Método 3, Marcos Aragão Correia and the campaign to discredit Gonçalo Amaral.

[faithlilly]

One has to ask the question why a smalltime lawyer from a tiny Atlantic island would suddenly turn up in Faro to act for free for someone he had never even heard of previously.

To answer your second point Sadie, the book wasn't the catalyst, it was the arguido interviews.  Método 3 was engaged in September 2007, just weeks after the McCanns returned home to Rothley.  Método 3 knew of the Cipriano case and approached Leonor's lawyer João Grade to put the screws on the PJ coordinator common to both cases.  Grade is on record as stating that he rebuked Método3's offer since the main agenda was to get Amaral.  Next thing Grade gets an e-mail from Marcos Correia telling him that he no longer represents Leonor Cipriano.  Obviously M3 made the same offer to Correia and he couldn't refuse.

M3 are Spanish, they had no business in Portugal let alone getting involved in a small town murder case.  We know the only possible reason that M3 did anything was for money and they received lots and lots of that from the Fund.  Thus I state again we have a direct connection between the McCanns and the Cipriano case through Método 3 and Marcos Correia.

November 2008 - Correia admits to a proposed deal to ‘crucify Gonçalo Amaral’, He tells the lawyer representing the four detectives accused together with Gonçalo Amaral that his detectives will only get suspended sentences for a more minor offence if they give evidence against Gonçalo Amaral and state that it was he who ordered the torture and that he was there when it happened.

November 2008 - Calls defence lawyer for Gonçalo Amaral, Mr Cabrita, a ‘goat’ in the court room [‘cabrita’ is also the Portuguese word for goat].

21 January 2009 - Suspended as a lawyer/barrister by the Madeira Bar Association [Madeira Lawyers’ Order] and thrown out of court by the trial judge in the case against Mr Amaral based on Ms Cipriano’s allegations. He was later allowed to continue representing Ms Cipriano.

22 May 2009 - Wins the case against Gonçalo Amaral, at which Mr Amaral gets an 18-month suspended jail sentence for allegedly filing a false report. Says triumphantly: “Gonçalo Amaral has been convicted. The target has been hit”.

8 June 2009 - Brings new proceedings against Gonçalo Amaral on behalf of Leonor Cipriano, claiming once more that Amaral’s men had tortured her.

July 2009 - Brings further new proceedings against Gonçalo Amaral, this time on behalf of Leonor Cipriano’s former partner, António Leandro David da Silva, who also alleged that he had been assaulted by Amaral’s men.

3 October 2009 - Tries to sabotageGonçalo Amaral’s birthday partyby driving up outside the restaurant where the party was being held, making a provocative obscene gesture, and then fabricating to the Public Ministry Police claiming that he had been assaulted.

Not forgetting that it was a client of Correia who claimed that they were Amaral's mistress and that Amaral had threatened her family during a phonecall which was supplied to several supporter forums by Correia himself.

[Gadfly]

Not forgetting that it was a client of Correia who claimed that they were Amaral's mistress and that Amaral had threatened her family during a phonecall which was supplied to several supporter forums by Correia himself.

The universe has a funny way of causing misery to someone who profiteered from the death of a little girl, don't you think? 

[sadie]

One has to ask the question why a smalltime lawyer from a tiny Atlantic island would suddenly turn up in Faro to act for free for someone he had never even heard of previously.

To answer your second point Sadie, the book wasn't the catalyst, it was the arguido interviews.  Método 3 was engaged in September 2007, just weeks after the McCanns returned home to Rothley.  Método 3 knew of the Cipriano case and approached Leonor's lawyer João Grade to put the screws on the PJ coordinator common to both cases.  Grade is on record as stating that he rebuked Método3's offer since the main agenda was to get Amaral.  Next thing Grade gets an e-mail from Marcos Correia telling him that he no longer represents Leonor Cipriano.  Obviously M3 made the same offer to Correia and he couldn't refuse.

M3 are Spanish, they had no business in Portugal let alone getting involved in a small town murder case.  We know the only possible reason that M3 did anything was for money and they received lots and lots of that from the Fund.  Thus I state again we have a direct connection between the McCanns and the Cipriano case.

