This is the first article I can remember for a very long time from the Daily Express where they are actually allowing readers comments. Given how the McCanns quickly set Carter Ruck on the case I thought I would just grab them in case they go Whoosh Clunk just like poor little Maddie did.
We are all very furious Kate, shame on you. Mother?
KATE AND GERRY MCCANN GET HELP FROM JK ROWLING
JK Rowling helped Kate and Gerry McCann to secure their book deal
Sunday November 21,2010
By Sunday Express Reporter
JK Rowling helped Kate and Gerry McCann to secure their book deal, the Sunday Express can reveal.
The multi-millionaire Harry Potter writer suggested they use her literary agent Christopher Little who arranged a publishing deal with Transworld.
JK Rowling has been giving the McCanns support since their daughter disappeared in Portugal in May 2007 aged three.
The author contributed to a reward for finding Madeleine and in July 2007 she arranged for posters of Madeleine to be made available to book retailers around the world .
Kate has already written 60,000 words, covering the period up to the couple’s heart-rending decision to return to Britain.
The book, titled Madeleine, will be published on April 28 next year to mark the fourth anniversary of her disappearance. Profits will go directly to the fund for finding Madeleine. GP Kate, 42, said: “My main reason for writing is simple – to give an account of the truth.”
KATE TO TELL THE TRUTH
21.11.10, 6:46am
why would jk rowling help 2 child neglectors surely she has read the official files before her offer of help kate and gerry?.Is there no one who wants to help ****.
• Posted by: chriss26 • Report Comment
KATE TO TELL THE TRUTH
21.11.10, 6:21am
So if kate is going to tell the truth does that mean she lied to the pj??.also the only book i want to read is Dr Amarals,The Truth Of The Lie which Kate and Gerry tried to get banned but lucky the ban has now been over turned.
• Posted by: chriss26 • Report Comment
KATE TO TELL THE TRUTH
21.11.10, 1:15am
When in Portugal Kate refused to give answers to 48 questions asked by the police to progress the search for ****. Perhaps the truth will include the answers to these questions? Her book is also an opportunity to explain why she and Gerry did not join the search for **** on the fateful night, yet found the time to delete their mobile phone records.
• Posted by: Chared • Report Comment
SICKTOTHETEETHOFALLTHISHATE
2) THREE judges overruled the banning of his book - a book that was based on the investigation carried out by the PJ - and with assistance from the BRITISH police.
3) Goncalo Amaral, until he retired, was a highly respected policeman of many years service.
4) The parents petition only asks for a REVIEW of the files, whereas the petition that I gave a link to is asking the Portuguese to RE-OPEN the case. To claim that it diverts from the parents petition is nonsense.
5) I think you'll find that the Portuguese tourist industry is doing rather better than you think.
APPEAL AGAINST UNBANNING OF AMARAL'S BOOK
THIS IS THE LINK TO THE REAL PETITION SET UP BY ****'S PARENTS
THIS IS THE LINK TO THE PETITION STARTED BY ****'S PARENTS TO TRY AND HELP FIND THEIR MISSING DAUGHTER MADELEINE:
Please go to this link and sign if you want to help find **** :
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/madeleinemccann_case_review/
HOW ON EARTH DID THIS MOTHER....
I look forward to real reporting from the Express regarding this matter and especially would like to know more about Dr Amaral and his book. Especially as three Portuguese judges have quashed the ban on his book and gave him his dignity back by allowing him to have his full voice back to discuss whatever he wants whenever he wants in his own country!
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2010/10/lisbon-appeals-court-ruling.html
PETITION
Is it just me that quite relaxed eloquent people are abused and attacked and simply dismissed as haters!
Haters? Simply explain the timelines, why you chose to ignore Police advice on going public with the detail of the eye that it could be a death sentence for your own daughter!
Why did you not answer the 48 questions? Why did the twins not wake up with all the commotion in the room even when they were moved to another apartment? Why you offered to take a lie detector test and then turned down the chance?
Plenty of questions that the backers ignore, i shall be looking forward to reading a free copy of the book online to see what is said about Dr Gaspars statement!
