Madeleine McCann: Brian Kennedy Is Talking Balls With Mark Souster
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THE TIMES: “Brian Kennedy’s quest to find Madeleine”
Madeleine has turned up in the rugby pages. Mark Souster investigates…
There is no doubt that Brian Kennedy is a driven man. He has built a business empire with a turnover of more than £400million, as owner he has transformed Sale Sharks into one of the leading rugby clubs in Britain, who face Munster tomorrow in the second round of the Heineken Cup, and fathered five children.
But what’s he really famous for?
He is ultra-competitive. Only last weekend he raced Kingsley Jones, the club’s coach and former Wales captain, uphill and beat him even though there is more than ten years between them.
Eat yer heart out, Sisyphus. But what is Brian Kennedy all about..?
Family - he married at 19 - sport and the commercial world are his life blood. But over the past year he has also been consumed by another cause.
Here it comes…
Kennedy has been heavily involved in supporting Gerry and Kate McCann in the search for Madeleine, their missing daughter.
Indeed. What of it?
Kennedy 48, is reluctant to talk about his role or the reasons why he chose to put a chunk of his fortune, estimated at more than £250million, at their disposal.
But it’s headline-making stuff in the Times. It defines the man…
He has said before that he simply felt compelled to step in. “I have chosen to keep a low profile on this,” Kennedy said yesterday. “It is not about me. It is about Madeleine. I don’t want to comment personally on this except to say there is a big job still to do and we are focusing on getting it done.”
OK. Fair enough. The Times respects the man’s wishes. Back to the match…
Seventeen months after her disappearance in Portugal, Kennedy remains as committed as ever to discovering what happened to Madeleine and helping the family to end their torment.
Game on…
Kennedy has become friends with the McCanns and Gerry has been his guest at Sale. “He is a keen rugby man and really likes his sport”…
It’s a game of two halves. And their daughter…
There are a lot of people helping by putting in a lot of time. But as I have said, it is not about me, them, Kate or Gerry. It is about a poor little kid who might be out there needing to be found. So therefore we need to move mountains to find her.”
Indeed. OK. Let’s move on…
The discussion switches to rugby…
So, Brian, is this for Maddie..?
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October 20th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Hi Rasputin, I just wanted to clarify that my home board is not 3A’s, although I do belong there. ‘MISSING’ is my home, known as the Green Board. ;}
About Coldwater, I was sucked in along with everyone who just knew he had to have righteous sources. It is too bad he didn’t return to set a stake in the ground for honor after the Final Report came out. It told me just what he was made of, and so I now don’t hold anything fast that he gave to us.
I wiah I had read in the Final Report about the original contents of the blue bag being removed by the PJ and put into a creme canvas bag and set out by the roadside dump spot close to the airport. All done to send a message to the T9 as to what investigators had and get them hopefully sweating bullets!
I didn’t. Too bad, as it would have been such a coup to trap them mentally and with evidence. I still hope that somehow, in some way, the law will put those who violated Madeleine’s rights as a human being into a place they can not squirm out of.
She needs peace. And as a dear friend of my has always said, a memorial. A special place that is her own here on earth.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Jane Servais: No, I don’t. She has bad days, I have bad days, we work together as a team. If I misinterpret what she is telling me, we’re fallible.
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http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1330660.htm
October 19th, 2008 at 10:46 am
not for personal gain petermac
tut tut
October 19th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Has anyone ever seen the headline “Psychic wins lottery” ?
October 19th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Having had one or two psychic experiences myself I don’t dismiss psychics out of hand. The trouble, in this case, is that we have Spooky and MJ saying she’s alive and well and being treated like a princess, we have Brian Ladd saying she’s dead in Praia Da Luz (buried under Murat’s house) and we have Ms Baron saying she was taken by Steve or Stav ………….. well you can read it.
If all the psychics were in agreement it would be more reassuring. I’m waiting for my own psychic dream about Madeleine but I haven’t had one and it’s been a long time coming.
When you get a psychic dream you wake up really bored with it. You think, Oh that’s what happened, it’s as if it happened ages ago and everybody knows and it’s long gone. When you get that feeling it’s always right. But with this, no luck so far.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Sky news, Sunday morning
Missing 19 yrs old girl Victoria Couchman’s skeletal remain found in a wood in Hastings.
And guess what …
Her father has been arrested !
October 19th, 2008 at 9:06 am
We are a bit more used to open discussion here, unlike your home board the 3arses, I believe the poster known as coldwater, to coin a phrase, ripped the pish out of each and every one of the inhabitants of that dark place the 3arses. Yes indeed, posters on this board of whichever opinion are not as easily led as the 3arses dimwits.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Hi, I am surprised you don’t discuss the bones thrown out here by Anorak. . . . the shower curtain, Kate’s church whispers and The Blonde of Karia Ba Mohamed . . .
Has anyone read of blood evidence on the shower curtain? Coldwater said it had M’s DNA
Someone heard Kate whisper something of note in church?
Is Karia from Morocco?
