CMOMM NEW YEAR'S HONOURS LIST: The McCann-doubters

sharonl wrote:A summary of police officers, professionals, authors and others who do not accept the McCanns’ claim that Madeleine was abducted or who are sceptical of the McCanns’ claims

[Not a full list, I'll add some more names another time]


One of the most outstanding features of this case is the number of people at all levels and positions of responsibility in society, here and abroad, who have in one form or another spoken out with their view that the McCanns have been ‘lying about what happened to Madeleine’ and ‘seeking to cover up what they had done’ - because they, too, believed that the evidence suggested that Madeleine had died in her parents’ apartment. Here are a few - maybe all 'haters' if the McCann-believers are right:

A. Police Officers, Lawyers and Public Officials

A1. Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida, Portuguese Police, Senior Investigating Officer of the Madeleine McCann investigation and his team: Wrote the police report of 10 September 2007 which concluded that Madeleine McCann died in her parents’ apartment and thereafter they had covered this up; several lines of reasoning are explained in his report, endorsed by a whole team of detectives. He repeated this in court in Lisbon on 10 January 2010 when he said in court: “She died in the apartment as a result of a tragic accident and the parents simulated an abduction after failing to care of their children. These were the conclusions of a police report signed by me on September 10 2007. We have always spoken of a tragic accidental death - not homicide. The McCanns did not kill her, but they concealed the body” [from the transcript of the hearing in the Lisbon High Court].

A2. Dr Goncalo Amaral: Wrote A Verdade da Mentira (The Truth About a Lie), a definitive account by the original Coordinator of the Portuguese investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, setting out in detail the history of the investigation. Published on 28 July 2008, his book has been translated into eight different European languages and is estimated to have sold over ½ million copies, including 220,000 in Portugal. The book gives evidence that the McCanns had been lying and had covered up Madeleine’s death, which he said may have occurred as the result of an accident in the apartment. The factual details about the events of the investigation were comprehensive. Many of the details in this book have never appeared in any mainstream British news or print media. A 60-minute documentary was made featuring the main evidence and conclusions from the book .

A3 The documentary by Dr Goncalo Amaral on Portuguese TV channel TVi: This documentary, based on Dr Amaral’s book, was watched by a record Portuguese TV audience of 2.2 million. English translations of it posted on YouTube have been viewed by tens of thousands.

A4. Lee Rainbow, top Criminal Profiler with the U.K.’s National Police Intelligence Service: Filed a report in August 2007 stating that the evidence in the case suggested that the Portuguese Police should investigate the Claimants for murder. He was quoted in court by Dr Amaral’s lawyer as saying: “Madeleine's father was the last one to see her alive. The family is a lead that should be followed. Contradictions in Gerald McCann's statements might lead us to suspect a homicide”. More detail is given in this report in the Daily Record:

Madeleine McCann: It was British crime profiling expert who suggested parents could be suspects, by Lynn Davidson, 11 February 2010

“A BRITISH crime profiler made missing Madeleine McCann's parents suspects, it was claimed yesterday. A court was told Lee Rainbow, the top profiler with the National Policing Improvement Agency, told Portuguese cops to consider the McCanns' possible involvement in their daughter's disappearance.

“The advice came in a report Rainbow, who worked on the Ipswich Ripper and Shannon Matthews cases, wrote to senior Portuguese officers. It was revealed at a trial involving detective Goncalo Amaral, who led the Madeleine inquiry in its early days before being removed from the case. Amaral is trying to overturn a worldwide injunction banning the publication of his book Maddie: ‘The Truth Of The Lie’. “In it, he claims Glasgow-born heart consultant Gerry McCann and his GP wife were involved in Madeleine's death and staged her disappearance. The McCanns are suing him for libel.

“His lawyer Antonio Cabrita told the court that Rainbow wrote: ‘Madeleine's father was the last one to see her alive. The family is a lead that should be followed. Contradictions in Gerald McCann's statements might lead us to suspect a homicide’. Cabrita added: ‘This report has never been published before but is part of the investigation. It was British police who said they must consider not only abduction but homicide as well’. An NPIA spokesman said that the advice given to probe family and close friends was "generic" in missing persons cases. A ruling in Amaral's case is due to be made on February 18”.

A5. The comments of Mark Harrison, M.B.E.: Mark Harrison, M.B.E., is the National Search Adviser (Homicide, Missing Persons, Mass Fatality Disasters). Extracts of his confidential report were used during the Claimants’ libel proceedings against Dr Goncalo Amaral, and can be read on this McCann-sceptic website:

http://themaddiecasefiles.com/topic30.html . They included the following:

QUOTE

Report Aim

This report considers solely the possibility that Madeleine McCann has been murdered and her body is concealed within the areas previously searched by Police in Zone 1 around Praia Da Luz

'This report solely considers the search scenario that Madeline McCann [/size][size=12]has been murdered and her body is concealed on the beach at Praia Da Luz or has been put into the sea from the shore.

