The McCann - Totman - Weinberger Nexus

After the 'revelation' last week that Tannerman/Murat/Monsterman/Crecheman was now no less a personage than GP Dr Julian Totman, I remembered some notes I made about Drs Weinberger and Totman that I wrote privately and never published.

I thought I would publish them now because the story of how Dr Totman was Tannerman all along had some parallels with Dr Paul Weinberger's wife Jeni helping the abduction narrative along with sighting of a suspicious red-haired cleaning lady, Yvonne Albino.

If you look at my notes, it seems that Kate McCann contacted Jeni Weinberger a few weeks ahead of the May 2009 Mentorn Media/Channel4 'Mockumentary', in order to get her to repeat her 'sighting' and do an efit for the programme. Totman's claims of having been ignored by the Portuguese and Leicestershire Police rather echoed what Weinberger also said.

And I wondered if there was, and is, some kind of hidden nexus between the McCanns and the Totmans and the Weinbergers.

For example:

1  The Totmans and Weinbergers stayed in an apartment close to the McCanns when they were in Praia da Luz

2  The Totmans and the McCanns and their friends seem to have played tennis together

3  Gerry McCann's research interests have a connection with the research interests of Dr Paul Weinberger

4  It seems slightly eerie that Dr Julian Totman should identify himself as Tannerman, a very unlikely tale, and that Jeni Weinberger should also be keen to help our Kate McCann by re-submitting her 'sighting' to Mentorn Media/Channel 4 for their documentary.

About my notes below.  1. They were made in collaboration with one of CMOMM's fairly regular posters and 2. They were made about FOUR years ago and so are NOT up-to-date....

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Dr Paul Weinberger


Dr Paul Jerome Weinberger is now aged 46, and was just 37 when he was on holiday with the McCanns in 2007.   

He was there that week with his wife Jeni Catriona Weinberger, who is a big noise in the art world, being - amongst other things - the Founder and Director of The Get Mucky Art School. 

They had a child aged the same age as Madeleine in 2007.

Paul Weinberger is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Diasolve Ltd, which makes a variety of medical devices. Both he and his wife are its sole Directors:

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Even more significant, he is a standing member of NICE - the National Institute for  Clinical Excellence  - and sits on their Diagnostics Advisory Committee. And he was former Chairman of BIVDA - the ‘British In Vitro Diagnostics Association’, and is still on its committee.

Now that is of some interest to us because all of the McCanns’ three children were born by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF treatment, as it is generally known. The McCanns have given few details about the IVF treatment they had and do not say at which hospital they received help with this for Madeleine. They do however say that they moved to Amsterdam in January 2004, when Madeleine was 7 months old, and there received the successful IVF treatment which resulted in their twins, Amelia and Sean, being born the following February.

The subject of Madeleine’s DNA has cropped up frequently. When the Portuguese Police asked the McCanns for items on which Madeleine’s DNA could be found, there was nothing. Not on the pillow Madeleine slept on, not in her bedclothes, not on her clothes, not on her toothbrush - nothing. It was only when Gerry McCann made a visit to England three weeks after Madeleine’s reported disappearance that he was able to produce a sample of Madeleine’s DNA from a pillow in his home in Rothley.

Then there was an allegation that there was a 100% match between Madeleine’s DNA and samples of blood and body fluids found at sites connected  to the McCanns  where  a cadaver dog had alerted to the past presence of a corpse in the McCanns’ apartment and in their hired car.  

The government-controlled Forensic Science Service later re-tested these DNA samples, pronounced that they were now ‘contaminated’, and that therefore although it was certainly very possible  that these blood and body fluid samples were from Madeleine, that could not be proved with any degree of certainty.   

One story that rumbled on in the summer of 2007 was that Gerry McCann was not Madeleine’s father, a leak that emanated from the Portuguese Police. A Portuguese newspaper, 24 Horas, and a magazine, Tal e Qual, published these sensational allegations, claiming that “detectives were intending to use DNA samples to confirm their suspicions he was not the sperm donor behind the successful IVF treatment that led to her birth”.

The Daily Mail ran a headline: ‘Gerry is not Madeleine’s real father’, referring to what they said was ‘the latest attack by the Portuguese media on the McCanns’,

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and the McCanns immediately threatened  to sue. They were set to issue libel proceedings against the Portuguese magazine, but that became unnecessary when  it folded a few months later.  The McCanns never sued the newspapers, however.

Genetic questions also arose about the Oldfields’ child, because, highly unusually, two birth certificates are in existence for her. A genealogy researcher wrote:

“With the Oldfield’s daughter Grace, there are two separate entries, one for Grace Ruth M E Oldfield, and the other for Grace Ruth M E Mampilly. The parents were married in Caerphilly in 1999 and their daughter was born in 2004. The only explanation I can think of for this is in the case of surrogate births, where the surrogate mother who has actually given birth has the right to be the first to register the birth, with the parents being able to follow that by registering the birth in their own name subsequently”.

But there may well be some other explanation for this unusual occurrence of two different birth certificates.

Paul Weinberger’s career history before becoming the CEO at Diasolve included two years at Lumora Ltd as its Chief Marketing Officer, and before that he was the Director of Clinical Development at Enigma Diagnostics, the post he held when he holidayed at Praia da Luz when the McCanns were there.

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His specialism whilst there was to promote the company’s role in IVF techniques and diagnostics - in partnership with major pharmaceutical company GKN. He was with Roche Diagnostics for nine years previous to that - the world’s largest diagnostic company. He and his wife appear to have a second home in Newton Stewart in southern Scotland. 

His line of work had parallels with Gerry McCann’s career path, which included 

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Gerry McCann’s Research Interests

“I am particularly interested in LV remodelling and the use of comprehensive cardiac MRI to better manage patients with known or suspected cardiac disease. In addition, I have run a number of trials using cardiac MRI as end point in clinical trials (eg STEMI) and in early phase II studies, assessing the efficacy of novel interventions in cardiovascular disease in partnership with various pharmaceutical companies”.

