Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann To Appear On BBC And ITV Interviews
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: Madeleine McCann is on the cover of the Sunday Express. Says the headline:
McCanns launch TV blitz to find Maddie
If only the Express group and owners had TV channels they could use to help. Of, course, they do:
We interrupt this edition of Teen A*** Sla*s on the Fantasy Channel to bring news of the appeal to find Our Maddie.
We must all do what we can to help. The Sunday Express tells us:
KATE McCANN will take part in a round of heart-rending TV interviews this week appealing for anyone who has knowledge of her daughter Madeleine’s kidnapping to come forward.
Posted: 1st, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann Comments (24) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
A Day In the Life Of Madeleine McCann’s Private Detectives
ANORAK reader Bat E. Bird spots this news of Madeleine McCann in the Belfast Telegraph, as we spend a day with the private detectives:
Madeleine McCann ‘is in a secret lair’
Leading to…
Ulster detective leading the hunt on why he thinks she’s being held captive just like Jaycee Dugard
Jaycee Dugard and Madeleine McCann. Compare and contrast. With free Google keywords points for linking either girl to Victoria Beckham:
The Ulster detective leading the search for Madeleine McCann today reveals his most chilling theories yet, exclusively to Sunday Life. Hardened ex-RUC cop Dave Edgar told us he is convinced that little Maddie is imprisoned in a hellish lair – just like kidnapped sex slave Jaycee Lee Dugard.
This is Dave Edgar who wanted to talks with Raymond Hewlett and of whom the Mail said in light of the Victoria Beckham look-alike:
Private detectives leading the hunt for Madeleine McCann faced questions last night after a Mail on Sunday investigation revealed apparent shortcomings in chasing a ‘strong lead’. The detectives failed to make even rudimentary inquiries before announcing a ‘significant’ development in the worldwide search for the six-year-old.
Now here’s Dave Edgar to tell us:
He insisted the “back from the dead” reappearance of Jaycee – and the cases of Austrian cellar girls Elisabeth Fritzl and Natascha Kampusch – confirmed his suspicion.
Posted: 13th, September 2009 | In: Gallery, Madeleine McCann, Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Seeking Madeleine McCann In Jaycee Dugard’s Horror Story
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news: With Jaycee Dugard, Phillip Garrido and the detectives in Portugal…
THE Daily Express tells us that the McCanns’ detectives are in Portugal. With facts:
Detectives looking for have returned to Portugal to pursue new leads which could provide a breakthrough in the case.
They could. But what of these new leads?
Ex-policemen Arthur Cowley and Dave Edgar spent several days speaking to “persons of interest” to the inquiry.
Like who? Raymond Hewlett? Victoria Beckham? Or someone new?
“The investigation has real momentum with definite goals. A vast amount of work has already been done and every new lead is being checked,” a source said.
“Definite goals?” Surely there is only one goal – to find Madeleine McCann.
Maybe the detectives should be in California, speaking to Phillip Garrido? Once again, the Jaycee Dugard case is being linked to Our Maddie:
Irish Times: What do they need to know?
PARENTING: RECENT MEDIA coverage of abducted children has prompted debate among both children’s groups and parents about the most appropriate ways to speak to children on the dangers of abduction and inappropriate contact from adults, writes BRIAN O’CONNELL.
Is talking about kidnapping and paedos a form of child abuse? Hey, kids, still got those balloons?
Both the Madeleine McCann case and, in recent weeks, that of Jaycee Dugard, who was found alive 18 years after being abducted from her home, have raised parents’ sensitivities in this area.
It’s every parents’ worst nightmare – and every media’s fallback story.
Now for the experts’ advice:
* Never leave children unsupervised. If you have to pop out to the shop even for five minutes, ask a neighbour to keep a watchful eye…
• Be mindful that the majority of abduction cases involve someone familiar to the person abducted.
Now, read on….
Posted: 8th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Fat Victoria Beckham, New Zealand And Michael Jackson
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Fat Victoria Beckham, New Zealand And Michael Jackson…
FIRST Post: “McCann detectives seek Australian woman”
The First Post has the facts. The wanted woman is Australian. Not a Kiwi as earlier reported. Fact.
The men described her as a “Victoria Beckham lookalike”. She had an Australian accent and spoke Spanish and Catalan as well as English.
So she might not have been Australian, only blessed with the accent she got from watching daytime telly.
