Leicestershire constabulary's 'technical problems' whilst interviewing Matthew Oldfield

By Duarte Levy

- Can someone offer the Leicestershire police a high quality video camera?

- One that actually works please?
I am Detective Constable 4078 FERGUSON of the Leicestershire Constabulary currently stationed on the Major Crime Unit and engaged on enquiries on Operation Task.
At 10:19 hours on Wednesday 9th April 2008 I was present at an interview suite at Leicestershire Police Force Headquarters when I commenced a recorded interview with the witness Matthew OLDFIELD. The interview ceased at 11:22 hours.
This interview was recorded onto DVD and a master copy and a working copy were produced.
I produce the master copy of this DVD as exhibit reference S.V.F.115 and the working copy as exhibit reference S.V.F.116
I have had the opportunity to read and check through a transcript made of this interview and I produce the transcript of the interview as exhibit reference S.V.F.116A
At 11:54 hours on Wednesday 9th April 2008 I was present at an interview suite at Leicestershire Police Force Headquarters when I commenced a recorded interview with the witness Matthew OLDFIELD. The interview ceased at 13:08 hours.
This interview was recorded onto DVD and a master copy and a working copy were produced.
I produce the master copy of this DVD as exhibit reference S.V.F.117 and the working copy as exhibit reference S.V.F.118
I have had the opportunity to read and check through a transcript made of this interview and I produce the transcript of the interview as exhibit reference S.V.F.118A.
At 14:14 hours on Wednesday 9th April 2008 I was present at an interview suite at Leicestershire Police Force Headquarters when I commenced a recorded interview with the witness Matthew OLDFIELD. The interview ceased at 14:51 hours.
This interview was recorded onto DVD and a master copy and a working copy were produced. (Page 1)
I produce the master copy of this DVD as exhibit reference S.V.F.119 and the working copy as exhibit reference S.V.F.120
Technical problems were experienced during this interview and no data was recorded.
At 15:18 hours on Wednesday 9th April 2008 I was present at an interview suite at Leicestershire Police Force Headquarters when I commenced a recorded interview with the witness Matthew OLDFIELD. The interview ceased at 15:38 hours.
This interview was recorded onto DVD and a master copy and a working copy were produced.
I produce the master copy of this DVD as exhibit reference S.V.F.121 and the working copy as exhibit reference S.V.F.122
I have had the opportunity to read and check through a transcript made of this interview and I produce the transcript of the interview as exhibit reference S.V.F.122A.
During this interview process the witness Matthew OLDFIELD marked on a copy of exhibit D.M.2 (a plan of the area) which is now produced as exhibit reference M.O.1.
Later the same day I returned to Barunstone Police Station where I placed all of the discs for the interviews and exhibit M.O.1 into a secure store.
At 15:10 hours on Monday 14th April 2008 I it out of the secure store and handed exhibit M.O.1 to exhibits officer 7383 CRAVEN.
At 15:50 hours on Monday 14th April 2008 I handed exhibits S.V.F.115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121 and 122 to exhibits officer 7383 CRAVEN having taken them out of the secure store.
AT 8:15 hours on 8th May 2008 I took exhibits S.V.F.116, S.V.F.118 and S.V.F.122 from Exhibits Officer CRAVEN and retained possession of them until 09:00am on Friday 9th May 2008 when I returned them to Exhibits Officer CRAVEN.
This statement is made by myself and is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Signed: S FERGUSON

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McCann Case: Jane Tanner Rogatory Interview Part VII

Discussion at the 3 arguidos:
Duarte Levy : Matthew Oldfield… with “Technical problems"
Duarte Levy : Only 13,30 % to find Madeleine UPDATED

McCanns spent only 13.3% of public money on searching for Madeleine

The McCann accounts continue to be a mystery, but so does the Madeleine Fund. Of the money received only 13.3 % was spent in investigation and searches for Madeleine.

by Hernâni Carvalho

A document that tvmais had accesses reveals that up to the 31st of March of 2008 the Find Madeleine Fund received 2.819.403,00 Euros. Of this amount only 13.3% [375,000 Euros] was spent in searches and investigations (including private detectives). The Find Madeleine Fund was created [15 May 2007] with the objective of helping to find (sponsoring the searches) the ‘kidnapped’ girl and to deliver the abductors to justice. In the case of being proved that Madeleine was dead, the money would no longer be accessible to the McCanns.

