Madeleine McCann: Four, Three Men, DNAboost And Risk
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY STAR: “Cops slam pics of Maddie suspects – Innocent people are put at ‘risk’”
“Four” people who look like the drawings inspired by holidaymaker Gail Cooper have now been questioned by police
So says the Star. Although on closer inspection Jose Marques plus Joaquim Agostinho plus a Portuguese builder in Gibraltar makes three, not four
Celebrity criminologist Francisco Moita Flores says: “It is manipulation and propaganda.” No, not the Star’s reporting, rather the sketches
DAILY MAIL: “Fourth man questioned in Maddie e-fit probe”
When is an e-fit a drawing? Compare and contrast
The Mail sees the Portuguese builder questioned and then freed. “At least” three other men have been questioned
THE SUN: “SUPER DNA ‘WILL CLEAR McCANNS – They welcome new-style forensic tests”
A tiny sample is, reportedly, found in the McCanns’ Renault Scenic hire car. How did it get there? From her clothes, say the McCanns. “Another theory was that Maddie’s younger brother and sister may have similar DNA,” says the Sun
And there’s a new test. It’s called DNAboost. DNAboost “can separate or ‘clarify’ profiles and unravel tiny samples”
With DNAboost what you thought had gone comes back with a bang!
DAILY MIRROR (online): “McCann pics fury”
Always the “fury”
Police in Portugal “claim Kate and Gerry McCann are hindering the probe into missing Madeleine by releasing sketches of the possible kidnapper.
One detective says the drawings were too vague and could “identify dozens or hundreds of people”
“But McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell hinted more sketches could be on the way ‘if we get any more information’”
THE INDEPENDENT: “Alastair Campbell: The Cudlipp Lecture”
“In an era of more pages, more space, more access, more talk, there is less said and done that is truly memorable. Even in Dacre’s apologia he could only draw on Stephen Lawrence – again - as the story where he felt the Mail made an impact and did some good. Similarly, in his Mactaggart Lecture Jeremy Paxman said the BBC constantly pointed to Planet Earth as evidence of good TV combining with good ratings, but did so precisely because it is a rarity. And with every front page screaming headline that doesn’t quite deliver the big story, every exclusive that isn’t, every whooshing breaking news that isn’t really breaking news at all, every new twist in the McCann case that isn’t a new twist at all, the public gets a little wiser every time”
We recognise the spin, says Mr Campbell – “Media spin to fill media space.” And we might even recognise the irony…
Madeleine McCann: A media feeding frenzy
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January 30th, 2008 at 8:48 am
NOT TOO LONG AGO, SOMEWHERE IN ROTHLEY LANCS, JUST_ME AND BRANDON WERE DISCUSSING KATE MCCANN…………………………………..
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=twXgzm2vuRg&feature=related
January 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
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agw Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am 771
Chloe Spain Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 8:27 am
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Just caught these last two but absolutely must go now……
To agw - you did read some of the things that were said to Ann at the time didn’t you ? One poster in particular was beyond a joke, I-don’t-believe-them was his tag I believe. I know everyone has their own opinions of things and Ann long ago learned what reactions the word “Medium” would evoke. I will pass on your message anyway
Chloe…thanks very much for your sentiments, I will pass those on too and I know she will be very flattered. Yes - it was Christine, and so far she has been there or thereabouts in what she has come up with, if I remember rightly she mentioned the dilapidated farmhouse, the fact that there would be “clues to follow” which we are happy to think was the towel and so on so we hope more comes right but don’t really expect that Madeleine is going to be found alive….nice to think she would but not likely…now I really must go, thanks again
January 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
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Brandon Flours Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Garth
great link !!! thanks
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Yeah no problem. Apologies its not quite up to the monster and kate mimicing posts but hey………
January 30th, 2008 at 8:33 am
cmon jaqui
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=511200&in_page_id=1811
January 30th, 2008 at 8:30 am
772 - lol ok
January 30th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Garth
great link
!!! thanks
January 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am
just me
I am back armed with my link tool gun ready to use my powers to solve crimes!!!
C u after school run, dog walk, and a visit to a neighbour !!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:27 am
757 Kiwi
Hello Kiwi,
I don’t actually believe very much in psychics, mediums, etc. but I thought Ann was a good poster and, like just_me, I found her posts interesting. There is so much speculation in this case and so many theories - she (and her medium friend - was she called Christine?) are probably as likely to be right as anyone else.
So, I too send my best wishes and thank you for posting.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Kiwi said
I have a friend who used to post on here quite a bit, she has a friend who is a Medium …. people were really nasty to her ( Ann) so she doesn’t post any more …. she said this may stir things.
Admin: If Ann’s friend is a good medium, perhaps she may be right about the stirrings. However, the Moderators are here to, among other things, stop bullying. So, you may tell Ann she is free to post here whenever she wants.-agw
January 30th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Administrator: What? This is very poor and a nonsense for Anorak readers. Not at all worthy of an Anorak contributor.
