The latest McCann suspect: Scotland Yard has revealed vital new information about a suspect wanted in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

crispbee2000 wrote:I don't care to read about your politics. I come to this forum to read and share information directly relating to the disappearance of Madeleine Beth McCann. Moderator?

Read my post at 17.40.  Don't blame me, I was asked to respond although the person who asked me to respond has gone into hiding and said "I won't respond".

I won't take it any further either, but I see you had to put your twopence worth in anyway.

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" It's quite frightening how things can be perverted by the media and others" and then you use Nigel Farage as a "victim", you're joking right? 

Er, of course Nigel Farage is a victim.

He was peremptorily sacked from his very popular 4-nights-a-week show on LBC this week for the 'crime' of comparing the mindless statue- and culture-destroying vandalism of the Taliban with the mindless statue- and culture-destroying vandalism of Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA.

You don't have to agree with his views on Brexit (which were backed by 52% of us in a free and fair referendum) to see the problem here.

It is quite simply a flagrant attack on free speech by LBC in response to an orchestrated vendetta against him by BLM & ANTIFA who were ringing round advertisers telling them their products would suffer unless they also pressurised LBC to sack Nigel.

Now, back to what really happened to Madeleine McCann

sharonl wrote:
  What an odd thing to say.

"I saw the twins sleeping", "I saw the twins, all tucked up in bed"

BUT, " I saw the twins BREATHING".  not exactly normal conversation is it?  Why would he say breathing?

It is indeed 'ODD" as you observe.
As the whole world can see from the PJ photos taken that very night, they were in separate travel cots.
One cot, the one nearer the door, has opaque brown fabric ends.
To observe that particular child breathing would therefore necessarily involve stepping into the room and looking down for the required number of seconds his medical training would dictate.
This photo is clearly taken from eye level of a PJ Forensic photographer INSIDE the room.  The contents of the Brown cot still cannot be seen.

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So he is telling us this -
He opened the door, to the right.
He stepped into the room but did not turn his head or eyes even fractionally to the left.  
He took at least one, more likely two, full paces into the room and looked down at both twins for several seconds, until he was able to establish, as a highly qualified and respected Medical Man, that both were 'breathing'.
He then did a smart "Right About Turn" (not left which given the layout of the room and the position of the cot in question would have been more human natural)
And then stepped out of the room without turning his head or eyes even fractionally to the right

He then turned round again, and closed the door to the exact number of degrees specified in the official story discovered later.
No open curtains, no smashed shutters, no open windows, no lights, no gale force winds slamming doors and whooshing curtains.

What do we make of this ?
The most obvious Occams' Razor analysis gives us
IT IS A LIE. 
The whole thing is a fabrication.
Worse, it is a fabrication upon a fabrication, which is probably why it is so bizarre, and lacks any trace of previous planning.
He is desperately attempting to get out of the invidious position he had been put in by the original plane, which would have left him exposed as
The Last Person To See Her Alive.

As a retired Officer, let me tell you that is not a pleasant position to be in
For very obvious reasons you will be grilled, skewered, recorded, roasted, analysed, checked, cross checked, challenged, and forensically dissected to within a inch of your sanity.
And then at regular intervals you will be 'invited' back to "Help the police with their Enquiries' and interviewed by different officers asking different questions, when you now have no idea what the Police have discovered ...
If you have nothing to hide, then that will become obvious. Obviously

So, very sensibly, he bottled out at the last minute, and dumped that invidious position on Gerry.  But it came far too late to change the story back to something else.
And by so doing he exposed the whole thing as a poorly constructed and over-elaborate fabrication.

It didn't happen. He didn't do it.  He was trying to help. He failed. He made it worse.  
Pity him.
Pity them all.
A little girl is dead, but not one of them has the guts, the moral fibre, the decency, the good grace . . . to come forward and say what happened.

It is never too late to repent and ask forgiveness.

Madeleine McCann: New evidence 'significant' - Portuguese police

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Portuguese police say the German evidence against the new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is "significant".

A senior police source also told the BBC they were keen to cooperate in the investigation into the disappearance of the British girl in Portugal in 2007.

The new suspect is a 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, who is in prison in Germany.

He was revealed as the main suspect earlier this month, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for help.

The convicted paedophile is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.

