Madeleine McCann, nog steeds geen nieuws.

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Op woensdag 25 maart 2009 20:34 schreef Suko het volgende:
Ook The Independent maakt melding van de nieuwe oproep in Praia da Luz van The McCanns, zoals te verwachten, alle Britse kranten beppen elkaar na of plaatsen zonder nadenken de brabbels van hun PR-man Clarence Mitchell. Interessanter is, dat eerst de Daily Mail alle ktitische commentaren plaatsten (en die staan er nog steeds!), en nu ook dus deze krant. Edoch, ze zijn allemaal verwijderd. The independent durft niet....ha ha! Maar door slimme 3 arguido's-posters bewaard en online gezet. Zoals op deze site. Echt, het publiek, en niet alleen in de UK, raakt al meer geirriteerd door het gedrag van de McCanns en dienaangaande de minachting van de Praia da Luz-bewoners, alsof zij iets te verbergen hebben, niks willen zeggen. Of zou het Freudiaans zelfreflectie zijn, anderen verwijten wat ze zelf aan gedrag vertonen?????

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Madeleine McCann Spotted In Portugal


MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…

Meanwhile, back in Portugal…

In The News: “Madeleine appeal posters torn down in Portugal”

Posters appealing for information regarding the whereabouts of missing girl Madeleine McCann have been torn down in the area of Portugal where she disappeared.

Why?

Madeleine was three years old when she went missing from the family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007.

Such is the fact.

The family have recently launched a fresh appeal for members of the public based in the area to come forward with any information they may have relating to her disappearance.

The campaign has been arranged to coincide with the second anniversary of the date Madeleine went missing, May 3rd.

How long will this be news for?

Sky News: “New Madeleine Posters Torn Down In Anger”

A new appeal for information was launched this week but some residents on the Algarve have reacted angrily to the move.

Ana Palma, a reporter for the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, said: “We went to Praia da Luz trying to find the posters but most of the small ones had been removed, there were only five or six left. We then started to ask people what had happened and they told us they are tired of this. They feel they and their businesses have been harmed and they want closure.”

They want to forget.

Daily Telegraph:

Around 10,000 leaflets are being handed out and posted through letterboxes in Praia da Luz and the nearby towns of Lagos and Burgau.

The Algarve campaign is being backed by billboards, posters and advertising on local buses.

ShinyTV: “TV Scoop Interview: Charlie Brooker, Newswipe”

MG: So you’re reviewing the format as opposed to the stories?
CB: We will be covering those topics… but I’m looking at how it’s shown to us, if you see what I mean?

The news as entertainment - but it already is?

MG: You did something similar on Screenwipe with the Madeleine McCann thing… is it going to be like that?
CB: That kind of area… but we will be explaining the stories as well I hope. I suppose the main difference between what we’re doing and say, for want of a better term, a Radio 4 political satire, is that they know what they’re talking about whereas I come from a position where… I think I’m like most people… I’m not actually very well informed…

Madeleine McCann is still missing… And, like most people, that is all we know…

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2009 19:36 schreef Suko het volgende:
Hoi kahaarin, ha ha, ja inderdaad, bewoners aldaar zijn de McCanns goed zat. Zo onderhand staat hele dorp onder verdenking, want zo voelen ze dat. En niet te vergeten de toeristenindustrie, dat mag dan wel geen rol spelen als het een 'vermist' kind betreft maar onderhand wordt het wel een spookdorp, of is dat ook de bedoeling??? Journalist Duarte Levy heeft een interessant stukje over de McCanns afgescheiden, ze 'denken' er over terug te keren naar Praia da Luz, ja ja, oh wacht ff, er liggen nog wat vragen op Kate te wachten! Komt dat ff goed uit!
McCanns want to return to television

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Madonna Adopts Madeleine McCann


IN the Belfast Telegraph Gail Walker is making an honest fist at linking Madeleine McCann to a current news story, in this instance Madonna’s attempt to secure another child.

Merry James: Ten Bizarre Facts About Madonna And Child

The problem is that more youngsters Madonna hangs out with, the older she looks. She might prefer to adopt a few pensioners, or Old Mr Anorak.

Why all this moral fingerpointing about Madonna’s wish to adopt a second child from Malawi?

Fair enough, she’s a global megastar. Fair enough, she’s only recently dumped ‘our own’ Guy Ritchie — the chap who for a while gave us rights of ownership to ‘Madge’ — and that brought her domestic arrangements into focus once again.

David Banda Leaves

Ready..?

But really we had all this last time round, with the adoption of her son David. The reaction then was particularly venomous, with the little boy hunted from the airport to his front door with the same hysterical mania as if he’d actually been Madeleine McCann.

Merry James - not Grace, the child who melted Madonna’s heart?

And anyone seen Jessica Kondanani?

Madonna filed adoption papers for David Banda on October 10, 2006. Madeleine McCann went missing on 3 May 2007.

Had Madonna appeared with Madeleine McCann back then, would we have noticed?

Madonna held her ground then, with her usual disdain for whatever drivel the media can serve up about her.

Drivel. At least Gail Walker is objective…

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The parents of Madeleine McCann will appear on the Oprah Winfrey show next month to mark the second anniversary of their daughter's disappearance.

Oprah asked Kate and Gerry McCann, both 40, to appear on the show immediately after Madeleine's disappearance, but they declined.

"It was felt, in the immediate aftermath of Madeleine's disappearance, that a celebrity-based show was not the image they wished to put forward," said their spokesman Clarence Mitchell.

"But life has moved on and it is now felt it will benefit the search."

The one-hour special will include footage filmed of Mr and Mrs McCann at their home in Rothley, Leicestershire, and at the Washington-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

The centre has produced computer imagery of how Madeleine would have aged over the last two years.

She was three when she disappeared from her parents' villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3rd 2007.

"Kate and Gerry see the show as a very important opportunity to reach a global audience and it's a significant step in the hunt for Madeleine," Mr Mitchell continued.

"It's seen by millions in the US and worldwide and they hope these pictures will lead to the crucial sighting that will bring their daughter home."

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AMSTERDAM - In de verdwijningszaak rond Maddie wordt nu jacht gemaakt op een man die zich verdacht zou hebben gedragen rond het Portugese vakantieappartement van de McCanns, waaruit het meisje bijna twee jaar geleden verdween.

Het toen bijna vierjarige Britse werd op 3 mei 2007 uit haar bedje gehaald terwijl haar ouders in een restaurant even verderop zaten te eten. Sindsdien is er geen spoor meer van het kind gevonden.

Een getuige verklaart nu echter dat hij enkele dagen voor de ontvoering een man heeft gezien die zich verdacht zou hebben gedragen. Hij slenterde dagenlang alleen rond bij het vakantiehuisje in Praia da Luz. Hij zou daarbij regelmatig in de richting van het raam van de McCanns hebben gekeken.

Volgens vader Gerry en moeder Kate kan de man cruciaal zijn in de oplossing naar de ontvoeringszaak. Hij zou een mediterraan uiterlijk hebben en tussen de 20 en 30 jaar oud zijn.

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Op woensdag 22 april 2009 13:10 schreef Suko het volgende:
Haaaaaaai Kahaarin. Ach hemeltje, alweer een verdachte opgeduikeld, het is 'm vast! Ondertussen gaan de McCanns naar Oprah Winfrey, Amaral wil ook wel, maar hij heeft nog niets gehoord. Kazluz (een Nederlander overigens) heeft van de dvd de telefoontjes gepeurd en een timeline gemaakt. Een allemachtig heidens karwei, een compliment waard! Reacties zijn hier te lezen. En verder hebben de McCanns zichzelf maar tot directeur van het fonds verklaard. Wel ja. Oja, waar is rijke stinkerd Brian Kennedy gebleven, je weet wel, de man die ze ten alle tijden met miljoenen zou ondersteunen???Of even op de achtergrond geschoven omdat er gestort moet worden... Topic.

