Madeleine McCann: Danie Krugel Is The Locator, Gerry McCanns The Roof And Paedo Alert
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
NEWS OF THE WORLD front page: “Maddie was alive on beach”
“A renowned international manhunt expert, dubbed The Locator, sensationally revealed he has uncovered a telltale DNA trail left by snatched toddler Maddie McCann”
THE LOCATOR – in the papers and all over Praia da Luz from Sunday (see press for details). Anyone else see a made-for-TV series or a fly-on-the-wall documentary?
Ex-cop Danie Krugel has tracked the “forensic route” he believed her kidnapper took from her Madeleine’s Portuguese holiday apartment. It ends on the beach
Says Krugel: I spent four nights in July carrying out my searches. I’ve been able to trace where Madeleine was in the resort and have drawn a map which has been given to the police.
“I can’t reveal details as I don’t want to alert anyone who might try to disturb the scene. But I believe I’ve traced where she was taken that night and now it’s down to police to use their search experts to do the rest. The area to which my investigation led me is a difficult one to search”
Disturb the scene? The beach at a popular tourist destination made famous by the disappearance of a little girl? Yes, best not disturb that. And tell the wind and the tide to stop, too
A source “close” to the McCanns says: “The work of Mr Krugel should not be underestimated and gives great hope to Gerry and Kate. Many people have contacted the couple to try to help but while their hearts may be in the right place they just don’t have the expertise to be of assistance. But Mr Krugel has a proven record of finding people and his methods are extremely credible”
Like this credible helper. And this one. And this one. And this one…
SUNDAY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE SENSATION – BOYFINDER CALLED IN”
• McCanns hire leading DNA expert
• He pinpoints area on local beach
• New cops urged to start digging
And fishing…
“Desperate Kate and Gerry McCann” sent a strand of Madeleine’s hair to South African police colonel Danie Krugel. The Locator has located the spot where Madeleine’s body is buried
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “WOMAN WHO COST MADDIE FUND £51K”
“Anguished Gerry McCann sensationally split from the expert masterminding the worldwide hunt for his missing daughter Madeleine after she put in a whopping £20,000 overtime and expenses bill”
PR Justine McGuinness charged Gerry and wife Kate £51,000 for 89 days’ work. “Her basic fee was £350 a day, making a total of £31,000. And the rest was made up in overtime payments and expenses - including bar and restaurant bills”
A source says Gerry saw the bill and “hit the roof”. He was “livid”
So she went. And was replaced by Clarence Mitchell
“Gerry was the only one who wanted Clarence,” readers learn. “He was determined to get him after building a strong relationship with him in Portugal. But nobody else wanted him because he had given Kate and Gerry - what some of the family thought of as - questionable advice”
Can the McCanns’ PRs get a PR before their names and sullied?
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “New police chief turns screw on McCanns”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “MPs demand record of child-tracking devices over paedophile fears”
Oh?
“New laws to regulate the use of high-tech child-tracking devices are being called for by MPs amid fears they could be used by paedophiles and stalkers. The technology is aimed at parents wanting to keep tabs on their children after a series of high-profile child murders and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann”
Maybe all adults should be chipped instead? Or children paedo-proofed - why let it ruin your holiday?
THE TIMES: “Detective who suspected Kate and Gerry McCann may lead hunt”
Luis Neves, 41, is seen as a forerunner to replace Goncarlo Amaral as lead detective. He was seen by the McCanns as a “breath of fresh air” when he joined the inquiry team.
“But he later became convinced she had died in an accident in the McCanns’ apartment”
Or will it be Carlos do Carmo? He has no previous connection with the case, and was Amaral’s predecessor as director of the police in Portimao. The Times says he earned the respect of colleagues after bringing the killer of a police officer to justice
Who will it be: Carmo or Neves? Press your keypads now!
Or C: The British Supercop?
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: “Police have open minds, insists Kate McCann”
“Kate and Gerry McCann are ‘furious’ at Portuguese police claims that British detectives believe their missing daughter Madeleine is dead”
Says Kate McCann to friends: “The police have told us they have an open mind. Of course we accept it’s possible Madeleine may no longer be alive but we don’t know and nor do the police, so we have to do everything we can to find her”
Clarence Mitchell refuses to comment on “the latest unfounded, unsubstantiated rumours”
A source says: “”Quite how any child would die falling off a sofa is beyond me”
She fell off the sofa? Really…
THE OBSERVER: “Forensic DNA tests ‘reveal traces of Madeleine’s body on resort beach’”
“Retired” South African police superintendent Daniel Krugel is on the beach
Are you?