The donations arrived to the Fund in various ways: 2.085.540,00 Euros were the donations received in the bank; 587.610,00 were received via Internet and 96,.117,00 Euros was the profit gained in the On Line Shop. This amount is increased by the interest rate of 50.136,00 Euros, which makes a total sum of 2.819.403,00 Euros.

In an analyses made to the accounts presented by the fund relative to the 31st of March 2008 (see box) soon we realize that in the area of publicizing [the posters which never appeared] and searches (of Madeleine) only 17,66% was spent of the money received. That is less than 500.000 Euros.

The profits of the On Line Shop are of 96.117,00 Euros; however the shop itself costed 167. 283,00 Euros in legal expenditures.

The fund has seven directors, but only two remain since the beginning.

The 'unveiling' of the fund accounts to which the tvmais had access is registered at the Companies House with the code number X5NBF0CR.

The Portuguese Authorities requested Information to the British

Ongoing Investigation?

No one can know what money the McCanns had with them on the day that their daughter disappeared in Praia da Luz, Algarve. What is known is that the PJ never had access to the bank accounts belonging to Gerry or to Kate McCann. Twice the Portuguese authorities requested to the British authorities informations concerning the bank accounts of the group who had dinner with Madeleine’s parents in the night of the disappearance of the girl.

The objective was to know who exactly were those nine persons (seven plus the McCann couple) on that date (3rd May 2007). The informations (bank account and credit cards) about the seven Tapas friends arrived [though not complete, as you can read here], yet regarding Kate and Gerry McCann the British authorities never gave any information even affirming that there was no registry of bank account loans nor of their credit cards.

Up to today, no one knows [at least the Portuguese Authorities don’t know] which accounts had the McCann between the 25th of April 2007 and the 12 September 2008. In January of this year the British authorities failed to give informations regarding the McCann’s money arguing that there is “an ongoing investigation”.

This strange situation is at odds with the fact that the Madeleine process was archived in July 2008.

Source: TVMais, paper edition

Translated by Joana Morais

Discussion at the 3 arguidos: Mystery Accts: Where is the McCann’s Money? - Joana Morais

Kate and Gerry McCann: "40 apartments were investigated and the dogs only marked yours"

"Ten cars and they only reacted to yours."

Gerry McCann's response: "These dogs’ frailty was proved by a study that was carried out in the USA, in the case of a man that had been accused of murder. They had ten rooms, and in each room four boxes were placed, containing vegetables, bones, trash. Some contained human remains. They stayed there for ten hours. Eight hours after the boxes were removed, the dogs came in. And the dogs failed two thirds of the attempts. Imagine the reliability when these dogs test an apartment three months after the disappearance of a child."

Gerald McCann in Expresso, first interview after arguido status, September, 6 2008

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The article to which Gerry McCann refers:

Former Madison Resident Plead To Reduced Charge of Homicide By Reckless Conduct

UPDATED: 7:18 am CST February 19, 2008


MADISON, Wis. -- Eugene Zapata entered a guilty plea on Monday to a reduced charge of homicide by reckless conduct in connection to his wife's disappearance 30 years ago and was sentenced to time behind bars.

Appearing in Dane County Circuit Court on Monday, Zapata was sentenced to five years in prison after entering the guilty plea. Zapata, 69, pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors. The sentence was the maximum sentence for the charge, WISC-TV reported Old sentencing rules likely mean that Zapata will spend just more than three years in prison, but the judge and prosecutors supported the deal, saying that it would give family and friends closure and let them heal, WISC-TV reported.

