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Post by Tony Bennett 03.04.18 22:58

In view of some obvious problems with the latest Freedom of Information Act answers from the Met Police about the work of Operation Grange, I have submitted the Review Request below.    

I have submitted this Review Request using the 'WhatDoTheyKnow?' site - and you can follow the replies via this link:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/madeleine_mccann_case_operation 

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3 April 2018

To: Met Police

Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Madeleine McCann - Operation Grange - Information

Dear Met Police

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of the Met Police's handling of my FOI request 'Madeleine McCann - Operation Grange - Information'.

CLEAR ERROR IN THE INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY DAVID EDWARDS, INFORMATION RIGHTS UNIT, AND THE CONSEQUENT NEED FOR CORRECTION AND FOR SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Dear Head of Information Rights Unit

This letter is in effect a request for a review by a more senior officer.

I begin by thanking David Edwards for his prompt reply and his partial disclosure of information. I also understand the legal reasons why some of the information sought may not be able to be disclosed.

In my original question submitted on 3 March, point 4 on which information was sought was this:

“4. Two efits of a person suspected of being Madeleine's abductor were shown on a TV programme, Crimewatch, on 14 October 2013:

 (A) On what date did Operation Grange first receive these efits?
 (B) From whom?
 (C) Is Operation Grange still seeking the public's help in identifying this man?”

Your reply was:

“These efits were received by the Operation Grange team in September 2008 as part of a dossier of material handed to the MPS by private investigators that had been working on the case. The MPS will not comment on whether identifications have or have not been made however the efits do not form part of any current appeal”.

There is a very obvious problem with this answer. Operation Grange was not set up until May 2011, or so we have been told. The decision to set up a Review of the Madeleine McCann case was, so we learned in the media, prompted by Rebekah Brooks, then the Chief Executive Officer of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, having on 11 May 2011 threatened David Cameron, then Prime Minister, with ‘a week of bad headlines about Theresa May’ if he did not set up the Review.

On the same day Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper published an appeal to David Cameron by the McCanns asking for a Review of their case. The following day (12 May 2011), David Cameron, via an unnamed spokesman, said a Review had been ordered by Theresa May, then Home Secretary, “to help the family”. Months later, it was learnt that the Review was being conducted under the banner of ‘Operation Grange’. If all of the above facts are correct, it must follow that Operation Grange was NOT set up in or before September 2008 as claimed in the reply by the Information Rights Unit.

Another possibility is that Operation Grange WAS set up in or before September 2008 as the Information Unit has attested, and that therefore the Review apparently ordered in May 2011 was merely a continuation of the work being done by the Met Police under ‘Operation Grange’ for the previous two years and eight months (or more).

Before inviting you to clarify and expand on your answers regarding these e-fits, the following is the information we have from (a) the Portuguese Police files, released on a DVD in August 2007 and (b) various media reports:

1 Martin Smith and two members of his family made formal statements on 26 May 2007 stating that they had seen a man carrying a young blonde girl clad only in pyjamas at about 10pm on Thursday 3 May 2007, the night Madeleine McCann was reported missing. On 15 May 2007 Robert Murat had been declared a formal suspect in the case. The day after (16 May), Martin Smith told the Portuguese Police that he and his family now remembered seeing a man carrying a young blonde girl - but was adamant that day, and on when he made his formal statement on 26 May, that the man he had seen on 3 May was NOT Robert Murat. He asserted that because he ‘knew’ Robert Murat (Public information: PJ Files).

2 On 20 September 2007 Martin Smith contacted the Irish Police and told them that he was now 60% to 80% certain that the man he had seen on 3 May was Gerry McCann, Madeleine’s father. He subsequently signed a formal statement to that effect (Public information: PJ Files)

3 On 3 January 2008, a number of media reports confirmed that Martin Smith had been contacted by Brian Kennedy and Metodo 3 on behalf of the McCanns. Brian Kennedy had been appointed by the McCanns back in September 2007 to lead their private investigations and he had hired Metodo 3. Subsequently, at a time probably in the spring of 2008 but on a date that the McCanns have not yet disclosed, Martin Smith and presumably one or more members of his family helped to draw up the two very different efits which are the subject of this Freedom of Information Act question.


