
Sometimes wishes come true and Santa does reward brave little girls.
I wish all my readers a brilliant Christmas and a truthful New Year
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Understandably on such a cold night, nobody would dress their child in summer pyjamas with short sleeves and knee-length trousers. And it was cold even though the McCanns did not agree on that point:— She was wearing light trousers, white or light pink, that may have been pyjamas. She does not remember if they were patterned as it was dark. The material was lightweight/thin and could have been cotton.
— She also had a light top, with long sleeves.
Despite their memory gaps or lack of collusion they nevertheless presented the real pyjamas Madeleine had worn, or rather a duplicate(?) during various press appearances.
"Kate dressed Amelie in her sister's pyjamas and the baby said:
'Maddy's jammies. Where is Maddy?'
— Sie trug helle Hosen, weiß oder hell-pink, die Pyjamahosen hätten sein können. Sie erinnert sich nicht ob sie gemustert waren, da es dunkel war. Das Material war leicht/dünn und hätte Baumwolle sein können.
— Auch trug sie ein helles Oberteil, mit langen Ärmeln.
"Kate dressed Amelie in her sister's pyjamas and the baby said:
'Maddy's jammies. Where is Maddy?'
In 2008 private detectives with Oakley International, a company hired by Madeleine's Fund, questioned the consistency of the Tanner report and became more interested in the Smith sighting. Oakley prepared e-fit images – one based on Martin's description and the other on Mary's – but the Fund decided not to release them. This was in part because Martin Smith came to believe that the man he had seen was Gerry McCann – something Scotland Yard ruled out because witnesses placed Gerry in the tapas restaurant at 22:00 – and so releasing the e-fits risked feeding the conspiracy theories about the McCanns, which were at their height in 2008. When Scotland Yard became involved in 2011 and ruled out the Tanner sighting, they came to believe that it was the Smith sighting that gave them the approximate time of Madeleine's kidnap, and in October 2013 they released the Oakley International e-fits to coincide with a BBC Crimewatch reconstruction of the disappearance.
(Interesting that she seems to know that the efits were done by Martin and Mary Smith)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann#Smith_sightingThis seems to be the source of the rumour that Scotland Yard had ruled out Gerry being the man the Smiths saw because witnesses placed him in the Tapas at 22:00, that has entered the odd newspaper. But apart from the trusted friends and holidaymakers, there is no actual witness seeing him at the table at that exact time. And the walk between 5A and the crossing where the Smiths met the Gerry-lookalike can be reached in less than five minutes.
Oakley erstellte Phantombilder - eins aufgrund der Beschreibung von Martin und eins von Mary - aber der Fund entschied sie nicht zu veröffentlichen. Einerseits weil Martin Smith zu der Überzeugung kam, dass der Mann den er gesehen hatte, Gerry McCann war - etwas das Scotlad Yard ausschloss weil Zeugen Gerry um 22:00 Uhr im Tapas Restaurant gesehen hatten - und die Veröffentlichung der Phantombilder die Verschwörungstheorien über die McCanns angeheizt hätten....
(Interessant, dass sie zu wissen scheint, dass die efits auf Beschreibungen von Martin UND Mary Smith basierten)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann#Smith_sightingDies scheint die Quelle des Gerüchts zu sein, dass Scotland Yard Gerry als den Mann ausgeschlossen hat, den die Smiths gesehen haben, weil Zeugen ihn um 22:00 Uhr im Restaurant sahen, das in der ein oder anderen Zeitung verbreitet wurde. Aber außer den treuen Freunden und Miturlaubern gibt es keine wirklichen Zeugen, die ihn zu dieser exakten Zeit am Tisch gesehen haben. Und die Strecke zwischen 5A und der Kreuzung an der die Smiths das Gerry-Double sahen, kann in weniger als fünf Minuten begangen werden.

"From 19th (July), the McCanns began to move with greater frequency to the triangular area of Sagres- Raposeira-Budens."
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/PHONE_TEXTS.htm
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Madeleine Hinweise 5 Jahre lang vertuscht
Die wichtigen neuen Hinweise im Zentrum von Scontland Yard's Suche nach Madeleine McCann wurden fünf Jahre lang geheimgehalten nachdem sie ihren Eltern von Ex-MI5 Ermittlern präsentiert wurden.
Die Hinweise wurden genaugenommen aus einem Untersuchungsbericht entnommen, der im Auftrag von Gerry und Kate McCann durch eine Firma von ehemaligen Spionen 2008 erstellt wurde.
Er enthielt entscheidende Phantombilder von einem Mann, der dabei beobachtet wurde, wie er ein Kind in der Nacht von Madeleines Verschwinden trug, die erst diesen Monat veröffentlicht wurden nachdem er durch SY als Hauptverdächtiger identifiziert wurde.
