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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Cmaryholmes 25.01.17 8:37
May I suggest journalist Tony Parsons? Why is he so enamoured of the Mccanns, even laughably referring to them as 'the embodiment of parental love? What is his interest in this case?
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Jill Havern 25.01.17 9:30
I've done a write-up for him which I'll be posting this week.Cmaryholmes wrote:May I suggest journalist Tony Parsons? Why is he so enamoured of the Mccanns, even laughably referring to them as 'the embodiment of parental love? What is his interest in this case?
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Dr Joe Sullivan
Joe Sullivan seemed to pop up like a bad penny on the Madeleine McCann case.
Like dozens of others sent by HM Government security agencies, Bell Pottinger or the mainstream media, he was there in Praia da Luz when it really mattered. Right at the start.
This press article said:
“Highly respected forensic psychologist Dr Joe Sullivan arrived in Praia da Luz within days of Madeleine’s disappearance as part of a so-called ‘Cracker’ team, with Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill. He returned to the UK on 09 May 2007”.
OK. A few questions first. Who sent out this ‘Cracker’ team? Who else was on the team? And who said that Dr Joe Sullivan was a ‘respected forensic psychologist ‘. Oh, sorry. ‘Highly’ respected!
As in: ‘highly respected police inspector, DCI Redwood’?
Or ‘highly respected PR expert, Clarence Mitchell’?
‘Highly respected MP, cook and TV panelist, Sir Clement Freud’?
Or ‘highly respected criminologist, Mark Williams-Thomas’?
David Brown of The Times on Wednesday 9 May 2007, wrote up Sullivan’s early visit to Praia da Luz as follows:
- Spoiler:
Experts on tracing paedophiles fly out to boost search for girl
Two British experts on sex offenders arrived in Portugal yesterday to help in the hunt for the kidnapper of missing Madeleine McCann.
The forensic behavioural analysts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, which combats paedophiles, were sent in response to a request from the Lisbon Government.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that their arrival would ensure a range of experts was available to explore ‘every possible avenue’ that may have led to Madeleine’s disappearance.
One of the two British experts is the forensic psychologist Joe Sullivan. Mr Sullivan has helped police in Britain and Europe to investigate child sex murder, abduction, organised paedophile rings and underage internet pornography.
He formerly dealt with paedophile priests at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child protection charity that strives to assess and treat abusers. He has published a study into professionals who abuse children. Its conclusions included the striking finding that one in seven paedophiles, including priests, admits choosing vocations to enjoy easy access to children.
Last night John Buck, the British Ambassador to Portugal, confirmed that British experts had arrived in addition to the three family liaison officers from Leicestershire Police.
Mr Buck also defended the actions of the Portuguese police, saying that they had to operate under the constraints of the country’s law.
He added: “I have been in touch closely over the last few days with the cabinet minister here in Portugal and the Prime Minister and Portuguese police. They all assure me that everything possible is being done to ensure the safe return of Madeleine.
“We continue to work closely with the Portuguese authorities. They are very pleased with the collaboration with the British authorities.
“They are in close touch with Interpol and Europol and I know Kate and Gerry, with whom I have just been speaking, are very grateful for their efforts.”
A British tourist claimed yesterday that two weeks ago she saw a man trying to steal a pushchair at the resort where Madeleine went missing.
Amanda Mills, 34, of Basildon, Essex, said that she reported the incident to police last week after reading about the girl’s disappearance. “It was late at night,” Mrs Mills said. “This guy came along and put his hands on a pushchair outside somebody’s apartment. He didn’t even look to see if there was a child in it.”
Portuguese police have told British officers that they believe the man who abducted Madeleine was a tourist from Britain or an expatriate linked to a network of paedophiles in the country.
Portugal is known to be a favoured destination for British paedophiles and the discovery in the early 1990s of a group of men who were abusing local boys helped to persuade the Government to make it illegal for Britons to have sex with underage children abroad.
Reports in Portugal have suggested that Madeleine, whose fourth birthday is on Saturday, had been “abducted for order”. The Correio da Manha said: “One of the most substantial possibilities that the Policia Judiciaria is investigating is that this was paid for and commissioned by a international paedophile, probably of British origin."
Specialist detectives from the sex abuse and homicide unit in Lisbon were dispatched to the holiday region yesterday to take charge of the investigation after growing criticism that the police had been slow to react and had failed to make progress in tracking the abductor.
Antonio Santana Carlos, the Portuguese Ambassador in London, said that police were doing all they could but had to abide by the country’s secrecy laws. He said: “They are doing their best in cooperation with Europol and Interpol. For the parents of Madeleine McCann, we respect their suffering but unfortunately the investigation has to carry on in secrecy as that is in accordance with our laws.” He added: “They have our understanding and we support them and we hope that soon there will be an end to their suffering.”
Detectives have now ruled out a kidnap for ransom. There is nothing in the family history to suspect a revenge motive.
A source close to the police investigation told the 24 Horas newspaper: “Were it a kidnapping [for money] it would not be rational for someone to take on an almost 4-year-old when they could take one of the infants. It could be a kidnapping for sexual ends but one cannot exclude the possibility of the child having walked out and got lost and having fallen in a stream or a well.”
Madeleine, from Rothley, near Leicester, disappeared when she was left with her brother and sister, 2-year-old twins Sean and Amelie, in a holiday flat. Her parents, Gerry and Kate, both 38, had been dining in a nearby restaurant and checking on them regularly.
Yesterday Mr McCann and his wife visited the Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of Light) Roman Catholic church, where they had taken Mass on Sunday, to pray privately for their daughter’s return. Mrs McCann, a GP, was again clutching the Cuddle Cat that Madeleine took to bed.
Colleagues of the couple were offering prayers at Glenfield Hospital, in Leicester. About 300 people met at the hospital, where Mr McCann is a consultant cardiologist, at 1pm.
