Maddy, the brand new brandname.

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I have this article which quotes Silvia Batista (The Technical Services Director of the Ocean Club resort) as offering, personally, child-minding services to the McCanns. They were rejected.

http://www.infobae.com/co(...)los-padres-Madeleine

"The search for a new personality in the desperate search of the small British four-year-old is complicating even more the McCanns' situation.

The Technical Services Director of the Ocean Club resort, Silvia Batista, affirmed that the same night on which Madeleine disappeared, she in person offered child-minding services "because the hotel is responsible for its clients' children, but they rejected that". Madeleine was seen for the last time on the 3rd of May when she was sleeping next to her siblings in a rented room in a hotel in Praia da Luz, in the south of Portugal. The parents of the little girl are being questioned for having left her alone in that room in order to go to eat with some friends.

According to the director of the hotel, "every month registries of robberies in the area are kept, and we therefore advise the service of a child-minder", but even knowing this, Maddie's parents did not accept it. Batista confirmed in an interview with the website Globo.com that the hotel has been working from the start with the Police to find the little girl. The director added that the room used by the McCann family was closed the first two months, then was opened for 15 days, but was then closed once again. Also, the director of the resort pointed out that in the area there are "many inquisitive people, but they do not disrupt the routine of the place.

"We did not bear the blame for the disappearance of the little girl, it couldn't be said whose fault it was, but certainly not ours", assured the director and indicated that "the parents of the girl that night were very unconcerned", and there was no reason they should not have requested the service of a child-minder.

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TV chiefs in Portugal are planning to make a 26-episode series about Madeleine McCann.It has been written by policeman turned criminologist Francisco Moita Flores, who blames Kate and Gerry McCann for their daughter’s disappearance.

Last night a friend of the McCanns said: “This is absolutely disgusting. “Not only are the people behind this cashing in on a poor little girl’s disappearance, but it also looks like they are planning to point the finger at her heartbroken parents. “Any TV channel who buys it will be paying blood money for it. “People should remember Madeleine is a real little girl and not some character from a soap opera. Her parents have real feelings.

“They will support anything that helps find her – but not downmarket shows aimed at titillating entertainment.”The series, based on the official investigation, will start filming in Portugal shortly. Producers are hoping it will be shown across Europe – raising the prospect of it being broadcast in Britain. Flores has been an outspoken critic of the McCanns and their seven holiday companions since Madeleine vanished from the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz last May, shortly before her fourth birthday.

He claimed on his Portuguese true-crime TV show that the couple or one of their friends sneaked away from a tapas bar to dispose of the child’s body after she was killed in her holiday apartment. >>> Daily Express

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2008 11:18 schreef Suko het volgende:
Ik ben dat helemaal met je eens Voyeur maar het is eigenlijk nog taboe om dat te zeggen. Is misschien ook een andere discussie, kinderen leuk maar alleen als het de ouders (even) uitkomt, quality time weet je wel, zum kotzen really. Maar het Mark Warner Ressort had voor ego-ouders een uitstekende oppasservice met nanny's die overdag ook bekend waren met de kids. Maar de McCanns wilde 's avonds geen vreemde oppassen hebben, maar zowat de hele dag op de Kidsclub, no problem, I wonder why? Op het Mirror-forum:
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Ondertussen...MADELEINE: THE 26-PART TV SERIES
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Tja, er zal nog veel over de McCanns volgen, dat was te voorzien. Dat hebben ze eigenlijk een beetje zelf over zich heen afgeroepen.

Reminder: Blood in the flat and in the car confirmed 7-1-2008 (Justice for Madeleine)

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2008 12:29 schreef voyeur het volgende:

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Wie weet was er geen Madeleine om op te passen de 3e mei. Vermoedelijk boden ze het zo nadrukkelijk aan omdat er geklaagd was over het huilen van Madeleine. De ouders hebben toen braaf beloofd dat het niet meer zou gebeuren en dat is gelukt. Madeleine huilt niet meer...

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2008 13:06 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Kopje thee?

Koekje erbij!

Gezien het aantal mensen dat hier toch stiekem een kijkje neemt (de views) zijn er wel een beetje meer lezers, we gaan wat mij betreft gewoon door tot ze boven water is, justice for Maddy!

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2008 13:04 schreef Suko het volgende:

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Inderdaad Voyeur, er zijn geen betrouwbare getuigen die Madeleine die dag hebben gezien, zie mijn eerdere post. En het is en blijft vreemd dat er tussen de dag van aankomst in Praia da Luz op 28 april tot de laatste dag er geen vakantiefoto's zijn te bekennen. Alleen dus deze, eerder gepost. Op het Mirror-forum wordt gesuggereerd dat daarop mogelijk een abused-Madeleine is te zien en daarom niet vrijgegeven, voor ons niet te bewijzen natuurlijk. Een Blogger vraagt zichzelf af: Was Madeleine ever in Praia da Luz? Beetje onwaarschijnlijk maar dat is eigenlijk het hele McCann-gebeuren.

En er is weer een kind missing volgens de Daily Mail, in Huelva. En een verhaal (Metodo 3) over een pedo-gang, allemaal in Spanje. Zouden Spanjaarden hier blij mee zijn? Treurig genoeg (als het waar is temninste), maar naast de komende 'dood' verhalen wordt het publiek getracteerd op ontvoeringen in die regio waar dus Madeleine niets mee te maken heeft.

@ Zo is 't Kahaarin.

The McCann Infantile Memory 7 min.48

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2008 15:28 schreef voyeur het volgende:

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Er zijn toch een paar nannies die beweren dat ze er de 3e wel was. Kijk maar op deze (heel handige) info site.

Oh, en dit waren de mensen aan wie ze hun 'precious princess' toevertrouwden in het resort:
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Mij boeit het niet wat de nannies doen in hun vrije tijd, maar ik zou mijn kinderen sowieso niet toevertrouwen aan wat vakantiehulpjes die nagenoeg geen ervaring hebben. De foto is relevant omdat het laat zien dat dit echt geen ervaren nannies zijn, maar vrolijke jonge meiden met een geinig tijdelijk baantje in Portugal.

