'Anti-McCann' websites plotted to kidnap one of Madeleine's siblings - Daily Mail INCLUDES TWEETS FROM JERRY LAWTON RE MICHAEL WRIGHT TESTIMONY

russiandoll wrote:quote ultima Thule  :  " And Gerry reported this alleged threat to the wellbeing of his remaining children to the Yorkshire force rather than his local Leicestshire police. "


Strange, was this stated in the evidence? I read that MW told GM of his findings. I would have thought that either both men would contact their respective local police force or one would have reported it and there would have been subsequent liaison between the 2 forces.
 My impression was that MW was interviewed by his local force because he was the witness to the online content.

Cristobell wrote:I think the kidnap threat is a sexed up version of the supposed death threats on the Madeleine Controversy Facebook group.  The McCanns were unbelievably successful with that particular scam and got the front page of several tabloids.  Internet trolls are a hot topic at the moment and a great way to get sympathy.  By tweaking a few details they have made it more sensational by changing the target from Kate to the twins.  Again, they are shamelessly using those children to manipulate public sympathy and in my opinion that is wrong on every level.  The story can no doubt be quickly disproved, but they have the headlines they wanted - 'Kidnap Threat to Twins'.  By the time it is revealed as a hoax, the damage will already have been done and all the public will remember is the kidnap threat. Similarly while most people recall that Goncalo's Amaral's book was banned, the fact that the ban was overturned, and it is back on sale passes them by.    

The McCanns still appear to be pulling the strings, they have learned a number of tricks over the years.  Goncalo was obviously way ahead of us in asking for the trial to be heard in private.  He probably foresaw what was going to happen.  The McCanns will fight back with what they do best.  Negative propaganda.  They are clearly prepared to get down in the mud and the blood and the beer by dragging the twins into the case, and lets hope the Judge can see the histrionics for what they are.  Dr. Amaral really doesn't have to do very much at all.  He has an Ace up his sleeve - The Truth.

No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote:It's clearly a (cunning) plan to blame the publishing of GA's book for inciting a (probably invented) violent nutcase on the Internet to "take revenge" on the McCanns.
 
It's a variation on the false flag incidents which have happened so often in the past.
  
I just hope that most people will see it for the nonsense that it is.

plebgate wrote:Yes I read it too.   Didn't want to tell her because it would upset her.    So somebody threatens to kidnap one of his children and he did not inform her, the main carer of the children.  Yep that makes a lot of sense to me NOT.

The Rooster wrote:Well said Portia, this episode is simply not plausible.  I watched the Sky News paper review this morning and could not believe the pundits reviewing the papers giving this story the time of day.  However, it is just this type of reporting that will cause the McCann's serious credibility issues.  It's the sort of thing that the Sunday Sports would have published on their front page alongside...

"Alien Sprout Ate my Lunch"
"Donkey Robs Bank"
"Monkey Lands Plane"... Remember this one...

"World War 2 Bomber found on the Moon!"  Here's some more...

"Statue of Elvis found on Mars"
(I can't stop laughing)  "Hide and Seek Champ found dead in cupboard"

The McCann's are going to land themselves in it big time.  They really are thumbing their noses at the Great British public and laughing at their expense.  Hell hath no fury like the public scorned.

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jeanmonroe wrote:Perhaps Mr Wright, under a Pseudonym, wrote the piece on 3A's.

Another little ruse that he and Gerry 'hatched' in case this case ever reached a courtroom.

GA didn't 'back down' even after they tried to offer a settlement, twice, and this is where we are,

They never, ever thought they'd be in a courtroom!

We'll soon find out because i'm emailing NYP.

If it's true then fine.

But if it's not Wright has just totally besmirched the NYP 'reputation'.

Anyone giving odds that 'oh, erm i THOUGHT Gerry had told NYP'

I agree totally. This sounds like another 'seabass' or 'tea stain' incident, I bet they have lots of different stories prepared to draw upon.

No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote: For the second night running, the next day's headlines are causing me such trauma and distress that I need to sue somebody!

There might well have been the odd nutcase making empty threats when fuelled up with booze but I'm sure it wasn't on a site like the 3As.

tigger wrote:Surely the first thing a concerned parent would have done was to take a screenshot/note the URL/ the name of the poster/ at the very least remember the name of the site and date of posting?

Then alert the police with whom they were on very matey terms?  Are we to believe they did nothing when they were already one child short? imo the twins were at much greater risk in PDL, especially when their mother, aware of one child abducted, trotted off, leaving windows and door open.  

These constant lies really show their contempt for the many people who - out of the goodness of their hearts contributed to a Ltd. Co.  to find a lost child. Bless all those who gave but know this :  your money was not used to find Maddie. TheLtd. Co. which managed to use the word 'Fund' in their name  (normally not allowed) has no transparent accounts rendered.
We don't even know how much the book brought in and why isn't such an important item entered in the accounts?

windchime wrote:You just couldn't make it up..........opps sorry they already have!

jeanmonroe wrote:GP – You said it was Kate who provided the book for you?
AP – Yes, she sent it to me.
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Did KM 'buy' her copy of GA's book, that she later sent to AP?

