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 9:07 pm
Also, I can’t really grasp that only me, June Johnson and Anorak seem to mind that Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated. Obviously this is more important, in terms of global politics.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
while ferreting around for mcconn planning applications i found the police report for a sept parish council meeting:
7/90 Police Report (Inspector C Yallop attending)
• August Crime report – as circulated councilors
ROTHLEY AND SWITHLAND N.H.W - AUGUST 2007
THEFT
Thurs 2nd Loughborough Road, Rothley Theft of a banner
(Kindergarten)
THEFT OF VEHICLE
Thurs 2nd Swithland Woods Car Park Vauxhall Astra
THEFT FROM VEHICLE
Wed 15th Swithland Woods Car Park Smash Window CD’s
Wed 15th Swithland Woods Car Park Smash Window –Nil
Sat 25th Swithland Woods Car Park Unknown – Handbag
Mon27th-28 Maccauley Road Wing mirror from veh
DAMAGE
Sun 5th Town Green St, Scratches/Dents to Motor Vehicle
Tues 31st-15th Pott Acre, Rothley Scratches to 2 Motor Vehicles on drive
BURGLARY
Wed 8th-9th Woodgate, Hairdressers - Smash window.
Hair straightners Stolen
Wed 15th -16th Howe Lane, Builders Tools
Sat 11th-15th Fowke St, Football Club Changing room – Graffiti
• Current situation from April crime is down 27.3% year on year. 9 arrests for burglary – which is down.
• Priorities for the forthcoming 3 months will be Road Safety, School Liaison & “anti - social vehicle use” in Rothley
• 24 hour coverage of McCann situation by police with cover for CPSO holiday arranged.
• PF questioned enforcement of parking restrictions (suggesting that the press were receiving preference over resident on Cross Green) – CY reminded that the situation is now “managed” by CBC Street Wardens.
so they get 24 hour protection and the press have been accused of preferential parking
dear o dear
i wonder how much the plod protection costs and who pays
we should be told
December 27th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
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Judith C Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Ann, what’s your view on the fact that there were (apparently) no ‘attention deficit hyperactive children’ not so many years ago — say 30 or 40 and leading up to then? Do you think they were just not ‘discovered’?
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I think they were just the “naughty kids” who ended up in the corner or getting the slipper, because - let’s face it, we all knew those types . There were kids that, no matter what you did they were just “naughty”, inattentive, disruptive all the things you find on the list of ADHD “symptoms” these day, but I aso believe that today’s crap diet does nothing to help and just exaggerates the problem as I soon found out if I let RG drink Coke, eat stuff crammed with additives etc etc. You can control it better with a proper diet which I suppose we had a better diet in the good ‘ole days so maybe that’s why it wasn’t so apparent, don’t know…I don’t set myself up to be a scientist or an “authority” other thanwhat I hve learned from personal experience and what I have studied to help with the in-house problem we have.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
here’s some rothley planning applications
orchard house doesn’t show anentry in the search
i dunno what road it’s in…
http://rothley.leicestershireparishcouncils.org/parish-planning-applications.html?mapzoom=6&northing=312724&easting=458375
December 27th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
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Tony Bennett Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
ADHD - FROM THE ‘KIDSHEALTH’ WEBSITE:
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All of the above and “probably” doesn’t mean “…is not”
December 27th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
647 Châtelaine
“Frozen? Embalmed? Still alive? Flying private jets?
Oh dear, IMO & allegedly , of course ….”
if i were writing a film script on this sort of thing…
allegedly…
the simplest way would be the santander ferry to plymouth
no smells would be detected in the vehicle bay full of juggernauts et al.
drive straight through customs as do 99% of passengers
then an hour’s drive up the a38 to chez o’brien
straight in the freezer for later collection at a convenient time
choose a nice resting spot
piece of cake as they say
allegedly
what fun
December 27th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
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Stevo Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
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I can’t remember anything about planning permission at their Rothley house. I wonder if anyone else does? What gives you the idea that planning permission was involved? Do you vaguely remember reading it somewhere? You might even be able to drag the information from your own subconscious. But, anyway…interesting! And also the Exeter connection. What if? Her remark in that RTE broadcast …she might be nearer to the UK…seemed so out of context when they were only in June and still in Portugal. You never know with these cunning manipulative b…..ds — anything’s possible. As for the nanny — know nothing about her. Have they even still got one? I vaguely remember reading that the one they had departed for the Antipodes…but maybe not….
