Star: LOTTO jailbird Lee Ryan is helping to make a bizarre TV documentary about missing Madeleine McCann.

Lottery winner and jailbird Lee Ryan to make bizarre documentary about Madeleine McCann

By Tracey Kandohla / Published 19th April 2015


JAIL BIRD: Lotto is obsessed with the Maddie mystery [RAYMONDS PRESS AGENCY]

Nicknamed the Lotto Lag, he was one of the first big winners in 1995 – pocketing a £6.5million jackpot weeks before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing cars.

Lee, 54, who dubbed his win “a curse” and has blown the lot, yesterday told how he has become obsessed with the Maddie mystery.

While down on his luck he studied the disappearance of the girl from his home county, Leicestershire.

He said: “I started looking into it, it’s a fascinating case and I read everything about it. I even read the Portuguese police files and started thinking about all the theories.

“I’m keeping an open mind.” Divorced dad Lee, who now lives in a tiny flat in south London, has teamed up with journalist and broadcaster Sonia Poulton, inset, who is making a 90-minute film, The Untold Story Of Madeleine McCann.

Maddie was days away from her fourth birthday when she vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.

Her parents, heart doctor Gerry, 46, and former GP Kate, 47, from Rothley, Leics, believe she could still be alive.

Lee insisted: “I am not proactive against the McCanns, I am just on a quest for the truth. It is a global story.”

Sonia, a regular guest on ITV’s This Morning show, said: “We are making an evidence-based documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine.

It will be shown soon on mainstream TV and will first appear in America. I’ve had trolls online trying to sabotage and smear me over this but we will not be silenced.”  Lee, she said, does “ad hoc filming whenever needed”.

When the former used car trader won the lottery 20 years ago, he was awaiting trial for handling stolen cars. He later served nine months of his sentence.

He spent a decade living the high life, blowing his cash on a fleet of super-cars and bikes, a helicopter and a country mansion.

Then he moved to Kyrgyzstan in central Asia with his second wife but returned with nothing in 2010, leaving behind a series of misfortunes and failed business ventures.

After spending two years sleeping rough in London he picked himself up again.

And he vowed: “I’m doing OK now – and one day I’ll be wealthy again.”

McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said he had not been informed about the new Maddie TV documentary Lee Ryan was working on.

He said: “I am aware of Sonia Poulton and all her conspiracy theories. These film makers always claim they have a commission.

“But we are not going to fuel whatever they are doing in any shape or form by making a comment.”

   Doug D wrote:
   ‘Rothley resident (still?) &  friend (?) of the Mc’s’ Tracey says, so it must be true!

   REPLY:  Yes, Tracey Kandohla still lives in Rothley, I believe - where, back in 2007 & 2008, she once told me that Clarence Mitchell was in contact with her every other day, and used to come round and have tea and cakes/biscuits with her once a week. She has produced literally dozens of McCann stories over the years, nearly every single one of them fed to her by her 'tea and cakes' friend Clarence Mitchell
   
   Lottery winner and jailbird Lee Ryan to make bizarre documentary about Madeleine McCann
   
   LOTTO jailbird Lee Ryan is helping to make a bizarre TV documentary about missing Madeleine McCann

   REPLY:  So, at last we get the mainstream media mentioning Sonia's documentary. And they tell us it is bizarre, and made by a bloke -'The Lotto Lag', ands car thief - who blew his £6.5 million lottery winnings and was living rough in London after he spent it all. Great! So, so far, Sonia Poulton has given us two stories this year:
   1) 'The anti-McCann bitch who gets a buzz from attacking peope on the net' and now...
   2) 'The Lotto Lag'
   
   by Tracey Kandohla

   REPLY: A big article in Britain's mainstream press about a so-far non-existent documentary - but no mention of Richard Hall's 'The True Story of Madeleine McCann' which has been viewed by over a million so far  

   L BIRD: Lotto is obsessed with the Maddie mystery [RAYMONDS PRESS AGENCY]

   REPLY: Raymonds Press Agency - the same agency which I think broke the news that Brenda Leyland had killed herself by inhaling helium gas

   Nicknamed the Lotto Lag, he was one of the first big winners in 1995 – pocketing a £6.5million jackpot weeks before he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing cars.

