Madeleine McCann: Seeking Britain’s Armchair Detectives
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “McCANNS HEADHUNT COPS FOR NEW MADDY SEARCH”
As Anorak told you yesterday, the Our Maddie hunt could, maybe, might, you never know, see ex-British police involved. Everyone’s an armchair detective… Or Cluedo.
The Find Madeleine Fund has asked for lists of retired or about-to-retire officers from forces across the country.
Beats playing golf… What do we know so far?
Madeleine was snatched while on holiday in Portugal just a few days before her fourth birthday last May.
And…?
DAILY MAIL: “Top UK detectives to join team of officers in search for missing Madeleine McCann”
Not so much top as retired…
Some of the UK’s most experienced detectives are being approached to form an elite team of officers in the search to find missing Madeleine McCann.
Experienced old sleuths. Anyone seen Miss Marple?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: Top British detectives are lined up to join the hunt”
Aren’t they looking already?
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September 11th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
its 2:08 here not 8:00
M and A
rather behind the times are you not?
September 11th, 2008 at 10:38 am
coco Says:
Fuck off you Has Been Hag!
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September 11th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Coco!!! Do you know that I put two emptyish bottles of Y on the mantelpiece (together with a picture of my horse who sadly died a month ago, drawings by my kids, other assorted photos etc?
On a more serious note, actually at home I swear and cuss a lot in Italian, though - it’s just that when fencing I like hits to be really clean so that any objection will be to the notion I express rather than to the language I use - it distracts from the issue, to say the least.
Coco honestly, you and Garth make so incrediblly curious! I’d really love to know more about the 2 of you, you both are intriguing!!! (but I really like and respect Marie Nicholas, she is such a comforting sort of person!)
ciao and a big Y-ed hug
September 11th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I’m here with some mud!!!!!
Come on girls lets get messy and horny
September 11th, 2008 at 8:22 am
coolandcalm Says:
September 11th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Morning all.
I think that what makes me (and others) laugh most about you Coco is that you think you’re so superior and eloquent and yet your comments are so childish and confrontatioal you make yourself look a complete silly-billy. The personal insults reflect only on you! Very playground.
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Yeah right! OR Yeah-No!
Fuck off you Has Been Hag! Make the site about M - before they shut down the thread!
People know to scroll past me! They may labour on your pearls of errrrrr ……. wisdom!
September 11th, 2008 at 8:11 am
LIZA!!!! I swear by the God Almighty! I put a request on here for Rive Gauche a while back!
I adore Yves Saint Laurent- I wear all the clothes - right back to the 80’s. I was distraught when he passed over - but more distraught a couple of years ago when he decided to take Rive Gauche off the market - there is only eau de toilette on the market - and it lasts two minutes on me!!!
I swear I asked the posters to find the parfum or eau de parfum! I got two off ebay - and I am very sparing! I have 2 giant pretend bottle of ‘Y’ in my bathroom from a chemist’s years ago - as a keep-sake for when perfume stopped being perfume! X
September 11th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Lovely Liza Kittenish One! I can’t help it - I’m not a well person!!!!
There is no harm in me if you look at how I treat the lovely posters! With the greatest respect!
Honestly Liza -it’s only when the the nest gets invaded by cuckoos or the horrid Hags and Botty Boys come out!
I am happy to leave - but I love coming on here - it stops me using Paypal on Ebay! lol
The CuckooClam needs the attention - trust me! Her books are up for ten bob a piece at the moment - I give her an advert every day! Click on her head and buy a book!
Or read Anorak for free!!!! Speak to Liza nad Coco for free!!!!
The CuckooClam would piss her pants if you knew who the fuck I was!
She should get off her high horse - and ride a fucking donkey! Show a bit of humility and grace for once - admit that she’s flummoxed by me and shut the fuck up making derisory comments and distracting us from what we should be discussing! The Files!
The Files that the PJ spent ages on! Meticulously!
We don’t need psychology lessons or lessons in how to speak without swearing and bad language - we’re all grown-ups - a lot of us watch Jonathan Ross and we all know what’s what - this is a site for grown-ups! I do work for the WRVS and have never had a complaint yet!
I do public speaking - and not a complaint yet! So there! Nur nur nur nur nur!
