Gonçalo Amaral: The cost to the McCann's of reopening Maddie's case is the stamp on the letter

Gonçalo Amaral: For the McCann's "to ask for the process to be reopened, all it would take is a letter to the Prosecutor, as it has already happened in so many other cases. It costs them nothing, just the stamp on the letter."

By Nigel Moore
10 May 2011

FORMER Portuguese police co-ordinator Goncalo Amaral has issued a plea for Kate McCann to "tell the truth" and spoken of his delight at having his freedom of speech returned.

Speaking exclusively to mccannfiles.com on the eve of the publication of Mrs McCanns' book about missing daughter Madeleine, Mr Amaral said he was surprised at Kate's claim that she was writing her book "to give an account of the truth."

"It is strange to hear the word 'truth' from the mouth of someone who didn't cooperate with the police when the investigation was open," he said.

"And it was not any investigation; it was about finding what caused the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the enormous effort to recover her."

Mr Amaral believes the McCanns have "the right to be able to write what they like about the case" and supports the fact that Kate "is using her freedom of speech". Something recently denied him.

"A book that is written by someone who was a suspect may become of use as a document, maybe even a piece of documental evidence. Let us wait," he added.

Mr Amaral, whose bestselling book The Truth of the Lie was the subject of costly legal action by the McCanns, said he "felt like a free man" when the injunction on his book was overturned by the Appeals Court in October last year. "The McCanns also felt free because they decided to write a book," he observed.

The McCanns, who failed in their recent appeal to Portugal's Supreme Court to reimpose the ban, must now return all seized copies of the book, currently placed with their lawyer, Isabel Duarte, or risk incurring a criminal charge of disobedience.

"Legality has been re-established," said Goncalo Amaral. "The McCanns have just lost one more judicial action that was paid for with money from a fund that they say is for recovering their daughter.

"Both her and her husband were, and still are, more concerned with defending their image than in finding out what caused the child's mysterious disappearance."

An English language version of Goncalo Amaral's book is yet to be released but he said: "After the McCanns' book is published, there is no reason whatsoever for The Truth of the Lie not to be published in the UK. The British people are entitled to know all of the facts."

Mr Amaral believes that the process will be reopened and "the material truth will be known" and is dismissive of the McCanns' petition for a review of the case.

"That is one of the misunderstandings that are created by the McCanns," he said, "they do not want the case to be reviewed, they merely want a review of the information that has been added after the shelving (sightings of the child).

"If they wanted the case to be reviewed, they would ask for the crime process and the investigation to be reopened, and they would supply all of the reports from the various private detectives that they have hired.

"To ask for the process to be reopened, all it would take is a letter to the Prosecutor, as it has already happened in so many other cases. It costs them nothing, just the stamp on the letter."

If the process were reopened, Mr Amaral believes there are "several" diligences which could be carried out to help discover the truth.

"There will always be diligences that will result from reviewing the investigation and the reports from the McCanns' private detectives. Those diligences will have to take the conclusions that the Police had reached in September of 2007 into account.

"That is the starting point, but in the end it could happen that those conclusions are not confirmed. What is necessary is to complete an investigation that was suddenly interrupted due to the will of the parents of a child that has disappeared mysteriously."

Mr Amaral has no doubts about which action would have to be undertaken immediately to help unearth the truth of what happened to Madeleine.

"The first diligence, after the review, will have to be the reconstruction of that night of the 3rd of May, 2007."

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id232.html

EXCLUSIVE: Gonçalo Amaral issues plea for Kate McCann to "tell the truth"- mccannfiles.com

Kate McCann: How to piss off the Portuguese people with one easy lie

Kate McCann: "We jumped over walls and raked through undergrowth. We looked in ditches and holes. I remember opening up a big dumpster and saying to myself 'Please God, don't let her be in here'. The most striking and horrible thing was that we were completely alone. Nobody else, it seemed, was out looking for Madeleine."

Because they were incredibly busy, really.

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Related links:

'I looked in bin and thought: Please God, don't let Madeleine be in here'

Analysis and critique of Kate McCann's book

Lies and discrepancies in Kate McCann's book (under construction)

Kate McCann: "Did they expect me to confess to a crime they had made up?"