I would think these bones were made for walking. At least it is velly intellesting. I wish the journo who wrote that was posting here! IMO
October 19th, 2008 at 6:06 am
We don’t believe everything Mulder and Scully get up to.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:57 am
I AM a Yank (but, being from the capital-S South, I don’t especially like the word), but this deal was in the news forever ago–I gotta think, like, January or February? You can trust me when I tell you these guys are anything but taken seriously here.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:47 am
It would appear that the Portuguese do not take this sort of “information” as seriously as the Yanks.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:37 am
I’m dying! Weren’t the “Haunting Evidence” people there a long time ago???
October 19th, 2008 at 5:24 am
” Ms Baron said she immediately picked up on the vision of “Steve” or “Stav” stalking the family and photographing Madeleine at the beach before snatching her several days later.
Ms Baron said: “He snapped off a cell phone photo while looking like he was making a call.
“I also see him taking notes on a small notepad as he watched the comings and goings of the McCann family to see what their routine was.”
When he finally pounced at night, while Madeleine’s parents were in a nearby restaurant, Ms Baron and Mr Oliver said the little girl did not even wake up as he crept into the children’s bedroom and picked her up.
Mr Oliver: “He took her to his car. There were people walking who saw him but he just looked as if he was a father carrying a sleeping child and they didn’t take any notice.”
They say the abductor placed Madeleine in the front passenger seat of his dark silver car, which may have had even darker or black trim.
Mr Oliver said he believes that the abductor may have stopped briefly at a deserted farmhouse east of the town before driving to his eventual destination – a furnished room rented out during the summer in nearby Lagos.
Executives at Tru TV, part of media tycoon Ted Turner’s CNN network, which makes the Haunting Evidence programme, passed the apartment address to police but withheld it from transmission.
The psychics say she was murdered there by being smothered by a pillow several days after her abduction because the man feared he would be caught.
Ms Baron believes the man then bundled her into the boot of his car and drove to a remote area, close to a landfill and manmade dam, where he buried her. This location has also been passed to police.
The FBI takes psychic evidence seriously and all three members of the Haunting Evidence team have been used in major criminal investigations.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Only in America. http://tinyurl.com/67luto
October 19th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Still counting them out…….
Lone Pigeon Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
hahahaha nor do I really! I’ve decided tonight that I’m not posting on the madeleine threads anymore. The people on there are driving me absolutely nuts and I’ve learnt so much from you recently and am going to stick with more important matters so thanks to you.
Not even waiting for the Sunday Express to hit the streets
October 19th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Brandon
Of course! I am married too.
I can understand that you believe them guilty and fair dos. I believe you to be wrong, but hey.
Believe it or not, I started very politely on this site, but the abuse I received became such that, well….
October 19th, 2008 at 12:22 am
spongey poo
Its all in the starry sky !
I am a married woman! I go to mass sundays!
cant we still be friends?
October 19th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Brandon
Can’t see anything on sky. Is it on another planet
I will await your news tomorrow. fuck me, not so smart, you missed the Sundays!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
The only thing the Caylee Anthony case has in common with the Madeleine McCann case is that two precious children are missing.
1. Caylee’s mother never reported her missing.
2. After she had been missing for more than a month, the mother was located by
the grandmother, who then phoned the police.
3. While the mother has answered every question asked of her, essentially every word
she has uttered has been PROVEN to be a lie.
4. There are numerous credible witnesses, a trail of illegal financial transactions, and
plentiful DNA, electronic, photographic and video evidence.
5. When the mother’s abandoned automobile was recovered from the tow lot, cadaver
dogs were not needed; the mother, father, lot operator, and brother all reported an
overwhelming smell of decomposition.
6. Air samples from the car trunk revealed evidence of both human decomposition
and the presence of chloroform.
7. When a cadaver dog was later brought in, it did signal at the car’s trunk and a spot
in the family’s back yard. It did not signal at the ignition key or front door frame.
Nor has any evidence so far been recovered to support the back yard signal.
8. The police have charged the mother at each step as evidence as been confirmed:
first with neglect and making false statements to police, then with the theft and
identity theft charges, and now with murder.
Now, let’s compare, shall we? The McCann’s reported their child missing the moment her absence was discovered, and they have raised holy hell keeping Madeleine in the public eye–including numerous law enforcement and investigative agencies–ever since. There is not one witness who has stepped forward saying they were anything less than model parents, and there is not a shred of evidence to back up the questionable performance of the dogs. There are numerous, unrelated witnesses to the child’s presence and health on the day she disappeared, and no scientific or other evidence of her injury or death. As a results her parents have been charged with NO crime and are no longer even considered suspects.
So, not even remotely similar then, are they???
October 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Hey Shitter,
You’re back, ach I knew you’d be. Pet!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I haven’t go it
October 18th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
on sky now quick !!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
me too xxxx nighty night
October 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Ratwing
Did someone shite on you?
October 18th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Fuck me, aren’t I clever?
October 18th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
October 18th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
ha ha ha I knew you’d come back Spongey. So easy.
Hi Brandon
BTW - I’m not posting on here anymore so nice knowing you all. I’m out.
G’night all.
October 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Ratwing
Tell me something of interest
Otherwise stop spreading your venom
October 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
LONE!!!!
October 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
when the going gets tough the weak get going…
October 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I should add, their statements were binned along with the paper clip counters, as non actionable.