The report considers the viability of burial on the beach and the likely movement of a body if it entered the sea. It also considers the likely incidence of such a disposal choice and any local impact factors that make this a more or less likely event with the aim to inform decisions on any searches…”

UNQUOTE

A6. The Assistant Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary

He said in 2007: “While both or one of [the McCanns] may be innocent, there is no clear evidence that eliminates them from involvement in Madeleine's disappearance”.

A7. Former top detective John Stalker: Article in the Sunday Express: ‘McCanns ‘are hiding a big secret’, former police chief claims:

“Kate and Gerry McCann are hiding a ‘big secret’ about the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, according a former police chief claims. John Stalker, who headed a famous inquiry into whether suspected IRA men were killed by RUC officers, is suspicious of their silence. The former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police told the Sunday Express: “My gut instinct is that some big secret is probably being covered up. I have watched the investigation into the Madeleine McCann case drag out for six months. One thing above all worries me: Why have the McCanns and the seven other members of their group (the Tapas Nine) remained so silent? Unlike other high-profile cases I have worked on, not one of them has been prepared to break ranks or really come out and support each other. After all this time and pressure, I cannot believe that nobody wants to speak. I have a real suspicion that we are not being told the whole truth. There is something else there, some issue that members of the party are embarrassed about’.”

A8. Other British police officers: At a court hearing in Lisbon on 10 January 2009, Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida said: “The theory that the parents had covered up Madeleine’s death as outlined in Amaral’s book was one reached by British police on the ground in Portugal too. This wasn’t something invented by Amaral. It was a conclusion reached by the team of Portuguese investigators as well as British police”. (Daily Telegraph, 11 January 2010).

A9. Martin Grime, top Police Dog Handler, who brought his two cadaver dogs, Springer spaniels Eddie and Keela, to Praia da Luz, where they detected the scent of a human corpse in 12 separate locations associated with the McCanns (but nowhere else in Praia da Luz). These were: in the McCanns’ holiday flat, in the living room, in the parents’ bedroom, in a wardrobe, on the veranda, and in the garden; on two of Dr Kate McCann’s clothes, on a T-shirt belonging to one of the children, on the pink soft toy, Cuddle Cat, in the Claimants’ villa, on the floor of the Renault Scenic that the McCanns hired and on its key. Grime said: “My professional opinion as regards to the EVRD's [cadaver dog’s] alert indications is that they are suggestive that this is 'cadaver scent' contaminant”.

A10. Ricardo Paiva, Portuguese Police Officer and Liaison Officer for the Claimants McCanns during the initial investigation:

In court on 10 January 2010 Ricardo Paiva was reported by the Daily Telegraph as saying: “I received a ’phone call from Kate McCann in late July 2007. Kate called me, she was alone as Gerry was away, and she was crying. She said she had dreamt that Madeleine was on a hill and that we should search for her there. She gave the impression that she thought she was dead - it was a turning point for us. We searched the land but nothing was found. That is when we decided to send the specialist dogs in. British police informed us about how they could detect the scent of death. I was suspicious of the McCanns from the start of the investigation. They disobeyed our request to keep quiet about the details of their daughter’s disappearance while we conducted our investigation. Instead they turned it into a media circus and that gave rise to some suspicions”.

A11. Paulo Rebelo, Portuguese Police chief who succeeded Dr Goncalo Amaral as the head of the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance: From the Daily Mirror:

“Kate and Gerry McCann were furious last night after learning they are still prime suspects in daughter Madeleine's disappearance. The couple's hopes of being cleared today were crushed whenpolice chief Paulo Rebelo asked a judge to extend their arguido status because detectives are sticking to their belief that they accidentally killed the four-year-old”. Link:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mccanns-fury-at-police-chiefs-warning-283781

A12. Paulo Pereira Cristvoao, one of the detectives in the investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, wrote: 'A Estrela de Madeleine', published by Editorial Presença. The book did not believe that Madeleine McCann was abducted.

A13. From the files of the Portuguese Police: “PJ Case Files: Between 15h00 on August 4th 2007 and 06h30 on August 5th 2007, the following samples were recovered in the living room of apartment 5A at the OCEAN CLUB where a murder probably took place…"

A14. Moita Flores, Portuguese lawyer: “I have no doubts that the child died”.



