'ROGUE OF THE DAY'

Clarence Mitchell 
 
On the day Madeleine McCann was reported missing, Clarence Mitchell ruled the roost at Tony Blair’s expensive, 40-strong: ‘Media Monitoring Unit’. Forty people, costing millions a year, not to make the country run any better, but just to see what the press were saying about the government! Of course, it would be more appropriately called the ‘Media Manipulation Unit’, because - as Mitchell once famously boasted to Spanish magazine ‘L’Espresso’ -: “My job was to control what comes out in the media”.
For 10 years, Clarence Mitchell has been the ever-present PR spokesman for the McCanns. And what his main achievement has been is to produce a most unholy alliance between the need of the McCanns and the government to hide what really happened to Madeleine McCann, and the need of a failing print media for great front page stories to raise flagging newspaper sales and drum up sagging advertising revenue. 
 
Who has benefited from this unholy alliance? The McCanns and the McCann Team. The British government. The nonentities who were employed at vast cost by Operation Grange. The Sun. The Mirror, the Mail, the Express, The News of the World –and other British papers. 
 
Who’s lost out? We have. The public. We have been denied the truth. It has been a 10-year victory - so far - for PR over the truth.
Some idea of the intensity of Clarence Mitchell’s interaction with the press can be gleaned from the evidence of Daniel Sanderson of the News of the World to the Leveson enquiry on press standards. He gave evidence about the publication of Kate’s dairy and said:
“It was clear to me that we could not publish the story without the McCanns’ permission. My understanding of the situation was that Mr Edmondson had sought permission to publish the diary from Mr Mitchell.
“I acquired this understanding because Mr Edmondson told me that he was going to speak to Mr Mitchell about the story at the end of the week. 
 
“It is only natural Mr Edmondson sought that permission because he had an ongoing. relationship with Mr Mitchell. As I understand it, they spoke almost daily on the phone to talk about stories connected to the case”.
But, of course, Mitchell did not only talk to the News of the World daily, he talked to all the other papers as well. His strategy appeared to be to hand out stories to the main tabloids like giving a child sweets.
The press was desperate for good front page stories. Anything to put an appealing photo of Madeleine McCann on their front cover.
‘Madeleine in U.S.’, ‘Raymond Hewlett did it’, ‘Madeleine went on yacht to Australia’, ’Maddie in Morocco’, ’Maddie in hellish Lair’, ‘Maddie home by Christmas’, ‘McCanns buoyed by new lead’ etc. etc. 

Absolutely any old rubbish was printed.


 
But very often Clarence Mitchell was not named in these stories. The information had come from:
‘A family pal’
‘A source close to the family’
‘A family friend’
‘A source close to the police’
‘A source close to the investigation’
‘A Scotland Yard source’.
A pound to a penny that all these were Clarence Mitchell himself. 

 
Last word on Clarence Mitchell to Richard D Hall and his quite brilliant 9-minute compilation of a dozen or more of Mitchell’s outright lies about the Madeleine McCann case in front of a group of semi-conscious, gullible Australian journalists, in ‘Clarence Mitchell Lies to Australian CommsCon Conference about Madeleine McCann, subtitled; ‘Clarence Mitchell’s Cesspit of Lies’, link here:  


Actually, I’ve just watched that video again. It’s more than 12 lies. I counted 22. 

Michael Shrimpton
 
Michael Shrimpton was an exceptionally bright, talented and successful barrister. But he began to fall from grace, becoming a Walter Mitty character who increasingly came up with fantastical stories which bore little relation to reality.
 
A true expert on the law of the British constitution and on weights and measures legislation, he became famous in 2001 as the defender of Steve Thoburn, the ‘metric martyr’ greengrocer who was punished for defying the European Union-enforced law which required him to sell his bananas and other produce in kilograms instead of pounds. He wrote a masterly legal Opinion on the subject and forced the government to invent an entirely new concept - a ‘hierarchy of statutes’ - to get around the fact, which Shrimpton proved beyond doubt, that the law imposing the sale of loose goods in kilos was actually illegal. 
 
But enough of that, what was his involvement in the Madeleine McCann case?
 
Shrimpton had for years moved in intelligence circles. He was forever boasting about his intelligence knowledge and contacts. He had also become an attention-seeker, for example making up another fantastical story, this time about Dr David Kelly being killed by Iraqi hit-men.
 
And so it was that Shrimpton issued what came to be known as the ‘Shrimpton Report’, purportedly an account of what the intelligence services had told him had really happened to Madeleine McCann.
 
I actually have the full Shrimpton report on my forum, plus oodles of posts by Shrimpton, as he was once a member both of CMOMM and the Missing Madeleine forum . I had to remove it all form public view because, quite frankly, it was all rubbish.
 
Perhaps he might more generously be called a ‘Walter Mitty fantasist’ rather than a ‘rogue’. So that you can judge for yourselves. I have pulled out four paragraphs from Shrimpton’s ramblings so that you can make up your own minds.
 
In the last of the four, he explains what he says really happened to Madeleine McCann.
 