Dane County Judge Patrick Fiedler, who sentenced Zapata, said that the important thing is everyone now knows what happened to Zapata's wife, Jeanette. Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said that the plea deal gives closure to Jeanette Zapata's loved ones.

"Part of what happened after Madison police took over a cold case from nowhere to today is the ability now to have the family and friends of Jeanette Zapata know exactly what happened to her."

Eugene Zapata was to have faced a second trial late next month. A former Madison resident, he was tried last year for the disappearance and presumed death of his wife in 1976. Her body was never found.

He had faced first-degree murder charges. A jury deadlocked on a verdict, and a second trial was scheduled. If convicted on that charge, Zapata would have faced life in prison.

A second trial seemed less likely after reports surfaced earlier this month that a plea deal had been struck.

As part of the agreement with prosecutors, Zapata had to tell authorities how he killed his wife and where her body was hidden, WISC-TV reported.

During Monday's proceedings, Dane County chief prosecutor Bob Kaiser asked the court to accept an amended charge of homicide by reckless conduct. Kaiser earlier told the court that the deal with

Zapata includes a statement to police about why Zapata went to her house, how and why he killed her and what he did with her.

Kaiser said that Zapata confessed to police and that he believes Zapata's statement will be truthful and complete.

Prosecutors said that Zapata told police that he went to his wife's house in 1976, had an argument and "snapped." He told them that he grabbed a metal draftman's tool and hit her in the head multiple times. He said that she then dropped to ground and he strangled her. He apparently told investigators that he "strangled Jeanette Zapata manually until his hands hurt."

He also wrapped a cord around her neck.

Zapata said that he wrapped her body in a tent and drove it to an area near Highway 151 and Reiner Road, where he hid it in some underbrush. He transferred her remains a short time later to some Juneau County land that he owed. There, he buried her body -- which remained there for 24 years -- before moving her remains to a Sun Prairie storage locker, where it was eventually cut into pieces and later disposed of at a Mauston landfill. He moved the body from the Juneau County because he planned to sell the land.

Linda Zapata, the youngest of Eugene and Jeanette Zapata's three children, gave a statement in court. She said that she was torn over testifying against her father earlier, but she's glad that he agreed to the plea deal. She said his confession is "a gift."

"By confessing to Mom's murder, you have given me and others a precious gift, a chance to grieve, mourn and heal," she said. "Mom deserved no less than that Mom deserved the truth about what really happened that morning, and I thank you for finally giving her that."

She added that she still loves her father and forgives him, although she doesn't condone what he did.

Blanchard said because Jeanette Zapata's body was dumped in numerous Dumpsters at the landfill, there is no way to recover her remains.

Eugene Zapata declined comment in the court. He was later taken away in handcuffs after his sentence was imposed.

Kaiser said that he thinks the agreement is the best possible option for "truth and justice." Likewise, Blanchard called the resolution to this case a huge achievement for justice.

Source: WISN Milwaukee

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Now why would 'innocent' parents look for ways to discredit evidence by sniffer dogs? Why wouldn't they demand that the police find proof of this evidence?

Clarence Mitchell: "There is a wholly innocent explanation for any material the police may or may not have found."

More 'pearls' of Kate, Gerry and Clarence here

Discussion at the 3 arguidos here

NHS doctors Gerry and Kate McCann and their destructive influence

49 - Mr Amaral gets a phone call from his scared wife.

Somebody had killed one of the family dogs, a Shitzu who had a serious head injury. Mr Amaral went home but was in a hurry because he needed to go back to work and didn't want his children to see the dog like that.

He decided that he should bury the dog but the ground was too hard. So he decided to take the dog and put it in the trash bin.

While doing so he couldn't help think how easy it was for someone to dispose of a dead body.

