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 5:16 pm
438 garth
what is it with you and your temper tantrems. you need to calm down you will do yourself an injury or something….my second husband had a stroke and popped off so to speak. he was a hot head and full of crap - a bit like you really. luckily i met my 3rd hubby now, he is very calm and rarely loses his temper but if he did you would crertainly know about it.
and you really do speak spanish do you. yes of course you do and im sure your a super parent as well. keep telling yourself something garth and eventually you will beleive it.
like k and g keep telling themselves they are innocent - they probably beleive it now. But those of us with some intelligence dont . so garth please shut up you silly little boy.
one more thing what is a “fecker”??? not spanish or english me thinks
December 27th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
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Karen Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Garth
A family who lost a kid because they were too thick to lock the door and, afterwards, too vain to admit they were wrong.
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Karen
Whatever, its boring!
December 27th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
444 lol, wanker.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
432
But if it was CM not only that should have come out by now but more importantly wouldn’t that compromise his position? How would it look if he had actually been there….been part of ”it”!!
No, don’t think it could be him. Too many people to say ”OMG & he said nothing”!
December 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
436 Logic
Yesterday one thing you did muddle up was where I’d said 2-3 inches of hair growth and I also spoke of 2 inches of growth in 4 months. The two comments were distinct and referred to different photo combinations. I felt you muddled them up. But that’s ok…I find you reasonable and personable so I’ve got no axe to grind with you at all. You’re definitely one of the nicer posters.
I agree with you about depression being a mitigating factor. I think Kate definitely looks to be medicated and her demeanor looks like other people I know who have been on anti-depressants. I remember one person who was on Venlafaxine and they were permanently happy but in a disturbing way that suggested they were emotionless. I saw this person at a funeral and the person’s demeanour was totally out of character for such an event. Those pills can make people very different personality wise and I’m not sure whether some real emotions are better (even if worse) than that zombie-like medicated state
December 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Garth
A family who lost a kid because they were too thick to lock the door and, afterwards, too vain to admit they were wrong.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Hi.Just back from Craggy Island - and glad to be back in the sun. Yep, the aul collection box went around the church at Christmas night mass (had to go to it - have my only surviving hippy auntie, she’s 87 and drinks like a feckin’ fish) and my sort of woman: she didn’t give a friggin penny.- yeppppppp we had to pray (heeheeeee) for Mcccc’s and give generously to the ‘box’…yeah right. What a load of friggin bollox. The friggin church has them all marty’d (sorry spelling jobby)……..i also went to Donegal (Healeyland) to visit cousins. What a load of sh!te……same pavlova! However, had a pit-stop in Dublin with more cousins - different ballgame there. At least they have some intelligence there ….(most of my family/and cousins are in the medical biz and are very well know in Ireland and Overseas)…..they are dumbfounded that the Mccs are discrediting their profession. (I say this in their’s and my opinion totally).
I have also told them to look in here and have a look a TB and Stevo(Ade and Brandon and of course Spudgun): and many others i can’t think of all your names right now …keep an eye out for some serious posts coming this way.
Slainte…..(booo hisssss Arsenal result yest).
Like Ade….i’m off to play tunes now (not quite the same as Ade ) - i play Cajun/Irish Melodeon (have 4) and sing feckin’ rip-roaring Blues and a touch of Janis. (Baton Rouge)… country even…with a huge touch of Patsy….Briiiiing it on.
Slainte.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
The problem says the magistrate is that, “the PJ maintains two theses - one is the abduction and the other murder.The extension of the deadline for the investigation depends on the type of crime comitted.”
So the PJ have not even decided what crime has been committed, bit of a blow for the posse once again.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Wheres your reply Redarse. Are you a slow typer too?
December 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
432 Châtelaine + BF
Well done for finding the blue sports bag. I might have known that CM would have had something to do with it. I would say that M’s body could be carried in that bag. I wonder what the PJ think about this photo?
December 27th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
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RedRooster Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
having to think about that one are you garth luvvy?
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I’m not that fast at typing dearie. Is that okay with you?
December 27th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
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Tony Bennett Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
SMIRKS
’silverearth’ posted this on the Mirror Forums a couple of days ago:
“I have a source I cannot reveal, but there have been many smirks from the McCansn and friends when they have thought they were not being filmed - this info is not from the media or the police and I cannot at this moment give any info, but I have seen them with my own eyes - they think that they are invisible sometimes but you dont need wire taps or bugs or emails to hear and see things they have said and done. I have of course given all of these details to the police as I would in fact be withholding evidence if I had not - their relevance is not really for me to decide”
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REPLY: Come on, Tony, posting the above on here I think is beneath you!
