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 3:48 pm
581 Fair - no its ok….my step mother totally lost the plot, she was always the typical evil stepmother so I didnt have much to do with her. When my dad died, he donated his body to medical science, but ‘the bitch from hell’ didnt want him taken in a hearse. I refused to go when she told me what she was going to do. I just cannot imagine what the cab driver thought poor bloke. I havent seen her since and hopefully never will.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
585
val Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
564 Red Rooster
Don”t mention it. Just remember, “pride comes before a fall” so sit tight on your perch and don”t start crowing.!!!!!!!
i’ll try 
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are you trying to tell me to shut up now….?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
576 delboy Says:
Ferdi: “But cadaver dogs do not react on rotten meat and animal bones!
Allegedly.”
delboy: “Mccanns say they do!”
Probably yet another lie!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Do we know how old the building is,maybe it was occupied by the nazis,in the war years?….
February 28th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
583
you’re not are you….? blimey theres enough animals on here as it is. 
delboy Says
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February 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
564 Red Rooster
Don”t mention it. Just remember, “pride comes before a fall” so sit tight on your perch and don”t start crowing.!!!!!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
582
Garth Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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forgot to McLOOK past the end of its nose
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mods andAdmin
we’ll probably get another Lookalike along soon enough….
February 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
574,garth….yer sayin am a camel or somat,…one hump or two?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
573
RedRooster Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
566
Garth Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
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bad news im afraid garf, your mate McLOOK is now LOOKing elsewhere
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Get on? What for woosey?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
531 Just-me
OMG!
I thought you were being hypothetical. (is that the right word?)
How awful! So sorry.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Val 556
Hi, how are you?
I can’t make my mind up about this taxi sighting. I think it’s probably rubbish. I certainly don’t think they’d take a dead body in a taxi with them, much too risky! Maybe M is alive but what about the dogs? And why have we only just heard from the taxi driver? Surely this person could verify who the adults were if he can remember the child so well?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
562 catkidd
I”m not up to date on the exact details of the Jeep, but don”t believe the story
anyway. Apparently the driver reported it to the Police at the time, but no action
was taken.
The one story that intrigues me is the one about the yacht that sailed out of
Harbour about two hours after Madeleine disappeared, apparently. don”t ask me where I read it, I can”t remember, sorry!!!!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
briefing completed now.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Matt
565
timeframe…1950-2003.
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The longer time ago that this death (and any others) occurred, the sadder it seems to me - that a crime can go undetected and a person unmissed for so, so long.
And crimes unpunished, too. Despite what we keep saying about MM, ‘justice will out’ does not always hold true. In the case of the Nazi war criminals, and perhaps in this (Jersey) case, too, deaths or senility prevent the whole stories coming out or justice being administered fully.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
571,Ferdinand Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
540 Matt. Says:
“most of bones found, other than the earlier human reains found…were
animal bones.”
But cadaver dogs do not react on rotten meat and animal bones!
Allegedly.
Mccanns say they do!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
571…Ferdinand
Police haven’t completed search of the first cellar.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
569
delboy Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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Wotsamatta…………you aint still got the hump?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
566
Garth Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
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bad news im afraid garf, your mate McLOOK is now LOOKing elsewhere
February 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
documents have been taken by Police.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
540 Matt. Says:
“most of bones found, other than the earlier human reains found…were
animal bones.”
But cadaver dogs do not react on rotten meat and animal bones!
Allegedly.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
3 0r 4 weeks before analysis of human remains is available.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
566
Garth Says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Aftergoon
did yer say sommat!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
567
delboy
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Anyone know what the building was used as during German occupation?
February 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Heads should roll on this one,there must be a hell of a lot of people involved,crickey by the sounds of all this it must have been like the gas chambers in the war years……….jesus!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Aftergoon
February 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
timeframe…1950-2003.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
545
thanks for the gold star 
I will of course treasure it 
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February 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
val;but a rental wouldnt have yellow plates
February 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Intent on keeping a tight rein on the investigation…will not be
influenced by Media circus.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
The dogs are an integral part of the team….