Madeleine McCann: Paedophiles, Belgium And Anna Stam Is Famous
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
DAILY EXPRESS (front page): “MADELEINE: I SAW HER ON A TRAM.”
All aboard. Here’s some the hacks…
“New sighting is linked to paedophile network.”
Linked by “Scotland Yard”. That’s enough evidence for the Express.
The Sun has more:
An email from John Shord of Scotland Yard’s elite clubs and vice intelligence unit reveals that a ring of child abusers made an order for a young girl just THREE days before Maddie was snatched. Her photo was passed to the gang and the chilling deal concluded.
Grim stuff. But no link to Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “DID THEY SNATCH MADDY”
“First pics of Dutch sighting suspects.”
Says the now famous Anna Stam: “I HOPE THIS WILL HELP KATE IN FINDING HER LITTLE GIRL.”
Anna, who was flown to London by the Mirror to aid the hunt, said: “They fit the faces I remember. I just hope it’s not too late.“
EXCLUSIVE Mirror brings witness Anna to Britain to help in the hunt for Madeleine It is 462 days since Madeleine went missing in Portugal…
As Anorak told you yesterday, Anna Stam is now in Blighty.
Anna, 41, spoke out after the Mirror flew her to London to meet a police artist and representatives of the McCanns. Pledging to instruct investigators to make Anna’s dramatic sighting a priority, family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “I’m grateful to the Mirror for bringing her to us. Her evidence could be very significant. Our investigators will interview her in the next few days.”
On one woman’s word, so much has been done. Says the Mirror:
Anna saw the couple with the Madeleine lookalike in her party shop in Amsterdam on May 6 last year.
A lookalike? Says Anna Stam:
“I didn’t like the man, he didn’t look like a nice person. I work in a party shop so most people smile when they come in to buy things.”
That a fact…
“But he didn’t smile back at me when I smiled at him. He had no sparkle in his eyes. He was short with me and seemed angry. I got the feeling he didn’t want me to interfere with him and the others.”
What did he buy? We’re not told. Did he use a credit card? We’re not told. Did he buy anything? We’re not told. Did he pay with cash, and can that cash be traced? We’re not told.
3 sightings in Belgium but police drew blank
One:
Witnesses say the girl looked just like missing Madeleine but minus her fringe. She was first seen by Line Compere, 31, on a 8.45am tram in Brussels on May 15. Line said she was suspicious because the girl was with a couple, she thought were East European, had dark hair and did not look like her…
Swarthy haired people with a blonde child. Sound familiar..?
Two:
Then 12 days later, on May 27, a Briton saw a child asleep on a train from Brussels to Antwerp and thought she might drugged. She was with a balding, 6ft white man aged about 40. He got off at Mechelen at 9.20pm carrying the sleeping girl. Leicestershire police asked Interpol to check stations and CCTV.
Child asleep on night train with fatherly figure.
Three:
Then on June 2, Gilles Crippiau, 33, saw a girl who looked like Madeleine in a shop in Mouscron, west Belgium. He heard a woman, who was with the girl and a man, speaking English and thought she must be a tourist…They put their purchases in a Renault Scenic and drove off. The shop had no CCTV, police files released this week show.
Purchases. Then they can be traced.
DAILY MAIL: “Detectives probe 100 ‘Madeleine sightings’ in Belgium after claims she was stolen to order”
100. Trumps the Mirror’s news, and then some.
Detectives are investigating more than 100 Madeleine McCann ‘ sightings’ in Belgium following a warning she could have been stolen to order for a paedophile ring.
100.
Interpol officials in Brussels said they had received 107 reports since she vanished from Portugal on May 3 last year.
107. Any more?
Private detectives working for Kate and Gerry McCann have said that they will check the most credible sightings.
But what about the incredible sightings? Should they not all be checked? Why is one more credible then another? Remember when Metodo 3, the private detectives, said Madeleine was in Morocco, in the mountains. Incredible?
