Madeleine McCann: Mari Luz Cortes, Santiago del Valle Garcia And Clarence Mitchell Says
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “Quiz killer paedo over our Maddie”
Santiago del Valle Garcia has been arrested by Spanish police over the death of Mari Luz Cortes - “Maddy 2“. He has neither been tried nor convicted of murder. Although the Sun is certain.
Says the Sun: “Both girls were pictured on posters put up by four-year-old Maddie’s parents because the cases were so chillingly similar.”
A spokesman for the couple, “who are both doctors aged 39” – such are the facts - says: “Given the similarity in their ages it is important police make absolutely sure there’s no connection.”
But what of the similarity between the cases?
“Sources said the pervert, who has convictions for child abuse, confessed he dumped Mari Luz’s body in panic after she fell to her death down stairs.”
DAILY MIRROR: “McCanns want Spanish paedophile quizzed on missing Madeleine”
Says Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCanns: “We hope the Portuguese police will be liaising with the Spanish police to establish this man’s movements around the time Madeleine disappeared.
“We have no indication there is a direct link between the two cases. But given the proximity of the places Madeleine and Mari Luz disappeared from and the similarity in their ages, we believe it’s important the Portuguese police make absolutely sure there’s no connection now there’s been an arrest.”
Is there any need to tell the media that you have told the police how to do their job?
Is Senor Garcia the Maddy Maniac?
DAILY MAIL: “Spanish paedophile arrested for murder of girl ‘to be quizzed’ over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance”
The 52-year-old convicted paedophile was arrested late yesterday on suspicion of killing Mari Luz Cortes, the five-year-old whose disappearance was initially linked to Madeleine’s.
The McCanns printed thousands of posters with pictures of their daughter and Mari Luz on them in a bid to solve the two cases.
The cases were not linked by everyone. Juan Jose Cortes, the girl’s father said at the time: “We don’t think it’s appropriate to relate one thing with the other, because they are two distinct cases, two different countries and two different lines of investigation.
Says Juan Jose Cortes: “Only now I understand what Madeleine McCann’s parents are suffering”
Wasn’t he once considering suing the McCanns?
The arrested man is a former neighbour of Mari Luz’s family and lived less than 100 yards from her parents Juan Jose and Irene on the route the youngster would have taken as she returned from a local sweet shop.
He had already been quizzed by police before his arrest yesterday after arousing the suspicion of locals by leaving Huelva with his wife the day after Mari Luz disappeared…
Speaking shortly after the arrest, Mari Luz’s dad said: “This comes as no surprise to me. We know it’s him.”
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: “Police arrest man in connection with death of 5-year-old Spanish girl”
He had been a neighbor of the dead girl, Mari Luz Cortes, in the southern city of Huelva and had not been seen since she went missing in January. The suspect had a record of child abuse, the national news agency Efe said.
Suspect No.1:“His closeness to the deed and the suspect’s past record make him the principal suspect, both in the disappearance of Mari Luz as well as the aggressions the little one suffered,” Juan Jose Lopez Garzon, Interior Ministry delegate for the southern region of Andalucia, told the private news agency Europa Press.
Paedo!?
“Two autopsies found she had suffered bruises but discovered no evidence of sexual abuse.”
Back then, “Distraught
METRO: “McCanns make TV documentary one year on”
Kate and Gerry McCann are taking part in an ITV documentary to mark a year since their daughter Madeleine went missing.
Cameras have been following Kate and Gerry McCann all year for the one-hour programme, at their home in Leicestershire and as they pursue their campaign in the US and Brussels
Says ITV:
“ITV has commissioned Mentorn Media to make a documentary marking the first anniversary of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance and focusing on the campaign to prevent others going through a similar ordeal.”
Has there ever been a similar ordeal, at least as far as the media is concerned?
Madeleine’s parents are said to be receiving no payment for their part in the programme, with ITV instead donating £10,000 to the Find Madeleine Fund.
Steve Anderson, executive producer for Mentorn Media, says: “Amid all of the controversy, what should be remembered is that a little girl is still missing and her family is trying its best to find her. We have been with Kate and Gerry McCann as they have pushed for a better system across Europe to help stop child abduction. They are determined to do whatever they can to make sure that what happened to Madeleine doesn’t happen to another child.”
What did happen to Madeleine McCann? And if the McCann are making no money from the show, what of ITV and Menton Media, are they donating earnings and advertising monies to a good cause? Or is this just entertainment?
Madeleine McCann: Ghoulish entertneinment for sofa sleuths
March 28th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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Carmen Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 8:28 am
MODS AND ADMIN
Ann
Please try actually reading what we said, not jumping to conclusions.
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Didn’t jump to conclusions, just took what was said at face value and am intelligent enough to realise, once explained, just what your problem is but why has it suddenly started ? didn’t always used to be like that did it ?
