Madeleine McCann: ‘Screaming Contradictions’, Scotland Yard And Francisco Marco Interviewed
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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 9:39 pm
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I must admit im keeping one eye open as i sleep these days 
noseycow Says:
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i bloody hope not
February 10th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
494
:-*
noseycow Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
mic - very funny i thought i was the only person who suffered from cba syndrome!!!
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I may suffer from it too. But would need to know first what it is…!
I can do the ¨ˆ´`ç , etc
as well as the
but what is CBA????
February 10th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
she lies near water, the three involved are known to her
February 10th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18811816&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=619050&rfi=6
February 10th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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can’t say no Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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i wonder if the mctwisted have booked this years holiday yet????
February 10th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Red - did she read your marriage proposal that you posted?
February 10th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
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thanks for that chatelaine, i keep telling mrs RR that this site is educational. Funny really she keeps tell me “bollocks”
February 10th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
mic -pmsl
where can i buy those??? 
February 10th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
494
hi Noseycow,
I suffer all the time, and have found that it can be treated with a liberal dose of ‘fukkum’ powders…
February 10th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
495 RR
Sorry
February 10th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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pppy Says:
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February 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
mic - very funny i thought i was the only person who suffered from cba syndrome!!!
February 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
RR
Yep
We all know ,who is damaging this case
But ,there will be a lot of leaks
The problem ,is who to trust
I for myself ,know who
February 10th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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RedRooster Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
“good evening to you chatelaine, can you tell me how you do these lovely symbols like the one above your beautiful name ”
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& good evening to you [RR?]. No big secret. Use key “alt” in the following combinations
alt u gives ¨
alt i gives ˆ
alt e gives ´
alt `gives `
then type with each of them the letter you need afterwards
like
alt u & u gives ü
alt e & e gives é
alt i & i gives î
alt u & a gives ä
etc
more to learn
but better practice these ones first
February 10th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
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pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
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dont worry i havnt got a clue how to do them anyway. Dont worry about me anyway i expect to be put into moderation as it happens most days anyway…
February 10th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Now ,remember what Mr. Amaral told about the British Police
February 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Now, after anorak days, it finally dawns on me that that goat from a Russian folk tale (wolf and 7 kids) might know much more about her 7 kids disappearing than it is claimed in the folklore.
She straight away knew it was Wolf, she was white and thin, and she never got to prison for neglecting her 7 (!) kids! Ther was no bodily fluids found, but 7 pairs of horns and hooves. Is this a firm evidence or not a shred of evidence do you think, Clarence?
February 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
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lilith Says
From SOSMaddie
Dai Davis makes a fool of himself again :Scotland Yard is already on the case.
10.02.2008
“I do not see what Scotland Yard can do more”
“That is ridiculous! I do not see what Scotland Yard can do more because we have participated in the survey since the first moments,” says a senior police officer called to the Leicestershire comment on the statements of former officer responsible for the protection of royal family, Dai Davies on Sunday Express.
Dai Davies, now a consultant for various private companies, argues that it is time “to call that Scotland Yard take the lead” Investigations, Portugal, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, “analyzing the potential suspects and questioning if necessary. ”
It Dai Davies, an acquaintance of Clarence Mitchell of time or it was BBC correspondent with the royal family, which had already taken the defense of Gerry and Kate McCann in several British media, consider that the fact that the couple had left her children alone in the apartment on several occasions and for several hours, was not an abandonment.
“Whatever it is the outcome of this investigation, I believe that the most urgent task is to give our Portuguese counterparts the opportunity to continue their work interviewing witnesses they deem necessary,” said the same officer in Leicester.
Method 3: “sniffers fly”
Today, the British daily Times returns to Metodo 3, the Spanish detective agency, Marita Fernandez Lado hired by McCann, explaining that the choice of the couple would have been made according to the linguistic and cultural liaison between the Spain and Portugal.
“If we had taken the British with their big boots, or, even worse, Americans, we would have slammed the door in the figure, and it is very likely that we would be accused of having obstructed the investigation because, technically, it is illegal in Portugal to conduct a parallel investigation, “would have explained to Clarence Mitchell Times.
According to the spokesman for McCann, the National Director of the Judicial Police, Alipio Ribeiro, “is as if he was not aware,” ignoring 3 Metodo seen their insignificance.
The article in the Times - excellent I must admit-reveals that Francisco Marco, one of the agency, said that the amount of 70,000 euros paid monthly by the fund Madeleine, is not high, but purely “symbolic “.
The Times still puts his finger on the lack of results from Metodo 3 and liaison for the agency to several media Barcelona in Spain, with Marco Francisco, which claims to have an affair to remember.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
484 RR
I have been rumbled, sure they gave me some pointers in childcare……tbh I didn’t like having to stick my sons cuddle blanket out of his reach though. that upset him.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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can’t say no Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
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losing faith very quickly im afraid…trying hard to keep the faith
February 10th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
480 RR
Be careful with those symbols. Remember I got shunned to mods last night for adding a big fat cedilla over my Y
xx
February 10th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
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pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
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have you been taking lesson off the “good doctors”
February 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
RR,
xxxx xxx
Be back soon.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Guys ,i have tobe carefull
look at
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agw
Just keep trusting in the P.J.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
462
G’day Duncan. ..shame about the Welsh!
(Rugby related…nothing racist, honest…)
Just nosing around and got tempted into a smartarse comment (smartarse?.. moi?). Don’t worry, have now got a bad case of New Variant CBA and will return to more familiar territory.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
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good evening to you chatelaine, can you tell me how you do these lovely symbols like the one above your beautiful name
February 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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pppy Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
467 Chatelaine
[...] Bad: 7 year old broke bone in foot, and needs cast, and 5 year old has fingernail hanging off and infected…. [...]
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Hm… as we say in Holland, “when it doesn’t rain, it pours” …
But bones swill heal, fingernails will grow. Courage!
February 10th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Oh, I forgot one more episode re my dad: at the age of about 5 he decided to put his head inside the chair (in between the planks) and got stuck and was playing “a good boy” quietly until his mum returned!
February 10th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
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Châtelaine
News ?
Take a look at the lawyers , that the team has
I already post , today
February 10th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
467 Chatelaine
Well you are way to good with all the symbols….I can speak french but I cannot write it for toffee!
Good: Weather been stunning here today
Bad: 7 year old broke bone in foot, and needs cast, and 5 year old has fingernail hanging off and infected….
Goodness, I am so negligent!!!!!!!