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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.
By the McCanns' own admission, they left three small children alone in an unlocked apartment in a foreign country, night after night, checking on them every 30 minutes, as though a couple of doctors had no idea that a child could choke in just a few minutes, meet with an accident in a strange apartment, or wander out of that unlocked door. We were told though that their daughter Madeleine, who disappeared into thin air on one of those alone nights, could not have wandered off, but we haven't yet been told why her parents were so sure of this.
Gerry and Kate McCann, as we know, have maintained a global media presence since Madeleine disappeared, apparently intent on finding the person or persons who abducted their daughter. No other thesis is acceptable to them: she is alive, she could not have wandered off, she has been abducted, but there is no evidence that she has come to harm.
A child who has been abducted by a stranger has not come to harm? I guess if you seriously think that three small children alone in an unlocked apartment cannot come to harm, then believing that a child taken from her bed by strangers has not come to harm might not be too much of a leap of faith. She would, of course, be able to walk into her old home and take up that, 'spare place,' at the dining table. Nae bother!
If either of you, Kate or Gerry McCann were my doctor, your reputation as health professionals would have suffered serious harm. I don't think I could trust a doctor who thought it was OK to go out wining and dining while their three small children were alone in an unlocked apartment and who also thought that abduction was not bad for a child's physical and emotional well-being.
Anyway, in search of upholding their good reputation, our fine doctors hired Carter-Ruck, who describe themselves as, 'the UK's pre-eminent media law practice.' In doing so, the McCanns are in a special kind of company! Carter-Ruck is the law firm that stopped General Augusto Pinochet's extradition to Spain to answer to charges of human rights violations. Carter-Ruck is also the firm that unsuccessfully tried to prevent the Guardian newspaper from publishing an MP's question in the House of Commons on the activities of the oil company Trafigura.
The latest well-publicised Carter-Ruck client is Nadhmi Auchi, whom Mark Kirk, US Republican, has linked to Democrat Senate candidate Alexi "the Mob Banker" Giannoulias. Warner Todd Huston of the blog Chicago Now has responded to Carter-Ruck's attempts to silence American bloggers on this issue:
And, before you Carter-Rucksters begin to start addressing another threatening email this time to me, don't bother. Your email will be ignored and THIS post will stay up. Just like the Illinois Review, THIS post is just reporting the news. If the allegations made against your client are false, that is YOUR problem. Not mine. You should take up your concerns with the Illinois GOP.
Still, don't get your hopes up. Unlike your foreign experience, in America libel is properly hard to prove. Here we do not cotton to libel tourism as they cater to in England. Basically I'm telling you attorneys and your client Nadhmi Auchi to pound sand.
Oh dear! They're not impressed by Carter-Ruck's reputation, are they?
The McCanns hired Carter-Ruck soon after their speedy exit from Portugal. Was that because of Carter-Ruck's experience as media lawyers, or because they had managed to successfully save Augusto Pinochet from extradition? Either way, why would two medical doctors, intent on protecting their good reputation, hire lawyers who had defended the likes of General Augusto Pinochet? You are not only judged by the company you keep Kate and Gerry, but by the help you hire!
No matter how much someone tries to clean up a crime scene, something is generally left behind. It may not always be detected, or even be visible to the human eye, but it's almost impossible to take any kind of violent action without shedding something. This principle, called Locard’s Exchange Principle, has become one of the motivating factors in the development of forensic science.
Yet, the person who allegedly abducted Madeleine McCann, whom Gerry McCann felt may have been hiding in the apartment when he checked on the children at around 9.05pm, left absolutely nothing of himself, not even glove prints. The shutters had not been damaged and the only prints on them were Kate McCann's and from their position, it appeared that she had been trying to manually lift the shutters from the inside.