Aber die Spur wurde für 5 Jahre vernachlässigt weil die McCanns und ihre Berater den Bericht kaltstellten und drohten die Autoren zu verklagen wenn sie Inhalte veröffentlichen würden.
Der Bericht, der der Sunday Times zur Verfügung steht, empfahl die Phantombilder sofort zu veröffentlichen und er besagte, dass die "Anomalien" in den Aussagen der McCanns und ihrer Freunde aufgeklärt werden müssten.
A source close to the McCanns said the report was considered “hypercritical of the people involved” and “would have been completely distracting” if made public.
Eine den McCanns nahe Quelle sagte, dass der Bericht als "überkritisch den beteiligten Menschen gegenüber" gewesen sei, und "hätte eine totale Ablenkung dargestellt" wenn er veröffentlicht worden wäre.
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Eine frühere Sichtung (eines Mannes) durch eine Freundin der McCanns wurde (im o.g. Bericht) als wenig glaubhaft beurteilt, nachdem "ernste Unstimmigkeiten" in ihren Aussagen gefunden wurden.
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Exton confirmed last week that the fund had silenced his investigators for years after they handed over their controversial findings. He said: “A letter came from their lawyers binding us to the confidentiality of the report.”
Exton (Oakley International) bestätigte letzte Woche, dass der "Fund" seine Detektive für Jahre zum Schweigen brachte wegen der strittigen Ergebnisse. Er sagte: " Ein Brief kam von ihren Anwälten, die uns and die Vertraulichkeit des Berichts erinnert.
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(Auszüge aus der Sunday Times von heute)
Da ich mich momentan in einem Teil der Welt aufhalte, in der der
Zugang zum Internet sich schwierig gestaltet, kann ich leider die
vielen Kommentare nicht beantworten und versuche dies auf diesem Weg.
Das Rechtshilfeersuchen beziehe sich nicht auf den Fall Madeleine. «Die Verbindung zu diesem Fall ist offenbar von britischen Medien dazugedichtet worden», sagte DellerGuter Mann soweit :)

""The Metropolitan Police now has a team of six Portuguese detectives based in Faro who are carrying out inquiries on its behalf.""
""The Portuguese investigation is officially closed but authorities there are backing the Scotland Yard inquiry and officers from both countries will work together in pursuing new leads.""
BUT
""Detectives are to issue an e-fit image of a man seen near the holiday apartment from where the then three-year-old vanished in 2007.""Ergo: An e-fit can only be created out of witness statements. Had there been new witnesses, the port. investigation would have been reopened.
So which witness has not yet issued an e-fit that is not from Portugal?
""The officer in charge of the case, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, is expected next week to give details of the suspect's movements around the resort of Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the day Madeleine disappeared.""I know of only one sighting in the files that involves movements of a suspect around the resort on the day Madeleine disappeared. Let me state the corresponding file:
Personal Description:
— (1) the individual was male, Caucasian, light-skinned, between 20/30 years of age, of normal physical build, around 1,70/1,75 metres in height. At the time she saw his face but now cannot remember it. She thinks that he had a clean-shaven face. She does not remember seeing tattoos, scars or earrings. She did not notice his ears. His hair was thick-ish, light brown in colour, short at the back (normal) and a bit longer on the top.
— His trousers were smooth "rights" along the legs, beige in colour, cotton fabric, thicker than linen, possibly with buttons, and without any other decoration.
"My brother and sister-in-law live in purgatory because they have no end and they are looking for the truth."
Trish McCann
It was like trying to live our lifes in purgatory
Metro News
Christina PattersonKate McCann is in media purgatory
Mum Kate vows to 'stop the damage' caused in hunt for missing daughter
Express
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"I'm here to stop the damage that has been caused and is still being caused, both directly and indirectly, to the search for our daughter"
Kate McCann
...........Big fall in income for Kate and Gerry McCanns' search fund
The Scotsman
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It is not about the SEARCH, that has been hindered by the book written by Goncalo Amaral. Because there never has been a SEARCH, not even in the direct aftermath of her disappearance. No SEARCH by Kate during the night of the 3rd, no SEARCH during the following days.4078 "When did you last see Madeleine?”
Reply (Matthew Oldfield) "Err I’m not quite sure when I last saw her because it depending on whether we had lunch together as a group in David and Fiona’s, which err we may have done on the last day because it got more common as we went through the week but it was more common for the six in terms of the, David, Fiona, already in the apartment of course with Dianne and err Russ and Jane and G***e and Rachael and I to go up there and have lunch as a group than it was to have err the full complete group there at lunch time. Err but it would seem now, it probably wasn’t until the day previously because we’d seen them in the evening after their usual tea so I think on that day, on the final, on the Thursday when we came back up from tennis I’m not sure that Kate and the children err were there outside the tennis court when we arrived because we arrived late and it would have been about bedtime so I can’t specifically recall whether I saw Madeleine at that point, but we sort of arrived, err it wasn’t sort of big groups who were doing the usual sort of chasing games, they may have gone earlier because everybody else of course was still down with our wives, down in the err down at the restaurant on the beach so it would have been quite sort of the same sort of playgroup and they may have, I think they went back and they were gone by the time I got to the tennis courts.”