Coming soon: Why does McCann lawyer Ed Smethurst drink in the Elephant and Castle, Rochdale, with paedophile 'Greg the Groomer'?

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Quote by Gonçalo Amaral, the former PJ coordinator: "Kate McCann’s freedom of expression “is based on lies and on offending the Portuguese justice, the Polícia Judiciária, those who have searched for her daughter, the Portuguese people in general and the people of the Algarve in particular”, by “launching lies about the safety, the tourism in the Algarve, and the action of the Police institution, suggesting that the Police in the Algarve covers up sexual abuse of English children, which is completely false”....read more here

Madeleine Foundation Investigation conference, Cheshire and Lancashire

Arthur Cowley's cottage is claimed to be the registered office of ALPHAIG, which in turn has been deliberately misrepresented by the McCann Team as Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley's 'Alpha Investigations Group'

Posted by Tony Bennett, Secretary of the Madeleine Foundation:

Hundreds of '50 FACTS' leaflets were distributed this weekend in the Victoria Avenue area of Crewe, Swettenham village near Congleton, the Meadowhead Lane area of Rochdale, and the villages of Halkyn and Pentre Halkyn, Flintshire.

The Sun and Express articles were discussed. Most of the Sun article consists of self-serving, and disturbing, statements by Dr K McCann which are impossible to verify. Only one out of our 163 questions was even partially answered. The Express and Sun articles today were based on an artist's sketch which, so far as we know, has never been made public.

Further detailed investigations around the village of Halkyn revealed and confirmed that Arthur Cowley (whom we met) does not run any investigations group from there or anywhere else. We'll supply more info later.


REMINDER: Next Madeleine Foundation conference and AGM, Bristol, Sat 18th and Sun 19th June, when the whole conference will be devoted to a line-by-line analysis of the contents of Dr K McCann's book.
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Related links:

What goes on at The Elephant & Castle?

Arthur Cowley's cottage - HQ of ALPHAIG?

Pics of Edward Smethurst's two homes in Rochdale

Can we believe Dave Edgar?

Why Brian Kennedy needs to be investigated

Madeleine Foundation Press Release: Buying Kate McCann's book won't help find Madeleine

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE MADELEINE FOUNDATION

6 May 2011

Contact details please see below

Buying Kate McCann’s book won't help find Madeleine

With less than a week to go before the official release of Kate McCann's book, 'Madeleine', The Madeleine Foundation, which is sceptical about the McCanns' assumption that Madeleine was abducted, has warned the public that buying the book is unlikely to help to find Madeleine. The Committee has released the following statement:

"For a start, both Amazon and WH Smith have already cut the retail price of the book from £20 to just £10, meaning that the book is effectively selling for under £8. With the publishers and distributors needing to cover their costs, little will be left for the McCanns' 'Find Madeleine Fund'.

In addition, claims that the McCanns’ private investigation has been led by a couple of ex-detectives, Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley of the 'Alpha Investigations Group' detective agency have been exposed as false in a new article on The Madeleine Foundation's website, published yesterday (5 May).

As our research shows, there is no such company. A company called ALPHAIG was however registered 6 weeks after the McCanns claimed that they had turned to 'Alpha Investigations Group' for help. This is solely owned by Arthur Cowley, its registered office is in Cowley's home, and the company's accounts reveal it has no employees and no assets. In other words, it is a sham company designed to create a false impression.

Moreover, despite spending millions of pounds of the public's money on investigators, the general public has not been given one single usable piece of information about the alleged abductor. Altogether, a total of 18 different artists' sketches have been given of 'suspects', 'persons of interest', and 'persons we wish to eliminate from our enquiries', two of them women. Even the McCanns' own website does not update its visitors on who they are really supposed to be looking for. Worse, a video in the McCanns’ site of a man in a yellow T-shirt looks nothing like the artist’s sketch of the ‘ugly, spotty, pock-marked man’, said to have been seen near the McCanns’ apartment the week they were in Praia da Luz.