September 11th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Coco - Liza the Lovely! Who wafts a scent of gardenia. jasmine and rose all over my screen!!!
How sweet of you! It’s a shame, really, that you aren’t a man like someone suggested!!!!
BTW, I have been using the same perfume for the past (argh) 30 years, Y by Saint Laurent - it got so that even if I use something else, my skin returns the scent of Y….
September 11th, 2008 at 7:07 am
C&C - I don’t get those vibes from coco - not a sense of superiority underneath her proclamations. She’s not subtle, that’s for sure, but that’s part of her charm (although as I said I think coc’s a bit too much sometimes with her re-nicknaming….)
Pam - I do undertand what you mean about wanting to have facts straight (where were you at the time of a crime’
However, since the timelines appear to have been written in the very immediate aftermath of the alarm, it begs the question:
1 - how could they be sure it was a crime? was the sliding door on the patio impossible to open for a child from the inside? (it wouldn’t look well for the parents, fire haward and all that - but this is another issue)
What was at issue was pintpoint exactly the time interval during which M disappeared: so the only really important thing to write down was the last person to see her, to establish the ‘window of opportunity’
But sure, this is just wondering on my part, it could be that the person who wrote out the timelines didn’t see any paper lying around, just grabbed the first thing he/she could find and wrote out by memory what had happened that evening.
I quite accept it’s no proof of sinister intent (a self-preservation strategy) but the thing about this case is that there is no hard evidence either way….
September 11th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Morning all.
I think that what makes me (and others) laugh most about you Coco is that you think you’re so superior and eloquent and yet your comments are so childish and confrontatioal you make yourself look a complete silly-billy. The personal insults reflect only on you! Very playground.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:55 am
You know, I have long come to the conclusion that arguing and name-calling is not an efficient communication mode (plus I’m a sissy and I find it hard to be nasty - so not out of goodliness but out of cowardice….)
But honestly, it’s rather impossible not to like your posts, so original and imaginative!
Really I see you as incredibly talented swordswomen…. A delight to behold!
ciao ciao
September 11th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Well they fucking well should! It’s only coz you ain’t be caught yet!!!
There are robbers and thieves and phoneys and rapists and murderers and paedies and people who are not very well - roaming every village and town and county! One day they will get caught!
And Anorak will be there at Court - and the Court will say , ‘Anorak! Can you vouch for this Putrid Professor Piss Pot Pending?’ and Anorak will say - ‘No - We know fuck all about that Hag- save the fact that she got in bed with the Biker Botty Boys and some other owd Hags of indeterminate persuasion!’ lol
Anorak! I fing this Hag too much at times - but please don’t ever ban her! Or that CuckooClam! The Arse-Weedo Botty Boys would be so frustrated without something to poish their helmets to!
September 11th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Liza, I can understand the “duel” confusion: a range jacket does look much like a straitjacket, but the difference, you see, is that MY sleeves don’t buckle in back!
: )
September 11th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Professor Pammy Piss Pot says: ‘As “And where were you at the time of the crime?” is one of the first questions any investigator would ask, and Madeleine’s family was traveling as a part of a group, such a listing would have been a huge time saver.’
NO NO NO NO NO!
The first fucking answer should have been — CHECK WITH ALL THE VILLAGERS OFFICER - WE WERE OUT SEARCHING FOR A THREE YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL - OFFICER - STOP DISTURBING US OFFICER AND ASKING ALL THESE QUESTIONS - WE NEED TO BE OUT THERE NOW!
Not sat on our skanky little arses getting some semblance of a fucking time-line in order!!!!!
I am going to fuck off if this fucking HAG keeps chatting crap!
Fucking Hell! I wouldn’t mind if they were paying her for this - but they are not!
September 11th, 2008 at 6:35 am
…… left over because I - went for a nail appointment and had to go back into work - so missed supper with Hubby!
Anyway - I don’t duel - I’ll just jump out at her when she starts drowning in piety! I cannot debate with a Hag that dismissed Shakespeare as boring - it’s just not - tennis!!!
Thanks for giving PissPot Pammy a little dose of something she usually just administers! Tee hee!
Her come-back will be non-existent - as she cannot justify her words. The car is running and she has a gear-box - but she tries to use the gears instead of letting it run on automatic!