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Would you prefer it in Portuguese or shall we just leave it in double dutch?
Administrator: If you are posting tripe and garbled translations like this it is not worth the effort! Do not do it at all if it can not be done properly. If you attempt to post in any other language it will be blocked. -agw
January 30th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Is there any news today over there??
January 30th, 2008 at 8:11 am
kiwi - bye for now x
January 30th, 2008 at 8:09 am
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just_me Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Kiwi - OK. pass on my best wishes to her. Lets hope Maddy is found soon, dead or alive, we all need closure dont we.
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Will do…and - yes - we all need to find out what has happened to Madeleine after all this time and all the hoo-ha surrounding the case. What strange things it has all thrown up, especially about people and their realities. Catch up with you all later….work calls !!!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Correio de manha (today)
Actualidade 2008-01-30 - 00:30:00 Inquiry: Order of interrogation nor had still left Lisbon Office of the attorney general ties up to PJ Darren Staples/Reuters After all, the interrogations to the friends of the responsible couple had still not left Lisbon While high of the Judiciary one had all lamented to the cm the “silence” of the English authorities throughout the month, the British services of justice had undone the mystery yesterday: they had not received “any order from contribution so that the friends of the McCann are made interrogatory”. E lacked to contactar Procuradoria-Geral of the Republic - that, after all, it confirms the impensável for the PJ. The letters had not followed exactly. In the beginning of the year already they had assured to the cm that the requesting letters finally were in England. The document is armed with “special importance” in the inquiry because it contains the sets of ten of questions to make to the eight potential witnesses of the night of the crime - in 3 of May. The Judiciary one delayed months in the elaboration of the letters. It even opened the quarrel of all the questions to the British authorities - for force of a complex translation for English of some terms. E still counted on “a support of the Eurojust in the preparation of the letters”, confirmed to the cm the Portuguese representative in the agency of the European Union for the judiciary cooperation. Only that the solicitor-generality-aid, Lopes of the Mota, also confirms that the support of the Eurojust “already finished it has some time. E the sending of the letters is made to break “of the official communication between the PGR and the Home Office” - the British services of justice. One month after high responsible of the PJ already counting on the sending of the order for interrogation, saw PGR, here it is the reply of the Home Office, yesterday to the afternoon, our periodical: “politics is not ours to comment the individual cases, but we do not receive any order from contribution [ of Portugal ] in the inquiry to the McCann couple”. Still hours before responsible high one of the PJ guarantee to the cm that such “impossible” age - how much very the requesting letters had had another destination, in England, that not it Home Office. But to the beginning of the night we wasted all the doubts with a clarification of official source of the PGR: “the requesting letters will be sent through the judicial cooperation of Procuradoria-Geral of the Republic, finishing themselves its sending”. They continue in Lisbon and the couples friends of the McCann for interrogating. DETAILS APPREHENSIONS STOPS For beyond the interrogations to the four couples friends of the McCann, who had passed vacation with the couple in the Beach of the Light, the Judiciary one also asked for in the requesting letters that were apprehended objectos staffs to the parents of Maddie - between which the daily one where Kate has described the behavior of its older son. SUSPENDED ACCUSATION An eventual accusation of the Public prosecution service the Kate and Gerry McCann also is suspended in the cabinets of the PGR in Lisbon - the interrogations to the friends of the couple only can lead the PJ to a new battery of suspected questions to the two.
Administrator: What? This is very poor and a nonsense for Anorak readers. Not at all worthy of an Anorak contributor.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Kiwi - OK.
pass on my best wishes to her. Lets hope Maddy is found soon, dead or alive, we all need closure dont we.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am
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just_me Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Kiwi - I wish she would post here again, I for one was interested in what she had to say. Glad you chose to post for her.
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Thanks for that !! I would like to pass it on at an appropriate moment but she will probably blat me upside the head for posting !! I will keep you up to date if she doesn’t feel she can “come back” for the moment. I do know she reads the postings so she is not entirely “gone” as it were. I do feel - however - that if any of what her friend said comes to pass, she may just do a “…told you so…” post !!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am
come on peeps wakey wakey!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:02 am
I’m still spooked by watching the links from Brandon Flours and Grand Finale last night. Glad I only saw them this morning or no doubt I would of had nightmares!
January 30th, 2008 at 8:00 am
morning all btw
January 30th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Kiwi - I wish she would post here again, I for one was interested in what she had to say. Glad you chose to post for her.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Sledgehammer witters:
January 29th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
“”Home Secretray Jacqui Smith, urging her to give maximum help to the PJ in their efforts to solve this suspicious death.””++++I distinctly remember Duncan R requesting for clarification about this statement, has any been forthcoming, about and to whom this statement refers.
Mods & Admin……….Can I expect an answer to a pertinent question, or are some more equal than others, gone fishing.
Administrator: Right you’ve got my attention. Not always a wise thing to do. What question? and I would be very, very careful about referring to me or others as being in any way related to Animal Farm. Particularly as I am meeting with George Orwell’s son in approx 15 minutes.
