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Kate McCann devalued clues, 01 August 2008
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Maddie Case
01August 2008 - 02h26
Kate and Gerry McCann were always suspicious about
the indications from strangers that guaranteed to know the whereabouts of Madeleine. In the cases when money was demanded,
Maddie's parents seemed to know that the leads were false, just like Gonçalo Amaral describes in the book.
Find out
everything in today's edition of the newspaper "Correio da Manhã"
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Kate's notebooks - McCanns ignored contacts
Eduardo Dâmaso / Tânia Laranjo / Ana Luísa Nascimento
01 August 2008
Thanks to 'astro' for translation
The disappearance of Madeleine prompted dozens of contacts to the authorities
but the parents took none seriously
Kate and Gerry McCann were always suspicious about the indications from
strangers that guaranteed to know the whereabouts of Madeleine. In the cases when money was demanded, Maddie's parents seemed
to know that the leads were false, just like Gonçalo Amaral describes in the book.
In her notes, Kate always shows
her disbelief concerning the reliability of the information, while Gerry (the situation is described in the former investigator's
book) arose attention from the inspectors when, in the middle of a negotiation with a possible abductor, "he sucked on a lollipop
in a relaxed manner, while reading banalities on internet sites and discussing rugby and football with one of the English
policemen".
One of the cases happened on the 14th of June, long before the three detentions over extortion attempts
were made, when the Polícia Judiciária received an email from an anonymous person who says he knows where Madeleine is. "Why are
there so many crazy and evil people?", Kate writes in her notes that same day, in a comment about the situation, which she
classified as something that could only be a "joke".
On the 28th of June, the process of the disappearance of Maddie
makes the first detentions in Spain, an Italian and a Portuguese, due to attempted extortion. "It's all a bit weird", Kate
comments. Five days later, Madeleine's parents receive a new email from the anonymous person who had established contact two
weeks earlier. In her notes, Kate reveals that she has no doubts that it can only be someone looking for money and she congratulates
herself over knowing that the man is going to be arrested: "I've had news about the Dutch extortionist – someone motivated
by money. Anyway, he is going to be arrested tomorrow!!"
The couple's behaviour when faced with possible leads concerning
their daughter's whereabouts, after a publicity campaign that went around the world and was built by the parents themselves,
arose the investigators' attention, namely during one of the first days when Kate, faced with the possibility of finding her
daughter, is upset about the speed that is attained by the police car.
Note's of Kate McCann
"We received a message from British police to go to the embassy. The Spanish police
had received a call from a guy, Walter, who had information, but wanted to talk with us." -- June 6
"An anonymous person sent an email saying they knew who had Madeleine. Why are there so many crazy
and evil people?" -- June 14
"The Dutch extortionist established contact via e-mail again today. Someone motivated by money." -- July 3
Process available on Monday
The
complete process concerning the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be made available to anyone who manifests a legitimate
interest, from Monday onwards. That group includes the parties (arguidos, witnesses and lawyers) and also journalists, due
to the fact that this is a process of manifest public interest. Yesterday, the court invited everyone who had already made
a requirement for the process to deliver a CD to the secretary's office, so the digitalised process can be copied onto
it.
From September onwards, the process will be available to the general public, and the investigation will be subject
to the most rigorous scrutiny. Still, the judge's decision ends up being surprising, due to the fact that this case involves
a minor, and there would always be legal artifices that would allow for the investigation to be 'barricaded'.
Lawyers want priority access to the documents
Carlos Pinto
Abreu and Rogério Alves, the lawyers that represent the McCann family in Portugal, have requested the Portimão court for priority
in the access to the process. The lawyers have ensured that the access for the general public was postponed, so they can access
the original process and not a digital format.
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Discover the differences, 02 August 2008
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Matter of fact
Gonçalo Amaral, Ex-coord.
investigação Criminal
02 August 2008 - 00h30
"A criminal investigation does not have to be
politically correct."
Those who knew me through social communication got an opinion based on my connection with the
so-called Maddie Case. During the investigation and after being removed, I was a target of the most terrible accusations from
the British press, some local commentators and a man named Clarence Mitchell, whose role is not very well understood. On the
eve of the publication of the book you already know, this gentleman was sending me threats : "that I should take care" - I
was stunned!
