The case of Madeleine McCann

[mike tesko]

In June 2010 I went on a field trip to Praia de Luz, to get a partial sense of the supposed crime scene and its surrounding area..

I did a 360° tour of apartment  5A, by a radius equivalent to the distance between the sea, from that apartment...

I ended up in the rear garden of the derelict building across the street from St Vincents church - Madeleine is / was there...

I do not personally know,  nor am I aware of the two areas of wasteland designated by Danny Krugel in his work at trying to pinpoint where Madeleine is, or where she at one time physically passed through, but what sticks in my mind is the wasteland at the sea where black plastic bags, small boats, discarded fridges, and what I refer to as the second drainage tunnel, and where freezers and general rubbish were randomly dumped by local residents, as being one of those two Krugel designated wasteland areas..

I anticipate the three coordination points adopted by Krugel in his work - (1) apartment 5A, (2) the beach and rocky hillside at one end of the beach, and (3) the dumping site where rubbish and small boats were dumped / parked up/ or discarded, crop up for a good reason...

Of course, the Smith sighting of Gerald McCann carrying off the deceased daughter, and all of the other interesting events which fall to be taken into account within that triangular area, and time frame, all are part and parcel of the absolute truth narrative..

[mike tesko]

I anticipate the three coordination points adopted by Krugel in his work - (1) apartment 5A, (2) the beach and rocky hillside at one end of the beach, and (3) the dumping site where rubbish and small boats were dumped / parked up/ or discarded, crop up for a good reason...

The rear garden of the derelict building falls within Krugels triangulation areas..

[mike tesko]

(1) - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/bag-of-small-bones-found-in-reservoir-where-lawyer-claims-madeleine-mccanns-body-was-dumped-6681732.html

Bag of small bones found in reservoir where lawyer claims Madeleine McCann's body was dumped.

Divers searching a reservoir for Madeleine McCann yesterday found a plastic bag containing small bones.

Police experts were last night examining the gruesome find at the lake only 20 minutes from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, where Madeleine - three at the time - disappeared last May.

Her parents Gerry and Kate McCann were told immediately by a private detective monitoring the search. Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia, who sponsored the dive, says he was acting on an underworld tip-off that Madeleine was murdered and her body thrown in a lake within 48-hours of being snatched.

He said last night: "We found two bags, one of which contains some small bones.

"We don't know at this stage if they are human bones. If they are, they look like they come from a child's fingers. They are too small for an adult. I can't tell you how many we found, because we didn't count them.

"As soon as we made the find, we handed them over to the Portuguese authorities and the private detectives working for the McCanns."

Last night the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell played down the find.

He said: "We have not been informed of anything by the police to indicate that this find is significant. There is nothing to indicate at this stage that they are human bones and they could easily be from an animal.

"There is nothing at the moment to indicate that this find has anything to do with Madeleine. We continue to believe she is alive."

It is the second time divers working for Mr Correia have searched the waters. The criminal lawyer has spent thousands of pounds on the search.

John Fellows, a frogman with the Lagos-based dive school Dive Time made the discovery.

The remote reservoir is near the town of Silves where a lorry driver saw a woman handing a child like Madeleine McCann over to a man two days after she went missing.

Divers had previously recovered several lengths of cord, some plastic tape and a single white, cotton sock.

[mike tesko]

The rear garden of the derelict building falls within Krugels triangulation areas..

Here are some of the search areas which were searched during the investigation...

[mike tesko]

Neither the PJ or the Metropolitan police have ever searched the derelict building (shown circled in next image next to the village church) - instead searches were carried out on nearby wasteland, and the catacombs of the church



The shallow grave is located in the rear garden of the derelict building

The garden where it is believed the body of Madeleine McCann is / was buried..



Note how close to one of the search areas the rear garden of the derelict building is - highlighted by focussed circle..

[mike tesko]

Photographs taken by myself of the shallow grave in a hollow in the rear garden of the derelict building including an iron bar used to prize out stones from the ground so that the body could be buried deep enough, filled in with building site rubble obtained from nearby roadworks in the close vicinity of the church and the derelict building itself..