FOR MADELEINE
21.11.10, 8:28pm
For those who DO really want this child found sign the petition posted earlier by mumbles this is a genuine petition to REOPEN the case to find her not a review that will not spend it's time LOOKING for her.
It will also be given to the Portuguese authorities who are the ONLY ones with the power to reopen or investigate.
WELL SAID.
No more money to the MC........ who have never used their money, only the donations of well meaning people, who were duped into a search which never took place.
FOR MADELEINE
It will also be given to the Portuguese authorities who are the ONLY ones with the power to reopen or investigate.
The only way to help the missing child is to have her case reopened
http://criminaljustice.change.org/petitions/view/a_voice_for_madeleine
If you don't ask?
PDL FRIEND
KATE AND GERRY MCAAN GET HELP FROM JK ROWLING
PETITION
QUESTIONS QUESTIONS
Is it then going to expliain why then Gerry told everyone on the Oprah W. show that no police force was actively looking for Madeleine?
Is the book going to explain why Kate sat in an official interview and refused to answer questions ?
Is the book going to tell us why the members of the group involved refused to return to Portugal when requested to do so in order to do an official reconstruction of the events leading up to ****'s disappearance ?
Is the book going to explain the roles of Gordon B, C. Blair ,D.Mililiband , Kevin H. and others ?
I'll only buy a copy if it does.
GOOD NEWS!
Hopefully they will finally get that complete review of the case by the Portuguese and British police which they are asking for in their petition. **** deserves it. You can access it through the OFFICIAL Findmadeleine website.
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HELP
PDL FRIEND
PLANNING AHEAD
So they're pretty confident that their daughter isn't going to be found before then. So, why are they currently wasting money on their (apparently incompetent) PIs?? Are they also suing Kevin Halligen to reclaim the £300,000 he acquired by fraudulent means??
EYES
WOT, NO FIERCE BIDDING WAR???
Which is it then, a fierce bidding war or touting one's wares round publishers?
WHY NO COMMENT?
THE MCCANNS
REVEALING 'THE TRUTH'?
It is therefore difficult to entertain the notion that, three-and-a-half years later, Kate has suddenly decided, with a 'very heavy heart', to reveal 'the truth'. As numerous commentators have already stated, if this is 'the truth' it should be immediately forwarded to the Portuguese authorities to reopen the case - not simply to 'review' it in order to gain access to 'secret' police files.
It is admirable that there are people who believe the McC*nns are 'wholly innocent' of any involvement in ****'s disappearance - not everybody has the time, inclination or energy to watch hours of videos, read through thousands of pages of police files or plough through the often impenetrable rogatory interviews. To those people I would simply highlight the following exhange which took place earlier this year, between the McC*nns and Portuguese presenter Sandra Felgueiras.
The McC*nns were asked if there were any of the reported 'sightings' of M*deleine that they "kept thinking about", that could just have been M*deleine. Gerry initially answers with the Tanner and Smith sightings but when pressed by Felgueiras to answer the question she asked, he says: "there's been one or two I've looked at twice". But when he is further pressed to reveal "which they were", he is unable to remember anything "specific" about any of the sightings of his missing daughter. Kate says she "doesn't know" either but thinks there was one in "Amsterdam or Brussels".
Now, I find that not only truly astonishing but also extremely disturbing. Neither Kate nor Gerry, after three years of 'torment', could remember a single 'sighting' of M*deleine. Surely, for any desperate parent every sighting, small or large, would be painfully branded into their heart forever - if they expected her to be found.
And for the record, Kate, it was Amsterdam.
A BOOK ABOUT THE TRUTH
The windows, shutters, doors were all found unlocked and open. Rear patio door left unlocked by parents.
The book will be about the truth.
But how does this child's mother know what happened, if she was sitting in a bar, some distance away, out of sight of the frontage of the apartment & childrens room.
X-ray vision? Radar for ears?
The parents by their own admission WERE NOT THERE, how do they know HOW she was abducted ?
Even the friend who checked the child AFTER she was alleged to be abducted, saw nothing untoward, before the mothers check and discovered the child missing.
