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”
Posted: 22nd, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,210) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
What I would like to know is if it’s normal for the Home Secretary to have secret unmonitored chats with MURDER SUSPECTS when she has the rogatory letters in her posession as confirmed by Eurojust.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
845
lilith
It does make me think they are doing this deliberately - a legal ploy advised by their lawyers - get the debate into the public arena, misinfirmation, confusion, try to discredit Tanner even?
Is it important to discredit her - so the window of opportunity is widened by allowing confusion? Is she willingly going to be discreditted to avoid perjury?
Somethings hapening here, they cannot have accidentally posted 9:10 and the pyjama lie.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
833
Ian
What’s funny is that Jane Tanner ADMITS in the interview is that she knew what pyamas Madeleine was wearing months ago and now suddenly Gerry denies that.
There must be something fishy there.
First I thought it would make her “description”more believable but in fact it could have something to do with the timeline and conflicting statements now that the PJ are on their way.
Knowing what pyamas Madeleine was wearing would place her IN THE APARTMENT just before Madeleine “vanished”.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
New time for abductor sighting on Gerry blog! Now around 9:10 - same time as Gerry looks down on Madeleine!
Do they care so little that people will notice these discrepancies? What are they up to? Deliberate misinformation designed to allow them to move the times around and therefore get the 5 minute window Jane Tanner nailed in place, moved – is this the ploy?
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Lilith is right!
I went to look at Gerrys blog and apart from the most blatent lie, saying ‘Jane described pyjamas matching those Madeleine was wearing without knowing what she had on that fateful night’ he has actually posted a new time for her sighting the abductor which now overlaps his own time for ‘looking down at Madeleine’ thinking how lucky he was…
‘The man Jane saw walking away from the apartments where we were staying was carrying a child, around 9.10pm on the night Madeleine was abducted.’
Now I know that people mix things up every day - but these people have access to professionals in media and in law - and access to plenty of money to pay them with. They are suspects in a criminal invetigation and open to the eyes of the world.
To post the wrong time - a time different to the time stated by Jane Tanner and another time stated by Gerry himself on video which puts him in the apartment looking at Madeleine as the abdcutor is carrying her off - beggers belief!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Stevo
Not my friend then.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
There is no heat on Mr. & Mrs. McCann, the heat is on the PJ, as they will find out when the Home Secretary refuses their request.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
828 Karen
His initials are IM.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
829 Peter O
It all comes back to Spudgun’s excellent video. Why are rich and powerful people backing these people? That is as much a mystery as the disappearance of Madeleine.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
834Tinsel Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
And Tanner–how is she going to align her statements that this is the man she saw–when she already said it was Murat, and that she didn’t recall so much as an eyebrow previously. Who could forget those teeth!
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One would think that someone of Mr Mitchell’s intelligence and position would be able to step back and tell the McCanns to do one basic thing - keep your mouth shut!
When they have those TV shows in years to come when they look back at news, the McCann case will hopefully have been concluded and we’ll be laughing at the Austin Power’s ‘teeth’ on Beatleman. Hopefully some of the Tapas 9 will be behind bars for wasting police time and resources along with other charges.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
835 The Real Stig
I always knew it really! But not going to tell the Mrs!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Wendycas
RedRooster was a bit of a dick this morning. She’s a woman apparently???
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
790 Ian
“Sorry about the crap way I said that - multi tasking - Im a man, can’t do it.”
Sorry Ian, you’re wrong. There was an article in New Scientist a couple months ago which claimed that men are actually better at multi-tasking. Higher pain threshold too.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
825
Stevo Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
815 Tinsel
Beatleman is like Custer’s Last Stand.
One last-ditch attempt at covering everything in a blanket of smoke before the heat really does get turned up.
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You’ve got to wonder how old Mrs. Healy is coming to grips with this sketch–trying to imagine this horse-toothed madman managing to make off with Madeleine without freaking the kid out and causing major screaming from all 3 kids.
And Tanner–how is she going to align her statements that this is the man she saw–when she already said it was Murat, and that she didn’t recall so much as an eyebrow previously. Who could forget those teeth!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
810 Lilith
‘Jane described pyjamas matching those Madeleine was wearing without knowing what she had on that fateful night.’
This is untrue. She had said (it was reported) she thought it was a child wraqpped in a blanket. Only later did she say she saw pyjamas and this was afetr the McCanns had publically shown an apaprently identical pair.