Villagers in Rothley held a silent vigil yesterday in a show of solidarity with the family. People were encouraged to light a candle or to tie a red ribbon around railings at the war memorial on the village green.
John Terry, the England and Chelsea footballer, with his colleague Paulo Ferreira joined Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese international and Manchester United player, in making an appeal.
Terry said: “We are urging anyone out there with any information at all – please, please, please come forward. It’s a terrible thing for her family to go through, she’s only young so please, please come forward.” Ferreira repeated the appeal in Portuguese.
Dr Sullivan was soon to get involved in more activity on behalf of the Madeleine McCann campaign.
An internet article pointed out: “He later helped in the production of, and personally narrated, the ‘A Minute for Madeleine’ campaign video; an appeal directly to the person keeping a ‘secret’ about Madeleine, ‘who knows who’s involved in her disappearance’ and who may have been groomed by the perpetrator(s) to stay quiet” He did this in close co-operation with his boss, Jim Gamble.
The internet article continued: “In January 2010, he shared a stage with Gerry McCann at the CEOP conference entitled: ‘Taken: Sexually-motivated child abductions’ – an event for law enforcement officers only. Gerry McCann, who according to the published agenda was due to deliver the closing speech, actually spoke earlier in the day and is then rumoured to have left (unconfirmed). Thus he would have missed the keynote speeches of both Dr Joe Sullivan and Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill, not to mention the closing question and answer session for all speakers.
It continued: “Just weeks before Madeleine McCann was reported missing, Dr Sullivan was a star act at a child sex abuse conference in, of all places, Washington D.C.”, where the Pizzagate scandal broke in November.
This conference was titled ‘Tackling Child Sex Abuse: A Challenge For All’, and held on 21 & 22 February 2007 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Sullivan was listed as:
Speaker: Joe Sullivan MA (Crim), BA (Hons), CQSW, Dip Psych --- Joe Sullivan is a recognised authority on this subject, now seconded to CEOP. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Birmingham. He has assisted police forces in the UK and in other European countries on major crime enquiries involving the sexual murder of children, child abduction, organised child crime abuse and the sexual abuse of children on the Internet”.
How handy that he had already been seconded to CEOP just nine weeks before the McCanns went for their fateful holiday in Praia da Luz.
Even more interesting, Dr Joes Sullivan pops up yet again in an article on 23 April 2007 (five days before the McCanns went on holiday) by Brian Bethune, link here:
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The article was titled “The secret network of child predators”. For interest, I will add the whole article. Sullivan makes an appearance at the end of it. Here it is:
- Spoiler:
BRIAN BETHUNE
April 23, 2007
Pedophilia has exponentially worsened through communities of the like-minded.
In Britain, London police once arrested a photographer with 130,000 pornographic images of children. That was in 1874, a striking reminder from investigative journalist Julian Sher in his ‘One Child at a Time’ (Random House) that there have always been pedophiles among us.
Sher’s riveting account of online predators and their police pursuers also cites a famous survey of 200 male undergraduates in California in which one in five admitted to some kind of sexual attraction to small children, while almost one in 10 reported having sexual fantasies about them. Seven per cent said they might even have sex with a child if they could avoid detection and punishment. In Canada, Dr. John Bradford of the Royal Ottawa Hospital’s Sexual Behaviours Clinic estimates that two to seven per cent of the population could have pedophiliac tendencies.
Pedophiles are thus scattered across society: well off or poor, tortured with guilt or enthusiastic participants, involved in functioning sexual relationships with other adults or complete loners.
Their prevalence means that up to 20 per cent of adults were molested as children in some manner. And not by strangers: up to 90 per cent of victims suffer at the hands of relatives or others they know well. For all we don’t know about pedophilia, though, there is one evermore manifest fact. Just as it has proved for millions of ordinary people, the Internet has become for pedophiles the greatest empowering tool ever created. Which means, according to Sher, that what has always been part of the human condition is now growing exponentially worse, “both in magnitude and in severity.”
The Internet “doesn’t create pedophilia,” Sher notes, “but it certainly does fuel it.” In the past, pedophiles were isolated, repressed by the revulsion most people felt toward them and limited in their opportunities. “But now offender after offender will tell you about their eureka moment,” says Sher, “when they first went online and saw not only the images - the live images - available, but immersed themselves in the acceptance, the assurance they were among like-minded people.”
The Net has vastly increased the money-making possibilities of child pornography, and hence the supply on offer. In the late 1990s, Thomas and Janice Reedy, a Dallas couple who never earned enough to own a home, were parking his and hers Mercedes in their mansion driveway. Their money came from Landslide, an Internet portal that offered credit-card customers access to 5,000 porn sites. Business limped along at first, Thomas Reedy later confessed, until he realised where the real money was. In the first month of offering access to a site called Child Rape, the Reedys garnered 1,277 registrations, and over the next two years Landslide brought in more than $10 million.
More insidiously, the Internet doesn’t just make access easier, it facilitates supply: the Washington-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children now finds that as much as 10 per cent of their seized material comes from older children who have taken compromising pictures of themselves. More often than not these self-made images were the result of what NCMEC calls “online enticement” - children manipulated by a “friend” met on the Web who coaxed them into snapping pictures of their own bodies. In a U.S. Justice Department survey, one in seven young Web surfers reported encountering unwanted sexual material or online harassment.
Worst of all, adds Sher, “the Internet drags in those who probably wouldn’t have done what they did otherwise.” Canadians will need no further reminder of that than the case of Michael Briere. In his confession to the rape and murder of 10-year-old Holly Jones, Briere told the court he had fantasised about molesting a girl for “maybe a year or two.” He kept alive what he called his “dark secret” on the Web: “The more I saw it, the more I longed for it in my heart.” On the night of May 12, 2003, “I viewed some material beforehand. I just got excited. I really wanted to do it. I really wanted to have sex with a child. I just came out of my place and she was just there.” Forty minutes later Holly was dead.
