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Three year-old Madeleine McCann and her
two year-old twin siblings, were left alone in a ground
floor holiday apartment at the Ocean Club in the
Algarve, every night, while their parents, Kate and
Gerry dined at a Tapas Bar with seven friends, all
medical practitioners. The McCann’s believe this was
responsible parenting and the Social Services and media
agree that at worst they were naive. On Thursday May 3rd
Madeleine vanished from her bed without trace and her
parents raised the alarm, claiming she had been
kidnapped, or “taken” as they prefer to say. The twins
sleeping nearby did not wake during the ensuing
commotion.
However, I have suspected the parents
involvement from the outset, for the simple reason that
on the day following Madeleine’s disappearance, when
they should have been back at the hotel, in pieces,
being comforted by friends and waiting for the phone to
ring, (like normal folk) Gerry chose to act as media
spokesman, dispensing with intermediaries, such as a
liaison officer or lawyer. Instead of speaking from the
heart, he read from a script and didn’t choke-up or
break down; actually, I have yet to see this “devoted
father” shed a real tear.
His wife said nothing, no appeal, no
begging or pleading for the kidnapper to return her
daughter, not a word. From then on, I began scrutinising
their behaviour and demeanour and I bet the Polícia
Judiciaria did too. Chief inspector Oligeario Sousa
went along with the abduction theory to exhaust this
possibility, but also to avoid alerting the McCann’s to
the fact they were under surveillance. The PJ are not as
incompetent as ‘Team McCann’ would have us believe, they
were quietly gathering evidence and building their case.
With enough rope to hang themselves, the
McCann’s embarked on a tour in Sir Philip Green’s
private jet, meeting everyone from Alberto Gonzales to
the Pope. What a rare privilege! But not once in their
many interviews did they speak loving or comforting
words directly to their daughter through the media,
regardless of whether she may hear it... Why, because
they knew she never would? Apparently the FBI regards
this as an indication of guilt. They both discussed the
situation in a nonchalant and matter-of-fact manner.
At one point Gerry stated, “We have
grieved” which struck me as odd, since you usually
grieve for the dead, whereas for a missing child, you
continue to worry yourself sick... Nonetheless, they
retained their composure and appeared relaxed, blogging
about jogging and enjoying “mince and tatties” with the
family, nothing about Madeleine though! The British
media fawned over the couple, portraying them as saints
who couldn’t possibly be guilty, but nobody really knows
their true character or what goes on behind closed
doors.
One week after the disappearance, they
launched a ‘fighting fund’ to find Madeleine, which has
accrued a total of £1,091,108.67 donated by genuine
well-wishers and rich celebrities. They began a series
of tacky publicity stunts, selling ribbons, wrist bands
and T-shirts from the online ‘Madeleine Store’ and
planned a balloon launch, two weeks in advance, to mark
the 50th day of her abduction. How did they know she
would still be missing?
There
were discrepancies in their version of events. They
claimed the shutter was forced, but when that was
disputed, they said the door was not locked.
Dr. O’Brien left the Tapas Bar for half an hour,
supposedly to attend to his own daughter who was
vomiting. He then left the sick infant to return to the
restaurant. Another negligent parent, or was he
attending to something else? The McCann’s friends
implicated Robert Murat, by placing him at the scene and
Jane Tanner was the only one to see a man carrying a
child towards the beach. However, the Tapas 9 drank
about eight bottles of red and four bottles of white
wine. I’m surprised they could see anything! Tanner
changed her story four months later, claiming the child
was wearing pink pyjamas and the man was heading towards
Murat’s house.
When asked about the first thing that
crossed their minds when they came back to the room from
dinner and realized that Madeleine wasn't there, Kate
replied, “I knew straight away she'd been taken” she
continued, “well, put it this way: I mean, she hadn't
walked out of the apartment.” Gerry said, “When I got
there and Kate told me, and when I looked at the scene
as well, I had absolutely no doubt.” But Alex Woolfall
from the Bell Pottinger PR group said, “They gave no
indication that they thought she had been snatched, let
alone by a paedophile. Their early assumption was that
she had wandered off and had an accident or been taken
in by a well-meaning stranger.” So, which was it?
It is alleged that Gerry and a friend
were spotted near the Nossa Senhora da Luz chapel
on the evening Maddy disappeared. This is the last place
police would look for a body and Father Jose Manuel
Pacheco, who gave the parents keys to this church was
reprimanded and replaced, two days after the
“abduction.” I don’t suppose there is much use taking
the cadaver dogs to the cemetery, they would go berserk!
When it was revealed these dogs had detected the scent
of a corpse on Kate’s Bible, clothes and hire car,
Philomena McCann exclaimed sarcastically, “What, dogs
can talk now?” Er...yes! Not in so many words but by
reacting, like Keela the world renowned Springer Spaniel
was trained to do.
Only when they became Arguidos, did they
begin to describe their predicament with expressions
like, “unbearable anguish, extreme distress, pain and
turmoil and an unending nightmare...” It’s a pity they
didn’t demonstrate these emotions after their daughter
vanished. The McCann’s said they were “happy” to assist
police if it brought progress to the investigation, yet
they refused to answer forty questions. So much for
their catch phrase: ‘Leaving No Stone Unturned.’ Then,
despite vowing to stay in Portugal, they scurried back
home in the VIP lounge of Easyjet!
