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Clarence Mitchell calls the McCanns liars

By John Hirst

Clarence Mitchell calls the McCanns liars

It has emerged that following Gerry and Kate McCanns initial claims that there was evidence of a break-in at their holiday apartment, which the police later stated there was no evidence of a break-in, now Clarence Mitchell has stated that there is no evidence of a break-in at the apartment.

The McCanns have so far not retracted their claims of a break-in at the apartment.

It follows that by making his statement, Clarence Mitchell is disputing the McCanns version of events.

This is not an issue where the McCanns made a mistake in the heat of the moment. They claimed that the shutters had been forced open from the outside, and this was how the so-called abductor had entered the apartment. They were not asked for this information, they volunteered to give it. When the police examined the shutters they discovered that they had been opened from the inside of the apartment. If it was not a mistake, then the version given by the McCanns was deliberate.

Why would the McCanns deliberately lie about a break-in?

To explain Madeleine's disappearance from the apartment.

Initially, the McCanns claimed that the apartment was locked. Hence the need for a break-in to explain Madeleine's disappearance. When the police rejected the break-in version, Gerry McCann changed his version of events from the apartment was locked to leaving a door unlocked. This would then allow the so-called abductor to enter by the unlocked door.

The shutters were opened from the inside of the apartment. Who opened the shutters? Was it the so-called abductor who had supposedly now entered by the unlocked door to effect his escape? I doubt this very much. It is more likely that one of the McCanns opened the shutter to create the impression of a break-in. The break-in was their idea.

Why was Madeleine's disappearance necessary?

The obvious answer is to cover up Madeleine's death.

It is no wonder the McCanns have no wish to return to Portugal to take part in a police reconstruction to help find Madeleine.

As the McCanns official spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, has now, in effect, called both the McCanns liars, by rejecting their version of the break-in, it leaves us back where we started with Madeleine missing. No abductor. Just parents for whatever reason who did not want to explain to the authorities what happened to Madeleine.

Clarrie admits no evidence of a break-in

RTE News video link. Clarence Mitchell's rejection of the McCanns version of events comes at 12 minutes and 30 seconds into the 22 minute video.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).