Madeleine McCann: The Gardener Questioned, Marcos Correia Cries Rape And Kelsey Lynn Kudla Says
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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 9:34 am
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Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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Yes indeed; we have lights in the kitchen.
I haven’t got as far as the kitchen, yet…
I wonder whether Liddle read the Express thing?
And the Indie?
January 13th, 2008 at 9:31 am
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JuneJohnson Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:26 am
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Please tell me it came in a bottle.
If you actually made it for yourself I think I’ll slash my wrists…
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PUT THAT KNIFE AWAY!!
carton to be really precise - the Innocent one. Do have a wotsit to make them , but not such a range of fruit available and ripe enough either
January 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am
969 chenier Says: January 13th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Good morning, Harlow?
Rod Liddle at last seems to be seeing the light, if not the sickening breeze:
‘Everything can be appropriated for entertainment, and Madeleine has somehow become the subject of an entire industry. I hope it’s because her mum and dad think it will improve the chances of finding her, as they continually insist. I hope so, at least.’
970 chenier Says: January 13th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Ok, here in the City it’s deeply gloomy and overcast; I’m typing this by the wavering light of the laptop screen…
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Have you not reconnected the lights in the kitchen yet?
Re Ron Liddle – It is good to see a change in emphasis on the mainstream media even if it is almost imperceptible in some cases.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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Julie Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:24 am
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I quoted a chunk about this case a couple of days back, noting that there were similarities with Madeleine insofar as the parents didn’t report her missing, refused to talk to the police except via their lawyers and then claimed that the police were incompetent because they failed to prevent their daughter’s murder, notwithstanding the fact that the parents had claimed initially that there was nothing to worry about…
January 13th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I would shrivel up and die in wet and miserable … I’m a sun baby
January 13th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Actually glad its January, its like a summers day out there, wet and miserable.
Am in here breakfasting on a cocoanut banana and pineapple smoothie….
January 13th, 2008 at 9:25 am
And the Indie is showing a glimmer of light:
‘After seven years on the run, he was traced by Metodo 3 using tip-offs and financial records.
But a four-year-old child has no bank accounts or credit cards. Madeleine Inc bring benefits to some, but not, so far, to the girl herself or her distraught parents.’
Though it loses points for the ‘distraught’…
January 13th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I’m going to tread on ground that possibly shouldn’t be tread on, but I’ll do so very lightly (M&A .. if you feel that this post will be offensive to ANYONE, then please feel free to remove).
I find it very, very sad that young girls who are of certain religions (that believe in arranged marriages), who are brought up in the Western culture, are then still expected to fall in line with an arranged marriage. It must be terribly difficult for these young ladies, who wish to further a career, to be expected to put all of this on hold, get married to a stranger, and become a wife for the rest of their lives (probably to someone they don’t even have feelings for). My heart genuinly goes out to all of these young ladies.
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Mods and Admin
Julie, its a complete culture clash for the younger generation. Something the older generation must sort out as part of their own family responsibility as opposed to ‘Faith’ or Tradition.Adherence to old ways may give the elders some sense of security , but they should expect some changes from the younger generation as they take up the reins of their lives
January 13th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Ok, here in the City it’s deeply gloomy and overcast; I’m typing this by the wavering light of the laptop screen…
January 13th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Good morning, Harlow?
Rod Liddle at last seems to be seeing the light, if not the sickening breeze:
‘Everything can be appropriated for entertainment, and Madeleine has somehow become the subject of an entire industry. I hope it’s because her mum and dad think it will improve the chances of finding her, as they continually insist. I hope so, at least.’
January 13th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Aw shame Duncan, I have the utmost sympathies
It’s so hot here this morning, don’t know if it’s wise to venture out into the garden! It’s far cooler inside with the fans blowing.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Last Updated: 2:47am GMT 13/01/2008
A Muslim girl who had refused her family’s wish to have an arranged marriage was murdered, a coroner ruled yesterday.
Shafilea Ahmed was introduced to a potential husband by her parents, but refused to go ahead with any wedding and drank bleach in protest, the inquest into her death heard.
Shafilea Ahmed:murdered when she refused an arranged marriage
The 17-year-old, who claimed she had been abused by her mother and father, then disappeared. Five months later her decomposing body was found by a river.
There is no suggestion that any of her family were involved in her death. However, in an unusual move, Ian Smith, the east and south Cumbria coroner, told the inquest in Kendal yesterday: “Shafilea was the victim of a very vile murder.”
She had “not had justice”, he added. Mr Smith, who recorded a verdict of unlawful killing, said: “Her ambition was to live her own life in her own way. To study, to follow a career in the law and to do what she wanted to do.
“These are just basic fundamental rights and they were denied to her. I sincerely hope in the future, inquiries will be carried out by the police and they will one day discover who did it.” Mr Smith questioned the integrity of the evidence given by Miss Ahmed’s grandfather, Mian Khan, and asked whether he was “covering up” something “sinister to protect his family”.
Police later said that they did not believe Mr Khan was Shafilea’s grandfather. Supt Geraint Jones, the senior investigating officer, said: “From our inquiries we’re able to establish a family tree that isn’t quite accurate. I believe Mian Khan is her uncle.”
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Mr Smith also attacked Shafilea’s mother for accusing the police of not doing enough to find her daughter. “It must be remarked that the disappearance of Shafilea was reported to the police by Joanne Code (a former school teacher), not by the family,” he said.
“I think the police had put thousands and thousands of hours into this inquiry and I think they’ve not always had the total co-operation from the wider family that they might have had.”
