Gerry McCann's brother-in-law, Tony Rickwood, removes his depraved images of women drowning from an internet site

by **Tony Bennett** 19.12.13 21:46

During the last few days, a website where Tony Rickwood posted numerous still images of naked woman drowning in quicksand or mud has been removed from the internet.

Tony Rickwood is married to Philomena McCann, sister of Dr Gerald McCann.

The website in question was: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (Scopertonosol was an anagram of 'Coolest Porn').

If you click on that, it now defaults to the host website:

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...which still hosts a wide varierty of 'deviant art'.

The issues surrounding his disturbing images has been discussed here:

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This welcome news results from the research endeavours of certain forum members and others close to the forum.

It is understood that this may also stem from an enquiry currently under way by the Highlands Education Authority into Tony Rickwood's connections with Ullapool High School. Philomena McCann is a Departmental Head at Ullapool High School, and Rickwood has visited the school on a number of occasions.

If ther were any doubt at all of the dangers of people pursuing a fetish or obsession with the killing of wome, by viewing, harvesting or creating such images, then this case reported today by the BBC (see below) should leave no room left for doubt. I have highlighted the relevant passage below in blue.

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Georgia Williams murder: 'Deviant' Jamie Reynolds gets whole-life term

Jamie Reynolds had the potential to become a serial killer, the court heard

A sexual deviant who killed a teenage girl by hanging her at his parents' house has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in jail.

Jamie Reynolds, 23, had a "morbid fascination" with depictions of extreme violence and was a potential serial killer, the court was warned.

Reynolds earlier admitted murdering 17-year-old Georgia Williams in Wellington, Shropshire, in May.

The judge at Stafford Crown Court said he deserved the severest sentence.

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Mr Justice Wilkie said Reynolds had "enjoyed the spectacle of Georgia's ghastly few minutes" after meticulously planning the crime.

Georgia Williams was reported missing on 28 May

He accepted a psychiatric assessment of Reynolds that found he "had the potential to progressing to become a serial killer".

Prosecutor David Crigman QC said at the time of his arrest, Reynolds had 16,800 images and 72 videos of extreme pornography on his computer.

These included images of women he knew in which ropes had been digitally added around their necks.

He had written graphic short stories, which featured a fatal assault on a woman "followed by acts of sexual violation".

Mr Crigman described Georgia's murder as "scripted, sadistic and sexually-motivated".

'Damned by evil'

He said Reynolds took photographs of Georgia's body in different parts of the house, including on his parents' bed.

Although Georgia knew Reynolds "she made it clear she had no romantic interest in him".

She only agreed to go to the house to be a model for his amateur photography, Mr Crigman told the court.

CCTV showed Jamie Reynolds visiting a cinema on the way to disposing of Georgia's body

Georgia's father Steve - a detective with West Mercia Police - read a statement to the hearing before sentence was passed.

He said: "We've been damned by evil to endure this sorrow and misery to the end of our natural lives."

Speaking outside court, he said that although Reynolds was serving a life sentence, the fact that "he still has life to hang on to" caused grief for the family.

Reynolds's barrister described the murder as a "horrific crime". He said Reynolds's actions were "unnecessary, tragic and selfish".

The court heard he was given a police caution in 2008, aged 17, for trying to strangle another teenager.

'Not troubled'

Georgia's family, from Wellington, last saw their daughter on 26 May and reported her missing two days later, after discovering she was not staying with friends as they thought.

In court they heard Reynolds had used Georgia's phone to answer her mother's concerned texts and to cover his tracks.

Georgia Williams's father, Steve: "There is no sentence that we can ever say that we're satisfied with - because it will never bring Georgia back."

CCTV images showed he went to a cinema in Wrexham on the way to dispose of the teenager's body and showed "no external sign at all" of being "troubled", said the prosecution.

Reynolds was arrested in Glasgow the day after Georgia was reported missing.

After tracking the journey Reynolds's van took on the way from Wellington to Glasgow, police found Georgia's body in woodland off the Nant-y-Garth Pass in north Wales.

West Mercia Police said an independent review was being held into the force's contact with Reynolds before the murder.

by Guest 19.12.13 22:37

Tony Bennett wrote:

After tracking the journey Reynolds's van took on the way from Wellington to Glasgow, police found Georgia's body in woodland off the Nant-y-Garth Pass in north Wales.

