Friday 29 January 2016

Carman


We are often accused of spreading misinformation by our detractors, sometimes by those who have taken part, wittingly or unwittingly, in doing exactly that.


For the sake of accuracy and in order to contradict a seemingly embedded myth, we would like to demonstrate that John Geraghty, business tycoon who acquired the church keys for the McCanns on May 7th or 8th 2007, is neither from Leicester nor is the man who appears between 00:47 and 01:00 of the above video “John Geraghty May 7, 2007 in Praia da Luz” alleged to be him:



Father José Manuel Conceição Pacheco is clear that Mr Geraghty was the middle-man between the church keys and the McCanns:

“About the keys to the church, they were handed to them [the McCanns] on the 7 or 8 of May, which happened by suggestion of a person resident in the Parish, JONH GERAGHTY [sic], so that they could use the church, with serenity, without the media pressure. The key was handed by someone from the church JONH GERATHY [sic], who made them reach the McCanns, with the authorisation and consent [Portuguese: anuência] from the deponent”.

Mr Geraghty has been identified in both the press and on blogs as a Leicester business man, involved in the construction industry. Until we were given the heads up by an anonymous source, quoting a name that enabled us to research further, we also took this myth for granted.

As Mr Geraghty has not made a statement to the PJ nor given interviews to the media, we will follow our usual protocol of not publishing any personal information not already known publicly, or speculating on his role as a friend to the McCanns.

What we can say is that it appears from our research Mr Geraghty has never lived or had any business connections in the Leicester area. He married his wife R and has lived in the south of England since the 1970s, until around 2002.

There are two facts stated by the press which were correct: Mr and Mrs Geraghty now live near the Boavista golf course and Mr Geraghty was 68 in 2007.

As the Boavista development was only completed in 2002, their move to Portugal may coincide with their absence from the electoral roll in the UK after this time.

Whether the press description of Mr Geraghty as a “tycoon” – a rich and powerful man – is an accurate statement, those who know him can say better than we can.

(photos from here)
And there are a number of people reading here who know him very well, particularly as he was the Captain of the golf club in 2008 and the first captain to achieve a hole-in-one.

Speaking of myths, the airport bag story seems to fit into this category. Dominic Herbert wrote the story about a bag found near Faro airport on 3/11/07, “Maddie DNA clue in airport bag” described in the PJ files as a “media invention”. This article was already mentioned by us in our post “Fabricated: Bag found in Portugal”.

It was the same Dominic Herbert, writing for the now defunct News of the World  on 30/9/07 (as usual, with an unnamed source, but known to him) about John Geraghty storing the car for the McCanns in his garage, where independent forensic tests were, allegedly, carried out.

Undercover Brits’ secret tests on car” is a dramatic account of white-suited men working for 9 hours overnight to dismantle the car, unknown to the PJ: “The scientists, wearing protective white suits and using the latest techniques and equipment, dismantled the car in the double garage of a Pounds 1 million villa owned by a friend of the McCanns-wealthy British tycoon John Geraghty, 68”.

And a claim that a tracker device had been fitted to the car and removed by the PJ: “It is understood Portuguese cops then seized the car to remove a tracker device, the size of a credit card, attached to the carburettor. But it is believed the detectives are still NOT yet aware that the independent tests have been carried out”.

Was it true? Or was it another “media invention”? According to Kate’s book, it’s true, as she describes an unnamed friend storing their car and on the advice of their lawyers, Kingsley Napley, having independent forensic tests carried out on the car.

Nothing about the forensic scientists who undertook the tests or the person who paid for them.

Kate does describe a scientist from Control Risks Group undertaking tests on the twins’ hair, so can it be presumed that it was CRG who carried out the tests on the car?

As Brian Kennedy became involved on September 12th, according to Kate, it’s possible either he or Mr Geraghty paid for the tests

Whatever happened, this is the last that is heard of the tests, whatever the results might have been.

