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Explained:  The new clues that link German sex offender to missing Madeleine McCann

By Jon Clarke (publisher and Editor) - 20 Jan, 2022 @ 18:45

[snipped from article for relevance]

The Olive Press revealed last month that Brueckner would be charged with three other sex crimes in February.

In particular, he is facing 'up to nine years' for the rape of Irish woman Hazel Behan, in 2004, which he is said to have filmed.

He will also be charged with the sexual assault of a 10-year-ole girl on a beach, near Praia da Luz, justa month before Maddie went missing.

And in the most recent case, he will be charged with exposing himself to four children in a play park in a town, 40 minutes inland from Praia da Luz, in 2017.

In total, the German pervert has nearly 20 convictions spread around Europe.

In 2016, police in Germany found 'over 20,000 photos' and videos of child sex abuse and other degrading pornography buried under the dead body of Brueckner's dog in East Germany.

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2022/01/20/exclusive-new-madeleine-clues-linking-german-paedophile-handed-to-police-from-hard-hitting-tv-documentary/
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For the thousandth and hopefully the last time .... where is the evidence?

I don't mean hearsay by word of the gutter press nor scraps of redacted printed paper flashed about by the likes of Sandra Felgueiras, flying the flag of Brueckner guilt in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Jon Clarke and others of his ilk are profiting on the back of a missing three year old child - almost certainly dead.  I find that despicable in no uncertain terms.

I don't look for gutter press reports, I don't look for amateur super sleuths who feign knowledge of the law across Europe, I don't look to documentaries who are so far removed from the truth they belong only on the cutting room floor.

I look for evidence of past crimes and convictions in the form of official documentation - until then I can't/won't believe a word I read.

That aside, unless it can be proven that Christian Brueckner was in any way involved with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann he is irrelevant.

The name is being kept alive by people anxious to see Brueckner as the perpetrator of a crime .... Madeleine McCann's disappearance.  To date there is no evidence to implicate Brueckner - not even circumstantial evidence - not even hearsay.

Brueckner is not the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Brueckner is not in the frame - at least not in reality, the parents McCann are the prime suspects in the disappearance of their own precious three year old child .... Madeleine.

Always go back to the beginning, the rest is window dressing.

Madeleine McCann was not abducted.

Now go away Mr Clarke, you are perverting the course of justice!

I am tracking back the stories of the "Fibres in the campervan" and of the faciomaxilliary surgery and advanced orthodontic work.
So far all the arrows point to the usual suspect, but I am not there quite yet.
Any help would be appreciated.   



Perhaps I should say even at this early stage, there weren't any, and there wasn't any.   [Private source close to the investigation]

peter, you mean this source for fibergate;

https://twitter.com/olivepress/status/1527333778779033600

the article in his dripp is there, but of course it is no longer free. it is dated at 3 may 2022.

I thought it was the Portuguese reporter, Sandra Felgueiras, who was responsible for the rumoured 'evidence' allegedly found in one of the camper vans allegedly used by Christian Breuckner.  This reportage I believe relates specifically to the run-down old van, not the luxurious mobile home with room to hide a child and a stash of cannabis.

Another example of word mangling to fit the agenda and sensationalize an otherwise mundane press report.

If there be even a vestige of truth in this story of 'when Ms Felgueiras met Herr Wolters', I imagine Wolters thought bubble would be .... 'sod off you nosy old trout - do you really think I would reveal all to you?'

     

‘Fibres from Madeleine McCann’s pyjamas were found in prime suspect Christian Brueckner’s campervan’

May 4, 2022

German investigators have discovered ‘proof’ of lacking Madeleine McCann within the van of prime suspect Christian Brueckner it was sensationally claimed tonight – 15 years to the day Maddie disappeared in Portugal.

The proof in query is regarded as ‘telltale’ fibres from the three-year-old’s pyjamas.

Talking on Portuguese TV, prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters once more reiterated he believed the toddler was useless and insisted Brueckner, 45, was the person accountable.

