Shannon Matthews, Madeleine McCann And Haut De La Garenne
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
EVENING STANDARD: “MAN HELPING IN SEARCH SHANNON MATTHEWS ‘CRUCIFIED’ JUST YARDS FROM MISSING GIRL’S HOME”
A man helping in the search for missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is believed to have been crucified outside his house just yards from the nine-year-old’s family home.
Police are investigating the alleged assault of a 43-year-old man who neighbours claim was nailed to a wooden cross through his hands on Sunday night, and some locals claim the attack is related to the hunt for the missing girl.
And the McCanns?
Meanwhile, the McCanns, whose daughter Madeleine disappeared from their holiday apartment in the Algarve last May, have pledged their support to Shannon’s parents.
Writing in his personal online blog, Gerry McCann, said he and his wife Kate were praying for her safe return.
“No matter what has happened to Shannon, there is no doubt she is extremely vulnerable,” he added. “We hope she is found safe and well soon and returned to her family.”
Will the McCanns be called upon to comment on every missing child?
YORKSHIRE POST: “Agencies face abuse inquiry in wake of body find”
Police are searching a former children’s home Haut de la Garenne where they discovered a child’s skull. Police are now searching six more sites at the building now used as a youth hostel.
Police are using Eddie, who works with South Yorkshire Police as an “enhanced victim recovery dog”.
Eddie is said to have picked up traces of missing Madeleine McCann in the back of a car which her parents hired five weeks after she disappeared.
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February 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Ian
But was he Seymour Laws and Harry Hindsight and Ruth etc etc???
February 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
168 jo
Yep, DNA matched.
How damning does it need to be?
Its why they are hiding in the UK behind the country borders and behind a team of lawyers, one of whom is a specialist in extradiction.
What more do we need to know?
Why arent they in Portugal sorting out the ‘misunderstandings’?
What more do I need to ask.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
165
brandon
Bad feeling about what?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
132
Gandolf
Yep, this poster is sledgehammer.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
132
Gandolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4WEspvu_5Y&feature=related
February 26th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
165
brandon flours
What?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hideki is a boy’s name in Japan - so I just assumed.
But then Brandon is a girl.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I have a bad feeling about this
February 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
160
brandon
The question is: why is this brought out “suddenly”? because it really goes against the Innombrable…..
Not a word from them on the subject
February 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Maria Nicholas
It wasn’t the feminists - I think it was Michel Foucault. (But it wasn’t just laxness - it was a culture of not wanting to be judgemental about different lifestyles esp. if the person was perceived as gay.)
It was the feminists who ended all the sexual liberation by exposing (or making up depending on your point of view) the extent of incest in the family. And then victims started coming forward and the modern (in Britain and the USA at least) obsession with paedos was born…
February 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I also thought Hidiki was female. Listening to the Jersey case, she might have been onto something.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
157 Brandon
I too thought Hideki was female but maybe I was wrong.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
The experts at sniffing out the truth
By Charlotte Bradshaw
Comment
ON THE SCENT: Springer spaniel Charlie checks out a car
THE sniffer dog used to locate the remains of a child’s body at a former Jersey care home has highlighted the specialist work police dogs can do. We speak to a handler about how Lancashire’s top team of dog detectives help the fight against crime.
LANCASHIRE police have a 36-strong crew of dogs for a variety of situations.
They help find drugs, explosives and cash, as well as providing support for a variety of incidents, such as fire arms support and crowd control.
Handlers say the dogs, mainly alsatians, labradors and springer spaniels, can be crucial in finding that missing piece of the jigsaw in an investigation.
But the county does not have a dog which specialises in finding human remains anymore due to cuts made three years ago.
In such cases, it has to call on Greater Manchester or South Yorkshire police forces to borrow one of their dogs.
The vital role the animals can play was highlighted this weekend when Eddie, a seven-year-old springer spaniel, located a human skull buried beneath several inches of concrete in the Haut de la Garenne former children’s home in Jersey.
Police began searching the home, five days ago as part of a investigation into alleged child abuse.
Lancashire police dog handler PC Steve Anderton, who works alongside five-year-old Belgium shepherd fire arms support dog, Skah, said at one time the county’s force had been a leader in body dogs’.
He said: “We trained the dogs involved in the Moors Murders searches.
“We used to be the force that trained most of the country’s body dogs but they take an awful lot of training and when resources are tight it was an element we could do without.
“Most of the time the dog was being used outside of the force area.”
The Lancashire dogs are trained to find blood-stained weapons, clothing and property, miniscule traces of blood and body fluid.
PC Anderton, who lives in Accrington, added: “You need to be a quick learner to be a dog handler.
“You’ve got to learn how the dog thinks and what drives his behaviour fairly fast.
“In search situations the police dog can detect human scent quite a few hundred yards away and get into bushes and woodland much more easily.
“This, with the handler’s skills to control the dog search area, means a handler and dog can search large areas more effectively and efficiently saving lots of police time.”
10:49am today
February 26th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
154 Marie Nicholas
I agree.
If we look, for example, at all the paedophilia that has been discovered recently in the Catholic Church, I think we can say that it has always existed and still does. But I don’t think it has ever been condoned in modern times. Somebody is always there to defend anything you can possibly think of, but that doesn’t imply any kind of social approval and it was as illegal and shocking then as now.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Wheres Matt?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I thought she was a girl, but there you go, I have been wrong before!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Brandon
I think Saturn wasn’t Hideki - but I thought it was.
You don’t think Hideki was a girl??? I got the impression he was boy who probably owned a lot of Lolicon.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
153
Chloe Spain
++++++
There have been no leads at all though have there?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Logic
I was at La Sorbonne in May 68, so I remember the time very well. I can’t remember anyone condoning sex abuse, or paedophily. The feminist I used to read was Simone de Beauvoir, whop wrote “Le deuxième sexe”. I can’t remember having read anything from her encouraging a lax attitude on the subject. But the 2 volumes are so huge that maybe I don’t remember. I’d be really surprised, though.
While I agree victims of paedophilia didn’t dare talk about it, let alone sue, as few believed those who did, I never heard it was encouraged, unless you consider the few ones who may have advocated it (probably because they practised it), as representing a whole cultural stream. In those times, writing about it wasn’t considered a crimme, but doing it certainly was.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
137 dcb
I think it’s just possible that, if it is some kind of internal gypsy problem, she is still alive. But I think it is unlikely at this stage.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Think so
Or did she come back as saturn?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
“…A neighbour of the ‘crucified’ man said she found him singing “Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ” as he lay nailed to the cross…..”
Singing? - Or shouting Jesus effing Christ!!!!!!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
*is
February 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
it hideki banned?
February 26th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
will say no more then
February 26th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Sniff n snort
I don’t mind if they take my DNA… if they wanted to fit me up they could do it anyway - and if I’m guilty I’d deserve to be caught.
I don’t care about CCTV either. If I had my head kicked in, I’d rather the killer was seen doing it.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
networking and organised
February 26th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Madeleine McCann: The story of a missing girl, her parents Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, Robert Murat and paedophilia as told by the British press.
quote from anorak itself
the ‘p’ word
February 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
???? Brandon, SteveT ??????? im lost
February 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
140
just_me
Brandon would get kicked off the site!