Kate says Michael Wright returned the car to Praia da Luz after they flew home on September 9th, so presumably, he delivered the car to Mr Geraghty. However, a report in News of the World stated that Geraghty was at the airport when the McCanns left and that Kate had asked him to store the car.

Maybe Wright drove the car back to PdL with Geraghty as a passenger.

Sandy Cameron (former husband of Gerry’s sister Tricia) also left PdL on the same day, according to Kate.

(pics from here)

So he must have returned to PdL at a later date, because the car was returned to Lagos by Sandy Cameron on September 23rd.

Sandy Cameron, in his rogatory statement, describes using the car and cleaning it because of the unpleasant smells in the boot, although there is no documentation in the files about his nomination as a driver:

While we were in the villa, a gardener would arrive every week or every 15 days, as would have been determined by the estate agency. The gardener would leave the rubbish bags near the back door and on at least one occasion, I used the vehicle to throw out this garbage. The garbage collection Portugal is not done the same way as in the U.K., and because of this it was necessary to take all the garbage to an area which I would call recycling area” at the back of the Ocean Club. I used the Renault Scenic with this objective in various occasions.

 On one occasion, I think in July of 2007, I took Patricia to the supermarket. We placed the shopping in the boot of the Renault Scenic; we bought various items including fresh fish, shrimp and steak. When we unloaded the shopping, I noticed that blood had run out from the package to the bottom of the plastic bag. 

After this shopping trip and still in the month of July 2007, I began to notice a strange odour in the car. I did not give it much importance and assumed it probably was caused by the garbage bags or by the blood leaked in the boot on the shopping day. As a result, I removed the mat from the boot to clean it up. I shook the mat to remove any particles, cleaned it with a wet cloth and let it catch air.

In my opinion it’s impossible that Kate and Gerry would have hidden Madeleine somewhere and used the car to transport her to another location. There was always lots of people and mediea observing each of their movements, for this to be possible.”

The return form was also signed by John Geraghty (is that a pp?, meaning somebody signed on his behalf)

As an aside, why did Sandy Cameron need to return to PdL to return the car, after the McCann family had departed, leaving Michael Wright behind to do the cleaning and packing?  He was a teacher and the autumn term would have started.

Was John Geraghty simply a Good Samaritan from the Catholic congregation of Nossa Senhora da Luz who became a friend of the McCanns?

He certainly kept a very low profile. However, one photographer did capture a moment from September 9th 2007, on the day the McCanns and some of their family returned to the UK. Gerry is seen with two unnamed men.

(picture from here)

We believe one is Sandy Cameron and the other is John Geraghty.


Compare this to a photograph taken in the south of England in 1991 and the golf captain photo of him taken in PdL. Mr Geraghty bears no resemblance to the man in the video clip, who is balding, white-haired and not wearing glasses.


The real Mr Geraghty did work with an organisation in the UK which had links with churches. It seems a very reputable organisation which continues to undertake good work with overseas communities.

He may have come to the aid of the McCanns as part of the Catholic community, even though they did not set foot in the church before the disappearance of Madeleine.

Who knows if he remains friends or whether he ever regrets becoming involved.

He should know whether it’s true that Euclides Monteiro’s tractor accident happened on the golf course near Lagos, back in 2009, as claimed by journalist Brendan de Beer as referred by us in our post  “Person of interest”.

Or is Euclides Monteiro’s tractor accident on a golf course just another myth?

For all these years someone has been taken as Mr Geraghty when he clearly he's not and for all these years everyone from Praia da Luz who reads up on the case and knows the real Mr Geraghty has been happy to see this mistaken identity and say nothing, except for our anonymous reader.

It’s almost a case of one having to ask “who's afraid of John Geraghty”?

68 comments:

  1. It certainly seems that 'people' were quite happy with the white haired chap being misrepresented as JG.

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  2. The PJ referred to the airport bag story as "a media invention".
    Unless Herbert invented the story himself, which seems unlikely, he must have questions to ask of his source, who lied to him. If about one invention, how many other stories did his source invent?