Mr Wolters was interviewed on a present known as Sabado, in an hour lengthy programme to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance from her mother and father vacation residence at Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve coast.

When requested by host Sandra Felgueiras whether or not it was ‘true that you’ve discovered one thing of Madeleine McCann in Christian Brueckner’s van’ in connection to the fibres, Mr Wolters replied: ‘I am not going to touch upon the small print of the investigation.’

However when pressed by the interviewer: ‘However you may’t deny it?’ Mr Wolters responded: ‘I do not wish to deny it.’

Convicted rapist and paedophile Brueckner was named by German prosecutors as prime suspect within the case two years in the past with investigators saying that they had ‘concrete proof’ she was useless.

However since then there was little signal of him being charged, prompting hypothesis there may be not sufficient proof of his involvement in her disappearance and earlier this week it emerged Brueckner claims to have an alibi the night time she vanished.

He has insisted he was with an 18-year-old German girl, having intercourse in his camper van miles away from the place Madeleine vanished from and he has given full particulars to a US documentary.

When he was named in June 2020 police requested for data within the distinctive yellow and white T3 campervan and DNA specialists have been inspecting it ever since.

Mr Wolters added cryptically: ‘The investigation continues to be happening and we have now discovered some new details, some new proof, not forensic proof however proof.’

He then repeated his 2020 declare that Brueckner was chargeable for her homicide and stated: ‘We’re positive that he killed Madeleine McCann. I am unable to offer you any extra particulars for the second.’

In her report Sandra highlighted how the truth that Mr Wolters refused to disclaim that one thing of Madeleine’s had been discovered was proof of his guilt.

Mr Wolters additionally revealed how he had not been in contact with the McCanns and stated: ‘There isn’t a relationship between the McCanns and me. I’ve by no means spoken with them and I’ve by no means written to them. There isn’t a relationship.’

He additionally highlighted how the truth that Portuguese police had made Brueckner an ‘arguido’ or suspect within the case confirmed the German investigation was ‘going the suitable approach’.

Brueckner is at the moment serving seven years for the rape of a 72-year-old girl in Praia da Luz in 2005, two years earlier than Madeleine was snatched and he’s in Germany’s Oldenburg jail.

Prosecutors are investigating him over the rape of a Irish tour information Hazel Behan within the Algarve in addition to a sexual assault in Praia da Luz on a ten-year-old German woman a month earlier than Madeleine disappeared.

He’s additionally being probed over an indecent publicity in a youngsters’s playground within the Algarve and final month MailOnline revealed he was additionally being investigated over two additional rapes.

Madeleine McCann’s mother and father have joined buddies and properly wishers to recollect their daughter on the painful fifteenth anniversary of her disappearance – as a chief suspect faces being charged.

Kate and Gerry McCann had been warmly welcomed by their group throughout a poignant prayer service of their dwelling village of Rothley, Leicestershire.

The couple, who maintain on to hope that Madeleine – who would now be aged practically 19 – continues to be alive, appeared overwhelmed by the assist as they joined in prayers and readings to mark the event.

The annual out of doors occasion has been cancelled over the previous two years due to Covid restrictions.

Kate and Gerry stated tonight: ‘This yr we mark fifteen years since we final noticed Madeleine. It feels no tougher than another however no simpler both. It is a very very long time.’

Madeleine McCann’s mother and father, Kate and Gerry, mark the fifteenth anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance from Portugal at a vigil of their dwelling village of Rothley

In 2019 Kate turned up alone together with her twins Sean and Amelie – now aged 17 – as her coronary heart physician husband was away in Italy at an necessary medical convention.

Former surgical procedure GP turned hospital medical employee Kate, 54, had dashed from work to hitch Gerry on the struggle memorial for the welcomed occasion.

Kate, carrying black denims, cornflower blue V-neck sweater and trainers, fought again tears as youngsters lit candles for Madeleine and different misplaced kids.

Neither dad or mum addressed the 100-strong crowd however Kate, carrying studying glasses, learn a poem, saying: ‘Survival may be summed up three phrases: By no means quit.

