On the eve of Clarence Mitchell's address to the Oxford Student's Union I thought I might bring you this timely reminder of his and the McCann's determination to leave no stone unturned in their search for the missing five year old Madeleine McCann.
Madeleine was three years old when she was abducted from an unlocked rented apartment in the quiet Portuguese resort of Praia Da Luz while her parents dined at a restaurant a short distance away.
Mister McCann reiterated his belief that Madeleine was still alive, "Reassuringly, we know there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Madeleine has been seriously harmed." said Mister McCann in a recent interview.
In a previous interview Mrs McCann said, "Somebody has committed a heinous crime."
In a recent newspaper interview with the Independent in an article humbly entitled: 'I am a decent human being. If I can help them, I will' (link) Clarence Mitchell said about the Private Detectives employed by the McCanns in their quest for leaving no stone unturned: "The detective agencies they hired are no longer on the case." and when further queeried as to the status quo Mitchell had this to say: "I can't go into details, because the investigators don't wish me to." but did go on to confirm that there was still a relevant search going on albeit on a smaller scale.
Mister Mitchell did however give an insight into the daunting task faced by investigators.
There is still a huge amount of material to work through: such as more than 3,000 "psychic tip-offs. Any verifiable fact in them – and some are very detailed – has to be checked". said Mitchell.
Do you actually employ this clown or is it as I suspect just an internet myth?
The gloves are off...
By Nigel Moore/Martin Roberts
11 December 2008
Speaking to RTE's 'Prime Time', in October 2007, Clarence Mitchell said that Madeleine could "easily" have been kidnapped by an abductor who did not leave the trail of a break-in.
"There was no evidence of a break-in," said Mr Mitchell reversing the statements made by the McCanns to their closest family and friends in the immediate hours after Madeleine's reported disappearance.
"I'm not going into the detail, but I can say that Kate and Gerry are firmly of the view that somebody got into the apartment and took Madeleine out the window as their means of escape, and to do that they did not necessarily have to tamper with anything. They got out of the window fairly easily."
Mr Mitchell's words overlook the fact that the abductor would have had to, at the very least, open the window and shutter from inside the apartment - using one or other hand in the process. In so doing, they would, like Kate McCann, have left a trace i.e. a fingerprint or two, unless, of course, they were wearing gloves.
Close inspection of the Tanner authorised artist's impression, sufficiently detailed as to convey the pattern on the child's pyjamas, reveals that both the subject's hands were bare. No fingerprint means quite simply that this person, whoever he may have been, did not open the bedroom window of 5A between 9.05 (Gerry's visit) and 9.15 (the Tanner sighting).
h/t McCannfiles
And let us not forget this pearl of all pearls, this drivel without compare.
"There is no suggestion she has been harmed or killed," says Clarence Mitchell. "They believe she has been hidden somewhere. It could be a Romany family who have taken her. It's unusual but not completely rare. As long as there is money in the find to pay for investigators, the investigation will continue. If and when it runs out, there are ways to bring more money in."
The mother of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick had a "very encouraging" meeting in Dublin with the spokesman for the parents of Madeleine McCann.
Audrey Fitzpatrick (40) and her partner Dave Mahon met with former BBC reporter Clarence Mitchell at the Westbury Hotel to seek new ways of raising awareness about the search for Amy.
Clarence Mitchell works full-time as spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann whose little daughter Madeleine was abducted from their holiday apartment in Spain.
Dubliner Amy Fitzpatrick disappeared in Spain on the night of January 1 last while walking to her home in Calahonda from a friend's house on the Costa del Sol.
"We had a very encouraging meeting with Clarence. He flew into Dublin just to meet us and flew back to England a few hours later," Audrey told the Herald today.
"When Clarence appeared on the Late Late Show a while ago, a lot of people were telling him about Amy so he left his number for us to contact him," said Audrey.
"He offered to come over to meet us. It was very good meeting him. He has offered us real help in getting Amy into the British media," she said.
"He was confident he will be able to get Amy's story on the BBC and on Sky and on GMTV too," she said.
"He is doing this just because he wants to help find Amy. We're very grateful to him. We have been trying for a long time to get the British media interested in the search for Amy," she added.
Audrey and her family have been anxious to alert the 200,000 British people living on the Costa del Sol about Amy's disappearance. The British ex-pats mainly use British television channels and British newspapers.
