Media Mayhem - MCCANN MEDIA NONSENSE OF THE DAY

BlueBag wrote:So we have CEOP and MMU wading in from the beginning controlling.

Ostensibly in order to identify anything suspicious, like a someone who shouldn't be there - someone on the UK's sex abuse register for example?

Reverse logic there methinks!

This interview with Jon Corner was aired also on 7th September 2007..

HARRIS: John Corner joins us now. He is a friend to the McCanns and the godfather to their twins.

John, good to talk to you.

What is your reaction to the news that Kate McCann is now a suspect in the disappearance of Maddie?

JOHN CORNER, FRIEND OF MCCANNS: Well, I'm appalled, but I'm also frustrated. You know, I've worked very, very hard with Kate and Gerry in the campaign to find our missing child and our missing Madeleine. And what we're worried about truly is that this investigation or this new line that the Portuguese police have taken is going to derail those real efforts.

You know, we were in Spain only a few weeks ago and dropping posters in different towns in Spain. And what we were amazed that is 50 percent of the people that we were approaching had never heard of Madeleine. And that's what we're up against right at street level of getting those posters out. And that advice had come to us from the U.S. The International Center for Missing and Exploited Children have been marvellous in their support and guidance and direction. They're the world experts. And they're saying to us, you know, six months in an average time. So hang on in there. Keep looking for Madeleine. And now this.

HARRIS: Well, John, I'm trying to understand here, Kate is now an official formal suspect. You believe she had nothing to do with this disappearance?

CORNER: Absolutely. Absolutely.

HARRIS: So why do you think she's a suspect? And have you heard -- you certainly are aware of the new evidence that seems to be pointing, at least the authorities, in her direction?

CORNER: Well, you know, whenever Kate and Gerry hear that there's new evidence or new technological evidence, it gives them hope because they think the Portuguese police are going to have a new breakthrough, it's going to lead us to whoever's abducted Madeleine. It's going to allow us to get her back home safely. And I think it's truly frustrating and exasperating. It's just dreadful that the mind set of the police is quite the opposite, that they're actually looking into the parents and not looking out, not doing the search, not doing the intensive work that we really need . . .

HARRIS: You would have been surprised -- John, you would have been surprised if the authorities hadn't looked at the parents, wouldn't you?

CORNER: Well, you know, Kate and Gerry were interviewed at some length in that first few days. Interviewed extensively. And that's good -- that due diligence, that's good practice. You know, all police forces do that. You look, you interview the parents, you clear them and you move on and we get out there and find Madeleine. And for us to come full circle after four months is just dreadful. It's (INAUDIBLE).

HARRIS: Well, how do you explain the apparent break-through in the case? You mentioned a break-through a moment ago. Well, there has been a break-through in the case, according to the authorities. How do you explain the blood in the rental car? A car rented more than 20 days after Maddie was reported missing? How do you explain it?

CORNER: It defies explanation, quite frankly. I have no idea. It flies in the face of common sense. I could speculate all day about that, but . . .

HARRIS: Well wait a minute, John. I mean this is DNA evidence. This is DNA found in a rental car that was rented by the couple 20 days -- I'm just asking you, how do you explain it?

CORNER: It makes -- I can't explain it. It makes no sense. It makes no sense.

HARRIS: Do you or do you not . . .

CORNER: I just know that . . .

HARRIS: Do you not trust what the authorities are saying to you? Have you talked to Gerry or Kate about the new evidence?

CORNER: No, I haven't. Not about new evidence. Only about the police line of questioning last night. And, quite frankly, it makes no sense to me and I can't speculate on it. You know, it just -- it makes no sense at all.

HARRIS: So the authorities come back, let me just try this on you. The authorities come back to Kate and to Gerry because the question lingers, who leaves a three-year-old to watch two-year-old twins. Who does that?

CORNER: Well, you have to understand the situation. I think the only thing that Kate and Gerry are guilty of is a little bit of complacency. It's a very, very sleepy town. Well, it certainly was before the media . . .

HARRIS: Complacency? How about neglect?

CORNER: There has been police force (ph) . . .

HARRIS: How about neglect? How about child endangerment?

CORNER: Well, I disagree with that. I disagree with that. And if you talk to the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, they disagree with that, too.

HARRIS: So as a general practice, it's OK with you, in your mind and the way you think for a three-year-old to be left to care for two- year-old twins?

CORNER: I'm not sure that's productive at this stage to talk about that. I mean, I've been to (INAUDIBLE). I've looked at it very carefully myself. And it literally was like sitting in your garden. That's how far away the apartment was.



HARRIS: OK. John Corner is a friend of the McCanns and, John, some tough questions to ask you, but we appreciate you stepping up to take those questions on for us.
CORNER: Yes.

HARRIS: Appreciate it. Thank you.





[Acknowledgement Joana Morais blogspot]

First Reactions: Kate Rings Jon Corner


Distraught Kate rang long-time friends Jon and Michelle Corner, the twins’ godparents, at their Merseyside home to break the news.

Jon, whose wife grew up with GP Kate in their home city of Liverpool, said: “She phoned at about 3am. She just blurted out that Maddie had been abducted.

She told me, 'They have broken the shutter on the window and taken my little girl.'


"They had left the apartment locked while they were having their meal, but when they went back the last time they saw the damage."

After speaking to her a second time, he repeated his earlier account, but this time in stronger language

He told how tearful Kate sobbed down the phone early yesterday: "Someone has taken my little girl."

He continued: "She was in an absolutely hysterical state - very, very distressed. She blurted out Madeleine had been abducted.

"Kate said the shutters of the room were smashed. Madeleine was missing It looks as though someone had gone straight past the twins to get to her. Kate was incredibly upset. I've spoken to her since, and she's still completely devastated.


"She's also very upset that the police don't seem to be doing more to find Madeleine. She thinks there's too little happening."
The Liverpool Daily Post also speaks to Jon Corner and reports a very similar conversation:

Jon Corner, founder of Liverpool-based River Media, is godfather to the McCann’s twins and his wife has known Mrs McCann since they were both three. The co-founder of city centre-based River Media, and a father-of-three himself, said: “Kate phoned me in the early hours totally devastated."


"She just told me that Maddy had been abducted, that the shutters of the apartment had been forced and someone had taken her."


"Maddy was asleep in the room with Sean and Amelie and whoever has taken her has gone straight past the sleeping twins, left them completely alone and snatched Maddy."

"Kate is just so distressed. She doesn’t know what to do. It has knocked me and everyone else for six. It doesn’t actually seem real."
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This is the honest man who so totally believes in the McCanns innocence?

To be fair, he does end with a very poignant observation.

"It has knocked me and everyone for six. It doesn't actually seem real"

" It makes--I can't explain it . It makes no sense .It makes no sense " 

You got that bit right Jon , none of it makes sense !

" And literally it was like sitting in your garden " 

They do have big gardens this lot don't they ?

Verdi wrote:First Reactions: Kate Rings Jon Corner


Distraught Kate rang long-time friends Jon and Michelle Corner, the twins’ godparents, at their Merseyside home to break the news.

Jon, whose wife grew up with GP Kate in their home city of Liverpool, said: “She phoned at about 3am. She just blurted out that Maddie had been abducted.

She told me, 'They have broken the shutter on the window and taken my little girl.'


"They had left the apartment locked while they were having their meal, but when they went back the last time they saw the damage."

After speaking to her a second time, he repeated his earlier account, but this time in stronger language

He told how tearful Kate sobbed down the phone early yesterday: "Someone has taken my little girl."

He continued: "She was in an absolutely hysterical state - very, very distressed. She blurted out Madeleine had been abducted.

"Kate said the shutters of the room were smashed. Madeleine was missing It looks as though someone had gone straight past the twins to get to her. Kate was incredibly upset. I've spoken to her since, and she's still completely devastated.


"She's also very upset that the police don't seem to be doing more to find Madeleine. She thinks there's too little happening."
The Liverpool Daily Post also speaks to Jon Corner and reports a very similar conversation:

Jon Corner, founder of Liverpool-based River Media, is godfather to the McCann’s twins and his wife has known Mrs McCann since they were both three. The co-founder of city centre-based River Media, and a father-of-three himself, said: “Kate phoned me in the early hours totally devastated."