Briere’s tipping point goes to the heart of the first and, to Sher, most important myth he wants to dispel with his book. “It’s not just pictures,” Sher says emphatically. “They’re crime-scene photos. But you still hear from people that ‘Better perverts look at dirty pictures than actually molest a child.’ Looking doesn’t deter doing; study after study shows that 35 to 40 per cent of those arrested for pornography possession are also hands-on abusers.” Another common misconception, according to Sher, is that many of the victims are already sexual beings - underaged only by law. In fact, fully 39 per cent of known victims, according to NCMEC, are only 5 or younger; 19 per cent are under 3.
We still don’t know much about the men - and most are men, although a tenth are women - responsible for this spiral of abuse, especially what we really want to know: the combination of brain chemistry, genetics and personal experience that makes them what they are. The nature vs. nurture argument, as so often, rages inconclusively around them. Much points to a hard-wired nature:
Sher cites British psychologist Joe Sullivan, who found that 80 per cent of offenders knew by age 18 that they were sexually attracted to children. On the other hand, 33 per cent of offenders were abused themselves as children, a rate statistically higher than the general population - fodder for the nurture side. Whatever the cause, the condition is incurable. “They know it doesn’t go away,” Sullivan says. “Once you’ve got it, you’ve got it.”
Going back to Sullivan’s close colleague and friend Jim Gamble, Gamble organised two conferences, in September 2013 and March 2014, with the peculiar title: 'Glimpse CSA'. The CSA stands for 'Child Sexual Abuse', so the somewhat bizarre title of these two conferences reads: "Glimpse Child Sexual Abuse". I am sure they could have thought up a better, more appropriate and suitable title.
These conferences had 5 keynote speakers; one was Gamble himself, while another was Dr Joe Sullivan, whose conference biography boasted that he was: "...CEOP's former Principal Forensic Physiologist, one of the foremost global experts on offender character and behaviour, the principal developer of the Behavioural Analysis Unit and adviser on major police enquiries including the Madeleine McCann investigation.
And what precisely did he achieve in that investigation? Precisely nothing.
Dr Joe Sullivan is currently Co-Director of Mentor Forensics, along with his co-partner Valerie Sheehan, link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] He does a lot of work for the courts on child sexual abuse cases.
Valerie Sheehan, a Director of Mentor Forensic Services, was recently quoted as saying: “As online child abuse is a recent phenomenon, there is a lack of academic research in the area and subsequently, a number of ‘unhelpful’ preconceptions have taken root”.
Dr Joe Sullivan probably shouldn’t be in our ‘Rogue of the Day’ feature. It’s just that he has done everything possible to move along the fake abduction narrative, and hangs around Jim Gamble like a groupie. That’s all.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by MayMuse 25.01.17 11:39
Graham Hill, is this the same who has a doctorate in criminology discussing the case on Americas Crime Time? either way many anomalies in his "account"Get'emGonçalo wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Dr Joe Sullivan
Joe Sullivan seemed to pop up like a bad penny on the Madeleine McCann case.
Like dozens of others sent by HM Government security agencies, Bell Pottinger or the mainstream media, he was there in Praia da Luz when it really mattered. Right at the start.
This press article said:
“Highly respected forensic psychologist Dr Joe Sullivan arrived in Praia da Luz within days of Madeleine’s disappearance as part of a so-called ‘Cracker’ team, with Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill. He returned to the UK on 09 May 2007”.
OK. A few questions first. Who sent out this ‘Cracker’ team? Who else was on the team? And who said that Dr Joe Sullivan was a ‘respected forensic psychologist ‘. Oh, sorry. ‘Highly’ respected!
As in: ‘highly respected police inspector, DCI Redwood’?
Or ‘highly respected PR expert, Clarence Mitchell’?
‘Highly respected MP, cook and TV panelist, Sir Clement Freud’?
Or ‘highly respected criminologist, Mark Williams-Thomas’?
David Brown of The Times on Wednesday 9 May 2007, wrote up Sullivan’s early visit to Praia da Luz as follows:
- Spoiler:
Experts on tracing paedophiles fly out to boost search for girl
Two British experts on sex offenders arrived in Portugal yesterday to help in the hunt for the kidnapper of missing Madeleine McCann.
The forensic behavioural analysts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, which combats paedophiles, were sent in response to a request from the Lisbon Government.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that their arrival would ensure a range of experts was available to explore ‘every possible avenue’ that may have led to Madeleine’s disappearance.
One of the two British experts is the forensic psychologist Joe Sullivan. Mr Sullivan has helped police in Britain and Europe to investigate child sex murder, abduction, organised paedophile rings and underage internet pornography.
He formerly dealt with paedophile priests at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child protection charity that strives to assess and treat abusers. He has published a study into professionals who abuse children. Its conclusions included the striking finding that one in seven paedophiles, including priests, admits choosing vocations to enjoy easy access to children.
Last night John Buck, the British Ambassador to Portugal, confirmed that British experts had arrived in addition to the three family liaison officers from Leicestershire Police.
Mr Buck also defended the actions of the Portuguese police, saying that they had to operate under the constraints of the country’s law.
He added: “I have been in touch closely over the last few days with the cabinet minister here in Portugal and the Prime Minister and Portuguese police. They all assure me that everything possible is being done to ensure the safe return of Madeleine.
“We continue to work closely with the Portuguese authorities. They are very pleased with the collaboration with the British authorities.
“They are in close touch with Interpol and Europol and I know Kate and Gerry, with whom I have just been speaking, are very grateful for their efforts.”