Just read that story and made the same connections myself....

What is it about North Wales that seems to attract sexual deviants like some kind of magnet?

by **PeterMac** 19.12.13 22:43

Is there a "cell" in Ullapool ?

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What the hell is going on ?
Ullapool has a population of 1,300
Everyone know everyone else.
Everyone knows everyone else's business.
And they can't pretend they don't.

of the population of 1,300 - 500 will be children and young persons, leaving 800 adults
Of those 800 adults, 300 will be old and infirm, leaving 500
250 will be men, 250 women

Everyone knows everyone else.
It is not enough to make up 5 Masonic lodges !

by littlepixie 19.12.13 22:43

Similar to the man who raped, murdered and dismembered the vet Catherine Gowing who also warned professionals himself about his fetishes of imprisonment, sex and murder. He had been offending for 30 years before he murdered Catherine and had been on a sex offenders programme.

Those programmes are a farce. They try to reprogram the brain by talking to people and it doesn't work - Catherine's death proves that.

by **Tony Bennett** 19.12.13 23:35

PeterMac wrote:Is there a "cell" in Ullapool ?

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What the hell is going on ?
Ullapool has a population of 1,300
Everyone know everyone else.
Everyone knows everyone else's business.
And they can't pretend they don't.

That's a good point, PeterMac.

I've been to Ullapool, it's a tiny, compact town, with water (the sea) on one side and, for miles around the other side, grass, heather, sheep and the odd crofter's cottage. They must all know each other.

In another report about the Martin Ingram case (also at Ullapool High School), I read that information leading to Ingram's arrest was based on 'information received' from someone in the community. So someone else DID know something.

A teacher involved in viewing and creating extreme child sex abuse images and viewing images of bestiality.

Then, the husband of a teacher at the same school into a long-term festish of creating images of women drowning, and who aspires to make a movie about such things.

It would be nice to think that they were the only two in the town into such forms of deviancy.

by **PeterMac** 20.12.13 7:38

"Ask the sheep, Sandra " ! !

by MrsC 20.12.13 7:59

PeterMac wrote:"Ask the sheep, Sandra " ! !

Brilliant, PeterMac!! You just me me laugh out loud! big grin

by **PeterMac** 20.12.13 8:23

" My faaaa-ther was a faaaar- mer"

by ufercoffy 20.12.13 8:48

Tony Bennett wrote:I've been to Ullapool, it's a tiny, compact town, with water (the sea) on one side and, for miles around the other side, grass, heather, sheep and the odd crofter's cottage.

And you wonder why the residents start using their imagination?

It makes you wonder what they did before the internet.

by Guest 20.12.13 9:26

ufercoffy wrote:
Tony Bennett wrote:I've been to Ullapool, it's a tiny, compact town, with water (the sea) on one side and, for miles around the other side, grass, heather, sheep and the odd crofter's cottage.

And you wonder why the residents start using their imagination?

It makes you wonder what they did before the internet.

Probably had some kind of annual torchlit festival where they ritually drowned the eldest virgin in the village in quicksand.

Not sure about this really. It's distasteful sure, and I can understand why people react the way they do, but I still wouldn't want to see it actually legislated against. I do think he's a bit of a plonker though for being so up front about his proclivities given his proximity to a) a school, and b) the most high profile disappearance of this century.

At least everybody knows now and can treat him accordingly.

by Guest 20.12.13 9:32

As discussed on another thread a few weeks ago re. Ullapool school, I believe this guy is involved with GM's photoshopping.

by worriedmum 20.12.13 9:37

quote,
''I do think he's a bit of a plonker though for being so up front about his proclivities given his proximity to a) a school, and b) the most high profile disappearance of this century.''

Sorry CR, but 'plonker' does not even touch the edges of this for me. Sinister, creepy, scarey, worrying...maybe. Would you leave your child alone with anyone who had this down as a hobby?

by Guest 20.12.13 9:39

Would you want to be married to one? Certainly not me.

by Guest 20.12.13 9:47

worriedmum wrote:

Sorry CR, but 'plonker' does not even touch the edges of this for me. Sinister, creepy, scarey, worrying...maybe. Would you leave your child alone with anyone who had this down as a hobby?