December 27th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
357 Logic Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
2890 Stevo
Do you have a link which states that congenital adrenal hyperplasia causes rapid hair growth? I would be interested to see where this is stated because I have always understaood that this condition can involve accelerated development such as precocious breast growth and growth of axillary and pubic hair, i.e. a 4 year old can, say, have breasts and body hair. I was not aware that there was rapid growth of head hair because it is not under the same hormonal control as body hair.
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I’ve been looking for hair growth as you state i.e. on the head. There’s a website called wrongdiagnosis.com that has many abnormal hair growth disorders including CAH but the text is not specific enough to say it’s confined to head hair growth. CAH looks more like you say, a disorder which produces hair growth attributable to male patterns…underarms, facial hair etc. I didn’t realise there were so many disorders causing problems with hair!
I suppose one of the pitfalls of Google is that it orders things in popularity and CAH tends to come before those rarer hair disorders (and yes, I know CAH has other problems other than hair).
The main interesting story today seems to be redsquare’s treatise on two more photos allegedly from the days in PDL. Madeleine’s hair in these two photos looks shorter than the pool/playground photo and is from the same week - which is clearly impossible.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
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RedRooster Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
422 garth
just a hunch luvvy plus you seem to think its ok to leave young children unattended etc etc. do i have to go on luvvy
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Its easy really isant it Redarse? You know, to assume. You see, I dont really think you’re qualified in anything other than making wild claims. And for your narrow minded information, i actually dont agree with the McCanns decision. But it suits me to rile up all you daft anti-mccans because some of you dont listen to anything unless its trying to put down a family thats lost a child. Now if you think that you are right to keep knocking me for doing that (which is very easy on a forum like this with all the other idiots) then carry on. But dont start going about my bad language because if you were sat where Im sat you’d be tempted yourself. And for your information I do speak spanish.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
hi folks the last 5 mins of the sky thing for those who have not seen it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ziaW5D0Yog
December 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
395 Stevo
I’m sorry if you feel that I’m victimising you. I’m really not. I have questioned other posters’ posts as much or more than yours. If you look at my comment earlier to Tony Bennett, you will see that I criticised very strongly his assertion that Madeleine was not a difficult child. I did that because I do not believe that it’s possible to look at a few pictures and then say that a child shows no evidence of difficult behaviour. Maybe I have also upset Tony but I haven’t seen a reply so probably he doesn’t care. I have also criticised Chenier’s posts and challenged Hideki’s motives at times. I am sure that there are a lot of things that people could criticise in my own posts and anyone is free to challenge them.
I have not misquoted you, not deliberately at any rate. I do feel that you have sometimes tried to lead the discussion away from points I have made by casually dismissing them. Yesterday you said that M’s hair could have grown 2 inches in 4 months so the length of it by April 07 was consistent with its growth since Xmas 2006. Thus you discounted my point in favour of yours and, when I challenged this, you said you had not even seen the Xmas film and so you didn’t know what comparison I was making even. So why discount a theory before you have even examined it?
I have also criticised other posters for talking about Kate possibly having depression as that was somehow an evil thing to have. If someone was clinically depressed, that would, to my mind, be a mitigation, not an additional condemnatory factor. I think it is ignorant to think otherwise.
Having said all this, you know that I am very suspicious about the McCanns’ part in this case. I do not simply want the McCanns to be banged up at the expense of the twins and the rest of their families if there was an accident that would never be repeated. But there is too much to be uneasy about…..
On the issue of the photos: yesterday, Pilimary commented about the other Christmas photo of M with her older cousin sitting on a sofa with a baby on the cousin’s lap, presumably Xmas 2005, if it was Xmas. If the baby was Amelie, then I will admit that she does look considerably younger than when she was snapped in the so-called Christmas 2006 Appeal film, and so maybe the latter is indeed from Xmas 2006 and the twins are aged 23 months in it. That still wouldn’t explain why M looked so much older in the Everton football shirt photo and I am also not sure that the baby the cousin is holding is Amelie. Nor can we be sure exactly when that photo was taken.
However, I may well be wrong in my observations and you are of course completely free to disagree with me if you wish. But please do not say I am misquoting you when I am not. It is silly to take part in a contentious discussion if you take offence at criticisms from those who are generally on the same side of the fence. Maybe I am guilty of that as well.
I accept that people (myself included) tend to get rather paranoid on a forum such as this because one can never be quite sure exactly who is genuine and who is not. But that, I suppose, is all part of the mystery. But I do not have any particular issue with you personally.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Posted bt TB at 11.10am. …………The problem is to know by how many months the process can still continue, taking into account the fact that the Prosecutor does not know what kind of crime was committed.
The expert in criminal procedure and chairman of the district board of Évora’s Union of Magistrates of Public Prosecutors (SMMP), Carlos Casimiro, explained to the DN “the outcome of this process depends exclusively on the definition of the type of crime that was committed against Madeleine McCann”.
