Madeleine McCann: 4650 Articles, Christian Ridout Was Here And Lawless Morocco
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: Poster blitz in Morocco”
“More than 11,000 letters and posters have been distributed in remote parts of the North African country to jog the memory of someone who may have seen the little girl”
A spokesman says: “E-mail is great within larger towns and cities, but there are still a lot of people who do not have Madeleine’s picture or the phone contact details to report sightings or information”
Do you have Madeleine’s picture? Do you know the phone number?
DAILY MAIL: “Letter blitz on remote Moroccan mountain villages that Madeleine McCann campaign cannot reach”
“Agents [of Metodo 3] have distributed photographs of the little girl with an appeal in French and Arabic to call with information about her whereabouts. But it has proved difficult to reach all of the isolated communities where a child could have been taken, many of which are in lawless, mountainous regions”
Those lawless Moroccans…
“Madeleine: Private detectives hunt for British barman known as DJ Shifty, accused of grooming an under-age girl for sex”
“Part-time barman and disc jockey Christian Ridout, 32, allegedly sent the British girl obscene text messages when he worked in an expats’ pub 200 yards from where Madeleine disappeared. When the 12-year-old’s mother discovered the explicit messages, Ridout - also known as DJ Shifty - left Portugal in a hurry”
A suspect?
Says the paper: “By coincidence, the Ridout family were next-door neighbours of the family of Robert Murat, the chief suspect in the Madeleine hunt, when the Murats lived in the nearby village of Almadena. The night after Madeleine went missing, a British expat walked into the Plough and Harrow pub in Praia da Luz, still owned by his parents Tony, 57, and Jill, 58, and asked: ‘Where’s Christian then?’ Locals have disparagingly nicknamed the pub ‘The Plough and Paedophile‘ and the missing man is widely disliked in the tight-knit community”
So where is Christian? Well, he left Praia da Luz a few years ago. His mother says she has not seen him for two years. Says the girl’s mother: “I went in to see them just before Madeleine disappeared and they confirmed they’re still looking for him. ‘No one knows where he is, but he could have been back to this area”
Or not…
THE SUN front page: “Publicity blitz for Maddie in Africa”
“Many still don’t recognise her”
Help make Madeleine McCann the world’s most recognisable face
“Despite a massive campaign highlighting the seven-month search for their daughter, experts believe many in the north African country still lack the crucial information they need to help trace her”
Many?
“Now a silent army of volunteers from the Helping To Find Madeleine campaign have given their time over the festive period to flood businesses across the nation with 11,500 letters and posters”
Not so silent
“The initiative comes after the McCanns’ Spanish detective agency pin-pointed Morocco as the most likely place little Maddie may have been taken”
Can you pinpoint a “likely place” to an entire nation? Is this detective work or guesswork?
Kate and Gerry McCann are “doctors”. Fact
Kate pins on badge of hope: “ANGUISHED Kate McCann returned to church yesterday – with a badge of hope bearing a picture of missing Madeleine pinned close to her heart”
A new merchandise push?
One “worshipper” at Kate’s church says: “Every mother wants to cuddle her children at Christmas – it’s heartbreaking that Kate has been denied that. The badge is a symbol of hope that could help focus new eyes on the hunt for Madeleine”
“347 new Maddie calls combed” - The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell says: “We are pleased with the calls and they are continuing to come in. Every single call is much appreciated and we are going through them with a fine-tooth comb. Any that need to be acted upon swiftly are being acted upon swiftly. We don’t go into detail because if there is any significant information”
DAILY STAR: “TECS: MADDIE BEING HELD IN MOROCCO”
“More than 11,500 posters appealing for information about the youngster have been sent out to the furthest reaches of the north African country”
Francisco Marco, the PI hired by the McCanns, says: “Morocco is the perfect place to hide a kidnapped girl”. He has said this before. Is Morocco the perfect place? Why not Algeria? Or Malta?