You do realise that Marcos Correia qualified in Lisbon and would have felt very at home in Portugal.  He was quite possibly articled there.

He was a very young man when he took on Amaral and the PJ alleged torturers.   Not many would have taken them on after what happened to the two Lawyers who took on the PJ in The Michael Cook case.  Michael was disgustingly tortured.  This was at Faro PJ station

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-06-09/Debate-20.html.
scroll down a little until you see Mr Michael Cook

This is from our very own Hansard.  Michael Cooks MP took it up with the house of Commons.  Do read it.


The Lawyers seeing anomolies (there were a number of glaring anomolies in the trial) decided to take on the case to see if they could get Justice for Michael.

Reputedly they got posssession of a video showing the Police torturing Michael and were in the process of going thru the Courts with the evidence.

An accident happened to their car in the mountains, reportedly a blow out.  One Lawyer was killed and the other seriously injured.  There was much talk at the time that it wasn't an accident; that the car had been got at. 



I thought what a brave young man Marcos Aragao Corriea was taking on the PJ after such a happening.

Turns out, he didn't even know about the Michael Cook Case and what happened to those lawyers.  He was too young to be aware.  Maybe the case was offered to him partially because he didn't know about the lawyers accident?  No other Lawyers would take it?  Dunno.


He suffered much abuse before and after the case, even finding empty cartridge cases on his balcony.  A nasty threat.  We spent a good deal of time with him and had dinner with him twice.  He told me this himself.  There were other threats too.

[John]

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Pedro+Coelho%2C+jornalist

Now I can book you a white jacket.

A good find Stephen and point well made (pity about the white jacket comment though).  I admit I missed that page because I misspelled the name for journalist in Portuguese.  It just goes to show that one letter can make all the difference where Google searches are concerned.

[faithlilly]

The universe has a funny way of causing misery to someone who profiteered from the death of a little girl, don't you think?

So you think Madeleine is dead ?

[faithlilly]

You do realise that Marcos Correia qualified in Lisbon and would have felt very at home in Portugal.  He was quite possibly articled there.

He was a very young man when he took on Amaral and the PJ alleged torturers.   Not many would have taken them on after what happened to the two Lawyers who took on the PJ in The Michael Cook case.  Michael was disgustingly tortured.  This was at Faro PJ station

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-06-09/Debate-20.html.
scroll down a little until you see Mr Michael Cook

This is from our very own Hansard.  Michael Cooks MP took it up with the house of Commons.  Do read it.


The Lawyers seeing anomolies (there were a number of glaring anomolies in the trial) decided to take on the case to see if they could get Justice for Michael.

Reputedly they got posssession of a video showing the Police torturing Michael and were in the process of going thru the Courts with the evidence.

An accident happened to their car in the mountains, reportedly a blow out.  One Lawyer was killed and the other seriously injured.  There was much talk at the time that it wasn't an accident; that the car had been got at. 



I thought what a brave young man Marcos Aragao Corriea was taking on the PJ after such a happening.

Turns out, he didn't even know about the Michael Cook Case and what happened to those lawyers.  He was too young to be aware.  Maybe the case was offered to him partially because he didn't know about the lawyers accident?  No other Lawyers would take it?  Dunno.


He suffered much abuse before and after the case, even finding empty cartridge cases on his balcony.  A nasty threat.  We spent a good deal of time with him and had dinner with him twice.  He told me this himself.  There were other threats too.

I'll bet you and him got on like a house on fire sadie.

Isn't there an old saying about like attracting like ?

[Brietta]

Not forgetting that it was a client of Correia who claimed that they were Amaral's mistress and that Amaral had threatened her family during a phonecall which was supplied to several supporter forums by Correia himself.

I did an internet search and found the link to the phone call quite easily.  Interestingly I also discovered that Joana Morais had been instrumental in having it removed from forums.  But it is still available, as is a transcript of the 'conversation'.

[faithlilly]

I did an internet search and found the link to the phone call quite easily.  Interestingly I also discovered that Joana Morais had been instrumental in having it removed from forums.  But it is still available, as is a transcript of the 'conversation'.