Furthermore, the McCanns' private detectives, based in a house in Knutsford, Cheshire, purchased by multi-millionaire Brian Kennedy in 2007, have an appalling track record. The first company chosen, controversial Spanish detective agency Metodo 3, falsely promised that they had located Madeleine and that she would be 'home by Christmas' (2007).

The McCanns followed that by appointing fraudster Kevin Halligen, paying him a reputed £500,000 which he mostly spent on high living in the U.S. and Britain. Since October 2009 he has been in Belmarsh High Security Prison, fighting extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on an alleged $2 million fraud. Another company, iJet, was paid by the McCanns in 2008 to field calls to its 'Investigation Hotline', but its Director publicly declared in 2009 that the McCanns had refused to follow up any of the public's calls to that 'phone line. A number of articles on our website examine in depth all aspects, many of them carefully hidden, of the McCanns' private investigation operation to date.

On top of all these considerations, the McCanns' current chief investigator, Dave Edgar, has made a variety of bizarre, contradictory claims about Madeleine's whereabouts which lack credibility, like:

* that Madeleine was seen walking behind a couple in Dubai

* that Madeleine was taken to Australia on a yacht by an Australian-speaking 'Victoria Beckham-lookalike'

* that an Angolan-born basketball-playing bouncer in Spain knows that Madeleine is in the U.S.

* that a letter from dying paedophile Raymond Hewlett which was then burnt by his estranged son Wayne Hewlett revealed the name of a gypsy gang leader whose gang had abducted Madeleine, and

* that he was 'convinced' that Madeleine was being held in a prison lair within10 miles of Praia da Luz, where the McCanns holidayed in 2007".

The Madeleine Foundation is currently inviting the public to sign an internet petition calling for a full public enquiry into all aspects of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Wey would like to see a judicial enquiry with the power to summon all relevant witnesses, including the McCanns and their friends, to give evidence on oath. We feel that such a public enquiry would be the best means of getting to the truth about what really happened to Madeleine.

There is a link to the petition on The Madeleine Foundation website: www.madeleinefoundation.org.uk

We are also helping the Madeleine McCann Research Group to distribute their ‘50 FACTS’ leaflet which lists 50 factual matters about the McCann case which the British media have failed to highlight.

Our original book on the case can no longer be sold or distributed after the McCanns threatened a High Court libel writ if it continued to be sold.

Our new book: ‘The Madeleine McCann Case Files: Volume 1’, continues to sell steadily.

CONTACTS:

Email: madeleinefoundation@gmail.com

’Phone:07503 353941

07835 716537

01279 635789

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Related links:

50 Facts that the media are not telling you

Petition for a full public enquiry into Maddie's disappearance

Letter to transworld asking 163 questions for Kate to answer in her book

Dave Edgar, the Cheshire Detective: Leading the Hunt for Maddie McCann

Prison lairs, Victoria Beckham-lookalikes, letters from dead paedophiles -

and bogus claims that he heads up the so-called ‘Alpha Investigations Group’

The Madeleine Foundation’s John Whitehouse looks at the bogus group set up by the McCanns and Brian Kennedy which, with the help of British media, misled the public into thinking that former Detective Inspector Dave Edgar headed up a thriving private investigations agency. The article goes on to analyse the thoughts and actions of Dave Edgar, Brian Kennedy’s chosen instrument to lead the McCanns’ private investigation, and Edgar’s assistant, Arthur Cowley, as they head the hunt for Madeleine McCann from a house in Knutsford

A sequel to our article: ‘The McCanns’ private investigators - we investigate’ (Article No. 26.0)

Author: John Whitehouse

Published by The Madeleine Foundation, 5 May 2011


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE

After the successive debacles of the McCanns and Brian Kennedy appointing first the controversial Spanish detective agency Metodo 3 and then fraudster Kevin Halligen, supposedly to search for Madeleine, they then appointed local retired detective inspector Dave Edgar to ‘lead the hunt for Madeleine’ in November 2008.

Edgar was then based in the H.Q. of the private investigation office run by Brian Kennedy, a house in Knutsford bought by Kennedy for that purpose in the summer of 2007. Edgar did not at that time, nor has he since, either owned, part-owned or ‘run’ a company known as ‘Alpha Investigations Group’. His claim to do so is a sham.

