Madeleine McCann: Spanish Police, Child Abduction And Giovanni Trapattoni
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY MIRROR: “COSTA PAIR TRIED TO STEAL OUR CHILDREN - EXCLUSIVE THIRD attempt to snatch young Brits from their parents in Spain”
Nigel and Lesley Atkinson’s sons Jason, 10, and Jake, eight, were playing outside their home in Moralet, near Alicante, when two men drove up and tried to entice the boys into their car…
“The boys were confused but thank God they were sensible enough to get back in the house. As they did, the men shouted at them to come back. But at this point our baby-sitter came out and the men sped off in their car.”
Spain? Not Portugal, then?
Yet Nigel and Lesley, both 46, claimed Spanish police had barely bothered to investigate the incident which follows two similar cases nearby as well as Madeleine McCann’s abduction in neigbouring Portugal.
“When an officer saw me he shrugged his shoulders and asked ‘what are we supposed to do’?” said Lesley “I’m horrified as there is a gang in the area trying to steal children and people are frightened. For all the police know this gang could be linked to Madeleine’s disappearance.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Lady Meyer in pursuit of abducted children like Madeleine McCann”
The wife of our former ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, tells me that she is trying to persuade Boris Johnson to establish a headquarters for such searches.
The former ambassador’s wife needs a cauase:
“There are hundreds of charities in London who offer services to missing or abducted children,” she said at the launch of Rachel Johnson’s novel Shire Hell. “I’m proposing one centre of excellence which amalgamates all the charities and would be much more efficient in helping people.”
A centre of excellence in child abduction?
Catherine Meyer speaks from experience: she set up the charity Parents and Children Together after her former husband denied her access to her two sons.
Were her children abducted, like Madeleine McCann?
DAILY MAIL: “ ‘Human bone’ at centre of Jersey children’s home inquiry is actually a piece of wood or coconut shell”
To the cellar. No, not that one. This one at the Haut de la Garenne home.
Jersey’s “controversial deputy police chief, Lenny Harper, who is heading the investigation, has found something that looks like human bone.
His murder inquiry began when Eddie, an “enhanced victim recovery dog”, began barking in the cellar of Haut de la Garenne – the sign, according to its handler, that he had detected the scent of human remains.
By coincidence, the dog, from South Yorkshire Police, is the same animal that supposedly picked up “the scent of death” in the apartment where Madeleine McCann was last seen in Praia de Luz in Portugal.
SPORTING LIFE: “TRAPATTONI’S MADELEINE PLEA”
It’s Giovanni Trapattoni, legend of Italian football and new manager of the Republic of Ireland. Does he have news of the missing child?
The Italian and his squad are currently on a six-day training camp in Portugal and are based at Estrela da Luz, just minutes away from the Praia da Luz resort from which the four-year-old disappeared a little more than a year ago.
Trapattoni said: “Our hearts go out to the McCann family and if anybody has any information or anything like that that could be helpful, they should contact the police.”
Is it now the case that anyone of note who visits the Algarve must comment – should comment – on Madeleine McCann?
Says Eire Striker Kevin Doyle: “I only realised last night that we were staying in the same resort. I don’t know what we can do, but if us being here focuses a bit of media attention again…”
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May 25th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
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Chrissy Says:
May 21st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Dear me. Some people really ought to get a grip.
yeah like Gerry and Kate
May 21st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I’m no fan of Kate and Gerry, but what is so hard to understand about them being reluctant to return to Portugal for a ‘reconstruction’ a year on? A whole year after the case has been in the spotlight for so long? It’s laughable. Innocent or guilty, they are not going to want to put themselves at any sort of legal risk. And that - fellow sleuths - proves nothing, nichts, nada.. Dear me. Some people really ought to get a grip.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Tch tch Maria.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Totje,
That constitutes cruel and unusual punishment…
And there’s a new thread…
May 19th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Hi all.
Thanks Meercat!
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Now are they going to the reconstruction or not?
How does this Marc Baker know they refused as Clarrie is saying “They’re still considering what to do.”
Any bones [and milkteeth] found or not?
Why can’t they just make up their minds about it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACePi441ds
back to work….
May 19th, 2008 at 9:30 am
morning chenier,, they were funny, i mean the read army, have only skimmed over the thread, must get dressed etc.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Eek!