December 27th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
650 veritablequandary Says:
“writing a book would be somehow shameful?
did your parents punish you for reading or writing?”
i assume jane was subjected to a “star” reward system so she doesn’t step out of line.
seems to be a McConn family thing
great fun watching them squirm as the end game approaches
December 27th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
633 chenier
“anyone wanting Doom Bar near the Barbican must be in Plymouth”
barbican?
plymouth?
never heard of the place
i suggest you try the smithy
watch out for the side effects of doom - make sure you are near the toilets
December 27th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
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Jane Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
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Constatine Morley Says:
Tony Bennett hang your head in SHAME.
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I would totally agree with you, Constatine - if he had any, however the ruthlessness of TB’s pursuit of a good story for the book he is presumably writing about Madeleine may suggest that he has none.
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It’s interesting that Jane cannot respond on the substance of Tony’s post, and is thus reduced to making up claims about Tony writing a book on this whole debacle.
Perhaps extended interest in the McCanns’ story has resulted in him/her acquiring the same attitude to money as the McCanns.
Most people are not ruled by greed…
December 27th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
644 Jane
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writing a book would be somehow shameful?
did your parents punish you for reading or writing?
December 27th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
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Stevo Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
628 Gloria Smudd
“What I am trying to emphasise is just how unmoved the McCann’s seemed since Madeleine disappeared and their TV appearances in the days and weeks following May 3rd…”
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Good posting and agree 100%. But look how many people were taken in by their acting.
But my point is that there are so many of us that weren’t taken in by the acting. I’m still here, 7 full months later, because that gut-tugging doubt took its deeply visceral hold, not when it was reported Madeleine had gone missing, but when it was reported that her composed parents claimed they had left her with her 18-month old siblings alone, ‘asleep’, in the apartment that night. That was the point at which I thought of the McCanns as being unlike any parents I could conceive of and my opinion hasn’t changed. If they were capable of leaving their 3 kids alone, they could be capable of lying, of track-covering, of story-tweaking, of brazen ambition, of almost anything.
As the stories have changed and the apartment has gone from locked to unlocked and the window has gone from jemmied to un-jemmied and the egg-man has gone to bundleman with blanket/bundleman without blanket but with child, Wilkins being a witness to being approached by Gerry by crossing the road at potentially a vital time stage of the abduction, then I’ve got more and more interested in looking at Anorak and hearing other opinions on the weirdest tale of woe I’ve come across in a very long time.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
(599) Patch
I entirely agree with you and your analysis of childhood. Christmas, despite our being told ‘it is for children’, has entirely lost its magic - and I guess, for them too. Every day is Christmas for most children as they are bought everything they demand and the demand is created by business who simply want to sell, sell, sell, children being the easiest touch because of pester power.
There are three children next door to me. Their garden is littered with toys, slides, a trampoline, model railway tracks, bikes, balls..you name it, they’ve got it. And that’s just in the garden! Chucked! Are they happy? Judging by their pasty faces and bags under their eyes and the screams of the jungle that emerge from their house I would say ‘No!’. You can’t buy happiness, but this subtlety eludes most people today.
Anyway, Happy New Year!!
December 27th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
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Tinsel Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
556
“Yes i have often thought of the possibility that the body may be in the UK………………………
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How would they have contained the smell or the fluids on an airplane? This is terrible to say, but remember, a dead body is something like a giant piece of rotting fruit. Not easy to hide in an airplane.”
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Frozen? Embalmed? Still alive? Flying private jets?
Oh dear, IMO & allegedly , of course ….
December 27th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
637 Tony Bennett
Look in the Telegraph archive and you can find more descriptions prior to May 28. Can’t remember the exact dates but I was reading all articles from May this morning.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
639 Judith C
Wasn’t there some talk of planning permission at the McCann’s home in Rothley? Someone hinted she might be buried there. Also, we never seem to hear about the nanny employed at Rothley. Is she a full-time nanny? Does anyone know?
December 27th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
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Constatine Morley Says:
Tony Bennett hang your head in SHAME.
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I would totally agree with you, Constatine - if he had any, however the ruthlessness of TB’s pursuit of a good story for the book he is presumably writing about Madeleine may suggest that he has none.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
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veritablequandary Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
628 Gloria Smudd Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
“It is this response being so far from what I can imagine which has kept me reading all the suggestions and analyses of this case, hoping that I will understand how those parents have behaved the way they have in circumstances under which I would have had to be monitored very carefully to ensure I wasn’t another mum on a railway line, like Natasha’s, because it would be “unbearable”.”
