Madeleine McCann: Bank On Brussels, Dossier Facts And Metodo 3 Investigate
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 heard her beg to go home’”
CCTV images of the blonde blue-eyed youngster, seen just seven days ago at a Brussels bank, are now being studied. Last night Belgian police said the case had been given top priority and was being passed to a magistrate who would launch a full inquiry.
That’s right - the Express has reverted to calling the missing child Madeleine. It flirted with Maddie, but Madeleine it is, and ever will be…
The little girl, who looked “much like” Madeleine, was spotted by a security guard at the Havenlaan branch of the KBC Bank in the district of Molenbeek St Jean.
It’s Madeleine. It has to be:
The guard – stationed outside the bank’s main entrance – was so shocked he considered following the pair but decided not to leave his post, a police source has revealed.
Nor did he call out her name, nor question the woman, nor whip out a camera phone and take a picture…
A police source added: “He is convinced he saw Madeleine but obviously it needs checking out carefully.”
Sure thing…
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE IN BRUSSELS A WEEK AGO”
Was she petitioning for an amber alert system for Europe?
The Sun has a grainy picture of a blonde child and a woman walking hand-in-hand. It’s “CCTV of little girl being led up street.” And a question: “IS IT HER?”
A LITTLE girl who cops suspect could be Madeleine McCann asked a woman she was seen walking with, “Can we go back now?” it emerged last night. The poignant plea in English was overheard by a bank security guard in Brussels, Belgium — and he is convinced the kiddie was missing Maddie.
Tells us more:
The dark-skinned woman, wearing a hijab headdress, spoke in a different language, possibly broken French. Police interviewed the guard, who speaks fluent Flemish, Dutch and English, on Thursday.
But not French. He doesn’t speak French…
The child has a fringe like Madeleine’s.
A fringe…
“Man in shadows ignored by cops”
And in the Mirror.
But police regarded the incident as “outdated” as it occurred so long before Maddie went missing, their 20,000-page dossier shows.
Fact!
DAILY MIRROR: “COPS IGNORED IT”
Their 30,000 pages of case notes reveal: “The director of M3 (Metodo 3) handed us a small notepad with information relating to Madeleine’s disappearance.
Fact!
Newly-released evidence reveals a man tried to abduct a child at McCanns’ flat 8 months before Maddy was taken…
How many months?
A suspected abductor was spotted spying on Madeleine McCann’s flat before she vanished - but Portuguese police ignored the tip-off, it emerged yesterday.
How many months ago?
British babysitter Margaret Hall was caring for a girl aged six in the same apartment when she saw the prowler lurking in the dark and peering inside. A statement and his description were passed to officers - who dismissed it as irrelevant, their files on the bungled probe reveal.
What happened?
Margaret had reported her autumn 2006 sighting to Metodo 3 in November 2007 and they informed police.
Let’s recap: Months before Madeleine went missing a nanny says she saw a man looking through a window. And she told not the police, rather seh told a private detective agency. Just shows you how much better the agency is than the police – and how much its worth its fee – doesn’t it?
Metodo 3… What do we know about the detectives?
Spanish private investigators, based in Barcelona, are said to be being paid £50,000 a day to hunt for Madeleine. Since taking on the case it has received 16,000 calls from potential witnesses.
How many tip-offs Metodo 3 passed on to the police, the Mirror does not care to say. How many of these tip-offs the Portuguese police investigated, the Mirror does not care to say.
Such are the facts.
DAILY MAIL: “Portuguese police ignored ‘kidnapper in the shadows’ outside Madeleine’s bedroom”
Police failed to investigate a previous suspected abduction attempt from Kate and Gerry McCann’s holiday apartment, it was disclosed yesterday.
Or a suspected burglary. Or a suspected break in. Or a suspected rape/ mugging/ window cleaning/ voyeurism and many more…
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said their detectives were working on all the missed clues in the police files. He said: ‘Kate and Gerry hoped from the outset that the police were following up every lead in the most thorough and professional manner possible. Where any information is found not to have been followed up, our investigators are working on it, all of it.’
All of it. And what of any information Metodo 3 did not follow up, will that be reviewed once more?
Madeleine McCann: Round and round it goes…
Posted: 11th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (116) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 11th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Oooh i love bringing up the rear
August 11th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Lone pigeon ……. We will meet again soon - to pool ideas and thrash some of this out together.
It’s getting jolly well serious in my feeble mind.
