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The Key?
This is the shocking account of the “legal abduction” of four-year-old Lily, traded like a commodity to pay for British judicial and governmental incompetence and financed by the British taxpayer.
The Key? chronicles a father's four-year pursuit of justice to reunite a family cruelly torn apart by a game played out within powerful circles that are above the law. As his true-life nightmare unfolds, we discover the disturbing extent to which impunity (denial of justice) has taken root in both Britain and Germany. He exposes political and legal corruption at the highest levels, while unknowingly harnessing the power and legacy of the most famous international child abduction cases of modern times.
The journey into this disturbing, dysfunctional and damned world continues unabated as we discover that the subsequent cover-up was so absolute as to be spine-chilling. The truth is so explosive that British law has been underhandedly changed with the consent of the main political parties, preventing the author (the father) from being identified.
The Key? poses some serious questions. Was the real reason why the British “developed” evidence against Madeleine McCann's parents a necessary measure to stop the truth from coming out? Did the British media viciously turn on the McCanns for the same reason? Was Lily removed to keep intact the facade of British legal integrity? Can we ever claw back democracy, human rights and justice from a powerful and corrupt elite?
The Key? chronicles a father's four-year pursuit of justice to reunite a family cruelly torn apart by a game played out within powerful circles that are above the law. As his true-life nightmare unfolds, we discover the disturbing extent to which impunity (denial of justice) has taken root in both Britain and Germany. He exposes political and legal corruption at the highest levels, while unknowingly harnessing the power and legacy of the most famous international child abduction cases of modern times.
The journey into this disturbing, dysfunctional and damned world continues unabated as we discover that the subsequent cover-up was so absolute as to be spine-chilling. The truth is so explosive that British law has been underhandedly changed with the consent of the main political parties, preventing the author (the father) from being identified.
The Key? poses some serious questions. Was the real reason why the British “developed” evidence against Madeleine McCann's parents a necessary measure to stop the truth from coming out? Did the British media viciously turn on the McCanns for the same reason? Was Lily removed to keep intact the facade of British legal integrity? Can we ever claw back democracy, human rights and justice from a powerful and corrupt elite?
591 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2012
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1 book9 followersI am British living in Britain. My daughter was illegally removed to Germany in 2006. I have contacted a lot of human rights organisations and very important people. I've asked ambassadors, including the US, German, French and UK. No senior politician, lawyer, civil or human rights group, ambassador, police commissioner, journalist, judge, publisher or media publicist has ever really helped.
I've had letters go missing so many times it's not statistically probable. Evidence has been destroyed at the Royal Courts of Justice. I can go on and on. In the end, I recorded my story in my book, The Key?.
I've had letters go missing so many times it's not statistically probable. Evidence has been destroyed at the Royal Courts of Justice. I can go on and on. In the end, I recorded my story in my book, The Key?.
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October 28, 2012
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I will give a detailed review in a day or two, after contemplation. I will say this book is highly detailed and provides a lot for one to consider carefully. Though I don't fully agree with the author on every idea he postulates in his conclusions, many seem reasonable.
Most of my mind really does not want to believe that a democratic government could treat its citizens in this way, but the cynical part embraces the thought readily. The Key? is a horrifying write of the levels of corruption governments can reach when they have no real oversight.
I would recommend the book to everyone. It will at least give you the foreknowledge of what can happen when certain segments of the population feel they are above the law.
I will give a detailed review in a day or two, after contemplation. I will say this book is highly detailed and provides a lot for one to consider carefully. Though I don't fully agree with the author on every idea he postulates in his conclusions, many seem reasonable.
Most of my mind really does not want to believe that a democratic government could treat its citizens in this way, but the cynical part embraces the thought readily. The Key? is a horrifying write of the levels of corruption governments can reach when they have no real oversight.
I would recommend the book to everyone. It will at least give you the foreknowledge of what can happen when certain segments of the population feel they are above the law.
September 27, 2012
This was a difficult read for me. It had a lot of technical British/German law terms in it. I did, however, find it to be well written. The characters were well developed, probably because the author experienced these 2 countries family laws or lack thereof personally. I feel it was a good, informative read, and I would highly recommend this book to anyone in law or who has had issues with any family court and the issues of custody. Well written, my heart goes out to the author.
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