On 14 October 2013, on a BBC Crimewatch programme, the efits were shown to the public by Operation Grange for the first time (albeit that they had been trailed in some media the previous two days). They were described in relation to ‘an Irish family’, though the Smiths were not named, and it was said that ‘two of the witnesses’ had drawn up the efits. It was presumed from that that the two witnesses disagreed substantially on what he looked like, since the faces are clearly very different.

On Sunday 27 October 2013, the Sunday Times ran an article which, in summary, blamed the McCanns for not having handed over the efits to the police ‘for 5 years’ .The McCanns sued for libel and the Sunday Times apologised and paid the McCanns libel damages of £55,000 plus agreed costs.

The original article said this: “The new prime suspect was first singled out by detectives in 2008. Their findings were suppressed. Madeleine disappeared from the Praia da Luz resort in May 2007. The critical new evidence at the centre of Scotland Yard’s search for Madeleine McCann was kept secret for five years after it was presented to her parents by ex-MI5 investigators. The evidence was in fact taken from an intelligence report produced for Gerry and Kate McCann by a firm of former spies in 2008. It contained crucial efiits of a man seen carrying a child on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance, which have only this month become public after he was identified as the prime suspect by Scotland Yard”.

The Sunday Times article continued: “The potential abductor seen by the Smiths is now the prime suspect in Scotland Yard’s investigation, after detectives established that the man seen earlier by [Jane] Tanner was almost certainly a father carrying his child home from a nearby night creche. The Smith efits were the centrepiece of the Crimewatch appeal. One of the Oakley investigators said last week: ‘I was absolutely stunned when I watched the programme…It most certainly wasn’t a new timeline and it certainly isn’t a new revelation. It is absolute nonsense to suggest either of those things…those efits you saw on Crimewatch are ours’. The detailed images of the face of the man seen by the Smith family were never released by the McCanns”.

The subsequent Sunday Times apology was short, as follows: 

“In articles dated October 27 ("Madeleine clues hidden for 5 years" and "Investigators had efits five years ago", News) we referred to efits which were included in a report prepared by private investigators for the McCanns and the Fund in 2008. We accept that the articles may have been understood to suggest that the McCanns had withheld information from the authorities. This was not the case. We now understand and accept that the efits had been provided to the Portuguese and Leicestershire police by October 2009. We also understand that a copy of the final report including the efits was passed to the Metropolitan Police in August 2011, shortly after it commenced its review. We apologise for the distress caused”.

This apology did not specify who had handed these efits to the Portuguese Police and Leicestershire Police, nor when. Henri Exton, who was employed by the McCanns via Kevin Halligen’s Oakley International company, said that he had handed the efits to the McCanns. According to the McCanns, the efits were provided to the Portuguese and Leicestershire policeby October 2009”.

These efits, then, have a contradictory and unexplained history attached to them.

The efits were important enough for the BBC and Operation Grange to spend, reportedly, well over six months and over £2 million preparing the Crimewatch McCann Special on 14 October 2013, the entire focus of which was these two efits. DCI Redwood from Operation Grange said that they were now “the centre of our focus”. Around 7 million people watched the programme. Viewers were invited to identify this man and call Crimewatch. We know from DCI Redwood that hundreds did contact the programme .He also disclosed that specific names were suggested by the callers.

It cannot be said therefore that this case, or the history of the efits, in any way lacks ‘public interest’. On the contrary, it has been highlighted continually in British and international media for over 10 years. Both the McCanns and the Met Police have made on-the-record statements that they want the investigation into Madeleine McCann to be ‘open’ and ‘transparent’. Further, the general public is surely entitled to the maximum possible disclosure in this case because of the amount of public money devoted to the case by the generosity of the British public and by the taxpayer.

Thus all the usual ‘public interest’ tests appear to be satisfied in this case in favour of disclosure. Moreover, the public in a case of this national importance should not have to be in the position of constantly being told contradictory stories about these efits, especially when the source of some of those contradictions and confusion is the Metropolitan Police Information Rights Department itself.

To sum up:

1 We do not know precisely when the efits were produced

2 We are told that Henri Exton handed the efits to the McCanns in September 2008 although, if that is true, it is highly likely that the McCanns were aware of them and saw them before that

3 We were told by the Sunday Times apology, the terms of which the McCanns’ lawyers must have approved, that the efits were handed to both the Portuguese and Leicestershire Police ‘by October 2009’ – but we do not know who handed them to them, nor do we know the dates. The presumption must be that since the McCanns now held the efits, it was entirely within their power as to when to release these efits and, if so, to whom

4 We are now told by a Met Police answer to a Freedom of Information request that “a dossier of material [including the efits] was handed to the MPS by private investigators in September 2008”.

