We have given evidence that we cannot rely on the claims by Catriona Baker and the McCanns that Madeleine was alive at an alleged 'high tea' on . To sum up, there is no photographic evidence that Madeleine was alive after Sunday lunchtime (apart from the Make-Up photo - see below). But this Tapas restaurant booking represented a change of plan. All of them back to their apartments and showering or washing and getting changed for dinner? 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. However, she (of course) failed to mention that the dog had been right all along. 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. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. The following are some of the main factual issues we have taken into consideration in arriving at our conclusion that Madeleine McCann died on Sunday 29 April: The complete absence of any of Madeleines DNA in Praia da Luz. April 7, 2008 . Was there a meeting of some kind there that week? We think there are good grounds for suspecting that the two photos may have been taken on the same day, and that Madeleines very sad appearance could be connected in some way to her having died later that same day. 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. This suggests that Lourenco was part of a group of people who planned to deliberately sabotage the Portuguese polices investigation and send them off in entirely the wrong direction. spatters on the walls could have been caused by mosquitoes crashing holiday, thats why the smell of death was on her clothes. Then we come to them all sitting down for dinner at 8.30pm to 8.45pm. He had carefully fitted up Krokowski. If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. into the wall, Madeleine In the Last Photo, which appears to have been taken on Sunday, she was happy and obviously smiling at something that amused her. Maybe they would have had other related questions. He was on an extended stay in England (Devon) when the McCanns went on holiday to Praia da Luz in 2007, 4. towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. That knowledge is derived from multiple sources and is based on the voluntary efforts of many people, not least those who have set up websites of information and discussion about the case, voluntary Portuguese- English translators and so many others who have given freely of their time and expertise. The photograph of Madeleine McCann, Dr Gerry McCann and Amelie, taken by the Ocean Club pool, which was clearly taken on Sunday 29 April 2007 and not on 3 May 2007 as claimed by the McCanns. To give but one recent example, dozens of people, including police and celebrities, knew that Jimmy Saville was a serial paedophile. 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. But this Tapas restaurant booking represented a change of plan. 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. 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? Eileen McCann, Madeleine's paternal grandma, died from coronavirus weeks before police publicly announced a new suspect in the little girl's 2007 Algarve disappearance. Multiple contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts of the McCanns and their friends about the events of that week from Monday onwards. The damage done to the shutters by Gerry McCann on the Sunday or Monday morning. They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. 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. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. 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. http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-nightwear-job-by-dr-martin-roberts.html. 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. (as indeed they did so claim). (AP) One of the prosecutors investigating the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance has claimed she . 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. 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. (vi) Can we get all this done before 8.30pm, when were supposed to meet our friends for dinner? Catriona Baker also had a holiday at the McCanns home a few months after Madeleine was reported missing, suggesting a close relationship between them.. Clear evidence that the McCanns pattern of behaviour changed after Sunday in the following ways: Taking breakfast every day after Sunday in their own apartment and not with their friends in the restaurant. He and his team also (rightly) rejected claims by Dr David Payne that he saw all three of the McCanns children alive on a visit he and Kate McCann said that he had made to the McCanns apartment at about 6.30pm on 3 May. 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? Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Carabinieri MIlano/FindMadeline.comJust a few days shy of what would be Madeleine McCann's 19th birthday, a break in the case points to everyone's worst fears: that the young Briton was abducted, sold and killed by a pedophile sex ring that worked in and around the Portuguese resort town where she disappeared 15 years ago.Thousands of . 8. "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. Now lets examine why we say she died on the Sunday. Evidence that the children of the McCanns and their friends were cared for in one room from Sunday night onwards. blood A comparison was made between the Last Photo and the Make-Up Photo. Kate McCann said that the dogs were only alerting to the conscious or unconscious signals from the dog handler, Martin Grime, a claim that basically accused Martin Grime of gross professional incompetence. Deliberately creating stories about claimed sightings of Madeleine which they knew to be false. Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person who disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007, at the age of 3. KATE and Gerry McCann may be told within days how their daughter Madeleine died. 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. Arranging two bogus week-long searches of a dam in Portugal, the Arade Dam, pretending that they knew nothing about this search, when in fact they had paid a lawyer, Marcos Aragao Correia and men form Metodo 3 to conduct the search. We agree with his explanation, which can be viewed here: http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-nightwear-job-by-dr-martin-roberts.html, Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April. Her accounts lack any real detail of what Madeleine actually did in the creche that week. A judge refused to hear the dog handlers evidence, saying that sniffer dogs evidence was too unreliable. Officials say new charges relate to offences allegedly committed in Portugal between 28 December 2000 and 11 June 2017 . Lourenco had evidently. No-one else heard a child crying loudly for 75 minutes that night. They would have to deal with the initial shock of what had happened. 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. Point 5. Madeleine McCann is "assumed" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in . There was evidence that the photo was not taken in England as claimed, but in Portugal. 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 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. Here are the relevant considerations we have in mind regarding Murats involvement: 1. 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. