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. Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. June 4, 2020, 5:01 AM PDT. We think there are good grounds for suspecting that the two photos may have been taken on the same day, and that Madeleines very sad appearance could be connected in some way to her having died later that same day. It showed Madeleine in make-up. 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. (ii) What shall we all do after we raise the alarm? We have given evidence that we cannot rely on the claims by Catriona Baker and the McCanns that Madeleine was alive at an alleged 'high tea' on . 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. Just months after this, Eugene Zapata made a full confession which proved that the cadaver dogs evidence had been 100% correct. blood Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were considered . This unidentified, anonymous neighbor tells the McCanns she saw a car going up the Rocha Negra at night. McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle However, in our view it is very unlikely that her death could have been a simple accident, otherwise the McCanns would have taken her to the local hospital. In the same interview, she was asked a 49th question: Are you aware that in not answering these questions you are jeopardising the investigation into your daughters disappearance? Kate McCann answered: Yes, if thats what the investigation thinks. Do we need someone to pretend to see an abductor? (The McCanns incidentally paid the amazing sum of 500,000 to Bell Pottinger to keep Madeleines name on the front pages of Britains newspapers for a year. McCann had certified six deaths in the two weeks before going on 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? Then there would be questions about how the abduction hoax was going to be performed. She had had blue eye shadow put on her. Madeleine McCann disappeared 15 years ago when she was 3-years-old when . This booking appears to have been made on the Sunday night. He queries, as many others have done, why anyone would need to wash a minor tea stain off a pair of pyjamas just two days before the McCanns were due to return home, 5. 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. German authorities believe they have evidence that Madeleine McCann is dead. - October 28: Scotland Yard cuts the number of officers working on the inquiry from 29 to four. But we believe we now have sufficient knowledge to be able to state with confidence what we say below. Lourenco had evidently planned to call the police and already knew of the description that Jane Tanner had given to the police. 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. 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? Madeleine's whereabouts remain unknown, although German prosecutors believe she is . The problem with the Tennis Balls Photo. spatters on the walls could have been caused by mosquitoes crashing Evidence that the children of the McCanns and their friends were cared for in one room from Sunday night onwards, After Dr Amaral was removed as the investigation co-ordinator in October 2007, he was replaced by Paulo Rebelo. It was Wojchiech Krokowski, a man from Poland on holiday with his wife for the week. In addition, Antonio Giminez Raso was caught bribing people in Morocco to falsely claim that they had seen Madeleine. 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. Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. Credit: PA. In 1992 he qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD, a research degree, also from Glasgow. One example illustrates our point. Only one other photo of Madeleine was taken that week, the so-called Tennis Balls Photo. Although it was a five-hour journey from his cottage in the countryside around Ronda, Spain, he managed to reach Praia da Luz. We cannot say. When he was asked at an interview under caution in Portugal on 15 May 2007 what he had been doing in Portugal during his first four days there (1-4 May), he lied about his actions in at least 17 material respects. It appeared in a short film made by Madeleines godfather, film-maker Jon Corner. But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger subsidiary company, Resonate, had flown out to help Mark Warner just days before, possibly on Monday 30 April. It was very early - Madeleine might very well have been found alive and well later that Friday - but on that very day, many media editors immediately despatched reporters to Praia da Luz. The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. Whilst this doesnt prove that Jane Tanner and Robert Murat were in Krokowskis apartment that week, it certainly raises at least the possibility that they were. 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. Then we come to them all sitting down for dinner at 8.30pm to 8.45pm. But those who claim that Madeleine died after 6pm have to explain how the McCanns were able to pull off an audacious abduction within the four hours between 6pm and 10pm (when the alarm was raised) on Thursday 3 May. That knowledge is derived from multiple sources and is based on the voluntary efforts of many people, not least those who have set up websites of information and discussion about the case, voluntary Portuguese- English translators and so many others who have given freely of their time and expertise. Was this an accident? Doctors, despite being trained not to show emotion over the circumstances of their patients, are also human beings, and in this case parents. Portugal. Hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner found in Krokowskis apartment. Chapter 5: The days that followed. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. The Portuguese police investigation into her disappearance closed in July 2008. All other claimed sightings of Madeleine on 3 May are equally unproven and open to serious doubt. (v) Would we be investigated by the police? He had carefully fitted up Krokowski. April 23, 2022 12:58pm. There is evidence that the British Embassy in Portugal arranged for Murat to become the main translator for the Portuguese police in the days following Madeleine being reported missing. German prosecutors said they have "strong evidence" that missing UK toddler Madeleine McCann is dead, as . However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two Last Photo threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. Jane would need to have a believable description to give to the police. (vi) What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? There are four photographs from the holiday that we can accept as having been taken on the McCanns' camera on that holiday: the three 'playground' photos, which were clearly taken on the Saturday, and the Pool photo, which the McCanns insist was taken on Thursday 3rd May, but evidence clearly indicates was actually taken on Sunday 29th April. He was on an extended stay in England (Devon) when the McCanns went on holiday to Praia da Luz in 2007, 4. 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). AS far as we know, they knew no-one in the area who could help them. To even list, let alone explain, all the circumstantial evidence would take pages. - somewhere where no-one could find it? Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by slave traders and sold to a rich family in North Africa or the Middle East, a . We believe that there are a considerable number of people who know what really happened to Madeleine but will not speak of what they know. All of them back to their apartments and showering or washing and getting changed for dinner? The German man, who was not publicly named, lived in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and burgled hotels and holiday apartments as well as dealing drugs, German police said. What happened then in the apartment remains a mystery. http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-nightwear-job-by-dr-martin-roberts.html. He most certainly has done that in the Madeleine McCann case. Was there a meeting of some kind there that week? A basic check of other . From that moment on, no other person saw the little girl, apart from her parents and their friends. ANSWER: Look at the analysis of these sightings by HideHo that we referred to above. Ok first of all I have always believed that Maddie died in the apartment because the only creature that wouldn't lie in this . A cadaver dog had alerted to the odour of a corpse which suggested that Eugene Zapata had moved his wifes body twice. From this, the police were able to trace the man who was driving the car. Kate McCann said that the dogs were only alerting to the conscious or unconscious signals from the dog handler, Martin Grime, a claim that basically accused Martin Grime of gross professional incompetence. In addition to all these considerations, for Martin Grimes cadaver dogs to have alerted to the scent of a corpse, no longer present, some three months after the McCanns had vacated their holiday apartment, Madeleines body must have been lying in the McCanns apartment for at least 90 minutes, probably two hours or longer. (iii) Or phone a trusted friend first and ask for advice? Over thirteen years ago, on 3 May 3 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal's Praia de Luz, while her parents Kate and Gerry . 5. We suggest that it is unlikely in the extreme. Rightly, Dr Roberts queries what was the point of the McCanns taking these photographs? However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two Last Photo threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April. She said she spoke to a friend of hers, Edna Glyn, while the crying was going on, but neither of them did anything about it. We do not set out here all the multiple contradictions about the alleged high tea on 3 May; these have been more than adequately analysed in many places on the internet. Jill Havern, forum owner -----The views of the Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016 That would take some time and probably they would have had to take them to one of their friends apartments. Kate 28 April 2007 - The McCann's arrive in Portugal Kate and Gerry McCann take their three children - Madeleine, three, and twins Amelie and Sean, two, on holiday to the Ocean Club complex in Praia da . It would also be consistent with the apartment having been forensically cleansed before the alarm was raised and Madeleines clothes and other items having been removed or disposed of. Its Head of Risk, Alex Woolfall flew there the very next day (4 May) and he was later joined by another top Director of the company. 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. Her mother came to fetch her at 12.25 for lunch and took her back at 2 o'clock. Do we go frantically pretending to look for her? It was a tragic accident in the apartment that night.'