Re: The Strange World of Jeffrey Epstein

by **Tony Bennett** 08.07.19 15:03

Verdi wrote:

1. The provenance of the photograph of Madeleine McCann said to be wearing make-up is unknown. Location, time, date - unknown. Possibles don't cut the mustard.

2. The only known association between the McCanns and Clement Freud is a couple of visits they made to his villa in the summer of 2007. I strongly suggest this arrangement was by the hand of Clarence Mitchell - I don't believe the McCanns knew Clement Freud before or after the brief association in Luz.

3. There is no evidence to suggest a relationship between the McCanns and Ray Wyre, any more than there is Mark Williams-Thomas or Colin Sutton - both who speak aloud as regards the case. Ray Wyre had this to say back in September 2007..

Ray Wyre Blog On Madeleine: 25th September 2007

I have been asked by the press many times to provide a profile, to assess whether or not the McCanns have killed the children. How does one even begin to answer the questions if one does not have access to the police intelligence and investigation . To comment on profiling can be irresponsible and part of the problem.

4. As I stressed on another thread, as far as is known, Branson did not donate to the Find Madeleine Co. Ltd (affectionately known as 'The Fund'). He pledged a sum of money for the reward on offer by The News of the World. The reward was never claimed so it can be rationally concluded that Branson didn't part with any cash.

5. Jim Gamble's association with the McCanns is indeed curious but there is nothing to suggest he has connections with any of the individuals named in this thread, or the Epstein scandal.

6. Agreed, the McCanns most certainly planted the abduction by paedophile into the minds of the police and public. To expand on that fact, into the realms of global child trafficking and child sexual abuse, is wrong - even wicked, without some concrete evidence to support it.

So many of these alleged claims of child sex abuse centre around teenagers, not very young children. As I've said beforehand, teenagers flock to get a piece of the action, they hang around back stage doors in the hope of getting an invite into the inner sanctums. Here to a certain extent, I speak from experience, all be it only small time. I hasten to add, it doesn't make it right but it's what happens in the real world. Sex with a very young child is not the same as sex with a teenager - the two shouldn't be confused or fused into one issue.

Teenagers are sexually active, more so today as children are sexualized from a a very early age. It's huge business and it seems, embraced by modern parenting. What does your average teenager or pre-teen do when caught out doing what they didn't oughta? Yes that's right .... !

That aside, there is a lot more to Epstein than cases of alleged child abuse, he's certainly led a colourful life. What consenting adults do with their time, be it up in the air or down on the ground, is not my business.

All points duly noted @ Verdi.

It is probably the 5-day visit of Gerry McCann to see Ernie Allen in July 2007 that makes me pursue this aspect of the case. In my previous article, I produced a photo of Ernie Allen hobnobbing with Sir Richard Branson and his wife. Branson appears to have a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Branson not only offered reward money but also seems to have his finger in certain children's charities, I thnk @ sharonl has discussed this.

You wrote: "There is no evidence to suggest a relationship between the McCanns and Ray Wyre, any more than there is Mark Williams-Thomas or Colin Sutton - both who speak aloud as regards the case".

REPLY: The McCanns, without their children, spent a whole day with Ray Wyre and his wife in early 2008, when the McCanns tucked into lasagne and bannoffee pie.

I reproduce below extracts from a 2010 Madeleine Foundation article on Ray Wyre:

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RAY WYRE AND THE MCCANNS

What was the connection between the McCanns and the late paedophilia ‘expert’, Ray Wyre?

by The Madeleine Foundation
filed 10 October 2010

In early 2008, the McCanns met Ray Wyre and his wife. The People told us about a meeting the four of them had, at the Wyres’ Buckinghamshire home, probably in January 2008, though the date of the meeting was not given.

Less than six months after meeting the McCanns, and aged only 56, Ray Wyre died, apparently from a stroke.

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EXCLUSIVE: MCCANNS ARE 'TOTALLY INNOCENT'

EXCLUSIVE TRUTH ABOUT THE McCANNS: BY TOP UK CRIME CRACKER

The People - By Marcello Mega and Daniel Jones

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27 January 2008

Kate and Gerry played NO part in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, one of the world's top crime experts declared last night.

