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[colomom]

this morning in Correio da Manha:

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=257191&idselect=181&idCanal=181&p=0

Copied from: http://helpmadeleine.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=latest&action=display&thread=1182386581&page=24 post #359

Maddie Case
Public Ministry Attorney considered arresting Kate McCann

Magalhaes Meneses, the attorney from the Public Ministry who is in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine, considered arresting Kate McCann in order to present her to the instruction judge, in order to apply preventive custody to her. The formal detention at PJ would have to be performed in order for the judge to ponder applying preventive imprisonment.

The situation was discussed inside Policia Judiciaria in Portimao, and during phone calls with the PM attorney, but juridical doubts about the case (to know whether it was negligent homicide, which does not include preventive custody, or homicide with eventual intent, which admits preventive imprisonment) finally dictated that Kate was only constituted arguida, and subject to state her identity and residence [“termo de identidade e residencia”].

Maddie’s mother also felt that this was the way the investigation was headed, and on the first night after the first round of interrogations she confessed to fearing about her freedom. On the morning that the interrogation started again, the spokesperson said just that to CM: that Kate was afraid she would go to prison, for the investigators’ accusations were extremely assured.

The day that was chosen for the interrogation also indicates that the decision was simply to constitute her as arguida. Madeleine’s mother was interrogated on Thursday afternoon, at a time it was expected that the interrogation would continue on the next day.

At that time, Policia Judiciaria also predicted they would hear Gerry McCann. And they would only do so after hearing Kate. “We all know that over the weekend, diligences calm down. It’s normal, even because people have to rest. To make interrogations before the weekend seems to indicate that something was not finished. That there was a retreat in the investigation”, an investigator told CM.

As CM could further establish, the biggest problem with the investigation is that the circumstances of the child’s death are not clarified yet. As well as the fact that the body has yet to be found: something that is fundamental to strengthen the theory that is now being defended by the Policia Judiciaria.

The decision of advancing with the arguido status for Kate and Gerry was well thought over by the Policia Judiciaria and the Public Ministry. For more than a month, the authorities were convinced that the McCann couple had not provided all the answers, but the arrival of the analyses changed everything. Although they were not fully clarifying (there is a correspondence of 78.95% of Maddie’s genetic profile when compared with the blood residue that was found in the car that was used by the McCanns), the truth is that the probability of the child’s body or any piece of her clothing having been inside the car that was rented after the disappearance, has increased. This is joined by other pieces of evidence, like the fact that the dogs detected cadaver odor on Kate’s clothes and on the child’s soft toy, and also the lack of evidence pointing to an abduction.

Grandfather confesses to the use of Calpol: Medicine without death cases

Brian Healy, Madeleine’s grandfather, contradicted former statements from the McCann couple and told ‘The Sun’ that his daughter gave the child Calpol “in order to help her sleep”. “Kate must have used Calpol [to help her sleep], but it is atrocious to think of anything more”, the grandfather said. A popular medicine in the UK to treat pain and fever in children and causing somnolence, its sale was authorized in Portugal by the Medicine authority, Infarmed, on May 3 (ironically the same day that Maddie disappeared).

 

[petra]

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

McCanns at their home in Rothley

 

[CaliKid]

http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=20&num=86733
Parents believe Madeleine may never be found

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1270915,00.html
Parents' fatal errors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6761669.stm
Evidence destroyed in McCann apartment

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,283813,00.html
Global pedophile ring nets 700 suspects

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1270983,00.html
Madeleine's school gets involved

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007280253,00.html
Apartment Madeleine disappeared from up for sale

http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=21&num=87170
McCanns respond to claims they contaminated evidence

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007280398,00.html
Sighting: Madeleine kidnapped by gypsies

 

[petra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2165720,00.html

Cuddle Cat is still with Kate!!!!!

