KEVIN HALLIGEN EXTRADITION DECISION - Issued on the internet tomorrow (23 May) around 10.00am

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Post  Tony Bennett on Tue May 22, 2012 3:09 pm

Kevin Halligen - known to the McCanns originally as Richard Halligen until they suddenly found out one day that he was using multiple aliases - has been in Belmarsh Prison for 948 days - over 2.5 years.

For most of 2008, he was the lead investigator for the McCanns, the boss of what was said to be an international private detective and security agency. Then the McCanns sacked him, having paid him £500,000 PLUS expenses.

Worse was to follow. He was exposed by the Evening Standard in August 2009 as a serial con-man and fraudster who, instead of looking for Madeleine, had spent most of his time and money (a) knocking back double whiskies in a posh London club and (b) living the high life in New York and London with his girlfriend Shirin Trachiotis.

Even worse was to follow: in October 2009, whilst living it up in a £700-a-night 5-star Oxfordshire hotel, he was arrested, wanted by the U.S. to face a $2 million fraud charge. He has been in Belmnarsh ever since, for 948 days - or just over 22,750 hours.

Ever since October 2009, he has been fighting extradition, believed to have cost the taxpayer a hefty 5-figure sum, as it's understood that he's on legal aid.

TOMORROW (23 May) the Supreme Court will deliver a final judgment on whether or not he should be extradited, and will promulgate the decision ONLINE at about 10.00am at this link:

http://news.sky.com/home/supreme-court

or

via www.supremecourt.gov.uk/visiting/index.html - then click on the box 'Supreme Court Live'.

Details of tomorrow's court sittings are at

www.supremecourt.gov.uk/visiting/sittings.html

A summary judgment will be read out in open court ar around 9.45am.

Even if the decision goes against Halligen, there is still the possibility that he could appeal to the European Court on Human Rights.

Halligen signed a contract with the McCann Team worth half a million pounds. He would be able to inform the Scotland Yard Review Team of the precise purpose for which he was hired by the McCann Team, how he was supervised and monitored, and just what he did to advance the search for Madeleine.

It is not known whether the head of the SY Review Team, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, has yet asked any of his staff to talk to Kevin Halligen. Nor is it known if, when they went to Barcelona, any of Redwood's men interviewed the McCanns' lead investigator during the previous year, Antonio Gimenez Raso. Raso was arrested in February 2009 and has since spent the last 1,192 days in prison, awaiting trial on charges of being a member of a violent drug gang for a decade, for five years of which he was a senior police officer working for the Catalonian Regional Police drug squad (see Research Section on this forum). After leaving his police post in late 2004, he immediately went to work for controversial Spanish detective agency Metodo 3, where he worked very closely with Brian Kennedy, the Cheshire businessman who has for 4.5 years run the McCann Team's controversial private investigations. Until he was thrown into jail, that is.

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Re: KEVIN HALLIGEN EXTRADITION DECISION - Issued on the internet tomorrow (23 May) around 10.00am

Post  jd on Tue May 22, 2012 3:47 pm

I am wondering if this will be reported in the UK news tomorrow! by our professional responsible investigative journalists in the land of free speech. And if by miracle it is, will they report that Kevin Halligen was employed by the mccanns as their private investigator from the monies the public donated to them, and got conned £500,0000! Somehow I doubt it as this would mean looking at brian 'bulldozer' kennedy too

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Post  Tony Bennett on Tue May 22, 2012 6:06 pm

jd wrote:I am wondering if this will be reported in the UK news tomorrow! - by our professional, responsible, investigative journalists in the land of free speech. And if by miracle it is, will they report that Kevin Halligen was employed by the McCanns as their private investigator from the monies the public donated to them, and got conned £500,000! Somehow I doubt it, as this would mean looking at Brian 'bulldozer' Kennedy too...
There could hardly be a better illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case. Extradition cases involving the U.S.A. have been two a penny over the past couple of years, Gary Mckinnon, for instance, and Christopher Tappin, the bloke who sold batteries to Iran.

But not a squeak about Kevin 'multiple identity' Halligen, the man who helped to convert the generous donations of pensioners who willingly gave their weekly pensions and children who willingly gave their weekly pocket money, intended to help find Madeleine McCann, but ended up being spent on double whiskies in a posh London club and on five-star hotels in New York and London. And still the government refuses a public enquiry into all this

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Post  Woofer on Tue May 22, 2012 6:52 pm

I`m not on Twitter, but it would be good if someone can tweet this news to get as much coverage as poss.

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Post  friedtomatoes on Tue May 22, 2012 6:54 pm

If Halligen worked for the Mccanns, Redwood's team can not not interview him and collect all the info he had.JMO.
Even if he is extradited does that mean he will spill the beans on his involvement with the Mccanns, or is it the case he will if he is extradited? Funny worlds some inhabit.


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Post  Gillyspot on Tue May 22, 2012 9:11 pm

friedtomatoes wrote:If Halligen worked for the Mccanns, Redwood's team can not not interview him and collect all the info he had.JMO.
Even if he is extradited does that mean he will spill the beans on his involvement with the Mccanns, or is it the case he will if he is extradited? Funny worlds some inhabit.



Could you please explain what you mean? Why can't SY interview Halligen?

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Re: KEVIN HALLIGEN EXTRADITION DECISION - Issued on the internet tomorrow (23 May) around 10.00am

Post  jd on Tue May 22, 2012 9:13 pm

Tony Bennett wrote:There could hardly be a better illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case. Extradition cases involving the U.S.A. have been two a penny over the past couple of years, Gary Mckinnon, for instance, and Christopher Tappin, the bloke who sold batteries to Iran.

