We do not think it was. but the remaining detectives continued to pursue a small number of inquiries described in April 2017 as significant. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. How long this initial phase lasted can only be guessed at. The reason given by the McCanns and their friends for making this booking is even stranger. Scotland Yard began a review of the investigation, known as Operation Grange, in May 2011, and . Further to the above point, hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner were found at Krokowskis apartment when it was searched by the police. In such a scenario, how likely is it that all six friends would have agreed within, say, 5-10 minutes that they would all play their roles in a fake abduction? We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. The reason given by the McCanns and their friends for making this booking is even stranger. placed the two cots in position, placed a bed by the window, opened the shutters, windows and curtains to make it look like an abductor had broken into the apartment. dogs had alerted to dirty nappies, not the odour of a corpse, Kate We have set out why we believe that Madeleine died, and why she could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, as claimed by Portuguese detectives. (iv) In a derelict house in Praia da Luz? The strange booking on Sunday night of the Tapas restaurant for the evening meal of the McCanns and the Tapas 7 all week. Our views are unlikely to change unless significant new evidence emerges. She had a gold-coloured necklace put around her neck. He queries, as many others have done, why anyone would need to wash a minor tea stain off a pair of pyjamas just two days before the McCanns were due to return home, 5. Deliberately creating stories about claimed sightings of Madeleine which they knew to be false. The McCanns refusing to give their holiday photos to the police. In April, Portuguese police arrived in the United Kingdom to observe questioning conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' dinner guests on the night Madeleine vanished. 3 May Madeleine disappears from a holiday apartment at the Ocean Club resort in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, dine with friends at a nearby tapas . Mrs Pamela Fenn, a widow who lived above the McCanns, heard Madeleine crying between 10.30pm and 11.45pm on Tuesday night. He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. 28 votes, 55 comments. He is currently in detention over a different matter. Her accounts lack any real detail of what Madeleine actually did in the creche that week. In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. January 28 - A video of the McCann's search for Madeleine is shown at a fund-raising event in London in January to mark the 1,000th day since Madeleine's disappearance. Was there a meeting of some kind there that week? None of them stand up to serious scrutiny. However, a subsequent review of the samples determined that they had been contaminated by government Forensic Science Service staff. On Monday 30 April, he was hastily summoned to Portugal, allegedly by his girlfriend, but possibly by others - Murats account of the phone call or calls that led him to take a hasty flight to Portugal is not convincing, 5. There is agreement from the McCanns, their friends, other holidaymakers and Ocean Club staff that they were all settled at their table at around 8.30pm to 8.45pm. There is real doubt as to whether that is a genuine photo of Madeleine - for a start two different people claim to have taken that photograph and on two different days. It was very early - Madeleine might very well have been found alive and well later that Friday - but on that very day, many media editors immediately despatched reporters to Praia da Luz. By Reuters. Kate . Whilst this doesnt prove that Jane Tanner and Robert Murat were in Krokowskis apartment that week, it certainly raises at least the possibility that they were. The problem with the Tennis Balls Photo. Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal. Thu 20 Mar 2014 18.35 EDT. (AP) One of the prosecutors investigating the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance has claimed she . Do we go frantically pretending to look for her? towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. This was confirmed by Kate McCanns own account of the events of that week, in her book, Madeleine, which did nothing to remove all the question marks about the many contradictions and inconsistencies about what really happened that week. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: They would first have to decide if Madeleine really was dead, or could be revived or resuscitated. 29 Jul 2020. Quite apart from anything else, why did he delay for six days reporting a man taking photos of children on a beach and who later that day tried to kidnap his daughter? They would have to deal with the initial shock of what had happened. Later, Robert Murat claimed that Mrs Fenn had phoned him, not Mrs Glyn, about the alleged crying. All kinds of dangers could have befallen the children while the parents were absent It is our view that the booking of the Tapas restaurant may well have been connected in some way with Madeleine already being dead or having suffered a fatal injury. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were considered . (i) They could say that Madeleine must have wandered off somewhere, (ii) They could say that they took her down to the beach and she got swept out to sea, (iii) Or could we get away with faking an abduction. As a Netflix documentary sparks new interest in the case, we look at the v C. The absence of photographs of Madeleine taken after Sunday. Gerry McCann had met Sahlke before he helped with the search but did not show any concern for his death. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. The absence of any undisputed confirmed sightings of Madeleine on or after Monday 30 April. It showed Madeleine in make-up. This may or may not have taken some time to decide. - October 28: Scotland Yard cuts the number of officers working on the inquiry from 29 to four. Here we rely mainly on the analyses by long-time Madeleine McCann researcher HideHo, who has examined all claimed sightings of Madeleine from Monday onwards, and found each one to be either vague, otherwise unsubstantiated or uncorroborated, or subject to contradictory evidence. There is good evidence that the so-called Last Photo of Madeleine was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April and not at lunchtime on Thursday 3 May as claimed by the McCanns. What possible good excuse could there be for lying so many times about the fate of a missing child? Secondary School before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in physiology/sports science in 1989. British and German police appealed for information about the man and released photographs of vehicles a Volkswagen camper van and a Jaguar which he used at the time. "It is now important to present a summary of this case, based on our deductions: reject what is false, throw out what we can't show with sufficient certainty and validate that which can be proven. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. It includes such things as: A huge number of contradictory statements by the McCanns, their friends (David and Fiona Payne and Fionas mother Dianne Webster, Russell OBrien and Jane Tanner, and Matthew and Rachael Oldfield), and others closely associated with them. The McCanns seemed to know influential people in the TV media and were successful in contacting them in the early hours of the morning and getting headline news about Madeleines disappearance onto the early Friday morning bulletins. The minor, Madeleine McCann died inside apartment 5A of the Ocean Club in Vila da Luz, on the night of May 3rd 2007; If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? Madeleine McCann, 3, went missing from her family vacation in Portugal in 2007. . He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. Could they chat away merrily to the Carpenter family and their children, for example (as indeed they did that night), knowing that their first-born daughter had suddenly died within the past three hours? Amaral and his team (rightly) rejected all claims by the McCanns that Madeleine was alive after 6pm on 3 May because, obviously, they were made by someone who was not independent. If Madeleine died after 6pm on 3 May, what would the McCanns have had to do? It would also be consistent with the apartment having been forensically cleansed before the alarm was raised and Madeleines clothes and other items having been removed or disposed of. None of them stand up to serious scrutiny. ANSWER: Again there are many instances in history where large groups of people who know about a serious crime work together to keep the crime a secret. McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz. "The public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig is investigating a 43-year-old German national on suspicion of murder.". AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. They would surely have to have a meeting about it at the very time they were all getting the children ready for bed and beginning to dress up for dinner. However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two 'Last Photo' threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. 8. 19:56, 28 April 2015 By David Collins Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral was ordered to pay the family a total of 434,000 after his book claimed the parents covered up her death Kate and Gerry McCann urged the public to continue searching for daughter Madeleine after the hunt received a huge cash boost when they won 358,000 in libel . Most people going on a weeks holiday dont plan on washing clothes. Why did he say seven children, and not eight? He was on an extended stay in England (Devon) when the McCanns went on holiday to Praia da Luz in 2007, 4. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? First of all, what is known for sure about the period between 6pm and 10pm? Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. Madeleine McCann was a 3-year-old British toddler when she went missing on the evening of May 3, 2007, during a family holiday trip in Portugal. The damage done to the shutters by Gerry McCann on the Sunday or Monday morning. We refer in particular to her article on CMOMM posted on 28 September 2015, on the lack of credible evidence that Madeleine was seen alive after Sunday, link here: http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t11921-was-madeleine-seen-after-sunday-no-credible-evidence-that-she-was-watch-the-video? What time shall we get her to say she saw someone? Her mother came to fetch her at 12.25 for lunch and took her back at 2 o'clock. If there had been a bad accident, or something equally bad had happened, who would clean the room? Employing disreputable and dishonest private investigation agencies, such as Metodo 3 and Oakley International. There is, further, evidence that Catriona Baker was already known to the McCanns. Just our other good friends Russell and Jane? Later, when re-interviewed by the Portuguese police on 10 and 11 July, after police had interrogated his mobile phone, and discovered that the account he had earlier given of his movements was false, he completely changed his story, claiming he had been too tired on 15 May to tell the truth. There are four photographs from the holiday that we can accept as having been taken on the McCanns' camera on that holiday: the three 'playground' photos, which were clearly taken on the Saturday, and the Pool photo, which the McCanns insist was taken on Thursday 3rd May, but evidence clearly indicates was actually taken on Sunday 29th April. Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. Credit: PA. In the Last Photo, which appears to have been taken on Sunday, she was happy and obviously smiling at something that amused her. These and a number of other considerations about Robert Murat lead us to think that he was summoned to Portugal during Monday 30 April because something serious had happened to Madeleine the previous day, and that his help was needed to cover this up. Police said they wanted to speak to a thus-far unidentified second person who spoke with the German suspect from a Portuguese phone number on May 3, 2007 at the time of McCann's disappearance. The appointment by Tony Blair of his most senior PR officer, Clarence Mitchell, the Director of the Media Monitoring Unit at the Central Office of Information, and responsible directly to the Cabinet Office, to head up the governments PR initiative in support of the McCanns. Well, that depends on whether or not one accepts as gospel the claims of Gerry and Kate McCann, Catriona Baker and Charlotte Pennington that Madeleine was at a high tea in the Tapas restaurant from (according to Gerry McCann) 4.45pm onwards to about 6pm. If we stop and pause for a moment to consider the above list, it is truly hard to conceive how they could possibly have made all these decisions, and carried them out, whilst all sitting down together for dinner in a public place at about 8.30pm until 10pm as if nothing had happened. To even list, let alone explain, all the circumstantial evidence would take pages. There are indications which point in either of these directions, but not enough information to say which. Let us presume at this point that they decided to tell all their friends: Dave, Fiona, Russell, Jane, Matt, Rachael (I assume at this point that those who say that Madeleine died after 6pm fully accept that the McCanns must have let all their Tapas 9 friends know what had happened to Madeleine - and that they all agreed on a plan - though I am aware that some still maintain that maybe, in this scenario, the McCanns didnt say anything to any of their friends, none of whom therefore knew that Madeleine was dead). AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. Then (assuming that they then decided that they are not going to inform the authorities of Madeleines death) there are more decisions to be made about what to do with Madeleines body: Or phone a trusted friend first and ask for advice? Madeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors. 3. Some suggest that maybe the body wasnt hidden before 8.30pm, but lay there while they were eating, with someone - presumably Gerry McCann later carrying his dead daughter to a temporary or final resting place somewhere after that. Tony and Cherie Blair also gave personal support to the McCanns, while David Cameron set up the five-year-long Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleines reported disappearance. MADELEINE McCann detectives insisted they have "strong evidence" she is dead after uncovering a trove of pictures and videos allegedly buried by suspect Christian B. German prosecutor H The Madeleine McCann Research Group (MMRG) was set up in 2009, around the time that I created what was to become the most popular Madeleine McCann discussion forum on the internet: The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann (CMOMM). The McCanns and their friends had eight children with them on that holiday. It was not public knowledge, until earlier this year, that Sir Clement Freud - who twice invited the McCanns to his Praia da Luz home for eats and drinks in the weeks that followed Madeleines disappearance - had been a serial paedophile for decades. A judge refused to hear the dog handlers evidence, saying that sniffer dogs evidence was too unreliable. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. Evidence that the children of the McCanns and their friends were cared for in one room from Sunday night onwards, After Dr Amaral was removed as the investigation co-ordinator in October 2007, he was replaced by Paulo Rebelo. Mitchell once boasted that his job was to control what comes out in the media. KATE and Gerry McCann may be told within days how their daughter Madeleine died. The conclusion that Madeleine died on the holiday is also strongly supported by a wealth of circumstantial evidence. There are two different versions of who made the booking, which in itself is strange. Gerry McCann statement as Arguido 7th September . Then, again assuming that they had all agreed to a plan of action, there would be loads more questions about (a) the apartment and (b) how to execute the hoax. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. The McCanns issued sketches of a suspect on January 20th, based on a description of a "scary man" observed at the resort by a British holidaymaker. (as indeed they did so claim). On both, her hair length was the same. (ix) Where shall we say she saw the abductor? Do those who suggest Madeleine had died after 6pm honestly believe that all nine of the Tapas 9 could have, with every appearance of calm, nonchalantly sat down for dinner that night as though nothing had happened? If that analysis is correct, this shows evidence of cunning planning and deception, amounting to perverting the course of justice. Some even suggest that Gerry McCann went back to the apartment during the meal, picked up his dead daughter, clad in her pyjamas, and carried her for about half a mile or more through the streets of Praia da Luz, being seen at 10pm by the Smith family, who negligently failed to do anything about their extraordinary sighting for 13 days afterwards. reminiscent of the death of Princess Diana in 1997.Her parents . 7 April: Three . Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. Portugal's Attorney General agreed to reopen the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance in October 2013, more than five years after it was archived, following a formal request . Severe doubts about the evidence given by the McCanns and two Mark Warner creche nannies, Catriona Baker and Charlotte Pennington, regarding a high tea which Madeleine is said to have attended between 4.45pm and 6pm on Thursday 3 May. He tried to prove this by quoting from a legal judgment in the United States, in the case of Eugene Zapata, accused of murdering his wife. That also seems unlikely. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. The very next day, early in the morning, a man called Nuno Lourenco rang the Portuguese police and said that, six days previously, a man was taking photographs of children on a beach had tried to kidnap his child at a tiny village called Sagres. 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