 

[CaliKid]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view...ne+police+to+search+the+flat...seven+weeks+on
"Bumbling" cops to search flat 7 weeks after disappearance

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1271363,00.html?f=rss
"Return Stolen Maddie Pics"

Madeleine McCann's father has appealed to the thief who stole his wallet to give back two pictures of his missing daughter he kept inside.
The wallet was snatched on a rare return trip to the UK - after he acted as a good Samaritan on the flight over.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007280318,00.html
Father makes emotional plea to Irish tourists to check holiday photos

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...tml?in_article_id=463087&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
Maddie sightings in Malta

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007240151,00.html
Attempted kidnapping of child from near where Madeleine disappeared

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007230172,00.html
Mari Pollard positive she saw Madeleine in Marrakech

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1268489,00.html
Madeleine's parents cling to hope

http://sadlynormal.wordpress.com/20...child-abuse-widespread-and-hidden-in-morocco/
Study finds child abuse widespread and hidden in Morocco

 

[Barnaby]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article2418919.ece

 

[CaliKid]

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/dtracey/june_2007/clarence_mitchell_the_mccann_press_officer_is_a_go.htm
Clarence Mitchell, press officer behind government blackout

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007280877,00.html
Suspicious Madeleine sighting in Malta: Arab said, ‘Get up, little girl’

http://www.uhl-tr.nhs.uk/index.asp?pgid=9385
Hospital to release balloons for Madeleine

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1271653,00.html
50 days after disappearance: More chance of finding stray dog

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1271728,00.html
McCanns certain Madeleine is alive

http://www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/law_order/article_2380.shtml
More Malta sightings

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007281061,00.html
14 separate sightings in Malta

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1271908,00.html
McCanns discounting Malta sightings

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2669865.ece
Information on the 50-day balloon launch

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007281060,00.html
Search for Maddie: Day 50

 

[CaliKid]

http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/friendsreunited.asp?WCI=Logon
Friends Reunited website where Gerry McCann posted a blog

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article489524.ab
Swedish article about pajamas found on PDL beach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHARGE_syndrome)
Wikipedia information on CHARGE syndrome\

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1272511,00.html
Irish vigil; Spanish investigator hands over evidence of pedophile abduction

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/11302/Police+in+Malta+probe+eight+more+sightings+of+Madeleine
More Malta sightings of Madeleine

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287189,00.html
Spanish Cops Detain 2 With Possible Links to Madeleine

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287189,00.html
Italian man, Portuguese woman try to extort money from McCanns

http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/06/arrests-in-spain-not-connected-to.html
Arrests in Spain not connected to Madeleine

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1272677,00.html
Pair investigated for extortion

 

[CaliKid]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=275878
Arrested pair investigated for Madeleine's disappearance

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n115981
Italian man was jailed for child abuse

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co....tentPK=17690022&folderPk=77465&pNodeId=132393
Gerry McCann's wallet with precious Maddie pictures returned

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,488819,00.html
German tourist disappears in Algarve

http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=22&num=89417
Post Chronicle: Is Madeleine McCann Disappearance A Hoax?

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=2456061
Trademark for FindMadeleine "Leaving No Stone..." fund

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=7536
Italian man thought to have been involved in a blackmail plot

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1273786,00.html
Police think Madeleine still in Portugal

 

[CaliKid]

http://sol.sapo.pt/EdicaoImpressa/1Caderno.aspx

published in Sol, on June 30, 2007
an article by Felicia Cabrita and Margarida Davim
Translated by Summer

Madeleine Case - Pact of Silence

Madeleine’s parents and the friends with whom they spent their holidays in PDL are suspects in the inquiry. There are contradictory versions about the night of the kidnapping, and an assumed pact of silence in the group

The beginning of June is flowing in a strange way in the Algarve. A chilly wind and overhead clouds help to fill the auditorium of Lagos, where a solidarity concert is being held for the missing english girl. It’s been a month since Madeleine McCann vanished without a trace.

A few kilometres from Lagos, in the Ocean Club resort at Praia da Luz, the faint illumination further densifies the climate. At the reception, which leads to the Tapas restaurant, there is nobody. Getting inside is easy.