"She just told me that Maddy had been abducted, that the shutters of the apartment had been forced and someone had taken her."


"Maddy was asleep in the room with Sean and Amelie and whoever has taken her has gone straight past the sleeping twins, left them completely alone and snatched Maddy."

"Kate is just so distressed. She doesn’t know what to do. It has knocked me and everyone else for six. It doesn’t actually seem real."
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This is the honest man who so totally believes in the McCanns innocence?

Why would Kate be devastated?

She'd be very concerned, deeply upset, distressed or distraught. But not devastated as devastation would suggest something dreadful has happened that is absolutely irreversible, something catastrophe. A aircraft is devastated when it crashes with no survivors, one that lands in the Hudson River is very distressing.

Madeleine McCann witness breaks her silence

Kate and Gerry McCann
Telegraph TV: The private investigator hired by the McCanns said Madeleine could be home by Christmas

By Martina Smit

2:46PM GMT 14 Dec 2007

Minutes before his daughter Madeleine disappeared, Gerry McCann told a fellow holidaymaker that he and his wife would have stayed in with their children if they had not been holidaying with friends.

The revelation has been made by Bridget O'Donnell, a former BBC Crimewatch producer who got to know the McCanns at the Mark Warner resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal. She has now told her story for the first time.

"I have always believed that Kate and Gerry McCann are innocent," Miss O'Donnell wrote in an article published by The Guardian.

On the night of May 3, while walking their baby son to sleep, her partner Jes Wilkins bumped into a "relaxed and friendly" Mr McCann who had just checked on his children. "They talked about daughters, fathers, families," Miss O'Donnell wrote.

"They discussed the babysitting dilemmas at the resort and Gerry said that he and Kate would have stayed in too, if they had not been on holiday with a group."

Every night, the McCanns and their friends - whom Miss O'Donnell dubbed "The Doctors" - booked a large table at the Tapas restaurant at the Mark Warner resort.

"One man was the joker," she recalled. "He had a loud Glaswegian accent. He was Gerry McCann."

The night before Madeleine went missing, Miss O'Donnell and her partner - also a television producer - were placed at a table next to "The Doctors". Mr McCann invited them to join the group.

"We discussed the children," Miss O'Donnell wrote. "He told us they were leaving theirs sleeping in the apartments. While they chatted on, I ruminated on the pros and cons of this."

Sit-in babysitters at the resort were expensive and booked long in advance, while a group baby sitting service at the kiddie club meant that the children had to be put to sleep twice - both there and then back at their parents' apartments.

"I admired (the McCanns), in a way, for not being paranoid parents, but I decided that out apartment was too far off even to contemplate (leaving their children)," Miss McDonnell wrote. "Our baby was too young and I would worry about them waking up."

Nevertheless, the producer said she was glad her family did not get the McCanns' apartment. "It was on a corner by the road and people could see in. They were exposed."

The next day, after her partner played tennis with Mr McCann, Miss O'Donnell observed the couple. "Kate was calm, still, quietly beautiful; Gerry was confident, proud, silly, strong."

But two days later, after the events of that night, "the physical transformation of these two human beings was sickening" as she saw the McCanns at the pool.

"Kate's back and shoulders, her hands, her mouth had reshaped themselves in to the angular manifestation of a silent scream... Gerry was upright, his lips now drawn into a thin, impenetrable line."

On the Friday, locals and holidaymakers had started circulating photocopied pictures of Madeleine. "We didn't see any police," Miss O'Donnell wrote.

A uniformed Portuguese policeman and a translator - whom she later found out was Robert Murat, named by the Policia Judiciara as an arguido or suspect in the case - later questioned Miss O'Donnell and her partner in their apartment.

"The translator had a squint and sweated slightly," she described Mr Murat. "He was breathless, perhaps a little excited. He reminded me of a boy in my class at school who was bullied."

They answered a few questions and gave their details, which the policeman took down on "the back of a bit of paper", Miss McDonnell wrote. "No notebook."

"Then he pointed to the photocopied picture of Madeleine on the table. 'Is this your daughter?' he asked. 'Er, no,' we said. 'That's the girl you are meant to be searching for.'

"My heart sank for the McCanns."

Even when the McCanns were named suspects along with Mr Murat, Miss O'Donnell still believed they were innocent.

"There were no drug-fuelled 'swingers' on our holiday; instead, there was a bunch of ordinary parents wearing Berghaus and worrying about sleep patterns. Secure in our banality, none of us imagined we were being watched.

"One group made a disastrous decision; Madeleine was vulnerable and was chosen. But in the face of such desperate audacity, it could have been any one of us.

"And when I stroke my daughter's hair, or feel her butterfly lips on my cheek, I do so in the knowledge of what night have been.

"So my heart goes out to them, Gerry and Kate, the couple who we remember from our Portuguese holiday. They had a beautiful daughter, Madeleine, who played and danced with ours at the kiddie club. That's who we remember."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1572560/Madeleine-McCann-witness-breaks-her-silence.html

Total fabrication - how are these columnists allowed to get away with the tripe they churn out?

Rogue-a-Tory wrote:

Verdi wrote:First Reactions: Kate Rings Jon Corner


Distraught Kate rang long-time friends Jon and Michelle Corner, the twins’ godparents, at their Merseyside home to break the news.

Jon, whose wife grew up with GP Kate in their home city of Liverpool, said: “She phoned at about 3am. She just blurted out that Maddie had been abducted.

She told me, 'They have broken the shutter on the window and taken my little girl.'


"They had left the apartment locked while they were having their meal, but when they went back the last time they saw the damage."

After speaking to her a second time, he repeated his earlier account, but this time in stronger language

He told how tearful Kate sobbed down the phone early yesterday: "Someone has taken my little girl."

He continued: "She was in an absolutely hysterical state - very, very distressed. She blurted out Madeleine had been abducted.

"Kate said the shutters of the room were smashed. Madeleine was missing It looks as though someone had gone straight past the twins to get to her. Kate was incredibly upset. I've spoken to her since, and she's still completely devastated.


"She's also very upset that the police don't seem to be doing more to find Madeleine. She thinks there's too little happening."
The Liverpool Daily Post also speaks to Jon Corner and reports a very similar conversation:

Jon Corner, founder of Liverpool-based River Media, is godfather to the McCann’s twins and his wife has known Mrs McCann since they were both three. The co-founder of city centre-based River Media, and a father-of-three himself, said: “Kate phoned me in the early hours totally devastated."


"She just told me that Maddy had been abducted, that the shutters of the apartment had been forced and someone had taken her."


"Maddy was asleep in the room with Sean and Amelie and whoever has taken her has gone straight past the sleeping twins, left them completely alone and snatched Maddy."

"Kate is just so distressed. She doesn’t know what to do. It has knocked me and everyone else for six. It doesn’t actually seem real."
----------

This is the honest man who so totally believes in the McCanns innocence?

Why would Kate be devastated?

She'd be very concerned, deeply upset, distressed or distraught. But not devastated as devastation would suggest something dreadful has happened that is absolutely irreversible, something catastrophe. A aircraft is devastated when it crashes with no survivors, one that lands in the Hudson River is very distressing.

I don't find the use of the word 'devastated' to be of great significance. People use this word when their team loses at football! What I do find significant is the description of the shutters. Jin Corner quotes Kate's obvious lie about this matter. The Mccanns were lying from the start which is , for me, the most compelling evidence of their guilt.....of something as yet unknown.

Cmaryholmes wrote:

What I do find significant is the description of the shutters. Jin Corner quotes Kate's obvious lie about this matter. The Mccanns were lying from the start which is , for me, the most compelling evidence of their guilt.....of something as yet unknown.

What confounds me, Kate McCann is still swooshing them there curtains during the Crimewatch Madeleine McCann Special circa. October 2013..



Why does she continue to fly in the face of the evidence - or absence of in this instance?

Once you've Swooshed, you can't go back.

JRP wrote:Once you've Swooshed, you can't go back.

You're right of course but there's always the option of shutting up !!! 