I'd have to think carefully about it, that's for sure. But you always have to take people on trust. At least we know this guy's "thing" (which, incidentally, does not appear to involve children). I'd probably be more reticent to let an eighteen year old daughter near him, but in that case there'd be little I could physically do, which is probably worse.

I don't reveal this often (never have before, in fact) but my brother in law was convicted of possessing child pornography. This was before our daughter was born. They divorced in the end, but it could have gone either way. So I could now have been finding myself with the kind of dilemma - worse, in fact - that you describe.

by Veritas 20.12.13 10:00

Ladyinred wrote:As discussed on another thread a few weeks ago re. Ullapool school, I believe this guy is involved with GM's photoshopping.

What Photoshopping?

Prove the photoshopping and we can speculate on a photoshopper. So far, though, there's no evidence of photoshopping - only wild speculation by people who know nothing about real world photography or photoshopping who insist that because an image is inconvenient to their hyper-complex conspiracy theory it must therefore be (a) faked, (b) faked by a rank amateur somewhere in the extended family as a hugely transparent diy job, and (c)is non-apparent to two police forces, hordes of photographic experts and every credible forensic investigation team under the sun because either (i) they're all in on it or (ii) their credentials are worthless and cases should be solved in future by middle aged obsessives with wild imaginations over the internet who don't need discernible skills in order to rule on all manner of fields of investigation.

Until something is materially and credibly demonstrated repeat visits to this same territory of 'photoshopped images' only serves to play into the hands of those who seek to detract from truth and to sully the material investigation conducted by the man whose face ais on the top banner of this forum and who the forum claims to have utmost respect for, by lumping it in with the most obtuse abject lunacyimaginable from the least credible agents imaginable.

I weep for the fact that so much good is undone by the creation of a forum which gives equal place and importance in the name of freedom of speech, to lunacy and idiocy right alongside the truth less known.

So to repeat the question... What photoshopped images?

by canada12 20.12.13 10:08

Aside from the two versions of The Last Photo, you mean? One of Madeleine on her own and the other with Amelie and Gerry...?

by canada12 20.12.13 10:09

I hope this thread doesn't get derailed.
It's quite an interesting topic. And it seems to have touched a nerve or two...

by Guest 20.12.13 10:13

Veritas wrote:
Ladyinred wrote:As discussed on another thread a few weeks ago re. Ullapool school, I believe this guy is involved with GM's photoshopping.

What Photoshopping?

Prove the photoshopping and we can speculate on a photoshopper. So far, though, there's no evidence of photoshopping - only wild speculation by people who know nothing about real world photography or photoshopping who insist that because an image is inconvenient to their hyper-complex conspiracy theory it must therefore be (a) faked, (b) faked by a rank amateur somewhere in the extended family as a hugely transparent diy job, and (c)is non-apparent to two police forces, hordes of photographic experts and every credible forensic investigation team under the sun because either (i) they're all in on it or (ii) their credentials are worthless and cases should be solved in future by middle aged obsessives with wild imaginations over the internet who don't need discernible skills in order to rule on all manner of fields of investigation.

Until something is materially and credibly demonstrated repeat visits to this same territory of 'photoshopped images' only serves to play into the hands of those who seek to detract from truth and to sully the material investigation conducted by the man whose face ais on the top banner of this forum and who the forum claims to have utmost respect for, by lumping it in with the most obtuse abject lunacyimaginable from the least credible agents imaginable.

I weep for the fact that so much good is undone by the creation of a forum which gives equal place and importance in the name of freedom of speech, to lunacy and idiocy right alongside the truth less known.

So to repeat the question... What photoshopped images?

Veritas, I will do some further reading of past posts and then will reply to you. However, I find some of your comments rude.

by canada12 20.12.13 10:28

I don't think the police have made any statements whatsoever concerning whether they believe any photos have been altered.

Until they do, I don't think we can arrive at any conclusions about what the investigation may have uncovered or discovered concerning photoshopping.

by Guest 20.12.13 10:31

canada12 wrote:Aside from the two versions of The Last Photo, you mean? One of Madeleine on her own and the other with Amelie and Gerry...?

