Madeleine McCann: Gail Cooper Says And Amy Fitzpatrick
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THE SUN: “Potential Maddie witness snub”
“The British woman who may have seen Maddie McCann’s kidnapper has NOT been quizzed by Portuguese cops”
Gail Cooper says she saw a man. An artist’s impression of the man has been released
Gail, of Newark, Notts, says: “They never contacted me. He must be found, even if it is to rule him out”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Mum vows to continue search for missing teen Amy”
“Mari Luz Cortes vanished on January 13, as she went to buy sweets from a local kiosk in the Spanish town of Huelva, near the border with Portugal. A massive search for the five-year-old is ongoing.
“The disappearance has been linked to that of Madeleine McCann from the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz, although police said they did not think the two cases were connected.
Ms Fitzpatrick yesterday said that her only daughter is “still just a kid”.
“She is only 15 and she has disappeared without trace.”
Amy Fitpatrick was 15 when she vanished after leaving her friend’s house near Feungirola, in Spain, at 10pm on New Year’s Day. She set out on the 20-minute walk to her own house, but has not been seen since.
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January 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510082&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments
hope he sues notw, mccann enterprises and gail cooper
aint she still in portugal lol
January 24th, 2008 at 6:31 am
1410
Ferdinand Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 1:47 am
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/32542/Lookalike-will-put-No-1-suspect-Murat-in-Clear-
If you read ’til the end of the story: “There is no suggestion that Mr Symington had anything to do with the tragedy. He insisted that he was at home with his family six miles away when Madeleine vanished.”
Sometimes I think we should offer an award for the best presented non-story of the week.
1408 Stevo Says:
Murat lookalike found. Could be the Symington who is part owner in Ocean Club?
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I agree with Ferdinand. The head and tail of the article do not match at all! How can Symington’s resemblance “clear” Murat if Symington was not in the area after 6PM? Payne’s resemblance to Murat is more relevant.
Regarding Stevo’s comment, the article does not mention Symington being “part owner” of the club:
“Mr Symington, who is about the same height as Mr Murat, is a father-of-two who runs the Ocean Country Real Estate office at the Ocean Club complex where the McCanns were staying in Praia da Luz.”
If he is also an owner of the Ocean Club, it would be surprising that this was not mentioned, and also would be surprising that he (as owner) did not show up after hearing the news of an abduction. Maybe there is something behind this story, that remains unsaid?
Was Symington an owner, or just someone working there, perhaps the owner’s son? That could be a key question. Also, he is working in real estate, like Robert Murat, so didn’t they know each other? Why wouldn’t Murat have known that there is someone who looks like him?
Still, as written, Ferdinand is right that the article is nonsense:
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LOOKALIKE ‘WILL PUT NO 1 SUSPECT MURAT IN CLEAR’
Was Murat confused with Symington?
Thursday January 24,2008
By Padraic Flanagan
THESE lookalike pictures may clear Robert Murat, the first suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
On the left is Praia da Luz estate agent Angus Symington, 37, and on the right Mr Murat, 34.
Their resemblance shows that witnesses who claim they saw Mr Murat outside the McCanns’ apartment on the night Madeleine vanished may have named the wrong man.
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January 24th, 2008 at 6:26 am
sleep well pray 4 x
January 24th, 2008 at 6:14 am
off to bed now, noseycow. way past my bedtime (1:11am!)
c u 2moro
January 24th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Indeed, also early as 7th May, the Maritime Police were on the lookout for a BAG. Evidence of a reported missing bag.
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http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/05/07/sociedade/capitania_procura_corpo_madeleine.html
[Google translation, verbatim, some words untranslated]
Capitania already looking body of Madeleine
PAULA MARTINHEIRA and JOSÉ MANUEL OLIVEIRA
The maritime authorities started their participation in searches of the small Madeleine McCann 14 hours after his disappearance and “on its own initiative,” said the DN the commander of the Port Authority of Portimão, Lagos, Marques Pereira. “We started to operate from midday on Friday, as the village where the family of the child passes holiday is a 500 meters from the coast line,” said one responsible, adding that the target of searches is a ” bag that may contain the body or evidence. ”
In the boat with two men Maritime Police mobilized since then in investigations has been given the indication to collect “any bag or foreign object” they find. “We can not discard the abandonment of evidence, such as clothing or slippers, and also a body,” Marques said Pereira. A situation that now reinforces the hypothesis of a small Madeleine McCann may be dead.
The Maritime Police has vasculhado the entire coast, two to three miles (the equivalent to four miles) to each side of Praia da Luz, and yesterday afternoon extended the search area to the Ponta da Piedade, including the Caves de Santo António. Being the “very difficult access,” was requested the support of canoístas, who was also given the warning of “attention at all bags that are, for smaller they are,” added the commander Marques Pereira.