One curiosity about the couple was that Mrs Jeni Weinberger was one of a number of people at the Ocean Club that week who reported possible suspect abductors. Both her and a Mrs Godwin reported suspicions about an overweight red-haired woman, a cleaner, Yvonne Albino, allegedly seen outside the McCanns’ apartment in May 2007. The Daily Mail reported on 4 March 2010:

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“The McCanns’ investigators believe the red-haired woman was Yvonne Albino, a cleaner from Silves. Another witness, Jeni Weinberger, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, said she saw a woman resembling Mrs Albino outside the McCanns’ apartment in May 2007”.

One of the McCann Team’s investigators, Dave Edgar, described the cleaner’s movements as ‘suspicious’, but the Portuguese Policer had checked her out early on in their investigation and found nothing suspicious.  .
More details about Jeni Weinberger’s actions emerged in another report, which claimed that

 “…on returning from Portugal in May 2007, she had informed her local police force - Wiltshire - about a possible ‘sighting’ of an abductor. She went on to claim that Wilshire Police contacted Leicestershire police who failed to follow up her lead. It was only when she received an emotional phone call from Maddie’s mum Kate, nearly two years later that a photofit based on her description was put together”.

She is also quoted as saying: “When Kate asked me to help, I agreed immediately. But the police should have asked two years ago. It was only after Kate got in touch that the woman learnt two other witnesses saw an identical man… I can’t believe our three sightings weren’t linked earlier”.

So I raise these points about Jeni Weinberger. The ’phone call from Kate McCann to Jeni Weinberger was nearly two years after May 2007 when Madeleine was reported missing. Could this ‘phone call have been made to try and ‘spice up’ the forthcoming  Chanel 4 documentary, shown in May 2009?

Did the Weinbergers and the McCanns know each other prior to 2007? - this seems possible on this evidence. Did Jeni Weinberger really believe that two years after the event, her recollection of the suspicious woman she said she had seen two years earlier could really help to solve the crime? Could she honestly help to compose a ‘photo-fit’ of her, a whole two years after having seen the woman?

In this case of so many fabrications, we must ask: did Jeni Weinberger really have genuine suspicions about this woman - a sighting the Portuguese Police had long ago dismissed as irrelevant?        

Perhaps the most interesting thing about Paul Weinberger is that the company he worked for in 2007, when Madeleine was reported missing - Enigma Diagnostics - is a private company, but was explicitly founded in 2004 as a joint venture between the UK Government and venture capitalists Porton Capital Technology Fund. It now based in the top secret Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire, a government research establishment with a controversial history of involvement in biological research and germ warfare, plus chemical, radiological and nuclear  weapons research.

Dr Julian Totman 

And this brings us on directly to another significant doctor, as the Weinbergers made joint dinner bookings at the Tapas restaurant with another doctor, Dr Julian Edward Bartram Totman, and his wife. They seem to have booked their holiday together as they and the Weinbergers were in nearby apartments at the Ocean Club resort.

Dr Totman is a General Practitioner from Salisbury, Wiltshire, only a few miles from the Porton Down establishment. It is fairly clear that these were two people - Weinberger and Totman - who knew each other professionally and were friends, and presumably decided to go on holiday together.  Dr Totman actually had a second surgery actually within the Porton Down M o D research establishment, whilst his wife Rachel, known professionally by her maiden name as Dr Rachel Clapton, was also a General Practitioner in Salisbury.

The Totman extended family is also replete with significant figures in the medical field. For example, Dr Julian Totman has a sister called Marissa, who is a General Practitioner in Surrey). She is married to a Vivek Muthu, who is the Chief Executive and Founder member of a company called Bazian, which analyses medical research, and was previously Clinical Editor of the British Medical Journal. Muthu had been heavily involved in the controversial debate about whether the MMR jab causes autism.

One of their ongoing projects from 2007 was with the East Midlands Specialist Commissioning Group in the trials of aortic valve replacement, which of course would coincide with Gerry McCann’s interests as a heart specialist. Another member of Bazian is a Dr Rob Cook, specialist in managing cardiovascular guidelines, who was working in Auckland, New Zealand, at the same time as the McCanns were both living there.

I should say at this point that the McCanns specifically denied having known either the Weinbergers or the Totmans prior to their holiday in 2007 - and of course there is nothing wrong in itself for a group of professionals with similar interests to get together  for a few days’ relaxation.   

The Totmans, with their two children aged 3 and 2, arrived in Praia da Luz on the 28^th April and stayed in Apartment G4M, apparently just for their second week. There is this strange reference at the foot of their booking sheet, which says;

“Please note that activity list will only be showing 2nd week, but guest requires 2 weeks childcare from 28th April”.

Why would the so-called ‘activity list’ only show ‘the second week’? Did they possibly rent a private apartment elsewhere for the first week? 




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I'm sure that I saw somewhere a list of ocean club residents at the time, but I cannot find it again. It seemed to show a very high proportion of medical people that would be higher than mere coincidence. Thus this Crecheman being another medic holidaying at the same time in the same place seems significant. Can anyone throw any more light on this subject?

crispbee2000 wrote:I'm sure that I saw somewhere a list of ocean club residents at the time, but I cannot find it again. It seemed to show a very high proportion of medical people that would be higher than mere coincidence. Thus this Crecheman being another medic holidaying at the same time in the same place seems significant. Can anyone throw any more light on this subject?

I'm sure you are mistaken.

I  have seen claims that a high proportion of medics were staying at the Ocean Club complex during the same period as the McCanns and their friends - I've yet to see any evidence to support the claim.

crispbee2000 wrote:I'm sure that I saw somewhere a list of ocean club residents at the time, but I cannot find it again. It seemed to show a very high proportion of medical people that would be higher than mere coincidence. Thus this Crecheman being another medic holidaying at the same time in the same place seems significant. Can anyone throw any more light on this subject?

There's about 20 (Dr's/pharmacists/medical pro's) that arrived at April 28 when I stopped searching.
There's many people who work with this so I don't know if that is high or low amount, I don't have any statistics.

Thanks NickE. What was the source material for the data on occupations? Is it in one of the RichPlanet TV videos? (I'm going through them again, trying to find it ;o).

