Madeleine McCann: Snatched For £100,000 By Kidnappers Not Interested In £1.5 Million Reward
IN “MAIL-ORDER MADDIE ‘WAS SNATCHED BY CRIME LORD‘”, the Daily Star adds another theory to the many that have passed for reporting on the disappearance of an innocent child.
MADDIE McCann was a “mail-order kid” snatched by a scarfaced North African crime lord, according to explosive new claims revealed today.
This one has many of the elements of an Our Maddie story: foreigners; darkies, North Africa, kidnap and a “claim” supported by not a shred of evidence.
Police are now hunting an Algerian mafia boss who allegedly bragged to British associates in Portugal just weeks after the child’s disappearance.
And we know this now because…?
He told them he had snatched Madeleine in a £100,000 “steal-to- order” kidnap plot. And the Daily Star Sunday can reveal that police are set to quiz two jailed British gangsters believed to have heard his shock claims.
This is getting bigger and bigger. What facts? As June say in the Forums:
She was snatched for £100k allegedly? weren’t the rewards on offer multmillion at the time? strange they didn’t speak out then….
Now read on:
After a tip-off from underworld sources, detectives want to quiz Liverpool drug baron Paul Bennett, 45 – behind bars for perverting justice after going on the run for eight years in the Algarve.
What detectives? Surely, the cops know where they can find him – in jail?
They are also keen to talk to James Neil, 40, a business partner of Bennett and an associate of caged Notts drug baron Colin Gunn. Both men and our source – who is also a top-level gangster – were running a lucrative entertainment protection racket in Portugal.
Not a bit like the macabre and lucrative entertainment racket run by the British media in Portugal for over two years?
A shadowy Algerian, who went by the names Younis and Tariq and was staying in Albufeira, allegedly tried to muscle in with his Moroccan-based mob.
This is the big Algerian mafia boss who is so big the Star doesn’t know his full name, allegedly?
Our source, who was based just 15 minutes from the Praia da Luz resort from where two-year-old Maddie was abducted in May 2007, said: “This fella heard what Bennett was doing and wanted a slice. He was a nasty piece of work – a heavy-hitter drug dealer who also talked about mail-order kids.”
He talked about “mail-order kids” after Our Maddie went missing – when the British media had descended on Portugal to talk about paedos and, er, mail-order kids? Any other evidence?
“The kids were nicked to order – snatched and delivered to wealthy people for big cash payouts. Bennett and Jamie thought they could negotiate with this guy but he was just looking at them thinking that they were a couple of big, roast chickens and he was going to gobble the lot up.”
You big lovable roast chicken, you…
“In one meeting, before Maddie vanished, the Algerian said he’d taken kids from other parts of Europe and sold them on to rich families in Morocco. After Maddie was gone, we had another business meeting and he just came right out with it and said he and his team had done Maddie.”
And you tells us this now because?
“The Algerian said Maddie had been taken away by ferry and joked about mail-order kids again. I don’t think he was bothered whether she was sold to paedophiles or just a family. He was only interested in the money. It was around 100 grand.”
Any more facts?
The Algerian – black, with cropped hair and facial scars – is “known to police in Portugal”.
Black mafia boss with scarred face living in Arab Algeria is know to the police? He’d be tough to spot. So what else is happening?
Last night a police spokesman in Leicestershire where the McCanns live, said: “We have no comment to make.”
That big, eh..?
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October 26th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
If memory serves, the reward money didn’t start snowballing until several days had passed. Any snatch to order perpetrators may well have handed her on well before the reward on offer exceeded the fee, then muttered some swear words.
Memory serves…BBC report on the reward dated 12th May:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6649951.stm
Not that I give any credence to this latest unkindness, just pondering hypothetically.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
June
The Mcs surely wrote the comments on the website which CC quotes? That’s what I was referring to, not the the Star rubbish. Don’t know where that came from!
heartsoul
I can just imagine the furore about wasting public money if they asked for the case to reopened!! They were being blamed enough for that even before the case was archived. It can only be reopened if there is new evidence; I’m sure that will happen if there is. Why not trust the police on this one?
The reconstruction should have been done when the Mcs asked for it (and were refused), ie very soon after Madeleine disappeared when someone’s memory might be jogged and the events of the evening were fresh in everyone’s minds. That’s exactly what the police here did when Holly and Jessica disappeared.