The grave itself within eyesight of the village church spire..

[mike tesko]

Here is a view of the general wasteland that was searched..



And other views of the same area

[mike tesko]

In my view, it would have been virtually impossible for anyone to jemmy open the metal shutters from the outside of the children's bedroom window, by virtue of the fact that the stellar shutter extends all the way down until it touched the window will. Additionally, there is also the matter of the locking mechanism situated on the inside which would have had to have been deactivated by somebody, and even then there would have been tool markings on the shutter and the window will, and of course, there were no such tell tale marks...

Here is an identical window with its curtains and metal shutter, photographed by myself in the apartment that I stayed in during my visit to Portugal in June 2010 (block 6)..



And, as shown the strap used to raise and lower the metal shutter on the outside of the bedroom window can clearly be seen at the right hand side of the bedroom window (as viewed by the photographer)..



Let's take a closer look at this piece of equipment which can only be operated by someone from inside the bedroom..



How would it have been possible for someone standing outside the children's bedroom window for them to be able to use this strap mechanism to raise the external metal shutter from its normal position at the bottom of the window, to its highest position at the top of the window. The shutter would have needed to already be raised and the sliding glass framed window already open, to allow somebody to simply put their hand through the open window with its raised shutter, and mechanically operate the strap to raise or lower it..



Any would be intruder / burglar,/ kidnapper intent on entering the children's bedroom would have need to be able to somehow operate the strap on the inside of the window, from outside the window..



The strap has a self locking mechanism which prevents the outside shutter from automatically dropping back into a  lower or closed position. You have to manually pull the strap away from the surface of the wall and either pull down to raise the shutter on the outside of the window or pull upwards on the strap to lower the same shutter - once you let go of the strap and it falls flush against the bedroom wall, the steel shutter becomes locked at the height (up or down) the shutter was in before you let go of the strap allowing it to fall naturally flush in fashion against the wall..



Above showing strap in deactivàtion mode, for example, the strap is pulled away from its locking device on the wall. But when the strap is released it puts the shutter into activation mode, as shown in the following image..



A similar device is located at the top right hand side of the window, so that when the strap is flush with the vertical wall, the steel shutter on the outside of the bedroom window cannot be raised because the strap is immobilized (top and bottom), and can only be raised in the event that someone on the inside of the bedroom operates the strap as shown by pulling it away from the face of the bedroom wall and pulling in a downward fashion, which in turn will start to raise the steel shutter on the outside of the bedroom window...



In the above image, is shown the operating strap flush vertically against the wall secured in its mechanisms below and above. When the window shutter is fully down as shown in this particular image, nobody on the outside of the bedroom window can raise the shutter because the security strap has been automatically activated below and above. If you attempted to jemmy up the metal shutter from the outside, not only would there be evidence of tool markings on the shutter itself but corresponding tool marks on the external window ledge outside. If that in itself was problematic, the chain / strap mechanism used to raise and lower the shutter would become damaged or snap because of the automatic  locking operation which comes into play at the bottom of the window and the top of the window whenever the strap is flush vertically against the inner wall..

So, it is doubtful to my mind that anyone forced open the metal shutter of the children's bedroom window for the reasons given.

[mike tesko]

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there would have come a point when they would have to report it, and that was at about 10pm, when Kate declared publicly to all those present at the tapas bar, that Maddie was gone, and that "they" had taken Maddie...

at about 10pm was as good a time as any to break the news whilst the parents were allegedly out dining at the tapas bar...

But as we now know nobody except a middle aged lady was at the booked dining tables at the tapas bar after 9.30pm. So, Kate McCann cannot have left there at 10pm that evening to discover that Madeleine was missing, and neither was there anybody back in the tapas bar for her to run back to and alert everyone that Madeleine had been taken, because nobody was there at 10pm, except for the solitary middle aged lady...

[mike tesko]

So, it is doubtful to my mind that anyone forced open the metal shutter of the children's bedroom window for the reasons given.

Then there is the matter of the locking mechanism of the sliding bedroom window..