‘That is the guts of it actually, simply preserve attempting.

Three-year-old Madeleine vanished from a vacation residence in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in Might 2007

‘Typically it’s a must to get knocked down, decrease than you will have ever been, to face up taller than you ever had been.

‘Perseverance is stubbornness.’

The McCanns joined household, buddies and villagers for an off-the-cuff night service after German rapist Christian Brueckner was lately made an official suspect over Madeleine’s abduction and presumed homicide.

That they had walked the close to mile, individually, from their dwelling.

A household supply stated: ‘Kate and Gerry get pleasure from going to the service for a time of prayer and quiet reflection. They at all times respect the assist of the general public.’

They met within the chilly night time air at Cross Inexperienced on the milestone anniversary – the place a candle for the world’s most well-known lacking youngster nonetheless burns across the clock.

Throughout the service, native youngsters went as much as gentle candles to recollect Madeleine, or a particular individual of their selection.

One little woman tripped and chanced on the bottom as she ran again to her mom, and a involved Kate joined others calling ‘Whoops!’ then smiled because the youngster picked herself up unscathed.

Famend and revered heart specialist Gerry, 53, casually wearing navy trousers, salmon-pink T-shirt and grey-blue sweater, later individually thanked properly wishers for attending the half-hour gathering.

Vicar of the native parish church, The Rev. Rob Gladstone, who led the prayers, opened the service by telling the gang: ‘As soon as once more after a spot of two years we’re capable of come collectively once more right here at Cross Inexperienced to recollect Madeleine, to point out solidarity to Kate and Gerry, Sean and Amelie.

The annual out of doors occasion has been cancelled over the previous two years due to Covid restrictions

‘Lord we thanks for sustaining Gerry and Kate via these painful years.

‘Hold us their hope of discovering Madeleine, of discovering the reality of her disappearance… actual hope is difficult gained.’

Throughout the gathering, touching messages of assist had been learn out by youngsters.

Iconic footage of a younger Madeleine had been tied to the railing across the struggle memorial and a vase of contemporary yellow flowers was positioned on the bottom.

The Madeleine candle burned brightly as Rev Gladstone stated: ‘We hope the sunshine right here in Rothley dispels the darkness.’

At instances Kate and Gerry appeared tearful, at different instances they smiled.

Kate, who gave the impression to be limping, was hugged by buddies and supporters.

45-year-old German nationwide Christian Brueckner was first named as a suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance by German Police in 2020 and is thought to be a convicted paedophile

Three-year-old Madeleine vanished from a vacation residence in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in Might 2007.

She was found lacking from her mattress within the seaside advanced by her horrified mum shortly after 10pm. She had been left alone her youthful siblings whereas her mother and father had been eating in a close-by tapas restaurant with their seven friends.

Madeleine’s nice uncle, retired head trainer Brian Kennedy, 83, who lives in the identical village and has attended all 13 anniversary gatherings together with his spouse Janet, stated: ‘Kate and Gerry really feel heartened that one thing constructive appears to be occurring with the investigation.

‘They’re being saved up to date by the Met Police however they don’t have any particulars to share now.

‘They’ve by no means misplaced hope even in spite of everything these years, and in juts over every week’s time Madeleine could be 19.

‘In the event you had informed our household 15 years it might go on for thus lengthy and not using a decision we might have thought that was impossible.’

He had earlier learn a poem ‘The Beacon’ beforehand written for Kate and Gerry by former Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

Madeleine’s mother and father informed of their ‘want for solutions’ in a public posting on the eve of the most recent anniversary which they are saying is ‘a really very long time.’

In a heartfelt posting on Monday on the Discover Maddie and Official Marketing campaign web sites, the McCanns wrote: ‘Many individuals speak in regards to the want for ”closure”. It is at all times felt an odd time period.

‘No matter end result, Madeleine will at all times be our daughter and a really horrific crime has been dedicated. These items will stay.

Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from the residence she slept in together with her two youthful siblings on Might 3, 2007, as her mother and father dined at a close-by tapas restaurant

‘It’s true although that uncertainty creates weak point; information and certainty give energy, and because of this our want for solutions, for the reality, is crucial.’

