Madeleine McCann: Bet On Maddie, Belgium Or Bust And More Jokes
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE SUN: “I’d bet all that I own it was her”
THE bank security guard who saw a child like Madeleine McCann insisted yesterday: “I would bet everything I own that it was her.”
The spotter in Brussels…. Is betting in the bank allowed? Is this a sign of the credit crunch? A bet’s a bet. How much you got?
The Belgian capital is tipped to rival Amsterdam as the sex capital of Europe.
Tipped by whom, the Sun’s man in the know?
“I sold an ice cream to ‘Maddie’”
It’s a claim to fame…
A STREET vendor told last night how he sold an ice cream to a girl he believes was Madeleine McCann eight days ago. The sad English child was spotted with a woman in Brussels, Belgium, by Antonio Migliardi.
Mr Migliardi is pictured holding an ice cream. It is chocolate, although forensics claim it might be coffee.
McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell confirmed that chocolate was Maddie’s favourite ice cream flavour.
“Probe hit ‘dead end’ last year”
THE judge in the Maddie McCann probe decided investigations were at a “dead end” — seven months before Kate and Gerry were cleared, it emerged last night.
Maddie.
Prosecutors had asked several times for permission to access SMS texts and mobile locations of the McCanns’ Tapas Nine holiday pals, the police case files reveal. This was denied until December 12 when Judge Pedro Anjos Frias relented, stating: “It is evident the investigation is at a dead end.
What evidence, sorry, evident?
“Therefore, the information requested by the prosecution should be provided by telephone operators, as from them there may be results.”
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “HOW COULD THEY? Judge blast at police ‘dead end’ hunt for Madeleine”
Blast?
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE SIGHTINGS: WE’LL KNOW IN 24 HOURS”
24 hours from… Wait for it…. Now!
MADELEINE McCann’s parents could find out if she is alive in the next 24 hours. They think a girl captured on CCTV cameras at a Belgian bank just a week ago could be the daughter they have not seen for 15 months.
DAILY EXPRESS: “30 NEW ‘SIGHTINGS’ OF MADELEINE IN BELGIUM IN A WEEK”
The information is being co-ordinated by Belgian federal prosecutor Lieve Pellens. Yesterday she told the Daily Express: “We have received 30 new leads in the past week. Some claim to have seen Madeleine in Brussels while others have spotted her in the north of the country.”
Can they all be Maddie..?
The new clues bring the number of “Madeleine sightings” in Belgium to 135 since she went missing in May last year.
One in 135… Is that asking so very much?
Ms Pellens added: “Many people in Belgium have followed the Madeleine case and everyone is desperate to help. In some cases the girl who is spotted is speaking Flemish but in other instances the girl seen is speaking English.”
Bright girl. Fast learner.
“The information in each case is being checked and each lead is being followed up. But we are still waiting for the golden information that will lead us to her.”
THE SCOTSMAN: “Madeleine CCTV appeal fails”
A WOMAN captured on CCTV in Belgium a week ago with a young girl resembling Madeleine McCann has failed to come forward despite appeals.
THE GUARDIAN: “Edinburgh festival rapid review: Scott Capurro”
The theme: All that’s sacred. Let me consult my notes … erm … cancer, the prophet Muhammad, paedophilia, fisting, abortion, the word “nigger”, Madeleine McCann, Aids, Catholicism, anal rape … That enough for you? Even so, it does not begin to convey the depth and range of offence that Capurro sets out to cause.
Capurro is no Sadowitz, but he tries so very hard to be funny.
Audience participation: Sharp intakes of breath, continuous heckles, the mass departure of one entire row in protest at Capurro’s McCann material. Some laughter.
Madeleine McCann: Have you seen her?
Posted: 12th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (115) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 12th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
coolandcalm Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Rosemarie… I find it strange that she has not been found one way or another. Very strange and of course sad.
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Good Morning, C&C! Unfortunately, I don’t find it strange they haven’t found her body yet. If she was taken by and then her life taken by a ’sick human creature’ her body may well have been dumped in the ocean and unfortunately nothing would be left after the sea creatures were done - a small child’s remains would not be left as likely to wash up to shore as possibly any part of an adults. However, if there is that very remote possibility she is alive she will be kept well hidden and I doubt anywhere in Portugal or nearby countries.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
# Cheryl Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
jo Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Rosemarie Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Poor Maddy. I wonder where she is. Its such a shame that nobody has come forward.
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thinking with your arse again?
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Interesting, Jo. You’ve been a bitch on wheels since all your cackling for months on end about what would happen to the McCanns when the PJ announced their findings didn’t come true nor even near the truth of your predictions.
I’ve asked before and I’m asking you again are you a man? Reason for my query once again is your crude remark “thinking with your arse again?” - more a crude man’s retort than a woman’s would be. I didn’t miss your remark the other week either when you mentioned someone could borrow your steel tipped boots, just filed it away in my memory.
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August 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
jo Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Rosemarie Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Poor Maddy. I wonder where she is. Its such a shame that nobody has come forward.
*******
thinking with your arse again?
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Interesting, Jo. You’ve been a bitch on wheels since all your cackling for months on end about what would happen to the McCanns when the PJ announced their findings didn’t come true nor even near the truth of your predictions.
