Madeleine McCann: Melissa Fiering Sees, An Algerian And Waldo
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE SEEN IN FRANCE”
“Eye-defect girl in cafe” – Why do they stare, daddy?
DAILY MIRROR: “I SPOTTED MADDY AT CAFE IN FRANCE”
A picture of Melissa.
“’This is so significant because the girl noticed the blemish in the eye and it’s on CCTV for first time’ - McCANN FAMILY SPOKESMAN CLARENCE MITCHELL LAST NIGHT”
This is the Mirror’s “EXCLUSIVE THE HUNT FOR MADELEINE”
To France:
“The little girl was spotted in a motorway service station cafe by student Melissa Fiering, 18, who insists she clearly saw the distinctive flaw in her right iris”
Says Melissa: “My friend and I had music playing loudly out of our mobile phones and this little girl was dancing to it. It was only when I looked closely at her I realised it was Madeleine. She had a very thin face and her blonde hair had been cut much shorter, down to her jaw. But it was her”
Why so certain?
“I looked in her eye because I’d seen on TV that Madeleine’s got a defect in her right iris and I saw this girl had it. I could hardly believe my eyes but I knew for sure it was Madeleine. I called out her name and she looked up at me - she obviously recognised it”
Obviously. Dancing with a small child and then you shout out a name and she looks at you…
“But when I called out ‘Madeleine’ the man she was with got worried and started dragging her away from the queue”
The man with Madeleine is described as a “dark-skinned man, who was possibly Algerian”. Blonde girl with dark-skinned man. Like her?
What did Melissa do when he was spotted, this swarthy man?
“As he dragged the girl away he threw a white coat over her and pulled a woollen hat from his pocket and jammed it on her head. Melissa adds: ‘He didn’t say a word but as they got to the door he prodded the girl in the back. I tried to take pictures on my phone but I only got one and it was all blurred. I ran outside after them but they’d vanished”
Vanished?
“WE HAVE THE GUN THAT KILLED RHYS”
Rhys Jones was killed in Liverpool, shot by a youth on a bike
“Rhys’s mum Melanie, 42, and dad Stephen, 45, who have received a message of sympathy from Madeleine McCann’s family, issued a statement for tomorrow’s six-month anniversary of the shooting”
Why do we know this?
The message says: “We are still struggling to come to terms with the loss of our beautiful son Rhys. The pain we have had to face every day has been magnified by the poignancy of occasions like Christmas and Rhys’s 12th birthday. The last six months have been a living nightmare. All we want is justice for our son”
Rhys Jones is murdered in Liverpool. Rhys Jones was 11 years old. His parents are not suspects
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE IN NEW ‘SIGHTING’ AT RESTAURANT”
Dutch woman. A restaurant? Not a therapist. A student
The Dutch student is “100 per cent certain” she saw Madeleine McCann in a roadside restaurant in southern France
Says Melissa: “I called out ‘Madeleine’ and she looked up. The man with her was about six feet tall, with black hair, a black leather jacket and several days growth of stubble. He put on her coat and hat and bundled her away”
She adds: “I can’t stop thinking about it. I wish I had stopped that man. I wanted to pick her up, I am sorry I didn’t do that”
LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: “Madeleine McCann ’spotted’ in Southern France”
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: “Student claims to have sighted Madeleine McCann in France”
A reader comments: “Is this kid going to replace Waldo?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS: “French police investigating an alleged sighting of Madeleine McCann in southern France have determined it was not the missing British girl.
A police official says a Dutch tourist reported that she may have seen McCann at a roadside restaurant. Examining closed-circuit video footage, the investigators spotted a man and a young girl who resembled McCann, but determined it was not her.
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February 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Totje
Good night if you are still there. Sorry, I fell asleep over the keyboard!
I’ll wait till tomorrow to see if M and A let me know why my post was put in moderation.