The problem says the magistrate is that, “the PJ maintains two theses - one is the abduction and the other murder.The extension of the deadline for the investigation depends on the type of crime comitted.”
December 27th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
garth
like i said your not the sharpest knife
December 27th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
having to think about that one are you garth luvvy?
December 27th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
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brandon flours Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
“BREAKING NEWS
Clarence with blue tennis bag 21 May 2007″
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Brandon, I’ve posted that picture 3 times over the past days. Happy you did it again, as I never got any serious reactions
It actually caught my attention as it was archived on a photo site as being from September whereas it’s actually from May. Understood that they’re on their way to U.K. here …
Also mentioned that a sports bag tends to contain towels. And a towel was found at the barn with blood and/or DNA traces on it …
As for Tapas 10, CM seems a candidate IMO & allegedly
December 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
422 garth
just a hunch luvvy plus you seem to think its ok to leave young children unattended etc etc. do i have to go on luvvy
December 27th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
429
RedRooster Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
427 garht
what? as opposed to cloud cookoo land like yourself?
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Oh you’re still here. I’m still waiting for you to back up your accusation about my incompetance in childcare. Where is it?
December 27th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
427 garht
what? as opposed to cloud cookoo land like yourself?
December 27th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
415 Meejician
290 Ann
I do not think we are as far apart as all that.
I wrote: “That said, of course there are severely mentally handicapped, autistic children or others with severe physical handicaps who require way above the normal degree of parental attention…”
I wrote these two paragraphs:
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“Like ‘i-don’t-believe-them’, though I wouldn’t express my views in the same way, I am not convinced that *any* child needs sedation in the form of drugs. They need attention, comfort, security, love. I do not buy so-called ‘ADHD’ syndrome either, save that hyperactivity can be caused by lack of attention, lack of proper discipline, other dysfunction in the family, or possibly an excess of food and drink with additives. I am shocked at the vast number of children in the Western world prescribed Ritalin or alternatives.
That said, of course there are severely mentally handicapped, autistic children or others with severe physical handicaps who require way above the normal degree of parental attention and in those cases the parent needs respite and help, but *not* IMO sedative drugs”.
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Please note my second paragraph again.
I agree that a child may be hyperactive and ‘difficult’ for genetic reasons that perhaps we don’t fully understand, but I do not recognise a specific *genetic* syndrome called ‘ADHD’ and neither do a great many doctors. Especially when the pharmaceutical companies that make Ritalin and other substitutes/alternatives spend so much time, effort and money convincing us there *is* such a syndrome.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
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Dave Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
In the interests of justice here is a challenge for the prosecution.Supply us with direct quotes from official sources to back up your outlandish theories. In return I shall post a link to an official source stating the information that is in the public domain. Still no takers no evidence no DNA no charges, the posse are up blind alley.
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I think most of them are up bleedin Tin Pan Alley!
December 27th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
You can see the lichen covered ledges and the type of undergrowth beneath the security wall that would have been disturbed in the event of an abductor using the window.
You can see the long security wall that stretches all across the front of the apartment complex which the abductor would have had to have climed, or traversed the long way–which would take much longer.
No footprints evidently found of an abductor or an accomplice in this bit of shrubbery and moss under the security wall, no moss disturbed on these many ledges.
That leaves the sliding glass door which would have lead the abductor directly into the path of Gerry and Wilkins, or he would have had to have walked all the way down to the main archway entrance putting him directly in the path of people coming and going there.
This video is taken from the corner where Jane Tanner claims to have seen the abductor. Look how far the abductor would have had to have walked to get around the low wall outside of the door and window–and what he would have stepped upon, had he climbed over the wall instead.
This is why they say there is no evidence of an abductor.
http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc130/ellibean99/?action=view¤t=portugal051.flv
December 27th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
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man on a hill Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
406 Stevo
My children eat a vegan diet which is at least 50% raw. They are full of energy and despite a few temper tantrums (on both sides) we have never had to use violence to control them. I believe that our diet is a major factor in their behavior.
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Thanks for that!
December 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Come on Rooster you lovely little dearie you……
December 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
In the interests of justice here is a challenge for the prosecution.Supply us with direct quotes from official sources to back up your outlandish theories. In return I shall post a link to an official source stating the information that is in the public domain. Still no takers no evidence no DNA no charges, the posse are up blind alley.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
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RedRooster Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
411 garht
well one thing i am very well qualified in is childcare my dear little gart. One thing niether you or the mccanns seem to have a clue about
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Alas were getting somewhere
Now please remind me, as you are so qualified in childcare deary, why would I know nothing about looking after children as you so assuredly put it?