Tracey Kandohla, Kate McCann's gym buddy, tells Sun readers where to find Amaral's book and documentary the McCanns want censored in the UK

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Cheers, Kate!

Not only does Tracey Kandohla tell her readers at the Sun where to find Gonçalo Amaral's book and youtube documentary that Kate and Gerry McCann want censored in the UK, but she no longer seems to want to moderate any comments that are not in the least supportive of her friends, the McCanns.

How times have changed. It would seem that the Press are now hanging the McCanns out to dry by finally allowing the other side of this sordid story to be told. Or maybe the papers just want their money back after the McCanns sued them?

Whatever the reason, it can only be good in the fight for justice for three year old Madeleine that the McCanns don't seem to be part of as they squander donated money on mortgage payments and expensive libel lawyers.

With friends like Ms Kandohla though, Kate, who needs enemies?


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2878185/kate-gerry-mccann-sue-video-blaming-maddies-disappearance/




Terry Curtis
@ Bella    There's a difference between stiff upper lip and a cold aloof presence enhanced with happy carefree laughing faces photographed just days after their daughter went missing.

"I can only assume there is a conspiracy to muddy the waters and lay the blame at their feet.."  I can't understand why you seem to deflect the bottom line in this case ( if you believe the official version). Those kids were left on their own by their parents. Dress it up as you like but they and only they are to blame here.*

* = obviously depends on whether you believe Kate McCann's original statement with jemmied shutters and opened windows which were soon dropped after the shutters were inspected and found undamaged, or the intruder came in through an open patio door ( the later version).
 Terry Curtis







"Amaral should go go to prison for a very long time....."     and your reason behind that  Geff Allen ? Please explain that Geff.
The fact that the man did his job and got too close to the truth ? Or was it his comments upset the McCann's search for Madeleine ? Have they started looking yet ?

Maybe you should think about the deception of their 'no stone unturned' fund which is in fact a limited company NOT a charity, paying for the McCann's mortgage and legal costs. Do you think the public donated for those reasons? Or you should consider the fact that the McCanns wanted to force Goncalo Amaral to get a divorce from his wife to separate his family's assets in order to split them up and seize any available monies for compensation.

The McCann's are the ones who should be going to prison for a very very long time. Their whole scenario has been one deceptive, lying charade from start to present, suckering in the public along the way and presenting themselves as poor, innocent parents. Looking at their laughing joyous faces just 3 days after Madeleine went missing, they looked anything but.
 Terry Curtis







It is long overdue that this shti Amaral should go to prison for a very very long time.. Good luck Jerry & Kate
 Terry Curtis







In jobs stifled by professional conduct and professional indemnity, insurance that silences any comment you want to make, and being Scottish, why on earth are people too thick to realise a stiff upper lip is not a crime.  I can only assume there is a conspiracy to muddy the waters and lay the blame at their feet, there are certainly enough abusers on this thread to suggest an investigation in to paedophile abductions is not something they wish to be pursued despite other instances of locals and police working together to conceal such crimes for their own ends.  







Terry Curtis







Of course they're responsible. Even if they didn't kill her they are responsible for leaving her alone thus allowing the abduction to take place!
Why would anyone shout "They've taken her" instead of "Maddie's missing" or "Maddies gone"?
Tanequil Smith







The McCanns are starting to believe their own lies I hope it is only a matter of time before they are in prison.
mark stephenson







The fourth picture in this story says everything to me!The way he is looking at her is like he is coaching her to be careful what she says!!!
Neil Allen







Why would they want to stop this book? they lost the court case now they want to take more legal action against this guy WHO WON IN COURT,  what have they got to hide.
mark stephenson







Have they given reasons for not taking the lie detector?I know if i was in their position,i would jump at the chance............If i had nothing to hide!!!!
tommy graham







The McCann's are hiding something ever time i see them i feel sick this couple should be in jail they need to come clean they should be made take the lie detector test
Neil Allen







The McCann's Left their children in their apartment alone why?, would you leave your children, NO,  they have got off very lightly by the Portuguese Government and this hopeless British Labour Government.
They are still suspects under Portuguese Law, Why?
Summer Rules







I think the whole of the UK should sue the McCann's in an effort to get them out of our Country. They are wrong-uns as far as I am concerned.