1578 “When was the last time you saw Madeleine”?
Reply (Russell O'Brien) “Erm I certainly think I saw her at lunch time on the Thursday, erm when, when sort of Ella, when Ella and her would have come out the, the, the, the, the kids club, as I said earlier on, on, on Thursday afternoon, we did something slightly different and we were all down at, down at the beach front and were gonna eat there, my gut feeling is because I got there to pick Ella up before all of the children from the kids club were taken up to the, the Tapas that I did see Madeleine there, I have to say eleven months on, I, I can’t tell you that I had a picture of her definitely there, but unless Kate and Gerry picked her up separately, she, she would have been there and somewhere in the back of my mind I, I’ve got this picture of me taking Ella out and all the other children, including Madeleine were there but it’s too long after to, to, to really be honest on that and sort of say yes I definitely saw her, cos I, I don’t know I can now”.
1578 “When was the last time you saw Madeleine”?
Reply (Rachael Oldfield) “Erm it was when she was having a tennis lesson, in the morning yeah, about probably between ten thirty and eleven on the morning of the third of May”.
Reply (David Payne) ”Err I think it was already open, I think it was already open. Err you know, as I say, I walked up there, Kate was you know I say looking very relaxed and err I say a comment to her I said well crikey it’s early, early for them to be getting ready you know for bed, as I say she said ah no, I’ve had such a good, you know such a good day and afternoon err so you know, and Gerry’s just obviously finishing off playing tennis and err so you know hopefully try and get them down and as I say we were just, you know I, I know, it does sound bizarre but I just looked at the three of them and I couldn’t, you know they were just so well presented and so clean and immaculate it was, you know I was, and you know they just looked such healthy children, err you know, there’s, there’s you know nothing that normally…”
1485 ”Yeah. Was that the last time you saw Madeleine?”
Reply (David Payne) ”It was.”
1485 “When was the last time you saw Madeleine?”
Reply (Fiona Payne) “It was, it would be when we walked back with, erm, Scarlet and Kate from the, from picking them at the kids club in the af.., in the lunch time, that was the last time I saw them”.
1485 “At lunch time?”
Reply “Yeah”.
Reply (Jane Tanner) “Erm, and I think we played ‘til about, phew, half two, because I think, I’m not sure if this is going to be another question that you are going to ask, but I think that was the last time that I saw Madeleine, because Kate and Gerry brought the kids, all the kids down to the play area to, they would have their lunch before they took them back to the Kids Club, and I think that was about two, quarter past two’ish, and I can remember Madeleine shouting things to us on the tennis court, you know, and I can remember Gerry sort of going ‘Oh good shot’ or whatever. And I think that would have been the last time that I personally, you know, I personally saw Madeleine.
4078 “And the last time you saw Madeleine was on the afternoon you (inaudible)”?
Reply “Yeah we were playing tennis yeah”.
4078 “When was the last time you saw Madeleine?”
Reply (Dianne Webster) “(Sighs) You see I don’t remember seeing her on the Thursday because I didn’t go to the high tea, err but I was apparently in the play area afterwards but I can’t recall that.”
4078 “Okay.”
Reply “Err so from what I can recall, the last time I would have seen Madeleine would have been the Wednesday at the high tea probably.”
Clearly an intelligent, compassionate woman, she is so positive that she saw Madeleine being bundled into a taxi in Fnidk, in northern Morocco, that she has returned to the country with investigators from Metodo 3, the Spanish private detectives hired by the McCanns. It is worth noting that Dr Malhi neither wants nor expects any payment for her efforts. I believe her.
Perhaps I am an idiot, or merely one of the millions who wants this terrible story to have a happy ending, but I still think there is a chance to get Madeleine back. Link
Padraic Flanagan, Employee No 510424 for €500, Cash paid to Naoual Malhi, Urbanacion Calahonda Royale, Mijas Costa, for exclusive buyup on Madeleine eyewitness. Link
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Just been told that the Home Secretary did not want 2 commit the Met Police 2 undertake any kind of review but this was over ruled by the PM
Am told Home Secretary Ms May did not want to commit Met Police to any kind of Madeleine review but was over ruled by the PM- Mr Cameron
And the deal was very much done at a political level between both Prime Ministers - not at a policing level