Madeline McCann: Joaquim Jose Marques, Pigs And The Man In The Sketch
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “COPS QUIZ PIG FARMER – Is this man in Maddie sketch?”
Joaquim Jose Marques is pictured holding a gun. He is smoking a cigarette. The Sun wonders if he is the man in recently released “kidnapper” sketch?
He lives in a house eight miles from Praia da Luz. Portuguese police have spoken with him twice
He sees the Sun’s man coming. He asks: “Look at this face. Is this the face in the picture?”
Says Gail Coooper, whose statement to private detectives led to the sketch: “The hair is different and the skin tone is darker”
So Marques is not the man… Next!
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: WE FIND WEIRDO SUSPECT – He comes out packing a gun”
A Daily Star reporter is on your doorstep; so too a hack from the Sun. Do you grab a gun?
“EXCLUSIVE,” says the Star. “The weirdo whose image is on a million posters in the Madeleine McCann hunt was traced by the Daily Star – and threatened to shoot our man with his rifle”
The Star is certain
“The ‘creepy’ prowler fingered in the hunt for Madeleine McCann was last night revealed as a penniless pig farmer … with a gun”
The Star is very certain. And the police?
“Police are certain Joaquim Jose Marques is the suspicious stranger spotted lurking in Praia da Luz a fortnight before Madeleine vanished”
Says Marques: “Leave me alone, leave me alone. You are destroying my life. I have had the police here and they know it is not me. I want you off my land right now’’
Clarence Mitchell tells us: “As far as we are concerned the hunt for the man in the sketch continues. We are very grateful to anyone who comes forward with information and, even if it is not the man we are looking for, it enables us to rule individuals out”
Says the Star: “But yesterday it was revealed that detectives had tracked him down just 20 days after the four-year-old vanished last May and found he had an alibi”
But it is him. The Star is certain!
DAILY EXPRESS: “FOUND: THE MAN WANTED IN HUNT FOR MADELEINE”
Found by the Express, the Sun, the Star and months ago by the Portuguese police…
“The Daily Express has tracked down a gun-toting oddball who sparked the latest poster hunt for Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper”
Hurrah!
“We found hog farmer Joaquim Jose Marques at his ramshackle Algarve smallholding. Yet last night the McCanns’ £50,000-a-month team of private detectives were still nowhere near tracing him”
Ha! In your face, Metoto 3. Call yourself detectives. And to think the Express costs only 40p!
“Brandishing a garden hoe menacingly, the leather jacket-clad farmer rushed from tending his hogs to scream abuse and threats when asked to explain the recent police visit. ‘Leave me alone, leave me alone,’ he screamed in a wild rage”
And: “Is this the face of the man in the picture? No it is not. Just leave me f****** alone. You are destroying my life. I have had the police around here and they know it is not me. I want you off my land right now”
Such language! Mr Marques has a British girlfriend
DAILY MAIL: “Man on the McCanns’ wanted poster is an innocent pig farmer”
“A Portuguese pig farmer has been identified as the man shown in the sketch of Madeleine McCann’s alleged abductor…The farmer, who has a daughter of Madeleine’s age, has been eliminated from the police investigation. He has not been arrested or named as an official suspect in the case”
But how do you know it is his face in the picture?
“The Daily Mail yesterday tracked Mr Marques to his ramshackle farm in Pedragosa, four miles from the Algarve resort where Madeleine disappeared…He screamed obscenities at callers to the isolated farm and then returned brandishing an ancient-looking rifle.
Standing among his pigs and surrounded by feral dogs, Mr Marques shouted: “Leave me alone, leave me alone… look at this face, is this the face in the picture?”
Hacks from the Star, the Express, the Mail and the Sun are on your doorstep. What do you do?
DAILY MIRROR: “MADDY COPS QUIZ ‘CREEPY’”
It’s “ODDBALL” Farmer Joaquim Marques
Why is he an oddball? Why, look at his long hair. Look at his cigarette. Odd and odder still…
Mirror reporters are at his farm. He is screaming abuse
What would you do?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “New Madeleine McCann link ‘ruled out’”
“A man with a similar appearance to that of a suspected abductor of Madeleine McCann - whose ‘scruffy’ image appeared in two sketches released by her parents - has been traced and ruled out of the police investigation, it has been claimed”
THE INDEPENDENT: “Jennifer Garner: ‘I feel like I kind of have it all’”
“I think you have to be ready for anything when you’re married to someone like Ben. But I do believe that after Gone Baby Gone [the film Affleck directed, unreleased in the UK due to similarities to the Madeleine McCann case], he’s going to be stuck in directing for a long time”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “McCanns still focus on photofit lead”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Our investigators have not been informed that the man we are seeking has been ruled out. We have no reason to believe he has been ruled out and our search for the man in our image is very much continuing. Our understanding is that the man reported to be linked to our image bears no resemblance”
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January 26th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I must be on the wrong site. I thought it was about a missing child not Blair or Bush. or maybe the posteers think one of then did it?