Ray Wyre - who has given Cracker-style testimony to courts since the 1970s - said: “It is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for them to have been involved”. He insisted the grief-stricken parents were incapable of doing anything to harm their children.

He told how the couple feared Maddie was dead in the hours after she vanished - the first time their initial anguish has been revealed. And he heaped scorn on claims the McCanns are being torn apart by the tragedy, adding: “They are a close and loving couple”.

Wyre spoke out as it was revealed Portuguese cops now believe four-year-old Maddie may have been abducted - as Kate and Gerry have always claimed.

The couple met Wyre, 56, to discuss setting up an international taskforce to help cops trace missing children.

They poured out their hearts to him and his wife Charmaine over dinner at the ace criminologists's home in Milton Keynes, Bucks.

Wyre - who's helped nail a string of monsters including child-killer Robert Black - said: "I was with them for several hours and I could not help but apply some of the practices I use when I'm carrying out assessments of suspects for police and the courts.

“I can state categorically there is no way they were involved in their daughter's murder or disappearance. They would be incapable of such an act. I have more than 30 years' experience in this field and am used to people trying to hide dark secrets.

“There was NO sign of any such deceit. It is absolutely impossible for them to have been involved”.

And Wyre paid a moving tribute to the way the 39-year-old couple manage to think of other people even though their hearts are broken.

He said: “It was humbling and moving to meet the McCanns. They brought flowers for my wife, which brought tears to our eyes. You consider what they've been through and they still bring flowers when they come to your home”.

Wyre hit out at shocking claims of eating disorders and marriage rifts made about Kate and heart specialist Gerry, whose twins Sean and Amelie have just turned three.

He said: “It can't have helped while they've had this massive tragedy on their hands. Days before we met I was reading an ill-informed article saying they were growing apart. But they are a close and loving couple who are certainly united in their roles of being good parents to the twins and maintaining momentum in their quest to find Madeleine.

“There is no doubt they are a couple - they are together and they support and comfort one another. They were very warm and friendly to each other and there was no sign of dispute between them. During the meal, Gerry often put his arm round the back of Kate's chair. They were affectionate to one another all the time. They looked very much together. As for any suggestion Kate might have an eating disorder, it's nonsense. She sat down to my wife's home-made lasagne and garlic bread with a smile and really enjoyed it. And she tucked into the banoffee pie for pudding like the rest of us”.

Wyre told how for 72 hours after Maddie vanished in Praia da Luz on May 3 last year the McCanns were certain their daughter was dead.

Their despair has never been made public before - and Wyre blasted critics who insist they have not expressed enough grief.

He said: “For three days, all they could see in their minds was Madeleine lying dead. They were in complete agreement she'd been taken by a predator, abused and killed.

“They were certain they would never see her alive again. The image of her lying murdered hardly left them and they expected at any time to receive the news that her body had been found. When three days passed and that had not happened, they began to feel the stirring of hope.

“They reasoned it was most likely that if someone had seized her to abuse and kill her, her body would probably have been nearby and would have been found. They continue to cling to that hope - but they are also prepared for the worst. However, as long as she remains missing I know they will not rest in their efforts to find her”.

Wyre also told The People how GP Kate is so dedicated to answering the flood of emails she gets every day about Maddie she sometimes gets up at 4am to deal with them all.

His tribute came as detectives in Portugal finally admitted they could be WRONG in their belief that the McCanns - from Rothley, Leics - were involved in Maddie's disappearance. Prosecutors had named the couple as official suspects in September.

And since then police have been hellbent on trying to prove Kate and Gerry had hidden their daughter's body after the youngster died in their Algarve holiday apartment.

Investigators even claimed they had enough evidence to charge the couple just three weeks ago. But yesterday police sources admitted the McCanns may have been telling the truth all along. And detectives are now set to review the case and quiz all the witnesses again.

The amazing about-turn comes after a British laboratory said DNA tests carried out on blood samples found in the Praia da Luz flat and the couple's hire-car had been inconclusive.

The theory Maddie had been kidnapped was also given another boost last week with the release of a sketch of a possible suspect. A source told Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas: “There are now two hypotheses on the table - abduction or accidental death. There are no concrete proofs to charge the current suspects. No line of inquiry can be discounted - but the first hypothesis is the most credible”.