The couple praised three nations’ police forces for his or her continued work in attempting to crack the painstaking case.

They posted: ‘We’re grateful for the continuing work and dedication of the UK, Portuguese and German authorities as it’s this mixed police effort which can yield outcomes and convey us these solutions.’

They added: ‘As at all times, we want to thank all of our supporters for his or her continued good needs and assist.

‘It’s a large consolation to know that no matter time handed, Madeleine continues to be in folks’s hearts and minds. Thanks. Kate and Gerry.’

Their put up is accompanied by a touching phrase from Winnie the Pooh creator AA Milne, with an image of Pooh bear and Piglet, saying: ‘However a very powerful factor is, even when we’re aside, I will at all times be with you.’

Caged 44-year-old intercourse fiend Christian Brueckner was declared an official suspect by Portuguese police two weeks in the past.

Two years in the past he was sensationally named by German officers because the individual ‘accountable’ for Madeleine’s kidnap and feared homicide.

He was quizzed for the primary time final week at Oldenburg jail, the place he’s serving a sentence for rape, however is known to have used his proper to stay silent.

Brueckner might now be summoned to Portugal for questioning and even be charged.

https://colorsofindia.media/world/united-kingdom/fibres-from-madeleine-mccanns-pyjamas-were-found-in-prime-suspect-christian-brueckners-campervan/
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Something lost in translation methinks.

I can read and also copy and paste. !

[size=44]THE OLIVE PRESS: HOW THE WORLD’S MEDIA FOLLOWS UP ON OUR EXCLUSIVE STORIES[/size]

19 May, 2022 @ 19:00


IT was a full 12 hours before the world’s media caught up with our exclusive that police had found traces of missing toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal.
Revealed by an Olive Press source, we ran it having checked first with the German prosecutor leading an investigation against prime suspect Christian Brueckner.
Not only the Mail, Sun and Mirror followed it up but over the next two days, international outfits including El Pais, the Telegraph and the New Zealand Herald took up the story.
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when we click on the Olive press source it goes to

[size=44]MADELEINE MCCANN SUSPECT CHRISTIAN BRUECKNER ‘HAD TRACES OF THE TODDLER IN HIS VAN’ CLAIMS PORTUGUESE INVESTIGATOR

Alibi claims for the night are ‘firmly knocked down’ by police and other sources

By
 Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)
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3 May, 2022 @ 11:12[/size]


GERMAN police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have found traces of her in a vehicle driven by the prime suspect Christian Brueckner.

A Portuguese investigator will reveal tonight that it is one of many different clues that point the finger directly at the convicted sex offender.
Journalist Sandra Felgueiras will announce the discovery on prime time Portuguese television this evening.
“I am certain Brueckner did it and the Portuguese police know he worked with an accomplice,” she told the Olive Press today.
Her SABADO Investigation on the CMTV channel managed to establish that the main evidence is a ‘trace of the English girl found by German police inside the motorhome he drove in 2007’.
Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters refused to confirm or deny this week that a DNA link had been discovered in the VW van.
But, he explained to Felgueiras – who has been investigating the case since May 2007 – that he could not confirm it ‘because the suspect has not yet been informed’.
Brueckner’s VW motorhome
The infamous yellow and white van was part of the original appeal put out in a bombshell German police appeal in June 2020.
It was photographed parked alongside Barranco beach, near Praia da Luz, where three-year-old Maddie went missing while on holiday on May 3, exactly 15 years ago.
The van, which Brueckner had borrowed from a German mechanic friend, had been taken on ‘a potential dummy run’ along the Costa del Sol to Almeria from Portugal just weeks before Maddie went missing.
However, he may have also been driving a large Winnebago – the first of two – that he acquired around the time. And he was also driving a dark Jaguar.
It’s not clear at this stage exactly what traces of Maddie were found in which vehicle.
Neither Wolters or Sandra would be drawn further on it, today.
The DNA link is ‘just one of several revelations’ set to be presented by Felgueiras’ show, recorded in Germany this week.
“It was him. He is guilty,” Felguieras added today. “The key point is that Wolters doesn’t deny it.”
She added: “The crime was for money and I think Russians were involved.”
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Adding money and Russians and the VW van into the mix

The Sabado gave a report on 02 May informing people that they should watch the Sandra and Hans show the next day. 