As for the boring old thing about Kate not answering those particular questions, well, it’s been gone over so many times! If one has a lawyer, then one follows his/her advice.
October 26th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Maria, I think the parents should follow the advice of their own website.
June, how could they afford a babysitter after shelling out for all those tennis lessons? Why Mark Warner didn’t make baby-sitting freely available every night to anyone who spent, say, €150 on the services of their tennis instructors I’ll never understand.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Bat
snap!
October 26th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Maria
Are the parents behind this latest?
CC,
My favourite is why didn’t they get a baby sitter…..
October 26th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
It is never too late to do the right thing, I agree. The Mc Canns should finally cooperate, ask the police to reopen the case, take part in the reconstruction and Kate should finally answer the 48 questions. It is not that they left no stone unturned until now.
Maybe they could also explain, why an intruder have entered through the unlocked patio door and left through the window, carrying Maddie in his arms. Why did he take such a risk to snatch this girl in a bedroom with also two sibblings there ? Why did the twins sleep deeply through all the night? Why Kate has washed Maddies pet Cuddle Cat? And why the sniffer dogs detected the scent of death on her clothes?
October 26th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Where does it say that this latest fantasy came from the parents?
October 26th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
CC
“It’s enough to pull the strings of any old lag’s ‘eart, guv. I imagine they’re coughing like canaries in prisons up and down the land.”
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OK!
So do you think the parents should just give up now and get on with life without trying to find out any more?
October 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
June,
It must be those new exhortations at findmadeleine.com :
- A little girl stolen, a family torn apart. But saying nothing is the worst crime of all.
- The world is watching, If you know something, say something.
- If you stay quiet you are as guilty as those who took her.
- Imagine if she was your child… Imagine the pain and the grief… Imagine if someone like you never came forward?
And my personal favourite:
- It’s never too late to do the right thing.
It’s enough to pull the strings of any old lag’s ‘eart, guv. I imagine they’re coughing like canaries in prisons up and down the land.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I think its just the two-monthly Maddie news item that has been recurring.
I shouldn’t think anyone would risk taking a child for just £100k, its really small beer money in the comparisons and schemes of things, and I’m fairly certain she would have been returned when the rewards were offered. Two years ago the £ v Euro was a lot higher.
And IF someone is speaking out now, why not then?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
scotfree
Hi. I wasn’t actually commenting on your post specifically! I’m sure you don’t rate the Star…..in terms of news anyway!
I guess nobody involved would ever dare to claim the reward. No amount of money would make up for a lifetime in gaol plus the undying hatred of the world. There might be somebody who knows what happened but wasn’t actually directly involved. Unlikely though. In any case, such a person might be too frightened of the actual perpetrator(s) to say anything.
I have no idea what happened to Madeleine but I think the likeliest scenario may be “Taken. Used. Disposed of.” as C and C always says. But if I were a parent, of course, I wouldn’t give up the search until and unless I had definite evidence of what happened. You couldn’t really, could you? You couldn’t give up all hope.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Maria, I was not really commenting on the article, I too find the Daily star a joke when it comes to calling itself a NEWSpaper. I will just comment that it is a sister to the Daily Express and so was hammered in the first round of litigation!
What I was asking was why has no one come forward to claim the huge ransom/reward. In particular any criminal that was a peripheral part of the abduction?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:17 am
But……..but……but…..The Daily Star is such a reliable source. How could anyone possibly doubt what they say?
October 26th, 2009 at 9:47 am
This has always been one of the mysteries of this case, why if Madeleine is alive has no one come for ward to try for the King’s or Princesses’ reward?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Junior scouse reporter on the Sunday Star claims gangland source, with connections to gangsters who previously duped former Home Scretary Michael Howard into setting them free, has information on what happened to Madeleine McCann.
Well, case solved. Edgar and his jovial assistant should have this rolled up in days.
October 25th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Oh dear, here we go again…… If any of this is true, it sounds like criminals trying to out do each other. Most of the ones I work with spend all day listening to gangsta music imagining they’re 50 cents whereas in reality they’re just a junkie who robs old ladies in Eastbourne. Only the real big guys never boast about what they do. They’re way too smart.