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Approx. 21.55 pm The Smith Family, (4 adults and 5 children) are returning from 'Kelly's Bar', heading north, all spread out along the street and they pass a man walking down the middle of the street, carrying a child, with the head against his left shoulder and the arms hanging down alongside the body, in light colored or pink pyjamas, bare feet, pale skin typical of British and blond, shoulder-length hair; the girl is about 3-4 years old, about 1 metre tall. - The man is not dressed like a tourist; he's wearing cream or beige trousers, classic cut, of linen or cotton. He is white, 30-35 yrs, 1.70-1.80 meters tall, average build, physically fit, short, brown hair, with a face that looks tanned. (GA)

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Op woensdag 22 april 2009 17:54 schreef Suko het volgende:
Ik meen me te herinneren dat het tijdstip van de Smith-familie niet klopte, rond die tijd zat Gerry McCann nog aan tafel. Aan de andere kant, die familie is 'bezocht' door de McCann-clan en is daarna niet meer verhoord, en waarom niet???? En verder is die verdachte van nu imo bull, geen aandacht aan besteden, gewoon doorlopen. Dat doen de McCanns tenslotte ook > McCanns On their Way to the US

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Op woensdag 22 april 2009 19:21 schreef Suko het volgende:
Yep, het ging en gaat nog steends om geld. Ik keek even op de site van Oprah Winfrey, er komen ook mensen die vertellen over veiligheid wat betreft kinderen e.d. Zie ook de commentaren...
http://www.oprah.com/arti(...)ows-madeleine-mccann

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Op donderdag 23 april 2009 13:01 schreef Suko het volgende:
Ja vast maar Amaral wordt iig niet uitgenodigd: " Despite the requests, the North American presenter only wants to dedicate the show to the McCanns. She even spent a day with Maddie’s parents and siblings in London." > Joana Daar hebben de McCanns ook een apartement, hadden ze die al?

Ach weet je, Amerikanen weten niet half wat er speelt en men komt en kijkt naar Oprah, zij is de hoofdrolspeelster. Het is tenslotte show, entertainment weet je wel. Die getuige zoals The Sun beschreef, is overigens allang al ontmakerd: Maddie: “New suspect” is identified within the process. Duarte Levy Maar dat wisten we al, ouwe wijn in nieuwe zakken.

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This is caring TV, an advertorial for Oprah’s heart. Those who come to see Kate McCann in the flesh and to hear her story, learn:

HAUNTED Kate McCann has confessed she visits missing daughter Madeleine’s bedroom twice a day to chat to her.

How does this help to find the missing child?

When asked how often she thought of Madeleine, mum-of-three Kate replied: “Not a day goes by when I don’t think about her. I feel Madeleine is still close to me and alive.”

She then described how her daughter’s bedroom at their Leicestershire home is kept ready for her return and touchingly told how she goes in there at least twice a day “just to say hello to Madeleine”.

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FBI Picture Of Madeline McCann Age 6…


The image appears on the front page of the Daily Express. Yeah, Our Maddie’s back selling “The World’s Greatest Newspaper”.

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MADELEINE McCann has been spotted in Malta. Madeleine McCann has been spotted in Chicago, on the Oprah Winfrey TV show.
The missing child is entertaining the Americans, who are watching the parents.
So far, Madeleine has also been seen in: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Belgium, Bosnia, France, Australia, Brazil, Wales, Italy and Dorset. Now she’s in the US.

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It was an ‘I was there’ moment:

Audience member Chris Myers, 43, said: “Kate told Oprah she felt Madeleine was still alive. Oprah and Kate were very emotional. Kate broke down on two occasions. Oprah had to wipe tears away from her eyes at least three times. The atmosphere inside the studio was very sad.”

Which was, of course, the point of the interview, to create a mawkish arena for shared pain; to emote and transmit feelings through the magic box.

No scratch and sniff card for you watching at home to get the full Missing Child Experience of used tissue, regret and the antispetic sting of institutionalised pain, but just wait for the close up of Kate’s tears and make them work for you.

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Kate McCann visits missing Madeleine's bedroom twice a day to talk to her, she has revealed.

Her moving confession came during a tearful interview with American TV host Oprah Winfrey ahead of the second anniversary of her daughter's disappearance.

She said the little girl's bedroom in their Leicestershire home had been kept ready for her return, adding that she goes in there at least twice a day, 'just to say hello to Madeleine'.

Mrs McCann also admitted she did not recognise a new photograph of Madeleine generated to show how she would look aged six.

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Kate, 41, and husband Gerry told how:

TWINS Sean and Amelie still talk about their older sister “coming home”.

DAUGHTER Amelie now wears Madeleine’s clothes.

ANGUISH left Kate wishing she could slip into a coma and not wake until the drama ends and Madeleine is back.

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“Madeleine McCann died in apartment 5A and her body was concealed.”

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Two years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, her parents are desperately trying to keep her name and image alive


Date: 26 April 2009
By Jeremy Watson
THE beach is not busy, but it is healthily populated with spring sun-seekers lazing on the golden sands before the summer rush. The promenade-front bars and cafes hum with business as diners bask in the warmth of a late Algarve morning. The pretty fishing village of Praia da Luz is occupied with doing what it does best – providing holidaymakers from across Europe with a lazy vacation on one of the continent's most stunning coastlines.

Only inside the picturesque white-painted Catholic church of Nossa Senhora Da Luz, now so familiar from thousands of TV news bulletins and newspaper photographs, is there any sign that two years ago next Sunday the small community, residents and visitors alike, were hit by a cataclysmic event from which it has not yet fully recovered.

At the side of the altar is a poolside picture of Madeleine McCann, taken in the happy days before she disappeared from her resort bedroom on the evening of May 3. Lit by the reflected light flame of candles, it says simply: "Pray For Me."

On Sunday, as he did last year on the first anniversary of her disappearance, Father Haynes Q Hubbard, senior chaplain of the church where Madeleine's doctor parents Kate and Gerry McCann came to seek solace in the long weeks after their daughter went missing just 10 days before her fourth birthday, will hold a second "service of hope" in both Portuguese and English.

Haynes, understandably weary of fielding questions from journalists around the world, said last week it is the only thing he feels he can do: "We are doing it because nothing here has changed. It is two years on and Madeleine is still missing. But we should keep her memory alive."

More than 700 days since Madeleine disappeared from an apartment at the Ocean Club and from beside her sleeping younger brother and sister while her parents ate with friends in a Tapas bar just yards away, an answer to the mystery is yet to be uncovered.

This is despite one of the biggest searches for a missing child in history, involving hundreds of police and private detectives and an army of media from around the globe. No one involved in the case seems to be any wiser about what happened to Madeleine than they were in the minutes after she vanished, allegedly spirited away by an unknown abductor.



This weekend, the couple are in the US to record a one-hour special interview with Oprah Winfrey to be broadcast on May 3. Kate and Gerry will be quizzed by the US TV star in front of a live audience as part of their global campaign to keep Madeleine's name and image alive and to persuade police forces around the world to adopt more streamlined methods for issuing alerts when a young child goes missing.

