The McCanns say the photo was taken at 2.29pm on Thursday 3 May. The minor, Madeleine McCann died inside apartment 5A of the Ocean Club in Vila da Luz, on the night of May 3rd 2007; If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? Madeleine vanished shortly before her fourth birthday while her parents were eating dinner with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant, and would have turned 17 last month. By Reuters. A German court . . Coffs coast. Here we set out, briefly, some key objections to our theory - and provide our responses: Nobody could keep up the pretence that their daughter had been abducted - knowing that she was dead - for so long (nine years now). They refused to hand over their photographs without first selecting exactly what they wanted the police to see and what they didnt want them to see. over reports they were responsible for Madeleine's death. Michael led the team of investigators which in 2007 located the boat on which Madeleine was being held and who were denied permission to launch a rescue bid, to their intense frustration. If she died after 6pm on Thursday 3 May, what would the McCanns and their friends have had to do in the four hours between 6pm and 10pm? He was contacted by one of Britains mainstream press in the early hours of the morning, before the media storm broke at about 8am on the Friday morning. he room forensically cleaned of any blood? But for the purposes of this paper, we shall assume that she was there at 6pm.. Later on, the evidence suggests that the McCanns and their friends dined at the Tapas restaurant. The 'Last Photo' shows Gerry McCann, Madeleine and her sister Amelie by the Ocean Club swimming pool. On Monday 30 April, he was hastily summoned to Portugal, allegedly by his girlfriend, but possibly by others - Murats account of the phone call or calls that led him to take a hasty flight to Portugal is not convincing, 5. The Tennis Balls Photo purports to be a photograph of Madeleine collecting tennis balls from a tennis court where adults have just been playing tennis. We do not therefore accept it as evidence that Madeleine was alive on Tuesday. G. The mystery of the strange 'Make-Up Photo' of Madeleine, which appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th April. "It is now important to present a summary of this case, based on our deductions: reject what is false, throw out what we can't show with sufficient certainty and validate that which can be proven. Point 5. Do we go frantically pretending to look for her? They could say that Madeleine must have wandered off somewhere, They could say that they took her down to the beach and she got swept out to sea, Or could we get away with faking an abduction. Similarly, taking lunch in their own apartment every day after Sunday and not with their friends on the Payne's balcony. Amaral and his team (rightly) rejected all claims by the McCanns that Madeleine was alive after 6pm on 3 May because, obviously, they were made by someone who was not independent. January 28 - A video of the McCann's search for Madeleine is shown at a fund-raising event in London in January to mark the 1,000th day since Madeleine's disappearance. It would also be consistent with the apartment having been forensically cleansed before the alarm was raised and Madeleines clothes and other items having been removed or disposed of. Within weeks of reporting Madeleines disappearance, the McCanns planned events to mark her disappearance, far in advance. As we saw above, two different people say they took the photo, and they disagreed about which day it was taken on. An urgent new arrest warrant has been issued for the prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann over a series of rapes and horrific child sex abuse. But we believe we now have sufficient knowledge to be able to state with confidence what we say below. Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of missing British child Madeleine McCann, at a press conference in Rabat, Morocco in 2007. identifying an imprisoned German child abuser, Madeleine McCann's parents 'still have hope' 10 years after her disappearance. McCann used to carry Madeleines favourite cuddly toy, Cuddle . We do not set out here all the multiple contradictions about the alleged high tea on 3 May; these have been more than adequately analysed in many places on the internet. She did not make her statement until 20 August - over three-and-a-half months after the event. Over thirteen years ago, on 3 May 3 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal's Praia de Luz, while her parents Kate and Gerry . We will refer to the theory that Madeleine died from an accident (or worse). A comparison was made between the Last Photo and the Make-Up Photo. http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-nightwear-job-by-dr-martin-roberts.html. His conduct during his translations was so outrageous that an inspector sent an urgent report to Dr Amaral, complaining about his conduct. This unidentified, anonymous neighbor tells the McCanns she saw a car going up the Rocha Negra at night. Just months after this, Eugene Zapata made a full confession which proved that the cadaver dogs evidence had been 100% correct. The death may have occurred as a result of a tragic accident. Support for this claim was found when it became clear that every night from Sunday to Thursday, one or other adult had not been at the Tapas restaurant for dinner each night (see below), either because one of the adults or one of the children was stated to be ill. Photographs taken of Madeleines pyjamas before 3 May - in Praia da Luz, and the mystery of the brown tea stain. The children were sleeping at the back of their apartment, so there was nothing for the McCanns to see from the Tapas restaurant. (v) Get hold of a car and drive the body somewhere well away from Praia da Luz. The lack of any credible, independent evidence by anybody that Madeleine McCann was seen alive after Sunday 29th April. Chloe Corner, daughter of Jon Corner; Madeleines godfather, had been a Facebook friend of Catriona Baker well before 2007. A raft of evidence, but especially comparative weather records for the week, point in that direction. He kept pestering the police with plausible