Madeleine MCann: Spotted In Sydney, Following Robert Murat And Arab Slavery
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
NEWS.COM.AU (News Corp.): “Maddie Sydney alert after ’sighting’”
SYDNEY police were sent into a flutter today when a member of the public called in thinking they’d spotted missing British girl Madeleine McCann in the CBD. Rail staff appeared to shadow a middle-aged man wearing a black beret and a little, blonde girl until police arrived at Town Hall train station to question the pair.
How did she get there from Malta?
The Daily Telegraph spotted three police officers talking to the man and the girl at the Luneburger German Bakery underneath the Queen Victoria Building in the heart of the city. But police say the report turned out to be a false alarm.
DAILY MIRROR: “Madeleine McCann suspect’s fury at finding GPS tracker”
Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat has discovered tracking devices fitted to his cars. British expat Murat, 33, found the GPS bug when he was fixing a fault on his VW Transporter.
He checked girlfriend Michaela Walczuch’s motor and found - another stuck to that. Furious Murat believes Portuguese police bugged his cars in a desperate bid to nail him for the abduction of Madeleine, four, from Praia da Luz in May.He is also probing whether Kate and Gerry McCann’s private detective agency Metodo 3 could have done it on its own initiative.
Such is the speculation.
His lawyer Francisco Pagarete said last night: “I’m not yet sure what kind of crime we’re dealing with here.”
Which for a lawyer may be less than ideal.
What news of the search in the lake?
It also emerged yesterday that lawyer Marcos Correia only dragged a reservoir looking for Madeleine because he had dreamed she was dumped there.
THE SUN: “Maddie suspect car was bugged”
The property developer discovered his company Romigen’s website had been hacked into. Emails were diverted and messages sent in his name.
One email sent from his account asked Sergey Malinka, a Russian ex-pat pal, for a secret meeting.
A source close to the case said: “It looks like attempts have been made to entrap him.”
THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL: “Moroccan Nights
Edmund Stuart intertwines the past and the present of the Mahgreb Moroccan Arabic, known as Darija, is the first language of most Moroccans, the main exception being the Berbers—historically the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa, predating the Arab conquest—who speak a separate language. Today they are centred largely in the Atlas and Rif Mountains. Their tall stature and blonde hair once made them the prized slaves of the Arab Sultans and it is a stature still noticeable today – one blonde Berber girl was recently mistaken for Madeleine McCann.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
1st?
March 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
2nd!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
At last! A Maddie thread proper!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
3rd!!!!!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
oh not again
March 17th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Ian,
It must have been something you said!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
M3 is probably responsible fo tagging Robert Murats car(s).
Lets hope someone tagged the McCanns tennis bags!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
oh 4th
March 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Thank God for that!
I thought I’d lost my voice.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
6 SteveT
Nah, Anorak doesnt like me - always telling me not to tell them what to do with their site.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
oh FFS!
I have searched for info on the tennis bag…can anyone enlighted me? Was he accused of having it? Did he? Any proof?
Sorry if I am going over old ground but am trying to get my head round some info
Thanks
March 17th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Maybe Madeleine is a slave in Morrocco now? Not sure how many loads of bricks she could drag though.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
The return of Malinka!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
cheshire set
It was on the sky documentary
March 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
14 Thanks Brandon
Off for a quick look - catch you later
March 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
11 Cheshire Set
Apparently he never had a Tennis bag. Must have been damned awkward carrying his tennnis stuff.
Still, he had a achilles tendon injury so its not likely he had managed much tennis - must have been in agony jogging mustnt he?
March 17th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
“I had a dream”
Some really do have sleeping problems
Murat had it : he is furious oh dear! is he going to sue some clever ones?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/17/madeleine-mccann-suspect-s-fury-at-finding-gps-tracker-89520-20353743/
March 17th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hi Brandon.
And Ian, and everyone.
And RedRooster - which ever one of them you are.
Easter Holidays!!! And the schools aren’t off till mid-April, so no tiny children making me play football with them - hurrah!!!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Damn! My keys are missing again…’theyve taken them theyve taken them’…runs screaming to the balcony….
Or maybe wife borrowed them? Maybe I should ask her next time.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
16 Ian
I know he denied it…must have been hell juggling his balls 2 or 3 times a day back and forth to the lessons??
GM is a brave soldier and clearly struggled through the agony for jogging/visits to pontiffs/hair appointments/tv appearances etc etc :grr:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I dont worry about the kids anymore…just stick ‘em in bed and off down the pub.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
21 Ian
March 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
20
Cheshire
Frankly I dont understand why so many people think the dears are not 103% telling the truth, after all, looking at things with a logical eye…..
March 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
THE SUN: “Maddie: Mystery of ‘lost’ bag”
So says the Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Sky
“A missing blue tennis bag could hold the key to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, a TV documentary will claim tonight. The bag — big enough to carry a small child — belonged to Maddie’s dad Gerry, the programme says. It is claimed Portuguese cops have been hunting for the holdall, which disappeared at the same time as the four-year-old girl. The bag emerges as a potentially vital new clue in a Sky News investigation entitled The Madeleine McCann Mystery”
It’s better than Only Fools And Horses. And Cleudo. Play along at home…
“Yet, bizarrely, the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell yesterday denied it existed — saying Gerry did not own such a bag and never had done”
And former detective Tony Rogers, “one of Britain’s most experienced police officers, will be seen saying: ‘If it’s a bag of a size that could be taking away from the flat a child, that would be of great interest to the investigating officer’”
So long as Gerry McCann removes the balls- tennis balls – from it first. But if Gerry did it…?
“Tonight’s documentary also claims Portuguese detectives have failed to find and quiz a British paedophile with links to the Algarve. He was among 52 British sex offenders with similar connections whose details were given to police by UK cops”
Not Gerry McCann, then, but a PAEDO! Two pieces of sensation in the Sky TV show. Stay tuned
http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/178705.html
March 17th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Karen
March 17th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
On Saturday I was walking my dog in the woods and a wee 4 year was lost and she came up to me and asked me if I was a stranger.
I had to say I was - but then I had to take her home anyway because I couldn’t leave her next to the river.
I so hope she doesn’t make a habit of asking strangers if they’re strangers.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
the only thing of interest in this thread is who has been sending emails asking malinka for a meeting in murats name.
won’t be hard to find out i wouldn’t think, with a bit of digging.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Dont you think we molly coddle the kids nowadays?
I mean, its not like many get abdcuted my invisible cartoon men, raped and murdered in Goa or hidden in divans is it?
I mean come on, surely a 4 year old should be able to baby sit once in a while!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Ever since Madeleine disappeared on May 3, police have been looking for a blue tennis bag that went missing around that time.
The bag - big enough to carry a small child - belonged to her father, Gerry McCann, who had been playing tennis at the complex that afternoon.
Gerry and Kate McCann have always denied any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, though they remain arguidos, official suspects.
Another twist is the discovery that the McCanns’ holiday apartment is owned by another McCann - Ruth McCann, a teacher from Liverpool.
Apparently, she is no relation, but the coincidence is enough to add one more conspiracy theory to the thousands that continue to circulate.
Even now, when I talk to people about Madeleine many cannot understand why Kate and Gerry McCann left her and their two-year-old twins alone while they dined with friends at the nearby tapas bar.
Mr McCann said it was much the same as them dining in their back garden at home, so as part of our new half-hour programme I was filmed walking from the restaurant table to the apartment.
I strolled through the restaurant garden, out onto the road and up the hill.
It was 80 paces just to the apartment gate.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
26 Karen
I wonder if she had abandoned her charges?