Then, on May 7, Channel Four will broadcast a filmed reconstruction of the events of two years ago, in which 15 actors have been hired to play the parts of the principal characters. The crew and actors were given full access to the Mark Warner-run Ocean Club to make the film. A computer-enhanced image of what Madeleine could look like at age six has also been produced by forensic computer specialists used by the FBI to coincide with the broadcast. The angelic innocence remains along with the distinctive pigmentation stripe in her right eye that may, unfortunately, fade with age.

So, in the past two years has the McCanns' campaign on improving child safety achieved any results? And how long can such a campaign be sustained in the face of dwindling cash reserves?

In Praia da Luz, there is little open hostility to the McCanns, but feelings nevertheless run high among both the large expatriate community and local Portuguese residents who depend on tourism for a living. They feel that the media spotlight should be turned away from their village.

One English bar owner who helped in the initial search for the three-year-old girl, but did not want his name used, said: "We have to move on. Of course, everyone still has sympathy for the family; no-one is indifferent to what happened. How could you be? But we don't want Praia to be evermore associated with what happened. This was a nice and safe place before she went missing and it is a nice, safe place now.

"We all lost some business in the year after it happened and we did well to get through it. Our main problem now is the strength of the euro, so we don't really need any more negative publicity."

Images of missing Madeleine are now hard to find in the town. "There are a couple of billboards out at the moment linked with the TV reconstruction, but that's about it."

One sited on the main road into the village was defaced just one day after being erected. Paint was splattered across the poster and the Find Madeleine campaign number was obscured. When Gerry McCann visited earlier this month, along with Jane Tanner and Matthew Oldfield, two members of the 'Tapas Seven', to advise on the reconstruction, it was reported that Madeleine's father was heckled by former Ocean Club employees who had lost their jobs due to a downturn in trade.

Concerns over money are also besetting the Find Madeleine campaign. On his first return visit to Praia da Luz since his and his wife's official "arguido" suspect status was lifted last year, Gerry McCann revealed that the fund was running out. Earlier this year, newspaper reports said the fund had dipped to £600,000.

"There's still money in it," McCann said. "It won't dry up in the next few months, but probably by the end of the year at the rate we are running."

The published accounts from last year detail where the money, swelled by a £550,000 libel payment from a group of British newspapers found to have defamed the couple and a £375,000 award to the Tapas Seven, has gone. In the first year, it includes £250,000 spent on private investigators, including the Madrid-based Metodo 3 agency, whose head claimed he would find Madeleine within three months.

Another £133,000 went on campaign management at a time when the couple were being besieged by the world's media, largely spent on public relations advisers. Legal fees swallowed up £120,000, £88,000 went on posters and television and newspaper advertising. There were also the costs of the couple's travels to publicise their campaign for an improved child alerts system.

What the couple want is for the Amber Alert system used widely in the United States to be introduced across Europe. Their supporters have been critical of the 12 hours it took for Portuguese police to alert Spanish border officials located just two hours away by road that Madeleine was missing.

The system was introduced in the mid-1990s after the horrific capture and murder of a young Texan girl. Once police are alerted that a child has vanished, the details of the child are sent immediately to broadcasters and flashed up on motorway signs. It has been credited with saving the lives of around 400 children.

The McCanns lobbied the European parliament to introduce Amber Alert in Europe. Although the EU failed to order a union-wide system, it recommended member states to set up their own systems. France, Greece and, earlier this month, Ireland, have agreed to set up national Amber Alert systems, but, in the UK, the decision has been left to individual police forces.

For the McCanns, the EU recommendation was at least step forward in the absence of any information about Madeleine herself. Spokesman Clarence Mitchell, putting the best gloss he could on the EU decision, said: "Whether it is a centralised system or individual national alerts, all Kate and Gerry want to see is better and quicker cooperation between countries.

"When a child goes missing, every minute counts. Kate and Gerry will continue to push for the best possible alert system for children. How that happens is something for ministers to agree on."

Next weekend, the McCanns are expected to mark the anniversary at home in Rothley, Leicestershire, in private with their now four-year-old twins Sean and Amelie. Back in Praia da Luz, in the church where prayers have been said for centuries for missing fishermen, Father Hubbard is expected to once again read out Kate's message of hope that one day her daughter will be found. At 9.15pm, a new candle will be lit at the time her parents believe she vanished. "We continue to hope because there is nothing to the contrary," he said. "The only thing we can do is hold hands, weep and pray."

Where are they now?

Robert Murat

Employed by the Portuguese police at the scene as a translator, this property consultant who lived close with his mother to the Ocean Club was given "arguido" – official suspect – status by investigators. The status was revoked and Murat, 35, sued newspapers for £600,000 libel damages.

Goncalo Amaral

Amaral was the senior investigating officer but was turfed off the case after alleging Madeleine's parents were involved. Last year, he brought out his version of events in a book, The Truth Of The Lie, which was not published in English but has reportedly sold thousands of copies on the continent. He claims Madeleine died in a "tragic accident" in the apartment.

Jane Tanner

One of the 'Tapas Seven' whose testimony supports the theory that Madeleine was abducted. Tanner travelled to Praia da Luz this month to help with the reconstruction as she says she saw a barefoot girl being carried from the apartment but did not regard it as unusual at the time. Last year, she said: "I wake up to that image every day. I see him there, striding away, carrying Madeleine and I try desperately to remember more detail."

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Op dinsdag 28 april 2009 19:22 schreef kazlux het volgende:
Ha Suko ja hoor Kazlux herself

Ja het kan ontmoedigend zijn, je HEBT van die dagen, zoals nu weer Peter Hill van de Daily Express die voor de Press Complaints Commission verklaarde, vanmiddag, dat hij ook niet wist dat de Policia Judiciaria 'Ruritanian tinpot idiots' waren. De vrienden in Portugal zijn weer woedend, dat snap je.

Het maken van die timelines, daar vrolijk ik altijd weer van op. Zoveel rare dingen op een rijtje, en niks wat IK verzin, alles directe quotes of verklaringen, dan weet ik weer: o ja.
En natuurlijk altijd Eddie en Keela, mijn helden (jammer, geen hond-smiley).

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Op dinsdag 28 april 2009 19:36 schreef Suko het volgende:
Oh, sorry, je bent een vrouwtje, ha ha. Amazing dat je nog de interesse kan opbrengen. Oh, is het bashen naar de Portugezen weer begonnen, is daar een reden voor zou je kunnen denken....Zo'n timeline kan inderdaad verhelderend werken, iedereen is dan ook weer stom verbaasd, ook ik. Die snuffelhonden, ook niet serieus genomen, ongelofelijk dat ze daar nog mee wegkomen ook nog. Ja wel, qua smiley's' qua hondjes:

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NEW DRIVE IN HUNT FOR MADELEINE


^{MISSING: Madeleine McCann}

_{Wednesday April 29,2009
By Padraic Flanagan}

Madeleine McCann’s parents told yesterday how they take hope from cases of abducted children being found alive years after they were snatched.


Kate and Gerry McCann said the ordeals suffered by child captives such as Austrian Natascha Kampusch and Americans Elizabeth Smart and Shawn Hornbeck show that youngsters can survive even after they go “off radar” for years.

The couple, both doctors from Rothley, Leics, have launched a push to trace Madeleine through the internet by using social networking sites like Facebook.

The pair have also opened a hotline and web portal for anonymous tip-offs from people who may have information about who took Madeleine.

The move comes after heart specialist Gerry launched a poster campaign in the Praia da Luz area on Portugal’s Algarve coastline where she vanished on May 3, 2007.

To coincide with the second anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance, a Portuguese language version of the “Find Madeleine” website has been created.

