Madeleine McCann: Tapas Nine Meet In Secret And Paulo Pereira Cristovao Accuses
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DAILY EXPRESS front page: “Madeleine parents in secret summit with the Tapas 9 friends”
Doesn’t the McCanns plus the Tapas Nine makes the Tapas 11, or the Elevenses 11?
Page 5: “’Suspicions’ over the Tapas Nine summit’” – The meeting is called “cloak and dagger”, says the Express. Friends of the McCanns call the reunion “highly emotional” and “deeply sad”
A sources says: “They wanted to talk about possibly being interviewed by the police again and what that may entail”
And they can. It is not breaking any law for the group to meet
“McCanns ‘guilty of neglect’” – Paulo Pereira Cristovao, who used to work for the Policia Judiciaria and now heads the organisation to find missing children in Portugal, says: “When [the McCanns] told the police that they went to dinner and left the children at home they confessed to the crime of abandonment. They should have been charged for that crime on the first day”
But they were not. And others who have tried to pursue them have failed
THE SUN page 17: “TAPAS 9 IN SECRET MEETING”
This is the fist time the diners have met since the night Madeleine disappeared, although they have spoken to each other via phone and email
Kate and Gerry McCann are “doctors”
Says a source: “They and their friends should not be meeting to discuss the case”. A friend of the couple called the meting as an “expression of support”
DAILY MAIL page 30: “Tapas Nine ‘talks tactics’ – Portuguese police are furious over friends’ summit”
A source close to the Portuguese investigation says: “The McCanns left Portugal the moment they were made suspects and refused to answer many key questions. Now they and their friends are about to be re-interviewed and it is revealed they have met up in secret in a hotel”
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “It was the first time the group had sat down together since Madeleine’s disappearance but they have been in constant email and phone contact”
DAILY MIRROR page 12: “TAPAS 9 HOLD SECRET MEETING TO TALK TACTICS”
Watched by police and paparazzi, how did this secret meeting come to be arranged, and how did it pass unnoticed?
The McCanns, Dr David Payne (“heart specialist”), Fiona (his “doctor wife”), Dr Russell O’Brien (”hospital consultant”), Jane Tanner, Dr Matthew Oldfield (“endocrinologist”), Rachel (doctor’s wife) and Dr Payne’s mother Dianne Webster all met in one Leicestershire hotel and no-one saw?
“CHIEF SLAM McCANNS” – Paul Pereira Cristovao says…
DAILY STAR page 15: “COPS PROBE TAPAS SEVEN SECRET CHAT”
And then there were 7…
“Under English law such a meeting between the McCanns, who are both suspects, and their key witness pals would be banned during a criminal investigation”
THE TIMES page 9: “Kate and Gerry McCann deny the Tapas Nine met ‘to get story straight’”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “This was in no way to get their stories straight. This is the age of e-mail and phone. They could have done that a long time ago”
Although emails and phone calls can be monitored
Tapas 9 member Rachael Oldfield is “36” and a “recruitment consultant”
Such are the facts
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: Tapas 9’s secret meeting”
Says a source: “It was a show of solidarity under police claims that one or two had wanted to change their stories. That is just not the case and the meeting showed that. It was a meeting to express support by the friends and just to see each other again. They hadn’t seen each other properly”
Pereira Cristovao heads the Portuguese Association for Missing Children (APCD), which leads the hunt for missing children in Portugal.
Says he: “I was asked what I thought about inviting the McCanns to the APCD. I said no, because they’re suspects. She is (the ninth child on the PJ’s missing people page) but the case involves a criminal investigation which is still on the boil, with the parents as suspects. We have eight children whose disappearances are unexplained”
It’s a “snub”, says the Telegraph
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Madeleine is still a missing child and she went missing in Portugal so we would hope that she would be treated as such by this organisation but ultimately that is a matter for them”
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Posted: 11th, December 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (504) | TrackBack | Permalink
June 24th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
501 – I got shivers when I read your post. Your description is exactly the same as a dream I had a few weeks after Madeleine went missing. I can see the house (a bit run down), the path to it, the bush, the sloping section and feel the quiet and hear the birds. I can also see the man that brought her there. In my dream I was taken inside the house, and sat on the couch next to the man (I have a very clear image of him and he is one of the drawings of unknown men who may be suspects) but I am not willing to post this on here. There was another man in the lounge and they were drinking beer. TV was on. There was a woman in the kitchen. I was taken from the lounge into the kitchen and out the back door onto the sloping section. We then walked up the slope behind the house which had a track into the bush on the hills. At the top of one of the hills, I was shown a gully below and told that was where she was. There are many other details about the dream – I don’t often have such clarify but this one was very clear and has stayed with me ever since.
If I ever go to Portugal, I would be looking for this place as I know I would recognise it. It’s not far from where she was taken.
I hope she’s found soon so the parents can find some peace in their lives.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Yeah I think you’re right, must have frightend them off! How strangeshe thought of a goat herder, very similar. My ‘premonition’ or whatever was that it was summer (northern hemisphere) too with very lush grass. Let’s wait and see huh, if it ever does get solved and if Christoine or I were right in part it’ll be something to reflect on for sure.
Cheers
December 13th, 2007 at 8:27 am
505
Angela Says:
December 13th, 2007 at 1:02 am
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We seem to be the only ones left on here !! everyone else has gone to the new threads. I think it is enough that you have felt what you have, Christine and you are of the same mind, that Maddie is/was in that sort of abandoned out-of-the-way place up in the hills. The water may be nearby too and she also got a goat-herder bringing his animals down to better pasture and coming across the body so that would be a result too. I just wish they could find SOMETHING and very soon.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:02 am
504 and 502, no that’s all but i’ve felt that all the way through, wooden cottage, grass clearing, birds, isolated area, don’t know about water. Just more like a hunters or trampers maybe small brown wooden cottage.
Had the same feelings about a girl murdered in NZ 10 years ago and that there were white railings nearby and I was so surprised when the news report showed white railing beside the road on the turn off to where her body was found.
But look who knows, I’m honestly not one of those nutters – and I know there are plenty out there. Some people just get those intuitive feelings. bit like when you may get a feeling of not being in a safe environment. Something I want my children to always be aware of.
I hate it when I get those ‘feelings’ had that for about a month before my husband had a major car crash, knew someone was going to happen but couldn’t figure out what it was. Kept me awake at night. My husband was in an horrific crash, he wasn’t killed but the other driver at fault was. Another time pulled up outside a holiday house we were going to rent and had a heavy feeling of sadness and later found out that a woman was murdred in the house-in the room we stayed in too. Glad we didn’t hear about that until the day we checked out.
Look I’ve been the biggest sceptic out at times but sometimes you get these feelings. Look it’s probably all an overactive imagination but..I don’t know
I suggest that if trained psychics or intuitive people can help solve this mystery then go for it.
I do think it very odd that the priest has changed his attitude.
the Australian psychic Deb Webber has said she believes Madeleine was smuggled out through an airport. YOu can google her credentials.