tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48215749658661897422024-02-19T02:04:29.838+00:00Notes from a Potting ShedderMe, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-64934194735673474072014-10-08T09:27:00.000+01:002014-10-08T11:29:22.490+01:00RIP Brenda Leyland aka Sweepyface...<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I want to reinforce the fact that so many of you have succinctly pointed out. This woman (who is being vilified in the media as a 'troll') was just one of many who do not believe the McCann version of events. Her tweets were not threatening and couldn't have been directed at the McCanns - they don't have a Twitter account. She simply did not believe their story, yet she was targetted and singled out in the most humiliating and disgusting manner by Martin Brunt and Sky News.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In contrast, the tweets levelled back at Brenda by supporters of the McCanns would take your breath away. I've never come across such vile, disgusting abuse in all of my time on the internet. Any supporters of the family who condone this should hold their heads in shame. And so should the McCanns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The reason I write anonymously is not because of my opinion or that I'm in some way ashamed. I do so to protect my family and out of fear that my children will have their names and photos published online by the same type of people who created the website and dossier. This has happened over and over to normal people who dare to question what really happened in Praia de Luz. It's pathetic and a gross invasion of privacy and anyone publishing such information should be prosecuted. Like Gerry McCann says "<i>Clearly something needs to be done about the abuse on the internet. I think we probably need more people charged</i>". On this occasion Mr McCann you are not talking shite, you're bang on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Brenda may be laid to rest, but the circumstances surrounding her death cannot. It must be fully investigated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Will they in turn be prosecuted for stalking online? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And what gave Sky the right to doorstep an innocent woman guilty of nothing other than not believing? The police later confirmed to the BBC that they were not even investigating Brenda Leyland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm sad that Brenda didn't get the answers to her questions, but I sincerely hope that one day the truth will out - with so many of us wanting justice for Madeleine, I'm sure it will. No amount of abuse will stop me seeking the truth and nothing will make me start believing the McCanns and their Sticker Book Story. That group of scummy professionals and deadbeat parents should be held fully accountable for what happened on that holiday. And for once (shock horror) I agree with Katie Hopkins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eighty pages of torture and death threats?... Hmm my advice to the McCanns - put it in your NUTTY BOX along with it's authors and move on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hooray, finally something to offer a little bit of hope (because I always look on the positive side of everything) and something of interest to talk about!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This all reminds me of the time British police officers arrived in Kos to do a similar dig for Ben Needham. And I just can't help make comparisons between the two children and their families. There has always been a startling difference between the two...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Not surprisingly, the McCanns have already stated they won't be setting foot in Portugal while there's any digging going on. Did anyone expect anything otherwise? Yet Kerry Needham and her family were there on the toot. In fact, here's her father at the dig in Kos...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gerry McCann then told us 'the Met are going back to Portugal very soon... we are going to continue hoping we get a happy outcome...' and the pair were said to be 'buoyed' by the latest development, while Kerry Needham simply said of Ben, 'If they find his bones, my life is finished...'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But hey ho and back to McCann Land and here's what (they think) they do best - with a pained expression and microphone...even though this time the audience was little more than a dribble. Sign of the times or something else?</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hello, not gone anywhere... still watching, still waiting.<br /><br />It's been a while since my last post, but that's simply because there's been nothing really to talk about. The case is still being investigated, the trial is still trundling on with delays. Discussions are aplenty without me adding my two bit.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'd just like to remind you not to be fooled by the media and their headlines. In what world do the police reveal who and what they are investigating to the general public? And when do they ever give their prime suspects the heads up that they're coming for them on the front pages? It just doesn't happen. So whatever the media says, think the opposite. We can speculate but won't ever know what's really going on until the fat lady sings.<br /><br />My question is - whose lead are the press are following by recently reporting the big, bad, bogey burglars. Interestingly, it looks like it's the police themselves...<br /><br /><br />Anyway, hope you are all well. I'd like to thank you all for keeping the case alive with your thoughts and discussions. Keep it up, I read daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to write about how disgusted I am with it all, swooping on families simply because their children look different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They wouldn't dare do it with a British family, or Asian or Portuguese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Umm no, it wasn't just a Roma couple with whom she had been living - it was her damn parents and family! That woman gave birth to a BLONDE child, what a friggin shocker. Now why didn't that make the front pages of our crap press?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's always been gypsy predjudice around but like the rest of society, they have their good and their bad and they're certainly not all child snatchers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Media, please get a grip - do you think we're all stupid? 'Maddie' was NOT blonde, she was not found in Greece or Ireland. She is totally unrelated to anything Roma. Read the goddamn files and report ACURATELY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't ignore the latest appalling headline in the Sun. The implications of the grisly end that Madeleine may have come to are just too sickening for words. Alongside her photo.</span></div>