The Guardian: “The woman, said to have an Australian or New Zealand accent”
The First Post:
The two witnesses are said to have encountered the woman outside a restaurant in Barcelona’s popular marina area. She apparently mistook the principal witness, a 41-year-old man, for someone she was supposed to meet.
A man she was supposed to meet?
Posted: 6th, August 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (17) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Raymond Hewlett And The Wait For DNA
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett will not face charges over a child’s disappearance.
The Blackpool Gazette has news on Raymond Hewlett, a man linked by media and sources with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Hewlett, an Our Maddie victim:
A former Blackpool soldier, linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, is unlikely to face charges over a sex attack 30 years ago. A team of detectives from West Yorkshire police flew to Germany to question Raymond Hewlett over the assault on an eight-year-old girl in 1972 and took a DNA sample.
So not guilty. Innocent, even?
Posted: 21st, July 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kilmarnock Man Is New Madeleine McCann Suspect
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Another suspect in Scotland.
A new suspect is hunted. This one in Kilmarnock, Scotland:
The ‘News’ can reveal that a former Largs resident is to be questioned over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The shock move comes after a series of drawings were recently issued of suspects who were spotted in the Portuguese town of Praia da Luz on May 3 2007 around the time of the four year old’s disappearance.
It’s the Third Summer of Maddie - expect lots of news - and pictures:
Posted: 8th, July 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Michael Jackson Puts His Kids In Child Abuse Horror Story
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Michael Jackson wrote a horror story for children, starring his children. [Ed – wait for decent period of media mourning (an hour should do it) and then insert comment about Wacko Jacko’s face and mask here.]
The News of the World has more:
TORMENTED Michael Jackson wrote a chilling horror story about a CHILD ABUSER and SERIAL KILLER starring HIS OWN KIDS.
Is this a thought crime? Was it a picture book? And what of this “child abuser”?
The sickening tale - called Kids on Swings - is a nightmare vision of Prince Michael II and Jacko’s daughter Paris falling into the clutches of a fiend who slaughters children with a ’sling blade’.
Or to put it another way:
Posted: 28th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Media Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Michael Jackson Ends Hunt For Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Case remains closed…
Portugal News Oneline tells readers: “Recent reports not enough to re-open Maddie case -Attorney General”
This was to be the Third Summer of Our Maddie, in which the story of the missing child would give the newspapers something to fall back on should Big Brother fail and a shark not be spotted off Bournemouth pier.
But Michael Jackson has died. Iran is broiling. Andy Murray is doing well. And as Sky News – live from LA tells us – it’s Tuesday so it must be Farrah Fawcett’s burial.
Portugal’s Attorney General has this week voiced its opinion that recent reports about British paedophile Raymond Hewlett, who was embroiled in the Madeleine McCann [sic] after it emerged the former convict had been staying in the Algarve at the time of her disappearance, were not strong enough to re-open the case.
Well, if there is no evidence…
Posted: 27th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Detectives Identify Madeleine McCann Murderer
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett’s alibi forgets and a new murder suspect…
Remember Raymond Hewlett, the “””Maddie paedo”””? Well, forget about him. There’s a new suspect. It’s the Third Summer of Maddie - If you whisper it, they will print it.
Sky News: Madeleine Hunt Targets Murder Suspect
Private detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann want to speak to a man who is currently on remand in a British jail, it has been revealed.
A hospital dweller and now a prisoner. These detectives always track down their man.
Posted: 21st, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann And Raymond Hewlett’s White Van
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett’s white van and James Bone Damman, and more jokes…
Daily Mirror: “MADDY’S MAN LIE - Paedo’s story falling apart”
Raymond Hewlett faces more questioning over missing Madeleine McCann
While all other papers lads with news of the “black out” of MPs expenses, the Labour Party-supporting Daily Mirror leads with news of Raymond Hewlett and Madeleine McCann. Such is the papers desire for, er, justice.
Pervert Raymond Hewlett’s lies were unravelling last night as he faced renewed questioning over missing Madeleine McCann.
What lies? Can the Mirror prove Hewlett has lied? What say the paper’s lawyers?
The convicted paedophile rekindled suspicion after it was revealed he tried to mislead detectives over the vehicle he was driving at the time the youngster vanished.
Which detectives – private or the police?
He claimed he only had one motor – a blue Dodge truck. And he said it was so distinctive that he could not have driven into Praia da Luz in May 2007 without being spotted. But now a former friend has dramatically come forward to say Hewlett was lying.
He actually owned a white Mercedes van at the time – similar to one seen parked near the McCanns’ apartment before Madeleine disappeared.
