Madeleine McCann: The McCanns’ Return To Portugal, A Year Of Looking And Ben Affleck
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THE SUN: “McCanns risk arrest over visit”
KATE and Gerry McCann may risk arrest by returning to Portugal for the one-year anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance.
The couple are prepared to take the chance in a last ditch attempt to revive interest in four-year-old Maddie, missing since May 3.
Any facts?
The doctors, both 39, left the Praia da Luz resort last September – 48 hours after being made official suspects over the mystery.
Gerry and Kate McCann are Doctors. Such are the facts.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “They want to be there for the first anniversary. Going out there would send the strongest possible message that Madeleine could still be alive and the search for her should continue.”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: “Turning the tabloids”
Ben Affleck is Gone Baby Gone:
Almost as troublesome was the story’s unforeseen and unintended resemblance to a real-life case of child kidnapping that hit the headlines in the months it was being filmed. That was the disappearance in Portugal last year of British girl Madeleine McCann, who was of a similar age and appearance to the film’s kidnapping victim and had a name eerily similar to the character in the Lehane novel, Amanda McCready.
McCready has disappeared amid the squalor of her south Boston neighbourhood. The police are out in formation, as are the television news vans, antennas raised high, all but trembling for blood.
Madeleine McCann: That’s entertainment
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April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Stevo said…………………………..Here’s the difference - they have left no stones unturned looking for her. They stood out in the road for 4 months with billboards asking motorists if they’d seen their daughter.
http://www.montelshow.com/show/today/Friday/
McCanns take note…this is how it should be done.
…………………………………………………………
and did they find her?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
362 Stevo Says:
“On the Montel Williams show right now is a couple who’s daughter went missing 2 years ago.”
Still missing?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
365
Maravilha Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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Maravilha,
I must agree with you on this one. The fact that JT says she saw “eggmen” is IMO to protect her partner, which could be the one that was carrying the child, maybe to RM’s villa? Just speculating.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
368 Brandon,
Of course in Panorama she defended the Mccanns.
The central poin at that moment was the arguido couple.
But on an indirect way she was protecting her partner.
I believe she offered herself to be intervieuwed because she is concerned about O’Brian.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
350 jo Says:
“Ferdinand
One question : do you want the TRUTH and JUSTICE made to Madeleine?”
That would be a bit pathetic. Can you imagine how many children have suffered injustice since last May? They would all deserve my attention, but practically I don’t care.
I’m just curious about the outcome, and whether my personal predictions will prove right or not.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
361 coolandcalm
Who says the PJ will arrest anyone?
SOCA/Scotland Yard may do that part and save the cherry on top for Portugal.
If there’s any evidence that anyone connected with the Madeleine Fund knew she wasn’t alive, that turns it into a fraud case involving millions of pounds. It would also involve perjury. Both carry big sentences in the UK.
Who’s bothered about the PJ in this context?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
stevo - i hope not - i like cool&calm, garthy, gandolph and the others..
we’ll just have to find something else to disagree about.
bbl
April 4th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
336
jo
McCannicus Trollicus will become like the dodo - extinct. Extinct as fast as it proliferated. Sort of like a triffid.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
345
Daisy
I knew this.
My question was directed primarily at Ferdinand and whoever has never pronounced themselves clearly on this essential point.
The PJ will make it and I do not believe it will “all” happen next week ,for sure,although I prefer leave the door ajar for a possibility,considering that if the 2 are not re -interviewed,it could well mean being charged BUT I am ONLY speculating.
Although,I must admit ,I deeply wish they were packed away to stop this absolute trash because at the end of the day,Madeleine is still missing and SOME people must respond for it
April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
365
Maravilha
Good point!
But on the panorama interview she did.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
simons pickings may be slim indeed…
Off now school run - easter hols start today…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
361 coolandcalm
“Re: the Timesonline… surely it was actually just being factual?”
That one sentence sums up what I keep saying about your posts. No disrespect to you personally but your conclusions are illogical. Why “surely”?
I could say “Surely the Express was being factual.”
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
352 Noseycow.
Jane Tanner is not protecting the McCanns, with her statement.
She is trying to protect her partner Russel O’Brian, who was absent part of the night.
Did you notice that, among the 9, she is the only one who “saw”something?
The others did not have to protect their partners
April 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Daisy - the spin will continue and we will continue to deduce our opinions from that. I hope its before september… can’t sit at the pc all through summer…
might have to get mobile broadband and nick my daughters ipod touch…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
347
Maravilha Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
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Not only JT but also RO’B, IMO.
… 50 years? I’ll be dead by then and will never know what really happen/!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
This is unreal.
On the Montel Williams show right now is a couple who’s daughter went missing 2 years ago. Jennifer Kesse is her name. Her parents are saying almost word for word the same things that the McCanns said last year.
Here’s the difference - they have left no stones unturned looking for her. They stood out in the road for 4 months with billboards asking motorists if they’d seen their daughter.
http://www.montelshow.com/show/today/Friday/
McCanns take note…this is how it should be done.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Stevo…. I probably challenge more than I would because I’m in the minority and I look from the other perspective where I see the negative believed and celebrated excessively and the positive either denied or ignored.
No-one here knows what happened although I do know that the media are often ahead of the game with date-embargoed snippets…….. I’ve had a few myself and had to keep quiet.
Re: the Timesonline… surely it was actually just being factual? I personally couldn’t see how an overstretched PJ could spend weeks over here talking to Uncle Tom Cobbeley an all. Suddenly it made sense.
And never in a million years would the PJ arrest the McCanns just like that. Protocol would mean inviting them to attend at partimao, then, if they didn’t go, applying for an international arrest warrant.
IMO of course!!!!!!!!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Simon will be right up there neck and neck with Whispered Secret, In The Long Grass and Slim Pickings…
April 4th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Gloria - I suffer from cataplexy, and as i watched it i laughed so much i went into one..
April 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I want ‘head cases’ the new virtual spitting image to portray the events!
April 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
lacking in commitment and unlikely to put any work in…
but you never know do you?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
326
noseycow Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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Noseycow,
Unless there are leaks from the PJ or the UK police, I think we will still just hear “rumors” and will not know what the facts are until the secrecy period finishes, probably in September, if not sooner. We will continue here with our speculation and wondering what really happen in PDL then.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
matty - thanks for the ‘young man’ link!
noseycow - hope you didn’t mind me suggesting it might be you and me?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Probably fall at the first fence..
April 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
smiling - shaking her head
April 4th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Maravilha - Jane Tanner will turn into their star witness imo
and she will do so willingly. 
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
sc46
have you been to the pub?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
332
Ferdinand
One question : do you want the TRUTH and JUSTICE made to Madeleine?
Please answer shortly
YES
or
NOT
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Migfht be carryong a tad too much weight but still has a good mane. Once he gets the bit between his teeth he goes a fair gallop. A good jumper at the chair
April 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Brandon - have they been lurking and analysising us
or do you think their attention might have been directed elsewhere? 