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<br />Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-58905033739211405162013-10-17T15:13:00.000+01:002013-10-17T15:20:10.321+01:00A very public awakening?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This little blog usually only gets around 100 - 150 hits on a normal day...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the hysteria that is Crimewatch was first advertised, the number of hits has risen tenfold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems the general public's curiosity has truly been awakened this time around. It's like travelling back in time to 2007 when we all sought sanctuary for our doubts and wavering thoughts. It's happening again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've just read on Blacksmith's blog that visits to the McCann Files website are numbering a collosal 100,000 hits per day. Pamalam recently posted on Maddie Case Files that people were arriving in their droves to view the Smith statement at 100 hits per minute! The number of members on the Facebook Controversy group has leapt to almost 11,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have the public finally had their bellies full? The last straw? All this interest due to a BBC production, not some book about the case. No, no they can't say that this time around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes on the blog feed, it's possible to see what a person has searched for via certain search engines. Here are a few of the things that people are now seeking answers for...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madeleine cadaver dogs ignored</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are the McCanns narcissists</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kate McCann's silver necklace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An act of madness, an accident or sudden impulse can lead to consequences that people may have never imagined or intended</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Martin Grimes Madeleine McCann</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kate McCann refused to answer questions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find Madeleline Fund private limited company</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting, hope these searchers find the answers they're looking for. And to the person who searched for '<i>the b</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>union on my</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> left foot</i>'... I have no idea how you ended up here, so sorry that I couldn't help and hope you've found some relief... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're interested in the case, here are some sites that you should consider having a browse..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/">Gerry McCann's Blogs</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://themaddiecasefiles.com/">Maddie Case Files</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://aninspectorcallsyou.blogspot.co.uk/">The Interrupted Investigation</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.co.uk/">From My Big Desk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or you could read the English translation of <a href="http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.co.uk/">Goncalo Amaral's book, the Truth of the Lie</a>. From what I can gather, it's just a condensed version of the official files. We'll have to wait for confirmation on that one though...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your comments are most welcome, although set to moderated since being PG'd, I always try and check throughout the day. If you have any messages or comments that you wish to send and don't want published, please continue to do so but mark appropriately in the comment box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for your visits. And a big thumbs up to whoever halted the spamming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever the optimist, I'm keeping an open mind after watching Crimewatch and hoping against hope that Scotland Yard are playing a long game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not sure what the theatricals established last night other than to show that in 6 years and many millions spent, we're no further forward than we were when the case was shelved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pantomine that was the Crimewatch 'reconstruction' also goes to prove that a full and acurate official reconstruction is needed in the original setting of Praia de Luz with all key witnesses present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only accuracy I could spot was the uncanny resemblance of the abductor to Mr McCann - as originally confirmed by Mr Smith in his official statement to the police.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there we have stalemate. And a case that is still sitting on the shelf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, by working together perhaps the Portuguese and British police have found a way round this gridlock?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We now find ourselves back in time where Goncalo Amaral left off and concentrating on the Smith sighting. And although we may never find out just why she fingered Murat, Jane Tanner's sighting has officially been ruled out. Something that the McCanns and their many private investigators should have really done instead of shamelessly promoting over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the official police files and recently confirmed by evidence we've heard from the McCann v Amaral trial, we know that the British authorities were involved from day one. The British first suggested homicide and the British recommended the use of the dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unless DCI Redwood can explain those compelling and haunting cadaver dog alerts, I'll continue to hope that the police will do their job and justice will rightly be served. No matter how long it takes.</span></div>
Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-91064493999955523902013-10-13T04:23:00.001+01:002013-10-13T12:17:41.128+01:00The Amended Timeline...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Would this be changes to the Sticker Book timeline?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or changes to the Tapas statement timelines?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it someone else's timeline? Maybe Erik, the ice cream man? Or Henry, the mild mannered janitor?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The accepted version of events have been out there for over 6 years, mulled over and analysed by all. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who noticed that they were wrong? Didn't the McCanns ever notice? Kate has, after all, been working very hard and spent countless hours analysing the files. Their private dicks must be kicking themselves for not spotting such an anomaly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe their watches were all out (just like the camera) and we really should have been following that alternative timeline which did indeed seem to start an hour earlier?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If this is such a revelation!!! then surely it's enough to reopen the case in Portugal. No?...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many versions of events are there? Can we add this to the versions of the truth? Maybe we could have one big Spot the Difference competition, where all entrants have to circle and underline in green ink. The winner gets to add their own timeline into the mix. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is all so very intriguing but pointless speculating... Guess we'll just have to wait and see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't help but thinking that <u>everyone</u> involved are callously playing with a child's life. Dribbling news to the press... waiting to release e-fit pictures... showing snippets of a programme yet to be broadcast... parading the parents as if they're celebrities. This is Crimewatch, not some '<i>coming soon to a screen near you</i>'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or maybe they know something we don't. Whatever, it's all been done in the <i><b>worst</b></i> possible taste.</span></div>
Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-61722534895760549372013-10-10T07:58:00.002+01:002013-10-10T08:03:27.473+01:00The McCrimewatch Saga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An unforgiveable display of group members on the Official Find Madeleline Facebook page slagging off Portugal and its police. And the page admin 'liking' all the comments. I mean, that's so bad guys, come on! It's not the first time either. I wish people would remember that Portugal and its people did <u>not</u> ask to be dragged into this sorry state of affairs - the morons seem to forget one point when waving their pitchforks at the Algarve - the McCanns et al <b>chose</b> to holiday there. And why would that be?? Maybe because Portugal and its people are very friendly and family orientated? Or maybe just because there was an Ocean Club with lots of freebies and a nice convenient creche, but you know what I mean...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, it's clear to see that the appeal is only going out in the UK, Germany and Holland. Not Portugal. Not France. Not Spain or any other country whatsoever. So why single out Portugal as the <i>bad guys</i>? Huh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"SIC was not contacted to broadcast the documentary that the BBC has made about the "Maddie case", contrary to what the English press has published. Next Monday (14), the British station broadcasts on its show Crimewatch what is promised to be a reconstruction of Madeleine McCann's disappearance. The script results from the Scotland Yard's investigation. The British press asserts that the Portuguese televisions refused to broadcast the documentary. Nonetheless, questioned by DN, an official source at SIC asserts that the channel was never contacted. RTP and TVI have not replied until this edition's closing time.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diário de Notícias, 09.10.2013, paper edition</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there you have it... no more upset, bafflement or scratching heads. Portugal wasn't asked to show the programme... along with a myriad of other places. For some reason, unknown to everyone as yet, Scotland Yard want this appeal shown in three specific countries. Surely the McCanns must've known this, or are they really in the dark about the Crimewatch? Perhaps they should now instruct their admin to update their Facebook page and followers with this snippet of info and remove the offending comments? I think the Yard should have made it clear that Portugal wasn't included in their plans... there's enough embarrassing xenophobia in this country without firing the flames.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That leads me onto the latest request from Kate via the Official Facebook page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to ask myself how personal photos of the kids found their way online. Oh that's right, the McCanns allowed their children to be photographed willy nilly, didn't they? While in Portugal, they paraded past the press pack on a daily basis. Press opportunities were set up (remember the zoo, Punch and Judy etc) and why, there was even a photographer in the private lounge as they fled back to the UK after being made arguidos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photos of the cousins is a different matter. I've seen these online - there's only one way that they got into the public domain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So if you see any offending photos or videos on Facebook, please report it to webmaster@findmadeleine.com in the first instance. Do it. For the children. Although I have to ask myself why the twins are on Facebook anyway - the age requirement to have an account is 13. And can we <u>please</u> have the same treatment for all the Kate and Gerry mugshots? And not just on Facebook either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe this is something that will find its way into Kate's statement if she's allowed to speak in court? Yes folks, these people want to <i>defend</i> themselves in a law suit that they brought about themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It gets more bizarre as the days go on - you could write a book about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">** Thanks to Joana Morais and the <a href="http://themaddiecasefiles.com/">Maddie Case Files</a> forum for the translation and latest news.</span></div>
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Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-39222275490480945262013-10-09T14:02:00.000+01:002013-10-09T14:31:48.129+01:00McCanns, Crimewatch and the Shiny New Suspect<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So according to Sky News, Scotland Yard have a shiny brand new 'suspect'. However, 'sources' have said police will not know how significant the suspect is until he is identified, traced and interviewed. Hey ho. Tell us something we don't know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Six and a half years later, they're expecting people to remember and recognise a photofit? How bizarre...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember the morning of 4th May 2007 well. I'd opened all the windows as it was a beautiful, sunny day. I remember watching the news about the little British girl who had gone missing and feeling the horror mount as I heard that she'd been left alone in an apartment! An apartment some distance from the bar her parents were, in a bedroom on the other side of the building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sure as hell do NOT remember who I saw or even talked to on that day. Or the day after. Or even maybe that year...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lots of euphemisms spring to mind - needles in haystacks, clutching at straws, shots in the dark. Waste of time.. resources... money. How many more millions before the truth is really known?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wonder if they've ran this snippet of <i>greatly encouraging progress</i> by the Portuguese police? Chances are this person (if real) has probably already been investigated and ruled out. Like every other second hand 'lead' that pops it's head from the files.