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[colomom]

in Jornal de Noticias this morning:

http://jn.sapo.pt/2007/09/08/primeiro_plano/pais_recusam_falar_vestigios_carro.html

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Parents refuse to talk about residues in car

The parents of Madeleine McCann were yesterday formally constituted arguidos from the moment they refused to talk about the residues that were collected by the Policia Judiciaria's investigation, which point at the death and the hiding of the cadaver of their daughter, who is missing since May 3, from the Ocean Club, at Praia da Luz, Lagos.

Separately interrogated for hours (Kate, 15 hours and Gerry, eight), they had to pass from witnesses into arguidos when questions were asked about the biological residues that were found in the trunk of a car that was hired by the couple, and which has strong probabilities of belonging to Maddie, as JN reported yesterday. Kate invoked her right to remain silent in order not to answer any more questions as arguida. She would have still justified the cadaver odors on her clothes, which were detected by an English dog, with the fact that she is a doctor and was in contact with dead bodies before going on holidays. Gerry, even as an arguido from 6.30 p.m. onwards, agreed to give further clarification. The father's questioning ended close to midnight.

Both arguidos were subject to a term of identity and residence - an automatic coercion measure - but, according to information that was collected by JN, they will be interrogated next week by the Public Ministery, who may decide to present them to a criminal instruction judge, in order to apply more serious coercion measures.

The process strategy of the McCann couple intrigued the investigators, although their procedure was legitimate. The issue is an apparent contradiction with the public statements of the couple who stated they intended to "cooperate" with the investigation.

As far as JN could discover, the investigation is now focused on clues for the crime of hiding a corpse, which was preceded by an episode that is still not clarified, but which points to the death of the girl as a consequence of an accident or a neglect situation.There is no evidence pointing to an intentional crime.

After two days of intense questioning on Kate and Gerry, the investigators will advance with more diligences next week. As JN could discover, some of the couple's friends, who spent their holidays at Praia da Luz, may be called back to the Algarve, but it has not been excluded that some policemen may go to England in order to perform interrogations.

 

[colomom]

from Expresso paper edition, Sept. 8:

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A case filled with mysteries

At the beginning of the case, all clues pointed to the abduction thesis. But the presence of English sniffer dogs at the Ocean Club, on the 8th of August, two months after Maddie’s alleged disappearance, changed the investigation’s perspective. “The question of kidnapping started to be dismissed. Today, there are not many doubts about the homicide theory”, says Carlos Fonseca, the PJ inspector who investigated the ‘Lisbon Ripper’ case.

Although the suspicions about the parents are growing increasingly stronger, Kate and Gerry McCann will continue their “half insane” strategy of fleeing forward. “The couple will not hesitate to divert responsibility onto the Portuguese investigators”, he theorizes. To Carlos Fonseca, if it is true that Maddie’s parents are guilty, this should become a ‘case study’ to be used as an example for future investigations. A source at the Policia Judiciaria that was contacted by Expresso even compares this case with that of Vale e Azevedo. “After a first lie, it’s easy to tell another one. And so forth”. Possibly the couple never expected to be meeting Pope Benedict XVI one day.

Anyway, when the McCanns’ state of grace dissipated once and for all, last Friday, even the Vatican removed all records about Maddie’s disappearance from their official site.

Death odor in the car trunk

The scenario that was drawn by PJ increasingly points to the McCann couple’s implication in the disappearance of Madeleine, based on clues of the presence of a cadaver in the bedroom and in the trunk of a car that was rented by the two British 25 days after the child’s disappearance. This could be one of the big puzzles in this case. “I don’t believe it was the child’s body, but bloodstained clothes”, specialist Jose Manuel Anes suggests.

“There are strong clues that point to homicide”, a high-ranking official from Policia Judiciaria told Expresso, requesting anonymity. The same source revealed that Kate and Gerry McCann will be constituted arguidos, as suspects of being involved in the death, which is believed to be accidental, of Madeleine, who disappeared 128 days ago.

According to the PJ, the cadaver odour was detected on the floor of the apartment that was rented by the McCanns at Praia da Luz, and in the trunk of the car, a Renault Scenic that was rented five weeks after Madeleine disappeared, on May 3.