Gerry, 40, and his wife Kate, 41, said the search for their daughter is focusing on Portugal because residents “have never been properly asked about the information they may have to give”.

The couple were interviewed at the weekend by US chat show host Oprah Winfrey for a show to be broadcast on Monday to mark the second anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance. They made an emotional appeal for information on their daughter, whose sixth birthday is next month. In a statement on their website the McCanns said: “As the second anniversary of Madeleine’s abduction approaches, there is much still to be done.

“We continue to remain focused on our aim – to find Madeleine and bring her back home safely.

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Op vrijdag 1 mei 2009 13:08 schreef Suko het volgende:
De docu vsn Amaral, nu met Engelse ondertiteling, en natuurlijk....niet vertoond in de UK.

The documentary the McCanns don't want you to see

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Madeleine probably snatched after going in search of her parents, says expert

Published Date: 01 May 2009
Madeleine McCann was probably abducted after walking out of her holiday flat in search of her parents, an expert on her disappearance says.


Criminologist Mark Williams-Thomas said today that it was unlikely an abductor entered apartment 5a at the Ocean Club in Praia Da Luz, Portugal.

The former detective said Madeleine was probably snatched by an opportunistic paedophile as she looked for her parents as they ate with friends at a nearby tapas bar.

He said publicly-available evidence leads him to believe the three-year-old arranged her toys on her bed and left through the unlocked patio door.

Mr Williams-Thomas said the case bears striking similarities to the murder of Sarah Payne, who was snatched from a West Sussex field nine years ago.

He said: "Is it unreasonable to presume that Madeleine woke up and then went in search of her parents at a restaurant within a holiday complex that she had grown familiar with over the course of her holiday?

"Neatly tucking up her toys – as her parents had done to her – she slipped out of the apartment through an insecure patio door.

"This seems all the more credible given what we know happened to eight-year-old Sarah Payne, who was abducted in July 2000 even though she was only out of sight of her family for a matter of seconds."

Mr Williams-Thomas has made his comments after reviewing more than 10,000 documents amassed by Portuguese police during their investigation. He said an abductor would not have arranged the toys on the bed as he would have wanted to escape as quickly as possible.

The expert said a paedophile may have also chosen to take one of the younger and more defenceless twins, Sean and Amelie, sleeping nearby.

Mr Williams-Thomas said: "Based on the evidence provided from within the case files it is more likely that she was abduc-ted after she had left the apartment. A number of factors sugg-est that this is the likely scenario."

Parents Gerry and Kate McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, will mark the second anniversary of her disappearance this weekend.

They said the search for Madeleine continues with the "same strength and determination" and they are convinced someone knows where she is.

The McCanns have been left to co-ordinate their own inquiry after the Portuguese police investigation was closed.

Mr Williams-Thomas criticised several aspects of the Portuguese investigation, including botched searches and a complete failure to secure the crime scene.

He said reliance on evidence of dogs trained to detect dead bodies was "significant and damaging", leading police to mistakenly focus on the McCanns.

The couple were made suspects, or arguidos, as a result of ambiguous evidence from specially-trained British dogs and their handlers, he said.

And he said Portuguese authorities must act to register known paedophiles.

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COPS FAILED TO PROBE £1M MADDIE RANSOM

Police hunting Madeleine McCann ignored a £1million ransom demand from a man who said he had her, a shock report claimed last night.

The man asked for the money in a call to a staff member at the Portuguese holiday apartment where the four-year-old was last seen nearly two years ago.

He left the message on a phone belonging to a worker at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz – with a child’s voice speaking English in the background.

Police put a trace on the phone but the caller never rang back.

The bombshell was revealed yesterday in a new report by criminologist Mark Williams-Thomas, a former UK detective who has worked on the case since Maddie vanished on May 3, 2007. “The demand was received via a voicemail,” he said. “Although an intercept was placed on the line, no further calls were received.”

Mr Williams-Thomas believes Madeleine was snatched after waking in the apartment and going to look for her parents.

But his report concludes that the girl is probably now dead.

He has sent the report to Madeleine’s parents Kate, 41, and Gerry, 40, of Rothley, Leics, who last night declined to
comment.

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Op woensdag 6 mei 2009 11:38 schreef Suko het volgende:
Portugese inspecteur schrijft boek over Maddie
Publicatie: 05/05/09 22:32 Laatst gewijzigd: 05/05/09 22:55 Gonzalo Amaral heeft een spraakmakend boek geschreven over de verdwijning van de Engelse kleuter Madeleine McCann.

De Portugese hoofdinspecteur die het politie-onderzoek naar de zaak leidde, schrijft daarin dat Maddie dood is en beschouwt Maddie’s ouders nog steeds als verdachten. Hoewel het onderzoek naar het meisje vorig jaar werd gestaakt, houdt de zaak de inspecteur nog altijd bezig. En zijn boek, dat nu in Nederland uit is, is zo omstreden, dat in Engeland niemand het durft uit te geven. Hart van Nederland

Ook een artikel (transcript) van Kazlux, inclusief een filmpje/interview met Amaral.

* Reacties op het 3 Arguidos-forum

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Op woensdag 6 mei 2009 13:08 schreef Suko het volgende:
Hooooooooooi Kahaarin! Nee, dat niet maar de McCanns hebben genoeg publiciteit gehad. Alle Engels bladen stonden dit weekend bol van de nieuwe reconstructiefoto van Madeleine en hoe moeilijk ze het weer hadden.

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De PR van Mitchell is een goed geoliede machine. Je begrijpt werkelijk niet waar de echte Engelse journalist is gebleven, wat een achterlijk westers land is de UK geworden. McCann-kritiek wordt niet geduld, laat staan gepubliceerd, om maar te zwijgen over het uitgeven van het boek van Amaral. Bij alle vragen die de McCanns hebben en de kritiek op het onderzoek, dan snap je toch echt niet waarom er geen verzoek tot heropening is geweest, maar nee, die termijn hebben ze gewoon laten overschrijden, er was geen reden toe, nee...nog steeds niet.

McCanns have not demanded reopening of the process

En verder schrijft Joana Morais nav een stukje uit het interview met Oprah Winfrey: "So why didn't the McCanns request for the reopening of the process, as it was their legal right to do so? Dat is hier te lezen.

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Madeleine McCann: Oprah Winfrey Community Blames McCanns


MADELEINE McCann Watch: Introducing Daniel Morcombe and Oprah’s online community point the finger at the McCanns…

Brisbane Times: “’Keep searching’ Morcombes tell McCanns”

The disappearances of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe and British toddler Madeleine McCann, who vanished in completely different circumstances and different time zones, have drawn together families both desperate for closure…

One fact links the two: someone’s child is missing.

Mr Morcombe said he and Denise had considered releasing a computer-generated image of Daniel, as he may look aged 19, but decided it was not relevant to his case.


“As grave as it sounds, we think that it’s incredibly unlikely that Daniel is still alive. We don’t think that an (age-progressed) computer-generated image would help the investigation,” he said.

Idaho Statesman: “McCanns to Winfrey: Madeleine is still alive”

In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their daughter’s alleged abductor to “tell us where she is.”

Does the Idaho Statesman not believe the McCanns? You can’t libel a namesless abductor, but you can lible the McCanns:


Kate and Gerry McCann said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that they believe a man took their daughter, Madeleine, and she is still alive. The girl was almost 4 years old when she disappeared in May 2007.

“It’s not too late to do the right thing,” Gerry McCann said when Winfrey asked the parents what they wanted to say to the person who took Madeleine.