Amaral's wife asks him to leave the investigation because she is scared.

Mr Amaral tells his wife she is not being rational and that there are no reasons to be worried.


Source: Joana Morais
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Gerry McCanns recent visit to Lisbon

The Maddie case led to Amaral being dropped as a candidate

British influence ruled out Gonçalo Amaral.

"It was Mendes Bota himself who said that Dr Amaral was an excellent candidate and that, for the first time, the PSD would win the elections," a Social-Democrat activist in Olhão stated after the announcement that the ex-coordinator of the PJ would not be the PSD candidate for Mayor of the town, adding, "it's an unbelievable decision. I want to know why. It's the least they can do."

In spite of the justification put forward by the party's national leader, there are those who suggest other explanations, notably the right of the British to vote in the local elections: "they (the English) have the right to vote in the locals, and they were not going to vote for the PSD anywhere if Gonçalo Amaral was our candidate in Olhão," an activist stated.

Gerry McCann's recent meeting, during his visit to Portugal, with a member of the PSD's national committee and the party's national leader's frequent visits to London, is not going to calm things down, even raising questions in the media.

According to a local party official, it is effectively "external factors," which dictated the dropping of the candidacy for Amaral, "who has an enviable cv," but the orders from Lisbon are quite specific: Gonçalo Amaral will not be the PSD's candidate in any town in the country.


Duarte Levy SOS Madeleine McCann 3/02/09
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The McCanns out to get Gonçalo Amaral

3/2/09-Duarte Levy:Maddie case prompted the abandonment of Amaral

Cipriano's lawyer confirms he was paid by McCanns to 'investigate' Amaral

The lawyer of Drs Gerry and Kate McCann now denies he is being paid to frame Gonçalo Amaral, even though the McCanns had already framed Robert Murat

8 APRIL '08: Aragao Correio's political indictment of Amaral

Clarence Mitchell threatens Mr Amaral

Gordon Brown has Gonçalo Amaral removed from investigation when he was "close to finding Maddie"

Orchids and roses

Discussion at the 3 arguidos here

Killer mothers: Justice comes for Baby Grace

GALVESTON, Texas – A mother was convicted of capital murder Monday for the death of her 2-year-old daughter, who was whipped with belts and flung onto a tile floor to teach her manners, before her body was dumped in a box in Galveston Bay. Jurors deliberated less than two hours before finding Kimberly Trenor guilty. She received an automatic sentence of life without parole. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.

"Justice has been served today. Today it's about Riley" — the victim, Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said after the verdict.

Trenor and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, were accused of killing Riley Ann Sawyers while disciplining her in July 2007. Prosecutors said Trenor and Zeigler beat Riley with belts, dunked her head in cold water and threw her onto a tile floor, fracturing her skull. Zeigler's capital murder trial will be held later.

After Riley's death, the couple stuffed her body in a plastic box and hid it at their suburban Houston home before dumping it in Galveston Bay, according to authorities.

Sheriff's investigators dubbed the toddler "Baby Grace" during the weeks they worked to identify her remains, found by a fisherman. Many of those investigators were in the courtroom Monday and cried as the verdict was read.

"We all made a promise to that little girl ... that we would find the people responsible for her death and bring them to justice and we did," sheriff's Sgt. Michael Barry said.

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Mystery of girl's body washed ashore in US touches on Madeleine McCann case

Boulder cops back on JonBenet Ramsey case

"Mummy, don't!"

A mother has pleaded guilty to murdering her only child after being told by her boyfriend: 'It's her or me'.

Penny Boudreau strangled her 12-year-old daughter Karissa in a twisted bid to stop her boyfriend from ending their affair.

The heartless mother ignored her terrified daughter's cries of 'Mummy, don't!' as she pinned her to the ground and wrapped a rope around her neck, prosecutor Paul Scovi told a Canadian court.