suggestions about lines of enquiry that they should be following. But in the Make-Up Photo, she was looking very sad. The damage done to the shutters by Gerry McCann on the Sunday or Monday morning. Madeleine's whereabouts remain unknown, although German prosecutors believe she is . Well, that depends on whether or not one accepts as gospel the claims of Gerry and Kate McCann, Catriona Baker and Charlotte Pennington that Madeleine was at a high tea in the Tapas restaurant from (according to Gerry McCann) 4.45pm onwards to about 6pm. What can we say to the staff, to our other friends weve met on holiday? What possible good excuse could there be for lying so many times about the fate of a missing child? If there had been a bad accident, or something equally bad had happened, who would clean the room? Colin Sahlke died suddenly in mysterious circumstances with a significant amount of morphine in his system. This situation may raise questions concerning the circumstances in which the death of the child took place. Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person who disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007, at the age of 3. He had carefully fitted up Krokowski. He also described the man as of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. ANSWER: Look at the analysis of these sightings by HideHo that we referred to above. Her disappearance sparked an international search, with missing posters of the little girl's face papered across the world and celebrity appeals for information that could help track her down and bring her abductors to justice. The Murder of Madeleine McCann. but the remaining detectives continued to pursue a small number of inquiries described in April 2017 as significant. On at least one occasion, Rebelo suggested that he had firm evidence that the McCanns and their friends had. Police said they wanted to speak to a thus-far unidentified second person who spoke with the German suspect from a Portuguese phone number on May 3, 2007 at the time of McCann's disappearance. (vi) Can we get all this done before 8.30pm, when were supposed to meet our friends for dinner? 28 April 2007 - The McCann's arrive in Portugal Kate and Gerry McCann take their three children - Madeleine, three, and twins Amelie and Sean, two, on holiday to the Ocean Club complex in Praia da . But, according to the PJ theory, they must have been. They has eaten in the Millennium Restaurant on the Saturday evening. Updated. We know for certain that three photographs were taken of Madeleine playing happily in the Ocean Club playground in Praia da Luz in the late afternoon or early evening of the first day of the McCanns holiday - Saturday 28 April (this disposes of the views of some people who have claimed that Madeleine was never on that holiday). Did Madeleine McCann die on Sunday 29th April 2007, four days before . An ex-pat living in Spain, Jon Clarke, had created a successful newspaper for ex-pats, the Olive Press. It was Wojchiech Krokowski, a man from Poland on holiday with his wife for the week. 8. Specific indications that Madeleine died on Sunday 29 April. 'So they are suspects. Secondary School before graduating from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in physiology/sports science in 1989. Mitchell once boasted that his job was to control what comes out in the media. How did his editor in Britain know so early that this was going to be a major international story? C. The absence of photographs of Madeleine taken after Sunday. After jogging on the beach and going to fetch the twins, she collected Maddie at 5.30pm. blood Tavares de Almeida and Goncalo Amaral suggested Madeleine might have had an accident, perhaps a fall, and been killed as a result of that fall - after about 6pm on Thursday 3 May. A preliminary point to raise is: were the twins present when, according to the PJ theory, Madeleine died? Repairs to the shutters of the McCanns apartment were needed on the Monday; Ocean Club staff came to mend them that day. They said they were treating the case as a suspected murder and had determined the method used to kill McCann. In this respect, the fact that the only fingerprints found on the opened window was that of Kate McCann is highly significant. (AP) One of the prosecutors investigating the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance has claimed she . Besides that, the times shown for Madeleine being in the creche do not even agree with what Kate McCann says in her own book about the events of that week. We have given evidence that we cannot rely on the claims by Catriona Baker and the McCanns that Madeleine was alive at an alleged 'high tea' on . By now, if she had really died, someone would have broken ranks and revealed the truth. Well, that depends on whether or not one accepts as gospel the claims of Gerry and Kate McCann, Catriona Baker and Charlotte Pennington that Madeleine was at a high tea in the Tapas restaurant from (according to Gerry McCann) 4.45pm onwards to about 6pm. It seems unlikely. The very next day, early in the morning, a man called Nuno Lourenco rang the Portuguese police and said that, six days previously, a man was taking photographs of children on a beach had tried to kidnap his child at a tiny village called Sagres. Its Head of Risk, Alex Woolfall flew there the very next day (4 May) and he was later joined by another top Director of the company. As a result, Goncalo Amarals team wasted valuable time on only the second full day of their investigation contacting the German and Polish police and INTERPOL. Numerous changes of story by the McCanns, their friends, and others closely associated with them. How very true, over nine years later, has that prophecy come true. No-one else was reported to have ever died in that apartment. There is evidence that he and Gerry McCann may have known each other before the McCanns holiday in Praia da Luz in 2007, 2. Could they chat away merrily to the Carpenter family and their children, for example (as indeed they did that night), knowing that their first-born daughter had suddenly died within the past three hours? The McCanns seemed to know influential people in the TV media and were successful in contacting them in the early hours of the morning and getting