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Mods and Admin
We are not always about overnight (UK) and sometimes the Mayflower adventurers descendents can go off on one….
January 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Cheryl
I don’t mind the war, why should some crappy dictator never have predators to worry about?
It’s the peace that’s a shambles, re-building a country is massively expensive and it was obvious that given half a chance the Sh’ia would want free from the Sunni and the Sh’ia’s land has all the oil, so the Sunni will be incredibly poor if they don’t keep Iraq together.
January 26th, 2008 at 6:09 am
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veritablequandary Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Cheryl, I have no argument with you. Sorry if I have not been keeping up. I think Bush is Shit. Yesterday, today, always. Sue me, anyone!
love you, Cheryl.
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VQ, I don’t understand how that man sleeps at night - if he does and I wonder if he does. He and this administration tell lies to cover up lies…it is endless. I’d never wish ill to happen to him; as I want him to live a long life with the scorn of the public always with him and hopefully the ’souls’ of each soldier killed to visit him every night in his sleep.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Cheryl, I have no argument with you. Sorry if I have not been keeping up. I think Bush is Shit. Yesterday, today, always. Sue me, anyone!
love you, Cheryl.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:32 am
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veritablequandary Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Cheryl, My only point if I had one was not to criticize the UK I am not a Texan. I am from a midwestern state. We have life without parole. Cheerio. VQ.
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I was NOT critizing the UK at all! I have been one of the most vocal ones on the Backlash page for years standing behind the UK’s exact thoughts of Bush and adding quite a few of my own!
January 26th, 2008 at 4:27 am
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veritablequandary Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 3:45 am
1102 Cheryl
Hello Cheryl
I follow and love your posts, and am too a US citizen
But maybe you are being a wee bit harsh?
Surely the brunt of the Iraq and other shit lands first on our plates?
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REPLY: Sure it lands first on our plate - look who in the hell got us into this mess. And who got the UK into the mess with us? Blair! I’ll never understand what possessed that man to get involved with us on that. We get the shit from the UK and all the grief heaped on all Americans for what those two idiots got both countries into. Did you see that report the other day on all the lies documented that were told by Bush and others in the Admnistration prior to the War and still during the ongoing war?
I was sitting over here figuratively having a stroke at the thoughts of Blair actually sending those three men over here to stand trial. Then when I read where it was suggested that maybe they’d be able to go back over there while waiting for their trial to start here I thought oh yes and I still believe in Santa Claus.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Cheryl, My only point if I had one was not to criticize the UK I am not a Texan. I am from a midwestern state. We have life without parole. Cheerio. VQ.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:06 am
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veritablequandary Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 3:06 am
1095 Cheryl Says:
REPLY: I’m from the US. Tony Blair didn’t have the balls to tell the US where to shove it and permitted the 3 men to be sent over to stand trial on charges. They made a deal with the prosecution and plead guilty instead of chancing a trial and I think they received around 2 or so years to serve over here. It could have been far worse for them if they’d had a trial, especially since the trial was being held in Texas (the hanging state, as I call it), and could have received some really big time in way of years.
Whatever possessed your goverment to kow-tow to ours on that I’ll never understand - but then who can understand the ‘connection at the hip’ Blair and Bush have between them. What has surprised me, though, is Gordon Brown has not made an official request they be sent back over to your country.
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cheryl pray tell what have you done?
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REPLY: What have I done? Criminal? Absolutely nothing unless you want to count parking tickets, I forget to pay from time to time and end up paying double the fines.
However, I was very outspoken at the time ,when it was all over the news over there, that Tony Blair should not send them over to stand trial here.
Texas is a very bad state to stand trial in - those Texans are a law unto themselves. Quite macho to carry and own a gun down there; kids are taught to shoot quite young there also on shooting ranges; a lot of prejudice down there; highest execution rate in the US - more minorities, Blacks, Mexicans, etc. than Whites. Granted the Gentlemen from the UK were not facing the death penalty just facing many years under the charges if found guilty by a jury there. They weren’t Texans and they were from another country; and they thank heavens had top lawyers representing them.
Now, if I’ve insulted any Texans on here, I apologize; however, I will come back with bible and verse on exactly what has been done down there to put some innocent people in jail and on death row and the excuse given when the report was finished and published by a special investigation team the other year “well, our prosecutors get over zealous at times in prosecuting a case.”
January 26th, 2008 at 3:45 am
1102 Cheryl
Hello Cheryl
I follow and love your posts, and am too a US citizen
But maybe you are being a wee bit harsh?