Meanwhile, the DN knew that the Judiciary Police searched for a man with 1.70 meters in height, and moreno, blue jacket with white and gola haired. That is the portrait-robot of the suspect of child abduction British disappeared in Praia da Luz that PJ does not want to disclose but shows us that interrogations has been to perform with popular, with a view to locate the man, as counted yesterday to a DN those respondents that when he was approached by police, on Saturday night, was in a bar in the centre of Luz
PJ maintains silence
Yesterday, the PJ not provided any statement. A source from the Department of Criminal Investigation of Portimão limited itself to saying that “we are working”. A British tourist friend of the family, George Burke, on holiday in Praia da Luz, said, however, the English newspaper The Sun, which saw at the beginning of the morning of Friday (a few hours after the disappearance of the girl), a few kilometres of the town, “a couple with one child in hasty step, dodging by a alley,” giving the impression of not wanting to be recognized.
The searches were reinforced yesterday by the GNR, which sent teams to Luz in Lisbon. The authorities continue to insist on a perimeter of five miles around the town, according to DN source said police, admitting that the suspect is in that area.
Throughout the day, continued the operations stop in the National Road 125, between Lagos and Burgau. The cars were sent to the past and interior fine comb, and the drivers questioned. The areas of countryside, as noras, wells, houses and abandoned ruins, remain vasculhadas and all containers of waste area covered by the action of the authorities.
Also, the City of Lakes has been cooperating in investigations, vasculhando into sewers, networks of rainwater and waste collected since Thursday evening, as well as points recônditos the area under observation.
The centralization of perimeter searches that can justify the fact that both the International Bridge on the Guadiana whether the crossing of the river by ferry did not have any surveillance provided that it equated the scenario of abduction, as the Daily News found at the site.
A photograph of Madeleine is exposed in several boats that make the crossing and also on the docks boarding of Vila Real de Santo António in Ayamonte, but were the drivers of the boats that took the initiative, according to ram told DN. “Recortámos the photos of the girl in the newspapers, ourselves, we have been mindful of all children who carry, also alerting all passengers,” counted.
Meanwhile, the three British policemen who arrived on Saturday to the Algarve to help PJ in investigations and make the bridge between national authorities and the family of Madeleine have visas to accompany the parents of the girl, confining itself to provide psychological support, according found the Daily News.
The Mass Sunday from 09.30 of the Church of Light was dedicated to small Maddy and counted with the presence of the parents and grandparents of the child, visibly excited, but also the local population, in an atmosphere of great consternation.
At the end of the afternoon, took place in another apartment of The Ocean Club, now occupied by the couple, a prayer by Madeleine, involving, in addition to the family came from England, friends companions holidays, some British tourists staying in village and Portuguese residents in the vicinity.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Morning all - no news today only a lot of posters with hangovers and a lack of sleep
same as same as, anorak is still here - so it must be safe to go to work!
have a good day
be nice now
(remember boys - no fighting! )
January 24th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Cheryl
The McCanns aren’t even close to going to prison. The entire British media supports them.
I think assuming there’s been a miscarriage of justice before there’s been any justice is jumping the gun - just a tad.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:48 am
for anyone who is still online
please remember
this is all about a little girl
non of us know where she is
this has become a circus
remember who this is all about
January 24th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Have to go sleepy bo’ now.
poppy very tired..
night x
January 24th, 2008 at 2:42 am
poppy
i’m sure one day the truth will be known
January 24th, 2008 at 2:36 am
i have worked with autistic children and had a partner who is autistic
they are the most amazing creative people
wonderful
January 24th, 2008 at 2:32 am
1424
the watcher Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Cheryl
yes
we do not want a witch hunt mentality
we want true justice
well said cheryl
++++++++
Let’s hope that we can all, one day get closure on this.
Justice for Madeleine.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:30 am
1422
Cheryl Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 2:15 am
1416
Poppy Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 2:04 am
1407
Cheryl Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 1:20 am
1244
Christine Says:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
But why would anyone WANT to see an unhappy/lonely little child? I appreciate your view but at the beginning when the family portrait was shown on the news the first thing that entered my head was that Madeleine did not seem to be a full part of the group.
I certainly did not want to see that as at first as like so many other people, I believed that Madeleine was abducted. My heart bled for the family. But the picture haunted me.
My little eight year old nephew is severely autistic. He giggles all the time and has the most wonderful sunny disposition. The other two children could be creating WW3 - but he still beams. In fact he’s never happier than when he is tearing the wallpaper off the walls, eating soil or flooding the kitchen - despite his poor mother’s obvious anguish.