These clues were detected by British dogs, which are trained to smell cadavers and blood residues. The Portuguese police then crossed this information with the results of tests that were performed by two English labs, in Birmingham and Yorkshire, with advanced DNA collection technique. When questioned about the type of result that the tests on the samples provided, the same source refused any further details: “I can only say we are satisfied with the work that was done by the British labs”, he said.

According to a source close to the couple, the police even confronted Kate McCann with the presence of Madeleine’s blood in the car’s trunk, which irritated the British doctor very much, during the inquiry.

The same source said that the police sustains the theory of the child’s accidental death, in the bedroom at Praia da Luz. This will justify the arguida status that was applied to Kate McCann by the police’s initiative, on Friday, after interrogations that lasted for several hours, over two days. According to a police source, the same status will be applied to Gerry McCann, whose inquirition started yesterday afternoon and who was still being heard at the time this edition was closed.

Early in the morning, Gerry stated in his blog that Kate McCann is innocent, and guaranteed that the theory of Kate’s involvement in her daughter’s disappearance is “ridiculous”.

By the end of the afternoon, spokesperson Justine McGuiness explained to Expresso that the police had to make Kate an arguida in order to legally her ask some questions. “Kate is devastated”, McGuiness said. “The police is implicating her in her daughter’s death. But not even the authorities can explain Maddie’s whereabouts. Or if she is dead or alive”. According to the spokesperson, the police has dismissed the abduction theory for good.

If they come to be accused of homicide, without Maddie’s body being found – just like in the case of Leonor Cipriano, the mother of Joana – the fact will be very difficult to explain to the British.

 

[colomom]

from Sol paper edition on Sept 8:

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Nerve war

PJ bet on a pressure strategy on the McCanns

Policia Judiciaria (PJ) has no more doubts that Madeleine is dead, and they’ve closed in on the McCanns in order to discover what happened on the night of May 3.

Kate McCann was constituted arguida yesterday, after an interrogation that lasted for approximately 14 hours. Yesterday, at the end of the afternoon, Gerry was still being heard – accompanied by his lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu – and the possibility that he will also become an arguido is open.

Judiciaria tries to determine whether the crime was homicide or accidental death. The investigators have been betting on a strategy that includes placing pressure on the English couple. That is why they decided to interrogate Kate exhaustively first, trying to explore any frailties.

The long interrogations focused on the results from analyses that were performed on residues that were collected in the Ocean Club apartment – which were received this week – but also on some of the inconsistencies that were revealed in the depositions of the couple and their friends, right after the child’s disappearance.

In choosing to hear Kate first, PJ also wanted to enhance the pressure on her husband, Gerry McCann. The way he reacted publicly, in some circumstances, leads the investigators into believing that Gerry ‘explodes’ when he is under pressure. In August, Maddie’s father furiously interrupted an interview to a Spanish television channel, after being questioned about the existence of blood traces in his daughter’s bedroom.

It was also with the intention to benefit from an increase in nervousness among the McCann couple and their friends, that police opted not to confirm officially whether they have received the total of results from analyses that were performed on the samples that were sent to the Birmingham lab.

The police strategy also included delaying as much as possible the constitution of Kate McCann as an arguida, because that status confers her special rights. As an arguida, she has the right to remain silent, and is not obliged to cooperate with the investigation. More: under that status, the law even allows Kate to lie, without being punished for that – contrary to what would happen if she was making a deposition as a witness. That issue was pondered by the PJ, when they advanced the possibility that Kate could become arguida on Thursday evening, without going forward with a formal constitution at that moment.

As arguidos, and because they are British citizens, the McCanns “can be subject to a coercion measure that will prevent them from leaving Portugal”, lawyer Vicky Fernandes explained to Sol. The couple’s friends, who spent their holidays with them in Portugal, may be called to Portimao again, or they may be heard in the UK.

