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Thursday, June 27, 2019
JOINED AT THE HIP - Starring the McCanns and Jim Gamble
image courtesy of the McCann Gallery
MMRG updated this article on 14 May 2019. It was originally written by Tony Bennett on 8 April 2014.
The purpose of Tony's article was to inform CMOMM readers about the astonishingly close relationship between Jim Gamble and the McCanns, right from the moment Madeleine was reported missing, and to explain how two other characters, psychologist Dr Joe Sullivan and criminologist and 'child abuse expert', Mark Williams-Thomas, have also been very closely connected with both the McCanns and Jim Gamble.
UPDATE: Since Tony wrote his article, information emerged during 2017 that the 'Wayback Machine', which interrogates websites, forums and blogs etc. and which can give a complete history of created pages, articles and posts etc., had found what has been called a 'dummy entry' (i.e. a blank page) for 'Madeleine McCann' on the CEOP website, dated 30 April 2007. Jim Gamble was the Head of CEOP at the time.
This intended to confirm the views of many that something serious had happened to Madeleine McCann the day before (Sunday 29 April), and that this page had been set up - ready and waiting, so to speak - for the day later in the week when the McCanns would formally announce that Madeleine had been 'abducted'.
MMRG would like to add the following. When challenged by Madeleine McCann about the entry for 30 April, Wayback Machine originally confirmed that the entry was genuine, adding that Wayback Macine had such an excellent reputation that its evidence was often used in the U.S. courts. However, days later, after considerable publicity over this find on the internet, Wayback Machine changed their story, claiming it was only a 'glitch'.
One of the many who doubted this was merely a glitch was Richard Hall, an electronic engineer with vast I.T. experience on the internet, computers and digital technology. He is also the maker of five extremely informative documentaries on the Madeleine McCann case, which have been viewed by millions.
PART ONE
JOINED AT THE HIP
Starring the McCanns and Jim Gamble
Supporting cast: Psychologist Dr Joe Sullivan and ‘child abuse expert’ Mark Williams-Thomas
The remarkable tale of three middle-aged men who hover around the McCann case, seemingly for ever.
Three middle-aged men who, like the Portuguese Police, Scotland Yard and a whole host of private detectives employed by the McCanns – and like the rest of us – do not know yet what really happened to Madeleine McCann. But three middle-aged men all deeply interested in the subject of child sexual abuse – and who keep linking their interest to the McCanns.
This little article consists of a few cobbled-together notes of how often they’ve popped up here and there to make comments about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. It may not be the complete picture. Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill also gets a mention.
Profile: Jim Gamble (BBC)
Jim Gamble resigned because he wanted greater independence for CEOP
The resignation of Jim Gamble from his position as Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) has been described by campaigners as a sad day for child protection.
It is testament to Mr Gamble's pivotal role in bringing the issue of child abuse to the top of the news agenda.
CEOP, under his watch, had become internationally recognised for the work it has done to track paedophiles using the web. Home Secretary Theresa May's decision to merge CEOP with the National Crime Agency was a step too far for Mr Gamble, who had long campaigned for greater independence for the unit. He felt very strongly that the work the unit was doing was so important that it needed to be a stand-alone department.
CEOP was set up in 2006 and has been the driving force behind a range of activities designed to track and prevent online paedophile activities.
It was able to track the exchange of photos and other materials related to child abuse on peer-to-peer networks, a previously unmonitored area of the web and one hugely exploited by paedophiles.
It also campaigned for an online panic button for social networking sites to allow young people to report abuse. Bebo and MySpace installed the button last year and Facebook finally adopted it in July last year [2013]. Mr Gamble is regarded as an expert in online crime but he began his career in Northern Ireland as an ordinary offline policeman.
Hunting paedophiles
He quickly rose through the ranks and became the head of Northern Ireland's anti-terrorist intelligence unit in Belfast. Promoted to Deputy Chief Constable, Mr Gamble became the Deputy Director General of the National Crime Squad, which later merged with the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
In this role Gamble began to gain his reputation as the UK's foremost hunter of paedophiles, heading up Operation Ore, the UK's largest ever police investigation into who was viewing internet child abuse images. The operation identified over 7,000 suspects and led to more than 2,000 convictions - but it proved highly controversial. There were criticisms that the net was hauling in too many innocent people and that some of those convicted had not viewed images of child abuse at all but were actually victims of identity theft.
But there is little doubt that the work started by Mr Gamble has led to some of the most predatory paedophiles being stopped in their tracks. In interviews, Mr Gamble was always keen to stress that, while his work was embedded in the online world, the images and activities the unit monitored were real children who were being abused.
He was key to changing the way the media wrote about the issue, asking that headlines about "child porn" be dropped to reflect the true picture - that behind the grotesque images were hundreds of victims who could potentially be rescued.
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A. CEOP was formed just months before Madeleine McCann was reported missing
JIM GAMBLE was the Director of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Service (CEOP). CEOP was actually a private company, funded by the government and by private sources (more below). It was first set up in 2006, the year before Madeleine McCann was reported missing. Since 2010, it has been merged with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), now the National Crime Agency.
B. The days after Madeleine was reported missing
Days after Madeleine McCann was reported missing, JIM GAMBLE was active on TV and in the press asking people who had holidayed recently in Praia da Luz to send in their holiday pictures to him at CEOP. An e-mail address was given. No-one knows whether, in demanding these pictures be sent to him, he had permission from the Portuguese Police. No-one knows what he did with any pictures that were sent to him. Leicestershire Police had already been sent in to ‘assist’ the Portuguese Police. Neither was it clear why photos should be sent to Jim Gamble and not to Leicestershire Police.
It appears that the Portuguese Police never got these pictures.
One report told us later: “Gonçalo Amaral, the former PJ inspector, recalls that, with the consent of the Portuguese authorities, an appeal was made for tourists to send in photos from the day and the night of Maddie’s disappearance. The purpose was 'to identify anyone suspicious who might appear [to be] looking at the family', he says. But despite 'much that arrived at the English police', none of those images ever reached us”.
The PJ have not received any photos at all resulting from the campaign launched by the Leicestershire Police, asking tourists who were on holiday in Praia da Luz to send copies of photos taken during the two weeks preceding Madeleine McCann's disappearance. The appeal had been launched by Leicestershire police, in coordination with CEOP and ACPO.
According to a source close to the investigation in the United Kingdom, several hundred photos were sent to the British authorities, most of them downloaded via internet pages specially created for the occasion.
“We will then evaluate these images - at a rate of 1000 images an hour - so that before long we are sending the significant information to the Portuguese authorities”, JIM GAMBLE, Head of CEOP had promised. According to Jim Gamble, the official objective of this campaign was to make progress with the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, using, notably, a program for facial recognition for all the people ‘who might seem out of place or to be behaving strangely’.
"Wondering what the real purpose was of launching the public appeal....We have not had access to those photos," one of the investigators confirms, stressing that the only photos the PJ were able to receive came to them directly from witnesses”.
At the same time, another CEOP man was parachuted into Praia da Luz - DR JOE SULLIVAN. He was clearly sent there by his boss JIM GAMBLE – but why, exactly? The press reported: “Highly respected forensic psychologist DR JOE SULLIVAN arrived in Praia da Luz within days of Madeleine's disappearance as part of a so-called 'Cracker' team, with Detective Chief Superintendent GRAHAM HILL. He returned to the UK on 9 May 2007”.
In addition, MARK WILLIAMS-THOMAS went to Praia da Luz immediately Madeleine was reported missing. Here he is being interviewed in Praia da Luz on 10 May 2007, when he was described as having ‘been out with us here for several days’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqKSjwwVSuM He made several strong and detailed criticisms of the Portuguese investigation, even though he can have known little about what was really going on in the PJ offices in Portimao.
C. The ‘LOOK for Madeleine’ campaign
An early McCann Team campaign featured Madeleine’s coloboma – the ‘leak’ from the pupil to the iris. They designed a campaign logo: ‘LOOK for Madeleine’ with the second ‘O’ featuring a black line from the centre of the ‘O’ to the outside, looking like Madeleine’s eye. It was noted by some that this ‘O’ looked very similar to the design of the letter ‘C’ in CEOP.