Stephanie Lloyd







This copper needs to stop!!!! He's had his 15 minutes of fame and is looking like a mug now! Now I have never been a fan of the McCanns as they did leave their children alone, and I do belive they need prosecuting.







david stacey







There's still time, Sun. Come over to those of us on Madeleines side. Don't make yourselves look stupid when the truth comes out.
Tim Sandham







They seem to love getting money any which way, whats the odds it all started when they sold maddie?? Greed is a terrible thing and nothing really has added up since the child went " missing"
Just confess to either selling or killing your child it'll all come out one day.
Maria leprevost







The Only Lunatics in this story are The Parents, One day the The Truth will come out and i just hope They Both  rot in hell!!!
Jenna Bates







Every time I see these so called parents my skin crawls. They voluntarily left their children alone to go and have a meal with their friends. The Tapas bar was able to cater to take away - why didnt they do that? Why couldn't they eat in the apartment with friends? If they wanted a nice drink and be merry adult holiday why weren't the children left at home with a relative?
If this has been a single mother or father or even a working class family, they would be hounded to the death but yet these two have managed to turn it into this great tale of devastation with themselves as the leading victims. I don't understand how.
I don't know what happened to Madeleine but I do know it was something to do with her parents. Sniffer dogs are unable to lie. Nothing at all about this whole thing has ever added up. Did they drug her so she didn't wake up and gave her too much? Did she wake, stumble and hit her head on the tiled floor? One day the truth will come out and it looks like it is all starting to unravel.







Neil Allen







@Jenna Bates Would you leave your baby' no so why did they?







Jenna Bates







Exactly. Our eldest daughter was one at the time of Madeleine's disappearance and our youngest daughter turned three the beginning of this year so the same age as Madeline when she "disappeared".
I would never leave either of them alone. I cannot for the life of me comprehend any way to reason it.
McKenzie32







The only lunatic conspiracy theories I've read have come from the McCann's camp. From day 1 I thought them guilty, at first admittedly just guilty of neglect for leaving such small children unattended but as the days, weeks, months and years have past by i have only become more convinced one of them or someone from the tapas 7 group done something very terrible to that little girl. The dogs don't lie, the police files of collective facts also do not lie. Maddie, the child they so longed for, was going to be given to someone else before this tragic night. I couldn't part with my Dog whom i love and adore so how is it possible they was willing to give up such a precious thing? Rubbish, everything they say is rubbish. Someone has some very big questions to answer over the way this couple have been protected. The sad thing is, we are unlikely to ever find the truth as if what I believe is true or even close to the truth, someone very high up in the british establishment has made all of this possible for them. What do you know Gerry? What do you know and who do you know through what activity Gerry? A lie detector test for both McCanns and David Payne please. I'll happily pay for all three.
AdamRoma







Where was @Paul Bennett on the day?? Someone who has expressed an un healthy interest in minors on this forum!!
Iain  McGregor







I can also not understand why the Media and Press has not hounded the McCann's to try and get to the facts of their daughter Madeline going missing, if this had been any other family the press and media would have hounded them to get to the truth when there is so many unanswered questions, one can only think that their friends in very high places has placed a no go area on the Media and press to protect their friends. But when someone comes out and comments like all of us on here they are outed and hunted down to ba named and shamed i.e Sky News and Brenda Leyland all to protect the McCann's and the truth coming out.







Andy Turner







@Iain McGregor the government have put a D notice on the media as the  McCann's are well in with the government thay need more money to keep the pedo ring or there so called friends   from squeaking 
Iain  McGregor







I have watched the video. it is based on facts from the Portuguese  investigation facts, just like Goncalo Amaral book, only reason the McCann's are planning to sue is that they can no longer sue Mr Amaral, I honestly think it is because both the book and video are too near the facts for the McCann's and yes the video does confirm that the McCann's and their friends were offered a lie detector test by the Portuguese Police which they all refused.