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October 7th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Manon - how to you do those smiley, winking faces. The quotation was the first sentence on Gerry’s most recent blog. In fairness, he does this alot - but I believe it is a colloquial thing, so assume he is writing as he would speak. Actually it is when the grammar on the blog smartens itself up a bit that I will know someone else is writing it for him!
Wouldn’t go down the ‘educational achievement’ route of other posters if I were you - you will not win that one. More initials after names than amagrams of ‘pedantic’.
Now go on tell me where I can get one of those yellow yokes?
October 7th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
424 manon
“But he’s a cardiologist & therefore highly educated in other areas”
Bit of a stereotype statement. Is he a good cardiologist? She’s prone to attracting stiffs on a gargantuan scale - Is she a carrier for bubonic plague? Steer clear of Leicestershire hospitals and GP surgeries is my advice…
On second thoughts, now that they are living off the slush fund on gardening leave we are safe! Hurrah for the NHS, I say…
October 7th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Not sure if UK Grammar is different than US Grammar…
But the correct in the US:
It’s been a quieter week for Kate and me.
Kate and I went to confession.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
It would be terrible if bloggers wrongly judged the McCanns and joyfully seized every raised eyebrow as evidence of their wrongdoing and worse yet to suspect that they did in fact hurt Madeleine when they could very well be innocent and cracking under the strain of accusations.
Even though it is entertaining to play detective on the blog, one needs to remember that we are talking about a couple that could very well be innocent.
Would we wish to be treated so harshly under similar circumstances? Probably not.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Maybe it’s bad typists……
October 7th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Before I have the JD my kids are fine. I am at the bottom of my very large garden and the view to the door is out of site and the door is unlocked. The pool, hedges and ally ways make it a not too straight forward walk back to check on the children. The JD is nice though and what’s the worst that could happen as I’m a responsible parent and have hidden all the matches.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
MADELEINE’S FUND
Gazeta Digital had this on 15 September:
QUOTE
The brand name “Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned” will be a commercial brand, protected by law, soon.
The managers of the campaign to find Madeleine have applied with the European Community Trademark Registration to protect the name
“Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned”.
The request filled also asks for that trademark to be registered for social services providers and advising in cases of missing children.
The registration of Madeleine’s trademark was requested on May 18, fifteen days after Madeleine McCann disappeared from her room, at the Ocean Club resort, in Praia da Luz, Algarve.
UNQUOTE
October 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Batman Says:
October 7th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Manon - Re what Gerry says re the Charity/Fund. As you believe that ‘bad grammar points to bad education (& being a bit der), and devalues everything you say’. Anything Gerry says must be devalued as he too uses bad grammar.
Well, I have to say I’m not impressed with Gerry it that is so ( I take your word for it). But he’s a cardiologist & therefore highly educated in other areas. I f the bad spellers/grammarites on here could say the same I would give them a second chance…
October 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
One thing that has been brought up before but seems to have dropped out of the conversation is how normal it would be to see a parent (mother or father) carrying a child clad in pjs and/or wrapped in a blanket, fresh from picking them up from the child care creche. Parents using the service are encouraged to bring them dressed for bed and then to stop back to gather their children after their evening out. From the Mark Warner Ocean Club website:
Award-winning childcare
“The Ocean Club offers a unique ‘dine out’ service. Simply get your little ones ready for bed and drop them off at our kids club. We’ll watch over them whilst you go out and enjoy yourselves and you can pick them up on your way home.” http://www.markwarner.co.uk/sun/portugal/ocean-club
Even if Jane Tanner did see an ‘egg-headed’ man carrying a child that evening, it doesn’t mean that it was Madeleine.
However, I do agree with so many others, that this generic description of Tanner’s is useless, even if there was a sighting. The drawing has no useful characteristics to identify someone with–even the hair looks unreal.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Sometimes fingering the parents is the easiet route - maybe that is what’s happening here, for a lack of evidence. It is a natural assumption.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Amarality Tale Says:
October 7th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
376 - According to 236, “dOCTORS ARE TRAINED TO REIGN IN THEIR EMOTIONS tHEY ARE ALSO INTELLIGENT AND NEED TO GET POINTS ACROSS WHICH THEY KNOW WOULD NOT LOOK SO GOOD WITH TEARS DOWN THEIR FACES AND VOICES INAUDIBLE FROM SNOT…THE MCANNS SHOW NO EMOTION BECAUSE THEY ARE EMOTIONALLY DEAD!”
Hence, they “turn up at dinner as though *absolutely nothing had happened?”
