Madeleine McCann: The Gardener Questioned, Marcos Correia Cries Rape And Kelsey Lynn Kudla Says
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: BRITISH ODD-JOB MAN QUIZZED”
A new suspect?
“An anonymous email sent to Portuguese detectives claimed that Daniel Groom was spotted lurking in an alley close to the McCanns’ apartment on the night Madeleine vanished”
The paper says he looks not too unlike the man seen walking from the holiday complex holding a child. You know, that man with no face…
Says Mr Groom: “I think I am being framed. I am the victim of a smear campaign by someone with a grudge against me… During the week two detectives had arrived in town and begun asking friends about my whereabouts. I rang them after they left a message with a friend. I met them in a car park in Praia da Luz… They were two detectives from the Lisbon area, a good cop and a bad cop. One guy was quite small and smoked a cigar. The other guy was really fat, wore girly sunglasses and kept looking around him all the time”
A good cop? We know all about the bad cops (see the Sun). But this good cop..?
They showed him the email. It went:
“Is it a coincidence that this man started working as a gardener in the area and a child went missing?
“Maybe he walked through the car park at the front of the McCanns’ apartment and a little way down the dark alley between the two buildings where he could see and probably hear that the McCanns were there.
“After that maybe he listened at the window of the McCanns’ apartment for any sign that someone such as a babysitter was there. No television…nothing.
“Did this man initially see the McCanns and Madeleine whilst working on an empty apartment/villa and note that the children were left alone? Did he then come back to watch the McCanns when it was dark and not during daylight hours?”
This is front-page news…
Says Groom: “After a few minutes they said they thought it was all b******t. They said if they needed to talk to me again they would, but they thought they were barking up the wrong tree”
A gardening joke to end. Mr Groom may survive his ordeal
“KEEP LOOKING FOR HER, BEGS GRANDAD” – Says Brian Healey: “There has been so much that has been said and written, much of it untrue and hurtful, but so often it seems to me as if the only really important person in all this has been forgotten – and that’s Madeleine”
Indeed. ‘Nuff said…
“Some people don’t seem to want to know about the real Kate”
As we say, ‘nuff said…
THE SUN: “’Paedo dumped Maddie in lake’”
“MADELEINE McCann was raped and killed within 48 hours of being snatched then thrown in a reservoir, a Portuguese lawyer claimed yesterday. Human rights solicitor Marcos Aragao Correia said underworld sources tipped him off on May 6, three days after the tot vanished in Praia da Luz”
May 6?
Correia says he told the police. He then told Metodo 3, the McCanns’ private detectives. Correia says Madeleine’s body was in a reservoir with a small beach and showers for campers, late identified as the Barragem do Arade reservoir
Remerb when X marked the spot - “Vermoedelijke Vindplaats”
“KATE dad: Back off my daughter” – Says Brian Healy: “Some people don’t seem to want to know about the real Kate. She is such a warm and caring person, as well as being intelligent. But you can’t win because people say, ‘He would say that, he’s her father’”
Why would we care? A child is missing, why is it important we like Kate McCann?
“READERS in fury at ’sick stunt’”
“SUN readers bombarded our MySun discussion forums yesterday to vent their disgust following our revelations that an agency is ready to hire out a Maddie lookalike”
“LOOKALIKE mum: Let us help” – “The tearful mum of a tiny lookalike who hopes to play Madeleine McCann in a film insisted last night: ‘We only want to help’. American Kris Pfister, whose three-year-old Kelsey Lynn Kudla bears a stunning resemblance to the missing tot, added: “I feel for Maddie’s family — I am on their team”
Well, no, you’re not. But you are in the papers. Fame beckons? Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be…
Quote of the week: “Since people started telling her she looked like Maddie, Kelsey’s been following the news. She cries when she hears she’s still missing. When we read there may be a documentary or film on the hunt, she said, ‘Mummy, I could play Madeleine. I look just like her’”
Here’s Kels-seeeey. (Come, on, Kelsey, you’re on… Smile!)
“People say that I look like Maddie. She lost her mummy and daddy. I want to help bring her home”
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE WAS ‘SNATCHED AND MURDERED’”
“Madeleine McCann was abducted, raped, murdered and thrown in a reservoir, a lawyer claimed last night”
It’s Marcos Correia again. Who told him? He will not say. But the paper notes: “He spent three weeks at the reservoir with investigators from the McCanns’ Metodo 3 agency. Last night he called on the police to search it extensively”
They have done. You can read about it here
Are these underworld figures known to Antonio Toscano?
