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But police regarded the incident as “outdated” as it occurred so long before Maddie went missing, their 20,000-page dossier shows.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…
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August 11th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Daisy Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
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If this report would have been made say 15 months ago, we would all be jumping with hope that this could be her. Why not have the same attitude now? It could be her … until proven otherwise … it COULD be her.
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I think we WOULD all be jumping for joy, IF we wouldn’t have meanwhile learned about the scent of a dead body in their apartment! It’s not hatred, that we react like we do; it’s common sense.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Looks like the woman standing with her back to the camera would sooner be Fiona. IF Rachael was there, she’s either the one next to Russell or the one behind Jane
for all i know the mccanns could’ve been there but out of sight of the camera.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
wtf Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Does anyone else find it strange that on the 3rd may, everyone else was gathered together with their children to eat, why were the mccs not there with the others?
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Putin would have found her before too long…
Spaß beiseite: it’s a dreadful situation there
August 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
G’day all,
So, why shouldn’t a reported sighting (with images to back it up) be investigated? What if this is real and it is Maddie? Why not find out if it is her or not and put an end to the speculation? What if this could then bring a close to the case for the PJ?
Most of the posters (not all, but most) believe she is dead, but there is always the possibility that your views are incorrect. That she is alive somewhere … wouldn’t you be happy if that was the case? … Or is the hatred some posters have for the McCanns so blinding that nothing else can be considered as a possibility except the worst?
So far, the PJ could not make a case against the McCanns, therefore the case is still “on hold” = “unresolved”. IMO new reported sightings, whether they turn out to be erroneous or not, MUST be investigated. A child’s welfare COULD be at stake and an unresolved case COULD be solved.
If this report would have been made say 15 months ago, we would all be jumping with hope that this could be her. Why not have the same attitude now? It could be her … until proven otherwise … it COULD be her.
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M&A
Artemis
Accusing your fellow posters of ‘hatred’ is not acceptable behaviour, Daisy.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I’ve noticed that I use a lot of “if’s” since I started posting on this site
August 11th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Have they considered asking Russia for help. They are certainly leaving no stone unturned. In fact, they are blowing the sh*t out every stone that comes their way.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Looks like the woman standing with her back to the camera would sooner be Fiona. IF Rachael was there, she’s either the one next to Russell or the one behind Jane
August 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Pregnant question remains: if Mrs. Webster was NOT at the Paraiso on May 3, who is the 7th person at the table?
no idea chatelaine, who is sitting next to russel o’brian ? i thought that was rachel oldfield but she is marked as one of the standing people with their backs to the camera.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Pregnant question remains: if Mrs. Webster was NOT at the Paraiso on May 3, who is the 7th person at the table?
August 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Well, at least this way, the nannies cannot have mixed-up Madeleine with one of the other Tapas girls that day …
August 11th, 2008 at 11:29 am
wtf Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am
” Does anyone else find it strange that on the 3rd may, everyone else was gathered together with their children to eat, why were the mccs not there with the others?”
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Question is: was Kate raging because she wasn’t invited or did they NOT invite Kate because she was raging? Story is that they brought the children to the creche, not knowing that the others had taken theirs for an outing. Had lunch with them and brought them back to the creche in the afternoon. As for their own way of spending the day, all I know/read is that Kate went running in the boiling sun and Gerry was kind of playing tennis at 6 pm, but there are different versions of that
- playing competition
- having tennis lesson
- not playing because of hurting tendon
You choose …
August 11th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Brandon
Madeleine is dead
No way any other girl looks like her anymore
August 11th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Ah Saul - those were the days…..
That is not a cue for Mary Hopkins!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:08 am
The girl on that photo is much taller than poor madeleine
August 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Good point chenier …..
Going to listen to second verse, courtesy of Mott the Hoople - brings back memories
August 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT54T42ldec
August 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am
morning all
Does anyone else find it strange that on the 3rd may, everyone else was gathered together with their children to eat, why were the mccs not there with the others?
August 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am
No takers on my sighting then?
August 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I hope they got Maddie one of those passports with the extra pages in…
August 11th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Inspired stuff, if I may say so, MrsT.
‘We’re on the booze’ would rhyme too!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:55 am
‘All the young dudes,
That missed all the clues,
We’ll get Metodo3
To ponder and muse’
August 11th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Seen Madeleine in Hindu Kush,walking with my friends,the Talibans…she is in good hands dont worry
August 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am
‘all the missed clues’
has a kind of ring to it, don’t you think?
It almost rhymes with dudes.
and definitely rhymes with Muse.
I’m thinking maybe a contender…
perhaps our song for Moscow?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:47 am
petermac
good point hopefully cctv will finally come out soon , if not ……
August 11th, 2008 at 10:44 am
morning peter/mac. good question.
must go do some work too.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
brandon, it was
August 11th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Didn’t someone see Madeleine in Praia da Luz about 16 months ago ?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Sam
August 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Sam
Lucky who did you see?
we went here
http://www.leverton.org/blosxom/Music/Parties/Shamania%202008
August 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
coco
What about free speech?! Free to say anything, however daft.
Still, you can only use the headline “Another Bitter Disappointment for Kate and Gerry” so many time, can’t you, without looking totally stupid?
But then, the rags don’t seem to care about looking stupid. On the contrary, they appear to relish it…
Wonder if the woman with the child could sue? Should you beam photos of any child all over the world these days…..? Schools have to ask permission before photographing the kids on a day out and parents aren’t always allowed to take photos at the Christmas play.
I’ve nobody to sue……well, not now that Ian-of-old has gone……so I’ll have to get to work to earn some cash.
Have a good day.