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  3. John G got a hole in one at BoaVista on 07/06/2006

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  4. What is your point?

    No-one in the video claims he is John Geraghty

    The blogger who uploaded the clip says that the man looks like him, and they are the ones who tagged the video. Clearly they are wrong

    So what's the big deal?

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    1. The point is nobody has corrected this misunderstanding and the press reports that he was from Leicester remain unchallenged.

      We thought you were all for being factual.

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    2. http://madeleinemccann.org/blog/2007/09/24/private-security-team-hired-by-kate-and-gerry-mccann-for-secret-investigation/
      Even the Times says he's from Leicester.

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    3. Anonymous 29 Jan 2016, 14:34:00,

      What is certain is that his offer of help wasn't anything to do with knowing the McCanns through a Leicester connection.

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    4. So nobody corrected some blogger and you think this is news?

      I would never take anything posted on youtube by a third party as gospel in the first place. Same with the press. And you haven't proven he wasn't from Leicester

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    5. Hi Textusa,really good post especially concerning these persons in the article,estranged to the Family of the McCann's?
      With regard to Mr John Geraherty,church and car keys and his identity, we will have to as "Slim shady" as to whether or not who is the real Mr John Geraherty,but it brings on new evidence of the Golf Club,didn't Two arquido's ever meet up at a certain Golf Club,phone calls text messages?
      caught on Video,"Gerry, do you know Robert Murat,Cough,I'm not going to comment on that!","Ask the Dog's Sandra"?

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    6. Insane at 29 Jan 2016, 14:37:00,

      You can believe what you want.

      We know exactly where he lived in south of England but have no intention of publishing details.

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    7. So you say - but we know the standard of your ''research''

      The question still remains - so he's not the man in the video

      Maybe he's not from Leicester

      What's your point?

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    8. Also, why are you stalking him?

      It's none of your business where he comes from, who he is or what he looks like, Yet you have no hesitation printing a photo of him from many years ago.

      What's it to do with you?

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    9. Anonymous 14h40: Robert Murat went to Palmares Golf in Lagos, not to Boavista GC.

      Not Textusa: Glad you're alive, I quite missed your little rants.

      I quote you: " So nobody corrected some blogger and you think this is news?" ermmmm may I refer you to your own blog?

      Fact is Mr Geraghty is not from Leicester and it is important to say so. I am grateful Textusa published this post. It is quite irritating to see the mad connections people establish and identify the wrong man and splash some unrelated person's life online. A is called Geraghty -There is a Geraghty in Leicester -It is same man-He is rich-My oh my he plays golf in an average Club-good heavens -there is a foreign man with a British accent in the video - There are no other British in PDL - Hence it is JG - LEicester is such a tiny village all know eachother-They must be friends from before...Nope! Thank you Textusa. Well done.

      Textusa: Yes quite interesting re Euclides Monteiro I tend to agree with you. I believe Bragança is more likely, as reported by Sol.
      Isabel

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    10. Insane 29 Jan 2016, 15:19:00,

      What business is it of yours to insist this man lived in Leicester, thereby helping to promote the myth that dodgy contracts connected him to the McCanns? At least we have undermined this slur on his character.

      In fact you are limiting ourselves to be factual with a person who is of interest to the case.

      Him allowing the Scenic to park in his property makes him a person of interest to the case, as well as him being the person referred by Father Pacheco in having suggested church keys be given to the McCanns.

      We see what we are doing as correcting, not stalking.

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    11. I can't see the importance at all. I certainly can't see a reason to be posting photographs from nearly 20 years ago or poking your noses into his business, which you would have to do in order to say where he was from

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    12. I haven't insisted he was from Leicester. I don't think it's any business of yours where he is from and I certainly don't think it's any business of yours to be publishing photographs of him without his permission

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    13. Not Textusa 29 Jan 2016, 15:58:00

      Thank you for your acknowledgement for the need: "which you would have to do in order to say where he was from"

      Would you prefer that people continue to think erroneously that Mr Geraghty's was from the Leicester area and so have wrongly deduced that the possible friendship between him and the McCanns be from there?

