Madeleine McCann: ‘Screaming Contradictions’, Scotland Yard And Francisco Marco Interviewed
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY EXPRESS (front page): “MADELEINE – News call for Scotland Yard probe”
Are Scotland Yard for hire? Benazir Bhutto. And McCann? Have the discovered who killed Rhys Jones yet?
“Retired Chief Superintendent Dai Davies, former head of the Yard’s Royal Protection unit, says that if the Yard can send detectives to probe the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, then they should also fly to Portugal to try and solve the Madeleine mystery”
He says:
“The Portuguese investigation has quite simply not solved the crime and it is now looking increasingly likely that it will be shelved. I would suggest that this is the time to call on the Yard to take the lead and to get them to form a team of detectives to work on the case”
Retired copper suggests his old boys are the best – Read all about it!
GLASGOW SUNDAY MAIL: “Police Ready To Clear McCanns Over Maddie”
“Police in Portugal are set to clear Kate and Gerry McCann as suspects, it was claimed last night”
A fact claimed by “insiders” who say “officers did not have a shred of evidence against the 39-year-old couple”
The McCanns’ spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, says: “This report is extremely encouraging”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “Kate and Gerry ‘in the clear’”
“Police do not have a shred of evidence against Gerry and Kate McCann and they are set to be cleared as suspects, it was claimed yesterday. The couple’s status as ‘arguidos’ in the case of missing daughter Maddie, four, will be lifted unless they make ‘screaming contradictions’ in a new police quiz, said Portugal paper Expresso”
How does Expresso know? The paper does not say
SUNDAY MIRROR: “McCann cops: No evidence”
“A review of the case by homicide experts from the Judicial Police has turned up no proof that Kate and Gerry McCann played a part in four-year-old Madeleine’s disappearance.
“Attorney General Fernando Pinto Montiero told respected Portuguese newspaper Expresso: ‘The couple’s legal status will be considered at the appropriate moment, depending on various elements still to be obtained’”
Says Expresso: “They will only remain arguidos (suspects) if there are screaming contradictions revealed in the answers to the letters sent to England”
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY: “MCCANNS TO BE CLEARED”
“Last night the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the sooner they are questioned the better”
He says: “There won’t be any screaming contradictions and hopefully the emphasis can then be put on finding Madeleine, who we believe is still alive”
Says the paper: “Legal letters outlining the 40 questions are to be sent to the Home Office this week. Interviews are then likely to be carried out by detectives from Leicestershire police, the McCanns’ local force”
Says Gerry McCann’s brother John McCann: “Any sensible person realises Madeleine was abducted. We didn’t anticipate being in this position after nine months”
THE SUNDAY TIMES: “Madeleine McCann and Metodo 3: Private eyes, public lies”
“Paid £50,000 a month to find Madeleine McCann, the Spanish detective Francisco Marco said he hoped to have her home for Christmas. He issued this photofit of a suspect last month; it set off a media frenzy, but Portuguese police say it has ‘no credibility’. Christine Toomey turns the tables on a private eye who is anything but…
An interview with Francisco Marco. His company is being paid £50,000 a month by the McCann’s fighting fund
“We won’t answer any questions about Maddie. Maddie is off limits – is that understood?” Marco’s cousin Jose Luis, another of the agency’s employees, warns me sternly”
But they are not the police. What can they not talk about the big case? It was Mr Franciso who told he’d find Madeleine by Christmas – last Christmas
“I cannot ask him to clarify what he did say, or whether talking about an ongoing investigation is potentially detrimental. Instead, I am left to discuss the matter with a handful of other private detective agencies in Barcelona, the private-eye capital of Spain. What they tell me is disturbing”
Marco walks in. Does he bring his Maddy dolly? And:
“Marco slaps on the table a 144-page pre-prepared dossier of articles written in the Spanish press about himself and M-3. He goes on to list some of those in the city he says I have already been speaking to about his company. Had my movements been monitored? If so, why would a private detective agency be interested in this at a time when they were supposed to be tirelessly searching for the most famous missing child in the world?”
Fame.