In fact, one of Brian Kennedy’s right-hand men, Andrew Dickman, registered the domain name www.alphaig.co.uk on 12 January 2009, some four months before the McCann Team misled the media and the public into thinking that Dave Edgar ran a prestigious-sounding company called ‘Alpha Investigations Group’.

Despite much publicity and hype about Edgar’s ‘Alpha Investigations Group’ in May 2009, in fact the company being referred to was actually called ‘ALPHAIG’. It was not registered until after May - on 10 June 2009. Despite claims that Edgar, or Edgar and a colleague, Arthur Cowley, run ALPHAIG, it is a company wholly owned by Arthur Cowley. The registered address of the company, ‘Treetops’, in the remote Flintshire hamlet of Pant-y-Gof, is a property situated down a remote farm track and cul-de-sac, which may be unoccupied. ALPHAIG has no web presence, and does not give out any contact details. Its summary accounts, released in January this year, revealed inter alia that it had fixed assets worth just £630, hardly the kind of assets associated with a significant private investigations company.

Edgar’s main role over the past two years appears to have been to talk up as ‘strong leads’ claims - which are frankly bogus - that Madeleine may have been taken by a Victoria Beckham-lookalike on a yacht to Australia, may be held in a prison lair near Praia da Luz, may have been seen in Dubai, may have been taken to the U.S. as claimed by an Angolan basketball-playing bouncer, or may have been taken by an unnamed gypsy gang leader, details of whom were given by a dying paedophile in a German hospital to his long-estranged son, who in turn claims to have burnt that letter before proceeding to tell the Sun all about it.

The public have been told that they should buy Dr Kate McCann’s new book, due out on 12 May, in order to ‘continue the search for Madeleine’. Dr McCann has said that the book could ‘raise £1 million’, which she and the McCann Team say would pay for Dave Edgar and his ‘team of detectives’ to continue looking for Madeleine for a further two years.

On the evidence of this article, they would be wasting their money.

Read the full article here which includes the shocking accounts of Dave Edgar's company and an update of recent developments:

http://www.madeleinefoundation.org.uk/Dave%20Edgar,%20the%20Cheshire%20Detective.html

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Related links:

Can we believe Dave Edgar?

Why Brian Kennedy needs to be investigated

An article about Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley

Clarence Mitchell "Operational Reasons" and Other Buffoonery

Madeleine McCann case: Thousands more people get to know the facts about her disappearance thanks to Daily Mail

by The Madeleine Foundation, 15 April 2011

Today was the 1,442nd day since Madeleine McCann was reported missing by her parents. That’s 206 weeks, nearly 4 years.

Today was also a day when many members of the British public managed to find out a whole lot more facts about the case.

We have the Daily Mail to thank for that. For within a two-page feature article about Madeleine and the McCanns in today’s ediiton, the Mail informed its readers:

* about our organisation, and
* about our website, and
* about our letter to Transworld which suggested 163 questions that Dr Kate McCann should answer in her forthcoming book about the case, and
* about the leaflet we are distributing, known as ’50 FACTS’, which on four pages of A4 summarises some of the disturbing facts about the case.


The Mail, additionally, gave its readers the title of the leaflet: ‘What happened to Madeleine McCann? 50 facts about the case that the British media are not telling you’.

It even informed readers of the four main sections of the leaflet:

1) Major contradictions in the statements of the McCanns and their friends
2) The highly trained police dogs who detected the scent of a corpse
3) Strange things the McCanns have said and done, and
4) How the McCanns wasted public money on useless private detectives.

It also mentioned our first book on the case: “What Really Happened To Madeleine McCann? 60 Reasons To Suggest She Was Not Abducted”, now effectivley a banned book in view of the McCanns’ threat to sue for libel over its contents.

What has been the outcome of the Daily Mail’s article so far?