Most interesting was the fact that she said they were ‘pinkish’ in a Sodium streetlight, not only because nothing looks pinkish in such a light, but because the trousers WERE NOT EVEN PINKISH but white, the top was pinkish.
‘The man Jane saw walking away from the apartments where we were staying was carrying a child, around 9.10pm on the night Madeleine was abducted’
Now its 9:10? Tanner said 9:15, Gerry said he looked down at Madeleine ‘for the last time’ at 9:10! his is interesting, are they now turning the clock the WRONG WAY and removing even the 5 minute window of opportunity?
Well, well, well….the wheels are off the wagon.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
800 coolandcalm
“your ears must have been burning! It was discussed in depth that you disappeared at the same time Gerry McCann went back to work so therefore you had to be Gerry!
‘Going to Australia’ was a euphenism for going back to work!
Happy hols I hope.”
No burning ears. That doesn’t make sense, Gerry went back to work a couple of weeks before I got on one of those prisons that fly (well technically 3 of them.)
A trip to visit relatives, while pleasant, isn’t quite as good as a ‘real’ holiday. Eight weeks to go until the ‘real’ holiday.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Back later!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
The Real Stig
What country are you in?
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
535 Stevo Says: January 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I had a sickening thought about the missing girl in Spain…
This is far fetched but what if she was deliberately “taken” and is subsequently linked to Madeleine by being found in the same location?
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Sad to say that that scenario, and other variations on a theme, had crossed my mind.
The real unresolved issue in all of this for me is what is the big secret(s), over arching skeleton(s) in the cupboard, that has/have attracted rich and powerful backers to the McCann’s and/or whomever they may really be trying to “protect”? That and the seemingly puppy dog complicity of the UK media.
I can understand why some of these people may have been attracted to this cause back in May last year. Some I’m sure were genuinely altruistic, others wanting to be seen to be backing a high profile good cause etc. Whatever, all power to the McCann’s for being able to attract them. What makes little sense is why certain parties appear to have stuck by them in what appears to be a mounting PR disaster, in my opinion.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Stevo
I know a technician at Strathclyde who is part of a reenactment society!!!! I hope it’s not him!!!
What’s his first name?
I suppose he’s a McCanns supporter and will defend them to the Death.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Admin
Cant b elieve you have allowed the language and personal name-calling that you have on this forum!! Where are you for goodness sake, only read the first 30 or so but it was ridiculous
mainly from Redrooster, I think. This personal stuff should not be allowed. This is a satirical forum, not an abusive forum, so………
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
785 Karen
“Celebrity Hijack is the latest version of Big Brother.”
So replace one tired old POS with a fresher POS. What a brilliant concept! Give the functionary who thought of that a raise.
I think the King of Bhutan has got the right idea - a limit of a 2 or 3 hours of TV a day.
“Skins is a drama series on Channel 4. It’s 2nd series is about to start.”
Can’t pick that one up over here.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
815 Tinsel
Beatleman is like Custer’s Last Stand.
One last-ditch attempt at covering everything in a blanket of smoke before the heat really does get turned up.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Stig
Certainement! Absolutamente!
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
bye matt
am still looking at your last posts and not sure if your brain is scrambled or mine 
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
817 Karen Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Stevo
What abusive technician from Strathclyde Uni?
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My website has been online for about 3 months or so. Shortly after I did the pages talking about the photos, some numbnut contacted me to tell me it was all a fraud and then he started getting abusive about it. I found out he was emailing me from the Uni. His email name was one of the characters he played in a re-enactment society. It was easy to find out who the man really was. I told him to stop the abuse but he didn’t and he denied it being the man I said it was. So…I found a photo of him and a McCann together at the same event and sent it to him. Then I contacted Strathclyde Uni and told their web/IT bloke to stop this prat sending me emails. He was more “clue-less” than clouseau.
Personally I wonder why an individual would be so obsessed with defending a photo which may or may not be suspect…unless they had something to do with it.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Brandon
Goodnight???
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
809
The Real Stig Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
762 chenier
“Well, if it really is The Real Stig, hope you had a great time down under.
And are feeling refreshed and renewed for the fray…”
I did, thanks. Sorry, I don’t think I will be joining in.
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Well, I’m sure you will benefit from the R&R, so have fun!
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
780 Garth
“Anyway, stick around as it looks like were in the driving seat! Not that there was, of course, any question! ;)”
Situation ‘normal’ then.
Word!
Certainement!
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Karen
It’s not the Real Stig. This is the Real Real Stig. The language and tone are always a dead giveaway. It’s as good as a signature.