It's Absolutely True Because I Read It In Paul Dacre's Daily Mail

Update. Edited and links added at the bottom of the page, where can be found other such sterling examples of reporting, the quality of which we now accept as synonymous with Paul Dacre's Daily Mail.

I confronted the sweaty, corpulent figure in an ill-fitting jacket twice last Friday: the first time at 10am, as he sat slurping coffee and cakes at the Kalahary cafe in Portimao with his colleague, Chief Inspector Guillermino Encarnacao; the second just before 3pm, when the two men made their way from a restaurant to a waiting black Mercedes, in which they were driven 400 yards to meet officials at the courthouse.

The reaction was the same both times: "No speak! No speak!" was all Amaral would say, making a swatting motion as though batting away an insect.

But Amaral's official silence is not the only difference between him and his counterparts in Britain.

In the UK, it is unlikely he would be leading the McCann inquiry at all.

David Rose writing for Paul Dacre's Daily Mail (link below)

It's absolutely true, I read it in the daily Mail.

And I rest my case.

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Motivated by this short video posted on the blog of Joana Morais, I thought I might take another look at the Daily Mail's distorted coverage of the McCann affair. Before going further, you might wish to view or re-view this little offering from Dan and his alter ego.





I have on occasions *prior, featured Paul Dacre and his agenda driven specious rag, the Daily Mail. (*Links at the bottom of the page.)

I pick on the Mail for very few reasons, one of which can be found on this recent post under the unapologetic header, Paul Dacre is a Slag.
Two words give us two other reasons for my choosing the Mail, they being, subjectivity and objectivity.

The subjective reporting by the Mail, has been, and still is, simply wretched, wretched, repulsive and truly reprehensible, and I add, as disgraceful as it is obvious.

On the matter of objectivity, I could say that the McMail has shown not one scrap of it these three years past, but that wouldn't be entirely true. They did manage to exhibit a little when, and proving that they are capable of a bit of investigative journalism when the fancy takes them, which is more the shame, they did manage to exhibit a little when they reported and exposed Dave Edgar for what he really is, a front, a useless front in fact.

A front, nothing more nothing less, somebody on who, for a few pieces of Silver, the McCanns could hang the tag "Our Investigators" no matter how ridiculous and ineffectual that somebody might be.
And just in passing, a reminder of the architect who drew up and instigated the repugnant farce in question, the odious Mitchell, another whore who knows the price of Silver. And must be said, all this aided and abetted by the sycophantic Paul Dacre and his ilk in printing every word of Mitchell's tripe.

As I say, I have previously featured the Mail on these unhallowed pages. One such feature was to compile a collage of Kate McCann photographs that had been deliberately chosen and employed by Dacre's Mail. See below.

Amassing such examples was in fact quite easy, doing little more than entering, Daily Mail + Kate McCann, in a Google image search. And laid before me such results, like pearls before swine, a catalogue of woe that would make your heart break; if of course you didn't know otherwise.

Because to know otherwise put a somewhat different slant on things, the Mail's deliberate attempt to portray a woeful Kate McCann, to elect sympathy for, and to bathe the dear Sainted Mother in an aura of pathos was, apart from being extremely nauseating, quite simply pathetic.

So, having gone by the previously described easy route, I thought it might be of interest to see what manner of story accompanied these photographs, photographs that appeared just as phony, just as contrived, and just as wooden as does the subject herself.

In truth, not the greatest of ideas I have ever had, quite tiresome in fact. Making the mistake of starting with contemporary news items didn't do much for the process, so I reverted to the start of this sorry affair and proceeded to wade through all the articles for the first six months.

It was tiresome and it was boring to say the least and it wasn't long before the seriousness wore off along with the novelty. So my choice in what I offer up may not all be in the vain of the deadly serious, somewhere along the line things changed a tad, a slightly more irreverent theme crept in. There is still plenty of stuff that highlights and exposes the Mail's nefarious goings on, but it is a smattering of aforementioned irreverence that accompanies things, something which, if you have clicked on any of the above links, you are already aware.

It was with the same irreverence that I started to note the captions that accompanied the photographs, by gum, I've never seen ascribed, so much "torture" so much "pain" and so much "agony" since... since... since watching Charlton Heston in the Agony and the Ecstasy, which I have to add was the most aptly named film of all time, absolute bleedin' agony to watch and pure ecstasy when it ended.