“In most of the many pictures of himself included in the material he hands me”
Metodo 3 is the most famous private detective agency in Europe
“He seems eager to please. He summons a female assistant on several occasions to bring me material, including a book he has recently written, to illustrate what he is talking about. Even when I make it clear this is not necessary – aware that these distractions eat into the time we have to talk – he insists, partly showing off”
Then:
“When I ask about his background, Marco summons her [secretary] to photocopy the first pages of his doctoral thesis on private investigation: he has a master’s degree and a PhD in penal law”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCanns to be cleared as no evidence found”
Attorney General Fernando Pinto Montiero told Expresso: “The couple’s legal status will be considered at the appropriate moment, depending on various elements still to be obtained.”
Madeleine McCann: Money. Speculation. Sensation. A child is missing…
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February 10th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
376 jolie
Its poppy, but there is already one of them posting!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
375
Tony Bennett
Thank you I will
I could spend the whole evening asking you questions and …make you an arguido
HOW can we help?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
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Jolie Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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Well if people were confused I apologise - but my post was in response to “..Just something really really silly, but every family photo of the mccanns shows maddie on the “outside” its like she is an afterthought, never on her mum or dads knees…just on the side….”
My comment was, to put it simply, why show Madeleine with other family members when it is only Madeleine that they are trying to raise awareness of.
I disagree with your final paragraph. I have seen, on here, people making the most outrageous assumptions about Madeleine - just from her pictures - abuse and medical diagnoses are just two examples.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
dcb
362
I saw you point from your previous post:
“If you mean that the pictures were not taken originally for the purpose of publication (?), that doesn’t alter the fact of where MM is included in the picture.”
But I have no idea what you mean.
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Look back at pppy’s post (304?) to which you replied originally. Pppy was commenting on the ’sidelined’ position of MM in the group photographs.
Is this discussion ’smoke and mirrors’ to detract from some of the more important conversations (like Stevo’s and TB’s) being conducted alongside this one?
This is my own last word on this because you obviously are failing to read the posts properly, follow the discussion or make any sense.
“If you mean that the pictures were not taken originally for the purpose of publication (?), that doesn’t alter the fact of where MM is included in the picture.”
But I have no idea what you mean.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
pppy - officially the search was interupted after 4 days so that the team (NOT team mcc of course - who would never be seen to look for a body as this may effect the credability ??? of the fund) review their findings. ie a piece of rope and a stone.
two theories were discussed last week (while i wasted a whole week of annual leave on anorak) - one is perhaps the pj have told them to stop the search? but the pond is in spain isn’t it ??
the second is that team mcc stopped the search as they don’t want maddie found before the pj conduct their second interviews.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
364 Sally
I think you would have noticed the precise terminology they would have used. I am a passionate amateur in this area and i think i would have noticed. Some Portuguese psychologists said a few things, most of them derogatory but there was nothing with any depth.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
373 pppy
I’ll bet!
BTW, what does your name mean/stand for?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
369 jo says (February 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm):
“Tony Bennett - What is going to happen if the McFools refuse to answer the PJ?”
REPLY: Please see my previous answer at Post 318
February 10th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
371
pppy
oh…how I wish justice was done to Madeleine NOW,”not one day”
Somehow,I am still hopeful the PJ will squash them hard…I just cant believe they are going to lift up their stauts…”thank you very much for the hassle,adios” no way we can let it happen
February 10th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
372 jolie
I wish I had never opened my mouth about the photos now!!!!!!!!!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
362 dcb
I think you are going around in circles. Here is your first response to the comments made about the McCann photos:
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dcb Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
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pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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I have a real problem with your comments - the pictures released are to raise awareness of madeleine - not family snaps.
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I think Denzylle was responding to that incorrect last phrase of your post. No matter what the reasons for releasing the photos into the public domain, when they were taken, they were just family snaps.