Then Boudreau, 34, drove to a nearby river and pulled Karissa's trousers partly off to make it look like she was the victim of a sex attack.

She rolled her daughter's body into the river and threw away the rope.

In a bid to conceal the horrific crime she later claimed her daughter had gone missing after they had an argument and made TV appeals for her return.

Two weeks later the remains of Karissa were found on the banks of the river.
Bourdeau broke down in tears in court as she pleaded guilty to murder and said, 'I'm sorry'.

Relatives wept openly in the courtroom in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, as Karissa's final hours were revealed by prosecutors.

The court heard that the single mother moved in with her boyfriend Vernon MacCumber.

MacCumber did not get on with the 12-year-old Karissa, and issued an ultimatum that either she went or he would end the relationship.

Bourdeau chose to sacrifice her daughter's life.

On returning home she threw away some of Karissa's clothes to make it look like she had run away. She also called her boyfriend to tell him her daughter had gone missing.

It is unclear if MacCumber knew what she had done. The pair attended Karissa's funeral together.

During a series of TV appeals Boudreau claimed she and her daughter had argued and made a tearful appeal for her return.

Police always suspected Boudreau but had no evidence to charge her after Karissa's body was found in February 2008.

Undercover investigators only learned the grizzly details of the murder after a sting operation in which officers posed as organised crime bosses who convinced Boudreau they could destroy whatever evidence the police might have against her.

Boudreau took the bait and began talking. She was charged with murder in June 2008.

The judge Justice Margaret Stewart, looking directly at Boudreau, told her: 'You can never call yourself mother.

'The words, 'Mommy, don't,' are there to haunt you for the rest of your life.'

Boudreau pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was jailed for 20 years without parole when she appeared in court on Friday.

Source: Daily Mail
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Discussion at the 3 arguidos: Mother kills her own daughter and covers up

Maddie's haunting words

Gonçalo Amaral:
"If the McCanns admit that their daughter is dead, they can no longer collect money from the Maddie fund, and that's a lot of money, over one million pounds. That's why they say that the girl was abducted."

Gonçalo Amaral: “Madeleine is dead; where she is buried, I do not know"

Government to store patients' DNA on NHS computers

Health minister Dawn Primarolo has a long-term objective to put people's genetic profiles on a new NHS database

The Government has admitted it wants to store patients’ DNA samples on the new NHS computer system.

Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo says her ‘long-term objective’ is to put people’s genetic profiles on the £12billion Connecting For Health database.

And Prof Dame Sally Davies, chief scientific adviser at the Department of Health, admitted the Government was ‘determined’ to proceed with the plan.

The Connecting For Health register – due to come online in 2012 – will hold the electronic medical records of everyone in the UK.

But many fear it will breach patient confidentiality, as a million doctors, nurses and receptionists will have access to it. The surprising admissions came out of a House of Lords inquiry into genetic medicine last month.

When asked if it was ‘valuable to combine genetic data with personal medical data’, Prof Davies replied: ‘The Government is absolutely determined to exploit this research opportunity.’

When Ms Primarolo was asked if it was likely the database would one day hold patients’ DNA, she said: ‘I think the long-term objective would be yes.’

But Jane Kaye, a geneticist from Oxford University, said: ‘This is of grave concern. Who will have access to this database, and for what purpose?’

The Department of Health said: ‘We have no intention of taking decisions on providing research access to genetic information without proper debate about consent and confidentiality.’

Source: Daily Mail

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Dawn Primarolo: what does she do?