D. Mark Williams-Thomas – on SKY NEWS night after night
On 15 September 2007, GazetaDigital published an article by Duarte Levy and Paulo Reis about MARK WILLIAMS-THOMAS and his views on the Madeleine McCann case. Here’s part of their article:
“Mark Williams-Thomas, a former policeman and managing director of WT Associates, a PR company specialising in child protection, media handling and advice for high profile cases, urged Portuguese police to ditch the case against the McCanns – a case that he classified as ‘ludicrous’ - and follow another lead that he thinks could take PJ to the real kidnapper.
The managing director of PR company WT Associates, who is usually introduced to SKY NEWS viewers only as a ‘child protection expert’ or ‘crime expert’, criticised the Polícia Judiciária for not paying attention to “such a strong line of inquiry”. The PR expert maintained that “even if over 90% of murders are domestic-related”, he “can’t accept that Gerry and Kate as parents of the child could have been involved in her murder”.
For the managing director of WT Associates, “the answer to the case may lie in the disappearance of an eight-year-old Portuguese girl in 2004 -Joana Cipriano”. She vanished from a village just seven miles from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine disappeared.
Leonor Cipriano and her brother, who had a incestuous relationship, were both sentenced to 16 years in jail, after appealing to the Portuguese Supreme Court, for the murder of Joana Cipriano. Her body was never found, but blood found inside the family’s refrigerator and the confession of Joana’s uncle were sufficient to convince the jury. Her case has been used, by the British Media, in what seems to be an attempt to discredit Portuguese Police, comparing it with Madeleine’s case.
Leonor Cipriano, who never confessed to the the crime, accused five CID officers of beating her. Later, she was not able to identify any of the five officers, when she was taken to a police line-up, behind a two-way mirror. The Public Prosecutor’s Office decide to charge the five CID officers. ASFIC, the CID inspectors’ union, filed a formal complaint against the Public Prosecutor's magistrate, because he didn’t included in the case's dossier the results of the police line-up.
The fact that one of the officers accused is Chief Inspector Gonçalo Amaral casts ‘huge doubt’ on him, according to the Managing Director of WT Associates, who believes that Mr. Amaral should be ousted from the investigation of Madeleine’s case: "Even if we work on the basis that he is innocent, given this allegation against him, he shouldn't have anything to do with the Madeleine investigation”, the PR expert told SKY NEWS”.
Questioned yesterday, September 14, about his business relationship, as an expert also in media handling and advice for high profile cases, Mr. MARK WILLIAMS-THOMAS initially confirmed that his company had a contract to provide services to the McCann. Asked to confirm some details of that business relationship, he changed his initial answer and denied any relationship, admitting only that he has “been in contact with the press officers for the family.”
We asked also to SKY NEWS if they were aware of the fact that Mr Mark Williams-Thomas was also the owner and managing director of a PR company, as SKY NEWS has invited almost every day, to comment about the Madeleine McCann case, introducing him only as a ‘child protection expert’ or a ‘crime expert’. We are waiting for SKY NEWS to answer those questions”.
SKY NEWS never did supply an answer to their questions. There are a few other points we should note about this interesting article, as follows:
- MARK WILLIAMS-THOMAS was indeed commenting almost nightly on the McCann case for SKY NEWS, responding to the latest news about Madeleine’s fate
- There is a real question mark in the article as to whether he had at any time had a financial relationship with the McCanns. He initially said he had a ‘contract to provide services for the McCanns’
- The article is incorrect about Leonor Cipriano; in fact both she and her brother made voluntary confessions to this appalling crime
- Mark Williams-Thomas, it appears, was able to deceive viewers about Leonor Cipriano, failing to tell them that she had been justly sentenced to 16 years for her terrible crime
- There is evidence in the above article that Mark Williams-Thomas lacked objectivity in his commentaries on Madeleine’s disappearance.
E. CEOP and the 'Minute for Madeleine' video
In November 2009, the ‘Minute for Madeleine’ video was produced and released. It was intended to ‘go viral’ on the internet, and did so. It was a CEOP production which featured an age-progressed sketch of Madeleine as she might be, aged about six. So the Minute for Madeleine video was masterminded by JIM GAMBLE. But the video itself was narrated by DR JOE SULLIVAN. According to the mccannfiles.com site, Sullivan “helped in the production of, and personally narrated, the 'A Minute for Madeleine' campaign video; an appeal directly to the person keeping a 'secret' about Madeleine, 'who knows who's involved in her disappearance' and who may have been groomed by the perpetrator(s) to stay quiet”. The ‘Minute for Madeleine’ video promoted the logos of six organisations at the end of the video, including ‘Missing Children’, ‘PACT’ and ‘Missing & Exploited’.
Jim Gamble said at the time that “…the message was founded on the belief that, like Jaycee Dugard in California and Natasha Kampusch in Austria, Madeleine could be rescued or reappear despite being missing for more than two years. He said he had “studied 11 child abduction cases in which the victims had reappeared after long periods in captivity”.
Kate and Gerry McCann appeared on TV together with JIM GAMBLE. At the time, ITN News reported that: “The criminal psychologist behind a new Madeleine McCann appeal, DR JOE SULLIVAN has told ITV News that her abductor is very likely to strike again”.
JIM GAMBLE was interviewed for SKY TV [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJtkRE4P18I ] and other media to promote the ‘Minute for Madeleine’ video.
F. A row about Facebook: Gamble gets angry
On 18 November 2009, a blogger wrote the message below after hearing JIM GAMBLE lay into Facebook for refusing to add a ‘Report to CEOP panic button’ to their pages. The blogger observed:
“I, too, heard Mr Gamble on the Radio this morning (BBC Radio4). He sounded quite bullying himself - but that tends to be his calling card. Implicit in his comments was a suggestion that if any site refuses to host a CEOP 'panic button' they are failing in their duty of care to the young and there must, therefore, be something 'wrong' with them. It's no surprise to hear such attitudes from an organisation like CEOP, which has grown so powerful on the back of the current paedohysteria - and an almost wholly uncritical media.
“Mr Gamble, whose fondness for dropping 'keywords' into his interview responses ('predator', 'grooming', etc.) is a past-master at hyping up the sensationalism - hardly surprising at a time when so many competing 'partner agencies' (another favourite Gambleism) are looking for funds from an ever-dwindling pot.
“I was surprised to hear him tell the BBC interviewer that the CEOP panic button receives 10,000 hits a month. Really? 10,000? A month? Naturally, the BBC interviewer let that little gem slip past completely unremarked upon. If it's true - and as ever with CEOP we have no mechanism for establishing that - then surely it represents a headline story of unimaginable proportions?
“Ironically, given the context, I have little doubt Facebook will eventually be bullied into having to accept CEOP's unwanted presence on their site: the Paedogeddon will brook no argument, no dissent, after all, and after Mr Gamble's tirade against them this morning on live radio (and no doubt by now across a more than accommodating media) I suspect they will have no option but to cave in to his demands or risk more name-calling in the future.
“In the end, it's worth remembering CEOP is a public/private company (and also part of the UK police service). Yes, it's a company. JIM GAMBLE is its CEO. It receives the bulk of its funding from the UK government (i.e. taxpayers) and from private sources (step forward Microsoft, BT, O2, Virgin, VISA, etc. etc.) which all runs into £millions every year. It makes a bit of cash on the side flogging off training seminars, publications and instructional packs to 'stakeholders' (yes, there's another Gambleism). As a commercial concern, CEOP cannot insist companies like Facebook carry its marque - but Mr Gamble seems to think they should be forced to do so. Of course, he knows that by wielding the trusty 'won't someone please think of children?' banner (along with his usual bluster and well-rehearsed hyperbole) wherever he goes he can almost always get his own way”.
Continued/ https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t16215-joined-at-the-hip-starring-the-mccanns-and-jim-gamble#401047
For discussion, please visit this thread: https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t9342-joined-at-the-hip-starring-the-mccanns-and-jim-gamble
Monday, June 24, 2019
References to paedophilia in relation to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Paedophilia
and paedophiles are words from which we naturally recoil. It is by no
means a new phenomenon. There are many other words we use to refer to
paedophiles: kiddie-fiddlers, nonces, child sexual abusers, child sex
offenders and so on. Some of the crimes committed by paedophiles are
scarcely believable in their brutality; other offences by them are
mercifully less serious. One thing seems certain, such crimes are on the
increase and are often severe in their long-lasting effects on those
abused. There is widespread agreement that the internet is a major cause
of any increase in this vile crime.