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Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner's ex-girlfriend 'has gone into hiding as she fears for her life'

Nakscije Miftari had an 18-month relationship with Christian Brueckner in 2014
Her brother has revealed she has gone into hiding after speaking with police
Ms Miftari was the subject of violent abuse by Brueckner during the relationship
She was beaten by the now-convicted paedophile after finding his child porn

By Sam Blitz For Mailonline

Published: 19:14, 14 June 2020 | Updated: 19:15, 14 June 2020

The ex-girlfriend of the latest Madeline McCann suspect is hiding for her life after speaking to German police.

Nakscije Miftari, 25, had an 18-month relationship with Christian Brueckner in 2014 when she was 17-years-old and was the subject of violent abuse from the now-convicted paedophile.

Brueckner, 43, is nearly 20 years older than Ms Miftari and is now being held in solitary confinement in a high-security prison in north Germany, with claims emerging he abducted three-year-old Madeline in 2007.

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NEW LINK Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian B linked to sex attack on another British girl in Praia da Luz

Nick Parker, Chief Foreign Correspondent

Praia da Luz14 Jun 2020, 21:30Updated: 14 Jun 2020, 21:19

VITAL evidence linking Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian B to a sex attack on another British girl is gathering dust in Portuguese police stores, it is feared.

The forensic samples from a 2005 assault on a ten-year-old yards from where Madeleine disappeared two years later may hold the key to the investigation, say German police.

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Are the PJ cracking under diplomatic pressure?

I doubt it. Just more tabloid sensationalism.

The Sun:
 
‘Meanwhile, Mr Wolters said today (so 14^th June) that a single piece of evidence made him 100 per cent certain Madeleine was murdered.’
 
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But Independent:
 
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Hans Christian Wolters on Monday (so 8^th June) said prosecutors had some evidence Madeleine was dead but not enough for a trial. 
But in a U-turn just five days later (13^th June) he has backtracked on that comment, saying there is no forensic proof to support his claim.
 
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It’s all a load of bollocks. Maybe he’s only 60 – 80% certain now!


Can they get him to interview Mr Smith to get that story going again? 

‘Our Trace’ keeps ‘em coming:
 
Madeleine McCann’s mum Kate is being consoled by her close ‘Tapas Seven’ holiday pal who is urging her ‘don’t give up’
 
·       Tracey Kandohla 14 Jun 2020, 19:50 Updated: 14 Jun 2020, 22:53
 
MADELEINE McCann’s mum is being consoled by close ‘Tapas Seven’ holiday pal Fiona Payne, who is urging her not to give up hope as German police say they believe her daughter is dead.
 
Former GP Kate has been having tearful daily chats with fellow doctor Fiona, who has proved to be "a tower of strength and comfort" to her as she endures "unimaginable grief".
 
Mum-of-two Fiona and husband David, a research fellow in cardiovascular sciences at Leicester University, were among the friends holidaying with the McCanns in the Algarve in May 2007 when [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] disappeared.
 
Pained Kate, 52, turned to Fiona when German police sensationally named sex fiend and convicted rapist Christian B as a prime suspect in their investigation.
The pair have not met up in person yet because of the Coronavirus lockdown, but are said to be hoping to do so as soon as regulations are further relaxed.
 
Detectives have not revealed [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] incriminating Christian B, currently in jail following a rape conviction, and are yet to question him, but now say they "[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]".
As German prosecutors investigate the 43-year-old serial offender over Madeleine's disappearance more than 13 years ago, Scotland Yard detectives have launched an appeal for information about him.
They want clues about two cars he owned and mobile calls he made on the night the three-year-old vanished from her bed at an apartment in the Praia de Luz resort.
 
The Met police's investigation, codenamed Operation Grange, has so far received nearly 1,000 new tip offs.
A source close to Kate said today: "Fiona has always been there for her since the day Madeleine went missing.
"They are exceptionally close friends and over the years they have shared Kate’s heartache and many tears and hugs together.
"Fiona has been a tower of strength to Kate and a great comfort over the past week and half. They've spoken every day by phone and have even done some Zoom calls.
"Fiona has been trying to reassure Kate, who keeps crumbling, and telling her not to give up hope now, saying without proof Madeleine is dead there is a chance she could still be alive."
 
'WONDERFUL SUPPORT'
After Madeleine vanished, Fiona and David stayed on in Luz for nearly three weeks to join the huge searches and help comfort their devastated friends.
Kate recalled how during that time she and Fiona would often sit on the beach, saying: "We talked and cried and held onto each other. It was like a horror movie that refused to end.
"She was the closest to me and has remained such a wonderful support."
Fiona has also been at Kate's side during poignant anniversary prayer gatherings in Rothley, including the milestone 10th occasion.
She read a prayer, 'Tree of Hope’, at the event, reciting the words: "Each branch that it grows be our hope and prayers, and every bloom bear a colour for the ones that we miss."
 