Audrey and her partner are in Dublin for a few days before they return to their home in Spain.
I don't know why it's taken me so long to produce a little something depicting my take on the relationship between Gerry McCann and his mouthpiece Clarence Mitchell.
I've always found it strange that the parents of an abducted child should need the services a spin doctor, it must be unique in fact, the first time ever that aggrieved parents would do such a thing.
I could of course be mistaken, it wouldn't be the first time, but having given it a little thought I have it somewhere in the back of my mind that the McCanns were spared the dubious honour of being the first in the record book, spared indeed by being pre-empted by John and Patsy Ramsey who employed the services of Lin Wood* after white trash mother offed her daughter JonBenet Ramsey.
I digress a tad, to the point then. We are all more than familiar with this rather bizarre scene below of said aggrieved parents and their creature, but it was the second image that finally galvanised me into a little creative action.
I had never seen this particular photo before yesterday, others depicting the return to work of the good Doctor McCann yes, but never this particular one that reveals the presence of fore mentioned spin doctor, the odious Clarence Mitchell.
Joined at the hip so it were, inextricably linked, welded together forever and a day, something I'm sure Clarence Mitchell is not unaware of, particularly when the inevitable day of reckoning arrives.
Disgraced Portuguese cop Goncala Amaral is desperate to appear with Madeleine McCann’s parents on Oprah.
Gerry and Kate McCann flew out to America yesterday.
They will appear on the TV show, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, 55, to mark the second anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance. And the couple will use the high-profile slot to release images of how Madeleine, who would be nearly six years old, may look now.
Amaral, kicked off the investigation after wrongly branding Gerry, 40, and Kate, 41, suspects, has emailed the show makers asking to appear.
He has offered to pay his travel costs and has yet to receive a response from the show. The McCanns agreed to appear on Oprah because it is shown in 144 countries.
They hope it will aid the hunt for Maddie, who vanished from Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.
Kate and Gerry, from Rothley, Leics, wrote on the official Find Madeleine website: “As the second anniversary of Madeleine’s abduction approaches, there is much still to be done.
“We continue to remain focused on our aim – to find Madeleine and bring her back home safely.
“As Madeleine’s parents we cannot and will not ever stop doing all we can to find her.”
The couple have also been working with a C4 documentary crew.
Thought for today: Does nobody get embarrassed any more?
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. Something a little different to start the day off, bits and bobs I came across yesterday and a couple more to come throughout the day.
Hat tips to all concerned.
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I seem to be having a bit of a god slot today, not particularly intentional, apart from the "prayers" post of course, this next piece is about Leicester plod but when I checked up on Chief Constable Matt Baggott, the ubiquitous Sky Daddy pops his head up yet again.
It would appear that our Chief Constable is a godly man, a Christian of the highest order in fact.
Matt was awarded a CBE in the 2008 New Years Honours. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in June 2004, elected a Fellow of University College London in 2006, and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by De Montfort University, Leicester, in July 2007. He is President of the Christian Police Association, and Vice President of the National Association of Police Chaplains. Until recently he was also a Trustee of Crime Concern for many years.Bio
To die before one's time is always a tragedy, to die in infancy and before your life even gets started is a tragedy without equal. The only blessing for Madeleine is that she cannot witness just how worthless her life to those in a position to give it value even in death.
A far greater blessing is that she can never witness the behaviour of her parents.
The following lifted from the Three Arguidos, not something I shall make a habit of but it is too important a subject to ignore. Some snips from the first page.
I have just reviewed Clarence Mitchell's pretendy policeman press conference on cooperman. The spin is nauseating but crucially Stuart Prior AND his team are on record as alerting the PJ to the fact that Mrs Coopers second statement was radically altered from her original . Mitchell pretends that her second statement is the same as her first one and that her second statement was passed to PJ in May 2007-he does his usual mealy mouthed hinting that the PJ have ignored Mrs coopers statement in fact they didnt get her radically different account until AFTER clarrie's pretendy policeman press conference. Stuart Prior and his colleagues were fully aware of these facts yet sat on their hands and did nothing-if LEICS police Genuinely BELIEVED that Madeleine had been abducted they should have immediately cautioned and countered the misinformation being spread by Clarence Mitchell and at the very least cautioned him regarding perverting the course of justice-if they know full well Madeleine is dead they should have cautioned him and informed the general public of the discrepancies in mrs xcoopers two disparate account -they sat on their hands and did neither-I am OFF TO the IPPC website
(Follow up Sherlock) : Fat lot of use that was-the only person who can complain on MADELEINES behalf is someone with her written permission or the relatives who caused her to disappear or the useless judge who is supposed to represent her and qants the fictional cooper/bundleman caught-still think I am on to something though I wont waste my time on Matt Baggott-the macs are not the only people who know people
(Somethinfishie reply):
'the only person who can complain on MADELEINES behalf is someone with her written permission '
Good one sherlock.So a missing,possibly dead child needs to give written permission for people to ask questions on her behalf. You couldn't make it up.