Dawn Primarolo: Tony Blair's Paymaster General

A very British dude: Dawn Primarolo

Dawn Primarolo was 'distressed' by filthy John Reid

Bloopers by Dawn Primarolo and Alan Johnson while PCTs are out of the loop

NHS Doctors McCann's private detectives investigated for embezzlement and money laundering

Metodo 3 under investigation in a case of embezzlement and money laundering

Metodo 3, the Catalan detective agency hired by Kate and Gerry McCann to find their daughter Madeleine, is quoted today in a large-scale investigation launched by the Spanish authorities about a half-dozen ministries of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

According to a note by the office of the prosecutor, the Catalan government, in recent years, would have ordered and paid a significant number of reports that seem to have no goal or interest, citing, for example, "the socio economic farm hazelnuts, "ordered the detective agency Metodo 3 for the modest sum of 30,000 euros.

According to the office of prosecutor in charge of the investigation, it would be before a case of embezzlement and money laundering.

The investigation of the Spanish authorities made following reports of the collective "clean hands" and is a case of embezzlement and money laundering, as confirmed by the office of the prosecutor.

Metodo 3: Maddie here after searching .........

It is the advisor for Agriculture, the Socialist Joaquim Llena, which commissioned Francisco Marco - the director of Metodo 3 - a "socio-economic survey of farms hazelnuts, paid 30,000 euros.

According to a spokesman for the office of the prosecutor, "nothing but the name of the agency related to such an investigation, forcing investigators to wonder about the real purpose under the command of the adviser."

According to a source close to the investigation, the report by Metodo 3 about the region of Tarragona, the region that produces the most nuts in Spain, had been copied word by word from the internet. Information also confirmed by "El Confidencial" which states that Metodo 3 had copied word by word to a report published earlier by the official newspaper of the region on its website.

Metodo 3, Spain, has already been linked to other scandals linked to political and financial world, and recently has also been called into question by his work in investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann or close associates of Francisco Marco, Antonio Jimenez, was charged with driving several British journalists to meet with witnesses previously paid to say he saw the small British in Morocco. The personnel of Metodo 3, responsible for investigating Maddie was, thereafter, arrested in a case of theft and trafficking in cocaine.

According to sources related to the own Metodo 3, several detectives in his department have questioned the capacity of Francisco Marco in the Madeleine McCann investigation, accusing him of destroying the credibility of the agency, especially after being practice a communications disaster.

According to the Office of the Prosecutor, embezzlement and money laundering can relate to are "huge" public money.

By Duarte Levy & A. Finkelstein
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Better translation is available on Joana Morais
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mccannfiles: Metodo 3
Discussion at the 3 arguidos: ON LINE M3 under suspicion in a case of “money laundering"

Regarding Kate and Gerry McCann's 'Secret' Accounts: "The UK authorities are lying to their subjects"

The British authorities received two requests to provide financial information about the parents of Madeleine but the answers never arrived to the PJ

The Judiciary Police never had access to the bank account details of Gerry and Kate McCann. This is because the British authorities have never responded positively to both requests made by Portuguese investigators.

At the beginning of the process, a first request was made regarding Madeleine parents and the friends who spent holidays with them at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz. The intention was to obtain more information about who were those nine people.

If about the seven friends data emerged as to the place where they have bank accounts and credit cards, regarding Kate and Gerry the UK authorities have said very little.

"No record of a current bank account is held," said the English about Madeleine's father, adding that "there is no record of credit cards or loans." And the same for the mother of the girl disappeared on May 3, 2007 at the Ocean Club apartment in Praia da Luz. The only information is about the bank where the mortgage of the McCann's house is. They also refer that there no arrears or defaults registered.

In the letter rogatory sent in November 2007 to England, various diligences [legal investigative actions] were asked to the British police, there once again it was requested information on the McCanns bank accounts. And once again nothing arrived to Portugal.

The British authorities refused the request and simply said that as a justification that they would not provide financial information on the couple. And the information never arrived.

"Ongoing investigation"

"The Home Office [Ministry of Foreign Affairs ] can not confirm or deny" that the McCanns have had bank accounts between the 25 of April 2007 and 12 September 2008.

