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 6:10 pm
coolandcalm
As for Spain ,I for myselfe ,have only 1 complaint
It was in Algeciras ,i forgotte to make reservations ,and every good hotels ,were fulled ,it wasthe lousiest hotel i satyed in my life ,but i had decided to go to North Africa by boat ,and didn’t sleep all night.
I sugest ,when you travell ,if you have friends in the countries where you go , you’ll not have problems
Just a sugestigion
January 12th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
581…Julie
Oops. Sorry for stealing your thunder, Julie.
We need a “scoop”. Deadline time approaches.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
chenier Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
572
It does seem to suggest desperation, does it not.
As did Daisy’s claim that a police force must follow up ALL (her capitals) leads in any case.
Presumably we are not supposed to notice that every police force in the world would grind to a juddering halt if it attempted to follow that precept…
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I have just had a mental image of the PJ force singing ” We’re NOT on the road to Morocco …
January 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
583…chenier
Rationality is not expected in Camp McCann.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
575…Gloria Smudd
Very true indeed.
Time will tell as to what the real reasons are for Dr K not actually
being part of the interview whilst being at home at the time.
And with many quotes attributed to her by others during those
interviews…..and other quotes from McCann side of the family
which are less than complimentary to Dr K.
Odd indeed.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
572
Matt. Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
562…chenier
Jane hasd posted and re-posted that cut and paste time and time again.
Has always been shown, by replies,that the two cases bare no resemblence
whatsoever.
Yet she/he still does her/his toilsome duty of posting it all again and again.
Desperate measures indeed.
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It does seem to suggest desperation, does it not.
As did Daisy’s claim that a police force must follow up ALL (her capitals) leads in any case.
Presumably we are not supposed to notice that every police force in the world would grind to a juddering halt if it attempted to follow that precept…
January 12th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Be back in a while
January 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
577
Matt, I posted exactly the same thing a couple of nights ago (when I was still being chewed up by the spam devil) ….. we should definitely be told 
Matt. Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
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January 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
556
jane Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
545
Tony Bennett Says:
“REPLY: As far as I can see from your posting, coolandcalm, the one and only time you did anything at all about all these neglected children that you came across over many years of travel-writing was when one of them was disturbing your peace
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Unbelievable hypocrisy from you, Tony, given the treatment your own children received. You clearly have a highly selective memory.
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MODS AND ADMIN
This is a quite unnecessary personal attack on a fellow poster Jane, if you have a personal argument with a fellow poster, please be good enough to conduct it outside of this forum.
If there are any more comments like this from you I shall be forced to put your postings into moderation.
Carmen
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Well said M & A.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
566 Cheryl Says: January 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
545 Tony Bennett Says: January 12th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
512 coolandcalm says (January 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm):
Edit…
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Tony B., obviously from what she said above about the hotel’s reactions that is quite the norm in the UK; so guess one can’t call it neglect, now can one, if that is the acceptable way in a country to leave your children alone!
Edit….
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Maybe I’m not as well travelled as others. Maybe my friends, colleagues and family are not as well travelled as others.
I’ve yet to meet one person who doesn’t think the McCann’s alleged evening childcare arrangements are anything other than entirely extraordinary. This position seems to be pretty much universal irrespective of any views these people may hold as to the McCann’s culpability/possible guilt.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
558
Peter O Says:
I think many have genuinely been shocked at the apparent lack of legislation in this area and the seemingly tardy response of bodies whose primary concern ought to be for the welfare of children.
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This situation is something I had never considered. The only cases I had seen publicised concerned parents going abroad and leaving their kids to fend for themselves at home in the UK.
Many people take overseas holidays and most take their children, even tiny babies, with them. I took this as a sign that they did not want to be parted from them and I had no idea that there is a need for legislation to oblige parents to look after their kids diligently no matter where they are. It is clearly a case of the law failing to keep up with social change.
I would like to see any British parent who leaves their kids unsupervised in a foreign country banged up and monitored by Social Services on release.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
561…Julie
Did Mr Bennett dare to dump Jane in years gone by ?
We need to know !!!
The floor is your’s Mr Bennett.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
556 Jane
MODS AND ADMIN
This is a quite unnecessary personal attack on a fellow poster Jane, if you have a personal argument with a fellow poster, please be good enough to conduct it outside of this forum. If there are any more comments like this from you I shall be forced to put your postings into moderation.
Carmen
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My posting was a response to one of TB’s many unnecessary personal attacks on other forum members and others outside the forum for which, to my knowledge, he has never been pulled up by Mods and Admin. I stand by my comment because it is true. Though I do, of course, accept Mods and Admin’s ruling on this.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Matt.
On the other hand, even if those words aren’t Kate McCann’s, they have been put out there and are up for examination and discussion, so I consider it fair to examine, sometimes less than sympatheticlly, the ideas and sentiments expressed by the McCann propaganda machine.
If Team McCann don’t like the dissection of their comments and what appear to be their bewildering attitudes then they should stop saying infuriating things or preferably, stop giving interviews or statements at all.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
563
Daisy Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
With all due respect, your comments are absurd Your logical conclusion is absolutely illogical and total rubbish
Good Night
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Good to see you providing us with such scintillatingly intellectual analysis.