There were thousands of extra hits on our website; the final figures for the day are not in yet, at the time of writing this article
News of the publication and availability of the leaflet was circulated on Facebook, tweeted, and re-tweeted many times
A new blog about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, “What happened to Madeleine McCann”, has received 4,200 new visits today so far
The leaflet was placed on the popular forum: ‘Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann’. By this evening, over 1,500 had seen it there
The petition for a full public enquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance, sponsored by Madeleine Foundation member Alan-Marc Logoa, gained another 16 signatures, bringing the total to 584
The Mail article has been read by millions, many of whom sent comments to its online comments page. Many of these comments were critical of the McCanns, and these McCann-sceptic comments were voted up in their hundreds, using green arrows, by readers
Several people asked for supplies of the leaflet to distribute in their home areas
We received new orders for our latest book on the case: ‘The Madeleine McCann Case Files: Volume 1’, and
We received new enquiries about membership.


This response has echoes of a previous occasion when the media slated The Madeleine Foundation, following distribution of another leaflet about the case, ’10 Reasons’. The distribution of the leaflet to 150 houses in the McCanns’ home village, Rothley, led to adverse press headlines. But the Madeleine Foundation was named, and in the weeks that followed, tens of thousands visited our website, hundreds of our ‘60 Reasons’ book were sold, many more offered to distribute leaflets, and we gained 20 new members.

While the media may portray us as unjustified hounders of the McCanns, the fact is that many of the British public want to know more about the facts in this case, and are hungry for further information.

The reaction to today’s Mail article proves that once again.

http://www.madeleinefoundation.org.uk/more%20get%20to%20know%20facts.html

Daily Mail: Reopening the wounds

Gonçalo Amaral: The Truth of the Lie

The 'complete mystery' of Maddie McCann

50 Facts that the British media are not telling you about Madeleine McCann

More lies from Dr Kate McCann: JK Rowling did not help her write her "account of the truth"

FFS, Kate, how many more lies are you going to tell?

The Mirror: Madeleine McCann search: JK Rowling helps Maddy's mum Kate write book

The Independent: Rowling denies helping Kate to write book

Yesterday it emerged that the author had given a helping hand to Kate McCann, the mother of the missing eight-year-old, Madeleine, with her account of the disappearance in Portugal four years ago. But Rowling denied reports that she had written the book which is due to be published next month.

In a statement a spokesman for the author said: "While JK Rowling has been a long-term family supporter, her only part in bringing the book to publication has been in supporting the fact that her literary agent was also representing Kate. Beyond this, she has not been involved in any aspect of the writing, editing or publication of the book."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/rowling-to-demolish-1631m-house-to-expand-garden-2266450.html

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Posted on the Madeleine McCann research forum here and with more comments here

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Comment by Tony Bennett of the Madeleine Foundation:

So in the lead-up to the publication of this 'very truthful' book about Madeleine, which will contain Dr McCanns' 'version of the truth', it looks like Dr Kate McCann (ahd her advisers and public relations officers) have been very untruthful.

The Daily Mail account yesterday had this:


"Rowling also helped Kate and husband Gerry by putting them in touch with her agent Christopher Little who arranged a book deal with publishers Transworld".

I think we can believe J K Rowling in this instance. I suspect the sequence of events was this:

1. McCanns to J K Rowling - 'We need a publisher for our very truthful account of what happened to Madeleine, can you advise?'

2. J K Rowling to McCanns - 'Try Bill Scott-Kerr at my publishers, Transworld'

3. McCanns to J K Rowling - 'We need a bit of help writing the book'

4. J K Rowling to McCanns - 'Sorry, too busy'

5. Meeting of McCanns and their publishes, advisers and public relations team - 'Bring J K Rowling into it to boost sales, advance orders are well below our predictions'

6. Clarence Mitchell briefs press: 'J K Rowling helped Kate write her book'.

7. Mirror headline: J K ROWLING'S MADDY BOOK

8. J K Rowling and her advisers: 'WT!?*!!??**?!*?!*' Put out a statement denying this immediately!!


ANOTHER LIE

But here's another lie.

In Sunday's Express, Dr Kate McCann said it was the 'fear of attacks by groups like The Madeleine Foundation' which had decided her against doing book-signings.

But in the Daily Mail the following day, we read this:


"Heartbroken mother will not take part in celebrity-style signings because it would be 'in bad taste'".

OK, 'very truthful' Kate, which is it?

