**This witness waited 6 months to give this info? I also read that Gerry says Madeleine was watched BEFORE she was abducted? From day one the Mccanns said that someone was paying special attention to their daughter. So WHY did they leave her alot? She was left at the creche during the day and she was left night after night in an unlocked apartment while they were with the other adults. They never reported this “someone” paying special attention to her? And you would think they would NOT let her out of their sight for the whole vacation. I also read that the detective is 100% sure Madeleine is alive….i hope he is correct BUT how can he say this?

Yes, it’s going to be very interesting finding who, if any, of the Tapas9 wish to change their statements. Clarence Mitchell says he’s spoken to all the friends & they’ve told him none of the are - I’d like to hear it direct from them that they aren’t! Depending on who changes their story, it could be very damning for the McCanns.

I’d heard about the bag of clothes some weeks ago but I’m sure I’d heard that it was unconnected to Madeleine. Having said that, there are posters on other Anorak forums who say they’ve read that DNA matching or similar to Madeleine’s was found.

I’m somewhat surprised at the rush to investigate the ’sighting’ in Bosnia; I know the private investigators have to follow up all the sightings (thats what they’re paid for) but they seem to have focused on this particular one.

Yes, I’d heard about the mointoring of text messages etc some time ago, and I suppose they wanted G.McCann’s laptop for emails. The fact the police mention the texts makes me think there’s something or someone significant, or ist it just the number of texts on that one evening? With GM being a doctor, could the texts be keeping in touch with the hospital regarding his patients?

This case gets stranger by the week!

Everything here fine, thanks. I envy you the snow, we never get proper winters, just a grey cold wet season. A bit like summer

Gerry’s text messages are being investigated again?(didnt we hear they were checking into the text and phone and emails from the Tapas 9 months ago?)
Madeleine sightings in Bosnia and Malta? Bosnia being checked? and the man that saw her got the number off the car?
A bag of clothes found by the airport in Portugal?(some of the DNA COULD be linked to Madeleine?)
A few of the Tapas 9 have decided to talk to police again about the night Madeleine disappeared?

**Wow alot going on here. It would seem easy to sort out some of this. The text messages - what are they? who was Gerry texting? Apparently the police know.
The sighting in Bosnia, they have the number off the car, i’m sure they could just check that pretty easily? The 4 of the Tapas 9 that want to talk, why? what do they have to say?
It would be interesting to see what happens in the next week or so.

I found this interesting:

The hunt for Madeleine switched to Bosnia yesterday after a tourist saw a blonde girl struggling with a man and heard her scream: “I want my Daddy.”
The McCanns’ private detectives have travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina to investigate.
The witness, a father-of-six from Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, said: “The instant I saw her my heart skipped a beat because it immediately struck me that she looked like Maddie McCann.
“I got very close to her, right up beside them, and was about to speak to the child when the man put his hand over her mouth and shoved her into the car.
“He was pushing her into the back seat of a Volkswagen Golf and was yelling in some language I didn’t understand. But my blood ran cold when I heard her cry, ‘I want my Daddy’.”

**just wondering WHY the private detectives have run off to Bosnia…BUT they did not go after that last sighting of the girl in the taxi?
Seems odd that all these people are close enought to KNOW it’s Madeleine…BUT they cant step in or atleast draw attention to her. This man did say he wrote down the number on the car so it should be easily checked out i would think.

Wonderful to hear from you again. Hope you & yours are all well. Everyone just seemed to disappear from the last forum we were on. Eventually found my way here and there was Andrew, and now you as well - great stuff!

I’ve read a couple of news reports regarding the new timeline etc. If they did kill Madeleine and then went for a meal, that would be unbelievably callous. Mind you, for callous behaviour, Amanda “Foxy Knoxy” Knox (arrested for the murder or Meredith kercher in Italy) seems to be one of the most callous people I’ve heard of.

I’d seen reports that it’s actually 4 of the McCanns’ friends who wish to change their statements. Clarence Mitchell is quoted as saying that he has spoken to all the friends and they all deny it. Initially it was reported that they wanted to keep their names quiet for fear of reprisals/pressure. Maybe that’s why they denied to it Mitchell. I’d want to hear the denials direct from them, not via him, before I believed it.

A great deal depends on what they change doesn’t it, and the reasons for changing and the reasons for telling the truth in the first place. If they have lied, I suppose the longer it goes on the harder it is to admit to the lie. Maybe they’ve reached a point whereby they realised the old adage : when you’re in a hole, stop digging. Maybe they decided to stop before the hole became too deep for them to climb out. Two of the friends named as wanting to change their statements are Tanner and O’Brien. I imagine the most potentially damaging changes could come from Tanner and Oldfield. She due to the sighting of the man witgh a bundle and he for his check - just before G. McCann’s 21.05 check wasn’t it? - where he didn’t go in the aprtment, then he did.

The texts are a hard one - seeing as he’s a doctor could he be keeping in touch with work regarding his patients? Seems a lot in one night I suppose there be about 27 - 28 texts in all, assuming he’s asking, & responding to, questions.

