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.
Posted: 28th, February 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,311) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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dcb Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
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would anyone kill their own child and then cover it up to protect themselves…? I think the answer is YES
February 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
496…mary
Be patient for heaven’s sake.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
490 - Euphems!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
496
mary Says:
there is bound to be soon, now you said that
February 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Just when we thought that the goofy sightings had dried up there is a whole new spate of them - why did the taxi driver wait this long to make his info public?
Talking of sightings - can we no have a wee sighting up in Bonny Scotland?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
dcb
They are thick!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
487
Denzylle
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Would anybody take the risk of taking a taxi???????????
February 28th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
477
Well, did she climb into the taxi?
I’ve asked already if she walked to the jeep.
If the answer to either is ‘yes’, then sure, she wasn’t dead.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
489
Rockhopper Says:
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dunno he’s pretty good
February 28th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
489 - lol
February 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Have to go
Matt fill me in later!! please
February 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
481
brandon flours Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
My computer froze
Was look zapped?!!!!
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I don’t think even Lord Eddie of Cadaver could find her remains.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I think McLOOK is looking for another forum to disrupt
February 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Ferdinand
475
Well, first off, I find it suspicious that the cab driver supposedly got so close the child that he could see the eye defect.
But, yes, she could have been dead, with eyes open, and he didn’t see that. Perhaps because he wasn’t expecting such a thing.
However, in that case, I doubt the person carying her would have allowed him to get that close.
If he did.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Brandon - yeah lol
February 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
481…brandon flours
Yep……Another virtual suicide.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I thought that the taxi driver said he saw Madeleine twist her chin a few times and looked into her eyes, through his rearview mirror. That sounds alive to me. Can dead people twist their chins? Also, can they climb into taxis, wearing pyjamas or anything else? Sorry, but I think I’m getting left behind somehow.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
480
Dave Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
LOOK seems an odd name for somebody so blinkered.
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February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Jersey…..Police briefing at 3.15 pm on Sky TV.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
My computer froze
Was look zapped?!!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
LOOK seems an odd name for somebody so blinkered.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
476…dcb
Indeed.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
LOOK vomited:
447 Jumped-up little prefect on a power trip said:
“If you wish to pick a fight with me come right ahead, Your first words all that the path will be your last here. If you doubt that ask around”
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Now who has the “deliberately aggressive attitude?” Hardly “civilised behaviour” is it?
Don’t worry, I think I get what’s going on. You can say anything you like, as long as you are anti-McCann.
Administrator: I have the power and I regard every blocking which is about to happen to you as a failure. It offends me. Perhaps not as much as your swollen-headed attitude to fair debate does. You are history. That’s not power, it’s hard fact. -agw
February 28th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Does the cab driver disclose whether the child walked from the taxi to the jeep, or was she carried?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
469 Denzylle Says:
“However, to answer the question, why would the child be wearing pyjamas? Well, she could have been dead.”
But the taxi driver saw her eye mark. If she was dead with open eyes, he should have noticed?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
472
Matt
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I’m sure they have Matt
February 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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delboy Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 11:11 am
127,
Abraham Zapruder Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 11:08 am
CSN
Do you think someone is trying to tell us something about that Vila Real de Santo place?
In what way?
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Border town, people/vehicle where they shouldn’t be, at a time when they shouldn’t be, oops yet another cctv system wasn’t working.
All this is likely to “click” with the men and woman concerned.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
To be fair, McLOOK is a tad thick so maybe it doesnt realise who agw is
shame about that 
February 28th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
462…dcb
Am quite confident that the PJ will have given careful consideration
and investigation of those particular points.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
450 Marie Nicholas Says:
“About pyjamas : they are so pretty nowadays, that sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between pyjamas and trousers. And pink is such a common colour for little girls to wear, that I don’t think it is a meaningful information.”
So then it could have been the friends - travelling with the blue jeep to the hotel, then walking or whatever to the taxi stand - then back to the car with a taxi. I think a lot of people have done things like that for leasure purposes, at least I have on several occasions (for a walking tour for example).