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine was ‘raped, murdered - and then dumped in reservoir’”
“Underworld criminals contacted a human rights lawyer on May 6, three days after the girl vanished, with details of her alleged abduction and murder, he said. But when Marcos Aragao Correia tried to tell police, he was ignored, he added”
Or not. The reservoir was searched
“PORTUGUESE police ‘want to keep Madeleine file secret for another three months’”
Says Clarence Mitchell the couple’s spokesman: “We are disappointed, but not surprised given that the police are still investigating.
“We had expected this request, however our lawyers will be examining it and once again we would urge the police to come over and interview who they want to.
“DEATH threats for woman hiring out Madeleine lookalikes” - Shona Juliet-Adams, owner of Juliet Adams Modelling and Talent Casting Agency, says: “”I have had threatening phone calls and death threats. I am not speaking to anybody until I have spoken to the police about my security - I received death threats”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCanns suffer ‘almost inhumane’ police delay”
Kate and Gerry McCann could remain official suspects in their daughter’s disappearance for “several more months”
Clarence Mitchell says: “This is extremely disappointing. We will continue to co-operate with the Portuguese police, of course. However, the delay in resolving the case and eliminating Gerry and Kate is now becoming almost inhumane”
“BAD taste jokes need time to be funny” - An interactive humour survey at the Science Museum’s Dana centre in central London. Only seven per cent of the audience felt that a joke about Bhutto’s death was funny or amusing and only 31 per cent felt humour involving the McCanns was appropriate”
A Joke: “Dr Harold Shipman’s last meal was a curry. He said he enjoyed it but he could have murdered a nan”
FOX NEWS (USA): “Report: Agency Worker Receives Death Threats Over Madeleine McCann Look-Alikes”
“Shona Juliet-Adams, 41, whose agency offers the look-alikes for about $1,174 an hour, said she has been receiving ‘threatening phone calls and death threats’”
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January 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Matt…. in what way ‘A Wider Agenda’?
January 12th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Gone now
January 12th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
522
Matt
No ,apart Mr. Sócrates is doing a HUGE favour to G.B.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
512…coolandcalm
You don’t mean…” A Wider Agenda”, do you ?
January 12th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Clouseau 501
Guilty of what ??
January 12th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
518
coolandcalm
I understand you can’t name them
I asked ,because I have fwends from several countries ,and never heard that
Never heard doing such complain ,but if it happened to you ..
January 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
504…can’t say no
Hi, Can’t say No.
Any news from Portugal ?
Jan 14th nears.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
RR
Till later
Came here just for a minut
January 12th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
513
can’t say no Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
grrrrrr
Evidences ?
What evidences ,apart the mccs lies ????”
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January 12th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
‘I wish I could roll back time and go back to the day before Madeleine was abducted.’
In light of my theory about the Chaplins nights, I find it interesting that KM wishes she could ‘ [...] go back to the day before [...]‘ the ‘abduction’.
Is the Marmite survey still on? Love it!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
CSN suggest you contact the Iberian Hoteliers Assoc. They will enlighten you. I’m not naming names!!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
510…Daisy
“”"”yes, I will admit that I was wrong, if I am wrong. Don’t expect that from them, though”"”
Is your quote….still judgemental am afraid, Daisy.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
511
Peter O Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
494 Sledgehammer Says: January 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
The prosecutor refused to allow Amaral to arrest KM on neglect charges,why, Peter O says we cannot admit this to the forum, Edit….
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I’ve never suggest you or anyone else can’t post whatever you like. Just so long as you don’t try to pass it off as “evidence”
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oh come on sledgy has it on good authority that it comes from a very reliable source “the sun”
January 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
512
coolandcalm
Can you name the hotels ,where you were in Portugal ???
January 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
510…Daisy
Thing is….if you argue with others about re you not going to be judgemental
about the McCann’s etc….then it is reasonable to expect the same attitude
from you to others. IMO
January 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
grrrrrr
Evidences ?
What evidences ,apart the mccs lies ????”
January 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
when I was travel writing I stayed in many hotels of all grades everywhere, and I can tell you that the brits do leave their children in the rooms at night. Mostly in Spain and Portugal…… (too scared to do it in US) It always horrified me to walk along the corridors or walkways of ’stack em in’ hotels and hear the noise of children from the rooms knowing that the paresnts were down in the bar, often most of the night.
In a hotel in Benidorm I went down to the desk to tell them that the child in the next room was screaming on the balcony. They shrugged and did nothing. The parents were in the nightclub and there was no PA system was their excuse!
I know everyone here say they wouldn’t do it but just cos we don’t do it doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t.