Nog even los van het feit dat vakantie extra vrije tijd is om leuk met je kinderen door te brengen. Op de 3e mei zouden ze de kinderen 's morgens gedumpt hebben voor 'a stroll' en 's middags opdat Gerry kon tennissen. Waarom niet leuk met de kinderen wandelen en Kate 's middags bij het zwembad spelen met de kinderen en kijken hoe goed papa al kan tennissen? En zo ging het elke dag!

Het mogelijk bizarre is dat ik de moord / verdoezeling van ongeval en lijk door de ouders minder erg vind dan de kinderverwaarlozing. Dit omdat andere ouders heus niet ook hun kind gaan verdoven en onder het reservewiel frutten als 'rottend vlees' opdat je de paus een hand mag geven; dat is voor de meeste mensen een hele grote stap te ver.

Wat wel gebeurd is dat de Tapas Nine een beeld in de media neerzetten dat het normaal is om je vakantie door te brengen zonder je kinderen, ze te verwaarlozen en grote risico's met ze te nemen. Kinderen die ziek zijn en overgeven even de lakens verschonen en weer terug naar de bar, kinderen die huilen gewoon laten huilen en de staf van het resort die klaagt wegwimpelen, etc.

Gerry voert keer op keer aan dat dit 'responsible parenting' is en de PR-machine beweert dat dit normaal is voor Britse gezinnen. Dit voorbeeld doet wel volgen en versterkt de trend tot egoïsme en kinderen als 'fotomomentjes'. Een trend die juist gekeerd moet worden en niet versterkt door een stel dat zijn celebrity status ontleent aan kinderverwaarlozing.

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The wanna-be actress/model 'nanny' Charlotte
Pennington is a proven bare-faced liar. NOTHING
she has said can be believed.!
What she said on the Despatches programme was
COMPLETELY different to what she said a few days
earlier (in quote marks) in her interview with the
Daily Mail (with a nice 'jaunty' picture of herself
alongside it!). In that interview she said she was
with Maddie until she gave her 'high tea' at 5.30 and
the parents came to pick the children up at 6.00!
In Despatches she said the last time she saw them
was lunchtime! So a LIAR out of her own mouth!

AND..she did not surface until AFTER the McCanns
where made arguidos, and the Meturdo Defective
agency has been employed to drum up witnesses.

She also said that when she heard people where
calling out 'Gabbie' or 'Abbie' she knew that ANOTHER
NANNY had a charge called 'Maddie' so she went to
inform the manager!! Why didn't she immediately think
of 'her own charge' called Maddie, who she had
supposedly spent the day with??

I would be suprised if this fantasist had ever
even laid eyes upon Maddie McCann. What
these air-head wannabe's will do for 5 minutes
of fame to raise their 'profiles'!!

So No, No credible sighting of Maddie for
the WHOLE of May 3rd.

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A spokesman of Eurojust confirmed to The Press Association that the Portuguese authorities have made a formal request to the agency for legal cooperation of the European Union to help with the procedure for the interview to the new group British officials were at the Ocean Club, with Gerry and Kate McCann, when Madeleine has disappeared.

A team of PJ is expected to soon travel to the United Kingdom, for interrogation by the police of Leicester. The role of Eurojust is to assist investigators and prosecutors in the European Union with information and assistance in cases of crimes involving more than one country. Bron

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Portuguese police has “no evidence about any connection between the case of Madeleine McCann and recent arrests of suspected child abusers at Canary Islands”, a source from PJ said. Several British newspapers reported that Spanish police was following leads that connected the arrests in Canary Islands to the disappearance of the child from Praia da Luz. Marcos Cabrera was arrested after an alleged attempt to kidnap a child, at Canary Islands. “The line of inquiry in Madeleine’s case remains the same and is focused in the group of British citizens that were with the child’s family. There is no indication that the person arrested in the Spanish Islands has been in Portugal”, according to the same source. Bron

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2008 20:24 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Nou, dat zeggen wij ook al een poosje, een enkele foto en geen betrouwbare getuigen is imho in deze niet genoeg, of ze Maddy ooit heeft gezien wil ik best in het midden laten maar de 3e,
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Ik denk dat ze moeilijk kunnen weigeren, hun media spektakel kan in deze wel eens tegen hen gaan werken.
The plot thickens, my dear Watson Suko!

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A paragraph from a Spanish newspaper today, Madeleine is no longer at the bottom of a reservoir it seems: The private detective agency from Barcelona Method 3, contracted by Gerry and Kate McCann, are investigating thoroughly the Costa Blanca, from Valencia to Alicante. According to Francisco Marco, head of Method 3, Madeleine was selected by "spotters" in circles of paedophiles and then abducted "to order". She was later carried via Morocco to Spain or Belgium, a country with a sad record on child prostitution. Bron

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2008 23:28 schreef voyeur het volgende:
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Iets te lage resolutie dus moeilijk leesbaar, maar google bied toplocaties voor één oudergezinnen met kinderopvang aan. Voorzien ze de dood van Kate of heeft Google een voorgevoel over Gerry?

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This morning’s British press has wasted no time in connecting the tragic disappearance of 5 year old Mari Luz Cortes apparently at the hands of a so-called Gypsy, with the equally tragic disappearance of Madeleine McCann. On the surface there maybe some justification for the link, as back in June 2007 there was a possible Madeleine sighting linked to "Gypsies".

But after doing the most cursory of Google searches I am surprised that the Mainstream Media has failed to draw attention to some of the bizarre coincidences surrounding this earlier sighting.

The June sighting with the so-called gipsy followed several days in which the MSM devoted its headlines to a devastating letter to a Dutch newspaper stating where Madeline was “buried,” which thankfully turned out to be a hoax. Following that hoax the McCanns were blessed almost immediately with this apparent live sighting of Madeleine which not only doubtless gave them hope but also probably helped get their overall “long-term campaign” back on track.