The McCanns' family spokesman Clarence Mitchell told The People last night: “We welcome any movement on the part of the police that accepts Madeleine was abducted - because that's what happened.

“It’s ridiculous we've had to wait this long for any indication they believe Kate and Gerry are telling the truth.

“The sooner the police realise they don't have a case against them, the sooner they focus on finding Madeleine - which is what this investigation should be about”.

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Analysis of The People article - The context in which it came to be published

Let us first examine the context of this article and try to understand how it came to be written and published. We will start with a recap of what had been happening during the previous months.

In August and early September there was a spate of stories, especially in the popular British press, about the evidence of the cadaver dogs, and about forensic reports from the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham that were said to confirm that Madeleine’s DNA had been found in blood and body fluid samples in the McCanns’ holiday apartment and in the car they hired three weeks later. The cadaver dog Eddie, trained by one of the world’s leading dog handlers Martin Grime, was said to have identified 10 locations connected with the McCanns where a corpse had lain. The McCanns came up with at least five different version of how this scent of a corpse might have been detected by the springer spaniel.

Then, on 7 September 2007, the McCanns were taken in for questioning and made ‘arguidos’, or suspects. Three days later a senior detective, Tavares de Almeida, issued a damning interim report which pointed clearly to the main line of enquiry being that Madeleine had died in Apartment 5A at the Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, and that the McCanns or others must have hidden her body. Just three weeks after that report was issued, the detective inspector in charge of the case, Goncalo Amaral, was removed from his position by fax and ordered to report to another location.

The McCanns and members of their team, especially after the trauma of being questioned under caution, were understandably engaged in an active campaign to win the support of the media, and to progress the investigation in what they felt was the right direction. Their fervent supporter, Cheshire businessman Brian Kennedy, who had made his pile from selling double glazing, appointed the highly controversial Spanish detective agency Metodo 3 to investigate Madeleine’s disappearance. They said the Portuguese police were not looking for her properly. The McCanns and Brian Kennedy, using publicly-donated funds paid to their trust, Find Madeleine Fund, had handed Metodo 3 a contract reputed to be worth at least £50,000 a month.

The involvement of Metodo 3 led to stories just before Christmas from its Director, Francisco Marco, that his men were ‘closing in on’ Madeleine’s kidnappers and that Madeleine would be ‘home by Christmas’. These stories were complete and utter fabrications - being perpetrated by Metodo 3 who were in turn being funded by donations from a generous British public.

Metodo 3 were not finished. In January and March 2008, still under contract to the McCanns, they appear to have been behind some highly-publicised searches for Madeleine’s body in the Arade Dam. These were organised amid a fanfare of publicity and media photographers by Madeira-based Portuguese lawyer, Marcos Aragao Correia. Correia later admitted to being paid by Metodo 3, claiming, unconvincingly, that he had ‘only been paid expenses’. This at least made a change from his original story, which was that he was doing it ‘out of the goodness of his own heart’.

Whilst on the subject of Correia, we should note the following. He was also the lawyer who acted against Goncalo Amaral, accusing him of taking part in or authorising a beating of a convicted murderess, Leonor Cipriano. Moreover, he came up with two sick stories about what had happened to Madeleine. When he first came to public notice, he told the world that within three days of Madeleine being reported missing, ‘underworld sources’, whom he could not name, had told him that Madeleine had been abducted, raped, killed and that her body had been thrown into a lake. Several months later, he admitted that this was a lie. He changed his story, replacing it with an equally unconvincing account that on Saturday 5 May, two days after Madeleine was reported missing, he had attended his first-ever Spiritualist meeting. After that meeting, he said he had a disturbing vision of a very large man strangling Madeleine. Such a man was the pursuer of the detective Goncalo Amaral, and employed by the McCanns via Metodo 3.

Meanwhile Brian Kennedy had been busy. He had been contacting various witnesses. According to an article by Mark Hollingsworth in the Evening Standard in August 2009, he even intimidated some of them into keeping silent and not talking to the Portuguese Police. He found two witnesses, however, who were willing to talk. They were Paul Gordon and Gail Cooper. Both claimed they had seen a strange, ‘creepy’ man when they had been in Portugal in the weeks before the McCanns were there. The stories about these two ‘sightings’ of a creepy man were released by the McCann Team on different days to achieve maximum press coverage, in a blaze of front-page publicity, on 7, 8 and 9 January - round about the time the McCanns were meeting with Ray and Christine Wyre.