5 But the same Sunday Times correction/apology said that the ‘final report including the efits’ was ‘passed to the Metropolitan Police in August 2011’ (though not saying by whom) ‘shortly after it commenced its review’. There is a clear conflict, then, between these three separate claims:

(1) efits handed to Portuguese and Leicestershire Police [presumably by the McCanns] ‘by October 2009’ (per Sunday Times apology)
(2) efits handed to the Met Police by private investigators in August 2011 (per Sunday Times apology), and
(3) efits handed to the MPS by private investigators in September 2008” (per MPS Freedom of Information Act answer, March 2018).


I would also at this stage remind the Met Police of their answers to these previous Freedom of Information Act questions:


On what date were these two e-fits created? – NOT ANSWERED

Did members of the Irish family create these e-fits, or were the 'two witnesses' mentioned by Matthew Amroliwala who drew up the e-fits actually other witnesses? If so, please state who they were. – ANSWER: “The programme was referring to members of the Irish family who created the e-fits”.

Are the e-fits of the same man, or not? - ANSWER: “Yes they are the same man”.

On what date were these two e-fits first shown to members of Operation Grange? – NOT ANSWERED

On what dates in 2012 and 2013, or otherwise in 2011 and 2014, did members of Operation Grange (a) meet with members of the Irish family or (b) have contact with the Irish family, whether by telephone, e-mail, letter or otherwise? – NOT ANSWERED.


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It is clear, at least, that these two efits were produced by Henri Exton, former Head of Covert Intelligence for MI5, and the Oakley International Team appointed by the McCanns and Brian Kennedy early in 2008.

It is also clear that these efits were passed to the McCanns, presumably shortly after they were first produced.

The recent MPS Freedom of Information Act answer states on the record that the MPS/Operation Grange were handed ‘a dossier plus the efits’ by private investigators ‘in September 2008’.

Yet in a public apology in the Sunday Times, presumably sanctioned by the McCanns, we were told that the efits were part of a report first handed in to the Met Police in August 2011 (nearly three years later).

Moreover, this Sunday Times report referred to a ‘final report’ of the private investigators .Yet according to Mr Exton and the Sunday Times this final report was submitted by Henri Exton to the McCanns in September 2008, long before August 2011.

Therefore for the purposes of full clarification, and having regard to the overwhelming public interest in this case, I now ask the following supplementary questions to those I asked on 3 March 2018:

1. On what date, and by whom, were these two efits first drawn up?
2. On what date or dates did the private investigators release these two efits released and to whom?
3. On what date (if any) were these efits handed to Leicestershire Police?
4. On what date (if any) were these efits handed to the Portuguese Police?
5. On what date were these efits first supplied to Operation Grange, and by whom?
6. On what date did Operation Grange first receive these two efits, and from whom?
7. If the Metropolitan Police first received these efits before Operation Grange was set up, on what date were they received and by which department of the MPS were they received?
8. The recent MPS Freedom of Information Act reply refers specifically to the ‘final’ version of the private investigators’ report. Therefore, in the interests of clarity, and having regard (a) to the public interest and (b) assurances by both the McCanns and the Met Police that the investigations into Madeleine’s disappearance would be conducted with maximum openness and transparency, please state:

(i) On what date was the ‘final’ private investigators’ report compiled.
(ii) How many interim reports were there before the ‘final report’ and when was each of them compiled?


It is believed that the Metropolitan Police holds all of this information.


In relation to this answer: “The MPS will not comment on whether identifications have or have not been made however the efits do not form part of any current appeal”, let it be noted again that British taxpayers paid over £2 million for the BBC Crimewatch McCann Special which heavily featured these two controversial efits and they are surely entitled as much information as is reasonable to disclose about the outcome. 

Please therefore answer the following questions:
Has the man in the efits been identified?

If Yes, has he been positively ruled out as Madeleine’s abductor?

If No, is the Met Police still searching for him?

If No, is the Met Police still searching for someone else as the likely abductor?

The efits still appear on the McCanns’ ‘Find Madeleine’ website despite the MPS ‘no longer using them as part of its appeal’.

Has the MPS advised the McCanns to remove these efits from their website?