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I can only come up with : personality disorder, drugs, greed, fear for other children, fear for one’s own hide . . . .
veritablequandry
Exactly - and it is your final suggestion which keeps me coming back to this site, because that’s the only theory that makes any sense to me; they were too protective of their own reputations to own up that their children were at risk of harm because they weren’t protected by their parents and they were left alone.
It has been suggested that the McCann team read these boards - well, if they do, then I hope they get to know that they messed up the global-story-board big time with this one because they should have admitted guilt about leaving their kids alone (and later they changed their story to claim the apartment was UNLOCKED) and it is because that, I suspect them of being guilty of more than leaving their children at home while they dined in their back garden. Allegedly.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
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Judith C
I think it’s worth to explore that. I’m going to eat something and be back later
December 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
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Tony Bennett Says:
SOURCES FOR THE EARLIER ARTICLE BY TONY BENNETT ON JANE TANNER’S CHANGING STORIES
In order, the sources I used were:
28 May 2007 - Times OnLIne
28 May 2007 - Daily Mail
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That’s much better, thank you
December 27th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
628 Gloria Smudd
“What I am trying to emphasise is just how unmoved the McCann’s seemed since Madeleine disappeared and their TV appearances in the days and weeks following May 3rd…”
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Good posting and agree 100%. But look how many people were taken in by their acting.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
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Stevo Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
563 Tinsel
Not on an airplane. Britain is an island remember. Most of the traffic going there is via boats or train. Remember the two guys who drove 2200 miles from Scotland to deliver the inflatable poster for the beach? Ferries go from the south coast of England to Santander in northern Spain on a regular basis.
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And remember that when Gerry McScam returned to the UK for the first time on May 21st he didn’t even stay at his own home saying that he ‘couldn’t bear’ to stay there. Where did he stay? Anyone know? This might give a clue - if the taking the body back to UK is a valid possibility - where she is. Also the ferries from Santander go to Plymouth in Devon - not a million miles from …Exeter, in Devon??
December 27th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
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Constatine Morley
Why do you say such a thing ???
What he have done ,shows he has guts.
R E S P E C T for Tony B.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
627 (was 626) Jane
SOURCES FOR THE EARLIER ARTICLE BY TONY BENNETT ON JANE TANNER’S CHANGING STORIES
In order, the sources I used were:
28 May 2007 - Times OnLIne
28 May 2007 - Daily Mail
29 May 2007 - David Brown and Praia da Luz - ‘The Australian’
26 September 2007 Guardian - recycling description given on 25 May 2007
25 October 2007 - BBC News website
26 October 2007 - Daily Mirror
26 October 2007 - Liverpool Echo
29 October 2007 - Daily Telegraph
18 November 2007 - Daily Telegraph
20 November 2007 - Independent
20 November 2007 - Liverpool Echo
December 27th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
If post 61 is correct two options according to the magistrate, abduction or murder.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
631 Constatine Morley Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Tony Bennett hang your head in SHAME.
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why ?
December 27th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
628 Gloria Smudd Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
“It is this response being so far from what I can imagine which has kept me reading all the suggestions and analyses of this case, hoping that I will understand how those parents have behaved the way they have in circumstances under which I would have had to be monitored very carefully to ensure I wasn’t another mum on a railway line, like Natasha’s, because it would be “unbearable”.”
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I can only come up with : personality disorder, drugs, greed, fear for other children, fear for one’s own hide . . . .
December 27th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
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Ade Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
even i would find it hard to do this lot in a day…
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I suspect that my tolerance level for beer is so low nowadays that I would be legless after the first pint, but thanks for pointing it out.
I’m trying to narrow it down to near my home, but Google insists on assuming that anyone wanting Doom Bar near the Barbican must be in Plymouth.
Looks as if the ‘Smithy’s Bar’ near Kings Cross is worth a try…
December 27th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
626 Jane
It looks to me like Tony copied articles from various papers and websites. If someone does that in here, I tend to copy a sentence or two from their post and paste it into google with quotes around it. If it came off the Internet it’ll show up immediately. I think Tony’s point was not aimed at arbitrary comments made by posters but where they quoted something and couldn’t back it up. Not defending Tony - I’m sure he can do that himself. Just describing the differences.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Tony Bennett hang your head in SHAME.