B. Experts, writers and authors who believe that the McCann are not telling the truth

The books and articles listed below are all written by those who, in one form or another, doubt the accounts of the Claimants that Madeleine was abducted, and either support or give credence to the hypothesis that Madeleine died in her parents’ apartment:

B1. Daily Telegraph, 12 January 2010, by Fiona Givan in Lisbon: “Kate and Gerry McCann, both 41, were in court to hear how the detectives leading the investigation into their daughter’s disappearance believed they had lied to hide the truth”.

B2. Dr Christian Ludke, German Forensic Psychologist: Wrote a lengthy article, in a German professional magazine claiming that there were numerous indications that the McCanns were guilty of covering up the death of Madeleine. He is a respected forensic psychologist/psychiatrist based in Essen, north Germany.

B3. Dr Paulo Sargento is a University Professor, Forensic Psychologist and author in Portugal. He has published numerous articles in which he suggests that the Claimants are not telling the truth about what happened to Madeleine. These articles can be found at this internet link: http://www.mccannfiles.com/id227.html

B4. John Redwood M.P., writing on his blog: On 10 September 2007, John Redwoood M.P. wrote an article on his blog: ‘The McCanns - plenty of theories, little evidence’. He began his article: “The McCanns’ theory that the girl was abducted also needs evidence to support it…”

B5. Daniela Prousa, German psychiatrist and author: Wrote: Analyse des Vermisstenfalles Madeleine McCann (An analysis of the case of missing Madeleine McCann). She has analysed, using essentially an ‘Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis’ (IPA), the Claimants’ accounts regarding the disappearance of their daughter. In short, Prousa concludes from her analysis that Madeleine McCann died due to an accidental fall off the living room window-sill or sofa, and that the parents covered this up - a conclusion identical to that of Dr Goncalo Amaral.

B6. Christopher Freind, well-known U.S. commentator and writer: Published a long article highly sceptical of the McCanns: ‘The McCanns need to come clean now’, at http://freindlyfirezone.com/home/item/19-mccanns-needs-to-come-clean-now

B7. George Galloway: Wrote an article (10 September 2007) titled ‘This would have to be the mother of all injustices’ which included the words: “Not since Dr Crippen - long before the blizzard of 24/7 satellite media - will there have been a case like Madeleine McCann's if the now official suspicions of the Portuguese police turn out to have been well founded. They have turned it into a circus, with daily appearances at mass and the flight to the Vatican to kiss the hand of the Pope, invoking celebrities, inducing millions of people around the world to raise a fortune in a campaign fund and turning their child into one of the iconic faces of our age…On my radio shows, I have been critical of the McCanns from the start. Not least because I knew aspects of their story could not be true. Their supposed constant vigilance of their three toddlers while they ate in a Tapas bar and the children slept in an unlocked apartment was not possible. The distance between the two points was both greater and more convoluted than they said. The children's bedroom was on the OTHER side of the apartment block and, though both doctors, neither parent possessed X-ray vision…The McCanns have either been the victims of a cataclysmic historic injustice, almost unprecedented, or they have been complicit in a scheme so duplicitous, so evil, so foul that Shakespeare himself could not have written it".

B8. Pat Brown, Criminal Profiler, U.S.: Wrote recent e-book on the McCanns, “The Profile of the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann”. Pat Brown is a qualified criminologist who appears regularly on American TV. Her work is based on principles of criminal profiling, and concludes that Madeleine had died in her parents’ apartment and that the Claimants had covered this up. She has previously written articles setting out the same views. The Claimants forced Amazon to stop selling her e-book by writing a legal letter to Amazon claiming her e-book was libellous.

Ladyinred wrote:@willowthewisp
None of the above are McCann doubters, IMO.

Cherry wrote:Channel 4 news presenter Alex Thompson has said the Madeleine McCann story did not deserve its news ranking. "I've been sickened by the way the media have allowed themselves to be taken for a full-scale ride by the McCanns." He added that the parents' conduct, "a contributory factor in the abduction, was largely downplayed or ignored altogether by sycophantic, gullible blanket coverage."

DENNISSALLY wrote:Hi, could anyone direct me on how to get to Chelsea Hoffmans analysis and all the parts of her writings.  I tried the link but it says the site is closed.   I found it very interesting and would like to read more.

Casey5 wrote:

DENNISSALLY wrote:Hi, could anyone direct me on how to get to Chelsea Hoffmans analysis and all the parts of her writings.  I tried the link but it says the site is closed.   I found it very interesting and would like to read more.

I googled it and got
https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t4794-new-madeleine-mccann-case-analysis-by-profiler-chelsea-hoffman
BUT a warning from McAfee came up "Woah, do you really want to got there?"