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.
Posted: 21st, February 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,234) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 22nd, 2008 at 12:58 am
brandon <> to turn on and <> to turn off
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:57 am
nosey
ROFL !!!!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 am
b b
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 am
A joke before bed time - sorry about the language..
Husband and wife retire to bed on the night of their 40th wedding anniversary.
Wife: ‘do you remember our wedding night?’
Husband: ‘of course’
Wife: ‘do you remember what you said to me?’
Husband: ‘i said that i was going to suck your t**s dry’
Wife: ‘and what else?’
Husband: ‘ i said that i was going to f*** your brains out’
Wife jumps out of bed and turns on light.
Wife: ‘well tonight i’m wearing the night gown that i wore on our wedding night… so what do you say now?’
Husband: ‘Mission accomplished!’
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:55 am
966
Fair Says
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ok
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:55 am
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:54 am
952
let justice prevail 
Gandolf Says:
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sorry sledgy but i feel i must correct you……the good Mcdoctors screwed up BIG time. There you go
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:53 am
953
Fair
I confess, I believe and I’ve got dreams!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:53 am
959 RR
Stick with the 2nd smiley?
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:53 am
/b\ nosey /b\
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
909 Noseycow
Try this: http://the3 arguidos.net/viewtopic php?=1&1=4417&sid=7fae595201835a27de
It was the reference in the post, but when I clicked it nothing happened.
Please don”t ask me to type it again if you can”t get through, if you don”t get any joy, let me know and I can give you the gist with IMO surely, can”t I?
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
944 val Says:
“apparently, they should have been charged in May, on the grounds that their neglect led toMadeleine”s disappearance.”
Can you offer just one precedent case where parents of an abducted (or at least possibly abducted) child have been charged for the disappearance?
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
952
noseycow
I confess only to a priest…
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 am
/b nosey b\
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 am
949
Fair Says
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whatever do you mean
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
955
Phew!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0NKEq9D3Q
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 am
952 Nosey
Don’t even go there…..!!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 am
i do believe in sant claus..
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 am
val, Madeleine has become the obvious child.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:47 am
942 Totje
You have to believe!
Cos if you don’t believe then how you gonna make a dream come true?
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:46 am
Brandon/ fair / totje a confession…
as you all know i am a nosey cow - well….
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 am
Before I get totally rat arsed, the end result is gonna be the Portuguese screwed up big time, not PC but thats the way I see it.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:44 am
Yesterday we were talking about the twins and their ‘being told’ what happened that week.
Father Christmas, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, etc…. Is a good example of how kids can be TOLD and they repeat and believe!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:43 am
sorry brandon that didn’t work type b in between the less than / greater than brackets to turn it on, and /b inbetween those brackets to turn it off. confusing sorry
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 am
937 RR
And you know only too well why……don’t you bad boy!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
Val
It’ll just be some Spam mistake - it happens a lot.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
its not his bed side manner that i’m interested in…
before text after text - no spaces.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
937
xxxx
RedRooster
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 am
899 Gandolf
Thought the youtube would be something to do with the McCann case, wasn”t so
“obvious” to me………..but then I”m not that quick at deciphering.
Watched it and have seen it before, I do like Paul Simon, don”t hear of him now
though.
Anyway, I agree about trying to charge the McCann”s for neglect if they can”t
arrest them for “accidental death”. I saw this discussion somewhere, a while
ago-not on here- and apparently, they should have been charged in May, on the
grounds that their neglect led toMadeleine”s disappearance. Then they could have added charges as sufficient evidence was found.