Nuff said?

I have chopped these screen shots up and married the relevant bits together, various bits of text and captions should be of interest in retrospect.




I had planned on upping the video and text for this performance, but I don't think I could bear it again. It can be found at this link if you must. My view.

My view.

The bottom line on this key saga would be of interest methinks.

Talking of which, anybody seen CC lately?

Ah the agony puts in an appearance, which is more than Fiona Barton must have done. It says from Praia da Luz, the coal shed more likely, because we all know what the reality really was. Complete with a rare bit of footage of the heartbroken parents leaving the church.

Sick

Tortured, is that what it looks like?



Even the tears are tortured, err hang on a minute, what tears?



No comment.

"In the depths of despair, the McCanns inspire awe" Whatever you say.

"Gone but not forgotten" "praying for a miracle" it would take a miracle alright, one of biblical proportions.

Ah, dear old Jane.

Murat had child porn and a picture of the Saints McCann in church, and for my chosen subject, the bleedin obvious.

My view.

My view.

Says Gerry McCann with his eyes shut yet again, just the same as you didn't give your kids sedatives. "The search goes on" FFS! "Kate and Gerry share a quiet moment today" Yes I'll bet it's quiet, about as quiet as this off camera.

Poor old CC being used to hide behind again. Anybody seen CC lately?

Found on the web.

Off on another jolly and photo op. My view.

My view.

I've never known two kids like a crèche so much, what next?

Searching.

My view.

You're not alone old lad, you're not alone .

Whatever you say, but catch the caption at the bottom it's a cracker, I think I would consider the same if I had scammed as much as this pair.



I don't think you'll find her in the Whitehouse you arshole, but you did meet a comrade in arms, another lying arsehole, Alberto Gonzales, Solicitor General of Ameriki. Have a listen to Gonzo doing his stuff before the Senate Judiciary Committee, you just could not make it up.




Of Gonzo, Bush had this to say.

"It is sad that we live in a time when a talented and honourable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," Bush said in Crawford, Texas.

Only in Ameriki folks, only in Ameriki.

More agony and the Mail's Iconic Poor Kate photo.

My view.

Yes dear.

Three guesses.

More anguish.

Anguish and agony, you don't look too shabby on it.

My view.

We've already had that video.

Gerry and Kate McCann at church again.

Gerry and Kate McCann at church again.

Gerry and Kate McCann at church again.

Links

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The Daily Mail's Kate McCann Gallery of Woe Includes a little trivia about the Wail and its editor.

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I Don't Know Who Sounds The More Desperate, The Daily Mail or The McCanns
The Wail at it's best and written by David, I'm such a lying xenophobic McCann sycophantic twat, Jones.

Or is it that you are none of these things, but feel that after confessing to being so "horribly wrong" you feel compelled to write in the manner you do?

Or are you, as I fear, just a cunt?

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From yet another and McCann shill and Mail employee, Fiona Barton. Not by coincidence I don't suppose that this article is featured above, I post below, the relevant part of what is a very long article. No blog link in this, just a direct link to the Mail's story.

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And finally, of dignity, wouldn't it be nice if the Mail discovered a little, not to mention the parents.

This from the Mail, and yes, the date is correct, and printed under the header-

On Madeleine's fourth birthday, the agony goes on
by FIONA BARTON in Praia da Luz
Last updated at 12:24 12 May 2007

Blank-faced and hiding behind her hair, she appeared almost catatonic as she stood silently beside her husband, clutching, as always, Madeleine's favourite toy, called Cuddle Cat by the little girl. The Daily Mail, Paul Dacre Editor.

The agony goes on 12 May 2007 - Blank-faced and hiding behind her hair, she appeared almost catatonic as she stood silently beside her husband, 12 May 2007

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There be much at this next link, starting with this nauseating drivel, headed.

Madeleine, we're still looking for you. Tell someone who your mummy and daddy are'

And continued in similar vain.

Her father, now 41, reassured the little girl: "Madeleine, we're still looking for you. Tell someone who your mummy and daddy are, who you are."

Kate, 42, said: "We love you very much, Madeleine, and we're not going to stop what we're doing."

And who must we thank for this edifying piece of journalism? why none other than Mirror slag and McCann creature extraordinaire, Rod Chator.