 

[colomom]

in Correio da Manha Sept 8:

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=257082&idselect=181&idCanal=181&p=0

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Madeleine McCann case: Blood traces in car are decisive
Suspected of killing and hiding Maddie

Kate and Gerry are formally suspected of killing Madeleine and hiding her body. The blood that was found in the couple’s car, which was rented only 25 days after the girl went missing, change the whole scenario. The Policia Judiciaria are now convinced that the parents killed the child, hid the body and then simulated the abduction.

Gerry and Kate deny this and consider the accusations “absurd”. But they fail to contradict the chain of evidence, although circumstantial, that the police has gathered over the last weeks. Everything points at the death of the child inside the apartment, and the fact that the cadaver was successively moved. This could explain the existence of Maddie’s blood in the car, which could have been obtained by contamination, for example from clothes that the child could have been wearing the moment she died.

Yet, without finding the body, it will be difficult for the authorities to advance other coercion measures. They want to avoid a repetition of the Joana case, and the amount of criticism and even suspicions that was raised at that time. The fact that these are two British citizens also lead the Policia Judiciaria into actions of more restraint. The diligences are preceded by great caution, in order not to hurt “international susceptibilities”.

Suspicious behaviour

On the night of May 3, Kate called British television Sky News first, and only after that did she call the police. Furthermore, upon noticing that her 3-year old daughter was missing, Kate closed the apartment door and returned to the restaurant where her friends were. She left the small children alone again, in order to tell the British that her daughter had disappeared. The reports made to police by several witnesses mention no distraught screams or immediate calls for help.

As CM could further discover, there are at least two witnesses that indicate there was neglect from Kate towards her children. One of them is the English woman who lives in a neighboring apartment, who guarantees she heard the child screaming days earlier, calling out for her father. The second witness is another elderly woman, who says she saw Kate behaving in a way that raised suspicions about her performance.

CM knows that the deposition from Russell O’Brien also raised serious doubts with the Judiciaria’s investigators. The English doctor, a friend of the McCanns, guarantees he went to the children’s room around 8 p.m., but then he says he did not enter, and only worried about listening if there was any noise inside the apartment. The version is not considered as believable, and the police thinks that the witness is not telling the whole truth.

(…)

McCanns can leave Portugal

The McCann couple may return to England at any moment. The term of identity and residence only carries judicial constraints, without penal sanctions.

This means Kate and Gerry must inform the court if they want to leave Portugal for more than five days, and they can do it personally, by letter, e-mail or fax. But if they failed to do this and returned to their country, any penal sanction would collide with the lack of international cooperation which is characteristic for the English. Firstly, because they follow the principle of not extraditing their nationals; then, because there is no European country who privileges more their nationality when confronted with alleged suspicions of crimes in other countries.

There is yet another doubt: several jurists that were contacted by CM say it is not certain that the McCanns must ask for permission from the judge in order to leave the country. The law says they must inform the court, but it is not known what would happen if the address that they deliver the court is their residence in England. As Portugal has no jurisdiction in that country, notifications would not be validated, which would raise other juridical constraints.

 

[petra]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6984836.stm

Includes timeline and pictures

 

[Jdee]

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/madeleine_mccann
All about Madeleine McCann

 

[CaliKid]

http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/09/08/socieda..._madelein.html

Translated by Ozzy at the Mirror Forums

GERRY ADMITS SEDATION-

JOSÉ MANUEL OLIVEIRA e PAULA MARTINHEIRA\


McCann couple suspected of Madeleines death

O casal McCann foi ontem constituído arguido por suspeita de envolvimento na morte da sua filha Madeleine, na noite de 3 de Maio, no aldeamento The Ocean Club, na Praia da Luz. Embora à hora do fecho desta edição, Gerry ainda estivesse a ser inquirido no Departamento de Investigação Criminal (DIC) de Portimão da Polícia Judiciária (PJ), onde chegou pouco depois das 16 horas, logo após a saída da sua mulher, o DN apurou que também ele foi constituído arguido no processo. A ambos foi aplicada a medida de coacção mínima, isto é, o termo de identidade e residência.