A portuguese waiter, but with a british ‘behaviour’, strikes the first blow on the journalist’s plan: “We only serve dinner to the club’s clients”. “What about a drink?”. He says yes.

It’s 9.30 p.m. If we were to believe the several members of the McCann’s holiday group, and after several mismatching versions, at this time Madeleine was being carried out of her apartment by a dark-haired man, who would be around 35 years old.

From the same table where the group of nine had dinner on that evening, one tries, in vain, to observe the apartment’s front – a ground floor apartment that faces the restaurant. A linoleum screen on the side of Tapas and the corridor of bushes that follows the limits of the apartment’s back yards prevents any vigilance to that level.

The image of Madeleine – big blue, questioning eyes and an innocent smile, fixed on the photographic films – is always present. It doesn’t leave the conversations of whom passes by. One remembers the words that the mother, Kate Healy, is supposed to have said to a friend (and that the husband, Gerry McCann, did not know): “I had a bad premonition about my children, when I found out the Ocean Club had no baby listening service”.

The choice of Algarve as a holiday destination would come to change their lives. Everything was arranged with three other couples, with whom they used to travel. Some of them had recently been to Greece, with their children, and the Mark Warner agency, the same that prepared their trip to the Algarve, had done their itinerary for the islands. According to their reports, the hotel where they stayed had a baby listening service – a service that is assured by four or five members of staff who would control the children while the adults dined, by listening through doors and windows to confirm that everything inside was quiet.

At the Tapas bar, from bartenders to staff from the Kid Club, criticism is whispered: “We have a creche where they left their children for most part of the day, where they could be until 11.30 p.m. without spending another Euro. They could also have used our baby-sitters, who stay with the children in their rooms until 1 p.m. In this case, they would have to pay an extra fee, but these people looked like they could afford it”, an employee comments, concluding that “this was a very strange group, that never stayed with their children”.

The children’s routine

The story of Madeleine looks like a tangled ball of wool. In the last days of April, Kate and Gerry, both 39 and doctors, arrive with their friends in Praia da Luz. The weather is not very good, but the group makes the best of it. The children seem to exist outside of the adults’ world. In the morning, Kate would take Madeleine, almost 4, and the 2-year old twins, to the Kid Club. The other couples in the group did the same. While the little ones entertained themselves with collages and paintings, the group divides itself between tennis and jogging until lunchtime. In the creche, the girl’s picture is taken: “She was shy and had some difficulty in adapting to the group. She always stayed close to the english children she already knew”.

It is at lunchtime that the families socialize a bit. After a short nap, the children go back to the Kid Club, while the parents use the activities that the club offers. They only get to meet again in the late afternoon, when the children’s dinner is served. Before 8 p.m., Madeleine and her siblings, who seem to function like a clock, are already asleep. Half an hour later, the group of friends meets at Tapas. The staff remember that they only leave at midnight: “They were very lively and drank a bit too much. I didn’t even realize they had children, because I never saw them around”.

Mathew Oldfield, one of the elements of the group, is back in England. He reacts with surprise upon the contact of Sol, but he does not avoid the conversation: “We drank. We were on holidays. So what?”.

And thus the days followed one upon another, at the Ocean Club. The holiday week is almost over and the group’s spirit does not change. Nobody had noticed until then, how the children were kept at a distance.

The most reliable way to undrestand what happened on May 3, when Madeleine disappeared, is to analyze the various versions that emerged.

It would have been 10 p.m. when Kate decided to check the children at the apartment. This is the only moment in the story that gathers consensus. Madeleine had vanished from her bedroom and the twins were sleeping like nothing had happened. The mother was back at the restaurant in one leap. She was disoriented.

PJ called two hours later

In seconds, the resort is in turmoil. The group’s four men and the club’s employees check every corner. They seem to be oblivious of the essential: to call the authorities. GNR is the first to arrive at the scene, but the news only reach Policia Judiciaria (PJ) more than two hours later. The first explanations arise. Where were the parents when the child disappeared? Gerry explains that, inspired in the scheme that some of the friends had used on their holidays in Greece, the nine members of the group took turns in checking on the children with some regularity.

