"The Truth of the Lie": Release of Gonçalo Amaral's Book on the Maddie Case with Hot Revelations, 23 July 2008

"The Truth of the Lie": Release of Gonçalo Amaral's Book on the Maddie Case with Hot Revelations SIC     23 July 2008 Thanks to Joana Morais for translation   The book “The Truth of the Lie" , which promises controversial revelations on the Maddie case, is launched tomorrow. Today SIC reveals the first excerpts. The work has the signature of the man who directed great part of the investigations but ended up being removed. The lawyer of the couple McCann, Rogério Alves, said to the SIC that he does not comment on fiction. Gonçalo Amaral says that he wants "to put back the good name that was vilified in the public domain" without the Judicial Police allowing his own defence. In the first pages of the work, the author highlights since then the unusual treatment given to the McCann couple, who in the words of the inspector were treated with "tweezers". Much was spoken also about the attitudes of Gerry and Kate McCann and Gonçalo Amaral reports several situations in which he found the coldness of the couple strange facing the tension of the investigations. In one of the situations the inspector speaks about the mother of the child, Kate, who before the possibility of finding her daughter appears bothered with the speed reached by the car of the police. [This was after new information of a possible sighting of Madeleine was given to the police, the mother instead of being anxious looked annoyed with the entire situation] In another case it was the father who aroused the attention of the inspectors: in the middle of a negotiation, with a possible kidnapper, the doctor "was sucking casually one lollipop while reading banalities in sites of the Internet and talking about rugby and football with one of the English police officers". Gonçalo Amaral believes that "Madeleine died in the apartment 5A of the Ocean Clube, on the 3rd of May of 2007, but he does not discard the hypothesis of having been accidental". Contacted by SIC, Rogério Alves, he refused to comment on the book by Gonçalo Amaral. "While lawyer of the family McCann, I only comment on reality, I do not comment on fiction", said the lawyer.   Excerpts of the book "The Truth of the Lie";   P. 11 "This book appears out of the necessity that I felt of putting back my good name that was vilified in the public domain without the PJ has allowing me to stand up for myself". P. 19 "The mistake was that we treated the couple 'with tweezers'. They were treated with privileges. It is that, that is not normal". P. 26 "It seems that the Judiciary Police is a 'stepmother' [Portuguese expression, meaning the PJ as an institution was never good to its officers] with its servants, it never knew how to defend them". P. 38 "It was pertinent to know if Madeleine was the biological daughter of the couple McCann, the information requested does not arrive, but the English ambassador is already arriving. It is not normal this preoccupation of the English diplomacy". P. 48 "A hand print was found in the balcony window at the rear [of the apartment]. It was corresponding to one of the police elements". (protocol of proceedings is lacking) P. 54 Sightings: "Kate appears bored because of having been obliged to return and bothered with the speed reached by the police car. We found it strange that she didn't show signs of hope with the possibility of the girl being recovered". P. 67 "The PJ should have had persons to analyse all the news, being preoccupied by what the parents and friends would say to the public opinion. What did not happen". P. 68 "It is not usual that common citizens, to whom a daughter just had disappeared, nominate press advisers". P. 71 "The English service secret already had, after the facts, the couple and the group of friends under surveillance. If that was right such an information was never accessed by the Portuguese police". P. 81 "The medical registries (of Madeleine) requested with insistence were not given to us, due to great difficulties raised in England". P. 92 Attempt of extortion "Gerry McCann was sucking casually one lollipop while he was reading banalities in sites of the Internet and was talking about rugby and football with one of the English police officers". Sentence of the English police officers "Do not forget that he starts cutting people in half shortly afterwards of the breakfast". P. 165 "There were signs of death in the apartment. It was concluded that that cadaver odour could only came from Madeleine McCann". P. 168 "The toy had cadaver odour". P. 214 Conclusions "Madeleine died in the apartment 5 A on the 3rd of May of 2007 A simulation of kidnapping took place Kate and Gerry are suspected of corpse's occultation [hiding the cadaver] The death might have happened as a result of an accident There are signs of negligence in the safe keeping and security of the children".

