Madeleine McCann: Tabloid Snap, Metodo 3 PD and McCanns Innocent
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “I’M NOT GUILTY”
“A loner who looks like a drawing of a ‘creepy’ Madeleine McCann suspect has denied any links to her disappearance”
Joaquim Agostinho says: “It’s not me in the picture. I accept that the drawing looks like me”
The Mirror reports: “The former cockle picker, who lives in Altura, 90 miles from Praia da Luz, added: ‘I did not kill Madeleine and I’ve never been to Praia da Luz. I cannot even drive’”
But still his picture is in the paper in connection with a story about a missing child. Fingers are pointed
MADELEINE in Chile. What news of that? “Yesterday, police ruled out a “Madeleine” sighting in Chile after the girl was identified as American Haylee Dreyer, six”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – Amazing lookalike: ‘I did not kidnap and kill her’”
Mr Agostinho looks like an artist’s impression of man whom British tourist Gail Cooper says she saw acting hanging around Praia da Luz. He is the “oddball”
Page 11: “DRIFTER MATCHES NEW MADELEINE SUSPECT”
Matches. Like in a game of snap? Snap! Snap! Snap!
“Investigators want to quiz a Portuguese drifter suspected of involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Detectives working for the youngster’s parents are to question Joaquim Agostinho, 42, in the resort of Altura”
Does he have to speak with the McCanns detectives?
“Mr Agostinho, who lives in Altura, said yesterday: ‘I did not kill Madeleine and I’ve never been to Praia da Luz. I cannot even drive.’ Altura is close to the Spanish border and detectives from Metodo 3 – the agency working for the McCanns – were last night travelling there from their headquarters in Barcelona”
Again, does he have to speak with private detectives?
THE SUN: “McCANN COPS QUIZ SUSPECT LOOKALIKE”
“Detectives are to quiz a drifter who looks uncannily like a mystery suspect in Maddie McCann’s disappearance. Joaquim Agostinho, 42, denies he is the creepy man depicted in a sketch issued by parents Kate and Gerry McCann
“But Metodo 3, the Spanish private investigators hired by the McCanns, are taking the possibility seriously”
Is Metodo 3 now a police force?
A source close to Metodo 3 says: “We are going to be talking to this man as a priority, to establish if he is the one Mrs Cooper saw”
What of the McCanns?
“COPS now accept Kate and Gerry, both 39, may be innocent in Maddie’s disappearance, it has emerged. They have so far clung to just one theory — that Maddie was accidentally killed and her parents disposed of her body. Now they are taking seriously the alternative that she was snatched from the holiday apartment last May — which Kate and Gerry have always insisted must have happened”
DAILY MAIL: “Is this drifter the man in Madeleine drawing?”
Mr Agostinho says no. He delivers newspapers for a living. He says he is innocent
Metodo 3 are looking to speak with him
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE: THREE MEN RULED OUT – McCanns’ new hopes shattered”
It’s not Joaquim Jose Marques – police have ruled him out; and the Star was so certain
It’s not the girl in Chile – she’s a girl on holiday with her family
It’s not Joaquim Agostinho – he says it’s not him
METRO: “Twins play ‘find Maddie’”
“Leading world sex crimes expert Ray Wyre” has met with Kate and Gerry McCann
He sees the McCanns’ twins children. Wyre tells the paper: “They said they were going to go and find the monster that took Maddie. Then they dashed off to play the game. It’s a sad story, but it is healthy that Madeleine remains a real presence in their lives”
“A spokesman for the McCanns denied the story”
Madeleine McCann: No news is still news
Posted: 28th, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,332) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
January 28th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Mr Matty has announced he is not watching this shite and has retired for the evening. I am freaked but will carry on watching. Another JD n Coke me thinks, nite nite,sleep tight!!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
1090
can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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I was just kidding….
January 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
1100
can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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Either you’ve had too much to drink or you’re just an odd bod!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Till later
Time to wach a movie
January 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
1097
Garth
Nope
That’s why i’m here replying to ya
January 28th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Alistair Campbell on press reporting quoted in The Guardian
“The growth in scale has been the upside of change; the impact on standards the downside. The forces of technological change and intense competition have created a distorting tension between speed and accuracy. The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.”
He said: “There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. Of course, the idea of news as something that someone, somewhere would rather not see published is a good one. But it is partial.
“When a prevailing wisdom takes hold that news is only news when it is bad for someone, and especially someone in power, then it narrows and distorts the view of the world.”
He added that the “old editorial rhythms” that allowed facts to be checked and stories considered before publication had been lost.
While the media easily became bored with stories, there were some that drowned out coverage of anything else, he added, citing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann last year.
“It quickly became a commodity in which most of the media got close to hysteria, and some have remained there,” Campbell said.