      We know, being such a factual individual, you see the importance of such a correction.

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    14. The only people likely to assume a friendship existed because he supposedly came from Leicester, or that it was in any way relevant are you and your tag-alongs

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    15. ''We see what we are doing as correcting, not stalking.''

      He might see it quite differently

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    16. Insane is ignoring the fact that a number of newspapers said JG was a Leicester businessman.
      Who was their source of misinformation?

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    17. Unless Nottextusa has been appointed to the role, what business is it of his to speak for other people and what they might think or do?

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    18. And what business is it of Textusa to snoop around in someone's private life then put it on the internet?

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    19. Censored comment received:

      "Not Textusa has left a new comment on your post "Carman":

      You don't know that it was misinformation. (censored)

      Posted by Not Textusa to Textusa at 29 Jan 2016, 17:49:00"

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    20. Insane,

      Mr Geraghty is not from the Leicester region that means that anyone saying so is either misinforming or passing on wrong information after being misinformed.

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    21. Censored comment received:

      "Not Textusa has left a new comment on your post "Carman":

      (censored)

      What business is it of yours where he does or does not live or hail from?

      And unless you have traced his life back to his birth 70-odd years ago, including his birth certificate, who are you to say where he is or isn't from?

      So what if the papers made a mistake - what difference does it make?

      Posted by Not Textusa to Textusa at 29 Jan 2016, 22:28:00"

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    22. Insane at 29 Jan 2016, 22:28:00,

      For one so intolerant with the mistakes of others we are truly amazed with your new found... tolerance.

      It's nice to know you're still able to acquire nice and reasonable traits.

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    23. I see you have avoided the question, Textusa.

      What difference does it make?

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    24. We have amply answered.

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    25. In the words of the song, "You say it best, when you say nothing at all"

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  5. I always thought JG was a strange player in the Madeleine story. Was awfully good of him to store the Scenic after the event. Since the Scenic was out of action for three weeks during the MC's holiday could it also have been 'stored' somewhere convenient then?

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  6. I see 'not Textusa' is getting his/her knickers/underpants in a twist again! Just pipe down will you? No one here is remotely interested in what you have to say and if we ever did feel the need we would take a quick visit to YOUR blog so run along now . There's a good boy/girl.

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    1. Excuse me, some of us are interested in what he/she has to say, so run along now back to your little bolt hole!

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    2. Anonymous 29 Jan 2016, 21:33:00,

      Kindly show your appreciation of Insane by reading and contributing to his blog and not ours.

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  7. You always know you are on the money textusa sisters once the polite one starts to pipe up. Let the good work continue

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  8. Not Textusa has been flat out defending another ex pat Mrs Fenn on another blog also. There he is attempting to alienate posters and link them to others who are not held in very high esteeme on that blog in an attempt silence their views. I see him at it here also we who hold certain views about what went on in PDL and the involvement of the OC and the ex pat community are all loons. The problem with this Not Textusa is that when you only join the conversation to defend one or two groups of people your motives for commenting on this case are so transparent.

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    1. Why shouldn't Mrs Fenn be defended? She did nothing wrong. Neither did the ex-pat community, locals and other holidaymakers, all of whom you have attacked and libelled for years. If you don't like being pulled up on it, don't do it.

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    2. Not Textusa 31 Jan 2016, 13:48:00

      We KNOW some of the holidaymakers lied because it's in the PJ files. Neil Berry, for example, was positively identified as being seen lurking in the stairwell of block 5 early in the evening on the day Maddie disappeared. This is the question the PJ asked Neil Berry:

      "Considering the fact that you were seen by a witness, clarify what you were doing at that time next to the stairs leading to the upper floor, which are located next to the lift of Block 5 at the Ocean Club, i.e. not far from the apartment from where Madeleine McCann went missing?"