It is an unpleasant fact that the subject of paedophilia has frequently been associated in some way with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, very regrettable though that is. Here, for the record, we give a brief summary of some of these references:
1. Dr Gerry McCann said on the day Madeleine was reported missing that Madeleine had been taken by a paedophile
Leaving aside for a moment the lack of direct evidence that Madeleine was abducted at all, there clearly is also no direct evidence whatsoever that, if Madeleine was abducted, that it was a paedophile who took her. Yet the McCanns themselves, on the very evening that Madeleine was reported missing, claimed she had been snatched by one or more paedophiles. That was a remarkable thing for them to say right from the first minute they reported Madeleine as missing. She might for example have wandered out of her room and out of the flat.
2. The McCanns and their team repeatedly said that Madeleine had been taken by a paedophile or a gang of paedophiles
In the months that followed her reported disappearance, the McCann Team made numerous references, counted in dozens, to the probability that Madeleine had been abducted by paedophiles.
3. One of the McCanns’ close friends, a General Practitioner, said that on a previous holiday together, one of Dr Gerald McCann’s best friends, Dr David Payne, had made sexualised remarks and gestures about Madeleine
On 16 May 2007, just 13 days after Madeleine disappeared, Dr Katarina Gaspar made this statement:
“One night, when all the adults, that is, from those couples I have mentioned above, were all sitting around on a patio outside the house where we were all staying. We had been eating and drinking ‘Berbers’. I was sitting between Gerry and Dave and I think both were talking about Madeleine. I can't remember the conversation in its entirety, but they seemed to be discussing a particular scenario. I remember Dave saying to Gerry something about ‘she’, meaning Madeleine, ‘would do
this’.
“While he mentioned the word ‘this’, Dave was doing the action of sucking one of his fingers, pushing it in and out of his mouth, while with his other hand he was doing a circle around his nipple, with a circular movement around his clothes. This was done in a provocative way. There seemed to be an explicit insinuation about what he was saying and doing. I remember being shocked by that. I always felt it was something very weird and that it was not something anyone should say or do. I looked at Gerry, and also at Dave, to gauge their reactions.
“I looked around as if saying: “Did someone else hear that, or was it just me?”. The conversations stopped for a moment, then we all began conversing again. Moreover, I remember Dave doing the same thing on another occasion. In saying this, I want to mention once again that it was during a conversation in which he was talking about an imaginary scenario, although I’m not sure.
“He again stuck one of his fingers in and out of his mouth and with the other hand he once again drew a circle around his nipple in a provocative and sexual way. I think he was referring to the way she, that is, his daughter Lily, would behave or what she would do. I think he did this later during this same holiday, but I'm not sure.
“The only time since then that I have been in the company of Dave and Fiona was several weeks after the holidays, when Savio and I met Gerry, Kate, Dave and Fiona in a restaurant in Leicester. I’m sure that he said what he said and made the gestures I have related, but [the second time] it could have happened in the restaurant in Leicester, although I do think it was in Majorca that I heard Dave say and do this for the second time. After the second occasion [when he made these gestures] I took it more seriously.
“I remember thinking whether he would look at my daughter and other little girls in a different way than I or others do. I imagined that he had perhaps visited internet sites related to little children. In a word, I thought that he could be interested in child pornography on the web. During our holiday in Majorca, each parent would bath the children in turn. I was keen to stay near the bathroom if Dave was bathing the children.
“I remember I said to Savio to be careful and to be close by if Dave was helping to bathe the children and my daughter in particular…”
4. Dr Katarina Gaspar’s husband, also a General Practitioner, Dr Arul Savio Gaspar, confirmed this event:
“During the period we stayed at the villa I remember a gesture made by David Payne. I do not remember the context of the conversation between David and Gerry, but I do remember seeing David use his left index finger to rub his nipple, using circular movements, whilst he put his right index finger into his mouth, touching his tongue. This happened during a meal, at the end of the day, in the villa. I do not remember the time or the date, but we would usually dine between 7.30pm and 9.00pm every day. I think this happened in the middle of the holiday.
“I remember that when I saw this gesture, I immediately thought it to be in very bad taste, independently of the context of the conversation they were having. We were sitting around a white plastic table in the villa. I don’t know if anyone else saw the gesture, apart from my wife Katherine”.
5. One of the suspects in the case, Robert Murat, was accused by two witnesses of having paedophile tendencies
A couple of days after Robert Murat was taken in for questioning by the Portuguese Police and formally declared a suspect, Dr Gerald McCann was asked: “Did you already know Robert Murat?” Dr McCann brushed the question aside impatiently and said: “I am not going to comment on that”. That led many to consider that the two men did previously know each other. It is a very reasonable inference to draw from his evasive comment.
Two witnesses claimed that Robert Murat had paedophile tendencies. One of them, who knew Murat well, made a detailed statement with some very graphic comments about Murat’s sexual preferences. The links for these statements are given on our website in a lengthy feature article about Robert Murat. The Portuguese Police discovered encrypted material on Murat’s computer after they seized it. Encryption is often used by those who view, download or exchange child pornography. Murat said he had ‘no idea’ why there was encrypted material on his computer.
6. Murat’s friend Sergei Malinka was also said to have child
pornography on his computer
A witness told Portuguese Police that Sergei Malinka, a friend of Murat who had worked on Murat’s website, also had an interest in child pornography and had child pornography on his computer. But the police found he had wiped all the data on his hard drive before the police examined it.
7. Jim Gamble, the Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), used the Madeleine McCann disappearance to highlight the danger of paedophiles
Despite the high degree of uncertainty about what really happened to Madeleine, highlighted by their own spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, saying in March 2010 that her disappearance was ‘a complete mystery’, Jim Gamble, head of CEOP, relentlessly associated Madeleine with CEOP. This was despite the obvious fact that the McCanns on their own admission had left three young children, all aged under four, in a vulnerable situation - for six nights in a row - and clearly failed to protect them. Many questioned why an organisation with the words ‘Child Protection’ in its title should feature the McCanns so heavily, given their failure of child protection.
Gamble, from 2007 onwards, heavily featured Madeleine on the CEOP website and in various CEOP publications. Around the time of the second anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance (17 months previous to the date of this article , he appeared together with the McCanns in a so-called one-minute ‘viral video’, strongly emphasising that Madeleine was still alive and needed to be found.
Later he also appeared on morning news shows side by side with the McCanns.
Still more significantly, he invited Dr Gerald McCann in January 2010 to be the keynote speaker at a conference on the abduction of children by paedophiles. Why Dr McCann was considered by Gamble to be qualified to contribute to that conference, never mind being the ‘keynote speaker’, given the raft of uncertainties about the circumstances in which Madeleine disappeared, has never been explained either by the McCanns or by Jim Gamble.
Furthermore, it was reported - and confirmed by a Home Office Freedom of Information Act request - that in October 2009, the McCanns had a private interview with the McCanns. Following that, several press reports (not denied) indicated that the Home Secretary asked Jim Gamble to recommend a new British police force to carry out a review and possibly a re-investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.
Some reports suggested that he had recommended West Yorkshire Police to carry out such a review. But the Home Office was unwilling to confirm or deny this. It was baffling why the Home Secretary, knowing Jim Gamble’s extreme closeness to the McCanns, should choose him to recommend who should carry out any review into Madeleine’s disappearance.
8. In the days before this article was written, Jim Gamble told the Home Secretary, Theresa May, that he was resigning from his post as CEOP Chief Executive, a resignation she swiftly accepted. The McCanns put out statements strongly supporting him, thanking him for his work on their behalf, and querying the Coalition government’s decision to incorporate CEOP within the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). They described his departure in graphic terms as ‘a huge loss to child protection’. These comments pointed inexorably, once again, to the conclusion that there was a very close ‘tie’ between the McCanns and Jim Gamble.
The McCann Team in conjunction with Jim Gamble of CEOP published a video about Madeleine and circulated it round the internet which many believed showed her inappropriately posed in heavy make-up
In 2010, Jim Gamble once again co-operated with the McCanns to make a another video about Madeleine. The video in question featured three images of Madeleine. One very striking one shows her in an unusual pose, shot by the photographer from well below her face, wearing make-up, including much blue eyeshadow, lipstick and jewellery, and looking unhappy.