(Miceandmen):
Off the top of my head, here are just a few of the things the LP did with our tax pounds:
1) Sent a family liasion officer to PDL 2) Brought in numerous other Forces to assist 3) Provided a Police escort from the Airport to Castle Gardens for the Prime Suspects 4) Collected a pillow from Castle Gardens & Delivered it to the FSS 5) Assisted in getting M Harrison to Portugal & then ignored his report 6) Provided a Link from the LP web-site to the private Company web-site of the Prime Suspects 7) Travelled to Portugal to prevent 'certain information' from reaching the Public 8 ) Witheld for 5 months witness statements incriminating one of the T7 9) Communicated with the T9 in a highly casual, friendly & wholly unprofessional manner 10) Went to the High Court & allowed TM to get their hands on 141 (or thereabouts) pieces of information 11) Continued to support the Private Company of the prime suspects by advertising a link to the web-site
& last by no means least,
12) perverted the course of Justice by advising the T9 that they so no value in them returning to PDL for the reconstruction.
I know that there is an awful lot more, that is just for starters.
The LP have spent millions of pounds on the Investigation, but on what exactly & of what benefit to the investigation ? .
(xclamation):
13 ) Allowed the tapas group to read their previous statements, and each other's depositions, allowed the tapas to change and edit the answers, led the answers, boycotted the recordings of the said statements - FACT
14) Leaked documents to journalists and to the McCann Team. - FACT
Link in the header.
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Thankfully none more than a minute or two in length, seven short clips of that odious little shite John McCann, this link to the second clip in which he lies and bullshits his way around the "dining in your back garden" mantra. He's such a little cunt.
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I've cut the proverbs out of this..... call it what you will, nor have I highlighted any particular tract, there are far too many.
The spelling in this piece gives away the country of origin, and no you can't have prize for a correct answer.
Prayers For Madeleine:
Lord, we declare freedom to Madeleine, liberty to return to her family. Lord, we recall how you miraculously released Paul & Silas, and we pray a miraculous release for Madeleine, and we give You all the praise and honor and glory for her rescue.
Lord, we are standing on this word and trusting You that Madeleine will not be afraid, that she will be secure in the love of her heavenly father and family, knowing that they are looking for her, trusting that they will find her very soon.
For Kate, Gerry, and Madeleine:
Lord, we believe this word, that You are with Kate, Gerry, and Madeleine, that as they pass through this desperate time, You are carrying them. Your word says we are pressed but not crushed, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed, we are blessed beyond the curse for Your promise will endure, Your joy will be our strength. Lord, may Kate, Gerry, and Madeleine feel Your loving arms wrapped around them as You carry them through this dark night, these troubled waters, this burning fire. Fill them to overflowing with the power of Your Holy Spirit, that they will have great faith to trust in the sufficiency of Your grace, the power of Your presence, the strength of Your joy.
Lord, as Kate and Gerry meditate on Your word, we pray Your truth will bring real comfort and hope to them.
Lord, cause Kate and Gerry to lay the search for Madeleine at Your feet, for You, O Lord, are capable, all-powerful, and loving. Cause them to trust You completely to accomplish Your perfect will. We pray they will not seek help from any source that is not of You.
For the investigation:
We pray that You would flood Praia da Luz and surrounding area with Your light and love, that the darkness would not be able to hide but would be exposed by Your light and justice.
Lord, cause a flood of witnesses to come forward. We declare they will not fear man but will trust in Your divine protection for them and their families so they will have the courage and boldness to submit information that will lead to the rescue of Madeleine. We pray You will show them who to give their information to - reveal who is on Your side and who is being used as a tool of the enemy.
