This was not true

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I have tried to draw up everything that follows into an “Executive Summary”, hoping to encapsulate in as few words as possible the essence of what has emerged during this long analysis of the available evidence.

Interested and discerning readers are urged to follow to the fuller articles here, and to access the references, and then to research further for themselves.

Now that the total and repeated falsehood of the claim the McCanns were “not suspects”, and that they had been ‘cleared’ has been specifically rejected first at the Appeal Court, and then by the Supreme Court in Portugal, might it perhaps now be time to consider other things they said.

They said to relatives the shutters had been forced and broken	This was not true
They said the curtains were wide open	This was not true
They said the closed curtains had blown in the wind and the door had slammed	This was not true
They said the group had been checking every 30 minutes	This was not true
They said Gerry had entered through the front door using his key	This was not true
They said they could see the apartment from the Tapas bar	This was not true
They said they had been watched during the week	This was not true
They said they did not know Robert Murat	This was not true
They said there was no blue tennis bag	This was not true
They said the blood and cadaver dogs were ‘incredibly unreliable’	This was not true
They said they believed Madeleine could be in Morocco	This was not true
They said they had an experienced private detective company searching	This was not true
They said they had a second, more experienced detective company searching	This was not true
They said they had a third, yet more experienced detective company searching	This was not true
They said that a detective agency had not said they would find Madeleine by Christmas	This was not true
They said they had no more photos in their possession	This was not true
They said the Last Photo was taken on Thursday 3rd May	This was not true
They said the Tennis balls photo was taken on Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday	This was not true
They said they had cooperated fully with the Portuguese police	This was not true
They said they had answered all questions truthfully	This was not true
They said they had not deleted phone messages and records	This was not true
They said they would not leave Portugal until Madeleine was found	This was not true
They said they would take a Lie detector test	This was not true
They said they had never lied to anyone, police, media, or anyone else	This was not true
They said they had not discussed the case with the Tapas 7	This was not true
They said they had been offered a “Plea Bargain”.	This was not true
They said their reputations had been damaged by Dr Amaral’s book	This was not true
They said they were not suspects	This was not true
They said the shelving of the enquiry had ‘cleared’ them of suspicion	This was not true
They said the “Fund” would not be used for legal expenses	This was not true
They said the “Fund” accounts would be transparent and open	This was not true
They said the “Fund” was for searching for Madeleine	This was not true
They said they never called Madeleine - “Maddie”	This was not true
They said they had not placed much emphasis on the coloboma	This was not true
They said they believed in and supported Free Speech and “purporting theories”	This was not true
Is it now time for us all at least to be allowed to contemplate the following...?
They said Madeleine Beth McCann, aged 3 years, was taken from her bed
in the front room of Apartment 5a of the Mark Warner Ocean Club in
Praia da Luz on the Algarve in Portugal, during the evening of
Thursday 3rd May 2007, and was abducted by an unknown person	This was not true