers accounted for the bruising on the mother's face and body by maintaining that she had thrown herself down some stairs in the police station in an effort to commit suicide. Both the mother and uncle were convicted of murder and sentenced to sixteen years in jail. It was the first murder trial in Portuguese legal history to take place without the discovery of a body.

Five officers were charged with a variety of offences as a result of the allegations of assault; three were acquitted. One of the two officers who was convicted, Chief Inspector Gonçalo Amaral, led the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who went missing in May 2007 from the nearby resort of Praia da Luz. Amaral was not present during the alleged assault, but was accused of having covered up for other officers; he was convicted of having falsified police documents in the case and received an eighteen-month suspended sentence.

Oddly enough, or not as the case may be, at the foot of one such sleezy gossipy showbiz report about Snr Amaral's conviction, the Netflix 'Madeleine McCann Documentary' trailer is featured..



That's where Jon Clarke made his debut as a video movie star.

Spot on, in the same chapter, he say's much the same as above, then goes on to say " I also think Amaral unwittingly-or deliberately- led the investigation away from the real culprits in the Maddie case, as his team did in the Joana case, which was remarkably similar in genesis."

... led the investigation away from the real culprits in the Maddie case ...

Geeez-us I nearly choked on a swig of water

Methinks Mr Clarke is getting a bit confused here.

Isn't it the British institution that led the PJ's investigation - Snr Amaral's investigation, down the garden path, away from 'The Prime suspects'?

Silentscope wrote:Jon Clarke should know that Herr Wolters is already on record with Sandra Felgeuiras stating that Nicole F is not a Suspect in this case

Where is this on record, may I ask?

p. 257, 2/3 of the way down/

'But she is not a suspect, just a witness,' he insisted, rather too pointedly

Silentscope wrote:

Verdi wrote:

Silentscope wrote:Jon Clarke should know that Herr Wolters is already on record with Sandra Felgeuiras stating that Nicole F is not a Suspect in this case

Where is this on record, may I ask?

https://www.rtp.pt/play/p6596/e495504/sexta-as-9 

Time mark: 07:50 onwards.

How many times do I need to ask you to refrain from linking to video and text sources in a foreign language?  For the umpteenth time, CMOMM is essentially an English language speaking forum, please show some respect for members and guest readers.  Conflab by private messaging and email does not exonerate you from the forum's basic rules, no matter who you conflab with.

I still wonder (or do I) why you arrived here from out of the blue and instantly tried to mold the forum into your own platform, why you didn't choose instead to initiate your own domain within your own domain, whatever wherever whyever that might be. Indeed I said so at the time.

Be advised, any more and your posts, or parts thereof, will be deleted without further thought.

That aside, the link you gave is a video voicing Sandra Felgueiras speaking for her own channel in pigeon English and a video appearance by Hans Christian Wolter speaking in German.  The video is not on-face, it's editing cannot be verified, such instances are wide open to trickery - in short it's not a reliable source of information.

Wolters does not have a case against Christian Brueckner, nor any other person in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - that is quite apparent by his inability to answer questions, any more than he is likely to say he believes Brueckner to have had an accomplice.  I wouldn't be surprised to learn Christian Brueckner is part and parcel of the delusion - if he even exists.

It's an elaborate hoax.

Who is the ring leader is yet to be established.

So .... back to Jon Clarke.

Back to Jon Clarke indeed!

Amazon.uk evolves almost daily into a new booky wook marketing strategy on behalf of Meester Jon Clarke, or can it be he edits his own entry?

Firstly the kindle edition has disappeared from my Amazon link and then there is this..


MY SEARCH FOR MADELEINE: One Reporter’s 14-Year Hunt To Solve Europe’s Most Harrowing Crime Paperback – 1 Sept. 2021

by Jon Clarke (Author)

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Jon Clarke was the first journalist on the scene when Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007… and 14 years later he’s still searching for the truth.
This book charts his often-frightening journey from the Ocean Club holiday resort in Praia da Luz through many isolated parts of Portugal and Spain and finally into Germany. He meets numerous dark and unusual characters, some who live under the radar, and others who he believes hold the key to what happened to Maddie all those years ago.
He points his finger firmly at the new prime suspect Christian Brueckner and explains, in detail and with the help of the people who knew Brueckner best, why he thinks he did it. He traces his grim upbringing, his ease of movement around Europe and also questions the integrity of the Portuguese police and asks if someone, somewhere is covering something up.
With unrivalled access to official documents, exclusive interviews and confessions, no stone is left unturned as Jon searches for the truth, often putting himself in considerable danger in the process.
This book is a must read for anyone interested in the case, or just someone planning a family holiday in Europe this year.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY SO FAR...

“Tirelessly researched. Told me a lot of things I didn’t know about the case”

MARTIN BRUNT, SKY NEWS CRIME CORRESPONDENT

“Jon is clearly about as steeped in the story as it’s possible to be, and it’s a fascinating account of the inner workings of what sounds like an extremely seedy place.”

SUSIE DOWDALL, DAILY MAIL

“Jon Clarke is a remarkably experienced journalist who has dug deeply into the movements and life of German new-age traveler and fixated preferential sex offender Christian Brueckner, who should have been a prime suspect in 2007.

“This book breaks a lot of new ground on the case and is a real investigative trawl and deep dive into the world of organized child traffickers… and he has interviews with all the key players from all over Europe.

“It is an investigative man-hunt and Jon’s book is compelling. He has a long heritage in the story and his crusade is journalistically sound and his journalistic instincts are sharp.”

DONAL MACINTYRE, TV PRODUCER AND INVESTIGATOR

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09F1CZH1X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (1 Sept. 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8538010547
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.85 x 1.63 x 19.84 cm

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Customer reviews: 4.1 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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I get the impression book sales are not doing too well. Jon Clarke has been hawking his wares via his Olive Press and other media platforms. This paperback version is only 282 pages, it won't be long before the complete work is serialised in some form or other.



Roll-on 2nd October 2021 !

Chapter 42: My First Impressions of Jon Clarke's 2021 book: 'My Search for Madeleine'

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-42-my-first-impressions-of-jon.html