Madelaine McCann

[saf]

A book written by a police officer in Portugal has been banned in the UK. It's about the investigation into the disappearance of a 4 year old British girl in the Algarve one evening while her parents were dining with friends. However, there is a translation from French available on the internet. It makes very interesting reading and food for thought for all those people who contributed to the parents' fund.

http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.com/

[Alfie]

I read some of that last night. Interesting reading. I was a bit sceptical before I started reading it but I must say it seems pretty plausible. Also, the writing style is matter of fact and not sensationalist and this ads to the plausibility (IMO).

[saf]

I felt from a day or two after the parents reported their daughter missing that their behaviour was not quite right. She appeared to be upset but was able to speak coherently in public. The book now has a witness statement to say that she was seen laughing only a few days after the event. The father struck me as being rather to cool and hard. Their determination to do things without consulting the police was arrogant. The publicity campaign of his was misguided if he believed that their daughter was alive because the pictures and descriptions would have caused an abductor to kill or maim her. That the parents had time, energy and inclination to set up and manage a fund was at odds with what one might expect in the circumstances. The press at first passed on clues about the inconsistent witness statements and gathering evidence that suggested it was not an abduction. Then it all went quiet.

Perhaps they did nothing wrong, perhaps they were negligent and acted rashly to cover up an accident or perhaps and angry, drunken parent killed the girl. What is very clear is that they did all that they could, with all the influence they had, to stall, obstruct and stop enquiries into them and their backgrounds. The British police didn't produce information that the Portuguese police requested and even claimed that the McCanns had no debit or credit cards despite proof to the contrary. They refused to return to Portugal to take part in a reconstruction. However, the truth will usually emerge sooner or later when someone uses intimidation and threats to suppress it. The overbearing pressure put on the investigating detective has prompted him to write publicly about the investigation. It's not the first time that the British Courts have sought to suppress documents that are openly available in other countries and the internet makes this sort of censorship an utter nonsense.

It's worth reading the blog linked to the website that claims misconduct by doctors at Leicester Royal Infirmary and other NHS hospitals has been covered up. Each one is a potential scandal but the principle point of the blog is to show that some people in Britain are well protected by the authorities, even to the extent of obvious and brazen lies and cover-ups.