Kate has previously told how friends of her and husband Gerry desperately missed bright and fun-loving Madeleine.
"Our pain might be the most acute but out whole family as well as our closest friends suffer it to some degree, too, every day," she said.
"Fiona and David and the others have the additional trauma of having been with us when the abduction took place."
 
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And OG has ‘so far received nearly 1000 new tip offs’
 

What’s 730 between friends. OG statement said 270 on 4^th June, so just add a few more.

Bruntie’s still at it too, seemingly holidaying in PdL. No lockdown or quarantine for journalists I suppose.
 
Madeleine McCann: Praia da Luz won't easily emerge from the shadow of her disappearance
 
"It was the last place in the world tourists wanted to go because they thought their children would be snatched," an expat says.
 
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He quotes the 1000 as well, but says ’police’ so it’s not just OG.


And then brings in Flanders and Swann and their ‘authoritative’ book:


In their authoritative book Looking For Madeleine, authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan reveal a series of sex attacks by intruders into holiday apartments in the Algarve in the years before and after Madeleine vanished.


Many were in apartments occupied by British families and the victims were often young children. In one case, the intruder wore a mask.


Robbyn Swan said: "These are possible similarities between the suspect Christian B and the other crimes.


"One would want to be looking closely at them to see if they are just coincidences, or whether we are seeing a pattern."


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sandancer wrote:" A masked man  dressed in tights and what resembled a leotard " 

" He wore a mask that covered his whole head she said ." but I could see he had blonde eyebrows and piercing blue eyes even in the dark " 

Any woman subjected to a horrific attack deserves help and her attacker caught . However jumping into this farce of an " investigation " selling her story to the press does her no favours . Imho .

My hands were still tied behind my back and he leaned me over a small bench and put a sheet over my head. I thought that was it, my life was over. But underneath the sheet I watched as he backed out of the door, put on his shoes and ran away down the street.”

It all seems to fit in nicely with the various 'reported' suspects - maskman and balaclavaman, the midnight ramblers that plagued the district in or around 2007.

Funny that innit?

Interesting that MSM expect the British public to be impressed that the Portuguese police conclude the new evidence to be significant.

Yet they were lazy incompetent sardine munchers in 2008 when they concluded that Madeleine died in 5A, there was evidence of cover up and the parents were complicit in that cover up. A conclusion drawn with strong evidence to back this up.

The latest development is otally unconvincing to say the least.

The 'sardine munching' epithet is always hidden somewhere in the sub-text. From the alleged rape victim..

“I think if the police had done their job investigating what happened to me, if this is indeed the same man that attacked the American and abducted Madeleine McCann, they might have prevented the attack on her, and Madeleine would now be at home with her parents.”

Playing dirty.

Panto.

The man, who she later told police spoke English with a German accent, was about 6ft 1in. He wore a mask that covered his whole head, she said, “but I could see he had blond eyebrows, and piercing blue eyes, even in the dark”.

Didn't maskman, he of Nextflix fame, speak Ingleesh with a German accent?

In Netflix's 'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann' detectives discovered a surgical mask wearing kidnapper had carried out nearly 30 attacks near the Algarve holiday apartment in Praia da Luz where Madeleine...

Not the same maskman .... surely?

Have we ever heard from any of the 30 victims of the " surgical mask wearing attacker "

Maybe he had prior warning of the " pandemic " so getting used to wearing a mask 


Still  waiting for some actual EVIDENCE !!!

Still waiting for some actual EVIDENCE !!!

Madeleine McCann suspect will refuse to answer questions until evidence found, lawyer says

John Dunne
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Lawyers for the man suspected of murdering Madeleine McCann say he will refuse to answer questions because prosecutors must have proof he was involved in her disappearance, it was reported today.

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At least The Times and The Independent don’t try and sensationalise it and make something of something that isn't.
 
He has been told not to say anything at the moment.
 
“Mr B is remaining silent on the allegation at this time on the advice of his defence counsel,” Friedrich Fulscher, Bruckner’s lawyer, said, according to the newspaper.
 
“This is quite common in criminal proceedings. It is the duty of the state to prove that a suspect committed a crime.”
 
He added: “No accused person has to prove his innocence to the investigating authorities.”
 