A British tourist claimed yesterday that two weeks ago she saw a man trying to steal a pushchair at the resort where Madeleine went missing.
Amanda Mills, 34, of Basildon, Essex, said that she reported the incident to police last week after reading about the girl’s disappearance. “It was late at night,” Mrs Mills said. “This guy came along and put his hands on a pushchair outside somebody’s apartment. He didn’t even look to see if there was a child in it.”
Portuguese police have told British officers that they believe the man who abducted Madeleine was a tourist from Britain or an expatriate linked to a network of paedophiles in the country.
Portugal is known to be a favoured destination for British paedophiles and the discovery in the early 1990s of a group of men who were abusing local boys helped to persuade the Government to make it illegal for Britons to have sex with underage children abroad.
Reports in Portugal have suggested that Madeleine, whose fourth birthday is on Saturday, had been “abducted for order”. The Correio da Manha said: “One of the most substantial possibilities that the Policia Judiciaria is investigating is that this was paid for and commissioned by a international paedophile, probably of British origin."
Specialist detectives from the sex abuse and homicide unit in Lisbon were dispatched to the holiday region yesterday to take charge of the investigation after growing criticism that the police had been slow to react and had failed to make progress in tracking the abductor.
Antonio Santana Carlos, the Portuguese Ambassador in London, said that police were doing all they could but had to abide by the country’s secrecy laws. He said: “They are doing their best in cooperation with Europol and Interpol. For the parents of Madeleine McCann, we respect their suffering but unfortunately the investigation has to carry on in secrecy as that is in accordance with our laws.” He added: “They have our understanding and we support them and we hope that soon there will be an end to their suffering.”
Detectives have now ruled out a kidnap for ransom. There is nothing in the family history to suspect a revenge motive.
A source close to the police investigation told the 24 Horas newspaper: “Were it a kidnapping [for money] it would not be rational for someone to take on an almost 4-year-old when they could take one of the infants. It could be a kidnapping for sexual ends but one cannot exclude the possibility of the child having walked out and got lost and having fallen in a stream or a well.”
Madeleine, from Rothley, near Leicester, disappeared when she was left with her brother and sister, 2-year-old twins Sean and Amelie, in a holiday flat. Her parents, Gerry and Kate, both 38, had been dining in a nearby restaurant and checking on them regularly.
Yesterday Mr McCann and his wife visited the Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of Light) Roman Catholic church, where they had taken Mass on Sunday, to pray privately for their daughter’s return. Mrs McCann, a GP, was again clutching the Cuddle Cat that Madeleine took to bed.
Colleagues of the couple were offering prayers at Glenfield Hospital, in Leicester. About 300 people met at the hospital, where Mr McCann is a consultant cardiologist, at 1pm.
Villagers in Rothley held a silent vigil yesterday in a show of solidarity with the family. People were encouraged to light a candle or to tie a red ribbon around railings at the war memorial on the village green.
John Terry, the England and Chelsea footballer, with his colleague Paulo Ferreira joined Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese international and Manchester United player, in making an appeal.
Terry said: “We are urging anyone out there with any information at all – please, please, please come forward. It’s a terrible thing for her family to go through, she’s only young so please, please come forward.” Ferreira repeated the appeal in Portuguese.
Dr Sullivan was soon to get involved in more activity on behalf of the Madeleine McCann campaign.
An internet article pointed out: “He later helped in the production of, and personally narrated, the ‘A Minute for Madeleine’ campaign video; an appeal directly to the person keeping a ‘secret’ about Madeleine, ‘who knows who’s involved in her disappearance’ and who may have been groomed by the perpetrator(s) to stay quiet” He did this in close co-operation with his boss, Jim Gamble.
The internet article continued: “In January 2010, he shared a stage with Gerry McCann at the CEOP conference entitled: ‘Taken: Sexually-motivated child abductions’ – an event for law enforcement officers only. Gerry McCann, who according to the published agenda was due to deliver the closing speech, actually spoke earlier in the day and is then rumoured to have left (unconfirmed). Thus he would have missed the keynote speeches of both Dr Joe Sullivan and Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill, not to mention the closing question and answer session for all speakers.
It continued: “Just weeks before Madeleine McCann was reported missing, Dr Sullivan was a star act at a child sex abuse conference in, of all places, Washington D.C.”, where the Pizzagate scandal broke in November.
This conference was titled ‘Tackling Child Sex Abuse: A Challenge For All’, and held on 21 & 22 February 2007 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Sullivan was listed as:
Speaker: Joe Sullivan MA (Crim), BA (Hons), CQSW, Dip Psych --- Joe Sullivan is a recognised authority on this subject, now seconded to CEOP. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Birmingham. He has assisted police forces in the UK and in other European countries on major crime enquiries involving the sexual murder of children, child abduction, organised child crime abuse and the sexual abuse of children on the Internet”.
How handy that he had already been seconded to CEOP just nine weeks before the McCanns went for their fateful holiday in Praia da Luz.
Even more interesting, Dr Joes Sullivan pops up yet again in an article on 23 April 2007 (five days before the McCanns went on holiday) by Brian Bethune, link here:
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The article was titled “The secret network of child predators”. For interest, I will add the whole article. Sullivan makes an appearance at the end of it. Here it is:
- Spoiler:
BRIAN BETHUNE
April 23, 2007
Pedophilia has exponentially worsened through communities of the like-minded.
In Britain, London police once arrested a photographer with 130,000 pornographic images of children. That was in 1874, a striking reminder from investigative journalist Julian Sher in his ‘One Child at a Time’ (Random House) that there have always been pedophiles among us.
Sher’s riveting account of online predators and their police pursuers also cites a famous survey of 200 male undergraduates in California in which one in five admitted to some kind of sexual attraction to small children, while almost one in 10 reported having sexual fantasies about them. Seven per cent said they might even have sex with a child if they could avoid detection and punishment. In Canada, Dr. John Bradford of the Royal Ottawa Hospital’s Sexual Behaviours Clinic estimates that two to seven per cent of the population could have pedophiliac tendencies.