“You know, they can give her up, they can tell us where she is,” he said. “They can hand her over to a priest or someone in authority.”

And Kate McCann?


“This man is known to somebody,” she said. “He’s someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s cousin, someone’s neighbor, someone’s colleague, someone’s partner, so he’s known to someone. And even if these people don’t know that he definitely did it, they might have a suspicion, and it’s just, I guess, somehow reaching out to them and saying please come forward.”

Facts. And now a few more facts from the good people at Oprah Winfrey’s community website:

Note: Many of the comments on Oprah’s libel the McCanns and we will nto repeat them here.

No she did not say that at all and the prime minister was not Gordon Brown at the time when Kate kept her diary, the prime minister was Tony Blair. Please adhere to the facts.

Tony Blair actually rung Kate and Gerry and before you go making a big deal out of this, I know for certain that Tony Blair used to make a habit of ringing people he thought may need him and sometimes he would ring people completely out of the blue who had written to him, regardless of who they voted for – Diarubyem

I am a mother of 3 grown boys. This story gave me nightmares even though I have kept up with it since it happened two years ago. I am appalled at the number of people who think these parents are guilty and have such anger and hatred toward them - loridushki

And so after appearing on the Oprah Woinfery show, a news nation is watching the parents…

And from Oprah’s staff, no mention of libel, just:

The little girl who vanished from her family vacation. In their first interview in America, Madeleine McCann’s parents talk to Oprah. See what life is like now.

So says “HARPOBear” - who delivers the Oprah Winfrey call to arms:

Welcome to Oprah.com! Get inspired. Reach for your dreams. Feel empowered and energized every day to make choices that will lead to a happier, more fulfilling life. Be delighted. Grow. Connect. Give back. Live your life as if it really matters, because it does.


The show is not to help in the hunt for the child. The show is about watching the parents and getting off on their pain. And playing armchair detective, engaging in debate over their innocence or guilt.

It’s the kind of thing what many readers of Anorak send it - but we don’t post nearly all the commetns. We modertate.

In any high-profile story, the publication walk a tightrope between trying to satisfy public hunger for information and staying within contempt laws.

It is not “fair comment” to say the McCanns killed their daughter - its is speculation. It is libel. Libel. Libel. Tabloid TV, like the tabloid press, can do more harm than good.

Ask Robert Murat.

Madeleine McCann is missing - after two years, the Our Maddie show has become a circus…

Did you see them with the Pope - “a British public spectacle; an emtional national experience”?

Pull up a chair. Tissue or a red hot poker, sir, madam? Enjoy…

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The police chief who led the botched investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann yesterday finally admitted Portuguese police bungled the job.

Goncalo Amaral said: Its true. At the time there was no set procedure for a missing child. The crime scene was not well looked after.

He also admitted a reconstruction should have quickly been organised. Madeleine was three when she vanished from her parents holiday apartment in Praia de Luz two years ago last Sunday.

Retired Amaral, 49, moved off the inquiry after five months, is now plugging a new book in France and demanding cash for interviews.
In an article published in Le Parisien newspaper yesterday, he accused Madeleines parents Kate and Gerry of covering up the truth despite the fact they were officially cleared by Portuguese police last July.

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TV documentary throws up new Madeleine clues

Saturday, 9 May 2009

A former RUC man is pursuing “potentially significant” information received after the broadcast of a new TV documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, her family’s spokesman has said.

More than 50 calls were made to the McCanns’ investigative hotline following the airing of Thursday night’s programme, which highlighted three separate sightings of a suspicious man before the little girl vanished.

The callers offered “real, new information”, including details of possible sightings of the missing child, family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said.

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby.

The new documentary highlighted three witnesses who saw an odd stranger who appeared to be watching the McCanns’ apartment in the days before the little girl disappeared.

An artist’s impression based on one account of the man, who was described as “very ugly” with pitted skin and a large nose, was also released this week.

Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, are employing two retired British policemen to continue the search for their daughter.

The former officers — ex-RUC detective inspector Dave Edgar, (52) and ex-detective sergeant Arthur Cowley (57) — scoured thousands of pages from the official Portuguese case files looking for clues. They put the three reports of a suspicious stranger hanging around the McCanns’ apartment together with two sightings of a man carrying a child away from the flat on the night Madeleine vanished.

Mr Mitchell said there was a good response to Thursday night’s programme — Madeleine Was Here — which was watched by 2.6m people on Channel 4.

He said: “The investigative phone line has had at least 50 calls since the documentary.

“It’s a very encouraging response because there is real, new information being given in some of these calls, information that the investigators are now able to set to work on.

“Some of the calls are coming from Portugal, and that’s exactly where we need the information from.

“We will not go into detail but the investigators are very pleased with that response.”

He added: “Many of the calls are offering real information that’s potentially significant and can be worked upon. It’s not speculative or vague.”

The documentary will be shown by Portuguese broadcaster SIC on Monday and negotiations are under way to air it in other countries.

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A WOMAN was seen acting suspiciously outside Kate and Gerry McCann’s apartment just an hour before their daughter Madeleine was abducted.


The slim, Portuguese-looking woman in a plum-coloured top and white skirt with long, dark, swept-back hair acted furtively when she was spotted at 8pm on May 3 in 2007 near the Mark Warner Ocean Club complex.

She was standing under a streetlight at a crossroads only 40 feet from where Madeleine was sleeping with her brother Sean and his twin sister Amelie.

Investigators are being urged to find her to see if she was in any way connected to a pockmarked prowler seen several times outside the apartment in the day leading up to the kidnap.

Details of the mystery woman have only just become known after a Sunday Express investigation into the baffling case was alerted by an elderly British woman who has lived in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve for more than 30 years.

Speaking from her villa near the Ocean Club, the woman, who has asked not to be named, recalled: “On that night I went to the supermarket at the bottom of the road just before it closed at 8pm.

“As I drove past the entrance to the Ocean Club I saw a woman standing opposite Apartment 5A the McCanns were staying in.

“Even at that time of night the streets were deserted, so I was surprised to see someone there. I remember thinking it was unusual because it is just not the sort of place you would hang around.

“As I drove up to the junction she stepped around to the other side of the street lamp as though she didn’t want me to look at her. She was not carrying a bag or a mobile phone. I thought she might have been waiting for a lift but no car came along while I was there.

“I turned right and could see quite clearly she was looking at Apartment 5A.

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Op zondag 17 mei 2009 11:00 schreef voyeur het volgende:

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Ik ga mijn avatar niet weer veranderen!

Overigens gaan de McCanns juridische aktie nemen tegen onze Portugese inspecteur's boek.

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Parents of Madeleine McCann to sue police chief who branded them killers
May 17 2009 by Paul Cole, Sunday Mercury

THE parents of missing Midland girl Madeleine McCann are to sue disgraced former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral.

Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were branded killers after Amaral suggested that they had been involved in the three year-old’s death, and had concealed the body.

In a statement last night, the McCanns said: “We, together with our three children Madeleine, Sean and Amelie, are taking this legal action against Goncalo Amaral.

“It is over his entirely unfounded and grossly defamatory claims that Madeleine is not only dead, but that we, her parents, were involved in concealing her body.”

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Madeleine McCann: British paedophile Raymond Hewlett is 'significant new suspect'
Raymond Hewlett, a convicted British paedophile responsible for a number of sex attacks in the last 40 years, is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it has emerged.

Hewlett, a former soldier, is believed to have been living an hour's drive from the resort of Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when she disappeared in April 2007, reports said.

The 64-year-old has a long record of sex attacks on young girls and is wanted by police in Britain and Ireland.