Here’s how the Sun reported its scoop on June 20 2007,“POLICE last night had a new lead in the search for missing Madeleine McCann, that gypsies may have snatched her. A holidaymaker revealed he spotted a fair-skinned little blonde girl in the back of a horse-drawn cart three weeks ago. Retired pilot Andre van Wyk, 66, told how a woman in the cart quickly covered the sleeping youngster’s face with a shawl. He was so suspicious he trailed the cart to a gipsy camp ten miles from where Maddie, four, vanished 48 days ago in Portugal’s Algarve. Last night Van Wyk told The Sun: “I followed it to what looked like a gipsy camp next to the old bridge at Portimao. “I saw an impeccably dressed blonde woman collect the blonde child from the older dark-skinned woman who had been carrying her. I assumed the blonde woman was the mother and that they were in some way innocently connected to the gipsy group.“But it’s been playing on my mind ever since. The little girl looked so out of place.”.

So who exactly is this Mr. Van Wyk? Presumably just an everyday member of the public with no connection to Team McCann or its financial backers. But maybe not. Of course, there may well be hundreds of 66 year old pilots called Andre van Wyk, but here’s a remarkable set of coincidences dished up by Google.

On August 7 2006, the Fife Herald reported the following:
“A TOP hot air balloon pilot who has flown all over the world and whisked many stars of stage and screen into the sky is now flying people from Fife. Andre van Wyk, of Virgin Balloon Flights, has been a balloon pilot for more than 30 years and has soared over 39 different countries, everywhere from Italy to Mexico.

Now the 64-year-old is flying passengers from VBF's launch site at Falkland Palace regularly throughout the summer…Although to Andre everyone he flies is a VIP, there are some he can't even believe he shared a basket with. They include actor Roger Moore alias James Bond and Julie Andrews of the Sound of Music fame, who he flew over the Swiss Alps, and famous golfer and fellow South African Gary Player. He also once took up German industrialist and well-known playboy Gunter Sachs who tipped his crew 40,000 Swiss Francs, nearly £20,000!

Andre said: "I flew Dolly Parton in Sun City in South Africa in the mid 1980s.
"She was great and, when we landed and unpacked everything for a champagne breakfast, she insisted on doing it all for us.”

So let’s think this through:
1 Andre van Wyk was until recently a balloon pilot with Virgin Balloon Flights.
2 Virgin Balloon Flights is owned by world-famous balloonist and billionaire Richard Branson.
3 On May 12 2007 , just six weeks before the sighting of Madeleine with the gypsy, Richard Branson had come forward to offer a 100000 pounds to the Maddie reward fund.
4 On Sept 16 Branson’s chipped in another 100000 pounds to help the new arguedos launch a parent’s defense fund after they were named arguedoes.
5 Of course, just because a Van Wyk worked for marathon balloonist Richard Branson does not automatically mean Branson knew his former employee or had any contact with him directly or otherwise in the period from May 3 2007 to June 21 2007. But surely someone with investigative resources at their disposal should at least be asking the questions.

And before the ink dries on the McCann "gypsy" story and its apparent connection to the latest tragedy in Spain it may be worth revisiting the report of Mr. Van Wyk’s "gypsy" sighting. And here-in lies the most astonishing coincidence. According to the Sun, Van Wyk had in fact not one, but two "gypsy" encounters within a few days.

In the same June 20 2007 article the Sun reports “Van Wyk, a South African, also described a bizarre encounter with a gipsy woman at Faro Airport as he checked in for a flight out of Portugal. She peered over his shoulder as he read a Sun article about Maddie and said in broken English: “They no find girl with picture.”She walked off after pointing at the photo of Madeleine and saying: “Hair cut short, hair black.”Van Wyk said: “It was very odd. I had no idea if she was trying to tell me something she knew or whether she was just giving me her opinion.”

How weird is that? Not one sighting but two of someone from exactly the same ethnic group. And how did The Sun get hold of its scoop relating to this bizarre brace of Gypsy connections…again in the same report the paper notes “His witness statement which he (Van Wyk) first sent to The Sun was immediately relayed by us to the McCann family via their Foreign Office adviser Clarence Mitchell.”

Yes, it’s that man Clarence again...but this time he’s not the one offering scoop, he’s the recipient of the information. And within 48 hours back in June, he presumably recycled the story of Maddie and the “gypsies” through the mainstream media. Just as suddenly as the story arrived it quickly disappeared...
…Until less than 10 days after the media reported that new tests proved conclusively that the blood in the McCann’s hire car was 100% matched to Madeleine, an abduction 120 miles away from the scene of Madeleine’s disappearance launched another round of media Gypsy-bashing.

Apparently when it comes to Britain’s First Family, the McCanns, and “Our Maddie,” political correctness towards the "Gypsies" goes out of the window, along with any pretence of investigative journalism by the Mainstream Media.

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"Her mother said the description matched the clothes her daughter was wearing when she vanished, and said she believed it could be Mari. There have been several sightings of Madeleine with an older woman in northern Morocco, and detectives from the Spanish detective agency Metodo 3 believe the Berber woman is a "carer", keeping the four-year-old alive in the Rif Mountains on the orders of a paedophile gang."

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The rogatory letters were redone repeatedly by the Judiciary Police, always in close liaison with the British authorities, but for more than a week that is expected green light from England for the interrogation of the McCann's friends.

The Judiciary also asked for the seizure of objects of Maddie's parents, including Kate's journal- but there is no answer.

Researchers are surprised with the attitude. Especially because the PJ and the public prosecutor have followed all legal channels to send the letters through the Attorney General's Office,.

All the interrogations to the eight friends of the couple are necessarily conducted by the local police, since they are held in British soil, despite the presence of Portuguese researchers. Those letters took months to prepare due to the complex translation of some terms and they were done carefully to avoid what after all is happening - the delay imposed by the British.

Regarding the seizure of Kate's diary, the Judiciary also waits for the British authorization, but this delay does not damage the investigation or the belief of the inspectors - in the process there are copies of what the author wrote, for example on the personality of her daughter Maddie. In this case, the original is needed only to help to back up the possible indictment of the public prosecutor - since copies cannot be used in court.

Initially, the PJ only wants to interrogate the friends of the couple. And then based on the answers they will get from all of them and any contradictions they may fall, they will advance to request the interrogation of the McCanns - though, again, they only can do that through rogatory letters and through the same process of liaison with the local police.

