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 1:16 pm
From the previous thread.
…….What is that old saying, “If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck - it is a duck?”……..
Not if it’s sighted in a Belgian bank
August 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
lone
You would have thought that they would discuss as a group what they were dong the next day, seems odd that the mccs kids were in the creche and the others had theirs with them
August 11th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
wtf Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
chatelaine
I think it looks very much like exclusion to me, prhpas they were just a moody couple, not much fun when your on holiday is it?
I’ve seen these types on holiday myself. Usually quite succesful, right up themselves cos they’ve got a few quid but they never seem to have any fun and the kids always look sad cos the parents aren’t really enjoying parenting and begrudge them because they can’t be out on the piss larging it. Whereas there’s a couple I know of that took it another step further and brought it to a whole new level
August 11th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
chatelaine
I think it looks very much like exclusion to me, prhpas they were just a moody couple, not much fun when your on holiday is it?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
lone pigeon Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
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August 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Daisy Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Maravilha Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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The book … and sequel? Is he donating the profits to the Fund?
yep and he’s going to sell his house and all his possesions and give that to the fund
August 11th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Maravilha Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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The book … and sequel? Is he donating the profits to the Fund?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
brandon, grins
August 11th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
The new secret investigators are now turning over stones in Abkhazia.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
To people here on this blog, forum,
In order to protect Anorak, I unfortunately decided not to tell here what I read on “The Truth of the Lie”written by Gonçalo Amaral.
I suggest you all to get contact with the editor in Portugal,
Guerra e Paz,Editores S.A.
guerraepaz@guerraepaz.net
http://www.guerraepaz.net
and ask them about eventual edition in English and where to get it.
On a intervieuw (longer ago)I read or heard that Gonçalo did not tell everything he knows.
He could eventually write a new book, he said.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
not float
well not anymore
those days are past i’m afraid 
August 11th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Garth Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
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Don’t get youself sent to the freezer
August 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
not float
August 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
sam
thanks
I meant me and lone used to
‘they were calling to each other, then one landed on the tree and for quite a few minutes stayed there and called to the other which then came over and they both moved on, sort of like a relay movement they were doing and it lasted quite a long time’
August 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
brandon, you and lone used to do it like owls ?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
stop it Im getting scared now
Are country foxes prettier than the urban crack whore types from shepherdsbush ?
some are some aren’t. You still get the scraggly ones in the countryside. Just depends what they’ve been up to really.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
no brandon, other way around, fresh eggs sink, why ?
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Eggs/EggsFloat.htm
August 11th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
August 11th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
sam
me and lone used to do that
August 11th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
float i think.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
According to Delia do fresh eggs sink or float again ?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Daisy Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
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M&A
Artemis
Accusing your fellow posters of ‘hatred’ is not acceptable behaviour, Daisy
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Goddess? Pedantic pratt morelike!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
lone pigeon Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
‘beautiful creatures to watch and especially hear at night. They shreek as well as hoot.’
yeah, at first i couldn’t work out what was happening, they were calling to each other, then one landed on the tree and for quite a few minutes stayed there and called to the other which then came over and they both moved on, sort of like a relay movement they were doing and it lasted quite a long time as in you could hear them moving from place to place across the town.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
and no cracks about the women either !
August 11th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
ahh those mind bending drugs. Not really conducive with night fishing
August 11th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
stop it Im getting scared now
Are country foxes prettier than the urban crack whore types from shepherdsbush ?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Or the mind bending drugs he took two days before when hed gone raving
August 11th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
A foxes bark will get the nerves tingling too
August 11th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
sam Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
sounds great brandon.
lone, last year in summer we had a pair of owls moving across the town and one landed on a fir tree in my garden, was fantastic to see.
beautiful creatures to watch and especially hear at night. They shreek as well as hoot.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
I bet somewhere -in England or not-there are one or two excellent journalists at work now, sifting through the investigation, asking questions, comparing results, and preparing some really interesting piece of journalism about the case.
:lol: 
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