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Uma carta aberta a todos os cidadãos Português impactado pelos McCann

9/02/2010 Posted by Winnower

An open letter to all Portuguese citizens impacted by the McCanns

Please forgive the awkward Google translation below. Hopefully you will understand the meaning of my words.

Por favor, perdoe a tradução desajeitada do Google abaixo. Esperamos que você vai entender o significado das minhas palavras.

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We know your country has spent millions investigating the disappearance of Madeleine.

We know your vital tourist industry has had significant losses due to the fear-mongering tactics in the case.

We know that your citizens have been treated to indignities by the British press.

We know that Goncalo Amaral's life has been severely impacted by the lies told about him in that same British press.

And now we know there is a man, Wayne Hewlett, who claims to have had a vital lead in the search for Madeleine and who withheld that information from your police investigators.

Wayne Hewlett claims that he received (and burned) a letter from his father (Raymond Hewlett) and that in the letter Raymond said that there are gipsies in your country who operate in a gang and abduct children to order.

Labels: Antonella Lazzeri, Gonçalo Amaral, Madeleine McCann

HEWLETT

9/01/2010 Posted by Winnower

All the archived articles and information I found on Raymond Hewlett's history are on a separate blog: HERE

Note:

Wayne Hewlett claims to have received a letter from his father, Raymond Hewlett in December 2009 and yet in April 2010 it was reported that the Hewlett family was unaware of Raymond's death.

Wayne claims that the letter did not come in the mail, but was delivered by a "mystery man", in other words the identity of the person delivering it cannot be determined.

Wayne Hewlett said that he burned the letter, therefore the contents cannot be verified as having come from Raymond Hewlett nor can the claim Wayne makes that his father heard a confession from a gipsy be verified.

Therefore any future news reports or statements from the McCanns regarding Madeleine having been taken by gipsies and sold to a wealthy couple will be solely based on Wayne Hewlett's alleged letter.

The burning of the letter and the delivery by way of "mystery man" makes the claim impossible to verify.

So it is Wayne Hewlett now, up against the mountain of evidence that Maddie died in the apartment and the McCanns and their friends hid her body, set up a fraudulent fund and attempted to destroy Dr. Goncalo Amaral's career and reputation.

A letter, now ashes, an unidentifiable letter deliverer and a claim that the gipsie's took Madeleine. There are NO cases in Portugal of children stolen by gipsies.

The PJ need to investigate Wayne Hewlett ASAP and reopen the Madeleine McCann case, based on this "new evidence".

Labels: 2010, Antonella Lazzeri, Find Madeleine Fund, Gonçalo Amaral, Madeleine McCann

Cuts hold up Maddie UK probe

8/29/2010 Posted by Winnower

Cuts hold up Maddie UK probe
29 August 2010
News of the World
Lucy Panton

A NEW probe by British cops into missing Madeleine McCann is being held up in a row over funding, we can reveal.

Police forces face cuts of tens of millions of pounds to their budgets leaving no spare cash to pay for what would be a costly re-investigation.

Home Secretary Theresa May held a meeting with Kate and Gerry McCann early this month to discuss the search for their daughter.

Senior officers at Scotland Yard have been consulted about taking on the case. But despite the apparent early progress we can reveal that there are two key stumbling blocks.

No police force can afford to take on the job which could take at least two detectives away from other duties for as long as a year.

A source said: "The real issue that needs to be resolved is who is going to pay for it? No police force can afford to agree to take on the case without knowing where the funding will come from.

"The other issue which is as important to resolve is to ensure that British officers will have full access in Portugal.

"At the moment there is no agreement in place that the Portuguese authorities are going to allow and co-operate with a British re-investigation.

"The review has highlighted the need for a thorough re-investigation starting from scratch. The Metropolitan Police have been consulted and are likely to be given the job, but not until all the problems have been ironed out."

The McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, appealed directly to former Home Secretary Alan Johnson and now Mrs May for extra help.

Madeleine was three when she went missing from her family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in May 2007. This year we broke the news that the Met's Homicide Command have been approached to discuss taking on the investigation.

Jim Gamble, head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, told Labour ministers there were huge holes in the original inquiry.The treasury are set to slash eight per cent of the policing budget for the next three years threatening jobs.

Labels: 2010, CEOP, Find Madeleine Fund, Jim Gamble, Lucy Panton, Madeleine McCann, News of the World

The F*** the McCanns Scandal

8/21/2010 Posted by Winnower

The F*** the McCanns Scandal

Presented here are the articles published by the British press related to this "scandal". In each of the articles, I have attempted to highlight the negative comments about Dr. Goncalo Amaral in red and the positive comments about the McCanns in green. I urge you to review the articles carefully and watch for the abundant emotive language and spin.

Labels: 2010, Antonella Lazzeri, BBC, Carvi Scandal, Gonçalo Amaral, Madeleine McCann, Mike O'Sullivan

Not to be missed...

8/15/2010 Posted by Winnower

Home Secretary Perhaps You Might Care To Review This

Labels: 2010, Clarence Mitchell, Forensic Science Services, Jim Gamble, Leicestershire Police, Madeleine McCann

Jane Tanner Again - Blacksmith Bureau

8/08/2010 Posted by Winnower

Jane Tanner Again

7 August 2010

Blacksmith Bureau

Labels: 2010, Gonçalo Amaral, Madeleine McCann, Robert Murat

McCann search businessman faces court

7/22/2010 Posted by Winnower

See: Joana Morais Blog:
Kevin Halligen, the McCann's Former Detective will face Extradition Hearing

Also, I have archived previous articles regarding Kevin Halligen HERE

Jul 22 2010
9News
Mccann search businessman faces court

A businessman whose firm helped look for Madeleine McCann and who is wanted in the US over an alleged STG1.3 million ($A2.24 million) fraud will face an extradition hearing on Thursday.

Irish national Kevin Halligen, 48, is accused by prosecutors in America of attempting to defraud a London law firm of $US2.1 million ($A2.4 million).

The defendant's assets were frozen after his arrest on November 24.

Officers acting on a request from US law enforcement agencies detained Halligen after finding him in a hotel in Oxford where he had been staying under an assumed name.

The alleged crimes for which he is wanted in the US relate to money taken from a Dutch company, Trafigura, as part of a deal to secure the release of executives under arrest in the Ivory Coast.

Instead it was spent on, amongst other things, a mansion and a gift to his girlfriend, it is alleged.

The businessman's firm Oakley International had been employed by Kate and Gerry McCann for about six months in 2008 to look for their missing daughter.

In all the Washington-based firm was paid around STG300,000 ($A517,687.66) for its services by the McCanns.

The extradition hearing will take place at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Labels: 2010, Madeleine McCann

Analysis of the missing Madeleine McCann case by Daniela Prousa (in German)

7/20/2010 Posted by Winnower

Analyse des Vermisstenfalles Madeleine McCann
(Analysis of the missing Madeleine McCann case by Daniela Prousa -Paperback - July 2010)

Discussion on Maddie Case Files forum regarding this book.

Also see: Anna Andress

Labels: 2010, Madeleine McCann

Winnower's Windows Wipe-Out

7/17/2010 Posted by Winnower

Computer crashed.

Will be updating my blogs ASAP.

Reminder to my friends: BACK UP YOUR BLOGS!!!

I hope you'll enjoy keeping up with the news by visiting the other fine blogs and forums discussing the McCann case!

All the best,
Winnower