A raft of evidence . 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. 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. Officials say new charges relate to offences allegedly committed in Portugal between 28 December 2000 and 11 June 2017 . (as indeed they did so claim). This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. June 4, 2020, 5:01 AM PDT. February - Mr Amaral fails . On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? The body, the existence of which has been confirmed by the EVRD and CSI dogs but also by the results of the preliminary laboratory analyses, cannot be found. Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of the missing 4-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, hold up a picture of Madeleine during a press conference on June 6, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Just our other good friends Russell and Jane? Later, Robert Murat claimed that Mrs Fenn had phoned, Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/f57-mccann-case-the-most-important-areas-of-research, http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.co.uk, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12362-new-film-by-richard-d-hall-when-madeleine-died. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. June 30, 2020 7:03pm. Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal. Chapter 3: Announcement of a disappearance: The fi. On at least one occasion, Rebelo suggested that he had firm evidence that the McCanns and their friends had. Could they have discussed this desperate situation bilaterally? We do not think it was. They could say that Madeleine must have wandered off somewhere, They could say that they took her down to the beach and she got swept out to sea, Or could we get away with faking an abduction. "We assume that the girl is dead," Braunschweig state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said. Repairs to the shutters of the McCanns apartment were needed on the Monday; Ocean Club staff came to mend them that day. (v) Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. Lourenco had evidently. Other problems with the photo have been discussed in many places on the internet. Aged care in-home 19 March: Kate and Gerry McCann accept 550,000 libel damages and front-page apologies from Express Newspapers over allegations they were responsible for Madeleine's death. Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment almost 15 years ago. Her mother came to fetch her at 12.25 for lunch and took her back at 2 o'clock. 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. There are indications which point in either of these directions, but not enough information to say which. None of them stand up to serious scrutiny. Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. Why did he say seven children, and not eight? (ii) Just our very good friends David and Fiona? The episode of the holidays in 2005, in Mallorca - which raises suspicions about a friend of the couple - and the DNA results are the first parts. 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. "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. (vi) What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? Is that when Jane Tanner was briefed to give a description of Krokowski when she was questioned by the Portuguese police? How long this initial phase lasted can only be guessed at. It seems unlikely. 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. There would have been a severe emotional reaction and initial panic, and maybe a series of irrational responses, before they could properly gather their thoughts and begin to come to terms with the shock of losing their daughter and start planning how to cover it up. They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. 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. 28 votes, 55 comments. Surely not. over reports they were responsible for Madeleine's death. (iii) Or phone a trusted friend first and ask for advice? Some of the men the McCanns employed were out-and-out crooks, like Antonio Giminez Raso from Metodo 3 and Kevin Haligen of Oakley International, both of whom spent four years in jail for crimes, respectively, of corruptly assisting a major drugs gang, and major fraud. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. To even list, let alone explain, all the circumstantial evidence would take pages. (viii) What time shall we get her to say she saw someone? C. (If the twins were there) The McCanns would have had to make swift arrangements to move them out of the way whilst they decided what to do. Robert Murat was a well-known long-term resident of Praia da Luz, his mother having lived there for much of her life, 3. We refer here to a masterly study of issues concerning Madeleines pyjamas by Dr Martin Roberts. This booking appears to have been made on the Sunday night. This issue was very fully addressed in Richard D. Halls third film about Madeleine McCann: When Madeleine Died? Without necessarily agreeing with every specific point he makes in that documentary, we adopt his main conclusions, so far as they go. In early 2009, Brian Kennedy, the Cheshire businessman who led the McCann Teams private investigations, helped to create a bogus private investigation company, ALPHAIG Ltd. Gerry McCann - statement 10th May 2007 [3] They continued with searches outside, around the various apartment blocks, the deponent having asked MATTHEW to go to the secondary reception in order to communicate the fact to the local police, since he had no doubt that his daughter had been abducted. We have said that Madeleine was seen alive on Sunday 29th April at lunch-time. They then will have to consider what possible excuse they could have for not having Madeleine anymore? "The public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig is investigating a 43-year-old German national on suspicion of murder.". Then there would be another very tricky question to answer: Just our very good friends David and Fiona? Chapter 4: The real victim is the missing child. The damage done to the shutters by Gerry McCann on the Sunday or Monday morning. holiday, thats why the smell of death was on her clothes. In Kate McCann's book, chapter 6th dealing with the morning after Madeleine's disappearance [May 4th], a neighbor is mentioned across the road on the east side of the apartment [across the Rua Dr Gentil Martins]. 