Very serious to be honest - and I need sensible debaters like oneself to lead us forward and bring up the rear! X
August 11th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Maria Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am
lone pigeon Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am
people that buy the papers and believe in this shite are the idiots!!
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True! But the papers know they will buy, at least…….and they do……without fail.
Aye and the fairground ride will keep going round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round…..christ i’m getting dizzy writing this……
August 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am
‘Tis an ill wind that be blowin.’
‘Tis iller and more blowy than ever I expected.’
‘Tis ill and chill and blustery beyond belief!’
August 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am
i’m sorry coco - i tried to get into work as fast as I could but the transport system let me down again. One of the many reasons why i’m going to ask work to allow me to work from home. It’s going to be an interesting week this week at work for the lonsome ol pigeon.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am
lone pigeon Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am
people that buy the papers and believe in this shite are the idiots!!
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True! But the papers know they will buy, at least…….and they do……without fail.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Lone pigeon! How dare you arrive as I leave! None of our mutuals have been on to keep me company today.
‘Tis an ill wind that be blowin’ in the middle of August - for sure ……..
August 11th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Maria …… I think that it should be made a crime for the press to put M on the front pages now in order to sell the paper.
They have had a run like they had with Diana on this story now with no sign of abating until the D-noticey-type-thingy is really welded on to Downing St’s gates!.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am
people that buy the papers and believe in this shite are the idiots!!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Chenier! Seriously so have I! I rember the hair-dresser dragging her clooeagues to look at my double-crown.
The hair-dresser said that when she was training it was a sign of a very special brain and meant that I must be dead dead clever!!!
Being a hair-dresser is absolutely no barrier to making rather astute and accurate comments lol. And I went along with that ……….
August 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
We should very soon hear from that poor woman with the child in the bank. She might feel a bit embarrassed but maybe some rag will give her a few bob for her non-story as well.
The child said “Can we go back now?” Erm…….don’t most children say that when they are bored by …er…..things like visits to banks? I seem to hear kids saying that frequently when I’m shopping. I must take more notice in future….
Does anyone seriously think that Madeleine would be paraded openly through the streets just days after her parents have been so much in the news again? No hairstyle change, for example?!
The Mcs aren’t idiots. They have to be polite but………and they’ve been here so many times before…
The papers aren’t idiots either. They have to sell……
August 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am
That’s why I have two crowns, Coco.
It really impresses hairdressers…
August 11th, 2008 at 9:26 am
RIGHT! I HAVE REALLY HAD ENOUGH OF THESE SIGHTINGS!
WOULD EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD WITH A BLONDE HAIRED GIRL BETWEEN THE AGES OF THREE YEARS OLD AND SEVEN YEARS OLD PLEASE KEEP HER INDOORS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!
That should solve it - Until we hear that she’s had her dyed again or is wearing a wig again!
August 11th, 2008 at 9:11 am
The way M’s hair falls is not like the pic!
The crown of the hair is a distinguishing feature on any person. Ask any phrenologist.
Just as ears are a very distinguishing feature.
And I don’t want any hair-dressers coming back at me about back-combing thank you! Or straighteners.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am
just so! lol Errrm ….. This is the Sun you are talking about!
August 11th, 2008 at 8:54 am
THE SUN
“Police interviewed the guard, who speaks fluent Flemish, Dutch and English, on Thursday.”
They don’t even know that Flemish is just a regional variation of Dutch.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Lyn
I’m waiting for the sighting of a ‘boy’ maddie lookalike
August 11th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Madeleine was slightly pigeon toed though. Fancy a security guard not calling the police!
August 11th, 2008 at 8:13 am
I’m getting concerned now
First it was odd looking men around PDL in early may last year,
then it was odd looking suspiscious men around PDL April last year,
then it was suspiscious men a few months before, and now it is
anyone who looked odd 8 months before madeleine disapeared.
Well about a year before Madeleine went missing Mr Noseycow was looking at a holiday brochure and I’m sure it contained a picture of the MW apartments.
He looked very odd when he looked at the price list.. Should I contact the Daily Mirror and complain that he hasn’t been investigated fully?
August 11th, 2008 at 8:10 am
sixth - dammit
August 11th, 2008 at 8:08 am
forth
August 11th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Thrud
August 11th, 2008 at 8:05 am
yep - dentist today
August 11th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Tooth !!!
August 11th, 2008 at 7:44 am
frist?