The McCann couple were yesterday named arguido (the word means formal suspect) on the basis of suspicion that they were involved in the death of their daughter Madeleine on the night of 3rd May at the Ocean Club, Praia da Luz. Though at the close of this edition Gerry was still at the Dept. of Criminal Investigation (DIC) of the PJ, where he arrived a little after 4 pm, and soon after his wife had left, the newspaper DN has gathered that he has also been named arguido. To both, minimum legal restraints have been applied – ie. identity and confirmation of residence. (This means they have to report to the police and confirm that they are physically present and resident in the place from time to time – once a day or whatever is set).

Pelo menos sobre Kate recairá a suspeita de "crime de homicídio por negligência e ocultação de cadáver" (este último incorre a uma pena até dois anos de prisão)". Uma situação confirmada ao princípio da noite pela assessora dos McCann, Justine McGuinness, segundo a qual "a polícia portuguesa considerou Kate suspeita da morte acidental da sua filha". Entretanto, fontes ligadas ao processo revelaram que Gerry terá admitido aos investigadores ter administrado um sedativo aos filhos na noite de 3 de Maio. E uma das linhas de investigação seguidas neste momento é precisamente, ao que o DN apurou, a hipótese de que a criança terá sido sedada com uma dose excessiva de um medicamento.

Kate is suspected of ‘homicide by negligence and hiding the body” ( the latter constitutes a sentence of upto two years in prison). A circumstance confirmed in principle by the spokesperson Justine McGuinness who said “ the portuguese police suspect Kate of having accidently killed her child”. However, sources connected to the inquiry have revealed that Gerry has admitted to the investigators he had administed a sedative to the children on the night of May 3rd. And one of the investigation lines followed at this moment is precisely, as the DN has gathered, the hypotheis that the child was sedated with an overdose of medication.

Entretanto, fontes ouvidas pelo DN asseguram que a medida de coacção de Kate McCann poderá ser, contudo, aumentada a qualquer momento, em função de novas diligências. Sabe-se entretanto que, segundo declarações feitas por Philomena McCann, cunhada de Kate, ao canal britânico Sky News, a PJ terá oferecido um acordo de dois anos de prisão à mãe de Maddie, através do seu advogado Carlos Pinto de Abreu, para confessar ter matado a sua filha por acidente e escondido o cadáver. Apesar dos contactos efectuados, DN não conseguiu obter uma reacção a esta grave acusação por parte da PJ.

However, sources have told the DN that the restraint measures on Kate McCann can at anytime be increased, depending on the results of new enquiries/information. According to declarations made by Philomena McCann, Kates sister in law, to Sky News, the PJ had offered a deal of two years in prison to Maddies mother through her lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu, if she confessed to killing her daughter and hiding the body. Despite trying to verify this, the newspaper DN has not been able to get any response from the PJ regarding this serious accusation.

Contradições de Kate

Contradictions by Kate

Segundo fontes ligadas ao processo, a PJ suspeita que a mãe de Madeleine é "desequilibrada mentalmente", podendo o crime ocorrido no apartamento de onde desapareceu a menina britânica, ter resultado de uma "agressão" a esta por parte de Kate. Outra suspeita avançada por aquelas fontes prende-se com o facto de Maddie ter morrido antes do jantar. As mesmas fontes admitem que a situação "complicou-se e os pais desorientaram-se", o que terá levado à "ocultação do corpo", que continua por aparecer.

According to sources connected with the enquiry, the PJ suspect that Madeleines mother is mentally unstable, and the crime could have occured in the apartment from which the child disappeared, as a result of an “aggression” by Kate. Another suspicion put forth by the sources is linked to the fact that Maddie had died before dinner. The same sources admit that the situation got complicated and the parents got disoriented which led them to hide the body which is yet to be found.

Ao longo das 15 horas de inquirição, realizadas entre a tarde de quinta-feira e grande parte do dia de ontem, Kate McCann foi fortemente apertada pelos investigadores, que começaram por conferir as rotinas familiares do casal e amigos desde que chegaram ao aldeamento da Praia da Luz, bem como confrontá-la com os resultados das análises forenses realizadas num laboratório de Birmingham, no Reino Unido, às amostras de vestígios de sangue, recolhidos no apartamento e, sobretudo, na viatura alugada pelo casal 25 dias após o desaparecimento da criança.

