Questions to Mr Stephen Birch

Good idea PeterMac and monkey mind

I would like to know why Mr Birch is in effect ignoring the cadaver dog alerts in the car that was hired some 25 days after.

I would like to see evidence that it was indeed in Casa Liliana that Birch used his machine.

I would like to know why Mr Birch thinks the body was buried on 3rd May. I am also curious to know what suggests that the new concrete path dates from that date.

Thank you

I would like to know if Mr Birch trully believes that by taking things into his own hands in such a covert way and announced his findings publicly (at Lisbon airport just as he was leaving) and arming himself with top-notch law firms he has helped to find justice for Madeleine. Actually, I want to know why he chose to do things in this manner.

What I want to know is, if a body was really buried on Murat's property on the night of the 3rd May, how did the Portuguese police fail to find it when they dug up his garden, and how did the sniffer dog fail to alert?

How can he state what time the burial took place?

In your video interview at http://expresso.sapo.pt/conheca-o-sul-africano-que-diz-ter-descoberto-restos-mortais-de-maddie=f737713

You say that you drew up maps to determine time and distance. Any person whether an abductor or otherwise could have made off in any direction by any means. What specifically in your map overlays led you to RM’s mother’s house?

You said ““I agree with Mr Amaral who put tremendous effort into this case, that Madeleine’s body went into the ground that same evening, in other words I don’t believe that Madeleine’s body was transported in a hire vehicle 23 days later....”

Where has Mr Amaral said that Madeleine’s body went into the ground that same evening?

As far as I am aware Amaral has indicated that a possibly once frozen body was transported in the back of the hire car. You do not believe that Maddie was transported in that car so how do you explain the evidence of the dogs?

You go on to state as if fact ““...Madeleine died on the 3rd of May 2007 and on that same evening her body went into the ground.....”

What time do you conclude that she died?

These are important questions because when something is stated with confidence, as fact, many people tend to believe it. From the above someone could easily think that Amaral belives that her body was never in the hire car, that she died and was buried that night. To my knowledge this is completely incorrect, please set the record straight one way or the other.

A year or so ago, around the time you say you became interested in this case, a member of this forum received communication from a psychic stating they believed M’s body to be in virtually the same location later discovered by you. The alleged psychic was purportedly from SA. Do you know anything of that psychic or that letter?

Mr Birch, you quote two law firms you have engaged to represent you. Will you be instructing them to release public proof of that?

Do you know or have you ever been associated with a South African alleged private investigator by the name of Martin van wyk, any of his family or the psychic whom he has been acquainted with in relation to this case?

candyfloss wrote:Good idea PeterMac and monkey mind

I would like to know why Mr Birch is in effect ignoring the cadaver dog alerts in the car that was hired some 25 days after.

I second this question.

1. Is your sole motive for involving yourself to the extent you claim, establishing the truth about what happened to Madeleine McCann?

2. You express enormous interest in this case and claim to have researched a huge amount of documentation. What was the one thing, the catalyst, that prompted you to travel and investigate in the area where events unfolded?

Why did you take over 15 months to break this story?

Who reported your findings to the press, and when?

Did you report your suspicions to the police? If so, when?

Have you received any payment for your story?

Did you really enter Roberts Murat property?

Why did you hurry back to South Africa before breaking the story?

Have you any connection to the McCanns, Murat or the media?

How did you travel from to PDL with your radar equipment and your assistants and carry out your tests without anyone even being a tad curious ?



Did you consider the impact of the publicity of your "findings " ?



And just a personal niggle I do not like the phrase "put in the ground"

Do you have further information beyond that already in the public domain?

This radio interview may answer some of the questions! Beware, as it comes via Bren's blog, there are comments from her (and the charmless Anna Raccoon) at the end of it.

http://regretsandramblings.com/2012/07/07/birch-talks-to-capetalk-radio/

Bumping this to the top as I notice Mr Birch is online now.

candyfloss wrote:Bumping this to the top as I notice Mr Birch is online now.

I'm sure if Mr. Birch is a genuine gentleman he must be chomping at the bit to answer some of these questions, I know I would be.

Since Mr Birch is online I would like to offer him the right to reply to this piece by Francisco Moita Flores.

Welcome to the forum - Please could we have your comments on this Mr Birch

The news was still hot when suddenly a South African businessman, I imagine with the help of a device of his creation, searched the terrain of the only suspect that the PJ had an eye on and assured that the girl was buried there, in that very specific spot, inasmuch as his machine is so perfectly rigorous. So much so, that it does not even warrant animal bones or another human being. It must be Maddie. The device says everything. And then it came, the version of the death, amongst the screams of indignant outrage of the suspect and the child's parents demanding for more excavations in the garden.