The new information is thought to have emerged after Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, made a string of international media appearances to issue a fresh appeal for information on the second anniversary of her disappearance.

New material released included a computer-aided image of what she may look like now, aged six, while another was a sketch of a suspect seen near the holiday complex.

Hewlett, described by detectives as "cunning" and a "danger to children", is a former Scots Guardsman who has worked as a trawlerman and fairground operator.

He has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls.

Hewlett is also wanted by some British police forces for questioning about sex attacks stretching back nearly 30 years.

It is not known if he was interviewed by Portuguese police but they have been informed he may have been involved in her disappearance.

The search for Madeleine is headed by two retired UK policemen, Dave Edgar, a former RUC and Cheshire Police officer, and Arthur Cowley, previously of Merseyside Police, who run Alpha Investigations Group and have been hired by the Find Madeleine Fund to investigate missed leads.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCann family, said: "My understanding is he is currently receiving hospital treatment and is currently in Germany.

"Kate and Gerry are fully aware of the development and have been for a little while.

"This is one line of inquiry in an ongoing investigation led by two former police officers.

He added that he believed a number of British police forces had been looking for Mr Hewlett for some time.

"Three police forces have an interest in him and want to talk to him, I believe, about other matters," he said.

"He has a background that would be of interest to any police force. It is potentially significant but I will go no further than that."

He refused to comment on whether Hewlett was in police custody.

The alarm was raised about Hewlett by a couple who met him while on holiday in Portugal.

When Alan and Cindy Thompson met Hewlett, he was living with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck travelling from campsite to campsite.

Mr Thompson told the Daily Mirror: "Hewlett befriended us but kept quiet about his terrible past.

"We were mortified and disgusted to discover the truth."

They also described a conversation in which Hewlett said he was approached by some "Gipsy tourists" offering to buy his daughter just before Madeleine went missing.

Mrs Thompson said: "We didn't think too much of this at the time. Ray and his family led a desperate hand-to-mouth lifestyle and someone may have thought he'd be tempted to sell one of his six children."

They also recalled him mentioning a "business" trip to Morocco where there were several alleged sightings of Madeleine in the months after her disappearance.

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Op vrijdag 22 mei 2009 20:23 schreef livelink het volgende:
Ik las het bericht vanochtend op de frontpage, met deze reactie erop.
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Mijn eerste reactie was dat dat wel erg vergezocht was, maar in tweede instantie leek het me nog geloofwaardig ook
Ik weet niet wat ik hier nou weer van moet denken allemaal.

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Paedophile Raymond Hewlett has confessed that he saw Madeleine McCann twice weeks before she disappeared, it was claimed last night.

The child molester, who is undergoing cancer treatment in Germany, said he spotted the youngster before she ­vanished from a Portuguese holiday resort two years ago.

In an extraordinary deathbed confession, he was reported to have told police: “Yes – I have seen Maddie.”

He even remembered the ­distinctive flaw in her right eye, despite previously insisting that he was nowhere near the family resort at the time.

Kate and Gerry McCann’s spokesman said it was now “imperative” that Hewlett is interviewed before he dies.

Madeleine was just three-years-old when she went missing from her family’s apartment as they holidayed at the ­Algarve beach resort of Praia da Luz.

Hewlett, 64, who has a lifelong history of sexually abusing little girls, was living less than an hour away from the scene of the abduction at the time.

The paedophile, originally from Yorkshire, was quizzed by Portuguese police investigating Madeleine’s disappearance but he was given an alibi by a 15-year-old girl.

But he came under renewed suspicion after making bizarre comments about the case to his friends and family.

Yesterday’s claims were made in Germany’s biggest news­paper Bild, which were understood to be based on “police sources”.

The McCanns’ team want to speak to Hewlett but the paedophile – who has been given weeks to live – has said he will only talk about the case if he ­receives tens of thousands of pounds from the Find Maddie fund.

Spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “In the light of the Bild piece, this makes it even more imperative that Mr Hewlett gives any credible information that he may have about Madeleine to the investigators as a matter of priority. It is only right that he and his legal representatives ensure this happens. However, there will be no payment made to him.”

The paedophile was interviewed by British police this week, but they were unable to quiz him about Madeleine’s disappearance.

Hewlett was being sought by West Yorkshire Police’s Homicide and Major Inquiry Team, who were conducting a review of an ­assault on an eight-year-old girl in 1975.

Two detectives spent Thursday and yesterday in Aachen, Germany, grilling him.

But under the terms allowing the interview, the detectives were unable to make any ­mention of Madeleine unless ­Hewlett himself volunteered information. He did not.

But Hewlett has agreed to have a DNA test ­taken which will go on to a worldwide Interpol database. This could then be used to cross-match samples obtained during the Madeleine inquiry by the Portuguese police.

A West Yorkshire Police source said: “The only way we would have ventured into the Madeleine investigation would have been through something Hewlett himself told us.

“We are aware of the reports that he has claimed to have seen Madeleine twice but he made no such comments to our detectives.”

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Op donderdag 11 juni 2009 13:53 schreef fruit_vliegje het volgende:
Deze week zal die man toch een persconferentie geven over wat hij weet over Madeleine ofzo. Dacht zoiets gelezen te hebben?

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MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Case remains closed…

Portugal News Oneline tells readers: “Recent reports not enough to re-open Maddie case -Attorney General”

This was to be the Third Summer of Our Maddie, in which the story of the missing child would give the newspapers something to fall back on should Big Brother fail and a shark not be spotted off Bournemouth pier.

But Michael Jackson has died. Iran is broiling. Andy Murray is doing well. And as Sky News – live from LA tells us – it’s Tuesday so it must be Farrah Fawcett’s burial.

Portugal’s Attorney General has this week voiced its opinion that recent reports about British paedophile Raymond Hewlett, who was embroiled in the Madeleine McCann [sic] after it emerged the former convict had been staying in the Algarve at the time of her disappearance, were not strong enough to re-open the case.

Well, if there is no evidence…


Following reports in the UK’s press that branded 64-year-old Hewlett as ‘suspicious’ for being in the Algarve region at the time of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, Portugal’s Attorney General has said none of the reports offered solid facts that justified re-launching the investigation.

Can you have an non-solid fact, a loose fact? Such are the facts that the only things linking Raymond Hewlett to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are Clarence Mitchell’s opinions, newspaper speculation, the renaming of him as “Maddie pervert” and Cindy and Alan Thompson.

In a statement the Attorney General’s Office made clear “speculation, opinions or commentary is not enough to re-open the investigation”.

Sadly, they were for too long enough to keep the case open and for the innocent McCanns and Robert Murat to be named as arguidos. But now all things have moved on and there are no suspects to go with no evidence and no clue pointing to any crime having occurred.

It continued “when there are concrete facts, that the magistrates in charge of the case consider relevant or credible, the case will be reopened”.

Well, yes… But not in the Sun:

Forensic checks on Maddie perv’s van

“Maddie perv!”


A VAN used by Maddie McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett will be “ripped apart” in a hunt for clues.
Private detectives believe forensic checks could provide crucial evidence about the toddler’s disappearance.

What do they hope to find?

The battered blue Dodge has been seized by cops in Germany, where paedo Hewlett, 64, is being treated for cancer.

A source close to the probe added: “It will be ripped apart to look for a trace of Maddie.”

Do police hand over their suspects and potential evidence to private detectives?

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Maddie’s parents Gerry and Kate, 41, said: “Our investigators have known about the vehicle for some time.”

Which means… nothing.