According to the Iberian Hoteliers Assoc its common practice for Brits, Dutch and German to put their kids to bed and then go off to the bar for the night
Sad but true. A huge campaign needs to come from here to prtoect the children and also our reputation but it needs to be implemented in the Costas/Algarve hotels by the staff. We do unfortunately have a reputation as being children haters!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
494 Sledgehammer Says: January 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
The prosecutor refused to allow Amaral to arrest KM on neglect charges,why, Peter O says we cannot admit this to the forum, Edit….
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I’ve never suggest you or anyone else can’t post whatever you like. Just so long as you don’t try to pass it off as “evidence”
January 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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497
Matt. Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
495…Daisy
Of course….but the result of your personal opinion led you to state
that the anti-McCann’s would never apologise if the McCann’s were
found to be innocent.
That sounds like a very self-righteous and judgemental opinion to me.
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Matt,
Not expecting any, is what I said. We just have to agree to disagree on this one.
It’s very late and I’m off to seep.
Good Night everybody!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Thank you Daisy!
January 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
488 Cheryl Says: January 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
482 Dr. Watson Says: January 12th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Edit….
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I do not agree they be put in jail. What purpose does that serve to punish them appropriately? An appropriate punishment that ALL could learn from is they be sentenced to spending the time they would spend in prison going and talking to and telling people in seminars, groups, churches, parenting classes, etc. exactly what could happen and did happen if one leaves their small children alone unsupervised and not protected, as a parent should protect and care for their child.
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So a couple who at best have admitted they may have been naïve in their childcare arrangements, no admission of guilt or remorse, and who in my opinion have been complicit in mounting the most odious PR campaign to avoid taking any responsibility for their actions, are now suddenly suitable role models to lecture others about parenting?
And of course, your post assumes we do ever find the truth of what really happened to Madeleine.
I’m all for showing compassion and appropriate sentencing to people who have demonstrated that they deserve such from society.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
491
Daisy
If they are not in U.K. cell ,is thanks ,to Mr. Sócrates & Mr. Brown
January 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
500…Daisy
Mr Bennett, am sure, as he knows greatly more about the Summons etc,
will be able to put you right about the matter.
He applied for the Summons under the Law relevant to it.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
494
Sledgehammer Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
The prosecutor refused to allow Amaral to arrest KM on neglect charges,why, Peter O says we cannot admit this to the forum, I reckon it is as true as any tosh the barmy brigade like to throw at we more balanced supporters of justice.That bastion of truth the
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why do you keep repeating the same old regurgatated shite sludgy ???? you really are very boring
January 12th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
491
Daisy
Yes there are
I’m Portuguese and i know it
It was a favour from our Country to the U.K.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
‘I would get a really good look around and have a really good think. And I’d think: Where are you? Who are you? Who is secretly watching my family? Because someone was watching my family very, very carefully. And taking notes.’ ”
I suppose that her comments could be construed as paranoia, but on re-reading it the thing that sticks out is that this really doesn’t sound like a woman with advanced qualifications.
A phrase like ‘a really good think’ doesn’t tend to trip off the tongue of people who are familiar with thinking…
January 12th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
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499
Miss Match Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
497 - If the McCanns are found to be innocent, (excluding the child neglect), I will personally make a donation of £500 to the NSPCC. Hopefully, I won’t have to apologise to any ‘pro-McCanns’, as I sincerely hope I have not been rude to them during our debates, but I will admit I was wrong, if indeed, I am.
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Miss Match,
I don’t think you have been rude to anybody and I think your idea of a donation is quite a good one.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
sledgy
why will they not take a polygraph and win back peoples support?
because ther guilty
January 12th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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496
Matt. Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
491…Daisy
There must be a Law in the UK ….after all, Mr Bennett applied for a Summons
on Child Neglect in relation to the McCann’s.
The summons was not granted because the alleged offence was not considered
to be within the UK Court’s Jurisdiction.
That is not to say that if the “offence” had been committed within the UK
that a Court Case would not have occurred.
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Matt,
From what I understand (I might be mistaken) Tony Bennett was pursuing a civil case against the parents, not a criminal case. I still believe that other posters have made comments about the Law in the UK regarding neglect and there are apparently only “recommendations” about not leaving children alone. This is why Tony Bennett was talking about a new law called Madeleine’s Law (or something to that effect).
January 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
497 - If the McCanns are found to be innocent, (excluding the child neglect), I will personally make a donation of £500 to the NSPCC. Hopefully, I won’t have to apologise to any ‘pro-McCanns’, as I sincerely hope I have not been rude to them during our debates, but I will admit I was wrong, if indeed, I am.