Pedophiles are thus scattered across society: well off or poor, tortured with guilt or enthusiastic participants, involved in functioning sexual relationships with other adults or complete loners.
Their prevalence means that up to 20 per cent of adults were molested as children in some manner. And not by strangers: up to 90 per cent of victims suffer at the hands of relatives or others they know well. For all we don’t know about pedophilia, though, there is one evermore manifest fact. Just as it has proved for millions of ordinary people, the Internet has become for pedophiles the greatest empowering tool ever created. Which means, according to Sher, that what has always been part of the human condition is now growing exponentially worse, “both in magnitude and in severity.”
The Internet “doesn’t create pedophilia,” Sher notes, “but it certainly does fuel it.” In the past, pedophiles were isolated, repressed by the revulsion most people felt toward them and limited in their opportunities. “But now offender after offender will tell you about their eureka moment,” says Sher, “when they first went online and saw not only the images - the live images - available, but immersed themselves in the acceptance, the assurance they were among like-minded people.”
The Net has vastly increased the money-making possibilities of child pornography, and hence the supply on offer. In the late 1990s, Thomas and Janice Reedy, a Dallas couple who never earned enough to own a home, were parking his and hers Mercedes in their mansion driveway. Their money came from Landslide, an Internet portal that offered credit-card customers access to 5,000 porn sites. Business limped along at first, Thomas Reedy later confessed, until he realised where the real money was. In the first month of offering access to a site called Child Rape, the Reedys garnered 1,277 registrations, and over the next two years Landslide brought in more than $10 million.
More insidiously, the Internet doesn’t just make access easier, it facilitates supply: the Washington-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children now finds that as much as 10 per cent of their seized material comes from older children who have taken compromising pictures of themselves. More often than not these self-made images were the result of what NCMEC calls “online enticement” - children manipulated by a “friend” met on the Web who coaxed them into snapping pictures of their own bodies. In a U.S. Justice Department survey, one in seven young Web surfers reported encountering unwanted sexual material or online harassment.
Worst of all, adds Sher, “the Internet drags in those who probably wouldn’t have done what they did otherwise.” Canadians will need no further reminder of that than the case of Michael Briere. In his confession to the rape and murder of 10-year-old Holly Jones, Briere told the court he had fantasised about molesting a girl for “maybe a year or two.” He kept alive what he called his “dark secret” on the Web: “The more I saw it, the more I longed for it in my heart.” On the night of May 12, 2003, “I viewed some material beforehand. I just got excited. I really wanted to do it. I really wanted to have sex with a child. I just came out of my place and she was just there.” Forty minutes later Holly was dead.
Briere’s tipping point goes to the heart of the first and, to Sher, most important myth he wants to dispel with his book. “It’s not just pictures,” Sher says emphatically. “They’re crime-scene photos. But you still hear from people that ‘Better perverts look at dirty pictures than actually molest a child.’ Looking doesn’t deter doing; study after study shows that 35 to 40 per cent of those arrested for pornography possession are also hands-on abusers.” Another common misconception, according to Sher, is that many of the victims are already sexual beings - underaged only by law. In fact, fully 39 per cent of known victims, according to NCMEC, are only 5 or younger; 19 per cent are under 3.
We still don’t know much about the men - and most are men, although a tenth are women - responsible for this spiral of abuse, especially what we really want to know: the combination of brain chemistry, genetics and personal experience that makes them what they are. The nature vs. nurture argument, as so often, rages inconclusively around them. Much points to a hard-wired nature:
Sher cites British psychologist Joe Sullivan, who found that 80 per cent of offenders knew by age 18 that they were sexually attracted to children. On the other hand, 33 per cent of offenders were abused themselves as children, a rate statistically higher than the general population - fodder for the nurture side. Whatever the cause, the condition is incurable. “They know it doesn’t go away,” Sullivan says. “Once you’ve got it, you’ve got it.”
Going back to Sullivan’s close colleague and friend Jim Gamble, Gamble organised two conferences, in September 2013 and March 2014, with the peculiar title: 'Glimpse CSA'. The CSA stands for 'Child Sexual Abuse', so the somewhat bizarre title of these two conferences reads: "Glimpse Child Sexual Abuse". I am sure they could have thought up a better, more appropriate and suitable title.
These conferences had 5 keynote speakers; one was Gamble himself, while another was Dr Joe Sullivan, whose conference biography boasted that he was: "...CEOP's former Principal Forensic Physiologist, one of the foremost global experts on offender character and behaviour, the principal developer of the Behavioural Analysis Unit and adviser on major police enquiries including the Madeleine McCann investigation.
And what precisely did he achieve in that investigation? Precisely nothing.
Dr Joe Sullivan is currently Co-Director of Mentor Forensics, along with his co-partner Valerie Sheehan, link: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] He does a lot of work for the courts on child sexual abuse cases.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Tony Bennett 25.01.17 13:18
@ MayMuseMayMuse wrote:Graham Hill, is this the same who has a doctorate in criminology discussing the case on America's Crime Time? Either way many anomalies in his "account"Get'emGonçalo wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
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Joe Sullivan seemed to pop up like a bad penny on the Madeleine McCann case...
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We discussed Graham Hill on an earlier thread in 2015, soon after this video was released, here:
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My OP shows that I considered what he said 'balderdash'. I've not changed my view since.
On that previous thread is this short biographyof Graham Hill:
Dr Hill is a Criminologist, he is also a retired UK senior police officer and former head of Behaviour Analysis at the Child Exploitation Online Protection centre (CEOP) in London. His research interests include the behaviour of male and female child sex offenders, interviewing child sex offenders and male non-familial child abduction/murder.
