Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. The Prosecutor's Office in Faro, Portugal, announced in a statement on . 5. In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. 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. His conduct during his translations was so outrageous that an inspector sent an urgent report to Dr Amaral, complaining about his conduct. We now wish to take this research a stage further, and below is a short paper expressing the views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group. With the body already hidden by that time? 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 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. Doctors, despite being trained not to show emotion over the circumstances of their patients, are also human beings, and in this case parents. Secondary School before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in physiology/sports science in 1989. But this Tapas restaurant booking represented a change of plan. We finally decide to question her (Kate McCann) as a witness, but not to pose questions on the events after 5.30pm, the time at which she returned to the apartment with her three children. 6. What about a description of the abductor? 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 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. - somewhere where no-one could find it? 28 April 2007 - The McCann's arrive in Portugal Kate and Gerry McCann take their three children - Madeleine, three, and twins Amelie and Sean, two, on holiday to the Ocean Club complex in Praia da . Updated. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. 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. Multiple contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts of the McCanns and their friends about the events of that week from Monday onwards. They would have to deal with the initial shock of what had happened. 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. 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. It showed Madeleine in make-up. Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago when she was 3-years-old when . The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. 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. We believe that there are a considerable number of people who know what really happened to Madeleine but will not speak of what they know. 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 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. 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. 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. We suggest, given what we know, that there are two main possibilities: A deliberate violent act against her (not necessarily by one of the McCanns) , or. In our view the involvement of Robert Murat in this case is another significant pointer to Madeleine having died on the Sunday. Chapter 7: Suspicious behaviour and contradictions. 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. 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. 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. What possible good excuse could there be for lying so many times about the fate of a missing child? It is said to prove that she was alive and well on the Tuesday that week. 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. A raft of evidence . Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by slave traders and sold to a rich family in North Africa or the Middle East, a . "Kate McCann and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter, Madeleine McCann" George Moras, Honorary Chief Commissioner of the National French Police "Today, the only person prosecuted in the case of the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann is the officer who conducted the investigation. But we believe we now have sufficient knowledge to be able to state with confidence what we say below. On at least one occasion, Rebelo suggested that he had firm evidence that the McCanns and their friends had not been leaving their children and checking on them regularly each night as claimed, but that, instead their children were all being cared for in one of the friends apartments each night. Robert Murat was a well-known long-term resident of Praia da Luz, his mother having lived there for much of her life, 3. Were they sent ahead of Bell Pottinger as a kind of advance party because something serious had already happened to Madeleine? Why did he say seven children, and not eight? February - Mr Amaral fails . This may or may not have taken some time to decide. Evidence that an abduction hoax was planned over a period of four days. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. We do not think it was. Kate McCanns refusal in an interview under caution to answer any one of 48 questions put to her by the police. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Here are the relevant considerations we have in mind regarding Murats involvement: There is evidence that he and Gerry McCann may have known each other before the McCanns holiday in Praia da Luz in 2007, Robert Murat was a well-known long-term resident of Praia da Luz, his mother having lived there for much of her life, He was on an extended stay in England (Devon) when the McCanns went on holiday to Praia da Luz in 2007, 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, 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. 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). 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. Jane would need to have a believable description to give to the police. She had a pink hair bead on her. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. However, she (of course) failed to mention that the dog had been right all along. Surely not. On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. We find this a curious incident. 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. 8. The McCanns refusing to give their holiday photos to the police. 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. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. 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]. 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. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. and claimed that she had been abducted by a paedophile gang. Do we go frantically pretending to look for her? A regional prosecutor's office is investigating a 43-year-old German national on suspicion of murder. Chapter 3: Announcement of a disappearance: The fi. 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. Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer Sentenced to Death in Oklahoma for 1997 Murder of Newlywed Teen. 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? He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. In 1992 he qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD, a research degree, also from Glasgow. He most certainly has done that in the Madeleine McCann case. 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? Officials say new charges relate to offences allegedly committed in Portugal between 28 December 2000 and 11 June 2017 . 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. 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. 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. By Reuters. He did this to create the entirely false impression that two former police officers he employed for a period, Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley, were lead detectives of a company called Alpha Investigations Group. Later, the McCanns completely changed their tune. ANSWER: We reject her evidence for several reasons. It follows from all that we have said above that, if Madeleine did indeed die on Sunday 29 April, those who knew she had died must have carefully planned an audacious hoax over a period of four days, so cunning and clever that most people still believe that she was abducted. Have we got anything we can carry her body out in, without anybody thinking there might be a body in it? 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. If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. No-one else was reported to have ever died in that apartment. A basic check of other . 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. These are the relevant extracts from Goncalo Amarals book (AnnaEsses translation): On the fateful day of May 3rd, the attendance register at the play centre indicates that Madeleine arrived at 9.10, accompanied by her father. Friday 22 April 2022, 9:14am. Evidence that a group planned in advance how to create a major news story on the morning of Friday 4 May. This week's . They then said that the samples could have been from Madeleine but also that this could not be stated with any certainty. (iv) Where can we get a car quickly so as to hide it? We cannot say. 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. 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