The McCann’s behaved like the Ramsey’s
after Jon Benet’s murder, hogging the limelight, hiding
in plain sight.... and like the Ramsey’s, they may well
get off Scot free! They have friends in very high
places, not least Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah
Macaulay whose colleague Julia Hobsbawm is the founder
and chief executive of Editorial Intelligence, which is
spinning the ‘Immaculate McCann’ fairy stories, she is
also an associate of Sir Philip Green. Clarence
Mitchell, director of the Government's Media Monitoring
Unit, became their spokesman, paid for by an anonymous
billionaire benefactor. Hans Christian Anderson was not
available!
Gerry hoped to use the fighting fund for
their defence against killing her, saying, “It’s a huge
disaster, we have this enormous fund and can’t use it
for legal fees because we are suspects.” Wouldn’t
they rather it was used for its purpose, to find
Madeleine? But Sir Richard Branson and Everest
Magnate, Brian Kennedy stepped in to cover the
exorbitant cost of extradition lawyer Michael Caplan
QC who charges £700 per day and successfully defended
mass-murderer General Pinochet. With so many Knights
of the Empire pulling strings for them, I can’t see a
trial materialising, far less a conviction, but “Bring
it on!” says Gerry, with four top lawyers waiting in the
wings.
Team McCann will claim they cannot
receive a fair trial due to the intense publicity,
(which they generated) and when that won’t wash, unlike
Maddy’s toy ‘Cuddle-Cat’ which Kate uses as a prop, they
will insist they are being framed. When forensics
refutes that, their defence will depend on the forensic
evidence being made inadmissible, due to a bungled
preliminary investigation. Sir Alec Jeffreys, the
father of DNA fingerprinting from the University of
Leicester is prepared to testify in court that his
discovery is not worth a jot. In which case everyone who
has been acquitted or convicted on DNA evidence should
have their cases reopened.
If evidence was planted by the
perpetrator, as Kate implies, then we must assume he/she
was still lurking around Praia da Luz when their car was
hired, but Philomena said on May 12th, "We don't believe
that she is in Portugal anymore and need to get her
picture and the story across Europe as quickly as
possible." They believed Madeleine could be as far away
as Argentina! Once again, which is it? If police planted
cadaver secretions, then they must have had access to
the body, but toxicology tests on hair or fluids would
determine if the child was drugged, which could be the
most damning evidence of all.
When asked during an
interview if they
medicated their daughter, they both smiled. Gerry
laughed nervously, averted his gaze, looking downwards
and rubbed his ear. This is text book body language of a
liar. Kate blinks excessively; often closing her eyes
completely and keeps an object between herself and the
questioner, the ever present pink ‘Cuddle-Cat.’ When
asked awkward questions in a Spanish interview, Gerry
stormed out! It doesn’t get more evasive than that.
Caring for three toddlers, all less than
three years of age is incredibly stressful. Before she
became a suspect Kate admitted that after the twins were
born Madeleine “would run up and down screaming in the
background, shouting for my attention.” I could almost
sympathise with Kate (an anaesthetist) if she sedated
them, but what is unforgivable is if they disposed of
the body (to avoid an autopsy) without a Christian
burial while professing to be devout Catholics. Maybe
that’s why they got Ratzinger to personally bless
Maddy’s picture.
Gerry has suggested the child was
snatched to order by a paedophile ring, yet Kate said,
"Madeleine is such a sociable child, so funny and
engaging. She has a lot of personality. I bet she's
giving whoever she's with her tuppence worth.” Of the
many crass statements this couple have made, this is the
most shocking and needs no further comment from me.
Their recent outburst, “Find the body and prove we
killed her” sounds like a taunt! I believe they
concocted the abduction scenario because there was too
much at stake, namely their careers, which would have
brought an end to their affluent lifestyle. This has
not been proven, but if the McCann’s are guilty
the implications are monumental.
If they killed their child by accident or
otherwise, they covered up a serious crime and
unlawfully disposed of the body. They deliberately tried
to frame an innocent man, Robert Murat who said, “This
has ruined my life and made life very difficult for my
family here and in Britain.” Murat insisted, “I've been
made a scapegoat for something I did not do.” He is now
broke! A Russian who was also wronged, Sergey Malinka
said, “I've invested seven years of my life in this
country trying to succeed, and suddenly in one hour it's
all fallen apart.”
The McCann’s extorted vast sums of
money which they knew would never be used to find
Madeleine, but was intended for their own expenses.
They roped young children into raising cash and
collecting donations. Football, rugby and cricket teams
assisted in their fraudulent publicity campaign. They
knowingly duped millions of concerned people. This
deceitful couple betrayed their extended family and
their daughter’s twin siblings. Their actions are
cowardly and contemptible.
They insulted the integrity of Portuguese
authorities and wasted valuable police time and
resources. They allowed a bewildered Berber family to be
harassed by the press because their daughter resembled
Madeleine, and smeared Moroccan Muslims. They tried to
engender sympathy for themselves, when it was their own
daughter who was the victim. They used and abused her
name to evade the law and escape justice. They and their
friends have shamed their profession. Who will trust
doctors again? Still, Madeleine may yet turn up in
the home of some crazy kidnapper, I doubt it, but here’s
hoping... |
