Madeleine McCann: Mari Luz Cortes, Maddy 2 And Gerry McCann Writes
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “POLICE PROBE MADELEINE LINK TO NEW CHILD SNATCH”
Mari Luz Cortes is missing. “Mari Luz’s heartbroken parents yesterday launched a Madeleine-style publicity campaign to help the search for their daughter. They released a video of Mari Luz dancing and opening her Christmas presents”
What has the disappearance of Mari Luz Cortes to do with Madeleine McCann?
“The McCanns and their investigators, two of whom spent the evening with the Cortes family, believe Huelva is on the route Madeleine’s abductor took to spirit the four-year-old away to North Africa”
Maybe Metodo 3 can get a new client?
Says Gerry McCann: “Hearing of the probable abduction of Mari Luz Cortes has brought many awful emotions flooding back. We hope and pray she is quickly found and returned safely…Huelva is approximately a two-hour drive from Praia da Luz and we went there in early August to publicise Madeleine’s disappearance”
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE COPS PROBE LINK TO SNATCH GIRL”
“Police in Portugal were last night investigating whether the fiend who snatched a five-year-old girl in Spain also took Madeleine McCann. Guilhermino Encarnacao, a key member of the Maddie squad, was drafted in to join the hunt for little Mari Lui Cortes” – Not to be confused with Mari Luz Cortes
Look out Spain, the Portuguese police are on the case. But help is on its way: “Last night private eyes hired by the McCanns were in the port, believing the hunt for Mari could also lead them to Madeleine”
Says a police source: “Officers are certain they know what happened to Madeleine. And, despite the situation in Huelva, they don’t believe she was abducted. They are in the loop regarding events in Spain, but mainly to offer assistance in case the culprits escaped to Portugal. Officers are certain they know what happened to Madeleine. There are key differences. Mari disappeared as she walked alone along a public street in daylight. Madeleine vanished from an apartment at night, where she slept with other children. It would have been a far more difficult and daring abduction. There is other evidence, too’’
So who has linked the cases?
There are pictures in the Star of children holding images of Mari
THE SUN: “2,000 MARCH FOR ‘MADDIE 2’ – Awful emotions flood back for Gerry”
Maddy 2? Another film. A sequel?
“Fears were growing last night that the cases were linked and serial kidnapper is on the loose in the region”. Is there any evidence for this? Can the Sun provide details of other missing children that might be linked? Or is fear all?
Says Gerry McCann: “We hope and pray that Mari is quickly found and retuned safely”
Mari has “echoes” of the case of Madeleine McCann: “NO clues, NO confirmed sightings, and NO witnesses”
Apart from those witnesses who have speaking to the press for the past eight months, DNA samples and people pointing fingers
DAILY MAIL: “McCanns’ pain over Spanish abduction”
Is the disappearance of Mari Luz Cortes really about the McCanns?
DAILY MIRROR: “WAIT FOR ME, WAIT FOR ME – Last words of Spain’s missing ‘Madeleine”
Her name is Mari Luz Cortes. Not Madeleine
A woman has seen Mari talking to two girls, aged about seven and nine. Mr Cortes is a “street trader”
THE HERALD: “Police step up hunt for missing girl”
“Spanish police yesterday stepped up their search for a five-year-old girl who went missing 120 miles from where Madeleine McCann disappeared”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Thompson calls for more regional accents on BBC”
Mark Thompson is director-general of the BBC is answering readers’ questions:
Q: Mr Thompson, an article in another newspaper reports that a former BBC news correspondent, Martin Bell, speaking at the BBC Television Centre today, accused the BBC of wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money in their coverage of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. Mr Bell was particularly scathing of the BBC’s decision to send presenter, Huw Edwards, to Portugal to anchor a news bulletin there and to pay for a helicopter to follow Kate and Gerry McCann’s car as they drove home from East Midlands airport in September. He says - “I am calling it the death of news.” He went on - “It is the stupidification of the news agenda. It is pretty obvious television news has lost its way not just with the McCann case but that has been extreme.” Were you in attendance at this debate, and, if so, how did you react to Mr Bell’s assertions?
MT: I didn’t agree with all of Martin’s comments. I thought the Madeleine McCann story was one of legitimate public interest and that, in common with the rest of UK media, we were right to cover it. I also believe that in general our coverage has been proportionate and good. In retrospect, I am not convinced that we should have anchored our news from Portugal – in that respect I agree with Martin.
NATIONAL LEDGER (USA): “Madeleine McCann and Mari Luz Cortes: Missing, Connected?”