Chris Day







They should have NEVER left her and the other children unattended that was and is reckless parenting without question. In away they are responsible for neglect and being poor parents yes!  
Ron Wiseman







I have watched some of the documentaries on youtube and I can see why the McCanns want them banned as they raise some very large concerns about the McCanns themselves.
jbird65







A pair of vile leeches living of the blood of the daughter they murdered. I hope Karma has something truly exceptional in store for them.
Duncan Walker







These two people who are solely and wholly responsible for their child going missing have not only escaped all punishment for abandoning their children to go drinking but have somehow become the victims in this crime and have since made a career and huge sums of monet from it.
A single mother or family on benefits would not have been given the same treatment this well to do couple have in a million years they would have been shamed, pilloried and most definitely prosecuted for leaving their children from day one !
Yellow and Black







As I have said previously, they are the only couple we know who leaves their children alone to selfishly go out with friends and instead of being prosecuted they make hundreds of thousand of pounds and have a good jet setting life. Now they want to use this documentary to further feather their unsavoury nest. Disgusting couple
Frank brewer







until they do a lie detector i will always think they had some thing to do with it or now some thing they are not telling truth about  some thing sorry but that's what i think 







Rachael  Ainge







They were offered a lie detector but agreed to take it only if the results were admissible in court and only if it was 100% accurate, obviously their conditions made it impossible.
hayley neill







The McCann's again. Seriously if I see them or hear about them again I will scream. They are guilty as sin as we all know, sniffer dogs don't lie. Also who the hell leaves children alone on holiday so that makes them neglectful too but it's all ok because they are one of the elite so to speak and it gets covered up. Stop covering this vile pond filth scum already and I hope THEY ROT IN HELL. Also make them pay back the millions they've taken for their mortgage, oh sorry I forgot it was a search fund wasn't it







Dingo







SUN, take note, and take these parasites out of your paper, nobody believes them or supports them
Dog Breath







People in a hole should stop digging. Along with Clarence Mitchell they are an industry, they jump on every chance to keep the ball rolling. I feel sorry for the surviving children that whole family has built their identity over that poor little girl they lost through pure carelessness 10 years ago.
john macca







i agree with you i have never let my children out of my site but everyday of agony life sentence conspiracy theories etc i just feel pity for them must be going through hell day in day out

john macca







for gods sake leave these poor people alone they have suffered enough 








Sarah Barrett







Oh please. They have no one to blame but there selves. Even if they didn't kill her they still left 3 young kids alone in a foreign country so they could go out. They are to blame. If they didn't leave her, she would still be here. FACT

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO MADELEINE MCCANN? 60 reasons which suggest that she was not abducted



Not only have the McCanns tried, and failed, to ban Gonçalo Amaral's book "Maddie: The Truth of the Lie" and his documentary, they also banned this '60 Reasons' book, which can be read in its entirety on this link:

http://www.cwporter.com/mccann.htm

McCann spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, admits parents “sufficiently realistic” to admit Maddie “probably dead”


 natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

It’s the elephant in the room that media sources, up until now, have been carefully avoiding.

Page 38, clause 75 of the Supreme Court ruling that blew a massive hole in the plans of Madeleine McCann’s parents to block the book by former PJ coordinator Gonçalo Amaral - that suggests they essentially invented their daughter’s abduction - states that as early as October 2007 (only five months after the little girl went missing), the couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell “affirmed” that Kate and Gerry McCann “were sufficiently realistic to admit that their daughter was probably dead”.

In other words, nine months before Amaral even wrote the book that the couple claim “hampered the search” for their missing daughter, they were already “sufficiently realistic” to admit that the search would not bring her back to them.

This is another slow-burning stick of dynamite hidden in the lengthy court ruling that also highlighted the panel of judges’ conclusion that the McCanns “have not been proved innocent” in their daughter’s disappearance (click here).

It is not that the UK media has ‘missed’ the damning clause - the Daily Mail did in 2007 reveal that Madeleine’s father did not agree with it - but rather that it appears for now to be choosing to ignore it.
A source working for a several tabloids has been in touch with the Resident to find out if the clause was highlighted by Portuguese papers.

He reiterated his opinion that “the tide in UK is changing”.