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet again, little Maddie is put on hold because the world has to wait for the Crimewatch programme to be aired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd be very surprised if this does anything but draw out the nuts, crackpots and attention seekers. Unless, of course the Smith family have been allowed to be properly interviewed this time around and given a full photofit and description of the man they saw that night. To be revealed for the first time live on Crimewatch? Now that would make spectacular viewing... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crimewatch?... Just what is the crime and who are we watching? Not Portugal, that's for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>October 2013 - London's Metropolitan Police say authorities are combing phone records of tourists and residents who were in a Portuguese resort at the time of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood told reporters Thursday that authorities were trawling through phone traffic of people in Praia da Luz around May 3, 2007, when the then-3 year-old vanished.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting, but I thought the British authorities had already participated in this? Or have I got deja vu <i>again</i>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>May 2007 - Mobile phone experts from Britain have flown to the Algarve to try and trace calls made on the evening 4-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing. The specialists hope by using the silent signals left by mobile phones, they will be able to pinpoint where calls were made at the Praia da Luz resort on May 3 when Madeleine vanished. By tracing the signals left by phones, which are logged on timed computers, the specialists believe they will be able to locate where calls were made within a few feet.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can they explain this lot once and for all?...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Kate's phone - no calls made from 27th April to 4th May and no calls received from 11.22pm on 2nd May until 11.17pm on 3rd May</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>However, inside Kate's phone there is a record of a call received from Gerry at 11.17pm on 3rd May. But no record of that call on Gerry's phone.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was claimed that British intelligence had already tapped the McCanns and their friends phones. Is this data part of the file and being trawled through aswell?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will they find the much talked about 10th Tapas and discover where he/she fled?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will they find Eggman, making cracks, sorry tracks in the direction of Murat's home?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will they find the man carrying the sleeping child past the Smith family. Did he have his phone on him that night? At long last, police might just be able to track down this elusive gent. To within a few feet?...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's hoping. Sceptical much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have a niggle about those pay as you go mobiles that David Payne purchased for the group after Madeleine's disappearance. Just a niggle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">** Thanks to JCL and <a href="http://themaddiecasefiles.com/forum6.html">Maddie Case Files</a> for their excellent library of all news on the case since May 2007. </span></div>
Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-62966348454769182982013-10-03T13:18:00.002+01:002013-10-03T13:18:59.172+01:00The McCanns in Purgatory? Better call the Winchesters...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've not read Goncalo Amaral's book yet, although I do have a copy. I have watched the documentary though and it didn't change my mind or alter my thoughts on the case in any way. The only ones who could have done were the McCanns themselves and they haven't managed that in 6 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You see, I've always thought of little Madeleine as the victim in this disturbing saga. Not Mr or Mrs McCann. I don't see any disgraced cops, only disgraced parents. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've always been very open minded about what could have happened and always felt that certain individuals were very suss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is said that the McCanns only live in purgatory, not hell. Well isn't that understandable for narcissists? Ask the parent of any missing child and they'll tell you that life's certainly not a bed of roses, it really is a living hell, day after day. However, the McCanns live in purgatory <i>not</i> because their precious daughter is missing, but because of a book?... If that's not utter rubbish, then it's off the scale weird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<i>My brother and sister-in-law live in purgatory because they have no end and they are looking for the truth. They would like an end but there is no end because they don't know what's happened</i>."</span></div>
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Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-13803074523833164332013-09-23T00:10:00.001+01:002013-09-23T00:17:15.051+01:00McCann Land and Porky Pies<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obviously, if her parents hadn't put her in the position she is in - she would have found <i>nothing</i>. However, here's what she would have found before the trial... nothing too extreme, some nice Youtube videos - certainly nothing relating to Goncalo Amaral's book and dvd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scary stuff and the really diabolical thing is that all these articles and reports are online because the McCanns <i>wanted</i> it reported. It's absolutely crazy that they would do this to their own children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For their sake (and while they can), the time has come for the McCanns to simply take a back seat, shut up and get on with their lives. Instead of persistently whining and stirring up their own hornet's nest, they should sit their children down and explain the full circumstances of Madeleine's disappearance (yes, their version of the truth). It surely can't be scarier or more horrific than anything they'd see in the local newsagents or hear on the playground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It would also be helpful to explain that because Madeleine's disappearance is so strange and unexplained, many people have doubts and their own dark thoughts about what actually happened. There are full translations of the PJ Files online and many, many things worse than Goncalo Amaral's book. Eight year olds are a lot smarter than we think and it would actually be better for the twins in the long run. The inevitable is going to happen and the danger is everywhere - not just online. And certainly not in the guise of the man who tried to discover what happened to their sister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't you just know it though - it ain't gonna happen. Not in narcissistic McCann Land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And whatever next? So far, their witnesses are hardly credible - consisting either family, friends or paid lackeys. Where are all the independent health professionals and assessment reports relating to this sad state of affairs? Hardly inspiring, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sorry to say it, but yet again the McCanns style of parenting is being called into question after revelations during their recent court action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday's snippets included details of Kate's dark and suicidal thoughts. Today's told of a bizarre kidnap plot threaded in the 3As forum. I won't detail any of these crazy tales as they're not worth the bandwidth however, I will say that I was a member of that particular forum from day one, and do not remember any threats to the safety of the McCann children. If I had, I would have reported it to the police myself, as I'm sure anyone else would.