DAILY RECORD: “Maddie Poster Blitz In Morocco”
“Schools, supermarkets and medical centres are being blitzed with thousands of photos of the missing four-year-old. And letters written in French and Arabic are being sent to towns and villages in the most remote parts of the country”
Madeleine in Morocco. Or not. Again… Isabel Gonzalez saw her. Mari Pollard saw her
Clarence Mitchell says: “Anyone who puts effort into assisting us in any way, we are incredibly grateful for, and it sounds like they have done a fantastic job. I have no doubt that it is this kind of effort and initiatives that will lead us to finding Madeleine”
Gerry and Kate McCann are “doctors”
THE GUARDIAN: “From Mr Bean to Shambo the bull, the media obsessions of 2007”
A review: “Almost nine months after she vanished, we know a lot about Madeleine McCann and her family. We know the legal implications of being named an official suspect in a Portuguese criminal investigation. What we do not know is who took her, if she is alive and whether any trace of her will ever be found again. A total of 4,650 articles have appeared in British newspapers since she disappeared on May 3”
THE SCOTSMAN: “Madness, badness, hate and heroism - Robert McNeil continues his unique take on the events of 2007 with a look back at the second three months of the year…”
“Hell also visited the parents of three-year-old Madeleine McCann on 3 May when the toddler disappeared from their holiday apartment in the Algarve. In the ensuing months, Kate and Gerry McCann used the media to keep the case in the public eye. The Portuguese police did the same, but their efforts were directed more at casting doubts on the McCanns and their friends. Supposed sightings of Madeleine were reported periodically, but each time hopes were dashed”
THE TIMES: “Hundreds ring hotline after Madeleine plea”
Yesterday in the latest entry on his internet diary, Mr McCann wrote: “Madeleine should not be spending Christmas away from her loving family. The person who took her has it in their power to end our suffering and will be able to appease their conscience that they have done the right thing – especially at this time of year. Kate and I would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to write to us and let us know Madeleine and our family are still in their thoughts and prayers. We still have at least one hundred cards to open! As always, every single one will be read and the support expressed helps renew our determination to find Madeleine”
The story, speculation and sensation…
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December 27th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Garth 201
Gerry seems to have a bad smell about him, so I’m sure he is tuned into nasty niffs (sniffs)
December 27th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
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Garth Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
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Steve Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
186 Weve now established that an abductor could quite easily take a child out of the window (and without waking her up - unless he was Frank Spencer) and plod off into the appropriately dark and quiet night.
Simple question - how come the window sill was undisturbed?
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Counter question………how do you disturb a window sill?
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REPLY: Good question. One thought to ponder - if there was more than one perpetrator involved - one hands her out through the window to the whoever waiting on the outside, thus nothing disturbed. One more thought and just a thought - if such a scenario took place - would explain why cuddle cat was on the ledge - she dropped it or whoever saw it laying there and put it on the ledge. A paedolphile will work alone but anyone involved in child trafficking would very easily work together and quickly. Either way - it only takes a few minutes at most to get in and outto grab a child. In some cases it only takes seconds to grab a child with no one around or a mother turns her back in a crowded situation..
December 27th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
56 - Bountyhunter..you say the McCs were in financial trouble before PDL…i am not doubting you, i just havent came across that info personally..can you link?
i thought the PJ investigated them financially and found no troubles there
December 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
No abductor - invention of McCanns in an attempt to avoid serious charges.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Hang on with the bleeding questions you lot. I know I’ve captivated you all but Jeez….
December 27th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
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Tony Bennett Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
“Just how low have the nation’s newpsapers, editors and journalists sunk?
No wonder people are abandoning them in droves and flocking to the Internet”
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Is this a fact Tony? that people are abandoning newspapers? Do you have any statistics? I would seriously like to think it was true.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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stan Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
39 - Garth…are you able to give me the discription of the so called “abductor” please? as i recall it was possibly the most useless discription ever..lacking a face etc..or has Tanner miraculously remembered something else vital about that night only 8 months later..
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Please tell me Stanley, how can you give the description of someones face when you can only see their profile albeit in the dark?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
186 Garth
Please explain.
9:10 Gerry sees Madeleine and thinks what a lucky chap he is.
9:15 Madeleine is carried across the top of the road carrying a sedated Madeleine leaving behind a pristine apartment.
Blood under the sofa under the tiles - unexplained by the McCanns - rest of the areas scrubbed clean.
5 minutes max. What exactly is it you are saying?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
177 brandon flours says (December 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm):
“Gerry…went into the lounge and open kitchen, the kid’s room, the parents’ room and
the loo/bathroom. He went in all rooms!!!!!”
REPLY: A very good piece of analysis, brandon, which makes a complete nonsense of the abductor hiding behind the door in the children’s bedroom.
Amazing that you have to point this out on the Anorak Forum when David Smith is probably on £40,000-a-year plus and is supposed to be an investigative journalist for ‘The Times’, of all newspapers.
Just how low have the nation’s newpsapers, editors and journalists sunk?
No wonder people are abandoning them in droves and flocking to the Internet
December 27th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
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K.Keesha Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Garth 189
In all seriousness, the police would have asked Gerry this question, the smell of the abductor would be proof the abductor was there at the time ….or moments before.
I have read of a case that was solved when the blinfolded rape victim remembered the smell of the perp…. I think it was after shave and varnish
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Okay, if you’re going to be serious then…
The nasty abductor’s stink of stale fish garlic cheap red wine fetid breath and smelly sweaty body odour impregnated by acrid cigarette smoke disguised with cheap bitter cologne might not have smelt like that at all. He could of been Portuguese…
In fairness though, I doubt at the time Gerry would really tune into any nasty niffs!