But it hasn’t stopped the rehashing of some very old stories as if they were new.

The Daily Star’s this (Thursday) morning reports that the TVI documentary in which Amaral expounds his ‘theory’ that Madeleine died in a tragic accident in the holiday apartment has “appeared on the Internet in English after the couple spent nine years trying to ban it”.

The story claims Madeleine’s parents are “considering legal action”.

Read more:
http://portugalresident.com/mccann-spokesman-admits-parents-%E2%80%9Csufficiently-realistic%E2%80%9D-to-admit-maddie-%E2%80%9Cprobably-dead%E2%80%9D

Clarence Mitchell: "McCanns 10th year Maddie anniversary interviews being organised by Scotland Yard"



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2876843/kate-gerry-mccann-cashing-in-anniversary-maddies-disappearance/

MADELEINE McCann’s parents have slammed claims they are plotting to make hundreds of thousands out of the 10th anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance.

The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell shut down claims the couple are accepting huge fees for 10th anniversary media interviews.

He told The Sun Online: “They want to make it clear that they are not making any money out of Madeleine’s disappearance. Any claims are spurious nonsense but fits in with the Portuguese agenda.”
Kate and Gerry McCann, both 48, are bracing themselves for the heartbreaking milestone in less than three months and despite being bombarded with offers from across the world they have, so far, turned them all down.
As interest increases daily to clinch the sought-after decade deal by broadcasting and publishing giants, the family have admitted: “It’s crazy!”

Mitchell said: “Kate and Gerry have not decided on any media interviews surrounding the anniversary yet but if any deal is done it will be extremely limited and no payment will be involved.
“Any suggestion they will be paid is completely inaccurate and utter rubbish!”
Portuguese media have suggested former GP Kate and heart doctor Gerry, from Rothley, Leics., are set to receive 100,000 euros (£85,086) from British deals and 400,000 euros (£340,345) from American chats.

The couple are considering two pooled interviews in Britain, one for print through the country’s national agency Press Association and one for broadcasters.
Both are being organised through Scotland Yard, Mitchell explained. He said: “There will be no fee.”

The spokesman added: "The interest on the 10th anniversary has been vast, even crazy! Kate and Gerry have turned down down numerous offers of paid interviews in the past.
"But they have never accepted interview fees. They once accepted hospitality fees many years ago after travelling to America to appear on Oprah Winfrey, for flights and hotels.”
The only time Kate ever received any payment connected to Maddie’s disappearance in May 2007 - £1 million before tax – was from her own book simply entitled “Madeleine” and published in 2011.

She was also given a newspaper serialisation fee, which went straight into the Maddie pot – a Fund set up when the three-year-old first went missing with donations from the generous public and big-hearted celebrities to help pay for investigators to find her and bring her perpetrators to justice.
Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday villa in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.
The couple recently hit out at BBC1 drama The Moorside, which told the story of Shannon Matthews' abduction in 2008 - but repeatedly referenced Madeleine's disappearance.
A close friend of the couple said: “They are still doing the best they can while coping with the trauma of their daughter’s disappearance after nearly 10 years.
"Then a supposedly responsible broadcaster makes a programme about a bogus kidnap and brings Madeleine McCann into it. Kate and Gerry are naturally hurt and very perplexed."

CMOMM: http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t13577-sun-mccanns-slam-claims-they-are-cashing-in-on-anniversary-of-maddie-s-disappearance#356805

"Faking it - Tears of a Crime" - Will Kate and Gerry McCann want this Carter-Rucked too?

VIDEO Translated : Judges DESTROY McCanns - They should NOT be considered innocent! CMTV Rua Segura


CMTV Rua Segura Translated by Isabelle Maria McFadden
Host: Sara Carrilho


JUDGES DESTROY MCCANNS


They speak of “founded suspicions of a crime”

Portuguese Supreme Court destroys the parents of Madeleine McCann in accord where the court absolves Goncalo Amaral of indemnisation of 500k euros.
The document states that once the couple was made “Arguido” Suspect in a Criminal case the suspicions of crime are not discerned.(excused)
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Kate & Gerry McCann are destroyed in accord of the “Supremo Tribunal de Justica” where the ex coordinator of PJ is absolved from paying 500k euros to the girl’s parents who disappeared in May of 2007 in the Algarve.

