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Last year in May 2007, Gerry McCann wrote in his blog on day 25;
“Some of you may have seen on the news the huge inflatable billboard which has travelled all the way from the West of Scotland to Portugal which will be used near busy roads/motorways to keep Madeleine’s disappearance high profile. We had a brief chat with Chris and Les, who drove almost non-stop from Glasgow to get here. The extraordinary length ordinary people are going to help us is truly overwhelming. We thank everyone for their efforts, no matter how small, and we know this will make a difference in our search for Madeleine.”
Sky News on May 28, 2007 wrote;
Also, the McCanns have met the men responsible for the 800sq-ft inflatable poster which will be taken around the Algarve and set up in prominent places.
It was the brainchild of advertising workers Chris Lennox and Les Harley from Glasgow – the home town of Madeleine’s father Gerry – who drove 2,200 miles from Scotland to help.
Mr Lennox, 35, from Prestwick said: “My heartstrings have been pulled on this and I want to help.
“I have a family with small kids and my wife has been following this from day one.”
The Guardian went further and said that Mr Lennox and Mr Harley paid for the venture;
Yesterday the McCann family visited a 75 sq metre (800 sq ft) inflatable poster of Madeleine that will be taken around the Algarve in an attempt to publicise her plight further. The poster, which highlights a £1.5m reward being offered through the News of the World, was paid for by Chris Lennox and Les Harley, two advertising professionals from Glasgow, who drove it 2,200 miles from Scotland to Praia da Luz.In a statement read out near the poster, the McCanns said they were amazed by the support they has received. “We have thanked everyone on several occasions but, you know, some people are just going to absolutely extraordinary lengths to help us,” the statement said.
McCann Spin
The story sounds like Chris and Les drove all the way to Portugal through their own efforts to help the McCanns. It really does sound like they went to extraordinary lengths to help.
But what really happened?
We can reveal on TRUTH For Madeleine that Chris and Les were simply doing their job. The inflatable billboard was not the brainchild of Mr Lennox or Mr Harley and the pair of them didn’t pay for it either.
So how did it come about?
No surprises for guessing but it was engineered by John McCann – Gerry’s brother.
Mr Amaral has already exposed the McCanns for manipulating the politicians and media and here again is a prime example of a story that was presented to the world in a completely different way to the reality of the situation.
Posters Plus Media
Gavin Hollywood, Managing Director of Posters Plus Media informed us of the details of the venture;
“I supported the McCanns with some digital advertising in the UK and was approached by Gerry’s brother John about the possiblity of helping with a high profile campaign at the height of the situation where time & awareness was essential. Within 5 days we had arranged the trip, logistics, printing and arranged staff to travel to Portugal (Chris & Les) with Carol-Anne Thomson our Campaigns Manager co-ordinating the campaign from our office and communicating with various authorities.
“The van, drivers and all equipment left from Posterplus Head Office in Kilmaurs Ayrshire. The trip took 3 full days travelling across the UK into France, Spain and finally Portugal. Various drivers change overs were made over the 3 days along with an overnight in France. Actual travel & campaign specific dates we would need to look back but it was May 07 and the full trip lasted 13 days in total.
“We used a standard transit van with lots of spare equipment in case of any difficulties in a foreign country, the set up & inflation for the Megasite is just over 1 hour.
“The billboard, Chris & Les the operators, travel, logistics, permits etc were all paid for and donated by Posterplus Media Group, the large printed poster with the reward details was kindly donated by Tayprint in Dundee. The News of The World was approached to use the copy details only of the reward and no funding or sponsors were involved in the trip, it was a donation & media facility offered by Gavin Hollywood Managing Director of Posterplus Media Group.
“The media cost for this type of campaign in the UK would have been £20,000+”
July 31st, 2008 at 7:32 am
its strange…Brother John seems to be in to everything…he is certainly a canny one!!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:50 am
I want to know why John McCann gave up his full time job so quickly, despite having a house and a wife and kids to support. How did he know Maddie wouldn’t be found within a few days and he’d be left high and dry with no job?
The answer must be that he knew Maddie was dead and the Fund was a money making scam.
This family make me sick to my stomach.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:12 am
What does Granny Healy and Grandpa, and Granny McCann and Grandpa say about all this???
About their lovely sons (G&J) and daughter Kate?
August 8th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Haven’t they any influence upon their “children” to be honoust and fear The Lord Almighty, Eternity lasts long, endless, to be without The Lord here, means to be without The Lord in Eternity and that is indescribable.
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpxfoF3SYg
August 17th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I can’t believe what people are actually saying in here.
If my child was missing for any amount of days I would give up ANY job I had to search for him/her. And any reapectable job would offer me that position back when I felt the need to return.
I pray for little Madeline McCann to retun home safely to her family one day.