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goncalo Amaral initially requested that the case be heard in private with no media presence to 'preserve the memory of Madeleine' - the McCanns objected and wanted everything heard and reported.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What kind of parent would want such awful, horrible things about themselves reported and tweeted live from court, then emblazoned on the front pages of British newspapers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do Kate and Gerry McCann? Do they even remember that they are parents? Gerry referred to leaving children home alone whilst eating and drinking with friends at the Tapas bar as 'responsible'. Do they even know the meaning of the word? Any 'normal' parent would think <i>hey we can't let this stuff get out, the kids would be horrified'...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These gruesome parents should be hauled over the coals for allowing this to happen and even more so for objecting to Goncalo Amaral's request for media silence. Their whole case seems to be in defence of what the twins may or may not see and hear now and in the future. From what we've heard so far from the McCanns own witnesses, they'd have been aswell inviting the twins along sit in the public gallery.</span><br />
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Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-54530859453316034262013-09-12T12:42:00.000+01:002013-09-12T12:42:05.652+01:00McCann v Amaral<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought that Goncalo Amaral's reason for keeping the media at bay from the libel trial were worth a mention...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>To preserve the memory of Madeleine</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those words have left me with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye this morning. Yet again, a stranger has shown more feeling and respect for Madeleine than that of her parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope this trial makes it clear to the general public just <i>who</i> the callous money-grabbers really are.</span></div>
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<br />Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-72241474384135457552013-06-24T13:17:00.000+01:002013-06-24T13:17:08.008+01:00Madeleine McCann - A New Investigation?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So London's top prosecutor and her deputy visited Portugal mid April to consult with Portuguese officials about Madeleine's disappearance. And subsequently, Theresa May has announced that Scotland Yard will be opening their own investigation. Can we assume therefore that this has been rubberstamped by the Portuguese if Ms May has been able make this announcement? Which is all very interesting, because British police can only investigate British suspects and the CPS can only prosecute British accused, those who are alive and kicking. So, can we technically rule out the swarthy European masses and free range Portuguese eggs and assume that the culprit/s are British? And will Scotland Yard, indeed <i>ask their <u>own</u> dogs</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can speculate until the cows come home, but should we exercise extreme caution? Should we really believe the British media this time around, they normally print such <span style="color: magenta;">pink</span> crap, and we've been up this hopeful path before only to be let down. It feels different this time though and I can't help but have more than a glimmer of hope for Madeleine. The </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">weekend papers have been surprisingly quiet and completely pink free. It's almost like the calm before the storm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The British authorities aided the Portuguese police and their investigation from very early on. Google Lee Rainbow and Martin Grimes for a <i>very</i> interesting read. However, if Scotland Yard do open a full investigation, will they also investigate some of their <i>own</i> officers? In particular, I refer to the comments made by Mrs McCann herself in her book Madeleine...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember Bob Small? He was the McCanns liaison to the British police and the van-man who set up the framing of an innocent Robert Murat, aided by (<i>er err I carried her this way</i>) Jane Tanner... well according to Mrs McCann on page 226, Bob Small gave Mr McCann indications of the FSS results before he was interviewed by the Portuguese police. Astonishing. Mr McCann rang Ken Jones, head of ACPO the day after. Wonder why. Imagine that - persons of interest having direct lines to top British brass and being spoon fed sensititve information which allowed them to keep one step ahead of the Portuguese. Having indications of the FSS results prior to their arguido interviews gave the McCanns the ability to complete their offensive, and to their success they fled the country within days, aided and abetted by the British government. One must assume that Goncalo Amaral was absolutely correct in his accusations of political manipulation and gross interference from the British in this criminal investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what about those officers who reportedly delivered boxes of files to the McCanns on their return to Rothley after fleeing Portugal? Or those who informed them that their phones were being tapped? Who supplied Gerry McCann with the top secret CEOP manuals? Who made the visit to Portugal in an attempt to suppress certain information being released in the PJ files? And who on earth thought it was a good idea to withhold the Gaspar statements? This alone would have turned the investigation on its head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another interesting thing has happened. For some time now, this blog has been spammed by pro comments, without fail, every single day. Sometimes there are up to 50 comments a day left. This is the reason the comments are now moderated - it's really not a problem going in daily and deleting the spam, some of it is very amusing. However, since the CPS news broke - the spam just stopped overnight. Saturday, Sunday and now Monday... 0 spam. Zilch. Nada. Wonder why.</span></div>
