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”
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January 28th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
1130 Brit Abroad
Theres nothing as good a Cook or World in Action today - tabloid telly!
Everyone is scared of litigation.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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Ian Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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Well I understand you’re disdain towards the McCanns. But dont put words into out mouths Ian. We dont adore the McCanns. Thats just your feelings because you hate the M’s that much.
Ade wrote
January 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
mcconns are road kill
do it someone tonite
…….and thats just a little politically incorrect is it? Get real mate!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Stevo,
I’ll mail you - unless youa re still here?
Id like to see a higher resolution of the whole picture, but for sure thats been ‘touched up’ and badly in places.
We were looking in the wrong places, its the images of Gerry and Amelie that are highly suspect.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Advert time- Garth
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=32C0eKRQVt8
January 28th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
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Ian Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
1099 Brit Abroad
But he isn’t pointing out the press bias in following Clarences lead.
Where is the in depth investigative journalism?
Why dont we hear anything from people who know the McCanns, the real McCanns?
Wheres the investigation in to M3? There is a great deal of investigative potential out there - so why arent we hearing it?
Has the threat of litigation killed journalism - unless you happen to be an easy target (financially challenged!)?
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Quite so, Ian.
WHERE IS true investigative journalism?
(Are the World in Action team still around? Have not lived in UK for nine years but used to think they did some great stuff over the years. Do you have anything similar there these days?)
How do some of these reporters write such sensationalistic rubbish? Do Editors sleep well at night?
And of course it all distracts beautifully from the real questions that need to be addressed.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Garfy
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January 28th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
1122 Ferdinand
A great deal has changed, the death rate in children in the Western World has plummeted - partly due to proper childcare.
The fact is, what was acceptable 30 years ago is no longer acceptable.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
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John Brown Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Rooster, Garth. I think you two need a five minute “time-out.”
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hey garfy what do you reckon ?? How about a truce??
January 28th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
1109 Garth
I dont get it, why is it taken so badly by people who adore the McCanns when people who are concerned that their actions harmed the child (which is everyone else!) say something about the McCanns which is a little politically incorrect - yet their action which has probably cost a child her LIFE is dismissed as ‘a slight miscalculation’.
Is a childs life worth less than a consultants reputation?
Are the people who support the McCanns with such loyal devotion identifying with the McCanns because they employ their methods of childcare?
Because they are catholics? Is this political?
Because they are doctors (they stick together like shit to a blanket!)?
What the hell is it!
I think it is appalling that people here post in defence of suspects in a child abduction, suspects possibly responsible for illegal disposal of her body, almost certainly (in my opinion) responsible for abandonment and neglect - perhaps even something unthinkable to proper parents!
So no shouts of outrage from the McCanns supporters carry any weight with me - the thing they support is much worse.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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John Brown Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
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it was just a freindly bit of banter on my part, dont know about garfy though???
January 28th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
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Garth Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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what you rambling about Garf ???
January 28th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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RedRooster Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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Didnt take long did it? Go and play with that bat ya ‘tosser’
January 28th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
1066 Marie Nicholas Says:
“1045 Ferdinand
But did your parents regularly leave you alone at night when you weren’t even 4 years old, in strange surrounding, with your younger siblings? To me this is crazy behaviour. You might think you were that young, but grown-ups have very few memories of before they were 5.”
I’m not quite sure. Our children’s room was outside the parents’ (I should say our) appartment. It was a house with two appartments. But the childens rooms were the garrets (for both appartments). My sister was 3 1/2 years younger than me. And as long as I can remember, I have felt in charge for her. (At that time, I found nothing to it.)
January 28th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Anyone seen the lovely Ciara-Lou this evening???
January 28th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
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annie123 Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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………..or just dont like it up em!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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Garth Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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well thanks for that yer tosser, lifes bleedin dificult enough with her, i dont need you winding her up. Bleedin earache i’ve had this evening
January 28th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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Garth Says:
It’s your delinquent ramblings that bore me. Not to worry, I can choose to ignore you - which I will.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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Marie Nicholas Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
“[...] But the need for a priest, to me evokes the last rites. [...]”
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Chère Marie, this is exactly what I said a couple of weeks ago [and I was blown away...]. It needs an old-fashioned catholic upbringing to think this, doesn’t it?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
…….or was it poor man. Who cares……….
January 28th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
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RedRooster Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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Poor women eh?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Bed time story?
http://trannyfattyacid.blogspot.com/2008/01/on-dangers-of-eating-sushi-with-team.html
January 28th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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annie123 Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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If you’re that tired - go to bed.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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Garth Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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evening garfy i hear you had a run in earlier with mrs rooster??
January 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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Garth Says:
Yawn
January 28th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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well you’ve got to admit the world would be a much better place without the mc’s
January 28th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
What sort of scumbag refers to wishing death in the McCann household and wishing misadventure by tractor or other means, what a total lowlife, if people think that is fun they aren’t any better.
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Indeed.
It just goes to show some of the scum that visit this site, and I dont mean all the anti’s - some have good points, but some are pathetic!
January 28th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
1099 Brit Abroad
But he isn’t pointing out the press bias in following Clarences lead.
Where is the in depth investigative journalism?
Why dont we hear anything from people who know the McCanns, the real McCanns?
Wheres the investigation in to M3? There is a great deal of investigative potential out there - so why arent we hearing it?
Has the threat of litigation killed journalism - unless you happen to be an easy target (financially challenged!)?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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annie123 Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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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.
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Bleedin’ ‘el………… reality check needed!
Oh gawd…………
January 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
What sort of scumbag refers to wishing death in the McCann household and wishing misadventure by tractor or other means, what a total lowlife, if people think that is fun they aren’t any better.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
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can’t say no Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Till later
Time to wach a movie
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Spoilt your fun? Shame………….