Night all.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Val
do it from the right bottom to left upper helps too
February 21st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
6th.Sept. 2007, prosecutor refuses to issue arrest warrant for Kate McCann, citing lack of evidence,
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this is bollocks sledgie.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
846 RR
Ya know I love ya……when you’re nice
February 21st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Brandon
Wish I could - he’d be hysterical - but I don’t think I could lure him off Gaydar to actually read something!!!
Maybe if Anorak had more naked guys on it - or at least more John Barrowman???
February 21st, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Ferdinand, can you clarify the situation, as the same report was in the Portuguese media.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=485977&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
February 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
843 Karen
I don’t think you’ll ever go wrong with a gay best friend. Not that I’ve got one but I’d really like one!
My (married) daughter has more male friends than girls as she finds most girls just too bitchy!
February 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Ian
I don’t think they do accept it.
With their personality types I think they’d have very visible nervous breakdowns if they had to admit that they’d done the wrong thing.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:49 pm
837
Fair Says
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what has this gotn to do with me ????
February 21st, 2008 at 11:49 pm
BF
Sorry. Didn’t ignore your comment. I fell asleep over the computer!
Yes, re your lament, point taken, except that I think she is not used for money. Money is used for her, or to try to find her. I simply think it’s a myth that they’re doing this to make money for themselves. It costs to keep up a search like this.
Don’t think they’ll ever give up, though. Could be wrong.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:49 pm
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Karen Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Easterhouse is like Moss Side but with less guns and more tamazipam (if you don’t know Glasgow).
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Well, I do know Glasgow quite well actually and there are some new housing estates out that way. I don’t think that is the case now. The new retail area( the Forge) has brought a lot to that area which was quite run down previously.
dr:22.02:05.33
February 21st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Karen
I want a GBF !!!!
Get him on here!!
February 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Brandon
Of course you are. If I was in my 30s and someone called me middle-aged, I’d be raging.
My GBF is 35 and someone pointed out the age gap between us and you could have heard him screeching all the way down in Old Compton Street from Sauchihall Street.
GBF = Gay Bestfriend.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Val
just open them
left click
schroll over text you want
right click copy
and paste onto comment
February 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
825 Gandolf Says:
“6th.Sept. 2007, prosecutor refuses to issue arrest warrant for Kate McCann,”
Except that a prosecutor never issues arrest warrants. That would be the job of a judge, on request of the prosecution. So an arrest warrant was not even requested, let alone issued.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
838
sorry 
i didnt mean it…..na stuff it of course i meant it 
Karen Says
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February 21st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
830
veritablequandary
In one of the most publicised cases in the world, the police officers would be more than keen to get their just reward for presenting a case for prosecution if there was a case to be answered. What reason would they have for delay?
If a case is made and they are prosecuted, then I will change my view. Until then..
February 21st, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Hi everyone, I couldn”t get on to Anorak for a while, so went browsing and
found a couple of posts that would interest you.
I put them in Bookmarks, get to “cut and copy” and the blue lines disappear!!!!!!
Can someone take me through from pressing Bookmarks?
February 21st, 2008 at 11:42 pm
RedRooster
That is so mean.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:42 pm
822
Châtelaine Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
812
Fair Says:
February 21st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
” […] As chateleine is now present perhaps she will be willing to explain her accusations from last night? Jo is obviously not willing. Will you Chateleine? Are you big enough?”
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“Big” is not the word I would use.
I got nerved last night with Totje, not for the first time and not being the only one in history, as she tends to quote/misquote, correct/miscorrect - in short blur the conversation. I do apologies for using the word “troll” [and wonder, if I should be proud of being called a “chief-troll” or something of the kind… ]
If you read back last nights quotes, you’ll notice her immediate & aggressive response [ and not for the first time neither, as some of the usual posters may remember].
I do propose to sand the subject. There more things in life …
Goodnight to all
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There you go!!
Actually no, I went over the posts & could see nothing aggressive except the fact that you were miffed at being ignored when giving the info on the Oldfield & O’Brian mix up. Then when someone else gave it (Totje) you obviously got the hump & behaved liked a childish school girl (?) & started with the name calling!
