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 11:48 pm
711
JuneJohnson Says:
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oh come on june do tell….i promise i wont tell a soul.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
711
JuneJohnson Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
” [...] Brandon, dating and sleaze: wasn’t any of us who complained, we were complained at.
Fraid we cannot reveal who the miserable grousing sod was, more’s the pity.”
****
Aha
Voldemort?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Flirters et al.
Know what I think is funny?
I’m crap at flirting in the real world but I’m also crap at it in the virtual world. Basically don’t know how to flirt.
I thought it was supposd to be easier to present alter ego in virtual.
Are there people segmenting us right now?
Am I an anal thinker, you (flirter) an habitual flirt, me nonflirter destined to never be able to flirt, or are the virtual flirters secret wall flowers and I just don’t know how to do it yet.
Anyways Goodnight you devils you.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
711 JuneJohnson
I think we know it wasn’t any of you.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Mods and Admin
Brandon, dating and sleaze: wasn’t any of us who complained, we were complained at.
Fraid we cannot reveal who the miserable grousing sod was, more’s the pity.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
703 yampster
Your suggestion might work better than mine…..
Drinks anybody? Duncan pays the bill!
February 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
yampster,
are you M3?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
yampster - and….. ?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
704
noseycow Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
châtelaine - you do that - if all else fails - i look great in black LOL
*** Black ?
We all look good and slim in black
but
we’re talking a wedding, Nosey …
February 10th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
mrs pigeon,
I came from another culture, where all children at 6-7 went to school on their own, went home, opened doors by a key and waited for their parents to come from work (about 6pm, so about 3 hours on their own). It was part of parental duty to bring up a child so they can cope and stay safe in those circumstances.
To ensure that by 7 your child will be safe doing that, you have to start “training” them when younger.
Nothing ever! happened to any of hundreds of children I knew, when on their own, but there were countless injuries when staying with parents (like cutting themselves when cooking with mums, falling when playing with dads…).
Not working was illegal, if your child was older than 3. Child care was available 7am-7pm for free, but most of parents did not want their children to stay for an afterschool club, so they went home.
Much more dangerous I find that in the UK it is legal for children to cycle on the road unsupervised.
Again, where I am from, it is still illegal to cycle on a road without adult supervision until the age of 14!
February 10th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
701
noseycow
There is now
February 10th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
châtelaine - you do that - if all else fails - i look great in black LOL
February 10th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
697
Totje
Ok!
Pint of Lophraig, anyone?
just a small amount for me please, had a really bad time in Shepherds Bush after too much liquid amber
February 10th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
699
Ciara-Louise Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Châtelaine, Nosey..
When is the hen night? You have to organise it.
***
Would be my pleasure
February 10th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
yamster - is there such a phrase?? ugh care to explain??
February 10th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
694
noseycow Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
aaawaww châtelaine - i think it might be C-Lou’s first time
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Aha
that would change everything
Now let me sleep on it
Will be back with solutions
….
February 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Châtelaine, Nosey..
When is the hen night? You have to organise it.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
simon you recovered from that shocking revelation yet? wine??
February 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Now let’s try to lure Duncan out:
February 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
694
noseycow
Is this what they call cyber-dogging??
February 10th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Well tis one way to get rid of the in-laws
February 10th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
aaawaww châtelaine - i think it might be C-Lou’s first time
February 10th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
688
yampster Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
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February 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
C-Lou
xx
I cannot wait my love, the suspense is killing me
February 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
687
noseycow Says:
February 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
flirting on here? i never noticed
what do you think simon raw silk nightblue or pastels??
châtelaine - unbleached for the bride surely???
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Not sure…
Seems not to be the first alliance
so
actually
more classy
to have bride in dark or vivid colours
and maids in pastel or unbleached
see ?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
684
Dr. Watson
Why? Does he owe you money?
February 10th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
675 Gandolf
Shoot….. I should have been more careful
February 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
685
RedRooster
Oh my God!! Red Rooster is Charley Drake. I thought you were dead
February 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
flirting on here? i never noticed
what do you think simon raw silk nightblue or pastels??
châtelaine - unbleached for the bride surely???
February 10th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Dr watson
Ian
I was a childminder for many years.
Under 8s was a total No -No
but it was considered ok for secondary school for between 3 and 6 pm
8 till 11 was iffy. maybe a shop visit round the corner?
Never was under 8 at any time ever considered
under 5s was unthinkable !!!!!!!!!!!!
What I mean is there was a rule for minders, but not for parents