I truly believe the pair of them have got so accustomed to repeating the same old mantra over the years, they don't know how to stop - or realise how ridiculous they appear to the audience.

The closed curtains wooshing open , Peter Pan flew in all the way from Neverland to take Maddie back with him to join the Lost Boys .

Well it's just as feasible isn't it ?

Second star on the right and straight on till morning .

McCanns' PR steps down

Thursday 13th September 2007

Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of the missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, are looking for a new full-time public relations adviser after their current PR, Justine McGuinness, decided to step down.

Ms McGuinness has told journalists she is planning to cease acting as the McCann's PR on Saturday, September 15.
However, she is believed to have assured the McCanns that she will stay in place if a replacement cannot be found.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/sep/13/marketingandpr.crime



Former BBC man to speak for McCanns

18th September 2007


Profile: Clarence Mitchell

The parents of Madeleine McCann today stepped up their campaign to maintain their innocence with the appointment of a media expert to act as their spokesman.

Clarence Mitchell, speaking outside Gerry and Kate McCann's home in Rothley, Leicestershire, confirmed he had resigned from a senior post in the civil service to handle the intense international press interest in the case of Madeleine, who vanished while on holiday with her family in Portugal.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/18/ukcrime.marketingandpr

Kate McCann still curtain swooshing in the face of evidence to this very day.  [snipped]

A report by Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida to the Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

Where he concludes, after analyzing all the evidence gathered, that the child is dead and the parents were responsible for cadaver occultation, and the entire GROUP was lying since the first day of the investigation.

10 September 2007
(Processo: VOL ,X, p. 2587-2602)

On the informal depositions they made, during the judiciary inspection made at the local, the information immediately induced the thesis of KIDNAPPING.

Simple things became disinformation: the question of the opened or closed window; the shutter up or down; the balcony door opened' the front door, locked or open.
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When the media informed that blood had been detected 'in the car and in the apartment', Kate and members of her family come to the public with the simple excuse that it had been someone, with access to the apartment, to place the evidence.

Now they even admit it was a member of the criminal investigation to place the 'false' evidence (blood and cadaver odour in the apartment and in the car).

Kate in an attempt to justify the blood went even further, informing that on that occasion, Madeleine had, sometimes, nasal haemorrhages.
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They should have waited for the decisions from the police authorities, there is strong evidence that the crime scene was altered, some furniture was moved around.

Those changes are indications of simulation.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/TAVARES_ALMEIDA.htm

sandancer wrote:The closed curtains wooshing open , Peter Pan flew in all the way from Neverland to take Maddie back with him to join the Lost Boys .

Well it's just as feasible isn't it ?

Second star on the right and straight on till morning .

Ah, Well done!! Case almost solved.

And here of course is the nanny - Incredibly unreliable

Missing Madeleine's father makes plea for help

Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 10:18 pm

The father of missing three-year-old Madeleine McCann tonight made a fresh emotional plea for help in tracing his daughter.

Following criticism of aspects of how the case had been handled he also expressed the family’s thanks to the police for their efforts.

Appearing before a bank of cameras and a crowd of reporters Dr McCann stood arm in arm with his wife Kate who was again clutching a pink teddy bear as she was last night when the family were first seen in public following the disappearance which police are now treating as an abduction.

Moments before making his statement, Dr McCann appeared first alone before returning to the family’s temporary holiday apartment and re-emerging arm in arm with his wife.

He said: “First of all we would like to thank everyone here in Portugal, the UK and elsewhere for all your support during this extremely difficult time for our family.

“We are pleased that the family liaison officers from Leicestershire are now working closely with the Portuguese Police in keeping us informed.

“We have no further information regarding the investigation but appreciate the significant effort everyone is making on our behalf.

“We would again like to appeal for any information, however small, that may lead to the safe return of Madeleine.

“Finally we would like to thank the media for respecting our privacy especially that of Madeleine’s little brother and sister.”

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/mhausnmhqloj/

To be sure to be sure to be sure - be still my raging soul!  All roads lead to his Paypalness.

Verdi wrote:Kate McCann still curtain swooshing in the face of evidence to this very day.  [snipped]

A report by Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida to the Coordinator of the Criminal Investigation

Where he concludes, after analyzing all the evidence gathered, that the child is dead and the parents were responsible for cadaver occultation, and the entire GROUP was lying since the first day of the investigation.

10 September 2007
(Processo: VOL ,X, p. 2587-2602)

On the informal depositions they made, during the judiciary inspection made at the local, the information immediately induced the thesis of KIDNAPPING.

Simple things became disinformation: the question of the opened or closed window; the shutter up or down; the balcony door opened' the front door, locked or open.
----------

When the media informed that blood had been detected 'in the car and in the apartment', Kate and members of her family come to the public with the simple excuse that it had been someone, with access to the apartment, to place the evidence.

Now they even admit it was a member of the criminal investigation to place the 'false' evidence (blood and cadaver odour in the apartment and in the car).

Kate in an attempt to justify the blood went even further, informing that on that occasion, Madeleine had, sometimes, nasal haemorrhages.
---------

They should have waited for the decisions from the police authorities, there is strong evidence that the crime scene was altered, some furniture was moved around.

Those changes are indications of simulation.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/TAVARES_ALMEIDA.htm

"....and the entire GROUP was lying since the first day of the investigation."

THE SUN ON SUNDAY SAYS

Grubby profits made by the odious Goncalo Amaral over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance turns the stomach

The grubby individual who ran the investigation has now sworn to bankrupt the grieving McCanns

By The Sun on Sunday
16th April 2017, 3:39 am

MADELEINE McCann’s parents had suffered more than enough even before the odious cop Goncalo Amaral set out to make their lives yet more hellish.

They will never stop grieving for the little girl abducted from their holiday flat in 2007.

But the Portuguese ex-police chief who ran the investigation has now sworn to bankrupt them too.

His men’s rookie errors may be one reason no trace of Madeleine was ever found.

How might her life, and Kate and Gerry’s, have been different had fate put a decent cop in charge?

One not consumed by a baseless suspicion that they somehow covered up Madeleine’s death without leaving a trace?

It is incredible that Portugal’s legal system overturned their libel win against Amaral for his slurs on them.

It has given him licence to cash in — through his first book, the second even more fanciful one he is writing and the damages with which he intends to “clean out” the McCanns.

On May 3, ten years exactly will have passed since Madeleine ­vanished.

It is heartbreaking that after all that time this is where the multi-million pound investigation has led:
A dead-end, the child still lost, her ­parents still traumatised, her siblings growing up without her.
And one grubby individual shamelessly and vindictively profiting from it all.

It turns the stomach.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3341709/grubby-profits-made-by-the-odious-goncalo-amaral-over-madeleine-mccanns-disappearance-turns-the-stomach/





Don't be shy Tracey, put yer money where yer mouth is - for the first time I agree with you, it certainly turns my stomach.. :puke:

Of all the defamatory UK tabloid reports I've ever read, this one takes the biscuit.  The UK owe Snr Amaral more than an apology - they owe him respect, gratitude and compensation for mercilessly vilifying his name for ten years.  If anything is going to turn public opinion against he McCann faction, this must be it!

I have to go away after reading this sickening report.

Verdi wrote:THE SUN ON SUNDAY SAYS

Grubby profits made by the odious Goncalo Amaral over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance turns the stomach

The grubby individual who ran the investigation has now sworn to bankrupt the grieving McCanns

By The Sun on Sunday
16th April 2017, 3:39 am

Peter kindly sent me the comments from that article:

YET again the comments are still there, and every single one is negative. How much damage is the Sun trying to do


Just a few


Max DeFrostApr 17, 2017


"One not consumed by a baseless suspicion that they somehow covered up Madeleine’s death without leaving a trace"


LOL....oh my G - the cruel irony of this statement is that the ONLY thing that is a certain , with everything that went on and has been said, is the baseless (as you put it) and proof less fallacy of abduction. Not one scrap of evidence for that, Not one, other than a couple's and their flunky's flawed testimonies. 
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marian greavesApr 17, 2017

This article is both libellous and defamatory, maybe Mr Amaral won't sue you for it as you aren't worth the time, but you have insulted the Portugese legal system which may well have had enough now with people saying they are fools and decide to take action against you.

