Libel diary 5: The phone call again

The Blacksmith Bureau

Sunday, 9 September 2012
Libel diary 5: The phone call again
Facts don't lie

We mentioned the Portuguese telephone logs in the context of proving that the McCanns' claims about the failure of the Portuguese police to act speedily, first made during the night of May 3/4 and repeated incessantly since, most notably in Madeleine, are groundless and false. Yet the media, the clever Keirs and all their colleagues, continue to accept this dishonest pap to this day.

The “abductor” was given a minimum of 75 minutes (based on the abductor driving off at 9.25PM) to get clean away, that is if we accept the claim that the child vanished between 9.13 and 9.20.

So it is proven that this extraordinary and fatal delay, which guaranteed that the police would have no chance at all of pursuing or intercepting a fleeing vehicle, was the sole responsibility of those who failed to report the crime until 10.41PM.

Extraordinary? What other word can there be when the group of nine were unanimous in their police statements that the children were all being checked every half an hour? How can half-hourly checking for safety lead to one hour and fifteen minutes delay before police are informed? The group cannot be telling the truth –any of them – otherwise the absence of the child must have been detected at 9.30. So they are all lying.

The various excuses they have used to conceal their initial lie about the supposed “fact” of half-hourly checking – Oldfield not seeing the child etc. – were uttered in the context of explaining away the impossibility of their version of events, i.e lie upon lie, so they are therefore worthless for evidential purposes. The group are all proven liars and their lies assisted the so-called abductor’s escape.

But let us return to the period after 10PM, that is the additional 41 minutes before the police were informed. We repeat Kate McCann's claim that she knew that an intruder or intruders had forced their way into the apartment and kidnapped the child. She was certain, and in the light of the clear evidence of intrusion she was quite right to be so.

We have not seen the 2007 Portuguese police guidelines for their own citizens and tourists but the last time we looked, a year or two ago, the position was quite clear:

“Burglaries and similar crimes should be reported to the police at the nearest police (GNR) station. If it is an emergency then 112 (UK 999)should be dialled.”

The recent abduction of a child was an immediate, indeed critical, emergency, as her mother knew. Yet nobody ever contacted the emergency services on 112, not at 10.41, not before and not later. The Ocean Club staff who were given their information by the parents and the group, did not report it as an emergency, and nor did the group of nine on their own phones.

Instead the only call that was ever made – the claims by some Ocean Club staff that calls had been made before 10.41 are not supported by the evidence – used the slow-track, non-emergency route to the GNR. The Algarve Resident website states that the GNR will treat such reports as non-urgent unless the criminals are clearly still in the area. They “will respond as soon as they can, given their other priorities, for instance dealing with an emergency.” (!)

Who was responsible for failing to contact the emergency services and report a break-in and child kidnapping, an exceptionally rare and serious crime? On whom lies the ultimate responsibility for reporting only “a missing child”, which by definition is not an emergency, when both parents had witnessed the crime scene evidence? Why should such a thing have happened?

Indeed: I see no counter-argument that could possibly be advanced to rebut this clear and unequivocal summary of the facts.

This evidence is as good now as it was then, they shoot themselves in the foot continually, their lies are exposed on a daily basis.... Yet the press still cannot print evidential facts of their culpability, but are heartily encouraged to fete the parents as victims... As Saints even. Meanwhile Amaral is still having to fight for his survival..

Another excellent Diary from Blacksmith.

It is so frustrating this obvious misinformation by the press and media. I was reminded of Gerry correcting SF in their interview when asked about the checking. He corrected her by saying they were checking half hourly but others were checking in between times. But how come the McCanns never checked anyone else's children? This does not seem quite right to me.

Angelique wrote:Another excellent Diary from Blacksmith.

It is so frustrating this obvious misinformation by the press and media. I was reminded of Gerry correcting SF in their interview when asked about the checking. He corrected her by saying they were checking half hourly but others were checking in between times. But how come the McCanns never checked anyone else's children? This does not seem quite right to me.

Good point Angelique, it does conjure up images of nobody checking at all to my mind.