"Madeleine died in the apartment", 23 July 2008

"Madeleine died in the apartment" Correio da Manhã    23 July 2008 Thanks to 'astro' for translation   Pre-publication   'CM' [Correio da Manhã] today starts the exclusive publication of excerpts from the book by Gonçalo Amaral, who believes that Madeleine McCann died inside the apartment at Praia da Luz. The episode of the holidays in 2005, in Mallorca – which raises suspicions about a friend of the couple – and the DNA results are the first parts. "Madeleine Beth McCann, aged two and a half, and her twin siblings, at that time only a few months old, go away on holidays in the company of the parents, on the island of Mallorca. Three other couples of doctors and their children go along with them. […] S.G. had attended the university in Dundee, between 1987 and 1992, where he met the future mother of Madeleine. K.G. only met Gerry McCann on his wedding with Kate Healy, around 1998, in Liverpool. After that event, the couple S.G. and K.G. become intimate friends with Madeleine's parents, meeting often, spending weekends together, keeping in touch over the phone. On the third or fourth night in Mallorca, after dinner, eating and drinking, while sitting around a table on the patio outside the house, K.G. watches a scene that makes her fear for her daughter's wellbeing, and that of the other children. She was sitting between Gerry McCann and David Payne, when she heard the latter ask whether she, maybe referring to Madeleine, would do 'this', then starting to suck on one of his fingers, which he pushed in and out of his mouth, insinuating a phallic object, while at the same time, with the fingers of his other hand, he traced circles around his nipple, in a provocative and sexual manner. At the moment when K.G. looked at Gerry McCann and David Payne with stupefaction, a nervous silence took place. Then everyone continued to chat as if nothing had happened. This episode left K.G. with serious doubts about David Payne's relationship with children. On another occasion, K.G. would once again see David Payne making the same gestures, this time while speaking about his own daughter. During that holiday period, it was the fathers who usually bathed the children, but from that moment on, K.G. never allowed David Payne to come close to her daughter. After those holidays in Mallorca, K.G. only met David and Fiona Payne on one occasion, and has not spoken to them since. […] What is written above was reported to the English police on the 16th of May 2007, only thirteen days after the disappearance of Madeleine, by the couple S.G. and K.G. It was information that was important and pertinent for the investigation. Yet, nothing was transmitted to the Portuguese police. […] I think that it was only after I left the investigation, maybe in late October 2007, that K.G.'s deposition was sent to the Portuguese police. It is legitimate to ask: for what reason did the English police, apparently, conceal that testimony for six months? When did they find out that David Payne, who had organised the trip to Mallorca, and who had been signalled with anomalous behaviour towards children, was the same who organized the trip to Portugal, that he was part of the holiday group in the village of Luz where Madeleine had been integrated, that he was the first family friend who could be seen at Kate McCann's side after the child's disappearance (as seen further ahead) and that on the date of the deposition he was still in Portugal, and could be confronted with these statements? […] In early September, a few days before the McCann couple was constituted as arguidos, Superintendent Stuart Prior travels to Portimão. He brings a first preliminary report [from the forensics lab in Birmingham], and comes to discuss the state of the investigation with us. During a meeting in our office, with the Portuguese and the English investigation teams, Stuart shows his disappointment with the results of the tests. This is where the saga of the FSS reports starts. We read the report and we do not agree with Stuart's disappointment. The blood residues that were collected from the floor, behind the sofa in apartment 5A, as well as the blood residues that were recovered from the boot of the car that was used by the McCanns, are the issue. We talk about blood residues because the CSI dog is trained to detect only that bodily fluid. The reports that were used to based the decision on, which were written by experts Mark Harrison and Martin Grime, are clear: the CSI dog was used to locate human blood. The Low Copy Number, the technique that is used to determine the DNA from those samples, does not determine from which bodily fluid the DNA comes from. In the first case, it can be read that an incomplete DNA result was obtained, because the sample contained little information, presenting low level DNA indications that come from more than one person. But all the DNA components that are confirmed, match the corresponding components from Madeleine’s DNA profile! Concerning the second case, after an explanation about the DNA components of Madeleine's profile, and concluding that it is represented by 19 alleles, it is concluded that 15 are present in the tested sample. This means that 4 alleles are missing to obtain a 100% conclusive match. According to the experts from that lab, those 15 were not enough to conclude, with a high degree of certainty, that we were looking at Madeleine's DNA profile, even more so because the Low Copy Number found 37 components in the sample. Those 37 components were apparently there because at least three individuals had contributed to that result. Although 15 components from Madeleine's DNA profile had been found, the result was considered to be complex. But this first preliminary report went further. In it, the scientist had the unusual care of explaining that in many of the profiles of the lab experts, elements from Madeleine's DNA profile are present. This means that a good part of the DNA profile of any person can be built by three donors. It is understandable. Two questions were immediately raised. The first one: what use was a DNA profile, in terms of criminal evidence, if it can be the combination of three or more donors. The other question was simple: why did the DNA profile from those three donors contribute for 15 components of Madeleine's DNA profile and not that of anyone else, like for example, the scientist who performed the test? But the surprises from the preliminary reports would go even further. […]" ........................................................................................... What the former policeman's book tells us Gonçalo Amaral decided to write the book in order to recover his own freedom of expression. Removed from the investigation by Alípio Ribeiro, the former coordinator of the PJ in Portimão believes that Madeleine McCann died in the apartment at the Ocean Club on the evening of the 3rd of May 2007. And he also believes that the parents simulated the abduction and concealed their daughter’s body, after a tragic accident inside the apartment.   Directors' war The national director of the PJ, Almeida Rodrigues, said yesterday that his predecessor, Alípio Ribeiro, "was not noticed for being a good investigator". He thus responded to the criticism that had been made by Alípio about the archiving of the Maddie case, which he considered to have happened "too soon".

