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Madeleine McCann Was Tagged In Liverpool
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Goncalo Amaral accused and tagging Our Maddie…
The Sun: “Maddie cop torture rap”
THE disgraced ex-boss of the Madeleine McCann probe has been charged with torturing a witness in another missing child case.
Alípio Ribeiro, head of Portuguese CID?
No, its:
Goncalo Amaral, 49, is accused of punching and slapping Leandro Silva - who wants £430,000 compensation - during the 2004 hunt for Joana Cipriano, eight.
And this is now news because..? Amaral was accused by Cipriano in June 2007.
In February 2008, the Sun had more news:
“McCann slur cop in ‘torture cover up’”. Amaral is “tubby”. Amaral weighs “18 stone”. The Sun says Amaral is involved in what “many say is Portugal’s worst miscarriage of justice”
And what kind of a character is Cipriano?
Mum Leonor, 36, girlfriend of Leandro, was jailed for killing the girl in Figueira, Portugal, just miles from Praia da Luz where Maddie disappeared.
So Amaral has been accused. Nothing proven. And he has been charged in Portugal, you know, that backward country where the bungling cops operate…
Digital Journal: “Overuse of Madeleine McCann keywords an ‘oversight’”
The Liverpool Echo and Post news site have claimed they did not deliberately use keywords tagged as ‘madeleine mccann, madeleine mcgann, kate mcgann, kate mccann’ to non-related news stories and it was an ‘oversight.’
Posted: 2nd, July 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police Let Madeleine McCann Suspect Go Free
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - how detective let a new suspect go free…
We interrupt news on Michael Jackson to return to the Third Summer of Maddie, in which the Sun reports that “Cops let Maddie suspect off hook”.
What suspect?
Posted: 29th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (3) | 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
Typhaine Taton Is France’s Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Typhaine Taton is France’s Madeleine McCann…
IN France, five-year-old Typhaine Taton is this year’s Madeleine McCann.
Typhaine Taton disappeared without trace while walking with her mother in broad daylight in the northern French town of Maubeuge - and there’s still no sign of her.
Typhaine Taton is this year’s…
Everyone surely remembers the case of Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in May 2007, a couple of days short of her fourth birthday, while on holiday with her parents in Portugal.
Posted: 26th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann Sniffer Dogs And Murder
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - sniffer dogs called in…
TO help readers best understand the case of “WIFE murder suspect Adrian Prout”, who “has promised to marry a divorcee as he waits to go on trial” the Sun and Mail couch his story with a dash of celebrity:
A sniffer dog which took part in the hunt for Madeleine McCann was also called in without success - Mail
A sniffer dog which took part in the hunt for missing tot Madeleine McCann was also called in without success - Sun
Posted: 25th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Murder, Money And Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - murder and money…
THE Sun continues the public line of enquiry that a new suspect is now sought. Or as the Sun puts it:
“Murder suspect link to Maddie.”
Murder. Maddie. Make the link. The Third Summer of Maddie is upon us and speculation is once more rife.
Tom Wells drops the bucket and pulls up:
A MURDER suspect was linked to the search for missing Madeleine McCann yesterday. Private detectives working for her parents Kate and Gerry want to quiz the man - who is being held in a British jail after being charged.
But investigators may be forced to wait until his case is dealt with by the courts. The man is believed to be on a list of seven drawn up by the McCanns’ expert team.
Only seven?
The Daily Star bring news that “MADDIE COP TOOK £100K”.
ONE of the first officers at the scene the night Madeleine McCann disappeared had £100,000 deposited in bank accounts soon after, it was claimed.
How soon after?
The policeman is being investigated by anti-corruption detectives, Portuguese TV station TVI reported…
The television station, which did not name the corporal under investigation, said several payments were made into two accounts in the officer’s name “shortly after Maddie’s disappearance”.
The copper says:
The TV channel said the policeman denied knowing anything about the money and suggested his name may have been used without his know-ledge to open the accounts…
Costa Lima, spokesman for the GNR, told newspaper 24 Horas: “We have not opened any investigation into any officer involved in the Maddie case, nor do we have knowledge of any other body investigating anyone.”
Such are the facts.
Posted: 22nd, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (5) | 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
America’s Madeleine McCann Turns Up Alive
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - America’s “Our Maddie” is James Bone Damman, and more jokes…
Daily Record: Exclusive: Chef sacked over claims he told sick Madeleine jokes to diners
Janice Burns has news that Madeleine McCann IS relevant. You know you’re no longer newsworthy when… no-one makes a joke about you.
A CHEF was sacked after shocking diners with a string of sick and racist jokes, his bosses claimed yesterday.
Chef Ramsay?
Pole Lukasz Rzepka, 26, dropped his £3000 unfair dismissal claim yesterday after agreeing a settlement understood to be worth a few hundred pounds at the last minute. He insisted he had not made the jokes alleged about kidnapped youngster Madeleine McCann, the Pope and Muslims.
Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (12) | 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 Fears Swine Flu
IT’S the media’s Third Summer Of Madeleine McCann and the hacks are planning their summer holidays? Guess where they’re going?
IN “Hissy fits and high fliers”, the Irish Independent prepares families for life in the summer holidays.
Once you have children, holidays become a very different prospect. If you decide to brave it, here are some tips to stay sane.
Drugs? Alcohol? A nanny?
Posted: 1st, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (8) | 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
Madeleine McCann: Exclusive Interview With New Paedo Suspect
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Having re-established Our Maddie as a lead news story, the Sun sends Alex West to Germany to interview Raymond Hewlett…
The Sun has managed to catch up with wheelchair rider and cancer patient Raymond Hewlett at a hospital. Having tracked down the man a couple of days after German tabloid Bild interviewed him and he agreed to speak with the McCanns’ detectives, the Sun reacts:
Posted: 27th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (36) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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