This is the beginning of a story that will change in many chapters. Gerry starts by saying that he first left the table to check on the children around 9.05 p.m. When he entered the apartment the children were fine, he just noticed that the door to their bedroom was partially open. He looked at the window, which was closed, just as the shutters, and relaxed.

Ten minutes later, his friend Jane Tanner, who went around the apartments, crossed ways with a dark-haired man who was walking in the opposite direction, carrying a child. She didn’t make any connections either.

A few minutes later, Mathew Oldfield enters the room, sees the McCann children fast asleep, and notices nothing out of the ordinary. It is at 10 p.m. that Maddie’s mother discovers her daughter has disappeared. The window was wide open and the shutters were up.

To GNR, who is in the area with sniffer dogs to search for the child, this is a highly unlikely scenario. One of the military assures: “This is an extremely silent area, where there are practically no passing cars. That shutter was very difficult to lift from the outside, and would have made a lot of noise. It would have been a lot easier to use the door, but there were no signs of a break-in”.

This was just one of the reasons why the group became suspicious in the eyes of the investigators. Russell O’Brien, Jane Tanner’s husband, is already back in England, but he knows he could be summoned back to Portugal for a deposition anytime. Over the phone with Sol, he tries to keep his british phlegm: “It is normal that we are suspects, and the DNA test is a consequence thereof. We were the closest people involved”.

The conversation always comes back to the same issue: the night of the disappearance. The account of that last dinner has disparate versions among the group’s members. Some swear that someone left the table every half hour to check on the kids; other reduce that time to half of it. Some say control is made window by window; others say the adults entered each other’s apartments.

One of the employees that was on duty that evening does not remember a lot of movement: “I only remember a tall, grey-haired man getting up once from the table”. It was Russell, who, two days earlier, also had attended dinner.

An aerobic instructor from the resort entertains the dinner guests at Tapas with a ‘Quiz’. At 9.30 p.m. the game ends, and Gerry invites her to their table, where she stays for half an hour. During that time, as she later confided to friends, nobody left the table, but one of the chairs was vacant. Najova Chekaya refuses to talk to Sol. And Russell, when the questions start to surround him, loses his sympathy: “I have nothing further to tell you. I am not going to dishonor the compromise I assumed with Kate and Gerry. They want to control all infornation that is disclosed”.

Gerry changes his version several times, but he maintains that the door to his children’s room was open. Mat revokes his first statement: when he entered Madeleine’s room, the door was open and there was more light, as if the shutters had been raised. Here starts to develop the theory that there was already someone inside the apartment. Which reinforces Jane Tanner’s version (that she saw a man carrying a child).

Only Jane saw the man carrying a child

But there is a witness whose deposition contradicts this theory. Jeremy Wilkins – a tv producer who had met Maddie’s father during their holidays and used to play tennis with him – was walking his eight months old son at that time. He met Gerry, who went out through the apartment’s back door after having checked on the children, and the two man exchanged a brief conversation. At that time, if one is to believe the first accounts, Jane would have left Tapas in the direction of the apartment’s main entrance, and would have crossed paths with both of them. “It was a very narrow road and I think it would have been almost impossible to walk by without me taking notice”, Jeremy says, pointing out the fact that he saw no man carrying a child, as Jane states.

But Jane continues to guarantee that, at the top of the street, she saw a man with a child in his arms.

Although the area is scarcely lit, and the situation did not make her suspicious at the time, she describes the beige trousers, the dark thick jacket and the black classic-style shoes in a detailed way. Once again, Jeremy disagrees: “If that happened, I would have likely seen it”.

On the next day, the media circus was fully installed. The first reports are on Sky News first thing in the morning, even before portuguese press takes hold of the story. Journalists and locals dispute the information. Robert Murat, the son of an english mother and a portuguese father, with little luck in business, does not waste the opportunity. He moves from failed businessman into the role of a translator for the press and the police. Some british journalists, after sucking him to the bones, start suspecting his availability.