Well that is a bit of an extreme example - I mean the reasoning behind it wasn't sinister, or anything. But the ice cream photo - what the hell is going on there? It's one of the strangest images of a child I've ever seen.

by Guest 20.12.13 10:48

We have countless threads on photoshopping, including the topic earlier about this website which turned into a photoshopping thread. offtopic

by aiyoyo 20.12.13 12:29

Ladyinred wrote:As discussed on another thread a few weeks ago re. Ullapool school, I believe this guy is involved with GM's photoshopping.

Shocking, if true. Nothing's impossible.
Everything's within realm of possibility to keep up deceit.

by **PeterMac** 20.12.13 15:56

The strange, and perhaps worrying thing is that the teacher who was dismissed for making the indecent images was in the department whose Head is Philomena McCann.
She MUST have had a hand in his appointment and then his professional mentoring, annual staff appraisals and so on.
And the other one who has come to notice is husband of Philomena McCann, who cannot help having noticed stuff on his or their computer.
She is the common factor in this.

by aiyoyo 20.12.13 16:38

One coincidence, two coincidence maybe...
More than that it becomes sinister.
The common factor is very noticeable here.

by mysterion 20.12.13 17:11

I have never had a boss who knew anything about my private life apart from what I told him/her. If I had been asked, then I would have said, "MYOB".
If a husband has indecent images then he would be mad to allow his wife access. Password controlled surely.

by bobbin 20.12.13 17:39

mysterion wrote:I have never had a boss who knew anything about my private life apart from what I told him/her. If I had been asked, then I would have said, "MYOB".
If a husband has indecent images then he would be mad to allow his wife access. Password controlled surely.

If it's in the public domain, that Philomena's husband runs a deviant art site, then I think it would be extremely naive to think that Philomena did not know what her husband was doing.
He would be mad perhaps to allow his wife access, if he feared as most husbands would, that his wife would be ready to give him hell if she did find out.
But what is there to indicate that Philomena is not a part of this? It's as much a probability, since the whole world has access to this information, he hardly kept it a secret.

by Guest 20.12.13 17:42

It's strange that, knowing how vocal Philomena has been from day one - though not let out of her cage too often recently to stop her making gaffes - it seems to have been a closely guarded secret that she even had a husband.

by chillyheat 20.12.13 17:56

No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote:It's strange that, knowing how vocal Philomena has been from day one - though not let out of her cage too often recently to stop her making gaffes - it seems to have been a closely guarded secret that she even had a husband.

Absolutely correct...So we have to try and discover why....

by bobbin 20.12.13 18:04

No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote:It's strange that, knowing how vocal Philomena has been from day one - though not let out of her cage too often recently to stop her making gaffes - it seems to have been a closely guarded secret that she even had a husband.

Would you boast of such a catch for a husband? Perhaps even Gerry and Kate saw mileage in it, in a negative sort of way, rather like wanting to keep quiet about it.
It must be really inconvenient to have such a close relative, with such a proclivity when Tannerman has been evaporated and the focus is turning back towards Kate and Gerry's other claim, that of a 'paedophile ring /sexual abuse' angle (Page 129 'madeleine' by Kate McCann).

by **Tony Bennett** 20.12.13 22:07

Veritas wrote:
Ladyinred wrote:As discussed on another thread a few weeks ago re. Ullapool school, I believe this guy is involved with GM's photoshopping.

What Photoshopping?

Prove the photoshopping and we can speculate on a photoshopper. So far, though, there's no evidence of photoshopping - only wild speculation by people who know nothing about real world photography or photoshopping who insist that because an image is inconvenient to their hyper-complex conspiracy theory it must therefore be (a) faked, (b) faked by a rank amateur somewhere in the extended family as a hugely transparent diy job, and (c) is non-apparent to two police forces, hordes of photographic experts and every credible forensic investigation team under the sun because either (i) they're all in on it or (ii) their credentials are worthless and cases should be solved in future by middle aged obsessives with wild imaginations over the internet who don't need discernible skills in order to rule on all manner of fields of investigation.