The Daily Mirror first of all reported: “A Brit who stayed in the same holiday flat as Madeleine McCann has told how he spotted creepy strangers lurking nearby BEFORE she vanished. Paul Gordon said he was worried the dodgy-looking people had no business to be at the Portuguese complex. His shock evidence could mean child-snatchers had been staking out the complex before four-year-old Maddie's family even arrived there. Brewery executive Paul, 34, and his family rented the Ocean Club flat in Praia da Luz for a fortnight last April. The McCanns took it over from them and Maddie went missing five days later on May 3 - sparking a global hunt”.

Two days later, the Mirror filed a new story: “A second British tourist has reported seeing a mystery man hanging around Madeleine McCann's holiday flat just days before she vanished. Gail Cooper, 50, said she was confronted by the ‘creepy’ stranger at her holiday villa in Portugal. He claimed he was collecting for an orphanage in the next village of Espiche. She spotted him again two days later on Praia Da Luz beach.

“Gail, from Newark, Notts, said yesterday: ‘He was a horrible-looking man, really creepy, unkempt and dirty. He definitely wasn't Portuguese. He scared me’.”

To assist Gail Cooper’s recollections of what this man looked like, Brian Kennedy had in the previous weeks paid for an ‘F.B.I.-trained forensic artist’, Melissa Little, to help her mock up a sketch of him. The media blitz of 7-9 January had been well planned. The decisions of both Paul Gordon and Gail Cooper to talk to the McCanns’ private detectives seems to have originated in meetings between them and Brian Kennedy.

As we have said in our major article on Robert Murat (see under ‘Articles’ on our website, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ), these stories had a dubious origin and content. And in the end the Portuguese Police dismissed these claims, especially Gail Cooper’s as she changed her story about how many times she had seen this man. The Portuguese Police published this conclusion about Gail Cooper’s unreliable evidence in their final report, a full copy of which is reproduced in our latest book, ‘The Madeleine McCann Case Files, Volume 1’ (ISBN 978-0-9563351-1-1), available via our website.

Kennedy had also been busy having secretive meetings in Portugal. He took staff of Metodo 3 to meet the Portuguese Police in Portimao on 13 November. The same day he met with the leading suspect in the case, Robert Murat, each flanked by their respective lawyers, Edward Smethurst and Francisco Pagarete. Around this time, Jane Tanner was gradually - and in public, via the press - shifting from her earlier identification of Robert Murat as the person she said she had seen carrying a child outside the McCanns’ apartment on the day Madeleine disappeared. Now, she was saying, she was no longer sure.

Ray Wyre praises the McCanns

Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ chief public relations officer, was busy promoting stories about Madeleine day after day. Without a shadow of a doubt, he will have been behind the appearance of that article on 27 January 2008 in The People which featured the meeting between the McCanns and the Wyres.

He would have known about the meeting, if not actively arranged it. He would have known that Ray Wyre would be willing to talk to The People and that The People would publish details of their meeting. The People’s circulation, in common with many other parents, had been falling. They would have jumped at the chance of an ‘exclusive’ on Madeleine McCann – which is exactly what they got, probably at a price. Mitchell would no doubt have ‘vetted’ the final content - and, as we have seen, he was actually quoted in the article. He may even have drafted the article himself.

Against that background, let us summarise the content of the article about the McCanns’ trip to the Wyres’ home in Buckinghamshire.

First, we note that Wyre doesn’t refer to the McCanns’ children. Presumably they were left at home for the day with a relative or child-minder.

Then we observe one of the most striking features of this article: the insistent, repeated and total certainty of Wyre that the McCanns were 100% innocent and knew absolutely nothing about what had happened to Madeleine. Wyre is quoted as saying, in quick succession:

it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for them to have been involved

they are incapable of doing anything to harm their children

I can state categorically there is no way they were involved in their daughter's murder or disappearance

they would be incapable of such an act.

We notice also in The People article how Ray Wyre is elevated to near divine status by a series of hyperbolic statements about him:

‘top UK crime cracker’

‘helped nail a string of monsters including child-killer Robert Black’

the ‘ace criminologist’.