   Lee, 54, who dubbed his win “a curse” and has blown the lot, yesterday told how he has become obsessed with the Maddie mystery.

   While down on his luck he studied the disappearance of the girl from his home county, Leicestershire.

   He said: “I started looking into it, it’s a fascinating case and I read everything about it. I even read the Portuguese police files and started thinking about all the theories.

   “I am not proactive against the McCanns, I am just on a quest for the truth. It is a global story”
   Lee Ryan
   
   “I’m keeping an open mind.”

   REPLY: How reassuring!

   Divorced dad Lee, who now lives in a tiny flat in south London, has teamed up with journalist and broadcaster Sonia Poulton

   REPLY: I'm surprised Tracey Kandohla didn't describe her with her new title of 'Social Affairs Commentator'

   , inset, who is making a 90-minute film, The Untold Story Of Madeleine McCann.

   REPLY: '90 minutes'. Wow! For the 'Untold Story', Yet Richard D Hall has produced 7 hrs 30 mins of videotape in two films - and has still promised us more on Robert Murat and 'The Last Photo'

   Maddie was days away from her fourth birthday when she vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.

   Her parents, heart doctor Gerry, 46, and former GP Kate, 47, from Rothley, Leics, believe she could still be alive.

   Lee insisted: “I am not proactive against the McCanns, I am just on a quest for the truth. It is a global story.”

   Sonia, a regular guest on ITV’s This Morning show,

   REPLY: AND SKY

   said: “We are making an evidence-based documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine.

   It will be shown soon on mainstream TV and will first appear in America. I’ve had trolls online trying to sabotage and smear me over this but we will not be silenced.”

   REPLY: I'll believe those things when I see them

   Lee, she said, does “ad hoc filming whenever needed”.

   REPLY: Filming exactly what and who, though? All we know so far is that she and a cameraman pitched up right outside the McCanns' house in Rothley. What was that supposed to tell us?

   When the former used car trader won the lottery 20 years ago, he was awaiting trial for handling stolen cars. He later served nine months of his sentence.

   He spent a decade living the high life, blowing his cash on a fleet of super-cars and bikes, a helicopter and a country mansion.

   Then he moved to Kyrgyzstan in central Asia

   REPLY: As one does...

   with his second wife but returned with nothing in 2010, leaving behind a series of misfortunes and failed business ventures.

   After spending two years sleeping rough in London he picked himself up again.

   And he vowed: “I’m doing OK now – and one day I’ll be wealthy again.”

   McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said he had not been informed about the new Maddie TV documentary Lee Ryan was working on.

   REPLY: 'Really Tracey? How long has she been planning this? 6 months you say? First I've heard of it, and that's no lie".  

   He said: “I am aware of Sonia Poulton and all her conspiracy theories. These film makers always claim they have a commission.

   REPLY: I do not for one moment believe that Sonia Poulton has been commissioned by anyone to make a film which includes an attempt to doorstep Kate McCann, tracing the home addresses of people on FB & Twitter, harassing someone with a camera in front of her face as she leaves an inquest, and which relies on the frantic attempts she made in the past few days 'to get any pro-McCann to speak to me, even if you have smeared me in the past.
   
   “But we are not going to fuel whatever they are doing in any shape or form by making a comment.”

Sonia Poulton ‏@SoniaPoulton  14m14 minutes ago
@fiorifan @veniviedivici @LeeTaylorRyan look what she concocted from that brief meeting outside the inquest!!!! Literally made quotes up!

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Sonia Poulton@SoniaPoulton
@fiorifan @veniviedivici @LeeTaylorRyan yes! She called Lee after but he told her nothing! She literally pulled quotes out of her anus!

Sonia Poulton @SoniaPoulton  ·  3h 3 hours ago
@veniviedivici @fiorifan @LeeTaylorRyan maybe either way it has worked to advantage of doc as increased media interest.

Sonia Poulton @SoniaPoulton · 4h 4 hours ago
@******** @LeeTaylorRyan they want to twist it like this is about Lee. This is not. Any other suggestion is sensational nonsense.  *obscenity removed*  

Sonia Poulton ‏@SoniaPoulton 24m24 minutes ago
@winnower1 @dminnimouse @DaftNelly @LeeTaylorRyan I appreciate that but what about basic honesty? Article is full of lies. Actual lies!