Too frightened of attacks?

Or 'book signings would be in bad taste'?

Or is it even a third, unmentionable reason? That is - Because so few people would want to buy a book by people who deliberately left their three children in a dark room, 120 yards' walk away, whilst wining and dining wth their mates, yet produced an unnamed Social Services official who allegedly said: 'This is well within the bounds of responsible parenting?

All of this after TWO of the their three children, only the previous night, had said: "Why weren't you here when we were crying last night?"

Great Ormond Street cardiologist is suspended over allegations of child abuse

A surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital is being investigated over claims of child abuse.
The allegations against Philipp Bonhoeffer, a world-renowned cardiologist, relate to his time working for a charity in Africa.
He was suspended two years ago but the case has only just come to light. The hospital has set up a helpline for parents of children he has treated.
Four families had contacted the helpline by last night.
The 49-year-old, who was born in Germany, began working at the famous London children’s hospital in 2001 and has treated hundreds of young patients as head of cardiology.
He had been due before a General Medical Council tribunal in October but the case was halted after his lawyers submitted that there was not enough evidence.
This objection will be heard at the High Court today – but the GMC insists its investigation will go ahead regardless.
Although details of the case have not been made public, it is believed to concern a man who alleges he was sexually abused by the doctor when he was a child.
Dr Bonhoeffer is also alleged to have tried to bribe the man to make him retract his accusations.
The doctor, who lives in Camden, North London, strongly denies all charges made against him.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374304/Former-Great-Ormond-Street-heart-surgeon-Philipp-Bonhoeffer-suspended-child-abuse-claims.html#ixzz1IuqhPQTN
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Spot the difference:

Glenfield Hospital cardiologist, Gerry McCann, on the other hand, was NOT suspended from his job for repeated negligence of his three young children which led to one of them being believed to have met her death in the apartment whilst left alone. Dr McCann is also suspected of having concealed the body of his daughter to allow him to set up a Fund which has attracted millions of pounds, some of which was used to pay his mortgage.

Instead of being suspended, Dr Gerry McCann was permitted to make use of Glenfield Hospital to take part in a documentary for Channel 4 (Cutting Edge Madeleine was here).

Further, a letter was sent to the General Medical Council by Tony Bennett of the Madeleine Foundation:

The Madeleine Foundation

Combating child neglect

Website: www.madeleinefoundation.org.uk

Monday 13 July 2009

Chairman,
Fitness to Practise Committee,
General Medical Council,
St. James’s Buildings
79 Oxford Street
MANCHESTER
M1 6FQ.

Dear Sir/Madam

re: Fitness to Practise: Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann (formerly Dr Kate Healy)

I write to bring to your attention a report about the above couple, both doctors, published in the Sunday People yesterday.

Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann are the parents of Madeleine McCann, who was reported missing by her mother at around 10.00pm on Thursday 3 May 2007. The circumstances of her disappearance remain mysterious and as yet unsolved. They were made official suspects of involvement in their daughter’s disappearance in September 2007, a status that lasted until July 2008 when the Portuguese judicial authorities concluded that at that time there was insufficient evidence to charge them or anyone else with a crime against Madeleine.

Yesterday, the Sunday People published an article based on what they said was a 34-page libel writ served in Portugal against Goncalo Amaral. The McCanns and their advisers have already announced in the press that they intended to sue Mr Amaral for libel. Mr Amaral was the senior investigating officer in the case until he was removed from the investigation in controversial circumstances in October 2007. A month earlier, he was the man responsible for declaring the McCanns to be official suspects in their daughter’s disappearance.

The Sunday People says it has translated the libel writ from the Portuguese. The McCanns are claiming damages of £1 million from Mr Amaral. I wish to bring to your attention the medical and psychological condition of these two doctors, one of whom continues to practise, and both of whom we understand to be on the GMC Register.

The writ says of Dr Kate McCann that she is ‘deeply and seriously depressed”. The writ goes on to describe both of the McCanns as suffering from:

· permanent anxiety,
· insomnia,
· lack of appetite,
· irritability,
· indefinable fear.