PJ DENIES CONNECTION TO MARI LUZ

She has five years old, only one more than Madeleine McCann , and, like the English girl,she has two brothers. In addition to these two facts, Mari Luz Cortez disappeared without trace, last Sunday,in the neighborhood of Torrejón, in Huelva. As Maddie,in Praia da Luz, May 3.

The PJ, however, denies any link between the two cases. "The Spanish authorities sent us - the description of the child and we are aware in case any clue appears in Portugal," said to the CM source of the Judiciary. "But so far, there is no connection between the two disappearances or exists the suspicion that the same person or persons might be at the origin of both situations," he assured.

Who wanted to clarify possible links were the detectives of the Spanish agency Metodo 3, hired by Kate and Gerry to investigate the disappearance of Madeleine. According to a source close to the McCanns, "they have already entered in contact with the parents of Mari Luz to investigate possible links." But not even Maddie's parents believe that whoever is behind the case of Huelva can have any relationship with the Praia da Luz.

Yesterday, at a press conference, Juan Jose Cortez, Mari Luz's father, said that the Spanish authorities "are working on a clue." But he did not reveal which,and he just said that he has "a suspicion" but "is not the same suspicion that the police has." Juan Cortez admitted that "at present there is no" concrete result.

The family has received numerous telephone calls from various points of Spain, Portugal and France. Countries "where many people are searching for Mari Luz," revealed the father of the Spanish girl. He thanked the commitment of all and asked that today, in solidarity, "at 12.00 hrs, all people across Spain come to the streets."

Mari Luz Cortez Suárez, of five years, disappeared on Sunday, at 16:30, after leaving home to go to a kiosk, 100 meters away,to buy a pack of crisps. After that she was seen in the street at the rear of the house, where she lives with her parents by two neighbours.She is around 1 meter high, when she disappeared she was wearing a pink jacket with stars, a skirt and white boots.

THE PROCESS WILL BE IN SECRECY FOR MORE NINE MORE MONTHS

The process of the disappearance of Maddie will never be public before 15th September this year, one year after the entry into force of the new Code of Criminal Procedure, discovered the CM. The decision was taken by order of the Judge Pedro Frias, on the 18th of September of 2007, considering that the maintenance of the secrecy of justice , for one year, was imposed by the rules that emerged from the changes in the law. The judge considered that the deadlines only started to run from the entry into force of the new code, a position that although is not new is far away of being peaceful. The judge's decision cannot be appealed.

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Op donderdag 17 januari 2008 11:22 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Goedemorgen, the saga continues zo te zien?

Ongelofelijk, waarom potentiele moordenaars beschermen?
Er is toch niets en niemand mee gediend om zo tegen te werken?
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Als er dan het idee bestaat dat er bewijs staat in het dagboek, zorg er dan iig voor dat het zo snel mogelijk over wordt gedragen.
Waarom dat halsstarrige beschermen van Britse onderdanen, die kunnen ook heus de fout in gaan.

_{(Ik was gisteren op mijn neefje van 2 aan het passen, 's avonds had ik de puf niet meer om nog te kijken, hij is zo typisch 2, alles is eerst nee, de lieverd. )}

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Op donderdag 17 januari 2008 12:23 schreef kahaarin het volgende:

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Het is idd duidelijk dat er aan touwtjes wordt getrokken, ook dat die personen niet objectief en onbevooroordeeld zijn.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=508801&in_page_id=1811&ito=newsnow
En ja hoor, zum kotzen , wat een verschrikkelijke PR, over de rug van mensen die hun dochter kwijt zijn sympathie winnen, die mensen weten helemaal niet waar ze het moeten zoeken, en dan blootgesteld worden aan de McCanns, echt verschrikkelijk.
Het is in mijn ogen zo fout om het kindje zo in de media te brengen, dan wordt het de ontvoerders al gauw te bezwarend om haar in leven te houden, echt ze spelen met haar leven als ze naar de McCanns en consorten luisteren, die vinden dit alleen maar mooi omdat het de aandacht van hen af haalt.
Hopelijk gaat er iemand hen beschermen tegen die idioten.

_{(Ik heb me idd ziek gelachen, alleen op die leeftijd moet je ogen voor en achter hebben, wat ze niet bedenken allemaal, schitterend. )}

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Police are to rule out any link between the Madeleine McCann case and the abduction of a five-year-old Spanish girl. The move will bring fresh heartache for Gerry and Kate McCann. Portuguese detectives do not believe the missing Brit was snatched from her family’s holiday apartment. They are convinced the four-year-old died accidentally and her parents disposed of her body.

But police in Spain do think little Mari Luz was abducted on a 200-yard walk home in Huelva last Sunday. Yesterday Mari’s distraught mum Irene, 30, thanked Madeleine’s mother Kate for an e-mailed message of support and urged her: “Don’t give up – your daughter will be found.’’ Reports in Spain said detectives were close to making a breakthrough in the case and have not found any evidence of a link to Madeleine’s disappearance.

A source close to the McCann inquiry in Portugal said: “The police have kept a watching brief on the Mari Luz case because there was a chance that her abductor might have brought her to Portugal. “But detectives do not seriously think the two cases are linked. Their colleagues in Spain appear to be making considerable progress in that investigation.

“Police here will not formally rule out the possibility Madeleine was abducted – but they don’t think it happened.’’ Madeleine vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on May 3, two days before her fourth birthday.

Police have accused her parents Kate and Gerry, both 39, of launching a worldwide campaign to find their daughter in a bid to dodge a manslaughter charge. The investigation source said at least one Portuguese detective would shortly be flying to Britain to sit in on fresh questioning of the friends with whom the McCanns were dining that night.

The interviews will be conducted by British officers. Then detectives will consider bringing criminal charges, the source claimed. “There is a feeling among the judiciary in Portugal that the best place to sort all this out is a courtroom,’’ he added.

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A sketch of a suspected abductor of Madeleine McCann has been drawn after a newspaper spoke to a tourist who reported seeing a "creepy man" by the McCanns' apartment. The News of the World claims the detailed artist's impression was generated using information from the holidaymaker, who had been staying 600 yards from the McCanns in Praia da Luz.