The lock on this particular sliding window model, has two settings - these are with the catch / switch on the handle raised up, or lowered down. In the above example, the catch /switch is up. The following image shows the same catch / switch pressed down...



Of course, the shutter locking mechanism, and the children's bedroom sliding window locking mechanism, work independently of each other. If someone broke into the children's bedroom window by forcing their way in, they would have had to jemmy the external metal shutter up which would have inevitably caused some damage to the shutter itself and the outside window sill. Furthermore, there would have also have been significant damage to the strap / chain which help to keep the shutters functioning, as a result of the two locking mechanisms one above the other below, activating or deactivating the automatic lock of the metal shutter..

[mike tesko]

Then there is the matter of the locking mechanism of the sliding bedroom window..



The lock on this particular sliding window model, has two settings - these are with the catch / switch on the handle raised up, or lowered down. In the above example, the catch /switch is up. The following image shows the same catch / switch pressed down...



Of course, the shutter locking mechanism, and the children's bedroom sliding window locking mechanism, work independently of each other. If someone broke into the children's bedroom window by forcing their way in, they would have had to jemmy the external metal shutter up which would have inevitably caused some damage to the shutter itself and the outside window sill. Furthermore, there would have also have been significant damage to the strap / chain which help to keep the shutters functioning, as a result of the two locking mechanisms one above the other below, activating or deactivating the automatic lock of the metal shutter..

Even if you could force the metal window shutter of say the children's bedroom window from the outside, you would then have to deal with the sliding bedroom window locking mechanism. If you forced it open, you would leave tool marks where your jemmy forced the window open, as well as damage to the switch that activates or deactivates the window securely..

[mike tesko]

Even if you could force the metal window shutter of say the children's bedroom window from the outside, you would then have to deal with the sliding bedroom window locking mechanism. If you forced it open, you would leave tool marks where your jemmy forced the window open, as well as damage to the switch that activates or deactivates the window securely..

And yet, the police who inspected the metal window shutter found no damage at all to any component part of that particular bedroom window shutter, no buckled metal no tool mark, no DNA. It was a similar story when the locking mechanism of the sliding bedroom window was examined and scrutinised - no damage, no cracked glass, and no fine tool marks...

It would appear that somebody didn't have to jemmy open the metal shutter and or the sliding bedroom window. The McCann parents or someone with access to the children's bedroom window had inadvertently and or deliberately left the window open and unlocked, and the metal window shutter raised up as far as it could go...

[mike tesko]

It would appear that somebody didn't have to jemmy open the metal shutter and or the sliding bedroom window. The McCann parents or someone with access to the children's bedroom window had inadvertently and or deliberately left the window open and unlocked, and the metal window shutter raised up as far as it could go...

And yet, funny how Mathew Oldfield never saw the children's bedroom window shutter raised when he did his 9pm check of the McCann apartment, or the bedroom window open, and or any curtains whooshing about (as later described by Kate McCann in her 10 pm narrative. Similarly, when Gerald McCann went to do his 9.05pm check of apartment 5A, he had to walk straight past his children's bedroom window to ge5 to the door of the apartment, and if the metal shutter had been raised up, with the bedroom window open, and curtains whooshing about, he surely would have noticed such things. But no, the window shutter wasn't raised, the window was not open and the curtains of the bedroom window were not flailing about...

By 9.10pm, Jane Tanner left the tapas restuarant to do a check on her own apartment and takes a route on the car park side of apartment block 5. This route gives her an ideal opportunity to look at and see the bedroom window behind which the three McCann children were allegedly all sleeping. If the metal shutter of that window had been raised, and the window open, and the curtains flailing she would have seen it, considering that she appeared to have been so observant after she had left the tapas bar, for example, seeing Gerald McCann talking to a friend named Jez who just so happened to have a pushchair with him, and then she sees 'Tannerman' carrying off a little child in his arms, who she later believed to have been Madeleine...

With Gerald McCann absent from the tapas bar, and Jane Tanner having left there at 9.10pm, how does anyone explain why and how a couple who were sat at a table in the tapas bar terrace were making a commotion and a song and dance about a little girl who had gone missing from one of the apartments and that these two people knew that Madeleine was reported missing, long before Kate McCanns alert some 45 minutes later (10pm)?