Lord, give those in authority wisdom as they choose a replacement to head Madeleine's investigation. We pray for a righteous man to be placed in this position, the person of Your choosing, one who will seek You for wisdom and direction in the search for Madeleine. Cause this to be a new day for Madeleine's investigation, that they could move forward with great acceleration as they seek You daily for divine guidance.
Lord, we speak truth in the media. We declare an end to wild speculation.
The above sounds all too familiar to me, you see I used to come across lots of these noble institutions when I blogged about America. If you really fancy giving yourself a cor blimey moment or two, have a wander through some of the archives in any of these sites. It's a revelation I tell ye.
You can pray for Bush. (as he goes about his important work in Iraq.)
And just so you don't get your days mixed up here is your own prayer calender.
I was about to say that the Presidential Prayer Team has hijacked Obama, but they haven't, he's just as bad as the rest of them, but for the funny stuff I guess you need to delve back into the Dubya archives.
X asked: Their whole case was based on Kate knowing that Madeleine had been abducted when the wind from the open window blew the curtains.
If someone had a key they would come in and go out by the door. Why try to take a child out of the window, or even pass the child to someone else if you have the key.
Y replied: Simply to mask the fact that they had the key.
The last time I heard an argument like that was that God had made fossils look old and placed them in the earth to, wait for it, " Test our faith" Bill Hicks explains.
Having received this indifferent piece of news I thought I might bump a graphic or two.
The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell is joining Freud Communications as a consultant.
He will join the agency on a twelve-month contract, specialising in issues and crisis management, media training and scenario planning.
He will continue to advise the McCanns, parents of missing child Madeline McCann, on a monthly retainer basis. He will also provide pro bono support to his other clients Fiona MacKeown, the mother of the teenager Scarlet who was murdered in Goa, the parents of murdered teenager Jimmy Mizen and the parents of missing teenager Amy Fitzpatrick.
Mitchell said he had toyed with the idea of setting up his own agency, but thought joining Freud would offer him more security. He didn’t rule out setting up his own agency in the future. source
Clarence Mitchell, hear me this twenty fourth day of June.
As this sordid case moves slowly but inevitably towards the only conclusion that can be, you will not for shame, not for shame and not for the tiniest scrap of dignity will you offer up the excuse for your actions that you were deceived.
No you will not do that, you have aligned yourself with two people that one day will become the most reviled and most infamous couple in the history of this country and undoubtedly,many more a place.
Kate and Gerry McCann are names that will be forever associated with every foul adjective that exists in the English, and every other language for that matter, that is spoken on this planet.
And there shall be one other name that will be forever associated with this vile pair, that name will be yours Clarence Mitchell, you know this, I know this, and when the time comes, the world will know this.
You have made your bed Mister Mitchell, you shall lie in it.
You will not for shame tell the world you were deceived.
Be assured, I won't let you try.
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. Un-fucking-believable, there are no other words, other than perhaps fucking shameless.
I do hope with all my heart they bang this detestable vile bitch and her poxy loathsome husband up for plenty and I mean plenty.
I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol,
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
And won't you know it madam, stuck in your eight by twelve all on your ownsome, because they are never going to let anyone come within a country mile of you, because the cons will have you.
You will have all the time in the world to reflect on the little performances you gave, just like this one.
I see some of the usual suspects are here in force. Every time there is comments allowed for this poor unfortunate child and her beleaguered parents, they all turn up to dispense their vileness and venom.
There is nothing odd about this case, except perhaps the man that was first in charge of the investigation preferred to take long 3 hour lunches instead of looking for the child and then turn his hand to libelling the parents and selling his story in book form and to anyone else that would buy it, thus turning himself into a euro millionaire at the child's expense. Where else have you ever seen such a disgrace as that? The Portuguese courts agree, they have injuncted Amaral.
So you see these poor parents have been conned by British and Portuguese conmen, not bothered about poor little Madeleine, just bothered about making money off of her back and none have done that quite so spectacularly as Goncalo Amaral.
Meanwhile, these poor parents are left desperately trying to search for their daughter on their own, depending on the fund and relatives money to fund the search.
Scotland Yard should be investigating this, Madeleine is a British citizen and a minor, bless her little heart.
It is an absolute disgrace that this country has done nothing to help her parents find this child. The government should negotiate with the Portuguese government to give jurisdiction to detectives from Scotland Yard in Portugal to reopen and run this investigation and all of Scotland Yards technology, like HOLMES should be put to use, after all Madeleine is British, her parents British taxpayers. It is a travesty that this poor child has been abandoned by the British government.
