Madeleine McCann: The Scenic 17, Dr Denny Says And DNA
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS page 21: “New DNA tests could unlock the mystery of lost Madeleine”
More DNA tests at the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Birmingham And this after the DNA tests proved inconclusive…
“Seventeen human cells could provide a major breakthrough in the Madeleine McCann mystery…The DNA samples are being examined by scientists in Britain and Portuguese detectives believe the evidence could unlock an investigation which is now in its eighth month”
The Tapas 7. The Tapas 9. The Scenic 17…
Guilhermino Encarnacao, head of the Policia Judiciaria in the Algarve, says: “We have asked the laboratory to carry out more tests and exhaust every possibility of obtaining conclusive results”
Says Forensic scientist Dr Ronald Denny (not working on the case): “A cell is negligible – you can just about see it under a microscope. It’s a sample someone would leave behind with the touch of a finger. But when placed with certain biochemicals a small amount of DNA grows to a size that can be analysed”
“GP Kate and heart consultant Gerry” are “both 39”
THE SUN page 15: “Only 17 cells of DNA in hol car”
“Cops looking for Madeleine McCann are banking on ‘a smidgen’ of DNA evidence. Scientists have found just 17 cells on samples taken from a hire car rented by Kate and Gerry McCann and their holiday flat”
Says independent forensic expert Dr Ronald Denny: “It is not a hopeless task. If they have 17 cells then they can carry it off very effectively in Birmingham, one of the leading labs in the world”
DAILY MAIL page 5: “Mission Impossible – Forensic evidence too poor to solve mystery of Madeleine, say police”
But Dr Denny is telling two papers otherwise…
A source tells Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas: “It is highly unlikely they will find a DNA connection…If everybody refuses to make statements, which is perfectly possible, we will be left with our hands tied. This is a case which could hang by a thread for years and we may never be able to prove what actually happened to that child”
But what about Dr Denny. Why don’t they ask Dr Denny?
Says Dr Denny: “A person, or their possessions, have to be present for the cells to come off”
DAILY MIRROR page 7: “Maddy: Smidgen of DNA will work?”
Dr Denny is on the case, or not. But the “independent British expert” does have an opinion which is able to share with all of us
DAILY STAR page 9: “MADDIE: IT’S ALL DOWN TO 17 CELLS”
Dr Denny is talking to Star readers…
“Top cop in blast at private eyes” – Former deputy chief constable of Manchester Police John Stalker says of Metodo 3: “I’m not impressed with these people at all. I’d be very surprised if they get anywhere”
This is the same Stalker who delivered “MY VERDICT” to Express reader back in October
“There’s a world of difference in following a paper chase and finding a flesh-and-blood child”
Or a newspaper chase…
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 11: “Madeleine tests are ‘mission impossible’”
Says a source in 24 Horas: “The samples reportedly include microscopic spots of blood from the Ocean Club apartment where Madeleine went missing and ‘bodily fluids’ and hair from the Renault Scenic hired by the McCanns 25 days after their daughter’s disappearance. The samples are so small that, while it will not be impossible to find a DNA link between the car, apartment and Madeleine, it’s highly unlikely The tests being carried out are extremely complex”
But Dr Denny says…
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Kate and Gerry’s friends have consistently said they are happy to be re-interviewed by police if necessary. Indeed, they are keen to help if it clears up any inconsistencies. They, like Gerry and Kate, have nothing to hide”
THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: “No Madeleine news today
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December 4th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
616
Tinsel
What’s so sick about the posters etc. is that they were produced at a profit. If they used donated funds and sold them at cost it would be ok but they made money by accepting donations then they bought posters and then charged people to buy said posters!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
616
Tinsel Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
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Sorry I missed that. Could you repeat that again all after Thanks….
December 4th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
616
Tinsel
Don’t often join in but have to ask - are they really selling posters? You’re not getting confused with the selling of other Madeleine stuff on the Isle of Mann, are you?
December 4th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Hello Julie
Apologies i missed you!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
611 garth
“I throw up all over the place!”
not just here then…
December 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
601
Garth Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
598
mary Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Maddy could be anywhere alive and well and eager to go home - we should all be looking.
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Thanks, but I’ll save my energy to help parents who actually have been victims of a crime.
These parents willingly, regularly, criminally abandoned their kids. What did they expect would happen? And why/how can anyone help them after such stupidity! You can’t expect to behave so stupidly then expect everyone to magically fix it for you.
The McCs are SELLING posters of their little girl. This doesn’t strike me as a family who really want to get her back. Not while they can run around picnicing in Portugal, site seeing, hosting 38 family and friends, and profiting all at the same time.
M was a victim of deplorable, dispicable parents.
Pretending she is still alive is simply their ploy of the month. Now, if they were out handing out free posters everyday, I might have some sympathy.
But no, they have been doing nothing but lying and covering their as*es from the beginning.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Twisting and turning, circles…
I like the merry-go-round, we need a couple of transformers though, those americans use 110V in stead of a normal 220/230V…
Countdown for the reindeer too…
Rationalist, please return Lulu’s Festive Jaws.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
still cooking….just thought of something else….sticking to the minute of the alleged time line…does not need to be such an issue here..since no one seems to be able to confirm the exact time K left the bar to check on the kids…allegedly…allegedly..