Also, has anyone done any research as to the cost of the apartments/holiday via MW at that time? They seem to have attracted a lot of well-heeled holiday makers, e.g. Philip Martin Edmunds, considering the fairly basic nature of the accommodation. More like the kind of stuff professional people use on a working holiday, like when attending a conference or such, putting up with it because of its proximity and plenty to occupy the kids whilst you are (conferencing/working?).
Just a thought......

crispbee2000 wrote:Also, has anyone done any research as to the cost of the apartments/holiday via MW...They seem to have attracted a lot of well-heeled holiday makers, e.g. Philip Martin Edmonds...More like the kind of stuff professional people use on a working holiday, like when attending a conference or such, putting up with it because of its proximity and plenty to occupy the kids whilst you are (conferencing/working?) Just a thought...

THE ‘BIO-ENGINEERING HYPOTHESIS AND MADELEINE MCCANN

by Bruce McCullum for the Madeleine McCann Research Group, 4 July 2017


Some years ago, the document below was sent to me by a fellow Madeleine McCann researcher who has great inside knowledge of the bio-tech/bio-engineering industry.

I have decided today to publish this anonymous work now that today it’s been announced that Brian Kennedy, Head of the McCann Team’s private investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has invested £1 million in the bio-tech industry.

It might also be worth mentioning that a very big player in this growing industry is entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, who pledged big reward money for anyone who helped find Madeleine McCann and sponsored the big celebrity bash in his Kensington ‘Rooftop’ restaurant in January 2010 on the 1,000th day since Madeleine McCann was reported missing.

Here is the document:

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THE ‘BIO-ENGINEERING HYPOTHESIS AND MADELEINE MCCANN  

The British government, in conjunction with private corporations, has been involved in covert life sciences, or ‘bioengineering’, at least the Second World War.

The Manhattan Project, for example drew on the work of Nazi scientists.

Nazism, of course, was basically biological ideology founded on Darwin’s now widely-discredited theory of evolution. Darwin, a racist who for example described the Fuegans of South America as ‘savages closer to the animal kingdom than to ‘advanced’ humans, spoke of the ‘survival of the fittest’, and idea enthusiastically take up by Adolf Hitler and his ghost-writer of ‘Mein Kampf’,  the Roan Catholic priests. Thence came the idea of the ‘perfect’ Aryan race and the cruel genetic experiments of Josef Mengele and the killing-off of the ‘imperfect’ disabled people and the Jews.

Hitler’s eugenics programme, therefore, revolved around eugenics and improvement of the ‘stock’.  So it was that the Manhattan Project drew on the work of those Nazi genetic engineering scientists.

Private life science companies have been involved with genetic experimentation from at least the 1940s. The website of GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham), for example, explains how  “In the 1940s… [we] pioneered the manufacturing of radioactive isotope tracers, enabling major advances in molecular biology that would eventually lead to historic milestones such as DNA sequencing.”

In his book A New Science of Life, Rupert Sheldrake takes a quick look at biotechnology and the market.  When Clinton attempted to regulate the life sciences billions were wiped off the stock market values of biotech companies and the biotech bubble burst.  By 2004 the Wall Street Journal was estimating an overall $40 billion loss and this is probably conservative. Even without this temporary setback, the life sciences have swallowed up billions of dollars of investment with relatively few obvious returns other than targeted breast and ovary removal as popularised by Angelina Jolie.

But despite these setbacks, the biotech industry has continued to grow, benefiting from a worrying relaxation of government regulation to virtually no control at all.

In the UK, the Human Genetics Commission was set up in 1999 to provide the Government with advice on the legal, ethical, social and economic implications of emerging healthcare technologies.

But in 2012 the government decided to bring this advice directly under the Department of Health, renaming it ‘The Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee (ESBAC)’. It seems that the Department then proceeded to ignore this body and panel of experts in biotech matters.

Minutes from its meeting on 30 September 2013 suggest there was concern about ESBAC's work. 'Members expressed the view that there had been little feedback to ESBAC from [the Department of Health], in terms of ESBAC being asked to address specific questions and whether the Committee to date had met the Department's expectations', it said. 'The chair noted that the Committee had generated most of its work. A member raised the question of the direction of ESBAC as the landscape had changed since ESBAC was first established'.

( Source:  THE ‘BIO-ENGINNERING HYPOTHESIS AND MADELEINE MCCANN )

ESBAC is now defunct.

In recent years there has been a massive expansion of new biotech companies in university life sciences departments. According to the Times Higher Educational Supplement in 2013-2014, 18 of the top 100 universities in the world for the study of life sciences were located in the UK. Oxford came  3rd  Cambridge 4th  and Imperial College London 10th.   York University opened a £22 million Biosciences building in 2003.  Newcastle University has the cutting-edge ‘Centre for Synthetic Biology and the Bioeconomy’ where it develops, ‘computational and engineering approaches to the design and construction of novel biological systems’,” with the help of funding from the Government, Shell, the Wellcome Trust and the US Department of Energy inter alia.

In The Shadows

Without regulation the whole area of biosciences resembles the Wild West, especially when the Chinese are now openly pursuing the biological engineering of embryos.  Yet because of the cross over into biological weapons the life sciences in Britain has shadowy foundations, and I strongly suspect that the Chinese are running to catch up with the West rather than the opposite being the case.  

In their 2009 book Dead Silence Bob Coen and Eric Nadler tell the story of the 2001 anthrax attacks in the US which were understandably overshadowed by 9/11. The back story to these attacks leads right to our own back door – to Dr David Kelly. The anthrax used in the US attacks was of a high military grade that could have been processed at very few places across the world – one of those places being the Ministry of Defence’s chemical and biological research base at Porton Down near Salisbury. David Kelly was a bacteriologist by training and specialised in the use of viruses to attack insect pests. In 1984 he joined the MoD as head of Porton Down where he led research into ways to enhance the defence of troops in battle against biological warfare.  It seems it was at Porton Down that he first met the South African doctor Wouter Bassoon who was the head of the bizarre Project Coast which was allegedly attempting to develop undetectable biological methods of assassination and race-specific biological weapons for the apartheid era government of South Africa and at least one other government (possibly Israel).