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Max DeFrostApr 17, 2017

The McCanns are lying to you and using outlets like The Sun to do their dirty work. Their efforts to besmirch Goncalo Amaral are because they lost in court. Its all false.... believe them if you want but if you do, you're being mugged off.
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Max DeFrostApr 17, 2017

'His men’s rookie errors may be one reason no trace of Madeleine was ever found'

what an utterly misinformed and false statement. Read the PJ files , people
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david staceyApr 16, 2017
Awful article. You are the only ones who believe in the McCanns innocence and are complicit in their deception. The McCanns will  pay one day, and so will The Sun.
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PAUL ARCHERApr 16, 2017

This won't make the mccanns happy.
 
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sherlock holmesApr 16, 2017

It's interesting reading the book reviews we find this, "It is refreshing to see the Portuguese police inquiry validated."
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PAUL ARCHERApr 16, 2017

@sherlock holmes 
Indeed Sherlock, I noted that section, along with a few others. 
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John SmithApr 16, 2017

"Grubby" and "Odious" could be accurately used to describe the McCanns' behaviour, in my opinion. They could also be accurately used to describe the ultra-biased, propaganda piece, that this article surely is.  But NOT to describe Snr Amaral, nor his conduct, during, or after the Policia Judiciaria's investigation.   This poor gentleman, who was a capable and experienced police officer, suffered much abuse at the hands of the UK press, being termed a "sardine muncher", amongst other things.  And why ?  Simply because he was trying to find the truth of what happened to little Madeleine McCann.  I hope he can manage to publish his new book in the UK, and I hope he pursues the McCanns, through the courts, for damages.  Lord knows, real evidence and real facts need to be widely propagated regarding this whole sordid affair.  Something is very rotten in the state of Denmark, indeed !  (Though for Denmark, read the United Kingdom)  
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jean beattieApr 16, 2017

Goncalo seems to be the only one seeking the truth.I hope he does sue the McCann's they have received 10 million for what?Evidence puts them in the frame.
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sherlock holmesApr 16, 2017

Is it an unreasonable question to ask how might her life, have been different had fate put a responsible pair of parents in charge? One thing we can be certain of, it wasn't Amaral who made her vanish and it wasn't him who made them tell us all a pack of lies.
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Nathan LucasApr 16, 2017

Terrible biased reporting .Kate and Gerry don't care about Madeleine they only care about themselves and lining their pockets. Check out "The McCanns Embedded Confessions" where Peter Hyatt analyzes an interview with the McCanns. It's all about them and nothing about Madeleine. They know she isn't coming back.
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neil fridayApr 19, 2017

@Nathan Lucas Howdense you truly are.
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Dawn HendersonApr 16, 2017

I hope he takes them to the cleaners and sues you in the process for your repulsive and constant assassination of his character!
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bessy meekApr 16, 2017

The SUN has just lost thousands!! Of readerr after that shoddy article.......RIP
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John CopseyApr 16, 2017

So what brought this on? People had a go at a certain Mr Cowell too often for the missing peoples choir fronted by an Ambassador of missing people who is possibly guilty of one of the greatest deceptions the world will ever see. Or are we just revving up for the 10th anniversary of a crime against a child. No stone unturned? Don't make me laugh. Not once have you published his side of the story. Still he who pays the piper ....  Read the McCann :PJ files
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Ellie MacApr 16, 2017

The Sun needs to get their facts correct!
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Bull ShiteApr 16, 2017

I hope he sues them for every penny. All of the evidence confirms Goncalo's theory of what happened. There is not one shred of evidence to support the MccScams version of events. I'm hoping one of them cracks soon and confesses, my money is on Kate, the guilt is etched on her face.
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sally coweApr 16, 2017

You have the date wrong. 29th April, the lass died, a few days to clean up the apartment, hide the body then shout "abduction". The Sun you should be printing non biased stories, not what Clement wants the public to read. I believe the Mccanns also wanted to ruin this Portugese detective and the freedom of speech was allowed. Time to seriously look into which VIP is being protected here, the mccanns are only the pawns. Poor Madeleine, everyone forgots her, the family are too busy trying to make even more money.
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neil fridayApr 19, 2017

@sally cowe Yes, money that is all spent on the search for their daughter. Now why would they do that?
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sally coweApr 19, 2017

@neil friday I@sally cowe
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sally coweApr 19, 2017

@neil friday @sally cowe TThats just it, they havent really spent money on looking for their daughter have they. Why did they employ the worst detectives available and why employ money laundering experts than renowned child finders. They were simply produces a smoke screen to spend the money on lawsuits. This was set up in the very first week of "her disappearance" and Gerry was already "organising galas and fund raising concerts etc in the near future" why did he know she was already not going to be found? mmm
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Susan JohnsonApr 16, 2017

And the 'Sun' is turning my stomach for printing such utter garbage.How about telling it like it really is in your gutter press. How they made Goncalo and his family suffer just because he tried to find out just how Madeleine 'disappeared' and printing the facts as discovered by the Portugal police, leading him and the Portugal Police to come to the conclusion that Maddie had died in the holiday apartment either through an accident or sheer neglect. This, led by an honest, compassionate man who was forced to finish his career much too soon through the disgusting lies and deceit pimped by the Mccann's, who were and still are given ammunition to fire. Yes SUN, time to print the true facts now which I am sure will give you much more 'click bait' than any of this garbage you are churning out about the McCanns, time now to praise Goncalo for his determination to find out the truth!
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

Read the PJ files instead of  lies the McCann say then print the truth of what really happened to Madeleine and then people might take your rag a bit seriously but until then your gutter rag will only be useful for wiping your arse on. Alex Diaz your a disgrace to all other decent reporters, hang your head in shame along with your fellow Sun reporter Katie Khandola.
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Ethan LloydApr 16, 2017

The only thing that "turns the stomach" is the fact that the McCanns are still free and crying for more money.
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M BApr 16, 2017

By writing untruthful, scumbag articles like this all you do is push your paper closer to the grave when the truth does come out. 
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elizabeth donnellyApr 16, 2017

3rd of May marks 10 years since an abduction lie was born , Madeleline McCann went on holiday with her family and never returned , her parents claim abduction , yet to this day there isn't one shred of evidence to support that , there is however evidence that supports a death and concealment of a body , for 10 years her parents have rammed abduction down the necks of the UK public with the support of the UK media and Government behind them , the majority of the UK public and many more across the world do not believe abduction took place , they believe and trust in the dog evidence and are disgusted this farce has continued this long , we're calling for an end to the secrecy , lies and corruption that acts like a blanket over the Madeleline McCann case , end the scam
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

Alex Diaz shame on you for this grubby story, how low can you go, are you on the McScamms payroll?
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

What utter garbage reporting, sham on you Sun and shame on your reporter, the sooner you go the way of the News of the World the better, how low can you go. I hope Snr Goncarlo Amaral sue you for the libelous comments you have made against him. 
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sherlock holmesApr 16, 2017

More lies from the grubbiest newspaper ever published as the Ross Barkley affair proves. 
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

@sherlock holmes And the Liverpool 96
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Yellow and BlackApr 16, 2017

I would have thought it was the McCanns who have made a profit out of their inexcusable poor parenting by leaving their children alone, not once but several times and we the British tax payer have shelled out millions so that they can perpetuate their lies
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Phil DunnApr 16, 2017

@Yellow and Black Kids were NEVER left alone..clever cover story by the "parents" 
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susan SearleApr 16, 2017

#GRIEVING  ! You only grieve when someone #DIES ... and they have never grieved 
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Phil DunnApr 16, 2017

DNA FOUND, BLOOD FOUND, SMELL OF DEATH FOUND (ON CLOTHES) . ONLY people to profit out of her death are the parents. Maddie was not taken because she was never left alone, NONE of the kids were left alone. Room CLEANED from top to bottom, 90 mins to call the police yet they phoned the papers, sky news, Gordon Browns brother in that time..They refused to search because it was "cold" yet EXPECTED everone else to look for their already DEAD daughter..they make me sick the horrible Bast#'ds 
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David HorneApr 16, 2017

Who is their PR man? I hope he pays them back for not doing a very good job, but there again was he not a failed politico, he done such a good job, they are viewed now as the culprits, and in my mind that is the correct view.
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wends62Apr 16, 2017


what a horrible inaccurate article.  To quote "They will never stop grieving for the little girl abducted from their holiday flat in 2007."  You know, I know and everyone else know that little girl died in the apartment on or around that day.  There was no evidence of a break in or abduction.  That is a proven fact.  Goncalo was despised and criticized because the McCann's uncovered their lies.  Instead of calling the police after discovering Maddie had "disappeared", they called Sky News and other media outlets as a plot for this huge elaborate lie and cover up.  Shame on them.  Goncalo did his job to the best of his ability.  Just a shame the McCann's won't disclose what they did to the body. 