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Verdi wrote: Madeleine McCann suspect will refuse to answer questions until evidence found, lawyer says

   John Dunne
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Lawyers for the man suspected of murdering Madeleine McCann say he will refuse to answer questions because prosecutors must have proof he was involved in her disappearance, it was reported today.

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Yeah, Go Bro - says Dr Kate of Rothley Leicestershire

Surely they need more evidence to even suspect him, than the fact the he, amongst many other, were in Portugal on May 3rd.

Are we back to a murder inquiry now then?

Lawyers for the man suspected of murdering Madeleine McCann say he will refuse to answer questions because prosecutors must have proof he was involved in her disappearance, it was reported today.

Insert 1 x 'wo" and 2 x 's' and we have the exact situation from 13 years ago.

Lawyers for the woman suspected of murdering Madeleine McCann say she will refuse to answer questions because prosecutors must have proof she was involved in her disappearance, it was reported today.

Ludicrous, obviously

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Portuguese police prepare to search wells at prime suspect Christian Brueckner's Praia da Luz villa in hunt for Maddie McCann's body

   A farmhouse Brueckner rented is less than half an hour away from Maddie resort
   The building has wells on its land and a path leading to beach Madeleine went to
   The Judicial Police were yesterday considering searching the abandoned shafts
   Brueckner's lawyers said that he will not answer questions on Maddie until proof
   The German may be in clear over missing Inga Gehricke, who vanished in 2015

By James Gant For Mailonline and Allan Hall In Berlin for MailOnline

Published: 13:47, 15 June 2020 | Updated: 15:31, 15 June 2020

Portuguese police are preparing to search wells at Christian Brueckner's Praia da Luz villa in the hunt for Madeleine McCann's body.

A single-storey farmhouse the prime suspect rented is less than half an hour away from where the three-year-old disappeared in 2007.

The building has a number of old wells on its land and a path leading to a beach Madeleine went to.

It comes as her parents Kate and Gerry may 'be told within days how their daughter died'.

Brueckner's lawyers have said he will not answer questions on Maddie until he sees proof he was involved.

He may also be in the clear over missing German child Inga Gehricke, who vanished in Saxony-Anhalt in 2015.

The Judicial Police was yesterday considering searching the abandoned shafts in Praia da Luz for Madeleine's body, according to Portuguese newspaper Sol.

Officers earlier this month were understood to be looking to dig up land around two houses Brueckner lived in while in Praia da Luz.

The other building sits on a hill above the resort, about 11 minutes away from the Ocean Club the McCanns were staying.

A Portuguese source told the Sun: 'Judicial Police have confirmed they have been approached by German authorities in connection with the case and they will undoubtedly be prepared to carry out fresh searches in the hope of giving the McCanns closure.

'The obvious focus would be around the hillside former farm building and another property nearby with links to him.'

Kate and Gerry reportedly face being told within days how their daughter died as their Portuguese lawyer is set to meet with senior police.

German detectives say they have one piece of evidence that proves the child is dead.

They have not told the McCanns but have shared it with Portuguese police.

It was described it as 'significant' and 'very important'.

The lawyer for the family from Leicestershire, Rogerio Alves, will meet them within days to find out more.

He is said to be hoping they will unveil the evidence they have on Brueckner.

The suspect's lawyers said he will not answer questions on Madeleine until he sees proof he was involved.

Friedrich Fulscher told the Times: 'Mr B is remaining silent on the allegation at this time on the advice of his defence counsel. This is quite common in criminal proceedings.

'It is the duty of the state to prove that a suspect committed a crime. No accused person has to prove his innocence to the investigating authorities.'

And in another potential boost for  Brueckner, he may be in the clear over the disappearance of five-year-old Inga in Germany five years ago.

It was widely reported that Brueckner was in the same area at the time. The Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating whether there are new investigative leads.

But according to respected German news magazine FOCUS, investigators currently have no clues as to Brueckner's culpability.

Inga vanished on May 2, 2015, after travelling with her family near Uchtspringe in Saxony-Anhalt.

At around 7 pm, she ran into the nearby forest to collect firewood for a barbecue - and has not been seen since.

In the furore surrounding serial sex criminal Brueckner and the suspicions he is responsible for Maddie's death, he was linked to Inga's vanishing.

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FOCUS said: 'Now the relatives of the girl and large sections of the public are asking themselves: were the traces of Christian B. really be intensively enough at that time? Or may investigators have overlooked something crucial? Did they let go too soon?.

'The fact is that the current findings in the Maddie case have further strengthened the efforts of the competent public prosecutor's office in Stendal to investigate the Inga case.

