Madeleine McCann: McCanns Cleared, Shannon Matthews Fund And The Maddy Card
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann and Shannon Matthews
DAILY MIRROR: “McCANNS ‘IN CLEAR’”
Kate and Gerry McCann will be formally cleared as suspects in daughter Madeleine’s disappearance by August, their lawyer said yesterday.
Fact. Now the Portuguese police can find Madeleine? And the McCanns can return to Portugal.
Rogerio Alves said detectives in Portugal had finally admitted they have no evidence against the couple and were preparing to lift their arguido status. But he also warned the move could signal the end of the year-long hunt for the four-year-old.
But the Portuguese police are useless, right? And the McCanns have Metodo 3?
But McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “We don’t want the case to remain unsolved.”
DAILY MAIL: “McCanns’ status as suspects in Madeleine’s disappearance ‘will be lifted by August’”
This August. Fact.
Says Rogerio Alves: “I believe that by August the police will close the case and lift arguido status. I believe it is a very strong possibility.”
Believe. Possibility. Fact.
ROUNDTOWNNEWS (Spain): “Mass of Balloons for Madeleine”
Skies over the Costa Blanca were clouded by a mass of colour, to mark the first anniversary of the disappearance of British infant, Madeleine McCann…
Yellow…
Meanwhile, Rob and Lisa, owners of ‘The Card Place’ in Benimar, decided to make their own touching dedication to Madeleine, by launching an abundance of bright balloons into the sunny Costa Blanca sky… Last weekend, crowds gathered to witness the event, as 160 balloons sailed from outside of the store, reminding residents throughout the area that the search for a little girl must continue. Lisa concluded with an emotional message which reflected the thoughts of all of those with any knowledge of the case. She said, “Although the investigation has gone on for sometime, Madeline has yet to be found. Members of the public should be encouraged to continue to look for Madeleine, and remain conscientious in the protection of their own children.”
And get all their cards at The Card Palce, ask for it by name. Is there a missing child card?
DEWSBURY REPORTER: “Trustees meet over Shannon cash fund options”
RESIDENTS of the housing estate where Shannon Matthews disappeared are to choose how cash raised for her appeal will be spent.
A plasma telly?
This week the six trustees for the Help Find Shannon Fund and local community support group Pathfinder, which managed the collection of the money, met to decide what to do with the remaining cash.
Family, friends, neighbours, local businesses and community groups donated money into the Help Find Shannon Fund – much like the one for missing youngster Madeleine McCann – during the 24 days the nine-year-old was missing.
So give the money to the Find Madeleine fund, easy?
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May 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Indeed Jo.
Perhaps Mr Williams Thomas shouldn’t hold his breath waiting for a commission cheque from the vested interests across the Atlantic that would like to see all these spurious missing children micro tagged and amber alerted………
He who speaks the truth rarely gets offered a cut of the ante…….
May 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Carmen
About paedos/M3,Mark Williams-Thomas also said that M3 didnt have a clue how those people operate…..
“Several voices related to the Portuguese and British police force were raised, on various occasions, to criticise Metodo 3’s work. It is the case of Mark Williams-Thomas, a British criminologist, expert in child protection, to whom the lead mentioned by Metodo 3 that Madeleine had been taken to order, by a network paedophiles and transported to Morocco, “shows a lack of knowledge of paedophiles and of how they work.”
May 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Chenier.
Porkies?
No, its just that the 100,000 figure includes all those of 15 years and 11 months and 3 weeks of who didn’t come home last night………but did come home the following night. ‘Reported missing’ you see, not actually missing - there’s a difference!
May 10th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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Carmen Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Did everybody see this quote from Mark Williams-Thomas
Child protection expert on the Sky site -
“I don’t believe a paedophile was watching the apartment nor do I believe an offender entered the apartment - this would be too high-risk.
I accept that statistically the abduction of a child is very rare, with approximately six children abducted every year in the UK, but if we look at the abduction and murder of Sarah Payne we can see how my theory stands up.”
You shouldn’t get too many text messages then, Chenier!
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But how can this be?
According to the ‘documentary’ on the McCanns, 100,000 children go missing here every year.
Surely you are not suggesting that someone was telling porkies?