The Murat contradiction

Contrarily to the GNR elements and the Ocean Club’s staff, who participated in the searches on the night before and assure they did not see Murat around, Gerry and some of his friends guarantee that he was there. And thus he becomes an arguido.

Gerry and Kate’s friends, who are interrogated tightly by the PJ over almost a month, refuse to clarify this contradiction, when asked by Sol. “We have a pact. This is our matter only. It is nobody else’s business”, says David Payne, another element with the group. Minutes after we tried to contact Kate, Gerry, in a fury, calls the Sol journalist: “What do you think you are doing? Do you think you’re better than the portuguese police? I’m going to forward your contact to PJ and you will have to explain yourselves”.


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PJ says ‘everybody is a suspect’

The director of the Policia Judiciaria in Faro, Guilhermino da Encarnacao, confirmed with Sol that “we do not discard the possibility to have the family and friends as suspects”. This is always done “without neglecting other clues. Everybody who was at the resort at the time are suspects”.

 

[CaliKid]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1273333,00.html
Mum's anger at Shrek ads

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1273630,00.html
Mother of Madeleine has pleaded for daughter's return

http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/gunmen-seize-3yearold-british-girl-in-nigeria/20074405-m7y.html
Gunmen kidnap 3-year-old in Nigeria

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1274141,00.html
Nearly £1m Raised For Madeleine Fund

http://rarediseases.about.com/od/rarediseasesc/a/chargesyndrome.htm
More information on CHARGE syndrome

http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/07/08/s.....acion.html
PJ abandons all international clues of Maddie

Sixty-six days after Madeleine McCann mysteriously disappeared from the room where she was sleeping with her twin siblings, in an apartment at the Ocean Club resort, in Praia da Luz, Policia Judiciaria (PJ) abandoned all the clues that they had in various countries, which pointed to the possibility that the british child had passed through or was staying there. The investigations are more and more concentrated in the area where Maddie was kidnapped.

“None of the many sightings that were registered in Malta, and which were exhaustively investigated by local authorities, was confirmed, so we discarded that lead”, chief inspector Olegario de Sousa told DN yesterday. And the indication that came from Morocco “was put aside, given the bad quality of the images from the petrol station in Marrakesh”, where a norwegian tourist guarantees she saw the child with a man.

“Moroccan authorities did not even send us the requested images, given the fact that they were taped one over another, which made the idetification of the people who circulated there, totally impossible”, he observed, admitting that the inspectors’ work is more and more centralized in Praia da Luz. One of the persons who are responsible for the investigation had already referred that “the key to the mystery lies in Praia da Luz”. Madeleine’s parents also don’t exclude “the possibility that she is here”.

I know some will connect this to Murat but I really dont think so. I actually think the PJ have been a lot smarter than people have given them credit for, I also think they could be playing a bit of a mind game with G & K

I did wonder with the parents moving into a new apartment recently, wonder if PJ might have installed any listening devices? Mind you think they G & K might be wise to that.....just a thought.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1274221,00.html
British girl freed by Nigerians

 

[CaliKid]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1274311,00.html
More arrests pending

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/n...objectid=19431938&siteid=66633-name_page.html
MADELEINE McCann prime suspect Robert Murat is to be interrogated again

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1274529,00.html
Madeleine Suspect Quizzed For 8 Hours

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/... suspect after eight hour grilling/article.do
Suspect Murat grilled for 5 hours by McCanns' friends

http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=23&num=91122
Maddie sighted in Malta again

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272614657.shtml
Police discount Malta sighting

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/zopi...ks-portugal-over-madeleine-mccann-$475815.htm
PM Brown thanks Portugal over Maddie case

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1077792007
Murat reinterviewed

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1274738,00.html
McCann Friends 'Will Do All They Can'

 

[christine2448]

Some forensic scientists have begun to question some of the evidence against the couple - supposedly samples of Madeline's blood found in the boot of the car they hired 25 days after the disappearance, and the "death smell" allegedly found on Mrs McCann's belongings by a police sniffer dog.
There is suspicion that tiny DNA samples obtained from the McCanns' apartment - and compared with the blood found in the car boot - could have been contaminated.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/09/nmcann609.xml

 

[CaliKid]

SOL report from early July, 2007

http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Soc...ntent_id=44677

From the SOL website- Policia Judiciaria is going to confront the three elements of the group that was spending holidays with Madeleine’s parents in Praia da Luz, with the statement of the person who is until now the only arguido in the process of the disappearance of the english child.

