Madeleine McCann: They Call Me Maddie, In Venezuela And African Bingo
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS (front page): “IS THIS WHO TOOK MADDIE?”
A change in the quotidian Express story. No longer is Madeleine, “MADELEINE”. Madeleine McCann is now “MADDIE”. It’s the name the media, mostly, have dubbed her.
Maddie is what the missing child has taken to calling herself when she visits party shops in Amsterdam…
So who took her. The Express has a photfit.
NEWS OF THE WORLD (front page): “I spotted Maddie’s tell-tale eye”
This is the least savoury headline Anorak has read on the matter for some time…
“I WAS AFRAID TO GRAB HER - Witness was sure restaurant girl was Maddie but feared causing a scene”
A VITAL new witness in the hunt for Madeleine McCann has told cops: “I saw Maddie. I know it was her—I saw the unique blemish in her eye.”
Go on…
Businessman Trevor Francis is certain he spotted the missing five-year-old in Venezuela just WEEKS ago. Because of the remarkable eye detail, Gerry and Kate McCann regard this as one of the most significant sightings.
Trevor, who swears he spotted Madeleine McCann in the Caribbean just weeks ago, has told of the haunting moment he saw the tell-tale blemish in her eye.
So he called out her name and asked her if her mum was called Kate and her dad Gerry? He took a picture on a camera phone? He tugged the arm of a passing copper and told him? He asked the restaruant’s manager for the names of the adults the girl was with?
He recalled: “Her eyes met mine as I walked past and that’s when I saw the little blemish in her right eye—it was like a little fleck. I wanted to grab her or shout out her name and see what reaction I would get. But I was afraid to do anything and cause a scene. . . a huge ruckus would have erupted and it could have made things worse. I decided to get a good look to make sure it was her so I could come back to England and report it.”
Yea, that’s right. He was so certain he waited until he’d flown abck to the UK to tell anyone. Vital evidence, indeed…
Witness Trevor’s son Ben, 22, of Worthing told us last night: “My dad is a very serious, credible and intelligent man. He’s not the sort of person who would make things up. And he’d certainly never lie about something like this.”
Sure. Read all about it…
TODAY we reveal TWO MORE e-fits of suspects Portuguese cops refused to publicise during their investigation. Both the men above were seen acting suspiciously in the area around the McCann apartment before the kidnap.
The one on the right approached holidaymaker Iris Morgan asking for money to help “young boys and girls”. The man in sunglasses was also seen nearby by an unnamed witness. These new images emerged from the case files after two other e-fits of suspects were released last week.
SUNDAY MIRROR (front page): “MADDIE: Probe into sighting in Caribbean.”
Is the Caribbean near Belgium?
SUNDAY TIMES: “Stung by the Portuguese men of law - Evidence from files on the Madeleine McCann investigation show how badly her parents were treated by Portuguese police”
In a document translated by The Sunday Times yesterday, Tavares Almeida, a chief inspector with the Portuguese police, accused the McCanns and the friends on holiday with them of “lying”. In a memo dated September 10, Almeida noted: “The statements from the whole group result in a total lack of coherence, from which we easily conclude that they’re all lying.”
A copper was suspicious of the parents and their friends? Hmmm…
Also in the file was a letter Kate had written to Paolo Rebelo, the head of the investigation, begging to be kept informed of developments. “I am appealing to you as a fellow human being to work with us (if possible to include us) and to remember that we are Madeleine’s parents . . . lack of communication is torture,” she wrote.
She appears to have received no reply. Once again the file rams home how coldly the Portuguese had treated the family.
We need hard evidence. Got any?
Last night it was reported that a girl matching Madeleine’s description had been seen a few weeks ago in a restaurant on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Trevor Francis, 64, a British nursing home owner, said: “Her eyes met mine as I walked past and that’s when I saw the little blemish in her right eye - it was like a little fleck.” Private investigators employed by the McCanns are understood to be making urgent inquiries into the sighting on the Caribbean island.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: ‘Strange Englishman’ photographed children on beach
A “strange Englishman” was spotted taking pictures of children on a Portuguese beach visited by Madeleine McCann just before she went missing, police files reveal.”
Oh?
According to the account in a Metropolitan police email sent to the Portuguese and Leicestershire forces, the picture was sent to a child abduction ring in Belgium, which had placed an order for a “young girl”. Having seen the image, the gang agreed that Madeleine should be taken. The files reveal that on May 9 last year – six days after Madeleine disappeared – officers interviewed Ernesto Mochacho, owner of a restaurant on Zavial beach, a 20-minute drive from Praia da Luz, which has a naturist area.
Mr Mochacho recalled seeing the McCanns with their three children for the last time at his restaurant in April. His son, who also works at the restaurant, the only one on the beach, said he told police he had seen a “tall, thin Englishman in his forties” taking photographs.
“He was weird, a strange guy,” Ivo Mochacho, 23, told The Sunday Telegraph. He said police visited the restaurant just after Madeleine vanished. “Madeleine came here for lunch with her parents not long before she disappeared,” he said. “I don’t know if this guy took a picture of Madeleine. It’s impossible to say. But he took a lot of photographs on the beach.
PUNCH (Nigeria): “A holiday to remember”
It’s Tabloid Bingo Africa!
Nine months after Madeleine McCann vanished into Portuguese air, Shannon Matthews, a nine-year-old girl, who lived a jogging distance from my neighbourhood, went missing on her way home from school.
Hear ye!
It is likely that each parent assumed the child was with the other, just like Mary and Joseph thought when the boy Jesus went missing during a trip to Jerusalem.