“Is the Madeleine McCann case connected to the case of another missing girl named Mari Luz Cortes? Madeleine went missing on May 3 and has now been missing for 258 days. When she vanished she was just four days short of her fourth birthday. She vanished from the resort of Praia da Luz in the Algarve, Portugal. Now another girl is missing and the McCanns have commented on their website on the case”
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May 12th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I do hope you find little maddie and anyone else. thats hope she is ok!!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Mari Luz I pray for your safe return to your loving parents and family. Your guardian angel will watch over you. I support your parents in their campaign to find you. Some one knows were you are. If there is a person/s who read this board and knows where Mari Luz Cortes and Madeleine McCann is, please contact your local police or call someone to let them know where they are. Or leave them somewhere safe where they will be found. God Bless you both and also your parents. God Bless all missing children
January 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
olsa
January 24th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
i am sooooooooooo sorry about your little girl i wish she would come home is so sad and im upset about it to even though i dont know her but i hope and pray that she will be found same as maddie mcann to i am so sorry i feel like crying i realy hope the both of them will be found all my love kayleigh age 14 p.s hope madleine and mari get found soon love you lots and lots your in my prays so is madleine amd mari goodbye xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxall my love kayleigh miles xxxxxxxxxxxxx i am from liverpool im age 14 sorry about the girls hope they get found xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
January 18th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
1076 Sledgehammer Says: January 18th, 2008 at 6:34 am
I do like the barmy brigades stance on the mystical letters, seems like we have come full circle again, the idea is for the barmy brigade to prove their case, normal people will let the law do that if required, gone fishing.
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I quite like the vision of you sitting on your butt in the wind and the driving rain, fishing.
However, since there is no evidence to support your ludicrous and hurtful allegation that you do indeed go fishing, I shall avoid the temptation to become incandescent with fury at your supposition. 
January 18th, 2008 at 11:34 am
January 18th, 2008 at 6:34 am
I do like the barmy brigades stance on the mystical letters, seems like we have come full circle again, the idea is for the barmy brigade to prove their case, normal people will let the law do that if required, gone fishing.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:34 am
1068
firestar Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 1:19 am
actually, it doesn’t say they haven’t made an INformal request either.
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I guess it’s bogged down in red tape. Typical bureaucracy–but I feel bad for the PJ.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:38 am
FLASHBACK…
“CTV Newsnet (Canada): Paula Todd on the odds of a parental confession”
http://tinyurl.com/3a8un9
you have to hear it through to the end!
January 18th, 2008 at 1:44 am
1054
Totje
Can’t be (the guy) in his 20 ??
Blond
January 18th, 2008 at 1:38 am
But i laugh a lot with the guys from M F
Some are so mad
January 18th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Thursay 20th November 2056
PJ ARRIVE IN UK TO QUESTION CADAVERS
:lol:
January 18th, 2008 at 1:23 am
1067
firestar
As far as i know Jaqui as the letters ,Eurojust is trying to “help” ,but i’m afraid that Mr. Gordon doesn’t want by know ,the mccs to be Quiz
He had asked Portugal ,to wait,because he was having problems with his image
I was told that he tried to detached himselfe from this case ,but for “unknown” reasons he can’t.
Hows Mr. G.B. popularity right now ??
January 18th, 2008 at 1:19 am
actually, it doesn’t say they haven’t made an INformal request either.
January 18th, 2008 at 1:17 am
1065
we have been asked by the Home Office to give their response to this thread, which follows:
“It is not our usual policy to comment on individual cases, however the Home Office has not received a formal request for Mutual Legal Assistance concerning the McCann investigation. It is not appropriate to comment further.”[/quote]
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all this is saying is that they’re not using the MLA scheme.
doesn’t say eurojust don’t have the letters.
January 18th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Poor litle girl
Just ,forgetted and used
January 18th, 2008 at 1:15 am
1064
firestar
MLA ??
Didn’t hear that
January 18th, 2008 at 1:13 am
re mirror forum bollocks
Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) is the formal way in which countries request and provide assistance in obtaining evidence located in one country to assist in criminal investigations or proceedings in another country.
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as far as i was aware, MLA doesn’t come into it, i think this is just civil servant talk.
eurojust are supposed to be helping, i think because the MLA stuff wasn’t happening.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:53 am
brandon more than here but ill make sure its not team mccann goodnite
January 18th, 2008 at 12:52 am
1058
brandon flours,
I knew, just teasing. Didn’t you notice sometimes I’m a teaser?
AND never ever trust A doctor! If you feel something is wrong, and the doctor says don’t worry, DO worry and get a second opinion, just to be sure. Trust me, I’ve been there…
January 18th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Night everyone - again
Catkidd
I hope you’re better soon. Lots of love
January 18th, 2008 at 12:49 am
shit nearly one
nite nite allxxxxxx
Friday tomorrow!!! today?
bye!!!:)
:)
January 18th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Sorry BF,
No pro or anti posts. Just decided to call in early [errm early?]. Need my beauty sleep and could loose a few pounds, however the last is more difficult
Night all.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:48 am
totje
they were for you
January 18th, 2008 at 12:47 am
cattkid
You sound mighty fine to me.
do you still trust uk doctors?
January 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
karen
you are right
I’m still a horny teenager ready to pluck!!!!!!!!!!! cough
lone pigeon is a lucky man!!!!
go to bed sweetie
January 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
no ireland have most motion back but brain gets addled alot.but its only time before major one.will be traveling soon to england well after may to see dr outside this country
January 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
1052
brandon flours,
Now what are you trying to tell me?
Should I post the doggy tricks link?
Should I do a “pro-post” or an “anti-post”?
Or should I call my [male] single friend? He’s no blonde and has no kids [as far as we know] and he’s 40
January 18th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Brandon
It is so not that enviable.
But thanks. And have fun. Age is all in the mind, just like Chastity (according to Saint Augustine
)
x
January 18th, 2008 at 12:41 am
totje XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
January 18th, 2008 at 12:40 am
fair
nite nite x