In the writ, according to the Sunday People, the McCanns further describe both of themselves as:

· “totally destroyed”,
· “irreparably damaged”, and
· “totally destroyed from a moral, social, ethical, emotional and family point of view”.

The question that arises is whether either of these doctors is fit to practise or indeed to remain on the GMC Register, at least until these serious psychological problems, suggestive of mental illness, subside. We suggest that the appropriate committee of the GMC should consider (a) suspending them from the GMC until a psychiatrist deems that they have recovered from the above symptoms and (b) providing them with the expert psychiatric help and counselling that anyone exhibiting such severe symptoms should receive from the N.H.S. Presumably if the McCanns are exhibiting these symptoms there are reports available from their G.P. or a psychiatric specialist confirming those symptoms.

The other possibility of course, is that the McCanns are grossly exaggerating the extent of their depression or even lying about it, in order to make as much money as possible from Mr Amaral. If that were the case, there would definitely be a whole series of other questions about their fitness to remain in practice and remain on the GMC Register. Many videos and still images exist of the McCanns laughing and joking and appearing to be anything but severely depressed. That would suggest at least the possibility that they have deliberately exaggerated their sadness at and reaction to the loss of Madeleine in order to make as much money as possible from their proposed libel action...

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Posted on our forum here

Other child neglecting doctors were paid thousands of pounds

MADELEINE McCann’s parents are set to be quizzed in court

McCann's were made arguido's in the disappearance of their daughter

MADELEINE McCann’s parents are set to be quizzed in court later this year in connection with their daughter’s disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leics, will face lawyers acting on behalf of the Portuguese detective who led the hunt for Madeleine.

They are suing former police chief Goncalo Amaral for more than £1million damages over claims he made about them.

Amaral, who believes Madeleine is dead, is due to call the McCanns in his bid to defend himself.

Last night the couple’s lawyer Isabel Duarte said she expects the libel trial to take place this year.

She said: “It could be June or July but most likely September. He can call them if there are things they can contribute (to his case).”

Madeleine went missing during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.

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Article in Daily Star - Comments, of course, are not allowed because they tend to get whooshed, just like the 103 questions put to the McCanns that were whooshed from the Daily Express which is always worth another look. here

Madeleine McCann case: New articles from The Madeleine Foundation

New articles from The Madeleine Foundation:

Why Brian Kennedy needs to be investigated

Letter to Cheshire and Leicestershire Police explaining why Brian Kennedy should be investigated for perverting the course of justice - and the replies we got from the police forces concerned

MARCOS CORREIA: Liar and Medium

More about the man to prosecute Goncalo Amaral: 1. His weird book 2. His mediumistic powers 3. His horrible vision of Madeleine being strangled 4. His dealings with Metodo 3 5. M Gautier's story 6. Correia's psychic abilities pass Metodo 3's test

LIES OF LEONOR CIPRIANO

How the lies of a convicted murdersss of her own child helped a court to convict Goncalo Amaral of filing a false report

MONSTERMAN - How the McCann Team created a monster storm about a bloke with a moustache

How the McCanns and PR guru Clarence Mitchell collaborated with Stuart Prior of Leics Police and the Portuguese Police, helped by Brian Kennedy paying Melissa Little to do another artist's sketch based on a muddled account by Gail Cooper

MADELEINE MCCANN: THE ROLE OF MICHAEL WRIGHT

THE REPORT OF TAVARES DE ALMEIDA 10 Sep 2007

The sensational report compiled and published by the Portuguese police as their official report on why they had made the McCanns suspects (also to be found in The Madeleine Foundation's book: 'The Madeleine McCann Case Files: Volume 1")

How Goncalo Amaral was convicted by the lies of the murderess of her own child - Leonor Cipriano AND how Marcos Correia said the McCanns were paying him (see passages highlighted in red)

Sections 15 and 16 from The Madeleine Foundation's essay on Marcos Aragao Correia

Marcos Correia's book, and his visions of Madeleine. Two sections from the Madeleine Foundation's essay about this strange man who amongst other things was paid by Metodo 3 to conduct a fruitless but highly publicised search of the Arade Dam for Madeleine

