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
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January 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Sorry, this seems to have been ommitted from #245
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January 28th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Gerry playing golf: could ave sworn it was 50 yards..mmmm
January 28th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
245 Increasingly Incredulous
We do?
Are you perhaps taking a particular perspective here or being even handed?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Ian,
As far as Article 6 and 13 - the relevant bits -we’ve actually got a far, far better record.
Which is, of course, what counts in Strasbourg…..
January 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Thats why they showed them to the judge aint it ?
Surely he would know more about it than thee?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
245…ncreasingly Incredulous
No we don’t.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
And, another small issue the PJ will face, in showing that the extension of the case is reasonable, or even getting the Rogatory letters through EuroJust…
They’d have to show that new evidence had emerged since
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Well, we know it’s not emerged from the FSS…..
January 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
delboy
I might just have a malibu and cherryade to perk me up
January 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
224 Increasingly Incredulous
Have you perchance taken a wee look at the UK’s record before commencing slagging off the Portuguese?
I wonder how far the Portuguese have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRCUN)? The UK has a couple of ‘exclusions’ I understand?
Any chance we might concentrate on the rights of children and a little less on the rights of parents?
I think the parents (in this case in particular) have sufficient resources and power, whilst children are generally in need of assistance.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
232 Brandon
What a shame. So no free cappuccinos then?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
238…coolandcalm
Isn’t their property then is it ?
Apartment 5a that is.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
230 Increasingly I
Thank you for explaining to me. I had always been of the opinion that you could be a bit pregnant - you know, just a couple of legs, an arm and an eye - now that you have explained I know I was wrong.
Talking of “absolute”, some people are absolute… absolute… absolute…no, I don’t want to be rude!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Oh - its back again…
Glitch it was!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Matt 228… no, he meant the ‘property’ as in the Ocean Club Resort property.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
234…RedRooster
And meanwhile, the PJ continue their investigation completely oblivious
to increasingly incredulous.
Shocking, isn’t it ?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
“increasingly incredulous your post are getting increasingly BORING ”
Is that because you struggle with the longer words?
“I wonder that you have not noticed that people are tiring of your monotopic rant? Indeed I have replied to another of your posts asking you to desist from labouring the points you raise yet again”
So answer them, in a way that defeats the logic or supporting factual material……if you can’t, hard luck.
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Increasingly Incredulous,
You do not challenge Mods and Admin
January 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
The 3 arguidos site just went down. Hopefully a glitch rather than something more sinister…
January 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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Increasingly Incredulous Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
increasingly incredulous your post are getting increasingly BORING
January 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
231…JuneJohnson
Copy and paste…copy and paste….copy and paste….instructions for today
I guess.
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hope not, wear out the facility!!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Logic
No I am joking, Its just he once posted he was off to Mc Donalds, and I cant resist.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Mods and Admin
Increasingly Incredulous
I wonder that you have not noticed that people are tiring of your monotopic rant? Indeed I have replied to another of your posts asking you to desist from labouring the points you raise yet again.
Join in general discussion, please do, but do not swamp the thread and do not belittle those who have replied.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
“And what has “a little bit pregnant” to do with anything? Some people will do anything to confuse…”
I’ll explain, since you seem to be easily confused.
You can’t be a “little bit pregnant”. Pregnacy, or non-pregnancy is an absolute condition.
Just like Convention Rights are absolute (except where circumscribed in the convention itelf).
Your right to legal remedy, which is what Articles 6 and 13 are about, is not constrained by the degree to which rights are infringed.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
coolandcalm Says:
hav’nt they got cctv pictures of them at chaplins bar???thought i had read that somewhere..
January 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
221…coolandcalm
Wasn’t the “Property” owned by a Ms R McCann ?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
215 Brandon
I bet he’s that one who keeps putting mayonnaise on my vegeburger when I say “No mayo”.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
235,brandon…wake up, you naughty little noo noo..
January 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
YAWN!!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
“I would however encourage you to explore the contents of previous cases brought before the Court against Portugal on the particular issue of maintaining official suspects for long periods.”
I have.
Have you? Looking at the Article 6 cases, and excluding those that are related to the length of Civil proceedings:
In the huge majority of cases, Portugal was found to be in violation (Magro, Commingersol, Castanheira Barros, Garcia Alves, Magalhaes Pereira, Pestana, Czekalla, De Sousa Marinho, Maire, Carvalho Malagaes, Rocha, Alves, etc….), and in a few more, it caved in and settled out of court (SN v Portugal, Coelho Osorio, Silva Bras, Barbosa), the state has settled out of court.
In fact, I can only find two cases where the case suceeded in having the case struck down - both pertaining to civil actions.
And, of course one of those, “Tome Mota” established that there was ajudicial review process within criminal proceedings - but that’s specifically ruled out within the determination of extensions to Judicial Secrecy, so has no relevance here.
So, it seems the portuguese system has a pretty poor track record in front of Strasbourg for Article Six cases - which ones were you thinking of?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
219,,well said bishop……thats another question..when did kate go near six dead bodies, that one can be proved easy enough,….cant it? wonder if the police have looked into that one yet?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
151 Increasingly I
My point proved yet again - you have to be personally insulting - to me this time - in order to try (unsuccessfuly I should think, most of the time) to get people to believe your bullshit. I don’t usually call people’s views “bullshit” but, as they say, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander…….
And what has “a little bit pregnant” to do with anything? Some people will do anything to confuse…..