Posted by Last updated at 19:03pm on 25th December 2007
Police want to trace a tennis bag allegedly taken from Kate and Gerry McCann’s apartment on the night Madeleine went missing, it was claimed yesterday.
Detectives think the blue holdall could have been used to carry Madeleine away, or even to transport her body.
It belonged to Mr McCann but has not been seen since the night of May 3, according to the Sky News documentary.
Tony Rogers, who reviews unsolved cases for British police and worked on the Soham investigation, said: “If it’s a bag of a size that could be used to take a child away from the flat, that would be of great interest to the investigating officer.”
But Mr McCann told friends yesterday that he did not take any tennis equipment to Praia da Luz, and did not own a blue tennis bag.
McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell flatly denied that Mr McCann had lost a bag during the family’s holiday.
He said: “As far as Kate and Gerry are concerned, there is no missing tennis bag. They came back from holiday with everything except of course, tragically, Madeleine.”
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Madeleine disappeared in Praia da Luz on May 3
Sky News stood by its story, which it said came from sources who had travelled to the resort after Madeleine’s disappearance Police want to trace a blue tennis bag allegedly taken from Kate and Gerry McCann’s apartment on the night Madeleine went missing.
At the time of the disappearance maritime police told fishermen and boat owners to watch out for anything unusual they spotted in the sea around the coast, including any black bin liners which could have been thrown into the water containing potentially vital evidence.
Portuguese police worked for several months on the theory that Madeleine died in her parents’ holiday apartment and that her body was somehow transported to a hiding place after her death, but have been unable to find sufficient evidence to prove such a claim.
Forensic samples which they hoped would prove her body was transported in her parents’ Renault Scenic, hired 25 days after she went missing, proved inconclusive.
Her parents have always denied any involvement in her disappearance and Mr Mitchell called the theory “ridiculous”.
July 30th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
ridiculous, ludicrous, Mitchelicrous ……ETCrous blablabla
August 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Thank god someone is not frightened to speak out, well done to youre site.
I have thought from day 1 these people have done a terrible thing to that beautiful little girl.
I FEAR IF SITES LIKE THIS DO NOT KEEP THIS CASE IN THE PUBLIC EYE they are going to get away with it
I have just spent sometime reading a lot of the book that has come out in portugal and i give all credit to the man who wrote it.
He was on the case and he knows what went on.
I am actualy upset with our english police after reading what i have just read.
They have to keep investigating the Mcanns.
LOUISE
August 13th, 2008 at 9:42 am
There are a lot of people who say that the Parents killed the little girl. I would like to ask (1) for what reason (2) when did they do it(3) Where did they dispose of her body and how. Perhaps some of you who blame them for it have the answers ? Please let us all know so we can form our own views on your theories.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Reply to Barbara Rudd from admin:
1) There are many reasons why people kill. Some are accidental. Some are deliberate. Who knows why?
2) There was time for Madeleine to have been killed on the nights of either May 1 or May 2. It is extremely unlikely that Madeleine died on the night of May 3 as per the Tapas 9’s alibis. It is more likely that Madeleine was already dead by this time and most of May 3 was taken up in a cleanup operation.
3) The disposal of the body was most likely a multi-stage operation. It probably passed through a few places before being taken to the final resting place.
4) There were opportunities to bring the body back to the UK so this cannot be ruled out.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:58 am
barbara,
After much reading of the mccann files and reports (mccannfiles.com), I have come to the conclusion that there is no evidence to suggest kate, gerry or the tapas 7 had anything to do with Maddie`s disappearance. However, if you (as I did) delve deeper into the interviews, statements, reports etc rather than read the Mccann/Mitchell friendly newspapers, you will soon discover an alarming array of discrepencies.
Every single one of the tapas nine has changed their story a number of times to the most simple of questions. I urge you to analyze this website. There is a cover up here of monumental proportions.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:57 am
justin straccia,
It seems you have failed to read the considerable amount of evidence facts in extracts of Goncalo Amaral’s book on various sites, his concise comments in several interviews and also PJ’s Report.
‘No evidence’ is the case with the McCann’s plea of abduction. The only forensics found on the bedroom
were Kate’s (police reports and files).
Conversely, there is overwhelming, substantiated evidence of Madeleine’s death in the apartment, along with forensics found in the vehicle boot. Cadaver odour was found in 4 locations in the apartment, two articles of Kate’s clothing, an article of Madeleine’s and also cuddle cat. Cadaver odour (and blood) was pinpointed by top dogs Eddie & Keela in two locations in the flat, the vehicle car key and the boot of the vehicle.