Stacey
Site Admin: Well who would pay your wages to just give up any job you had? That’s silly to say that. Also, it wouldn’t be so bad if the McCanns were actually seen searching for their daughter. They didn’t search on the night and they haven’t searched since. Sadly Stacey, Madeleine won’t be returning home anytime in the future so you may as well get used to it and stop believing the spin from Team McCann.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
(I can’t help but notice the very strong resemblance of Madeleine to John McCann.) Yes, I can clearly remember John giving up his job and excitedly telling the TV reporters about his daily routine in the pointless quest to bring Madeleine home. And what’s happened to Philomena? She’s gone awfully quiet…
I note Stacey’s comment and find that there are a few gullible people out there who want to believe in a fairy-tale ending, e.g. Maddie is sitting somewhere waiting for mummy and daddy to come and get her. Get real, is all I can say to these people. The McCanns ‘went to bed’ the night their daughter ‘disappeared’. Went to bed …. I ask you!
September 1st, 2009 at 8:30 am
Site Admin: ”Well who would pay your wages to just give up any job you had? That’s silly to say that. Also, it wouldn’t be so bad if the McCanns were actually seen searching for their daughter. They didn’t search on the night and they haven’t searched since. Sadly Stacey, Madeleine won’t be returning home anytime in the future so you may as well get used to it and stop believing the spin from Team McCann.”
And as another poster has said, the parents went to bed! Went to bed when they should at least have pretended to be searching. To not have even pretended to do a bit of searching says it all really. Would not a frightened a child who was given to hiding before bed-time, perhaps have responded to her parents voices in the darkness of night? After all, what if she had only been hiding under a bush or in a shed and fallen asleep?
However, Eddie and Keela have since proved what the parents and others already knew. What time did Sky get called that night? And was it really only one minute past midnight that the newspapers already had the abduction story online? Fancy that. I would have to be well in with the media to be able to orchestrate something like that. I would have to be well in with people like Gordon Brown who could get hold of the Embassy.
I would also have to be well in with people like ‘Stu’ and other police officers who would give me a copy of their CEOPS manual and keep me regularly updated as well. And I would be really grateful if somebody like Robert Murat could keep an eye on all the interpretations of the questions that I would likely be asked.
September 8th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I have spent the whole afternoon reading through this site, well done and thank you!
I was living in Portugal until this year and remember only too well the media coverage and utter tradgedy. Although I appreciate the Portuguese Police acted slowly as in closing borders and not sealing off the room, the Portuguese people, media, government etc were all saddened deeply at the event. It was the top topic of conversation long after it lost momentum in the UK.
Child abduction is far less of a common occurrence as it is here in the UK, the GNR (police) are not trained to the high level of expertise as our police force is here. The instant focus with Portuguese people and ex-pats alike was that Maddy had died, not been abducted.
The parents in my opinion never behaved as if their child had been abducted; and with the colossal media coverage in such a short space of time arranged by the parents? If one om three children has disappeared, I would be out there looking, frantic, possibly hysterical and certainly not in bed asleep.
Hello……Discover your child missing, call the press then go to bed, don’t bother to look for her that’s on top of leaving them in a nursery everyday and alone at night…..Why DID they bother to even take them on a holiday?
What goes around comes around, hopefully one of them will have one little cell of remorse in their brain and not take their tragic secrets to the grave.
God bless that poor little girl and all the other tragic cases that were genuine.
Site Admin: The behavioural aspects were the biggest thing to alert us to the fact that something wasn’t quite right. Humans are quite adept at sensing behavioural patterns because it’s a primeval defense mechanism. If we couldn’t tell a liar apart from someone telling the truth, how would we know if someone was about to steal from us? The plain fact is that you can’t keep up an act trying to portray yourself as a grieving parent who genuinely has had their first born child stolen. There should have been many types of emotion on display but there wasn’t much at all. On Madeleine’s 4th birthday on 12th May, we saw them laughing and joking as they came out of church. They have never shown any sense of guilt at leaving the children. Instead of saying it was the wrong thing to do in hindsight, they looked to find people who supported their flawed method of child-minding. But I don’t believe they did check their children every half hour. If Mrs Fenn heard crying for 75 minutes how could they? Or was the crying Kate sobbing “Maddie, Maddie…” because she was already dead? Mrs Fenn also claimed the crying stopped abruptly when the parents came home. But was it “parent came home?” Was Kate already in the room with a dead child and then having to explain it to Gerry? Something is not quite right with those alibis from May 1 thru May 3.
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
When i first heard of the “abduction” my heart went out to Madeleine and the McCanns,but then i read that not only their children but the children of their tapas friends were left alone while they went boozing,and then i saw clips of them laughing,and Kate looking as if she stepped out of a salon,then how she had washed cuddle cat (she cared that it was dirty but didn’t care when leaving her vunerable children)the comfort toy for her own flesh and blood,then watching their interviews on tv which seemed contrived to me,also i noticed when the cameras were rolling they were all downcast,but there was a couple of occasions when the cameras stopped they were laughing something just told me that the whole “abduction” theory wasn’t true,then watching the much maligned Goncarlo Amarals documentary convinced me that he knew the truth and finally watching those excellent dogs sealed it for me.There are so many things about the McCanns and their tapas friends that make me sick,is there not one newspaper or tv channel brave enough to question them over the whole “abduction”line.The press and media should hang their heads in shame.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
As I have mentioned on other sites, I have believed for a long time that Madeleine’s “abduction” was a pre-planned event. Too many things were instantly set in motion for it to have been otherwise.