The associate editor of the News of the world, Gary Thompson, told Sky News: "The real significance is that the sketch has been shown to Jane Tanner, a member of the so-called Tapas Group. "You may remember she says she saw a man carrying a child.

"We understand that Jane Tanner has confirmed the likeness." Mr Thompson said he believed the Portuguese police were taking the photo-fit very seriously. "The important questions are: who is he? Whereabouts is he? We will be urging readers with information to contact the authorities as a matter of urgency," he said. Mr Thompson added that the sketch had been passed to Interpol and officers from the Leicestershire Constabulary - the McCanns' local police force.

The holidaymaker who provided the details for the sketch rang police when she saw Madeleine was missing and gave a statement. But the paper says it is only now that the importance of her sighting is being realised. The McCanns have been made aware of the sketch.

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Op zaterdag 19 januari 2008 23:45 schreef Suko het volgende:
Updeetje... uit de Daily Star
MADDIE HOPES DASHED AGAIN
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Op de een of andere manier zie ik deze kop als een behoorlijk sarcastisch statement van de Daily Star.

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Het wordt echt 'erg' hoor, Sky News: Sketch Of 'Creepy Madeleine Suspect'
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The Eggman maar dan weer anders...
"Jane Tanner to always claimed never to have seen the face of man, and in his statements to the police, she has changed on several occasions his version of events, particularly for the hair color, clothing and the direction being taken by the suspect. In May, the Judicial Police, Jane Tanner to alleged that the man was blond, aged 35 to 40 years old and dressed in cream trousers and a black jacket. Man would then typed British (1). Lately, the same suspect became clear Mediterranean, preferably Spanish or Portuguese, with black hair and pants with a darker color (2)." (bron )

Waarbij niet moet worden vergeten dat Jane Tanner eerst beweerde Bundleman op de terugweg naar de Tapasbar zag, wat ze later veranderde op de 'heenweg' naar haar apartement.

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He looks like George Harrison... that WOULD be creepy.

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"He speaks broken English". Could have to do with the fact that Praia Da Luz actually is in Portugal.

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You couldn't make it up.. could you?

Praia Da Luz must have been crawling with thousands of weirdo's last May.

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Another day! Another story! And of course the suspect has to be "creepy" looking. When will the spin end?

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Firstly, he looks like he could be a missing BeeGee brother and secondly anyone with a sleeping child would have used the over the shoulder method of carrying, not the hold shown above.

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Op zondag 20 januari 2008 13:54 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
Nog steeds dat gezeur over dat andere meisje en scetchy scetches dus, is er al iets bekend over nieuwe verhoren?
Ik geloof er niets van dat er nu al weer een nieuw beeld van de 'ontvoerder' op duikt, werk eens wat meer aan die DNA sporen in interviuwen van de verdachten en getuigen, daar ligt volgens mij de clou, niet bij 'ooggetuigen', 'sources' en media magnaten.

Toch triest dat ze Mari er bij slepen, nu wordt er gesuggereerd dat haar verdwijning er niets mee te maken heeft, ga dan in vredesnaam met een nieuwe onbevangen blik op zoek naar dat kindje, dit helpt natuurlijk niet, al die aandacht en foto's van haar in de pers kan net zo goed avarechts werken, lijkt me heel gevaarlijk.

Al dat gezeur en overal Maddy bij trekken kan niet goed zijn voor een onderzoek, monden dicht en aan het werk is wat mij betreft in beide, onafhankelijke, zaken het devies.

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Op zondag 20 januari 2008 13:54 schreef kahaarin het volgende:
Nog steeds dat gezeur over dat andere meisje en scetchy scetches dus, is er al iets bekend over nieuwe verhoren?
Ik geloof er niets van dat er nu al weer een nieuw beeld van de 'ontvoerder' op duikt, werk eens wat meer aan die DNA sporen in interviuwen van de verdachten en getuigen, daar ligt volgens mij de clou, niet bij 'ooggetuigen', 'sources' en media magnaten.

Toch triest dat ze Mari er bij slepen, nu wordt er gesuggereerd dat haar verdwijning er niets mee te maken heeft, ga dan in vredesnaam met een nieuwe onbevangen blik op zoek naar dat kindje, dit helpt natuurlijk niet, al die aandacht en foto's van haar in de pers kan net zo goed avarechts werken, lijkt me heel gevaarlijk.

Al dat gezeur en overal Maddy bij trekken kan niet goed zijn voor een onderzoek, monden dicht en aan het werk is wat mij betreft in beide, onafhankelijke, zaken het devies.

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Op zondag 20 januari 2008 21:33 schreef voyeur het volgende:
Terecht merkt Gazeta Digital op: Attention: if you saw this man, don’t call police! “If you have any information about the man in the new picture contact the confidential phone line 0034 902 300 213 based in Spain now. A specially-trained team will take your call in any language

Nou ik heb gelijk even gebeld, maar het leek alsof het specially trained team even afwezig was. Een spanjaard die slecht Engels sprak had geen idee waar ik het over had. Niet zo gek want ik sprak Nederlands (leek me 'any language') en hing toen op. Alweer een sighting mislukt:(
Op de Spaanse school van mijn dochtertje loopt een meisje rond dat sprekend op Madeleine lijkt dus een gemiste kans voor team McCann. Wie registreert er op het mirror forum en doet een oproep om in zoveel mogelijk talen absurde sightings te gaan doen?

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That's what people are asking about Northern Rock and Branson.

But what about the McCanns? Okay conspiracy theory here. This post does not reflect my opinion. It is only a "what if" scenario, I am considering.

GORDON BROWN INVOLVEMENT

Gordon Brown allegedly told the Portuguese Premiere that the McCanns were innocent, or at least he believed them to be so.

We all have heard how Brown personally intevened to have the Bundleman description released. Also of couse, one of his spin doctors is now providing spin for the McCanms.

Also it has been reported that if the McCanns were Portuguese and there wasn't all this political interference they would have been charged by now. Perhaps the McCanns would have already been arrested and charged if Brown had kept his nose out. Why are we still waiting for the next round of interviews?