Then we hear of the claim that the real purpose of the meeting was ‘to set up an international taskforce to help cops trace missing children’. Given that we have had INTERPOL for decades, it is reasonable to ask whether the purpose of the get-together was a lot more about getting a very helpful front-page article in a national Sunday newspaper than to set up a rival organisation to INTERPOL. Was this meeting, indeed, arranged by Mitchell solely to produce a great newspaper headline?

The article says: “Wyre also told The People how GP Kate is so dedicated to answering the flood of emails she gets every day about Maddie she sometimes gets up at 4am to deal with them all”. Only months later, though, as we now know from Johan Seend of Virginia-based company iJet, the McCanns set up a telephone information hot-line intended to field calls from the general public. We now know that the McCanns did not follow up even one of those calls (see our article on Kevin Halligen on our website) - one of many issues which we say should be addressed in a full public enquiry into all aspects of Madeleine’s disappearance.

The People article also neatly linked into the recent fanfare of publicity about another suspect. They wrote: “The theory Maddie had been kidnapped was also given another boost last week with the release of a sketch of a possible suspect. There are now two hypotheses on the table - abduction or accidental death. No line of inquiry can be discounted - but the first hypothesis is the most credible”.

This enabled Clarence Mitchell to have the final say: “The McCanns' family spokesman Clarence Mitchell told The People last night: “We welcome any movement on the part of the police that accepts Madeleine was abducted - because that's what happened”.

One detail The People omitted, however, was whether Ray Wyre had ever met either of the McCanns before.

The controversial career of Ray Wyre

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by **sharonl** 08.07.19 19:56

As far as Sir Richard Branson is concerned, he did actually part with £100,000 which he gave to the McCanns personally to clear their names, not to search for Madeleine.

Eve Branson was founder of one of the Charities, PACT iirc. Richard is Patron to the charity and Vanessa Branson has a property nearby where Madeleine was allegedly spotted in Morrocco.

Ernie Allen is connected to ICMEC and NCMEC and said to have been guilty of child kidnap fraud. There were cases where the parents had separated, the parent with custody of the children taking them out their native country and the remaining parent claiming that these kids had been abducted.

Then we have the Meyers and the Blairs on PACT charity, Kate becoming ambassador of associate charity Missing people, later followed by Clarence Mitchell and Jim Gamble.

Then we have this Amber alert. Add to this, the fact that the McCanns went to Brussels, Gerry visited the Whitehouse and worked alongside Ernie Allen on some You-tube project.

I would need to go back to the charity threads for a refresher but it is quite clear that all these people link up around these charities.

by sallypelt 08.07.19 20:47

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:49 UTC

…Epstein also had multiple contact details for a string of celebrities, including the Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger; Donald Trump's ex-wife Ivana and their daughter Ivanka; and a series of women recorded under 'massage' in the document, nicknamed 'The Holy Grail' by a former employee...

…The list of names and addresses points to the vast reach of Epstein's social circle and takes on new light in the wake of the accusation leveled at Prince Andrew. ..

It includes a series of politicians in the USA, the UK, and Israel. There are numbers for Bill Clinton's office in New York, a Washington number, and a number marked 'do not use',

There are also home and car phone numbers for senior members of Clinton's staff, including Doug Band, his former White House 'body man' who was incorrectly named as Bands , and a number marked as 'do not use'

Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair is recorded once, while his former cabinet minister Lord Peter Mandelson has ten numbers recorded, including one marked 'direct line' one marked 'home' and one marked 'country home'.

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by Verdi 08.07.19 23:52

sharonl wrote:As far as Sir Richard Branson is concerned, he did actually part with £100,000 which he gave to the McCanns personally to clear their names, not to search for Madeleine.

I'll start by saying, should be common knowledge by now, that I believe little or nothing reported by the press. They tell you what they want you to hear.

Reports regarding Sir Branson, as follows..

May 2007
The News of the World and businessmen including Sir Richard Branson have jointly pledged £1.5m.
BBC

September 2007
Tycoon Sir Richard Branson is giving £100,000 to a fund to assist Kate and Gerry McCann with their legal costs.
BBC

September 2007
Two millionaire businessmen who gave money to help find Madeleine McCann refused today to contribute to the legal fight to clear her parents' name.
The Telegraph

They can't all be right - surely?

