It is time for us now to be still more specific about why we think she died on the Sunday that week. How did his editor in Britain know so early that this was going to be a major international story? Mrs. Schneider, 50, a former TV reporter, said: "I do not give out such information . 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: 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. 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? He took the early morning flight to Faro, Portugal from Exeter at 7am the very next day, Tuesday 1 May. As a result, Goncalo Amarals team wasted valuable time on only the second full day of their investigation contacting the German and Polish police and INTERPOL. For over 15 years, police have been searching for Madeleine McCann. The Portuguese police became convinced that this must be the man whom Jane Tanners evidence suggested had abducted Madeleine. 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. Chloe Corner, daughter of Jon Corner; Madeleines godfather, had been a Facebook friend of Catriona Baker well before 2007. BERLIN Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is dead, Germany's prosecutor said on Thursday after . A raft of evidence, but especially comparative weather records for the week, point in that direction. Finally, they would have to arrange the crime scene, that is, the childrens bedroom, to make it look like an abduction had occurred - moved the beds. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. The Portuguese police became convinced that this must be the man whom Jane Tanners evidence suggested had abducted Madeleine. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, The A German prosecutor has said he is "sure" that Madeleine McCann -- the British girl who disappeared from a resort in Portugal in 2007 at the age of three -- was killed by suspect Christian Brckner. (iii) Or phone a trusted friend first and ask for advice? The McCanns and their friends had eight children with them on that holiday. 2 min read. We refer here to a masterly study of issues concerning Madeleines pyjamas by Dr Martin Roberts. This was meaningless. blood 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. Cat, to work with her whilst she visited homes to issue death On the very night when the McCanns and their friends should have been distraught, following Madeleines sudden disappearance, some of them were busy contacting the TV and print media and claiming, even in the very first hours after they had raised the alarm, that the Portuguese police were incompetent and not organising a proper search for her. This was meaningless. Lourenco had evidently planned to call the police and already knew of the description that Jane Tanner had given to the police. Kate and Gerry McCann said it reflected progress in the . With the body already hidden by that time? 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. (v) Have we got anything we can carry her body out in, without anybody thinking there might be a body in it? What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. The apartment. Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. Catriona Baker was in sole charge of the Lobsters creche of seven children (including Madeleine) the week the McCanns were in Praia da Luz. We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. Multiple contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts of the McCanns and their friends about the events of that week from Monday onwards. June 30, 2020 7:03pm. 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. Scotland Yard began a review of the investigation, known as Operation Grange, in May 2011, and . Repairs to the shutters of the McCanns apartment were needed on the Monday; Ocean Club staff came to mend them that day. The reason given by the McCanns and their friends for making this booking is even stranger. 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. 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. What possible good excuse could there be for lying so many times about the fate of a missing child? The strange booking on Sunday night of the Tapas restaurant for the evening meal of the McCanns and the Tapas 7 all week. This unidentified, anonymous neighbor tells the McCanns she saw a car going up the Rocha Negra at night. But this Tapas restaurant booking represented a change of plan. Hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner found in Krokowskis apartment. 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. Chapter 7: Suspicious behaviour and contradictions. FORENSIC tests show Madeleine McCann died of an overdose of sleeping pills, media reports said today. He is currently in detention over a different matter. She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. Can we get all this done before 8.30pm, when were supposed to meet our friends for dinner? Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. There would then have to be a rapid decision-making process during which all the following decisions would have to be taken: Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? Within weeks of reporting Madeleines disappearance, the McCanns planned events to mark her disappearance, far in advance. His conduct during his translations was so outrageous that an inspector sent an urgent report to Dr Amaral, complaining about his conduct. Our views are unlikely to change unless significant new evidence emerges. 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. A cadaver dog had alerted to the odour of a corpse which suggested that Eugene Zapata had moved his wifes body twice. The children were sleeping at the back of their apartment, so there was nothing for the McCanns to see from the Tapas restaurant. Madeleine would have been happily playing with her brother and sister, her friends in the Lobsters club, and her Mum and Dad for six days. Less than a month later, on 28 June 2007, Dr Gerry McCann said: I have no doubt we will be able to sustain a high profile for Madeleines disappearance in the long-term. Secondary School before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in physiology/sports science in 1989. 29 Jul 2020. 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. She did not make her statement until 20 August - over three-and-a-half months after the event. She had a pink hair bead on her. The children were sleeping at the back of their apartment, so there was nothing for the McCanns to see from the Tapas restaurant. Do we need someone to pretend to see an abductor? 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. The absence of confirmed photos of Madeleine on the holiday from the Last Photo onwards. 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. A third (but we say unlikely) possibility is that she did suffer a genuine accident, but that the McCanns did not produce her to the local hospital because there may have been indications that Madeleine had previously suffered some form of harm or abuse. 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. (AP) One of the prosecutors investigating the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance has claimed she . 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. Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago when she was 3-years-old when . What was the real reason for the change of plan? The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. An urgent new arrest warrant has been issued for the prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann over a series of rapes and horrific child sex abuse. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. In the Last Photo, which appears to have been taken on Sunday, she was happy and obviously smiling at something that amused her. G. The mystery of the strange 'Make-Up Photo' of Madeleine, which appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th April. Chapter 3: Announcement of a disappearance: The fi. A German court . 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. One example illustrates our point. Friday 22 April 2022, 9:14am. Madeleine McCann suspect charged with sexual offences by German prosecutors. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. There is no other photo of Madeleine which with certainty can be said to have been taken after then, which we regard as hugely significant. towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. 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. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. Employing disreputable and dishonest private investigation agencies, such as Metodo 3 and Oakley International. 