Interpol official Alain Remue, the chief commanding officer of the Belgium Federal Police’s missing persons unit, said a special hotline had received 107 witness reports related to Madeleine’s disappearance.
He said 67 were too vague to be properly investigated. The remaining 36 were investigated and passed to Interpol’s Lisbon bureau but there was no response from Portugal.
THE SUN: “I spotted Maddie on Belgian tram”
The sighting by supermarket buyer Line Compere came just 12 days after Maddie was snatched from her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal. Line, 31, is one of THREE credible witnesses who say they saw the five-year-old in Belgium during the same period.
Line told The Sun: “I thought it was strange because they didn’t look alike physically. They definitely were not from the same family.”
Her suspicions were further aroused when the three seemed to be communicating in different languages.
She said: “The couple looked to me as if they came from East Europe and were between 35 and 40. It looked as if life had taken its toll on them — they looked rough. The little girl was dancing in the tram and at one point they told her to sit down. She was dressed as if she were going to the beach, with plastic beach shoes and no socks. She also had a jacket with a hood. The couple had a red pushchair.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: First pictures of Dutch sighting suspects”
The Telegraph is now quoting the Mirror, and featuring the Mirror’s front page.
The sketches were drawn by a police artist for the Daily Mirror on the evidence of Anna Stam, 41, who claims to have seen the trio in Amsterdam.
DAILY STAR (front page): “MADDIE: hunts hits fever pitch”
THE COLUMNISTS:
THE INDEPENDENT: “Joan Smith: Everyone, it seems, has a theory about Madeleine”
The reason that a minority of cases catch the public imagination is not just to do with the family’s relationship with the media, although the McCanns have become as well known as the Lindberghs in the months since their daughter was spirited from Praia da Luz. As well as incarnating parents’ deepest fears, the disappearance (and reappearance) of children is a regular feature of myths and fairy stories, a fact which has clearly, if unconsciously, influenced the theories floated by newspapers.
Fairy stories? A child is missing. Yeah, a real one…
A persistent theme in coverage of the McCann case is the sighting of a flustered woman, dragging a reluctant toddler in her wake, who has taken Madeleine to fulfil her craving for a child; in this narrative, Madeleine functions as a changeling who might one day be reunited with her real family.
There once was a blonde duckling…
Then there are the strangers with evil intent, who prey on children and steal them for their own wicked purposes; two decades ago, they would have been on the look-out for children to use in Satanic rites, but now they come in the more up-to-date guise of paedophiles.
Paedos!
WESTERN MAIL: “Surely too much for the McCanns”
Writes middle-class Vicky Pollard, Lowri Turner:
If you were Kate or Gerry McCann, the revelation that Portuguese police knew of a possible sighting of Maddie in Holland just days after her disappearance, but didn’t tell them, you’d be beside yourself.
It’s hard to imagine, but…
That they concealed the fact that the little blonde girl in CCTV footage apparently told a shopkeeper she had been taken from her mummy on holiday is unbelievable.
DAILY MAIL: “Why were the senhors deaf to Kate’s cries of despair?”
Jan Moir writes:
Seven months after her daughter went missing, Kate McCann wrote a letter to the Portuguese detective leading the investigation into her disappearance.
Mrs McCann’s letter was a plea to be kept informed as to how the investigation was progressing, even if in only the ‘broadest terms’.
Just a hint! Give us a clue! Any news, senhor?
Those Portuguese. Grrr…
That was all she was asking, nothing more. Yet despite her careful sentences and softly, softly tone, a mother’s anguish hammers behind every single word.
I hope you do not mind me writing to you, she begins. Are you a parent? I am appealing to you as a fellow human being.
She uses words such as grateful, victim and torture to describe her situation.
Humane, blame and culture outline the ongoing situation.
Please, please help us is the unmistakable message. Yet despite her plangent pleas, that help was never forthcoming.