If Yes, on what date please.  


The publication of the fullest possible answers to these questions will help to clear up what appears to be a cloud of contradictions and evasions surrounding the production of these efits and the use to which they have been put.

Yours sincerely


Anthony Bennett

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Dr Martin Roberts: "The evidence is that these are the pjyamas Madeleine wore on holiday in Praia da Luz. They were photographed and the photo handed to a press agency, who released it on 8 May, as the search for Madeleine continued. The McCanns held up these same pyjamas at two press conferences on 5 & 7June 2007. How could Madeleine have been abducted?"

Amelie McCann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".  

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Post by Phoebe 03.04.18 23:41

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Post by Tony Bennett 04.04.18 12:48

ACKNOWLEDMENT TODAY FROM THE METRPOLITAN POLICE


Dear Mr Bennett

Freedom of Information Review Reference No: 2018040000062

I write in connection with your request for a review of the handling and/or decision relating to 2018030000241 which was received by the  Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 03/04/2018.
 
A review will now be conducted in accordance with the Code of Practice issued under Section 45 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). 

The reviewing officer will reconsider the original request before responding to you with their findings.


There is no statutory time limit in relation to the completion of an Internal Review. However, the MPS aim to complete Internal Reviews within 20 working days or in exceptional cases, within 40 working days.  This is
based upon guidance published by the Information Commissioner.


If it is not possible to complete the Internal Review within this timescale you will be informed at the earliest opportunity.

If you are unhappy with the outcome of an Internal Review you may wish to refer the matter to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

For information on how to make an application to the Information Commissioner please visit their website at www.ico.org.uk.  

Alternatively, write to or phone:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Phone:  0303 123 1113

 
Yours sincerely
 
R. Loizou
Support Officer - Freedom of Information Triage Team

Metropolitan Police



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Dr Martin Roberts: "The evidence is that these are the pjyamas Madeleine wore on holiday in Praia da Luz. They were photographed and the photo handed to a press agency, who released it on 8 May, as the search for Madeleine continued. The McCanns held up these same pyjamas at two press conferences on 5 & 7June 2007. How could Madeleine have been abducted?"

Amelie McCann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".  

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Post by willowthewisp 04.04.18 15:53

Hi Antony Bennett,sorry to sound cynical but its like the old song,Your head bone is connected to your neck bone and So on,they are so full of Bovine Spirit in the need to provide"Honest answers"like they couldn't lie straight in Bed?
Looking more than ever of"Keystone Cops",No Offence to Honest Police Officers,but you must understand how the public feel right now in regard to the direct cuts to the Police Service,whilst the public after pay more for a less delivered service?

It is a Cover Up,that they do not wish to release to the Public why?
Is it all about their deceptions and the reason why the necessity for all of these top people from Government on behalf of 7/11 Personel to be protected forever at the possible Death of a three Year Old child?
Yet all of these people we are told are compassionate person's?
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Post by Cammerigal 08.04.18 8:35

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Tony Bennett wrote:ACKNOWLEDMENT TODAY FROM THE METRPOLITAN POLICE


Dear Mr Bennett

Freedom of Information Review Reference No: 2018040000062

I write in connection with your request for a review of the handling and/or decision relating to 2018030000241 which was received by the  Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 03/04/2018.
 
A review will now be conducted in accordance with the Code of Practice issued under Section 45 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). 

The reviewing officer will reconsider the original request before responding to you with their findings.


There is no statutory time limit in relation to the completion of an Internal Review. However, the MPS aim to complete Internal Reviews within 20 working days or in exceptional cases, within 40 working days.  This is
based upon guidance published by the Information Commissioner.


If it is not possible to complete the Internal Review within this timescale you will be informed at the earliest opportunity.

If you are unhappy with the outcome of an Internal Review you may wish to refer the matter to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

For information on how to make an application to the Information Commissioner please visit their website at www.ico.org.uk.  

Alternatively, write to or phone:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Phone:  0303 123 1113

 
Yours sincerely
 
R. Loizou
Support Officer - Freedom of Information Triage Team

Metropolitan Police



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Well done TB in flushing out via your FOI request that Op Grange are no longer using the ‘Smithman ‘ e-fit images. We will only deduce what the Grange purpose and status is;  by their negative FOI responses, assuming they are legally obliged to correctly  answer a query, and then noting any obfuscation behind D notices.
Question to our legal eagles: is an FOI to the Met outside of the scope of a (the) super injunction?
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Post by polyenne 08.04.18 9:57

That they are “not using” (present tense) the e-fits does not necessarily mean that they are not of use
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Can we get a confirmation if a D Notice is place or not?