Here they are:
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“Good morning everybody, I must apologise for my delay in posting, but I attended a briefing yesterday from a US General on the US Army's impressive revision of its tactical doctrine, have had to brief in the Director's office at the FBI on the reasons why al Megrahi was correctly, in my opinion, returned to Libya, participate in a 2 1/2 hour telephone conference on security for the Olympic Games, formulating some recommendations which will go in due course to the Olympic Security Authority and deal with the wash-up from the MV Arctic Sea incident, including a courtesy call into the CNO (Chief of Naval Operations). I also went to the aid of my friend Ambassador John Bolton, who was attacked in a Telegraph forum and himself has been mis-briefed on Lockerbie, and had the plumber around to fix a leaking water tank! I shall be lucky to get 4 hours sleep tonight, and please do not be offended if I am a little slow responding to comments. I work 24/7 in the sense that I might make or take calls from time zones as far apart as Taiwan, Edwards AFB, Wellington (tonight!) and Jerusalem in a day, or get rung up by CIA at 3 am (that's happened - perils of stored numbers!)(I think I must have yawned about halfway through this telephone conference when one of the boys twigged and asked what time it was with me, leading to a cheap crack about thinking the CIA had clocks!!). Life gets hectic at times. Thank goodness for rewind on Sky, otherwise I would miss the Australian wickets@..
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“Having been courteous enough to allow me to join your forum please allow me to clear up some misunderstandings. The e-mail from myself was NOT an article, nor was it for publication, nor was it placed on the Internet with my consent, nor would consent have been given had it been sought. It was a reply to an e-mail to me, copied to a private discussion group and was not intended for publication. For the avoidance of doubt whilst I believe Madeleine was sedated on the night she was kidnapped I am NOT suggesting that she was sedated by her poor parents, for whom I have the greatest sympathy. Sedation is a standard feature of child kidnap. I have a low opinion of Metodo 3 but then they have a low opinion of me, so we're equal. Had they known CNI (Spanish internal intelligence) read my report they might have been a bit kinder, but there it is. CNI are quite charming people by the way , and provide good coffee - a lot better than the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, believe me!”
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“Now the McCann case. I was first involved within about 24 hours of the kidnap, when it started to look like a bad one., ie a paedophile ring. MI6 got an officer down there pretty quickly, no names no pack drill (some stuff I can talk about, some I can't), it was quite clear the poor girl had been taken and that her parents were NOT involved, equally clear blaming them, apart from some childcare arrangements which were not ideal (and didn't make a difference since the bad guys were tooled up, with silencers) was a convenient way out and that there were heavy duty political considerations. Six were hauled off, officially, pretty quickly and the case handed over to Leicestershire Police and the locals. Not good. Of course the intelligence passing across my desk went to the police, but it had an irritating habit of finding its way to Lisbon and we never found a way of closing down the leak, nor was there a way of keeping material off computers, which were clearly insecure (nothing the police could do about it - trapdoors are integral and if you're using a Chinese made chip you've had it, if Peking are on the other side dishing out the codes)”
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“The leaked report was prepared at the request of a former member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, as it states. It was handled very securely, initially, but the Prime Minister's first copy went walkies, via a member of the Cabinet, and was leaked, disgracefully, to the Mirror, in modified form, presumably to try and disguise the leak; the idiot who leaked it may have thought by leaving my typos in he'd make me look silly, not realising these were verification typos, an old German trick Mossad (lovely people) pointed out to me a few years back. By the time it was leaked, Madeleine had been moved, i.e. the leak did not prejudice a rescue had one been authorised (it wasn't, to my utter fury). We never again got real-time intelligence about where she was being held. Yes, Madeleine she was moved to Chile - remember the sighting report from Cordoba? That was her; ditto Vicuna, in Chile. The bad guys tripped up there - remember my Chilean client. The Chilean Air Force were wonderful - they had a 707 Phalcon, a lovely bit of kit, which I am told did a high-level fly-over to verify, but they would have needed a new coup to get permission to mount a rescue. If you want to kidnap a child, don't do it in Chile. She was moved by road back to Argentina, then to Europe, and the next we heard of her was the Montpelier sighting, the tape of which (commercial, not DST) was held back from Task, the judge and the poor family. Of course, she was alive in early 2008 - the sniffer dog evidence is worthless, as the dogs cannot identify the cadaver - they can only scent a cadaver, all you need to lay a false trail is a body, or piece of clothing from a body. I am sorry to say the idea of Madeleine's parents carting her dead body round in a rented Renault is risible. Since there is CCTV footage of her alive and well (she was not mis-treated, thank God, according to the video evidence) in 2008 and the Renault was handed back in 2007. Very obviously she was never in the Renault, alive or dead, after that fateful Thursday. I have no reason to doubt that the tragic intelligence that she was murdered, by fatal injection, by the DVD [German state intelligence agency], in December 2008 is correct”.

Re:  Michael Shrimpton

What sheer unadulterated nonsense! 

I've read some pretty crazy theories about the case but this one takes the top prize - the golden raspberry award!

The world's gone completely bonkers.

Blimey, that really is quality cobblers. What hope...''Doh!''

Rebekah Brooks
 
She edited the Sun for years, then her idol Rupert Murdoch made her the Chief Executive Officer of his international media empire, News International. For years she bedded Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World, and David Cameron’s Director of Communications from 2009 to 2011. Cameron and Coulson appointed the McCanns’ PR chief, Clarence Mitchell, as Cameron’s Deputy Director of Communications in early 2010, during the General Election Campaign.
Before she was forced to resign over the Millie Dowler ‘phone hacking affair, and the scandal over top Metropolitan Police officers being paid to supply information to Murdoch’s newspapers, she oversaw literally hundreds of non-stories about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, which must have made millions of extra pounds for her boss, Murdoch.

But her most powerful moment came in May 2011, at the fourth anniversary of Madeleine’s reported disappearance.
 
This was a very exciting moment for the McCanns - and Rebekah Brooks was right in the thick of it. One of her newspapers, the Sun, serialised Kate McCann’s ‘heartbreaking’ book, ‘madeleine’. The serialisation lasted two weeks and was a huge boost to sales of the Sun whilst at the same time promoting Kate McCann’s ‘Book of Truth’. Or as Donald Trump’s press spokesman might have said: “We have alternative facts”.
 
For the past two years or more, the McCanns had desperately tried to force the government to grant them an independent review.

The McCanns said they needed to see all the Portuguese police reports ‘to see if they had missed any important leads’.

Labour Home Secretary Alan Johnson had refused them. So had the new Home secretary, Theresa May.
 
But someone was much more powerful than either of these Home Secretaries.


A near neighbour of David Cameron, the two had been horse riding together. They would text each other, ‘Call me Dave’ Cameron signing off (as he thought), ‘Lots of Love’. Only much later did Cameron learn that every time he sent lots of love to Rebekah he was actually typing ‘Laugh out Loud’!
 
Rebekah Brooks found a way to get that review the Mcanns were so desperate for. She had the brass neck to threaten her friend the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with ‘a week of bad headlines about Theresa May.
 
She was successful. Cameron buckled and asked his new Home Secretary Theresa May to order the hapless Sir Paul Stephenson, then the Met Police Commissioner, to set up Operation Grange. Nearly six years later, at a cost of over £13 million so far, it is still running. David Cameron’s spokesman at the time said the purpose of the review was ‘to help the family’ - which proved accurate, since the review’s remit was to investigate the abduction. 
 
At the Leveson enquiry, Lord Leveson asked Ms Brooks if she had ‘threatened’ the Prime Minister.
 
“I wouldn’t use that word”, Brooks smirked.
“What word would you use?”, asked Leveson.
With a coquettish smile, Brooks answered: ‘Persuaded’.

Tracey Kandohla

Tracey Kandohla lives in the same village as Kate & Gerry McCann - Rothley, Leicestershire.