      The PJ didn't ask Neil Berry if he was in the stairwell, they TOLD HIM he was in the stairwell of block 5. And what he was doing there when the laundryman Mario Marreiros saw him looking like he'd got caught with his fingers in the sweetie jar had nothing to do with the disappearance of Maddie, he was there for other reasons, and whatever those reasons were he wasn't happy he'd been seen. Because he lied to the police and denied ever being there.

      And so what was important then was trying to discredit the laundryman Mario Marreiros and Stephen Carpenter was given that job. Stephen Carpenter told the police he'd seen a white van near his apartment in PdL. He said he'd never looked in the van, he'd never seen anyone near the van, he'd never seen anyone in the van, he'd never seen anyone drive the van. In fact he told the police absolutely NO-ONE had been near this white van at all and YET Stephen Carpenter told the police the van belonged to the laundryman and was used to carry the bed linen. Not only that, this laundryman he'd never seen also had a garage in PdL in which there was a bed and children's toys. That's what Stephen Carpenter told the police in his statement.

      A clear attempt to implicate Mario Marreiros in the abduction of Maddie because Mario Marreiros identified the man he saw lurking in the stairwell of block 5 as Neil Berry.

      All this is FACT, it's in the PJ files.

      http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/NEIL_BERRY.htm

      http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/STEPHEN-CARPENTER.htm

      Nuala

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    3. Censored comment received from Insane:

      "Not Textusa has left a new comment on your post "Carman":

      You can't even make stuff up convincingly, can you?

      This is what Neil Berry said

      "With regard to where I was at 18.00, whom I was with and the fact that I was seen by a witness at this time next to stairs and lift of block 5 of the Ocean Club:
      I am not certain where I was at 18.00. It is possible that I was already in my apartment or returning from the bar. In order to arrive at my apartment I would walk along the side of the pool, crossing the stairs of block 4. If I were with someone, this person would be Raj, but as I have already said I do not remember whether I returned with him or before him. I do not remember having seen a lift in any of the apartment blocks. I was not in block 5, but had to pass by it in order to arrive at my apartment. It is possible that I was on the other side of the street opposite block five.

      With relation to one of the Ocean Club employees having passed close by:
      I do not remember having seen Ocean Club staff collecting dirty laundry at this hour.''

      Nowhere does he say he wasn't there. He says he can't remember where he was, nor does he remember seeing anyone collecting laundry.

      Mario Marreiros did not identify Neil Berry

      I really do not know where you are getting the stuff about Stephen Carpenter from because it's perfectly clear from his statement; (censored).

      There is no indication whatsoever that either of these witnesses lied

      Posted by Not Textusa to Textusa at 31 Jan 2016, 23:12:00"

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    4. Not Textusa 31 Jan 2016, 23:12:00

      I never make anything up, I don't need to.

      Mario Marreiros DID identify Neil Berry as being the man lurking in the stairwell of block 5 early evening on the day Maddie disappeared. This is what the PJ said to Neil Berry:

      "Considering the fact that you were seen by a witness, clarify what you were doing at that time next to the stairs leading to the upper floor, which are located next to the lift of Block 5 at the Ocean Club, i.e. not far from the apartment from where Madeleine McCann went missing?"

      The PJ didn't ask Neil Berry if he was in the stairwell, they TOLD HIM he was in the stairwell of block 5. He was positively identified by Mario Marreiros as being the man lurking in the stairwell of block 5. But he denied it, so he lied to the police. Neil Berry said:

      "I was not in block 5"

      It's in this paragraph here:

      "I am not certain where I was at 18.00. It is possible that I was already in my apartment or returning from the bar. In order to arrive at my apartment I would walk along the side of the pool, crossing the stairs of block 4. If I were with someone, this person would be Raj, but as I have already said I do not remember whether I returned with him or before him. I do not remember having seen a lift in any of the apartment blocks. I was not in block 5, but had to pass by it in order to arrive at my apartment. It is possible that I was on the other side of the street opposite block five."

