Madeleine McCann: The Witnesses See, A Sketch And Killer Bob
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine: Four witnesses say they saw suspect pictured in new poster campaign”
“Four key witnesses in the Madeleine McCann investigation could have seen the man shown in a new sketch of a potential suspect, it emerged yesterday”
But there were no witnesses? And “could” and “potential” in one line…
“But four witnesses may have seen the unidentified man - first on the night the three-year-old went missing, then later with named suspect Robert Murat, and finally in Morocco”
“Jane Tanner, who told police she saw a man carrying a child away from the McCanns’ apartment, said she was “80 per cent sure” he was the one depicted in the artist’s impression”
“Isabel Gonzalez, who said she saw Madeleine with a Berber woman in Morocco, said the sketch looked ‘very similar’ to a man she saw immediately after the sighting”
Amanda Mills, 34, from Basildon, Essex, claimed to have spotted a man trying to break into a bedroom window at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz a week before Madeleine disappeared from the complex.
“Last night she said there are “strong similarities” between the man she saw and the new sketch.
“Nanny Charlotte Pennington’s description of a person she saw with Mr Murat also matches the man shown in the artist’s impression”
DAILY EXPRESS: “New manhunt ‘another diversion by McCanns’”
One Portuguese policeman “stormed”: “The purpose of this exercise by the McCanns is the same as always. It’s another diversionary tactic”
DAILY STAR: “YOU WON’T THROW US OFF THE SCENT”
“Cops blast Maddie sketch as McCann tactic”
DAILY MIRROR: “Madeleine witnesses: This is him”
Witnesses says the sketch cold be a picture of the man they saw. Or it could not be
DEFAMER: Or does the new sketch of the man suspected of snatching young Madeleine McCann look a lot like Killer Bob?
NEW YORK POST: “SKETCHY SUSPECT IN MADDIE MYSTERY”
A picture of the man and he caption: “WANTED – SOUGHT IN KID SWIPE”
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January 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
noseycow 598- nice tactic a strike, achieves two objectives 1-cheeses the auld man off 2- frees up your time for Anorak. Wish I had the bottle considering I have to even do the oil change, plug change etc on the car aswell as chief cook , bottle washer, gardener and DIYer!!!! Since coming back to Anorak after my addiction programme failed things are slipping and Mr Matty aka Sid The Sexist will start to notice. Used a couple of excuses ie migraine etc for lack of hearty meals, tidy house, the usual womens run of the mill excuses for not having sex but am running out
. Any suggegstions for excuses why I have sat on my derrier all day on Anorak would be appreciated….. So TTFN have fun all hopefully BBL.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
matt 664 - No its not - I can tell when someone only wants me for one thing !!! LMAO
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
sorry simon - are we boring you?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
660…noseycow
You want to get it fixed then.
Is obviously malfunctioning.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Shock!
Horror!
The Lincolnshire Police Force slags off the McCanns:
‘But Lincolnshire Police spokesman Dick Holmes warned: “The last thing we want is people thinking that they can use something like this as a substitute because there is no substitute for a parent.”
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156582&command=displayContent&sourceNode=156408&contentPK=19550788&folderPk=87028&pNodeId=156139
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
zzzzzzzzz….
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
655…noseycow
Oh yes….has always been liable to her little outbursts.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
650 soothsayer said, “the pj got jacko cept the bollox you lot like to make up…”
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You, the McCanns, and the Tapas 9 only wish that were true. Obviously the Portuguese Prosecutor believes they have a case worthy of continuing an investigation and allowing the re-interviewing of the friends of the McCanns.
Why do you think the Home Office in the UK is putting a stick in the wheel to hold things up?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
matt - potentially even better - however my inner ‘bullshit’ buzzer is sounding
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
657…Peter O
In a word….No.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
653…Lone Pigeon
It’s only Sledgie…missed taking his medication again.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
518 val Says: January 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Edit….
493 Peter O Thanks, as you can see I”ve been well informed. Scared to say this, but why
if her evidence has been discounted are the PJ flying her to Portugal, is it to
show their diligence to the McCanns in light of the proposed visit to question
them do you think?
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Who says it’s the PJ who are flying here there? Have the PJ actually said anything about this?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
650
soothsayer Says:
All your predictions come true did they?
Erm……nope…don’t think so.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Purely hypothetical and no names mentioned, I am simply relating a fairy story told to me by a friend …..
There was once a government in a country that shall go unnamed with the problem of sourcing electricity for future generations. There were many alternatives tio choose from, but considering all of these and considering powerful interests from the military (including a new born threat from Russia and the possibility of a future arms race) they decided on nuclear power. This would be a 100% commitment so no other room for alternatives and this would mean that all future electricity would be provided and part of the waste could be used to develop more powerful weapons (that could then be sold in the arms race). There was also the added benefit that future governments would have to remain in the ‘program’.
The only fly in the ointment of this plan was that in areas that had already had nuclear power stations there were higher incidences of cancer and local people (mostly) were against them (as well as most other people). To counteract this the government invented an ‘independent’ committee to ‘inquire’ scientifically into this research (and prove it invalid). This never happened as the committee was made up of doctors and scientists, some of whom were interested in the truth, and every time they looked into it the results were the same - nuclear power was dangerous and unstable and the ‘program’ would result in an increase in illness. Also, what was to be done with the ‘non-productive’ waste? The government didn’t care about that as it would be down to their childrens’ childrens’ children to sort out and by that time science would have improved, etc, etc, etc.