This appears to be the ‘earliest’ report (Translation by Google)
https://www-sabado-pt.translate.goog/portugal/detalhe/especial-investigacao-sabado-a-entrevista-exclusiva-ao-procurador-do-caso-maddie?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Robert Murat said the £million reward may have the opposite effect of creating more abductions in Portugal in the future, namely carried out by Russians and Rumanians, and the Russians are particularly cold when it comes to questions of money.

So Murat said it first.

Jon Clarke has long history of saying he was the first –
– on the scene
– with the news
– with the story
– to reveal XYZ

JC, for it is he, appears to have some sort of relationship with Sandra Felgueiras, whether that be a love/hate relationship, a friendship or competitive 'investigative' journalism I wouldn't know but it's hardly surprising considering their working relationship - in particular the Netflix Madeleine McCann mockuplenty and subsequent ventures.

I copied (or scanned) over passages about Ms Felgueiras from JC's 'best seller' here on CMOMM but can't locate at the moment, I'll have another look in due course

I'm still wondering how the former Metodo3 employee Julian Peribañez fits in with the grand scheme of things - he who made his film career debut also in the Netflix production.

That's Metodo3, the Private Investigation company hired by team McCann to pervert the course of justice lead 'the search' for Madeleine.

I would be very interested to know the relationship between JC and Julian Peribañez and Sandra Felgueiras.

Francisco Marco from Metodo 3 reminds me of Tannerman.

I do not think there is any personal or professional relationship between Felgeuiras and Clarke.

I do suspect that he keeps his Computer running day and night, set up with Alerts to any incoming News that he then translates, and has Printed in English as his own ‘Exclusive’ work.

Sandra seems to be his main ‘Source’ close to.
Closely followed by:
Sexta às 9
Sabado
Correio da Mãnha

On FB  I am Petra.
My original account got blocked, wiped, taken down a very long time ago by the usual suspects
and I saw no need to share my details with the world, much to Clarke's annoyance.  
He even complains about it in his book.  
"There is almost nothing about him online and the only story outside of [sic] his links to the Maddie case (and there are quite a few) is of him teaching a group of children to row an ancient Greek ship called a trireme, off the island of Poros, in Greece, in 1987.


Clarke, Jon. MY SEARCH FOR MADELEINE: One Reporter’s 14-Year Hunt To Solve Europe’s Most Harrowing Crime (p. 118). OP Books. Kindle Edition. "

Apart from the unfortunate FACT that I was not "teaching a group of children . . ." I was coaching highly experienced oars-people – men and women – as we all tried to learn the techniques which might have been employed to coordinate 170 oars in three banks in an ancient Greek warship . . .as well as acting as Barrack Master . . . the place and date are correct. 
Which I suppose is a small mercy.

 And yes, it is the same Jon Clarke who complained bitterly that I had revealed details of his home address and of his wife and children's details, but who puts all that information on the internet and in his own newspaper himself, and in the million copies of his best selling book.

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Incidentally, for students of these things, the big 'Kidman/ Murat money' rental house attached to his own residence is now shown as "Permanently Closed".
No idea why. It may be a mistake but could be a costly one as high season approaches.



The other properties in his portfolio seem to be operating normally.  Unless that too is a mistake and the empire has collapsed.

Clarke is just washing his vest clean, and getting rid of any connections to his past misdeeds?

MCCANNS CONDEMNED BY SEEING A PRIEST

By Wendy Williams - 23rd May [that month again] 2011

Kate McCann's request to see a priest on the night of her daughter Madeleine's disappearance, was used against her it has been revealed.

