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

Verdi wrote:

So desperate was Amaral to get a win, I now wonder if it was possible that the police even planted Maddie’s DNA in the rental car the family had hired from Europcar a month after she went missing.

I've heard that/seen that written before now.

It will now be my personal mission to locate the previous source - it could lead to an important connection!

Watch this space ....

PeterMac wrote:See Chapter 45:



NONSENSE ON STILTS
We now come to one of the most astonishing, ludicrous, and seriously libellous claims we have read so far.
Clarke’s claim that Madeleine’s DNA was “PLANTED” in the hire car.
“We will also look at credible claims that Maddie’s DNA might have been planted in a hire car the McCanns
had hired three weeks AFTER she had vanished,…”. p. 17
The fact that he doesn’t return to the issue, neither ‘looks at the … claims’ nor references them points to
this being another malicious invention on his part.
[Dr Amaral and his legal team have been made aware of this gross Libel.]
“So desperate was Amaral to get a win, I now wonder if it was possible that the police even planted
Maddie’s DNA in the rental car the family had hired from Europcar a month after she went missing.” p.83
Just chew that over for a moment.
Clarke is alleging, albeit trying to keep out of serious trouble by using the words “might” and “wonder”, that
DCI Amaral conspired with others to plant evidence in the form of Madeleine’s DNA in the hire car, in order
to obtain a wrongful conviction and false imprisonment of one or both of the parents.
Even the most superficial knowledge of this case will tell you that there was no uncontaminated comparison
DNA of Madeleine found in the apartment, and that GM had to return to Rothley to bring a pillowcase,
which is said to have had sufficient cellular material for her DNA profile to be established.
“It was widely reported that the father returned home to Rothley in mid-May 2007 to obtain a pillowcase
from her bed. For some reason there was no toothbrush, no hairbrush, no clothing nor any other object
exclusive to the child while on holiday from which a profile could be obtained.
It would also seem that there was no toothbrush nor hairbrush available in Rothley, either.” REF 2
This is in fact the trip which coincided with the release of the forged Pool Photo, GM departed 20th May,
returned with Mitchell 22nd May, sister PM also arrived on 22/5, photo was sent to APF on 23/5 and
released into the public domain on 24/5 with the exhortion to ”look at the time”, clearly an instruction to
look at the date.
It was that total absence of any forensic evidence of any kind including Madeleine’s DNA which raised one
of the very many early Red Flags in the investigation, leading to the suggestion that the whole apartment
had been deep-cleaned during the week to remove all traces of blood and bodily fluids and any cellular
material.
There is therefore a vanishingly small amount of Madeleine’s DNA available, and it would be confined to the
items sent for screening.
The suggestion that the PJ, under the command of DCI Amaral would wait un2l the McCanns hired a car 28
days later just before they went to Rome, and then ‘plant’ Madeline’s DNA in it, specifically in the wheel
well in the boot and on the key fob is, with respect, so utterly ludicrous as to render worthless almost
everything else Clarke may have to say about this case.
The dogs did not alert to DNA. Dogs cannot detect DNA. That is an elementary and fundamental lack of
understanding of one of the most important issues in this case.
They alerted to Human cadaverine, a chemical formed by putrefaction with the formula NH2(CH2)5NH2
which does not contain DNA, and to Human blood, which contains very little. [Only white blood cells –
leucocytes – contain DNA. Red corpuscles have no nucleus and therefore no DNA – which is why they are
not called ‘cells’]
The Scenes of Crime officers collect specimens, their colleagues in Forensic Science laboratories search for,
isolate and identify DNA within the nuclei of the leucocytes or within, for example, cells from a hair follicle.
The mouth swab we are familiar with from modern Police dramas collects cells from the mucosa of the
cheek. Cells, each with a nucleus containing DNA.
DNA is not something you can carry round in a convenient spray, or on a swab in a jiffy bag ready to smear
on the vehicle of anyone you want to ‘set up’.
But Clarke is determined that he is right, and pours scorn on any evidence which does not fit his
preconception.
“… and nothing has come close to changing my view. Not even the so-called evidence from sniffer dogs –
who allegedly scented her body and blood in the apartment in two places, particularly behind the sofa, as
well as in the McCanns’ rental car. Some of their explosive findings might well have some critical relevance
today, as we shall see.”
“So-called evidence”, “allegedly scented her body and blood”
It is difficult to know where to begin with sneering nonsense of that sort, or whether even to try.
I will observe that yet again Clarke falls into the very trap the McCanns are determined he should avoid as
he incriminates them even more than do the actual facts.
The dogs alerted to Human Blood and Human Cadaverine. The McCanns specifically deny it was
Madeleine’s, and came up with a list of possibilities of varying absurdity – from a previous tenant’s having
cut himself badly whilst shaving and then wandering round the apartment including behind the sofa all the
time dripping blood onto the floor tiles, to the now legendary and unforgettable Kamikaze mosquitos which
having drunk from a human flew so fast and so erratically they smashed themselves into the wall behind the
sofa leaving drops of blood as they burst on impact. [This is not a phenomenon known to reputable
conventional science]
As Jane Tanner once notoriously said “I am not making this up”.
But Clarke says the dogs allegedly scented HER body and blood. And as a Geography graduate he will
clearly know better than dog handlers, seasoned detectives, Scenes of Crime operatives and forensic
scientists.

Silentscope wrote:Judging by the Euro banknotes on his desk, he has just made €30?

One twenty and four five Euro notes?

PeterMac wrote:Did he actually sell any, or did he crash an old people's day care centre and hand a few out for the photo ?

PeterMac wrote:I bought two
One hard copy and a Kindle copy for easy of research, since the hard copy has no index or references.
With Kindle you can search for instances of individual words,  as we did with Kate's Autobiography,
for example the instances of 'I'. versus those for 'Madeleine'

And that also allows me to put reviews on the Amazon sites across the world, – except the UK obviously  

Jill Havern wrote:He's sold another two books.
Ripping off the unsuspecting old folks with his pack of lies.

Chapter 47: Stop Press! Public apology and Summary of previous Chapters and even more anomalies