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
Posted: 4th, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,577) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
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Daisy Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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I believe that if the unfortunate incident had happened in the UK and not in a foreign country, the parents would have reacted completely different to being questioned by the authorities. I said before: Fear of the unknown (local laws, police systems, etc.)
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there is nothing to fear except fear itself. I do not believe for one second that they was fearful of getting a slap on the wrists otherwise they wouldn’t have hired the people they did.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
nosey
We’ve had the Super-Huge phone bill experience with Testosterone Boy who is SOOOOO in love. The love of his life phones him now. He refused to cut the grass today, so somehow I had to give him £10.00 to go bowling. Go figure.
As for the Oestrogen Kid, I am up to my eyebrows in one-coat emulsion at the moment, having had to make up for cruelly giving in to her demands a few years ago and painting her bedroom the obligatory pink and purple; apparently there is now nothing more dreadful for a Suga-Girl-Aloud-Babe-Spice-Rhianna-Wannabe than for her mum to ‘make’ her have a bedroom so uncool.
I have a feeling that at the dawn of man, these confrontations were avoided because as soon as Testosterone Cave-Boy could lash an arrow head to a stick, he just expertly disembowelled his mum and dad, invited Neanjelina over for a bit of chargrilled parent and set up home in the family cave to await the same fate from his own son and heir.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Bye Nosey.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Stevo
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Isn’t the Brussels meeting next Thursday, 10 April?
If so, that’s before the UK interviews are scheduled to end, and well before they have been translated and analysed.
So - I do think they will go (unless the powers that be in Brussels notice the irony and cancel), but I await the events after their return.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
430 SpongeBob
You said I was devious the other week because I posted tinyurl links. I asked you what was devious about it but got no reply from you. Maybe that’s the kind of thing noseycow meant by saying you always have a go at someone?
April 4th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Re: Sky News………..
at least they’ve all stopped calling him the ’step-father’ and demeaning the formal role that can be very beneficial to children!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Events in Dewsbury aren’t very pretty are they?
Seems like there could be quite a network there. It’s nice that people get caught and locked up for such offences but it’s sad to think it happens in the first place.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
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noseycow Says:
‘Spongebob - everytime you post you have a go at someone. Either the quality of their debate, the way they write their posts, or some such superior comment.
If you dislike everyone so much why don’t you just stay in the elitist forums where you can discuss with M&A all the low lives that ‘post obsessivley’ on the madeleine thread’
- ah apologies. I didn’t realise the point was to agree and applaud all the posts.
-Forums.. elitist..? How so..?
April 4th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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I believe that if the unfortunate incident had happened in the UK and not in a foreign country, the parents would have reacted completely different to being questioned by the authorities. I said before: Fear of the unknown (local laws, police systems, etc.)
April 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Nosey
Shame you are going now!
I just had fresh news about the fund!
http://bp3.blogger.com/_w-8JKaTohe4/R9xPqGuRXaI/AAAAAAAAIvg/wclWMBvoMrw/s1600-h/no_stone_unturned.jpg
April 4th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
397 Denzylle
Zugzwang - good analogy.
Yes, some conflict between the parents will be interesting if we observe that. Isn’t it all reminiscent of Comical Ali just prior to the 2nd Iraq war?
I don’t really think they’ll be attending that event in Brussels. I think that was more last-ditch spin to make it look like the McCanns are ambassadors of childcare. It might fool some of the public but not the people who count.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Shannon Matthews case:
“A 45-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and a 25-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.”
“We believe that the two women have some family link to Shannon Matthews, or at least to Craig Meehan, the partner of Shannon’s mother”
Sky News
April 4th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
320 Maravilha says:
“Normally, people don’t commemorate the disappearence day of somebody when they are convinced that this somebody is still alive.”
‘Bump’ …….as some are wont to say !!!!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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SC46 Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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It’s looking gloomy for little Shannon. Ages don’t match the mother, though.
How quickly they can arrest someone on obstruction of justice, when in the McCann case after almost a year, no arrests have been forthcoming. The McCann case is not a clear cut case, and it could never be solved, IMO.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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noseycow Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Nosey - I’ll save the vid for ya
April 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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Daisy Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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Lone Pigeon,
I’m basing it on fear in general, which drives humans in many circumstances and under many different situations. Just ask a psychologist.
fear of what exactly? if you are innocent and your daughter is missing what are you to fear? The bogey man?
April 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
bye gorgeous
April 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Have got to go now. Teenage daughter wants the PC.
Having knackered hers and been banned from the laptop … who’s punishing who here…???
See you all tomorrow
be nice
April 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
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noseycow Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
LONE : read post 197
when we have the video link i’ll tell you what really happened…
Nosey - you don’t live in the real world!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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C&C - forwarded all requested information re Amber Alert to you.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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Lone Pigeon,
I’m basing it on fear in general, which drives humans in many circumstances and under many different situations. Just ask a psychologist.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
LONE : read post 197
when we have the video link i’ll tell you what really happened…
April 4th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Sky News
Two women arrested in relation to the Shannon Matthews case…
April 4th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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noseycow Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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Thanks Nosey. That product is natural, extract of the root Black Cohosh, and it has been extensively clinically trialled. Worked wonders for me and is sold over the counter here in Australia.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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Daisy Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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Lone Pigeon,
Read my post 215 re your challenge
Good try Daisy! However you’re basing it on your fears.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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yampster
Bloody hell
No wonder Shannon is still in care.
WTF is going on here?
April 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Daisy /gloria - don’t take pills just add the odd yam to your mash potatoes - very high in natural oestrogen
April 4th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
403 Daisy
Thanks for that!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Gloria - you make me laugh
My eldest is coping with her hormones fabulousley - and is in love for the first time. ahh bless… well thats what i thought till i found her on the phone and internet 2.30 one morning
and then the phone bill hit the mat…. 
The boys are too busy arguing about man u / arsenal to worry about anything else, a trait that i assume will continue throughout their lives..
Kids eehh? LOVE ‘EM
April 4th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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SteveT Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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Enjoy the weekend too. As for Monday? Nothing will change. We will still be hooked on here for a long time.