In play the book “ Maddie The Truth of the lie” where Goncalo Amaral defends that the girl died in an accident and the body was hidden by the parent who then simulated an abduction.

The McCann Couple claim they were injured,the Judges responded as follows:
The Accused Goncalo Amaral expressed his opinion taking into account what in his opinion results from evidential means and indications collected during an open investigation, in virtue of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann on May 3rd, 2007

As a matter of fact, the accusers were themselves accused suspects in a criminal inquiry. Which implies founded suspicion of them having committed a crime or crimes

Kate & Gerry believe that the book is an attack on their honor and that it’s content results from the violation of professional secrecy on Goncalo Amaral’s part.

The counsel of Judges continue:
It is correct that the criminal inquiry ended up being archived, in virtue that none of the evidence that led to ruling McCanns as suspects being confirmed.However, even in the archiving report serious reservations are noted as to the likelihood of the allegation that Madeleine was abducted.
As far as the presumption of innocence invoked by the parents, the judges consider that it should NOT be said that the McCanns were considered innocent via the archival report of the Criminal Case

Such archival was determined by it not being possible of the “Ministerio Publico” to obtain sufficient evidence of the practice of crimes by the (recorrentes) McCanns

It does not seem acceptable for it to be considered that the said archival, founded on insufficiency of evidence , should be equivalent to comparison of Innocence.

The accord has 79 pages and it was posted on January 31st

MCCANNS 'GUTTED' (Daily Star 16 Feb 2017) - Legal attempt to try to remove TV show, uploaded to youtube April 2009, featuring Amaral from the internet...Carter-Ruck have been consulted



The McCanns are nearly 8 years late in trying to injunct this programme!

GETTY • PA
ACTION: Maddie McCann’s parents were last night considering legal action
The programme appeared on the internet in English after the couple spent nine years trying to ban it.

It was made in Portugal to accompany ex-detective Goncalo Amaral’s controversial book about the three-year-old’s 2007 disappearance.

In it Mr Amaral, 57, repeats claims about events in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.

Parents Kate and Gerry launched a legal bid for a lifelong gagging order on the show and book, and £1million in libel damages.

The couple, both 48, who believe their daughter was abducted and may still be alive, said his claim she was dead had hampered the search.

Both the programme and book were outlawed, and in 2015 Mr Amaral was ordered to pay them 500,000 euros (£430,000) in damages by a Portuguese judge.

But the award was overturned, and both the book and a DVD of the show are back in circulation.

The McCanns have been ordered to pay Mr Amaral’s legal costs, which could wipe out the fund set up to find their daughter.

He is said to be seeking a British publisher to release his book in the UK for the first time.

PH
TV SHOW: The programme appeared on the internet in English
Now the TV show has appeared on YouTube with an English voice-over.

Last night the McCanns’ lawyers, London libel specialists Carter-Ruck, were considering legal action.

The couple’s spokesman said: “Any potentially defamatory material found online will be reviewed and assessed by Kate and Gerry’s lawyers.”

During their legal battle against Mr Amaral one of the McCanns’ lawyers, Ricardo Correia Afonso, said in court: “His book is written like a novel and that’s exactly what it is.’’

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Anyone can read Amaral's book in English here: http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.co.uk/

And see the English voice-over programme they want banned, here:

This programme was uploaded to youtube on 30 April 2009. Which means the McCanns are nearly 8 years late in trying to injunct it.




KATIE HOPKINS: The McCanns hate Maddie being named in the same breath as Shannon Matthews. But were the two little girls really so very different?



KATIE HOPKINS: The McCanns hate Maddie being named in the same breath as Shannon Matthews. But were the two little girls really so very different? 

By Katie Hopkins for MailOnline

PUBLISHED: 15:40 GMT, 10 February 2017 | UPDATED: 16:42 GMT, 10 February 2017

It was only to be expected, I suppose.

Following the BBC dramatisation of the fake kidnap of Shannon Matthews, inevitably the first couple out of the gates for comment were the McCanns.

