Refusals - 4
Russell
O'Brien
"We can’t expect morals out of the Press"
Russell O'Brien is the member of the McCann group of acquaintances who in
his police witness statement told police he checked the Oldfield child and the
McCann children on the Sunday night, the first night they had dined at the
tapas bar. He stated he took the keys of the Oldfield apartment from the
Oldfield's and let himself into the apartment. He further stated he took
the keys of the McCann apartment then let himself into apartment 5A where the
McCann children slept.
THIS DID NOT HAPPEN! NOT ACCORDING TO OLDFIELD AND NOT ACCORDING TO THE McCANNS
Matthew Oldfield
was in his apartment on this night looking after his own daughter.
Gerry and Kate McCann say that NO ONE checked on their children on this night,
ONLY they entered apartment 5A
Russell O'Brien has evidently been less than truthful when he made this statement to police.
Seems we cannot expect morals from this chap!
His partner is Jane Tanner.
Now let us see what he had to say about returning to Portugal to help
Madeleine, help the police investigation.
Officer 1578 put that question to him.
1578:
“And the final question is whether or not you would be available to travel to
Portugal between either the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of April or the
fifteenth and sixteenth of May two thousand and eight in order to re-enact the
events that occurred between five thirty pm and eleven pm on Thursday the third
of May two thousand and seven?”
Reply:
“Well as
we discussed on the, on the video on Tuesday, you know, we, as a group, do want
to do as much as possible to help the investigation. Erm, you know, we
have been crying out for, to, to have this opportunity for a long, long time.
Erm, the trouble is, that the whole, the whole concept, even today, seems a
little bit, you know, too little too late, I think that’s how, how it’s
best described. Erm, you know, this is not, this is not a, well, at
least, well from the point of view of Kate and Gerry and the rest of us, this is not a, a, a
child manslaughter case or a child murder case, this is a child abduction
case. But with everything that happened last Summer, so
much has been, has sort of been lost, we have been exposed to, erm, a vast
amount of, erm, bad press, intrusion of our privacy, erm, huh, over a, over an
incessant, what feels like an almost incessant period of time, that has been
to, you know, great detriment of our, of our own personal wellbeing, and that
is clearly most true for Kate and Gerry, but also, you know, true to a lesser
extent for the rest of us. Erm, we, you know, we had hoped that obviously
invest, you know, this part, you know, the fact that we were back here now was
the start, is potentially the start of, you know, more close lines of
communication between the PJ, Kate and Gerry and the rest of us and I think
that, you know, we, we completely welcome that and we think that a lot of, a
lot of the problems that have arisen have been because there has been no lines
of communication and the Press have just been able to, you know, play while the
cat’s away really and so we have, you know, we were very pleased that this has,
this has finally happened. Erm, I’m also conscious that, you know, for,
for, for Kate and Gerry’s sake in the future, you know, that, you know,
dialogue between us and the PJ, you know, as a group and between them and the
PJ has to be re-established. Erm, but it’s fair to say that we know from
our experiences on the night, I mean, we were only, only we can know, we can’t,
we can’t prove anything, but we know that Kate and Gerry did not harm Madeleine
in any way and would have had no part in her, in her, erm, you know, in her
disappearance and we can also say, individually, as well, that we, that we’ve
had no part of it as well. Huh, but, nonetheless, the making of Kate and
Gerry, erm, into aguidos, although the process had already started in sort of
July and August, put the icing on the cake of what has felt like a, a public
demolition and a, and a concerted attempt to destroy Kate and Gerry and, to a
lesser extent, but it still felt just as acutely, acutely true, the rest of us
and, whether it’s true or not, it feels that this has actually come from the
Police initially, now this may have been the old regime and clearly there’s
been, you know, changes in, in who was leading the investigation. But our
feeling is that in many, well, and I agree with the rest of the group, that
given the nature of how we are continually, erm, what’s the word, huh, promoted
is not the right word, but portrayed in the, in the Portuguese Press and this
includes, you know, the documents that are brought in that, even Press
yesterday that still say Jane is lying, that still quote unattributable sources
in the Police, both here and in Portugal, mean that we would, we would, in many
respects, feel it would be absolutely mad to fly to Portugal, not just from the