Until something is materially and credibly demonstrated repeat visits to this same territory of 'photoshopped images' only serves to play into the hands of those who seek to detract from truth and to sully the material investigation conducted by the man whose face ais on the top banner of this forum and who the forum claims to have utmost respect for, by lumping it in with the most obtuse abject lunacyimaginable from the least credible agents imaginable.

I weep for the fact that so much good is undone by the creation of a forum which gives equal place and importance in the name of freedom of speech, to lunacy and idiocy right alongside the truth less known.

So to repeat the question... What photoshopped images?

I think, Veritas, that now might be a very good time to look at the questions about this photograph, the 'Last Photo', so to speak, from a different angle (as a cameraman might put it).

I am going in a moment to list a series of facts that might enable us to think in another direction on this subject.

I am not going to discuss or even suggest that the 'Last Photo' is photoshopped, except to make what I consider to be a couple of pertinent observations:

(a) the shadows on Madeleine, Amelie and Madeleine are all short and
(b) of consistent (short) length.

That tells me that the three persons on the 'Last Photo' were (as claimed by the McCanns) photographed at the same time, i.e. on the same occasion.

I would also observe that the shadows are of a length which would result from a photograph having been taken at around 'midday' (that is, when the sun is at its highest) during the week 28 April to 3 May.

From another thread, I have been informed that 'midday' at Praia da Luz that time of year (28 April to 3 May) occurs at about 1.35pm. Portugal has British Summer Time and so, like us, is an hour behind Central European Time.

NOW SOME RELEVANT FACTS

1. Immediately after Madeleine was reported missing, photos were prodcued by the McCanns for the police

2. They did not include any recent photographs

3. They did not include any photographs taken of Madeleine on that holiday - not even one

4. The 'Last Photo' was released via the AFP agency on Thursday 24 May (see mccannfiles, Times, SKY News etc.) On the very same day, Jane Tanner's description of a man she claimed to have seen on 3 May was also made public (but only after a personal intervention by Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown)

5. Dr Gerald McCann left Praia da Luz to fly to England on Sunday 20 May ('madeleine', by Dr Kate McCann, p. 147)

6. We are told that Dr Gerald McCann met with British police on Monday 21 May

7. We are told that later that day, Dr Gerald McCann met Clarence Mitchell 'for the first time' and 'hit it off with Clarence striaghtaway'
('madeleine', by Dr Kate McCann, p. 148). We are not told if on that visit to England Dr Gerald McCann had any contact with either Philomena McCann or Tony Rickwood

8. At lunchtime on Tuesday 22 May, Dr Gerald McCann arrived back in Portugal with Clarence ('madeleine', by Dr Kate McCann, p. 151)

9. On the evening of Tuesday 22 May, Philomena McCann 'flew in from Glasgow' ('madeleine', by Dr Kate McCann, p. 142)

10. At that time, Philomena McCann lived with Tony Rickwood, whom she later married

11. Tony Rickwood was involved in booking arrangements for a holiday in Turkey in June 2007 attended by him and Philomena and by the Camerons

12. Tony Rickwood is an expert photoshopper i.e. manipulating photographic images

13. Tony Rickwood has admitted publicly to a 'quicksand fetish', he has produced numerous images of naked women dying by drowning, and said he wanted to make a video of a quicksand death.

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FINALLY, Veritas, you wrote these rather harsh words:

Until something is materially and credibly demonstrated, repeat visits to this same territory of 'photoshopped images' only serves to play into the hands of those who seek to detract from truth and to sully the material investigation conducted by the man whose face is on the top banner of this forum and who the forum claims to have utmost respect for, by lumping it in with the most obtuse abject lunacy imaginable from the least credible agents imaginable.

Strong stuff indeed!

Do you at least see why the 'Last Photo' being produced from the McCanns' camera as many as 21 days after it was taken - and only after Dr Gerald McCann has made a round trip of 4,000 miles to England and back - raises a big question mark?

And if you do concede that it raises a question mark (as inevitably you must), what is your best explanation for this 3-week delay (and aalso for the singular dearth of other photos of Madeleine from that holiday)?

Gerry McCann's brother-in-law, Tony Rickwood, removes his depraved images of women drowning from an internet site

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Amelie McCann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".

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Amelie McCann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".

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Amelie McCann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".

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