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<br />Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-70808735717628259732013-05-03T21:40:00.000+01:002013-05-03T21:40:17.154+01:00Six years - The search for truth and justice goes on.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been six long years since it was claimed that Madeleine McCann vanished into the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lighting a candle for her tonight, let's hope we don't have to wait much longer to find out what really happened.</span></div>
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<br />Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-61538276143723232382013-04-20T19:59:00.000+01:002013-04-20T19:59:43.148+01:00The Marathon and a Spin Too Far?...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't going to comment on the 'threat' issue, as so many people appear to have had their eyes opened, but my other half insisted. And as Hideho has compiled one of her great videos, it's worth sharing and explains it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will say that in the almost 6 years that I've followed this case, I've <i>never</i> once seen the McCann twins threatened from either side of the fence or elsewhere. I just don't believe the article in the Star at all, I think it's a total fabrication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kate McCann, however, has once again put her own children directly in the firing line. Speaking to Lorraine Kelly the other morning, she described how her children would be at the finishing line of the London Marathon, cheering her on. Which is quite right and normal, however she failed to mention any of these bizarre, mortal fears or threats which is very strange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The twins are now 8 years old. They can read - they only need to catch a glimpse of that headline to ignite fear in their little heads. Like on the garage forecourt when their mother leaves them twiddling their thumbs in the car. They have friends who can also read - whispers on the playground are inevitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What on earth were the McCanns thinking? It's utterly disgraceful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The twins are innocents in this whole affair. Why anyone would want to target them is completely beyond me. And you know what? Nobody does. It seems to be just yet another part of the wider agenda and is a spin too far.</span></div>
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Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-42806582768771753732013-04-18T11:06:00.001+01:002013-04-18T15:58:44.381+01:00Kate McCann... Forgive and Forget?...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In her latest quest for martyrdom, she has well and truly put her foot in it. Instead of vowing passionately to never, ever rest. To hunt this monster down until her dying day and make him or her suffer, she simply forgives. <i>Huh</i>?!...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Strip away all the Christian and counselling '<i>forgiveness and move on</i>' rubbish - you are first and foremost a <i>mother</i> and this is her <i>daughter</i>. Her precious first born. Who, in her own words, may have been taken by a paedophile. I won't repeat page 129, but how on earth could anyone forgive that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs McCann claims to have no idea where Madeleine is, what she is going through right now or even if she is still alive. Yet she can forgive?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never mind the Portuguese police, Scotland Yard and normal members of the public who are all looking for her daughter. Never mind the donations, reward money and aid they've received. Never mind the endless pot of money that's been thrown into the search and investigation. Never mind the fact that many people have followed this case for 6 long years (</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or however many years!!!</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">), hoping for nothing but justice for Madeleine and for her to be found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're not all internet nutters, sitting behind a computer screen, typing abuse. Some of us are parents and simply feel that the victim in this case is not Mr or Mrs McCann, but little Madeleine herself. It's not up to Kate McCann to forgive anyone, it's Madeleine who should be forgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right enough, it all becomes irrelevant when you learn about Eddie, the cadaver dog and the many places where he sniffed out the scent of death.</span><br />
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Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-84118295859888846242013-04-16T12:51:00.000+01:002013-04-16T13:29:03.487+01:00The Void... The Burden... Sigh... Kate McCann Jogs On.<br />
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<i>Six years after her daughter Madeleine disappeared, a weary Kate McCann still clings to the hope that one day she will be found.</i></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">As someone said : It’s not that your burden gets any lighter</span><b style="font-style: italic;">.</b> <b>It’s just that your legs get stronger</b>. That really sums it up.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's been a bit of forum sniping going on over the last week or so, which isn't very nice BUT just for fun, I had to draw your attention to one board in particular - the Free-Speech Proboards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Absolutely priceless, don't you think? McCann supporters at their very best... blinkered and scared to venture too far from their own comforts. Not to mention vile and insulting, although 'Potting Shitter' really did make us all laugh. How novel and original... not. (<i>ProNote : must try harder</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, for those poor souls out there asking the question <i><b>just how do we know what questions were put to Kate McCann by the Portuguese police in September 2007 and that she refused to answer them</b></i>...?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WELL... it's all over the internet!!!! Yes, it really is. It's been in the public domain for a long time. In the papers, on Youtube - all over the place. And the reason it's all over the place, is that the Portuguese police actually released this information for us all to ponder upon. Some of the questions that Mrs Mc refused to answer are very interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can view all of these questions on the very credible BBC News website - after 5 years, the questions are still available to view online. The BBC obviously think this is still newsworthy and of interest to the general public. These question still remain to be answered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7542939.stm"><b><i>here</i></b></a> to visit the BBC News website and view those pesky questions.</span></div>