This is the reply given, in January of this year, to British journalists who tried to clarify this situation. Even stranger are the arguments used to justify the answer. The British say that "the investigation is ongoing" and this information could "jeopardize the investigation, the international relations and endanger the health and safety" of Madeleine. This when the case was officially archived in July last year.

"Given this [answers], the UK authorities are lying to their subjects," said Gonçalo Amaral to the CM . "The Attorney General said that case is archived," added the former coordinator of the PJ.


Sources: Correio da Manhã and image via SOS Maddie

Translated by Joana Morais
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Discussions at the 3 arguidos:

Kate and Gerry Secret' Accounts: (merged)
Metodo 3 under suspicion in a case of “money laundering"
MADELEINE FUND ACCOUNT'S to 31 March 2008 NOW AVAILABLE
Gonçalo Amaral: Do the English continue to see Portugal as a banana republic where we always say 'yes'?

The Peoples' Child Neglectors, Kate and Gerry McCann, set to launch a new Charm Offensive campaign

McCann: The charm operation by Duarte Levy

"Ano Novo, Vida Nova" *

by Duarte Levy

In Portugal, at the beginning of each new calendar year, the Portuguese, the eternal sardine munchers - as they were described by some xenophobic British commentators - are used to say amongst the best wishes a typical expression “Ano novo, vida nova”, which in English[1] can be translated as “New Year, New Life(*)”. An expression that probably the McCanns have learned throughout the contact with their Portuguese lawyers, as well as with their social-democrat friends.

Furthermore, the recent visit of the father of Madeleine McCann to Portugal is the epitome of an unparalleled charming operation that allowed the couple to open the “hostilities”: after assenting with their seven British friends not to participate in the reconstruction of events and actions of the night of the 3rd of May, the couple has now found the will to cooperate with the Portuguese authorities, affirming that they are convinced that there are still steps that can be made in investigating the disappearance of their daughter.

Reassuring to the Portuguese media that there would be no court cases against them, while in London he was able to once again ‘bend’ a British news daily – forcing it to a “contribution” over to the Madeleine fund - Gerry McCann announced, preparing the next visit by Kate, that this was the be the first of several visits.

A “surprise” visit, previously announced in several British and Portuguese media, that the year 2009, in terms of communication and image, would bring some surprises.

Action - Reaction

Among the new resolutions adopted by the McCanns, who are always very attentive to what is said on the internet (blogs and forums) and in the media, we find the motto “action-reaction”, palpable in the recent “disclosure” of the fund accounts created after the disappearance of Madeleine’s corpse.

Source: SOS Maddie


Translated by Joana Morais

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Related links:

Brian Kennedy on the McCanns: "The battle has just commenced. We have plans and when we are ready to tell the world about them we will do so."

The cancelled re-enactment - shocking emails from Tapas 7

Discussion at the 3 arguidos: McCann: The operation charm by Duarte Levy

Gonçalo Amaral: Do the English continue to see Portugal as a banana republic where we always say 'yes'?

by Gonçalo Amaral*

The United Kingdom,‭ ‬a country that finds it difficult to respond to cooperation requests,‭ ‬has asked for access to our prime minister’s bank accounts.

It seems that said request is imperious due to mere hypotheses and few or no indicia of illegal practices in the Freeport case. In the 'Maddie case' we only requested the registries of the parents' and the friends' credit cards.

The reply was hilarious: "Bank accounts and credit cards are not known." Those doctors had mortgages and used credit cards to travel and to acquire goods and services, yet the information was denied, not even a rogatory letter managed to obtain something that was considered essential for the investigation, which was based on strong indicia and not on mere speculation.

If at the moment, for political reasons, the death of that child is considered, in England, a matter of national security, what can be said about the British attack against the prime minister of an independent, democratic country? Do the English continue to see Portugal as a banana republic where we always say 'yes'? It's about time to say 'no'.