No one really knows the true history of Porton Down, but we do know that they experimented on thousands of British servicemen, and that it was involved in the Human Genome Project at least to the extent that the Medical Research Council used it to store human cell lines for experimentation.  Thatcher, who was a chemist, took a particular interest in Porton and the chemical and biological weapons programme which she considered re-starting in the 80s – the same time as David Kelly headed up the facility.  Porton Down scientists have been investigated by the police on charges of manslaughter and murder, but the operation (Antler) was dropped when the CPS refused to prosecute in 2003.

In the 1980s the Thatcher government privatised parts of Porton Down which allowed international private investors to become involved in sensitive research in close collaboration with government. Porton Products, a subsidiary of Porton International, was a privately owned company that not only produced stocks of anthrax vaccine for the government but also began to branch out into different commercially viable areas. Job adverts in the New Scientist in the late 80s show that they were looking for scientists, biochemists, bacteriologists and technicians to be involved in such things as DNA sequencing, the production of genetically manipulated organisms, the development of therapeutic uses of toxins (botox), the development of vaccines, and a marketing executive to promote a rapidly growing product for the treatment of haemophilia.  Thus the facility at Porton became increasingly involved in much broader areas of biotechnology - the boundaries between weapons research and the broader area of health and diagnostics were becoming ever more blurred.  Moreover, companies seeded at Porton were often swallowed up by bigger life science corporations with Porton Products for instance being taken over by Ipsen Ltd, a large French corporation – boundaries and borders were becoming very fuzzy indeed in the world of biotechnology.

David Kelly, according to the MP Norman Baker (The Strange Death of David Kelly) worked at least partially on behalf of the intelligence services. He was certainly involved in debriefing scientist defectors from the Soviet Union. He even helped one microbiologist, Vladimir Pasechnik, who had been involved in the Soviet illegal germ warfare programme to set up a private company (Regma Biotechnologies) at Porton Down after his defection in 1989.  

As an aside, a recent ITV drama The Code of a Killer supposedly told the true story of Alec Jeffrey’s' discovery at Leicester University of DNA fingerprinting, and its use to catch the killer of two local schoolgirls.  The storyline gave a brief nod to the odd intermingling of the government and the private sector that was developing in this area especially in Britain under Thatcher’s influence..  ICI had patented the technique which Detective David Baker wanted to use to test around 5,000 men in the area, but the Home Office wanted to claim Crown Privilege with respect to the patent so that it would not have to pay the company. According to the programme, ICI approached Dennis Thatcher with regards to this who then transmitted the information to his wife who proceeded to lean on the Home Office. Not only did ICI keep its patent, but the British government increasingly privatized areas of forensic science (a logical area of state control) until it took the highly unusual step of privatizing all government forensic services in 2012. It is becoming increasingly difficult to know who’s who and who controls what in the murky world of biotech.

In the meantime, working in the broad field of biotechnology and in genetics specifically became a rather hazardous business.  The MP Norman Baker names a chapter of his book “Dead Scientists”.  There has been much buzz on the internet about the apparently high rate of violent and unusual deaths among scientists - so much so that I am sure that I came across a paper that attempted to debunk the suspicions by showing that the rate was not statistically higher than that of the general population.  Nevertheless, poor Dr Pasechnik was found dead in his bed in on 21st November, 2001.  The police called his death “inexplicable.” The pathologist however, who apparently worked for the intelligence services, concluded that he died of a stroke. He died ten days after visiting a Dr Wiley, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Harvard University in Boston in the US, in order to discuss DNA sequencing.  He had in fact lasted five days longer than Dr Wiley himself who had gone missing on the 16th November. His body was found on the 20th December in the Mississippi river. The official explanation was that he had been “blown” off a bridge and into the river by a gust of wind.  The rest of the chapter carries on in similar vein as the body count mounts.

Thus in order to begin to understand the context in which Madeleine McCann disappeared; I believe the following to be the case:

The public has no idea of the nature and developments that have taken place in the area of biotechnology since the Second World War.

The Human Genome Project has opened up the potential for a eugenics and biotechnological agenda that the Nazis could only dream about.  The majority of the British public seems to be blissfully unaware of the great power that scientists (and the corporations that control them) now wield and sit patiently and trustingly at their masters feet like an obedient dog waiting for their cure for cancer.

The security services of all the major powers are involved in espionage and counter espionage in this area and probably have been for much longer than we realise. The eugenics ideology never went away and is probably being actively pursued – buried deep in universities and facilities like Porton Down.

Current ethical and legal restrictions on genetic experimentation are undoubtedly being broken all over the world.

Certain aspects of genetic experimentation especially surrounding ageing and life extension are of supreme interest not only to the ideologues, government, profit hungry corporations, ambitious scientists but also the super-rich and celebrity class.

Most research scientists involved in this work do so in good faith but are self-delusional, naïve and unimaginative in the extreme.

Jeff Schmidt’s book Disciplined Minds deals with the intricacies of how this works in relation to physics, but as we all know biology is the new physics.

When is a doctor not a doctor?

I believe that the following point to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann being in some way related to the above:

The confusion over Kate and Gerry McCann’s careers.

Gerry McCann is obviously primarily a research scientist: attempts to display him in a clinical setting show him to be extremely ill at ease.  He seems to have specialised in sports science and cardio vascular medicine and diabetes with a possible emphasis on magnetic resonance imaging.  . He has published several papers on diabetes and the cardio vascular system, including the use of MRI scanning. But as with everything else about this case confusion reigns.  On a Friends Reunited page he says that from January 2000 he is a registrar in Leicester, but is quoted in the newspapers at the same time as being a lecturer in sports science in Glasgow.

Kate is often equally vague.  In her book, Madeleine she portrays herself as almost drifting into medicine although as a young person she wanted to find a cure for leukemia.  She applies to Dundee only because a friend of a  friend was studying there. However, it just happens to be 54th on the Times Higher Educational Supplement’s list of the top 100 world universities for life sciences and is the 8th highest ranking UK university on that list.  It is consistently rated as one of the top universities in the UK for medical research. It is here that she met Arul Savio Gaspar. Kate gives the impression that she just floats aimlessly through her career, but she then moves on to Glasgow specializing in obstetrics and gynecology and seems to be on course for her childhood dream of finding a cure for leukemia when she drifts into oncology.  From here in 1995 she drifts onto the north island of New Zealand

The north island of New Zealand just happens to be major centre for medical and genetic research.  In 2002 this research expertise was consolidated as the Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery. It was created by linking five high-performing research groups at the University of Auckland in biology, chemistry, engineering and medicine. Since then, the Centre has expanded its network to include most of the biomedical expertise in its field from across New Zealand. In 2006 it was renamed the Maurice Wilkins Centre. Maurice Wilkins is most famous for his work at Kings College London, which won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Francis Crick and James Watson.  The University at Wellington in the south of the Island also houses a privately funded world class medical research facility – The Malaghan Institute which is focused on finding cures for cancer, asthma and allergy, multiple sclerosis and infectious disease and undertakes research with hospitals throughout New Zealand.  