<br />Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-60904809994936677212013-02-10T17:00:00.000+00:002013-02-10T17:32:14.931+00:00The McCann Ordeal and the Press...<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Leveson package, including the legal underpinning, is the minimum acceptable compromise for us, and judging by the polls, for the public at large too. Leveson without the law is meaningless."</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ordeal of giving evidence? Oh boohoo BOOHOO. Shame they couldn't go through the ordeal of giving evidence to the police when questioned - you know... for their child? Shame they plonked themselves right in the firing line with their behaviour in Praia de Luz, that fateful May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We know the McCanns just don't do '<i>for others</i>' hence their me, me, me <i><b>ordeal</b></i> (!!! ROFL) at Leveson. Judging by the polls? Just who are these mysterious voters? I've read that only around 2000 people were polled - that's hardly representative of Joe Public. I personally would vote against anything that took Kate and Gerry McCanns word as gospel... even if the whole ordeal was under oath. I read a great comment today saying that the McCanns and Hacked off were very strange bedfellows. Very true, considering they claim they were never hacked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The McCanns and their latest bandwagon inexcusably compares them to the likes of the Dowlers and other genuinely bereft and grieving families. Biting the hand that feeds comes to mind and the McCanns behave like they should be left alone to get on with their lives. <u>Like it's all over</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They seem to be forgetting that it's not over by a long shot - Madeleine is still missing... what will happen if the case is reopened. What will happen if she's ever found? That's when the press will have a field day - maybe that's what the McCanns really fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yes, we might be quiet... but we're still watching, still waiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watching and waiting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a friend to play with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why have I been alone for so long</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mole, he is burrowing his way to the sunlight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He knows there's someone there so strong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cos here there's lots of room for doing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The things you've always been denied</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look and gather all you want to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's no one here to stop you trying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon you will see me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cos I'll be all around you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But where I come from I can't tell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But don't be alarmed by my fields and my forests</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They're here for only you to share</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cos here there's lots of room for doing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7542939.stm"><b>here</b></a> to read the 48 questions Kate McCann refused to answer during police questioning. Thanks to the BBC News website for continuing to highlight this bizarre behaviour.</span></div>
Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-35520394108258033942013-01-31T12:32:00.000+00:002013-01-31T14:35:01.340+00:00A McRound Up and THAT email...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry for not blogging lately. So many of you are doing a wonderful job persistently highlighting the flaws in this case. I'm in awe of you all. I'm still here, watching and waiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a flurry of news recently which most of you already know about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scotland Yard arrived in Porto to meet with their Portuguese counterparts. Here's hoping it's all for good reasons and we'll see the reopening of the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had yet another fake sighting of Madeleine, this time in Brazil which, thanks to Pamalam and Reggie Dunlop of the <a href="http://themaddiecasefiles.com/topic19393-1660.html" target="_blank">Maddie Case Files</a> was revealed to be an Associated Press photo of a bomb scare at Ibiza airport. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-vpOJnNhmYQ" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch on YouTube</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next the McCanns bizarrely tried to back out of legal action, by asking Goncalo Amaral to settle out of court. I say bizarre, because the McCanns are the claimants. It's what we all expected really, isn't it? </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cewVx7cydak" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Watch on YouTube</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next week they take <a href="http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t6387-the-four-top-london-libel-lawyers-now-lined-up-to-crush-a-pensioner-from-harlow" target="_blank">Tony Bennett</a> to court. A David and Goliath challenge where the claimants have a full array of legal eagles serving them, and the man in the corner has no-one. Let's hope Mr B can find Goliath's achilles heel. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbwONTcXAtA" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Watch on YouTube</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And last but not least... a little nugget that's doing the rounds. An email from the Missing Abroad charity in response to a query from a member of the public as to why Madeleine doesn't have her own page or free, downloadable poster. Why she doesn't warrant a single mention on the site at all. Read it and weep, folks. Read it and weep...</span></div>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Every time a new missing person profile is added to our website it is
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services and we did run a profile of her for a while, however the
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Kate is