Let me make it clear that I consider this to be an unacceptable tone, coming from a citizen of the oldest
democracy in the world. Take care, why? Because I might step on a banana peel while walking? Is Mr Mitchell concerned about
my health? I do not think so. We all perceive his threatening tone.
In Portugal, we are not used to people speaking
that way. Nor is this the view we have of the British people, but there are always some people that fall out of standards.
A criminal investigation need not be politically correct, nor fear veiled threats. The book only contains facts and contains
no indictment. So the differences stand out.
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Kate refused to respond to 48 questions, 03 August 2008
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CM reveals the questions the Judiciaria put to the mother of Maddie
03 August 2008
After being made an arguida she did not cooperate
with the authorities
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Teaser translation:
Investigation: What the inspectors of the PJ wanted to know
03 August 2008 - 02h21
September 7, 2007. Kate McCann entered the Polícia Judiciária in Portimão in the
morning and the questioning extended into the evening. She was heard as a witness, but the tension in the air was evident.
For the first time, people were concentrated at the PJ building’s door and murmured words of mistrust regarding the
couple.
The Sunday edition of the newspaper "Correio da Manha 'reveals the Judicial Police questions that
the mother of Maddie refused to answer.
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Full article:
The 48 questions that remained unanswered Correio da Manhã (No online link, currently appears in paper edition only)
Investigation - What the PJ inspectors wanted to know
03 August 2008
Thanks to 'astro' for translation)
When she became an arguida, Kate stopped talking to the inspectors
September 7, 2007.
Kate McCann entered the Polícia Judiciária in Portimão in the morning and the questioning extended into the evening. She was
heard as a witness, but the tension in the air was evident. For the first time, people were concentrated at the PJ building’s
door and murmured words of mistrust regarding the couple.
On that day, CM had reported that the dogs had detected cadaver
odour on Maddie's mother's clothes. A piece of evidence that the authorities intended to use as a trump, during a questioning
that only changed course on the next day, after the PJ failed to see their doubts clarified.
Kate began by replying
all the questions, but when she was made an arguida, she stopped talking. She went silent, in the company of her lawyer, and
accepted all the insinuations in a provocative manner. Less than 48 hours later, Kate and Gerry travel to England with the
twins, leaving the investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, who meanwhile had become four, behind.
They
later guaranteed that they would return if necessary – which they never did, although they were never formally requested
to return – and they are no longer arguidos for the suspected involvement in concealing the child's body. Today, CM
reveals the 48 questions that Kate did not want to answer during the interrogation and which reflect the investigators' doubts.
More than a year after Maddie disappeared, many of these questions remain unanswered.
Jeers
for the McCann couple
The day that Kate and Gerry went to the PJ's offices in Portimão marked a turnaround
in the relationship between the local people and the couple: the curious bystanders that spent the day on the street jeered
at Maddie's mother and father, mainly criticising the "absence of visible suffering" from Kate. The foreign press also attended
in great numbers.
The Judiciária's 48 questions that Kate did not answer
1
On the 3rd of May 2007, at around 10 p.m., when you entered the apartment, what did you see, what did you do, where did you
search, what did you handle?
2 Did you search in the couple's bedroom closet? (said she would not reply)
3
(Two photographs of her bedroom's closet are exhibited) Can you describe its contents?
4 Why are the curtains
in front of the side window, behind the sofa (photograph is exhibited) ruffled? Did someone pass behind that sofa?
5
How long did the search that you made in the apartment after detecting the disappearance of your daughter Madeleine take?
6
Why did you say straight away that Madeleine had been abducted?
7 Presuming that Madeleine had been abducted,
why did you leave the twins alone at home while you went to the Tapas to raise the alarm? Even because the supposed abductor
could still be inside the apartment.
8 Why didn't you ask the twins at that moment what had happened to their
sister, or why didn't you ask them at a later point in time?
9 When you raised the alarm at the Tapas, what
exactly did you say and what were the words?
10 What happened after you raised the alarm at the Tapas?
11
Why did you go to warn your friends instead of calling out from the balcony?
12 Who contacted the authorities?
13
Who participated in the searches?
14 Did anyone outside of the group learn about Maddie's disappearance during
the following minutes?