      As regards Stephen Carpenter, if he saw a van but never looked in the van, never saw anyone near the van, never saw anyone in the van, never saw anyone drive the van, then he didn't know who used it. He saw NO-ONE, that's what he said and YET Stephen Carpenter told the police the van belonged to the laundryman and was used to carry the bed linen. So he lied as well.

      As for the garage he claims he went into which had a bed and children's toys, it doesn't exist.

      Nuala

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    5. Nuala, that silenced Not Textusa. Not surprised
      :)

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    6. Nowhere in Marreiros' statement did he identify Neil Berry as the man he saw

      He police are free to put statements to people they question such as ''You were seen...'' without them necessarily being true

      If you think He identified Neil Berry, by all means provide a statement in which he does so.

      If you cannot provide such a statement, which you can't, it automatically follows that you cannot state that Neil Berry lied.

      Stephen Carpenter did not lie. He clarified a previous statement to which we do not have access, and appears to connect the laundryman with the van. As far the garage, how would you know?

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    7. Not Textusa 1 Feb 2016, 23:11:00

      Neil Berry lied, he denied being in the stairwell of block 5 early evening on the day Maddie disappeared even though he WAS there. The laundryman Mario Marreiros saw him and identified him to the PJ.

      As for Stephen Carpenter, this is from his statement:

      DCF: Its in the part where it mentions that there was a van, and says that it was parked at the back of Robert Murat'' garden, and that you never saw anyone use the van, but you remember that it had something to do with the cleaning staff.

      SC: Yes, to transport the bedlinen and towels.

      DCF: Yes. It says here that you never saw anyone drive it, you just know that you saw it parked, did you ever notice that it was missing or do you remember always seeing it there'

      SC:Humm, no...no it was not always there, I saw it about two or three times.


      So Stephen Carpenter said he saw the van "about two or three times" and it's clear that in his previous statement (the one he was clarifying, which DC Ferguson is reading out to him) that he NEVER saw anyone use the van "you never saw anyone use the van" and he NEVER saw anyone drive the van "It says here that you never saw anyone drive it". Stephen Carpenter also said this:

      "the van was parked there, I never saw anyone and more than once assumed that it would be cleaning staff and only this thought coincided with the presence of the man from the laundry, and if there were any reply to be made in relation to the link between the van parked there and the laundry man."

      He NEVER saw anyone "I never saw anyone" but despite never seeing anyone use the van, or drive the van, and despite saying that in fact he NEVER saw ANYONE at all anywhere near the van he "assumed" the van was used by the laundry man. Utter tosh, and a clear attempt at implicating Mario Marreiros in the abduction of Maddie. And why would be want to do that? Because Mario Marreiros positively identified Neil Berry as the man lurking in the stairwell of block 5 looking like he got caught with his hand in the sweetie jar, and so Mario Marreiros HAD to be discredited. But unfortunately for Stephen Carpenter he was so bad at doing the task he was required to do that his LIES jump out from the page.

      As regards the garage, it doesn't exist. There are no garages in the area where Stephen Carpenter said they searched, and in fact what the poor unfortunate Mr Carpenter didn't know when he made up this fictional garage is that there are barely ANY garages at all in PdL.

      Nuala

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    8. Nuala, as I said, if you think he identified Neil Berry, please provide a statement where he does so.

      As for the rest, you are merely repeating nonsense over and over

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    9. Not Textusa 2 Feb 2016, 18:14:00

      Here is the article confirming Mario Marreiros identified Neil Berry as the man lurking in the stairwell of block 5 on the evening Maddie disappeared:

      http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/madeleine-mccann-witness-saw-weird-1918572

      In the article Mario Marreiros says he "identified a potential suspect to Portuguese police a few months after Madeleine went missing. He spent hours with an officer looking at pictures and videos." Mario Marreiros identified the man from pictures and videos, and here is the man:

      http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/NeilBerry1.jpg

      That's the man who Mario Marreiros said “had a really fat face and had two-tone sunglasses on, they got lighter at the bottom and were big" and had "lots of hair, close to his head — like it was glued. It was straight hair. He was about my age now — 45, 46.”