I believe she spent time working at a hospital in Auckland and as a GP in a different part of North Island.  Her avowed wish to become a GP I take with a pinch of salt. I think it is at least possible that she was mainly interested in applied research. In order to apply research and monitor and collect data from a specific population on a longitudinal basis there is no better cover than general practice.

I also take with a pinch of salt the claim that Gerry pursued Kate to New Zealand in order to “woo” her. They already moved in the same “circles” at Glasgow which may well have centred around research interests, and the two, quite possibly already in a relationship, may well have travelled to  New Zealand because it was already at the cutting edge. I am unable to find out what Gerry did whilst he was there other than play sport, but it appears that he was based at Hawke’s Bay.  I think that one of the reasons that New Zealand is suitable as a genetic research centre is because of its geographical isolation - providing a relatively genetically “pure” and discrete indigenous population. I believe that around 24% of the Hawkes Bay population is Maori.

What happened after this is anybody’s guess.  Gerry’s continued interest in sports science and the cardio vascular system suggests an on-going interest in performance and faculty improvement with knock on effects for ageing and the cellular biological clock.  I am no scientist, but I believe that there is a great deal of interest in DNA methylation which is somehow related to the biological clock of cells.  Exercise is shown to be related to this clock (which is both genetic and epigenetic) which may explain the McCann’s almost slavish compulsion to run.

We will probably never know if they truly had fertility problems or if IVF merely provides a very convenient cover for something – possibly the genetic manipulation of embryos. My decades old O’level biology puts me on shaky ground here, but it would appear that key hole surgery is also part of the story in some way.  I strongly suspect that the second round of IVF was done in Amsterdam because they were somewhat ahead in whatever technique is possibly being pioneered. If they have been involved in research that crosses current ethical and legal lines regarding the genetic manipulation of embryos for instance, then that research will obviously be unpublished.

The very particular nature of Mark Warner Guests that fateful week.

The Tapas Doctors

There were at least eleven doctors present at Praia da Luz that week, 6 of them in the Tapas 9 group.

David Payne was possibly involved in research at this point because I think that certain newspaper reports identify him as a cardio vascular researcher.  He now specialises in urology at Kettering General Hospital where he has introduced a laparoscopic ‘keyhole surgery’ technique to remove kidneys which are cancerous or are not functioning. He trained in laparoscopic surgery with world renowned laparoscopic surgeon, Mr Frank Keeley, at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

Matthew Oldfield had carried out Postgraduate research in Advanced Glycation in Melbourne, Australia.  He has apparently moved around quite a lot, working in several places and countries. This is quite normal for someone undertaking research. He is currently working as an endocrinologist at Kingston hospital Surrey specialising in the treatment of diabetes. On his Bupa page he also advertises himself as a specialist in endocrinology for infertility.


Russell O’Brien states that he had first met Gerry when he (Gerry) was speaking at a conference in Atlanta in 1999.  They both had interests in the same aspects of cardiology, later exchanging emails discussing various aspects of their research. By 2000 they were both doctors in Leicester apparently doing the equivalent job but at different hospitals (Gerry at the Glenfield hospital and Russell based at the Leicester Royal Infirmary). However, he states that they did not become particularly close until both Jane Tanner (Russell’s partner) and Kate became pregnant at roughly the same time (Kate with Madeleine) in 2002/3.

Russell O’Brien is now Co-Director (BMBS Programme), UEMS Consultant in Acute Medicine, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Director of Clinical Studies & Academic Lead for Clinical Pharmacology at the Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry. He moved to Exeter from Leicester just prior to the holiday in Praia de Luz in 2007.

Russell O’Brien, David Payne and Matthew Oldfield all appear to have trained together at Leicester from 1989 onwards.  Gerry McCann knew Russell O’Brien from 1999 and it may have been the overlap in their research interests that prompted his move to Leicester. I think that they are all being deliberately vague about their association and their research interests. Russell, David, Matthew as well as Fiona Payne all graduated from Leicester Medical School. Fiona Payne apparently also worked with Kate McCann.

At the time of Madeleine’s disappearance they had 8 children between them all between 11 months and 3 years of age.

The Porton Down Connection

Mr Paul Weinberger was an Ocean Club guest during that week in 2007. It is believed that he worked for Enigma Diagnostics, one of the private biotech companies based at Porton Down.  This gentleman made dinner bookings at the Tapas Bar with a

Dr Julian Totman another guest who I believe is a GP who is also from Salisbury in Wiltshire.
I believe that this provides evidence, albeit circumstantial, that Porton Down is closely linked to this case. The following is quoted from the Jill Havern forum:

Paul Weinberger was working for Enigma Diagnostics (part owned by the UK MoD) during his stay at the Ocean Club and he had recently relinquished his high profile role as Chair of BIVDA: "As I relinquished the Chairmanship of BIVDA I also changed jobs and I am now looking forward to representing the interests of UK start-up companies at BIVDA, while using my skills to develop a market for a new technology at Enigma Diagnostics."

The British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA) is the national industry association for companies with major involvement and interest in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry. BIVDA represents both manufacturers and distributors who are active in the UK. His role in in vitro diagnostics leads me further to believe that whatever came to a head at the Ocean Cub that week may revolve around some form of embryonic manipulation. The only thing that leads me to think that this may have been outside of national and international law is the elaborate secrecy.  

The presence of both a representative from Porton Down who knew the GP from neighbouring Salisbury well enough to dine together implies research applied in some way to a section of the local population and to their own offspring.

