Madeleine McCann In A Taxi ‘With Murat’, Denied And Shannon Matthews
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN: “Maddie & Murat ‘in a cab’”
Portuguese taxi driver claims Madeleine McCann was in his cab the night she vanished — with Robert Murat. “Antonio Cardoso, 67, insisted he took the little girl and four adults on a short journey to a hotel where they all switched to a Jeep with foreign plates.”
Says he:
“I later recognised him on television. I am sure it was him…She was awake but silent. She was just staring ahead with big owlish eyes. I noticed her eye because my son was born with a defect much the same. I saw her kind of twist her chin a few times in my rear-view mirror. I remember she was in pink pyjamas and wondered why they hadn’t dressed her.”
Says McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We are dismissing this primarily because the timings are entirely wrong.”
IRISH EXAMINER: “Taxi driver claims he picked up Madeleine”
Antonio Castela, 67, said he dropped off the missing girl and her English-speaking mystery companions at an Algarve hotel and watched them drive off in a blue jeep. He insisted he was “100% sure” his passengers included Madeleine.
The McCanns and Robert Murat — the third official suspect in the Madeleine McCann case — all deny wrongdoing”
Kate Mccann is a “GP” Kate and husband Gerry a “heart specialist”
TIMES: “Forget Happy Meals, let’s focus on happy families”
Sandra Parsons looks at “The greatest gift of all”:
It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday, and those of us lucky enough to have children can expect to be given cards and flowers. But with Madeleine McCann and the schoolgirl Shannon Matthews still missing, Milly Dowler’s stricken parents making a heartrending appeal for information about their daughter’s murder, and the reminders again of the brutal killing of young women by Steve Wright and Levi Bellfield, I rather think it should be the other way round.
DAILY MIRROR: “Mother vows never to give up in the search for missing Shannon Matthews”
Shannon Matthews’s mum yesterday said she would never stop searching for her daughter. Karen, 32, fighting back tears, said: “We will never give up on her. It is more than a week and we are desperate to have Shannon back. Our message to people is never give up because we won’t”
Adding:
“We’ve shed a lot of tears. “It was really emotional seeing people walking through the streets with us to support our family. I was overwhelmed by the turnout. Now we just want Shannon found. We just pray she will be found safe.
YORKSHIRE POST: “Police quiz 1,500 drivers in hunt for missing Shannon”
A reward. Like Madeleine:
As the investigation enters its second week, Joseph Furniture, based in Bradley, Huddersfield, has put up a £5,000 reward for any information that leads to Shannon’s safe return.
In a statement the firm said: “As a company that was founded in Dewsbury and a former employer of Shannon’s uncle, Neil Hyett, we feel a social and moral responsibility to aid with reuniting Shannon Matthews with her beloved family.”
DAILY STAR: “SHANNON HUNT AT MUM’S ‘DIGS’ - HOME OF FAMILY FRIEND SCOURED”
The house where missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews’ mum is staying was searched by police yesterday. Officers with sniffer dogs trained to find human remains were sent in to track down clues to the nine-year-old’s disappearance.
The house in Dewsbury, West Yorks, belongs to family friend Peter “Scouser” Brown, 34, who lives just a few doors from Shannon’s mum Karen and her boyfriend Craig Meehan, 22.
Shannons’ parents are not doctors. There is no media feeeding frenzy.
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February 28th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
WTF
A little clearer……….?
February 28th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I am interested in (this aspect of) this report…
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23425907-details/Portuguese+press+publish+book+blaming+McCanns+for+Madeleine+disappearance/article.do
‘Eight days after Kate and Gerry McCann were declared “arguidos” in their daughter’s disappearance, a penal code was brought in which demands credible evidence before someone can be made a formal suspect.
Yesterday, the McCanns’ lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, suggested police had deliberately acted to avoid the new legal requirements - and friends of the couple accused officers of a smear campaign.
Fernando Pinto Monteiro, Portugal’s attorney-general, also admitted that he did not know whether the couple would have been made suspects in light of the code, which came in on September 15.
“The law did not demand justified suspicions at the time in which they were made arguidos,” he said.
Mr de Abreu said: “After September 15, a new procedural penal code was introduced making it necessary for there to be evidence against the citizen to make him an arguido.
“Before September 15, it wasn’t necessary. You could be made an arguido without any suspicions or evidence against you.
“Now to constitute anybody as an arguido, it is necessary to have evidence in the file.
“That’s why the national public prosecutor said that if this inquiry was launched now, maybe they would not have been made arguidos.
“Maybe that’s why the inquiry happened then, why they were made arguidos eight days before the new laws came in.”
The McCanns were declared suspects at a time when police were under increasing criticism. ‘
-Apologies if this has been debated before. I haven’t seen any discussion on this issue and would be curious to know your thoughts…
February 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
1067 garth
I DID!!!! Dont be hard on me, im not good at links etc
February 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
1060
Garth
Soooo sorry!
February 28th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Mrs Clouseau
no
had a steak & kidney pie here as well
February 28th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
1064
WTF Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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No WTF. Read Totjes last post!
February 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
can’t say no, it’s just my good nature sweetheart, and your English is a lot better than my spelling, don’t worry be happy, I’m gettin stoned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjnvSQuv-H4
February 28th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
1061
clouseau Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
welcome to the Gandy and Gandolf show
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Ahh sorry clueless…………noone been givin you any attention………shame…..no surprise mindyou! ‘;)
February 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
1059 garth
didnt the drawing come out at the time of panorama interview? It was publicised that the drawing wasfrom fbi artist with tanners help. Sorry havnt looked it up.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
i am not a fantacist
February 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Always blaming the P.J. ,and not speaking that the British is also involved
Nite
February 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
welcome to the Gandy and Gandolf show
February 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Totje
You made it too easy
February 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
WTF FFS
Have you found it yet?
February 28th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Tanner described ‘eggman’, pj refused to publish a drawing [did they ever make an e-fit? who knows?], pj went along PDL shops/doors with the sketch and a shopkeeper ‘reproduced’ the sketch for a journalist [so the shopkeeper in fact draw the sketch of 'eggman'].
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Nite nite Julie.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Goodnite Julie………………… sweet dreams
February 28th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
You gotta have the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti8sMxPwC4U
February 28th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
1054 julie
goodnight
February 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Right, I have to go to bed now, or else I will be zombie-mode for work tomorrow … you lot up there in the North forget I’m 2 hours ahead of you ……
…… sooooo ….. pillow time now 
g’nite all 
February 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
1048
WTF Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
1045 garth
How was the bloody eggman misrepresented? thats how tanner described him to fbi artist, and was printed in press ffs!
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Wrong. Look it up!
February 28th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
1047
Gandolf
Ask G ?
Thought you knew all ,and have always an “inocent” explanation
Sorry my english
February 28th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
1037
jo Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
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Just say you were wrong about you think Madeleine and it become clear that the McCanns were not involved in any conspiracy. Would you understand the way they have campaigned?
February 28th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
1049 julie
February 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
In that case WTF … please don’t let us goils down …. concentrate, concentrate … we CAN multi-task … unlike the opposite sex
February 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
1045 garth
How was the bloody eggman misrepresented? thats how tanner described him to fbi artist, and was printed in press ffs!
February 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
can’t say no, you have totally lost me, you want me to explain a statement by GM, why don’t you ask him, and your reference to Brit paedo…?
February 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
jeeps ster
February 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
delboy
The eggman is another typical example of how things get misrepresented. If you understand what I mean. With resepect however, somehow i dont think you will.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
1042 julie
February 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
chirp chirpy jeep jeep