So the committee was reduced to putting out a series of PR statements that were immediately challenged by the local people who were studied (you can Google this!). The government was happy that PR statements were used rather than scientific evidence but were not happy that people didn’t believe it. But all was well …
Despite a few hiccups the government put out some initial information about the ‘program’ and it seemed to go down well (especially as nothing else was at the time). They then plugged away with the PR statements from the committee and kept re-introducing the subject at appropriate times (i.e., when things were going badly as they thought it a ‘good’ subject for ‘bluesky’ thinking). Unfortunately, though an accident happened …
One of the minor doctors, in fact a GP who was only on the committee to pay lip service to the national health service (all the other doctors didn’t want to be involved, didn’t like nuclear power and didn’t like the government but this one was ambitious) had an accident in another country. In fact the accident was so bad that one of his children had died, and in trying to ‘cure’ the accident he had involved all his friends (who also happened to be doctors). The child could not be saved (there are some that think they didn’t even try but made things worse - but this is only speculation) and the doctor and his friends did their best to make sure the accident wasn’t discovered. Unfortunately for them they couldn’t do this so they made up a story about a ’stranger’ (or L’etranger in French - apologies to Albert Camus) of North African or Arab descent. Again, unfortunately for them the Police would have none of it and insisted on doing their best to investigate all avenues. And this despite the fact that the doctors had messed things up at the scene and not organised them properly to fit in with their story, leaving all sorts of contradictory evidence. The Police increasingly came to think that the ‘accident’ had happened, and at this point the doctor called the head of the government. He said that he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in a jail in this country (they did have the worse jails in that part of the world, even worse than the jails in the country that will not be named and that is saying something!). He said that he didn’t want to be named and shamed, the people couldn’t be trusted in the other country (the police could beat him up!), he didn’t want to lose his house and his well paid job. The head of the government said he didn’t know what he could do, but would do his best through the channels, etc, etc, blah blah blah. The doctor then played his trump card.
He said that unless the head of the government helped him a lot, he would tell everybody about what the nuclear power program would do to them, how unstable it was, how it would make everyone ill and lead to more weapons. And he said that this was not a good idea seeing as the government was messing up a lot.
After this the head of the government sent one of his best PR people to help the doctor organize a PR campaign to obscure the case (’smoke and mirrors’ he called it). This PR person
was excellent at using all manner of devices to cover up, make up, humiliate and make even the most obvious facts seem doubtful. The head of the government also spoke to the head of the other country’s government so the doctor could come home….
This story doesn’t have a conclusion yet as my friend has not completed it and I won’t know for a good 2/3 months …
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
i don’t remember the old soothsayer being abusive, swearing and miss spelling so much - anyone else?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
646…noseycow
Potentially that good, Huh ?
Hmmmmm……why don’t you believe me ?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
650
soothsayer Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
the pj got jacko cept the bollox you lot like to make up stevo you still got a hot line to important dudes who tell you to go spank your monkey the sheriff in the baby grace case that you solved still on his xmas card list bellend
and wot u got then?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
639,STEVO..dig it man……..of course branson…….
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
stevo - lol - though there’s something about the teeth….
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
the pj got jacko cept the bollox you lot like to make up stevo you still got a hot line to important dudes who tell you to go spank your monkey the sheriff in the baby grace case that you solved still on his xmas card list bellend
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Mods and Admin
Perhaps you might like to make your posts legible and literate? some punctuation would be of benefit.
I have to read everything, the others don’t, and its my natural inclination to skip this,sadly, I cannot.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
So, any news from Iberia and North Africa?
Any sign of the one million posters going up?
Any sign of any posters going up?
Any sign of anything?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
622
Salomon ES Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Quick question - maybe tested already:
If Madeleine died of over sedation she would most certainly have thrown up in bed, before eventually getting up and accidentally falling or other.
Was it Tanner and O’Brien who went to the room to check on her child who was ill. Could this be just a way of getting rid of the sheets of the bed where Madeleine was sleeping without raising suspicions?
Perhaps both children were ill / sick….? Maybe they had both eaten / taken (?) the same thing..??
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
What does the statement say? I can’t run the link..,
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
640 matt - somehow i don’t believe you
maybe i’ll need ‘payment’ in advance for information on anything that may or may not be happening on feb 1st - allegedly IMO etc etc
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
matty
moving a swaddled child? explaining just incase?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
639…Stevo
Stone the crows…Clarence making an honest statement.
Strewth.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
639
Stevo Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Clarence’s new press conference 5 minutes ago:
http://tinyurl.com/2gelux
very good!
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
noseycow 632 - swapped them is an option, timetaking admittidley but if O’Briens child was never sick, why was he away so long???? Swapping sheets, helping out with a problem that occurred???? Dummm, dummmmm, dummmm!!!! Stranger and strangerer!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
637
soothsayer Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
630 your a fud the only thing you’ll get is a dose casanova my arse
You been on the piss again ?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
638…noseycow
Will let you know after you dish the dirt about !st Feb.