December 27th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
(197) Keesha
…”aftershave and VARNISH?… Was the Perp a walking chest of drawers?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
39 - Garth…are you able to give me the discription of the so called “abductor” please? as i recall it was possibly the most useless discription ever..lacking a face etc..or has Tanner miraculously remembered something else vital about that night only 8 months later..
December 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
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brandon flours Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
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I just think you and the rest are in ‘denial’ (TB’s term - no mine) or
in the words of the old favourites…….. “they dont like it up em”
December 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Garth 189
In all seriousness, the police would have asked Gerry this question, the smell of the abductor would be proof the abductor was there at the time ….or moments before.
I have read of a case that was solved when the blinfolded rape victim remembered the smell of the perp…. I think it was after shave and varnish
December 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
159
PeterMac
145 Tony Bennett
Quite.
And on the Panorama prog (I think) they added that the outside window sill was covered in lichen, algae, and general dust and grot, none of which had been disturbed in any way
No one used that window.
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You just can’t get decent window sill cleaners these days can you
December 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
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Garth Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
So poor old Ians timeline is becoming less and less credible hmm?
Weve now established that an abductor could quite easily take a child out of the window (and without waking her up - unless he was Frank Spencer) and plod off into the appropriately dark and quiet night.
Also, it has been proved that quite possibly and evenly likley that the abductor was in the apartment on Gerrys check.
We have also established that due to the distress caused by Madeleines disappearance on the night that the Drs McCann didnt automatically turn into police detectives whereby they should have shut off the apartment to any visitors who wanted to help search/comfort them in their hour of need and also that they didnt automatically send the two twins off for tests because they thought they might have been sedated. Hmm…….
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who is “we”?
I think I and others have proved its all a load of bollocks and you sir know it is!
December 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
191 Counter question………how do you disturb a window sill?
That’s right, avoid the question! You know perfectly well what I mean.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
164 Garth says (December 27th, 2007 at 12:58 pm):
“I gave you an answer TB like you requested. I then asked for another question which you avoided by stating ‘There was no abductor’. So if you’re so clever as you would have us all believe, let’s hear you discredit my answers without the pathetic retort!”
REPLY: Garth, I have no need to. Your answers themselves discredit the abductor theory far betetr than i could do and indeed, to coin a phrase, your answers ’speak volumes’. Especially the way you believe Jane Tanner’s original version of what the abductor looked like - you know, the one that Gerry told millions about on the world’s cameras on 24 May - and you now believe Jane Tanner’s second version, achieved only with a secret ‘cognitive technique’ and after several sessions with ‘the FBI’s top forensic artist’.
I presume that on your theory that the abductor used either ether, Calpol or an injection to sedate the twins before removing Madeleine, Madeleine slept through this abduction including when the abductor swung his legs through the window?
Let’s just recap what the abductor does in the children’s bedroom, shall we, according to the Garth Abduction Theory:
1. Walks in through the unlocked patio doors about 30 minutes after, from some vantage point, he sees Gerry and Kate setting off for the evening out at the Tapas bar
2. Sedates twins using either ether, Calpol or an injection (or some other method which you have not told us about)
3. Removes Cuddle Cat and places it on ‘a high shelf or ledge’
4. Hides from Gerry as he makes sure the childen are OK, as he gazes lovingly at Madeleine sleeping in a crouched position (’recovery position’) and thinks how lucky he is, and then has a pee in the loo. Breathes noiselessly behind the door whilst all this is going on
5. Opens the shutters as silently as possible to avoid being heard - thinks that’s a better way to leave than through the unlocked patio door
6. Opens the window
7. Grabs Madeleine
8. Sits on windowsill with Madeleine
9. Swings one leg over the windowsill
10. Swings the other leg over
11. Runs off
12. Seen at 9.15pm ‘walking purposefully’ by Jane Tanner and ‘heading for where Robert Murat lives’.
I have no doubt whatsoever that if this is not what you say happened, you will post any correction to my 12-point understanding of your theory
December 27th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
(189) Garth
Very witty! Like it!
The ‘C’ in my name doesn’t always stand for sarcasm.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
188
Steve Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
186 Weve now established that an abductor could quite easily take a child out of the window (and without waking her up - unless he was Frank Spencer) and plod off into the appropriately dark and quiet night.
Simple question - how come the window sill was undisturbed?
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Counter question………how do you disturb a window sill?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Stevo, it was the window-sill of opportunity.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Please, please tell me I can post now?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
187
K.Keesha Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Re: the abductor hiding behind the door
How come Gerry wasn’t overwhelmed by the abductor’s stink of stale fish garlic cheap red wine fetid breath and smelly sweaty body odour impregnated by acrid cigarette smoke disguised with cheap bitter cologne..?
