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 10:19 am
55 noseycow:
But don’t you think that it’s a difference if a politician says something before an election such as “no more taxes for the time being.” and then raises taxes after an election - in which case one might agree that he was deceiving us.
Or if a father who has no personal experience in having his children abducted changes his mind about how he could tackle it best?
January 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
70 Rosemary
Thanks for posting that link.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
64
chenier (and noseycow)
A tree unobserved doesnt make a noise. The vibrations resulting from the trees collapse doesnt cause an observers eardrums to vibrate in response, hence no noise!
Anyway, back to ‘fact’.
The existence of facts in law.
Evidence is the legal version of ‘fact’ in a court of law. Some evidence is not admissable, not because it doesnt exist, but because it is perhaps inadmissable through some legal technicality (the timing of its collection, perhaps). So althoug it might be ‘fact’ - as far as the court is concerned it does not exist.
It is a fact that red is red and blue is blue. But is this a fact to the colour blind?
What I perceive as the truth, as the facts, may differ to that which you preceive as the truth, as the facts.
Its a fact and its undeniable, you might say, I deny it - I might say. It is therefore not a fact to me! Is it a fact that man walked on the moon? I believe it to be so. Others deny it. Hence the legal terms ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ and ‘on the balance of probabilities’.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Gloria - Oh I loved Jessies diets! Do you remember the one that went, ‘ This week, I ‘ave been mostly ‘bullimic’!!!’
January 12th, 2008 at 10:16 am
71 gloria - lol
I need the sustance - worked three 13 shifts over the last few days got back at 9pm last night - in time to fall asleep on the sofa! so have to tackle the laundrey and odd socks this morning
that is if i can tear myself away from anorak for any length of time ..
January 12th, 2008 at 10:15 am
65 Ian - Spot on! I, too, believe they are in a corner.
Regarding the PJ’s - if they believe that Madeleine was truly snatched out of her bed, I do not understand why they did not have the twins medically checked, if only for peace of mind, and their PJ’s taken for forensic evidence.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
70 - Rosemary - that is the funniest statement ever don’t you think - No VALUABLES taken.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
68 noseycow
Oooh! That sounds like a TOP brekkie!
BTW, I now refer to what used to be my waistline as ‘The girth of Venus’!
January 12th, 2008 at 10:11 am
The door:
“The front door was open, the window had been tampered with, the shutters had been jemmied open and Madeleine was missing,” she said. “Nothing had been touched in the apartment, no valuables taken, no passports. They think someone must have come in the window and gone out the door with her.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1750081.ece
5th May dateline.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:11 am
54 Ian Says:
“50 Ferdinand
Ah! Right. Not really that bad a change then, after all, he always says, ‘Im not going to comment on the wild speculation’ and then goes on to comment on the ‘wild specualtion’ (as does Clarence)!”
Actually, the exact wording was “…no further statements for the time being.” This sounds rather political, like “We plan no higher taxes for the time being.”
January 12th, 2008 at 10:10 am
60 - gloria sounds great - but darling Mr Noseycow is about to cook a delicious fried egg and bacon butty using some of that lovely fresh crusty bread. yum, served with ketchup and a large mug of steaming tea.
He doesn’t seem to mind about the effect on my waistline
bless.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am
61 Miss Match
Jessie’s diets …
“This week I will be mostly eating Marmite.”
January 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am
63
Gloria Smudd Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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Eek.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am
52 Miss Match
Pyjamas - I have no idea.
Regarding the other part of your post. If they thought the ‘errors’ they made in child care were in fact the cause of the ‘abduction’ and it was in fact an abduction, their frustration at investigating shutters and themselves would be understandable (I dont mean acceptable!). This would explain their constant assertion that it was an abduction, just search for Maddie. They might know 100% that the escape route was the unlocked car park side door and that no forensics trails are likely to exist.
They are trapped between a rock and a hard place. They need to defend against a charge of neglect and so need to ensure that their checks were regularly scheduled and rigidly applied and that the overall security of the children was good (in temrs of risks of accident etc). On the other hand, the regular schedule must also help the claim that the abductor had a sound timeline to take advantage of the tiny 5 minute window of opportunity.
Its a difficult balance isnt it.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
56
Ian Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am
51 chenier
Everyones perception is their reality. If they perceive soemthing as a fact, then to them, it is a fact.
So actually, everyone is entitled to align themselves with that which they perceive as a fact.
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Er, no.
There are such things as facts; they can be difficult to identify but they are still facts.
Unless, of course, you happen to be George Bush…
January 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
62 chenier
Just had mine for breakfast. I might have some more later. I might have it again for my tea.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:04 am
53
Gloria Smudd Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 9:52 am
morning chenier. Marmite?
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At breakfast?
Or, for that matter, any other time?
January 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Aren’t shutters brilliant! (used to love the Fast show)
January 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am
57 noseycow
Have a couple of slices of toast and Marmite - excellent brain food!
January 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am
57 - obviousley i meant a tree FALLING
I told you my brains not coping this morning..
January 12th, 2008 at 10:01 am
57 noseycow - LOL
January 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Ian / chenier - its saturday morning and my poor brain can’t cope with a discussion about whether a tree, unobserved, actually makes a noise or not..
January 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am
51 chenier
Everyones perception is their reality. If they perceive soemthing as a fact, then to them, it is a fact.
So actually, everyone is entitled to align themselves with that which they perceive as a fact.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:55 am
47 - ferdinand - it was the first occasion that they did not exactly tell the truth - for reasons we will disagree about!
the most interesting one is an interveiw approx 2 weeks after the event when they were asked whether someone had been watching them during their holiday and kate replied - that having thought about it she was sure no one had been watching them.
However having thought about it further - she is now sure that someone was watching them - even taking notes.
Now obviousley she has ‘changed her mind’ but i believe that she has done so because of how the story looks and not because she is actually sure that a dastardley creepy monster type (with physical deformaties or course) was observing and noteing their every move.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:54 am
50 Ferdinand
Ah! Right. Not really that bad a change then, after all, he always says, ‘Im not going to comment on the wild speculation’ and then goes on to comment on the ‘wild specualtion’ (as does Clarence)!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:52 am
morning chenier. Marmite?
January 12th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Ian, in the early days, I was a fence sitter and thought that possibly the lies about the checks and shutters was simply to cover the fact that they were too bone idle to check their children as often as they stated and to hide the fact that the patio doors had been left open because it was quicker for the McCanns to enter the apartment that way than to use the other door. It rules them out as parents of the year which would not be good for their image and lessens the sympathy for them.
However, as someone pointed out yesterday, I think, it shows that they really did not give a stuff about Madeleine if they lied about timings and doors as it really screws up the investigation. To claim that someone entered by the shutters, when they obviously did not, really wastes time in collecting forensic evidence. When child goes missing, the immediate priority is to try and just work out how the child was taken and not to lie and cover up to save your own skin.
Another point on a different subject - were the twins PJ’s taken for forensic examination?
January 12th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Morning all!
‘People are fully entitled to their own opinions but they are not entitled to their own set of facts.’
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
January 12th, 2008 at 9:51 am
49 Ian Says:
“Ferdinand
Who changed their minds about what?”
Gerry in an early public statement something like “This will be our last public statement.”
:-) 
January 12th, 2008 at 9:48 am
47
Ferdinand
Who changed their minds about what?