The inquest heard that Miss Ahmed, the eldest of five children, suffered years of domestic abuse at the hands of her parents, Iftikhar and Farzana, and was frightened at the prospect of being forced into an arranged marriage.
She was left torn between two cultures - although she wore western clothes, had a boyfriend and wanted to be a solicitor, she also loved and respected her family. In January 2003, she ran away from home after being told that she was being taken to Pakistan to meet a prospective husband.
She was coaxed back on the promise she would not have to go, but the trip went ahead and she was introduced to a suitor. She returned in May, refusing to take part in any wedding and four months later disappeared from her home in Warrington, Cheshire. Her body was found washed up on a riverbank at Sedgwick, near Kendal, in February 2004. It is believed that she had been strangled or smothered.
Her parents were arrested on suspicion of kidnap, and other members of her family were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. All were released without charge and have denied any involvement in Miss Ahmed’s death. Mr Smith said that the concept of an arranged marriage was central to the circumstances leading up to her death.
“She did not want to be married, full stop, at this point,” he said. “She wanted to forge ahead with a career, she did not want to stop her studies and she did not want to live abroad. Rightly or wrongly, she feared all these things might happen.”
Cheshire police, who accused the family of refusing to co-operate early in the murder investigation, said central to their inquiry was her home life and the question of the arranged marriage.
Supt Jones said that the investigation would continue until someone was brought to justice. After the hearing, Shafilea’s parents said that they will challenge the coroner’s verdict.
Their solicitor, Nadeem Ullah, said: “The Ahmeds disagree with the decision of the coroner’s court and they are currently receiving advice regards appealing the decision of the coroner by judicial review.”
Isn’t British justice very strange.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:10 am
964 Julie
‘….. glorious Sunday morning’
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Maybe where you are.
It’s peeing down here in Brum!
January 13th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Seeing that no-one’s awake on this glorious Sunday morning, I’ll have a quick chat to myself
(Only kidding, just popped in quickly before I go out into the garden). I shall leave you with these thoughts :
Read this :
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3333778.ece
Note in this article :
“Metodo has never recovered from the extraordinary swaggering comments of its director, Francisco Marco, when he boasted in December that not only did they know who abducted Madeleine, but that she could, in that most ill-fated of phrases, “be home by Christmas”.
Then, note my reply received from the Fund’s solicitors (received yestereday) :
“Dear Madam
Madeleine’s Fund – Leaving no Stone Unturned Limited
We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 23 December 2007 which was also sent to the auditors of Madeleine’s Fund, Haysmacintyre. We are also replying on behalf of Haysmacintyre.
We are advised by our client that reports in the media purporting to be from the investigators, which made claims as to when Madeleine would be found are inaccurate and misrepresentations of their views.
Our client has every confidence in the investigators who continue the search for Madeleine.
Yours faithfully
Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP”
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Hmmmm ….. who to believe, who to believe ……. !!
January 13th, 2008 at 6:57 am
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January 13th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Good night/good morning, Duncan. Think I’ll get some sleep. Take care.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Know the feeling. That litter of puppies my dogs had 10 weeks ago? Three are gone and the two left at 10 weeks at now 20 lbs. a piece!
January 13th, 2008 at 6:43 am
956-Cheryl
3 dogs start doing wolf imitations and threatening to wreck the place if I don’t get up early and let them run round the park.
P.S. have sent Daisy your aol address
January 13th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Duncan - well go back for a few more minutes of shut eye and I’ll get off and not nag you. Will you do me a favour - please ask June to give Daisy my aol email address.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Everyone was wondering where Soothsayer was today. You all put him in the freezer to cool off and forget about him?
January 13th, 2008 at 6:38 am
I have to leave the PC for a while. Washing machine is calling me! You have a good night, Cheryl. Talk to you soon.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Hey Duncan - want a glass of wine with us? How do you always get stuck with the midnight shift? Draw straws?
January 13th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Daisy, I real faith in the new investigator who took over the case. He even looked top professional. I think he is taking his sweet old time diligently checking out everything and everyone. I don’t believe a word anymore of what I read in the papers over there with supposed leaks, etc. because no way he is going to leak anything or permit his staff to.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Cheryl/Daisy
Admin/Mods never sleep!
(We may just ‘rest our eyes’ for a moment or two)
January 13th, 2008 at 6:35 am
January 13th, 2008 at 6:31 am
What? Dare they sleep at 5:30 a.m. and we are up? Heaven only knows what we could post on here and no red or yellow cards flying our way!
January 13th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Thanks Cheryl. I don’t think anybody is at Mods and Admin at the moment. They could be all sleeping. I they send it to me, I will write back.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:28 am
I think she is not too far from a breakdown by looking at her pics and what I read of her staying in the house, etc. I have no real opinions on him except I think there is an arrogant air about him and I can’t stand arrogant men so I can’t be unbiased in what I’d say.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Daisy, I don’t know who our ‘hall monitor’ is tonight but both June and AGW have my aol email address. They are free to give it to you, if they are reading this exchange, and you can contact me.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:24 am
I think the fact that she did apparently not participate in the Vanity Fair interview speaks a lot. She is probably sick of the publicity (as she stated that she is not a person who feels comfortable talking in public). I wouldn’t be surprised if she has some sort of breakdown, as no matter how strong you are, it comes a point when one cannot cope anymore. I feel a lot that has been said about her is unjust. We don’t know her and we don’t really know what happened to little Maddie. I am more inclined to think that Gerry is the commanding force behind all this and she is under his thumb, in my opinion.