This article was destined to be short lived, this you might remember, was the article that carried the Madeleine/make up photograph. Fortunately the full article, of which you can well imagine, I had a few to say, is posted on the blog. Posted twice in fact, the first being as writ, and the second more in the style of what you may have become accustomed to.

The post then moves on to the Wail to an article that leads off, and I kid you not, as loathsome as it is unbelievable, the Mail treats us to this.

Gerry McCann breaks down as he tells how hunt for Madeleine 'is shaking his Catholic faith'

What can I say? other than that already uttered at, The Corruption of Innocence.

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The Editor Daily Mail and Kate McCann

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Barking Mad

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I confronted the sweaty, corpulent figure in an ill-fitting jacket twice last Friday: the first time at 10am, as he sat slurping coffee and cakes at the Kalahary cafe in Portimao with his colleague, Chief Inspector Guillermino Encarnacao; the second just before 3pm, when the two men made their way from a restaurant to a waiting black Mercedes, in which they were driven 400 yards to meet officials at the courthouse.

The reaction was the same both times: "No speak! No speak!" was all Amaral would say, making a swatting motion as though batting away an insect.

But Amaral's official silence is not the only difference between him and his counterparts in Britain.

In the UK, it is unlikely he would be leading the McCann inquiry at all.

Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry may never be charged with anything, despite their present status as arguidos, or official suspects, and by the end of last week, apparently well-placed sources were admitting that any case against them is circumstantial and weak. Direct link.

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This story came up when I searched my own blogs for "Daily Mail" it being mentioned just the once in text. I only mention this because generally I'm not too impressed with the results of the in-house search gadgets. The opposite however applies to the article from the link, Madeleine McCann: A Rainbow takes the glitter off the McCann's pot of gold by invariably impressive, Mike Hitchens,

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This is a Times/Halligen article which I chose for one of the comments left, rather than the story itself. The comment, you might agree after reading, has a certain familiarity of style. Gallery eighty Two

The Second (Dis-Reputable) Mother Trucking Gallery

These uninspiring photographs of Stobart's truck were evidently snapped in the Netherlands and have been gathering dust in a folder for a few weeks. Gathering dust that is, until I came across this post from Anna Andress, just the first paragraph then to see where the theme and the inspiration came from that led me to produce this second trucking gallery.

In February this year, the McCanns were successful in persuading a Portuguese judge that their right to a 'good reputation,' was more important than Dr Gonçalo Amaral's right to freedom of speech, and the injunction banning Dr Amaral's book, "The Truth of The Lie," was upheld.......
Gerry and Kate McCann: serial child neglectors in search of a reputation

I have no wish to highlight any of the more loathsome parts of what was uttered by this vile creature, all I ask is that you read the thing slowly and appreciate the true horror and enormity of what this abomination of a man is saying.

Read it slowly, and perhaps as you do so, you might spare a thought for the girl that once had this reptile for a father.

"Freedom of speech should not include distortion of the truth, lies, fabrication and slander," said Kate McCann on Friday.

Gerry McCann added: "The key thing here is we're here to fight for our daughter, and if anyone steps over the lines then they should be prepared to defend what they say in court."

“We are pleased with the Judge’s decision preventing further distribution and sale of Mr Amaral’s book and DVD –‘The Truth of the Lie’.

“Mr. Amaral’s central thesis has no evidence whatsoever to support it. To claim as he did, that Madeleine is dead, and that we, her parents, were in some way involved with her disappearance, has caused our family incredible distress and it continues to do so.

“Without doubt, Madeleine will have suffered as a result of the negative effect this book and DVD will have had on the search for her.

“Sean and Amelie need protection too from such awful claims.

“Hopefully this injunction today will go a long way towards reducing further unnecessary and unjust distress to us all and allow people to concentrate completely on what is important - finding Madeleine,” the statement read.

“There’s one thing that has been revealed in the case files which is that there is no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there is no evidence to suggest that Kate and I were involved in any theories. It’s about Madeleine. As her parents, I hope people understand that we have to do what we are doing.”

In a statement after his participation, McCann asserted that, although there was no advancement in the investigation, there is also “absolutely no indication that she suffered any hurt or harm, therefore we must believe that she is alive out there and we cannot stop looking for her”.

“As parents, it is our obligation to continue searching for her; we must convince people that the searches must continue, and we should return to Portugal”, he said.