I tried that on a bend with a fancy-engined car once - and nearly ran over a hill-side ! lol
Give the Pammy Wammys enough rope rope and they tend to hang themselves! Clever c…………..!
September 11th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Thanks, Liza.
Actually, I think very little is straightforward, but in this instance I can certainly imagine an important, completely above board reason for sketching out the critical timeline early on for the police.
As “And where were you at the time of the crime?” is one of the first questions any investigator would ask, and Madeleine’s family was traveling as a part of a group, such a listing would have been a huge time saver.
I am absolutely with you on the always packing paper, crayons, markers, and glue sticks anytime one travels with children, but I have to confess that I also leave notes and numbers on whatever’s closest when I grab the phone or find myself waiting in the car. I’m certainly not above employing a cheap sticker folder in a pinch.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Liza the Lovely! Who wafts a scent of gardenia. jasmine and rose all over my screen!!!
Darling - this isn’t a duel. She is out-matched. I never kick anybody when they are down - but the ritualistic, sanctimonious sooth-saying is just too much gor me when my doggie and I have been celebrating getting work in on time and draining a bottle of Tia Maria and half a bottle of wine - left over because I
September 11th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Good morning, Duelling Duo
The fact that a child’s book (sticker or non sticker) was used signifies that no other paper was at hand (seems strange, but then, who am I to know? Since when travelling with children I always - let me repeat - always - brought along lots of paper and writing/drawing material (which would be lying around on the table or being messy, on the floor, I would think that a family would have access to sheets of paper.
Or - but this is a mere hypothesis, juyst for the hell of mulling things over - maybe it was written somewhere where maybe the police wouldn’t check? I wonder who ripped the cover out, if the T’s or the police? And was the cover handed over or was it found?
Pam, excuse me, but debating (in correlation with this forum) also means brainstorming and trying to undertand the whys and the wherefors - this is not a jury stand.
If you feel that the entire case is straightforward and you have no doubt that the McC’s and the T7 behaved in an absolutely normal and unremarkable way given the circumstances good for you, you’re perfectly entitled to see things that way.
As for me, so many doubts remain either way that I could stuff a king-size mattress with them
Have a really nice day, both of you
September 11th, 2008 at 5:57 am
I also had a friend who kept a snotty tissue of her first love at Junior School. She didn’t throw it out until we went to Uni! Ugggghhhhh!
But at least she has a heart!
September 11th, 2008 at 5:55 am
‘Putrid Professor Pam Pending Full of Piss says - in her ususal banal fashion: ‘Please tell me no, because I will not be able to contain myself if all this fuss and innuendo has been about a two buck sticker booklet from the supermarket check-out! Here I’d been thinking they’d descrecated Goodnight, Moon or The Velveteen Rabbit. Holy effing moly
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Don’t this just sound like a woman wot has never learned anything about anything from God and the Bard himself?!
Sounds like this Horrid Hag hasn’t ever waited for her teen-love to spit his chewing-gum out onto the pavement whilst she wrapped it in a leaf and carried it home to treasure it amongst the beer-mats and fluff from his Manchester United woolly hat!
My favourite book when I was four was a big thick volume of something I could not even read the fucking title of - never mind pronounce it! lol
But it was in my bedroom - and I thought I was dead grown-up because it was next to my Tiffany butterfly lamp and my Rupert Bear Jewellery box and my Lady Penelope Thunderbird car on my bed-side dresser! - Next to some shells that I found in Dorset! And an old tobacco tin of my Gramps’s and I had an old peignoir of my Nanna’s slung over the bed-head!
What a callous old Hag! Wot’s favourite is wot’s favourite - innit!
September 11th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Oh, wait, wait, wait! Is the book the covers were torn from–the one that, in the Portugese press was said to be “Madeleine’s favorite” from which she liked to be read every evening at bedtime–REALLY the little sticker folder pictured on the EK site?
Please tell me no, because I will not be able to contain myself if all this fuss and innuendo has been about a two buck sticker booklet from the supermarket check-out! Here I’d been thinking they’d descrecated Goodnight, Moon or The Velveteen Rabbit. Holy effing moly.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:12 am
The Real Stink says: ‘
‘And so on. The pattern is remorseless. The deliberate lies and smears leaked via the Poruguese press to cast aspersions on the McCanns are dying in droves.