Perhaps they had the wrong kind of accountant…
May 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
170 Carmen
“Did everybody see this quote from Mark Williams-Thomas
Child protection expert on the Sky site -
“I don’t believe a paedophile was watching the apartment nor do I believe an offender entered the apartment - this would be too high-risk.”
What? Am I missing something here? So an offender did not enter the apartment? How then did Madeleine get abducted? Was bundleman using robotic arms?
Anyway this is all clearly rubbish. What about Gerry’s ‘fiend’ behind the door? and as we all know the two rock-solid pieces of evidence that there was a McDuction are:
Cuddlecat was moved
The bed was remade.
How could this have been done if “an offender did not enter the apartment”?
Someone take the spade out of that man’s hand please.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
167 chenier
“‘the European police force Interpol has named the country [Portugal] as one of the worst offenders in Europe’”
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bloody hell. must be really really bad then considering what has been going on in Austria over the last few years.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Did everybody see this quote from Mark Williams-Thomas
Child protection expert on the Sky site -
“I don’t believe a paedophile was watching the apartment nor do I believe an offender entered the apartment - this would be too high-risk.
I accept that statistically the abduction of a child is very rare, with approximately six children abducted every year in the UK, but if we look at the abduction and murder of Sarah Payne we can see how my theory stands up.”
You shouldn’t get too many text messages then, Chenier!
May 10th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
157 chenier
“Be fair; the McCanns are doing a sterling job pressing for the introduction of text messages whenever one of the 100,000 children who go missing every year here goes missing.
Those of us with small circles of acquaintances are looking forward to getting texts every 2 minutes…”
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Eh? Text message with description of child or abductor? How would that have worked in Madeleine’s case?
“watch out for a 5′7″ man, face unknown, carrying a bundle” ?
May 10th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
164
JuneJohnson Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Is there a parallel universe out there …
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You could be onto something there June. After all, physicists are trying to work out what dark matter is … it’s probably just all of history’s lost socks.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
158
Cheryl Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
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Do you have any idea where Vanessa Allen got her claim that:
‘the European police force Interpol has named the country as one of the worst offenders in Europe’
from?
Because I’m having difficulty in finding it on the Interpol website.
I am however, very pleased to see that:
‘Within 48 hours of INTERPOL’s global appeal to the public, the prime suspect, Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, from Union City, New Jersey, who was photographed sexually abusing young children in Southeast Asia in images distributed on the Internet was identified, located and arrested in Union City by Special Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) based in Newark, New Jersey.
As a result of independent tips provided via the Internet to INTERPOL Headquarters in Lyon by three individuals living in the United States, the suspected child sex abuser targeted by INTERPOL’s Operation IDent, launched May 6, was arrested in the early hours of May 8 by ICE Agents.’
May 10th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
June
Should we call in SOCO to look for them?
May 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
158
Cheryl
Disgusting,init?
Let me smoke a spliff to get over it
May 10th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Perhaps we need an Anorak campaign for missing socks…where do they go? what becomes of them? is it just childrens socks, or babies? or is it the adult male of the species who loses their socks.
Is there a parallel universe out there that Dr Who may visit some day, and find out the mystery?
Should we start a Fund, and who should be Mr or Mrs PR? Perhaps a motto ’sockless into the future’
May 10th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Kate had surgery.This is why they want peace and quiet.
She is preparing for the birth of her triplets but the end of her own planet”s calendar
http://bp2.blogger.com/_3HAnFzHSqqE/R-mo0t6RLHI/AAAAAAAAAxc/aKDAeRNtJo0/s1600-h/floppers.jpg
May 10th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
160
DuncanR Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
155 - Gloria Smudd
Have you thought about putting all those odd socks up on eBay ?
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Not a chance Duncan. The only time I’m not on Anorak is when Old Smuddy (he who must be e-bayed) is plugged into the cyber-auction site; he’d probably recognise a few of his more distinctive choices, and buy them back again in an attempt to make a pair!
May 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
157
chenier Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Those of us with small circles of acquaintances are looking forward to getting texts every 2 minutes…
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My mobile phone is very sophisticated; every week an annoying little alarm goes off to tell me that no one has phoned me and then it asks me to recharge it.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
155 - Gloria Smudd
Have you thought about putting all those odd socks up on eBay ?
May 10th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
156
Gloria Smudd Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I have to say I am pretty impressed with the efficiency of the Smudd household.
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No you’re not!