Has anyone explored that avenue?
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Post by Tony Bennett 08.04.18 13:16

BlueBag wrote:Can we get a confirmation if a D Notice is place or not?

Has anyone explored that avenue?
I was once served with a 'D-Notice' in connection with this case - details below.

Although often called a 'D-Notice', they are actually 'DA-Notices', and they come in 5 categories: DA 01, DA 02, DA 03, DA 04 and DA 05.

The whole point about DA Notices is that they are usually secret - nobody gets to know about them. The mainstream press are sometimes given them where there is some information, usually supposed to be in the interests of national security, which the  government wants to keep secret. There may be very good, or very bad, reasons for the issue of DA Notices. 

Anyway, this is what I received from top London Solicitors, Bindmans, in September 2009:

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BINDMANS

CONSULTANT
Sir Geoffrey Bindman

PARTNERS
Tamsin Allen
Saimo Chahal
Jon Crocker
Mark Emery
Katherine Gieve
Stephen Grosz
John Halford
Lynn Knowles
Neil O'May
Shah Qureshi
Martin Rackstraw
Michael Schwarz
Alison Stanley
Katie Wheatley

ASSOCIATES
Liz Barratt
Louise Coubrough
Liz Dronfield
Rhona Friedman
Kate Goold
Siobhan Kelly
Jude Lanchin
Alla Murphy
Paul Ridge

EMPLOYED BARRISTER
Neil McInnes

SOLICITORS
Janet Broadley
Emma Cohen
Emilie Cole
Chez Cotton
Rosalind Fitzgerald
Charlotte HaworthHird
Laura Higgs
Catherine Jackson
Saadia Khan
Shazia Khan
Sara Lomri
Gwendolen Morgan
Pratik Patel
Najma Rasul
Jessica Skinns
Emma Webster

CONSULTANTS
Madeleine Colvin
Philip Leach
Emma Norton
David Thomas

Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

Specialist Fraud Panel

Our ref: 50784.3/TA/tn Direct email: t.allen@bindmans.com

Date: 29 September 2009

g.morgan@bindmans.com
t.nkowane@bindmans.com

URGENT

Tony Bennett
Secretary
Madeleine Foundation
66 Chippingfield
HARLOW
Essex
CM17 ODJ
UK
by email on 09 September 2009
To: [address withheld] 


Dear Sir

We refer to an article by Mark Hollingsworth of the Evening Standard, reproduced on http://madeleinefoundation.org/main/2009/09/follow-up-letters-to-carter-ruck 

We represent Mr Exton who is described in the publication above as having been employed by the Security Services.

Please note that the publication of any such information is prohibited in the UK by Standing DA Notice 5 (see attached) as it could cause serious risks to national security and to the individual concerned.

The article also alleges that our client was cautioned for shoplifting and accepted guilt. In fact, the caution was rescinded by order of the Court which imposed an anonymity order preventing publication of our client’s name.

Accordingly, publication of our client’s name, any reference to his alleged former occupation and details of the alleged conviction are confidential information and publication is a breach of his right to confidence.

It has been removed from the Evening Standard website and proceedings are likely to follow against the Evening Standard.

Please would you ensure that the information is removed from the site urgently.

We should be grateful if you would confirm receipt of this letter.

Yours faithfully

Bindmans LLP

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Information falling within the following categories is normally regarded as being highly classified. It is requested that such information, unless it has been the subject of an official announcement or has been widely disclosed or discussed, should not be published without first seeking advice:

(a) specific covert operations, sources and methods of the Security Service, SIS and GCHQ, Defence Intelligence Units, Special Forces and those involved with them, the application of those methods*, including the interception of communications, and their targets; the same applies to those engaged on counter-terrorist operations;

(b) the identities, whereabouts and tasks of people who are or have been employed by these services or engaged on such work, including details of their families and home addresses, and any other information, including photographs, which could assist terrorist or other hostile organisations to identify a target;

(c) addresses and telephone numbers used by these services, except those now made public.