Even the most lauded heroes of the piece - Eddie and Kella, have besmirched their perfect record in Jersey.’
”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
Coco says: Keela wishes to point out that she’s called Keela - not Kella - and that she has a smelly whiff of something nasty every time she reads this particular poster’s tripe.
She is also very very suspicious of his reasons to be on the M thread.
Eddie is in agreement with everything she says and wants The Real Stink to get himself a better translation of The Files - like St Marie Nicholas’ because he is talking bollocks out of his back-side.
Eddie says that the foreign Press are sticking with their stories and are prepared to back them up - if they get sued! Ooooooooooo! - What about that then?
I didn’t know that myself!
Wow! Eddie and Keela seem to know everything about everything to do with everything! Rather like a couple of posters on here! lol
September 11th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Yes, where are Duncan and Carmen?
September 11th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Sod the arguido - I was actually due to fly to L.A. on the day after 9/11 - messed up my bloody holiday - I went just before the Christmas of that year - but went via N.Y. - on the return journey - 23rd Dec. I think it was, we got delayed in NY - they were bringing down the shoe bomber. I think I am lucky to be around, let alone win at Poker !!
September 11th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Saturday August 11: On the 100th day of Madeleine’s disappearance, police acknowledge publicly for the first time that Madeleine could be dead.
Sunday August 12: Kate McCann tells Woman’s Own magazine that she would rather know her daughter was dead than live in limbo forever.
Wednesday August 15: Blood traces found in the bedroom where Madeleine was sleeping the night she was snatched were not hers, the Times reports. Forensic results show the blood came from a man, it adds.
Tuesday August 21: Two women report seeing a youngster matching Madeleine’s description with a man at a petrol station near Cartagena, in the south-east of Spain.
Saturday August 25: Gerry McCann says he will be returning to work but insists his daughter may still be alive.
Friday August 31: The McCanns are to launch a libel action against a Portuguese newspaper that claimed police believe they killed their daughter, it emerges. The action will be against the Tal & Qual paper, based in Oporto.
Thursday September 6: Kate McCann arrives at a Portuguese police station to face further questioning by detectives.
Friday September 7: After 10 hours of questioning, Kate McCann is formally declared an arguida.
Saturday September 8: Gerry McCann is given arguido status after further police questioning.
Sunday September 9: The McCanns return to their home in Rothley, Leicestershire, with their twins, Sean and Amelie.
Monday September 10: Portuguese police sources suggest that DNA tests prove Madeleine’s body had been in the boot of a car hired by her parents 25 days after she disappeared.
Tuesday September 11: A dossier outlining the police case against the McCanns is passed to the local prosecutor, Joao Cunha de Magalhaes, who then asks a judge to assess the information
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So its over a year!
September 11th, 2008 at 1:14 am
# The Real Stig Says:
September 11th, 2008 at 12:32 am
BF
Clouseau - but you knew that.
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Was going to ask something , but just realised the date.
Sad for the 9/11 bombings all those years ago FFS , but is it the anniversary of arguido today ?
September 11th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Hi Coco - I am just as we speak waiting to join an on line table - so your good wishes are appreciated. Probably stay up until 5 am - creap into bed and pretend that I was up until 1…..spend all day tomorrow with match sticks propping my eyes open and who knows - I might even win a few quid. All quiet on the McFront tonight - nothing much happening, at least, nothing that has been reported on.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Is it safe?
September 11th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Just a quickie - coz can’t take in all the crap of today’s posts.
I’m not a well person - but fucking Hell - I’m obviously more sane than some of the half-baked Fuck-Wits on here.
Thanks to Annie1 for being a Voice of Reason! - You can sure get people into a corner girl! May your gambling bring you oodles and boodles of cash rewards in the very near future!
Saint Marie Nicholas - Thanks for your post yesterday about STEPH!
I know that no German on Earth would ever dare use such bad English!
I noted that STEPH had all the cases mixed up as well. Sounded more Mexican than German lol!
Because of my poor sense of humour and ambiguity - I feel that maybe more than a few people thought I actually believed that Steph was German - but I’m not that daft.
Saint marie - I’m glad that you pointed this out to others. X
September 11th, 2008 at 12:53 am
night Marie - sweet dreams!
September 11th, 2008 at 12:52 am
night mn
me tto
xx night all