The only explanation as far as I can see was that it was Mathew Oldfield who was discussing the fact that he had not seen Madeleine when he had entered the McCann apartment. This was the very reason why Gerald McCann got up from the dining table at 9.05pm to go and supposedly do a check on his apartment, when Mathew Oldfield had done a check there only a few minutes beforehand. It seems or appears somewhat obvious to me, that after Gerald McCann stormed off back to apartment 5A at about 9.05pm, that he was angry and worried about something. Minutes later (9.10pm) Jane Tanner left the tapas bar, probably after being told by Mathew Oldfield that Madeleine was missing from the McCann apartment, leaving Mathew Oldfield to talk to Kate McCann at a table on the tapas terrace. Then at about 9.30pm, or thereabouts, Mathew Oldfield and Russell O'Brien volunteer to go and do a check on the McCann apartment- but because of the manner with which Gerald McCann had reacted after learning that Oldfield had done a 9pm check of apartment 5A, without his knowledge or consent, it appears somewhat ludicrous to believe that if Gerald McCann had been present in the tapas bar at around 9.30pm, that he wouldn't have let Oldfield into his apartment (5A) any time soon..

Everything is pointing to the fact that Gerald McCann had not returned to the tapas bar after supposedly going to do his apartment check at about 9.05pm...

In any case, after 9.30pm, nobody belonging to the so called tapas group were present at their tables, they had all vanished in a cloak of mystery, whereto no-one knows. Between then and 10pm, only a middle aged woman belonging to the group of friends, returned to the dining tables this was at 9.45pm, so how can everybody have been present at the tapas bar at 10pm, when Kate McCann fictitiously rose from the dining table to go and do her check? There was no-one there to see her leave. Shge herself couldn't have been dining until that time, its impossible for her to have left the tapas bar, and only found out that Madeleine was missing or had been taken, when other people who were dining at the tapas that evening knew something about Madeleine not being present in the McCann apartment, from as long as an hour to 45 minutes before she allegedly knew...

Then by 9.30pm, Mathew Oldfield and Russell O'Brien leave the tapas bar restuarant with intent to do a check on the McCann apartment, and neither of them notice any window shutter raised at the children's bedroom window, or any window slid open, or any flailing curtains...

It is a mystery where all the tapas 9 adults all disappeared to, or why at about the same time that Oldfield and O'Brien were doing Kate McCann a big favour by volunteering to check apartment 5A for her. But where was Kate McCann after 9.30pm, because neither she nor anyone else were sat at their dining table - my guess is that they all went back to the McCann apartment at that time, and that the whole fiasco concerning different people doing checks, at this or that time is a complete nonsense...

[mike tesko]

It is a mystery where all the tapas 9 adults all disappeared to, or why at about the same time that Oldfield and O'Brien were doing Kate McCann a big favour by volunteering to check apartment 5A for her. But where was Kate McCann after 9.30pm, because neither she nor anyone else were sat at their dining table - my guess is that they all went back to the McCann apartment at that time, and that the whole fiasco concerning different people doing checks, at this or that time is a complete nonsense...

Seems somewhat obvious to me, that the McCanns, and their friends have deliberately set out to make out a false case that Madeleine McCann was taken (alive) after Gerald McCann did his infamous 9.05pm check at apartment 5A. If that's true then how come at least four people knew by around 9pm -  9.15pm, that Madeleine was not alive and present inside apartment 5A. These being Mathew Oldfield, Gerald McCann, Jane Tanner, Russell O'Brien and Kate McCann...

[mike tesko]

Take it from me as gospel, Madeleine McCann was not abducted (alive) from the McCañn apartment (5A} after 9.05pm, on that evening of 3rd May 2007. If she was already dead by that stage, legally she could not have been abducted, because once a human being dies, or is dead,  he or she have no legal rights. It Seems to me that Scotland yàrd have bought into the McCann groups narrative that Madeleine McCann was alive when Gerald McCann did his so called 9.05pm check of apartment 5A, but I beg to differ..