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I have as you may notice, converted our truck to a high body, it just made for a slightly larger canvas.



























This picture below nearly ended up with a dedicated gallery all of its own.

Take a minute or two and have a proper think about it.

For reference only.

The Comments Are...

The Comments Are...

Good to know that Jim Gamble measures success in the field of child protection by how many people click a Facebook link.

Maybe if I pester Facebook into adding a "Jim Gamble is a cunt" button, I could claim to be an overwhelming success too, and hope to divert more funds to my little slice of empire...


I would replace all my light switches with real physical Jim Gamble is a Cunt Buttons, just so I could press them often.

Which as you can well imagine I fully endorse. And he is a cunt, he must think we all came down with the last shower.




The message is.

CEOP claims success for Facebook 'panic button'
Threefold increase in reports

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has received 211 reports of "suspicious activity" on Facebook since the launch of a branded app last month, it announced today.

By comparison, earlier this year CEOP said it received 257 complaints about activity on the dominant social network in three months.

The "ClickCEOP" button, an app available as an option for users to add to their profile pages, was launched following sharp criticism of Facebook's user safety features by CEOP chief Jim Gamble.

"The sheer numbers of people who have engaged with the app - including the volume of positive comments received via the wall - has shown that this move as been extremely well received by parents and young people alike," he said today.

More than 55,000 users have added the app, CEOP said.

According to Hitwise, Facebook has 26 million UK users. Children under 13 aren't allowed to register.

More comments here.

Jim Gamble post links here.

Hey Up! There's Trouble at t'Kennedy Mill

Accountant I ain't, but this doesn't too healthy.

BUILDING Plastics Holdings, the holding company for entrepreneur Brian Kennedy's window manufacturing empire, has breached its banking covenants and is in ongoing talks with lenders over its debt pile of more than £30m.

The company, whose 26 subsidiaries include Macclesfield-based window frame maker Spectus Systems, Latium Management Systems, Clitheroe-based conservatories maker Ultraframe and Everest, has just filed accounts for the year to December 31, 2008 which show a pre-tax loss of of £13.3m on sales of £91.2m.

The accounts were filed late as a result of the company's ongoing negotiations with bankers over its debts.

By its 2008 year end, the company had net debts of almost £32m. Its net assets had also dwindled from £15.9m to £3.4m.

It owed £21.75m to its main lender, Bank of Scotland, £7.4m to National Australia Bank and £1.3m to another company controlled by Kennedy.

Notes accompanying the accounts show that it has since managed to renegotiate its debts with Bank of Scotland, which has extended two term loans and renewed its overdraft.

However, it has been unable to agree a new deal with National Australia Bank after it breached the covenants of its loan agreement.

The group's auditor, KPMG, said that its ability to continue as a going concern was "dependent upon the group directors concluding their ongoing negotiations with lenders, including agreeing a waiver in relation to current covenant breaches, a resetting of those covenants and an additional capital contribution in relation to a loan of £7.4m".

Since its year end, however, another Kennedy-controlled company has injected a further £5.5m worth of loans into the business.

Building Plastics Holdings was previously known as Latium Plastics Holdings and acquired Ultraframe in a £29.2m public-to-private deal in June 2006. Prior to this purchase, Ultraframe had incurred heavy losses.

The company was contacted about its accounts, but declined to comment.

Registration required.
http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/27829-kennedy-seeks-window-of-opportunity-with-banks.html

h/t Anna Andress

A McQuestion Or Two

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19 second update.






1 When the McCann’s fled Portugal in September 2007, the British Police assisting the Portuguese enquiry left also. Madeleine was still missing, supposedly abducted. So why did the British Police quit the search the day after they were both made official suspects?

2 Since that day in September 2007, not one legitimate Police force has been actively looking for Madeleine, why?

3 Why were the Tapas 9 so keen to control the early stages of the investigation by writing out all of their timelines on Madeleine’s sticker book, before the Police had even arrived on the scene?

4 Why did the McCann’s with their limitless amounts of money coming in from generous donations, hire people who specialised in fraud and bomb disposal?

5 Why did the McCann’s ignore crucial Police advice by publicising Madeleine’s distinctive mark on her eye, which would almost certainly have guaranteed her immediate death and disposal?