2. Rationale. Identified staff from the intelligence and security services, others engaged on sensitive counter-terrorist operations, including the Special Forces, and those who are likely targets for attack are at real risk from terrorists. Security and intelligence operations contacts and techniques are easily compromised, and therefore need to be pursued in conditions of secrecy. Publicity about an operation which is in train finishes it. Publicity given even to an operation which has been completed, whether successfully or not, may well deny the opportunity for further exploitation of a capability, which may be unique against other hostile and illegal activity. The disclosure of identities can prejudice past, present and future operations. Even inaccurate speculation about the source of information on a given issue can put intelligence operations (and, in the worst cases, lives at risk and/or lead to the loss of information which is important in the interests of national security. Material which has been the subject of an official announcement is not covered by this notice.

* even when used by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). This is intended purely to protect national security and not to inhibit normal reporting on law enforcement.

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Post by willowthewisp 08.04.18 14:12

Hi Mr Antony Bennett,FOI.

It seems very much like a scenario from a John Le Carr,spy doctrine answer session?
So the public are lead to believe that a former MI5 Officer has,is arrested for shop lifting, Manchester Airport,then the UK Courts are forced not to find the person innocent or guilty,that the Court"Rescinded"  the person's identity to remain"Anonymous" for whatever actions they may have previously admitted to?
Backed up by a very Long list of Legal powers,Bindman's,etc?

On this basis the general public aught to sign up to the MI5/6 Security Services,where the UK Courts can"Immediately" over rule pleas entered into in good faith,surely,purely on the Basis of any Law and Order Justice system within the UK?
That whatever answers given by you in questioning of the offences put before you Police Officers,CPS,DPP.
Where in the answers supplied. 
The answers given"Shall Not"Not be used as evidence against the afore mentioned person?

Yet,when under a Police caution, Any reply given by you can be used for and against You in a Court of Law?

If this is how the UK justice system works within the UK from the antiquated Rule makers within the Parliament structures,House of common's and Lords Chambers?
As SNP Mahri Black has stated in an"Open forum" speaking to the Public in Scotland, its a"Private Members Club" run by and for the elites in Society,Not for the consumption of the general public,it is in fact a deceitful dishonest Den of Inequity to usurp control away from the electorate by seemingly cleverer People!?
You can only have"Justice" if we let you have it?

As a former practising Solicitor,is this how the UK justice system works,eg,you admit guilty plea,then Security Services step in to Throw all allegations made,Null and void, in a Court of Law and Order?

If this is how the Justice system Works,there is very little hope for any successful Court case in Madeleine McCann's disappearance,Abduction?
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Post by Doug D 08.04.18 23:01

And of course, Bindmans, in their wisdom, issued the same instructions to Paulo Reis, Joanna Morais and quite possibly others as well, all of whom fell outside the UK remit for such an order.

Paulo Reis told them where to go.

   
http://steelmagnolia-steelmagnolia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/mccann-case_13.html
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Post by Phoebe 08.04.18 23:13

Doug D wrote:And of course, Bindmans, in their wisdom, issued the same instructions to Paulo Reis, Joanna Morais and quite possibly others as well, all of whom fell outside the UK remit for such an order.

Paulo Reis told them where to go.

   
http://steelmagnolia-steelmagnolia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/mccann-case_13.html
Thanks for providing that link Doug D. I confess Paulo Reis' reply brought a huge grin to my face  big grin
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Post by Jill Havern 09.04.18 8:30

Doug D wrote:And of course, Bindmans, in their wisdom, issued the same instructions to Paulo Reis, Joanna Morais and quite possibly others as well, all of whom fell outside the UK remit for such an order.

Paulo Reis told them where to go.

   
http://steelmagnolia-steelmagnolia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/mccann-case_13.html

Paulo (and Duarte Levy) was also Carter-Rucked and also told them where to go!

The letter from Carter-Ruck said NOT FOR PUBLICATION - so he posted it on his blog!

He sent me the letters a couple of weeks ago and here's his reply, which he also posted on his blog:

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Post by polyenne 09.04.18 9:35

Isn't it sweet when the Carters themselves get rucked !
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Post by Verdi 09.04.18 15:33

If this highly disreputable firm of lawyers were able to prosecute a foreign individual living overseas, it wouldn't have been necessary for Messrs McCann to engage the services of one Isabel 'nobody likes me anymore' Duarte, a Portuguese national, to persecute Gonçalo Amaral - would it?

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