Maddie died in the bedroom and the abduction was staged, 23 July 2008

Maddie died in the bedroom and the abduction was staged Jornal de Notícias    23 July 2008  Thanks to 'astro' for translation   On the day before the book "Maddie, The Truth About The Lie" is published, JN anticipates some of the revelations made by the author, Gonçalo Amaral. The former inspector from the Polícia Judiciária who was initially responsible for the investigation, believes that the English girl died in the bedroom and that the parents are not exempt of guilt.   "Madeleine McCann died inside apartment 5A at the Ocean Club, in Vila da Luz, on the 3rd of May 2007", Gonçalo Amaral writes, according to the results that were obtained by the team that investigated the case until October 2007. "A simulation of abduction took place" and the parents, Kate and Gerry, "are suspected of involvement in the concealing of their daughter’s cadaver", the former PJ inspector adds. The author points out that "the death may have been caused by a tragic accident" and that "indicia of neglect in the guard and safety of the children" were detected. The fact is that "there is a cadaver that has not been located, a realisation that was validated by the English dogs (…) and corroborated by the preliminary lab test results". In his conclusions, Gonçalo Amaral also stresses that "the abduction theory is defended by Maddie's parents since the first hour" and that within the group of friends that were spending holidays at the Ocean Club, only Kate and Gerry said that the little girl's bedroom window was open. "The set of depositions and witness statements show an elevated number of imprecisions, incongruences and contradictions (…), particularly the key deposition for the theory of abduction, from Jane Tanner (…) which becomes ambiguous to the point of disqualifying". This was the English citizen who said she saw a man carrying a little girl on the evening of the 3rd of May 2007. "To contribute to the discovery of the material truth"   "This book appears from the need that I felt to recover my reputation that was publicly smeared while the institution that I belonged to for 26 years, the Polícia Judiciária, did not give me permission to defend myself or did it institutionally. (…) Later on, I was removed from the investigation", Gonçalo Amaral starts by explaining. "This book also has a bigger purpose. That of contributing to the discovery of the material truth and the realisation of justice", he refers, pointing out that the contents "does not, under any circumstance, question the work" from his colleagues at the PJ "or compromise the ongoing investigation". In his opening note, Gonçalo Amaral indicates that "the reader will find data that he does not know, interpretations of the facts, and, naturally, pertinent questions", stressing that a criminal investigation "should not have to care about what is politically correct". "Couple treated with tweezers" The cover of the book, which is published by Guerra e Paz, resembles a process folder, with the inscription "Confidential" written in red and the simulation of a passport-style photo of Maddie, attached with a paper clip. The first lines are not situated on May 3, 2007, when the "Maddie case" began, but rather in February 2008, the date of the publication of an interview during which the former national director of the PJ considers that there was precipitation in constituting the English couples as arguidos. The author confesses that he had a "premonition" that the statement was designed to "prepare the public opinion for the inevitable, that is to say, the end of the investigation and the archiving of the inquiry". Gonçalo Amaral says that there were "disinformation campaigns with the purpose of discrediting the criminal investigation". "To me, the investigation was dead since the 2nd of October 2007", when he was removed from the PJ and "diligences were carried out to fulfill the calendar, a bit for the English to see". The author questions the relationship between the McCann couple and the English police, after they were made arguidos. "It was always strange for us to see how the couple was treated (…) and the amount of police information that they eventually were given access to". "The mistake was that we treated the couple 'with tweezers'", it can be read, due to the fact that Kate and Gerry were only made arguidos four months after the investigation started. Right on the morning of the 4th of May, before they received information about the McCanns that had been requested from the English police, the investigators were visited by the English ambassador. "This concern from the British diplomacy is not normal. Who are this couple? Who are the friends?", the author questions. It is also "not normal that common citizens whose daughter has just disappeared, nominate press advisors", faced with the media exposure that the case was starting to gain. Gerry's strange relaxation Throughout the 214 pages, Gonçalo Amaral remembers questions that remained unanswered – the twins' cots had no bed sheets on the night that Maddie disappeared, registers of mobile phone calls between Kate and Gerry were erased, Maddie's medical records that were requested from England were never sent, etc. – and some diligences that did not advance, in order to prevent the couple from being exposed to the public opinion's judgment – like the reconstruction of the facts of the evening of the 3rd of May and the request for phone tapping. In May, "we felt that Kate was available, without compromising herself, to indicate the location of her daughter’s body" and, "according to what she stated herself, the data had been given to her by persons with psychic or paranormal powers". She then mentioned a sewer that ends at Praia da Luz and the cliffs that are located east of the beach. In July, English dogs detected cadaver odour and traces of blood in the apartment and in the vehicle that had been rented by the couple. Mentioning the diverse sightings of the English girl that originated in several countries and revealed themselves baseless, Gonçalo Amaral narrates an episode that happened in June 2007. A man in the Netherlands demanded a ransom of two million euros, with an advance payment of 500 thousand euros. The contacts between Gerry and the man were made per email in an office at the PJ in Portimão. When the indication of the conditions and the location for the delivery of the money were awaited, "there was great tension in the room". "On the other hand, the relaxed stance" of Gerry "made a stark contrast with the anxiety of the policemen and intrigued all the investigators". Maddie’s father "sucked on a lollipop in a relaxed manner while he read banalities on internet sites and discussed rugby and football with one of the English policemen", the author reveals. Later on, the individual was detained and the lead revealed to be false.

