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Well these are the questions the police asked Kate McCann. Interesting response to question number 2 I thought. All this from the woman who would “leave no stone unturned”. :roll:
questionsWe can always rely on Bat to jump right in with her trademark :roll:
Here’s an article from the Daily Mirror detailing the vile tactics that the Portugese Police used-
Police ignored expert advice that DNA did NOT link Kate and Gerry McCann to their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance, it emerged yesterday.
In an email, British scientist John Lowe told Portuguese investigators that the evidence found in the couple’s hired car was “inconclusive”.
Yet 48 hours later in a tough grilling bullying cops told the McCanns the traces DID come from Madeleine.
And two days after that the couple were made formal suspects, with police citing the DNA evidence as the reason
Now, the McCanns are asking why they came under suspicion when investigators already knew the “evidence” against them was deeply flawed.
The revelations came to light as prosecutors released 30,000 pages of case files following the shelving of the case two weeks ago.
Included are witness statements, transcripts of interviews with Kate and Gerry, details of lines of inquiry and pictures of Madeleine’s bedroom taken just hours after she vanished.
Also listed are 48 questions Kate, 40, did not answer. As the bullying probe intensified, Kate wisely used her rights to stay silent.
Among the notes is the email from John Lowe, of the Forensic Science Service, referring to DNA found in the boot of a Renault Scenic the McCanns hired after Madeleine vanished. He told UK police on September 3: “Let’s look at the question ‘Is there DNA from Madeleine on the swab?’ “It would be very simple to say ‘Yes’ because of the components within the result that are also in her sample.
“What we need to consider is whether the match is genuine because Madeleine deposited DNA in the car, or whether Madeleine appears to match the result by chance.”
Mr Lowe said some components in Madeleine’s profile were not unique to her. Some were even present among FSS scientists, including himself. He concluded: “We cannot answer the question: Is the match genuine, or is it a chance match?”
The email was translated into Portuguese on September 4.
On September 7, Gerry was questioned. The dossier reveals that in an eight-hour quiz he was told Madeleine’s DNA was found in the Renault boot.
He was also told traces were found behind a sofa in the family’s holiday apartment at Praia da Luz from where Madeleine vanished on May 3 last year.
The notes said: “Confronted with the fact that Madeleine’s DNA was gathered from behind the sofa and from the boot, and analysed by a British lab, he said he could not explain why.”
Gerry, 40, was asked: “Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter’s disappearance?”
An officer’s notes say only that he categorically denied such a suggestion.
The notes go on: “He said that from the very start he thought that Madeleine had been abducted. He reached that conclusion because he did not think it was possible for her to have walked out or opened the shutter herself.”
Gerry denied suggestions that Kate was depressed or that their children – three-year-old Madeleine and twins Sean and Amelie, then two – were on medication.
Lawyers for the McCanns, of Rothley, Leics, were formally given access to the files last week. They continue to study the dossier for fresh leads that the couple’s private detectives can follow.
McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “The Portuguese Attorney General made it very clear that there’s absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing by Kate and Gerry.
“A lot of this is historical detail drafted by officers who failed to find Madeleine and who quite wrongfully were going down inaccurate lines of supposition and assumption.”
Last month, Portugal’s law chief halted the investigation because there was no evidence of a crime.
The McCanns and expat Robert Murat, 34, were told they were no longer suspects. The case will remain closed unless new evidence emerges.
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We can always rely on Bat to jump right in with her trademark :roll:
Here’s an article from the Daily Mirror detailing the vile tactics that the Portugese Police used-
Police ignored expert advice that DNA did NOT link Kate and Gerry McCann to their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance, it emerged yesterday.
In an email, British scientist John Lowe told Portuguese investigators that the evidence found in the couple’s hired car was “inconclusive”.
Yet 48 hours later in a tough grilling bullying cops told the McCanns the traces DID come from Madeleine.
And two days after that the couple were made formal suspects, with police citing the DNA evidence as the reason
Now, the McCanns are asking why they came under suspicion when investigators already knew the “evidence” against them was deeply flawed.
The revelations came to light as prosecutors released 30,000 pages of case files following the shelving of the case two weeks ago.
Included are witness statements, transcripts of interviews with Kate and Gerry, details of lines of inquiry and pictures of Madeleine’s bedroom taken just hours after she vanished.
Also listed are 48 questions Kate, 40, did not answer. As the bullying probe intensified, Kate wisely used her rights to stay silent.
Among the notes is the email from John Lowe, of the Forensic Science Service, referring to DNA found in the boot of a Renault Scenic the McCanns hired after Madeleine vanished. He told UK police on September 3: “Let’s look at the question ‘Is there DNA from Madeleine on the swab?’ “It would be very simple to say ‘Yes’ because of the components within the result that are also in her sample.
“What we need to consider is whether the match is genuine because Madeleine deposited DNA in the car, or whether Madeleine appears to match the result by chance.”
Mr Lowe said some components in Madeleine’s profile were not unique to her. Some were even present among FSS scientists, including himself. He concluded: “We cannot answer the question: Is the match genuine, or is it a chance match?”
The email was translated into Portuguese on September 4.
On September 7, Gerry was questioned. The dossier reveals that in an eight-hour quiz he was told Madeleine’s DNA was found in the Renault boot.
He was also told traces were found behind a sofa in the family’s holiday apartment at Praia da Luz from where Madeleine vanished on May 3 last year.
The notes said: “Confronted with the fact that Madeleine’s DNA was gathered from behind the sofa and from the boot, and analysed by a British lab, he said he could not explain why.”
Gerry, 40, was asked: “Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter’s disappearance?”
An officer’s notes say only that he categorically denied such a suggestion.