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The parents of missing Madeleine McCann said today that the reappearance of child kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years after she disappeared "only makes us more determined" to find their daughter.

Jaycee was abducted at the age of 11 from her home in California in 1991 but has now been reunited with her mother after walking into a police station with her alleged captor and the two children he fathered by her.

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Madeleine McCann: Watching Amelie And Sean Start School


MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - We’re watching Our Maddie’s twin siblings Amelie and Sean go to school with Jaycee Dugard.

Sky News tells us: “Parents’ Pain As Twins Join Madeleine School”

All the media talks is of the McCanns’ pain: Pain. Pain. Pain.

We are not looking for the missing child, we are watching the parents, as ever. And we are watching the children. Nothing creepy about watching someone else’s children, a stranger’s children start school. This is just good wholesome gawping.

After “pain” the other word is “proud”. As all news sources tell us, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann are proud. This from Sky:

It will be a proud moment for her parents when they drop off twins Sean and Amelie for their first day in primary class in Thurmaston, Leics. But the occasion will be tinged with overwhelming sadness for the couple.
Will it? Did anyone ask them or do we now know the McCanns well enough to read their minds?

Madeleine had already been accepted at the school and was meant to start lessons four months after she disappeared while on holiday in Portugal on May 3, 2007.

Staff at Bishop Ellis Roman Catholic Primary kept an empty desk and locker for Madeleine when she vanished - and they still keep a candle burning in the hope she will one day return.
After the private tribute for one would-be pupil, the school feels a need to advertise its link to the famous missing child. A message on the school’s website says:

“We are sorry that we are not yet able to welcome Madeleine to our school as we had hoped to. Our thoughts and prayers remain very much with the McCanns as we continue to pray with them for Madeleine.”
When Madeleine McCann went missing, and as she became the media’s Our Maddie, pupils from the school stood in formation to spell out the words “Find Madeleine”. Will Sean and Amelie McCann now help recreate he scene?

But this is not about the twins, who are not missing. This is about finding a missing child. Really:

The twins will be driven the five miles to school from their family home in Rothley.
Phew! They won’t be walking there alone. Any other news?

An Ofsted report carried out in May this year described the school as “outstanding” and said the pupils were “admirably well behaved”.
Good news, then. Meanwhile, over in the Mail, Allison Pearson is playing Tabloid Bingo:

Is there hope for Jaycee?

As Gerry and Kate McCann get their excited twins ready for their first day at school this week, they must think that they would have Madeleine back at any price.

Just what that price might involve is revealed by the compellingly awful story of Jaycee Dugard, who was reunited with her mother, Terry Probyn, after 18 terrible years.
Don’t worry, McCanns - Maddie may be being held by a paedophile rapist and his wife.
Pain.
Meanwhile, a child is missing.

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Man questioned over Madeleine McCann lookalike step-daughter
A fire protection officer was questionned over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann after being spotted in a petrol station with his step-daughter, who looks like the missing girl.

_{Published: 10:38AM BST 04 Sep 2009}

^{Jon Hazelhurst with his daughter Lauren who was called into a police station after she was mistaken for missing girl Madeleine McCann Photo: SWNS}

Jon Hazlehurst and eight-year-old Lauren were at home when officers arrived at their doorstep and asked them to go to a police station.

A member of the public had seen the pair at a petrol station the day before and thought blonde Lauren was missing Maddie.

The concerned witness had noted down Mr Hazelhurst's car registration plate and immediately notified police.

Officers then visited the family home and Jon and Lauren were taken to a police station for an identification process.

Mr Hazelhurst, of Kingsbridge, Devon, said he thought it was a ''prank''.

He said: ''I was surprised more than anything. My first thought was that it was someone pulling a prank on me before I realised that they were quite serious.

''I've never been called into a police station as a possible kidnapper. The police were very polite and I understood that they had to follow up the lead, even if it didn't come to anything.

''There's always a chance a tip-off like that might lead them to Madeleine.''

Mr Hazelhurst and Lauren pulled in for petrol on their way back from walking their dog at nearby Slapton beach on Sunday.

The following morning officers knocked on Mr Hazlehurst's door asking him and his step-daughter to come to Kingsbridge police station.

The pair went with the officers but were later released after they were identified and it was proved that she was not Maddie.

Sgt Paul O'Neill, of Kingsbridge Police, said Lauren did bear a resemblance to Madeleine McCann - except for a different eye colour.

He added: ''I thank the lady for bringing it to our attention. She did well to spot the little girl and inform us. Fortunately, the parent was more than willing to help.''

Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 while on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal.

She went missing a few days before her fourth birthday and would be six years old now.

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New leads in search for missing Madeleine McCann

Sources report that private detectives, ex-police officers Arthur Cowley and Dave Edgar, continue to look into little Madeleine McCann’s disappearance and have returned to Portugal to question persons of interest.

According to the Daily Express, new leads may provide a breakthrough in the case. “The investigation has real momentum with definite goals. A vast amount of work has already been done and every new lead is being checked,” a source said.

Madeleine’s little brother and sister, twins Sean and Amelie, have begun school at Bishop Ellis RC School where Madeleine was a student prior to her disappearance. On their Website, a message reads, “We are sorry we are not yet able to welcome Madeleine to our school as we had hope to.”

Madeleine, who would now be six-years-old, disappeared in May 2007, during a family vacation in Portugal.

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Op woensdag 9 september 2009 21:31 schreef Mylene het volgende:

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bron

Het boek gewoon op internet plaatsen, op een server in Rusland ofzo.

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Net storm on Madeleine McCann
Lawyers for Madeleine McCann's parents want to shut down a website that says she was not abducted.

The Madeleine Foundation claims she is dead and her parents Kate and Gerry bear some responsibility.

The McCanns' libel experts Carter-Ruck have now asked the Foundation to hand over all copies of materials it published to support the claims.

Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished on hols in Portugal in May 2007 as her parents, of Rothley, Leics, dined with friends.

The couple's spokesman said: "They've consistently made clear they will not dignify actions of the so-called Madeleine Foundation."

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Kate McCann has returned to Portugal for the first time since being quizzed by police over her daughter Madeleine's disappearance, her spokesman has told Sky.

The British woman and husband Gerry, both 41, flew in for a series of meetings with their lawyers and other advisers in Lisbon, Clarence Mitchell said.

"They are planning to be there for one day. They are not going to Praia da Luz," the spokesman went on.

Madeleine was three when she went missing in the resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.

Adding that Mrs McCann was also to attend a press conference, Mr Mitchell said: "It is Kate's first visit back to Portugal since 2007 and it is difficult.

"It's something that has always been daunting for her, but she knew she would go back at some stage - and she's always said she'll do anything necessary to keep the search for Madeleine alive.

"If it means a trip to speak to the Portuguese media, then so be it. But she's always said she'll do anything to keep the inquiry alive."

One of the topics to be discussed with the lawyers will be an injunction against further publication of a book by former Portuguese police detective Goncalo Amaral.

Mr Amaral was involved in the initial disappearance investigation but was later taken off the case.

In his book, The Truth Of The Lie, he claims that Madeleine is dead and questions the McCanns' account that she was taken while they were eating with friends nearby.

Earlier this month, a Portuguese judge banned further sale or publication of the book.

The injunction also banned Mr Amaral from repeating his claims about Madeleine or her parents, who are from Rothley, Leicestershire.

At one point, Portuguese police made Mr and Mrs McCann "arguidos", or formal suspects, in their daughter's disappearance.

They were questioned by detectives but their arguido status was later lifted.

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Mrs McCann said: "Each day we get through, each week that we get through, I'm thinking, how is Madeleine?"