During the whole 15 hours of questioning carried out on Thursday evening and a major part of yesterday, Kate McCann was closely questioned by the investigators, who started off with checking the routine of the couple and their friends since their arrival at the Praia da Luz, as well as confronting them with the results of the forensic tests carried out at the Birmingham laboratory, UK, the blood samples collected at the apartment, and especially the samples in the vehicle rented by the couple 25 days after the child disappeared.

Segundo apurou o DN, Kate não terá sabido explicar o porquê do sangue no carro, tendo garantido que este não pertence à sua filha. Outra das questões colocadas pelos investigadores, diz respeito ao odor a cadáver detectado por cães pisteiros ingleses nas roupas de Kate. Esta terá alegado que semanas antes da chegada a Portugal esteve em contacto com cadáveres na unidade de saúde onde trabalha.

According to what the DN has gathered, Kate could not give any explanations about the blood samples in her car, insisting it doesnt belong to her child. Other questions asked by the investigators were regarding the smell of a cadaver detected by the sniffer dogs on Kates clothes. To this Kate said that weeks before she arrived in Portugal she had contact with cadavers in the health section where she worked."

 

[CaliKid]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1837778.ece
Attempted kidnapping of another Portuguese girl last year

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1267568,00.html
Transcript of interview the McCanns gave with Sky News on 5/25

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1267576,00.html
Description of man "seen carrying Madeleine the night she disappeared"

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1267576,00.html
Includes odd, unemotional interview with the McCanns where they first
attempt to minimize blame for Madeleine's disappearance

http://www.iflg.uk.com/
Website for attorneys hired by McCanns in June

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007240311,00.html
Parents force Portuguese police to release details of kidnapping

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6694999.stm
PM Brown puts support behind McCanns

 

[CaliKid]

http://tinyurl.com/2qnsjw
Kidnapped by boat theory- Translated by Emma
One of the computers taken from Robert Murat's house has references to an English citizen, the owner of a yacht in the marina of Lagos. The theory they are following is that Madeleine was led to the boat in the marina of lagos, this is being seen as the most reasonable lead by the PJ. The abductor could then have gone to another country, one named is morocco and this is strengthened by a sighting of a girl with a man at the marina on the same night. The English man is supposed to have had the boat for a number of years and lives on it, but also travels to other countries. When the owner of a boat wishes to leave the marina they only have to give the time they want to leave and how many people are leaving, nobody goes on the boat to check the identity of the occupants. The recent description of a man that police are looking to speak to is then given. I'm not quite sure of the next part (something about Interpol) but it then goes on to say that with nothing concrete the PJ continue to see Marraquexe, in Morocco as being the strongest lead, this is fuelled by a sighting of a girl in a petrol station asking for her mum.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6696497.stm
Madeleine's parents to see the Pope

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1847879.ece
Jane Tanner's report of seeing child being carried away

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/7901/Madeleine:+Last+photograph+before+snatched
Child-trafficking in Africa fears

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topi...=151388&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20
Portuguese police go to Morocco to investigate sighting

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1848426.ece
Search for Maddie extends across Europe

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1267797,00.html
McCanns fly to Rome

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/18/wmaddy18.xml
Murat wanted hire car in a hurry

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007210138,00.html
Weird man reported at hotel

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/8335/Tears+as+Maddy's+parents+meet+Pope
Maddie's parents meet the Pope

 

[CaliKid]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1265436,00.html
Parents to stay in Portugal until Maddie is found

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=454466&in_page_id=1770
Window/shutters untampered with, apartment door left unlocked

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/dailynews/2007/05/31/madeleine-cops-use-psychics-89520-19226194/
Portuguese police use psychics

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=453724&in_page_id=1770
Drawing of Madeleine abductor: egg with side-part

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1268369,00.html
Hunt for Madeleine moves to Spain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/01/wmaddy101.xml
15 key blunders in the investigation (according to the UK press)

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1268694,00.html
Mystery DNA found in Madeleine's room

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2093570,00.html
Global campaign to find Madeleine

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.4.1
Murat gives 2nd sample of DNA

 

[Salem]

More recent links:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2SAr7hQw2EVFPiEimFX_9XoCm_w

http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.4.1

Articles about the McCanns heading back to England.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=480808&in_page_id=1770

This article is great. It is the beginnings of the fall of Justine McGuinness.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=480807&in_page_id=1770

This one asks why the Tapas 9 don’t talk, but it never answers the question.