Madeleine McCann fund hired ‘secret agent’ conman. Found in the comments section.
"These are the big boys" - Clarence Mitchell
A private detective whose company was paid up to £500,000 from publicly donated funds to find Madeleine McCann has been charged with fraud. The McCanns had previously hired Barcelona-based detective agency Metodo 3 on a reported £50,000 a month. But the company lost credibility with the couple when its head of operations claimed he knew who had kidnapped Madeleine and hoped to have her home by Christmas.
After Halligen, the McCanns hired two former British detectives, David Edgar and Arthur Cowley. In August, Mr Edgar appealed for sightings of an Australian 'Victoria Beckham lookalike'. But a Mail on Sunday investigation revealed the detectives had failed to make the most basic of inquiries in Barcelona where the woman was seen.
The McCanns' spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, insisted the fund had not been duped. more
Mark Harrison, the English police who was designated to help the PolÃcia Judiciária in the search for Madeleine McCann, wrote a report last summer, in which he defended the usage of the dogs that are experts in the detection of cadaver odours and blood traces. The discovery of the residues and the signaling of the trail of a cadaver thus ended up formally changing the direction of an investigation that had been limited to the theory of abduction until then.The report, which praises the Portuguese authorities’ work, suggested that the animals should be taken to all the locations where the body might have been hidden. From the apartment that had been rented by the McCanns up to the crèche, through the beach and the church area.
The two English dogs were presented as an indispensable help to the investigation, after their abilities and the manner in which they are trained were explained in detail, as well as the fact that they both react to blood traces and cadaver odours, without a single episode of “false positives” in the investigations. In his report, Mark Harrison listed cases of success that offered a guarantee of reliability. And he asserted that if the dogs came to signal Maddie’s death, then it would be a fact.
False positives – Eddie, the dog that specialized in cadaver odour detection, has never given a false alert. He has participated in approximately 200 searches in homicide scenarios in Great Britain and never signaled any products that derived from meat or any other food item. more
. . I stumbled on these two pics yesterday taken outside of the Fatima shrine, somebody please please please tell me that's not a prayer book or Bible that scumbag is holding in his hand
. As you are probably aware Robert Murat is coming to town to receive well deserved apologies from the UK rags along with loads a money, I just hope it's enough compensation for what he's been through and for pretty near having his life destroyed.
I rather hope this is just the beginning old lad and your lawyers go after Mitchell among others and nail the slimy whore to a cross.
Drive on!
(Mitchell) "An outcome similar to Holly and Jessica is possible. I don't want to, and I can't, talk about Robert Murat but some journalists who worked with me in Soham, and that were now in Portugal, saw resemblances between that case and Robert Murat. And I won't say more."
If you haven't met Murat's dog Nelson before, he does feature further down these pages.
As Kate and Gerry McCann return from their first family holiday since their daughter Madeleine disappeared 14 months ago, their spokesman Clarence Mitchell is in talks to join a PR agency where he plans to help other parents who have lost children to deal with the media. more
. Mitchell-John Gaunt ten minute audio, not new but interesting enough if you haven't heard it before.
There is nothing odd about this case, except perhaps the man that was first in charge of the investigation preferred to take long 3 hour lunches instead of looking for the child and then turn his hand to libelling the parents and selling his story in book form and to anyone else that would buy it, thus turning himself into a euro millionaire at the child's expense. Where else have you ever seen such a disgrace as that? The Portuguese courts agree, they have injuncted Amaral.
So you see these poor parents have been conned by British and Portuguese conmen, not bothered about poor little Madeleine, just bothered about making money off of her back and none have done that quite so spectacularly as Goncalo Amaral.
Meanwhile, these poor parents are left desperately trying to search for their daughter on their own, depending on the fund and relatives money to fund the search.
Scotland Yard should be investigating this, Madeleine is a British citizen and a minor, bless her little heart.
It is an absolute disgrace that this country has done nothing to help her parents find this child. The government should negotiate with the Portuguese government to give jurisdiction to detectives from Scotland Yard in Portugal to reopen and run this investigation and all of Scotland Yards technology, like HOLMES should be put to use, after all Madeleine is British, her parents British taxpayers. It is a travesty that this poor child has been abandoned by the British government.