Is this hold up from the top? So what's the deal? Is Gordon helping the McCanns just because he would help any other suspects in their position? I don't think so.

Is it a political game between Portugal and Britain? Or even a bargaining chip over Gibraltar negotiations. The McCann case could humiliate the Portuguese reputation for its police and its tourism. Is it a matter of personal friendships, his brother who knows people who are friends of the Mccanns? Or is there a specific reason why Brown wants to protect the McCanns? A secret we may never know about? Suppose yes to any in the above paragraph. How can the McCanns be helped out of this situation?

ACTION PLAN TO LET OFF THE MCCANNS

First delay next round of questions as this would elevate the McCanns as suspects in the public mind.

Suppose public opinion can be turned so that most people in Britain believe the McCanns are innocent, then Brown's people could get the charges dropped without an outcry. How can that be achieved? Bundleman is the key, just as Bundleman was very important to Gordon Brown's intervention before..

If Bundleman can be shown to be a real person who was also seen by other witnesses and perhaps even abducted another child (in Huelva) it would show clearly to most people that the McCanns must be innocent and there is no case therefore to make charges.

ACTION OVER PAST WEEK

All the elements have been put in place over the past week or so. Child abducted not too far from Praia da Luz.

Cooperman, the man seen by Gail Cooper is all over the front pages and TV News in a new media frenzy. Tanner confirms Cooperman and Bundleman are one and the same. Above information put out in a media blitz.

ACTION PLAN IN NEXT FEW WEEKS

Sightings of Cooperman will be reported in Huelva. This is the "proof" needed that Cooperman/Bundleman abducted Madeleine and also another child.

Therefore the British people must believe the McCanns are innocent. Flaws in Portuguese investigation now to be ripped open and exposed in the media in another frenzy.

Media to repeat that there is no case to be made against the McCanns. The British tell Portuguese they want to drop case against McCanns and the British police will not reinterview them. There is nothing Portuguese can do about it.

Arguido status dropped and McCanns told their will be no further action against them. The secret that the McCanns hold that may or may not include a government secret are never revealed.

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Op maandag 21 januari 2008 13:01 schreef Suko het volgende:
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Polls wijzen uit dat het Engels publiek allang niet meer geloofd wat de pers hierover schrijft. Ik geloof er niks van dat zoiets in Nederland zou kunnen, kien als een aantal journlisten hier zijn op onthullingen, het ontmaskeren van 'mooie' verhaaltjes is hier bijna een sport. Balkenende zou hier niks met een mogelijk invloed in een kwestie niks kunnen aanvangen, toch?

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Iemand schreef onderstaande op het Mirror-forum, interessant imo:
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Robert Murat was spotted chatting to a man who resembled the 'oddball' in the new sketch released by the McCanns and who is suspected of abducting Madeleine, it has been claimed today.


Charlotte Pennington, a nanny at the Ocean Club holiday complex where the McCanns were staying, told police last May she saw Murat chatting to "a man aged around 27 to 35, average height, very dark eyes and of Portuguese or Spanish appearance".

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Op maandag 21 januari 2008 13:40 schreef voyeur het volgende:

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Ik geloof ook niet dat dit in Nederland zou kunnen, maar onze pers zwijgt normaal ook in alle talen over alle sexuele en alchololische misstapjes van onze politici dus wie weet. Ik vind het van de Engelse pers ook onbegrijpelijk. De tabloids oke, maar serieuze kranten en de BBC doen er aan mee. Verbluffend.
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"At that stage - as Mills's draft script makes plain - his intention was to make an analytical, investigative programme that would have been very critical of the Portuguese police, not only for the errors in their investigation, but for their apparent campaign of disinformation designed to put pressure on Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann. It would also have criticised both the local and British press over allegations that they recycled unfounded rumours with little sign of fact-checking or detachment."

It would, as Mills confirmed again yesterday, have scrutinised the various allegations that have been floated against the McCanns and concluded they are baseless: 'We had an investigative team looking into the story for weeks. Our assessment was that the purported DNA evidence was weak and inconclusive, while so far as we could tell the supposedly significant "discrepancies" between the stories told by the McCanns' friends about the night of Madeleine's disappearance amount to very little indeed.'

The original film would have compared Madeleine to the JonBenet Ramsey case in Colorado, about which Mills has made three previous documentaries. After the body of JonBenet, a child beauty pageant winner aged six, was found in her parents' Boulder home, they were vilified by the police and media, despite their continued insistence that they had nothing to do with her death. They claimed she had been killed by an intruder. Mills's version of the McCann Panorama featured an interview - eventually not used - with JonBenet's father, John, in which he said that the Colorado police 'did a great job of convincing the media and the world that we were guilty, but they couldn't charge us, because of course they had no case'. Years later DNA evidence proved beyond doubt that JonBenet had been killed by an intruder. John Ramsey told Panorama: 'It's a life-time damage. No question about it.'

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Op maandag 21 januari 2008 14:20 schreef milagro het volgende:
quote:Robert Murat was spotted chatting to a man who resembled the 'oddball' in the new sketch released by the McCanns and who is suspected of abducting Madeleine, it has been claimed today.


Charlotte Pennington, a nanny at the Ocean Club holiday complex where the McCanns were staying, told police last May she saw Murat chatting to "a man aged around 27 to 35, average height, very dark eyes and of Portuguese or Spanish appearance".

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Op maandag 21 januari 2008 14:38 schreef milagro het volgende:
Okay herstel : Russel O'Brien is gezien met de bundleman, die weer sprekend lijkt op de reeds sinds enige tijd overleden George Harrison...... doen ze in Portugal eigenlijk aan voodoo, een soort fado voodoo of zo, kan dat er niet nog in verwerkt worden, een mogelijke rituele moord, een offer dat gemaakt moest worden?

hebben we dat ook weer gehad.