15 Did any neighbour offer you help after the disappearance?
16 What does
the expression "we let her down" mean?
17 Did Jane mention to you that she had seen a man with a child that
night?
18 How were the authorities contacted and which police force was called?
19 During the
searches, and already with the police present, in what locations was Maddie searched for, how and in what manner?
20
Why didn't the twins wake up during that search, or when they went to the upper floor?
21 Who did you call after
the facts?
22 Did you call SKY News?
23 Did you know about the danger of calling the media, because
that could influence the abductor?
24 Did you request the presence of a priest?
25 How was Madeleine's
face publicised, with a photograph, or other media?
26 Is it true that during the search you remained seated
on Maddie's bed without moving?
27 How did you behave that evening?
28 Did you manage to sleep?
29
Before the trip to Portugal, did you comment on a bad feeling or a bad premonition?
30 What was Madeleine's
behaviour?
31 Did Maddie suffer of any disease or did she take any kind of medication?
32 What
was the relationship like between Madeleine and her siblings?
33 What was the relationship like between Madeleine
and her siblings, her friends and her colleagues at school?
34 Concerning your professional life, in how many
and in which hospitals have you worked?
35 What is your medical specialty?
36 Did you work by
shifts, in emergency rooms or in other departments?
37 Did you work on a daily basis?
38 Did you
stop working at a certain point in time? Why?
39 Do your twin children have difficulty in falling asleep, are
they unruly and does that upset you?
40 Is it true that at certain times you were desperate over your children's
attitude and that left you upset?
41 Is it true that in England you considered the possibility of handing
over Madeleine's guardianship to a relative?
42 In England, did you give your children medication? What type
of medication?
43 Within the process, you were shown films of cynotechnical inspection of forensic character,
where the dogs can be seen marking indications of human cadaver odour and equally human blood traces, and only of human origin,
as well as all the comments that were made by the responsible expert. After the visualisation, and after cadaver odour was
signalled in your bedroom next to the wardrobe and behind the sofa that was pushed against the living room window, you said
that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said?
44 You said that you could not explain
anything apart from what you had already said, concerning the marking of human blood behind the sofa by the detection dog?
45
You said that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said, concerning the marking of cadaver odour
in the boot of the vehicle that you rented a month after the disappearance?
46 You said that you could not explain
anything apart from what you had already said, concerning the marking of human blood in the boot of the vehicle?
47
You said that you could not explain anything apart from what you had already said, upon being confronted with the result of
the collection of Maddie's DNA, which was analysed by a British lab, behind the sofa and inside the vehicle's boot?
48
Did you have any responsibility or intervention in the disappearance of your daughter?
The question that she answered
Are you aware of the fact that by not answering these questions you may compromise the investigation,
which is trying to find out what happened to your daughter? She said "Yes, if the investigation thinks so".
Process
becomes public tomorrow
From tomorrow onwards, the entire investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine
will be made available to the arguidos, to the witnesses, to the lawyers and also to the journalists, because it is a case
of manifest public interest.
The process, which was archived on the 21st of July, will also be available to the general
public, a situation that will allow for an authentic scrutiny of the work that was developed by the Polícia Judiciária. This
decision, which came as a surprise due to the fact that the case involves a child, was only announced at this point in time,
after the Portuguese lawyers for the McCann family, Carlos Pinto de Abreu and Rogério Alves, requested the Portimão Court
for priority in the access to the process.
Last Wednesday, the Court had requested the interested parties that had
already asked for the consultation of the process to leave a CD at the secretary's office, given the fact that the process
will be supplied in a digital format.
The archiving of the investigation into the little girl's disappearance, which
happened on the 3rd of May 2007, in the Algarve, precipitated the lifting of the judicial secrecy, which had been extended
precisely until the month of August.
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Comment: If Kate McCann felt she had to run back to the tapas bar to alert her
husband and friends, rather than simply shouting from the patio balcony, then that surely proves it was NOT like 'dining
out in the back garden'. If Kate felt she would not have been heard, then what chance would they have had of hearing Madeleine
or the twins had they been screaming inside the apartment?