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PAUL ARCHERApr 16, 2017


'His men’s rookie errors may be one reason no trace of Madeleine was ever found.'


Total B.S.


'It is incredible that Portugal’s legal system overturned their libel win against Amaral for his slurs on them.'


THEY DIDN'T WIN THE CASE.


THEY LOST.

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hayley neillApr 16, 2017

The grubby profits the McCann's made by murdering their daughter disgusts me
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Harry FlashApr 16, 2017

Good on him, I hope he makes them bleed they are a disgrace and should have been charged with neglect at the time.

Get'emGonçalo wrote:

Verdi wrote:THE SUN ON SUNDAY SAYS

Grubby profits made by the odious Goncalo Amaral over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance turns the stomach

The grubby individual who ran the investigation has now sworn to bankrupt the grieving McCanns

By The Sun on Sunday
16th April 2017, 3:39 am

Peter kindly sent me the comments from that article:

YET again the comments are still there, and every single one is negative. How much damage is the Sun trying to do


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Max DeFrostApr 17, 2017


"One not consumed by a baseless suspicion that they somehow covered up Madeleine’s death without leaving a trace"


LOL....oh my G - the cruel irony of this statement is that the ONLY thing that is a certain , with everything that went on and has been said, is the baseless (as you put it) and proof less fallacy of abduction. Not one scrap of evidence for that, Not one, other than a couple's and their flunky's flawed testimonies. 
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marian greavesApr 17, 2017

This article is both libellous and defamatory, maybe Mr Amaral won't sue you for it as you aren't worth the time, but you have insulted the Portugese legal system which may well have had enough now with people saying they are fools and decide to take action against you.

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Max DeFrostApr 17, 2017

The McCanns are lying to you and using outlets like The Sun to do their dirty work. Their efforts to besmirch Goncalo Amaral are because they lost in court. Its all false.... believe them if you want but if you do, you're being mugged off.
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Max DeFrostApr 17, 2017

'His men’s rookie errors may be one reason no trace of Madeleine was ever found'

what an utterly misinformed and false statement. Read the PJ files , people
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david staceyApr 16, 2017
Awful article. You are the only ones who believe in the McCanns innocence and are complicit in their deception. The McCanns will  pay one day, and so will The Sun.
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PAUL ARCHERApr 16, 2017

This won't make the mccanns happy.
 
amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06ZYP2BMN/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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sherlock holmesApr 16, 2017

It's interesting reading the book reviews we find this, "It is refreshing to see the Portuguese police inquiry validated."
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PAUL ARCHERApr 16, 2017

@sherlock holmes 
Indeed Sherlock, I noted that section, along with a few others. 
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John SmithApr 16, 2017

"Grubby" and "Odious" could be accurately used to describe the McCanns' behaviour, in my opinion. They could also be accurately used to describe the ultra-biased, propaganda piece, that this article surely is.  But NOT to describe Snr Amaral, nor his conduct, during, or after the Policia Judiciaria's investigation.   This poor gentleman, who was a capable and experienced police officer, suffered much abuse at the hands of the UK press, being termed a "sardine muncher", amongst other things.  And why ?  Simply because he was trying to find the truth of what happened to little Madeleine McCann.  I hope he can manage to publish his new book in the UK, and I hope he pursues the McCanns, through the courts, for damages.  Lord knows, real evidence and real facts need to be widely propagated regarding this whole sordid affair.  Something is very rotten in the state of Denmark, indeed !  (Though for Denmark, read the United Kingdom)  
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jean beattieApr 16, 2017

Goncalo seems to be the only one seeking the truth.I hope he does sue the McCann's they have received 10 million for what?Evidence puts them in the frame.
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sherlock holmesApr 16, 2017

Is it an unreasonable question to ask how might her life, have been different had fate put a responsible pair of parents in charge? One thing we can be certain of, it wasn't Amaral who made her vanish and it wasn't him who made them tell us all a pack of lies.
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Nathan LucasApr 16, 2017

Terrible biased reporting .Kate and Gerry don't care about Madeleine they only care about themselves and lining their pockets. Check out "The McCanns Embedded Confessions" where Peter Hyatt analyzes an interview with the McCanns. It's all about them and nothing about Madeleine. They know she isn't coming back.
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neil fridayApr 19, 2017

@Nathan Lucas Howdense you truly are.
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Dawn HendersonApr 16, 2017

I hope he takes them to the cleaners and sues you in the process for your repulsive and constant assassination of his character!
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bessy meekApr 16, 2017

The SUN has just lost thousands!! Of readerr after that shoddy article.......RIP
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John CopseyApr 16, 2017

So what brought this on? People had a go at a certain Mr Cowell too often for the missing peoples choir fronted by an Ambassador of missing people who is possibly guilty of one of the greatest deceptions the world will ever see. Or are we just revving up for the 10th anniversary of a crime against a child. No stone unturned? Don't make me laugh. Not once have you published his side of the story. Still he who pays the piper ....  Read the McCann :PJ files
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Ellie MacApr 16, 2017

The Sun needs to get their facts correct!
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Bull ShiteApr 16, 2017

I hope he sues them for every penny. All of the evidence confirms Goncalo's theory of what happened. There is not one shred of evidence to support the MccScams version of events. I'm hoping one of them cracks soon and confesses, my money is on Kate, the guilt is etched on her face.
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sally coweApr 16, 2017

You have the date wrong. 29th April, the lass died, a few days to clean up the apartment, hide the body then shout "abduction". The Sun you should be printing non biased stories, not what Clement wants the public to read. I believe the Mccanns also wanted to ruin this Portugese detective and the freedom of speech was allowed. Time to seriously look into which VIP is being protected here, the mccanns are only the pawns. Poor Madeleine, everyone forgots her, the family are too busy trying to make even more money.
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neil fridayApr 19, 2017

@sally cowe Yes, money that is all spent on the search for their daughter. Now why would they do that?
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sally coweApr 19, 2017

@neil friday I@sally cowe
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sally coweApr 19, 2017

@neil friday @sally cowe TThats just it, they havent really spent money on looking for their daughter have they. Why did they employ the worst detectives available and why employ money laundering experts than renowned child finders. They were simply produces a smoke screen to spend the money on lawsuits. This was set up in the very first week of "her disappearance" and Gerry was already "organising galas and fund raising concerts etc in the near future" why did he know she was already not going to be found? mmm
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Susan JohnsonApr 16, 2017

And the 'Sun' is turning my stomach for printing such utter garbage.How about telling it like it really is in your gutter press. How they made Goncalo and his family suffer just because he tried to find out just how Madeleine 'disappeared' and printing the facts as discovered by the Portugal police, leading him and the Portugal Police to come to the conclusion that Maddie had died in the holiday apartment either through an accident or sheer neglect. This, led by an honest, compassionate man who was forced to finish his career much too soon through the disgusting lies and deceit pimped by the Mccann's, who were and still are given ammunition to fire. Yes SUN, time to print the true facts now which I am sure will give you much more 'click bait' than any of this garbage you are churning out about the McCanns, time now to praise Goncalo for his determination to find out the truth!
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