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Op maandag 21 januari 2008 15:39 schreef milagro het volgende:
zoals die bundleman dat kind ook weggedragen zou hebben.... alsof dat niet de aandacht trekt..
het is al gezegd ergens, is het niet makkelijker, en ook 'vertrouwder ogend" als je het kind gewoon op de arm draagt, hoofdje rustend op je schouder?

ik bedoel zo tilde ik mijn in slaap gevallen kids uit de auto naar binnen thuis... zo op de armen liggend, doe je alleen als ze gestrekt op de bank in slaap gevallen zijn om ze zo in bed te leggen, zodra je een trap op moet, is dat al onhandig en neem je ze weer makkelijker op de arm.

iemand op straat zo lopen met een kind, dan lijkt het net alsof het dood is

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"Clarence Mitchell, Kate and Gerry McCann's official spokesman, said that when shown the sketches, Tanner was struck by the likeness to the man she had seen carrying the child she now believes was Madeleine. However, in a BBC Panorama interview in November Tanner said she could not remember, or did not see, the face of the man she saw carrying the child."

En verder: "In the Panorama interview, Tanner said she lived with the burden of knowing that in all probability she could never identify the man she glimpsed only briefly that night. "He had his face turned away from me, sort of sideways and it was very dark. I just didn't see it properly I wish to God I had," she said. She told the programme she thought the man was "local or Mediterranean looking rather than British". She said: "He was dressed in that sort of smart casual way that European people dress, not the way Brits on holiday dress."

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MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann

DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine: Four witnesses say they saw suspect pictured in new poster campaign”
“Four key witnesses in the Madeleine McCann investigation could have seen the man shown in a new sketch of a potential suspect, it emerged yesterday”

But there were no witnesses? And “could” and “potential” in one line…

“But four witnesses may have seen the unidentified man - first on the night the three-year-old went missing, then later with named suspect Robert Murat, and finally in Morocco”

“Jane Tanner, who told police she saw a man carrying a child away from the McCanns’ apartment, said she was “80 per cent sure” he was the one depicted in the artist’s impression”

“Isabel Gonzalez, who said she saw Madeleine with a Berber woman in Morocco, said the sketch looked ‘very similar’ to a man she saw immediately after the sighting”

Amanda Mills, 34, from Basildon, Essex, claimed to have spotted a man trying to break into a bedroom window at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz a week before Madeleine disappeared from the complex. “Last night she said there are “strong similarities” between the man she saw and the new sketch.

“Nanny Charlotte Pennington’s description of a person she saw with Mr Murat also matches the man shown in the artist’s impression”

DAILY EXPRESS: “New manhunt ‘another diversion by McCanns’”

One Portuguese policeman “stormed”: “The purpose of this exercise by the McCanns is the same as always. It’s another diversionary tactic”

DAILY STAR: “YOU WON’T THROW US OFF THE SCENT”
“Cops blast Maddie sketch as McCann tactic”

DAILY MIRROR: “Madeleine witnesses: This is him”

Witnesses says the sketch cold be a picture of the man they saw. Or it could not be

DEFAMER: Or does the new sketch of the man suspected of snatching young Madeleine McCann look a lot like Killer Bob?

NEW YORK POST: “SKETCHY SUSPECT IN MADDIE MYSTERY”

A picture of the man and he caption: “WANTED – SOUGHT IN KID SWIPE”

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The parents of missing Spanish youngster Mari Luz Cortes want to hire Kate and Gerry McCann's private detectives. The five-year-old's family plan to hire Metodo 3 if police fail to come up with clues to her whereabouts by the start of next week. Mari Luz's distraught ex-footballer dad Juan Jose Cortes last night said: "Today I've felt more anger than ever. "Enough's enough. We don't want compassion, we want results."

The missing girl's uncle Diego Cortes added: "If the police have got nothing new by next Tuesday, we'll hire the private detectives." Mari Luz vanished nine days ago as she went to buy sweets from a kiosk near her home in Huelva near Spain's southern border with Portugal.

The city is just a 90 minute drive from the resort of Praia da Luz where Madeleine, four, disappeared in May. Detectives from Barcelona-based Metodo 3 contacted Mari Luz's mum Irene hours after the mystery disappearance to examine possible links between the two cases - and pass on a message of support from Kate McCann.

The McCanns have offered to put pictures of Mari Luz's face alongside Madeleine's on posters in Spain, Portugal and north Africa. Police have said they do not think there is any connection between the two - but Spanish detectives hunting the five-year-old have yet to come up with any firm leads.

They questioned a local man who disappeared shortly after Mari Luz went missing and - but released him without charge after searching his home and finding nothing. Metodo 3 has worked for the McCanns since last September on a £50,000-a-month contract - the equivalent of £2,000 per working day.

Controversial boss Francisco Marco - rapped over a series of claims he knows who took Madeleine and is pretty sure where she is - has pledged to find her before March. It is not known if the McCanns know of Mari Luz's parents' plans to hire their detective agency.

Metodo 3 is not thought to have agreed to work exclusively for the McCanns. But any acceptance of other contracts is bound to raise questions about its ability to discover the Brit youngster when it is costing the Find Madeleine Fund hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Mari Luz's parents have not revealed how they plan to pay for Metodo 3's services. But they are thought to be searching for a wealthy donor to back their idea. An appeal fund set up shortly after their daughter went missing has just £300 in it. Daily Mail

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Op dinsdag 22 januari 2008 11:34 schreef milagro het volgende:
dat kind zit ms gewoon bij tio en tia Petalo
eerst een geldschieter regelen, dan Metodo 3 afketsen, dan met de noorderzon vertrekken en als het op de route ligt, pik je je vermiste kind nog effe snel op bij tio en tia

ja, ik ben slecht, sue me

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Sketch: Dozens of witnesses claim they saw him (Correio de Manha)
The suspect is everywhere

Dozens of phone calls were received by detectives who are working for the McCanns, following the disclosure of the photo-fit of a possible suspect. "We received many calls that are not important," admitted to the CM Clarence Mitchell, spokesman of the family, "but at the same time we also received dozens of phone calls with important information," he added.

Clarence Mitchell does not specify from where the calls are made, if they are from British who were in Praia da Luz or residents in the area, but ensures that "many people saw the man on the spot." Nonetheless yesterday in Luz, nobody remembered the individual, McCann's spokesman ensured to the press that there is a girl of 12 years old who remembers the man. Clarence Mitchell, however, did not want to tell who is that mysterious witness.