The McCanns publicly claimed that ‘the photo shows her when she was three after a raid on the dressing box’. However, it is very unlikely that Madeleine could have put the necklace on herself, nor applied eyeshadow in the manner shown in the photograph, nor applied the pink bow to her hair.
The evidence from the photograph suggests that an adult made her up and of course an adult was on hand to take that particular image of her. The McCanns did not say who took the photograph. Even if Madeleine had ‘raided the dressing box’, as claimed, it is one thing to take a photo of something like that for your family photo album, but altogether another matter to release it for millions to see.
The McCanns explicitly approved the very public release of this video and the images on it. As one newspaper reported: “Parents of Madeleine McCann, who went missing three years ago, have released a new video and photo of their missing daughter to mark the third anniversary of the girl's disappearance”. The photo the McCanns specifically chose to highlight in the video was the one with Madeleine wearing heavy make-up, apparently applied by an adult and not by herself.
There was strong adverse reaction by many members of the public to this image being used in connection with a missing child. Not least was the opinion of Mr Mark Williams-Thomas, a former police detective and now leading criminologist and child protection expert, who has often in the past spoken with strong sympathy and understanding for the McCanns. His unambiguous reaction to this particular photograph, promoted on his ‘Twitter’ blog, was that it was ‘so inappropriate’ and ‘so damaging’. We agree with him.
The McCanns have from the day Madeleine was reported missing claimed explicitly and on many occasions that Madeleine must have been abducted by a paedophile, or paedophiles, often described by them as ‘predatory’, ‘evil’, or ‘monsters’. Yet the photo of Madeleine featured by her parents shows a child looking much older than her actual three years, due to the make-up and jewellery, as all the news media quickly picked up the following day.
The McCanns said a number of times that they were advised by the police ‘not to show any emotion’ in front of the cameras. One newspaper reported, around the time the McCanns appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show: “The couple also admitted they had been advised not to show any emotion while in front of the media, because any potential abductor ‘may get a kick out of it’.” It was all the more surprising, therefore, that the McCanns should use this short video to project and promote an image of Madeleine which might well appeal to certain paedophiles, some of whom are unfortunately attracted to young children.
One person commented on ‘Twitter’ about the direct promotion of this video by CEOP Chief Executive Jim Gamble, writing: “If CEOP endorse this type of public relations for a supposed missing child, then their role in child protection has to be questioned!”
9. The McCann Team have highlighted the possible involvement of a named paedophile, Raymond Hewlett, in the disappearance of Madeleine
First they suggested that Hewlett was involved in Madeleine’s disappearance; latterly they have claimed that he gave an account of his knowledge of Madeleine’s disappearance in a letter he dictated to hospital staff in the weeks before he died. The claims made about this letter are highly improbable and we suggest that they are a complete fabrication. They have however been deliberately promoted by the McCann Team for 18 months.
10. The connection between Ray Wyre, paedophile ‘expert’ and the McCanns
We’ve highlighted the connection between the late Ray Wyre and the McCanns in another article on our website, titled ‘Ray Wyre and the McCanns: What was the connection between the McCanns and the late paedophilia ‘expert’, Ray Wyre?
It is an unpleasant fact that the subject of paedophilia has frequently been associated in some way with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, very regrettable though that is. Here, for the record, we give a brief summary of some of these references:
1. Dr Gerry McCann said on the day Madeleine was reported missing that Madeleine had been taken by a paedophile
Leaving aside for a moment the lack of direct evidence that Madeleine was abducted at all, there clearly is also no direct evidence whatsoever that, if Madeleine was abducted, that it was a paedophile who took her. Yet the McCanns themselves, on the very evening that Madeleine was reported missing, claimed she had been snatched by one or more paedophiles. That was a remarkable thing for them to say right from the first minute they reported Madeleine as missing. She might for example have wandered out of her room and out of the flat.
2. The McCanns and their team repeatedly said that Madeleine had been taken by a paedophile or a gang of paedophiles
In the months that followed her reported disappearance, the McCann Team made numerous references, counted in dozens, to the probability that Madeleine had been abducted by paedophiles.
3. One of the McCanns’ close friends, a General Practitioner, said that on a previous holiday together, one of Dr Gerald McCann’s best friends, Dr David Payne, had made sexualised remarks and gestures about Madeleine
On 16 May 2007, just 13 days after Madeleine disappeared, Dr Katarina Gaspar made this statement:
“One night, when all the adults, that is, from those couples I have mentioned above, were all sitting around on a patio outside the house where we were all staying. We had been eating and drinking ‘Berbers’. I was sitting between Gerry and Dave and I think both were talking about Madeleine. I can't remember the conversation in its entirety, but they seemed to be discussing a particular scenario. I remember Dave saying to Gerry something about ‘she’, meaning Madeleine, ‘would do
this’.
“While he mentioned the word ‘this’, Dave was doing the action of sucking one of his fingers, pushing it in and out of his mouth, while with his other hand he was doing a circle around his nipple, with a circular movement around his clothes. This was done in a provocative way. There seemed to be an explicit insinuation about what he was saying and doing. I remember being shocked by that. I always felt it was something very weird and that it was not something anyone should say or do. I looked at Gerry, and also at Dave, to gauge their reactions.
“I looked around as if saying: “Did someone else hear that, or was it just me?”. The conversations stopped for a moment, then we all began conversing again. Moreover, I remember Dave doing the same thing on another occasion. In saying this, I want to mention once again that it was during a conversation in which he was talking about an imaginary scenario, although I’m not sure.
“He again stuck one of his fingers in and out of his mouth and with the other hand he once again drew a circle around his nipple in a provocative and sexual way. I think he was referring to the way she, that is, his daughter Lily, would behave or what she would do. I think he did this later during this same holiday, but I'm not sure.
“The only time since then that I have been in the company of Dave and Fiona was several weeks after the holidays, when Savio and I met Gerry, Kate, Dave and Fiona in a restaurant in Leicester. I’m sure that he said what he said and made the gestures I have related, but [the second time] it could have happened in the restaurant in Leicester, although I do think it was in Majorca that I heard Dave say and do this for the second time. After the second occasion [when he made these gestures] I took it more seriously.
“I remember thinking whether he would look at my daughter and other little girls in a different way than I or others do. I imagined that he had perhaps visited internet sites related to little children. In a word, I thought that he could be interested in child pornography on the web. During our holiday in Majorca, each parent would bath the children in turn. I was keen to stay near the bathroom if Dave was bathing the children.
“I remember I said to Savio to be careful and to be close by if Dave was helping to bathe the children and my daughter in particular…”
4. Dr Katarina Gaspar’s husband, also a General Practitioner, Dr Arul Savio Gaspar, confirmed this event:
“During the period we stayed at the villa I remember a gesture made by David Payne. I do not remember the context of the conversation between David and Gerry, but I do remember seeing David use his left index finger to rub his nipple, using circular movements, whilst he put his right index finger into his mouth, touching his tongue. This happened during a meal, at the end of the day, in the villa. I do not remember the time or the date, but we would usually dine between 7.30pm and 9.00pm every day. I think this happened in the middle of the holiday.
“I remember that when I saw this gesture, I immediately thought it to be in very bad taste, independently of the context of the conversation they were having. We were sitting around a white plastic table in the villa. I don’t know if anyone else saw the gesture, apart from my wife Katherine”.
5. One of the suspects in the case, Robert Murat, was accused by two witnesses of having paedophile tendencies
A couple of days after Robert Murat was taken in for questioning by the Portuguese Police and formally declared a suspect, Dr Gerald McCann was asked: “Did you already know Robert Murat?” Dr McCann brushed the question aside impatiently and said: “I am not going to comment on that”. That led many to consider that the two men did previously know each other. It is a very reasonable inference to draw from his evasive comment.
Two witnesses claimed that Robert Murat had paedophile tendencies. One of them, who knew Murat well, made a detailed statement with some very graphic comments about Murat’s sexual preferences. The links for these statements are given on our website in a lengthy feature article about Robert Murat. The Portuguese Police discovered encrypted material on Murat’s computer after they seized it. Encryption is often used by those who view, download or exchange child pornography. Murat said he had ‘no idea’ why there was encrypted material on his computer.
6. Murat’s friend Sergei Malinka was also said to have child
pornography on his computer
A witness told Portuguese Police that Sergei Malinka, a friend of Murat who had worked on Murat’s website, also had an interest in child pornography and had child pornography on his computer. But the police found he had wiped all the data on his hard drive before the police examined it.
