The latest, which shouldn’t surprise anyone: Portuguese police are now distancing themselves from the heretofore unrefuted claim that blood found in a McCann rental car was a match for Madeleine. I predict we will see prosecutorial misconduct and corruption with this case rivaling the Nifong/Duke travesty of justice.
Here are just two more examples of exactly what we’re dealing with here when it comes to the framing of Gerry and Kate McCann.
From 5 hours ago:
Maddie blood evidence not certain: Portuguese police
PORTIMAO, Portugal (AFP) — It is not certain that traces of blood found in a car rented by Kate and Gerry McCann match that of their missing daughter Madeleine, the director of the Portuguese judicial police said as they prepared to report to prosecutors on Tuesday.
“None of the results of the analyses allows one to say with certainty that the blood comes from X or Y,” Alipio Ribeiro said on Portuguese public television station RTP.
“Not with mathematical precision,” he said, in reference to claims by some British media outlets that the results were a perfect match with Madeleine’s DNA.
In other words, they can’t determine if the blood ‘evidence’ they’ve found belongs to a male or a female, let alone to a specific person.
But even with this comment on the record by the director of the Portuguese police, this headline appeared just 45 minutes ago from the UK Press Association in Google News:
DNA in car ‘matches Madeleine’s’
A sample taken from the boot of the hire car used by Madeleine McCann’s parents is a “99% match” for the missing girl’s DNA, a report claims.
The dramatic claim comes as Portuguese police prepare to hand their file on the case to the public prosecutor for him to consider whether to bring charges against her parents.
Tests returned from the Forensic Science Service (FSS) in Birmingham on a specimen taken from the McCanns’s Renault Scenic showed it was a full match of Madeleine’s DNA, unnamed sources told Sky News.
A claim now directly refuted by the Portuguese police, but seemingly irrelevant in the increasing hysteria to persecute this family.
I’m now just waiting to see if the English will resort to lighting torches on fire, hunt the McCanns down, chase them up a windmill, to which they will then set fire.
But before any Frankensteinian plans are laid out, the British, and the world, should consider this little gem about the lead Portuguese detective in the McCann case:
Controversial past of policeman leading the McCann investigation
Despite the recent furore surrounding Kate and Gerry McCann being made suspects in their daughter’s disappearance, Goncalo Amaral – head of the Policia Judiciara’s investigation – has himself been charged over the alleged assault of a woman whose daughter disappeared in similar circumstances to Madeleine three years ago.
Earlier this year, Mr Amaral and four colleagues were made suspects ( arguidos) in the beating of Leonor Cipriano during an interrogation following the disappearance of her daughter Joana, who vanished from a village seven miles from Praia da Luz.
In June, Mr Amaral and his colleagues were charged, three with torture, a fourth with omission of evidence and a fifth with falsification of documents. It is unclear which offence he was charged with.
Madeleine went missing in May. These charges were brought against detectives in June, one month late,r and yet Amaral remained in charge of the McCann investigation.
I personally find it interesting that we have detectives involved in another case of a missing little girl, where they were charged with torture of the mother, omission of evidence and falsifying documents in an effort to get a conviction. We should wonder, what would have happened to Kate McCann had the world not been watching? Has anyone questioned this detective about his whereabouts when Madeleine went missing?
Obviously, it’s good the McCanns are back in the UK, despite the hysteria rising there. It is imperative whatever is in the police file in Portugal, which is now being given to Portuguese prosecutors, be released to the public immediately. One way or the other, we’ll find out exactly what’s been driving this.
Remember the railroading of the Duke lacrosse players and the presumption from the beginning that they must be guilty and the prosecutor must have evidence we were unaware of. Well, he did–exculpatory evidence he hid. If that can happen in the United States, imagine what happens in Portugal.
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I thought this was strange from the beginning. How is that the police decided to search a rental car that was used some time in the past. I doubt that was the only rental car used by the family. What would make the police decide to search that particular car?
Does anyone else see a similarity to the Aruba Murder and disappearance case of a couple years ago?
Can you say Jon Benet? This looks like another case of the police not being able to find the responsible party, so they turn to their best chance to make “someone” pay. They just don’t care anymore who pays. These people will be drug through the mud, persecuted by the press and live the rest of their lives under a cloud. All it takes for a child to deposit detectable amounts of blood & DNA is to chew or mouth a toy, and lay it on a the carseat. There is blood in every mouth for a while after brushing your teeth, you don’t have to have gum disease to get trace amounts of blood after brushing. Ceryl Wect? was on FOX News during the Duke case and cited a test where a brand new package of underwear was opened under lab conditions and tested for DNA. Three distinct groups were found. Presumably from the seamstress, the inspector and the person that folded and packaged them. His point was that when you can test amounts down to parts per billion, you can start to make the evidence look any way you want. Another case where luminol tests indicated a horrific blood-soaked crime scene had been expertly cleaned, turned out to be the saliva of a St. Bernard (family pet) shaking his head and expelling his slobber all over the hallway, that was mopped on a regular basis. I know in the future, if on a jury, I will look closely at DNA evidence and under what circumstances it was placed and tested.
When the story broke a week or so ago that Portugese police were looking at the parents as suspects, I immediately thought something didn’t smell right. From what I’ve read, the local cops are pretty inept, compared to what we see and expect here in the US. I think the Portugese authorities feel that this case has gotten so much international attention that they have to charge SOMEBODY and be seen as making some progress.