The devout Roman Catholic claims she came under suspicion because of the belief that people in Portugal 'only called a priest when they wanted their sins to be forgiven.

The flimsy dossier against the McCann's also included included sniffer dog evidence indicating the presence of blood and human remains in the apartment, later dismissed following forensic tests.

The revelation comes as British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered the reopening of files relating to the McCann case following a direct appeal from her parents.

The Met Police have been ordered to conduct a full review of all evidence in a bid to shed new light on the case.

Meanwhile, an image of the girl's abductor could finally be revealed thanks to high-tech profiling computers.

A Met Police case review team will run descriptions of potential suspects through facial identification software in a bid to produce the most accurate new e-fit.

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2011/05/23/madeleine-mccann-case-reopened/

https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t17329-media-mayhem-mccann-media-nonsense-of-the-day#431760

The net's closing in Sunday Mirror

Search for missing Maddy

• Police in hunt for a man acting strangely at complex
• Dad: I'm sure she'll be at 4th birthday next week

Lori Campbell Kate Mansey and Jon Clarke in the Algarve Portugal

6 May 2007

Detectives were last night closing in on a man they suspect of snatching little Maddy McCann from her holiday apartment.

They said they believed she was being held within three miles of the complex where she had been staying at Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve.

Guilhermino Encarnacao, chief of police in the region, said he had an artist's impression of the abductor but he feared that releasing it may put the three-year-old's life in danger.

He said he believed that Maddy had been taken by a sex offender, but there was also a possibility she had been kidnapped for a ransom - Maddy's parents are both doctors, her father a highly-paid heart specialist.

Mr Encarnacao said: "We have a prime suspect. A man has been seen acting strangely and we have a sketch, but we are not releasing it yet. We do not want to put the girl at risk.

"We believe the girl is still in Portugal, and probably nearby. I cannot rule out it was a paedophile who took her."

Police raised the hope that Maddy could be found as her anguished parents spent a second night waiting for news of their daughter.

Gerry and Kate McCann, both 38, of Rothley, Leics, are staying two doors down from the apartment that Maddy was taken from between 9pm and 10pm on Thursday.

Yesterday Gerry went into the apartment and emerged carrying a suitcase and a bucket and spade for younger twins Amelie and Sean, two.

The couple were later seen walking between apartment blocks in the resort with the twins, accompanied by friends.

They are being comforted by family and specially-trained officers from Leicestershire who have flown to Portugal.

One senior Portuguese detective told the Sunday Mirror yesterday: "We know of two or three local paedophiles living between Lagos and Praia da Luz. We have their names and addresses. We also have a list of English and German sex offenders living in the area from Interpol. We are following up every lead."

Yesterday Maddy's heartbroken grandmother told how the family were clinging to the hope she will be able to attend her fourth birthday party on Saturday.

Susan Healy told the Sunday Mirror: "We were looking forward to seeing her next weekend and giving her her presents, but this is just so awful.

"Her father is adamant that she will be found."

Relatives have made her a special Dr Who cake in honour of her favourite programme. Maddy had been asleep on a bed next to her brother Sean when she was snatched.

Her parents had been eating dinner at a restaurant in the Ocean Club resort 100 yards from the apartment.

They had been taking turns to check on the children every half hour as they slept. But a frantic search was launched when Kate went back to the apartment at 9.45pm and found Maddy gone.

More than 100 locals and holiday makers took part in the hunt.

Hotel workers from the Mark Warner Holiday complex held hands in a line and combed the beach while others scoured the resort and nearby roads.

A police source said they had been studying CCTV footage in petrol stations and on motorways near the resort.

There were also reports from expats that a young girl was seen walking down a road with a couple.

Last night 150 extra officers were drafted in to help with the search, as well as people from the Red Cross, Maritime Police and firemen.

It is thought someone had been spying on the apartment and broken in by forcing the shutters on the patio doors and entering the apartment when he knew the adults had gone.

The ground-floor apartment was on the edge of a public road so Maddy's abductor would have been able to make a quick getaway.