Read the PJ files instead of  lies the McCann say then print the truth of what really happened to Madeleine and then people might take your rag a bit seriously but until then your gutter rag will only be useful for wiping your arse on. Alex Diaz your a disgrace to all other decent reporters, hang your head in shame along with your fellow Sun reporter Katie Khandola.
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Ethan LloydApr 16, 2017

The only thing that "turns the stomach" is the fact that the McCanns are still free and crying for more money.
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M BApr 16, 2017

By writing untruthful, scumbag articles like this all you do is push your paper closer to the grave when the truth does come out. 
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elizabeth donnellyApr 16, 2017

3rd of May marks 10 years since an abduction lie was born , Madeleline McCann went on holiday with her family and never returned , her parents claim abduction , yet to this day there isn't one shred of evidence to support that , there is however evidence that supports a death and concealment of a body , for 10 years her parents have rammed abduction down the necks of the UK public with the support of the UK media and Government behind them , the majority of the UK public and many more across the world do not believe abduction took place , they believe and trust in the dog evidence and are disgusted this farce has continued this long , we're calling for an end to the secrecy , lies and corruption that acts like a blanket over the Madeleline McCann case , end the scam
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

Alex Diaz shame on you for this grubby story, how low can you go, are you on the McScamms payroll?
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

What utter garbage reporting, sham on you Sun and shame on your reporter, the sooner you go the way of the News of the World the better, how low can you go. I hope Snr Goncarlo Amaral sue you for the libelous comments you have made against him. 
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sherlock holmesApr 16, 2017

More lies from the grubbiest newspaper ever published as the Ross Barkley affair proves. 
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Mikey JohnsonApr 16, 2017

@sherlock holmes And the Liverpool 96
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Yellow and BlackApr 16, 2017

I would have thought it was the McCanns who have made a profit out of their inexcusable poor parenting by leaving their children alone, not once but several times and we the British tax payer have shelled out millions so that they can perpetuate their lies
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Phil DunnApr 16, 2017

@Yellow and Black Kids were NEVER left alone..clever cover story by the "parents" 
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susan SearleApr 16, 2017

#GRIEVING  ! You only grieve when someone #DIES ... and they have never grieved 
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Phil DunnApr 16, 2017

DNA FOUND, BLOOD FOUND, SMELL OF DEATH FOUND (ON CLOTHES) . ONLY people to profit out of her death are the parents. Maddie was not taken because she was never left alone, NONE of the kids were left alone. Room CLEANED from top to bottom, 90 mins to call the police yet they phoned the papers, sky news, Gordon Browns brother in that time..They refused to search because it was "cold" yet EXPECTED everone else to look for their already DEAD daughter..they make me sick the horrible Bast#'ds 
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David HorneApr 16, 2017

Who is their PR man? I hope he pays them back for not doing a very good job, but there again was he not a failed politico, he done such a good job, they are viewed now as the culprits, and in my mind that is the correct view.
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wends62Apr 16, 2017


what a horrible inaccurate article.  To quote "They will never stop grieving for the little girl abducted from their holiday flat in 2007."  You know, I know and everyone else know that little girl died in the apartment on or around that day.  There was no evidence of a break in or abduction.  That is a proven fact.  Goncalo was despised and criticized because the McCann's uncovered their lies.  Instead of calling the police after discovering Maddie had "disappeared", they called Sky News and other media outlets as a plot for this huge elaborate lie and cover up.  Shame on them.  Goncalo did his job to the best of his ability.  Just a shame the McCann's won't disclose what they did to the body. 





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PAUL ARCHERApr 16, 2017


'His men’s rookie errors may be one reason no trace of Madeleine was ever found.'


Total B.S.


'It is incredible that Portugal’s legal system overturned their libel win against Amaral for his slurs on them.'


THEY DIDN'T WIN THE CASE.


THEY LOST.

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hayley neillApr 16, 2017

The grubby profits the McCann's made by murdering their daughter disgusts me
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Harry FlashApr 16, 2017

Good on him, I hope he makes them bleed they are a disgrace and should have been charged with neglect at the time.

+1 Get'emGonçalo, sorry for the huge quote.  This is really important in terms of mood music, think partial hangout

Get'emGonçalo wrote:

Verdi wrote:THE SUN ON SUNDAY SAYS

Grubby profits made by the odious Goncalo Amaral over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance turns the stomach

The grubby individual who ran the investigation has now sworn to bankrupt the grieving McCanns

By The Sun on Sunday
16th April 2017, 3:39 am

Peter kindly sent me the comments from that article:

YET again the comments are still there, and every single one is negative. How much damage is the Sun trying to do

I didn't get that far - the article was enough to destroy the soul.  It is however, gratifying to know even readers of the Sun are wised-up to the machinations of the McCann defence league.

Don't recall having seen the article before, when I came across it last night it hit me like a train running full steam ahead.  It's an utter disgrace - freedom of press is one thing but that shouldn't give them carte-blanche to publish such atrocious slander.

The UK media is an embarrassment to the nation.

J

Verdi wrote:THE SUN ON SUNDAY SAYS

Grubby profits made by the odious Goncalo Amaral over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance turns the stomach

The grubby individual who ran the investigation has now sworn to bankrupt the grieving McCanns

By The Sun on Sunday
16th April 2017, 3:39 am

MADELEINE McCann’s parents had suffered more than enough even before the odious cop Goncalo Amaral set out to make their lives yet more hellish.

They will never stop grieving for the little girl abducted from their holiday flat in 2007.

But the Portuguese ex-police chief who ran the investigation has now sworn to bankrupt them too.

His men’s rookie errors may be one reason no trace of Madeleine was ever found.

How might her life, and Kate and Gerry’s, have been different had fate put a decent cop in charge?

One not consumed by a baseless suspicion that they somehow covered up Madeleine’s death without leaving a trace?

It is incredible that Portugal’s legal system overturned their libel win against Amaral for his slurs on them.

It has given him licence to cash in — through his first book, the second even more fanciful one he is writing and the damages with which he intends to “clean out” the McCanns.

On May 3, ten years exactly will have passed since Madeleine ­vanished.

It is heartbreaking that after all that time this is where the multi-million pound investigation has led:
A dead-end, the child still lost, her ­parents still traumatised, her siblings growing up without her.
And one grubby individual shamelessly and vindictively profiting from it all.

It turns the stomach.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3341709/grubby-profits-made-by-the-odious-goncalo-amaral-over-madeleine-mccanns-disappearance-turns-the-stomach/





Don't be shy Tracey, put yer money where yer mouth is - for the first time I agree with you, it certainly turns my stomach.. :puke:

Of all the defamatory UK tabloid reports I've ever read, this one takes the biscuit.  The UK owe Snr Amaral more than an apology - they owe him respect, gratitude and compensation for mercilessly vilifying his name for ten years.  If anything is going to turn public opinion against he McCann faction, this must be it!

I have to go away after reading this sickening report.

Does anyone think the writer of this disgraceful piece actually believes a word of it? Delusional or deliberately deceitful? Either way, it's all down in writing, undeniable.

'IT'S THE END OF THE ROAD'

Madeleine McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry ‘have failed’ in their battle to silence ex-Portuguese cop over sick slurs

Pals of the parents have said Goncalo Amaral 'has won once and for all' because they don't have the 'time, energy or funding' to take him to the highest court in the land

By Tracey Kandohla -11th July 2017

MADELEINE McCann’s parents have failed in their latest battle to silence an ex-Portuguese cop over claims they faked their daughter’s kidnapping to cover up her death.

Pals of Kate and Gerry have said Goncalo Amaral “has won once and for all” because they don’t have the “time, energy or funding” to take him to the highest court in the land.

The parents have still taken no action to challenge the former cop in the highest court in the land despite vowing three months ago to continue the fight after a “terrible” ruling against them.

Mr Amaral claimed in a TV documentary and his bestselling 2008 book that the parents had killed Maddie and faked her kidnapping after she vanished in Praia da Luz in 2007 – but there is no truth in the claims.


A source close to the couple believe the lack of action by Maddie’s parents and their legal team indicates “the end of the road” in a bitter eight year fight against their tormentor.