And on it goes…


August 10th, 2008 at 8:58 am
First?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Its Frist LP, but I’m er twoth or thrid?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Is that the same Tevor Francis who played for Nottingham Forest?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I forgot it’s frist. Is this because of dear chernier???
M and A
Nope, its the way Anorak spells it
August 10th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Has Herod reported a sighting yet?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:07 am
The times is seriously winding me up. Are cops who have suspicions now supposed to treat those under suspicion like princesses?
Cops- Kate Mccann - do you or do you not know where madeleine is?
Kate - ERmm i’m not answering that question ..
Cops - oh…. well nevermind here’s a a cup of tea and a cream cake …. fancy a shoulder rub and face mask - is there anything we can do for you ????
August 10th, 2008 at 9:08 am
1 million pounds reward, but we don’t want to make a fuss, so we wait until we have finished our holiday and flown home before mentioning the sighting to anyone.
Obvious, really. It is exactly what anyone would do.
Can lunatics like this be done for
wasting police time -
clogging up the tabloids -
being very stupid in a public place -
August 10th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Good morning
This CCTV picture of the Tapas 7: who is sitting to O’Brien’s left?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Reminds me of Zapruder, saying a couple of times that Paraiso was important …
August 10th, 2008 at 9:28 am
And a strange man takes pictures on a naturist beach !!
How strange is that.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:29 am
And wasn’t there a rumour that KM was pissed off with them [T7], because they went to the beach without her?
Or was it maybe the other way around, and were they [T7 only] on the beach, because they had fallen out with her already…?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:30 am
PeterMac Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 9:28 am
And a strange man takes pictures on a naturist beach !!
How strange is that.
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There are so many “strange” men in this saga, PeterMac, that I wonder why people still to go on holidays there
August 10th, 2008 at 9:32 am
So, anyone have an idea who is sitting between O’Brien at the table and Oldfields standing
August 10th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Châtelaine Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 9:32 am
So, anyone have an idea who is sitting between O’Brien at the table and Oldfields standing
allo allo
maybe it’s the quiz mistress/coach with the big boobies
August 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Allo, allo, âde.
Hm. Looks “boyish” to me… but cannot be sure. At any rate there’s one too many there and 2 missing
August 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Morning all,
the gutter press has gone into overkill.
and to think of all the thousands of trees chopped down to print this rubbish !
off to prune the roses, should i send the clippings to the Daily Wail or NOTW ?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:57 am
What about
brandon flours Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 7:29 am
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/newsfeed/2008/08/10/maddie-dogs-not-trained-78057-20691006/
Maddie Dogs Not ‘Trained’
Aug 10 2008
SNIFFER dogs used to search for Madeleine McCann were not properly trained.
Police used dogs more suited to rural work to search a 10-mile radius of the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz where Maddie was snatched on May 3 last year.
The dogs lost her trail in the nearby car park.
It is the latest damning revelation to emerge after the release of files from the bungled Portuguese police investigation.
Prosecutors Joao Melchior Gomes and Jose de Magalhaes e Menezes slated the probe, noting detectives had “achieved very little in terms of conclusive results”.
The report also damned the Portuguese police for failing even to establish if the five-year-old is alive or dead.
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Have the media no shame ?????????????
August 10th, 2008 at 9:58 am
# Lone Pigeon Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Is that the same Tevor Francis who played for Nottingham Forest?
The mush from Shepherds Bush
August 10th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Châtelaine Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 9:46 am
could we be looking at the elusive tapas10, i wonder
is this a friend of diane webster?
aha the two missing ones…
i expect they were back in the apartment giving it a damn good clean instead of being in the restaurant by the beach (note the date stamp)
cleaning an be great fun
i’d do the same - put the twins into the creche and tidy up the apartment, wash the curtains and have a rippingly good time
interesting that some of the taparrati actually eat in restaurants with their kids
very strange behaviour
August 10th, 2008 at 10:00 am
bountyhunter Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Morning all,
“[...] off to prune the roses, should i send the clippings to the Daily Wail or NOTW ?
****
I’m going to do the same. It’s one of the most gorgeous days of the year… Let me know where do you send the clipping, I’ll sent them all deflowered roses too
August 10th, 2008 at 10:01 am
bountyhunter Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
send the thorns to the taparrati
they lie to hand around with pricks, after all
August 10th, 2008 at 10:02 am
# Châtelaine Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 9:32 am
So, anyone have an idea who is sitting between O’Brien at the table and Oldfields standing
I think its rachel oldfield they have mixed her and fiona payne up, check the blouse!
August 10th, 2008 at 10:02 am
sorry that’s like not lie
on second thoughts…
such fun fun fun
August 10th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I dont think they look like tanner and webster either they look like men to me.
August 10th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Will they name their next ‘longed for child’
Sue Annie Juanya Cann ?????
August 10th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Good morning, Brandon.
Who’s responsible for the labeling of this CCTV-still? PJ or NOTW?
If FP and RO are being mixed-up, what else can be doubted about this picture …?
PS: JT looked very masculine on occasions [before her make-over for Panorama]
August 10th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Oh, and, Brandon, no, I think the UK Media have no shame …
August 10th, 2008 at 10:22 am
shame…
it’s all in private eye
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame
August 10th, 2008 at 10:22 am
# Châtelaine Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Oh, and, Brandon, no, I think the UK Media have no shame …
thanks for the UK correction

August 10th, 2008 at 10:27 am
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/brandonflours/expressih6.jpg
The talented pants of ganga from the other ssite