Well, that depends on whether or not one accepts as gospel the claims of Gerry and Kate McCann, Catriona Baker and Charlotte Pennington that Madeleine was at a high tea in the Tapas restaurant from (according to Gerry McCann) 4.45pm onwards to about 6pm. Michael led the team of investigators which in 2007 located the boat on which Madeleine was being held and who were denied permission to launch a rescue bid, to their intense frustration. Maybe they would have had other related questions. In Kate McCann's book, chapter 6th dealing with the morning after Madeleine's disappearance [May 4th], a neighbor is mentioned across the road on the east side of the apartment [across the Rua Dr Gentil Martins]. To give but one recent example, dozens of people, including police and celebrities, knew that Jimmy Saville was a serial paedophile. Besides that, when journalists tried to question the McCanns close friend David Payne about the events of their holiday in Praia da Luz that week, he refused to talk, saying: We have a pact of silence. They refused to hand over their photographs without first selecting exactly what they wanted the police to see and what they didnt want them to see. The following are some of the main factual issues we have taken into consideration in arriving at our conclusion that Madeleine McCann died on Sunday 29 April: The complete absence of any of Madeleines DNA in Praia da Luz. views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, The This hoax couldnt be true; there would just be too many people who would know that Madeleine had died on Sunday. No-one else was reported to have ever died in that apartment. Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. Credit: PA. Here, quite apart from the matters dealt with above, are several other specific indications that an abduction hoax was indeed planned over a four-day period: The relevant facts are these. Scotland Yard began a review of the investigation, known as Operation Grange, in May 2011, and . She had a gold-coloured necklace put around her neck. The apartment. Kate McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle Cat, to work with her whilst she visited homes to issue death certificates, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat. Excerpts from the book by Gonalo Amaral, who believes that Madeleine McCann died inside the apartment at Praia da Luz. Madeleine McCann; prime suspect Christian Bruckner Getty Images. No-one else heard a child crying loudly for 75 minutes that night. Doctors, despite being trained not to show emotion over the circumstances of their patients, are also human beings, and in this case parents. We do not think it was. Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007 (PA) 2014 . We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse). The Portuguese police became convinced that this must be the man whom Jane Tanners evidence suggested had abducted Madeleine. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. For example, on 3 June 2007, just one month after Madeleine went missing, Gerry McCann was planning a big event to mark Madeleines abduction, telling the press: We want a big event to raise awareness that she is still missingIt wouldnt be a one-year anniversary, it will be sooner than that. He wanted Elton John to front a major fund-raising concert. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. Just months after this, Eugene Zapata made a full confession which proved that the cadaver dogs evidence had been 100% correct. Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment almost 15 years ago. There would have been a severe emotional reaction and initial panic, and maybe a series of irrational responses, before they could properly gather their thoughts and begin to come to terms with the shock of losing their daughter and start planning how to cover it up. Point 5. So the McCanns and their friends would be rapidly tossing these sorts of ideas around: Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. This booking appears to have been made on the Sunday night. The McCanns seemed to know influential people in the TV media and were successful in contacting them in the early hours of the morning and getting headline news about Madeleines disappearance onto the early Friday morning bulletins. All other claimed sightings of Madeleine on 3 May are equally unproven and open to serious doubt. It follows from all that we have said above that, if Madeleine did indeed die on Sunday 29 April, those who knew she had died must have carefully planned an audacious hoax over a period of four days, so cunning and clever that most people still believe that she was abducted. Amaral and his team (rightly) rejected all claims by the McCanns that Madeleine was alive after 6pm on 3 May because, obviously, they were made by someone who was not independent. The following are some of the main factual issues we have taken into consideration in arriving at our conclusion that Madeleine McCann died on Sunday 29 April: No DNA of Madeleine was found in the McCanns apartment, nor on her clothes nor on objects she had used or come into contact with on holiday, e.g. There is good evidence that the so-called Last Photo of Madeleine was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April and not at lunchtime on Thursday 3 May as claimed by the McCanns. This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. Even had they all rapidly agreed to go along with an abduction hoax later