This'll get TM spinning, it's on Guido Fawkes' site!

The comments, particularly, are worth reading. Out there it seems few believe the Team McCann version...

It seems the media has escaped the PR machine over the last week or two.

Spot on Su. Anyone who has followed this case closely from the begining knows there will never be justice for Madeleine, or the consideration of her likely accidental death after having been left unsupervised in a holiday appartment, unless the case is re-opened IN ORDER TO DO A RECONSTRUCTION of what happened on the night she disappeared. This reconstruction would be enough to re-open the case, which Madeleine’s parents have said that they want. Of course, this would need their co-operation (fat chance) and that of their friends. The Smith family would have to go to Portugal too, to see if they could further identify details of the person seen carrying a motionless child towards the beach. Telephone records, now considered outside the scope of the investigation, would have to be allowed in. The highly distinctive filmed evidence from the blood and cadaver dogs would need to be looked at again, although it is merely indicative and could, under the current law, never be conclusive. The facts of the DNA evidence which would be strong enough to be considered significant in some countries, but not in Portugal, could also be added to the pot. What a pity the Portuguese trusted all their forensic samples to the now defunct British forensic science service. Far better to have sent some to an independent service in Holland or Germany. Scotland Yard will have seen the police restricted files as well as the open published ones, which on their own are clear enough. If they just stuff this away under ‘abduction by persons unknown’ they will forever lose my respect, and that of anyone with even partial knowledge of the case. What evidence is there for abduction? Hardly any. Unless someone who knows what happened (and some certainly do) tells all, we may never know the details of events. Of spin, the vast amounts of money raised, and what happened to it, of bullying by authorities and paid employees, of the spinelessness of the press, who dare not publish anything much, running scare of being sued, and possibly even of pressure from governments for some odd reason… WHY?… I can say nothing.

comperedna wrote:

Anyone who has followed this case closely from the beginning knows there will never be justice for Madeleine,

Sorry, but I have followed this Case from day one and am still very hopeful that Justice will prevail.

I suspect that there are many others who share that view.

Justice may not come in the expected manner, but it will come.

Oh TEIN I do hope you are right. I vary from one day to the next from positive to negative about it... I don't stay depressed about it for long, because I believe most policemen, like most people in general, are likely to be basically honest and 35 of them will include a lot of decent ones.

Well said, comperedna: Yes, there are clearly some darkish forces at play (or at least there were in the early days and nobody has managed to expose the details) but I'm with you that most Officials (and that even includes the occasional MP!) act in good faith and with a conscience that will not permit them to engage in shenanigans.

Healy & McCann will come to regret their much-vaunted letter to Cameron ........................ Seemingly clever to plant the idea that they were responsible in large part for the instigation of the Review when it was already on the cards and had been for some time (Scoping exercise was already complete). How they got to hear it was going ahead I have no idea, but they were left little choice but to go public and make it seem they were a key factor in it. And a fair few people believe that to this day. And a fair few don't!

Can anyone see Brian Murrays posting on the OFM Facebook page?

Its has been there an hour and not deleted!

Yep, I can see it - webmaster must have gone off for a cuppa and a paracetamol!

almostgothic wrote:Yep, I can see it - webmaster must have gone off for a cuppa and a paracetamol!

For those who don't use twitter or forums that will come as a shock!

I began to think maybe i was seeing things

Yep. Still there.


Brian Murray They were the ones who took him to court for defamation and asked to suspend the judgement in order to negotiate. On the eve of the trial of Gonçalo Amaral, against whom they filed a complaint, the McCanns asked to negotiate.

by Hernâni Carvalho

Not often the accusers ask to negotiate before a trial, but in this case it was so. TVmais found that, on the eve of Gonçalo Amaral's trial, the McCann couple lawyers proposed a meeting in order to reach an extrajudicial settlement [out of court].

In court, Madeleine McCann's parents demanded from Gonçalo Amaral (see box*) a compensation of 1,2 million euro for alleged defamation. Now it's them who propose an extrajudicial settlement. TVmais also learned the lawyers for the defendants (sic) have accepted a meeting to take place within the following 20 days.

As all parties have agreed, the start of the trial, scheduled for 24th of this month at the 1st Civil Court of Lisbon, “has been suspended because the parties are trying to reach an agreement”, said a judiciary to Lusa News agency. All witnesses have already been notified of the suspension of the hearing.

Now follows a period of six months, after which, if there is no agreement, the hearing will be scheduled and the trial will start.

Read the full story in this week's edition of tvmais, on news-stands now!

in: TVmais, 24.01.2013

someone said it before. Back of the net.

almostgothic wrote:Yep, I can see it - webmaster must have gone off for a cuppa and a paracetamol!

I wondered where my tea and meds had gone

almostgothic wrote:Yep, I can see it - webmaster must have gone off for a cuppa and a paracetamol!

Looks like they finally spotted it lol

no they didnt spot it, ill bet it was someone visiting here who told them. bet thewebmaster felt quite sick