Marcos Aragao Correia is the lawyer who pursued Goncalo Amaral and successfully obtained a criminal conviction of him in the Portuguese courts for allegedly filing a false report. These extracts from our essay cast doubt on his state of mind

ANALYSIS - Why did Robert Murat have encrypted material on his computer? PLUS: The key found in Murat's house...the secret 'golf Club meeting' - and more

Extracts from Chapters J and K of The Madeleine Foundation's article on Robert Murat: 'The Mystery of Robert Murat: From Arguido to Applause'

How Jane Tanner came to identify Robert Murat as the abductor she claimed to have seen carrying away Madeleine - by Goncalo Amaral

A key chapter of Goncalo Amaral's book 'The Truth About A Lie' explains the remarkable saga of how Jane Tanner came to identify Murat, leading to his being taken in for questioning. Jane Tanner later changed her mind about Murat being the abductor.

RAY WYRE AND THE MCCANNS - PART ONE

Why did Ray Wyre write an article about Madeleine's disappearance within days of Madeleine disappearing. And why did the McCanns meet the Wyres. And what sort of charcater was ray Wyre anyway?

17 'Mistakes' made by Robert Murat about what he was doing between 1 and 4 May

Details of his changes of story

Links to all Madeleine Foundation articles

Kate McCann: "If your child goes missing or a family member goes missing sometimes you might not get anything."

But we got it all and we're still bitching

An article posted on The Potting Shedder

Jog on...

In a recent charity run for Missing Persons, Mrs McCann said burglaryvictims might get help from the state, but added: "If your child goes missing or a family member goes missing sometimes you might not get anything."

Well done on completing the run, but I beg to differ.

From the residents and holidaymakers on the ground in Portugal to the translators and posters online, here are a few of the agencies and people who have contributed to help in the search to find Madeleine...

... Mark Warner ... Interpol ... World Embassies ...

... Translators ... CEOP ... Liaison Officers ... SOCA ... NPIA ...

... Scotland Yard ... Portuguese Tourist Board ... FSS ... FBI ...

... Criminologists ... Social Services ... Sniffer Dogs ...

Police forces from around the world including Poland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Malta, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Guardia and many more. Police forces within the UK including Exeter, Glasgow, Leicester West Yorkshire. Not to mention all of the Portuguese government/non governmental agencies and facilities at first hand. All areas were searched extensively, involving all squads of police, the army, Marine authorities in what was "the greatest search Portugal had ever seen".

There really are too many to mention. I like to be accurate, but it would take forever to compile the full list.

Add to that the huge amount of airtime and media coverage devoted to reporting, interviews and dedicated appeals. Jetsetting the world for free has allowed visits to places such as Washington, Morocco, Fatima and blessings from the Pope. Private ministerial meetings and advice from the best consultants. Police escorts and preferential first class treatment.

A private company created under the guise of a fund, has allowed a comprehensive team of lawyers to be hired and a mortgage to be paid. Well meaning people, including pensioners and children have donated to this fund. They wanted help find the child, unaware their money would be used in such a ill mannered fashion. To this day, the 'fund' is still misreported and believed by the more naive amongst us as a... charity. A charity it most certainly is not.

So, all in all, a very fair amount of worldwide help for infamous parents who apparently neglected their children and put their daughter in the position she now finds herself. Certainly can't be attributed to not getting anything.

All Kate McCann had to do was answer 48 questions to aid the investigation. She refused to answer all but one..

Q - Are you aware that the fact of your not answering the questions put to you jeopardise the investigation that was aimed at finding out what happened to your daughter.

She answered: "Yes, if the investigation thinks that."

Why? Her husband co-operated with the police. The age old excuse of 'incriminating oneself' just doesn't wash - what parent would refuse?

Comparing the help you may receive from the state when a person goes missing to a burglary really comes as no surprise. Did you know it can also be put on a par with your student overdraft?

Perhaps Mrs McCann should count her lucky stars that her family has received unprecedented support thus far. She should perhaps check her own insurance policy - leaving your valuables on show with unlocked doors really does entitle you to nothing.

** The 48 questions Kate McCann refused to answer, can be viewed on the BBC News website by clicking here.

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