In normal circumstances, especially a case involving the level of expertize (Mark Harrison) deployed on Madeleine’s behalf alongside two police forces, the prime suspects would have been detained, charged and made answerable in Court last September.
The case, itself, is very straightforward. The ‘reason’ for Madeleine’s diappearance was found last July and proved by long delayed forensic results in September.
All the rest is a hugely expensive charade – a ‘circus, a PR fiasco’ ……… designed to manipulate opinion and pervert the course of justice.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Barbara,
Many children suffer accidental death, but rarely, if ever, are the parents charged with negligence or worse.
This includes tragic cases of children being run over in the driveways of their homes, drowning in pools etc.
Our neighbour accidentally shot his only child, but his first thought and action was to call the emergency services.
There is overwhelming evidence that Madeleine died in her parents apartment and that the vehicle they hired was, in someway involved in subsequent actions. In Madeleine’s case, her medically trained parents did not phone emergency services. It can, therefore, be concluded that steps were taken to prevent post mortem examination.
Our neighbour was charged with no offence in the accidental killing of his beloved son. Instead, he received a huge amount of support from the authorities and the public; he has never fully recovered.
Conversely, photos of the happy McCanns ‘grinning like Chesire cats’ were published shortly after their child went ‘missing’. They are shown proudly displaying one of their marketing products.
Normal people, especially parents, find the McCanns behaviour grossly distasteful and utterly despicable.
People have the right to form and voice their own opinions in this case. I actually find them an insult to the parents of Sarah Payne, Holly, Jessica & James Bulger; genuine vicitms of death due to abduction.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:39 am
‘Missing tennis bag’ is not a subject on which I have posted comments. This can only be the result of site interception and identity theft, the basis (confirkmed by police) of Mitchell’s threat of “dealing with forums” – overriding free speech and public opinion.
The Home Office refused PJ’s request to re-question the McCanns as prime suspect and/or attend Leicester Police interviews with the remainder of the Tapas group. PJ intended bringing specialists to study body language of ‘witnesses’. Police reports have since revealed that interviews were ‘corrupted’ by witnesses given sight of earlier statements made to PJ. Jane Tanner’s ‘interview’ suffered 7 inexplicable interruptions in the 2 -3 hour process, during which she conferred with her lawyer.
In lieu of Government forbidden attendance, PJ were sent DVDs of syndicated, orchestrated invalid ‘interviews’. Prior to this, Gordon Brown & Jacqui Smith reportedly visited Leicester Police.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Dear Tony,
Do you think Madeleine Mc Cann could be still alive? I too suspect that her parents are involved in her disappearance. I believe that the whole week was a set up, including leaving the children alone every night. Is it possible that Madeleine could be a human clone? This would explain why there are so many Doctors and medical people involved. Is it possible that the parents staged the room and left the DNA there themselves. You would have to check with experts to see if Madeleine’s DNA could have been mixed with fluid from a dead person. Also if there were other embryos left over from Madeleine’s conception that could have been used for this purpose. Kates eggs could have been used without her ever giving birth to Madeleine. I believe the Freemasons and the church are also involved. There is a lot of politics behind this and there has to be a very good reason! If Madeleine comes back they will have made a lot of people look stupid including the portuguese police. They may want to make it look like it is a miracle if she comes back. This would be another reason why her parents have not shown the normal emotions that we would expect to see of normal parents. Gerry has been very arrogant from the start and is smiling in a lot of photos, it is like he is putting on a show for certain people to see. This could be the reason why he didn’t care about making her eye defect public and why he has taunted us all with find the body if they killed her, because they have known who has her all along. They could have been making visits to her while they have been visiting all these countries, the pope and other leaders. Maybe this is why they won’t show Madeleine’s medical records. It would have been very easy for them to forge documents when she was born, due to the amount of people they know in medicine and the government and especially if the government sanctioned this experiment. Please don’t print my email address or give it to anyone. I admire you for doing something productive in bringing her parents to justice. Keep up the good work.