The detectives of the Spanish agency Metodo 3 that are working for the McCanns are now examining all clues received by telephone. "We can not say that we will find the man but we are trying," said to the CM Clarence Mitchell. "Nor do we say that he is suspect of kidnapping but we want to know if he has anything to do with the disappearance," he added.

The photo-fit is seen as "one of the most important clues that the detectives of Metodo 3 are working on," concluded the spokesman of Kate and Gerry.

"Meanwhile,the PJ is still awaiting the response of the British authorities concerning the rogatory letters sent to England, asking for new interrogations to the group that spent holidays in Praia da Luz "Till now there is no novelty," confirmed to the CM source linked to the research.

About this issue, Clarence Mitchell assured that "officially there is no information that PJ wants to interrogate Kate or Gerry." Nevertheless, "they are willing to cooperate with the authorities in order to speed the investigation," the spokesman continued, "they want to show to the Portuguese police they have nothing to do with the disappearance of their daughter."

Clarence Mitchell admitted knowing that there is a request from the Judiciary in Eurojust (the European agency which is the connection between the departments of Justice of the European Union countries), "but I do not know whether they want to question Kate and Gerry, the group of nine friends or just some of them."

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Nobody in Praia da Luz saw the alleged kidnapper of Madeleine (24horasnewspaper)
"I would never forget a face like this"

Many questions the fact that the image only appeared now. There are some that say he looks like Charles Bronson the actor

The inhabitants of Praia da Luz, Algarve, guaranteed that they never saw the man represented in the photo-fit divulged by the McCann's family as being the alleged kidnapper of Madeleine. Almost all of the persons interviewed yesterday by 24 Horas said that if they had seen him they would remember. " I would never forget a face like this", was the most repeated sentence.

Carla, 32 years old and client of the video club Eureka had already seen the photo in the newspapers. "It is strange it only appears now. So many months after people don't remember half of the faces that passed through here at the time. Nonetheless, I think that if I have seen him I would never forget", she said to 24 Horas. And she added that the photo reminded her of someone: " When I saw that photo in the newspapers it seemed to me like Charles Bronson".

Edward Price, Tuc Price's brother, friend of Robert Murat refused to be photographed seeing the image of the alleged kidnapper but he gave his opinion: "He does not seem alike with anyone I know or I have seen in the area. But 8 months after what are they expecting by showing this image. There are many questions that were not made. How, why only now? "

Kneen, British citizen, 56 years old, living in Praia da Luz for three years goes further and gives some suggestions to the authorities. "Please! If I was the kidnapper I would never walk in the street like this. I think that they should try to make different images from this one and put them side by side", he said suggesting that they should make another image without the moustache or even with shorter hair. "Does anyone believe that the man was walking in the streets like that waiting to be caught?". Haynes Hubbard, the Anglican priest friend of the McCanns did not recognize the photo: "I only arrived here two months after the disappearance of Madeleine, but after that I never came across with nobody like this man. I wish I did! I could help Gerry and Kate".

We also spoke with some employees of the Ocean Club, the resort from where Madeleine disappeared. None recognised the man. We heard the same answer in the Baptista's supermarket, the Tapas Bar and in the coffee shops near the beach where the British went during their holidays in Algarve.

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Revolutionary DNA technology which could catch thousands more criminals every year is finally set to be cleared for use by police. DNAboost - which allows scientists to unravel mixed and previously unusable genetic samples - was hailed for its crime-fighting potential by former Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006.

Experts believe the powerful software will identify up to 6,000 extra suspects annually, and could also help in cases such as that of missing Madeleine McCann - where forensic evidence appears to have been difficult to analyse. However, despite impressive results from pilot schemes in Yorkshire, Humberside and Northumbria, police have been banned from using the tool for more than 12 months.

The long delay led detectives and scientists to complain that the technology was falling victim to a "turf war" over the National DNA Database. The Forensic Science Service (FSS) - which developed DNAboost - was stripped of control over the bank of 3.5 million samples in December 2005, when it was made an independent Government-backed company.

A Home Office strategy board including representatives from the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) and the Association of Police Authorities (Apa) now decides how the database can be used. A spokeswoman for the department confirmed that the strategy board had delivered its recommendation, and the matter had been passed to the Attorney General for final sign-off.

A source close to the project said DNAboost was the "most validated DNA technology in history".

They said: "This is the biggest step forward in crime-fighting science for more than a decade, and it has taken far too long to get clearance. It looks like it's finally getting authorised, but we could have caught thousands of criminals while they have gone through these hoops.

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Last night, sources in the Policia Judiciaria revealed reports of a dishevelled man lurking around Praia da Luz were investigated months ago and found to be groundless. One stormed: "The purpose of this latest exercise by the McCanns is the same as always. It"s another diversionary tactic."

It was reported the only other official suspect, Robert Murat, was seen chatting to a man resembling the sketch. Former PJ inspector and now criminologist Francisco Moita Flores said the timing of the McCanns releasing the image was curious, coming only days before the McCanns" dining companions are due to face further questioning. He said: "This is maybe the most critical moment in the investigation. They know there is evidence that the girl died and we are on the eve of interrogating witnesses who may undo all the theories." suspect last May.

Nanny Charlotte Pennington, 20, told the police she saw Murat, 34, talking to "a man 27 to 35, average height, very dark eyes, Portuguese or Spanish appearance". After Madeleine was snatched on May 3, the McCanns" dining companion Jane Tanner, 36, said she had seen a man walking away from the Ocean Club carrying a child. Yesterday, despite never seeing his face, Ms Tanner, from Exeter, said she was "80 per cent certain" it was the man in the drawing.

Last night, Amanda Mills, 34, from Basildon, Essex, claimed she saw a man resembling the sketch suspect trying to break into a ground-floor apartment in the Ocean Club, similar to the one the McCanns occupied, a week later. Last night the McCanns" spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the McCanns" sleuth agency"s "50,000-a-week contract is up next month but could be extended if the mystery man was still at large.