Madeleine McCann: Malhi Sees, Francisco Marco’s Maddy Dolls And Gerry McCann Returns
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR front page: “I SAW MADDY TAKEN AWAY IN TAXI
• Her face was bruised
• She had the eye mark
• Driven 180 miles”
Naoul Malhi is in Morocco. She is 30. She sees a child. She looks into the child’s eyes. Says she: “It was Madeleine. There’s no mistaking that mark”
Pages 4 and 5: More from Malhi: “Her blonde hair was cut shorter and she had a big bruise on her forehead and looked very unhappy [like the girl in Belgium]. The woman was about 40 or 50… As soon as she realised I had looked closely into the girl’s eyes she started dragging Madeleine away and flagged down a taxi”
Malhi calls the taxi company. The cab took ‘Madeleine’ to the port of Housimi, on the Mediterranean. Malhi told the police. She had her photograph taken by the press. The McCanns’ private detectives journey to the town
“BACK TO WORK – Dr Gerry returns six months after daughter vanishes.” Gerry McCann is on his way into Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. “My colleagues have been absolutely fantastic in their support,” says he. “I am very pleased to be rejoining them and to get back to a degree of normality”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “’I saw blonde child with Madeleine eye blemish in Morocco’”. So say the “WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER” in an “exclusive report”
Page 5: “I looked her in the eyes” – More form “Spanish tourist Naouval Malhi”, not to be confused with the Mirror’s Naoul Malhi. She is 24. The story is indeed exclusive
A Spaniard – like the one who saw Madeleine here and here
“Nurse jailed for hoax calls” – Nurse Anne-Marie Kelly made 28 calls to the emergency services in one evening. She claimed to know what had happened to Madeleine. She also said she was a serial killer and had details of a terrorist attack
THE SUN front page: “’I will find Maddie’”
Francisco Marco PI says: “I’ll find her in five months”. Or your money back? Marco says he has bought dolls to give to Madeleine when he rescues her. “I will take them out of the suitcase the day I find Madeleine,” say he.
“We have a six months agreement with the McCanns. I will find her before that period is up”. Indeed, as he says, he will find her in five months. And if only his contact were shorter, he would surely find her quicker
But this time it’s personal: “For me this is a special case. I have two children. They please with me, ‘Daddy, find Madeleine.” Like he found that American child in the mountains of Morocco – any more news of that amazing discovery?
Page 15: “GIRL WITH MADDIE EYE ‘IN MOROCCO’” – Naoual Malhi, aged 24 is speaking - not to be confused with the Express’ Naouval Malhi, 24, nor the Mirror’s’s Naoul Malhi, 30
DAILY MAIL page 23: “Woman spots child with the ‘mark of Madeleine’ on the Moroccan coast”
Naoual Malhi, 24, is with her four-year-old daughter. She sees a woman she identifies as a Berber with a child. A Berber – like the parents of Bouchra Benaissa
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE FILES. Truth on crime that shocked the world. 4 PAGE DOSSIER INSIDE TODAY”
Page 7: “I SPOTTED WITH MADDIE ‘EYE’ GET IN A TAXI WITH RICH ARAB” – A new development. Who is the rich Arab? The woman? The taxi driver? Naoual Malhi tells all
“Gerry’s £75k wage storm” – Gerry McCann is earning £75,000 a year for “working one-and-a-half days a week”
Pages 43-46: “MADDIE MYSTERY – 4-PAGE PULLOUT”
“MADDIE – The biggest mystery of our times”
“SHE JUST VANISHED INTO THIN AIR”
“MADDIE VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE”
“SILENCE OF THE TAPAS 7”
THE TIMES front page: “McCann back to work”
Page 21: “Gerry McCann return to work as private detectives investigate new sightings” – More on Naoual Malhi, 30. Mr McCann will have direct contact with patients after a month as a backroom staffer
THE INDEPENDENT page 13: “Madeleine father goes back to work on part-time basis”
Says “Dr McCann”: “We have always said that at six months we didn’t want to look back and say ‘I wish we had done that’. But now we have done everything we can do to establish the search for Madeleine on an ongoing basis”
THE GUARDIAN page 9: “Gerry McCann goes back to work at hospital”
Says Gerry McCann: “Unless Madeleine is found, we are not expecting any significant developments in the near future”
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 15: “Six months on, Gerry CMcann retusn to work”
Says Sybil Berry, visiting a sick patient: “I think I would find it a bit embarrassing if I met up with him. For a start, I wouldn’t know whether I should bring up Madeleine or not”
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November 4th, 2007 at 2:27 am
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/0311_maddie.shtml
NoTW- A shower curtain, bag, and clothing. And the Mafia, naturally. It is interesting news if true, the shower curtain, bag, and clothing bit. One thing I don’t agree with is this bit:
“They have done it near Faro which could imply they have gone in the direction of the airport. It backs up the idea she was abducted.”
