KATE AND GERRY MC CANN
Complaint 332634 Details

?Madeleine McCann: Abduction or Scam?
Courtesy of Ben Thompson

Ward of Court, what's the agenda?

On May 17th 2007, only 2 weeks after Madeleine was reported missing, Kate and Gerry began proceedings to make Madeleine a ward of court. So what is a ward of court, what does it mean, and more importantly what did the McCanns stand to gain from it? Let's be honest, nothing the McCanns do is ever in Madeleine's interests. The only actions the McCanns engage in are those of self preservation, and this move was no different.
When a child is made ward of court it means that the parents effectively relinquish the responsibility of guardianship and hand those duties to the court. All decisions thereafter as to how best to represent the child and their well being are made by the Judge who agrees to grant the ward of court (WOC) status.

Madeleine became a WOC on the 2nd of April 2008, her guardian from that day to this is effectively now Mrs Justice Hogg, Hon. Dame Mary Hogg, DBE to be precise. Shortly after this ruling the plot becomes clearer.
On the 7th July 2008 the McCanns legal team met the chief Constable of Leicestershire police at the High Court, having made an application the very day Madeleine was made WOC to force the police to release the confidential files from the case to them, it is worth noting that at this stage the McCanns still had arguido status, which makes the following statement from the Q.C. Tim Scott who represented them at the High Court nothing short of perjury:

"As the world knows, Madeleine was abducted from an apartment at a resort in Praia Da Luz in Portugal on 03 May 2007. No one has ever been arrested or charged in connection with her abduction. Her whereabouts are completely unknown. There is no proof that she is alive, but there is not a scrap of evidence that she is not."

Now hold your horses there just a second cowboy, what was that you said? "As the world knows, Madeleine was abducted"? Run that by me again, what world would you be talking about there? Certainly not the PJ's world, certainly not Goncalo Amaral's world and certainly not the world that the majority of the general public of Portugal and this country live in. What planet are you from pale rider? "There is no proof that she is alive, but there is not a scrap of evidence that she is not." have you been on the moonshine boy, allow me to correct you there Texas Tim, there is no evidence Madeleine was abducted, no evidence that she is alive, and sadly plenty of evidence she died, including evidence that your clients, the malevolent McCanns were involved.

Now the reasons the McCanns gave for wanting these documents was that it would aid them in the search for Madeleine, they wanted to see if there had been any sightings or leads that they could follow up. Hmmmmm not being funny but is that their responsibility? They gave up the right to that job the day they made Madeleine a WOC. If I set up a fund and said I wanted to find Madeleine, would I have the right to see confidential police files? Technically and legally there is no difference.
Despite the McCanns being arguido's in the case Mrs Justice Hogg greased the wheels, and an agreement was reached, and some of the files were released into the eager grubby hands of the McCanns. Did these files contain any new leads or sightings? If they did the McCanns have stated that they can't remember any.

Of course the truth is the McCanns weren't interested in sightings of Madeleine, we know that from Kate's previous reactions to possible sightings, she complained about being taken to possibly comfirm a potential sighting on the 4th of May, and was said to be irritated at being taken to the identification. Had either of them hoped for a sighting they may well have searched for Madeleine on the night they reported her missing. No the truth is the McCanns wanted to remove their arguido status, being a suspect in the case of your missing daughter ain't good for business when you're trying to rake in cash for your fraudulent fund, you remember the fund, the one that was opened on the back of an abduction story fabricated from day one with the lie of an abductor smashing the shutters on a window grabbing Madeleine and disappearing into the night with her.

The McCanns wanted the files so they could build a defence to get them off the hook, and with the help of Mrs Justice Hogg they got them. 14 day's later they got their wish, the Portuguese, quite flabbergasted at the release of the files conceded defeat archived the case and lifted the arguido status. You'd expect in any other case to be aghast at that revelation, I strongly suspect that in this case however you're not.

The PJ did have one parting shot at the McCanns though, after their disbelief at the McCanns being given access to confidential files they decided to give us the general public the same luxury, on the 4th August 2008 they released the files so we could make our own minds up, 11,223 pages of documents implicating the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter, Madeleine Beth McCann aged just 3 years old.