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. 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. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. Over thirteen years ago, on 3 May 3 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal's Praia de Luz, while her parents Kate and Gerry . When the film was published, the McCanns claimed she had been playing with Mummys make-up box, but that story didnt stand up to scrutiny. Cat, to work with her whilst she visited homes to issue death In the same interview, she was asked a 49th question: Are you aware that in not answering these questions you are jeopardising the investigation into your daughters disappearance? Kate McCann answered: Yes, if thats what the investigation thinks. Kate McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle Cat, to work with her whilst she visited homes to issue death certificates, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat. We have given, above, some general considerations as to when Madeleine may have died. Aged care in-home 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. We have said that Madeleine was seen alive on Sunday 29th April at lunch-time. After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. All of these circumstances simply serve to confirm the alerts of the dogs and show that the McCanns account of events was not correct and that Madeleine was NOT abducted. "All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice," her parents, Kate and Gerry, said in a statement issued before the German prosecutor spoke. The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. They claimed that they were leaving their children on their own and checking on them, but still wanted to be able to see their apartment from the restaurant. This was meaningless. Shortly afterwards, he was removed as a translator. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. Could they have discussed this desperate situation bilaterally? before mid-day, boasting that he was one of the first journalists on the spot. 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. Chloe Corner, daughter of Jon Corner; Madeleines godfather, had been a Facebook friend of Catriona Baker well before 2007. Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by slave traders and sold to a rich family in North Africa or the Middle East, a . She had a gold-coloured necklace put around her neck. The absence of any genuine photographs of Madeleine taken after lunchtime on Sunday 29 April (see also below). The initial DNA samples taken from the body fluids discovered in the McCanns apartment and in their car showed a 99.99% certainty that they belonged to Madeleine McCann. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. 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. They had no immediate access to a car, and so on. 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. Look at the analysis of these sightings by HideHo that we referred to above. Numerous changes of story by the McCanns, their friends, and others closely associated with them. 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). 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. In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. There is no doubt that Madeleine died on that holiday. 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. Maybe they would have had other related questions. 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. First of all, what is known for sure about the period between 6pm and 10pm? In McCann and Healy v.Portugal ([2022] ECHR 725)(in French only), the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that the applicants' Article 8 rights had not been violated by the publication of a book, a documentary programme, and a newspaper interview alleging that the applicants' daughter had died inside their holiday flat and that the applicants had hidden . It is time for us now to be still more specific about why we think she died on the Sunday that week. 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. As we saw above, two different people say they took the photo, and they disagreed about which day it was taken on. We know for certain that three photographs were taken of Madeleine playing happily in the Ocean Club playground in Praia da Luz in the late afternoon or early evening of the first day of the McCanns holiday - Saturday 28 April (this disposes of the views of some people who have claimed that Madeleine was never on that holiday). 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. They even got the German police to search the plane for Madeleine at Berlin Airport. Body fluids found in the boot of a car hired by the parents of the missing four-year-old British girl 25 days after she went missing in Portugal showed she had been sedated, according to a French . certificates, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat. His conduct during his translations was so outrageous that an inspector sent an urgent report to Dr Amaral, complaining about his conduct. June 30, 2020 7:03pm. A raft of evidence, but especially comparative weather records for the week, point in that direction. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. We cannot say. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger. 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. 3. They then said that the samples could have been from Madeleine but also that this could not be stated with any certainty. Madeleine vanished shortly before her fourth birthday while her parents were eating dinner with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant, and would have turned 17 last month. We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? These have been fully analysed on CMOMM over the past few years. To even list, let alone explain, all the circumstantial evidence would take pages. Similarly, taking lunch in their own apartment every day after Sunday and not with their friends on the Payne's balcony. 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. Chapter 2: Madeleine Beth McCann's holiday. That theory would require Gerry McCann to have made an extremely risky, not to say crass, decision to walk for some 15 or 20 minutes across the village, carrying his dead daughter, at the very moment that his wife and/or others was raising the alarm. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. Repairs to the shutters of the McCanns apartment were needed on the Monday; Ocean Club staff came to mend them that day. 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. At the Inquest the coroner said there was no evidence as to how he had come to take morphine, and no needle mark was found. 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. Thu 20 Mar 2014 18.35 EDT. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. 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. "We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.". 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 suggest that it is unlikely in the extreme. 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. Caused by mosquitoes crashing holiday, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat she Maddie. Circumstances in which the death of the McCanns, their friends were for... 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