Madeleine McCann: What Really Happened
Full Video, Bonus Part + 3 Things I Learned
Matthew Steeples has spent years investigating the Madeleine McCann case - not as a journalist with an editor to answer to, but as someone who simply refused to accept the official story. In this episode, he reveals why he believes Madeleine never left that apartment alive, how Tony Blair’s government used her disappearance to bury bad financial news, and why £14 million of British taxpayers’ money has produced absolutely nothing.
He also exposes the extraordinary network of Labour Party insiders, media figures, and political operators who surrounded the McCann campaign from the very beginning - and asks the question nobody in the mainstream press will ask: why has this case been protected at the highest levels of government for nearly two decades?
Bonus video at the bottom of this post.
Three things I learned
1. Blair’s government was under direct instruction to support the McCanns - and it suited them perfectly.
Former British ambassador Craig Murray said Number Ten saw Madeleine’s disappearance as “a highly photogenic tragedy” that was useful for burying bad news. British diplomatic staff were told to support the McCanns beyond the usual level. The timing was no coincidence - Blair was weeks from leaving office and the financial situation was worsening. A missing blonde child kept the bad news off the front page.
2. Kate McCann refused to answer 46 questions put to her by the Portuguese police.
The dogs that detected death in the apartment and in the hire car the McCanns rented afterwards were not Portuguese - they were British. Despite this, the McCanns dismissed the Portuguese police as a “Third World” force and refused to cooperate. Detective Gonçalo Amaral, who led the investigation, was sued by the McCanns, had his book banned for six years, and was pursued through the European courts - before eventually winning £750,000 back from them.
3. The man who ran the McCanns’ media operation was a senior Labour Party communications chief.
Clarence Mitchell was head of communications for the Labour Party before becoming the McCanns’ spokesman. He has since defected to Reform UK. One man, at the centre of the Labour Party and the McCann campaign simultaneously, controlling the narrative for nearly two decades. Matthew asks: why does a missing child case need a political spin doctor?
Sign up as a paid member to watch the bonus video where you asked Matthew Steeples your questions!