A source close to the family is said to have told the press the drama is appalling and insensitive.
Well here’s a new idea for the McCanns: this time it’s not all about you. This is not your story to tell.
This is about the tragic life of another little girl: Shannon. 

A little girl born into nothing, treated as nothing and finally freed to be something after her own mother was arrested.
This is the sort of neglect we associate with mums who cash in kids for benefits, like coupons in a store.
And here’s another new idea for Gerry and Kate: this coverage does not smell slightly strangely of roses. This is unsanitised, and it pongs a bit.
And that seems to be at the heart of the issue: the McCanns resent them and their parenting being spoken about in the same conversation as Karen Matthews.
Detectives think Matthews settled on the idea of kidnap after seeing how much money poured into the McCann fund and the amount of press attention Kate and Gerry received.
While publisising her daughter's disapearrence Matthews (pictured) used a random teddy taken from Shannon’s bed
It mimiced the Maddie Cuddle Cat that Kate (pictured) used to carry around with her
While publisising her daughter's disapearrence Matthews (pictured left) used a random teddy taken from Shannon’s bed to mimic the Maddie Cuddle Cat that Kate (pictured right) used to carry around with her
She even used a random teddy taken from Shannon’s bed to mimic the Maddie Cuddle Cat that Kate used to carry around with her.
Is that teddy her favourite? Probably, Karen said. Not quite ringing true.
Kate’s Cuddle Cat never quite rang true for me either. If someone took my lovely baby away, I would put Cuddle Cat under my pillow every night to be close to the baby I lost. Not wash its memories away.

Kate put it in the washing machine just days after Maddie vanished into the night.
Karen Matthews copied Kate McCann’s appeal almost word for word when she shed her crocodile tears for the press: 'I need her home. If anyone's got my beautiful princess, bring her home.’
Kate’s sentiments coming out of Karen’s mouth. Kate’s Cuddle Cat, Karen’s brown teddy. Kate and Karen. Matthews and McCann. Clear parallels being drawn.
It’s possible Karen was also influenced by an episode of Shameless, which featured a fake kidnap and aired a few weeks before Shannon was stuffed away, drugged, under a bed.
Karen Matthews had no shame. A complete absence of the stuff.
Her own sister says she taped plastic bags to her babies’ bottoms to save buying nappies.

Detectives say she had so many different relationships with so many different men that when the police built up a family tree it had more branches than Tescos, with 300 names on it.

This same absence of shame allowed her to sacrifice a daughter into the ‘keeping’ of a man whose own daughters had been taken into care after he allegedly made them watch him have sex with a prostitute.

However, I’m not sure the McCanns can so easily set themselves apart.

Would you choose to leave your children in the hands of the monster you know — or all alone and take your chance with the devil you don’t?

Which mother was more desperate: the one with nothing and no hope of ever having anything, or the one with friends waiting at the tapas bar by the pool?

The search for Maddie cost around £12 million. The hunt for Matthews around £3.2 million

What is clear is that in both cases the public has paid a price for these decisions. The search for Maddie cost around £12 million. The hunt for Matthews around £3.2 million.

Karen Matthews is clearly guilty of this huge waste. And has paid for it, to some extent, with four years in prison and a pretty uncertain future.

We are told she is now receiving death threats as a whole new generation has been appalled by this monster of a mother.

You might say, for Karen, justice has been served.But the matter of guilt or innocence is never far from the front door of the McCanns.

This week the Portuguese Supreme Court judges made clear that the archiving of the criminal case into Maddie’s disappearance did not mean Kate and Gerry were innocent. There is a significant and not merely a semantic difference, they said.

What does justice look like for the McCanns?

Perhaps we can agree Karen Matthews is a monster. But some kind of monsters came for Maddie at night. She was lost because she was left to be found. Shannon Matthews was born lost, and desperately needed to be found.

Shameless or desperate? The monster you know or the devil you don’t? Rich or poor? Better or worse? Justice or just deserts? These are hard calls to make.

Two very different families.