Salem

 

[petra]

McCanns to Leave PT today on 9.30 am flight to UK

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_re_eu/portugal_missing_girl


Also

http://news.sky.com/skynews/home

Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt says: "The McCanns are reverting to their original plan to fly home to Leicestershire on a flight at 09.30.
"That plan, of course, had been thrown into disarray by them being declared suspects.
"They have been clarifying their position and they have been told they are allowed to go.
"It appears a deal has been struck - the authorities are satisfied that Kate and Gerry McCann will return to Portugal if required," he said.
The McCanns' spokesman confirmed the plans in a statement, saying: "Kate and Gerry will be returning home to the UK this morning as originally planned. They will depart from Faro Airport.
"It is emphasised that their return is with the full agreement of the......................SNIPPET

 

[petra]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6985454.stm

Speaking on Friday, before she was made an arguida, she added: "Police don't want a murder in Portugal and all the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here, so they're blaming us."
Her husband Gerry, also 39, told the News of the World that Portuguese officers were looking for a quick end to the case and were exploiting apparent discrepancies in the couple's account of what happened.
He said: "In a system that you don't know and don't really trust it's incredibly frightening."
Mrs McCann's parents said that the couple were returning to the UK "with the full agreement of the Portuguese authorities and police".
No bail conditions, travel restrictions or charges have been imposed on the couple, who had been questioned separately for more than 24 hours.
Mr McCann was officially given "arguido" status 12 hours after his wife.



++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++SNIPPET

 

[petra]

SNIP=====================


http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2165457,00.html

McCanns to fly home amid fear of charges



[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Ned Temko and Mark Townsend in Portimao
Sunday September 9, 2007
The Observer

[/FONT] Kate and Gerry McCann were due to fly home to Britain this morning amid mounting speculation that they were involved in the disappearance and possible death of their daughter, Madeleine.It is believed the McCanns fear they could be charged with their daughter's death after they were named as official suspects this week by Portuguese police. But sources close to the investigation told The Observer that DNA evidence that led to the couple being considered suspects was incomplete and not a perfect match to their daughter.



Although evidence from blood found on the floor of the family's holiday flat was said to be 'very strong', it was not conclusive.The first authoritative account of the sudden change of direction in the search for the missing four-year-old came last night from a senior source who is close to both the British and Portuguese police teams.
In a dramatic sign of the growing tension surrounding the fast-moving investigation, it also emerged that family and friends of the McCanns were in contact with the Foreign Office in the hope of securing support from the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.
The McCanns spoke to Miliband a month ago, and family sources said he had been 'very supportive'. Now, they are hoping he might help head off any decision to lay charges against the McCanns on the basis of what one relative branded as 'repulsive' suggestions they were involved in their daughter's disappearance.
Revealing the details behind the decision to shift the focus of the investigation onto the McCanns, the source said that in addition to the blood at the holiday flat, DNA evidence had been found in a car rented by the McCanns more than two weeks after Madeleine went missing.
He said that while both samples had matched Madeleine's DNA, since they had degraded over time, this was based on an incomplete picture - only 15 of the available 20 genetic markers usually used for such analysis were found: 'Nineteen out of 20 is what we consider conclusive. In this case, they could extract only 15 - but all of the 15 exactly matched Madeleine's DNA.' He also dismissed as 'simply wrong' recent media reports that blood had been found in the car.
He said the Portuguese police were taking the sample recovered from the flat seriously - in part because of 'contradictions and changes' in the accounts given by the McCanns and their friends of what happened the night Madeleine disappeared.

