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 13th, 2008 at 12:52 am
880 Totje Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:38 am
872
Peter O,
In fact I don’t think he’s stupid. He’s no fool, so he won’t risk it to be the “risée” Edit….
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Excuse my ignorance, can you explain “risée”
And no, I don’t think he’s stupid either, far from it.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:50 am
884 Totje Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:45 am
875 Peter O
re Well, certainly nothing they want discussed, in my opinion
Or may be they want, but won’t or aren’t allowed to?
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Well, possibly… However, I’d quite like to know what they’ve been paying M3 for? I’d quite like to explore M3’s various assurances that they knew where Madeleine was, who had her and her being home in time for Christmas. I’d quite like to know about the “hole” in the Limited Company accounts colloquially known as “The Fund”. I’d quite like someone to decipher some of the “spin” from the various stories emanating from the likes of Clarence, source close to the family, sources close to the McCann’s legal team, etc.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:46 am
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Peter O,
It seems that was merely a link to a poll in the early days. It’s discussed at the MF.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:45 am
875
Peter O
re Well, certainly nothing they want discussed, in my opinion
Or may be they want, but won’t or aren’t allowed to?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:43 am
877 Wanderer Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:35 am
896
But it isn’t odd, Peter? Who will believe this couple who barely admit their own mistakes, should then accuse the whole of Europe being to blame, and then, going on to describe how those changes should be met (as they see fit).
I believe systems need to be better in all countries, as child abduction is something that rattles everyone to some degree. But, for people who still remain suspects and who haven’t cooperated, rather hired a spokesperson and a lawyer; I don’t believe they are the couple to push this though.Edit…
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Sorry, if I wasn’t clear…
I find the idea that the McCann’s or anyone associated with them should speak on any matters related to child welfare utterly reprehensible, whilst there is an ongoing criminal investigating into Madeleine’s disappearance.
And yes, you’re quite correct. They can’t admit their mistake(s), but appear to be prepared to seize every opportunity offered to blame every one else for the predicament they find themselves in.
I also agree that anything that can be done to improve the chances of finding missing children, across Europe/EU, can only be a good thing.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Tomorrow is another day.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Meeji,
Thanks for sharing that story. I wish I could express myself like you.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:38 am
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Peter O,
In fact I don’t think he’s stupid. He’s no fool, so he won’t risk it to be the “risée” when this whole drama ends [if ever]. The thing that’s bugging me is that I can’t make any sense of a lot that is written and done.
I like his pink shirts though
January 13th, 2008 at 12:37 am
874 noseycow Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am
ester mcvey (sorry can’t spell too late)
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Ahh, from her blog…. The findmadeleine link has gone?
Had a quick scan of some stuff on the Mirror forum re this subject earlier.. The “amicable split/parting” whilst uncommented by Esther, does seem to be full, final and no going back.
I suppose Clarence would be upset if we read anything into the fact that a busy lady likes Esther hasn’t had time to comment upon her reasons for moving on, but found just enough time to erase any mention of the Madeleine campaign from her blog.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Night, noseycow.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:35 am
896
But it isn’t odd, Peter? Who will believe this couple who barely admit their own mistakes, should then accuse the whole of Europe being to blame, and then, going on to describe how those changes should be met (as they see fit).
I believe systems need to be better in all countries, as child abduction is something that rattles everyone to some degree. But, for people who still remain suspects and who haven’t cooperated, rather hired a spokesperson and a lawyer; I don’t believe they are the couple to push this though. Perhaps a collective effort, of the families over the years who have faced and had to deal with child abductors, would be better. It would also share the spotlight and dare I say, the plight.
(sorry, I imagine you don’t believe the McCanns way of going about it is the best, no matter your opinion on the case, I was just generally responding to your comment)
January 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Nite nite Noseycow
January 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
870 Totje Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:28 am
866 Stickler,
You left an imortant part out:
“At no point have we considered a movie about Madeleine’s disappearance. Nor would we sanction another documentary purely about Madeleine’s abduction, as there is no new information since the Panorama programme aired
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Well, certainly nothing they want discussed, in my opinion.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am
ester mcvey (sorry can’t spell too late)
January 13th, 2008 at 12:31 am
off to bed now - was planning on sweet dreams - oh well
good night all
January 13th, 2008 at 12:31 am
868 noseycow Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 am
peter o / meejician 867
and is it significant that the link to the (unobtainable) site has been removed from her blog site?
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Sorry, whose blog site?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 am
864 Totje Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 am
858
Peter O,
I bet you live closer to him than I do. So go over and pinch his nose, he might wake up?
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Hell no! They’ve made us wait…….
