Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. Excerpts from the book by Gonalo Amaral, who believes that Madeleine McCann died inside the apartment at Praia da Luz. Madeleine would have been happily playing with her brother and sister, her friends in the Lobsters club, and her Mum and Dad for six days. The body, the existence of which has been confirmed by the EVRD and CSI dogs but also by the results of the preliminary laboratory analyses, cannot be found. There are two different versions of who made the booking, which in itself is strange. The 17 alerts by two cadaver dogs, used by dog top handler Martin Grime, to the odour of a corpse and to blood or body fluids, in locations associated with the McCanns or on their clothes, is prima facie evidence that Madeleine died (or was killed) in the McCanns holiday apartment. The reason given by the McCanns and their friends for making this booking is even stranger. All of these circumstances simply serve to confirm the alerts of the dogs and show that the McCanns account of events was not correct and that Madeleine was NOT abducted. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. This issue was very fully addressed in Richard D. Halls third film about Madeleine McCann: When Madeleine Died? Without necessarily agreeing with every specific point he makes in that documentary, we adopt his main conclusions, so far as they go. Again there are many instances in history where large groups of people who know about a serious crime work together to keep the crime a secret. Madeleine McCann's parents have welcomed news that a German man has been formally made a suspect over the three-year-old's disappearance. As a Netflix documentary sparks new interest in the case, we look at the v ontradictory stories about which of them read the children a story on the Thursday evening. It seems unlikely. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. We suggest, given what we know, that there are two main possibilities: A deliberate violent act against her (not necessarily by one of the McCanns) , or. In such a scenario, how likely is it that all six friends would have agreed within, say, 5-10 minutes that they would all play their roles in a fake abduction? (iv) Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? Jane would need to have a believable description to give to the police. (v) Would we be investigated by the police? She had a pink hair bead on her. It was Wojchiech Krokowski, a man from Poland on holiday with his wife for the week. avares de Almeida and Goncalo Amaral suggested Madeleine might have had an accident, perhaps a fall, and been killed as a result of that fall - after about 6pm on Thursday 3 May. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: (iii) Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? We refer here to a masterly study of issues concerning Madeleines pyjamas by Dr Martin Roberts. She claimed in her statement that the crying she heard was that of a child more than two - but no-one can distinguish between the cry of a two-year-old (the McCanns twins) and three-year-old (Madeleine). He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. Chapter 3: Announcement of a disappearance: The fi. We do not think it was. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. 7. She said she spoke to a friend of hers, Edna Glyn, while the crying was going on, but neither of them did anything about it. New research in this section points to Madeleine's death being on the Sunday or Monday and not Thursday 3rd May. 3. The initial DNA samples taken from the body fluids discovered in the McCanns apartment and in their car showed a 99.99% certainty that they belonged to Madeleine McCann. We find this a curious incident. It was the strong conviction of Dr Goncalo Amaral and his team of investigators that, based largely on the evidence of Catriona Baker, Madeleine was alive and present at a high tea at the Tapas restaurant on 3 May 2007. They then said that the samples could have been from Madeleine but also that this could not be stated with any certainty. In April, Portuguese police arrived in the United Kingdom to observe questioning conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' dinner guests on the night Madeleine vanished. After Dr Amaral was removed as the investigation co-ordinator in October 2007, he was replaced by Paulo Rebelo. In our view the involvement of Robert Murat in this case is another significant pointer to Madeleine having died on the Sunday. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger. They even got the German police to search the plane for Madeleine at Berlin Airport. There are too just many sightings of Madeleine all week; all those people cant be mistaken. Its Head of Risk, Alex Woolfall flew there the very next day (4 May) and he was later joined by another top Director of the company. They would surely have to have a meeting about it at the very time they were all getting the children ready for bed and beginning to dress up for dinner. It follows from all that we have said above that, if Madeleine did indeed die on Sunday 29 April, those who knew she had died must have carefully planned an audacious hoax over a period of four days, so cunning and clever that most people still believe that she was abducted. We do not believe there is enough evidence to define one way or the other. Thats 24 times as much time to think, plan and carry out a hoax abduction. German authorities believe they have evidence that Madeleine McCann is dead. (as indeed they did so claim). Never being seen out together with the twins from Monday onwards. No satisfactory explanation for this has ever been provided. . By Reuters. Friday 22 April 2022, 9:14am. The minor, Madeleine McCann died inside apartment 5A of the Ocean Club in Vila da Luz, on the night of May 3rd 2007; If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? In addition to all these considerations, for Martin Grimes cadaver dogs to have alerted to the scent of a corpse, no longer present, some three months after the McCanns had vacated their holiday apartment, Madeleines body must have been lying in the McCanns apartment for at least 90 minutes, probably two hours or longer. Gerry McCann - statement 10th May 2007 [3] They continued with searches outside, around the various apartment blocks, the deponent having asked MATTHEW to go to the secondary reception in order to communicate the fact to the local police, since he had no doubt that his daughter had been abducted. We have set out why we believe that Madeleine died, and why she could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, as claimed by Portuguese detectives. Doubtful or contradictory stories about what they did with Madeleine after Sunday, for example: Claiming to have gone on a trip to the beach with the children one day - despite the creche records saying the children were in their creches at the time and promoting stories about things that she had allegedly said or done, Contradictory stories about an alleged incident of the children crying at night-time: on Thursday: (a) it was the twins (b) it was Madeleine (c) it was Madeleine and Sean and (d) it was Amelie on the Wednesday not the Thursday. and claimed that she had been abducted by a paedophile gang. The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. The Madeleine McCann Research Group (MMRG) was set up in 2009, around the time that I created what was to become the most popular Madeleine McCann discussion forum on the internet: The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann (CMOMM). From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse). An ex-pat living in Spain, Jon Clarke, had created a successful newspaper for ex-pats, the Olive Press. Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of the missing 4-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, hold up a picture of Madeleine during a press conference on June 6, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Portugal. Kate reminiscent of the death of Princess Diana in 1997.Her parents . In addition, the Portuguese police appear to have received the images on a black-and-white program which only reproduced them as grainy greyscale images which made them very difficult to analyse. No body has ever been found. It would also be consistent with the apartment having been forensically cleansed before the alarm was raised and Madeleines clothes and other items having been removed or disposed of. Here are our main reasons: The change of routines from Sunday night onwards and the absence of independent and corroborated sightings of Madeleine from then onwards (see above). It was very early - Madeleine might very well have been found alive and well later that Friday - but on that very day, many media editors immediately despatched reporters to Praia da Luz. Or quickly nip round and knock on their doors. British girl Madeleine McCann went missing at the age of three while on holiday with her family in Portugal in 2007. . Quite why the British Embassy would promote Murat to do this job is uncertain, unless he had a significant prior connection with the Embassy, and was co-operating with them in some way. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. A preliminary point to raise is: were the twins present when, according to the PJ theory, Madeleine died? Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. These and a number of other considerations about Robert Murat lead us to think that he was summoned to Portugal during Monday 30 April because something serious had happened to Madeleine the previous day, and that his help was needed to cover this up. There is good evidence that the so-called Last Photo of Madeleine was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April and not at lunchtime on Thursday 3 May as claimed by the McCanns. A suspect in the Madeleine McCann case who may have sexually assaulted five British girls in the Algarve up to 10 years ago died in 2009, according to a source close to . He kept pestering the police with plausible suggestions about lines of enquiry that they should be following. Madeleine could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May. Some suggest that maybe the body wasnt hidden before 8.30pm, but lay there while they were eating, with someone - presumably Gerry McCann later carrying his dead daughter to a temporary or final resting place somewhere after that. Robert Murat was a well-known long-term resident of Praia da Luz, his mother having lived there for much of her life, 3. Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse) after 6pm on 3 May as The PJ Theory. http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t11921-was-madeleine-seen-after-sunday-no-credible-evidence-that-she-was-watch-the-video? BERLIN Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is dead, Germany's prosecutor said on Thursday after identifying an imprisoned German child abuser as a murder suspect. Lourenco had evidently. Even had they all rapidly agreed to go along with an abduction hoax later that evening at 10pm, there would be all manner of questions and suggestions. There would then have to be a rapid decision-making process during which all the following decisions would have to be taken: Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger subsidiary company, Resonate, had flown out to help Mark Warner just days before, possibly on Monday 30 April. Immediately following the reported disappearance of Madeleine, the holiday company who arranged the holiday, Mark Warner, brought their PR company, Bell Pottinger, to Praia da Luz. Look at the analysis of these sightings by HideHo that we referred to above. We do not think it was. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. 29, 11 Jun 2020; Link "It is now important to present a summary of this case, based on our deductions: reject what is false, throw out what we can't show with sufficient certainty and validate that which can be proven. Getty Images. German prosecutors said they have "strong evidence" that missing UK toddler Madeleine McCann is dead, as . He notes, as Kate McCann herself admits, that she washed Madeleines pyjamas on the morning of 3 May. A very strange photo of Madeleine was published two years after Madeleine was reported missing. Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April We have set out why we believe that Madeleine died, and why she could not have died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, as claimed by Portuguese detectives. He was contacted by one of Britains mainstream press in the early hours of the morning, before the media storm broke at about 8am on the Friday morning. The photograph of Madeleine McCann, Dr Gerry McCann and Amelie, taken by the Ocean Club pool, which was clearly taken on Sunday 29 April 2007 and not on 3 May 2007 as claimed by the McCanns. If we stop and pause for a moment to consider the above list, it is truly hard to conceive how they could possibly have made all these decisions, and carried them out, whilst all sitting down together for dinner in a public place at about 8.30pm until 10pm as if nothing had happened. We also need to bear in mind that on the basis of the PJ theory as it stands, this was a holiday to a place the McCanns had never been to before. Catriona Baker also had a holiday at the McCanns home a few months after Madeleine was reported missing, suggesting a close relationship between them.. All of these, we say, are wholly consistent with something very serious having happened to Madeleine McCann on the Sunday. That theory would require Gerry McCann to have made an extremely risky, not to say crass, decision to walk for some 15 or 20 minutes across the village, carrying his dead daughter, at the very moment that his wife and/or others was raising the alarm. Thu 20 Mar 2014 18.35 EDT. He kept pestering the police with plausible suggestions about lines of enquiry that they should be following. Photograph: PA. Amaral released his book, The Truth of the Lie, three days after the Portuguese attorney general decided to end the search for . When the film was published, the McCanns claimed she had been playing with Mummys make-up box, but that story didnt stand up to scrutiny. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. What indications do we have about when she died? 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