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It’s one thing being calm & collected when telling a patient their relative has died, and quite another killing your own yearned for offspring yourself & pitching up at dinner with a smile - no stress, distress or guilt.
Or is the theory that they are psychopaths now? :rolleyes:
For the record I never cry in public, not even at one of my best friend’s funeral. Some people just don’t.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
411 judge and batters
I reckon it’s a code to tell us they have now become royalty…
My husband and I…
October 7th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
taken from times online
Detective who suspected Kate and Gerry McCann may lead hunt Steven Swinford and Christopher Thompson in Portimao
A senior detective who called in the parents of Madeleine McCann for questioning and played a key role in the decision to make them suspects is one of the favourites to take charge of the investigation.
Luis Neves, 41, was seen by the McCanns as a “breath of fresh air” when he joined the inquiry team three weeks after Madeleine’s disappearance. But he later became convinced she had died in an accident in the McCanns’ apartment.
He is now a front runner to replace Goncalo Amaral, the former head of the investigation who was sacked last week after he accused British police of working only on leads given to them by the McCanns.
The appointment, which could be made as early as tomorrow, is seen as critical in determining whether police resume the search for Madeleine or continue to focus on the McCanns.
Police in the Algarve, however, want Carlos do Carmo to get the post. Do Carmo, who has no previous connection with the case, was Amaral’s predecessor as director of the police in Portimao and earned the respect of colleagues after bringing the killer of a police officer to justice.
Gerry and Kate McCann hope the police changes will help galvanise the search for their daughter. Their legal team want British police to carry out an independent review of the case.
A source said: “The police abandoned the kidnap hypothesis too rapidly. We are trying to convince them to continue the hunt for Madeleine. We are considering a review from both British and Portuguese police.”
Amaral, who has been taken off the case and demoted to the rank of inspector, last week refused to comment. He told a friend, however, he had been expecting to lose his post for “some time” after a “crescendo of violence” from the media.
The police team is about to lose another senior detective, Tavares Almeida, who has applied for extended leave. The six remaining officers on the case are insisting on taking holiday built up over the 157 days of the investigation. It means the team could be cut by half.
Neves, national director of the DCCB, the Portuguese equivalent of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, began briefing the McCanns at the end of May. But in August, after police sniffer dogs allegedly found the “scent of death” in the McCanns’ apartment, Neves became “cold and distant”. Then last month, he called Gerry McCann directly to inform him that he and his wife would be questioned separately.
It is understood he was present during the questioning of Kate McCann, and, along with Amaral and Guilhermino Encarnacao, the director of police in Faro, decided the McCanns should be made suspects.
The upheaval in the investigation came as private detectives working for the McCanns were attempting to trace a new witness after a sighting in Morocco. According to Spanish police sources, a 30-year-old Moroccan woman, who lives in Malaga, Spain, reported seeing a girl who had the “mark of Madeleine”, referring to her distinctive right eye, where the pupil merges with the blue-green iris.
The woman was in the village of Fnidk on the north coast of Morocco when she saw a 50-year-old woman with the girl getting into a taxi. She tried to join them – sharing cabs is common in Morocco – but the woman refused to let her. She later discovered the taxi had taken them to the village of Housima. She described the girl as wearing an orange blouse with a dummy in her mouth.
Additional reporting: Graham Keeley
October 7th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
My first choice for an explanation as to what happened to Madeleine is the stranger abductor one - taking to the beach and to a boat makes much sense.
I am most happy to hold out hope for the stranger abduction explanation and I’m glad to read even a snippet of hope that sounds “real” in the newspapers.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
DeeDeeDee said: “But Judge and Tony if the death were accidental or embarrassing would that not count as ‘Accidental Death’ - because those of us who believe in the Accidental Death of couse look at the abduction as a hoax to cover that up”
REPLY: Precisely. Which is why I had to add a rider. Judge Dread was doing her/his best, no doubt, but didn’t perhaps realise that both ‘accidental death’ and ‘hoax abduction’ are possible in this case. For the record, my vote would be for:
Hoax abduction following Madeleine’’s death in the apartment
October 7th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Mods and Admin aka JJ, where are you the site needs sorting out.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Manon - Re what Gerry says re the Charity/Fund. As you believe that ‘bad grammar points to bad education (& being a bit der), and devalues everything you say’. Anything Gerry says must be devalued as he too uses bad grammar.
Next!
October 7th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Batman- I agree, is it two/too/to early for a JD and coke?
October 7th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
404 Batman
Absolutely right! But he’s a doctor!!
