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Correio da Manhã, 13 Oct 2007

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=261553&idselect=10&idCanal=10&p=200

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1192169634&page=9 post #126

McCanns continue to be "irritated" with the press

Exams Delayed

The two British police officers, who during four months accompanied every single step of the PJ investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, are no longer in Portugal. They left our country after Kate and Gerry were made arguidos and returned to Rotheley, since the investigation had entered a phase of evidence collection, where their daily involvement was no longer necessary.

Because of this, the exam results which will be sent by the Birmingham Laboratory, England, from which were taken samples in August, will no longer be hand delivered, but instead via diplomatic means.

These results will be delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Business who will then deliver them to the Justice Ministry. Only afterwards will the results be sent to the PJ which, meanwhile, knows them firsthand. Since they are coming in sealed envelopes and the fact that they are taking this route it is not possible [for them] to be seen by others. According to what CM could discover, the authorities have great expectations for these results. Most of them were collected in the apartment and the car used by the McCanns and could reinforce the theory of a homicide, negligent (conscient), defended by the PJ.

In these vestiges, which have a major importance due to the quantity of information that they could possess, are the hairs. The exams done will verify whether they belong to a living person or a cadaver, being possible from that to create a genetic profile of the person in question.

Parallel to the arrival of the results, PJ is also concentrating on a "re-reading" of the process. Paulo Rebelo, the new director of Portimão, has asked assistance from six members of PJ Lisbon (two of them from the homicide team) to suggest diligences and to try to find new data in the more than ten volumes that comprise the inquiry into the child's disappearance.

(continues with info on biological fatherhood and other items that I haven't read yet. if anyone is interested, I can translate when I get back from a meeting later this afternoon)

**Check back later for more....if I can get a stupid connection***
 
in 24Horas this morning (tabloid alert):

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/mostranews.php?id=7806

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=37 post #551

PJ will have to wait further for the report from Birmingham

DNA evidence will only arrive next week

The much-awaited DNA tests that may certify that Maddie was transported dead in the McCanns' car should only arrive in Portugal early next week, 24Horas could find out with a source at the Policia Judiciaria.

The final report from the Forensic Sciences Lab in Birmingham will come through diplomatic bag. First it will be sent to the Foreign Office and then to the Ministery of Justice, as a PJ source explained.

Only after these bureaucratic moves will the report reach the hands of the Judiciaria. But the PJ has already been informed, over the phone, about a part of the results and knows these to confirm the involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in their daughter's disappearance.

Yesterday, 24Horas was surprised as several British newspapers - 'Daily Telegraph', 'The Sun', 'Daily Star' and 'Evening Standard' - published the following non-existing statement from 24Horas' Justice editor, Luis Fontes: "The story is absolutely true. Our sources are rock solid. If they think they can sue us, then go ahead".

This statement is completely false, as it was never made.
 
New Search in Reservoir and Forest:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/14/nmaddy114.xml

A vast reservoir near to the town where Madeleine McCann went missing is set to be trawled as police relaunch an active search for her.

. . . A search is also expected of the dense woodland and isolated dwellings around the reservoir - known locally as Barragem da Bravura, literally the Reservoir of the Wilderness - which leading detective Paulo Rebelo believes was not combed carefully enough in the days following the four-year-old's disappearance.

According to Portuguese newspaper the Correio Da Manha, the "meticulous" Rebelo has ordered his reinforced team to pay "special attention" to the area around the jagged reservoir, which has a 25 mile perimeter, and is 15 miles from Luz.

Sites to the south of the Ocean Club where the McCanns and their friends stayed, including Luz and Burgau beaches, are also to be "fine combed" by inspectors, who will particularly focus on spots where the British group used their mobile telephones.
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in 24Horas this morning (tabloid alert):

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/mostranews.php?id=7806

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=37 post #551

PJ will have to wait further for the report from Birmingham

DNA evidence will only arrive next week

The much-awaited DNA tests that may certify that Maddie was transported dead in the McCanns' car should only arrive in Portugal early next week, 24Horas could find out with a source at the Policia Judiciaria.

The final report from the Forensic Sciences Lab in Birmingham will come through diplomatic bag. First it will be sent to the Foreign Office and then to the Ministery of Justice, as a PJ source explained.

Only after these bureaucratic moves will the report reach the hands of the Judiciaria. But the PJ has already been informed, over the phone, about a part of the results and knows these to confirm the involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in their daughter's disappearance.