Hazel
October 24th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Having followed this story since it broke last year i have been open minded as to the happenings of Madelines disappearance. There is just something not right with it, staged? maybe, i trust them cadaver dogs more than any policeman they detected “death” in 2 places within the apartment and in the boot of the hire car, coincidence it is not. Is it possible that Maddy died/went missing before the 3rd of May? I know photos were shown date stamped 3rd May ect but a time/date stamp is easy to reverse on any camera. Plausible? well why not. Picture this 2 UK doctors go on holidays with 3 infant childeren meet with friends and boogey every night of the week with their pals and leave 3 infants alone and unattended
October 24th, 2008 at 9:41 am
oops, pressed submit………………….. Wouldnt happen, these people are the very people who would report such behaviour to Social Services. No way would 2 professional people leave infants to fend for themselves whether they were asleep or not when they left, that part of this tale is what will unlock the rest. could Maddy have died the day they arrived? 2 professional people panic and the 9 come to the plan to save their careers and livelihoods rather than face humiliation for a tragic accident. I have yet to hear an interviewer ask the question, Why did you leave 3 childeren alone or consectutive evenings? Joe and Jane from Bolton or Belfast would never do it, is this a common practice amongst the middle classes whilst abroad,……..i dont think so. Theres been to much spin and too many untruths released to muddy the waters, the dogs have been the scource of the only fact in this whole fiasco,
October 29th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Knowing what we all know now, l beleive that Madeleine was killed that night, and that the reason the parents coild not inform the police of her accidental death, is bcause had Madeleine been sexually abused, this would have had to come to light during the autopsy.From day one when they kept ramming down the medias throat that the shutter was BROKEN OPEN,and clearly there was no sign of that neither was the window marked it was obvious they were lying.
Now having seen the layout of the room,how could anyone break open a shutter,and window, climb in the room,having to stand on the bed under said window,back out again, carrying a 3 year old child, and leave no trace what so ever.It is impossible,as impossible as Jane Tanner walking past two men,on a narrow footpath,and not being seen.What is very worrying is the fact dispite Gerry McCann telling Panorama in november he and Jeremy Wilkins were on the other side of the road talking,not a mention in the press, or any form of the english media,WHY NOT.they were both absent form the tapas bar at the same time, and one has been proven to be a liar. Madeleine never stood a chance. it is obvious that the Mc Canns, would not have dreamt that the files in full would be given to the media, and therefore felt safe to lie true thier teeth When it came to light, like all the other evidense,they just ignored it and again they get away Scot free..
November 19th, 2008 at 8:13 am
I hope they both rot in hell!!
December 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
It’s all very sad a little chid is missing and we are all making judgements as to what happened , the police know the truth its how they are going to prove it without a body it will be difficult but not impossible.
i do not believe the police have given up they are still on the case for sure maybe not in the news papers but they are on it ,
there is something odd about the Mc canns behaviour its all me don’t look at us the big smoke screen they pulled everybody into it very quickly i am sure even they was surprised at the incompetence of the people they was dealing with.
It all went their way for sure they shut the press up and anybody else who they thought was going to upstage them.
I am sure they will try to close this site down with threats of suing and goodness knows what else
But I do believe there’s is a thawing of the public they are getting fed up with them,
They made enemies of the news papers the very people I would want on my side if you are looking for investigators who better then the investigative mind of a journalist.. maybe the realized this ..Pop.. They had to go… If the child is no longer with us I believe it was some accident nothing else and nothing more did I not read there are some new buildings going on around the place where the child went missing….
January 13th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Cat Eye Syndrome.
1. The Cat Eye Syndrome-.is a condition that can vary in degree from just a slight eye defect to Heart defect, Anus or kidney problems and much more and is linked to chromosome 22 defect.
In the bible’s text of Abraham’s sacrafice of his first born son, who knows? Perhaps he never had any other choice only that ultimate sacrafice just maybe David was that lame lamb.
2.Looking after a child who may have life limiting health issues can be a heavy burden on a young family especially if those parents are of this modern scientific age.
Maybe that child would be better off with other wanna be parents who can give her/him all the attention she needs in a far off land, it has been said a child adopted by age four can in time forget her/his natural parents and settle into his/her first school making new friends quickly.
3. I could invisage such modern day couples being secrectly pleased with this alternative.
Maybe a dilema only the Sacred Heart ,ever present, could solve.
A small holdall bag of favorite possesstions all that is needed for a small passenger on a journey to her/his knew life.
Yet these small migrants dilemas should not be taken for granted, the penetence for those who forsake them set high in gold sovereigns and that childs name forever revered, such as Davids, for the guilt of such a choice of those who take on such a burden can only be subdued by working to help others, maybe for the welfare of similar cases.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
For those asking ‘why’ parents would do this, it’s not rocket science. It probably was an accident, maybe they over medicated her, thinking they could go out while she slept, and now that it’s over, there’s nothing they can do except to participate in the whole cover up. So, IMHO, they didn’t ‘murder’ her, but they killed her unintentionally and now they’re beyond being able to confess.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Having read the police files…I am still disturbed about David Payne and the Gaspar witness statement…her fear (Mrs Gaspar) of not wanting Payne anywhere near her children at bathtime. The moment she heard maddie was missing she asked her husband was Payne on the holiday with them…The british police should have given this statement to PJ immediately..a child was missing..instead they held onto it for months….there may have been nothing to it,,,but that was for PJ to decide ….Now Payne looks very suspicious…he went out with mccann at 4am after police had finished their search….Why???