Could you please provide us with some of the links you found Brietta ?

ETA Can you also please explain how Joana Morais managed to have the phonecall removed from forums seeing as it was almost exclusively posted on supporter forums ?

[Brietta]

Could you please provide us with some of the links you found Brietta ?

ETA Can you also please explain how Joana Morais managed to have the phonecall removed from forums seeing as it was almost exclusively posted on supporter forums ?

Ask her.

[Brietta]

To date the only source I can find for the statements regarding the allegation made about Método 3 and a campaign to discredit Dr Amaral is Joana Morais.

What are the other sources?

[faithlilly]

Ask her.

So the links ?

And the evidence of your claim with regard to Joana Morais ?  Or is it simply another supporter myth ?

[Brietta]

So the links ?

And the evidence of your claim with regard to Joana Morais ?  Or is it simply another supporter myth ?

So you demand a link from me while refusing to provide a cite to support a statement you made which I must now conclude is a lie.  You are not capable of providing a link, because none exists.

"It's no myth Brietta but I'm sorry I'm not spending hours looking for a cite for you to trash because it's Portuguese, from a newspaper, from Amaral or any other excuse you'll find to trash the veracity of the evidence.

As I said anyone who has followed the case for any length of time will know my claim is true. However those who haven't can always find the evidence for themselves."

I should really direct you to take your own advice but since I have gone to the trouble to substantiate what I say is true I shall post one, and to prove there are numerous links, just do what I did and search ... I do have four and could find many more if I were interested to do so.

Detectives Hired by the McCanns want to Frame Gonçalo Amaral ...
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/02/detectives-hired-by-mccanns-want-to.html

[John]

Its a tried and tested principle, if you require to destroy the investigation and the conclusions it comes to you require to discredit the head of that investigation.  Thus why Amaral was 'targeted' according to Correia.

Aragão Correia does not clarify who is in fact behind this puzzle: "The secrecy of the contract which binds me to Método 3 stops me from revealing details regarding the private investigation", he concludes.

All very convenient, I wonder will Marcos Correia now be compelled to talk?

[Carana]

...but the question I would like answered is this.  Who instructed Metodo 3 to arrange legal representation for Leonor Cipriano,the only purpose of such being to undermine Amaral?

???? My post has been edited. As far as I recall, I didn't say that. I was asking for whoever posted that statement (in bold) to substantiate it.

[stephen25000]

You do realise that Marcos Correia qualified in Lisbon and would have felt very at home in Portugal.  He was quite possibly articled there.

He was a very young man when he took on Amaral and the PJ alleged torturers.   Not many would have taken them on after what happened to the two Lawyers who took on the PJ in The Michael Cook case.  Michael was disgustingly tortured.  This was at Faro PJ station

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-06-09/Debate-20.html.
scroll down a little until you see Mr Michael Cook

This is from our very own Hansard.  Michael Cooks MP took it up with the house of Commons.  Do read it.


The Lawyers seeing anomolies (there were a number of glaring anomolies in the trial) decided to take on the case to see if they could get Justice for Michael.

Reputedly they got posssession of a video showing the Police torturing Michael and were in the process of going thru the Courts with the evidence.

An accident happened to their car in the mountains, reportedly a blow out.  One Lawyer was killed and the other seriously injured.  There was much talk at the time that it wasn't an accident; that the car had been got at. 



I thought what a brave young man Marcos Aragao Corriea was taking on the PJ after such a happening.

Turns out, he didn't even know about the Michael Cook Case and what happened to those lawyers.  He was too young to be aware.  Maybe the case was offered to him partially because he didn't know about the lawyers accident?  No other Lawyers would take it?  Dunno.


He suffered much abuse before and after the case, even finding empty cartridge cases on his balcony.  A nasty threat.  We spent a good deal of time with him and had dinner with him twice.  He told me this himself.  There were other threats too.

A brave young man ?

NO.


What you said in the last paragraph is hearsay.

Correia is a fantasist, as we saw with 'his body in the lake'.