It is known, no one could have failed noticing as the investigations were accompanied by a massive world-wide media circus, that the garden was thoroughly scrutinized for several days by Portuguese forensic scientists, who found nothing.

Well, Mr Birch has logged off again, so it seems he is prepared to offer his story and interviews to the media and all the publicity but doesn't seem to want to come here to discuss the case.

candyfloss wrote:Well, Mr Birch has logged off again, so it seems he is prepared to offer his story and interviews to the media and all the publicity but doesn't seem to want to come here to discuss the case.

There wasn't much media uptake in UK. Madeleine isn't of high media interest in South Africa - the Dewani case is (well was) much more publicised - hence the need for the radio interviewer on Cape-talk to explain the Madeleine case. The UK press haven't taken much notice and now there is someone who may or may not be Stephen Birch on this forum who has said nothing.

It might be an idea if we now gave this hoax the lack of attention it deserves, unlike the pro forum who are so apoplectic about his behaviour that they are devoting an enormous amount of time and energy ranting about it all.

Perhaps this is why Birch's announcement got little press coverage here in the UK though. Wouldn't look good if a body was discovered and Kate was announced as ambassador the next day.

Here's Textusa's take on the affair.

http://textusa.blogspot.co.uk/

Good evening to everyone. I hope that you all well, and that am able to shed some light on the questions that you have posted. I,ve decided to come onto this blog and inform you as to the status of the investigation. I want to state that the sole objective of this investigation is to find MADELEINE MC CANN, and to bring closure to this case for millions of people. I want to further state, that no one person owns the right to the investigation, and if it had not been for the Portuguese Police making information about the case available to the public, I would not have been able to work on this case. I,ve stated from the onset that finding MADELEINE MC CANN will narrow the investigation, and assist the Portuguese Police into solving this case. The Portuguese Police in my opinion did an excellent job under very difficult circumstances. It's not easy to conduct an investigation when language, long distances and international sitings extend the scope of works.

I familiarized myself with information provided by the Portuguese Police. I read over 12 000 pages, often walking out of my office to a rising sun. From the begining I decided to create a hypothesis, I had limited resources and limited time, so I created a hypothesis that MADELEINE died on the 3rd MAY 2007 and was buried in Praia da luz on that same evening. Anything outside that hypothesis, would create to many permatations, and I would not be able to solve the case. Given my hypothesis and the limiting of permatations, time became a critical component of the investigation. Every minute became inportant.My favourite imaginery character Sherlock Homes once said, and I quote,"if you are able to take the impossible out of the equation, the rest is academic. Inorder to do that, you must have extreme attention to detail, which I believe I have.

I am going to answer a couple of questions, obviously I cannot deal with all of them. Here goes. Well how did I get into the yard with the big dogs??? Well at night one large dog is kept in the front of the property, while all 3 other dogs sleep inside the house with Mrs Jenny Murat.That's only on cold nights. On warm nights, the dogs circulate, hence I only went in on cold windy nights.Wind played a pivotable role and I had to wait for a northerly wind to blow before entering the property.(in otherwords I was down wind of the big dog) Why did I not dig?? Well actually I really did try to dig. On my fourth entrance into the property, I went in only with a spade to dig, and after I moved the top layer of stones away with my hands, encountered a hard sticky tarr layers. I tried to dig through it, but the noise was to loud, and so I gave up. Remember it was 5am in the morning, and the sound of a spade slamming into hard tarr travels. Why did I choose that location to search?? Well can I be granted the right to hold over on that question, you see, inorder to answer that question, I need to start accusing people other than the Murat family, and I don't want to do that before we recover MADELEINE. With regard to the British press, I am deeply dissapointed that they did not cover the story, even thou the rest of the world thought it important. Lastly I am now liasing with the Portuguese Police and am waiting for a response. I hope that we can all stay focussed, that sanity can prevail, and we can establish one way or another whether MADELEINE MC CANN is buried underneath the rear pebble driveway of CASA LILLIANA. Keep well Stephen Birch

Uh. Writing style and expression does NOT match the Stephen Birch I've heard interviewed. Sorry. Nice try. And learn to spell.

I have just listened to the update on Cape Talk Radio, which was very interesting.

I am still curious how you explain that the body, if buried on 3rd May, was not found by the cadaver dog when the property was searched. Cadaver dogs are able to locate bodies that are deep under ground.