July 26th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
The research I did on the Madeleine case back in winter 2007, web fiiles uncovered the vile case of the Casa Pia Orphan scandel in Portugal where small mute children were used and sexually abused by the elite of Portuguese society.
One of those who was found guilty was the former embassador to Africa, one George Ritto, who was actually caught with a couple of small children held in his apartment.
Mr George Ritto in a certain light, could (in my humble oppinion) resemble David Payne,log onto the net and see for yourself, no finger pointing but it shows how easy it is to mistake people.
More interesting to me is the research into the IPCE web site and the name John McCann, the article there in on false accusations and defence for such claims brought by small children, the defence articles seem a large popular topic in this conference in the report of suspected preditors. Interestingly the case of Jonbennet is also aired on this same site and giving graphic detail of her genatalia at the time of her death. I have linked the two cases very stronly as a blue print of clearing up the aftermath of a childs death.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Hello again!
Is a possibility that the alleged abduction of Madeleine and the deaths of at least three maybe five children are connected in some way with dirty politics and the Presidential elections
Madeine McCann, Rachel Charles,Jonbennet Ramsey, The two Belgium girls abducted and strangled, A map along with a chilling letter marked with and X to locate the bodies of the two Begium girls sent to the DutchTelegraff news paper, as was the almost indentical letter sent to the same paper about Madeleine McCann, the maps said to have been downloaded from the same web site.
The possible link with politics being–The year Jonbennet a child beauty queen was brutally tortured and strangled to death, ( father said to have made his fortune in IT his firm called ACCESS), this year saw the year that Sen Gary Hart suddenly resigned over a sex scandel involving a young woman.
The year Madeleine disappeared Gov Mark Warner, who made his fortune in Telecomunications and who may be linked with Mark Warner Holiday village resigned, said to be a front runner and possibly a excellent candidate, he worked for George Bush and Enron, he sighted family before the Presidency Whow!
Gerry McCann is heavily involved with the Blair Government, the McCann twins Godfather Jon Corner a IT media guru worked for the Blair Government.
In the Jonbennet Ramsey case, an alleged collegue of Jon Corner the IT guru for Blairs Media set up is one Michael Tracy a IT Prof guru who teaches in Colarado University and championed the parents of Jonbennet Patsy Ramsey, like Kate McCann the prime suspect in the possible crimes commited against their own flesh and blood, lots of evedence planted to point the finger at the Mothers, lots of other links between these two cases, including the diversion of suspected local pedophiles.
Rachael Charles was a little girl abducted and stangled not so far from Praia da Luz, one Michael Cook was sent to prison for her murder, also a Michael Cook said he was a friend of Pedophile suspected of killing Jonbennet ramsey , he was one Michael Helgoth who was mysteriously killed himself, to many links and many many more with the IT WORLD and the outing of vile pedophiles.
August 23rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
There is a definate link to Jonbenets case and the two IT, TV media gurus, one made a documentry on jonbennet case in 2004 and resides in COLARADO, USA.
Madeleine is alive, but has been legally adopted, all the players were in place, the motive is there.
Jonbenets family murder trial may have been the blueprint for a massive cover-up, there are to many coincidences and between the two to be ignored and the final verdict insufficenr evedence and the
backing of an iternational data that both parties are now backing
Site Admin: Sorry but this did not happen. Madeleine died in May 2007. She isn’t coming back. Get used to it.
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
A man was seen at 9:50pm heading to the beach with a child against his chest at 9:50pm by the Smith Family
One of the Tapas 9 men (with light hair) was seen down by the Chapel at 23:20 pm on that night
Matt Oldfield and David Payne were seen down by the beach by one of the child investigative women at 23:30pm that night
DOGS DON”T LIE! Eddie and Keela only marked the McCanns property , no-one else’s , Madeleine is dead, and probably died behind the sofa , or fell from the veranda of 5A into the bushes below (where Eddie the cadaver marked both Veranda and Bushes)
The McCanns may not have murdered Madeleine but they covered up and disposed of her body to save their own asses.
In my opinion they should rot in hell, they have defrauded the entire world and should be shot. Madeleine is dead, and as Site Admin said “Get used to it”