We also had this timeline of his career:
1985–2011
Police Officer , Surrey Police
2000–2011
Senior Investigating Officer, Surrey Police
2007–2011
Head of Behaviour Analysis, Child Exploitation Online Protection centre (CEOP)
2011 – present
Independent Criminal Behaviour Analysis Consultant, KLIK Protective Services.
From the fact that his video interview on the U.S. crime show was in 2015, I think we may safely deduced the following:
1. He joined Surrey Police in 1985
2. After 15 years' service, he was promoted to 'Senior Investigating Officer'.
3. It will be reasonable to assume that between 2000 and 2011 he achieved promotion to the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. This I think is a photo of him in uniform:
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4. In 2007, the same year Madeleine was reported missing, he was seconded to work with Jim Gamble at CEOP, whilst retaining his DCS rank at Surrey Police
5. At sometime since 2007, he has studied for a degree, or maybe two degres in Criminolgy, and is therefore now entitled to call himself 'Dr Graham Hill'.
So I conclude that Dr Graham Hill and Det Chief Supt Hill are indeed one and the same.
It's interesting to reflect on the very high degree of CEOP involvement in the early days:
Jim Gamble, CEOP Director - begs public for photos
Dr Joe Sullivan, CEOP Psychologist - sent ou to Praia da Luz on day One
Det Chief Supt Graham Hill, Head of Behavioural Analysis, CEOP - ditto.
Not forgetting Mark Williams-Thomas, worked alongside Graham Hill at Surrey Police, sent out to Praia da Luz almost immediately
And witchcraft-and-sex-obsessed Dr Ray Wyre, wrote articles in the Times and Telegraph days after Madeleine was reported missing, saying she must have been abducted by a paedophile, and...
lurking in his vlila in Praia da Luz, serial sex abuser Sir Clement Freud.
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Amelie McCann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Jill Havern 26.01.17 9:18
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Martin Brunt
Martin Brunt is the Chief Crime Correspondent for SKY News. As such, he gets to cover all the major crime stories. And they don’t come much bigger than the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
One little known fact about Martin Brunt is that prior to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance in May 2007, he had for many years owned a villa in the village.
It’s a curious place, Praia da Luz.
Serial sex abuser of women, Sir Clement Freud, also had a villa over there. Senior Freemason, Past Grand Master Edward Smethurst, the McCanns’ co-ordinating lawyer, has been holidaying in the village for the past 18 years. Martin Smith, with his strange tales of strangers who didn’t look like a tourist passing him down a dark alley, part-owns an apartment there. How could he tell in a second or two in the dark whether the bloke ‘looked like a tourist’ or not?
Another long-term resident of Praia da Luz, of course, was the mysterious Robert Murat. And here’s where we begin to get really interested in Martin Brunt, because we have in the PJ files two recorded conversations between Martin Brunt and Robert Murat, both on the same day - 15 May 2007 - the day after Murat was made an arguido.
These conversations are curious for a number of reasons. First, Brunt, Robert Murat and Jenny Murat, his mother, all seem very chummy-chummy on the ’phone.
JENNY MURAT: Hello. Residence of Jenny Murat.
MARTIN BRUNT: Hello, Martin Brunt speaking.
JENNY MURAT: Hi dear.
Did they perhaps all know each other well before May 2007?
Most interest centres around exactly why Martin Brunt was offering the services of SKY News’s lawyers to Murat. What was the motive for that? Who at SKY News authorised Brunt to make such an offer to Murat?
Even more interest centres around this little exchange at the end of the first Brunt-Murat conversation:
ROBERT MURAT: I never have any problem with making a statement.
MARTIN BRUNT: OK
ROBERT MURAT: I have no problem whilst...Whilst I have the legal cover to do so. Because I don’t want to end up in prison....(sigh)
MARTIN BRUNT: That would be the last thing we want.
ROBERT MURAT: Firstly, for something I did not do and secondly for something that would break their contract rules...
MARTIN BRUNT: I understand that and I understand the sensitive nature of everything that we have been working with since we arrived here, so...
Loads of questions jump out from the above exchanges.
For a start, Brunt talks about ‘since we arrived here’. He does not use ‘I’, but ‘we’. Who else is he referring to? When did ‘they’ arrive? It seems that Brunt and SKY News were there from Day One – Friday 4 May.
Next question: WHAT exactly had they both been ‘working with’?
But perhaps still more interest centres around Murat’s mention of ‘a contract’. It is clear from the context that this ‘contract’ must have a very close connection to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and to his arrest.
“Break their contract rules”?
Whose contract rules exactly?
Could this be why Robert Murat spent so much time talking to his lawyer, Francisco Pagarete, after he suddenly flew over to Praia da Luz on Tuesday 1 May? Was Murat really - as he claimed - merely discussing his girlfriend Michaela’s divorce from Luis Antonia and the setting up of ‘Romigen’?
Maybe he was not talking to Pagarete about any of that. Maybe he was discussing a very important contract.
Could that contract have been to provide translation services after the abduction alarm was raised - and to find out all he could about the PJ investigation for certain people and if possible try to divert the PJ by coming up with a host of suggestions for lines of enquiry the PJ should pursue?
Because that’s exactly what he ended up doing - as discussed in Inspector Varanda’s complaint about Murat to Gonçalo Amaral.
Could that contract even have included moving the body of Madeleine McCann to a safe location? – after all, when first questioned by the PJ, Murat lied by not disclosing that he had visited a number of houses between Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3rd May. He had also clearly lied comprehensively about two meetings he attended on the Thursday, one several miles west of Praia da Luz, the other several miles east of Praia da Luz at the Palmeras Golf Club.