Good Night.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
570…Peter O
Bunker mentality springs to mind.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
562…chenier
Jane hasd posted and re-posted that cut and paste time and time again.
Has always been shown, by replies,that the two cases bare no resemblence
whatsoever.
Yet she/he still does her/his toilsome duty of posting it all again and again.
Desperate measures indeed.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Hi Cheryl,
The case of Lindy Chamberlain was very sad and a terrible miscarriage of justice. Thankfully, forensic science has progressed greatly since that case. Too late for her and her shattered life, I know. However, check out Anna Maria Franzoni on the internet. She just got 30 years for killing her child in Italy. This case was the ‘Madeleine McCann’ case of Italy with debating taking place on forums just like we are doing now.
I think forums like these are now the chat and speculation that would have taken place at the bus stop, hairdressers, etc, 20 years ago.
My motivation for debating the case is that there are so many twists and turns and I, too, want answers. Whether my views are right or wrong, I don’t know yet. Hopefully, the truth will out for Madeleine’s sake and other innocent people affected by the case.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
560 Matt. Says: January 12th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
558…Peter O
Edit…
Asked the SS Representative if there was anything illegal about his/her
holiday plans.
A deafening silence followed and phone was replaced.
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I would suspect that everyone in that Social Services department in particular will have been told what will happen to anyone mentioning anything about this case, either the people or the circumstances.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
540
Tony Bennett Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
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Tony,
many thanks for that explanation. Now I understand it. Matt was right!
Good Night
January 12th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
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agw Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Let’s try …Who wants to try throwing the first stone?
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Are we allowed to throw bricks??
January 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Thank you, Julie, I was just wondering if I’m the only one who finds Jane’s desperate beggings for TB’s attention rather embarrasing.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
545
Tony Bennett Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
512 coolandcalm says (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…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 parents 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!”
REPLY: As far as I can see from your posting, coolandcalm, the one and only time you did anything at all about all these neglected children that you came across over many years of travel-writing was when one of them was disturbing your peace
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Tony B., obviously from what she said above about the hotel’s reactions that is quite the norm in the UK; so guess one can’t call it neglect, now can one, if that is the acceptable way in a country to leave your children alone!
You yourself, Tony B., are going to take on a yoeman’s job of changing laws or maybe better said trying to put into effect laws that don’t exist over there to protect small children against neglect! Would you have to be facing that monumental and commendable effort if such laws existed over there now? NO!
Why does it take such a tragedy like this for people to realize Children have Rights too - responsible parents!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
559…Gloria Smudd
Yes….strange goings on presently re propaganda.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Self righteous judgmental (sic) people never change.
That’s from Cheryl at 16.00hrs today
What can I can say?
Let’s try …Who wants to try throwing the first stone?
January 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
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chenier Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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Daisy Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
EDIT
I merely pointed out that you had devoted 6 words to the reported horrible death of a young child and 98 words to slagging off the PJ, and drew the logical conclusion that whatever your reasons might be posting here, they do not stem from a genuine concern for the fate of that little child….
EDIT
Chenier,
With all due respect, your comments are absurd
Your logical conclusion is absolutely illogical and total rubbish 
Good Night
January 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
543
jane Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
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I’m sorry, but claiming that the Chamberlain case has many similarities to the disappearance of Madeleine is, to use a well worn word, ludicrous.
About the only things they have in common was a female small person disappeared, and even that is pushing it. According to the article you cite, Azaria was a new born baby, which is rather different to a girl of almost 4.
You have no evidence to base your claims that the PJ mishandled the forensics, and if you make those sorts of claims then the logical conclusion is that you are prepared to misrepresent the facts in order to try and whitewash the McCanns.
Anyone capable of saying, with a straight face, that the McCanns received anything other than total sympathy from the media for several months is also misrepresenting the facts, presumably in order to try and whitewash the McCanns.
The only people who have suggested that Kate McCann is given to uncontrollable rages are members of the McCann family. You can hardly expect the people here and elsewhere to completely ignore what the McCann family have said…
January 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
556
jane Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Unbelievable hypocrisy from you, Tony, given the treatment your own children received. You clearly have a highly selective memory.
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jane, I’ve watched you attack TB on many an occassion! I think you’re being very unfair bringing up issues like this on a forum. You obviously have a personal vendetta against the man, but I don’t think that this is the place for you to act out your revenge!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
558…Peter O
had to laugh when Coco ( I think) posted that he/she had rung up
Leics Social Services and told them that he/she was going abroad
on holiday with family and some friends. Said that he/she was
planning on having a good time…and would be leaving the children,
aged 3 and 2 year old twins alone in the apartment eack night so
that he/she could have a great time boozing and socialising with friends.
Asked the SS Representative if there was anything illegal about his/her
holiday plans.
A deafening silence followed and phone was replaced.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Thanks Matt. for drawing my attention to the fact that it wasn’t actually Kate McCann speaking in that interview with Vanity Fair. If it was Corner paraphrasing, then there may be the faintest glimmer of hope that Kate isn’t as loopy as Corner’s contribution on her behalf makes her seem.