From this handy base, she has pumped out - and been paid for - any old rubbish that Kate & Gerry, and their minder, Clarence Mitchell, wanted them to say. Back in the ‘good old days’, Clarence used to have afternoon tea and biscuits with Ms Kandohla, a convenient bolt-hole for him to dream up when the next McCann story was going to appear, and what would be in it. 
 
A search of the journalisted site (Here: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) shows that since July 2007 she has written a total of 149 articles for the press, of which over 80 - well over half - feature words ‘Kate’, ‘Maddie’ or ‘Madeleine’. What a good job for her professional career that Madeleine still hasn’t been found! 
 
It must be tough work thinking up new adjectives for poor Kate: ‘distraught’, ‘haggard’, ‘pale and drawn’, ‘tireless’ - plus the occasional ‘angry’.
 
Some years ago, Ms Kandohla was hauled up before the Press Complaints Commission – and found ‘Guilty’. Here is their ruling:

Complainant Name: Mrs Gill Faldo Clauses Noted: 10 Publication: The Sun
Complaint: Mrs Gill Faldo of Berkshire complained that a journalist from The Sun had sought to obtain information about her in breach of Clause 11 (Misrepresentation) of the Code of Practice. 

The complaint was upheld.

The complainant said that the journalist, Tracey Kandohla, had turned up at the complainant’s house and pretended to the housekeeper that she was a friend of the complainant who was desperate to contact her. The complainant was abroad at the time but the journalist was invited into the house and chatted with the housekeeper about the complainant’s new home. Shortly afterwards an article appeared about the house including an estimate of its worth and details of its interior. The complainant found this article intrusive.

The newspaper said that while the journalist had not said that she was a journalist she had not claimed to be a friend and at no time was she asked whether she was a journalist. 

Furthermore, her name would have been familiar to Mrs Faldo so there was no question of her impersonating somebody else in order to gain information. Decision: Upheld

Adjudication: It was clear to the Commission that, in not revealing that she was a journalist, Ms Kandohla had allowed a misleading impression of who she was to develop. The housekeeper had been given no reason to believe that Ms Kandohla was a journalist and consequently she discussed the complainant and allowed Ms Kandohla access to her house, something she would not have done had she known Ms Kandohla’s identity. The Commission could understand the complainant’s irritation and upset at the journalist’s behaviour and upheld the complaint.
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Her most recent blunder, though, was earlier this month, when she claimed in several newspapers that the controversial ‘Tennis Balls Photo’ was ‘the McCanns’ last photo of Maddie’. We covered this on CMOMM here:  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

And on my ’Abuse of Power’ blog, here: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Plus two chapters by PeterMac here:  [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

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Come on, Tracey, up your game! 
 
For the past 10 years your gym mate, Kate, has been telling us that the ‘Pool Photo’ is the true ‘Last Photo’. 

Give Kate a ring, she’ll soon put you right!

Antonella Lazzeri - Journalist and regular McCann'ite

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Monster who made a mint out of Maddie

8 years on, how ‘super sleuth’ failed the McCanns
By ANTONELLA LAZZERI    1st May 2015

ADORING women flock around him, chanting his name, throwing red roses and blowing him kisses.

Smiling and waving, their idol laps up the attention, posing for photos, signing autographs and even giving a lucky few a peck on the cheek.

For all the world you may have thought the man at the centre of the fuss and flashing a diamond earring stud was an ageing pop star greeting his fans at the stage door.

In fact the setting was the entrance to Lisbon’s Palace of Justice and the man was former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral.

This is the man Madeleine McCann’s parents hold responsible for virtually destroying every hope there was of finding their daughter in the first crucial hours and days after she went missing on May 3, 2007.

And he is a man who has continued to add to their torment in the years since by claiming over and over that their beloved daughter is dead.

He has raked in nearly £400,000 from spouting these claims in a book and TV documentary.

He even hired an agent and was at one time charging £75,000 for an interview.

Before long he was driving a flashy Jag and living in a plush villa.

Tomorrow marks the eighth anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine, who was three years old.

The scenes of Amaral preening in front of besotted fans outside court were witnessed by parents Kate and Gerry more than two years after that terrible night
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It was December 11, 2009, and incredibly, it was the first time Kate had ever set eyes on him.

As the mum was to write later in her book Madeleine: “It was also the first time he had laid eyes on me.
“It is extraordinary that he could have said and written so many awful things about a person he had never met.”

This week the couple finally won their libel battle against Amaral that had begun back on that December day more than five years ago.

Kate, 46, has mostly kept a dignified silence on the subject of Amaral, but in one interview she revealed how son Sean, now nine, had told her: “Mr Amaral said you hid Madeleine.”

When Madeleine disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, Amaral, now 56, was quickly drafted in as the supersleuth who would crack the case.

At the time he was the co-ordinator of the Policia Judiciaria’s Criminal Investigation Department in Portimao.

But during the investigation he only met Gerry once and seemingly had not thought it relevant to even meet, let alone talk to, the mother of the child he was tasked with finding.

At court, in his heavy gold chain and with his bulging belly, he conducted himself like a celebrity.

He gave TV interviews at every opportunity and wined and dined his fans — who all seemed to be women of a certain age with a fondness for bright red lipstick and fur coats — over long lunches.

Back in October 2007 it was his comments made during a similar lunch that saw him taken off Madeleine’s case.

Journalists overheard him loudly complaining that the McCanns were getting special treatment because they were from the UK, and criticising British police. He was removed after his comments were reported.

But it was surprising that Amaral was ever in charge in the first place.

Because at the time he was himself an “arguido” — an official suspect — in a case involving another mother of a missing child.

He was being investigated for falsifying documents in a case involving three of his officers accused of torturing the missing girl’s mum and uncle to get their confessions.

Little Joana Cipriano, eight, had disappeared in September 2004 from her village seven miles from Praia da Luz. She has never been found.

The officers were cleared, but in May 2009 Amaral was convicted of perjury and received an 18-month suspended sentence.

Years later, as Kate combed through police files, she was to be driven to tears of frustration and rage by all the missed opportunities. So many leads and sightings had simply not been followed up.

The reason? From an early stage in the investigation, as Amaral later admitted in his book, he decided Madeleine had died in an accident.

Then, he reckoned, her parents panicked, hid her body and made up the story about her abduction.