Yesterday, 24Horas was surprised as several British newspapers - 'Daily Telegraph', 'The Sun', 'Daily Star' and 'Evening Standard' - published the following non-existing statement from 24Horas' Justice editor, Luis Fontes: "The story is absolutely true. Our sources are rock solid. If they think they can sue us, then go ahead".

This statement is completely false, as it was never made.
 
Correio da Manha today:

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=261794&idselect=181&idCanal=181&p=0

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=37 post # 553

148 computers inspected
Maddie searched for within paedophilia

The faces of hundreds of children are blurred on paedophilia sites, but Judiciaria's experts used special software to reconstitute blond girls, with ages and characteristics that resemble Maddie's, in another dismissalof leads within the search of the English girl. 148 computers that had been apprehended all over the country on Tuesday were thoroughly searched - and once more, nothing was found.

The theory of death inside the apartment in Praia da Luz is still the top priority for the PJ, with the Portimao team now reinforced with six experienced inspectors - four of which in the area of violent crime. But it is obligatory that all possibilities "are kept open" in the inquiry phase, as the national director, Alipio Ribeiro, has remembered.

CM knows that operation 'Predator' was being prepared for over six months, through an investigation that could count on information from Interpol, and which is completely unrelated with the Maddie case. But given the fact that the 148 computers had been seized from all over the country, from 80 potential sex predators, the search for the English child among hundreds of files containing movies and photographs ended up being "a logical consequence".

The goal was to search for girls that were the approximate age and had "physiognomical traces" that were similar to Maddie's - but among hundreds of images, CM knows that none of the victims was the English child that disappeared on May 3.

Most of the children that are used by paedophile rings on the internet "have their faces blurred out", according to our sources, as well as their abusers. That was the case of the foreign paedophile whose photo Interpol circulated last week, but from which the authorities managed to recover the original image - using image processing software that allows to reconstruct the modified face.

Bloody footprints make no sense at all

A footprint that carried blood residues was allegedly found at the exit of one of the bedrooms in the apartment where Madeleine was sleeping, British weekly 'Mail on Sunday' advanced, but CM has found out that this is not true. The tabloid says that the partial print is from a right foot, size 38-39, which is "a senseless novelty" for sources that are connected to the process.

PJ was at the Ocean Club apartment during two phases of the investigation - first in May and then on late July and August - and at none of these moments did the experts detect any adult footprint with residues.

Anyway, the newspaper says it's "these two pieces of evidence" - the other one is a residue found on the car - that are at the base of the suspicions on the McCann couple. "It's these two prints, which had not been revealed until today [yesterday], that make them suspects in the disappearance of their daughter".

"The latest tests that were performed by the Forensic Science Service point to a 'reasonable' hypothesis that the blood belongs to Madeleine, but the results are inconclusive".

This happened on the day that 'News of the World' discovered a theory for Kate to have run screaming that someone had taken her daughter: "Maddie's shape lying in bed was imprinted on her bedsheets" and the mother immediately noticed that detail.

(...)
 
October 16
Excerpts:
“She said last night ‘If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic’,” Madeleine’s grandmother, Susan Healy, told the ECHO today."

"Susan says: “I don’t go onto the internet, but I know some people will get pleasure from picking up on, and discussing, the negative side of things – however, it’s hard enough for us to read that people are convinced Madeleine is dead.”


She adds: “There are obviously different types of people in the world, but I think the good outweigh the bad.”


http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/live...le-would-be-more-sympathetic-100252-19959495/

People discussing anything that is negative towards McCanns = "bad" people :boohoo:
 
Today, for the first time, I see a report that the shoeprint is the size that Kate McCann wears. FSS is saying that they have not examined any shoeprint from the Renault. Perhaps the PJ did that, since it does not contain blood & could be inspected & matched for patterns w. ordinary methods. Why would Kate rather than Gerry be the one to put a body into the wheel well?
 
The parents of Madeleine McCann have said they accept the four-year-old may now be dead.

Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Kate and Gerry are realistic enough to know that there is a probability she is dead.

"They have not given up hope that she is still alive and is being looked after somewhere.

"But human nature is that you always fear the worst and they need to know what has happened."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1288710,00.html
 
in 24Horas this morning (10/16):

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/mostranews.php?id=7842

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=38 Post #555

Homicide brigade reinforces Maddie team

PJ going strong in the Algarve

Policia Judiciaria (PJ) will reconfirm every step they made during the investigation into the case of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared on May 3 from Praia da Luz, in Portimao [sic], in the Algarve, as 24Horas could establish with judicial sources. Paulo Rebelo, the new case coordinator, will also perform changes on the team, in order to try to obtain "a new vision on the case", a PJ senior officer said.

