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 2:44 pm
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Marie Nicholas Says:
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you are right far too lenient
February 28th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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And, if that is correct, the siblings would have been witnesses.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
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LOOK Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
you really should be on the stage 
407 Anyone who believes there was a scent of a corpse in the apartment is very naive. The so-called “evidence” you buffoons base your LUDICROUS conspiracy theories on is all rumour and hearsay by lazy Portuguese journos who have it in for Kate and Gerry.
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oh McLOOK who the cat dragged in
February 28th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
436…RedRooster
Time will tell.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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Matt. Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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that really doesnt even bear thinking about, does it…….?
February 28th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
RR
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Yes, RR, despite what I’m been hypothesising today, that remains the most likely scenario for me.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
364 PeterMac
”And unfortunately there are well documented cases where the alleged victim has been ‘proved’ to have made up all or significant parts of the story. I had several examples in my own professional life.”
And those are horrible cases. Unfortunately, some people who are themselves a bit weird make cases up, and there are more of them than we think. What I find is that often, suspicions aren’t addressed to the persons who deserve them, as perverts are very good at hiding their actions. The hatred of people often goes towards mentally retarded people, epileptic, etc….
And, to answer your question RR, no, I don’t believe much in rehabilitation for most of the perverts. You can only teach them to manage their perversion better (have fantasies, rather than acting), but I don’t think you can cure them from it. The laws should forbid them to ever stay alone with a child once they have been caught.
I am not condoning what they do. I simply think it is not for anybody to act as if they were both the judge and the police. It is fundamental in a democracy to have it done by representants of the state, as opposed to the law of the jungle. If we think the laws are too lenient, we should elect people who will protect society better.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
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dcb Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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its possible but there again anythings possible with people like the McFreaksters
February 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Ferdinand
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If she died wearing pink pyjamas, she is unlikely to have been changed out of them. This would be particularly so if she were not found immediately after death. To put it bluntly, stiffening of limbs begins almost immediately and makes the removal of clothes extremely difficult.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
429…RedRooster
Not necessarily screaming “for her daddy”.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I meant I havent done one for ages!
February 28th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
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Denzylle Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
that would explain the dodgy photos and date stamp etc… 
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i think she died the day before…….possibly the night before when she was screaming for her daddy…. maybe an accident but im not sure.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Dave
I have done one for ages!!!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
422 LOOK - you are so right. It is all a bit of a wag.
That would be a dog tail wag mind you…
February 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
425
Vegatative - sorry.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Brandon
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You can be comatose with eyes open. There are many reported instances, especially when in a permanent vegative state.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
395 Ian Says:
“Of course, it would be very difficult to mistake the skeletal and un-motherly Kate McCann for Robert Murats more attractive and rounded ex-girlfriend - but no so difficult to mistake the good doctors pal for Robert Murat!”
I thought something similar. But according to the taxi driver, the child was wearing a pink pyjama. Why should they have been travelling around with the girl wearing a pyjama?
February 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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Gandolf Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
If this isn’t an indication of how out of touch with public opinion the powers that be are, I don’t know what is.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/02/28/children-of-four-to-get-drugs-danger-lessons-89520-20334236/
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I couldn’t agree more.
Take all the little children down to the shop window, show them the heroin, coke, weed and alchohol and then tell them that of course they mustn’t try any of these things. Oh yes, and over there is sex, now you mustn’t try that either!
It seems to me that the only thing the powers that be are in touch with in this country are their expense accounts!
February 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
407 Anyone who believes there was a scent of a corpse in the apartment is very naive. The so-called “evidence” you buffoons base your LUDICROUS conspiracy theories on is all rumour and hearsay by lazy Portuguese journos who have it in for Kate and Gerry.
Administrator: Any more of this gratuitous and unjustified abuse and I act to stop it. If you have a point to make, do it within the confines of civilised behaviour. You appear to have entered this site with a deliberately aggressive attitude. It reminds me of a banned poster, one Frances Wickes.
I will make this crystal clear to you and all others here. I and the Moderators have NO views as to the rights and or wrongs in the McCann child’s disappearance. Who can? All that is known to be fact is: The child is missing, the police force responsible for the investigation of the crime is currently viewing the action or non-action of three individuals to be suspect and has said so by naming them.
All else remains subjective.
If you wish to pick a fight with me come right ahead, Your first words along that the path will be your last here. If you doubt that ask around. -agw
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Does BF work for Euphemisms-R-Us?
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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RedRooster
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To a car at a hotel - a car with foreign plates.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
RR
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If the corpse did lie in the apartment long enough to establish the scent of death there for Eddie to detect, and if the child in the taxi (on whatever date) was MM, dead, then she would have had to have died towards the beginning of the holiday.
That’s not impossible (despite all the witness statements) and would account for the lack of photographs.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
414 the Jersey horror was also reported, seems they covered it up.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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Logic Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
409 Brandon
Brandon, I think that is a very unlikely hypothesis. Would you like some tomato soup?
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surely better than oxtail….. errr sounds rancid.. sorry
February 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
They might have wanted to pick up a car there
February 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
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brandon flours Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Maybe
She died before getting her to a hospital and they brought her back.
Scared!
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but the taxi took them to a hotel not a hospital…
February 28th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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brandon
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It was reported to PJ.
February 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
sounds like she was going into a coma to me
February 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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Denzylle Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
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she may have been dead
February 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Logic
I am thinking of all possibilities
Mmmmm I am actually having some oxtail right now!