So while Kate and Gerry were clinging to the hope that a huge manhunt would soon bring their daughter back to them, Amaral’s team were in fact searching for clues and evidence to implicate them.

Even the cop assigned to be the McCanns’ family liaison officer was in fact looking for hints of guilt, it emerged during the libel case.

One night, he told the court, Kate had phoned him to beg for a hilltop in Praia da Luz to be searched, because she had had a dream that Madeleine was buried there.

From this, he reported back to Amaral, he believed that Kate was admitting Madeleine was dead — further proof of the couples’ “guilt”.

It seems absurd that a top police chief would base his conclusions on bizarre “’evidence” such as this. And yet, much to Kate and Gerry’s complete despair, he did.

No wonder Kate wrote in her book: “What probably galls me the most about Amaral’s interviews is the way he presents himself as a person who, perhaps above all others, really wants to find Madeleine and get to the bottom of her fate.
“I cannot begin to express how much this outrages me.”

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Amaral is well thought of in Portugal and his utterings were clearly turning locals against the McCanns.

As Kate told me despairingly: “If people believe Madeleine is dead they will stop searching for her.”

Yet she never wanted to enter into a long libel battle against him.

It was Portuguese lawyer Isabel Duarte who told Kate and Gerry, 46, that they had no choice but to do it, declaring: “That man has accused you of burying your daughter!”

Meanwhile, Amaral’s second wife Sofia Leal, 45 — with whom he has a daughter the same age as Madeleine — has said he has been “completely destroyed” by the case.

And recently Amaral himself, who is now retired, said: “It’s hard to accept that I have to live this way just because I did my job.”

For Kate and Gerry those words must cut deep.

Because they believe if Amaral HAD done his job their beloved Madeleine may now be with them.

500 miles for Kate

JUST a day before the eighth anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine, mum Kate McCann says she is “more driven than ever” to continue the search.

Kate made her vow as she announced her mission to raise £10,000 for the charity Missing People by cycling 500 miles from Edinburgh to London.

The GP, from Rothley, Leics, will start her ride on June 13 at Arthur’s Seat and plans to finish at the Tower of London on June 17.

She is also calling for people to support Missing People’s [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] campaign, which urges people to give up a luxury for the month and donate the money saved to the charity.

On International Missing Children’s Day, May 25, The Sun will be supporting Missing People’s Big Tweet.

The annual event sees the charity post appeals about lost youngsters on Twitter, which get retweeted.

Last year’s supporters included David and Victoria Beckham, Simon Cowell and David Cameron

Michael Wright

Michael Wright is a ‘cousin-in-law’ of the McCanns.via his wife Ann-Marie, who is Kate McCann’s cousin. 
 
There’s a good article about him. ‘A Wright Lie’. on the L-azzeri-lies-in-the-sun blog, link here:


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Wright’s lie was to say this to a court in Lisbon (in September 2013) hearing the McCanns’ libel action against Dr Goncalo Amaral: “I was the person responsible for giving Gerry and Kate McCann a copy of Dr Goncalo Amaral’s book: Maddie - A Verdade da Mentira (Maddie -The Truth of the Lie). I gave them, in August 2008, an English translation of this book that I had found online”.


This was a lie on two counts. First, there was no English translation of Amaral’s book online (or anywhere else) until 2009. Second, as the now defunct McCannFiles site made clear many years ago, Gerry and Kate McCann’s lawyers had the book professionally translated into English within days of the book being published in late July 2008. Wright’s evidence was false.


At that Lisbon hearing, Wright was seen by Amaral’s lawyer rehearsing his evidence from some written notes. The judge asked what they were. He replied: “Notes about my feelings and ‘special contacts’.” The judge asked to see these notes, which turned out to have been heavily underlined with green ink in various places. The judge wasn’t very convinced by Wright’s evidence anyway, pointing out tartly that as a cousin of the McCanns, he was hardly independent.


Michael Wright gave an interview for SKY News and others on 17 May 2007, just two weeks after Madeleine was reported missing. Here is the video:



Just one day earlier, the ‘Find Madeleine Fund - Leaving No Stone Unturned’ had been set up, with a great fanfare.

But days before that, Michael Wright had done something perhaps much more important.  
He, together with Gerry McCann and Alex Woolfall, the Head of Risk at international media firm Bell Pottinger, had got the SD cards from the McCanns’ camera, and probably the Paynes’ camera as well. And were busy editing them, cropping them and deleting them before, on 9 May, handing a carefully-chosen selection of photos to the Portuguese police on a disk.


What should have happened, of course, is that they should have handed over the cameras and SD memory cards to the police. No doubt there was a very good reason why Gerry McCann, Wright and Woolfall did things their way.


Michael Wright went to Portugal several times, a few days at a time, during the McCanns’ four-month stay in Portugal. Tony Bennett wrote a detailed account of these visits in early 2008 and it’s now available on the forum, link here:

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This bit from Tony’s article is interesting, quote:

We looked at a few facts about the hire of the Renault Scenic above. Now we look at the following extract from Michael Wright’s synopsis: “On a number of occasions he [Michael Wright] noticed an unpleasant smell in the vehicle that he put down to the twins used nappies which had been discarded with the general waste. He was not aware of any spillages in the vehicle or anyone cleaning it”.




Given these statements, it is more than passing interest that a neighbour of the McCanns observed that ‘the back door of the Renault Scenic was left open all night long’ - presumably to get rid of the smell? It is hardly likely that the McCanns would have left ‘rotting meat’ and ‘dirty nappies’ in the back of the car for long enough for the smell to remain. Smells like that would be washed away with a good clean. The smell of human cadaverine, however, once it attaches to an item, can linger for years.



 
It is interesting that he uses the term ‘unpleasant smell’. As a mature adult, he would surely know what kind of smells resulted from ‘rotting meat’ and ‘dirty nappies’. But he doesn’t say the car smelt of either of these. He talks about an ‘unpleasant smell’ - and one that clearly lingered a long time, being noticed ‘on several occasions’. Incidentally, though Michael Wright claims that he was not aware of the car ever being cleaned, there is evidence that another relative, Sandy Cameron, was seen cleaning it on several occasions. Clearly it was a most unusual smell. Could it have been the ‘smell of death’ detected by Eddie, the cadaver dog?


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Michael Wright has admitted to interacting with McCann-sceptics on certain Madeleine McCann forums, websites and blogs. It was widely suspected that he did so under the username ‘Greenink’, which appeared to be confirmed when the judge in one of the Lisbon trials asked to see some notes he was reading whilst giving his evidence, which turned out to be underlined all over the place in green ink. But whether Wright really is ‘Greenink’ has never been proved.
 
