The hounding of the McCann's.

Tony, from the Hounding blog, has, IMO, nailed it perfectly.

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.com/2010/03/home-office-launches-secret-review-into.html




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/7384911/Home-Office-launches-secret-review-into-Madeleine-McCanns-disappearance.html

Well, that wipes out any doubt of the McCanns guilt. No one, who was guilty, would risk all with the move this grieving family have made now.

I have no doubt Amaral and Paiva will be sweating like stewing pigs. So they should!
So too, should the McCann hate sites and, people like Bennett, Morais, Ryan and Sluming. In fact, all yea who started the Myths, now reap your rewards.

You all, went way beyond the freedom of speech act and crossed into criminality with your lies libel, and harassment.
Bennett and Sluming are the guiltiest of all. They were supposed to be intelligent educated people. One a Solicitor, and the other a lecturer at a University. Which proves, highly educated human beings are very good at manipulating evil for their own rewards. I am sure however, your families will suffer the backlash when your actions are revealed.

You Sluming, for your stalking, hounding and cruelty; you Bennett, for your manipulation, stalking and cruelty too. As for Brenda Ryan.....well, just wait and see what the law has in store for you and, what was it you called him....ah yes, your Husband the thug Davey boy.

The last two years have just been a tsunami of information and actions pointing to the McCanns' innocence.

The hounding of the McCanns will be looked back on as one of the greatest scandals in the history of justice and of the media, in my opinion. People in the future will find it difficult to believe that such a travesty of justice could have occurred at all, never mind on top of the grief suffered by this desperately unfortunate family.

To anyone who looked at the evidence, their innocence was obvious from day one. That the search for their child was badly coordinated (though I take Royal's points about Portugal as a poor country etc.) must be the first source of bitter frustration for Kate and Gerry McCann. To be suspected by the police of personal involvement late in the day (when that hypothesis should have been explored professionally and dismissed very early on) and at a time when the search should have been in full swing, must be the second. To be hounded by the media must have been appalling enough on its own, except dwarfed by their grief and loss. But to find that the leading detective, who made mistakes in the first place and then leaked juicy lies to the media, has gone on to make money and to seek revenge for his sacking by publishing books reiterating their guilt....well. that must be unimaginable grief piled on grief for the McCanns, as well as a denial of their human rights.

I sincerely hope that, at least, the injustices they have suffered will be put right, although it may be too late for the search to have the happy ending it might originally have had, had the search been better managed. (I hope that's not the case, of course.)

A most shocking scandal from every single point of view.

Pedro, I agree with you in what you have written and I also agree that Madeleine is still alive and we cannot just write her off, while there is slightest chance, we have to keep on looking and I am right behind her parents, I refuse to write her off and I refuse to believe that she is dead just because some disgraced fat useless sacked waste of space ex cop writes in his book of appallingly written fairy tales.
So Pedro I think you are right and I am with you 100%.

I lay the blame for this farce of an investigation solely at Amaral's feet, it was his fault entirely. He was the coordinator and he did NOT coordinate, he did not do his job, he failed on every single count, he is a stinking corrupt failure. I have no problem at all with the GNR, or the PSP or the firefighters and the general public did a selfless job, but their searches were not "coordinated" and this was a massive failure on Amaral's behalf, because even if they did not find Madeleine, there could have been something found that could have given a vital lead to Madeleine's whereabouts, from a cigarette end to a fibre of clothing and it was all completely lost, utterly and comprehensively lost.

There was a report where men were seen loitering outside the apartment, smoking, so it is a good bet that cigarette end would be there, but they were not picked up and why was that? Because Amaral failed to "coordinate" a fingertip search of that are which is what he should have done immediately. There is no doubt in my mind that he did this on purpose to hinder the search for Madeleine and give her abductors time to get away and to stop them being detected.

Amaral should be charged with gross deriliction of duty. If this investigation was out of their depth and they did not have the expertise then Amaral should have accepted the help offered from the British police! There was no excuse for what he did, none at all.

Agree Rosie.........

I said before, and I say it again: until evidence otherwise from the PI´s, there is a strong possiblity of sweet Madeleine being alive somewhere, so, with that strong purpose in our minds, everyhing we do is based on that strong possibility. So, I agree with Rosiepops post yesterday.

Sorry for not noticing this sooner, Alroy, for some reason sometimes when I clicked posts from last visit I miss posts. I think it's my browser.

I agree, I never ever thought the McCanns were guilty. I always thought they were innocent and I too had that sickening feeling that something wasn't going right, that searches were being botches, that things didn't seem as coordinated and controlled as they should be. And I agree that most, if not all of it lays at the feet of Amaral. The hounding and demonization of the McCanns by the Portuguese and British media was very much part of Amaral's plan and directly his fault.

I meant that, for the average individual who might have been swayed by the reports over the summer and fall of 2007, the media reports over the past two years and especially since the release of the McCanns from arguido status, the news coming out of Portugal and Britain has only pointed to their innocence, and to the gross negligence and intentional malfeasance of Amaral.

According to his book, Amaral had already made up his mind by the next morning that The McCanns were involved in some way, at which point he knew absolutely nothing about the case.

Three reasons?

a] He genuinely believes that all child abductions are down to the parents in some way.

b] It was his opportunity to write a book, even if he couldn't prove his theory. Pity he didn't pay his debts.

c] It was a golden opportunity to get himself out of trouble over The Cipriano Case.

How long had he been a detective? And the powers that be had no idea of what he was like?

"And the powers that be had no idea of what he was like?"

I'm sure they knew Sabot, that's probably why he got stuck in the Algarve in stead of working in Lisbon. But did the powers that be care about what he was like?

Cath wrote: "And the powers that be had no idea of what he was like?"

I'm sure they knew Sabot, that's probably why he got stuck in the Algarve in stead of working in Lisbon. But did the powers that be care about what he was like?

Obviously not, Cath. That's what worries me. They certainly must have known about The Cipriano Case, and the beating allegations. Not to mention that one Judge thought Leonor was innocent.

They deliberately turned a blind eye.

One might almost be grateful for 3As and Morais. It might not have occurred to us to question so deeply if it hadn't been for so many discrepancies.