The four persons who are being inquired are going to be submitted to a confrontation, in order to clarify the truth about what happened on the night of the kidnapping, given the fact that the statements are contradictory.

Among the english that were spending their vacation with Madeleine’s parents at the Ocean Club and are going to be heard today, are the couple Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner.

We are reminded that a SOL investigation concluded that Russell was the group’s element who was absent for the greatest amount of time, during the dinner that was held on the night Madeleine McCann disappeared.

The testimony of a resort employee confirms that a few days earlier, it was also Russell O’Brien who had been absent during the group’s dinner.

Jane Tanner is one of the key witnesses of the process, given the fact that she claims to have seen a man carrying a child, during one of her trips to the apartments to check on the children.

The english woman states she saw a man aged 35-40, with dark hair, wearing beige trousers, a dark jacket and classic black shoes, carrying a girl, who was wearing a pyjama and was barefoot.

Yet, this portrait does not fully coincide with Murat, given the fact that he never wore his hair long at the neck, which is how Jane describes the man she saw.

Although Jane describes the individual with good detail, Jeremy Wilkins – another witness who was on the street at the exact moment when Jane says she saw the suspect – guaranteed to SOL that he saw neither Jane nor any suspect, adding that if this had happened, it would have been ‘practically impossible’ not noticing the ocurrence.

Another aspect that the police will want to clarify is whether Robert Murat was at the Ocean Club on the night Maddie vanished.

The McCann’s friends confirm they saw the arguido at the resort in Praia da Luz, but staff and GNR elements deny this version.

http://tinyurl.com/2r6xj4
Here is another article about the same information. At the end it says:

Yesterday police also quizzed Antonio Toscano, a Spanish freelance journalist, who has repeatedly claimed to have information about Madeleine's abductor.

He says a repeat sex offender known as the 'Frenchman' may have taken her on behalf of a paedophile network. But Mr Sousa said: 'We have checked all the information that he has provided and have already said that it is a line which is not very strong, not consistent.'

 

[CaliKid]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1274868,00.html
Madeleine's parents plan to learn Portuguese

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1274977,00.html
Madeleine's parents shocked, distressed by reports of body near marina

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007320182,00.html
McCann friends confront, ID suspect

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1275069,00.html
Friends in showdown over Maddie

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1275024,00.html
Madeleine's father gets standing ovation

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1275160,00.html
Madeleine friends in holiday campaign

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/13425/Maddy:-Suspect's-alibi-is-in-doubt
Key suspect's alibi is in doubt

http://missingchild.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/who-kidnapped-whom-first/
Non-Madeleine article on adoption kidnapping

http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=15&num=14750
Robert Murat has no sympathy for Madeleine's parents

 

[CaliKid]

This is the latest article from SOL- date 7/13/07- (translated by Astro on http://formadeleine.proboards106.com/index.cgi) which you unfortunately have to register for if you want to get into the forum and read anything.

Sol

13th July 2007

By Margarida Davim

At the entrance of Ocean’s Club in Praia da Luz, the journalists who participated in the press conference that was held by Madeleine’s parents for the Portuguese media, encountered a plastic box to collect donations. A small text, signed by Kate and Gerry McCann, invites everyone who enters the resort to contribute. This gesture was not appreciated by the members of staff, who claim that the resort “is full of collection boxes”.

A fund for Maddie

This box is just one of many ways that Maddie’s parents found to collect money for the ‘Leaving no Stone Unturned’ fund – which counts with almost 900 thousand pounds already (one million three hundred thousand euros).