. They said they were treating the case as a suspected murder and had determined the method used to kill McCann. We also need to bear in mind that on the basis of the PJ theory as it stands, this was a holiday to a place the McCanns had never been to before. When examined in detail, Lourencos claim that his daughter was nearly kidnapped by Krokowski falls apart. On the very night when the McCanns and their friends should have been distraught, following Madeleines sudden disappearance, some of them were busy contacting the TV and print media and claiming, even in the very first hours after they had raised the alarm, that the Portuguese police were incompetent and not organising a proper search for her. Madeleine McCann is a British child who went missing on the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday, from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while on holiday with her family in Portugal.. However, in our view it is very unlikely that her death could have been a simple accident, otherwise the McCanns would have taken her to the local hospital. The body, the existence of which has been confirmed by the EVRD and CSI dogs but also by the results of the preliminary laboratory analyses, cannot be found. His conduct whilst a translator in those early days after Madeleine was reported missing was bizarre and suspicious. Whilst this doesnt prove that Jane Tanner and Robert Murat were in Krokowskis apartment that week, it certainly raises at least the possibility that they were. The episode of the holidays in 2005, in Mallorca - which raises suspicions about a friend of the couple - and the DNA results are the first parts. Mrs. The conclusions my team and I have arrived at are the following: 1. The McCanns and their friends had eight children with them on that holiday. There is, further, evidence that Catriona Baker was already known to the McCanns. After Madeleine was reported missing, the McCanns were able to claim that they had been eating at the Tapas restaurant each night, but were checking their children every half-hour. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? No body has ever been found. We cannot say. Quite apart from anything else, why did he delay for six days reporting a man taking photos of children on a beach and who later that day tried to kidnap his daughter? 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. His conduct during his translations was so outrageous that an inspector sent an urgent report to Dr Amaral, complaining about his conduct. 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. We refer in particular to her article on CMOMM posted on 28 September 2015, on the lack of credible evidence that Madeleine was seen alive after Sunday, link here: http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t11921-was-madeleine-seen-after-sunday-no-credible-evidence-that-she-was-watch-the-video? But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. ontradictory stories about which of them read the children a story on the Thursday evening. She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. Chapter 3: Announcement of a disappearance: The fi. Gerry McCann had met Sahlke before he helped with the search but did not show any concern for his death. towel, pillow, bedding, hairbrush and toothbrush. June 30, 2020 7:03pm. 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. Later, Robert Murat claimed that Mrs Fenn had phoned, Madeleine McCann Research Group, August 2016, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/f57-mccann-case-the-most-important-areas-of-research, http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.co.uk, http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12362-new-film-by-richard-d-hall-when-madeleine-died. Catriona Baker also had a holiday at the McCanns home a few months after Madeleine was reported missing, suggesting a close relationship between them.. All of these, we say, are wholly consistent with something very serious having happened to Madeleine McCann on the Sunday. There would then have to be a rapid decision-making process during which all the following decisions would have to be taken: Can we pass this off as a genuine accident? Her disappearance sparked an international search, with missing posters of the little girl's face papered across the world and celebrity appeals for information that could help track her down and bring her abductors to justice. They would have to deal with the initial shock of what had happened. He demonstrates that photos of Madeleines pyjamas were taken inside the McCanns own apartment and while the pyjamas were drying. 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. Do we know for sure that Madeleine was with her family in her apartment at 6pm? 7. Were they sent ahead of Bell Pottinger as a kind of advance party because something serious had already happened to Madeleine? As a Netflix documentary sparks new interest in the case, we look at the v FORENSIC tests show Madeleine McCann died of an overdose of sleeping pills, media reports said today. Quite apart from anything else, why did he delay for six days reporting a man taking photos of children on a beach and who later that day tried to kidnap his daughter? 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