The family pal said: “Realistically a European Court appeal was never going to succeed plus it would be too expensive to launch. It seems Mr Amaral, regrettably, has won once and for all. The fight is finally over.

“It means he can continue to spout his malicious lies about Kate and Gerry being involved in a cover up of their daughter’s death, which is almost laughable if it wasn’t so hurtful and damaging in the hunt for Madeleine.

“Kate and Gerry have always said they’ll keep no stone unturned in the global search and that’s what they want to concentrate on. I don’t think they have the time, energy or funding to lodge yet another appeal.”

The McCanns from Rothley, Leics, were left angry and disappointed after Portugal’s top court threw out their libel claim against Mr Amaral at the end of January.

The long-suffering couple pledged to take him to the European Court of Human Rights but have failed to do so.

Ex GP Kate, who has recently taken up a new medical job, said in an interview to mark the milestone 10th anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance in May that Mr Amaral’s poisonous words had been “very upsetting and incomprehensible.”

A trio of Supreme Court judges ruled that Mr Amaral’s claims in his book were protected by freedom of expression laws and also that the McCanns’ were not “formally in the clear” over Maddie’s disappearance.

The Policia Judiciaria inspector led the initial bungled hunt for Maddie but was later pulled off the case after criticising British police assistance.

In his once banned book “The Truth of the Lie”, he claimed Maddie accidentally died in an accident at the holiday flat or by being given an overdose of sedatives.

Maddie’s parents fiercely denied his allegations and accused described [sic] Mr Amaral as a self obsessed, manipulative money-grabber.

Three-year-old Maddie vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007 while her parents were dining in a nearby tapas bar with pals.

Speaking ahead of the tenth anniversary in May, defiant Kate said her hope of finding missing daughter Madeleine alive will never fade – as she vowed to still buy her a present for her 14th birthday.

Kate and Gerry’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell today declined to comment on their failure to challenge Mr Amaral in the European Court, saying: “Anything on the legal side is up to their Portuguese lawyer to comment on.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3996381/madeleine-mccanns-parents-kate-and-gerry-have-failed-in-their-battle-to-silence-ex-portuguese-cop-over-sick-slurs/

UK police rule out only McCann suspects
Wednesday, 26 April 2017





The only four official suspects investigated by the Met Police over the abduction of Madeleine McCann have been ruled out of the inquiry.

But Scotland Yard insists it is still investigating one significant lead. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley told Sky News: 'We have one significant line of inquiry which is worth pursuing and because it's worth pursuing it could provide an answer.'

The suspects were believed by Scotland Yard to have taken her during a burglary gone wrong at the McCanns' rented holiday apartment in Portugal.

They were identified by their mobile phone use, their location near the apartment on the night and their backgrounds.
One is Jose Carlos da Silva, 35, a former driver at the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz, where Madeleine vanished on 3 May, 2007.

He and the others were questioned and investigated for six months before being told they would face no further action.
Mr Rowley said: 'Somebody's doing a burglary, panicked maybe by a waking child and that's what's leads to Madeleine going missing.'

Asked if that was an unlikely scenario and if any surprised burglar would simply run away, Mr Rowley said: 'In my experience, if you try to apply the cold, rational logic of a normal person sitting in their front room to what criminals do under pressure, you tend to make mistakes.

'It was a sensible hypothesis and it's not entirely ruled out.' Madeleine disappeared as she slept in a room with her younger twin siblings while their parents Kate and Gerry McCann, both doctors, dined with friends nearby.

Scotland Yard began investigating six years ago after the failure of the first Portuguese police investigation.

The team of detectives, cut in 2015 from 29 to four, said new information was still being received daily.

Portugal's deputy national director of the Policia Judiciaria, Pedro do Carmo, told Sky News that he was under no financial or political pressure to wind up his re-opened investigation.

He said: 'If the Metropolitan Police decides to close its investigation that doesn't mean we are going to close ours. 'Our two investigations are not dependent on one another.'

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/europe/2017/04/26/uk-police-rule-out-only-mccann-suspects.html

Missing Madeleine McCann...One Year On


30th April 2008

Kate McCann has revealed she and husband Gerry meant to take Madeleine to dinner with them on the night she vanished - but changed their minds at the last moment.

Kate McCann has revealed she and Gerry intended to take Madeleine to dinner with them on the night she vanished - but changed their minds at the last moment.

The couple had initially planned to stroll half a mile with Madeleine and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie to a restaurant that catered for families.

But because the children were tired they took the fateful decision to feed them in their flat and put them to bed instead - and then went out to dine with their friends.

Kate, telling for the first time of the seemingly inconsequential change of plan, says tearfully: "Why didn't we go?"

The heartbreaking revelation comes in a two-hour TV special screened tonight ahead of the first anniversary of the four-year-old's disappearance.

In the documentary Kate also tells how becoming an official police suspect only made her stronger and more determined to fight for her daughter.

She says: "I felt angry, I felt strong. I wasn't scared. I would do whatever it took to fight for justice and truth."

MYBEST FRIEND

Kate tells movingly how the little blonde girl was more like a best friend than a daughter - and reveals how she tortures herself by trying to imagine how Madeleine looks now she is approaching her fifth birthday.

The ITV1 documentary Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign For Change, was produced after camera crews spent four months with the McCanns.

It captures the daily anguish endured by both parents - graphically illustrated when Kate weeps as she says to the camera: "I know how much I love Madeleine and I have no doubt that Madeleine knows how much I love her."

Kate also tells how she still agonises over the ill-fated decision not to got to family-friendly Millennium restaurant on the night Madeleine went missing.

She and Gerry had planned to take the children there to mark the last night of their holiday.

Kate says: "We were all going up to the Millennium again, with the kids, which is what we did on the first night. But the Millennium was a good walk away and we didn't have a buggy with us.

"It didn't open till half-six and our kids usually go to bed around seven, so they were really tired and they were walking.
"So we ended up trying to carry three of them between two and we decided we couldn't do that again. It wouldn't have been good for anybody." Instead, the couple decided to dine with friends at the tapas bar about 60 yards from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz and check their children every half-hour. At around 9.15pm, Madeleine was found to be missing.

Kate, a devout Catholic, tells how as a frantic search got under way she sat in her daughter's room praying - then phoned friends and begged them to pray.

She says: "It was really cold. I knew what pyjamas she had on and I thought 'She's going to be freezing'. And it was dark and every minute seemed like an hour and we were up all night, waiting for the first light about 6am." Kate also tells of their growing realisation that Portuguese police suspected them of murdering their own child.

She weeps again as she says: "I realised the theory was that Madeleine was dead and that we'd been involved.

"It just hit home - 'They haven't been looking for Madeleine.' And I just thought 'She deserves so much better than that'."

But Kate reveals that being made an arguido, or official suspect, over Madeleine's disappearance actually inspired her to greater efforts.

She says: "I felt almost invincible. I don't know what kicked in. I thought 'Someone has to fight for Madeleine'."

Gerry adds: "If we had crumpled, then who's looking for Madeleine?"

Kate also speaks about the close bond she and Madeleine shared - more like best friends than mother and daughter.

She says: "I had days when I'd go to a cafe with Madeleine and we'd go shopping together and she'd just say 'Oh mummy I like that top' or 'Oh I love your earrings, mummy'."

Then, poignantly slipping into the present tense, Kate adds: "She's good company. She's like a little buddy to me. She's very loving...a very bright little girl."

Kate fights to maintain her composure as she describes how Madeleine stepped into the role of big sister when the twins were born. She says: "It was lovely seeing them together and that's one thing I struggle with, imagining how they'd be now."

And she hits out at those who accused her of showing too little emotion after Madeleine vanished, adding: "We had behavioural specialist profilers out who were telling us not to show emotion in case the abductor gets a kick out of it.

"You've got the pressure of not showing emotion to protect your daughter."

Gerry also fights tears as he views Madeleine's webpage on YouTube on his laptop at their home in Rothley, Leics.

TWINS NEED US


He turns away and says: "Every time I watch that video it brings it back."

But despite her resolve to stay strong, Kate tells how after returning home in September without Madeleine she was overwhelmed by feelings of despair.