She added: "She's six, but we've just got to keep going, and it has been very harrowing and very draining, and it's been a long time to just keep going. But there is no choice, she needs us to find her and bring her home. I cry for Madeleine every day."

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Madeleine claim could spark £1m payout

Published Date: 24 September 2009
Madeleine McCann's parents could receive more than £1m compensation from a former police detective who claimed she was dead, it was claimed last night.

Kate and Gerry McCann are pursuing legal action against Goncalo Amaral after winning a gagging order against the publication of his book. Several thousand copies have reportedly been handed over to the family's legal team.

Mrs McCann returned to Portugal yesterday for the first time since being quizzed by police about Madeleine's disappearance.

After the couple met lawyers and advisers in Lisbon, Mrs McCann said: 'If people believe that she is not alive then people will stop looking for her.

'I just think that it's so vital and so fair for Madeleine that we don't give up on her, that we look for her. We're not going to stop.'

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Op maandag 12 oktober 2009 00:42 schreef Suko het volgende:
Elke acvond warn ze weg en Gerry Mccann maar zeggen dat het net leek alsof ze in d achtertuin zaten, maar het lamgdurig gehuil van Maddie op een avond niet ghoord, zo dichtbij was het dus niet.De buurvrouw had nog bij de receptie geklaagd over datgehuil van madeleiene, die mensnen van de receptieZijn toen nog op zoek geggaan naar de\MCCANNS gewaarschud maartoch weer elke aond de hort op, wel ja,ho cares.Ook is vvaSTgestEeld Dat ze naar een kroegverderop gingen veel verder weg.dus.En er was wel opppas voorhanden, maar dat wilden ze niet dat waren dezelde personen van de Crèche waar ze elke dag werden geparkeerd.nota bene, dus vErtrouwd. Het bleek een vakantie vooral voor henzelfen hun vrienden veel tenissen en joggene uitgaan maar zich vooal niet bezighouden met de kinderen,allerminst! Voor mij zijn ze schuldig, alleen al om nalatigheid en verwaarlozing en dat in een vreemd land.Maleine had wel in een bouwput kunnen vallen , er waren daar veell van.En tOCH NIET zelf gaan zoeken, HOe is het mogelijk!

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MADELEINE EXCLUSIVE: ALL THREE CHILDREN DRUGGED

_{MISSING: Madeleine McCann
Sunday October 11,2009
By James Murray}

The kidnapper of Madeleine McCann drugged her and her twin brother and sister so they would all be quiet while she was snatched.

A duplicate key may also have been used to gain entrance to the holiday apartment where the children were sleeping, say investigators.

It means the monster is still a threat to children living or holidaying on Portugal’s Algarve and must be caught urgently as he is highly likely to reoffend.

Former police detectives David Edgar and Arthur Cowley have spent months re-analysing every shred of evidence.

They are convinced the ­abductor went to the family’s apartment on May 3 2007 fully prepared with sufficient drugs, probably ­chloroform, to knock out all three children.

The fact that Sean and Amelie, then just 18 months old, failed to wake when the alarm was raised, nor even as they were taken to another apartment in the cold night air, has persuaded the detectives that they, too, must have been drugged.

Had the twins been tested for drugs immediately, any ­medication used could have been established, making it easier to identify the kidnapper, but vital time was lost.

_{(Goh hoe kan dat nou?)}

Chloroform can be made ­easily and other sedatives, such as the horse tranquilliser ketamine, are commonly in circulation in the criminal underworld.

Even now, however, experts say there may be forensic clues on clothing or bedding which could yield a breakthrough.

The Sunday Express can further reveal that the McCanns’ private detectives are working on a solid theory about exactly how Madeleine was abducted.

Just as television investigator Donal MacIntyre suggested in this paper three weeks ago, they believe there was a dry run prior to the kidnap that fateful night at apartment 5a of the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz.

While checking the layout of the apartment the night before, the kidnapper probably woke Sean, who in turn woke Madeleine. In the morning she had told Kate and Gerry she was frightened.

The fact that the children woke up is thought to have persuaded the kidnapper to use knock-out drugs when he returned the next night to take Madeleine, three.

On the question of the duplicate key, holidaymakers often left front door keys under the doormats during the day.
A theory emerging is that the kidnapper had a duplicate key to apartment 5a, which could have been used on the night to enter by the front door.

Mr Edgar and Mr Cowley do not believe Madeleine was taken through an open window as it would have been awkward, time consuming and there were no forensic clues left behind.

It is far more likely, they say, that he simply walked out of the front door with her in his arms. It had been thought that the front door was double locked, making it impossible to open from the inside, but this doubt falls away if there was a duplicate key.

_{(Mitchell spin anyone?)}

The theory suggests the ­kidnapper had been targeting the apartment for a long time and had a detailed knowledge of the lock system.

_{(Tuurlijk, logisch, in dat appartement werden alle schattige meisjes van 3 jaar oud geplaatst en alle ouders die de kinderen alleen lieten.)}

With the front door unlocked, it is easy to simply pull a latch across to open it from the inside.

Another possibility is that the front door was not double-locked when Kate and Gerry left through the unlocked patio doors to join their seven friends at the resort’s tapas bar some 30 metres from their apartment.

_{(Dat controleer je ook niet als je 3 kids lekker liggen te slapen toch?)}

Meanwhile it emerged yesterday that the parents of a two-year-old girl who has gone missing in New Zealand are being ­supported by the ­McCanns.

Aisling Symes vanished from a relative’s house in an Auckland suburb on Monday.

Her mother Angela had been close by, standing beside a washing machine.

There have been reports that the girl was later seen with a woman of Asian appearance.

Detectives believe she was ­abducted. Despite repeated ­appeals for help their searches have so far drawn a blank.
Kate and Gerry McCann said their “thoughts and prayers” were with the family.

The little girl’s father, Allan Symes, who is originally from County Waterford in Ireland, made an emotional plea for her return, saying: “These recent days have proven to be the most harrowing of our lives; no sleep and we feel like we’re barely ­existing, just surviving every ­moment, not knowing where ­Aisling is.”

It has also emerged that police in Sweden are trying to find a girl said to bear a resemblance to Madeleine after a photograph was posted on a website.

_{(Ik dacht al, waar blijft het, een nieuwe sighting.)}

However, she does not appear to have the distinctive mark Madeleine has in her right eye.

_{(Oh nee, toch niet....)}

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Op maandag 12 oktober 2009 12:31 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

En wie hadden er een sleutel...
Nou?
Als de dader een sleutel had, maakt dat het idee dat de dader een extern persoon is alleen maar zwakker

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Daily Express, een standaard als het gaat om kwaliteitsjournalistiek

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Op woensdag 14 oktober 2009 15:18 schreef Marrije het volgende:
Maar hoe zit het met dat meisje in Zweden? Is die al gevonden?

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Op woensdag 14 oktober 2009 17:04 schreef Marrije het volgende:
Ja, die bedoel ik!

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Stockholm police were called out to a local beach on Monday after a tip off that the kidnapped British girl Madeleine McCann had been spotted there.

The tip off was by a father who believed that he had seen the missing Madeleine McCann at Flatenbadet in the southern Stockholm suburb of Bagarmossen, according to the Expressen newspaper.

The mystery of Madeleine McCann - the girl who disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 while her parents were having dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant - was not however solved at a Swedish bathing spot.

"It was an Alva or Ylva who was out with her grandmother. So the police patrol left the scene without getting involved," Joakim Caryll at Stockholm police said to the newspaper.