But not a squeak about Kevin 'multiple identity' Halligen, the man who helped to convert the generous donations of pensioners who willingly gave their weekly pensions and children who willingly gave their weekly pocket money, intended to help find Madeleine McCann, but ended up being spent on double whiskies in a posh London club and on five-star hotels in New York and London. And still the government refuses a public enquiry into all this


Very very true. "There could hardly be a better illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case". And considering the mcanns have had their begging bowl out for 5 years taken monies from the public, this public has a right to know how it has been spent. The press have a moral duty to report the truthful facts and inform the public what has truly happened with the monies the public have given to the mccanns. Tomorrow is a golden opportunity for the media to report the fact that Kevin Halligen was employed by the mccanns using the publics donated monies and he conned them out of £500,000. There can't be any fears of being sued as this is a TRUE FACT!!! in the land of free speech

I suspect all there will be is a little paragraph on page 9 and somewhere lost in the middle will be the words of something like "once worked with the mccanns'. Yes this is a brilliant illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case....and how important information the public are entitled to know are being held back from them

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Post  candyfloss on Tue May 22, 2012 9:29 pm

jd wrote:
Tony Bennett wrote:There could hardly be a better illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case. Extradition cases involving the U.S.A. have been two a penny over the past couple of years, Gary Mckinnon, for instance, and Christopher Tappin, the bloke who sold batteries to Iran.

But not a squeak about Kevin 'multiple identity' Halligen, the man who helped to convert the generous donations of pensioners who willingly gave their weekly pensions and children who willingly gave their weekly pocket money, intended to help find Madeleine McCann, but ended up being spent on double whiskies in a posh London club and on five-star hotels in New York and London. And still the government refuses a public enquiry into all this


Very very true. "There could hardly be a better illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case". And considering the mcanns have had their begging bowl out for 5 years taken monies from the public, this public has a right to know how it has been spent. The press have a moral duty to report the truthful facts and inform the public what has truly happened with the monies the public have given to the mccanns. Tomorrow is a golden opportunity for the media to report the fact that Kevin Halligen was employed by the mccanns using the publics donated monies and he conned them out of £500,000. There can't be any fears of being sued as this is a TRUE FACT!!! in the land of free speech

I suspect all there will be is a little paragraph on page 9 and somewhere lost in the middle will be the words of something like "once worked with the mccanns'. Yes this is a brilliant illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case....and how important information the public are entitled to know are being held back from them


jd, it was reported at the time in quite a few papers here's just a couple............

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/6630110/Security-consultant-paid-300000-from-Madeleine-McCann-fund-charged-with-fraud.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231757/Madeleine-McCann-investigator-didnt-listen-ANY-tip-offs-given-hotline--squandered-500-000.html

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/madeleine-mccann-businessman-arrested-at-hotel-6761415.html

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Re: KEVIN HALLIGEN EXTRADITION DECISION - Issued on the internet tomorrow (23 May) around 10.00am

Post  jd on Tue May 22, 2012 9:40 pm

I hadn't seen these reports, thanks

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Post  Tony Bennett on Tue May 22, 2012 9:56 pm

candyfloss wrote:
jd wrote:
Tony Bennett wrote:There could hardly be a better illustration of the stranglehold that the McCann Team has gained over press coverage of anything to do with this case...

Very very true. Tomorrow is a golden opportunity for the media to report the fact that Kevin Halligen was employed by the mccanns using the publics donated monies and he conned them out of £500,000. There can't be any fears of being sued as this is a TRUE FACT!!! in the land of free speech...


jd, it was reported at the time in quite a few papers here's just a couple............

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/6630110/Security-consultant-paid-300000-from-Madeleine-McCann-fund-charged-with-fraud.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231757/Madeleine-McCann-investigator-didnt-listen-ANY-tip-offs-given-hotline--squandered-500-000.html

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/madeleine-mccann-businessman-arrested-at-hotel-6761415.html
Yes, but candyfloss, when were these articles above written?

I'll answer my own question: November 2009, August 2010 and again November 2009, respectively. You'll recall that the original and quite sensational revelations by Mark Hollingsworth about Halligen were published in the Evening Standard in August 2009. There have I think, since then, been occasional very brief snippets in a handful of papers about his various extradition hearings, which have been numerous.

I think jd was querying, as I was, why a major extradition case like this, now in the Supreme Court, has not had more attention, after all, Halligen's been fighting this for 2.5 years now, and extradition to the U.S. has been a significant political issue during this time.

Reading the third of the above articles again, I came across this: "The Sun said Halligen was arrested in connection with an unpaid hotel bill running into tens of thousands of pounds".

Here is a public fund which has raised millions from the public and other sources.

It's been utterly squandered on the likes of corrupt ex-copper Antonio Gimenez Raso and Kevin Halligen.

The McCanns appear to have made no claim against Halligen for his blatant mis-use of the £500,000 they gave him.

The articles above expose him as a serial fraudster, con-man, heavy drinker, man of high living who fails to pay those who work for him and doesn't pay his hotel bills.

He has spent 2.5 years fighting extradition on legal aid.

It looks like he committed a $2 million fraud in the U.S., along with all the other ones.

Why did Brian Kennedy and the McCann Team employ him, and his one-man-band company, Oakley International?

Is it, as Dr Kate McCann claimed on page 283 of the hardback version of her book 'madeleine', because "Oakley's proposal and overall strategy were streets ahead of all the others we'd considered and the company came highly recommended"?

Yet not one newspaper has looked further into any of this over the past 2.5 years.

Is it because the actions of Kevin Halligen, and of Brian Kennedy and the McCanns in employing him, seriously conflict with what we might call 'the McCann narrative'?

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