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 6:39 pm
617 Chenier - and click, clunk, her bloomers were gone, never to be seen again. Sorry, it’s the vino speaking, not me.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
612
Gloria Smudd Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I’m just not wearing suitable bloomers, that’s all!
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Absolutely. Particularly when you may encounter a ’sickening breeze’ …
January 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
613 lilith
Bang on.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
599
Miss Match,
No jet setter, I’m afraid. Just love to travel. Explore countries and cultures. Blame it on my parents
Must admit though 
I never visited ‘Texel” or “Vlieland” ….. shame on me.
And hubby and me working abroad from time to time.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
612 Gloria Smudd - LOL!!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I think Daisy should realise all posters here care for Madeleine or they wouldn’t be on here.
Unfortunately her Holy Parents did not care enough to keep her out of harms way during their two fisted drinking holiday.
The whole charade afterwards has been and is ONLY about them.
There are NO interviews with people who knew her, nothing about her hopes and dreams, her little friends, the school she was about to start, hardly any photos, nothing.
But all the more about the McNeglecors fury, anguish, pleas, accusations, anguish, how things are ludicrous, their magnificently decorated Christmas tree Madeleine was supposed to report herself under, how 1.5 million is not enough,how they cannot spare one penny for other “missing”children, etc.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I’m just not wearing suitable bloomers, that’s all!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
607
coolandcalm
Oh ! Ok
Now i’m gone
Till later
January 12th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
596
can’t say no,
Cheap hotels, expensive hotels, very expensive hotels, apartments, guest houses, rented houses, campsites, we’ve been there. Seen it all.
I must admit I love the campsites. Freedom and lots of fresh air. Not making reservations, just going when you don’t like it [or the weather] and staying when you like it. Always easy making friends.
But it’s not about what you and I like and do. Some people who spent lots of money on their holiday, drinks and food, are hagglers when it comes to spent money on a babysitter.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Ahhhhh, so cartwheels aren’t ‘brilliant’ then!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
600 Miss Match
An emphatic refusal from G Smudd (Mrs).
January 12th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
CSN… when I was being paid to travel I had to stay where I was sent! Good and bad to that. I’ve had a crap hotel in Arenal, a 5* in Cancun and all stops in between. Luck of the draw where a feature is set. I did get many Spanish destinations because of a certain mags readership.
Yes I did refer to overseas hotels and complexes, not to UK. Although I understand it still occurs in holiday camps here.
I do agree with Jane though that TB seems able to say whatever he wants to anyone however personal….. what’s good for the goose M&A?
Not that he bothers me I hasten to add; his insults are far too childlike.
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Mods and Admin
coolandcalm, do tell us please how many times has TB been editted, unapproved and deleted? There are many sites where M and A would take a very dim view of being told who and what to moderate, butwe are very tolerant to a point of bossy posters. To a point. You never know your luck, one day you may share the Chill room with one TB
January 12th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Whatever happened to Soothsayer and his Supercop-Amaral/ Evidence-of-murder-in-the-Scenic routines?
Maybe he has realised the flawed logic, that is a Supercop would have kept tabs on the Scenic.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
603…Gloria Smudd
Could take a lorra lorra pixels.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
chenier
Let’s hope you don’t have to eat that Marmite-coated hat you were on about then!
I know you didn’t start the strobing-highlighting-italics-cartwheel thing, and I so wish I hadn’t either!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
598 chenier
Shame they don’t pixellate that horrid mug of Gerry’s too. And Aunty Phat’s.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
597
Gloria Smudd Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
589 Miss Match
Groan - not the flippin’ cartwheel thing again! Chenier, look what you have started!
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I didn’t start it. You did!
I merely noted its existence.
Besides, I loathe Marmite…
January 12th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Jane:
“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.”
Administrator: Jane I am glad you qualified the above with the last sentence. Wise move. There are those who have not shown such mature judgement.
I enjoy the cut and thrust of debate here but I have always felt when personal points, wives, husbands, children, cats and dogs et al are dragged into the discussion, it is the poster who does so has the weaker position. The introduction of such personal points is not relevant here nor does it add to enjoyment.
You are wrong in the assumption Tony Bennett rules this particular roost…he doesn’t, the Editor, one Paul Sorene does, aided and abetted by the Moderators and me.
The Moderators are caring, gentle, souls. I am not.
You are also in error to assume the same gentleman is never Moderated or does not have his collar tweaked on occasion. He would be the first to tell you that is not so. .. if he weren’t, I would be.
I would prefer this debate to stay at a non-personal level. I do not care a fig for a “he said” and “she said” discussion. It bores the living daylights out of me…and everyone else. Draw a line under this and enjoy.
The major point to re-stress is family attacks are the preserve of the weak debater not the class acts. Attack each other’s viewpoint and ideas with a will, if you must, but leave the extended family out of it. -agw
January 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Gloria - go on, you can do it. Pleeeease, pretty please!!! I can only do a cartwheel after copious amounts of wine.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Totje - you are a bit of a jet setter by the sounds of it!!!!
“The danger though that your child gets abducted is small. Other dangers chances are bigger.” Very, very true!!!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
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Peter O Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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The one very noticeable thing post discussions with Social Services is that the media started blurring the pictures of the twin’s faces and thus reducing their handiness as a photogenic prop.
It’s pretty disgraceful that the McCanns did not insist on this right from the beginning…
January 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
589 Miss Match
Groan - not the flippin’ cartwheel thing again! Chenier, look what you have started!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
593
Totje
Sorry ,if you have money and go to good Hotells , you will see, you have no problems
I never had
As i said before only 1 time
I always ,take very care where i stay.Since very young child ,i’m used to be abroad
If you are lucky and have friends in that country ,or that had been there ,they will tell where to stay
January 12th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
566…Cheryl
Laws do indeed exist here.
The fact that they are not being enacted by Official Sources etc…is not
a fault of the Law…but is a clear lack of Proper Duty by the Enforcers.
We await with gathering interest…as to why that should be in this case.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
578 Leeza Says: 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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Edit….
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.
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Well, I did say apparent lack of legislation in this area . With the exception of Tony Bennett’s recent action no one has thus far attempted to bring any child neglect charges against the McCann’s, nor indeed any of their friends. We’ll just have to wait and see what, if anything, happens if and when any charges are brought and trials conducted in respect of Madeleine’s disappearance. E.g. If someone were found guilty of crimes relating to some aspect(s) of child welfare in a foreign country you would hope that the local Social Services department in the UK would at least examine the circumstances to assess what risks may be posed to any surviving children.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Hi folks, little she-devil is back
523
can’t say no,
I can tell you the name of a campsite in France where Dutch, UK, German and French [may be even more nationalities] put the children to sleep and go for a drink at a bar.
And I can’t recall the name of the campsite in Italy [near Florence] but it happened there also.
And a hotel in The Gambia, Sri Lanka, USA, Spain and even more countries.
It doesn’t make it right though. They just did’t think of any dangers. Irresponsible imo.
The danger though that your child gets abducted is small. Other dangers chances are bigger.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
M & A
I think my post was not offensive
January 12th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
566
Cheryl Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
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I think that Coolandcalm’s comments were primarily about hotels overseas, in particular the cheapo places like Benidorm. I’m not sure that hotels in England have the same policies.
You do need also to bear in mind that the McCanns weren’t in a hotel room; they were in a rented apartment, which they left unlocked…
January 12th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Daisy, if you don’t go to bed right this minute, I am going to sedate you!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
575 Gloria Smudd - …..’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.’
Well said! Now when do I get to see this cartwheel?