7. Jim Gamble, the Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), used the Madeleine McCann disappearance to highlight the danger of paedophiles
Despite the high degree of uncertainty about what really happened to Madeleine, highlighted by their own spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, saying in March 2010 that her disappearance was ‘a complete mystery’, Jim Gamble, head of CEOP, relentlessly associated Madeleine with CEOP. This was despite the obvious fact that the McCanns on their own admission had left three young children, all aged under four, in a vulnerable situation - for six nights in a row - and clearly failed to protect them. Many questioned why an organisation with the words ‘Child Protection’ in its title should feature the McCanns so heavily, given their failure of child protection.
Gamble, from 2007 onwards, heavily featured Madeleine on the CEOP website and in various CEOP publications. Around the time of the second anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance (17 months previous to the date of this article , he appeared together with the McCanns in a so-called one-minute ‘viral video’, strongly emphasising that Madeleine was still alive and needed to be found.
Later he also appeared on morning news shows side by side with the McCanns.
Still more significantly, he invited Dr Gerald McCann in January 2010 to be the keynote speaker at a conference on the abduction of children by paedophiles. Why Dr McCann was considered by Gamble to be qualified to contribute to that conference, never mind being the ‘keynote speaker’, given the raft of uncertainties about the circumstances in which Madeleine disappeared, has never been explained either by the McCanns or by Jim Gamble.
Furthermore, it was reported - and confirmed by a Home Office Freedom of Information Act request - that in October 2009, the McCanns had a private interview with the McCanns. Following that, several press reports (not denied) indicated that the Home Secretary asked Jim Gamble to recommend a new British police force to carry out a review and possibly a re-investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.
Some reports suggested that he had recommended West Yorkshire Police to carry out such a review. But the Home Office was unwilling to confirm or deny this. It was baffling why the Home Secretary, knowing Jim Gamble’s extreme closeness to the McCanns, should choose him to recommend who should carry out any review into Madeleine’s disappearance.
8. In the days before this article was written, Jim Gamble told the Home Secretary, Theresa May, that he was resigning from his post as CEOP Chief Executive, a resignation she swiftly accepted. The McCanns put out statements strongly supporting him, thanking him for his work on their behalf, and querying the Coalition government’s decision to incorporate CEOP within the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). They described his departure in graphic terms as ‘a huge loss to child protection’. These comments pointed inexorably, once again, to the conclusion that there was a very close ‘tie’ between the McCanns and Jim Gamble.
The McCann Team in conjunction with Jim Gamble of CEOP published a video about Madeleine and circulated it round the internet which many believed showed her inappropriately posed in heavy make-up
In 2010, Jim Gamble once again co-operated with the McCanns to make a another video about Madeleine. The video in question featured three images of Madeleine. One very striking one shows her in an unusual pose, shot by the photographer from well below her face, wearing make-up, including much blue eyeshadow, lipstick and jewellery, and looking unhappy.
The McCanns publicly claimed that ‘the photo shows her when she was three after a raid on the dressing box’. However, it is very unlikely that Madeleine could have put the necklace on herself, nor applied eyeshadow in the manner shown in the photograph, nor applied the pink bow to her hair.
The evidence from the photograph suggests that an adult made her up and of course an adult was on hand to take that particular image of her. The McCanns did not say who took the photograph. Even if Madeleine had ‘raided the dressing box’, as claimed, it is one thing to take a photo of something like that for your family photo album, but altogether another matter to release it for millions to see.
The McCanns explicitly approved the very public release of this video and the images on it. As one newspaper reported: “Parents of Madeleine McCann, who went missing three years ago, have released a new video and photo of their missing daughter to mark the third anniversary of the girl's disappearance”. The photo the McCanns specifically chose to highlight in the video was the one with Madeleine wearing heavy make-up, apparently applied by an adult and not by herself.
There was strong adverse reaction by many members of the public to this image being used in connection with a missing child. Not least was the opinion of Mr Mark Williams-Thomas, a former police detective and now leading criminologist and child protection expert, who has often in the past spoken with strong sympathy and understanding for the McCanns. His unambiguous reaction to this particular photograph, promoted on his ‘Twitter’ blog, was that it was ‘so inappropriate’ and ‘so damaging’. We agree with him.
The McCanns have from the day Madeleine was reported missing claimed explicitly and on many occasions that Madeleine must have been abducted by a paedophile, or paedophiles, often described by them as ‘predatory’, ‘evil’, or ‘monsters’. Yet the photo of Madeleine featured by her parents shows a child looking much older than her actual three years, due to the make-up and jewellery, as all the news media quickly picked up the following day.
The McCanns said a number of times that they were advised by the police ‘not to show any emotion’ in front of the cameras. One newspaper reported, around the time the McCanns appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show: “The couple also admitted they had been advised not to show any emotion while in front of the media, because any potential abductor ‘may get a kick out of it’.” It was all the more surprising, therefore, that the McCanns should use this short video to project and promote an image of Madeleine which might well appeal to certain paedophiles, some of whom are unfortunately attracted to young children.
One person commented on ‘Twitter’ about the direct promotion of this video by CEOP Chief Executive Jim Gamble, writing: “If CEOP endorse this type of public relations for a supposed missing child, then their role in child protection has to be questioned!”
9. The McCann Team have highlighted the possible involvement of a named paedophile, Raymond Hewlett, in the disappearance of Madeleine
First they suggested that Hewlett was involved in Madeleine’s disappearance; latterly they have claimed that he gave an account of his knowledge of Madeleine’s disappearance in a letter he dictated to hospital staff in the weeks before he died. The claims made about this letter are highly improbable and we suggest that they are a complete fabrication. They have however been deliberately promoted by the McCann Team for 18 months.
10. The connection between Ray Wyre, paedophile ‘expert’ and the McCanns
We’ve highlighted the connection between the late Ray Wyre and the McCanns in another article on our website, titled ‘Ray Wyre and the McCanns: What was the connection between the McCanns and the late paedophilia ‘expert’, Ray Wyre?
There are at least four questions we would ask about this connection:
- Why was Wyre so keen, in two articles published four and seven days after Madeleine was reported missing, to insist so adamantly that she had been abducted?
- Why, in addition, did he emphasise the possibility that she had been snatched by a paedophile?
- Why did the McCanns agree to meet the Wyres at the their Buckinghamshire home?
- Was that meeting really much more about producing a helpful Sunday newspaper article than, as was claimed, about starting a new organisation for missing children?
11. (NEW - UPDATED 15 June 2016) The McCanns’ friend, Sir Clement Freud, exposed as a serial paedophile
Following the reported disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the McCanns had dinner with the late Sir Clement Freud and his wife, Lady Freud. They had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, where the McCanns had been holidaying. They became friends with each other. There had been strong rumours for years that Clement Freud was a paedophile. These have now been confirmed in an article for the Daily Telegraph on 14 June 2016, in which it was stated that Lady Freud apologised for her husband;s conduct and that Operation Grange would now investigate links between Sir Clement Freud and the McCanns. Sir Clement died in 2009.
Article filed by Tony Bennett, Secretary, The Madeleine Foundation, 10 October 2010 and updated by a Moderator on 15 June 2016
Following the reported disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the McCanns had dinner with the late Sir Clement Freud and his wife, Lady Freud. They had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, where the McCanns had been holidaying. They became friends with each other. There had been strong rumours for years that Clement Freud was a paedophile. These have now been confirmed in an article for the Daily Telegraph on 14 June 2016, in which it was stated that Lady Freud apologised for her husband;s conduct and that Operation Grange would now investigate links between Sir Clement Freud and the McCanns. Sir Clement died in 2009.
Article filed by Tony Bennett, Secretary, The Madeleine Foundation, 10 October 2010 and updated by a Moderator on 15 June 2016
12. Nigel Nessling McCann supporter Nigel Nessling avoids prison after downloading more than 40,000 images of child porn
For discussion, please visit this thread: https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t1915-references-to-paedophilia-in-relation-to-the-disappearance-of-madeleine-mccann
Friday, May 10, 2019
What was the connection between Kate and Gerry McCann and the late paedophilia ‘expert’, Ray Wyre?
