
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 7:38 pm
Wow. Thanks Anna and chenier for bringing that to the board.
I check the Express website most days but nothing like that was on there when I looked this morning. I did notice in the supermarket yesterday that for the first time since May 4th that the Express didn’t have anything on its front page about Madeleine. With this article today, it means there’s been a serious shift in attitude from that paper.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
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Chenier, I believe that was a good assessment of both articles today.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Daisy is not from Australia.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Totje - thank you so much for explaining where those places were! I’ve done Amsterdam and that is it for my Dutch experience!
Irish girl in Spain - I had a domestic diva moment and did some ironing which was my break. Also ’swiffered’ (hope you know what that is in Spain) my marble floors! Are the Spanish as houseproud as the Italians? They think my housekeeping standards are completely trampish here in Italy. Now I’m drinking some Sicilian wine which i don’t have a clue as to the vintage, name or anything like that, but it is having a veeeeery nice effect.
Mr Match is making pumpkin soup. Last time he did this, the kitchen looked as if there had been an exploded oompa loompa as the walls had orange splodges everywhere!
January 12th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Anna
I think the great ones at Anorak Towers put new stuff every day or so, but I must say that this has been a day of remarkable changes.
If it were football, I’d call it a game of 2 halves.
The Daily Mail article was, I thought, the most startling headline and story since the whole thing began.
But now the Express headline ‘HAVE THEY LOST OUR SYMPATHY?’ would provoke me into cartwheels, if I could do cartwheels, because the answer in the article is a qualified ‘yes’.
And of course, Amy Fitzpatrick’s parents can’t be attacked by Clarrie, whatever Gerry’s views on the subject, because the general public has lost, to a large extent, faith in the McCanns….
January 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
shoot, just when I’m reading the article [thanks Anna and chenier], unexpected visitors arriving.
Have to go now, be back later.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Has OCCAM’s RAZOR been mentioned?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam’s_Razor
(Occam’s razor (sometimes spelled Ockham’s razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle is often paraphrased as “All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.” In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam’s razor is usually understood.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
MATT
thank you
x
January 12th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
638…anna
Thank you for advising of that article’s existance.
Am sure it wiil be well disected right here.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
637…Slyfox
New Friend = CM
January 12th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Mods and Admin
I am honoured that you have read my post!
Enjoy your supper!
Do you feel this deserves a new anorak thread?….or am i being ignorant.
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It will probably have a new Anorak section, I can only imagine the write up one Mr Sorene will compose for it….
January 12th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Evening!
A couple of thoughts:
Who is the “new” friend that taught the twins how to make tents in the bedroom - why did G mention this?
Is G’s “moment” of several tunnels with small light then one with big light in the church a clue to someone re what they did with Maddy in the church.
Finally, whenever there is something about to break, the McCann’s/Clarrie/Metodo3 have something to fill the newspapers. First it concentrated on witnesses whose stories would support the idea of abduction, plus Maddy is alive, now we have raped, murdered and dumped in the lake. Does that mean they have an inkling that the forensics will show up something that shouldn’t be there mixed with maddy’s in the car/bag, take your pick. Probably errs to much on the icky side this but they’re such manipulaters….
Oh, and on 5 live today, Clarence said that they (McCanns) “CLAIM” to believe that she could be alive. I know I don’t think much of CM but he definitely knows the difference between “believe” and “claim”.
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chenier Says:
“….And that if they did lie about the checking procedure then those lies would have systematically screwed the entire investigation, because the police would be working on false assumptions.”
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Yup!
January 12th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
CHENIER
well done… i can’t do it!!
what do you think of THAT THEN!!!!!
what were you lot doing today???
xx
January 12th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Anna
Many thanks: I’m working my way through the Express article…
January 12th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Express extract:
And earlier this week it emerged that TV presenter Esther McVey, who is a long-time family friend, has stepped down as a director of the Find Madeleine Fund. Ms McVey, who has known Kate McCann since their college days, insisted she was quitting because she wanted to concentrate on her political career (she hopes to become a Tory MP) and her studies for an MBA degree.
The McCann family spokesman, ex-BBC reporter Clarence Mitchell, also insisted the parting was “very amicable”.
Nonetheless the timing is unfortunate, to say the least, coming as it does hot on the heels of the most contentious development so far – the putative “Maddy movie”.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
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Miss Match Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Isn’t wine brilliant.
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Sure is. Me, i prefer the Bodega stuff here strong velvety smooth and not an arm and leg!
anyone fancy a drinkie, my bar is open
Lovely Miss Match: Hope you got a break from here today, as i did.
Watched the football on the big screen in the sports bar , had a few southern comforts and
am now back in my hacienda. Safe and sound with my shutters down…..welllll ;)…… i can always open them ..
January 12th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Try:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/31262/Have-they-lost-our-sympathy-
January 12th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
oh my god you guys!!!!
its very very long - too long for me to type and i do not know how to add alink…..
go to MIRROR FORUM - they have a seperate thread on it….it is a long article written by Anna Pukas in the Daily Express….it is an amazing OBJECTIVE view and takes into account masses of what everyone on here and other forums have discussed…including the ‘anti’s’
in my experience of the past eight months…this is the FIRST TIME i have read anything like it!!
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Noted your comments, eating shortly then shall go and look
January 12th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
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Miss Match,
Texel and Vlieland are [small?] islands in the north of The Netherlands. It seems to be beautiful over there. It’s only a few [2?] hundred km’s away. I’m Dutch, never visited them. Italy for instance is much more km’s and I’ve been there [several times, love the country].
So I should be ashamed not to “know” my own country.
I love it though when Americans think e.g. Utrecht is a suburb of Amsterdam [distance appr. 50 km]
And I’m not going to make a “cartwheel” either, I’ll watch from a far and safe distance
January 12th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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Thorn Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Red Rooster
530.
I haven’t read anywhere that the McCann’s had been found guilty of anything….unless you can provide a link that says otherwise.
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you really are a baffoon
January 12th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Isn’t wine brilliant.
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Mods and Admin
have a really nice chianti, bought for Xmas, my tipple for this evening, so should be quite mellow later, or nod off…..
January 12th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Anna
The only stuff I’ve seen in the Express is yesterday’s article; I only look at it online.
Can you tell us what it’s about, please?
January 12th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
624 - Anna: It has been cartwheels, shutters, (with shutter experiments from Irish girl in Spain and me), and ironing on here today. Did we miss something?
January 12th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Gloria - “Less of a clunk, more a sort of popping noise …”
Ahhhhhh, completely understand the reluctance to perform an Olga Korbut type trick if that happens!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
i dont understand…have just spent an hour reading through all pages…has NO ONE has seen middle double page spread in the daily express today?????!!!!!
for the first time, the media is QUESTIONING…..and QUOTING POSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Surely this is a first…and no one is posting about it????????
January 12th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
It is still a quiet day and we wait with mounting nausea for the Sunday tab’s “revelations” and wondering for the umpteenth time when the blasted re-interviews will take place.
Meanwhile, in case readers here have not seen it, our chums on the Mirror Forums have noticed that Esther McVey has amended her blog to delete reference to you know what. Now this is cause for some idle speculation I think. Here is the link:
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=36102
January 12th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Totje - please explain - “I never visited ‘Texel” or “Vlieland” ….. shame on me.
Thank you!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
618 Miss Match
Less of a clunk, more a sort of popping noise …
January 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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chenier Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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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’ …
chenier: If I were to turn a sudden cartwheel, believe me, I might not be the only one to encounter a ’sickening breeze’! Stand well back!
January 12th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I recommend Eloisa’s post about allucinations
http://www.esplendordelaforma.blogspot.com