Surely the brunt of the Iraq and other shit lands first on our plates?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:45 am
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Garth Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Goodnite ladies
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Goodnite, and don’t let the pink-shirts bite.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:33 am
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veritablequandary Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 2:41 am
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Cheryl Says:
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REPLY: Redrooster is a hen in disguise?
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It’s all very confusing.
Tired of the banter in any case.
I long to hear from Gadget and Pitty.
Never thought I would say such a thing
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REPLY: It certainly is confusing. Here this whole time I’ve thought he/she was crowing on here and instead he/she has been clucking!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:13 am
098 Pilimary Says:
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get a grip!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:06 am
1095 Cheryl Says:
REPLY: I’m from the US. Tony Blair didn’t have the balls to tell the US where to shove it and permitted the 3 men to be sent over to stand trial on charges. They made a deal with the prosecution and plead guilty instead of chancing a trial and I think they received around 2 or so years to serve over here. It could have been far worse for them if they’d had a trial, especially since the trial was being held in Texas (the hanging state, as I call it), and could have received some really big time in way of years.
Whatever possessed your goverment to kow-tow to ours on that I’ll never understand - but then who can understand the ‘connection at the hip’ Blair and Bush have between them. What has surprised me, though, is Gordon Brown has not made an official request they be sent back over to your country.
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cheryl pray tell what have you done?
January 26th, 2008 at 2:59 am
1094 Yankee Interloper
“Did you all take stupid-pills this morning???”
I say that to myself nearly every day when reading the UK tabloids, and also sometimes when reading certain posters.
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U R pretty fucking stupid
January 26th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Hola pequeños,
One Portuguese paper, Correio da Manha, says that PJ is re-considering the abduction theory.
If this is serious, I just wanna die.
Heavy drinking. Seeya 2morrow
January 26th, 2008 at 2:41 am
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Cheryl Says:
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REPLY: Redrooster is a hen in disguise?
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It’s all very confusing.
Tired of the banter in any case.
I long to hear from Gadget and Pitty.
Never thought I would say such a thing.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:35 am
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Karen Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Veritable
I think Garth chatted up RedRooster but it turned out it was her husband who was online.
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REPLY: Redrooster is a hen in disguise?
January 26th, 2008 at 2:31 am
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val Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 12:15 am
1009 Chenier
Bloody Hell!!!!!!! Five years fighting extradition, don”t think I”d last that long if this
happens with the McCanns.
Wasn”t there a case about three Nat West Bank staff being accused of fraud in the Enron
scandal. I know they did go to the U.S.A.but it didn”t take five years. Can”t remember
what happened to them
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REPLY: I’m from the US. Tony Blair didn’t have the balls to tell the US where to shove it and permitted the 3 men to be sent over to stand trial on charges. They made a deal with the prosecution and plead guilty instead of chancing a trial and I think they received around 2 or so years to serve over here. It could have been far worse for them if they’d had a trial, especially since the trial was being held in Texas (the hanging state, as I call it), and could have received some really big time in way of years.
Whatever possessed your goverment to kow-tow to ours on that I’ll never understand - but then who can understand the ‘connection at the hip’ Blair and Bush have between them. What has surprised me, though, is Gordon Brown has not made an official request they be sent back over to your country.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Man, England is one weird place.
You guys crack me up.
Here is a saying we have in America that you will find very useful in dealing with the tabloids and such:
“Did you all take stupid-pills this morning???”
I say that to myself nearly every day when reading the UK tabloids, and also sometimes when reading certain posters.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:51 am
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chenier Says:
January 25th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
The McCanns trot out the ‘Everyone wants to interview us’ line at regular intervals…
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I know somebody who wants to interview them
January 26th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Goodnite ladies
January 26th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Garth, please know that I mean you no ill will. Although I wonder sometimes about your motivations. Sweet dreams, dear. VQ
January 26th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Garth
That’s your story and you’re sticking to it.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:36 am
I’m just playing.
Goodnite any and everyone!
January 26th, 2008 at 1:35 am
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Garth Says:
busy day tomorrow nite nite garfy
January 26th, 2008 at 1:34 am
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RedRooster Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 1:34 am
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Yes please!
January 26th, 2008 at 1:34 am
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Garth Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 1:32 am
would you like to pluck me garfy
January 26th, 2008 at 1:33 am
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Karen Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Veritable
I think Garth chatted up RedRooster but it turned out it was her husband who was online
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Really? More a case of shutting the loud mouth up me thinks
January 26th, 2008 at 1:32 am
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RedRooster Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 1:31 am
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Is the tide turning? Shutup you knobber!
January 26th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Goodnight everyone.
Hopefully Garth will be less cryptic tomorrow.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:31 am
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Garth Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 1:29 am
you’ve been a lost cause from day one garfy
now go to bed hey theres a good boy 