24 April. avares de Almeida and Goncalo Amaral suggested Madeleine might have had an accident, perhaps a fall, and been killed as a result of that fall - after about 6pm on Thursday 3 May. The 17 alerts by two cadaver dogs, used by dog top handler Martin Grime, to the odour of a corpse and to blood or body fluids, in locations associated with the McCanns or on their clothes, is prima facie evidence that Madeleine died (or was killed) in the McCanns holiday apartment. His conduct whilst a translator in those early days after Madeleine was reported missing was bizarre and suspicious. 6 from what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleines corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died. It is a fact that from about 8am on Friday 4 May, the news of Madeleines reported disappearance rapidly became the top story in both Portugal and Britain for weeks - and has continued to make international headlines ever since. Cleaned the curtains of blood spatters and any other traces of what really happened? Madeleine McCann is "assumed" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in . If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. 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. There are however multiple problems with the authenticity of this photo. What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? Never being seen out together with the twins from Monday onwards. Here is what each of the two men actually wrote: This was how Tavares de Almeida expressed the investigations preliminary conclusion I will just reproduce his first six points: From everything that we have discovered, our files result in the following conclusions: 1 the minor Madeleine McCann died in Apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, 2 simulation - a staged hoax - of an abduction took place, 3 in order to render the childs death impossible before 10.00pm, a situation of checking of the McCann couples children while they slept was concocted. 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. In 1992 he qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD, a research degree, also from Glasgow. SINCE Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, many theories have been put forward to explain what happened to the youngster. A raft of evidence . A convicted paedophile and rapist named as a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann allegedly told his former lover he 'knows what happened to little Maddie'.. Christian Brueckner, 44 . 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. However, she (of course) failed to mention that the dog had been right all along. 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. rom what has been established up to now, everything indicates that the McCann couple, in self-defence, did not want to deliver up Madeleines corpse immediately and voluntarily, and there is a strong possibility therefore that it was moved from the initial place where she died. - October 28: Scotland Yard cuts the number of officers working on the inquiry from 29 to four. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. he room forensically cleaned of any blood? Besides that, when journalists tried to question the McCanns close friend David Payne about the events of their holiday in Praia da Luz that week, he refused to talk, saying: We have a pact of silence. A high-level meeting is taking place between their Portuguese lawyer and senior detectives involved in the long-runn Was there a meeting of some kind there that week? This booking appears to have been made on the Sunday night. 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. Is it possible that the McCanns and advisers were already planning to claim that the shutters had been jemmied open and smashed by the abductor on Thursday? But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger. We do not think it was. The absence of any undisputed confirmed sightings of Madeleine on or after Monday 30 April. Evidence that the children of the McCanns and their friends were cared for in one room from Sunday night onwards. http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-nightwear-job-by-dr-martin-roberts.html. 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? 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 . April 2017: The only four . They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. BERLIN Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is dead, Germany's prosecutor said on Thursday after identifying an imprisoned German child abuser as a murder suspect. 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, and then photograph them. Excerpts from the book by Gonalo Amaral, who believes that Madeleine McCann died inside the apartment at Praia da Luz. They would have to deal with the initial shock of what had happened. February - Mr Amaral fails . In the very early weeks after Madeleine was reported missing, John Stalker, an experienced and respected detective chosen to work on the alleged Shoot to Kill policy in Northern Ireland, stated that in his opinion: My gut instinct is that some big secret is being covered up. Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. Credit: PA. The German man, who was not publicly named, lived in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and burgled hotels and holiday apartments as well as dealing drugs, German police said. 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. No-one else was reported to have ever died in that apartment. 3 min read. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? Quite why the British Embassy would promote Murat to do this job is uncertain, unless he had a significant prior connection with the Embassy, and was co-operating with them in some way. German police said earlier that the suspect, who lived near Praia da Luz, has been sentenced on numerous occasions to prison terms for sexual abuse of children in the past. Chapter 4: The real victim is the missing child. To give but one recent example, dozens of people, including police and celebrities, knew that Jimmy Saville was a serial paedophile. B. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were considered . Here is what each of the two men actually wrote: This was how Tavares de Almeida expressed the investigations preliminary conclusion I will just reproduce his first six points: From everything that we have discovered, our files result in the following conclusions: he minor Madeleine McCann died in Apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, on the night of 3 May 2007, imulation - a staged hoax - of an abduction took place, n order to render the childs death impossible before 10.00pm, a situation of checking of the McCann couples children while they slept was concocted, Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann are involved in the concealment of the corpse of their daughter, Madeleine McCann, t this moment, there seems to be no strong indications yet that the childs death was other than the result of a tragic accident. In addition, the Portuguese police appear to have received the images on a black-and-white program which only reproduced them as grainy greyscale images which made them very difficult to analyse. In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. 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. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. 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. Immediately following the reported disappearance of Madeleine, the holiday company who arranged the holiday, Mark Warner, brought their PR company, Bell Pottinger, to Praia da Luz. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. A comparison was made between the Last Photo and the Make-Up Photo. Loading Just three years old at the time, Maddie disappeared from her parent's apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on 3 May . What shall we all do after we raise the alarm? He kept pestering the police with plausible suggestions about lines of enquiry that they should be following. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: (iii) Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? As a Netflix documentary sparks new interest in the case, we look at the v We also need to bear in mind that on the basis of the PJ theory as it stands, this was a holiday to a place the McCanns had never been to before. 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. Her mother came to fetch her at 12.25 for lunch and took her back at 2 o'clock. Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment almost 15 years ago. 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. On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead.

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