Between them Weinbergers and the Totmans had with them at Praia da Luz four young children aged between 11 months and 4 years of age.

The Finance Specialists

Ever since Margaret Thatcher took a special interest in Porton Down, there has been an unholy intertwining of government, corporate and financial interests and biotechnological research.  It is not easy to find out a great deal of what really goes on but internet entries for individual scientists/entrepreneurs can be illuminating the following was taken from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for a Dr Anna Obolensky

Dr. Obolensky is a microbiologist and immunologist whose career has spanned the pharmaceutical industry, research institutions and private equity. This includes:
The Wellcome Foundation, Group Marketing Headquarters in London, and Porton International PLC in the 1970s and 1980s. The latter was a company established to commercialize drugs and vaccines originating from Intellectual Property generated by the British government’s Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at Porton Down, part of an initiative sponsored by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. While with Porton, Dr. Obolensky established the company’s Hong Kong office to oversee clinical development and trials in Asia for novel products including a botulinum toxin drug for the treatment of dystonias, an anticancer drug for the treatment of leukemia and a therapeutic vaccine targeting herpes simplex infections.

In the 1990s she returned to academic research for several years and completed a doctorate in immunology at Keble College, Oxford. When she left Oxford she worked as an independent consultant advising companies and institutions on ways to evaluate, protect and maximize their IP for commercialization.

In 2007, Dr. Obolensky became Head of External Sciences, H2O Venture Partners, a private equity company based in Oxford, concentrating on the development of early stage technologies mainly sourced from British universities. In addition to carrying out technology scouting and due diligence on targeted IP for both H2O and it’s (sic) client pharmaceutical companies.

Since 2011 Dr. Obolensky has worked as a consultant for the British Heart Foundation and has been responsible for an audit of the work of hundreds of BHF-funded scientists across 14 British universities. The aim was to identify, protect and exploit IP generated by research undertaken by BHF-funded scientists and this work led to a fully functioning IP Group within the BHF that in turn should see a significant increase in BHF revenues for further cardiovascular research.
Dr. Obolensky is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Member of British Society of Immunology.

The above is quoted merely as an illustration of the extent of the penetration of commercial interests into all things medical.  It is a highly arcane and shadowy world.

Alistair Hind was another guest at the Ocean Club in the week that Madeleine went missing.  Mr Hynd is a corporate finance specialist with the accountancy and business advisory firm, Baker Tilly. Mr Hynd apparently specialises in financial modeling, particularly in governmental sector and in “helping client solve complex business problems”. He stayed on for an extra week after Madeleine went missing.

Mr Hynd was accompanied by his wife and two children, aged two and six years of age.


Mr Robert Naylor was another corporate finance expert/broker present in the relatively humble Mark Warner holiday apartments during this week.  Mr Naylor was working at Landsbanki when Madeleine went missing and then shortly after joined Matrix Corporate Capital which went into liquidation in 2013. He was then hired by the stockbrokers Panmure Gordon who took on a team of 10 from Matrix in order to give Panmure “new capabilities.” Whilst working for Matrix Mr Naylor worked with a company called EKF Diagnostics which in 2010 acquired the UK-based technology company, 360 Genomics, gaining access to their gene detection technologies; PointMan and CounterPoint. 360 Genomics then went on to become EKF Molecular Diagnostics Ltd a subsidiary of EKF Diagnostics Holdings Plc. EKF Molecular specialises in the global field of molecular diagnostics.  It would appear that it may have been partly his experience in the medical field that made Naylor attractive to Panmure as he has since taken on a portfolio including medical firms and South African property. One eagle-eyed poster on the Jill Havern forum noticed that a Baker Tilly publication of the time displayed the Matrix logo so it is very possible that Hynd and Naylor knew each other.

Mr Naylor had with him two young children aged 3 and 11 months.

There may of course have been other medical and finance specialists there that week of whom I am unaware.

Geographical coincidences

Exeter/Porton Down/Plymouth

Many people have noticed the so-called “Exeter connection.”  Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner had moved to Exeter just prior to the “holiday” in Praia da Luz and Mr O’Brien still works at the hospital there in clinical pharmacology.  

Exeter University is 95th on the list of the world’s top one hundred universities for the life sciences and houses both an Institute of Biomedical & Clinical Science and an Institute of Health Research whose website advertises that “Our research strengths lie in applied health research and underpinning methodological work.”

The University also advertises its close partnership with the Ministry of Defence and its Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) for instance in looking “at the response of individual cells to drugs” and the development of vaccines and looking at uncovering new ways microorganisms cause disease. This is clearly a continuation of the work carried out at Porton Down since 1916. Although the research is advertised as contributing to fighting disease, its military implications are clear. The university is proud that it has “had success with the Centre for Defence Enterprise, a part of Dstl that funds “innovative high-risk, high-potential research”.


It is possible that whatever perhaps began in Leicester as part of the McCann-Payne-O’Brien-Oldfield collective may have been transferred to Porton/Exeter for development including clinical trials.  Thus the cast of characters must now include GPs, nurses, social workers and “fixers” to keep the show on the road.  In this scenario, the “products” are not diagnostic techniques and equipment but what is produced by using the equipment – that is genetically modified humans who must then be closely monitored and assessed in secret. This would perhaps explain the following.

The preposterous Yvonne Martin

Social workers are in no way qualified to deal with missing children cases, particularly not when this happens abroad. Social workers are monitors of fairly straightforward, relatively static situations and struggle in more complex, dynamic situations – see baby P, Rotherham, Rochdale and all the rest. This is not necessarily a criticism, merely a comment on an impossible job.  I am not sure what kind of insensitive person barges into a situation that is just unfolding when it appears that no one really knows what is happening. Yvonne Martin forced her way into close proximity of what everyone believed were distraught parents because she says she felt she should offer assistance to her compatriots. I am not sure what help this would have been – she apparently does not speak Portuguese, has no experience in detective work and seems to have had all the sensitivity of a bull elephant.  She did not bother to establish what support was already being offered to the parents or offer her help discreetly through the authorities which is what a genuine social worker wishing to help would have done. She has no child protection jurisdiction in Portugal. In short, on the face of it, it was none of her business.