What we expect is a reply that complies with the principle of reciprocity: bank accounts or credit cards belonging to our prime minister are not known...

source: Correio da Manhã, 31.01.2009
* former PJ inspector
Translated by astro
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Related links:
Ambassador Interference- PJ will NOT get Madeleine's clothes
Home Office refused to give PJ information about Gerry's credit cards
Public prosecutors office was not informed about Leicestershire Police decision
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Discussion at the 3 arguidos: Glass ceilings

Inside the mind of Kate McCann

By Rod Chaytor 31/01/2009

EXCLUSIVE: She is CONSUMED with the hunt for her daughter. EVERY DAY she will spend 3 HOURS READING documents, looking for the VITAL CLUE which will answer the question that has tortured her and Gerry for 21 AGONISING MONTHS. Where is our missing Madeleine?

Kate McCann sips her tea and then turns another page from the mountain of paperwork, looking for the one clue that could spark a breakthrough in the search for her missing daughter.

As her twins Sean and Amelie enjoy playing with friends at nursery, their 40-year-old mum combs through thousands of police documents stacked up in 17 massive files hoping to latch on to any nugget of information such as the names of witnesses that were never interviewed.

Raw pain is still sometimes clearly etched on her face. But this is Kate's life now.

No longer working as a GP, she has dedicated herself to the task of unearthing clues that will lead her to her daughter Madeleine who vanished 21 months ago.

A family member said: "She is there virtually every morning. It's her routine for two or three hours every day while the twins are in nursery.

"Sometimes I feel she is exhausting herself. I wish she would take a break. But she won't listen. She is driven, consumed with the task and the goal of staying out of jail finding Madeleine."

While the agony of not knowing where Madeleine is or what has happened to her eats up Kate and husband Gerry, the couple still have to provide a normal family life for Sean and Amelie. Tomorrow, the twins celebrate their fourth birthday and their parents will make sure it is a special day full of fun, laughter, gifts and games.

But, inevitably, one heartbreaking thought will haunt the couple throughout: "We never got to do this with Madeleine."

She vanished nine days short of her own fourth birthday from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, as her parents ate at a tapas bar with friends.

This year, the twins will start school - another milestone Madeleine never reached.

She had been due to start at Bishop Ellis Catholic Primary at Thurmaston, Leics, in September of the year she vanished.

Kate has reached folder number 15 of the 17 she is searching through.

She will doggedly plough on line-by-line through the daunting pile of paperwork, forensically noting, computer filing, crosschecking, never giving up hope of stumbling across the key to her daughter's whereabouts.

Her desperate actions echo Gerry's words to the Mirror in his last UK interview in May last year as the Portuguese police closed their file. Back then, he vowed: "We'll find her ourselves."

So far, their hunt has been without success. But every new scrap of information gives the couple fresh hope that they will be reunited with their little girl.

The family member added: "Kate has already found evidence overlooked by police and the names of witnesses never interviewed.

"On a day that happens, she is upbeat, positive, cheerful. When she comes across something negative however, she is down.

"Of the two of them, Kate is the most fragile. Her mood can change quickly.

"But she remains strong, resolute, determined to find Madeleine. Till the day she dies, she will never give up."

According to friends, this has been Kate's daily routine for the last six months since the Portuguese authorities lifted the couple's arguido suspect status and handed over the written record of their bungled investigation. For Gerry, too, the work involved in finding Madeleine has become a second job. The 40-year-old heart consultant leaves home before 8am for the cardiac unit at the Glenfield Hospital on the outskirts of Leicester.

Despite his demanding work schedule, he strives to be home by 6pm to join in the nightly bath and bed routine of the couple's twins.

Like any devoted dad, he reads the children a bedtime story before lights out and then joins his wife for supper.

But then, instead of slumping in front of the TV, he goes into the study, spending a couple of hours each night taking his turn to scour the files or hit the phones.

He calls the couple's Portuguese lawyers, their UK-based investigators and consults their team of advisers and sponsors.
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Source: Mirror

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