Daft ‏@DaftNelly 23m23 minutes ago
@SoniaPoulton @winnower1 @dminnimouse @LeeTaylorRyan Correct her lies right here on Twitter ! #McCann

tigerloaf » Mon Apr 20, 2015 7:20 am
Great publicity for the home movie makers who are still screeching for people to be interviewed.

The home movie from Lee and Sonia advertised (quite correctly) in a national rag as being made by a criminal thug and a conspiracy nutter.

What pleases me about this, is that Tracey K. knows all about these two people and their background. This is the first piece on the subject. As the movie gets closer to completion (the premiere bizarrely seems to move further away rather than get closer) I am reassured that Tracey will focus on the dominant one of the couple, the female harridan. Tracey knows just as well as we do that Poulton is the poor man's bitchy version of the creepy Katie Hopkins who doesn't care what she says so long as it gets her some publicity and cash. There is a big clue in this article that Ryan and Poulton are simply looking to make money out of this venture.

I also take heart that the fact Poulton has failed all her life to make her fortune in journalism and has resorted to underpinning the conspiracy lunacy of the nutcase Icke who believes the world is run by lizards with the most inane and unprofessional interviews of people such as Rosalinda (Linda/Rosalind) Hutton whose mental problems mean she can't even decide what her own name is, the crackpot Birch and the barmy Shrimpton is well known by Tracey and will make for more great publicity in the run up to the premiere of this home movie.

I have no doubt that fruitcakes, the conspiracy lunatics and those who have no knowledge of the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann will latch onto the home movie of this thug and this failed Katie Hopkins wannabe and the US would be the perfect place for the premiere as there is a preponderance of stations like Icke Blog TV which is the epitome of Poulton's career for her to choose from.

One has to ask why Poulton has chosen to use the USA for her premiere? The most obvious reason is that she knows that the home movie she has made ignores all Police statements and conclusions and will be subject to legal scrutiny if it is released here. There are clear precedents though in recent years for legal action to be taken by those who can be bothered here when something is published elsewhere but is available (online) here. (And I am not sure that the McCanns will be bothered about the home movie of a thug and a poor man's shrieky Katie Hopkins - Mitchell is clear when he says they can't be bothered to comment and why should they?)

But I am equally certain that the UK will not take well to a thug and a shrieky harridan libelling the parents of a missing little girl. Only the usual anti-McCann freaks will applaud such a deliberate attempt to interfere in a police investigation.

Poulton has staked her "career" on this home movie made with a criminal thug. It really is not going to make her fortune no matter how much she wishes that to happen.

I am looking forward to having the opportunity to rip the movie to shreds (factually. legally and morally) when it does appear. Roll on Premiere Day. And I know I am not the only one who is looking forward to this. People who actually have read the Portuguese files (not just snippets of them like Ryan, Poulton and Hutton etc.) are keenly looking to expose just how lacking in understanding this couple really are.

ps I am particularly looking forward to the section devoted to the woman who made it clear in a national paper that she simply loves trolling and spitting hate at the McCanns, that other silly woman who claimed to be a journalist.

pps I have just seen the ridiculous PeterMac show just how lacking in knowledge of the law he is once again for the whole world to see. Just because something is published in the US does not mean it cannot be challenged in UK courts (if someone wishes to do so) when it is actually available here via the internet. He really should stop pretending to understand these things because he really doesn't.

DR Laverty. @drlavertyx · 1 hr 1 hour ago
Ha, Sonia's seething. And her BF is looking like a right tw*t. Karma is so beautiful when it arrives on the door steps of evil sh*ts

Post Châtelaine Today at 4:00 pm
If it's true that it's going to be aired in the States first, there's not much the McCs or their lawyers can do about it ...

PeterMac wrote: I would guess that this was the reasoning behind that decision. It will be downloaded, copied, pasted, put on blog sites and fora, YouTubed and DVDed before anyone can begin to think of a way of stopping it. Then discussed of a couple of channels, perhaps Pat B might be persuaded to have a view . . and so on. There would then be no point in trying to find a British outlet.