I HAVE FINALLY LOST FAITH
Rosiepops1 formally known as Rosiepops x
WHY DO YOU ALL HATE **** & HER FAMILY
I cant wait to see hentie & hubby on tv tomorrow... i hope all their friends and family get to see just how they both spend their time... hating and hounding the family of a missing child... makes you wonder why they want the poor little child to be dead....
It is great to see that people like JK Rowling still want help the ****... that really must get at the haters so much
PETITION
http://criminaljustice.change.org/petitions/view/a_voice_for_madeleine
DEMONS, VULTURES AND VAMPIRES
If you believe them unquestionably then do so, but how egotistical to believe that everyone else should do so: simply because you believe it and because of your clear 'belief' you are somehow of a higher moral order because you do?
Well I am sorry if you do not like the fact that the case in Portugal was closed BECAUSE the party's involved would not participate in a police reconstruction to help find out what happened to the child and that they could have PREVENTED the closure: but did not.
That there are witnesses who are 60-80% certain that a man they saw carrying a child on the night of the 3rd was Gerry **** and that fact has not been clarified: as the group would not participate in a reconstruction that could have clarified such an event.
Or that two close (Dr) Friends of the parents gave statements to the Leicester police: casting doubt on the 'character' of two of the Dr's on that holiday when they heard that the child had disappeared or that that statement was not received by the Portuguese until 5 Months later!
Now you may feel morally secure ignoring the unanswered questions in this case, but I do not believe that ignoring ANYTHING: however distasteful it may seem: which may lead to the discovery of that child.
But if you are happy in your ignorance then I will not attempt to sway your opinion, but please have some respect for those who merely show the FACTS as they are in the publicly released files and believe that publishing a book of 'their' version of the truth or their suffering will make the slightest difference to the plight of the missing child, that the only thing that MAY change that: is a reopening of the case in Portugal.
FOR SUSANA
i sense something is not quite right.
i cannot for the life of me understand why parents would just dismiss the dogs findings.
who would get on a plane if the dogs went woof?
most parents would work day and night to get this book printed, if it was to jog peoples memory. why wait till april, it would be published asap,if it really was to find ****.
even if she is coming to no harm,surely you wouldnt want to wait another second to have her back.
SEARCHING
Kate and Gerry never searched for ****, they stayed behind in the apartment, whilst others searched through the night and in the days after, whilst these 2 jogged and played tennis.
So put the blame where it belongs.
THE PARENTS
TIME TO REOPEN THE WHOLE CASE.
it's high time the whole group went back to portugal,
explain their time lines,
create a reconstruction using their time lines,
and for kate to answer the 48 questions she refused to answer.
it's about time the british press printed some of the portuguese investigation material.
and the good news that dr.goncalo amaral's book has had the ban lifted.
why don't the great british people ever get both sides of this ludicrous story?
GOOD LUCK TO THE MCCANNS
The people leaving the comments here that are abusive and insulting to the **** should take on board that the **** have not been found guilty of anything. They have not given up their search for little **** and they continually keep their child in the news.
The people leaving these unkind comments belong to forums/blogs and they spend their time being abusive towards the ****. This latest influx of abuse here on the express website is currently being bragged about right now on sky news blogs where many of these unnatural and unsavoury people frequent.
I wish the **** all the best in finding dear ****.
SO WHAT'S NEW?
So, what's new? Will Kate **** finally tell us how she knew immediately that her daughter had been taken? Will she reveal how she was sure that **** could not have wandered off? Will she answer the 48 questions? I would be particularly interested in the question in which she was asked if she had considered giving care of **** to a relative. Well, had she?
Were all those friends and relations lying when they said they got phone calls saying the shutters had been 'jemmied.'? They weren't. How come the **** spent most of the night of May 3rd 2007 on the phone instead of out there searching for their daughter?
I doubt we're going to get answers to all those questions that have been being asked for three and a half years. And my final question: why did it take the **** nearly a year to take action against Dr Amaral after his book was published? He wasn;t worth suing before the book looked like a success?
THE 'STONE LEFT UNTURNED' (RECONSTRUCTION)
"In this sense, the legal procedures were followed, according to the norms and conventions that are in force, and the appearance of the witnesses was requested, inviting them to be present inclusively appealing to solidarity with the **** couple, as it is certain that since the beginning they adhered to that process diligence.