6 Why did the McCann’s make Madeleine a Ward of Court after she had vanished? Was it to prevent any details of her medical records and other information from being made public for 75 years?

7 Why was it necessary to hire such a large team of lawyers when Madeleine first vanished, which also included Pinochet’s infamous extradition lawyer?

8 Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer all of the questions put to her?

9 Why did the McCann’s claim to know instantly that Madeleine had been abducted, yet waited 40 minutes before first contacting the Police?

10 Goncalo Amaral’s book, ‘The Truth of the Lie’, has now been released in 6 European countries, but not in the UK. It has recently been banned in Portugal. It is a factual account of the early stages of the investigation based on information contained within the officially released Police files, so why has it been banned?

11 Why did the McCann’s want the investigation shelved? It was within their legal rights to ask for the enquiry to remain open, which they turned down? Why?

12 Why did 3 UK Detectives deliver several files of information to the McCann’s home, shortly after they got back to the UK whilst they were still suspects?

13 Why did the cadaver and blood sniffer dogs Eddie and Keela, only indicate to their apartment and their car? I believe 7 properties and 10 cars were searched in total that day, but only the McCann’s apartment and car tested positive.

14 Why did the Home Office refuse to hand over to the Portuguese investigators details of the McCann’s bank details, credit cards and medical records? These are one of the first things any Police force obtains at the start of an investigation. So why were they refused assistance?

15 The British Authorities later informed the Portuguese Police that the McCann’s did not own any credit or debit cards? So how did Gerry manage to pay for his holiday?

16 Why were the McCann’s and their Tapas friends never seriously interrogated? Instead, during their Rogatory interviews the British Police assisted them with some of their answers, which can be clearly seen in their statements.

17 Why did Gerry delete all the phone calls from his mobile on the 2nd of May, the day before Madeleine disappeared and also one received from Kate on 3rd May at 23.17 p.m., just over an hour after she had raised the alarm? Neither went to search for Madeleine, so why did Kate need to call him? Where did he go?

18 Why did Gerry have to fly home to obtain something with Madeleine’s DNA on? Did he actually supply an accurate representation of Madeleine’s DNA to the Police? Why was there no DNA of Madeleine’s found in the apartment the night she vanished?, an apartment which she had lived in for 5 days? Not one strand of hair was found there belonging to the McCann twins either. It’s like the apartment had been scrubbed clean.

19 Why is the case filed under Homicide, Simulating a Crime & Hiding a Cadaver and not abduction?

20 How did the scent of cadaver from a dead body get on Madeleine’s Cuddlecat, a child’s red T shirt, Kate’s black/white cheque trousers and her white sleeveless top? Why only these items?

21 Why did Gerry have to move the position of the sofa in the lounge? The exact same sofa which was identified by the blood dog Keela, as containing minute traces of blood in 3 different positions on the back panel. The exact same sofa that Eddie the cadaver dog also identified the scent of cadaver behind. Is this just a coincidence, or is this evidence of staging?

22 Why did the British Government intervene and support them on an unprecedented level from day one?




23 Why did the British Government feel the need to appoint a spokesman Clarence Mitchell, to speak in public for the McCann’s and is still assisting them today? Has the British tax payer been paying for his services all this time?

24 Why are the British papers only interested in reporting on the abduction line, when there is not one shred of evidence to support this theory? In 2008, one third of the official police files was made available to the general public. Facts that every newspaper could have easily been printed without any fear of litigation. So why have they ignored all of this information?


25 Why was Kate so annoyed at being asked to attend the Police station in the early days to identify a little girl caught on CCTV, that was believed to be Madeleine?

26 Why would the McCann’s leave Madeleine in an unlocked apartment knowing she had a tendency to wake up and wander frequently at night?

27 Why did the British Secret Service immediately put the McCann’s under telephone surveillance and not inform the Portuguese Police?

28 Why would SOCA (the Serious Organised Crime Agency) get involved with a missing child?

29 Why did the British Police withhold a statement for at least 6 months from the Portuguese Investigators involving David Payne and Gerry McCann, over lewd allegations of paedophile behaviour as witnessed by another Doctor friend of theirs on a previous holiday?

30 Why was Gerry in possession of sensitive Police manuals only used by Special Police Services and Government Agencies? Who gave them to him and why?

31 Why did the McCann’s want Leicestershire Police heading up the investigation and not Scotland Yard? They wanted the help from the Government, but not the top Police Force, why?