point of view some relatively minor concerns that, huh, you know, twelve months
on a re-enactment with the people involved, you know, is, is unlikely to change
evidentially the Case, but just because it will open us up to a massive tide
of, of, of unwarranted abuse, both, perhaps even on the ground, but certainly
in the Press and I think, you know, we, huh, we, individually, have to look to
the, you know, to our own, you know, our own sort of family life and our own
security and privacy and this feels like a sure fire away of, of, of blowing it
all to smithereens, you know. Personally I don’t feel as anti the re-enactment
of some of, as some of the rest of the group and that is despite having perhaps
some of the most, you know, some of the worst Press out of the, out of the lot
of us, you know, I’ve, you know, I’m the male who was away from the room for
the longest, you know, I didn’t ask for bed sheets and a whole range of other
sort of associations with Exeter and Robert MURAT, you know, there’s, you know,
I’ve got a lot more in many respects to, to be worried about travelling to
Portugal. But, but, erm, I think that, we, as a group, and
Kate and Gerry in particular, need some signal from, from the other side of
this wall to say look this is, you know, this is a, this is a, we look at the
investigation. I mean, we know that, you know, as a group, that that there is no
evidence to convict Kate and Gerry, there never will be, we know that there is
no evidence to convict any of the rest of us and there never will be, I mean, we, we
don’t, we have no fear of that because we know what we know, erm, but we do have
a great deal of fear for the privacy of our families, erm, the ability to go to
work without Spanish news crews pissing around outside, you know, outside your
window and, and a whole range of other things that have really turned, you
know, turned on a personal level, a perfect life. I had a perfect
thirty-six years life and I have, you know, we have all had a shit year and I don’t, I don’t
want it getting any worse, if anything, in the last couple of months it’s just
slightly starting to get better. The British Press have been, you know,
dealt a very heavy, you know, a very heavy blow and, you know, where it hurts,
in their wallet, I mean, the only place which it will hurt and I think we are
going to have to do the same to the Portuguese Press as well. Erm, but what
we, huh, in my mind, to get, to get us out there happily and safely, we need
some assurances and not more than, and more than what’s happened so far, you
know, that, that this is looking at the investigation with open eyes. It’s felt like a, it’s felt
like a one directional investigation, from a personal point of view, this was
to nail it on Kate and Gerry or nail it one of us and that’s fine, that’s how
it’s felt. I’m sure that is not the perception of all the
Officers and the PJ and I’m sure that is, that is not the full picture, but
that’s how it’s felt. Erm, you know, I’d like to say again that, you
know, when we were out there the Officers that, that interviewed me, you know,
everyone was perfectly professional, but the, the collective targets of the PJ appears
to be Kate and Gerry with no other, with no other avenue. Huh, in terms of kind
of a, you know, a conciliatory statement, I, I am very aware that when parties
are at odds with each other, and in this, you know, I, I’m, it breaks my heart
that this is the situation that we’re in, erm, is that we are, we are inevitably at
odds with the PJ and the Portuguese Police. But when parties are
at odds and they reach a, an impasse or a stalemate, which is where we are, and
we know that, that no, no further action, or should we say no further
legitimate action can be taken against any of us or Kate and Gerry in terms of
Madeleine’s disappearance because there is no, we were are not involved, that
Kate and Gerry need a way out for, you know, just for, for the pure humanity of
it, erm, they cannot remain under the degree of pressure and uncertainty and
suspicion that they are now, that is true to all, for all of us, you know, to a
much, much lesser degree, I, I, I take that. And I am also conscious that
the other side of this, the PJ have not had it easy either, you know, they’ve
had a very high profile investigation where the International Press have given
them a few, you know, bloodied noses along the way as well, and that’s, and
that, and so there’s two, there’s two very, very wounded parties. We want
to help out. I think if, and I know, Stuart’s explained, you know, the
legal system over there is not the same as here and it’s not a question of okay
we can just lift it, let’s prosecute and all of this, but there has to be some
control and some robust control of the Portuguese Press from the PJ to say, you
know, these people are not under any more suspicion than anyone else as a
witness in an unsolved case is, you know. You know, in an unsolved case
it’s, you know, the innocent will suffer, isn’t it, I mean, it’s, it’s obvious
