Clarence Mitchell: 'Twice in the past ten years, I thought we'd found Madeleine McCann'

**bb1** Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:51 pm

A very interesting piece by Clarence Mitchell:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/exclusive-twice-past-ten-years-thought-found-madeleine-mccann/

Exclusive: 'Twice in the past ten years, I thought we'd found Madeleine McCann'

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For all the doubters, they have never done or said anything at any time that has given me any cause for suspicion that they were anything other than the innocent victims of a dreadful crime. Before that first meeting with Gerry, I was briefed by British police working alongside the Portuguese on the case. They told me then, categorically, that they had “cleared the ground beneath their feet”.

In other words, the British authorities believed that Gerry and Kate were categorically not guilty of any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.

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Nobody in my experience has ever been bold enough to accuse them of anything unpleasant to their faces. All of the worst, ugly nonsense is online – that Gerry is not Madeleine’s real dad, that paedophilia is somehow involved, that there’s a huge global government conspiracy to cover something up.

One of the most ridiculous and offensive theories I have come across online – and there are many – is that Madeleine had somehow been hidden at the church in Praia da Luz inside a coffin, beneath a body awaiting burial.

Do the haters have even the slightest grasp of just how wrong, vicious and sadistic they are? Or why they are so despised outside of their own sicko hate bubbles?

**bb1** Sat Apr 29, 2017 7:49 am

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3441991/madeleine-mccann-definitive-case-file-trolls-dna-blunders-intruder/

A long read, including:

Meanwhile, the internet has been a vehicle for thousands upon thousands of poisonous slurs, malicious distortions, and downright lies about the child’s parents.

The vast majority have been — and still are — spewed out either anonymously or using pseudonyms.

And unlike newspapers, those who snipe anonymously from cyberspace cannot be sued.

Venom circulated on these sites has included supposed “jokes” about the fate deserved by the McCanns, who are both doctors.

In a Facebook exchange, a poster we will call Person One suggested someone should “shoot the f***ers”.

Person Two, a woman, said: “These 2 should burn in hell.”

Person Three offered to “supply the petrol”.

And Person Four weighed in to declare readiness to dig out “a box of Swan Vesta” matches.

Most despicable of all, perhaps, has been the targeting of Madeleine’s younger siblings, the twins — who were just two years old when their big sister vanished.

During the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, an unpixelated photograph of them was posted on an anti-McCann Facebook page.

This year, also on Facebook, someone posted a note purporting to be from one of the twins, saying that Madeleine’s body had been left “to rot” by their parents.

The note has not been removed, despite repeated calls for the likes of Facebook and Twitter to see that sort of bile is taken down, along with all terrorism-related posts.

In 2015, Twitter’s then-CEO Dick Costolo declared himself ashamed of his company and promised to “start kicking these people off right and left”. Nothing effective has happened.

Every day, the online abuse continues to pour in for the McCanns, who live in Rothley, Leics.

This is despite there being absolutely no evidence in the voluminous Portuguese police files on this case to suggest that Madeleine’s parents were in any way criminally responsible for their daughter’s disappearance. Or anything to suggest the couple have sought to cover anything up.

Those sort of accusations are totally unsupported by the facts.

The whole normal world despises the haters and Gonzo worshippers.

**bb1** Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:50 am

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/it-s-likely-to-be-painful-madeleine-mccann-s-10th-anniversary-1.3064959

‘It’s likely to be painful’: Madeleine McCann’s 10th anniversary
A decade of reporting without ‘conscience’ has persecuted the missing child’s parents

Another good piece. Every single hater troll and Gonzo-worshipper should read these and try to grasp how the rest of the world sees them.

Not as self-styled 'truthseekers', but as sadistic, none-too-bright dregs.

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Few issues flush out more self-righteous bile than other people’s parenting. From the earliest days, one thing has remained constant: the public vilification and online persecution of the missing child’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.

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