Oh the IRONY, if she did!

aiyoyo wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:GP – You said it was Kate who provided the book for you?
AP – Yes, she sent it to me.
_______________________________________________

Did KM 'buy' her copy of GA's book, that she later sent to AP?

Oh the IRONY, if she did!

Didn't they say they wouldn't read it?  So why would she have a copy with her - a translated version at that ?  Nicked it from here perhaps.

jeanmonroe wrote:From The Times May 27, 2007
Steven Swinford in Praia da Luz

Gerry McCann, 38, Madeleine’s father, said: “It could have been worse, we could have lost the twins too. There were three children in the room. That’s the worst nightmare.”

sallypelt wrote:How low will this woman sink?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426813/Anti-McCann-kate-madeleine-websites-plotted-kidnap-siblings-knew-disappearance-court-hears.html

'Anti-McCann' websites plotted to kidnap one of Madeleine's siblings 'to find out what they knew about her disappearance', court hears
Friend of the McCanns found examples of forum members encouraging kidnap so one of the twins could 'throw some light on the matter'

Police chief claimed the McCanns hid their daughter's body after her death

Evidence heard in Lisbon during £1million libel case against Goncalo Amaral

Internet trolls fuelled by an ex police chief's 'smears' about the McCanns incited conspiracy-theorists to kidnap the couple's twins Sean and Amelie, a court heard today.

Goncalo Amaral's claims they faked daughter Madeleine's abduction to cover up her death in their Algarve holiday apartment was to blame for the threats, close family friend Michael Wright said.

Gerry and Kate McCann, 45, from Rothley, Leics, are suing the former Portuguese detective over his bombshell July 2008 book 'The Truth of the Lie.'
The couple have also launched £1 million libel proceedings at Lisbon's Palace of Justice against Mr Amaral's book publishers and a TV station which broadcast an April 2009 documentary based on his claims.

Mr Wright, husband of Kate McCann's cousin Anne-Marie, told the court the theories in Mr Amaral's book gave conspiracy theorists on anti-Mccann Internet forums 'focus' because he had been in charge of the botched investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

He said: 'There were several examples of them inciting forum members to abduct one of the twins as they felt they would be able to throw some light on what may have happened.

'On one of the Internet forums, called The 3 Arguidos, there was an Internet conversation in great length where a member was suggesting that someone should abduct Sean or Amelie because they may be able to get information out of them that would confirm Mr Amaral's theories.'

Mr Wright, who helped monitor Internet activity on missing Madeleine for the couple, said he felt compelled to tell Gerry and he was interviewed by police from his home county of North Yorkshire after they decided detectives should be alerted.

He said the threats also made Gerry and Kate more vigilant about the use of the Internet by their twins, now eight.



Mr 'I know Amelie has Googled her name and discovered sites to do with the conclusions of Mr Amaral's book,' he told the court.

'I do not know if she opened any of the pages and fortunately she told Gerry and Kate.

'But I know they will definitely be in a position where over the coming years they will search on the Internet and they will find people who will be saying their parents killed their sister.'

Mr Amaral's book was published just three days after the McCanns - made suspects over their daughter's death in September 2007 - had their status as 'arguidos' formally lifted.

Around 120,000 copies of the book were sold before it was withdrawn when the McCanns won an injection against him.

It formed the basis for a documentary screened on TVI - the Portuguese equivalent of ITV - in April 2009.

Company director Mr Wright, from Skipton, North Yorks, said Gerry had suffered one of his darkest hours when they marked the second anniversary of Madeleine's May 3 2007 disappearance together in a remote cottage.

The couple were told on the way to the cottage locals on the Algarve were ripping up posters they had put up as part of a campaign to find their daughter.

He told the court: 'I had a discussion with Gerry where he talked about not being able to go on.


'I had never heard Gerry speak like that before.

'It was a very upsetting conversation for me to hear Gerry talk like that.

'Both he and Kate are incredibly strong and driven people.'

He said Kate, who flew to Lisbon last week for the start of the libel trial, changed whenever she was in Portugal where she felt most people believed Mr Amaral's theories.

'She feels she can't be seen to smile,' he told the court.

'Almost any form of relaxation is a problem, she wouldn't even go to the gym on her own, because there's still a belief most people in Portugal think she and Gerry are responsible for killing Madeleine.


'What is normal behaviour for her at home is very different when she is in Portugal.'

Revealing he had received an email informing him Mr Amaral had asked for £67,000 for an interview with Channel 5 in September 2009, he added: 'Kate's reaction was this was confirmation this was not about justice or truth.

'This was about greed.' Amaral, 56, is denying defamation.

He insists everything he published in his book is already contained in police and court case files on Madeleine which have been made public - an argument disputed by the McCanns.

The case, due to finish hearing evidence in November, continues next Friday.

It is believed Kate's mother Susan Healy, cousin Michael Corner and Gerry's sister Bridget Cameron, known as Trish, will be called as witnesses.