Will you tell that to ”Maman” whilst playing cards? For God’s sake grow up!!
Your apology should be to Totje & no you should not be proud of yourself!
AND no I don’t know Totje from Adam. If this happened with RR I would say the same. That should tell you something.
I agree with what Amused Bystander said earlier that maybe this is not the best place to be.
Goodnight to you too! Oh & Jo also!
February 21st, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Karen
I am in my knowledgable youth now!!!! ( yes I checked the spelling)
Know I want it
Know I can have it
Know when to stop!!
February 21st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Actually, Dee probably is 27 - I apologise.
I just annoy women in general.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Do the parents accept their failure?
This question is prompted by posters taking the view that the parents of the missing child, Madeleine McCann, live every day with the knowledge that they have failed their daughter, failed to deliver that most fundamental duty that a parent owes to their offspring - protection from a cruel and unforgiving world.
The immediate stance taken by the parents was that Madeleine McCann was abducted by a stranger. Even without the alleged cry of ‘they’ve taken her’ there are strong indications and indeed direct admission, indicating that the assumption of abduction by stranger was not the result of any deductive process or any transition through alternatives.
There are those who argue that this stance was prompted by the level of risk stranger abduction represents. It does seem that focussing on this particular risk has been instrumental in keeping other risks which might have been taken that night off the agenda for discussion and consequently reduced the chances of neglect charges being successful, at least under English law - assuming of course that the other risks taken remain of the agenda for discussion, which is by no means a certainty.
When discussing their attitude to their failure and when musing on what they might like to change with the luxury of hindsight, both parents have avoided any words which might be used to construe negligence. Although Kate McCanns mother has admitted ‘mistakes’ on Kates behalf, neither Kate nor Gerry have ever made such a statement. Instead they ‘regret not having been there’ when she was ‘taken’ - as if the responsibility for their ‘not having been there’ is not theirs, but lies in the hands of an irresponsible and non-indictable ethereal fate.
So publically it is apparent that the McCanns do not accept failure, but it may be that they are only too aware of their failure. Perhaps this knowledge will ultimately tear their marriage apart, perhaps one parent pressured the other into a negligence they would never normally have entertained?
Perhaps a deeper and darker secret is being concealed? We may not know for many years yet!
February 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Easterhouse is like Moss Side but with less guns and more tamazipam (if you don’t know Glasgow).
February 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, who left the PolÍcia Judiciária this year to head the Portuguese Association for Missing Children, told the 24 Horas newspaper: “When the parents told police that they went to dinner and left the children at home alone, they confessed to the crime of abandonment. The penalty of abandonment is at least three years’ imprisonment.”
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Is there a time limit for charges in Portugal?
February 21st, 2008 at 11:37 pm
828 SpongeBob
Just because charges have not been made, doesn’t mean that evidence does not exist.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:36 pm
I had to run off earlier.
Just in time really - I seem to do nothing but piss off middle-aged women. (you’re not middle-aged Brandon - it starts at 50 these days).
Dee (I hope she isn’t 27 or something) got the hump because I said Britain has an entrenched underclass - I mean it does have an entrenched underclass or else all the surveys are bollox and Easterhouse doesn’t exist.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:30 pm
808
veritablequandary
There is an argument for the ‘moral case of child neglect. I have already said this. Re the legal position, I did argue this point the other day, re legal positon on abduction re child neglect
‘Comment: No evidence? What kind of fool are you’
- Other ‘evidence’ is based on conflicting reports and conjecture.. As I’ve said, if there was sufficient evidence, they would have been charged.
I’m not up for the name calling game. I have not been rude to you and I will not respond again if you repeat this, there is no need for it.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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Gandolf Says:
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think what you like donkey breath but they are still arguidos
February 21st, 2008 at 11:29 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mhv_DiLj0fQ
What a difference a few years makes
Ben Needham and Madeleine Mc Cann
compare the two !