Two very different children yet, strangely, uncomfortably connected.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4212368/KATIE-HOPKINS-Madeleine-McCann-Shannon-Matthews-link.html#ixzz4YIpflaZ2


Only one complaint made to Ofcom...and we can guess who that was, can't we Kate?

CMTV Debate on the Supreme Court Ruling and the Maddie Case


https://joana-morais.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/cmtv-debate-on-supreme-court-ruling-and.html

CMTV Debate on the Supreme Court Ruling and the Maddie Case

by Joana Morais 4 hrs ago

"Nonetheless, even in the archiving dispatch serious reservations are made about the verisimilitude (reality of)
of the allegation that Madeleine had been abducted."

Short debate on the Portuguese Supreme Court ruling and the Maddie case. Rua Segura is a daily TV show broadcast by CMTV, presented by Sara Carrilho, where criminal and current issues are debated and analysed. On this episode the program had as guests Carlos Anjos, former PJ inspector and former head of the Criminal Investigation Officers' Union and Manuel Rodrigues, former PJ Chief Inspector. The first two minutes are basically the same as the article published by Correio da Manhã "Judges demolish McCanns' innocence".

Sara Carrilho - Manuel Rodrigues, there isn't another way to say it, the Supreme Court of Justice was implacable (scathing, adamant) with the McCann couple.

Manuel Rodrigues - I have no idea what to call it, if implacable if something else. What I think, is that probably for the very first time in many years, the Supreme Court treated an issue that is a recurrent problem in criminal processes, in a remarkably clear manner and also educational. In other words, we have several people going around, freely, involved in criminal processes, in respect to the parents it wasn't possible, despite the numerous indications that were gathered, extremely varied of all sorts, to substantiate the evidence. And then there is the principle of in dubio pro reo (Lat. when in doubt, for the accused), so in those situations the Courts cannot convict, as such the criminal processes are archived. So we have, excuse my expression, plenty "caramelo" (cocky, brazen-faced), claiming they are innocent, knowing full well that they committed crimes, that they have stolen thousands if not millions, in short, committed crimes all types...

Carlos Anjos - Of all types, we all know they have committed those crimes.

Manuel Rodrigues - Exactly, everyone knows and they themselves know it too, but Justice doesn't work with assumptions. Justice works with substantiations of evidence and sometimes that is not possible. And it's not possible not because the investigation was poorly done, inadequately performed, defectively investigated, no! At times the complexities of criminal matters are to a such degree that despite the evidence, it's just not possible.

Sara Carrilho - In this particular case for example, there wasn't a reconstruction of the crime because there were no witnesses.

Manuel Rodrigues - That's where I wanted to go. Besides the Supreme Court very clear message when saying "Hold your horses. Just because the process was archived, no one said that you are innocent!", and this was said for the first time by someone with authority in Justice, clarifying and bringing this argument to a closure. In addition, they went beyond by saying that many of these problems would have been resolved, possibly the process (criminal case) would have had a conclusion, if only the lack of attendance of the witnesses hadn't scuppered an investigative step that was crucial and was never possible to do, and that was the reconstruction of the crime. That whole group involved in this situation, some of which who might eventually not be good characters, they all disappeared, they all got a ticket and got away. And when it was asked for them to comeback, because they were needed to do the reconstruction, no one came back. Now, everything has turned into a soap opera, but with few stars, with those that are not worthy of being followed, there are very unsavoury games in the midst of all this, there are protections that have never been explained. The media, in my opinion, never did a good job, or rather, failed in what was likely the most important thing to do during all this time, that was to verify the past of the group, understand the connections and the reasons behind the protections, the media has never got to the bottom of those issues. I do not want to go on for very much longer, except to say this: for me, this ruling by the Supreme Court is a piece that should be framed and should be displayed to the general populace.

Sara Carrilho - Wasn't that work made by the police? Of finding the background information of this group?

Manuel Rodrigues - We're making an error of appreciation on this issue. The police has to investigate this crime, and prove this crime. Obviously there were background checks of this group, evidently some conclusions were reached, conclusions which have already been widely mentioned, also in this program, the most diverse: that the group eventually engaged in swinging, others in cha-cha-chá, or another type of music, it doesn't matter. All these are parallel processes to the crime itself. It was also said that in that group there were people that were paedophiles, that had connections to...