How could he?, 24 July 2008

How could he? The Sun   By VERONICA LORRAINE Published: 24 Jul 2008   MADELEINE McCann's parents faced fresh heartache yesterday as the cop thrown off the investigation published an outrageous account of the case.   The book by shameless Goncalo Amaral came out just days after Kate and Gerry were officially cleared of any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance.   Amaral — the officer who first named the McCanns as official suspects — was removed from the hunt for missing Maddie after blasting British police.   He is now facing perjury charges over an earlier case involving the disappearance of a girl.   But the ex-cop still churned out his 214-page book Maddie — A Verdade da Mentira, which translates as Maddie — The Truth of the Lie.   In it he makes farcical claims police suspected the McCanns as soon as Madeleine, then three, disappeared in Praia da Luz, Portugal.   He makes a serious allegation against one of the Tapas Seven, the nickname given to a group of the McCanns’ holiday pals.   And he slates the police's own forensics team.   The £10 book — with an initial print-run of 40,000 — is being published only in Portugal for fear of libelling the couple. In March doctors Kate and Gerry, both 40 and from Rothley, Leics, received £550,000 from Express Newspapers for printing false claims.   Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell told The Sun: "People should bear in mind Amaral is a discredited former police officer who was removed from the case. He is also entirely at odds with his own Attorney General who, on Monday, made it very clear there is absolutely no proof that any criminal offence was committed by Kate or Gerry.   "Amaral is also, quite disgustingly, seeking to make money out of Madeleine's situation and is seeking publicity — which we are not prepared to give him. The libel lawyers who are representing Kate and Gerry and their friends are assessing every word of this book very closely, and they will not hesitate from taking legal action against Amaral if any passage requires it."   A source close to the family said: "It is believed Kate and Gerry will sue at a time of their choosing. They won't be rushed into anything."   Though the case has been shelved, Portugal's top cop Almeida Rodrigues insisted yesterday: "We will continue to chase up every credible lead we receive. We will travel to the ends of the Earth if needs be."

	Ex-Cops Madeleine Book Published, 24 July 2008
	Ex-Cops Madeleine Book Published Sky News    Martin Brunt, Sky News crime correspondent  8:19am UK, Thursday July 24, 2008