Her apparent recognition of Dr David Payne stretches credulity to breaking and her anonymous letter in this regard is outrageous.  It then appears that both she and Dr Gaspar have lived and worked in the Plymouth/Exeter area both of which are reasonably handy for Porton Down. Yvonne Martin had however lived in Portugal on a part time basis for seven years. Can we assume that if covert research furnishes the backdrop to Madeleine’s disappearance then we have a south west England/Portugal connection?  What better place to gather lots of young children together than a modest holiday complex that is aimed at providing supervised group activities for the infant offspring of harassed parents? And where could be better than a small out-of-the way resort than Praia da Luz? Any such operation would need a body of support and coordinating staff that moved easily and unobtrusively between the Algarve and south west England – people like Yvonne Martin and Robert Murat perhaps? Yvonne Martin obviously barged in because different actors were jostling to try to monitor what was going on; on behalf of different paymasters.  The question is – who was Yvonne Martin working for?

Both Gaspar and Martin were trying to place Dr Payne under a heavy burden of suspicion of paedophilia. Why?

The mysterious Robert Murat.

Something happened to Madeleine McCann before the 3 May, 2007. I’m not sure what or exactly when, but it triggered the recall of Robert Murat from Exeter who I think made a last minute booking from the UK to arrive in Praia da Luz on the 30 April or 1 May (I’m not sure which).  Robert Murat’s aunt and sister lived, I believe, near Exeter with the sister’s house being less than a mile from that of Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner and close to another couple present at Praia da Luz that week, James and Charlotte Gorrod. The Gorrods had a two year old son at the time. Robert Murat lived in Praia da Luz with his mother.

An Independent journalist described Mr Murat as being “ubiquitous,” and his name does seem to have become enmeshed in the Madeleine McCann case. Interestingly it is widely reported in the press that Mr Murat and his first wife had had difficulties in conceiving until Mrs Murat fell pregnant in 2002. The child would later be described by a family friend as being so like Madeleine that she could have been her “twin sister”.

According to the Portuguese police Jane Tanner then attempted to implicate Robert Murat in the disappearance of Madeleine.  Other members of the Tapas 9 also claimed to have seen him near apartment 5a on the night of the 3 May.  From the well documented events after this, it appears that the Tapas groups had no qualms about trying to implicate Murat in Madeleine’s disappearance. As Murat was subsequently exonerated how do we explain the behaviour of the Tapas 9?  If we are going to rule out mass psychosis as a reason for these attempts to incriminate an innocent man we must assume that the Tapas 9 do not see Robert Murat as being innocent.  As was evident from the conflict regarding Alec Jeffrey’s discovery of DNA finger printing, a variety of interest groups are involved in these emerging technologies – sometimes these interests converge, but the scope for conflict is also apparent.  In this case we could have the following interests represented

University interests

1 Different government departments who may or may not be on the same side
2 Political ideologues and the intelligentsia
3 The intelligence services with their own agenda
4 International interests – biotechnology and finance are now powerful spheres of influence that eclipse individual sovereign states.
5 Independent corporate financial interests
6 Corporate biotechnology interests
7 The individual scientists and researchers
8 The coordinating body whatever that happens to be
9 Individual interests – wealthy private financers and hopeful beneficiaries of research findings such as authors, businessmen etc.

These different interests could be arranged in any number of different and fluid ways.

For the sake of simplicity let’s say that Robert Murat was some kind of “fixer”/ coordinator on the ground for whatever group is in overall control of our hypothetical clinical trials.  A conflict of interests arises between the “overall body” and the researchers - perhaps due to unforeseen side effects to one of the test subjects: hypothetically this could have been Madeleine.  I have no idea what this could be but lest take the coloboma on the eye as a loose indicator.  A coloboma on the optic nerve (not on the iris as in Madeleine’s case) may arise because of a mutation of the pax 2 gene and is often accompanied by kidney dysfunction.  Let’s say that something of this ilk happened to Madeleine, leading either to her death or serious illness.  The organisers of the “trials” take Madeleine (either alive or dead) without her parent’s knowledge or permission, taking everyone by surprise including government interests who are thus forced to intervene. They appear to be rushing to the aid of the parents but are in fact rushing to clean up a potentially disastrous mess in the best way they can – keeping the parents and researchers under control and possibly attempting to negotiate between parties. This may explain why the parents went to the press with unseemly haste and with a poorly concocted story. They were attempting to bypass direct government and/or corporate control by using their position as high profile grieving parents as the only bargaining chip that they had. If, as I have implied, nearly all the other actors present were implicated in our hypothetically illegal trials which involved their own children then they would be shocked at events and fairly easy to silence.

The only way the Tapas 9 has of hitting back is to deliberately attempt to implicate the “fixer” Murat who is the only representative of the “controlling body” to whom they have open access.  I believe that Murat and at least some of the tapas 9 knew each other.  As soon as Jane Tanner clumsily tried this approach the Murat camp reply with the Smith sighting, attempting to exonerate Murat and possibly implicate Gerry McCann himself.  The Smith family is probably in some way tied into these trials. They may well have links to Murat which they are trying to play down and also, interestingly, young children of the same age as Madeleine.  The fact that there were young children in their party makes their delay in reporting the sighting even less likely because their own protective instincts and proximity to the “abduction” would have made them hyper-aware, hyper-sensitive and hyper-vigilant – not lost in a  dream world of vague impressions and chance reminders.

Now a bizarre game of chess arises made all the more surreal as the case has captured the imagination of the entire world. Something about what happened at Praia da Luz makes it such a focus of attention that it becomes a magnet for that same underground ocean of psychological unease, distress and derangement that became apparent after the death of Princess Diana.  

Conclusion

I obviously do not know if Madeleine is alive or dead, but I treat the findings of the sniffer dogs with caution.  It would be very easy for anyone, including members of the British intelligence services, to plant cadaver odour and sprinklings of Madeleine’s blood in that apartment and in the hire car.  I have no answer to the smell coming from that car and it may well have been used in the way that some people believe – to transport a body.  But Gerry McCann is right when he says that the evidence is unreliable. The dogs are not unreliable, but they cannot tell us how the blood and the odour got there especially after a delay of three months.  It remains possible that the evidence does relate to Madeleine.