Châtelaine wrote:  A lot depends, of course, on the [evidenced] revelations and impact of the documentary. But I can very well imagine a route, where it will be aired in the USA, attract attention, resulting in appearances in talkshows, newspaper reviews, US TV crimefighters giving it their bit of comment and so forth. Clever IMO.
And, as you say, indeed no way of stopping it going viral in modern times. Oh, dear.

Sonia Poulton @SoniaPoulton · 8h 8 hours ago
@SLTree @LoveRandomleigh TY. Don't mind Rebecca. She's still struggling from being caught out. A coward AND a liar. Loo break, perhaps?

The interesting part for myself is that it is going to be released in the US first.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong- but if the rest of the worlds media pick up on it and only repeat what is alleged in the US documentary word by word then it cannot be libelous in the UK if it's repeated verbatim?

If true - this release could be smart move.

Gobilina » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:52 pm

I have observed Poulton making many references to the invisible enemies that are attempting to prevent this documentary from being aired and am now thinking this will be the excuse when she bottles out of it completely as it sure is not coming to our screens anytime soon if it even mentions 'unanswered questions' from the parents. While we are all waiting for this with great anticipation I feel it will not materialise at all.

urcrazy » Tue Apr 21, 2015 8:04 am
'Invisible enemies'. I like that, nicely put.

Meanwhile this fighter for troof and justice who moans incessantly about trolls, stalkers etc takes great delight in celebrating her 'victory' at an INQUEST of all places, where she and a baying pack of supporters cornered a woman who was on her own and frightened her so badly she needed the court usher to help her out.

Instead of keeping quiet about this incident she keeps harping on about it, seemingly unaware of how bloody terrible it makes her look. On the same day she approvingly interviewed another woman, one of her rabid supporters, who behaved so badly in the inquest that she was warned twice and threatened with removal.

Poulton is a disgrace - a person with no journalistic training who has insinuated herself into what she laughingly believes is a position of importance ( she sent texts to one woman telling her 'you're playing with the big people now') and from her imagined heights of power she bullies, intimidates and lies about people. Even the Ickites eventually saw through her. It's time Sky and the others did too. She's on the same level as Katie Hopkins and like her lives in a fantasy world of her own importance.

Re: Sonia Poulton - clearly not what most call a real journa
Postby scoobydoo » Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:45 am

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Lee Ryan post on Facebook that he believed the antis were in a war, and Rosalinda Hutton was one of their soldiers? Couple that with his comments to a McCann supporter that they didn't have enough ammunition to defeat him, and pictures of him posing with a gun and its bloody scary. Not scary in a tough guy way, scary in an off the wall weirdo way. Yet when poulton, who actually boasts about having an individual like this covering her back, took this man with her to an inquest and tried to harrass a young woman on her own she actually thought it was a victory that the court ushers were so concerned they made the decision to take the woman out of another entrance. She also thinks its a good idea to boast and post a photo depicting not just the back of the womans head, but the fact the woman looks to be physically hemmed in by poulton and two other associates (male camera operator, and the person who took the photo). How stupid can you get? Does she not realise that that behaviour, her subsequent boasts, and false claims she has made against the woman have scuppered any chance a broadcaster other than YouTube will touch it. Its so libelous (her screech to randomleigh was pure libel) and provably malicious that she would loose any libel case as would anyone who distributed it, linked to it or repeated it.

Gobelina wrote: Is that the same rabid supporter that tried to conceal her straight jacket with a fancy waistcoat?

urcrazy wrote: The very one.
And who then theatrically announced that she wanted someone's house, and all her money, for 'falsely' claiming she had disrupted the inquest.
Even though she had already publicly posted that she had been warned in court!

Gobelina wrote:
Indeed. It appears she took particular umbrage with being accused of heckling which, by definition, describes exactly what she did...
Heckle:1.
interrupt (a public speaker) with derisive or aggressive comments or abuse.
"he was booed and heckled when he tried to address the demonstrators"
synonyms: jeer, taunt, jibe at, shout down, shout at, boo, hiss, disrupt, interrupt, harass; More
antonyms: cheer
muttering under your breath and tutting is surely the same thing?