SNIPPED==========================================================================

The source added that it was the 'very strong' probability from the DNA results of a direct match with Madeleine that convinced police to put 'detailed and specific questions' to her parents'. Their answers 'did not provide a satisfactory explanation, which is why it became virtually inevitable under the Portuguese legal system that they would be named arguidos before further questioning'.
Amid the shock of the shift in the investigation and alarm over the possibility of formal charges, the McCanns' family and closest friends yesterday rallied in support. One friend, describing the 'ordeal' of hours of police questioning on Friday and Saturday, remarked last night: 'They did not give Portuguese police the satisfaction of crying.'
Kate McCann's uncle, Brian Kennedy, said: 'We still say as a family and friends that this suggestion that in some way they were responsible for the death of Madeleine is just nonsense, pure and simple.'
Portuguese police, meanwhile, last night described as 'absolutely absurd' reports that Kate McCann was offered a plea bargain during questioning should she admit to the accidental death of her daughter.
The McCanns' Portuguese lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, said that the newspaper reports were due to a 'misunderstanding' that had arisen during questioning.





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[CaliKid]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2607184.ece
Psychic drawings are "no help" to McCann family (Phil McCann critical of Brian Ladd)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6719561.stm
McCanns in television appeal

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1269195,00.html
'Somebody Knows Who Has Madeleine

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1269394,00.html
Sighting in South America (Later proves to be a hoax)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...+down+'tour'+for+missing+Madeleine/article.do
McCanns wind down European tour

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1269847,00.html
McCanns go to Morocco

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=40818
Dutch Telegraaf Newspaper receives tip about Madeleine

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=31197
Corresponding story on Belgian girls

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007270242,00.html
Investigator Antonio Toscano claims Madeleine is in the hands of notorious French pedophile

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1270362,00.html
Portuguese police search area outlined in Dutch news tip

 

[CaliKid]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/13/missing.mccann/
Police search wasteland for missing girl

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk...ing_news_police_receive_madeleine_tip_off.php
Police seal off area

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1270251,00.html
McCanns hire manager

http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=13&num=13983
Police officer in charge of Maddie case accused of beating mother of another missing girl

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1270454,00.html
Madeleine's parents "furious" over burial claims

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1270637,00.html
Search of scrubland called off

http://revelation13.net/KingJames2f.html
Bible code: Where is missing Madeleine?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1270838,00.html
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[colomom]

In Diario de Noticias this morning:

http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/09/09/sociedade/pj_espera_novas_analises_para_deter_.html

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=24 post #355

PJ awaits new analyses in order to detain McCann couple

The Policia Judiciaria (PJ) believes they may detain the McCann couple next week. For that, they await the results that are still to be sent by the Forensic Science Service of Birmingham, England, which they expect to arrive at that time, and the result of new diligences that are being performed, that will restart the searches for Maddie’s body. Kate and Gerry have been made arguidos and subject to ‘termo de identidade e residencia’, but the coming days will be decisive for a change in the coercion measure. Both will be heard again on Tuesday.

It is on Maddie’s mother that most suspicions fall. The investigators admit it is strongly possible that Kate “slapped” Maddie and that she bumped her head. What surprises them is that the mother did not call 112 [emergency number]. It is here that the biggest mystery may lies, and configures the previously mentioned possibility of gross negligence. The fact that she is a doctor and immediately knew what had happened, may explain the case.

Tomorrow, PJ will deliver to the attorney of the Public Ministry (PM) in Portimao, the report of the inquiritions of the McCanns, which, as DN could discover, didn’t yield any significant results due to Kate’s and Gerry’s silence on the 40 questions that were asked by the investigators. After analyzing that report, the PM will present the process to the criminal instruction judge in Portimao, for evaluation. Then, the couple is brought back to PJ and after that, to the court, which may determine a new coercion measure (the most serious one is preventive custody).

“The theory of Maddie’s death is becoming increasingly consistent”, the assistant national director and head of the Faro Directory of PJ, Guilhermino Encarnação, told DN, assuring that the investigation “continues to search for the body with all means that are in its reach”. As DN could determine, the searches, albeit very discrete, are still centered in the Praia da Luz area, on a strip “between the land and the sea”. Sources connected to the investigation advanced that the investigation line does not exclude the possibility that Madeleine’s body passed through several locations, including cars, apartments and other locations. Yet, until this moment, the possibility of destruction of the cadaver has not been considered.