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.missingabroad.org/news/statement-missing-abroad">We were called by a member of staff helping the McCann family who asked us to remove the content. Therefore we removed the links and banner from the website.</a></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Please visit the excellent Missing Abroad website - they do great work in highlighting the missing - you may just recognise someone. Unfortunately and although she is still <i>missing abroad </i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">nearly 6 years on</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">, Madeleine does not feature on the site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Please also have a look at HideHo's excellent videos on </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/HiDeHo4?annotation_id=channel%3A1ec37cfa-1119-281e-836e-f46d043bdf2c&feature=iv&src_vid=JbwONTcXAtA" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">YouTube</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> or visit the forums for more information on the case... </span><a href="http://themaddiecasefiles.com/forum9.html?sid=d6b4cc4297be8c41f1e2abfdb4e35bb4" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Maddie Case Files</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> and </span><a href="http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/forum" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">The Complete Mystery of Madeleline McCann</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> for starters.</span>Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-19983208501286938492012-10-28T15:14:00.003+00:002012-10-28T20:01:39.483+00:00The McCann Fund Farce<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I watched a video the other day - Gerry McCann justified the spending of fund money by claiming they employed a <i>team</i> of private investigators that was led by one man, Dave Edgar. Turns out that the team consisted of just one man, one leader. Crowley and Edgar. And they've not been employed for months...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Sunday Express understands the McCanns stopped using former police detectives Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley some months ago when their contract ran out.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, how long is 'some months'? How long is a piece of string?... Did their employ end when the review started? If so, that's a little more than 'some months'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 'source' felt the need to tell us “<i>there was no fall-out.</i>” and that they felt the search should be left to Scotland Yard. They said there was no fall-out when Doug Skehan and brother, John McCann (directors of the fund) also departed. Oh, how abandoning ship is done on such good terms these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the McCanns are not funding a search for Madeleine, why then are they still asking for funding to <i>search</i> on their Official Facebook page? In fact, they've specifically pointed out that they've made it easier for the gullible to donate when <i><u>buying</u></i> things from their online store. How kind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">High time this 'fund' and private investigation was scrutinised once and for all. The public should be made fully aware that this is the McCanns' own private company of which they sit as directors and decide how the money is spent. If they want to boost their balance, they should do what every other owner of a small business does - damn well work for it. Their 'business plan' should be laughed into next week. Unfortunately it isn't, and the naive and gullible really believe they are funding a search for their daughter. A daughter they didn't even look for themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pointed out on Twitter this morning - how can the McCanns' search be hindered by the publications of Goncalo Amaral and Tony Bennett when there is no funded search or investigators? True... their claims have no standing in court and it would appear that the McCanns themselves are hindering their own search by not renewing their own investigator's contract.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are the McCanns searching themselves then? Nope, everything is hunky dory as they holiday in Ireland. Edgar's wages didn't stretch too far, did they? Apparently they're residing in a remote cottage somewhere. It must be some distance to the nearest pub, let's hope history doesn't repeat itself.</span><br />
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<br />Me, Myself, Moi...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08528066550134461649noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821574965866189742.post-33149109882579491652012-10-27T11:44:00.000+01:002012-10-27T11:46:05.935+01:00Farewell Friend...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I lost my friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And although I know she's at peace and not in any more pain, my selfish heart is broken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day of the funeral suited our moods - grey and dank. It was also very foggy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luggage dumped, we made our way to the prom. That first sight and smell of the sea would bring me closer to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But despite being by the coast, the fog blotted everything in the distance - we could only hear the waves crashing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I stood by the railings, a robin appeared at my feet, its red breast illuminated in the cold air. It hopped onto the sand and scurried off, stopping and looking back as I followed. As I neared, it scurried off again. I got my camera out of my bag and tried over and over to take a snap but each time I did, it turned its little head away. This continued all the way up the prom with me in pursuit... scurry, turn, wait... scurry, turn, wait. Right to the end of the prom, where it flew off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was heartened at such a bizarre sight... a <i>robin</i> on the beach?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following day, with heavy hearts, we made our way to church. Arriving early, we decided to have a look around and as I made my way through the eery mist surrounding the old headstones, what should land at my feet? A robin. It flew upwards, then from tree to tree. As it did so, a shimmer of autum leaves fell to the floor. A truly magical sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fog lifted slightly as we laid my friend to rest and the sun tried to make its way through the cloud. It was a sad occasion, as you would imagine. We made our way to a little pub to celebrate her life and guess who came along with us... the robin. It sang its heart out before flying off into the mist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I won't even consider a skeptical point of view, I believe that little robin appeared to put a smile on my face. Just like my friend always did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such heart warming coincidences dont happen very often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as being a wonderful, kind hearted woman, my friend was a great advocate of justice for Madeleine. She contributed long and hard over the years in the search for the truth. Not only a sad loss for her family and friends, but also for Madeleine. I hope she now knows the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So long my soul sister... you are at peace now. An enigma to many, but not to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I won't say goodbye, just see you later...</span></div>
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