Yesterday family and friends flew in to the popular holiday resort from Liverpool, Glasgow and Canada to comfort Maddy's parents.

Looking tired and distraught, her mum Kate clasped her husband's hand as they walked out of the apartment with their twins between them to collect their belongings.

Last night the little girl's great uncle, Brian Kennedy, said: "We fear the worst, but we are hoping for the best."

Mr Kennedy insisted that the couple had acted responsibly when they left the children in the room while they had dinner at the restaurant. He said: "The children were left only in the sense that when you put your children to bed, you don't stay in the room all night.

"Madeleine is a lovely little girl, an intelligent, bright child. As parents, they are absolutely devoted to their children. You won't find more caring parents anywhere."

The seven other adults, who had been on holiday with the McCann family, left yesterday as planned, leaving the parents free to spend time with worried relatives.

Meanwhile, questions were being raised on how secure the apartments were. There was also criticism of how quickly the police reacted to Maddy's disappearance.

Paula Jones, 34, who manages the apartments where the McCann family were staying said the properties were a hot spot for burglaries. She said: "We have a real problem with break-ins at the apartments because lots of holiday makers don't double lock the patio doors.

"Burglars wait and watch the apartments so they know who is coming and going and they strike when tourists are out at the beach or in the restaurants."

[Acknowledgement pamalam of gerrymcannsblog]

https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t17329-media-mayhem-mccann-media-nonsense-of-the-day#432085

Jon Clarke and Lori Campbell "closing in" on the offender within two days . . .  

Err,  what happened after that, Jon ?

CLUE ; He was paid over £600,000 in libel damages, but Campbell and Clarke took their fat fees and in Clarke's case he seems to have used them to renovate his luxury Holiday rental.  
And all because he was blind in one eye !

See up thread.

It doesn't seem to be a mistake.


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Perhaps he needs the storage space for all the unsold copies of the book

In my consideration, Jon Clarke is an egotist and inveterate purveyor of renowned porky pies - and a poser.

Look at any photograph of him, past and present, there is an air of self assurance and a look of smug conceit. I think he hides behind a shield of poetic licence as most writers do to sell their product.

It may of course be bravado but he doesn't appear to care much about leaving a trail of destruction in his wake, he doesn't seem to care about who he offends nor why and how.

I found this quite interesting, the origin of The Olive Press..

The land of shattered dreams!

By Tara Rippin • 06 August 2019

“I have lost money twice in Spain, the first time hurt after being robbed and the second time was drawn out. But I don’t have any regrets.” These are the words of Jason Heppenstall who launched the Olive Press completely by chance in May, 2006.

He was following a dream which ultimately cost him everything within two short years. But rather than let it destroy him, he turned it to his advantage and hasn’t looked back.

Jason explained how his kaleidoscope adventure, which led him to the dream life in Cornwall, began.

“I met my wife Michelle 24 years ago. She is Danish and we were living in her homeland where I started reading Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart. I was attracted to the romance of Spain in 2003/04, so we decided to do it, move to Spain, to Orgiva in the Alpuharra region of Andalucia.

“A lot of people move to Spain but do not know what to do. That’s what I was like, I had no experience in journalism but I dreamed up and launched Olive Press at the kitchen table. I taught myself graphic design and got on with it.

“It was definitely a challenge. Two years later my shareholding was bought out by the current owner Jon Clarke.”

Read Jason’s new book, Olive Press, News From the Land of the Misfits, to find out how this chapter of his life evolved – including the torrid tales of him being a ‘wannabe’ investigative reporter, well actually the driver of the getaway car!

Jason added: “I believed at the time the sale signified the end of my dreams, little did I know it was actually the beginning of a great new chapter in my life.

“The sale went through quite painlessly, as did the move back to Denmark where I became an editor, save for the heartbreak I felt at the time.”

But it was not just the sale of his dream that was upsetting for Jason, it was the also the enforced loss of the family cat James – a beautiful feline friend who couldn’t be sold or given away to the new owner.

Readers will understand when they read the following extract from the book:

“I explained my predicament with the kittens, saying how nobody wanted them with their eyes glued shut.

