Madeleine McCann, nog steeds geen nieuws.

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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.
[..]

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?