headline news about Madeleines disappearance onto the early Friday morning bulletins. It was not public knowledge, until earlier this year, that Sir Clement Freud - who twice invited the McCanns to his Praia da Luz home for eats and drinks in the weeks that followed Madeleines disappearance - had been a serial paedophile for decades. Jane would need to have a believable description to give to the police. On both, her hair length was the same. Lourenco supplied the police with a photograph he said he had taken of the mans car. Now lets examine why we say she died on the Sunday. Later, the McCanns completely changed their tune. They would have to deal with the initial shock of what had happened. She described a man of medium height, with long black hair, wearing cloth clothes and classic shoes, who didnt look like a tourist. There was evidence that the photo was not taken in England as claimed, but in Portugal. B. However, a subsequent review of the samples determined that they had been contaminated by government Forensic Science Service staff. She had a pink hair bead on her. One example illustrates our point. In Kate McCann's book, chapter 6th dealing with the morning after Madeleine's disappearance [May 4th], a neighbor is mentioned across the road on the east side of the apartment [across the Rua Dr Gentil Martins]. The absence of confirmed photos of Madeleine on the holiday from the Last Photo onwards. When he was asked at an interview under caution in Portugal on 15 May 2007 what he had been doing in Portugal during his first four days there (1-4 May), he lied about his actions in at least 17 material respects. Madeleine McCann's parents have welcomed news that a German man has been formally made a suspect over the three-year-old's disappearance. Photograph: PA. Amaral released his book, The Truth of the Lie, three days after the Portuguese attorney general decided to end the search for . All kinds of dangers could have befallen the children while the parents were absent It is our view that the booking of the Tapas restaurant may well have been connected in some way with Madeleine already being dead or having suffered a fatal injury. But they all kept silent. We have given, above, some general considerations as to when Madeleine may have died. 7 April: Three . before mid-day, boasting that he was one of the first journalists on the spot. Mrs. Kate and Gerry McCann said it reflected progress in the . Here we set out, briefly, some key objections to our theory - and provide our responses: ANSWER: It has happened many times before in many other similar cases. Later, when re-interviewed by the Portuguese police on 10 and 11 July, after police had interrogated his mobile phone, and discovered that the account he had earlier given of his movements was false, he completely changed his story, claiming he had been too tired on 15 May to tell the truth. 15 minutes to defend yourself against the death penalty. Could they have discussed this desperate situation bilaterally? So, if she had died, say shortly after 6pm, as suggested by both Goncalo Amaral and Tavares de Almeida, what would the McCanns have had to do first? Was there a meeting of some kind there that week? On both, Madeleine was wearing a pink hair bead. In our view the involvement of Robert Murat in this case is another significant pointer to Madeleine having died on the Sunday. Madeleine McCann, 3, went missing from her family vacation in Portugal in 2007. . Here we rely mainly on the analyses by long-time Madeleine McCann researcher HideHo, who has examined all claimed sightings of Madeleine from Monday onwards, and found each one to be either vague, otherwise unsubstantiated or uncorroborated, or subject to contradictory evidence. In addition, there are also many contradictions in the statements of Catriona Baker and other creche nannies. Surely not. This impression was wholly false. Although it was a five-hour journey from his cottage in the countryside around Ronda, Spain, he managed to reach Praia da Luz. Further to the above point, hairs of the same haplotype as Robert Murat and Jane Tanner were found at Krokowskis apartment when it was searched by the police. This points us in the direction of Madeleine having come to serious harm shortly after that photo was taken. . Do we need someone to pretend to see an abductor? But it later emerged that the Director and his deputy from a Bell Pottinger. A preliminary point to raise is: were the twins present when, according to the PJ theory, Madeleine died? We do not think it was. With the body already hidden by that time? This suggests that Lourenco was part of a group of people who planned to deliberately sabotage the Portuguese polices investigation and send them off in entirely the wrong direction. In addition to all these considerations, for Martin Grimes cadaver dogs to have alerted to the scent of a corpse, no longer present, some three months after the McCanns had vacated their holiday apartment, Madeleines body must have been lying in the McCanns apartment for at least 90 minutes, probably two hours or longer. Officials say new charges relate to offences allegedly committed in Portugal between 28 December 2000 and 11 June 2017 . Then there would be another very tricky question to answer: Just our very good friends David and Fiona? The McCanns and their friends had eight children with them on that holiday. Getting all the children changed and ready for bed and asleep before they set off for dinner? (iv) Is there any other reason why we dare not risk going to hospital and possibly facing a post-mortem? When he was asked at an interview under caution in Portugal on 15 May 2007 what he had been doing in Portugal during his first four days there (1-4 May), he lied about his actions in at least 17 material respects. avares de Almeida and Goncalo Amaral suggested Madeleine might have had an accident, perhaps a fall, and been killed as a result of that fall - after about 6pm on Thursday 3 May. Its Head of Risk, Alex Woolfall flew there the very next day (4 May) and he was later joined by another top Director of the company. However, we are persuaded, largely by evidence on the two 'Last Photo' threads on CMOMM, that the Last Photo was taken at lunchtime on Sunday 29 April.