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PJ believe that McCanns changed evidence, 04 August 2008
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Maddie Case - Investigators were convinced that
the room where Maddie slept was deliberately manipulated by the couple
04 August 2008
The Judiciary Police has no doubt that the parents
of Maddie changed the way furniture and objects were located in the apartment where Maddie disappeared the night of May 3,
2007, in the Algarve, thus manipulating the scene of the crime to better justify the thesis of abduction which they always
advocated.
Find out everything about this case in today's edition of "Correio da Manhã".
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Investigation – PJ believes that the McCann couple altered
the crime scene in order to simulate the abduction
04 August 2008
Thanks to 'astro' for translation
Maddie's parents accused of changing the disposition of the furniture and of washing the sofa
The Polícia Judiciária has no doubts that Maddie's parents changed the disposition of furniture and objects
in the apartment where Maddie disappeared from on the evening of May 3, 2007, in the Algarve, thus manipulating the crime
scene in order to better justify the abduction theory that they always defended.
According to the Polícia Judiciária’s
investigation, which from today onwards is public, the coincidence between the marking of cadaver odour and blood which was
given by the sniffer dogs behind the sofa "indubitably" proves that the sofa was pushed against the wall after the little
girl's death. On the other hand, given the few indicia that was collected from this piece of furniture, which was located
on the same spot where the dogs gave a signal, the Judiciária admits the possibility that it was "subject to washing" in order
to eliminate eventual traces.
Soft toy placed on the bed
"There are strong indicia that they altered the crime scene, moving some of the furniture. The changes
are indicators of simulation", one of the PJ's reports reads, also revealing that Maddie's soft toy, which was found at the
top of the bed where Maddie slept, was placed there at a posterior moment, given the fact that contrary to the soft toy, the
bed failed to reveal cadaver odour.
"There was an intentional modification, in an attempt to take advantage for the
simulation of the picture of abduction", one can read in the process, where the investigators recall that the procedures from
the family were in such manner as to conduct the investigation into the direction of the abduction thesis. The Polícia Judiciária
believes that the false abduction was "worked by the group", which made the investigators "waste time".
McCanns
mentioned death to the PJ
The possibility that Madeleine is dead was raised to the PJ by the McCanns
themselves, who suggested contacting a person to indicate the spot where the cadaver could be found. "This fact became unexplainable
for the elements of the investigation", the PJ writes, remembering that in front of the journalists, the parents continued
to manifest the hope that they would find their daughter alive.
The dogs never failed in
200 searches
In over two hundred searches, 'Eddie' and 'Keela', the sniffer dogs of the Springer Spaniel breed that
were used in the investigation into the disappearance of Maddie, did not give a single "false positive result".
The
guarantee is given by English expert Martin Grime, who in the report about the search guarantees that the behaviour of the
dog that is trained to detect cadaver odour "changed immediately after opening the front door of the apartment" where Madeleine
McCann disappeared from.
"He went into the apartment with above average interest", the document reads, explaining that
the dog signalled inside the couple's bedroom, in the living room, behind the sofa and next to the side window. The same signs
were given by the dog that is trained to detect blood residues. The dogs signalled the same spots and objects that are related
to the McCanns – house, car and clothes – which was decisive for being made arguidos.
Notes
No credibility
The deposition by Jane Tanner, who said she saw someone crossing the street
carrying a child, was not considered credible by the PJ, which does not understand how the McCanns' friend, upon seeing someone
walking away from Madeleine’s apartment "did not act or speak out immediately".
Everyone
lies
The PJ says that the information that was collected from the McCanns and their friends was "worked
upon" in order to strengthen the abduction theory. But it rapidly perceived that "everyone lies" in the issue of checking
the children, further explaining that the family information, which in these cases is "fundamental", was always "distorted".
Files
Process is public – From today onwards, the files of the investigation into
the disappearance of Madeleine can be consulted at the Court of Portimão by lawyers, witnesses and journalists.
Brown
Political pressures – Kate's notebooks reveal that Maddie's parents called
the English prime minister, Gordon Brown, requesting for political pressure to be placed on Portugal.
Book
Amaral recounts death – The former coordinator of the Maddie case recounts
in his book 'Truth of the Lie', his thesis about the case and defends that the little girl was killed in the apartment and
her body frozen.
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Bed without traces
of Maddie, 05 August 2008
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