Madeleine McCann: With Columnist Peter McKay
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THE COLUMNISTS
PETER McKAY (Mail):
MOST sightings of missing Madeleine McCann seem to involve Belgium and a paedophile ‘ring’ which might have kidnapped the child ‘to order’. Belgian police received more than 100 sightings, 30 of which required checking.
Do they?
But the latest - by British businessman Trevor Francis, 64 - was on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Nursing home owner Francis, who keeps a yacht there, says a girl he thinks was ‘Madeleine’ came into a restaurant with three women - all of Latin origin - and had the telltale blemish in her right eye.
He did.
In one sighting, the girl involved said she was ‘Maddie’ and had been taken from her mother. Yet the McCanns say Madeleine was never known as ‘Maddie’ to them. It’s an abbreviation devised by newspapers so the name will fit headlines.
Posted: 11th, August 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (637) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 11th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
FFS Garth you might blow her batteries……….
August 11th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Must be very amusing to watch the Three Stooges fighting over the keyboard.
Any chance of a web link lads?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
test…………
August 11th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Just returned & seen a post from me.
Carmen & Duncan..thanks!
Duncan….another kiss for going beyond the call of duty!
Not sure if I actually want to post now though!
Maybe later?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Carmen Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Saul Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm edit
It must be like Musical Chairs over at Gandolf’s central.
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Electrician required urgently to wire up chair………
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No problem darlin i can do that for you. Now would you care to take a seat just to make sure I have the correct voltage.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
DuncanR Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Carmen Said
Remember when there was talk of a film being made, and Clarrie said something along the lines of what fun the casting would be?
There must have been dozens of stage struck parents with Maddie-lite daughters who made contact following that announcement.
Where are they now?
Belgium, Venezuela?
Being led past cctv cameras in some far flung city by swarthy looking men?
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PSML
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ME TOO! CARMEN, YOU’RE … :-*
August 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Dave you can sit on a chair, as long as your paws are clean and you don’t lick your arse.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Carmen Said
Remember when there was talk of a film being made, and Clarrie said something along the lines of what fun the casting would be?
There must have been dozens of stage struck parents with Maddie-lite daughters who made contact following that announcement.
Where are they now?
Belgium, Venezuela?
Being led past cctv cameras in some far flung city by swarthy looking men?
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PSML
August 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Looks like you’ve got a following coco.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Portia-weren’t the Mccanns going to have tests done on the samples themselves? have we heard the result?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
It must be like Musical Chairs over at Gandolf’s central.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
coco
go for it girl. ive always liked your posts. you’re brilliant
August 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I wonder if that lady by the bank has enrolled madeleine in the local school as well?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
coco Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hi Bountyhunter and Chatelaine and decent posters with a free-thinking mind!
[...]
Kittens - Don’t waste time talking to the Fuck-wits and Half-Wits.
They are a peculiar breed of parasite.
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Hear, hear, Coco. Free speech is too valuable.
& They’re parasites.
Mods & Admin, please pull my previous post, if you feel you should.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
FFS it’s the bint who thinks jokes about nine year olds can be in context, try telling that in downtown Baghdad.
MODS AND ADMIN
Comments like that have no place in the Maddie thread. If you wish to comment please use the appropriate thread.
Carmen
MODS and ADMIN
It has been established on several occasions that the comment to which you are referring is stated on the Taliban Lads Mags thread and not the Maddie thread. Therefore I am noting a concern at the persistence in referencing this without motive.
Grace
relaw0430
August 11th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Jonti- Do you really think they lied?
As far as I know, the specific DNA report has not been released or published anywhere. All we know is that there was a definite match of 15 out of 19 markers but the scientists aren’t sure whether it was a true match or a random match. We still don’t know if the theoretical possibility that the match wasn’t a true match is 1 in a hundred or 1 in a billion. A 1 in a billion possibility of the match being a random match would not be good for the FSS or the McCanns.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Doris
I said breath not breasts. Jeez are you deaf as well?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
My previous post hould have read - It now appears that those very same Fuck-Wits have claimed my words to use against some of the posters who are actually barking up the right tree.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
jonti-eh-she has said she was-after her & G argued.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
clouseau Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Gandy
what u fink about question 41 ?………..Garthy has no answer
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OI Doris, I told you to hold your breath. If you cant do that then at least stop waffling.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Question 41 clueless…………………very very very easy answer, the question and its content are and where a figment of a certain police officers imagination, who continues to dig a deeper hole, now let us hear or see your evidence to support your view clueless………..names and probable guardians with links to prove……….
August 11th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
bouny
im wondering if they had been arguing all week and as a result tempers got heated and Madeleine paid the price by getting in the way or something. Kate was probably sleeping in that bed
August 11th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hi Bountyhunter and Chatelaine and decent posters with a free-thinking mind!
Kittens! Please don’t get drawn into anything you will regret for the rest of your lives.
I have just read some bits of tripe that have been written on here today and I am concerned that some of you are being drawn into replying to the people I named as Fuck-Wits and Half-Wits when I first started using the site.
It now appears that those very same Fuck-Wits have claimed my words to use against some of those.
I don’t approve of people plagiarising me or the press in general - unless they know the true meaning and content of what they are saying and how it will affect our attempts at having a go at free speech.
Free speech is no fucking good if it ends up costing anything! Either our own reputations or our property and liberty.
So fuck off to all those who keep repeating day after day that there is no evidence.
There are piles of evidence! Boxes of it - but people have withdrawn their original expert opinions - which has left the PJ saying that they have therefore not got ‘enough ‘evidence’ to keep people under suspect status.
Kittens - Don’t waste time talking to the Fuck-wits and Half-Wits.
They are a peculiar breed of parasite.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
cheryl Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
[...] they DID NOT have anything to do with it, Chatelaine. Take it one step further - turn your mind into a criminal’s mind, think like one … now plan in your mind exactly how you would have taken that child …”
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Believe me, Cheryl, I have been looking from a 360º spectrum at this case. For one, a criminal would only have had a chance IF they have been lying about their surveillance of the children. Furthermore there are so many inconsistencies, lies, changes of stories, unanswered questions and so much money involved - in combination with the most extraordinary reactions, statements, behaviour of the parents that I can only assume that IMO they know what happened - EVEN if the child was taken.
I am NOT saying that they have done something. They let is happen, they [let it be] covered up and they’re cashing in. Pfew, I’ve said it.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Gandy
what u fink about question 41 ?………..Garthy has no answer
August 11th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
It just has clueless………..you arrived…………..
August 11th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
JONTI/ WHOOPS
I wonder looking again at the ‘abduction’ bedrooom why was the second bed in such a mess ? not made etc ? what night did Kate sleep there ? Did someone else sleep there the evening of the 3rd, till 10 pm anyway?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
whats up dumber and dumber….expecting bad news to come out soon
August 11th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Gandolf Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
FFS Garth, must be a full moon, the nutters are out in force tonight, what a shower of cerebrally challenged fukwits…….
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Gandolf
If i fall off my chair laughing once more Im gonna sue one of these numpties.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Cheryl
Are you telling Chateleine to seriously think about it? Ooh hell!