I know there is a tendency for people to believe specific press reports because it suits their beliefs on any one subject, whilst ignoring contrary reports.

My rule of thumb .... ignore them all until there is proof to sustain any one report. I've yet to see any evidence in that direction.

On the subject of the knighted blighted Branson, he - or his staff at his direction, gave Gerald McCann and Justine McGuinness a free passage to the USA onboard Virgin Atlantic in July 2008. What's a couple of freebies to a billionaire?

by **sharonl** 09.07.19 0:47

Didn't Branson host the McCanns function at his Kensington Garden Rooftop restaurant to raise funds for the charities?

by Verdi 09.07.19 1:46

The function was allegedly held at Branson's exclusive Kensington Roof Gardens, tickets on sale for a specified sum and donated items auctioned. All proceeds towards the Find Madeleine Co. Ltd.

All well and good, nothing to say it didn't go ahead according plan but the aftermath was a bit of a damp squib. No photographic evidence of the star-studded attendance, no photographic evidence of the auction in action, no evidence of a resounding success one would expect from a McCann oriented initiative.

Instead the observer is offered a few shots of shabby entrance, which frankly could be anywhere and pictures of a couple of z-list celebrities to enhance the event..

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Have I missed someone?

Knowing the McCanns penchant for celebrity status, I would expect to see something really spectacular.

A non-event methinks.

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by Doug D 09.07.19 7:20

Throw away comment about old friendship with Prince Andrew right at the end of the Mail article.

Lots of photos in the article, but no mention or sign of the photo of him with his arm around Virginia Roberts.

by Doug D 09.07.19 7:37

Verdi:

'Instead the observer is offered a few shots of shabby entrance, which frankly could be anywhere and pictures of a couple of z-list celebrities to enhance the event.'

Clearly the entrance & no reason to suppose the event was a sham even if not that successful.

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by **PeterMac** 09.07.19 9:03

Doug D wrote:Throw away comment about old friendship with Prince Andrew right at the end of the Mail article.
Lots of photos in the article, but no mention or sign of the photo of him with his arm around Virginia Roberts.

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by **Tony Bennett** 09.07.19 9:23

Verdi wrote:

On the subject of the knighted blighted Branson, he - or his staff at his direction, gave Gerald McCann and Justine McGuinness a free passage to the USA onboard Virgin Atlantic in July 2008. What's a couple of freebies to a billionaire?

Surely JULY 2007 - when he spent 5 days with Ernie Allen of ICMEC and NCMEC

by **Jill Havern** 09.07.19 9:39

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by sallypelt 09.07.19 9:42

I hope that they don't find Epstein has committed suicide...…..with three bullets in his head whacky

by **Tony Bennett** 09.07.19 11:13

Verdi wrote:The function was allegedly held at Branson's exclusive Kensington Roof Gardens, tickets on sale for a specified sum and donated items auctioned. All proceeds towards the Find Madeleine Co. Ltd.

All well and good, nothing to say it didn't go ahead according plan but the aftermath was a bit of a damp squib. No photographic evidence of the star-studded attendance, no photographic evidence of the auction in action, no evidence of a resounding success one would expect from a McCann oriented initiative.

Instead the observer is offered a few shots of shabby entrance, which frankly could be anywhere and pictures of a couple of z-list celebrities to enhance the event..

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Have I missed someone?

Knowing the McCanns penchant for celebrity status, I would expect to see something really spectacular.

A non-event methinks.

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...I was actually there that cold January night, with my camera, to witness what went on.

I saw and photographed some of the many guests as they arrived, A-list, B-list and C-list celebs. David (Lord) Steel - whose party sheltered, inter alia, paedophiles Sir Cyril Smith and Sir Clement Freud - and his wife were there.

I placed myself behind one or two photographers, one of whom stood on a little yellow stand with the words 'Ian West' written on it. Ian West was a Norfolk man who went under the name 'muratfan' and used social media to publish all manner of really awful libels about me.

Clarence Mitchell was standing astride the entrance and in the end caught sight of me and eyeballed me. Nothing he could do about my presence there though.

