Madeleine McCann: Scare Stories, Kate McCann’s Job And No Mari Luz
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “FIVE ATTEMPTED KIDNAPS LINK TO MADELEINE CASE”
“Detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are now investigating a spate of attempted child abductions across Portugal.
“At least five kidnap attempts have been reported in the past month, leading officers from the Madeleine team to examine the details for possible connections.”
What of the headline “link” to Madeleine McCann – well, the alleged attempted kidnappings all occurred in Portugal
But “Last week Justice Minister Alberto Costa revealed that the head detective, Paulo Rebelo, was coming to the end of his case”, says the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It’s alarming to hear that this sort of thing can happen, particularly in a country that is so aware of the potential for abduction”
DAILY MIRROR: “Maddy: 5 scares in Portugal”
Police searching for Madeleine McCann are also investigating five attempted child abductions in northern Portugal. They began when a nine-year-old girl was bundled into a car as she got off her school bus. Two more children were attacked last month and last Thursday two men tried to lure a girl of nine into a car. Last Saturday, another child escaped abduction. One police source said: “It is causing a lot of alarm.”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine McCann’s disappearance is ‘linked to a string of child abductions’”
Police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have been alerted over a spate of attempted child abductions in northern Portugal, it has been revealed. At least four children have been targeted in the last month in the region of Coimbra, where a nine-year-old girl escaped from an abductor in December.
It’s five children. The Express and Mirror both say its five
KATE McCANN: “Meanwhile, it is understood Kate McCann is quitting her job as a locum GP to devote her life to children’s charities. Mrs McCann has not returned to work since Madeleine’s disappearance in May and has reportedly told friends she feels she has a lot to offer charity organisations.
THE SCOTSMAN: “Torment of Madeleine’s family ‘is like being crucified’”
Kate McCann’s mother Susan Healey says: “It is almost like being crucified day to day. I read the most stupid things about Kate not crying enough or whatever”
Adding: “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them. If the Portuguese can’t find out what happened to Madeleine, we have to find out. There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance”
Gerry McCann is a “surgeon”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Missing Amy’s parents offer cash reward”
The parents of missing Irish expat Amy Fitzpatrick have offered a cash reward for information on her whereabouts. Franco Rey, spokesman for Amy’s Stepfather David Mahon and Amy’s mum Audrey, said: “A substantial reward is on offer to anyone who can provide reliable information on Amy’s whereabouts. Any information received will be treated within the strictest confidence.”
And:
Dubliner Mr Mahon (36) has also travelled to Tangiers in northern Morocco to investigate the possibility the teenager was snatched and taken to Africa.
Rewards have also been offered for missing Briton Madeleine McCann and missing Spanish girl Mari Luz Cortes. The family of five-year-old Mari Luz, snatched from her home in Huelva in south-west Spain on January 13, is offering €300,000 for information on her whereabouts. Rewards totalling £2.6m were offered within 10 days of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on May 3 last year from the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz.
TYPICALLY SPANISH: “parents of missing Mari Luz are against her image being used in a Madeleine McCann poster campaign”
Mari Luz’s father, Juan José Cortés, said after a meeting with Manuel Chaves, President of the Junta de Andalucía, this weekend, that, while he is not against collaborating in the search for Madeleine and ‘even helping to draw up a poster of all the missing youngsters,’ the lines of investigation into the disappearance of the two young girls are distinct, and are being carried out in two separate countries. EFE [Spanish news agency] said he is considering taking legal action for using his daughter’s image for the campaign.
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February 18th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Jo 897
Yes, the article also said something about that, “there are two Pachecos, the one before the McCanns and the one after.”
But he’s not the only clergyman involved, there’s Fr Hubbard and Fr Seddon and they haven’t reacted that way, they have given many TV interviews etc.
But it seems the McCanns aren’t interested in Fr Pacheco, they are focused on pointing us towards drifters and creepy itinerants.
Curiouser and curiouser…
February 18th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
910
Totje
Rather black methink….