Well, the DNA would be another spark in that direction, not the proximity to an airport, surely? That would be more, “kidnapped to order” or something, right?
Lots of stories coming out today, well, there are everyday, but these at least have some different information/theories.
November 4th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Been thinking…I’ve been against the Mccanns it’s true - for their neglect, but put that away… if they did it how? I just can’t see how - if the DNA evidence is correct and they transported her body in a hire car 25 days later - where did they keep the keep the body? How did they hide it so quickly in such a way they could recover it later? How did they transport and dispose of it under the glare of the media? Where did they dispose of it when there car movements have been analysed by cctv? If they did it they must be criminal masterminds
Has anyone got any plausible explanations as to how the Mccanns did it? Otherwise I think we all have to accept they didn’t do it
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
i’m confused - which thread is latest? Off to bed…
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
1301 remigius
yep - my initial reason for dismissing Baby Grace was the decomposition time scale of several months and not several weeks. I agree there may be slowing down of rate of decomposition and it could be difficult to apply the “normal” methods to establish time scales.
Having read the detailed info in the copy of the forensics book (that one may expect a suspect to take on holiday with them) this may or may not have been obvious to them either.
Indeed a faster rate of decomposition would be the preferred option if it were intended that the body (in a state suitable for positive forensic examination) would never be found.
As I mentioned before, this all goes wrong if a third party disposal accomplice does not follow instructions for some reason. A steralite box seems to be the perfect vessel to transport around a small body with the minimum of leaks, odours etc and its shape is not like a carpet bagger’s normal fare.
It would probably fit into a chest freezer too - so no need to be reminded of a small hand or foot poking out of a bin bag.
Just an idea, of course for my next murder novel ha ha
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
chenier/tony b…
I\’d take that daily mail leicestershire police stuff with a pinch of salt. we have heard this story before a couple of weeks ago. I reckon the Comical One has been onto the mail to get something pro-McConn in the rag to balance out the \”they are nailed by DNA\” story that the mail ran recently. I bet the editor didn\’t know about the latter or he would have stopped it…
two more suspects sounds like the dragnet is closing in…
exciting fun, to say the least…
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
1311 amused
Very interesting article, yes. And you’re correct in the conclusion my mother ‘had a lot of balls’. She still has and on occasion I’m still cringing.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
interesting read:
http://tapestrytalks.typed.com/tapestry-talks/2007/09/the-mccans-nee.html
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:47 am
True, Louise. Your mother had a lot of balls. I wish we all did. Interesting article, isn’t it though?
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 am
1308 amused
Re: the recent sighting
I cannot believe that this Morroccan woman was SO close she could see the distinctive iris of an eye and not attempt to grab the child. Does Madeleine have to be asked to be saved before any of these people ACT at the moment she is allegedly spotted?
If Madeleine is still alive, and I pray she is (if she is not being harmed or mistreated) what would it take for a member of the public to get involved at the time of the sighting?
When i was younger, if my mother heard a distressed child when we were out and about, she would approach the child and say ‘is this your mummy/daddy?’. I used to cringe with embarassment, especially if she got a mouthful of abuse from the adult with the child. She still does it now. It certainly made me more aware of the possibility children could be harmed by strangers.
I wish more people would act in a similar fashion to my mother. ACT immediately not weeks later.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:30 am
Sorry! Above post posted in wrong thread!! See today’s thread.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:27 am
Interesting news article: http://tinyurl.com/2w4an2
Please read this article thoughtfully and carefully. I would ask you, whatever your point of view, to keep an open mind until you have finished the article. And don’t be put off by its apparently bigoted beginning. For even the most hardened believers in the McCanns’ implication in the supposed death of Madeleine, I think it will give pause for thought.
Ian, I don’t know if I’ll have time to address your points today. Don’t worry, I’m not dodging the issue. But I think that they will probably require a somewhat lengthy response.
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:32 am
1273 Butterfly Says:
I can also say that people in the organisation fear that family. Edit….
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Butterfly – I rarely find myself in agreement with posters like ALEXIS, but on matters such as this, I do..
Either name organisations, sources etc or stop with these accusations. It’s just more gossip, rumour an innuendo otherwise and heaven knows this case has had far too much of this already.
If you don’t want to post as yourself, just post once under a fictitious name, maybe on another blog tomorrow. If you don’t want to do that, send your information in a plain brown envelope to someone like 24Horas. If you quote ‘reliable’ sources, I’m sure they’ll print it and then the British media will probably publish it by referring to something like scandalous allegations in that Johnny Foreigner press! It would certainly get discussed in forums such as these!