There’s a lot more about Wright in Tony’s article. I recommend it. It’s a very interesting read.


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Today there is no ‘Rogue of the Day’. I will resume next week.

I am planning to hold a poll on which are the worst rogues in the Madeleine McCann case.


I will choose 10 from the list posted by everyone on this thread, and we can then vote on who we think is our ‘worst’ rogue. 
 
Could you please help by telling me the names of those people you think should make our ‘Top Ten’ shortlist. 
 
Here are the names we have covered already, in alphabetical order:


 
POSTED BY ME:

Matt Baggott
Sir Richard Branson
Martin Brunt
Rebekah Brooks
Gordon Brown
DCS Hamish Campbell
Carter-Ruck
Marcos Aragao Correia
Arthur Cowley
Dave Edgar
Antonio Giminez Raso
Sir Philip Green
Kevin Halligen
Tracey Kandohla
Brian Kennedy
Melissa Little
Francisco Marco
Max Mosley
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor
Father Pacheco
Julian Peribanez
Detective Superintendent Stuart Prior
DCI Andy Redwood
Michael Shrimpton
Edward Smethurst
Dr Joe Sullivan
Adam Tudor (Carter-Ruck)
Alex Woolfall
Mark Williams-Thomas
Michael Wright 
Ray Wyre
 
POSTED BY OTHERS: 
 
Ernie Allen, NCMEC (U.S.), ICMEC
Lord Timothy Bell
Pope Benedict XVI
Stephen D Birch
Sir Richard Branson
Simon Cowell
Sir Alec Jeffreys
Lorraine Kelly
Justine McGuinness
Esther McVey
Lady Catherine Meyer CBE
Sonia Poulton


That’s 43 names so far. Thanks to all those who have added some more names. 
 
Help me get that number down to our ‘Top Ten’ please.

It's a tough choice but number one rogue for me is Clarence Mitchell.

Sir Bernard Hogan Howe's name not on the list I see?

That is a tough one, to me they are all equally roguish.

As Rebekah Brooks said, "we're all in this together"

Where's that worm John McCann and his deviant artist Brother in Law Tony Rickwood? Not to mention Aunty Phil

Then, there's the likes of Cat Baker, Wayne Hewlett, Jayne Jensen any many others who have sold their bogus stories to the press

And, Oh - Has Anthony Summers been mentioned yet?

In terms of out and out roguery - top of the bill..

Clarence Mitchell
Arthur Cowley
David Edgar
DS Stuart 'call me Stu' Prior
DCI Andy Redwood
Mark Williams-Thomas

They were the UK's front line, the primary hope for Madeleine McCann, they alone were in a position to follow the lead of the PJ and continue on UK soil to solve the Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann. 

They failed - miserably!  In fact they didn't even try.

The rogues gallery personified.

I think that Tony Blair may just top Mitchell.  After all, it was him that appointed Mitchell as McCann spokesman and it was probably him who started the government interference in this case. 

He and his wife are also heavily involved in the PACT\Missing people charities.

He was also questioned under caution in the 2006/07 cash for honours scandal, along with Lord Levy who was assisted in his role of fundraiser for Blair, by Margaret (Oppenheimer) Hodge (whose nephew conveniently photographed Madeleine in PDL but failed to produce the photographs).  And who is it that supports the McCanns most? Its  all those highly honoured people:  Sir Richard Branson, Sir Phillip Green, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Clement Freud, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe 

And what about those elite paedophiles who were protected until death?  Sir Cyril Smith, Sir Jimmy Saville, Sir Clement Freud.

Sorry, Mitchell is no.2  for me

Top of the Plops

Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Clarence Mitchell

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Mike Gunnill

Mike "I lied, my Lord" Gunnill deserves a place in our Rogues Gallery.

I can't write too much about him though as he's a particularly nasty and dangerous piece of work who trapped Tony Bennett for the McCanns and Carter-Ruck, using an anonymous identity, and then had to admit under oath in Court that he lied.




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There's also plenty of info about him on this forum.

HI GGG,surely Carter Ruck must be included in any rogue of the day,especially if they used Mike Gunnill to entrap Tony Bennett,via Mr Bennett's defamation case,was the Judge part of the"Masonic"helping a fellow Brother clan?
PS,just noticed you had included Carter-**ck?

Philomena McCann

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Philomena McCann - Sky News 16th May 2007

McCann Relatives Launch Fighting Fund

Philomena McCann, school teacher and partner to an art deviant and big sister of Gerald McCann.  She was the first to take up the position of unofficial UK spokesperson for all things McCann and became a very weighty media presence in the early days.  She was responsible for enlisting the aid of an ex-student to set-up the official Find Madeleine website from a garden shed.

Her job, for the want of a better word, included promoting the false stories fed by the McCann defence campaign from Portugal.  There are many examples of her performance still available to see and read, here's a starter..

'the family was hoping the “dirty animal” who stole the wallet was shamed into handing them back. How can you do that to someone who’s been through what he has?'

'Kate had been offered a deal to confess'

'Gerry and Kate knew instantly - which is why Kate responded by being hysterical - that someone had snatched her daughter. Convincing other people has been the hardest job.'

'Well, Gerry says that anything that's happened has been British led. They had some posters put up and people have been helping distribute... and the kindness of people that they don't know, as well as their frem... family and friends, has been utterly immense. But in the Portuguese end it's been so subdued, it's all low-key; it's not enough, they have to do so much more. '

'Gerry and Kate are in a clear line of sight of their kids. They regularly go across to check; maybe if the kids have been disturbed or crying or anything and if they'd come out the front they would have seen them. '

 'It is obvious that someone with malicious intent went through that window and took Madeleine from the safety and security of her family.'

'To suggest in any possible way that Kate and Gerry are negligible pare... negligent pare... negligent parents, sorry, is just abhorrent to all of us. They love their family; they would never willingly, knowingly or in any way neglect them. It's horrible.'

' Yeah, well, I mean, for Gerry and Kate, they want to get out there. They want to search everything; they want to leave nothing unturned but, then, that's for everyone that we've spoken to. '

'the search was only upgraded to a major investigation after the intervention of John Buck, Britain's ambassador in Portugal.'

'I mean, you can hear his voice breaking. His wife, she can barely stand up. She can't sleep, she can't eat.'