What white Mercedes seen parked near the McCanns’ apartment “before” Madeleine disappeared? And how soon before was it spotted there? The Mirror does not are to say.
As Sky news told us:
“One report suggests he was sitting in a small, white van. Police have got a good description of the man: about 5ft 8in tall, between 30 and 35, not Portuguese according to one of the witnesses, wearing a blue jacket and white trousers.”
The Telegraph added:
Mr Flack, a freelance engineer designer from Ilford in Essex, has a holiday home in Praia da Luz, near the McCann’s family’s apartment at the Ocean Club resort.
On either May 2 or 3 last year – the day Madeleine disappeared – he saw a man standing near a dirty white van, staring intently at the couple’s ground floor veranda.
He said he noticed that the man – aged between 25 and 35, tanned, medium height, with thick dark hair and fringe - was behaving oddly.
So back to 30-ish Hewlett, lionine-haired Hewlett and the white van…
Ex-Scots Guard Peter Verran, 46, decided to contact the Maddy inquiry team after being disturbed by Hewlett’s claims in our sister paper, the Sunday Mirror.
Mr Verran, who befriended Hewlett on a campsite in Morocco in June 2007, said: “He told me he owned a white Transit-type van before his blue Dodge truck. He said he’d swapped it for the Dodge in order to leave Portugal and travel to Morocco.
“The white van didn’t have enough room for the whole family, so he sold it to a pal who traded on the same market as him in Fuzeta, about 40 miles from Praia da Luz.”
The white van…
According to Mr Verran, Hewlett also said that he had driven from Portugal’s Algarve to Spain in the Mercedes van around the time Madeleine vanished. But Hewlett, who was living near Praia da Luz, insisted recently that he only had the Dodge truck.
So he had a rare white van, maybe. Does this mean Hewlett’s “lies are unravelling” as the Mirror stats?
A source close to the Maddy inquiry team said yesterday: “This new information could be very significant. Hewlett has repeatedly said that he could not have been at the scene without someone remembering his distinctive truck. But if he was driving a Mercedes van at the time, his reasoning is shot to pieces.”
So the detectives will now be able to try and track down this van, right? And get some evidence firstly of a crime having been committed and secondly of a suspect. In the meanwhile, it’s all speculation.
Meanwhile, in othe news, too many of our politicans are lying, cheating, grasping scumbags - something the Mirror missed…
Update - Times:
The FBI last night squelched the claim by a Michigan man that he was the victim of an infamous child abduction on New York’s Long Island more than half a century ago.
The FBI said that DNA tests proved that John Barnes was not Steven Damman, the two-year-old child snatched outside a grocery shop on the afternoon of Hallowe’en 1955 while he waited with his little sister Pamela for their mother buy a loaf of bread…
Steven Damman’s disappearance was the Madeleine McCann case of its day, sparking front-page headlines and a nationwide search for the missing boy.
Sometimes these things never end…
Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (25) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann Lost In Hewlett’s No Alibi Alibi
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett speaks out for the “first time” - again.
Yesterday Simon Wright told Daily Mirror readers that Raymond Hewlett, “””””Maddie perve”””””” (ask the lawyers if that’s enough inverted commas, ed?) has spoken “for the first time”.
Said Hewlett:
“I have an alibi but why should I share it?” he says, struggling for air with each syllable. There is a person who can say where I was that day, but why should I bring them into this? I’ve done nothing wrong. Why should I have to prove it? “My life’s been made a misery for something I know nothing about and a crime I’ve not committed.”
Now, Simon Wright brings Mirror readers:
Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett admits he doesn’t have an alibi for night she disappeared
It’s an “Exclusive from Simon Wright in Aachen, Germany”.
Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Raymond Hewlett Tells All
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett speaks out.
In the Mirror, Simon Wright brings us:
MADELEINE: KEY SUSPECT TALKS FOR FIRST TIME
Well, not exactly. Maddie spotter Raymond Hewlett, for it is he, has spoken frankly with Bild and briefly with the Sun.
Wright delivers the chat in bullet points:
Yes I’m a convicted paedophile
Yes I lived near Praia Da Luz
Yes I look like police drawing
Which means..?
Posted: 14th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Raymond Hewlett Will Not Be Interviewed
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett refuses to answer questions.
SKY NEWS: “Final attempts by Madeleine McCann investigators to speak to a convicted paedophile about her disappearance have failed.”