"After months and months working on a case, it's natural that people become tired and focus only on one vision of the facts. The purpose of renovating the team is in obtaining other clues and new investigation leads".

The same source admitted this is no easy task: "For now, we'll concentrate our efforts into the detailed analysis of all pieces of evidence that were already collected, as the tests that were requested from the Birmingham lab are not all in our hands, yet. We are almost certain that Maddie suffered an accident in the Ocean Club apartment, but we need conclusive evidence, which may appear at any moment."

"It's a rather meticulous work. The new team will have to follow all leads. From sequestration, through the sexual predator, pure and simple accident, concealment of the cadaver, and also through an eventual crime, comitted by the present suspects. It is all going to be thoroughly reviewed again", said another source that is connected to the investigations.

Yesterday, no diligences were made on the terrain by PJ members, yet.

Such investigations are to be performed during this week. The team that is connected to the investigations into Maddie's disappearance will be reinforced. Not only by members of the PJ's Homicide Brigade, but also with employees from the Scientific Police Lab.

The theory of an accident and concealment of the cadaver is still the one that has been most consistent within the PJ's investigations.
 
in Correio da Manha this morning:

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=261991&idCanal=10

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=38 post#556

Decision: more apprehensions waiting for analyses
Judge attends analysis of Gerry's computer

Judge Pedro Frias has authorized the Policia Judiciaria team to open the personal computer that was used by Gerry McCann during the months he spent in the Algarve, as CM has established, but under the condition that the computer analyses are only performed in the presence of the Portimao Court's magistrate himself.

The purpose is to catch the entire flow of electronic mail and all the information that was searched for in the various sites that Madeleine's father consulted - and the machine's history, as well as the computer register, will be thoroughly searched over the coming days.

The same Criminal Instruction judge had already authorized the apprehension of personal items from the couple, including Kate's diary, but the rogatory letters with the intervention requests for the English authorities - including the questioning of seven friends of the couple that were also spending their holidays at the Ocean Club - have not been sent to England yet, as CM established yesterday.

The letters have been concluded by the PJ some time ago, but they are pending at the Public Ministery, who will only send them when they think it's adequate, through the Procuradoria Geral da Republica. And this impass is apparently due to the expectation on the arrival of the final results from the Birmingham laboratory - which is foreseen for the coming days and which could change the direction of proceedings that are to be adopted by the PJ.

Yesterday, the British press continued to point to information leaks from the Forensic Science Service, describing the residues that were found in the Renault Scenic that was rented by the McCanns as being cadaver bodily fluids found on a carpet, according to the online edition of the 'Daily Mail', but officially no results arrived at the PJ until yesterday.

For now, all that is left for the Portuguese authorities to do is to focus on the investigation ends they still control - analysing the laptop computer and reconstituting the process, which is now in the hands of the team of Paulo Rebelo, the PJ's coordinator.

Still pending are the public statements about the case, which were the intention of judge Pedro Frias, but were rejected by the Superior Council of Magistrates.

Experts analyse children on the internet

The 148 computers that the Judiciaria has apprehended from 80 potential pedophiles during operation 'Predator' are being thoroughly searched, as CM has reported, but also all other images that arrive at the police on a daily basis, with children that are victims of sexual crimes, are analysed by experts, in yet another verification of clues into the search for Madeleine.

The photos are automatically visualized through the use of a special software, because in spite of the fact that the investigation is still centered on the theory of the child's death inside the apartment at Praia da Luz, it is compulsory that all possibilities remain open until the inquiry is closed. Normally, the faces of victims and abusers are digitally modified and blurred for the internet, but specialists manage to clean up most of the images - as was the case with the foreign paedophile, Vico, who has already been identified by the Interpol.

Therefore, all the "girls with approximate ages and similar physiognomical traces" to those of Maddie are checked on a daily basis, as CM has established, but without success until now. "It's just a logical procedure", although operation 'Predator', last week, just like other operations, was not related to the investigation into the Maddie case.

(...)
 
in 24Horas this morning (10/18):

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/mostranews.php?id=7886

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=38 post # 557

The new team of investigators wanted to know the apartment

PJ back at the Ocean Club

The Policia Judiciaria (PJ) has returned to the Ocean Club apartment where Madeleine McCann disappeared from, on May 3. As soon as they arrived in the Algarve, on Monday, the new homicide team went to Praia da Luz. And they went to recognize the place where everything happened.