'But prosecutor Thomas Kramer confirmed to FOCUS Online there is 'no concrete suspicion, no hot streak.

'His Mobile phone was not logged into the crime scene area. We have no concrete evidence that he was in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene on the day of the crime.'

The prosecutor said Christian B had already been investigated 'comprehensively and intensively'.

After Inga's disappearance, the Stendal investigators had examined all sex offenders who were eligible candidates for the crime.

On July 23, 2015, a so-called trace file was created for Christian Brueckner, based on information from the Braunschweig police.

Brueckner lived in Braunschweig at the time and owned a dilapidated building in the district of Börde in Saxony-Anhalt.

During a search in another case in 2016, investigators found six USB sticks and two phone chip cards there.

Prosecutor Kramer said: 'The evaluation led to the seizure of a large number of child pornography files, but they had no connection to Inga.'

It is also known he had a minor car accident on the A2 autobahn near Helmstedt the day before Inga's disappearance.

Prosecutor Kramer told FOCUS Online: 'The accident in a parking lot happened on the route between Braunschweig and Christian B.'s property in Neuwegersleben. According to our findings, it is unrelated to the disappearance of Inga.'

The crime scene is about 60 miles to the northeast of the crash site.

Kramer told FOCUS Online prosecutors will continue their efforts to resolve the Inga case. He rejected Inga's family's criticism of the investigation.

It emerged yesterday an attack on a 10-year-old British girl in Praia da Luz two years before Madeleine disappeared has formed part of German inquiries.

Portuguese police have been asked to send on details of the 2005 assault, Hans Christian Wolters, the prosecutor heading the investigation, confirmed.

The request from German authorities follows their suspicions Brueckner could be responsible for other assaults.

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In the attack – which took place in 2005 – it is thought the person slipped into the girl's holiday apartment while her parents were out. Pictured is the apartment block Maddie went missing from in 2007

The previous attack on a British holidaymaker was revealed by Met Police officers in 2014 after they joined the worldwide search for the youngster.

In the attack – which took place in 2005 – it is thought the person slipped into the girl's holiday apartment while her parents were out.

Police said there were 18 similar cases along the Algarve coast over a six-year period that could possibly be linked.

Many were classified as 'near misses' after parents returned home to disturb the intruder.

The attacker was said to have a deep tan and stale smell, leading investigator to believe he could be a bin man.

Many of the incidents took place early in the morning after refuse collections had been completed.

The attack on the 10-year-old was not widely publicised and only came to light after an appeal by Met Police officers.

It comes after German prosecutors admitted last week that Madeleine could still be alive.

In comments which could ignite fresh hopes for her parents Kate and Gerry, prosecutor Hans Wolters said there was no forensic evidence to say she is dead.

This was despite officials saying they were convinced she is no longer alive after news emerged earlier this month of new prime suspect Brueckner.

German prosecutors had also said they knew how the little girl was killed but had no idea where her body is.

But speaking to the Mirror, Mr Wolters said: 'Because there is no forensic evidence there may be a little bit of hope.

'We don't want to kill the hope and because there is no forensic evidence it may be possible.

'I am surprised the fact we say or I say Madeleine is dead is so important for the British people.'

The prosecutor added in Germany it is 'normal' to assume a murder has taken place in similar cases.

Brueckner is currently in prison in Kiel, northern Germany, for drugs offences and is appealing a conviction for rape from last year over a 2005 attack.

Mr Wolters also admitted his previous assertion Madeleine may have been 'killed quickly' was only 'personal opinion and speculation'.

He said he came to the opinion 'without facts' based on experience of previous kidnapping cases.

Portuguese police reportedly did not interview Brueckner in the weeks after the three-year-old's disappearance as they did not know he was a sex offender.

At the time of Madeline's disappearance, the German was living in the Praia da Luz area.

But his criminal past in Germany was not known to detectives searching for Madeleine.

While all sex offenders in the Algarve region came under suspicion and were interviewed, 43-year-old Brueckner was not among them.

Though Brueckner had two convictions for theft and disobedience since arriving in Portugal in 1998, he was not on the radar of those searching for the youngster.

His name was included in a file sent to British police in 2011 - but only because he was a foreigner who had been jailed and not because he was linked to a sex crime.

It was not until Brueckner 'confessed' to a friend in a bar in Germany that he knew about Madeleine's disappearance that he became the prime suspect.

German prosecutors are convinced he killed the child but admitted they do not have enough evidence to charge him with murder.