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by Verdi 09.07.19 11:41

Tony Bennett wrote:
Verdi wrote:

On the subject of the knighted blighted Branson, he - or his staff at his direction, gave Gerald McCann and Justine McGuinness a free passage to the USA onboard Virgin Atlantic in July 2008. What's a couple of freebies to a billionaire?
Surely JULY 2007 - when he spent 5 days with Ernie Allen of ICMEC and NCMEC

Yes sorry, that should be July 2007.

Keyboard malfunction.

by **Jill Havern** 09.07.19 11:50

Here's the little yellow 'muratfan' stool on this link:
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Sorry about the two lines of yellow text - I've been locked out of my blog and can't change it.

by Verdi 09.07.19 12:19

TonyBennett wrote:Not everything printed by the press is rubbish [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

I'm not sure what that comment is supposed to mean $i don\'t know$ .

My intended point was the absence of press coverage of the event, not something I would expect from team McCann who like to turn everything they touch into bullion. A splash across the morning headlines would be more in-keeping with their usual publicity stunts - indeed, there was more coverage of the launch of chinese lanterns across the nation and Europe, than the alleged star studded event.

I didn't include Lord David Steel's image along with the rest because I couldn't. I've now found this which isn't encrypted..

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I will also include the names of the line-up posted last night, for good measure..

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Gerry McCann, Martin Houghton-Brown, Chief Executive Missing People, Kate McCann and Francis Herbert, Secretary General, Missing Children Europe

The others pictured last night are Gloria Hunniford, Fiona Phillips and Paul Bowles.

According to press reports, the comedian Jack Dee was in attendance along with Nicky Campbell of Radio5.

Very lack lustre.

by **Tony Bennett** 09.07.19 13:00

Jill Havern wrote:Here's the little yellow 'muratfan' stool on this link:
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Sorry about the two lines of yellow text - I've been locked out of my blog and can't change it.

Jill,

Thank you for the notes from Twitter above - VERY interesting if Wikipedia is being amended to suit Jeffrey Epstein and all his top-level 'contacts'. I think this story has a long way to run.

And yes, I couldn't find my photos from 2010, so thanks for providing the link. So Ian West/'muratfan' was fascinated enough with the McCanns to be there. Who is Ian West, really, and what is his connection with the McCanns. Is he another 'Nigel Nessling'?

But SEE how close the links are.

McCanns to Richard Branson - ONE LINK. He puts on a special fund-raising do for the McCanns on the 1000th day that Madeleine had been reported missing. 1004 days since her actual disappearance? The event bolstered the abduction narrative, generated valuable new funds for the titanic legal struggle against Amaral, and drew together about 250 of the 'great and the good'.

Richard Branson to Jeffrey Epstein - ONE LINK. Very close friends. Both with islands a long way from prying eyes.

Richard Branson to Ernie Allen of ICMEC and NCMEC - ONE LINK - seen together (also with Branson's wife) on a photo I showed on the 'Podestas and McCanns - is there a connection?' thread.

Richard Branson to childrens' charities connected to the McCanns.

And so it goes on...

by sallypelt 09.07.19 13:05

How many believe that Epstein will end up in jail? I don't, for one moment. This goes too far up the elite scale, and he's going to walk. I hope that I am wrong, and he'll get the justice he deserves, but I am not going to hold my breath!

by Verdi 09.07.19 15:36

Tony Bennett wrote:So Ian West/'muratfan' was fascinated enough with the McCanns to be there. Who is Ian West, really, and what is his connection with the McCanns. Is he another 'Nigel Nessling'?

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by Guest 09.07.19 16:00

I have been reading Amazing Polly, on YouTube; she is very well informed about the Epstein business. It is, as sallypelt comments, far up the elite - and squillionaire - scale.

by **sharonl** 09.07.19 19:41

I can't help thinking that all of this is centred more around these charities and amber alert than the McCanns. Madeleine was just a marketing ploy and her story is a big PR stunt.

by **Jill Havern** 09.07.19 20:25

"Marketing ploy", if you please.

by **sharonl** 09.07.19 20:54

Jill Havern wrote:“Marketing ploy", if you please.

by Doug D 09.07.19 23:01

Thanks to CaKeLoveR for the ‘Amazing Polly’ link:

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If you’ve got half hour to spare some interesting stuff on here, no idea how accurate, but some Epstein background & also links to people involved in the recent NXIVM sex cult trial, plus other dubious connections.