I am not suggesting that Madeleine was autistic, but I don’t rule it out either.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:27 am
i think we all have forgotten..
about the little girl who is missing
she is real
but is treated as a product
very sad
January 24th, 2008 at 2:22 am
poppy
well said
it is the world we live in
not a nice place
exploitation
money rules all
January 24th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Cheryl
yes
we do not want a witch hunt mentality
we want true justice
well said cheryl
January 24th, 2008 at 2:17 am
1419
I find it very disturbing that a little girl, now so famous has little in the way of an identity apart from a stuffed toy and a colomboma.
She has generated millions of pounds, supported many high paid jobs, sold zillions of newspapers, and provided high salaried jobs.
Madeleine is the reason we are on this forum. Many of us have lost sleep, worrying and debating and trying to put together a huge jigsaw without the box.
Yet we know so precious little.
I wonder why this is the case.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:15 am
1416
Poppy Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 2:04 am
1407
Cheryl Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 1:20 am
1244
Christine Says:
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That is your personal observation and others on here, I’m certain. Yet I’ve looked at all the pictures of that darling little child and she looks quite smiling, bubbling and happy in all her pictures - that is my observation as a mother of two. In fact some of their pics I took when young the looks on their faces one would have thought I was the wicked witch from the West!
I still say we see ‘what our minds want us to see.’ I’m not prejudging - staying right in the middle - as this case is so complicated and so many speculations and ‘what ifs’ that it is impossible to sort it all out without actual known facts to start from except that she disappeared.
Do you know we recently within the month had a man walk out of prison after serving 27 years of a life term for a rape he didn’t commit? What was the evidence to put him in there 27 years ago - an eye witness - the woman he supposedly raped! She claimed it was him from a picture NOT a line-up,police went after him like a hound after prey, she ID’d him in court (he was Black) - took 27 years to prove his innocence - DNA tests matched that were finally done after all these years to another man. She saw what her mind wanted her to see when she looked at his picture!
January 24th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Ferdinand
hope we can get anorak to do a weekly award
January 24th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Ferdinand
yes but there is still time…
lol
January 24th, 2008 at 2:08 am
poppy
yes very true
very little about maddy is known
just a few photos
January 24th, 2008 at 2:06 am
1412 the watcher Says:
“good idea
but as they are all non stories it may be a huge task”
Certainly, but this Express story with its punchline takes the biscuit for this week so far IMO.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:05 am
ferd
hahahahahaha
January 24th, 2008 at 2:04 am
1407
Cheryl Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 1:20 am
1244
Christine Says:
+++=++++++++
Except that, nobody, including neighbours, friends or acquaintance have told us much about Madeleine as a person either.
The other thing that struck as odd was the family portrait. I felt there was a distance between Madeleine and the rest of her family. IMO of course.
Hello all by the way.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:03 am
1411 the watcher Says:
“is it me or are the papers beginning to lose interest in this”
Never mind. We have more than 1400 posts on a day with no news. (Well apart from the meta news about the MF).
Seems as if any new hard facts would only be an undesired constraint to our phantasies.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:01 am
anorak
why not do it
best presented non story of the week ?
January 24th, 2008 at 2:01 am
1409
Stevo Says:
January 24th, 2008 at 1:34 am
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Stevo - you still on here?
January 24th, 2008 at 1:57 am
1410 ferdinand
good idea
but as they are all non stories it may be a huge task
January 24th, 2008 at 1:55 am
is it me or are the papers beginning to lose interest in this
January 24th, 2008 at 1:47 am
1408 Stevo Says:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/32542/Lookalike-will-put-No-1-suspect-Murat-in-Clear-
“Murat lookalike found. Could be the Symington who is part owner in Ocean Club?”
Not really. If you read ’til the end of the story: “There is no suggestion that Mr Symington had anything to do with the tragedy. He insisted that he was at home with his family six miles away when Madeleine vanished.”
Sometimes I think we should offer an award for the best presented non-story of the week.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:34 am
1318 Abraham Zapruder Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
k keesha
There would be a scandal if it ended like that. There was plenty of publicity about Soham, but Huntley’s trial went ahead. In the case against two footballers, Bowyer and Woodgate, their trial actually collapsed because of a newspaper article, but there was a re-trial that went through to its conclusion. Hogan, in the papers today, his trial went ahead.
It would be a sad day if a UK court made a ruling that effectively meant it had no faith in the jury system.
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Don’t worry about this aspect. Bowyer and Woodgate were small fry in comparison. The biggest case to compare was the Lockerbie bombing. That worked out fine with lots of international cooperation. Didn’t that bloke get tried in Holland?
I have confidence they’ll sort this aspect out even if they have to drag some people from Outer Mongolia who have never seen a television or bought a newspaper.