'They spent seven hours in the police station yesterday. What for? It took three hours just to get a statement from Kate, and Kate is an extremely articulate young woman. What's going on?'
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A random selection for starters, sure there are many more - fell free to add.  Time is of the essence, I have to logout  .

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe


Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe is now the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, where he has proved to be extremely unpopular and ineffective. At the time Madeleine McCan was reported missing, he was Chief Constable of Merseyside Police. Liverpool is Kate McCann’s home town.

On 17 June, the BBC ran a report on its website titled: ‘[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]’. The article informed us:

“People in Liverpool are helping to promote the continued search for missing toddler Madeleine McCann. A thousand messages of support attached to helium balloons will be released later by Madeleine's grandparents Sue and Brian Healey. The 4-year-old's grandparents live in the Mossley Hill area - Madeline's mum Kate grew up in the city. The four-year-old was snatched from her bed while on holiday in Portugal's Praia da Luz resort on 3 May.

The local community want to show support for the appeal. The balloons will cost a pound to sponsor and all money will go to the Madeleine appeal fund. The Chief Constable of Merseyside Police - Bernard Hogan Howe will lead the release of balloons on the highest point of Liverpool inner city on Mossley Hill Field at 1400 BST.

Maybe it was partly because of this nifty bit of public relations work for the McCanns that Hogan-Howe was able to land Britain’s top police job - running the Met Police - on 26 September 2011. By then, Operation Grange had been running for about three months.


His 6-year tenure of this office has been littered with failures and tales of institutional corruption in the Met. There was ‘Plebgate’. There was the failed prosecution of journalists who had been supplied with information by Met Police officers. There was the comprehensive failure of Operation Midland. Hogan-Howe personally took the decision not to arrest Islamist jihadists who were waving the flag of ISIS, despite the Prime Minister of the country vowing that: "The position is clear. If people are walking around with ISIS flags or trying to recruit people to their terrorist cause they will be arrested and their materials will be seized."

What has his record been on the Madeleine McCann case?

• He authorised the remit of Operation Grange - to investigate the abduction’ - which we are told was decided by the man who helped to arrest the wrong man for the murder of Jill Dando – Barry George/Bulsara
  
• He kept on asking for more taxpayers’ money and more time to carry on with an investigation that has still got absolutely nowhere, keeping this farce going now for six whole years
  
• He authorised the Met Police to work with the BBC Crimewatch team to produce a wholly inaccurate programed, beamed to 6.7 million viewers, about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, and
  
• He authorised vast expenditure, including commissioning top-of-the-range Alouette Mark III Portuguese military helicopters, to conduct a fruitless search of two areas of waste ground in Praia da Luz.
  

Later this month, Hogan-Howe will retire, and will no doubt be replaced by someone equally capable of doing what he is told to do by the powers that be.

Hi GGG,thanks for the"Rogue of the day"Sir Bernard Hogan Howe,now to be known as the"Calamity Commissioner"due to being involved unfortunately to so many important Police Operations and has such a high success rate in not being able to,"Confirm or Deny"aspects attributed to these investigations?
Sir Bernard Hogan Howe was head of Human Resources when Top Police Officers assigned to protect the Queen,were involved in organising their own companies trading in equity markets and used Funds from the"Federation members"to purchase properties,equities,which then also failed to deliver on their promises,they where also involved in quantities of illegal drugs,not bad when your undercover of the"Nose of the Police",eh Sir Bernard?
Now to be sent to the"Forensic wipe erm clean"IPCC?

Certainly well decorated for services rendered - a true Sir in every respect.

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He always looks to me as though he rates himself - must be that 'at gone to 'is 'ead.

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He always looks to me as though he rates himself - must be that 'at gone to 'is 'ead.

Hi Verdi,notice Sir Bernards"Short neck"so he cannot smell his own Bovine spirit being espoused from those tightly closed lips?

Surprised Isabel Duarte isn't on the list yet

Henri Exton

Henri Exton is a shadowy figure. So shadowy that no photo of him can be found on the internet. However, you can catch glimpses of him on the 2014 Channel 5 documentary 'The McCanns and the Conman', where he appears in silhouette from time to time, link here:

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In the video, he makes out that he was deceived by arch-rogue Kevin Halligen and never got paid by him. Shame. 

Henri Exton’s main claim to fame in the Madeleine McCann case is to have knocked up these two e-fits, probably in the spring of 2008:



They then gathered dust until 5½ years later when, out of the blue, DCI Andy Redwood of Operation Grange suddenly produced them on the BBC Crimewatch McCann Special, claiming that this man was now ‘the centre of our focus.

The problem for many people about these two images was that they hardly looked like the same man. The man on the left had these features:

• triangular-shaped chin and lower face
  
• crew-cut hairstyle
  
• very long nose
  
• a ‘younger’-looking face.
  

The man on the right was different in each respect: rectangular face and chin, wavy hair, short nose, ‘older’-looking.

It was claimed that e-fits of this man, or these men, had been drawn up with the help of a Mr Martin Smith, pictured below, a resident of Drogheda, Ireland:



It was hard to see how any member of the Smith family could have drawn up any image of a man they claimed to have seen, let alone two quite different images. The Smiths admitted that:

• they’d only seen the bloke for two or three seconds
  
• on a dark night
  
• in a ‘weakly-lit street.
  

Moreover, when Martin Smith and his two children were interviewed by the Portuguese police on 26 May 2007, they each said they would never be able to recognise him again if they saw him. Yet these efits were drawn up about a year later, when their recollections must have faded even further.

How could Henri Exton have drawn up any efit at all, never mind two quite different ones? It is a complete mystery.
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Well, perhaps not quite complete, for let’s see what we know about Exton.
 
Exton has lived for many years in a house in Bury, just over the border from Rochdale. The McCanns’ co-ordinating solicitor, Freemason Edward Smethurst, now lives just a few hundred yards away from him. As the McCanns’ co-ordinating solicitor, he must at least have been aware of Exton being employed by the Directors of the Find Madeleine Fund. 
 
Exton was employed in the Madeleine McCann case by Kevin Halligen, one of the biggest rogues in the entire case, whom we’ve already covered in ‘Rogue of the Day’.
 
Halligen was a serial fraudster and crook, yet Exton happily agreed to work for him. 
 