“Why don’t you just do what the Spanish do?” he (Jon) asked.

“What’s that?” I said, tensing that I probably didn’t want to know.

“Throw them against a wall. Bam! Far less cruel than drowning them in a sink, or so our gardener says.”

Hence why James remained in the empty family house until he moved back to England after the sale of Jason’s property five years later. The much-loved cat’s back was definitely never going to be up against the wall!

Jason went on: “I don’t have any regrets. Although for me, the Olive Press was a personal failure, it worked out well for me and led me onto a new career in writing. It also gave me a great story. “

You can find Olive Press, News From the Land of the Misfits on Amazon.co.uk in paperback or the kindle edition.

https://euroweeklynews.com/2019/08/06/the-land-of-shattered-dreams/
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I believe JC, for it is he, has a strong personal opinion about the credibility of euroweekly but that's another matter.

Has JC ever committed a crime, aside from breaking every law of professional ethics? Can he always hide behind the journalist hat?



The jury is out on that ....

I'm just a journalist [laughs] sitting behind the scenes ... I try not to become the celebrity, to stay behind the camera and behind the scenes   ..

Lest he forget..

Expat Radio with Jon Clarke

Sep 26, 2021

48:38 minutes

JC appears to have his little empire well and truly fortified against unwanted infidels.

I've been having a poke about - almost everything leads back to The Olive Press, which in itself leads back to subscriber only access.

He's already had his pound of flesh from me through the purchase of his dastardly adventure novel My Search for Madeleine', he certainly ain't getting any more!

From report titles alone, he appears to like his name to be up-front, despite being a laid-back journalist, read hack [sic], and a modest hard worker who prefers to stay away from the camera and stay behind the scenes.

I recall his saying he was/is a stringer for a few British press outlets. If the news he reports over in Spain is attained through a Spanish press agency, it's hardly surprising he would be first to report - over and above the British tabloids. No doubt he feeds the information to his British friends and colleagues if they haven't already got the reports from a press agency. That's how the system works generally, a report is circulated by press agencies to international press and media organs

I'm not particularly interested in The Olive Press stories as such, more how it's managed - what goes on behind the scenes so to speak.

Did he see Spain as an opportunity to spread his wings, or was it the temptation of sun sea and sangria - and obscurity!

I'm still looking ....

It is interesting.
He has tried to block the Olive Press from being copied and pasted.
But there is a way round that, as we have demonstrated.

He has put the on-line edition behind a paywall,
But there are several ways round that, as we have demonstrated here – for anyone who can be bothered

He seems to have disabled the once extensive search engine within the OP site
But there are ways round that, as we have demonstrated here

Meanwhile hard copy editions pile up next to the check out at little supermarkets who allow that sort of thing,
to be used for protecting wine and frozen squid for the journey home.
For which many thanks, obviously.
Each one counts in the circulation figures supplied to the advertisers, but as we have also demonstrated here
the OP has chosen not to be part of the officially recognised circulation statistics office.

Any more than JC can hide from the disgruntled victims of his past actions, reports widely available across the many available information platforms.

He can pretend the past didn't happen but that act alone doesn't make it go away.

You upset people, they take offence and can get very vindictive given sufficient incentive. Matters escalate when redress seems unattainable for the victim.

You reap what you sow - eventually.

Jon Clarke could sleep comfortably on a spiral staircase.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE BY JON CLARKE ON THE MADELEINE MCCANN DISAPPEARANCE

Oct 16, 2021



14 years neatly packaged in 02:18 minutes ....

I take things more seriously than you Verdi, and I know you have a wry sense of humour, but this chap has told lies about the demise of a three year old child.

Not only that but he has tried to damage the reputation of a senior police officer who questioned his truthfulness.

What, no takers? So the forum stooge again takes all the kicks and none of the glory.

I trust this unsubtle reprimand extends to all guilty parties, those who have openly mocked Jon Clarke and the Olive Press here on CMOMM, and not only the member you have singled out.

Or perhaps you haven't been paying attention.