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I hear and I obey, your omnipotence; anybody capable of torturing an accountant simultaneously with leaving no scone unburned whilst hopping adroitly between boltless screws is not someone to be trifled with.
I still can’t find the iron…
May 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
150
jo Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
123
Cheryl Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Are you scared this happens? Amaral will be very good lawyer as good as the cop he is.Very knowledgable,fierce? not prepared to take bollocks in ESPECIALLY when a case is about a child? ah…well,yes,but really,the only ones to be angry and worried about this are the mccanns themselves,dont you think? and they pulicized their new tantrum ,didnt they?
I do not have super heroes but I must admit I do have a weakness for SpinMan and his lovely pink flying cape
“Several witnesses are ready to help the PJ, but not the McCanns”
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Good policeman, Jo? Maybe the below link will refresh your memory on what was said about him and about Portugal also.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=488654&in_page_id=1770
May 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
151
Bâtman Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
148 chenier
Clarrie and the convention circuit. It is interesting that all those who continue to make a good living out of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance are those who are either supported by or support the McCann’s version of things.
Those who may try to find out what really happened get dropped along the way or resign.
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Be fair; the McCanns are doing a sterling job pressing for the introduction of text messages whenever one of the 100,000 children who go missing every year here goes missing.
Those of us with small circles of acquaintances are looking forward to getting texts every 2 minutes…
May 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I have to say I am pretty impressed with the efficiency of the Smudd household.
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No you’re not!
May 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
145
DuncanR Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
130 - Gloria Smudd
If you find an odd sock in your cupboard - blue, sporting a picture of Santa, and plays jingle bells when you press his tummy - Please get in touch.
I have the matching sock here !
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DuncanR - I’ve got odd blue socks, odd socks with pictures of Santa and quite possibly odd socks that play jingle bells, but so far I haven’t stumbled over the one you describe. However, I will keep my one good eye out for it, rest assured.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
146
Bâtman Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
141 jo
I am a [British] Doctor [who loves being in the limelight] clutching rosary beads, cuddle cat and straw in moment of despair, who has access to Gordie Brown’s direct phone line [and lots of media friends
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……to whom I lie through my ears while I set up “monster games” with my 2 other children,striving on “special monitoring therapy”
May 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
138
Saul Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Clarrie desparete to find a link to the neglected laundry that has become a cause celebre in France, and is causing a stink in the UK
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And it’s not my kitchen sink!
I mention this only because the last time we were treated to the agricultural effluent I spent the entire day doing housework under the mistaken impression that it was.
I have to say I am pretty impressed with the efficiency of the Smudd household.
Round here I can’t even find the iron, much less consider using it…
May 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Noticed this headline in the Belfast Telegraph.
“Did Derry duo pay for McCanns’ mistake?”
No. Madeleine McCann did.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
148 chenier
Clarrie and the convention circuit. It is interesting that all those who continue to make a good living out of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance are those who are either supported by or support the McCann’s version of things.
Those who may try to find out what really happened get dropped along the way or resign.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
123
Cheryl Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Are you scared this happens? Amaral will be very good lawyer as good as the cop he is.Very knowledgable,fierce? not prepared to take bollocks in ESPECIALLY when a case is about a child? ah…well,yes,but really,the only ones to be angry and worried about this are the mccanns themselves,dont you think? and they pulicized their new tantrum ,didnt they?
I do not have super heroes but I must admit I do have a weakness for SpinMan and his lovely pink flying cape
“Several witnesses are ready to help the PJ, but not the McCanns”
May 10th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
132
Bâtman Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
131 chenier
and the irony is that if they really and truly loved their child/children they would have helped not hindered the police investigation into her disappearance.
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Ah, but it’s not what I do but what I say that matters…
May 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
137
Marie Nicholas Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Chenier
Do you have the same saying in England according to which “l’enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions”? (the pavement of hell is made of good intentions, meaning people do the wrong things, but say they meant well. Still, it leads them to hell).
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Yes; here we say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It’s slightly more ambiguous, since here it would include cases where people think that they are doing the right thing- as opposed to, say, doing the legal thing- which nevertheless has catastrophic results.
It is interesting that Clarrie is now doing the convention circuit; he may not quite realise that the last year has turned his perfect PR storm into the epitome of what public figures are now desperate to avoid…
May 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
saul
I got a tight schedule.
Is that a euphemism?