Exton had previously been employed doing police undercover work, and had gone on to a career in MI5, where he had eventually reached the high rank of ‘Head of Covert Intelligence’. He would therefore have been in the thick of all the dodgy dealings and cover-ups that MI5 are involved in. An ideal choice for the McCann Team perhaps?
 
Exton himself had had a run-in with the law, having shoplifted a bottle of expensive perfume from Manchester Airport. He pleaded guilty, but later his friends in MI5 made quiet arrangements to have his crime scrubbed from the record.
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Exton was livid when he saw his precious efits, kept under wraps, shown to 7 million viewers on prime time television, 5½ years after he’d drawn them up. He claimed that Halligen hadn’t paid him for all his work. He moaned that the McCanns had kept these ‘vital’ efits secret for years.
 
The Sunday Times promptly recycled Exton’s allegations, only to find themselves at the wrong end of another McCanns’ lawsuit. The Sunday Times settled for £55,000 plus costs, handing them another valuable boost to the coffers of the Find Madeleine Fund. 

Jim Gamble

Jim Gamble has had an intensely close relationship with the McCanns for years. If you use the search bar, you’ll find lots of information about him on CMOMM. A good introduction to his association with the Madeleine McCann case is this article on the forum, ‘Joined at the Hip’, link:

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Gamble’s first job was in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. He moved rapidly up the ranks. He was an intelligence officer during the Kincora Boys Home child abuse scandal, and ended up Head of the RUC’s Anti-Intelligence Unit, a very powerful position indeed. Then he went on to head up Special Branch for the Belfast Region. 
 
Many years later, Baroness Nuala O’Loan was asked to hold an enquiry into the Northern Ireland security services, dealing specifically with a series of murders in the 1990s. The report was shocking. Senior Special Branch officers had murdered people and covered up other murders. Undoubtedly Gamble was right in the thick of all this. Luckily for him, perhaps, Baroness O’Loan decided not to name individual officers in the report, so if Gamble was involved in any serious skullduggery up there, we will never know. Clearly, however, he was very much a ‘chosen one’ by the powers-that-be that were running the police and security services in the province.

From Northern Ireland, he became Deputy Chief Constable of the National Crime Squad, which later became the Serious Organised Crime Agency, or SOCA. There, he had special responsibility for dealing with the problem of child sexual abuse, and in 1999 was asked to head up the controversial Operation Ore. 
 
This operation was inspired by information received from the United States about a company called Landslide, through which you could view all manner of ’porn’ but also violent child sexual abuse images. The whole operation, led by Gamble, was littered with controversy. 
 
During Operation Ore, there were thousands of arrests and 1,451 convictions for viewing child sexual abuse online. The authorities have always regarded Operation Ore as a great success, and it is true that most of the accused pleaded guilty. But significant numbers denied ever having viewed child sexual abuse images. It is generally agreed that there were a large number of false arrests. Dozens of those accused of viewing child sexual images online committed suicide; no-one knows how many of them were actually guilty of having committed a criminal offence. 
 
Then there was the controversy over persistent reports that the list of those investigated by Operation Ore included senior politicians, judges, celebrities and other VIPs. But none of these were prosecuted, apart from Pete Townshend of The Who, who seemed to some to have been picked on just to raise the profile of Operation Ore. 
 
Whatever the truth about Operation Ore, the Blair government in 2006 used its success to appoint Jim Gamble as the head of a brand new task force - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Service - or CEOP.

Less than a year later, CEOP, and Jim Gamble, were at the heart of the reaction to the reported disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Jim Gamble appealed for holiday photos from Praia da Luz to be sent to him personally. Goncalo Amaral later complained that Gamble never sent any to him. He sent out two of his top staff to Praia da Luz - Dr Joe Sullivan (who’s already featured in ‘Rogue of the Day’), and Graham Hill (I plan to include him on the Rogues Gallery). Why? Unless he had private information on what had really happened to Madeleine McCann, as far as he knew, she could well have been found alive in the days that followed the alarm being raised. 
 
But perhaps he did know. There was a credible claim - not yet proved - based on information from the Wayback Machine, that CEOP had set up a dummy page for Madeleine McCann on Monday 30 April, which would confirm the suspicions of many CMOMM members that Madeleine died the day before, Monday 30 April.

And ever since Madeleine was reported missing, there has been an uncannily close connection between Gamble and the McCanns. Look at the record:

• May 2007 – sent his top CEOP staff to Praia da Luz
  
• Has spoken regularly on the McCanns’ behalf ever since
  
• Featured the Madeleine McCann case heavily on the CEOP website throughout 2007 & 2008, claiming that she must have been abducted by a paedophile
  
• In October 2009, the McCanns had a private interview with Jim Gamble. Following that private interview, several press reports revealed that the then Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, had asked Jim Gamble to recommend a new British police force to carry out a review - and possibly a full re-investigation - into Madeleine’s disappearance (see also below). It was baffling why the Home Secretary, knowing Jim Gamble’s extreme closeness to the McCanns, should choose him of all people to recommend who should carry out any independent review into Madeleine’s alleged disappearance.
  
• On 5 November 2009, issued on behalf of CEOP and the McCanns a 60-second video ‘A Minute for Madeleine’, which again suggested that Madeleine had been snatched by a paedophile. It featuring an age-progressed sketch of Madeleine as she might be, aged about six, and it was narrated by Gamble’s old friend Dr Joe Sullivan, also from Northern Ireland.
  
• On 26 January 2010, Jim Gamble organised a CEOP conference and invited Dt Gerry McCann and Dr Joe Sullivan and Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill to speak. The speakers could have been billed as ‘Jim Gamble’s groupies’. The conference was titled: “Taken: Sexually-motivated child abductions - an event for law enforcement officers only”. It was not quite clear why Gerry McCann was invited as there has never been any evidence that Madeleine was the victim of a sexually-motivated abduction. Jim Gamble was asked by e-mail why Gerry McCann had been asked to speak at a conference on sexually-motivated child abductions. He organised a reply via his Training Officer, who replied on 19 January:
  
  “Thank you for your interest in the work of CEOP and your comments. The fact that we invite a speaker does not mean that we endorse their views. Our conferences allow people to exchange and challenge views. The current position regarding the McCanns is that they are the parents of a missing child who is presumed to have been abducted: that being the case anything that Gerry McCann has to say will be of interest to those who work in [law enforcement] and will attend the conference”.
  