I don’t see the problem with people trying to analyze the content of the photos and possible family relationships from them. I wouldn’t place too much value in it, but there’s nothing wrong with speculating, imo.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
365 jo
Still, she cannot have disappeared, she will be found one day, fingers crossed, then justice can be done for her.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
bye- man on hill
February 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Tony Bennett
What is going to happen if the mcFools refuse to answer the PJ?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Transmission over. Later dudes.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
DCB - very funny - I personally have not seen a maddie poster - but have seen plenty of pictures of her on the tv… which media is more effective??? news programme 10 mill (approx) veiwers - poster seen by a few thousand at most???? I can tell you which ones are cheaper though as i often print off my own posters for the PTA…
Stevo - you are not telling me that it has taken you 9 months to works out that the fund is a complete scam??? rotfl
Val - i assume that headline is from one of our wonderfully insightful tabloids???
ps ade drops in from time to time - i think he said he was ‘touring’ in europe ?? don’t know when he’s back. I haven’t heard from chenier for a while - hopefully she is off somewhere sunny and quiet to recouperate - while her internet connection gets fixed. - or maybe she’s been arrested for GBH on an orange helpline operative…??
February 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
342 Stevo says (February 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm):
“This is vitally important…Madeleine’s Fund specify the Code of Good Governance as their policy document. I urge you to read it - it’s too long to copy in here but Principle 7 is extremely interesting: Principle 7: “Board openness” - The Board should be open, responsive and accountable to its users, beneficiaries, members, partners and others with an interest in its work…”
REPLY: Yes, very good point. The question is, who - if anyone - ‘polices’ private trusts’? I don’t know. It may be that the Charities Commission do so, or could tell me, or there may be some other monitoring body, maybe the Financial Ombudsman or the Audit Commission or some such body. I will find out when I have a moment next week
February 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
361
pppy
They choked on a bit of spin….euh…I meant rope,alternatively a shark ate them up???
Dont wowwy,they will send Scotland Yard to the rescue and the best of all is that the fund is going to pay for it……
February 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
354
man on a hill
I think maybe they just haven’t identified themselves.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Nosey
How was meeting with your old friend?
I dont like the news at all.
I am disconcerted really…
February 10th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
359
Denzylle Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
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I saw you point from your previous post:
“If you mean that the pictures were not taken originally for the purpose of publication (?), that doesn’t alter the fact of where MM is included in the picture.”
But I have no idea what you mean.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
357 noseycow
Absolutely, actually as you are rather in the know…what happened to the diving team? Have I missed something!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
353 dcb
Course not.
Like I said in my first post on the photos, it was nothing, merely an observation.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
dcb
348
337
Denzylle Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
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I notice you didn’t copy the point of my post which I will repeat “My comment was the pictures that have been “released” for publication - not pictures “taken”.
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I most certainly did. Please refer again to my post 337.
However, I still don’t understand your statement.
My understanding is that the family have chosen to release some photographs showing their daughter from their collection and that all of these, prior to publication, had been ‘family snaps’.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
344 Noseycow
Thanks for that, and nice to hear from you.
Do you know why Ade isn”t posting? and I havn”t seen anything from Chenier either, she was
having trouble with her computer but that was a while ago.
On a humorous note, this was taken from “The Year”s Best (actual) Headlines of 2007
“Miners refuse to work after Death”" (good-for-nothing lazy so-and-sos!!!)
February 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
pppy - i don’t think for a minute that they will be able to walk away from all this without some charges being pressed. perhaps i’ve caught some of out Jo’s optimism, but i think that the pj have given us a story to calm troubled waters and make the interveiws more acceptable to team mcc and the british press, and therefore more likely to happen IMO
If you read what they say - its in the same vein as the comment about the case being shelved.
If there are no discrepancies…. (what does that actually mean??? ) then they may have their aguido status lifted, well of course isn’t that stating the obvious?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
354 man on a hill
lol
February 10th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
331 noseycow
The Fund is a scam. Their main policy document is the Good Governance Guide.
They don’t adhere to the document’s principles.
Here’s an extract from the Code of Conduct of Trustees:
3. Code of Conduct
3.1 Selflessness
Trustees have a general duty to act with probity and prudence in the best interest of [XXXXXX] as a whole. They should not act in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, their friends or the organisation they come from.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
340 Jolie
No worries, i know good psychiatrists are hard to find. I wish one or two would come through here. I think it says a lot for the quality of brain doctors today that none have. Cowards.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
350
pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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I am not trying to catch anybody out.