Now, back to the hired help! There was Metodo 3, Spanish detective agency that had no previous experience if searching for missing children. According to SOS Madeleine McCann in February 2009, Metodo 3 agency was under investigation for money laundering. In July 2008, SOS Madeleine McCann reported that Metodo 3 was under investigation for attempted murder: a former cell-mate of João Cipriano, uncle and convicted murderer of Joana Cipriano, had allegedly offered information to Metodo 3, but after receiving payment, had failed to deliver and his life had been threatened as a consequence.
Is that the kind of hired help that enhances the reputation of our good doctors?
Then there was Kevin Halligen whose company Oakley International, was paid £300,000 in 2008 to look for their daughter.
A 48-year-old man wanted by the FBI who allegedly defrauded people across the world, including the Madeleine McCann fund, was arrested last night at a hotel in Oxford.
7 comments:
Hi Anna
This is a good article you have written - sort of encapsulates all the strange behaviour of the McCanns and their cohorts. Something that I wish could happen to all the pieces of this jigsaw and put them in one place so we can try and figure out who said what and where they were when they said it.
I visit your site most frequently and have been reading all your articles for quite a while, they are very good. I am only about half way through them so I still have a lot to understand.
But one thing I am sure of, that the longer this charade goes on, the worse it's going to be for the McCanns. I believe it can only get worse simply because they have involved the media and all these other dubious characters supposedly to "help find Madeleine". So the mix of information is getting muddier they think, to their benefit. But it means that they have much more to remember and re-hash - the strain will surely will prove too much. One can only hope. Because what we all want is the truth and for me this is what I am searching for.
I read a post on another site that we are, in fact, feeding their campaign by trying to unravel it - do you think this is true. And also another version was the more we join in "their mix" the harder it will be for any prosecution to take place because they won't get a fair trial. And this is why they "smile" inappropriately sometimes. So we may, in fact, be letting them get away with whatever crime they did commit. If indeed a crime was committed.
Thank you for your article - it exposes how everyone and everything seems to be linked together.
P.S. Love the response by Todd Huston to CR - nice one!
Angelique
Thank you Angelique. I just love that response from the American blogger!
"Basically I'm telling you attorneys and your client Nadhmi Auchi to pound sand."
Yayyyy!!!! Go pound sand Carter-Ruck!!
A good round up Anna, for our world that is, because as you point out. no matter how unbelievable, outrageous or farcical the McStunt presented, there are sections of society that seem to have lost their voice.
The section of society of which I speak includes, lots of people in blue, lots of people with a pen and note pad, our elected representatives, and last but by no means least the GMC.
I don't think I could trust a doctor who....
I don't think I could trust a practitioner for all the reasons you mention, but I definitely couldn't trust the judgement of a medical practitioner that has, unenviably, his name in the Urban Dictionary synonymous with neglect, and one or two other things for that matter.
Would you care to email me a link for the figures you quote/ I shall make my task this afternoon to see if I can run down a source for the alternate ones that I talked about.
Best
H
Thank you H. I have just noticed that a few of my links are not links! I think this happened when I re-formatted and missed re-doing those links. I think the figures you mention will be from one or two of those non-links! Woops!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1942922.ece
June 17, 2007
Kate said last week, ‘This is my job now. I can see this becoming my full-time career, with this whole issue of child welfare and opposing paedophiles’.”
John McCann, Madeleine’s uncle, said: “We are at the stage where we’re feeling comfortable about broadening the issue.
It seems these McCanns had a foresight.
What if Madeleine was found alive the next day/week? Would Kate work as a doctor again (term of notice).
Makes you wonder if Kate herself knew her reputation as a health professional had suffered serious harm.
Anonymous, it's worrying enough that someone who thinks it's OK to leave three small children alone, and who believes that a child abducted by a stranger could possibly have suffered no harm, is a family doctor, but to think that person might be directly involved with a child welfare organisation is downright scary.
Fascinating read! I find their whole conduct unfitting to people who have had a child "abducted". I have my own theories: http://joeynova.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-i-think-kate-gerry-mccann-did-it.html had a look and let me know what you think.
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