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:29 am
1305 Andrew
And Stevo, Ian, Patch
I made a long-distance tel-call tonight to the Galveston Sheriff’s office. Spoke with a brusque female deputy. I asked her whether they knew about Madeleine McCann who’d gone missing in Portugal, and about how very similar in build and color she seemed to be to the little girl who’d recently washed up on the Texas island beach. She immediately became very official and tight-lipped, said “They know about it. They’re working on it.” I asked whether the Texas police had made any conclusions, and she said, “not yet,” but added that she really couldn’t discuss it with me.
Who knows? But it is a very interesting development, for sure.
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:56 am
1303 luckily in law, repetition is no defence! See you later McCanns!! Guilty
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:54 am
1238 Ade
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4819818&version=10&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Check out the mother-daughter look-alike pink cardigans, similar to the one kate was wearing when the PJ gave her arguido status.
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:54 am
247
Alexis:
“The McCanns on the other hand felt at that time that they had a system in order, not unlike that provided by the hotel itself.”
You pro-McCann people never tire of repeating the same argument. I wonder how this argument will do in a court-room? You are not really arguing that there is no neglect (though you pretend to be doing so) — rather, you are arguing that there are mitigating factors.
One such factor might be that the hotel provided a system of checking in on children who were unattended.
“not unlike”? — ! Was the Tapas9 checking similar in some respects? Maybe. Was it the same system as the hotel? NO
“That was error of judgement.”
No, it was extremely neglectful to leave toddlers, including 2 year olds, alone with the doors unlocked, for periods of 3 hours, on a nightly basis.
“Now we can all look back in hind sight and criticise…”
Part of reality in the courtroom is that when child neglect results in harm, or in death, the penalties are stiffer, and mitigating factors are given a harder look. Your argument is that if nothing had happened, we would not be accusing the McCanns of neglect. That’s only true because the neglect would not have come to our attention. So your argument is another way of saying that child neglect laws should not be enforced.
“…but did anybody contact the hotel prior to the alleged abduction and state their concerns for the system in place ,which was advertised on the website and copied by the McCanns and their friends?”
This is a separate issue; is such a system proper and/or legal? However, your claim that the McCanns “copied” this system is bogus and totally unsubstantiated.
You would have to show that with the hotel system:
1) those doing the checking were consuming alcohol between checks
2) the doors were unlocked so that staff did not need a key
3) 2 year olds were also welcome in the system
4) there was no independent supervision of checkers
5) no records were kept of checks made
etc etc.
Clearly, the hotel system, however minimal, provided far more security than the McCanns informal checking, which involved a 120 meter walk to an apartment full of kids (which, BTW, the Tapas9 lied about for some reason).
Moreover, the hotel also provided creche and babysitting services.
I would be curious about the status of such hotel “monitoring” systems, though. Probably , major resorts will review them and perhaps insist that all services provide a human presence.
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:43 am
508 Stevo
If the Anorakers every do get to Portugal, we’ll have to take the PJ cops out for a long, boozy lunch!
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:36 am
1298
Kris Says:
“Is that Bozo Ian gone, I hope? Maybe his kids turned in early, so he went with them! He seems one of those unbearably clinging parents who drives their kids batty.”
This is more unacceptable personal attack. Stevo was right to ask the administrators to ban such posters from this forum.
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:28 am
1238 Ade
If they’d frozen or kept the body cold for a number of weeks before tossing it at sea, this would have slowed down the decomposition considerably. And then the salt water would also have slowed down the decomposition. So a forensic pathologist might have trouble determining how long ago she’d died.
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:25 am
1238 Ade
It sure looks like her, but they’ll have to check the dna to be sure.
Texas has the death penalty for murder. I wonder whether the body washing up on the Texas coast would give them jurisdiction.
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:57 am
I”m sure you’ve all gone to bed, but we’re back from our party and I had a thought. ADE, I’ve been sitting here for two days thinking you’re an idiot to wonder if the Texan girl is Madeleine. But look. So they say the girl was dead about 2 weeks. What if Madeleine was abducted, and only killed a couple weeks ago?
Hey, anything is possible. I don’t t hink the sketches look much like her, though. That one facial sketch is just plain weird- what’s with those teeth.
Is that Bozo Ian gone, I hope? Maybe his kids turned in early, so he went with them! He seems one of those unbearably clinging parents who drives their kids batty.
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:36 am
ABOUT THE DOGS that are unlocking the McCann Mystery
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new…icle783458.ece
December 30, 2005
On scent of success:
Sniffer dog Keela earns more than her Chief Constable
By Karen McVeigh
HER detective work is unsurpassed, her dedication to duty during some of Britain’s most challenging murder cases unfailing.
Keela, a 16-month-old springer spaniel, has become such an asset to South Yorkshire Police that she now earns more than the chief constable.