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Very good point……….do you know the swine?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
186 Weve now established that an abductor could quite easily take a child out of the window (and without waking her up - unless he was Frank Spencer) and plod off into the appropriately dark and quiet night.
Simple question - how come the window sill was undisturbed?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Re: the abductor hiding behind the door
How come Gerry wasn’t overwhelmed by the abductor’s stink of stale fish garlic cheap red wine fetid breath and smelly sweaty body odour impregnated by acrid cigarette smoke disguised with cheap bitter cologne..?
December 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
So poor old Ians timeline is becoming less and less credible hmm?
Weve now established that an abductor could quite easily take a child out of the window (and without waking her up - unless he was Frank Spencer) and plod off into the appropriately dark and quiet night.
Also, it has been proved that quite possibly and evenly likley that the abductor was in the apartment on Gerrys check.
We have also established that due to the distress caused by Madeleines disappearance on the night that the Drs McCann didnt automatically turn into police detectives whereby they should have shut off the apartment to any visitors who wanted to help search/comfort them in their hour of need and also that they didnt automatically send the two twins off for tests because they thought they might have been sedated. Hmm…….
December 27th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Breaking news from the Daily Mail…
The Daily Drivel has classified Robert Murat (a.k.a. “Murat” in most tabloids) as “the chief suspect” in the Madeleine hunt. Not an “arguido”; not a suspect among others; no, he is the CHIEF suspect.
To be fair on some of the DM journalists (Vanessa Allen even referred to RM as “Mr Murat” recently) this is to be credited to Neil Sears and Sam Greenhill.
Watch out for their by-lines folks - The Mark Of Quality Journalism.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Garth
FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 27th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
December 27th, 2007 at 10:38 am
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Tony, I’ll use your very effective method of interleaving for my comments:-
EDIT “This is why I am considering, together with others, how we can ensure that there is some permanent memorial to Madeleiene so that she did not die in vain. She holds so many lessons for us. Among them I would list:
1. Never leave young children on their own - which I would like to become a slogan for an attempt to tighten up the law on child neglect - a sort of ‘Madeleine’s Law’” END
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I have commented on this proposal of yours for yet another law in our already law-ridden country. Basically, I see it as unenforceable unless we soon find ourselves completely in the Big Brother State ,which we are virtually in already, and the monitor (which can never be turned off) is in the corner of every room watching our every movement. If, on the other hand, neighbours are relied on to inform police that a child is being left alone then one is in another dangerous area - that of possible neighbour to neighbour maliciousness which could not be ruled out. It is quite widespread now. Otherwise, the only way I can see of people never doing the wrong thing is when they have been educated not to do it, when they know right from wrong, when they accept responsibility with power, when they have a conscience, when they have been taught how to live in society, when they know how to be good parents as well as good citizens.
There was a post on this forum yesterday, I think from Australia, where the poster said there was a law that you couldn’t leave up to 16-year old ‘children’ in a car alone (well over the top actually). The poster said most people weren’t even aware of the law and as a result it was largely ignored. And, unenforceable in any case unless each car with such occupants was tailed by the secret service.
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EDIT “2. Spend as much time as you can with your children when they’re under 5. *Don’t* put them in creches too early. *Don’t* go off on weekend conferences all the time leaving your wife in charge of them” END
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This goes without saying and it is what every decent parent will try to do according to the exigencies of their lives. If they are not decent parents, no knee-jerk law will change them.
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EDIT “3. Use a babysitter who knows the child well if you want to go out and have a good time for the evening” END
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Again, rather stating the obvious, imo of course.
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EDIT 4. (To all police forces worldwide) If any parent claims their child has been abducted, treat them as potential suspects from the very first second you get that report. Start searching by all means, but don’t forget that the overwhelming majority of children who are said to have been abductedd from a home turn out to have been killed by a family member” END
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Surely this is a bit presumptuous. I, for one, have read over and over again that this is exactly what police forces do presume - that the crime has been committed by a family member and I am sure that the PJ took this on board straight away.
I think that the fabric of our society is so worn and torn today that it is impossible to do a quick repair job on any small area without another section falling apart. I don’t honestly think new laws and initiatives provide any answer. We have to think on a bigger scale.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
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brandon flours Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Gerry, who entered his apartment at about 9.05 through the patio doors to the lounge
He thought that was odd, and glanced in his own bedroom to see if Madeleine had gone into her parents’ bed. But no, she and the twins were all still fast asleep.
he went to the loo and left to return to the restaurant.
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the lounge and open kitchen
the kids room
the parents room
the loo / bathroom
He went in all rooms!!!!!
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BF,
are you deliberately being an arse do you honestly not know the layout of the apartment?
Just wondering, you know….