Justine McGuinness, the McCanns' new public relations, guarantees that the collected money “is being managed by a group of independent persons”, and subject to “very rigorous rules that are imposed by british law to all charities”. Still, McGuinness refuses to explain who are the “highly qualified lawyers and managers” that are managing the fund, just highlighting they are not remunerated, and offered as volunteers.

On the findmadeleine.com site there is an online store, where Gerry and Kate sell yellow rubber bracelets and textile bands, to help finance the cause. Callum McRae, the author of the site, says it was the couple’s idea. Speaking to SOL, McRae explains that the child’s aunt, Philomena McCann, asked him to create the internet page, just two days after the girl went missing. “She knew exactly what she wanted”, says Callum McRae, who created the contents in just one day.

The McCann’s internet page also publicizes several fundraising events, all taking place in the UK, and some planned over 60 days ahead.

To SOL, McRae, who was a student of Madeleine’s aunt in highschool, did not want to specify whether his work on the site is paid by the fund or not: “I’m not authorized to speak about that”. According to the site, the fund’s purpose is to “support Madeleine’s family financially” and to make sure she is found, and her kidnappers brought to trial. After reaching these targets, the collected money shall be used to help solving “similar cases in the UK, in Portugal and elsewhere”.

Twins at the creche

This week, Kate and Gerry moved into a villa outside the Ocean Club, but are still visiting the resort. “They come here every day to drop the twins at the creche”, a member of staff reports.

Kate and Gerry, who are now staying at a villa with a pool, never had to pay for their stay at the resort. “They were not even handed a bill”, the same employee of the Ocean Club says, noting the couple’s detached and somewhat “arrogant” attitude.

Reactions to SOL

Last edition’s article on the McCann case (A pact of silence), has livened the discussion in the UK. Fully translated into English, it has prompted approximately 20 pages of reactions in the forum of the Daily Mirror. Among the comments, there is criticism of the alleged censorship that this work was subject to in the forums of other British media.

 

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http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Soc...ntent_id=44677

From mid-July 2007

From the SOL website- Policia Judiciaria is going to confront the three elements of the group that was spending holidays with Madeleine’s parents in Praia da Luz, with the statement of the person who is until now the only arguido in the process of the disappearance of the english child.

The four persons who are being inquired are going to be submitted to a confrontation, in order to clarify the truth about what happened on the night of the kidnapping, given the fact that the statements are contradictory.

Among the english that were spending their vacation with Madeleine’s parents at the Ocean Club and are going to be heard today, are the couple Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner.

We are reminded that a SOL investigation concluded that Russell was the group’s element who was absent for the greatest amount of time, during the dinner that was held on the night Madeleine McCann disappeared.

The testimony of a resort employee confirms that a few days earlier, it was also Russell O’Brien who had been absent during the group’s dinner.

Jane Tanner is one of the key witnesses of the process, given the fact that she claims to have seen a man carrying a child, during one of her trips to the apartments to check on the children.

The english woman states she saw a man aged 35-40, with dark hair, wearing beige trousers, a dark jacket and classic black shoes, carrying a girl, who was wearing a pyjama and was barefoot.

Yet, this portrait does not fully coincide with Murat, given the fact that he never wore his hair long at the neck, which is how Jane describes the man she saw.

Although Jane describes the individual with good detail, Jeremy Wilkins – another witness who was on the street at the exact moment when Jane says she saw the suspect – guaranteed to SOL that he saw neither Jane nor any suspect, adding that if this had happened, it would have been ‘practically impossible’ not noticing the ocurrence.

Another aspect that the police will want to clarify is whether Robert Murat was at the Ocean Club on the night Maddie vanished.

The McCann’s friends confirm they saw the arguido at the resort in Praia da Luz, but staff and GNR elements deny this version.

 

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1283359,00.html

SNIFFER DOGS WILL SEARCH FOR MADDY

 

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6986514.stm

McCanns Talk With UK Attorney

 

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2166124,00.html

Police clutching at Straws- Auntie Phil