Kate McCann’s screams of despair were silent on the page, but the police chiefs still affected not to hear them…
I suppose we should be grateful that the wretches didn’t just bin it, along with any real hope of ever finding Madeleine McCann and the person or persons unknown who snatched her.
Their conduct throughout this entire investigation has been utterly shameful.
Has it?
From the start, the Cluedo cops were convinced that Mum and Dad had done it, in the bedroom, with a bottle of maxi-strength Calpol…
But Moir knows better. Moir is British…
Paedophiles see nothing immoral or wicked in what they do. They are organised and energetic, with an ability to hide in society and molest at will that is truly frightening.
So it was paedos. Now we know what the crime was..
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August 8th, 2008 at 9:29 am
The more I read of the information contained within the Files the more
incongruous becomes the PP’s, “There is no evidence that the parents were
in any way involved”.
As does the Attorney General’s, Senhor Pontius Pilate, overhasty intervention
and “washing of hands”.
Perhaps the intention has less murkier reasons for such comments and actions
by these gentlemen, but I wait to be proved wrong in my suspicion of Political
Self Serving gestures.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Has anyone seen that the the photos/posters of madeleine that were handed out were done before, and not in prai da luiz !?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Garth … what would you like to hear me say?
I BELIEVE MADELEINE WAS ABDUCTED????
August 8th, 2008 at 9:26 am
what, the one when someone asked if he knew murat, or another one?
and i remember a story about kate storming off to murats house after a row with g.
wonder if that’s in the files?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Firestar
I loved the faye dunaway- with sighting too !!!!
August 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Did I miss a reply about the good doctors “No comment” comment?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
i’ll help him.
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It’s a bit early for you isn’t it Garth? Are you going to take on the point that the Attorney General concluded in his report that Madeline McCann is DEAD?
That there was NO abduction?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
good morning julie
No, id didnt see that, but its good news. I still havnt heard anything from the rspca re our dog, they said they would get back to me. He is coming on bless him, but he still wont let us stroke him
August 8th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Julie Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
wtf - g’morning
On another subject (just quickly as I don’t want to distract Mrs Garth’s train of thought here) … did you see that Cosmopolitan have EXPOSED those bastard puppy farmers
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So what?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:23 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7548108.stm
BBC’s Steve Kingstone seems to have it quite well summed up!
Interpretation
In the days ahead, there will be more revelations, and they will no doubt help sell newspapers.
One Portuguese editor told me that since 3 May last year, his tabloid had carried 170 front pages related to Madeleine, and sales had leapt by 25%. I imagine a similar effect has been seen in Britain.
However long these intriguing stories run, the epic police files really boil down to three basic facts.
They are: Madeleine McCann went missing on the night of 3 May 2007; there are no certainties about what happened to her; Kate McCann, Gerry McCann and Robert Murat have all been explicitly cleared of involvement in her disappearance, after prosecutors found “no proof that they committed any crime” (press statement by the attorney general).
And if you want one paragraph which sums up the tragedy of these events, turn to volume 17, page 4,647, in which the Portuguese public prosecutor outlines his conclusions.
“No element of proof was found… as to the circumstances in which the child was taken from the apartment (whether alive, whether dead, whether the victim of negligent homicide or wilful homicide, whether the victim of kidnap-to-order or an opportunistic kidnap).
“We can’t even make a consistent prognosis of her fate, including… whether she is alive or dead.”
Curiously, the prosecutor then adds that “it seems more probable” that Madeleine is dead.
But like so much of what we are now seeing and hearing, his words are interpretation
August 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Petronius Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:09 am
It’s a bit early for you isn’t it Garth? Are you going to take on the point that the Attorney General concluded in his report that Madeline McCann is DEAD?
That there was NO abduction?