March 28th, 2008 at 8:28 am
MODS AND ADMIN
Ann
Please try actually reading what we said, not jumping to conclusions.
We didn’t ask all posters to refrain from multiple postings, the message was addressed to those particular posters who were getting caught up in the spam trap.
If you are in the spam trap and then send another half dozen postings in reading variations of ‘get me out here’ or ‘anybody listening, I’m trapped in spam’, whilst mildly amusing to the poster, the only ‘person’ who sees those messages is the spam machine, which promptly blocks the poster altogether, thus multiplying the problem.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Mods and Admin
Yesterday you asked for posters to refrain from multiple postings until you had sorted your spammer out, trouble is that when a “lively” debate gets going with quick-fire responses, there will naturally be a lot of “multiple postings” !! Suggest said spammer is dumped in favour of one that runs on nuclear energy instead of steam !! …oh wait though, that’s probably not very “green” so maybe scrub that and go for one that is more eco-friendly….Respec’ to you all.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:05 am
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Ferdinand
New thread but noone
It is going to be very quiet now everywhere
Even clarrie is not tropetting although I expect new comments about mari luz murderer and the mccann demanding again the pj to look into a spanish case
March 28th, 2008 at 8:02 am
807 jo Says:
“No new thread?
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Is there any news?
Maybe we can witness a little row today.
“Well this is if he ever gets out of jail of course where he should be because he has a lot going on against him
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Unlikely that he gets out of jail in the near future.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:58 am
New thread
March 28th, 2008 at 7:58 am
new thread
March 28th, 2008 at 7:54 am
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Ferdinand
Morning Ferdinand
No new thread?
Big angry crowd in huelva
Hope the guy is never going to be in the street ever on his own….well this is if he ever gets out of jail of course where he should be because he has a lot going on against him
March 28th, 2008 at 7:53 am
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jo Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Morning
M&A
No new thread?
Where is everybody?
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Most of us are still here and still getting caught in the spammer so it is taking longer to see our posts than it takes for messages to get to the moon !!!!
March 28th, 2008 at 7:51 am
805 jo Says:
Morning jo!
March 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Morning
M&A
No new thread?
Where is everybody?
28/03/08
Police clash with protesters at Spanish court as suspects in Mari Luz Cortés death arrive…..
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/
March 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am
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Gandolf Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 7:12 am
3A is populated by fanny merchants and fukwits, who between them managed to get the Mirror forum closed, debate does not exist there, only codicil is you must be anti.
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Gandolf why - if you would like to be taken seriously where your views and opinions and topics for debate are concerned, do you persist in using badly spelt gutter language ? Posters can be incisive and witty in their comment and don’t need to use words like “fukwit” which - incidentally should also have a ‘c’ in it !! Your namesake, which incidentally is spelt with an ‘a’, would be frowning on your attitude which belies the apparent desire to be taken seriously. Also you can’t stop people having their own opinions by just swearing at them, verbally brow-beating them and insulting their own level of intelligence…
March 28th, 2008 at 7:12 am
3A is populated by fanny merchants and fukwits, who between them managed to get the Mirror forum closed, debate does not exist there, only codicil is you must be anti.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:30 am
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Cheryl Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Karen - let’s face it, IF they didn’t harm her directly then the child was abducted. She just didn’t vanish into thin air on her own - someone has/had her.
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Correct !! so why are there certain posters out there who are absoolutely convinced there was no abduction and - when asked - never come back with their reasons for thinking that way ? It’s quite simple, if they are so convinced she was not abducted, really, really convinced, then what happened ??
March 28th, 2008 at 6:22 am
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lindy Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Gandolf.No evidence to support homicide,what about eddie & keela detecting smells in the car,the McCanns soon came up with rotting meat/sandels,clothes from Maddie.Smells on Kates clothes & cuddle cat,I took the toy to work & came in to contact with dead bodies, they were quick enough to give alterative ideas to give credance.But then there is no evidence is there Gandolf
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Did she actually say she took the toy to work ? If so, what explanation did she give for that and why was she carting around with her near cadavers, her explanation that is…………
March 28th, 2008 at 4:57 am
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veritablequandary Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am
797 Cheryl
I don’t understand your reference to the Spanish police.
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I was referring to the PJ in saying in the beginning of that case. But I was also referring to if that is how all police forces work over there then I didn’t have much faith in any them. I think the Spanish Police did a great job on jumping on the Maria Luz case right away. What puzzled me was all the remarks on here that there was no connection and left one to think that the Spanish Police may also have that thinking, when, in fact, it would have been one of the actions one would expect the Police would do knowing how paedos’ work.
One would like to think that the Police don’t let letters from people about a case under investigation influence their thinking on how they handle the case, VQ. Some people on here have said about writing the PJ case re the McCanns and I’ve wondered to myself do they shake their heads in dismay and disgust or give credence to them.