Convicted British paedophile Raymond Hewlett who has been named as a person of interest in the Madeleine McCann case
Yes…
Hewlett has been jailed several times in the UK for sexually assaulting young girls.
Yes…
Hewlett, 64, is terminally ill with cancer and is now said to be too unwell for an interview.
Retired UK policemen Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley, who flew to Germany to speak to him, said they were “very disappointed” with the lawyer’s behaviour…
“He is not a suspect but I was keen to interview him because of his failing health. I have tried over the past weeks to arrange this via his lawyer in Germany.
“These negotiations have been difficult for reasons which I do not want to go into detail about.
“Mr Hewlett’s condition has of course been deteriorating during these negotiations.
“I travelled to Germany yesterday in a final effort to interview Raymond Hewlett. Regrettably that interview is not possible.
“From information provided by his lawyer and other sources it is obvious that his health is such that any meaningful interview would not be possible.”
Would a man on strong pain killers be a credible witness?
MIRROR: Madeleine cops can’t quiz paedo
Says Martin Fricker:
Private detectives planning to quiz paedophile Raymond Hewlett over Madeleine McCann’s mysterious disappearance have been scuppered by his lawyer.
And the, er, law?
Posted: 11th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: The Credit Crunch And Paedo DNA
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett questioned and Clarence Mitchell PR for hire.
The Sun: “’Maddie’” perv quiz”
It’s the media’s “Maddie” perv. It’s paedo Raymond Hewlett who has been linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann by a series of stories and inverted commas. To keep the lawyers off our backs, we will call him the “””””””Maddie””””””” perv.
PAEDOPHILE Raymond Hewlett is to be quizzed in the next 24 hours about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (21) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hewlett Did And Did Not See Madeleine McCann Alive
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett says he saw Our Maddie alive and that he, er, didn’t…
Daily Mirror: “PAEDO: I’VE NEVER SEEN MADELEINE”
The prime suspect of hired cops probing Maddie McCann’s disappearance insisted last night: “I’ve never set eyes on her.”
Dying paedophile Raymond Hewlett, 64, angrily denied claims he was twice close enough to her to notice her distinctive right eye.
He said: “I have never seen her and anyone who says anything different is wrong.”
Posted: 7th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (20) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Raymond Hewlett Saw Madeleine McCann Alive
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Raymond Hewlett says he saw Our Maddie alive…
The Sun: “Brit paedo: I did see Maddie”
Harry Haydon hears from Raymond Hewlett, the man billed as the “Maddie Paedo”.
FUGITIVE British paedophile Raymond Hewlett has sensationally claimed he saw missing Madeleine McCann TWICE before she disappeared.
Posted: 5th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (56) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news…
Daily Mirror: “PAY ME TO TALK ABOUT MADDY”
Ryan Parry is aghast:
Paedo’s vile demand
Paedophile Raymond Hewlett is demanding huge sums to answer questions about the night Madeleine McCann vanished.
Posted: 5th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Baby P Linked To Raymond Hewlett
THE Sun continues to press gang Baby P and brings readers news that Baby Peter’s mother has written a letter to person or persons not mentioned:
THE mother of tortured Baby P is a self-pitying whinger who believes her only crime was to fall for the wrong man, letters she has written in jail reveal. In the badly spelled notes she moans about feeling unloved but shows no remorse over her son’s horrific death.
Old Mr Anorak is also upset that the letters are NOT on embossed paper, NOR sealed with a wax seal.
Posted: 1st, June 2009 | In: Media Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: In Morrocco With ‘Maddie’s Pervert’
MADELEINE McCann Watch: “Maddie’s pervert” and the thin man watcheth…
DAILY Mirror: “COPS PROBE MADDIE PERVERT’S QUICK ESCAPE FROM PORTUGAL”
Justin Penrose has news of a “Maddie pervert” - someone who gets off on Our Maddie…
British police probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann want to know why paedophile Raymond Hewlett left Portugal so quickly after she vanished.
Raymond Hewlett is now the Mirror’s “Maddie Pervert”.
Posted: 31st, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (87) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Swab The Paedos
MADELEINE McCann: the media react to news that Raymond Hewlett has been swabbed for DNA by the McCanns’ private detectives…
The Sun: ‘Maddie’ perv has DNA test”
Note the subtle inverted commas as the Sun concedes in a grammatical whisper that though Hewlett is a convicted paedophile there is no proof - at least none offered up to police nor we armchair detectives - that he had anything to do with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Posted: 29th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (30) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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