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Would anyone else from the ‘reality’ brigade like to help out poor Petronius being as he’s/she’s legged it?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
i think some of the sightings have credibility.
espescially the one where the kid has to be told to stop dancing around the tram, it’s well-known kidnapee behaviour.
fred astaire syndrome is usually part of a case like this one.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
wtf - g’morning
On another subject (just quickly as I don’t want to distract Mrs Garth’s train of thought here) … did you see that Cosmopolitan have EXPOSED those bastard puppy farmers
August 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Petronius Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
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Who have you wound up?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
this new photofit is better than the george harrison sketch.
i was thinking deirdre’s ex boyfriend from morocco, but branson has it, it’s definitely gary the illegal immigrant.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
morning all
Just a thought, would the people who were clever enough to commit a flawless abduction and whisk her away to amsterdam, with the worlds press on high alert, allow the said child to wander around a shop and chat to anyone? I dont think so
August 8th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Petronius Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Never mind Garth, and the rest, maybe next time, eh? Luckily I’ve got a life to get on with.
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Never mind about never mind. Im quite up for a serious debate mate if you wish.
So come on lets ‘ave it…………
August 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Sorry yes, well spotted once again
M3
Wot about em?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Never mind Garth, and the rest, maybe next time, eh? Luckily I’ve got a life to get on with.
Hey BF, Carmen and Nosey, and the rest, give them hell for me, they are an easy wind up, look how easily he reaches for the C word, lol. Pathetic, really.
Started off pretending to be all civilised months ago, now look how the mask has slipped and how many times him and Gandy have lost it on here, lol.
And they talk of backing wrong horses and how easy it is to wind the rest of the world up. I think that’s called projection in psychology.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Garth Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
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You missed out the SPOOK ..Y agency
August 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Petronius Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:09 am
It’s a bit early for you isn’t it Garth? Are you going to take on the point that the Attorney General concluded in his report that Madeline McCann is DEAD?
That there was NO abduction?
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Lets start with that bit.
Tell me more………………
August 8th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Petronius - good morning
Good to see you here.
When common sense was handed out, Garth was absent.
He was over in the other line.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:13 am
at last the four photos mystery is out.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Now seriously, lets stop messing about.
Have we narrowed down the conspiracy theory yet?
Lets have a look at who’s in on it thus far:
The McCanns
Their Friends
Robert Murat ( hmmm maybe, but then he’s been cleared so hmmm yes)
Gordon Broon
The British Government
Mi5
FBI
The pope
Richard Branson and chums
The Olympic commitee
Me
Gandolf C&C Rasputin Spongebob Maria Ferdinand and loads more…
Olivia Newton John
Nelly the elephant
Father Christmas (might rule this one out as he hasnt been seen around for a while)
Chenier
Well, it looks like we’ve got some work to do here people. But never fear, we are here.
We might look fick but we aint stupid.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:09 am
It’s a bit early for you isn’t it Garth? Are you going to take on the point that [in my opinion] the Attorney General concluded in his report that Madeline McCann is DEAD?
That there was NO abduction?
Or are you going to cherry-pick the not enough evidence to tie it to the parents bit, since the Child died while the parents were not there but in the Tapas Bar with their backs turned to the apartments (all in the report).
You can’t have your attorney general cake and eat it, Garth, you can’t use one isolated fact from his conclusion withouit the other two, where’s your common sense?
No ignore all of that and go for the insults, that’ll learn them.
How many Pro McCann sites are there? How many “They are dodgy as hell” sites?
Do you not get what the majority of us here on planet Earth where the sky is Blue and not purple with yellow spots, like on you and the McCanns?
The only interest the people have is to see when these people finally get their come-uppance, and you know it.
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M&A
Artemis
Edited to reflect the point that this is the posters viewpoint. There are several interpretations of what the AG said…which is the mark of an excellent political lawyer.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Julie Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:03 am
24/7…virtually.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Garth Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Er…Steady on now….the drop from that chair is quite significant.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:03 am
YO Matt …. bar open yet?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Garth Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Willo
Sad c#nt
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Errrm … think she has one, but isn’t one
M and A
If Willo is female?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Matt. Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Garth Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 8:58 am
(Garth jumps on chair)…..High 5 achieved.
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Brilliant! I luv you.