October 7th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Batman the phase is Kate and I, for edumacated peepole like us.
Sorry mate you got it wrong.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
400 suzannah
It’s the bloody spaniels sniffing round that bothers me…
October 7th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
just done it batman
cheers
October 7th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Maria Says:
October 7th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
343 Batman
They applied to set it up as a charity but Gerry said beforehand that he knew they wouldn’t accept the application because it was only for Madeleine. You have to have a wider remit. I gather the intention from the start was to give it that wider remit and set it up as a charity (for other children) when Madeleine had been found. That’s what they said at the time and still are saying. (See the official site.)
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Exactly.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
373 Tony Bennet
But isn’t it the cool and calm KM who is suspected of killing Madeleine accidentally, not Gerry? That’s what the PJ seem to think.
If it was an “ordinary” accident I don’t see why they would have to cover it up (regardless of the fact that they didn’t have time to) unless they didn’t want sedation to be discovered (evidence??). In such a scenario, nobody’s temperament is relevant, is it?
I don’t anyway see the relevance of someone looking less than ecstatic on a few photos. Do you look delighted with life on all your photos?! Anyway there are some where GM is clearly having a fantastic time with his kids. Again, I think it’s a bit dangerous to ignore the opinions of all the people who know the McCanns well.
I know I could be very wrong about all this but I’m just looking at probabilities.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
To vote, copy and paste this post to you comments box, then add your name to the list for the scenario you believe to be true and increase the number by 1.
Wandered Off - 0
Abduction - 0
Hoax Abduction - 3
Judge Dread, Susannah, Tony Bennett (to cover up an embarrassing death)
Accidental Death - 6
Ade, Carmen, Brandonflours, Amarality Tale, DeeDeeDee, Jolie
Murder -2
Lilith, Roger
Wandered Off - 0
Abduction - 0
I hope I’ve copy and posted the most recent info. to add mine to.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Amarality Tale says (October 7th, 2007 at 5:59 pm) “373 - Tony, is this on Youtube or somewhere similar. Would like to see it”.
REPLY: Not sure which post you refer to, can’t see the numbers on the LHS at all (big problem, and no response from Mods and Admin yet); if you tell me which clip you’re referring to, will try to post the link - or someone else on the Forum may be able to help you
October 7th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Just on the sticky question of bad grammar. Gerry’s blog.
‘It has been a quieter week for Kate and I’. Surely that should be
‘It has been a quieter week for Kate and ME’……………..
Time to reach for the corkscrew I think.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Mark Says:
Manon Says:
October 7th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
So value for education is pretentious?
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No but believing it is ‘all important’ is.
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Where did I say “all important”?
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Oh dear Manon do keep up, I actually said ‘believing it’ .. I never ’said’ you ’said’ it,….but the belief was …. just here
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No, it’s you who is falling a bit behind.
My emphasis was on *all* important in quoting that sentence of yours. I never said it was *all* important. I said it was important. Which it is.
So I stand by my post which you kindly quote:
Manon Says:
October 7th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Well bad grammar points to bad education (& being a bit der), and devalues everything you say.
As to being tired or over-excited - neither - a bit bored, actually.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Manon- why the stars in your posts, what is the grammatic reason for these? Not being too thick I hope but when writing at school I can’t remember using stars unless when drawing pretty patterns when bored.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
PETER O WANTED LINKS ON GERRY MCCANN’S ANGER:
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COMMENT FROM PETER O – Do you have a verifiable source for his alleged threat or anger? (Tony Bennett wrote: “Gerry so angry with Portuguese police that he threatens to sue them for not releasing a description the suspect”)
REPLY: Peter O, here’s one link of many, from Sky News:
QUOTE: Portuguese police had initially refused to release details about the man, who was seen carrying what was thought to have been a child on the night Madeleine went missing. Her parents had threatened legal action, but after a meeting between the couple and senior Portuguese officials, the police relented and a physical description was issued. UNQUOTE
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1267635,00.html?f=rss
COMMENT FROM PETER O – Do you have a verifiable source for his alleged anger [about the PJ issuing the wrong height for the suspect]? (Tony Bennett wrote: “Gerry angry with PJ for releasing the ‘wrong’ description of the suspect as being about 175cm (5′ 10″) tall. He says: ‘No, it was a shorter man, 5′ 7″ or 170cm’. Issues statement through sources: ‘It’s not good enough’”)
REPLY: Gerry McCann deals with this on his blog, round about Day 22/23 if memory serves (don’t have the link to hand). He deals with it much later at the Edinburgh Media Festival as well, Says the difference between 170cm and 175cm was important