"They were here on Monday afternoon", a resident at the resort told 24Horas, adding that the investigators took "a short time". Just enough to walk through the rooms and to observe the various access points to the outside.

This was the second time the PJ visited the location within few days. Already in possession of some more elements from the analyses that were ordered from the Birmingham lab, the investigators from Portimao had been at the Ocean Club last week. And they were seen by one of the witnesses in the process: Pamela Fenn.

The English woman, who resides in the apartment above the one where little Maddie disappeared from, saw the policemen and recognized one of them: "The chief inspector who interrogated me [Tavares de Almeida] was here. A few days ago, they walked around here during the whole morning", Pamela Fenn told 24Horas.

Sources that are connected to the investigation assured that new diligences will be performed on location over the coming days. But they will only be reconfirmation of evidence that was collected at the beginning of the investigation.

The results from the Birmingham laboratory continue to arrive drop by drop, but a judicial source stressed that everything points at the involvement of the McCann couple in the disappearance of the child, and concealment of her cadaver.

PJ is not certain yet, but as 24Horas discovered, the possibility that Maddie was kept in a closed environment and her body was frozen, is being analysed.

"We're studying and verifying all the possibilities. The only concrete thing we have are the tests that were made by the Institute for Forensics Medicine, by the PJ's Scientific Police Lab, and a large portion of what we requested from the English. The truth is that nothing has emerged that allows for a peremptory accusation of the McCanns", a police officer revealed.

Another source concluded: "We're looking for evil and we want to discover the girl's body. That is the main goal. We will perform new searches where and when it is necessary, and both the McCanns and their friends will be interrogated again by British authorities. There is a lot that remains unclear, especially concerning the alibis that they presented."
 
in 24Horas this morning (10/18):

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/mostranews.php?id=7887

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=38 post #558

Putrefying cadaver always leaks fluids

Smell can get out of the car

Since the day that Madeleine disappeared, on May 3, until the day the McCanns rented the Renault Scenic, it has been 25 days. After 25 days, a cadaver "can be in advanced decomposition", Pinto da Costa, from the Forensics Medicine Institute in Oporto, explained. But it is not as absurd as it seems at first glance, that someone transported Maddie's body in the car 25 days after the death. "In fact, a cadaver releases an unpleasant rotten smell. But that smell can leave the car's interior, or it can be damped. It is enough to leave the vehicle's windows open and a good ventilation", Pinto da Costa said.

Delays or advances in putrefaction of a cadaver are connected with the condition it is kept in. "The only way to prevent advanced putrefaction is to keep it in adequate climate conditions, which means, in a fresh place with a temperature of 5 to 10 degrees Celsius, at the utmost".

A basement, for example, may offer those conditions. A body soaked in water takes longer to decay.

In a liquid environment, a cadaver also preserves better. "A body soaked in water has more difficulty in decaying", Pinto da Costa explained.

"If it remains in a location that is subject to air, humidity and heat, a body decomposes more rapidly".

The fluids that are leaked by a cadaver are responsible for the rotten smell. The sniffer dogs can always detect that odour, he said, better than any person.

Those are the bodily fluids that were found in the boot of the Renault Scenic that was rented by the McCanns, according to the forensics report from Birmingham. "If a cadaver is transported inside a vehicle, it always leaves fluids that can impregnate in the car's carpets". A putrefying cadaver, displays a dark colour, is already affected by gases and may bloat.
 
in Correio da Manha this morning:

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=262312&idselect=9&idCanal=9&p=200

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=38 post #560

Madeleine: Socrates and Gordon Brown talked about the case
Governments discuss Maddie

Jose Socrates met his British homologue, Gordon Brown, after the European Union's Summit, in Lisbon, for a private conversation. The purpose, according to the British prime minister's statement before the meeting, was to discuss how the Madeleine McCann case is being handled.

At the entrance to the summit, Brown guaranteed to the journalists that he was going to talk about the case with the Portuguese prime minister and that he wanted to reassure himself that the police forces of both countries were cooperating in the investigation. "I had already discussed this matter with him [Socrates] before, in order to assure that the Portuguese police is doing what is necessary to solve this case", Brown said.

Questioned by CM, the press cabinet of Jose Socrates denies the existence of this late afternoon meeting."The only issues that were discussed by prime ministers Jose Socrates and Gordon Brown are the themes that were addressed during the summit. Everything else is pure speculation", it said.