Her sense of smell, so keen that she can sniff traces of blood on weapons that have been scrubbed after attacks, has her so much in demand by forces up and down the country that she is hired out at £530 a day, plus expenses.
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Top sniffer dog to join Maddy search
[Published: Wednesday 8, August 2007 - 07:40]
By Brendan McDaid
The sniffer dog who found the body of murdered Ulsterwoman Attracta Harron has been flown to Portugal in the hunt for the body of Madeleine McCann, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.
Specially-trained English springer spaniel Eddie and his companion Keela were taken to Praia de Luz complex in the Algarve several days ago as the search for the missing four-year-old intensified.
The police dogs, which are trained to sniff out minute traces of blood, were drafted in after the focus of the investigation again turned on the apartment where the McCann family were staying when Madeleine disappeared 97 days ago.
The dogs, which have also been involved in the Ulster search for missing Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson, were yesterday still in Portugal.
The identity of the two hounds emerged as reports that sniffer dogs from the UK found specks in the apartment where the four-year-old was last seen.
As Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate last night clung to the hope that their daughter will be found alive, it is understood forensic tests are being carried out to determine whether the substance is actually blood.
If the tests prove positive, DNA samples could be used to see if there is any match to Madeleine.
Used across the world for his accuracy, seven-year-old hound Eddie helped police put Trevor Hamilton behind bars in 2006 after the victim recovery dog found 63-year- old Attracta Harron’s blood on the 23-year-old murderer’s burned-out Hyundai.
Eddie, who works for South Yorkshire police, also located Attracta’s body in a shallow grave in April 2003.
Last year the dog and his handlers returned to Ulster for a third time to help find missing Arlene Arkinson.
The Tyrone teenager went missing after leaving a disco in Bundoran, Co Donegal, on August 13, 1994.
Both Eddie and Keela have also been used in various disappearance and murder cases in the US and the Republic of Ireland.
Despite the upsurge in activity, Kate and Gerry McCann have said that they are remaining focused on finding their daughter alive.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2844015.ece
***also***
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/15681
THE Brit sniffer dogs that unearthed vital evidence in the Maddie case have quit the police to become global crimebusters.
Springer spaniels Keela and Eddie blew the probe wide open when they apparently smelled death in the McCanns’ holiday apartment and hire car.
That was after Portuguese dogs had helped in the investigation, but had sniffed out little. Tests showed bodily fluids they found in the spare tyre well in the Renault Scenic were allegedly an 88% match of Madeleine’s DNA.
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:18 am
Oops, my typo …
What I meant to say …
107
dora
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Cadaverine is the scent they use to train Cadaver dogs so that they can locate places where corpses have been, and actual corpses, and they do NOT bark when they come across urine, Wikipedia notwithstanding, else why would they bother to bring them to crime scenes?
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:14 am
107
dora
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Cadaverine is the scent they use to train Cadaver dogs so that they can locate places where corpses have been, and actual corpses, and they do bark when they come across urine, Wikipedia notwithstanding, else why would they bother to bring them to crime scenes?
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 am
1277
Link
http://marriage.about.com/od/inlaws/tp/inlaws.htm
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 am
Butterfly
I’m glad you realised you were talking shit and went to bed.
Freemasons? What bollocks.
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:55 am
http://freemasonry.org/
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:47 am
Butterfly
You do realise that there’s a Masonic lodge in practically every town on the West Coast? Most have been abandoned as the order has lost members over the years, but within five minutes walk there’s 3 near to my house.
The Masons are like the Trade Unions or the old Liberal Clubs or the British Legion.
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:42 am
980. Stig, MW does offer nanny services where the nanny stays inside the apartment but you continually fail to mention this. Your fables that the children were not welcomed at the tapas restaurant have amazingly only been reported by you. I see nothing on their website which says this and have never read in Portuguese or English press any comments which allude to your alleged facts.
Howevere, even if what you say is true they could have paid to have a nanny stay with the children. Or they could have chose a different restaurant - one which permitted children.
I find it extremely odd that a family friendly resort would have restaurants which didn’t allow children. And it is strange that the McCanns and friends patronised the tapas restaurant , or other restaurants on prveious nights with their children?
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:39 am
Oh, it’s the Freemasons. Bore.
1. You don’t have to be rich to be in the Freemasons.
2. I know some men who are Freemasons.
3. In Scotland very few Catholics are in the Freemasons.
4. Why don’t you blame it on Opus Dei - I thought that was the new favourite of conspiracy buffs.
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:35 am
Butterfly
I don’t like the McCanns and I didn’t give money to the fund. And if you want to amuse yourself by pretending you’ve uncovered a secret society, then fine. But don’t expect to have it backed up.