Nevertheless, despite national authorities assuming all measures to render their trip to Portugal viable, for unknown motives, after the many doubts that they raised about the necessity and opportunity of their trip were clarified several times, they chose not to attend, which rendered the diligence inviable.
We believe that the main damage was caused to the **** arguidos, who lost the possibility to prove what they have protested since they were constituted arguidos: their innocence towards the fateful event; the investigation was also disturbed, because said facts remain unclarified."
This is the stone that allowed this case to be closed, why did they allow this?
GERRY "NO COMMENT"
THE TRUTH OF THE LIE?
They are now busy advertising their 'petition' asking for a 'review' of the case.
What good is a 'review' when all the information has already been checked out and found to lead nowhere. For their child's sake, this case desperately needs to be re-opened and the police should be left to get on with the job.
How many people are aware that after the case was shelved they had 20 days in which to ask for the re-opening. They chose not to. Why?
As for the book - what can they possibly write that we haven't already heard from them in the last 3.5 years?
I hope they will finally tell the public, who have supported them so generously, why they told all their relatives and friends that the shutters were 'jemmied' open, when in fact they were intact and the only fingerprints found on them were the mothers.
Also, how did Kate immediately 'know' that **** was abducted?
So many questions and so few answers!
For anyone wishing to learn more about this case, the Portuguese police files are easily found on the internet. No spin, just good old fashioned facts.
Finally, you say that the book deal was 'secured' for this couple by their friend JK Rowling, yet the public was lead to believe that there had been a fierce 'bidding war' for the rights to publish!
So which is it?
CHILDHOOD FRIEND
MOVIE NEXT?
Doesn't anyone remember this couple a few weeks ago pleading for the public to donate two pounds a month to pay for wrist bands that they ALREADY charge you for, when they ALREADY KNEW there was a million pound book deal on the table?
As for JK Rowling: Well she does like FICTION doesn't she?
AN ' ACCOUNT ' OF THE TRUTH
If people reading this column want to see other views go to the MISSING **** FORUM, to read the things the **** don't want you to read.
"AN" ACCOUNT OF THE TRUTH?
WE'VE HEARD IT BEFORE
My advice to the **** - ask for the case to be re-opened and co-operate with the Police - and all for free.
A LOT OF SIMILARITIES
48 QUESTIONS KATE !
THE DOGS
i believe the dogs version of the truth,pity they ignore it
ROWLING
Where has it all gone ?
Enough is enough,
No other missing child has received such publicity.
I feel so sorry for ****.
I don't believe in an 'abduction', never have, and there is no evidence of it.
The only reason we are hear discussing this, is because of two incompetent parents who put their own pleasure drinking free wine at a Tapas Bar above their children's safety, AND THAT'S THE TRUTH.
Perhaps they will sue me now as well.
So will I get CARTER RUCKED ?
AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRUTH
Creative accounting, more like it.
Having looked on Amazon and seen all the tags on the book's page, it's obvious that people no longer believe the ****.
Why was there no report in the UK medias that they are in contempt of Court for refusing to comply with a Court Order to return the unbanned books to Sr Amaral's publisher?
What's the point of publishing a book in 5 months' time when their daughter could be found anytime?
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST?
There is no hope that UK journalists will have the courage to properly report on this, all the Rogatory reports are there now for people to read, but the press don't even comment on them!
The Express paid out a great deal but even to my untutored eye it seems the time lines (various versions) are the result of collusion, and the Express could have grounds to seek its money back through the courts.
Perhaps investigative journalism may return via the Standard, with the Express growing a spine a few months later?
THE TRUTH OF THE LIE BY DR. AMARAL
I couldn't have put it better myself Chared. Apparently they also thought it was too cold to go out that night despite the fact that there were so many people who dropped what they were doing and helped the police search.
I just hope that Dr. Amaral will get his un-banned book back on the bookshelves (which are currently being held illegally by the ****'s Portuguese lawyer) and that that will include the UK too - the sheeples here have not yet been told the truth and it is high time an investigative journalist got to the bottom of what really happened on the night of 3 May 2007.