that we’re going to be under a degree of suspicion, we knew that from the
start. But we cannot fly into, erm, a hornets nest in Portugal and have our
lives literally turned into further episodes of some shitty soap opera, you
know, Jane has been portrayed as some kind of soap opera villain over in the
Portuguese Press and the article I brought in this morning just illustrates
that, I’m under, you know, a great deal of suspicion according to, you know,
you know, unattibuted sources within the PJ. All of these are an enormous
burden that I could never have imagined in, in all of my, you know, worst
dreams that I could, you know, I’m saying I here, but clearly it’s the group,
and Kate and Gerry are a lot worse, but that I could find myself under and, you
know, I know Jane feels exactly the same. But, if, in some, in some way
it could be made so that, even if this was before aguido status was removed
from Kate and Gerry, which inevitably in the fullness of time it will be
because it’s just not going to go anywhere short of a, of a, you know, of
planted evidence, I mean, I am not suggesting that’s what is going to happen,
but, you know, that’s the only way that that things will go further, but if the
PJ can somehow, you know, bring their own National Press to order, erm, then it
will appear that we are not actually just putting our whole livelihoods and
privacy, you know, at jeopardy, but at the moment it just feels like it’s asking
someone to walk to a cliff and say ‘Do you want to take your chances on the
fall’. Erm, it is not because we don’t want to co-operate, I mean,
we have come here, you know, I’ve come here for a second day, we would
bust our gut if we thought if anything it would do that would actually help
Madeleine. And, to be honest, if there wasn’t this pressure I think we’d go and do
the re-enactment anyway because we could see no harm from it, the problem at
the moment is we can see, we can perceive, and I think it is there, there is
genuine harm to our, to our private lives, to our working lives, to the, you
know, to even to, you know, our children who are just going to be, you know,
they’re kind of plastered over papers and they’re on internet sites and, you
know, that, any, our kind of lives are pulled over by sort of sick individuals
who have got nothing better to do. And I think we need to have the kind of
mainstream Press treating this with the respect that it should do, this is a
serious crime, evidence should not be soap opera, the British Press are just as
bad, well have been just as bad as the Portuguese Press, but I don’t think we
are going to see the same degree of, of, of wanton behaviour from them.
But, you know, I know I’m going round in circles just like I did before, but
we’d be idiots to go, erm, and on the flip side of that, if we don’t’ go I’m
sure the Portuguese Press and maybe even the Police would use this as a rod for
our backs as well, you know, ‘Oh they’re not cooperating’, that is not the intention,
this is actually, this is actually at the level, you know, the, the
unpleasantness of this last year is now at the level where we have to look to
just maintaining, you know, some quality of life for us and our kids.
Erm, I mean, that, from the outside that probably sounds, oh, you know, soft
git, you know, grow up, you know, and maybe that’s, and that’s true, but I have
no doubt that going there will, will create a complete whirlpool of, erm, of
uncertainties, I can’t see it realistically finding Madeleine or, or us
ascertaining any more detail than what our statements do as, as they, as they
are now, and just at great, at great personal cost. And I hope the PJ don’t
take our reluctance to do this, I hope they see it from a, as a point of view
of another person rather than just a National Police Force, I hope they kind of
don’t see this as a, as an opportunity to, to sort of harm Kate and Gerry any
more, because I don’t think, in living memory, in Britain, two people have been
more unnecessarily damaged after perhaps one of the most awful things happening
to them. I mean, we have seen the best of, the best of nature and the
worst of human nature in the last year, a wonderful amount of help and support
when we were in Praia Da Luz at first, erm, but we have, we have witnessed the,
the, you know, a really sick act and we’ve also witnessed the, the smarmy, the
conceited and the opinionated kind of backlash as well. And, you know, for
our own, our own families’ sake we have to, you know, we have to make sure that
we are not put through a grinder. So, at the moment, I can’t, you know,
as I say, if the situation relaxed even a little in terms of the kind of likely
outcome, I mean, I don’t think realistically you could close the area off and
keep the Press away, but if the, if there was some way of just, that this was
treated with the respect it deserves, the Case was respected, you know, for
the, you know, as an open case, an unsolved case and an ongoing one, erm, and