that evening at 10pm, there would be all manner of questions and suggestions. He most certainly has done that in the Madeleine McCann case. That conclusion is greatly enhanced by the McCanns first and subsequent reactions to these dramatic findings, which we have set out in detail elsewhere. Arranging two bogus week-long searches of a dam in Portugal, the Arade Dam, pretending that they knew nothing about this search, when in fact they had paid a lawyer, Marcos Aragao Correia and men form Metodo 3 to conduct the search. On both, her hair length was the same. Support for this claim was found when it became clear that every night from Sunday to Thursday, one or other adult had not been at the Tapas restaurant for dinner each night (see below), either because one of the adults or one of the children was stated to be ill. Photographs taken of Madeleines pyjamas before 3 May - in Praia da Luz, and the mystery of the brown tea stain. Could they have discussed this desperate situation bilaterally? We finally decide to question her (Kate McCann) as a witness, but not to pose questions on the events after 5.30pm, the time at which she returned to the apartment with her three children. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. Lourenco had evidently. A judge refused to hear the dog handlers evidence, saying that sniffer dogs evidence was too unreliable. AA. He kept pestering the police with plausible suggestions about lines of enquiry that they should be following. His conduct during his translations was so outrageous that an inspector sent an urgent report to Dr Amaral, complaining about his conduct. It showed Madeleine in make-up. Robert Murat was a well-known long-term resident of Praia da Luz, his mother having lived there for much of her life, 3. The very next day, early in the morning, a man called Nuno Lourenco rang the Portuguese police and said that, six days previously, a man was taking photographs of children on a beach had tried to kidnap his child at a tiny village called Sagres. On Friday 4 May, the McCanns friend Jane Tanner gave a description of a man she said she had seen, carrying a child, at 9.15pm on the night Madeleine was reported missing. If so, they would need to demonstrate that the shutters were previously in good working order. In our view the involvement of Robert Murat in this case is another significant pointer to Madeleine having died on the Sunday. Chapter 4: The real victim is the missing child. Maybe they would have had other related questions. It is a fact that from about 8am on Friday 4 May, the news of Madeleines reported disappearance rapidly became the top story in both Portugal and Britain for weeks - and has continued to make international headlines ever since. This is consistent with her having been dead for some time before she was reported missing. Quite why the British Embassy would promote Murat to do this job is uncertain, unless he had a significant prior connection with the Embassy, and was co-operating with them in some way. Let us presume at this point that they decided to tell all their friends: Dave, Fiona, Russell, Jane, Matt, Rachael (I assume at this point that those who say that Madeleine died after 6pm fully accept that the McCanns must have let all their Tapas 9 friends know what had happened to Madeleine - and that they all agreed on a plan - though I am aware that some still maintain that maybe, in this scenario, the McCanns didnt say anything to any of their friends, none of whom therefore knew that Madeleine was dead). Here is what each of the two men actually wrote: This was how Tavares de Almeida expressed the investigations preliminary conclusion I will just reproduce his first six points: From everything that we have discovered, our files result in the following conclusions: he minor Madeleine McCann died in Apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz, on the night of 3 May 2007, imulation - a staged hoax - of an abduction took place, n order to render the childs death impossible before 10.00pm, a situation of checking of the McCann couples children while they slept was concocted, Dr Gerald McCann and Dr Kate McCann are involved in the concealment of the corpse of their daughter, Madeleine McCann, t this moment, there seems to be no strong indications yet that the childs death was other than the result of a tragic accident. He tried to prove this by quoting from a legal judgment in the United States, in the case of Eugene Zapata, accused of murdering his wife. We suggest, given what we know, that there are two main possibilities: There are indications which point in either of these directions, but not enough information to say which. That theory would require Gerry McCann to have made an extremely risky, not to say crass, decision to walk for some 15 or 20 minutes across the village, carrying his dead daughter, at the very moment that his wife and/or others was raising the alarm. But we suggest that instead of having four hours to plan an abduction hoax, they actually had four days. But this Tapas restaurant booking represented a change of plan. It was a tragic accident in the apartment that night.'. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. A high-level meeting is taking place between their Portuguese lawyer and senior detectives involved in the long-runn New research in this section points to Madeleine's death being on the Sunday or Monday and not Thursday 3rd May. These and a number of other considerations about Robert Murat lead us to think that he was summoned to Portugal during Monday 30 April because something serious had happened to Madeleine the previous day, and that his help was needed to cover this up. Most people going on a weeks holiday dont plan on washing clothes. Lourenco had evidently planned to call the police and already knew of the description that Jane Tanner had given to the police. The absence of any undisputed confirmed sightings of Madeleine on or after Monday 30 April. Michael Shrimpton reacts to this week's overblown reports of a 'fresh' development in the Madeleine McCann case. Evidence that a group planned in advance how to create a major news story on the morning of Friday 4 May. Link There is no doubt that Madeleine died on that holiday. 29 Jul 2020. Numerous changes of story by the McCanns, their friends, and others closely associated with them. 5. It seems unlikely. 6. He and his team also (rightly) rejected claims by Dr David Payne that he saw all three of the McCanns children alive on a visit he and Kate McCann said that he had made to the McCanns apartment at about 6.30pm on 3 May. It is time for us now to be still more specific about why we think she died on the Sunday that week. So we suggest that all these things must have all happened, in approximately this order: (iii) Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? Kate After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. certificates, thats why the smell of death was on Cuddle Cat. A preliminary point to raise is: were the twins present when, according to the PJ theory, Madeleine died? He did this to create the entirely false impression that two former police officers he employed for a period, Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley, were lead detectives of a company called Alpha Investigations Group. Madeleine McCann is "assumed" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in . On at least one occasion, Rebelo suggested that he had firm evidence that the McCanns and their friends had. 3 min read. What shall we all do after we raise the alarm? We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. He was observed trying to sneak a look at confidential documents. Almost 15 years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann while on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007, police . KATE and Gerry McCann may be told within days how their daughter Madeleine died. German investigators announced that a 43-year-old German man, who was in prison for raping a 72-year-old woman in 2005, in the same town where Madeleine went missing, was a new suspect in the case . Gerry McCann statement as Arguido 7th September . (as indeed they did so claim). Later, when re-interviewed by the Portuguese police on 10 and 11 July, after police had interrogated his mobile phone, and discovered that the account he had earlier given of his movements was false, he completely changed his story, claiming he had been too tired on 15 May to tell the truth. There are indications which point in either of these directions, but not enough information to say which. How did his editor in Britain know so early that this was going to be a major international story? Is it possible that the McCanns and advisers were already planning to claim that the shutters had been jemmied open and smashed by the abductor on Thursday? Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. We are sure that this high tea did not take place; the contradictions about it are too many and too serious. New research in this section points to Madeleines death being on the Sunday or Monday and not Thursday 3rd May. Then, again assuming that they had all agreed to a plan of action, there would be loads more questions about (a) the apartment and (b) how to execute the hoax. Maddie 'killed by sleeping pill overdose'. All of them back to their apartments and showering or washing and getting changed for dinner? Some of the men the McCanns employed were out-and-out crooks, like Antonio Giminez Raso from Metodo 3 and Kevin Haligen of Oakley International, both of whom spent four years in jail for crimes, respectively, of corruptly assisting a major drugs gang, and major fraud. This was meaningless. Now lets examine why we say she died on the Sunday. But many people did know about Freuds conduct and likewise kept it secret for decades. The strange booking on Sunday night of the Tapas restaurant for the evening meal of the McCanns and the Tapas 7 all week. If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? There is agreement from the McCanns, their friends, other holidaymakers and Ocean Club staff that they were all settled at their table at around 8.30pm to 8.45pm. What possible good excuse could there be for lying so many times about the fate of a missing child? This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. His co-author, Robbyn Swan, said: "Essentially the Portuguese cops' case against the McCann's involved the following: that she died by accident on May 3; that the supposed checks on the children . Then there would be another very tricky question to answer: Just our very good friends David and Fiona? This issue was very fully addressed in Richard D. Halls third film about Madeleine McCann: When Madeleine Died? Without necessarily agreeing with every specific point he makes in that documentary, we adopt his main conclusions, so far as they go. 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