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MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann

THE SUN: “Maddie resort ‘perv’ snaps Brit”

“A suspected pervert who fled the resort where Maddie McCann vanished is taking photos of Britney Spears in LA, The Sun can reveal.

“Christian Ridout, 32, is wanted for questioning in Praia da Luz, Portugal, for allegedly trying to groom a 12-year-old girl”

DJ Shifty..?

“But for several months Ridout has used the name Dexter Troy to work as a paparazzo in Hollywood, where he has trailed the likes of Britney, David Beckham and Kiefer Sutherland”

Says Ridout: “These allegations are ridiculous. At the time of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance I was in London. I have not been to Portugal for three years”

But Britney Spears. Madeleine McCann. Both in the same story. Remarkable stuff at the Sun. has Ridout every taken a picture of Princess Diana? We demand to be told…

DAILY MIRROR: “McCann: Clear our name bid”

“Kate and Gerry McCann are planning a formal appeal to be cleared as suspects over missing daughter Madeleine, it was revealed yesterday. Lawyers for the couple, both 39, in Portugal and Britain, held talks to decide the timing of an application to lift their ‘arguido’ status”

McCanns talks with lawyers – read all about it!

Madeleine McCann: Cleudo for your armchair

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Châtelaine says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

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Bâtman Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
” [...] Wonder if those ’screaming contradictions’ would include the statements of other people who said that, for example, Jane Tanner never left the table all evening!”
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There must be many contradictions, screaming or not …
I”m all thrilled and excited at the idea that the PJ may really be [re-] interviewing.

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Bâtman says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

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Merci bien! But of course you started le chic trend avec son nom.
Congratulations on your win today (rugby).

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Châtelaine says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

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Bâtman Says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Bonjour Brândon! Ça va?
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You’re funny!

really …

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Bâtman says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

Bonjour Brândon! Ça va?

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Bâtman says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

495 Gandolf

Wonder if those ’screaming contradictions’ would include the statements of other people who said that, for example, Jane Tanner never left the table all evening!

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mrs pigeon aka brandon f says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

batman

bonjour

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Bâtman says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

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Thank you. Very interesting.
If I were a McC and innocent, I would be on the first plane back to Portugal to talk to the PJ, answer their questions and get my name cleared.

If I were a McC and not innocent, I would be on my unregistered mobile phone to the other Tapparati to go over our statements/McTimelines once more and then phone Gordie to tell him to give Jacqui S the nod and allow the PJ to visit. Once our names are cleared then we could fly straight off to Hollywood to further exploid our daughter’s fate.

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Gandolf says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/09/wmaddy109.xml

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Châtelaine says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

I wear my hat and head with pride too

Wazza happening? Is it really confirmed that the PJ are on their way ???!

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Bâtman says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

Hi Baby. Glad you like the â. Adds an air of sophistication and âuthority, I feel…

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BabyJane says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

Bâtman, your little new hat is such a charm. It’s the dernier cri in Paris, isn’t it?

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lilith says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

http://ngin.tripod.com/pants400.jpg
According to reliable sources within the investigation it was the terrible smell of burning pants that gave Kate away.
But sources close to the Mccanns insist the smell came from the rotting lamb racks Kate had to store there because the garbage men were on a strike during their all expenses paid stay in the 700 a week villa.

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xklamation says:
February 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

Long but useful reading . A summary of current events in Portugal.

Is the PJ going to shelve the Madeleine case?

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-pj-going-to-shelve-madeleine-case.html

Under the new Penal Code it would not be required to make the McCanns as arguidos

When Kate McCan was heard on the in September, at the Department of Criminal Investigation of Portimão of the PJ, several inspectors wanted to arrest her. However, the public prosecutor of Portimão, José Magalhães e Menezes, objected to that. Even so, and already after Gerry and Kate have returned to the United Kingdom, some researchers involved in the process maintained the conviction that they have evidence that could lead to the preventive arrest of the couple. Only the political pressure from the British has prevented them from going further.

On the day in which the PJ decided to hold tight the siege to the McCanns, with searches, expert examinations and interrogations of 11 hours to Kate for example, “there wasn’t another hypothesis, only to constitute them as arguidos” – we were on the 7th of September and the new Portuguese Penal Code came into effect a week later. The current law obliges that there must be “established suspicions” so that someone is given arguido status and, up to the 15th of September, “any suspicions that existed obliged to that constitution”.

The suspects were benefited with the measure taken and “the investigation was damaged”. If the MP had waited for a week for the new law, “it would be possible to keep them as witnesses and they would be more cooperatives with the proceeding inquest”.

In the interpretation of some inspectors, when the national director of the Judicial Police talked about “precipitation” in the constitution of Madeleine’s parents as defendants, that still remain subjected to term of identity and residence in England, he did it to “see what the reactions of the McCanns and also of the Portuguese would be.

A Possible Closure?

The Judiciary Police will have to close and shelve the investigation on Madeleine’s disappearance, since there are no new developments and the police did not manage to get sufficiently strong proofs to explain what happened to the child in the last 3rd of May. The couple will only remain arguidos in the case, if the answers to the rogatory letters, which were sent to Britain this week, reveal any outstanding contradictions to previous statements.