RAY WYRE AND THE MCCANNS
What was the connection between the McCanns and the late paedophilia ‘expert’, Ray Wyre?
by Tony Bennett, Secretary of The Madeleine Foundation
filed 10 October 2010
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In early 2008, the McCanns met Ray Wyre and his wife. The People told us about a meeting the four of them had, at the Wyres’ Buckinghamshire home, probably in January 2008, though the date of the meeting was not given.
Less than six months after meeting the McCanns, and aged only 56, Ray Wyre died, apparently from a stroke.
Summary of Wyre’s career
As a Guardian obituary on 8 August 2008 noted, he was famous as a ‘sex therapist’ for sex offenders, including paedophiles. Edward Marriott, who wrote the Guardian obituary, stated: “He was one of the world's leading experts on sexual crime. He pioneered the treatment of sex offenders in residential therapy settings, believing that the potential for change existed within every criminal and, most importantly, that this work was crucial in reducing the risk of further offending”. That is certainly how many people saw him. But as to whether it is an accurate summary, this article will explore. The full article can be found in an Appendix below (Appendix 3). The headline to the article ran: “Trailblazing therapist with a unique approach to sex offenders”. That is perhaps much more correct, as we shall see in more detail below. But in ‘blazing a trail’, did he start not a few forest fires which proved difficult to put out?
He was best known for setting up his Gracewell Clinic for Sex Offenders, in 1988, having for many years previously been employed by the prison service as a Probation Officer to work with sex offenders, notably in Albany Prison from 1981 to 1986. However, the Gracewell Clinic closed in 1993, partly through local objections to so many paedophiles being housed under one roof. His successor clinic, the Wolvercote Clinic in Surrey, also closed, in 2002.
After this, he set up Ray Wyre (UK) Ltd., based in Milton Keynes, where he lived with his second wife, Charmaine. He claimed to provide services to ‘accused sex offenders and their families’. He and his associates were regularly called in to provide ‘expert evidence’ in criminal cases in the U.K. and beyond. He had become an internationally recognised expert on sex offences and treatment methods.
Wyre frequently gave TV interviews, where he was described as a ‘sexual abuse consultant’, and was so much sought-after that he commanded huge fees for speaking at conferences and giving lectures to police officers, government policy-makers and diplomats, among many others. Whether he can realistically be called an ‘expert’, however, is one of the issues we explore in this article.
‘Paedophiles can be treated’
Wyre was a fervent believer - contrary, one must say, to the preponderance of the evidence - that paedophiles could be turned into non-paedophiles by therapy. He once said: “People say that abusers don’t deserve therapy and that they should be locked up and the key thrown away. But these people are forgetting the children. We are not working for the offender but for the children, because they never defend themselves”. His comments were much later echoed by Jim Gamble, the man who for four years headed up the newly-established Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), until he controversially handed in his notice on 4 October 2010. Despite heading CEOP for four years, and purporting to be a fervent opponent of child pornography on the internet, Gamble once notoriously pontificated that some offenders who viewed child pornography could be effectively ‘let off’ by accepting a formal police caution.
Ray Wyre’s interest in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Ray Wyre’s connection with the McCann case began no more than days after the McCanns reported Madeleine missing.
Madeleine was reported missing at around 10.00pm on Thursday 3 May 2007. Less than a week later, the Daily Telegraph published a lengthy article penned by Ray Wyre on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. It contained the remarkable statement that, quote: “It was clear from the beginning in Portugal that we were dealing with an abduction…” He thus echoed the statement of Dr Kate McCann - which she has never explained - that she knew ‘instantly’ that Madeleine had been abducted. Pressed by interviewers to say how she could be so sure, she answered, in terms: “I can’t say because the strict judicial secrecy laws surrounding an investigation will not allow me to”. But since the investigation has been archived, she has never clarified what made her so certain that Madeleine had been snatched by an abductor. One is reminded also of the statement of Clarence Mitchell, on being asked why he agreed to be sent from his post as Head of the government’s Media Monitoring Unit to Praia da Luz to manage the McCanns’ public relations. He said he had been ‘assured’ that this was truly a case of abduction. He didn’t say who assured him. But that assurance was good enough for him to rush out to Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Wyre, having in his mind established that it was ‘clear’ that this was an abduction, then launched into an immediate attack on Portugal and its criminal justice system for harbouring paedophiles.
He wrote: “What was [the abductor’s] motivation? How would he initiate contact and target the child? How would he control the environment to evade discovery? Portuguese police cannot ignore the UK's experience in such cases. In the early '90s a British paedophile group filmed the sexual abuse of Portuguese boys. At one stage the Americans were so concerned about the role of British paedophiles in Portugal that I was approached about the targeting of schools there. International co-operation should be part of police thinking. However, there is no culture of community policing in Portugal and they have laws that prevent the discussion of cases. This is clearly the wrong way round”.
Once again, Wyre appeared to be echoing the line put out by the McCann Team right from the word ‘go’ - namely, that Madeleine had been snatched by a predatory paedophile. Equally, and again in tune with the message from the McCann Team, Wyre took an early opportunity to have a dig at the Portuguese police.
The article (reproduced below) by Wyre appeared in the Telegraph on the morning of Thursday 10 May. When was the article actually written?
The article would have to have been commissioned by the Telegraph editor. Then Wyre would have to write it. He would have to send the article to the Telegraph editor - and one of his staff would have to check it. No doubt it would have been slotted into the paper by a sub-editor during the previous day, Wednesday 9 May, if not before.
It is quite possible therefore that Wyre wrote this article only two or three days after Madeleine was reported missing. At that time, hundreds of Portuguese residents and tourists, and hundreds of police officers, were combing the area looking for Madeleine. There were suggestions that she could have ‘wandered off’. There was hope that she could be found.
We might well ask why Wyre was so adamant that Madeleine had been abducted, and why he was already speculating that Madeleine had been taken by a paedophile. It almost seems like he was in a rush to get his ‘take’ on the situation across, despite how soon it was after Madeleine was reported missing.
The article is important and I’ll now reproduce the full Telegraph article:
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What the Portuguese police must do
Daily Telegraph - By Ray Wyre - 10 May 2007
Last Updated: 2:06am BST 10/05/07
I have worked with men who have abducted and killed children. Often, their capture has failed to save the child and has not come about through good police work.
The planning needed to take the child cannot be overestimated. It was clear from the beginning in Portugal that we were dealing with an abduction and the need to "think offender" was essential.
What was his motivation? How would he initiate contact and target the child? How would he control the environment to evade discovery?
Portuguese police cannot ignore the UK's experience in such cases. In the early '90s a British paedophile group filmed the sexual abuse of Portuguese boys.
At one stage the Americans were so concerned about the role of British paedophiles in Portugal that I was approached about the targeting of schools there. International co-operation should be part of police thinking.
However, there is no culture of community policing in Portugal and they have laws that prevent the discussion of cases. This is clearly the wrong way round. The media are essential in passing co-ordinated and directed information to the community.
In this case, speculation is rife, confused messages are likely to be given.
The parents will be feeling guilty for leaving the children and even a half hour is a long time if a child wakes up and starts to cry immediately after one leaves the room.
This could, possibly, lead to a woman on her own, who has lost a child, saying to herself wrongly that the parents did not care for this child and deciding to take the girl home. No paedophile, no conspiracy - just a lonely woman.
The window of opportunity for the abductor means that the information given by the parents has to be very accurate. Police must help them to say exactly how long it was since they last saw their child.
The parents need to know that if this was an offender who planned the abduction then there is probably nothing they could have done.
I once asked an abductor who had killed girls how we could stop him. He said: “I suppose you would have to chain a child to the mother”. But he added: “No, that would not work. I would take both”.
Ray Wyre is an expert in sexual crime who worked in the UK Probation Service in the 1970s before specialising in programmes for sex offenders.
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Wyre quoted in The Times, 7 May 2007
Three days before this, Wyre had also been quoted in an article in The Times, by Dominic Kennedy.
The article, titled: “Nothing can stop a determined abductor, but there is a chance the child is still alive”, opened with this paragraph:
“If Madeleine McCann was abducted by a paedophile, there is a chance that she is still alive and can be saved by sensitive policing, according to Ray Wyre, a sexual crimes consultant. ‘Lately, there have been more and more cases where there has been an element of planning and an attempt to keep the child alive’, he said. Wyre added that: ‘To maximise the possibility of finding Madeleine alive, police must avoid doing anything to make the kidnapper panic. If he believes that they are about to move in and catch him, he may become so alarmed that he kills the child to stop her being a witness’.”.
