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 3:39 pm
525
Marie Nicholas
This poster has no legal qualifications. It is glaringly obvious.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
But…Increasingly Incredulous
re “Time will Tell”
Of course I’ve been punching that line… simply because we know nothing officially about the investigation and the process. What do you want me to say?
Obviously only time will tell who’s right and who’s wrong, and only time will tell what really happened to Madeleine. There’s nothing moving me against the McCanns or anyone else - even though I do find their behaviour before Madeleine disappeared to be negligent and their behaviour after the disappearance to be odd. But that doesn’t mean that they are guilty of any crime - and like everyone else they are innocent until proven guilty. I could come here with wild speculation that there are violations of human rights, that there’s no appeal, that the interviews will take place or not… but simply we don’t know.
You on the other hand take great fulfilment in testing all sorts of sordid theories that indicate that the McCanns are victims of the evil PJs etc. but never once I saw you mention the name Madeleine in your posts.
Why is that… surely this should be the main topic - or NOT?
January 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Now i’m really gone
January 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Matt - objection - sometimes its nice to live in a world where you can mix ‘what you would like’ with ‘what actually is’
January 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
554
Marie Nicholas
January 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Can’t Say No
I’ll follow your advice and will taake no more notice of Increasingly Ridiculous (that’s a good one).
January 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Inc Inc 548 - now you are becoming silly.
Of course we don’t know precisely what the PJ are doing today, just as you don’t know they are doing nothing.
You may have a LLB, but as you say yourself you never practiced.
To be quite honest, I’m not surprised!
January 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
548…Increasingly incredulous
Never mix up “what you would like” with “what actually is”.
Ask Mr Rebello…he will put you right.
(But I’ve told you tht earlier…guess it didn’t register.)
January 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
jo - yes sirree - buy your 4 year old a mobile phone then when you are having tapas with friends, a ’stones throw’ away - they can text you to inquire as to the best way to deal with the eggman/pidgeonman/beatleman (etc) who seems to be frantically cleaning the appartment…
any joy on the job front
January 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
548 Increasingly incredulous
Do you enjoy the idea that these parents may escape justice despite having abandoned their charges?
January 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
545
Marie Nicholas
I know,it was me that misread
He/she is doing is brainwash
And tell a lot of lies
Till later
January 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
“The investigation continues despite your ignorance”
Does it, Matt?
perhaps, then, you can tell us what the Portuguese Police are investigating today - as opposed to just keeping their heads down, hoping the whole thing will go away.
Which is rather what I suspect they’re doing.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
545…Marie Nicholas
Indeed….quite a difference between “all of us”….and “me”.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Increasingly ridiculous
Thank You
for making me go out
January 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
528 529 Matt - Can’t say No
I don’t think I said the way I meant it.
I meant Inc Inc is trying to make me feel inadequate, but it certainly doesn’t work. I just wanted to point out what her strategy was.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/28/madeleine-mccann-effect-spurs
*********************
Safety conscious parents…..
January 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
540…Increasingly incredulous
The investigation continues despite your ignorance.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
#532…
now, what was that someone was telling us about Xenophobia…..
January 28th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
532
Salomon ES Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
quote ‘a country every day a child the age of Madeleine or younger goes missing’ unqoute
I have read some of this afternoons posts and been impressed with yours ( however my legal knowledge is limited so…) However this is news to me.
Have you a link?? Please
January 28th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
And, back to someting from one of Salomon’s earlier posts..
“Time will tell…”
The problem is, Salomon, that’s starting to look a little worn as a line, isn’t it?
I dip into this forum only rarely, but from what I recall from previous visits, you’ve been puching that line for at least two months now.
You certainly were when I dropped in in early December, to sugest that the supposed interviews wouldn’t be happening, at a time when most on here were expecting Portuguese detectives imminently. And prior to that in November, when I was here to point out the cnontrary to claims, the PJ had phone records in Portugal, and claims that they were waiting such from the UK were just more spinning for time.
That’s one reason why, I suspect, that there’s quite so much vehemence on here - along with Folie a Deux, of course.
you’ve had so many months now, of the PJ floundering around, leaking ever more bizarre stories, that the disappointment is getting to you - and the awareness that under any objective analysis, you know they’ve blown it…..
January 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
536
Marie Nicholas
Increasingly incredulous = braindead
January 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
536
Marie Nicholas
But ,this such a rubish
Why bother to reply ???
January 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This is the so called torture a la Mccann
January 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
524 Can’t say no
It was me who referred to the judgment of King Salomon, because of Salomon’s name, and because I think it is one of the most beautiful, concise and true stories about love ever told since the beginning of mankind. It is also the story of a masterful judgment in a very difficult case.
I got so bored by Inc Inc’s painful argumentation that I found peace in the thought of that great lawyer King Salomon.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
533…can’t say no
Scroll/Troll
Red Herrings.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
518 grande - are you sure it was a wooossssshhhh and not a ‘clunk click’ ?
January 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Increasingly incredulous
Go away
Go to other sites
January 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
522 Ian
Frankly speaking:
A country (the UK) that refuses to ratify the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, a country where the police are charged for infringing “Health & Safety Rules” after shooting an innocent man 6 x in the head, a country where that same police have admitted to falsifying pictures, with a government that misled parliament into engaging in war with false information, a country where a PM is not elected, a country where the head of state is not elected, a country where a vast proportion of the parliamentary chamber is hereditary and not elected, a country where ministers openly lie and falsify pictures, a country every day a child the age of Madeleine or younger goes missing and every week a child is stabbed or shot dead…
A country where all of this and other things happen, has a lot more to think about than Portugal’s record on human rights…
January 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
“It is incredible, my dear friend, that you waste your time on her!”
He….
January 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
“I’m looking forward to your evidence which shows how fantastic the UK government is in its record of Human Rights.”
Tell me how many cases have been lost since the implemntation of the HRA…..
” You make us all feel inadequate with your law science….”
That may be because?