Just read the thread.
My compliments to the Mods in general and Meercat in particular.
I shall do my best to raise the tone.
Actually, when I first typed that sentence it said ‘raise the tome’ thus suggesting that I was about to throw the book at someone, but I caught it.
The spelling, I mean, not the book.
Which didn’t exist.
I think I’ll go and watch the red army cavorting again…
May 19th, 2008 at 9:25 am
hi mod
May 19th, 2008 at 9:15 am
and now i’m all alone…
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Hi
May 19th, 2008 at 9:13 am
521
brandon flours Says:
‘Defiant Kate and Gerry McCann have rejected a new plea to help re-create the night their daughter Maddie vanished.’
can’t believe that
May 19th, 2008 at 9:11 am
oh i ‘m dying to say first!, i suppose 526 will just have to do then.
good morning
May 19th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Quick good morning all
BBC confirm 20 peices of bone and milk teeth found in the Jersey home.
And the Mail mentions the coconut fragment
Talk about nutty
Woof woof and Hail dEddie and Keela-over for successfully leading police to these finds. I wonder what else they have found
Bye now
M and A
That will disappoint so many, at least the gloat level will fall today
May 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Good morning all
521
brandon
I believe we will hear from the prosecutor soon if they still refuse to go and then..they wont have so much fun….
May 19th, 2008 at 7:55 am
522
Stan Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am e
522nd?
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An honourable position, Stan.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am
522nd?
May 19th, 2008 at 7:28 am
18 May 2008
MCCANNS: IT’S STILL NO TO A RE-RUN
By Marc Baker
Defiant Kate and Gerry McCann have rejected a new plea to help re-create the night their daughter Maddie vanished.
The couple had a tense showdown with Portuguese cops last week.
After refusing to fly back, they have now been told to reply “within days” to yet another request for them to attend a reconstruction in two weeks.
But sources say they will again say no.
Police want Kate, 40, and Gerry, 39, and their Tapas Seven pals to return.
But the couple have “grave reservations” about cops’ motives.
They fear police aren’t interested in finding Maddie and only want to charge them with neglect over the disappearance of Maddie, now five, in Praia da Luz last May.
Spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “They’re still considering what to do.”
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I didnt know they were on a waiting list at the cemetry over there?
May 19th, 2008 at 5:04 am
515 - Saul
Where’s the hunny ?
May 19th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Right, that’s the oven on Duncan.
A nice crusty cob and some oven bottoms this morning.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Oh Shit!
And I said I didn’t swear.
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m&a
what a night Yampster!
-meercat
May 19th, 2008 at 1:58 am
506
Night Billy Bob
Night all.
Maybe Ciara will remember when her birthday is tomorrow?
May 19th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Oh Bugger! I was supposed to have gone!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Right, as it is yampsters job to say goodnight to me I’ll say goodnight to you all [and nobody can draw be back as I will turn off the computer]
Nite nite pro’s, anti’s, wannabees, lurkers, all!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:57 am
507
Totje
I remember that. They cancelled it in the UK 1972 and went back to Habits in the UK when Hot Pants came in. It was not a pretty sight
May 19th, 2008 at 1:57 am
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Totje Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 1:55 am
503
pikey
Who knows?
say no more…. nudge nudge
May 19th, 2008 at 1:55 am
503
pikey
Who knows?
May 19th, 2008 at 1:53 am
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Maria
Long ago in my days at school nuns started to dress as ‘normal’ women and took of their veils. You must live in The Vatican, so the Pope is involved, right?! We should tell inspector Stevo.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Me too.
I t would be unfair of me to keep the wobbler up all night waiting to get his last word in.
So I will say goodnight John Boy and get off to bed now
………………………………………………………………or will I
May 19th, 2008 at 1:50 am
501
Fair Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 1:45 am
498
I think the question must be too hard?
gotta go to bed…..g’night all
May 19th, 2008 at 1:48 am
497
yampster
499
patch
Guilty as charged Your Honour!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:47 am
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Totje Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 1:38 am
479
pikey
Don’t you love Jo’s posts? She’s such a nice person, defending Ciara.
OMG really surely not….but….are you saying what i think you’re saying??
May 19th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Totje
What?!
You sceptical creature!
Good night…must just adjust the veil…! Can’t wait to take it off at night….!