However, I believe the pre-planned abduction was unable to take place because an “accident” befell Madeleine and she was dead before the plan could be implemented.
The numerous deleted phone calls probably resulted in it being agreed that the pre-arranged “abduction” scenario should be played out nevertheless, hence so much confusion. And arrangements had to be made to hide the body temporarily before it could be put in a final resting place.
Meanwhile the parents went ahead with their high profile tours, no doubt with the intention that Kate would be the face for Amber Alert, which it was hoped would eventually encourage microchipping to enable the UK and the EU to implement their desire to have complete records of every last detail of our lives from birth onwards.
Gerry was probably expected to have a high profile political career, probably related to drugs and medicine.
Could it be that the Common Purpose crowd are behind the whole thing, and money from the unaccountable Fund also goes towards that cause?
Site admin: Common Purpose auditors and the official Madeleine Fund auditors are one and the same: Haysmacintyre. Haysmacintyre do lots of charity accounts and also many Freemason accounts. Quite why a Leicester based company has auditors and lawyers in London is a mystery of its own. Surely there are auditors in Leicestershire that could do the job.
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I have made three attempts to sign the Petition supporting justice for Dr Amaral, who is being sued for an outrageous sum and who has had all his assets confiscated. However, I have never received the confirmation e-mail and wonder if this Petition is being blocked? d I have checked Spam repeatedly. I also e-mailed the author of the Petition, but again it didn’t seem to go through. Any info/advice please?
Can hardly believe the latest explanation of how the Madeleine fund money has been lost to a con agent. Just how gullible are the public supposed to be?
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:22 am
I can suggest two websites you might want to try if you want to get a petition started. One is Care2.com and the other is Change.org. Then you can post your petition on Facebook. I always thought one of the Tapas 9 knew something and I think the whole thing is seedy. I support Dr. Amaral and wish to read his book. Have been waiting to see the English version. Can’t stand the arrogance of the British press. Yuo have to admit: No body,no crime. The sniffer dogs solved 200 cases. There was a corpse behind the couch and under the boot.
July 1st, 2010 at 7:25 am
I have said before; I simply dont believe there is some massive Freemason conspiracy behind Maddie’s disappearance.
I dont think she was sold or due to be sold or that anyone pre-planned harm against her.
I think that she was left alone and died and her parents panicked in a devastating way.
They hid her rather than calling for help, probably assuming they’d be strung up for neglect and wrongful death and all sorts.
I dont know that I believe it happened the day before, as I just dont see why they didn’t stage their act that morning after instead; rather than tell everyone she’s missing with a ten minute head start, why not have told everyone she was abducted out of the apartment at night giving her ‘abductor’ an 8 hour head start and make her total vanishing more plausible?
I think she died in the day time and was left dead long enough, perhaps while they decided what to do, to start to decompose and give the dogs something to smell.
It might never have occurred to the McCann’s that sniffer dogs might be called in so they may have had no thoughts towards moving her body before she started to smell.
Lots of companies in one town will have Auditors in another, it depends how large the company is, if the Auditors or full time employees or hired on specifically for Audits, and I do agree that lots of families who lose children simply…stop…they drop everything..it isn’t that unusual for Gerry’s brother to quit his job as, like someone said, any decent hearted boss would take him back once he understood the reasons for leaving.
I do think this was a small, personal tragedy. They media circus, yes, was orchestrated because the McCann’s probably had the thought that if the made the world look LEFT they could duck right and come off as innocent. I don’t think they expected the sheer scale of the public response, and as such their chance to fade from memory as that family who tragically lost a kid, what was their name again…passed them by.
At this point there is too much going on for them to admit it so they probably never will.
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:57 am
John McCann is certainly an odd one.
I recall that he was interviewed on BBC Scotland on the morning of the 21st of May 2007, the day Gerry was flying back to the UK to discuss matters with members of the media and ostensibly to thank members of the public for their support and rally more.
Typically of “Team McCann” it was not an interview that engendered trust in their version of events – John seemed remarkably laid-back and unconcerned, referring to Madeline as “ a lovely wee girl, lots of fun” but warmly chuckling rather than sounding in any way worried or distressed on behalf of his niece. As usual, there was much mention of an expectation that she would be recovered, but the likelihood of this was discussed in the same casual manner as he took towards her abduction in the first place. Frankly, he seemed to be finding it all a bit of fuss over not very much. That, at least, was the impression I gathered from his rather overblown cheeriness and downplaying of matters.