We remember that on July 9, Socrates flew out to London to meet the British prime minister and to discuss issues that concerned the Portuguese presidency of the European Union. Brown used the end of the meeting to congratulate and to thank the efforts that were being made by the PJ to find Madeleine. At that time, Kate and Gerry McCann talked with the British leader often, and had not been made arguidos yet.

Socrates assumed that the media-exposed case was extremely important both to the United Kingdom and to Portugal, and guaranteed that the police in Portugal continued to do its best.

Before and after that occasion, several pressures had been made by the British government on the Portuguese government and police.

Sources at the PJ consider that yesterday's situation "is not normal" but refuse to comment any further.

(...)

Couple wants to improve their image

The McCann couple wants to improve the image they left in Portugal. Therefore, they are looking for a communication agency that can work as a spokesperson with the Portuguese media. As Correio da Manha has discovered, one of the agencies that were invited was Cunha Vaz & Associados (...), who refused to give that type of service. The couple, on advice of their lawyers, continues to look for help from companies in that area. Meanwhile, Gerry and Kate McCann have announced they are going to launch a new campaign to find Maddie. This initiative will focus on the villages and mountains of Morocco, Portugal and Spain, and its purpose is to introduce the case to everyone who has not yet heard about the kidnapping that happened in Praia da Luz.

(...)
 
in 24Horas this morning (tabloid alert):

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/mostranews.php?id=7895

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=38 post #561

In the early hours of Maddie's disappearance, the parents moved house

PJ let McCanns "clear" apartment

In the early hours of May 4, only hours after Maddie's disappearance, the McCanns left the apartment where they were staying and took with them everything they wanted. The move may have been fatal to the investigations, and, even worse, was authorized by the Policia Judiciaria (PJ). This means a lot of evidence may have disappeared before the authorities sealed the place off.

"It's obvious the house had to be sealed. But with everything that was inside, and without being touched. But that was not what happened. They took everything they wanted into another Ocean Club apartment, and without any control from the authorities", a judicial officer that is connected to the case has told 24Horas. To this source, Maddie's disappearance is "a case that promises to become eternal in time and whose solution may never happen, in face of the evidence that has been gathered, which, in spite of pointing at the McCanns' involvement, are not conclusive."

A high ranking officer with GNR has confirmed these facts to our newspaper, but guaranteed that that police force acted correctly: "After the alert, a team was immediately dispatched to that location. They only took the time to drive from Lagos to Praia da Luz.

As soon as they arrived at the location, they realised they were facing a probable crime, whatever type it was, and called their commander, who then immediately contacted the Judiciaria. We also immediately requested search and rescue dogs, and the entire region was thoroughly searched. But it's true that the dogs that were used were not trained to detect blood or putrefying flesh. They were looking for a living person."

The same officer specified that "only one dog signalled the odour of the missing girl, next to the McCanns' house", but the searches that were developed by the military and the Judiciaria members were, as has become public, unsuccessful.

The PJ's investigators believe that Maddie died inside the house that was rented by her parents, but they do not explain how the body was removed from the location, and where it was hidden until it was, allegedly, transported inside the Renault that was rented by the McCanns more than 20 days after the girl's disappearance.

The authorities suspect that this happened at the house of Robert Murat, the other arguido in the process, but evidence is weak.

As 24Horas established, with the arrival of the new team, led by Paulo Rebelo, investigations up to yesterday were limited to simply analysing the elements that were until now collected by the investigators that were at the beginning of the much-discussed case.
 
Why Portugal is a haven for paedophiles - the disturbing backcloth to the Madeleine case

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770


"Portugal is a paedophiles' paradise," said Mr Namora, now a lawyer campaigning on behalf of the Casa Pia victims. "If all the names come out, this will be an earthquake in Portugal. There is a massive, sophisticated network at play here - stretching from the government to the judiciary and the police.
"The network is enormous and extremely powerful. There are magistrates, ambassadors, police, politicians - all have procured children from Casa Pia. It is extremely difficult to break this down. These people cover for each other, because if one is arrested, they all are arrested. They don't want anyone to know."


Amid allegations that paedophile networks have become endemic in Portugal - the European police force Interpol has named the country as one of the worst offenders in Europe.
Of course, the Casa Pia case may have no direct link to the disappearance of Madeleine, but the culture in which such a serious child abuse network was allowed to operate is the same culture that pervades the whole of Portugal. Was it this attitude that led to the bungled initial investigation in the McCann case?
 
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