Wyre was also quoted in the same article in relation to the activities of paedophiles in Portugal. He continued:
“Portugal is known to attract British paedophiles. A ring of 20 Britons set up there around 1990, filming sex acts with local boys and sending the tapes to Belgium and the Netherlands. Some were later jailed in England. The case helped to persuade the British Government to make it illegal for Britons to have sex with underage children abroad”.
The Times article concluded: “Mr Wyre went to Lisbon and became involved in the aftermath of that investigation. ‘There were still lots of connections and other things going on’, he said. ‘There have always been British paedophiles operating in Portugal’.
The McCanns meet Ray and Charmaine Wyre
Now let’s move to The People article of 27 January 2008, and, before commenting, I’ll reproduce that in full as well:
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EXCLUSIVE: MCCANNS ARE 'TOTALLY INNOCENT'
EXCLUSIVE TRUTH ABOUT THE McCANNS: BY TOP UK CRIME CRACKER
The People - By Marcello Mega and Daniel Jones
Daniel.Jones@People.Co.Uk
27 January 2008
Kate and Gerry played NO part in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, one of the world's top crime experts declared last night.
Ray Wyre - who has given Cracker-style testimony to courts since the 1970s - said: “It is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for them to have been involved”. He insisted the grief-stricken parents were incapable of doing anything to harm their children.
He told how the couple feared Maddie was dead in the hours after she vanished - the first time their initial anguish has been revealed. And he heaped scorn on claims the McCanns are being torn apart by the tragedy, adding: “They are a close and loving couple”.
Wyre spoke out as it was revealed Portuguese cops now believe four-year-old Maddie may have been abducted - as Kate and Gerry have always claimed.
The couple met Wyre, 56, to discuss setting up an international taskforce to help cops trace missing children.
They poured out their hearts to him and his wife Charmaine over dinner at the ace criminologists's home in Milton Keynes, Bucks.
Wyre - who's helped nail a string of monsters including child-killer Robert Black - said: "I was with them for several hours and I could not help but apply some of the practices I use when I'm carrying out assessments of suspects for police and the courts.
“I can state categorically there is no way they were involved in their daughter's murder or disappearance. They would be incapable of such an act. I have more than 30 years' experience in this field and am used to people trying to hide dark secrets.
“There was NO sign of any such deceit. It is absolutely impossible for them to have been involved”.
And Wyre paid a moving tribute to the way the 39-year-old couple manage to think of other people even though their hearts are broken.
He said: “It was humbling and moving to meet the McCanns. They brought flowers for my wife, which brought tears to our eyes. You consider what they've been through and they still bring flowers when they come to your home”.
Wyre hit out at shocking claims of eating disorders and marriage rifts made about Kate and heart specialist Gerry, whose twins Sean and Amelie have just turned three.
He said: “It can't have helped while they've had this massive tragedy on their hands. Days before we met I was reading an ill-informed article saying they were growing apart. But they are a close and loving couple who are certainly united in their roles of being good parents to the twins and maintaining momentum in their quest to find Madeleine.
“There is no doubt they are a couple - they are together and they support and comfort one another. They were very warm and friendly to each other and there was no sign of dispute between them. During the meal, Gerry often put his arm round the back of Kate's chair. They were affectionate to one another all the time. They looked very much together. As for any suggestion Kate might have an eating disorder, it's nonsense. She sat down to my wife's home-made lasagne and garlic bread with a smile and really enjoyed it. And she tucked into the banoffee pie for pudding like the rest of us”.
Wyre told how for 72 hours after Maddie vanished in Praia da Luz on May 3 last year the McCanns were certain their daughter was dead.
Their despair has never been made public before - and Wyre blasted critics who insist they have not expressed enough grief.
He said: “For three days, all they could see in their minds was Madeleine lying dead. They were in complete agreement she'd been taken by a predator, abused and killed.
“They were certain they would never see her alive again. The image of her lying murdered hardly left them and they expected at any time to receive the news that her body had been found. When three days passed and that had not happened, they began to feel the stirring of hope.
“They reasoned it was most likely that if someone had seized her to abuse and kill her, her body would probably have been nearby and would have been found. They continue to cling to that hope - but they are also prepared for the worst. However, as long as she remains missing I know they will not rest in their efforts to find her”.
Wyre also told The People how GP Kate is so dedicated to answering the flood of emails she gets every day about Maddie she sometimes gets up at 4am to deal with them all.
His tribute came as detectives in Portugal finally admitted they could be WRONG in their belief that the McCanns - from Rothley, Leics - were involved in Maddie's disappearance. Prosecutors had named the couple as official suspects in September.
And since then police have been hellbent on trying to prove Kate and Gerry had hidden their daughter's body after the youngster died in their Algarve holiday apartment.
Investigators even claimed they had enough evidence to charge the couple just three weeks ago. But yesterday police sources admitted the McCanns may have been telling the truth all along. And detectives are now set to review the case and quiz all the witnesses again.
The amazing about-turn comes after a British laboratory said DNA tests carried out on blood samples found in the Praia da Luz flat and the couple's hire-car had been inconclusive.
The theory Maddie had been kidnapped was also given another boost last week with the release of a sketch of a possible suspect. A source told Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas: “There are now two hypotheses on the table - abduction or accidental death. There are no concrete proofs to charge the current suspects. No line of inquiry can be discounted - but the first hypothesis is the most credible”.
The McCanns' family spokesman Clarence Mitchell told The People last night: “We welcome any movement on the part of the police that accepts Madeleine was abducted - because that's what happened.
“It’s ridiculous we've had to wait this long for any indication they believe Kate and Gerry are telling the truth.
“The sooner the police realise they don't have a case against them, the sooner they focus on finding Madeleine - which is what this investigation should be about”.
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Analysis of The People article - The context in which it came to be published
Let us first examine the context of this article and try to understand how it came to be written and published. We will start with a recap of what had been happening during the previous months.
In August and early September there was a spate of stories, especially in the popular British press, about the evidence of the cadaver dogs, and about forensic reports from the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham that were said to confirm that Madeleine’s DNA had been found in blood and body fluid samples in the McCanns’ holiday apartment and in the car they hired three weeks later. The cadaver dog Eddie, trained by one of the world’s leading dog handlers Martin Grime, was said to have identified 10 locations connected with the McCanns where a corpse had lain. The McCanns came up with at least five different version of how this scent of a corpse might have been detected by the springer spaniel.
Then, on 7 September 2007, the McCanns were taken in for questioning and made ‘arguidos’, or suspects. Three days later a senior detective, Tavares de Almeida, issued a damning interim report which pointed clearly to the main line of enquiry being that Madeleine had died in Apartment 5A at the Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, and that the McCanns or others must have hidden her body. Just three weeks after that report was issued, the detective inspector in charge of the case, Goncalo Amaral, was removed from his position by fax and ordered to report to another location.
The McCanns and members of their team, especially after the trauma of being questioned under caution, were understandably engaged in an active campaign to win the support of the media, and to progress the investigation in what they felt was the right direction. Their fervent supporter, Cheshire businessman Brian Kennedy, who had made his pile from selling double glazing, appointed the highly controversial Spanish detective agency Metodo 3 to investigate Madeleine’s disappearance. They said the Portuguese police were not looking for her properly. The McCanns and Brian Kennedy, using publicly-donated funds paid to their trust, Find Madeleine Fund, had handed Metodo 3 a contract reputed to be worth at least £50,000 a month.
The involvement of Metodo 3 led to stories just before Christmas from its Director, Francisco Marco, that his men were ‘closing in on’ Madeleine’s kidnappers and that Madeleine would be ‘home by Christmas’. These stories were complete and utter fabrications - being perpetrated by Metodo 3 who were in turn being funded by donations from a generous British public.
Metodo 3 were not finished. In January and March 2008, still under contract to the McCanns, they appear to have been behind some highly-publicised searches for Madeleine’s body in the Arade Dam. These were organised amid a fanfare of publicity and media photographers by Madeira-based Portuguese lawyer, Marcos Aragao Correia. Correia later admitted to being paid by Metodo 3, claiming, unconvincingly, that he had ‘only been paid expenses’. This at least made a change from his original story, which was that he was doing it ‘out of the goodness of his own heart’.