      That man is Neil Berry, and should there be any doubt about it, note the article says this "according to Portuguese files, officers asked British police to put more questions to this man – a full year after Madeleine vanished."

      And indeed they did, and the man they put those questions to was NEIL BERRY:

      "Considering the fact that you were seen by a witness, clarify what you were doing at that time next to the stairs leading to the upper floor , which are located next to the lift of Block 5 at the Ocean Club, i.e. not far from the apartment from where Madeleine McCann went missing ?

      On that occasion, did you actually pass by an Ocean Club employee that went there to pick up laundry ?"


      Neil Berry was POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED by Mario Marreiros (from photos and videos) as the man lurking in the stairwell of block 5 and when Neil Berry was asked by the PJ what he was doing there, he denied being there at all. He LIED.

      As for the rest, If it's nonsense then it would be easy to show that it was nonsense wouldn't it. And yet . . . . nothing.

      Nuala

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    10. Interesting debate.

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    11. Not Textusa,

      I'm curious to know who do you think was the witness mentioned by the PJ in this sentence from the files when questioning N Berry "Considering the fact that you were seen by a witness, clarify what you were doing at that time next to the stairs leading to the upper floor". If not Mario Marreiros, who?

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    12. Anonymous 2 Feb 2016, 23:30:00

      That's a very good question, however I believe I've shown in my last post that it was indeed Mario Marreiros.

      Mario Marreiros himself says it was him, he had no problem telling the newspapers it was him who saw someone lurking in the stairwell of block 5, he even described the person to the newspaper.

      So we await Not Textusa's response to your question and my last post. I'm greatly looking forward to him showing everyone that I've been talking nonsense as he claims :)

      Nuala

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    13. So if he spoke to the police several months after Madeleine went missing, where is his statement?

      Why don't you come back when you have something other than a tabloid newspaper to quote from, hmmm?

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    14. Oh, incidentally:

      "A situation was investigated relating to two individuals, Neil B. and Rajinder B., especially as regards the former, whose information was crossed with Tasmin Silence’s witness account, the photofit showing that this was not the same individual. In spite of the inquiries made, including by means of the Letter of Request, nothing was found to link him to the disappearance of the British girl.''

      So the PJ ruled him out. But of course, you know better than them....
      http://themaddiecasefiles.com/post245356.html#p245356

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    15. Not Textusa 4 Feb 2016, 13:36:00 and 13:42:00

      Who cares where his statement is? We know it EXISTS just like we know Stephen Carpenter's first statement EXISTS even though it's not in the files.

      As for this:

      "A situation was investigated relating to two individuals, Neil B. and Rajinder B., especially as regards the former, whose information was crossed with Tasmin Silence’s witness account, the photofit showing that this was not the same individual. In spite of the inquiries made, including by means of the Letter of Request, nothing was found to link him to the disappearance of the British girl.''

      We know all that, Neil Berry was investigated because he was positively identified by Mario Marreiros as the man lurking in the stairwell of block 5, so that's nothing new.

      As for the PJ ruling him out, of course he was ruled out, Neil Berry wasn't involved in the disappearance of Maddie McCann. No, Neil Berry was lurking in the stairwell of block 5 looking like he got caught with his fingers in the sweetie jar because he was involved in the SWINGING.

      And that had to be covered up at all costs.

      Nuala

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  9. I see no fact denial from Not Textusa.

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    1. That is because no facts have been presented

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    2. Fact, a man who isn't John Geraghty has been taken by him. We have corrected such error.