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 . That also seems unlikely. That conclusion is greatly enhanced by the McCanns first and subsequent reactions to these dramatic findings, which we have set out in detail elsewhere. The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. 5. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. We do not set out here all the multiple contradictions about the alleged high tea on 3 May; these have been more than adequately analysed in many places on the internet. The Prosecutor's Office in Faro, Portugal, announced in a statement on . Kate Photograph: PA. Amaral released his book, The Truth of the Lie, three days after the Portuguese attorney general decided to end the search for . Schneider, 50, a former TV reporter, said: "I do not give out such information . Getting all the children changed and ready for bed and asleep before they set off for dinner? The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. She did not make her statement until 20 August - over three-and-a-half months after the event. Not only was Dr Payne not independent, being a very close friend of the McCanns, but there were 20 or more significant contradictions between the accounts of Dr Payne and Kate McCann about what took place at that meeting, how long it lasted etc. 8. In addition to all these considerations, for Martin Grimes cadaver dogs to have alerted to the scent of a corpse, no longer present, some three months after the McCanns had vacated their holiday apartment, Madeleines body must have been lying in the McCanns apartment for at least 90 minutes, probably two hours or longer. Evidence that an abduction hoax was planned over a period of four days. Was this an accident? He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. C. The absence of photographs of Madeleine taken after Sunday. 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 conclusions my team and I have arrived at are the following: 1. Never being seen out together with the twins from Monday onwards. reminiscent of the death of Princess Diana in 1997.Her parents . In short, there is multiple evidence, beyond what weve said here, that her statement was fabricated. Even had they all rapidly agreed to go along with an abduction hoax later that evening at 10pm, there would be all manner of questions and suggestions. It was the strong conviction of Dr Goncalo Amaral and his team of investigators that, based largely on the evidence of Catriona Baker, Madeleine was alive and present at a high tea at the Tapas restaurant on 3 May 2007. In his analysis, Dr Roberts publishes disturbing evidence that Madeleines pyjamas may have been photographed on a blue hessian background, similar to that of the settee in the McCanns apartment, earlier during the day (3 May) when the alarm about Madeleine was raised. To give but one recent example, dozens of people, including police and celebrities, knew that Jimmy Saville was a serial paedophile. Chapter 8: A man with a child in his arms. But for the purposes of this paper, we shall assume that she was there at 6pm.. Later on, the evidence suggests that the McCanns and their friends dined at the Tapas restaurant. We have given, above, some general considerations as to when Madeleine may have died. 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. Madeleine McCann 'sold to rich family', says former policeman. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. 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. 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. 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. blood 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. Besides that, the times shown for Madeleine being in the creche do not even agree with what Kate McCann says in her own book about the events of that week. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger subsidiary company, Resonate, had flown out to help Mark Warner just days before, possibly on Monday 30 April. April 2017: The only four . She said she spoke to a friend of hers, Edna Glyn, while the crying was going on, but neither of them did anything about it. Shortly afterwards, he was removed as a translator. April 7, 2008 . A high-level meeting is taking place between their Portuguese lawyer and senior detectives involved in the long-runn 29 Jul 2020. G. The mystery of the strange 'Make-Up Photo' of Madeleine, which appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th April. After Madeleine was reported missing, the McCanns were able to claim that they had been eating at the Tapas restaurant each night, but were checking their children every half-hour. Almost 15 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann while on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007, police . He also described the man as of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. 24 April. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, The If Madeleine McCann's pyjamas were not in fact abducted, then nor was Madeleine McCann." Gerry McCann calls for example to be made of 'vile' internet trolls Brenda Leyland was doorstepped on 2 October 2014 by Sky reporter Martin Brunt who accused her of 'attacking' the McCanns. A German court . Its Head of Risk, Alex Woolfall flew there the very next day (4 May) and he was later joined by another top Director of the company. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. That money appears to have come from donations made by the general public. Its Head of Risk, Alex Woolfall flew there the very next day (4 May) and he was later joined by another top Director of the company. spatters on the walls could have been caused by mosquitoes crashing But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. Michael led the team of investigators which in 2007 located the boat on which Madeleine was being held and who were denied permission to launch a rescue bid, to their intense frustration. Madeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors. Madeleines 4th Birthday Just 9 days after her parents reported her disappearance and claimed that she had been abducted by a paedophile gang. She claimed in her statement that the crying she heard was that of a child more than two - but no-one can distinguish between the cry of a two-year-old (the McCanns twins) and three-year-old (Madeleine). He was contacted by one of Britains mainstream press in the early hours of the morning, before the media storm broke at about 8am on the Friday morning. 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