Madeleine McCann: With Columnist Peter McKay
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE COLUMNISTS
PETER McKAY (Mail):
MOST sightings of missing Madeleine McCann seem to involve Belgium and a paedophile ‘ring’ which might have kidnapped the child ‘to order’. Belgian police received more than 100 sightings, 30 of which required checking.
Do they?
But the latest - by British businessman Trevor Francis, 64 - was on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Nursing home owner Francis, who keeps a yacht there, says a girl he thinks was ‘Madeleine’ came into a restaurant with three women - all of Latin origin - and had the telltale blemish in her right eye.
He did.
In one sighting, the girl involved said she was ‘Maddie’ and had been taken from her mother. Yet the McCanns say Madeleine was never known as ‘Maddie’ to them. It’s an abbreviation devised by newspapers so the name will fit headlines.

August 11th, 2008 at 11:46 am
First!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Fist?!!!!!!!!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Let me be frist then …
August 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Oh what a disappointment! I lost the Gold medal!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Try another discipline, Marie
Bonjour!
August 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Bonjour Châtelaine.
What do you mae of all the spinning?
August 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/brandonflours/gerryox2.jpg
Gerrys handwriting, his timeline.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Marie Nicholas
Je ne serais plus içi car j”ai trop de travail et je dois aller ….err…abroad.
I love your posts and spirit
You are one of my favorites here
A big hug
August 11th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/brandonflours/gerryox2.jpg
Gerrys handwriting, his timeline.
strange to be writing such a thing in my opinion
August 11th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
looks more like a plan to me!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Bonjour Châtelaine.
What do you mae of all the spinning?
*****
Makes me dizzy, but I try very hard to stay on the straight track
August 11th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
George Bush is currently condemning Russia, and giving Georgia verbal support.
That’s almost a separate thread for Anorak.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hi lone
How was fishing ?
Did you get any
♫ ‘Eels upinside ya, finding entrance where they can ??? :lol:’ ♫
August 11th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Any news except for some new sightings?
Been McCann free for a few days.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Jo, a big hug to you too.
Stay with us, you are necessary!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
It’s a rainy night in Georgia.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Lone Pigeon
Thanks for the handwriting. It is sort of tight, isn’t it?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
From previous thread:
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# jo Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Daisy Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Jo,
Have a nice day
*******
It will certainely be nicer than any of yours any time of the year with the kind of sick mentality you have
You make me sick.I dont want to see your puke anymore
—
Jo,
Are you this unpleasant to anybody who disagrees with your views? … or is just me that makes you so sick? Anyhow …
August 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hi lone
How was fishing ?
Did you get any
♫ ‘Eels upinside ya, finding entrance where they can ??? :lol:’ ♫
was great thanks Brandon - got there at 6pm fri and caught a 24lb Mirror carp and a 13lb common carp and was back home by 10am sat a very happy chappy.
I love the boosh!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/brandonflours/gerryox2.jpg
Gerrys handwriting, his timeline.
****
BF, is this for real???? This is not the timeline as we’ve got to know it…
OLDFIELD listening at 3 windows at 9 pm not 9:30
No obvious check after 9:15 till “alarm is raised”
August 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Lone Pigeon
Thanks for the handwriting. It is sort of tight, isn’t it?
thank Brandon - she provided it.
It seems a bit weird to me. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/brandonflours/gerryox2.jpg
Gerrys handwriting, his timeline.
****
BF, is this for real???? This is not the timeline as we’ve got to know it…
OLDFIELD listening at 3 windows at 9 pm not 9:30
No obvious check after 9:15 till “alarm is raised”
yeah it’s all comin out now - we will get to the bottom of it
August 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
August 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Perhaps the Russian Military are the new secret investigators. They are currently leaving no stone unturned in South Ossetia.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
lone pigeon Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
looks more like a plan to me!
just what i thought lone
August 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Kitchen is calling.
Will try to BBL
Hope you’ll all have a nice meal too
August 11th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Daisy
YOU make me sick
and now I am gone because my work calls me where people are fighting for their freedom and dying for it.So fuck off! go and defend your deary mccCash and dont carry your post from an pother thread to dirty my friends here
Dont have a good day,have a miserable day the one you deserve
August 11th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I cant wait to go night fishing on holiday, Its going to be pitch black 16 miles away from town, a mile away from the nearest house.
The kids are going to shit themselves Hee hee hee!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Jo,
I can’t have a good day … it’s night time here
August 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I cant wait to go night fishing on holiday, Its going to be pitch black 16 miles away from town, a mile away from the nearest house.
sounds cool really, where are you going ?