I would also point out strongly neither I or other Moderators are here to answer your questions.-agw
January 30th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I have a friend who used to post on here quite a bit, she has a friend who is a Medium and long-term posters will probably remember her foretellings. Not going to get involved in all of that as some people were really nasty to her ( Ann) so she doesn’t post any more but she says the latest is that Madeleine will be found ” in the second month ” so we assume that is February. I said I’d post it but she said not to bother as I would only stir things up and if it didn’t happen I would get the same treatment she did. I - however - believe that not everyone on here is as bad as some of those who posted things to her which she showed me.
Admin: If Ann’s friend is a good medium, perhaps she may be right about the stirrings. However, the Moderators are here to, among other things, stop bullying. So, you may tell Ann she is free to post here whenever she wants.-agw
January 30th, 2008 at 7:55 am
So not only have the PJ failed to look for Maddy and smeared the names of the McCanns they are now ‘aving a go at Jacqui Smith? Bunch of arsewipes. And going on some of last nites posts , you can add a few more to that category!
January 30th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Stevo and Ian, last year I read over and over in several sources that the McCanns themselves stated they had been to PDL previously, liked it, and that is why they holidayed there again. I thought this was well known, but possibly it is another aspect that was later edited out of the news reports. If so, that is all the more reason to suspect something about it, IMO.
As for Gail Cooper, using 192.com and other “people searchers” will retrieve enough information to show her maiden name, and to show her connection to a man (other than Dr JR Cooper) with that surname who is in turn possibly connected to the nuclear issue. It’s a bit too much of a coincidence, but it is speculation, so I will not mention the man’s name here.
I’m not sure why my comments on Amanda Mills were edited, because the information about her is freely available from the Cascade Ice Rink webpages — she is their PR person. Other info is also freely available, such as her husband Ryan and her interest in flyball, the creation of a limited company in mid-July, etc. Nothing secret or speculative about that. She herself wrote the entries which included mention of her whole family (google amanda mills and flyball).
Nor is there anything speculative about Paul Gordon’s participation on the Sheffield council — the minutes of the meetings are all on the web. There is mention of his brewery connection, etc because in the minutes people were questioning him about conflict of interest in some of the decision-making.
I think it is fair to wonder about Dr JR Cooper, since he is the chair of COMARE. So we would naturally wonder how many COMARE-related people were in PDL besides Gerry McCann.
Is he related to Gail Cooper , or not? That much is a fair question to ask (without assertion) and to expect an answer from Team McCann. But no one will ask them. I wonder why?
Gail Cooper did more than make a witness statement to police. She spoke to the press 9 months later, expressing dissatisfaction with the police. She visited Rothley! She took a trip back to Portugual for the purpose of publicity. imho
January 30th, 2008 at 6:59 am
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Sledgehammer Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
“”Home Secretray Jacqui Smith, urging her to give maximum help to the PJ in their efforts to solve this suspicious death.””++++I distinctly remember Duncan R requesting for clarification about this statement, has any been forthcoming, about and to whom this statement refers.
Mods & Admin……….Can I expect an answer to a pertinent question, or are some more equal than others, gone fishing.
Administrator: Right you’ve got my attention. Not always a wise thing to do. What question? and I would be very, very careful about referring to me or others as being in any way related to Animal Farm. Particularly as I am meeting with George Orwell’s son in approx 15 minutes.#
I would also point out strongly neither I or other Moderators are here to answer your questions.-agw
January 30th, 2008 at 6:03 am
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In My Opinion
January 30th, 2008 at 4:19 am
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temporary Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 3:53 am
But can the portuguese prosecutors really be as spineless and bowing to foreign pressure as suggested by some posters in that forum? yes, absolutely. CIA flighsts to Guantanamo, Gordo pressure to Socrates, Bush and Blair to Durão.
To the point of stalling the procedure before even the british bureaucrats get their chance to stall it? yes, bureaucracy is our middle name the last is Silva.
There has to be some better explanation right? I wished.
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temporary Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 3:59 am
747 It was through that profile that I had made the association in the first place. [...]
there’s a connection. if you are still in Porto go and see some exhibitions.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:59 am
747 It was through that profile that I had made the association in the first place. But I can not make much of it yet because of my (yet) rudimentary knowledge of Portuguese.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Thank you for pointing me there. If that is the case, it is disappointing in the sense that we are even farther from charges eventually being pressed than we would have thought.
But can the portuguese prosecutors really be as spineless and bowing to foreign pressure as suggested by some posters in that forum? To the point of stalling the procedure before even the british bureaucrats get their chance to stall it? There has to be some better explanation right?
January 30th, 2008 at 3:50 am
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temporary Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 2:37 am
if you see the profile in blogger you’ll get a clue
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can’t say no Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 2:26 am
thank you I was coming here to post the CM article
I believe this (leak) is a way of PJ pressuring the PGR to make a move. Hopefully.