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
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January 28th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
950 Peter O
There have been some very heavily criticised decisions by Spanish judges (in particular, one judge in Catalonia) who have ruled that the victim provoked the rape and reduced the sentence imposed on the rapist accordingly. The most recent one was only a few months ago - can’t remember all the details.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
943 Sledgehammer Says: January 28th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I cannot for the life of me think of one good reason, why the Portuguese would not want to reveal all. That is unless, they themselves are covering something up.
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Perhaps they like teasing.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
889 RedRooster
Good…always nice to know the gender one is talking to! It got a bit confusing with all the feathers flying last week…
891 Ciara-Louise
Hi C-lou. Just been very busy is all. How are you?
January 28th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Jo 947
I think he was being ironic!
January 28th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
934 Ferdinand Says: January 28th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
914 Peter O Says:
“Certainly. Just as any woman who becomes a victim of rape - say while passing a lonesome location and wearing a cute skirt - can be charged for being accomplice for rape - for allowing (by appearing on a lonesome location) and even inviting (by wearing a cute skirt) for the crime.
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Am I reading what you posted incorrectly?”
If I use this smiley , I try to indicate irony.
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Irony? I’m not aware that a woman can be charged under the circumstances you describe?
I appreciate that certain parties may attempt to argue that she was asking for it , but actually that’s no defence for the rapist at all.
So far as I am aware, there are no designated areas where it is legal for anyone to assume that if a lone female is dressed in a certain manner that it’s somehow permitted to rape them should the urge take you?
While it may indeed be unwise for a lone female to be in certain areas, that’s still no basis for attempting to excuse or mitigate the behaviour of a rapist?
I’m sure we’re losing something here in translation?
January 28th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Ian, I do enjoy firing off sometimes, what would this board be without our little engagements………a lot quieter maybe !!…….no serious offence meant, and none taken I hope. I know you wont believe this, but I have a lot of respect for Amaral.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
943 Sledgehammer said…
‘I cannot for the life of me think of one good reason’
An honest response from you at last!
Before you complain, you did that to the caution…remember my little ‘unlearned’ friend?
January 28th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
922
Ferdinand Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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I cant believe your last post on rape etc….
January 28th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
941 Ian
Well, they set up the fund and applied for the trademarks pretty quickly. And the wristbands, etc. And the visit to the Pope (always thought that was a funny thing to do so soon after M’s disappearance - you’d think they’d have been looking for practical help at that time and I can’t quite see the Pope’s role).
Maybe it just snowballed on them. I too tend to think it was some kind of accident but, if it was, I can’t see how they got things together so quickly. But, then again, I’m not them, of course.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
940 coolandcalm
The intention is to involve the McCanns, when someone says ‘oh no, we dont have a little three year old’ they are hoping Kate will say ‘thats ok, she wasnt really there on that day, we changed the date on the camera…oh shit…GERRY!’
January 28th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
939
Ian Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
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Pick and chose: I have dual nationality(2 passports):french and swiss.
All my children are dual national,apart for my son who is the great beneficiary of 3…..The girls have 2 as well but different….ejem…just a bit unusual but thats on account of my strange life…..
I am not telling you about the paper work tho” through the years!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I cannot for the life of me think of one good reason, why the Portuguese would not want to reveal all. That is unless, they themselves are covering something up.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
938 Sledgehammer
I loved that post!
Got you.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
936 Chloe Spain
Im not sure they caused the fuss, I think it was others who started it all off.
However, as a distraction its excellent, dont you think?
January 28th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Stevo 860 said….
A cynical view would be that the PJ are going to wait until May 3 and re-create the Pool Photo scene to see if it really was fake!
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How? no-one knows what the weather will be like on May 3rd, the sun/moon will have different alignments, Madeleine has disappeared and the others are in Rothley.
How on earth can it be recreated?
January 28th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
933
jo
Your English is 103% better than my portuguese (are you portuguese?).
January 28th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Ian, stick to reading the Beano and studying Murphy’s Law, your opinions are of no account to me. Once again you confuse the size of your intellect with that of your overbearing ego, but there again that has always been the way with you.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
932
paperboy Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
we know what happens in media or has happened recently!
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Please,dont send any report anywhere for Anorak”s sake!!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Ian 924
I was, of course, talking about a stranger abduction. If they were party to her abduction, the scenario changes. But, if this were the case, I don’t think they would have kicked up such a hoo-ha about it. It would have been better just to let the matter fade away with time, as happens in so many other cases.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
926 Sledgehammer
Actually I’m going to answer that.
Political intervention from the UK is a mooted reason, but political intervention from within Portugal at the media frenzy it might cause is very likely - get the neglectful bastards out of the Algarve - I can imagine it being said (in portuguese of course!).
January 28th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
914 Peter O Says:
“Certainly. Just as any woman who becomes a victim of rape - say while passing a lonesome location and wearing a cute skirt - can be charged for being accomplice for rape - for allowing (by appearing on a lonesome location) and even inviting (by wearing a cute skirt) for the crime.
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Am I reading what you posted incorrectly?”
If I use this smiley
, I try to indicate irony.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
924
Ian Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
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Ian, I agree with you. In the first instance they are totally guilty for leaving their children unattended because if they hadnt - following THEIR famous idea of abduction- Madeleine would still be alive.But we know this.
I was saying this trying to work things out with my 2 neurones and my poor english
January 28th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I wonder if any other Mozilla users have noticed this today:
I’ve been logging on several times a day to Anorak for weeks now.
I’ve been using Mozilla for years.
Just now for the first time ever, Mozilla tried to tell me with a popup , via Google that the site I was viewing ( anorak) was a threat ! a phishing site! I’m not prone to paranoia BUT it sure sounds like CM dirty tricks to me. I clicked on a link and sent a report to Google stressing the worthiness of this site in its quest for truth.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
926 Sledgehammer
Oh Jesus Christ give us strength - its the wannabe lawyer.
Just you concentrate on the massive flaws in the least likely theory of all, stranger abduction and then we will bother answering your stupid narrow minded questions.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
926 Sledgehammer Says: January 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
can’t say no. Inspector Amaral allegedly invited his prosecutor to have KM taken into custody for that very crime, why did he refuse. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=485977&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
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All might be revealed in the fullness of time. Assuming it ever suits the Portuguese authorities to do so.
January 28th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
926
Sledgehammer
Never heard that !!
I suppose it’s more lies from the tabloids
I’ve to go now
Till later
January 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
921
Chloe Spain
Of course not, the idea is ludicrous!
January 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Mods and Admin
Evening campers,
take it most have had a crap Monday? so lets not make it worse and shall we try for a pleasant Monday evening?
Glasses filled big smiles,just imagine the gruesome death of your worst enemy if it helps any….
aw fU6king hell I’m not sodding Pollyanna, hello you lot….
January 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
can’t say no. Inspector Amaral allegedly invited his prosecutor to have KM taken into custody for that very crime, why did he refuse. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=485977&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
January 28th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
919
Ian
I don’t have the book here. to tell what is the # in the Portuguese law for this case
But, i know,that the kids would be taking aay from them
Acording the Portuguese ,for the simple fact ,they left them alone not once but several nights ,if they were my kids , they would take the children from me !!