32 Why was the McCann’s Lawyers worried that Kate’s answers could be seen to be incriminating, but not Gerry’s?

33 Why did they destroy Madeleine’s sticker book when there was a perfectly good note pad on the table?

34 Why was someone allowed back into the apartment to remove personal items before forensics had finished looking for evidence?

35 Why was Robert Murat made a suspect when none of the photo fits depicted a man who wears glasses?

36 Why did it take the British authorities nine months to pass the Gaspar’s statement over to the Portuguese investigators?

37 Francisco Moita Flores has said that “the mystery lies with one or two of the ten or twelve elements that used to enter that apartment”. Who are the other 3 people is he referring to?

38 In Kate’s diary she states, "I can't stop thinking about Madeleine, about her fear of pain". How would she know that Madeleine had a fear of pain?

39 Why did Kate in her group statement say that she pulled the curtains open, yet in the documentary state that the wind blew the curtains open?

40 Why did Gordon Brown and Jackie Smith both have to visit Leicestershire Police three days after the McCann’s flew home? Both have publicly claimed that they do not interfere in ongoing Police investigations.

41 Why did several members of the group claim Rachel made the Tapas reservation, when the receptionist has clearly stated it was a man?

42 Why was a CRG (Control Risks Group) fraud expert brought in on a missing child case?

43 Why did Brian Kennedy feel the need to contact the family who claimed that they saw Gerry McCann carrying a child in the streets just before the alarm was raised?

44 Why was it that only Kate’s fingerprints, was found in a position of opening that window?




45 Why did the McCann’s need a service wash the day after Madeleine vanished, washing clothing that belonged to Madeleine that could have been important to the investigation?

46 Why did David Payne not want the McCann’s to speak to Yvonne Martin, the Social Worker who tried to offer them help?

47 Why didn’t Dianne Webster want to rush off and check on her own grandchildren when Kate shouted Madeleine was missing?

48 Why did David Payne claim that everyone went to dinner together, yet Fiona claimed that David would stay behind to watch the children?

49 Why did the FSS when testing the hair samples found in the boot of the McCann’s hire car, refuse to confirm if it had come from a living or dead person, simply by checking to see if they showed any signs of proximal banding?

50 Not one single hair of Madeleine's was ever recovered from the apartment, so how did the McCann’s manage to find one to give to Danie Krugel the South African body finder?

51 Why did the McCann’s need to air their car boot?

52 Why did Gerry not tell Mrs Fenn that it was his daughter that had gone missing?

53 Why did Paul Gordon, the previous occupant of the McCann’s apartment, say he feels like a “chess pawn” after being contacted several times by Brian Kennedy?

54 How could Matt Oldfield claim to see the twins breathing laying inside their cots, when he never even entered Madeleine’s bedroom?

55 Why did Gerry first claim the doors were left locked, then changed his statement saying the patio door was left unlocked?

56 Why did the PJ need to forensically examine an apartment in Burgau in relation to this case?

57 Why did the Vatican remove Madeleine’s details from their website, one week after Kate and Gerry were made suspects?

58 Why would a missing child of only 13 days be made a Ward of Court?

59 Why did Stuart Prior when examining all the evidence against the McCann’s, say that "he had arrested people in England with much less", yet they never got arrested?

60 Why did the McCann’s and their supportive friends refuse to help the investigation by not doing a reconstruction?

61 Sir Christopher Meyer publically stated that the McCann’s did not want the press to be stopped, they had been asked, but they turned the offer down. So why did they later complain that the press were outrageous?

62 Kerry Needham, the Mother of Ben Needham who went missing from the Greek Island of Kos in 1991, has never received the same level of help the McCann’s got. Why was that missing child treated so differently?

63 Jill Renwick says she spoke to Kate at 7am, the morning after Madeleine vanished saying, ''Kate was at the police station in hysterics. When we spoke she said the police weren’t doing enough.'' Yet Kate did not go to the Police Station until that afternoon, so which one of them is lying?

64 Why have the McCann’s never once shown us the inside of Madeleine’s bedroom as it now looks?

65 Why were there other Doctors booked in the Ocean Club that week, not part of the Tapas 9 group?

66 Why did Gerry and Kate delete so many calls from their phones before the Police arrived?




67 When Oprah Winfrey asked Kate why she never showed any emotion, Kate said, “the last thing I want obviously is to cause any extra further harm to Madeleine”. Yet they have always stated there is no evidence that Madeleine has come to any harm, so what “extra further harm” is Kate referring to?

