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 11:30 pm
well i suppose i could save up
February 18th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Thats not very gentle manly now is it !!??
February 18th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
967
2u2 
brandon flours Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
965
Châtelaine
My fan club needs an administrator!
*****
perhaps I can ask one of my administrators, accountants, assistants [plural no mistake] one day to help you out …
February 18th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
i could never afford you
February 18th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
firestar !!!!!!!!!!!
Do you want me?????
February 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
966
firestar
I just dont know or have forgotten all about it.There is so much to it that it starts being tiring.
So….wishing you all a very good night I am off to bed….
February 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
have you been putting cards in phoneboxes or something?
February 18th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Karen
Are you about?
February 18th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
which is probably why it says
more ‘news’ here
at the bottom of the page.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
965
Châtelaine
My fan club needs an administrator!
February 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
964
as i remember when the star said he was missing he was visiting his sister or something.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
961
brandon flours Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
958
Châtelaine
How many laps did I have today?
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Laps? You mean “hits” or “matches”?
Sec …
More than 100 hundred.
Congrats
February 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
957
Abraham Zapruder
Spend the last half an hour looking for the same link.
Thanks….
So where is he now? is this why the mcBigots went to visit the pope to ask him personally to have an eye on the poor bloke?
Here we go agoian how many those 2 are going to damage?
February 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Brandon, on 2nd thought… really have to turn in. Much more going on than Anorak. I know my priorities, not necessarily my favorites …
Good night.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
961
why how many sets of legs have you got?
February 18th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
958
Châtelaine
How many laps did I have today?
February 18th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Gandolf
“A missing girl is always trouble.”
Night all, I’m going to check in at the Green Man, where the landlord’s daughter Willow will show me to my room.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
921
Totje Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
915
jo,
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tibetans chop people into little bits and throw them up in the air.
the council or whatever they have over there is trying to ban it because of the smell.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
955
brandon flours Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
So whos on for half an hour?
I have a polish vodka which needs sharing?
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Polish? 60 %? Hm …
February 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Jo, here is the real one.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/15770/Maddie-priest-has-vanished/
If we are to believe the news reports, the smell of death led down to the church.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Jo
thanks for email!
great stuff!!
February 18th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
So whos on for half an hour?
I have a polish vodka which needs sharing?
February 18th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
591
val Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Hi everyone
Just received an e-mail from a friend advising of a computer virus going around.
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even if it wasn’t a hoax, they’re still only 1’s and 0’s.
if you want to be really careful just ditch all your friends, that’ll stop it much cheaper than norton glueupmypc or whatever it’s called.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I think I agree with you Chat… but it is this insistance to blame whoever which is disgusting if the accident did happen. I can imagine them creating a senario to cover their backs - they are SSSOOO materialistic = and the thought of them losing their home, status, jobs and position in society is something which, having watched them for nearly a year now, I imagine would not sit well with them.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Totje 924
Thanks for the link. I wonder if it’s true that the PJ “spent the day” with Fr Pacheco in November. If so, nothing much seems to have come of it.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
And I cannot escape the feeling it was a “simple” cover-up for a stupid mistake/accident … or … they’re puppets-on-a-string and cannot escape
all IMO & allegedly & tired & going to bed
February 18th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
946
annie1
They would do more harm than good to any charity.
It would happen in the uk and you all in the uk can keep a check on that.
Theyve made the world their prison.
They dont have an escape route: theyve made themselves too well known.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I recon that after the Diana inquest is over, Kate will trundle off looking for unexploded mines in some distant land - khaki shorts and ear phones - with an enterage of camera men hanging on her earrings. Gerry will of course be stage manager - might even poke his peaky little nose into a tent full of starving kids - just to show willing
February 18th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
946 annie1
Agree. These two are not nice. Anyway anyone can find out who the parents are of little Maddie. Is it a case of something gone wrong on the holiday, criminally wrong and a cover up is in place. Would we be really surprised to find out the truth! Wouldn’t like to meet these two in a dark ginnell. Is Kate actually working with the children, or just thinking about it. No patient would attend her surgery though, so she can’t go back to GP. Never since the Azaria Chamberlain case, has there been so much interest and opinions, has there.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
946
annie1
Spin down!!!! jajajajaja..dont you see it just more silly stuff! They are serving he same stuff they served months ago.
I like very much your description of the mcSniffing.Very well observed.
They do look like very pissed off and look like they dont like the smell of “it” whatever “it” is…..