Expresso says that Alípio Ribeiro tried to Prepare the Public Opinion

The declarations of the director of the PJ, Alípio Ribeiro, were made to prepare the public opinion for this conclusion, in accordance with today’s headline of the weekly newspaper Expresso.

According to Jose Miguel Júdice, former Head of the Lawyers Bar, there is a possibility in which the director of the PJ is anticipating a “hypothetical failure of the investigation.”

“Alípio Ribeiro was aware of the impact of his own words. Somewhat after the controversy following Alípio interview to the newspaper ‘Público’ and RR, he began a careful plan of limitation of damages “, writes, today, the Expresso, about the declarations of the director of the PJ where he said that the constitution of Madeleine’s parents as arguidos was done in “haste”.

According to the newspaper, Alípio Ribeiro contacted the investigators and the director of Criminal Investigation Officers’ Union (ASFIC) of the PJ, Carlos Anjos, to explain his words. The strategy of the general director of the PJ was to prepare the public opinion for the closure of the process and not to upset the persons in charge for the process.

After a meeting between Carlos Anjos, the union leader, and Alípio Ribeiro, the PJ national director, tempers have calmed. But the matter still has to be cleared up. “We have heard the director’s explanations and will continue to, as expected, clear things up. This matter must be discussed internally and not in the newspapers. Everybody has a right to speak, and sometimes they do not express themselves clearly. There are bigger problems within the PJ than the Maddie case, with all the respect it deserves. I am certain that my colleagues involved in the process are doing all they can to find out what happened”, said Mr. Anjos.

When asked about the fact that Mr. Ribeiro has not been removed from office following his comments, the union leader’s reply was simple: “If he was dismissed, that would be something to talk about. This way, all remains as it was. There is no news.”

PJ’s No.2 says “it was a misunderstanding” and the Opposition explores Alípio’s statements

On the other hand, the joint national director of the PJ, Baltazar Pinto, said, yesterday, that there had been a mistake of “timing” and that gave rise to a “misunderstanding”, concerning Alípio Ribeiro statements. “They were a misunderstanding, as he was referring to the timing of their constitution as arguidos, which will be clarified in due time”, he said.

One week after Alípio Ribeiro made these statements; the controversy is still very strong in Portugal and has led to meetings of the attorneys for the McCann to consider further steps to ensure that their clients are no longer considered formal suspects by the Portuguese authorities.

This controversy has dotted the Government and especially the Portuguese Justice Minister Alberto Costa, who will have to appear requested by the CDS/PP, next Wednesday before the Parliament to give explanations about the support he gave to the statements made by the director of the PJ.

Portugal’s President Aníbal Cavaco Silva felt that he should “not publicly comment on the statements of the Director of the PJ.”

The Lawyers make a move

Carlos Pinto de Abreu and Rogério Alves, the Portuguese lawyers, have been in contact through video conferences with their British counterparts Michael Caplan and Angus McBride. “Lawyers were discussing whether to pass a joint strategy to request that the McCanns cease to be arguidos and for the case review” said Clarence Mitchell.

Kate and Gerry McCann, as such, might end up being freed of their arguido status and the case will be shelved, states the newspaper Expresso. “After the analyses to the biological traces found in the car and in the apartment of the McCanns were found to be inconclusive and once the investigations done by the police “reinforcements” sent to the Algarve had not found anything new, the PJ has no conclusive proof or evidence against Madeleine’s parents”, adds the article.

The Portuguese weekly “Expresso” suggests that the last opportunity to keep alive the process would be the existence of contradictions by the McCanns and their friends, who where with them on the night the child disappeared, during the new interrogation that Portugal has asked to carry out in the UK.

Everything depends now on the answers of Maddie’s parents…

The PJ has no conclusive evidences against the McCann couple. They will only remain arguidos in the process if the rogatory letters reveal major contradictions with their first statements. Despite the fact that the team investigating Maddie’s disappearance has been the same since the beginning (lead in the field by Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida and Inspector João Carlos Pereira), with only the coordinator Gonçalo Amaral being replaced by Paulo Rebelo, there have been no developments in the PJ’s lines of investigation. The case has been reviewed by homicide specialists, but without results. The process was reassessed by homicide specialists, however this was not effective.

After the parents had been constituted arguidos in the inquiry, the process was declared on the last 14th of January of special complexity, which allowed extending the term of the secret of Justice for more three months.

…and on the Home Office acceptance of the Rogatory Letters

The rogatory letters for the purpose of re-questioning the McCanns and their seven friends who dined with them at a restaurant in the Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, Algarve, have now been forwarded for a second time to the British Home Office, the equivalent of our Ministry for the Interior.
This comes after, as 24horas reported last week, the first letters were returned for merely bureaucratic reasons. The British authorities were of the opinion that the request should be formalised directly by the Public Prosecutor Office and not via Eurojust. An official Prosecutor’s Office communication stated that it was trying to solve out a problem which had nothing to do, and that had led to a climate of tension between the Eurojust and the Prosecutor Office officials, but it has now been resolved. Now, Prosecutor Magalhães e Menezes, who is in charge of the process, is waiting for green light from Britain to send a PJ team there.

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