      Fact, John Geraghty is said to be a Leicester businessman. We have corrected such error.

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  10. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much.

    In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected.

    There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

    Kudos to Textusa.
    No more walnuts please ...

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    1. Censored comment received:

      "Not Textusa has left a new comment on your post "Carman":

      Is that your excuse for ignoring all the evidence and coming up with a (censored) conspiracy theory?

      Posted by Not Textusa to Textusa at 31 Jan 2016, 13:49:00"

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    2. Insane,

      We inform you that from now we will censor the word "conspiracy" from your comments.

      You know perfectly well that no one in this blog believes that there was any sort of conspiracy in relation with what happened to Maddie.

      We believe, as you so well know, that there is a cover-up after her accidental death.

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  11. "The little things are infinitely the most important."

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  12. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-482662/McCanns-hire-Omagh-bomb-expert-carry-independent-DNA-tests.html
    This seems relevant to current post.
    So it wasn't CRG scientist but this scientist?
    Either the tests didn't take place or they weren't favourable?

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    1. Tests were being used as a 'defence' - not out of shock, or alarm, or curiosity. And only, it seems, with the hired car. The mcCanns must have felt relaxed enough about UK sniffer dogs alerting to death and blood in apartment 5a; in the flowerbed' to 'cuddle cat' and to cadaver scent on Kate's clothes?

      (Then in the hired car).

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    2. That article is nothing to do with the tests. It is about a meeting between the McCann lawyers and the lawyers who defended in a previous case where LCN-DNA evidence was used

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    3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573193/Omagh-bombing-Sean-Hoey-found-not-guilty.html

      He was found not guilty so presumably Mcs would have used this case IF they could.

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    4. Dearly me not Textusa we are sinking to new lows now. Would the mccanns even sink low enough to use this guy

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    5. The article on the meeting was clearly an attempt to possibly use this 'expert' in case any sniffer dog alerts were eventually used in court! Seems obvious....

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    6. The article is regarding the accuracy of LCDNA Testing methods by the FSS . Not the accuracy of the dogs. There were several problems with the FSS and with LC-DNA methods . In fact LCDNA evidence was suspended for a while after this case until correct methods were put in place. Namely by the FSS which, according to police reports, was using an incorrect method to perform them.

      In 2007 A joint statement issued by the Home Office and Acpo said: "Towards the end of 2006 we become aware that a small percentage of DNA samples may need to be re- examined as a result of differences in the way forensic suppliers were using new techniques to analyse forensic material between 2000 and 2005. This is now referring to the use by the FSS of the non recommended LCDNA technique “The review relates to cases where the FSS analysed tiny samples of blood or saliva for a DNA profile, only to get a negative result when detectives had expected otherwise.“ DNA evidence became traceable in very small traces of bodily fluids from 2000 following advances in testing techniques."

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6381969.stm

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  13. It's always an indication you've done a good job when Not Textusa gets this worked up! Well done sisters!

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  14. https://mobile.twitter.com/AdirenM/status/694649483913793536

    "Walker must be a twin of GreenInk Wright, because their hired dementia is= #McCann"

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  15. I see you've been very busy responding to Insane on your blog.
    How wonderful it is to see him so silenced by both yourself and Nuala. Both so very incisive.
    Glad to see that in future you're going to be censoring his referrals to 'conspiracy'
    What a strange character Geraghty is, mysterious and elusive, nothing seemed to add up, so glad you have managed to reveal the discrepancies
    Why has no one ever felt the need to correct the case of a mistaken identity?

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    1. Anon 18.07,it's only "Mistaken Identity" when you need to mask the real one, who stated he was Mr John Geraherty to the press,public persona?
      Now people have been able to identify the resemblance of a person,"Staring at Gerry McCann", who was hot stepping it back to the UK with Kate and family 8/9 September 2007,Renault Scenic and close associations to a Portugal Golf course Captain, we are able to digest,why they wished for his identity to be secret?

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