The notes go on: “He said that from the very start he thought that Madeleine had been abducted. He reached that conclusion because he did not think it was possible for her to have walked out or opened the shutter herself.”
Gerry denied suggestions that Kate was depressed or that their children – three-year-old Madeleine and twins Sean and Amelie, then two – were on medication.
Lawyers for the McCanns, of Rothley, Leics, were formally given access to the files last week. They continue to study the dossier for fresh leads that the couple’s private detectives can follow.
McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “The Portuguese Attorney General made it very clear that there’s absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing by Kate and Gerry.
“A lot of this is historical detail drafted by officers who failed to find Madeleine and who quite wrongfully were going down inaccurate lines of supposition and assumption.”
Last month, Portugal’s law chief halted the investigation because there was no evidence of a crime.
The McCanns and expat Robert Murat, 34, were told they were no longer suspects. The case will remain closed unless new evidence emerges.
Wisely use her right to remain silent??? BM this is a mother. A mother who is supposidly distraught over the loss of her daughter and will leave “no stone unturned” in her endless quest to find her. How can it be wise to remain silent? I thought both of them were determined to help the police in any way they could and had “nothing to hide”, so why not answer the bloody questions Kate?
Here’s another one from the Telegraph. The conclusions and wording of the second half of it is interesting.
Detectives’ inability even to establish whether the toddler is alive or dead epitomised the inquiry’s shortcomings, said public prosecutors Jose de Magalhaes and Joao Melchior Gomes.
The case against Kate and Gerry McCann, both 40, was dropped last month after it was decided that there was insufficient evidence against the couple.
But details of the 58 page report explaining reasons for shelving the case were only released yesterday.
“The investigators are well aware that their work is not exempt from imperfections,” the prosecutors said.
“They worked with an enormous margin of error and they achieved very little in terms of conclusive results, especially with regards to the fate of the unfortunate child.”
They went on to say that the disappearance of Madeleine was not a plot from a book, but a serious crime.
“This is not, unfortunately, a police story, a crime fit for the investigative mind of a Sherlock Holmes or a Hercule Poirot, guided by the illusion that the forces of law and justice always restore order.”
The prosecutors said despite the huge manhunt and inquiry, little had been achieved.
“No element of proof whatsoever was found which allows us to form any lucid, sensible, serious and honest conclusion about the circumstances (of Madeleine’s disappearance).
“Including, and most dramatically, establishing whether she is alive or dead, which seems more probable.”
Mr Magalhaes defended the McCanns’ decision to leave their children alone in the apartment on the night Madeleine vanished.
There was speculation that the couple, from Rothley in Leicestershire, may have ben charged with “abandonment”, which can incur a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
But Mr Magalhaes said Mr and Mrs McCann did not believe their children were in any danger when they left Madeleine and her younger twin siblings.
“It is obvious that neither of the defendants, Gerald or Kate, acted with intent,” they said.
“They could not predict that the resort where they had chosen to spend a few days holiday would leave the lives of any of their children in danger.
“It was located in a quiet place, where the majority of residents are foreign citizens of the same nationality and without any known history of this type of crime.
“Although they left their daughter alone with her siblings in the apartment, sometimes for extended periods, it is true that, in any case, they were keeping an eye on them.”
Both prosecutors went on to say that they felt the parents had suffered enough.
“We must also recognise that the parents are already paying a heavy penalty – the disappearance of Madeleine – for their carelessness in monitoring and protecting their children.
“It seems obvious to us that the crimes of exposure or abandonment can be eliminated.”
Mr Magalhaes said all the theories – including the possibility that the couple had accidentally killed their daughter and disposed of her body – had come to nothing.
He concluded:”While it is a fact that Madeleine disappeared from the Ocean Club apartment, the circumstances and manner of how this happened is not known.”
He concluded:”While it is a fact that Madeleine disappeared from the Ocean Club apartment, the circumstances and manner of how this happened is not known.”
The circumstances in which Maddie vanished were created by her irresponsible useless parents. An unlocked apartment makes ideal circumstances doesn,t it?
Whatever DID happen to Maddie, happend because those two incompetent prats thought more about their own pleasure than the saftey and wellbeing of their children. They arn,t fit to have goldfish. :roll:
Her legal advisors would have told her to remain silent.
She is innocent until proved guilty. Despite trying really really hard, the Portugese police didn’t manage to find any evidence at all that the parents were guilty.
This whole situation has been done to death, both in the media and here on the boards. The Portugese police have been shown to be incompetent and they have still not found a whole bunch of other little children that also went missing within a short time frame.
Where are all the missing children? That is the question I would like answered, and I doubt Kate knows.
It must be true, it said so in the Observer.
Actually, he has a point. This whole thread is moronic.
BRITISH detectives had intelligence that Madeleine McCann was snatched to order by an international paedophile ring, it sensationally emerged.
Officers working with a special vice unit within the Metropolitan Police contacted the Portuguese authorities on March 4 this year to tell them of the information.
They believe a group based in Belgium made an order for a young girl to be snatched just three days before Madeleine went missing.
Detectives claim they discovered that someone connected to the group had taken a photograph of Madeleine which had then been forwarded to the group for approval.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/55768/Madeleine-The-secret-police-memo-
Apparently having seen a photo of Madeleine, she was deemed “suitable” and was then taken.
Although the cases are not described and so it is hard to know in what way the children disappeared, 31 children have gone missing from Portugal in recent years. One, a little girl called Joanne, disappeared a year before Maddie. She is also still missing.
And while we are on the subject… the reason the Portugese police were so determined to say that Maddie’s parents abducted her could be they had a lot to hide.
I have not posted this link before, mostly because there is no proof that it has any link with Maddie’s disappearance. It does make interesting reading though.
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