She says: "I didn't cook a meal, just couldn't do it. How can I hang up washing when my daughter's not here?"
But the day-to-day business of caring for the twins has forced her to cope.

Kate says: "Sean and Amelie need and deserve a normal happy life."

She still unconsciously refers to Madeleine as if she is with them as she adds: "It's a case of getting up and breakfast and getting dressed and with three kids there's always lots of washing.

"In some ways it's good, because you have to do it."

Gerry adds:"Your life is carrying on in a quasi-real existence, a purgatory-type existence. We are between something real and never finding out.

"We're not getting any information about the investigation and that is completely demoralising."

The film also captures the couple's disgust as their statements to Portuguese police were leaked on the day they went to Brussels to campaign for a Europeanwide missing child alert system.

The leak revealed that on the morning of May 3, the day Madeleine vanished, she asked Kate: "Mummy, why didn't you come when we were crying last night?"

Angry Kate insists it was merely a passing remark by Madeleine and accuses the police of smear tactics, adding: "I feel absolutely gutted."

She adds: "I've persecuted myself over and over again about that statement because you think 'Why didn't I just hold her and say what do you mean?' Why didn't I say 'Why did you cry?' And why didn't we go to the Millennium?"

STILL SO NEAR


On Saturday it will be a year since Madeleine vanished. But Kate says: "It doesn't feel like a year since I saw her. She's very much still there and she doesn't seem that far away. It feels like she's still with me and I've never felt that I won't see her again.

"I see Madeleine's best friend from time to time. I can't help wondering what would Madeleine be like, would she be that much taller, is her hair as long as that?

"Would she be writing her name? You know she's there waiting for us. She's there somewhere. It's just finding her."

Gerry says: "She's still very much part of our life and the twins. We can see how much they love their big sister. Our little girl wasn't even four and now she's nearly five. She's the victim and people should not forget that."

Kate vows that she will never give up the hunt for her beloved daughter.

But she admits: "The thought of living like this for another 40 years isn't exactly a happy prospect."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/missing-madeleine-mccannone-year-on-305349

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McCanns tell of 'desperate' night


Kate and Gerry McCann have spoken movingly of the night their daughter Madeleine vanished, a year after the three-year-old disappeared.


In an ITV1 documentary, the couple recall their all-night vigil and desperate dawn search for their daughter after she went missing.

They also reveal the extent of hate mail they receive, showing one message calling the pair "scum".

Kate McCann tells how she refused to be "railroaded" by Portuguese police.

Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, disappeared in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on 3 May last year, while her parents ate in a nearby tapas restaurant.

In the programme, Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign For Change, the McCanns tells how they considered taking their three children with them to another restaurant called the Millennium further away, but rejected the idea only because they did not have a buggy, they said.

Describing the moment she first realised Madeleine was not in her bed at their apartment, Mrs McCann said: "I rushed round the apartment, really quickly, just opened up cupboards and things and then just went flying out down to the tapas restaurant, shouting 'someone's taken Madeleine'.

"And that's when the nightmare started."

She went on: "I just remember saying: 'Not Madeleine, not Madeleine, not Madeleine' and I can just remember saying that over and over and over again.

"Gerry was the same... I'm not used to seeing Gerry obviously that upset."

She said one of her most vivid memories was concern that Madeleine would be cold.

"I knew what pyjamas she had on and I just thought she's going to be freezing," she said.

Marked boxes


A segment filmed in the family home shows Mr McCann sorting through mail, dropping one Christmas card inside a box marked "Nasty".

Other boxes are marked "Wellwishers", "Psychics", "Visions and dreams", and even "Nutty".

However, the couple tell the programme that "99%" of the correspondence they receive from the public is positive.

The card accuses the McCanns of stealing money from the Find Madeleine campaign to help pay their mortgage

The person writes: "Gerry and Kate, how can you use money given by poor people in good faith to pay your mortgage on your mansion?"

It continues: "Shame on you. I curse you and your family to suffer forever.

"Cursed Christmas. If you had any shame you would accept full responsibility for your daughter's disappearance and give all the money back. You are scum."

Last pictures


One regular writer has a conspiracy theory about Madeleine passing through Belgium and Germany with the knowledge of the British government.

"Really, I don't think there's any credibility to it whatsoever," Mr McCann says.

Mrs McCann says she refused to be "railroaded" by Portuguese police when it was suggested she might be involved in her daughter's disappearance.

"I'd have fought to the death to be honest at that point," she says.

The McCanns talk warmly of some of the last pictures to be taken of Madeleine while the family were on holiday in the Algarve.
"She was a little person becoming independent and a piece of just endless joy," Mr McCann says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7374225.stm

Madeleine McCann photo used in holiday advert

Kate and Gerry McCann were “horrified” to discover that the last photograph taken of their missing daughter Madeleine had been used to promote holidays in Portugal.

8th May 2012

The familiar image of the three-year-old was used to illustrate deals offered by lowcostholidays.com on the website VoucherDigg.

But the travel company said it had no advertising contract with the voucher website and admitted that the use of the little girl's picture was “vile”.

Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, branded it “appallingly insensitive” and said law firm Carter-Ruck had been called in to demand removal of the picture with “immediate effect”.

The VoucherDigg site sells breaks in a self-catering family apartment in Albufeira, Algarve, just 25 miles from Praia da Luz, the resort from which Madeleine disappeared five years ago.

The photograph of her dangling her legs in a swimming pool dressed in a pink dress and white sunhat, was taken just hours before she vanished from the family's holiday apartment.

The advert offers “best value” discounts and urges holidaymakers: 'Hurry up for time is limited. Take the ones you loved and enjoy your life.''

Lawrence Hunt, chief operating officer of lowcostholidays.com, told the BBC: "We have no contract with VoucherDigg to advertise our holidays and we are doing all that we can to contact the website and get the picture removed.

"We discovered this vile material yesterday and immediately broke all the links to our site and contacted our lawyers.
We apologise for any distress this may have caused which is completely beyond our control and are disgusted by the use of this image."

No one from VoucherDigg was available for comment.

Mr Mitchell said the McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were fully aware of the use of their daughter’s picture, which he said had been online for at least 24 hours.

The couple last week issued a new appeal to the public as they marked the fifth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance.
They insisted that the ongoing Scotland yard review of the case had given them more hope than ever that she would eventually be found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/9252450/Madeleine-McCann-photo-used-in-holiday-advert.html

Clar'ification Mitchell - you've got one hell of a lot to answer for.  The Mitch giveth and the Mitch taketh away - it's all a game to the big media monitoring mogul.  I wonder if he takes tea with the big M.

Gerry McCann Says Make Example Of Web Trolls


Madeleine McCann's father calls for more prosecutions after Sky News revealed details of a dossier of abuse targeting his family.  3rd October 2014

Madeleine McCann's father has called for tougher action against web trolls after Sky News exposed a woman who abused his family online.

Gerry McCann said online abuse had caused "severe distress" to him and his wife Kate and that police should be more willing to prosecute the perpetrators.

He was speaking after Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt revealed in a special report that Scotland Yard is investigating a dossier of social media abuse targeting the McCanns - whose three-year-old daughter went missing on a family holiday in 2007.

When confronted over her actions, one of the trolls, who used the name "Sweepyface" online, told Sky News she believed she was "entitled" to attack the couple on Twitter.

Mr McCann said he had not read the Sweepyface tweets, but he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Clearly something needs to be done about the abuse on the internet. I think we probably need more people to be charged.

"We do not have any significant presence on social media or online and I've got grave concerns about our children as they grow up and start to access the internet in an unsupervised capacity.

"People are threatening to kidnap our children, people are threatening violence against Kate and myself."
He said police should be more willing to charge internet trolls.

"I'm glad to see the law around this area has been reviewed. We need to make examples of people who are causing damage," he said.

"It causes us severe distress. There is so much vile nonsense written on the internet."

Mr McCann also branded the Sunday Times "disgraceful" after winning a £55,000 libel payout over a story which claimed the couple had deliberately hindered the search for Madeleine, who vanished in Praia da Luz.

http://news.sky.com/story/gerry-mccann-says-make-example-of-web-trolls-10387676