Did Brunt perhaps know the secret of this ‘contract’. It looks like he did. Using guarded language, no doubt aware that his call to Murat might be being recorded, he acknowledges that the ‘contract’ issue is ‘of a sensitive nature’.
If Brunt knew about Murat’s contract with whoever it was, that alone would qualify him as a rogue.
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But in September 2014 Brunt did something that in many people’s eyes makes him one of the biggest rogues ever to support the McCanns’ cause.
Because at the beginning of that month, he undoubtedly triggered, and was thus partly responsible for, the suicide of a fierce critic of the McCanns on the internet - Brenda Leyland.
By way of background, Brenda Leyland was a lonely divorcee, living alone. She had become interested in the Madeleine McCann case. She tweeted her criticisms of them repeatedly, most days. And she frequently used strong words, with a fair amount of swearing.
On 31 August 2014, Brunt was sent by the editor of SKY News to ‘doorstep’ Brenda Leyland.
We can be pretty sure that this was a set-up, carefully orchestrated by the McCanns and their supporters, and by the top brass in the Metropolitan Police, who had been handed a dossier of allegedly cruel and libelous tweets against the McCanns, tweeted by a number of people. Gerry McCann had publicly demanded that the police and the CPS make an example of such people and lock them up. But this attempt to make an example of someone ended up - thanks mainly to Martin Brunt – in the humiliating public exposure of a lonely, vulnerable divorcee, and her suicide three days later.
As can be seen in this short clip:
…Brunt catches her by surprise, just as she’s about to drive off and meet a friend for lunch. It is an ambush. He then frightens the life out of her by telling her: “You’ve been reported to the police…Scotland Yard are investigating your Twitter account…”
Brunt knew everything. He knew about the dossier .He knew the police had been informed and were looking at it.
Brenda Leyland knew none of this. Suddenly, she was told, by Martin Brunt with a cameramen, that she is under a criminal investigation. And not just by a local police force, but by ‘Scotland Yard’.
She must have been terrified, and spent that lunch with her friend in a state of extreme anxiety.
Brunt lay in wait for her until she came back from lunch. Brenda Leyland invited him back into her house. She told him frankly that she was already feeling suicidal.
But it was the might of the Murdoch-owned SKY News machine against one lonely, defenceless woman.
Despite telling Brunt that she felt like committing suicide, Brunt and SKY News had their news story and they had their victim. The next day, Wednesday 1 September, they positively revelled, triumphantly, in showing the clip of Brunt ambushing Brenda Leyland every 15 minutes throughout the day. The McCann Team and Scotland Yard were no doubt overjoyed that at last they had outed a nasty troll, who perhaps might be sent to jail.
But it didn’t work out like that.
Three days later Brenda Leyland was found dead, alone, on the floor of a room at the Marriott Hotel, Enderby, just a mile from Leicestershire Police headquarters. The Coroner found that she had committed suicide by administering helium gas.
A few weeks later, Scotland Yard quietly and shamefacedly admitted that there was nothing in the dossier that amounted to a criminal offence.
So, thanks to Martin Brunt, SKY News, the McCanns and their friends, and the might of the Metropolitan Police, Brenda Leyland was - literally - frightened to death, for nothing.
Brenda Leyland paid the price. She paid with her life.
When eventually the McCans ‘Hall of Shame’ is constructed, surely a large portrait of Martin Brunt will be given pride of place.
It would be good to hang him up, anyway.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Guest 26.01.17 12:41
Well that's clear enough - thank you mods. So effectively it's a sort of no-news news, in so far as it was published by a PR journal - not Bell Pottinger per se.Get'emGonçalo wrote:I think it was either NickE or Doug D who brought it to our attention some months ago.
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What is plain from this article is that although Resonate were sent out some days before Madeleine was reported missing, by the time the 'big guns' from Bell Pottinger arrived, Resonate were somehow effortlessly absorbed into the role of suddenly meeting with Ambassadors and senior Portuguese and British police officers. Mightily handy! Whether PRWeek has told us the full story about why Resonate was sent out early is a moot point.
It was indeed our Scandinavian researcher NickE who brought this important find to CMOMM'
There are many references to Michael Frohlich, the former Director of Resonate, on the net - Mod
This was my main area of concern about Resonates presence at Praia da Luz, early May 2007, being taken as read that they were called for a 'generic briefing' by Mark Warner in connection with Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
Resonates role in this saga, if any, is very uncertain and thus shouldn't be yet another innuendo to be taken as fact - at least not without confirmation that the staff did take on the role of liaison with all and sundry. It does seem a bit odd considering all the other assistance on hand in the very early days - they were there representing Mark Warners weren't they? I can understand Warners need for their PR heavies to jump to attention (perhaps not 'crisis management' - on the surface a bit far fetched) but not the parents of a missing child.
Best left on the back burner pending further information in my opinion.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Jill Havern 27.01.17 9:05
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Tony Parsons
Tony Parsons is a loudmouth occasional journalist who knows virtually nothing about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Yet he made frequent comments about the case. He once hosted a series on Channel 4, appropriately called ‘Big Mouth’.
Wikipedia has a whole paragraph about ‘Tony Parsons and the Madeleine McCann case’. It says:
In 2007, Parsons wrote a series of articles about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from a beach in the Algarve in Portugal, in the Daily Mail. The tone with which these articles were written was later described as having a "touch of arrogant xenophobia" by The Guardian's Marcel Berlins. The Press Complaints Commission that year received 485 complaints, a huge increase in the number of complaints in comparison to previous years, his article on the McCann affair receiving the most complaints.
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His last major article appears to have been one he wrote for the Mirror on the sixth anniversary of Madeleine’s reported disappearance.
Here are his words:
“Yesterday was six years to the day that three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal. ‘Please don’t forget about her’, says Madeleine’s mother Kate.