Whilst on the subject of Correia, we should note the following. He was also the lawyer who acted against Goncalo Amaral, accusing him of taking part in or authorising a beating of a convicted murderess, Leonor Cipriano. Moreover, he came up with two sick stories about what had happened to Madeleine. When he first came to public notice, he told the world that within three days of Madeleine being reported missing, ‘underworld sources’, whom he could not name, had told him that Madeleine had been abducted, raped, killed and that her body had been thrown into a lake. Several months later, he admitted that this was a lie. He changed his story, replacing it with an equally unconvincing account that on Saturday 5 May, two days after Madeleine was reported missing, he had attended his first-ever Spiritualist meeting. After that meeting, he said he had a disturbing vision of a very large man strangling Madeleine. Such a man was the pursuer of the detective Goncalo Amaral, and employed by the McCanns via Metodo 3.
Meanwhile Brian Kennedy had been busy. He had been contacting various witnesses. According to an article by Mark Hollingsworth in the Evening Standard in August 2009, he even intimidated some of them into keeping silent and not talking to the Portuguese Police. He found two witnesses, however, who were willing to talk. They were Paul Gordon and Gail Cooper. Both claimed they had seen a strange, ‘creepy’ man when they had been in Portugal in the weeks before the McCanns were there. The stories about these two ‘sightings’ of a creepy man were released by the McCann Team on different days to achieve maximum press coverage, in a blaze of front-page publicity, on 7, 8 and 9 January - round about the time the McCanns were meeting with Ray and Christine Wyre.
The Daily Mirror first of all reported: “A Brit who stayed in the same holiday flat as Madeleine McCann has told how he spotted creepy strangers lurking nearby BEFORE she vanished. Paul Gordon said he was worried the dodgy-looking people had no business to be at the Portuguese complex. His shock evidence could mean child-snatchers had been staking out the complex before four-year-old Maddie's family even arrived there. Brewery executive Paul, 34, and his family rented the Ocean Club flat in Praia da Luz for a fortnight last April. The McCanns took it over from them and Maddie went missing five days later on May 3 - sparking a global hunt”.
Two days later, the Mirror filed a new story: “A second British tourist has reported seeing a mystery man hanging around Madeleine McCann's holiday flat just days before she vanished. Gail Cooper, 50, said she was confronted by the ‘creepy’ stranger at her holiday villa in Portugal. He claimed he was collecting for an orphanage in the next village of Espiche. She spotted him again two days later on Praia Da Luz beach.
“Gail, from Newark, Notts, said yesterday: ‘He was a horrible-looking man, really creepy, unkempt and dirty. He definitely wasn't Portuguese. He scared me’.”
To assist Gail Cooper’s recollections of what this man looked like, Brian Kennedy had in the previous weeks paid for an ‘F.B.I.-trained forensic artist’, Melissa Little, to help her mock up a sketch of him. The media blitz of 7-9 January had been well planned. The decisions of both Paul Gordon and Gail Cooper to talk to the McCanns’ private detectives seems to have originated in meetings between them and Brian Kennedy.
As we have said in our major article on Robert Murat (see under ‘Articles’ on our website, www.madeleinefoundation.org.uk ), these stories had a dubious origin and content. And in the end the Portuguese Police dismissed these claims, especially Gail Cooper’s as she changed her story about how many times she had seen this man. The Portuguese Police published this conclusion about Gail Cooper’s unreliable evidence in their final report, a full copy of which is reproduced in our latest book, ‘The Madeleine McCann Case Files, Volume 1’ (ISBN 978-0-9563351-1-1), available via our website.
Kennedy had also been busy having secretive meetings in Portugal. He took staff of Metodo 3 to meet the Portuguese Police in Portimao on 13 November. The same day he met with the leading suspect in the case, Robert Murat, each flanked by their respective lawyers, Edward Smethurst and Francisco Pagarete. Around this time, Jane Tanner was gradually - and in public, via the press - shifting from her earlier identification of Robert Murat as the person she said she had seen carrying a child outside the McCanns’ apartment on the day Madeleine disappeared. Now, she was saying, she was no longer sure.
Ray Wyre praises the McCanns
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ chief public relations officer, was busy promoting stories about Madeleine day after day. Without a shadow of a doubt, he will have been behind the appearance of that article on 27 January 2008 in The People which featured the meeting between the McCanns and the Wyres.
He would have known about the meeting, if not actively arranged it. He would have known that Ray Wyre would be willing to talk to The People and that The People would publish details of their meeting. The People’s circulation, in common with many other parents, had been falling. They would have jumped at the chance of an ‘exclusive’ on Madeleine McCann – which is exactly what they got, probably at a price. Mitchell would no doubt have ‘vetted’ the final content - and, as we have seen, he was actually quoted in the article. He may even have drafted the article himself.
Against that background, let us summarise the content of the article about the McCanns’ trip to the Wyres’ home in Buckinghamshire.
First, we note that Wyre doesn’t refer to the McCanns’ children. Presumably they were left at home for the day with a relative or child-minder.
Then we observe one of the most striking features of this article: the insistent, repeated and total certainty of Wyre that the McCanns were 100% innocent and knew absolutely nothing about what had happened to Madeleine. Wyre is quoted as saying, in quick succession:
"it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for them to have been involved"
"they are incapable of doing anything to harm their children"
"I can state categorically there is no way they were involved in their daughter's murder or disappearance"
"they would be incapable of such an act".
We notice also in The People article how Ray Wyre is elevated to near divine status by a series of hyperbolic statements about him:
‘top UK crime cracker’
‘helped nail a string of monsters including child-killer Robert Black’
the ‘ace criminologist’.
Then we hear of the claim that the real purpose of the meeting was ‘to set up an international taskforce to help cops trace missing children’. Given that we have had INTERPOL for decades, it is reasonable to ask whether the purpose of the get-together was a lot more about getting a very helpful front-page article in a national Sunday newspaper than to set up a rival organisation to INTERPOL. Was this meeting, indeed, arranged by Mitchell solely to produce a great newspaper headline?
The article says: “Wyre also told The People how GP Kate is so dedicated to answering the flood of emails she gets every day about Maddie she sometimes gets up at 4am to deal with them all”. Only months later, though, as we now know from Johan Seend of Virginia-based company iJet, the McCanns set up a telephone information hot-line intended to field calls from the general public. We now know that the McCanns did not follow up even one of those calls (see our article on Kevin Halligen on our website) - one of many issues which we say should be addressed in a full public enquiry into all aspects of Madeleine’s disappearance.
The People article also neatly linked into the recent fanfare of publicity about another suspect. They wrote: “The theory Maddie had been kidnapped was also given another boost last week with the release of a sketch of a possible suspect. There are now two hypotheses on the table - abduction or accidental death. No line of inquiry can be discounted - but the first hypothesis is the most credible”.
This enabled Clarence Mitchell to have the final say: “The McCanns' family spokesman Clarence Mitchell told The People last night: “We welcome any movement on the part of the police that accepts Madeleine was abducted - because that's what happened”.
One detail The People omitted, however, was whether Ray Wyre had ever met either of the McCanns before.
The controversial career of Ray Wyre
It is time now to examine the career of Ray Wyre. We have seen how in articles in The Times on 7 May and the Daily Telegraph on 10 May, he spoke forthrightly in the British press of his conviction that this was ‘definitely an abduction’, just days after Madeleine disappeared. Then, months later, as we have just seen, he went on to say that he was sure from his experience that it was ‘absolutely impossible’ for the McCanns to have been in any way involved in the disappearance of their daughter. The People described him in their article as a ‘top UK crime cracker’ and ‘ace criminologist’. Was he?
There is a fair amount of material on the internet about this controversial sex therapist-cum-consultant. Readers are referred for example to these four links or sources:
]http://www.achillesheel.freeuk.com/article13_2.html
]http://www.redguitars.co.uk/fbga/aLiveWyre.php
THE "NOTTINGHAM, UK" RITUAL ABUSE CASES by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
‘The Making of a Satanic Myth’, http://www.smwane.dk/content/view/189/28/
http://www.faascotland.co.uk/A%20live%20Wyre.htm
CONTINUED...
- Part two is on this link: https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t1942-ray-wyre-and-the-mccanns#48243
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