Portuguese media said EU countries did not routinely share information on all criminals in the 1990s.

Brueckner was convicted of molesting a six-year-old girl in a playground in his home town of Wurzburg, Bavaria, in 1994 when he was just 17.

He left Germany for the Algarve after serving part of a two-year youth sentence for the crime. But that conviction was unknown to police on the McCann case in 2007.

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IMPORTANT NOTE:  Madeleine McCann was not abducted or kidnapped.  No abduction/kidnap = No abductor/kidnapper

Verdi wrote: It was not until Brueckner 'confessed' to a friend in a bar in Germany that he knew about Madeleine's disappearance that he became the prime suspect.

A few years ago it was Raymond Hewlett who confessed to his estranged son, on his deathbed, that he knew what happened to Madeleine.

They must think that we don't remember these things.

Verdi at 16.24 p.m.

You should also add to your strapline in red "ask the dogs, Eddie & Keela, who were brought in by the British police to find Madeleine".

They seem to be conveniently forgotten about by every newspaper article pushing the "abduction" of missing Madeleine.

Blood and cadaver scent don't add up to an "abduction" by persons unknown.

The Guardian referred to the hire car in its recent podcast about the case.

Many people " confessed to a friend in a bar " they knew about Madeleines disappearance ! 

The difference is they'd read the PJ Files . 

Get ready folks , we're all suspects 

Without any REAL EVIDENCE of course 

sandancer wrote:Many people " confessed to a friend in a bar " they knew about Madeleines disappearance ! 

The difference is they'd read the PJ Files . 

Get ready folks , we're all suspects 

Without any REAL EVIDENCE of course 

Did you have a mobile phone back in 2007 Sandancer? If you did, you're a suspect.

sharonl wrote:

sandancer wrote:Many people " confessed to a friend in a bar " they knew about Madeleines disappearance ! 

The difference is they'd read the PJ Files . 

Get ready folks , we're all suspects 

Without any REAL EVIDENCE of course 

Did you have a mobile phone back in 2007 Sandancer?  If you did, you're a suspect.

Having a daughter who works for a mobile phone company I'm sure she'd be able to get rid of anything that might incriminate me ! 

I didn't have a campervan or a Jaguar , can't drive ! 

Would that rule me out ?

PeterMac wrote:

It is never too late to repent and ask forgiveness.

The best-known case of it ‘never being too late to repent’ was surely that of the thief on the cross, one of two serious criminals crucified alongside the totally innocent Jesus Christ.

According to the Gospel writer Matthew, the two criminals (they were crucified around 9am) both began insulting Christ, mocking him for claiming that He was God. But when we come to Luke’s account in Luke Chapter 23, we read that as one of the ‘malefactors’ continually railed at Him, saying: “If thou be Christ, save thyself and us”, the other was changing his mind. 

He had begun to weigh things up, knowing that his end was very near. As Luke tells us: “But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying ‘Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?”

He began to show some awareness of who Christ really was. And he urged his fellow-criminal not to continue his attacks on Him.

Then he took a second step, and a third: acknowledging his own sin, and recognising that Christ did not deserve any punishment. He said: “We indeed are [condemned] justly, for we receive the due rewards of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amiss”.

Fourthly, he began to have faith in Christ’s supernatural power and will to save him. He called him by a title: ‘Lord’, recognising at last that this was no ordinary human being he was next to.

Fifthly, he uttered a sincere, and no doubt desperate, prayer: “And he said unto Jesus: “Lord, remember me when thou comest into the kingdom”. Maybe he had once heard Christ talking about the ‘Kingdom of God’, or had learnt this from speaking to others.

In that short prayer, he humbled himself and begged simply to be ‘remembered’.

And having moved rapidly from unbelief to belief, he was rewarded with these wonderful words from Christ’s lips as he was dying: “Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise”. They are surely words familiar to everyone who reads this post.

So, yes, PeterMac was right to remind us that: “It is never to late to repent and ask for forgiveness”.

Every single one of us has the same beautiful God-given right to join Christ, the thief, and countless others in the Kingdom of God, or Heaven. This precious right was bought for us when Christ’s Father allowed his only Son, on the cross, to take the just punishment for our sins. He suffered, that we might be forgiven our sins. God says in the Bible: "I shall remember thy sins no more". It is a wonderful, free gift, available to all.

He asks only that we humble ourselves, look around us and see the wonder of a Creator God in the natural world and universe around us, confess our sins, ask for forgiveness, and agree to go God’s way, and not own own. It is as simple and straightforward as that.


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