“It has been the worst example of recent times, on a par with coverage of Princess Diana, of some newspapers thinking the word Madeleine sells, and finding literally any old nonsense to keep her name in that selling position on the front. Mature, stable and fair it is not. Unfair and exploitative it is.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/28/pressandpublishing.media?gusrc=rss&feed=media
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Well said IMO.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Back off to the world of reality to watch chanel four prog My Fake Baby. Oh My Goodness, Lordy, Lordy Me!!!! Mr Matty is watching ch4 and is shouting at the TV!!! Goodnight all!!!! Happy days!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
1094
can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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I dont doubt it but have you got anything useful to say?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
1083 can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
1078
Garth
Dream on
The fear they have ,is because they don’t know what the Police has
Such fun, as Ade says
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Neither do you or I know.
If they are guilty of the disappearance of Madeleine, they could do a pretty good guess.
And no fun at all, there’s still a small child missing and a grieving family who doesn’t know if she’s dead or suffering. But I guess that’s too hard to understand for some insensitive people.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
1087
Denzylle Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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…and pay a visit to the pope, a favour may, ifthe priest didnt do it in PLD?Pure speculation from my part.I am not christian nor catholic
January 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
1091
just like ya
Garth
C’mon Garth ,ya know i’m a nice person
January 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
nite nite all
such a depressing day - no deaths in mcconn household - apart from the initial one of course
great fun to anticipate who’s gonna be next though
and how it’s done
suicide, accident, natural causes? abduction by aliens
i bet the leicestershitre (mcconn) coroner is lined up already with his report
excellent
January 28th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
1082
Ade
hahaha
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
1083
can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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Yeah right!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
1081
jo
Even if i knew ,do you think i would jeopardize the police work ??
Nope
I know nothing
Maybe some connections ,that everybody already knows
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
1082
Ade Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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Which one ? so many of them runing wild in the world as youve seen over the last weeks….
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
1061
Ian Says:
Just had another look at that photo.
I think the most obvious ‘botch job’ is G’s arm.
Start at his elbow and follow the line down towards Amelie. It shows a little at the side of her hat then ends suddenly. It does not continue under the brim of her hat. Under her hat shows the wall behind.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
1065
Chloe Spain Says:
But I don’t think a child who has not taken the First Communion requires the Last Rites.
I’m not a Catholic so I wouldn’t know but, if that’s so, then the only reason for KM to call a priest so soon would be for absolution.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Ian 1072- the sheets swapped, the Famous Four, the absence from the table for lengthy spells, the botched sighting, the random spanner in the works walking his child!!!!!!!!! Stanger and strangerer!!!!!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Chloe Spain
I don’t know…but maybe Mrs McCann (who I imagine to be the more Catholic-minded) didn’t either & just had a blind instinct to get a priest to give the Last Rites.
But as Lyn reminded us, there are yet more mysteries, for instance about the physical growth/hair growth of the Madeleine we saw in the aeroplane and aeroplane bus shots and the Madeleine we saw in previous photos, with much longer hair and a more mature look.
I know, I know, all this speculation.
I sometimes fear this strange case will make everyone crazy!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
mcconns are road kill
do it someone tonite
January 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
1078
Garth
Dream on
The fear they have ,is because they don’t know what the Police has
Such fun, as Ade says
January 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
why doesn’t someone just run the bastards over in a tractor - several times - and do us all a favour
January 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
1074
can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
you speak portuguese (I assume)….are you hiding precious infos from us? 
1068
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you are in situ!!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
1064 Chloe
I don’t think it has anything to do with the first communion.
It is true that the child, having being baptised and sinned very little at her age, is supposed to go directly to heaven. Now, we don’t know for sure that the child had been baptised. I she hadn’t and her parents had some remnants of traditionnal scary religion on their minds, then they might require her baptism in a hurry. Maybe that is what they asked from Father Pacheco? Difficult to say.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
1068
jo
The fact ,that idon’t know ,what they have done during those days ,doesn’t mean,the P.J. ,doesn’t
Au contraire , they have had ,lot’s of interviews with people that were there by that time
January 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
1068
jo Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
1060
can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I really would like to know ,what the Tapas 9 ,have done during the day 2 and 3 of May.
I think i’m not alone on this
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This might be why the PJ want to question them again???
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Surely if its to be believed that the PJ were that thorough, they would already have an account of those days along with checked out witnesses, especially if they believe that Madeliene was dead and that it happened on the night of the 3rd?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
1069 Garth/Stevo
Stevo, I think a devils advocate would be very useful? Yes I know, he’s more of a devil than an advocate but you get the idea!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
sj
Still around?
Would you share your views with us on this tragic case?
Thank you
January 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
1073
matty