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 1:00 pm
I have to now
till later
January 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
275
Marie Nicholas
January 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
well how many more guys are we going to see dragged into this, coopers evidence in court,
er well it looked like him,
but it might have been him,
come to think of it im sure it was him,
clarrie, you see we told you it was someone who looked like him, we didnt make it up,
January 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
270 Matt
I have to ask myself, why do some people get such joy from the idea that suspects in a case who may or may not have committed a crime against a child may not be challenged and at least questioned?
It looks like the pro-McCann lobby is coming clean on their intention - defence of the parents rather than seeking justice for the child.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
back
I’m goimg to use caps,coz 1 poster here ,use too long posts
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FROM P.J. :
THE SKETCH ,M3 ,BRITISH MEDIA
THE REASON ,IS TO MANIPULATE ,”JOE PUBLIC” ,AND STAY THE FOCUS AWAY FROM THE TAPAS 9
MORE ,THE P. J. , had quiz all the possible “suspects” from a strange “abduction” ,and was prooved ,that “this” never existed
THE P. J. , KNOWS THERE WASN’T AN ABDUCTION , AND THE SUSPICTIONS ARE FOCUSED ON THE “ARGUIDOS”
ALL ,THE CIRCUS CREATED ABOUT THE MCCANNS ,AS POLITICAL LINKS !!!
END
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Now believe what you want
January 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
“My point being that you have not presented any evidence, whereas you made comments arguing the other way and did provide (a measure of) evidence.”
I’ve given a list of Article 6 cases, taken from the ECtHR’s own website, of judgments in cases involving Portugal, from the period for which judgments are available on-line - 1999-2005.
And that list shows not only that Portugal has been up in front of the ECtHR an extraorinary number of times for Article 6 violations, but that in the overwhelming majority of cases, they’ve been found to be in violation.
Unless, of course, you’d care to provide your own evidence that they’ve been found to be substantially compliant.
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Mods and Admin
Would you care to contact Admin and request your own thread on this topic? You clearly feel very strongly about the issue, even though most people have been bored to death by it. At least a solo thread that will get you a platform to air your grievence.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
188 Can’t say No
What also really shooked me instantly about the case was the deep, utter, vindictive, and moreover shameless xenophobia. The MCs or their PR team should have stood up at once and said “NO. NOT IN OUR NAME”. (It is “hurtful” for the Portuguese, and “unhelpful” as regards finding the little girl)
I am sure xenophobia is at the heart of the case. Proof : reverse the situation. It takes place in a British resort, say Cornwall, and some Portuguese family looses their child while drinking in a pub on the resort, 3 toddlers alone at night in an supposedly unlocked bedroom. Will the British press accept it if the Portuguese press writes “up your arse Mr English Ambassador?”. Will the British public think it is a civilised way to behave?
With the foreign name I have - I have a foreigh, slavic name in France too, as I married someone with a foreign name -, I am not sure I’d rather be judged by a British court by than a Portuguese court if I had a problem, sorry to say.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
what about the unlocked door /locked door/ shutters broken/ not broken lies ?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
…distances according to Google Earth.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
178 Marie Nicholas Says:
“The lies began with the distance to the tapas bar, at least the first lie I detected.”
Which is less than 60m linear distance and approx. 80m to walk to the back entry. And what was the lie? 50m?
If all revelations to come are of this calibre, I will be a bit disappointed…
January 28th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
260 Increasingly Incredulous
Do you mean the people who are not members of the blind faith brigade?
Personally I have nothing against the McCanns other than their attempt to hide their failings as parents and their attempts to appear better parents than the rest of the UK’s parents.
Of course thats a major issue! However, I’d prefer to be considered as a fair minded person with the interests of neglected and abused children at heart.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
260…Increasingly Incredulous
“”"”I do anticipate developmens in the next week or so - but not to the liking of the anti-McCann brigade. I anticipate something emerging about why the Rogatory Letters
have failed.”"”"”
Don’t wet you knickers just yet….you usually anticipate wrongly after all.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
264
probably nothing just getting paranoid
January 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
245 increasingly incredulous
I’m sure the UK has a much better record than Portugal in all human rights matters - that’s why all portuguese and other europeans felt so sad when Gordon opted out of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights attached to the Lisbon Treaty.
And I truly hope that team McCanns escalate the case to the European Court of Human Rights - I really would. Unfortunately I don’t think it will happen (and unlike you I will not bore my fellow posters with wild speculation disguised as serious legal analysis).
January 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
262 Sorry that was for the attention of ‘increasingly incredulous’.
He or she may requrie further examples, perhaps relating to corporal punishment or in family murders, cruelty cases etc?
Or perhaps he or she might save us all a lot of time and accept that our wonderful country is no more wonderful (is in many ways less wonderful) than many countries we hold in disdain.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
lone Pigeon
Stop working so hard and have a pint!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
260 II
A typing error - put v instead of an f - but I’m sure you know what I meant!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
261…clouseau
I doubt it, clou.
Increased activity alone can cause it.
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look what happened here!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
259…brandon flours
I can vouch for that !!!
(Owner/Manager)…virtually.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/09/24/105853/ministers-reject-inquiry-into-trafficked-children-lost-from.html
January 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
i think 3arquido site is under attack keeps going down
January 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
“Increasingly’s vervour this morning might be an extremely encouraging development”
vervour?
I do anticipate developmens in the next week or so - but not to the liking of the anti-McCann brigade. I anticipate something emerging about why the Rogatory Letters have failed.
And that will be that the content of the letters fails the test I set out earlier, in terms of justifying the case so far as it exists, and its links to future questioning.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
delboy
I am in the headless woman !
January 28th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
248 Increasingly Incredulous
Let me prove a point for a moment.
Increasingly Incredulous,
As far as Article 6 and 13 - the relevant bits - the Portuguese actually have a far, far better record.
Which is, of course, what counts in Strasbourg…..
My point being that you have not presented any evidence, whereas you made comments arguing the other way and did provide (a measure of) evidence.
Now, about the UN Childresn charter …. how does the UK fare as far as thats concerend?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
253…Logic
“They don’t like it up ‘em”…..as Mr Jones, the Butcher, so eloquently put it.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
logic
Frightfully frantic IMO
January 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Brandon no drinking in class please,oh and do try to stay awake…
January 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
“Are you perhaps taking a particular perspective here or being even handed?”
More even handed than most here, it would seem.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Increasingly’s vervour this morning might be an extremely encouraging development. Is something happening that is not to the liking of the McCann camp?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
249…Ian
He/she reads the Sun.