December 4th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
is this woman mad enough to be a mcconn?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7127303.stm
allegedly
December 4th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
598 mary
if you ring the hotline and reverse the charges how much do you get from the slush fund?
December 4th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
608
delboy Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Oh garth forgot to mention….I am not sick enough to leave MY kids on their own…so wont bother with pub………
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Well if you do go to the pub and drink loads…………you’ll soon be sick then. I do and I love it, I throw up all over the place!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
she has been seen in huddersfield with the wondermash aliens
December 4th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
603
delboy Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
587,garth….yeah…xmas…. the pubs only half a mile down the road…could keep nipping back every hour or so to check on kids…save me a tenner on baby sitters and APPARENTLY its not illegall…..
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Every half an hour? Are you having a larf? Hourly is plenty. Infact, make it once…..about midnight’l do. Hopefully the kids would have got me some supper to scoff when I get home from the boooooozer!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Oh garth forgot to mention….I am not sick enough to leave MY kids on their own…so wont bother with pub………
December 4th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
598 Mary
I saw her here as well…playing ten pin bowling with a different family. Are you sure she was in Sainsbury’s?
December 4th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
599
Ade Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
is this bloke the elusive tapas 10?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7127236.stm
we should be told
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Could be a suspect. Fits the time line and has no alibi. Now if only he had a dodgy eye…………
December 4th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Helloooooooo julie……..got to go now…but will be back soon…duty calls…
December 4th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
OK…Cooking and thinking..
Say K was actually the first person to discover the ‘accidental’ death….so she panics…runs next door to O’B and T’s and tells them they take the body from K…she runs out and screams ‘they’ve taken her’ in the moment of panic…and the whole scene afterwards is partly genuine panic and going along with the story that she must have ‘wandered off’…they don’t call the cops until they’ve figured out what to say…Someone comes up with the idea of calling the press…and the thing snowballs and they decide to go along with it….
the above is only an imagined speculation…..back later…
December 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
587,garth….yeah…xmas…. the pubs only half a mile down the road…could keep nipping back every hour or so to check on kids…save me a tenner on baby sitters and APPARENTLY its not illegall…..
December 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
596
pat
I did put a smiley at the end of it Pat…sorry…no offence was meant.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
598
mary Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Maddy could be anywhere alive and well and eager to go home - we should all be looking. To be a Maddy contender the child should be female, white, aged about 3-5, and have longish hair that is any colour which could vaguely be described as blonde.
In Sainsbury’s today I saw 3 possible Maddys. The first was being pushed round in a trolley by a man who may not have been her father - did’nt get close enough to check for eye defects. The second was with a young woman who was pushing a pram - alarm bells rang when I noticed that the baby in the pram looked swarthy but I did’nt intervene. I came close to a breakthrough in the bakery section where I spotted a harassed looking woman of around 60 with a screaming child in her clutches. The woman had refused to buy the child the cakes of her choice. Would an abductor be aware of Maddy’s favourite cake? Could it be the key to the investigation…should I be ringing the hotline???
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I dont know about ringing the hotline but I would suggest you ring your own neck! By eck its long!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
594
Julie, no need for dodging, unless you’ve got a mobile phone that can be tracked by GPS missiles. TURN IT OFF!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
is this bloke the elusive tapas 10?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7127236.stm
we should be told
December 4th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Maddy could be anywhere alive and well and eager to go home - we should all be looking. To be a Maddy contender the child should be female, white, aged about 3-5, and have longish hair that is any colour which could vaguely be described as blonde.
In Sainsbury’s today I saw 3 possible Maddys. The first was being pushed round in a trolley by a man who may not have been her father - did’nt get close enough to check for eye defects. The second was with a young woman who was pushing a pram - alarm bells rang when I noticed that the baby in the pram looked swarthy but I did’nt intervene. I came close to a breakthrough in the bakery section where I spotted a harassed looking woman of around 60 with a screaming child in her clutches. The woman had refused to buy the child the cakes of her choice. Would an abductor be aware of Maddy’s favourite cake? Could it be the key to the investigation…should I be ringing the hotline???
December 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
590
Stevo Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
582 Garth
You’ve been going to email for a couple of weeks but never have
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Remind me. What was the address?
December 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
586
Stevo Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
543 pat
By the way Pat…euthenasia is premeditated…there’s no other type to my knowledge
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no need to be sarcastic -smart alec!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Stevo…..yeah as he sued anyone yet? I mean got the ball rolling…does anyone know?..thrown his papers into court etc..hes got a good defence team hey…
first the pj..then..24horas…the sniffer dogs…anyone calling him a jaffa..anyone who doubts his stupid story….?
December 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Thank you Totje (592) … I’ll just dodge any missiles coming my way tonight
December 4th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
590
Stevo Says:
December 4th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
582 Garth
You’ve been going to email for a couple of weeks but never have.
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I will tonight.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Hi Julie, nice to see you’re back.