68 Is it just a coincidence that on the 13th May 2007, Jose Barra da Costa, former member of the PJ publicly claimed that the McCann’s are swingers, then two days later on the 15th May 2007, Robert Murat is declared arguido?

69 Why did the McCann’s ignore Police advice concerning the dangers of highlighting Madeleine's distinctive eye, which would ensure that she was killed?

70 Why did David Payne say “we have a pact”? A child is missing and they feel the need to have some kind of agreement. What for?




H/t to all contributors, a special thank you to Stella for compiling the questions, and all made possible by The Maddie Case Files.

Just The One

Well two in actual fact, but sometimes you need a bit of something to really give a thing context.



And giving it a little thought I think this previous post might not go amiss here.

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In what now appears to be my second career, sending a message, through what now must be a multitude of pics, and if you will forgive me saying so, some have been quite brilliantly spot on, inspired if you will.

Having modestly awarded myself such an accolade and presented myself with a bouquet of flowers for the "quite brilliant" ones, what then does it say of the rest?

Well, having set that kind of metric, I suppose the only way from there is down, downward yes, but by degrees, you would afford me that surely?

Degrees that have covered the full spectrum, top to bottom, from close, but no cigar, to totally off the mark. I do however, in my own defence say, I did have a little help with the graphics that fell into this category, Paulo Rebelo for one, and the Express for another. Need I say more?

This first picky below I think typifies those in the "close, but no cigar" category. Why so you may ask, it's not a million miles from the truth as you or I might see things? Perhaps at the time you might have even thought the thing worthy of a cigar, perhaps it was.

But things change, that's if they don't stay as they are of course, but change they do, or perhaps develop and progress might be a more accurate way of putting things. Ever since the Express rolled over, delighting us all with a display of its true colours, we have seen increasingly the attempts to gag the ungaggable, the internet.

Such attempts, and some enjoying local success it must be said, but such attempts, in reality, are futile. Not to understand this futility, that no one person can censor the net, though making numerous attempts to do so, is I think, a measure of the world that said person inhabits.

Though I could, and have done so on numerous occasions past, describe Adam Tudor in numerous and far from pleasant ways, I would never think to call him things that would question his intelligence. That is simply something I cannot do for reasons obvious.

So with this in mind, and in light of ever increased threats, accompanied by a cacophony of Sabers rattling, makes me but wonder if Adam Tudor is giving his client the best advice possible, or heaven forbid, his love of Mammon supersedes the interests of his client?

Shurely not, shurely shome mishtake? But a question nonetheless that brought about a subtle change in our featured piccy.

And so this roomful of reporters consented, in essence, not to be reporters.

Hey up! deja vous, or is it infectious?

Check out the comments while you are there, the first one starts....

You know what? There is something f—– up with this dad… Let’s not. Forget dad was at the gym too with his wife 5 days after kyron went missing!!

......Today, Kaine Horman and the Youngs sat at the head of a table in a room filled with more than two dozen national and local reporters for print, TV and radio. As the meeting began at 10 a.m., Kaine Horman started out by explaining “the agenda.” This wasn’t going to be a typical press conference.

Horman said the family’s goal was to make “the story” about Kyron. With news of the divorce and investigators homing in on the stepmom, media coverage (including in WW) has increasingly focused on Kyron’s troubled family.

First came Horman’s “ground rules,” as he described them. No cameras. No recordings. Everything was off the record and couldn’t be reported, unless agreed otherwise. Horman made everyone in the room agree to these rules before proceeding. And so this roomful of reporters consented, in essence, not to be reporters.

Horman then laid out how the meeting would go. They would take questions, make some phone calls (presumably to investigators, to find out what they could say in their answers), then return and make an on-the-record statement. But first, Horman wanted all the reporters he didn’t know to introduce themselves. more

Update: I have no great interest in the story, but a couple of links here for what they are worth.

http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?board=72.0

http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2011/10/14/kyron-horman-case-divorce-delayed-again-terri-continues-to-look-bad/

It's only my personal reflection, but if I was issued a parking ticket in the US, I would lawyer up.