After announcing the theory of Maddie’s death, the PJ now expects a new “batch of clues” concerning the whereabouts of the child’s body. “A new cicle of the investigation is beginning, with lots of clues that the girl’s body could be here or there”, it was refered, advancing that the PJ “will only go into the terrain following credible leads”.

A guarantee that responds to the concerns that were voiced by the McCann family yesterday, in England, about whether the PJ will continue searching for Maddie.

 

[colomom]

this morning in Correio da Manha:

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=257201&idselect=9&idCanal=9&p=200

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=24 post #356

Searches on Monday
McCanns fly to England

Madeleine’s parents scheduled for today their trip to return to England. After a day of contradictory information about the return date for Gerry and Kate, who were constituted arguidos in the investigation into their daughter’s disappearance, tickets were booked for today’s Easy Jet flight at 9.30 a.m, which connects Faro to the East Midland Airport, that serves Leicester, the city where they live.

The flight that has been booked is number 6552 and is due to arrive in Leicester at 12.20 p.m. This trip – remember that the McCanns’ spokesperson guaranteed yesterday that the couple would not travel now – surprised the PJ’s investigators, who had requested for men and sniffer dogs from Guarda Nacional Republicana to start searches for Maddie’s body on Monday.

CM knows that the request that was sent to GNR asks for total availability of means from 10 a.m. on Monday onwards, near the Ocean Club apartments, and the searches will cover Praia da Luz again, as well as the ravine area.

Inside PJ, it is being regarded with great unpleasantness that the couple’s lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, met with the General Attorney, Pinto Monteiro, before he traveled to the Algarve in order to give the McCanns juridical assistance. This meeting, whose contents is unknown, is associated to the change in strategy of the Public Ministery, which intended to arrest Kate but then gave up on their intent.

 

[colomom]

from Publico today:

http://jornal.publico.clix.pt/

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=24 post #358

The English dog that detected tha cadaver smell in the apartment where Madeleine McCann was spleeping, has already helped British and American police in the investigation of approximately 200 cases and, until now, has never failed, an officer with PJ told Publico.

At the Portuguese police’s request, a dog of springer spaniel race called Eddie, seven years old, and belonging to Yorkshire police, came over to Praia da Luz in mid-August to participate in the diligences that were promoted within the investigation into the disappearance of the English child.

When he was led to the apartment that was rented by the McCanns, he revealed a behaviour that he usually manifests when he detects the odour of a corpse, and which is duly recognized and evaluated by his handler, Martin Grime, who immediately alerted to the fact, an element of PJ told Publico.

In order to establish comparisons, Eddie was taken into other apartments within the resort, but he remained tranquil, without signs of smelling any death odor, the policeman reports.

Considering all possibilities, the PJ investigated the possibility that there had been any death in that apartment before, but the collected data concluded that had not been the case.

Accompanying Eddie, who in insured for five million pounds, a 3-year old female dog called Keela also came from England, especially trained to detect blood residues, even if these were cleaned or washed several times. Keela also detected the existence of blood at the same spot that had been indicated by the dog, in the same apartment. “It’s too much of a coincidence”, the investigator heard by Publico considers. And doubtlessly a reason to investigate, he says.

The handler, a British police agent, wrote a report with the diligences’ conclusions, confiming that the dogs had marked possible signs of the presence of a cadaver in that location, a document that is in the PJ’s possession.

Eddie, who is sometimes equal with an “undercover agent”, and Keela have often supported the police in investigations into missing people and homicide cases, both in England and in other European countries, and in the US, at the FBI’s request.

Among the cases in which Eddie intervened is that of the homicide of a 65-year old woman, Attracta Harron, in County Tyrone, when she was walking home from church, in April 2003. The dog found her body inside a grave and managed to detect the smell of her blood in the murderer’s car even after he burned it.

 

[colomom]

Link to translated SOL articles:

http://www.geocities.com/hallsofmirrors/SOL.html