• In March 201, Jim Gamble was formally asked to do a feasibility study for a police review into Madeleine’s disappearance. On 19 March, the Yorkshire Evening Post reported (19 March) that Jim Gamble of CEOP was spearheading the carrying-out of a ‘scoping exercise’ to assess the feasibility of a review by a British police force into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. It was headed: “Scoping exercise for Home Office : Shannon cops join hunt for Madeleine McCann”. Bruce Smith’s report continued: “The West Yorkshire Police squad which found missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is to help in the search for Madeleine McCann. The move follows a private meeting between Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann and the Home Secretary Alan Johnson. CEOP has now approached West Yorkshire Police's major inquiry team which found missing Dewsbury nine-year-old Shannon Matthews in March 2008…the approach to West Yorkshire Police is believed to have come direct from CEOP, but they have refused to comment…”
  
• In May 2010, the General Election saw the election of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, with Theresa May being made Home Secretary. She soon proposed that CEOP be brought back under the Serious Organised Crime Agency, now the National Crime Agency. Seeing it as a threat to his power, Gamble told May that he would resign his post as CEOP Chief Executive if she went ahead with her plans. This prompted the McCanns, supported by some of the media, to loudly praise and thank Gamble for his ‘excellent’ work and condemn the Home Secretary for effectively scrapping CEOP as a separate organisation. “A huge loss to child protection”, cried the McCanns. This once again suggested a very close ‘tie’ between the McCanns and Jim Gamble. Also, why were the McCanns so ‘thankful’ to Gamble? After all, he hadn’t found Madeleine. In the event, Gamble did resign, and soon began a new career as the owner of iNEQE, selling very expensive courses on child protection to local authorities It was called iNEQE, said Gamble, because “it is both innovative and unique.
  
• As boss of iNEQE, Gamble organised conferences, in September 2013 and March 2014, with the peculiar title: 'Glimpse CSA'. The CSA stands for 'Child Sexual Abuse', so the bizarre title of these two conferences reads: "Glimpse Child Sexual Abuse". As leading speakers at these conferences, he invited his trusted friends Dr Joe Sullivan and Mark Williams-Thomas, both names from our ‘Rogues Gallery’
  
• On 10 April 2010, as the Independent reported, Gamble declared that “paedophiles convicted of looking at child pornography should not necessarily go to prison”. The report added: “Jim Gamble of CEOP told the BBC he believed some sex offenders should be encouraged to seek treatment rather than be threatened with jail terms…some offenders should receive a police caution, then be managed within the community…too many people are being convicted of paedophilia to be dealt with in the criminal justice system”. Gamble went on: “It is time to adopt a more intelligent posture in tackling the problem…people with a deviant sexual interest in children should get help before they live out that fantasy and are caught!. The BBC reports also featured yet another individual from our ‘Rogues’ Gallery’, the McCanns’ friend, sex- and witchcraft-obsessed Ray Wyre. He was interviewed and said: “Not all people accessing illegal images are paedophiles; some users are motivated by anything from stupidity to curiosity”. Gamble’s views were attacked by Michelle Elliott, Director of the charity Kidscape. She told the BBC: “They are just as guilty as the people taking the photos. If they didn't view, the child wouldn't be abused. Therefore I think those people deserve prison.”.
  
• On 14 October 2013, the BBC screened an extraordinary ‘McCann Special’ edition of CrimeWatch. It featured ‘Smithman’ as the No .1 suspect, and featured yet another ‘reconstruction’ based solely on the McCanns’ version of events. Jim Gamble had written a lengthy article in the Guardian that very morning, in which he said: “Madeleine McCann's abductors should beware, the police will not give up. This is not the time to criticise parenting or policing [but] ...as those first few hours disappeared in confusion and miscommunication, valuable minutes will have been lost. As hours turned to days there was little sense of pause, planning or direction…” He concluded: “Many people have opinions about Kate and Gerry McCann. The rights and wrongs of their meal at the Tapas bar and their approach to checking on the children. I am of the view that there but for the grace of God go I…No-one but the person who took Madeleine is to blame for what has happened to her”. A week earlier, Gamble had been featured in a Daily Mirror article, where he said: “It's a secret that somebody has been keeping for six long years. But sooner or later, the mystery of little Madeleine McCann will be unravelled. Next Monday night Crimewatch will release an appeal for new information, reconstructing the fateful hours before she vanished. The programme will disclose ‘fresh and substantive’ information and hopefully jog a few memories. This is not just about revisiting a cold case. It is about responding to new leads – and the dawning reality that Kate and Gerry’s relentless efforts to reinvigorate the investigation have paid off. The 37-strong team from New Scotland Yard is well funded and detectives have built a solid working relationship with their Portuguese counterparts. They have processed thousands of lines of enquiry, engaging 31 law enforcement agencies worldwide, and revisited evidence gathered but not fully followed up six years ago…” It was crystal clear from this article that Gamble and Operation Grange had linked up to share what DCI Andy Redwood was going to announce on Crimewatch. To describe ‘Smithman’ and ‘Crecheman’ as ‘fresh and substantive information’ shows that many people were involved in the deliberate deception by the BBC and Operation Grange as to the real facts of the Madeleine McCann case.
  
• Despite his new career as owner and boss of iNEQE, Gamble continues to obsessively tweet about the Madeleine McCann case on Twitter, aggressively challenging anyone on Twitter who questions the abduction myth.
  
  

Meanwhile, rogue Richard 'tricky dicky' Branson reigns supreme on his virginal islands with a cool 4 billion petty cash stuffed in his back pocket, entertaining those who need to be entertained..


Welcome to ego island: It's not just Obama. Branson's shamelessly invited legions of celebs and royals to his Caribbean idyll - and all for the greater glory of one man and his brand

Whereas last week "watersports" is what the american MSM were accussing Trump of

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Are you sure it wasn't Obama 'waterboarding'  ?

In a 2015 TV documentary about the island, Branson, posing like a second-rate Hugh Hefner [ ] , boasted about how often his good-looking staff ended up sleeping with the guests.

Meanwhile, Necker’s head of finance, ‘Milly’, boasted how she loved to let guests eat sushi off her naked midriff. ‘I love that I get to be an accountant and then go lay on a table and get people to suck soy sauce out of my belly button. Who else gets to do that?’ she said.

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Sir Richard is often pictured spending time with his guests, such as Mariah Carey

Sounds more like an al fresco brothel to me - Is Branson the Sultan of Swing?

Surely Tony Parsons should be on the list, for his vulgar abuse of the Portuguese ambassador.