Carlos Anjos - Secret Services.

Manuel Rodrigues - (nods affirmatively) So, all this should have been thoroughly scrutinized, instead of saying that Gonçalo Amaral ate grilled sardines or...

Carlos Anjos - That he drunk whisky, or whatever.

Manuel Rodrigues - This are fait divers (anecdotes) to cause noise and disturb the investigation, and sadly we have reached this point now where there is a child missing since 2007, and we still don't know precisely what happened to her.

Sara Carrilho - This year marks the ten years since her disappearance. In relation to this ruling, Carlos Anjos, the message that has been sent out is that the lack of evidence can never be equated to innocence.

Carlos Anjos - Of course, that happens in all processes, like Manuel said, there are many 'fine' people that think that when a process is archived because the crime wasn't proved... One thing is when the judges rule "the defendant is acquitted because he did not commit the crime", this is an exoneration but when they aren't convicted because the indicia didn't develop into sufficient proof for an accusation that doesn't mean an absolution. This is the reason why I agree with Manuel, this ruling is sublime, it's without any doubts one of the best legal pieces that I have read recently in terms of quality. Also in the way that presents the problems and explains them in a clear and easily understandable way. We have a case where a man was constituted as an arguido and didn't provide a statement, any man that has his child missing wouldn't care about giving statements (to the police), if my son disappeared I wouldn't care if they suspected me, they could even arrest me as long as they would find my child, it wouldn't be because they had suspicions that I would refuse to give a statement. There is one thing that we know by reading the statements of the whole group, is that they all lied, lied through their teeth, because there isn't a single statement between those 7 or 8 people that were there that night that matches with one another.

Sara Carrilho - And the only reconstruction done so far, was by CMTV that reveals those exact incongruences.

Carlos Anjos - Yes, when they went back to England they were questioned and again they had conflicting versions. When invited to come back, with paid expenses, none of them came back, not even the McCanns, the parents of the child. This reconstruction would have solved, one way or another, those questions. On top of that, they accused Gonçalo Amaral of breaching the professional secrecy, what breach of professional secrecy? When Gonçalo Amaral wrote the book the process was already in the public domain, it was no longer under judicial secrecy, and the CD's (containing a digital copy of the process) had already be given to numerous people.

Sara Carrilho - They themselves talked several times, the door had already been open.

Carlos Anjos - That is also another point, they accused Amaral of writing the book for profit, I am absolutely certain that Amaral would swap the earnings from his book for a single interview the McCanns gave throughout the world, namely when they went to Oprah. I'm sure he would swap it, and that would have solved all the problems of a life time. If there was someone in this case that profited, it's disputable to understand who that was, but if you ask me I think that Gonçalo Amaral when he wrote the book, he retired from the police to write the book, while we are still to this day talking about the money the McCanns will earn from the 10th anniversary interviews, because we are talking about their daughter, we are not talking about the daughter of Gonçalo Amaral. Therefore, there is a plan, which from an ethical standpoint, concerning the way they have used the child's disappearance is difficult to understand. Another thing, the McCanns have spoken substantially more about their daughter's disappearance without saying anything significant, they should have explained where they have spent the funds, everyone contributed the Maddie fund. Or even the English government - the protection Manuel was talking about earlier, why did they give 15 million euros to a single investigation, that is almost the operational budget of the Judiciary Police for one year. And England is the European country where more children go missing, children that don't have a tenth of what the English government has invested on this case. Despite everything, for the very first time in this process someone dotted the i's and crossed the t's, because what the McCanns wanted was a certificate that they were innocent and had nothing whatsoever to do with the case. This ruling tell us that the abduction theory is far-fetched.

Sara Carrilho - Ten years later what is certain is that we still don't know...

Carlos Anjos - Ten years later, at least some Justice was done, it was proved that the abduction of the child is highly unlikely.

Sara Carrilho - In relation to the whereabouts of the child, we still don't know where she is and ten years have passed.

Broadcast by CMTV, Rua Segura Se.17 EP.28 February 9, 2017

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