I’ve asked before and I’m asking you again are you a man? Reason for my query once again is your crude remark “thinking with your arse again?” - more a crude man’s retort than a woman’s would be. I didn’t miss your remark the other week either when you mentioned someone could borrow your steel tipped boots, just filed it away in my memory.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
bob
The innocent victim needs a voice.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I am sick of this fucking road show. The McCanns were negligent in leaving their kids, that is the be all and end all. Now they are trying to assuage that guilt through this pointless media campaign, portraying themselves to be the victims in all of this. They are not the victims, they caused it by being negligent with their childrens welfare whilst they went out for a meal/to get pissed.
The fact is that Maddie is now probably dead or has been heavily scarred with repeated sexual/violent abuse. The McCanns only have themselves to blame for this.
Now lets stop feeding into this and stop giving them the time of day. Hopefully if we all ignore these selfish and uncaring parents then they might just crawl back to the hole they appeared from.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Rosemarie… I find it strange that she has not been found one way or another. Very strange and of course sad.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Rosemarie Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Poor Maddy. I wonder where she is. Its such a shame that nobody has come forward.
*******
thinking with your arse again?
August 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Scotfree Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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Quite simply the press have made a song and dance about these sightings and hence the quick resolve.
Whilst the investigation was being carried out by the Portuguese we do not know how much credance was given to any of the reports and therefore whether investigations were passed on to interpol.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Garth, how can that be if the sightings in Holland and Belgium in the past were researched and investigated by thier own respected police working for Interpol before they sent the findings to teh Portugese for thier information. All the earlier sightings would have been handled thus as the Portugese had no jurisdiction. So I ask again how come the investigation of all the previous sightings by these police forces are compromised and run by ‘numpties’ while they are now doing wonderful work.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Scotfree Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I find it interesting that all of these sightings have been quickly eliminated by the police as they find the real people in the pictures and identifits. The press must be spitting feathers as the stories do not take on a life of their own and run for days. This however makes me think that if the police are so efficient in their endeavours, why must they have been incompetent while the investigation was running?
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Thats quite and easy one, because it was the Portuguese numpties carrying out the investigation.
Next!
August 12th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Poor Maddy. I wonder where she is. Its such a shame that nobody has come forward.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Hi Nosey I’m supposed to be working…
I’m fine thank you. How’s you?
Scotfree asked “This however makes me think that if the police are so efficient in their endeavours, why must they have been incompetent while the investigation was running?”
So I couldn’t resist joking…
No time to read the other thread [now]. May be tonight. Really off to get some work done.
Bye
August 12th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Totje
Long time - no argue! How the devil are you?
I confess to having absolutley no idea what your post meant
August 12th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I must resist, I can’t, yes, no..
Hi all. [obvious I can't]
Scotfree : because it was performed by a self proclaimed Saint/Martyr and his flying circus?
Bye
===> gone!
August 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I find it interesting that all of these sightings have been quickly eliminated by the police as they find the real people in the pictures and identifits. The press must be spitting feathers as the stories do not take on a life of their own and run for days. This however makes me think that if the police are so efficient in their endeavours, why must they have been incompetent while the investigation was running?
August 12th, 2008 at 8:48 am
coolandcalm/coco
just out of shower and ready for my lift to arrive
i’m in south devon and it’s actually sunny
i do hope you are right, coco
sadly i have lots of musical stuff to do this week so i may not be on here much
i would hate to miss the fun
August 12th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Matt
Why?
August 12th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Noseycow Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 8:42 am
No….Cliff is off the radar.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Julie
Done!!
Now if we can just get C&C to tap that rich relly of hers (ex hubby?? brother in law?? ) to fund it for us…
August 12th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Noseycow Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I’d vol to check out that one myself…..at a very reasonable fee.
Hissing down here.
Mand A new thread
August 12th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Noseycow Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Mat/Julie
I thought the Caribean one would be worth checling out personally
I VOLUNTEER!
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I think you need someone to carry your bags
August 12th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Matt
So. Do you think that Cliff is Mr Big?
August 12th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Mat/Julie
I thought the Caribean one would be worth checling out personally.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Matt. Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 8:37 am
…..And the child is out and about with her babysitter.
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Something which poor Madeleine didn’t have!
August 12th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Maria Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Because of the irony of it all.
CM, who speaks for the Duo, mutters about the significance of this “sighting”….headlines and pics everywhere.
And the child is out and about with her babysitter.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:37 am
nosey — awww bless
August 12th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Just_me
PMSL - we sorely missed you!
August 12th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Matt says
I would think that the McDoc’s are choking on their full English Breakfast after
reading the “babysitter” comment by the father of the child.
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Why do you think that, Matt?
August 12th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Julie Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Not in Rothley…..for sure.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:33 am
nosey, true, i already have the loungers, they are floating chairs with holes in the arms for drinks, very lardida lol
OK lets be serious, I HAVE FOUND MADDIE I know her hair has been cut and died and there has been a few more alterations to her appearance, but its her i’m sure of it..
http://static2.thrivesmart.com/uploaded_images/business_images/0003/4081/Child-Exam-2_slide_show.jpg
August 12th, 2008 at 8:32 am
You all stay here ok, I have to walk the dog, dont go anywhere !!!