February 18th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
http://esplendordelaforma.blogspot.com/2008/01/el-sensual-mes-de-mayo.html
February 18th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
902
Gandolf
Re blue moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058celljkKk
Like the grease version better, but can’t find it.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Nite Garth
February 18th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
907 Totje
God…I wouldn’t take mine anymore! Been there & washed the T Shirt!!!
February 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
901
jo
Remember the yellow and green period?
It’s not grim, it’s getting colourful!
What’s next?
February 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I meant “let us not dream”
February 18th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
892 Abraham
Maybe it is not true. Someone said that it is not the priest on the picture, but the Anglican parson.
Maybe the newspaper managers are ashamed of printing things which aren’t exactly accurate. No, let us not dram. They couldn’t care less.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
900 Fair
My lips are sealed!
Btw we also often take [one of] our mum[s] with us on a short holiday. And not for babysitting arrangements.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Im off………im sure Csn will be here soon
February 18th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
898
Garth
You said you like gambas???? a la gypsy?
February 18th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
889 Totje Says:
“Though it looked like I made a pass, and you made the goal
”
Admitted.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
895
Fair Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
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But Fair, surely thats far too complex a reason…………..
February 18th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Toetje, don’t forget the blue moon on 2nd may and the mysterious Beltane festival, with sacrifice and much wanton lechery.
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Mods and Admin
Do enlighten us, Gandalf, all about Beltane.
What sacrifice do you mean? and which wanton lechery
February 18th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
896
Totje
Must be right in the “Blue period”
after the “Red Period” which was when everybody was incandescent with rage…..
Now weve entered the “Pink Period”
It looks all grim to me
February 18th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
893 Totje
SSSSSHHHHHH!!!!!
February 18th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Could’ve been Goldfinger too……
February 18th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
894
jo Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
890
Garth
hey hang on!
Cant tell you mate…I face 2 years in and you will pay for it
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Its no problem…………i like a gamble………..
February 18th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
892
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Abraham Zapruder
hmmmm…apparently he is depressed doent go to his favorite bars (
and has nothing to say…
February 18th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Jo,
Are you sure about a blue buggy? I’ve heard about a blue evening dress that’s missing and found by the pj.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
882 Lex
Normally I would agree with you but Saturday night (well till 4.30am Sunday actually!) we were at daughter & son in laws. They said that they had talked about who they would invite for a night out/occasion. They mentioned half a dozen or so couples & then included us. The parents! Well I filled up of course but the point is they might actually have wanted her there. Not to baby sit as others have mentioned but for her company? Just a though.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
890
Garth
hey hang on!
Cant tell you mate…I face 2 years in and you will pay for it
February 18th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Someone’s missing……. and somebody else too!
February 18th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Evening all.
Been away for a few days, but this caught my eye: “POLICE QUIZ PRIEST AGAIN”
Daily Express front page, 20 November I think. Is it me or has the Express now PULLED the story from its website?
I think I have located a copy - says that officers spent “several hours” re-interviewing Fr Pacheco, and “He has moved out of the clerical house he used to share with other priests and now lives with his elderly parents…” “Detectives visited Fr Jose at this parents’ home in Odiaxere about 10 miles from PDL and close to the Barragem da Bravura lake…”
Why would the Express want to take this out of the public domain?
Here is the Daily Mail link.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=494927&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
February 18th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
886
Lex
Ah, there you caught me! Names are my weakest point. I really haven’t got a clue, and to be frank at the moment I feel to lazy to check it.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
883
jo Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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And the sauce of that information jo?
February 18th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
876
Ferdinand
For once I played the innocent dumb blonde, and you fell for it.
Though it looked like I made a pass, and you made the goal
February 18th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
866 Lex Says:
“858
I think I get the hint. It’s what they are BUYING that is incriminating, right?”
What are they buying? That’s not been told. So it’s only incriminating if you are willing to fill the gap with your own preposession. That’s coldwater’s trick, assumed that he is not inventing things completely. You can find this scheme in each of his postings.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
yes Mrs Clouseau has just told me the dude from panorama resigned…..you know the Lou thing….lol…..nice one