Also i see they are now looking at Gerry….

Detectives are reportedly investigating a series of text messages sent and received by Gerry McCann on the night his daughter disappeared.
The consultant cardiologist is alleged to have exchanged up to 14 messages on his mobile phone during dinner with the so-called Tapas Nine on May 3.
Gerry and Kate McCann mark six months since Madeleine’s disappearance
Police were said to be interested in discovering with whom Mr McCann was in contact that night, before Madeleine went missing from the family’s holiday apartment.

I wonder who Gerry was texting…seems strange that your out with your friends and your wife and you spend the time texting someone else…14 times? I would like to read them….

Portuguese police have identified three moments which they believe could hold the key to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, according to a television documentary.

Detectives are said to be focusing their investigation on three time periods on the night of May 3, which they believe were crucial when the four-year-old went missing from her parents’ holiday apartment.

**They made a comment in reference to something happeneing to Madeleine BEFORE the Mccanns went to dinner. I thought this from the start. But i kept telling myself HOW could a parent go off to eat and drink and party with friends knowing their daughter was dead? Rumors are flying that the “friends” that want to be interviewed again…are tired of holding the info they have and it was mentioned that Madeleine fell down the stairs looking for her mom and dad? The only thing worse that this is…WHAT DID THEY DO WITH MADELEINE?

**I guess they have also confirmed the lil girl found dead in a box here in the states is NOT Madeleine. But they still dont know who she is. It’s a shame that a child can go missing and no one misses her?

“or by the tabloids ,or by the PJ, or by psychologists ”
Maybe pedophilia has not been mentioned publicly by these people, but pedophilia HAS been mentioned publicly by… guess who?… TEAM MCCANN!!!— The McCanns and their hired “detectives” Metodo3 are the ones insisting that the abductors are pedophiles. Why? Gerry, in his early blog entries, called the abductor a “predator”. You tell us why the McCanns know so damn much about pedophilia that they are absolutely sure the abductor is a pedophile.

And guess what the specialty is of the guy who replaced Amaral and is now in charge of the case? PEDOPHILIA NETWORKS.

“that they would even have thought of the perverted rubbish you have obviously taken pleasure in conjuring up in this post.”

Not one of the posters mentioned above showed any sign of pleasure in mentioning this disgusting topic. This is “obviously” your form of petty personal attack.

“…to me, a psychology student, it says more about what is in your collective heads than it does about the McCanns?”

Your false accusatory claim that others take pleasure in examining the very real possibility that the McCanns link to pedophilia is a paramount feature of this case “says more about” what kind of psychology student you are — the kind who would be better off dropping out.

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Andrew Says:
“Psychology student= pretentious twat with little or no life experience who quotes random crap someone else wrote. That’s how I usually see it!”

You’re certainly right in this case, and you said it better than I could.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/24738/Eggs-are-new-anti-terror-targets

About time…

It will be interesting which of the McCanns’ friends change their testimoney if, indeed any do.
I believe Jane Tanner and Russel O’Brien have been named as two that wish to do so, although the total is rumoured to be four people. If it is Tanner, it could be very interesting if she makes major changes to her previous evidence considering she claims to have seen a male at a time & place where G. McCann & Wilkins were, yet didn’t see them or they her. It would also beg the question as to why she should be believed this time, having significantly changed her evidence once already. I wonder if it was a well meant but ill advised attempt to bolster claims of abduction? Of course, there is always the possibility that she lied as part of a rehearsed and co-ordinated cover up.

I wonder if the friends have been threatened with perjury, obstruction or similar charges by the police, and this is their last opportunity to state the truth or risk being co-accused?

Fortunately for the child, she was found wandering at 1.30 am and picked up by police officers . The mother said she only “intended to leave the house for five minutes” .

Name’s obviously not McCrim then……

And who would know better than you LOL

K’s mum told the press K is never left alone with the twins!

Mich, your comment is totally unfair and appears to be weighted with the usual Anti McCann agenda.Firstly Ihave not been on this website since “the madeliene case got its first forums “. That is a fact and easily verified through Mods and Admin.
Secondly Ihave never seen a poster called Francis since I joined .Possibly she has said her piece and moved on with her life. Maybe she didn’t have an addictive personality. I am not ,nor have ever been Francis.
Thirdly I have not seen your moniker before today and thereby wonder how you feel so qualified to pass judgement on me. Do you in fact post under another moniker here and have I offended you ?
In fact I learned about this website from another , who described some posters here as cruel, damaged , and totally and blindly focused on the destruction of the McCanns. Are you one of those people? Iwill ask this person if your moniker is familiar.As far as anger agression and closed mindedness, observe some antiMcCanners at work here.Perhaps it is you who is lost in the proverbial forest. By the way I think you mean can’t see the wood for the trees, and you can’t. Open your eyes.

The 10th person at the table who left suddently was described as a friend of Diane Webster, who was last to leave the table and who returned for her purse. I recollect he had some influential post, but can’t recall what it was. He is obviously not eager to be numbered with the Tapas 9. Agree it’s significant.

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