There is no chance of that, Kate. Madeleine McCann captured our imagination because in her smiling photographs, her tragic disappearance and in the unimaginable grief of her mother and father, every parent was confronted with their worst nightmare. Most parents know what it is like to briefly lose track of a child. In a store or on the beach – you look away and they are gone. You think they are with your partner, but they are not. And as you search you feel a sickness in your heart like nothing you have ever known. When our daughter was small, my wife and I lost track of her for 30 minutes after a ballet class. It was the longest - and worst - half hour of my life. I can’t pretend to imagine what Kate and Gerry McCann have been through. I can’t guess at what they endure every day of their lives. But I know we never will forget the smiling three-year-old who was so cruelly taken from her family. And I know that there but for the grace of God goes any one of us”. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Another article: '[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]' he says this: "The McCanns are right to keep searching. From the start, the Portuguese cops have been more hindrance than help. British detectives say the Algarve is awash with paedophiles. Of course it is. Because there's little chance of them being nicked by local coppers who couldn't find their own bottoms with sat nav."
Maddie McCann cop adds insult to injury
By Tony Parsons
If, as has been suggested in Portugal, there was a “media circus” around the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, then it is the Portuguese police who are the clowns.
Cruel, stupid, spiteful clowns.
You would never guess it but Kate and Gerry McCann are not actually on trial in Lisbon.
Madeleine’s parents have brought legal action against detective Goncalo Amaral, who they accuse of libelling them in his book, Maddie: The Truth Of The Lie.
But the Portuguese plods have used the libel case to declare open season on the McCanns. One former policeman, Francisco Moita Flores, told the court that only the “distraction” of the “media circus” prevented the McCanns from being charged with negligence.
“No one believed it was an abduction,” he told the court. “It was a fairytale, a fable.”
But if Madeleine was not abducted, then what happened?
The Portuguese police were shown up as a bunch of clueless amateurs by the Madeleine case, and – shamed, embarrassed, infuriated – they turned their rage on the McCanns.
Even now, the Portuguese cops treat Kate and Gerry McCann with a grotesque lack of respect.
Asked if he cared that he had hurt the McCanns, Goncalo Amaral told a BBC reporter: “No, f*** the McCanns.”
A class act, that fat copper, who has sought to make money out of a stolen child – and the endless grief of her parents.
And what a shock to see the faces of Kate and Gerry McCann back in our newspapers.
The indelible pain is stamped on their faces for ever.
The greatest tragedy is, of course, that a little girl was stolen from her family.
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It is doubtful whether Parsons will ever trouble himself to look at some of the disturbing facts about the case discussed on CMOMM and elsewhere.
That would spoil another good article, wouldn’t it, Tony?
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Equity 27.01.17 13:59
Tony Parsons...
"When our daughter was small, my wife and I lost track of her for 30 minutes after a ballet class. It was the longest - and worst - half hour of my life. I can’t pretend to imagine what Kate and Gerry McCann have been through."
lronically Kate and Gerry must have experienced this 30 minutes of fear and panic most nights of their holiday as that was the interval between the checks.
According to them, their babies were out of sight and earshot for 30 minutes at a time. They can't say 'we knew where they were' then say one disappeared but we're not sure how or when.
Parson's like most modern day journalists do little or no research - just copy and paste from other sources or maybe in his case uses 'gut instinct'. Unfortunately his gut has a greater concentration of bile than most.
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"When our daughter was small, my wife and I lost track of her for 30 minutes after a ballet class. It was the longest - and worst - half hour of my life. I can’t pretend to imagine what Kate and Gerry McCann have been through."
lronically Kate and Gerry must have experienced this 30 minutes of fear and panic most nights of their holiday as that was the interval between the checks.
According to them, their babies were out of sight and earshot for 30 minutes at a time. They can't say 'we knew where they were' then say one disappeared but we're not sure how or when.
Parson's like most modern day journalists do little or no research - just copy and paste from other sources or maybe in his case uses 'gut instinct'. Unfortunately his gut has a greater concentration of bile than most.
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Clarence Mitchell
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Guest 29.01.17 19:43
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.
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.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Basil with a brush 30.01.17 2:25
Blimey, that really is quality cobblers. What hope...''Doh!''
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Rebekah Brooks
by Jill Havern 30.01.17 10:21
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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.
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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’.
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Tracey Kandohla
by Jill Havern 31.01.17 9:41
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Tracey Kandohla
Tracey Kandohla lives in the same village as Kate & Gerry McCann - Rothley, Leicestershire.
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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.]
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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!
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
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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.
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
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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
.
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
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Michael Wright
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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:
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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”.
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Witness: "I drive down this street every day to turn my car around at that end, and every time that I passed the house, and I looked at the car, and the car always had an open boot door, day or night. I often passed at night, and always verified it. It was a fact, I reported it, and that was 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.
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Eddie alerts to cadaver scent in the McCann's Renault Scenic
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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The boot of the McCann's Renault Scenic where Keela alerted to bodily fluids
-----------------------------------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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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Jill Havern 03.02.17 8:35
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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.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Liz Eagles 03.02.17 12:50
It's a tough choice but number one rogue for me is Clarence Mitchell.
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Rogue of the Day!
by willowthewisp 03.02.17 12:59
Sir Bernard Hogan Howe's name not on the list I see?
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by sharonl 03.02.17 19:23
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?
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?
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by Guest 03.02.17 20:14
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.
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.
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Re: 'ROGUE OF THE DAY'
by sharonl 03.02.17 21:05
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
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
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Mike Gunnill
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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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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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RE;Rogue of the day.
by willowthewisp 05.02.17 12:13
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?Get'emGonçalo wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.][You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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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.
PS,just noticed you had included Carter-**ck?
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Philomena McCann
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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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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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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.
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RE;Rogue of the day.
by willowthewisp 07.02.17 12:20
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?
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?
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