I have no answer as to why The McCann’s behaved quite as inappropriately as they did in terms of sniggering, laughing and continuing to run and so on. The only apparent truth in this entire story is that they had lost their daughter. No matter how this happened it was hardly a laughing matter.

In reading the forums dedicated to trying to find out what happened to Madeleine, I am struck by the amount of misplaced trust people often have in the British system.  It also seems that many people genuinely (or because they feed off acrimonious debates that surround different elements of the case) cannot believe that anyone would bear false witness as I believe the Smiths and others have done.  There has been some very questionable witness evidence in some very high profile cases in recent years including Susan Mayes in the conviction of Barry George for the murder of Jill Dando and Mark Whitby in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.  To say that these witnesses were “mistaken” would be being very kind to them. What motivates people to bear false witness will vary from case to case.

I am undoubtedly mistaken in some of the details of this hypothesis.  Indeed the entire hypothesis itself may be wildly off the mark.  However, if there is any truth in what I have written then we have one generation of people using the very being of another as a chip in a massive cosmic gamble. The whole question of innocence and guilt in this case may not be at all what people think it is.

Tony, I'm frankly astonished you have repeated this grossly speculative piece of detailed research and theorizing based on nothing but possibility without even a hint of probability.

I prefer to work from the inside out rather than the outside in.  Back to basics - Madeleine McCann disappeared whilst holidaying with her parents and siblings at the Ocean Club Praia da Luz.  A normal happy three year old child, by all appearances.  The McCanns and their gang of friends, aided and abetted by contacts in the UK, created a protective firewall in their defence which has lasted to this very day, by all appearances - although certain case observers think otherwise.  Realistically, Theresa May could have been there perfecting her back-hand away from the eyes of the world media - would that put her in the frame?

The McCanns from the outset talked strongly and openly about pedophiles, understandably good reason for joe public to make a connection.

That aside,there is no evidence to suggest the Ocean Club guests were there for any reason but a holiday with their respective families.  No evidence of conferences, secret meetings, back handers, indeed no suggestion of any connection between the McCanns, their friends and other Ocean Club guests.  Why invent a scenario without foundation?

An old doctor of mine had a passion for golf.  He and his mates (my dentist being one of them) would travel to Portugal three or four times a year to play golf - it's no big deal.  Despite unproven claims to suggest otherewise, I've seen no evidence to date to confirm an influx of Ocean Club guests being associated with the world of medicine.

It is indeed an extraordinary piece of 'research' but without substance it stands for nothing.  All it achieves is creating a base for forum myth - as you know, once a forum myth grows legs it flourishes like bindweed - and it's just as difficult to get rid of.

Verdi wrote:Tony, I'm frankly astonished you have repeated this grossly speculative piece of detailed research and theorizing based on nothing but possibility without even a hint of probability.

I prefer to work from the inside out rather than the outside in.  Back to basics - Madeleine McCann disappeared whilst holidaying with her parents and siblings at the Ocean Club Praia da Luz.  A normal happy three year old child, by all appearances.  The McCanns and their gang of friends, aided and abetted by contacts in the UK, created a protective firewall in their defence which has lasted to this very day, by all appearances - although certain case observers think otherwise.  Realistically, Theresa May could have been there perfecting her back-hand away from the eyes of the world media - would that put her in the frame?

The McCanns from the outset talked strongly and openly about pedophiles, understandably good reason for joe public to make a connection.

That aside,there is no evidence to suggest the Ocean Club guests were there for any reason but a holiday with their respective families.  No evidence of conferences, secret meetings, back handers, indeed no suggestion of any connection between the McCanns, their friends and other Ocean Club guests.  Why invent a scenario without foundation?

An old doctor of mine had a passion for golf.  He and his mates (my dentist being one of them) would travel to Portugal three or four times a year to play golf - it's no big deal.  Despite unproven claims to suggest otherewise, I've seen no evidence to date to confirm an influx of Ocean Club guests being associated with the world of medicine.

It is indeed an extraordinary piece of 'research' but without substance it stands for nothing.  All it achieves is creating a base for forum myth - as you know, once a forum myth grows legs it flourishes like bindweed - and it's just as difficult to get rid of.

There is a great deal of purely factual information in this lengthy report and many people have appreciated it.

One can take it - or leave it

To Tony Bennett,Verdi.

Once again the "Smith"person sighting are claimed in your conclusion to be,"Bearing False Witness",this may be your opinion of which you are entitled to claim,but it is Not a Fact,that they are "Bearing a false witness"!

Note now you do Not carry the same pronouncements to Kate,Gerry and the Tapas 7/9 as to be "Bearing a false witness" on their submitted sworn testimonies?

The Ward of Court they never attended,So that means they didn't "Bear a false Witness" in claiming as to their daughter Madeleine McCann's possible demise,filed on the Parents behalf Lady Justice Hogg,whose Brother was Douglas Hogg,Government connections?

Claims are made in your conclusion about,"Misplaced Trust of People,in the British system",you then name Several Murder Victims?

A now "infamous Male Model" was targeted by his Male Lover,who hired person's to "Formally Remove the Lover of his life" from the affair began in 1963!
These person(s) stood Trail and were acquitted of "Conspiring to Murder the named person",where they All plead the equality of the 5th Amendment,to escape their guilt,which sufficed into a Bias Circuit Judge directing the Jury to acquit,Ma Learned friend and his cohorts?

The CPS has wrote to the"Infamous Male model",stating the case cannot be challenged claiming the person's are all Dead?
It has transpired they are "Not all Dead",the Male model is now trying to challenge the case once again!

Yet you claim "misplaced trust of the people on British Justice",when a MP and his Party cohorts had known all along of this MP's Lover and still stood by him in an Old Bailey Court House of "Conspiring to Kill someone"!

I have watched the Tom Marigold,BBC Panorama Documentary which concluded Nefarious persons belonging to the British Institution knew all along of this person's Lover and protected the MP,not the "Innocent Party",now in whose interest where they working eh Tony!  

The Great British Justice system, note you fail to never mention Mr Daniel Morgan's unsolved Murder from 32 yrs ago,yeah British Justice,tell that to Mr Morgan's children and family!