I’d be there in a flash, and I think some of the other group might not even be
there even if, even if there was something in place. But, at the moment
it, phew, you know, the timing is poor, we’re sceptical that it would make a
big difference at this late stage and I think, I think that’s true, I don’t
think there’s any, any, I think that’s, that would be most peoples assumption a
year on. Erm, I mean, it just seems that it would be almost reckless, at
the personal level, given the articles that are written about us. That doesn’t, that is
not, that is not an absolute no, it’s clearly, erm, the answer is I think we’d
be mad to go now, it doesn’t mean we wouldn’t go at some stage. But with some
management of the Press and maybe that needs to come from us, I mean, maybe, I
mean, I’m seriously, seriously considering, well we’ve already looked into it
in loose terms, taking the Portuguese Press to task over what they’ve written,
but, you know, just like the PJ have had difficulties in International Law with
us here, well that’s no, that’s no mean feat to achieve it. And, you know, we are
not, we are not, you know, we are not people who have got, you know, certainly
Jane and I aren’t somebody with disposable income to start, to try and fund
international libel cases, but libelled we have been and many, many
times. The only good thing about leaving the Press to do
it is that they’re making a nice long bit of rope for their own neck. And
there’s no doubt about it already that, that, you know, if the same thing
applied in England, the papers, as soon as threatened, they just gave in, and I
think that would happen in Portugal because there is no, there is no factual
basis on, you know, a vast majority of some of the really nasty stuff they’ve
written. And maybe that needs to come from us, maybe we need to have that in
place, saying ‘You write this kind of shit about us and we’re going to, we’re
going to hit you where it hurts financially’. We can’t expect
morals out of the Press, we never could, erm, but if that attack was coming
from us and the feeling that the, the Authorities in Portugal were prepared to
back that up, then I would go back, but not before”.
1578 “Okay”.
END
So, O'Brien, like the rest was not prepared to return to Portugal to help Madeleine, to co-operate with police.
It is perplexing that this group of people by all accounts seem to believe they are above the law.
They lay down terms and conditions to police, which if not met they use as a threat to withhold their co-operation.
One can only ask - What chance did Madeleine have when those who should have cared most - DIDN'T?
O'Brien - "this is a serious crime"
It certainly is, yet he did not take it so seriously that he wanted to help Madeleine the missing child, the police.
Like the others, he too worried about himself, and like the others he pandered to the McCanns by throwing in a few token words of concern for them. How they were the victims, of everyone from the press, the public, to the police.
Touching!
None of them - showed concern for Madeleine. None of them put her above all else, not even her mummy and daddy.
None were prepared to go to Portugal.
Clearly they collaborated on that one - all singing from same hymn sheet!
How tragically sad.
We can't expect morals out of the press said O'Brien -
WE KNOW we can't expect them from O'Brien and the others of the tapas group!
Either HE lied to police about checking the children on the Sunday night and/or OLDFIELD and the McCANNS DID!
Madeleine quite clearly was never priority for these people.
What is utterly astonishing is that they ALL refused to help the child. In all of their REFUSAL STATEMENTS the speak of protecting themselves and protecting Kate and Gerry McCann. NOT A ONE OF THEM spoke of helping little Madeleine, the child they say was in the hands of paedophiles.
All of these doctors are parents and at that time, parents of very young children of similar age to Madeleine. Would they be happy with their buddies for refusing to help their missing child if it was they who had lost a child?
McCanns condoned their buddies REFUSING to help their little girl.
What sticks out most of all in this is that ALL of them were SO SURE assisting police WOULD NOT lead to Madeleine being found.
But it would appear they were SO SURE that assisting police would lead to them being accused of crimes against the child, being involved in her disappearance, being involved in having lied to police, and from O'Brien's statement, and those of ALL of the others in the holiday group, they had a lot to worry about, as they deliberately misled a police investigation seeking to discover what became of Madeleine McCann.
We can see from their untruthful statements to police why they were fearful, lying to police in the case of a missing child..?
And he speaks of others having NO MORALS?
A truly despicable bunch of people.
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April 2013