January 13th, 2008 at 12:28 am
866
Stickler,
You left an imortant part out:
“At no point have we considered a movie about Madeleine’s disappearance. Nor would we sanction another documentary purely about Madeleine’s abduction, as there is no new information since the Panorama programme aired
January 13th, 2008 at 12:28 am
866 Stickler Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Edit..
“Clearly Europe has a lot to learn from the US and there has to be change in practice and legislation about how missing children are investigated. We will continue to campaign to effect change in Europe, in the hope that it will become a safer place for our children”…
Pass me the sick bag quickly.
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Ahh, but the really clever line is the one just preceding the Clearly Europe has a lot to learn from the US ….. one. Which reads:
We would consider a programme that would treat the serious issues we have faced since Madeleine’s disappearance.
I think the public reaction about Madeleine The Movie sent a very clear signal to the McCann’s, so doing the Movie or another Panorama style documentary is probably off the scene just for now.
However, if they did something about the lack of Amber Alert, child abduction legislation, European wide support program for missing children etc, it would allow them to get their mugs in the media again in a slightly more positive way whilst also once again casting doubt on the effectiveness of the PJ’s search for the allegedly abducted Madeleine, in my opinion.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 am
peter o / meejician 867
and is it significant that the link to the (unobtainable) site has been removed from her blog site?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Meejician
I hope you don’t mind my asking. Is there any possibility that you would know the source of the Madeleine the Movie story this week? I understand if you prefer not to answer.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Hang on a minute.
“At no point have we considered a movie about Madeleine’s disappearance. Nor would we sanction another documentary purely about Madeleine’s abduction”.
I thought the “marketing ploy” involved keeping the “abducted” child story in the public’s pace. So why not sanction as many “documentaries” (oh yeah) about the “abduction” (sic) as possible, plus repeat showings?
And as for:
“Clearly Europe has a lot to learn from the US and there has to be change in practice and legislation about how missing children are investigated. We will continue to campaign to effect change in Europe, in the hope that it will become a safer place for our children”…
Pass me the sick bag quickly.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:16 am
862 Meejician Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:13 am
828 noseycow Says:January 12th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
821 - christine - interesting about the butterfly - there appearence is often associated with ‘those who have passed over’ but usually in a reassuring way. so its odd it landed on kate - unless it was actually g ‘wot done it’
The butterfly landed on kate twice during their audience with the pope btw.
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Edit…
During the crematorium ceremony/funeral a butterfly flew into the chapel. Odd for November. It attacked the sister. Twice. Then settled gently on the window with its wings outspread.
But I looked at my friend’s bloke, and we both knew what the butterfly was all about, and we both said hello and goodbye to it.
She was an exceptional woman.
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It’s not my thing, but sometimes wonderful and inexplicable things happen. Thank you for sharing.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 am
858
Peter O,
I bet you live closer to him than I do. So go over and pinch his nose, he might wake up?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:14 am
857
noseycow,
I’m soooooo solly.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:13 am
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828
noseycow Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
821 - christine - interesting about the butterfly - there appearence is often associated with ‘those who have passed over’ but usually in a reassuring way. so its odd it landed on kate - unless it was actually g ‘wot done it’
The butterfly landed on kate twice during their audience with the pope btw.
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Just popped in for a mo before bed. Re the butterfly - I had a wonderful friend. She had a strawberry naevus on her brain, had it operated on and lived. But she was pretty fragile and had bad epileptic seizures. One night four years ago her foul sister took her out, got her well drunk, then dropped her off at her house, and drove off, before seeing her to bed with her medication etc. The next morning my friend was found dead. She’d managed to get half undressed, must have felt a seizure coming on, lay on the sofa, and that’s where she was. It was November.
During the crematorium ceremony/funeral a butterfly flew into the chapel. Odd for November. It attacked the sister. Twice. Then settled gently on the window with its wings outspread.
But I looked at my friend’s bloke, and we both knew what the butterfly was all about, and we both said hello and goodbye to it.
She was an exceptional woman.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:13 am
856 veritablequandary Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Noseycow,
Try a different browser . . . firefox rather than internet explorer, for example
” the site still isn’t working for me btw. I tried typing in the URL, etc. “
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Neither IE7 nor FireFox work for me.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Can’t find anything on the www find madeleine dot com site about the directors of the fund resigning. And btw the “news” articles are only updated until oktober 15th.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 am
856
Veritablequandary, thanks for the advice. I’d try but I’ve never found his blogs enthralling. I should get firefox anyway though…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am
849 Totje Says: January 13th, 2008 at 12:01 am
843
Peter O,
The elimination?????
I wonder whether CM is misquoted or he made a slip of the tongue?
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Freudian slip? Whishing he could wake up from this nightmare?