Posts Tagged ‘Madeleine McCann’
Madeleine McCann: ‘Bungling’ Portuguese Police Leave ‘No Stone Unturned’ In Casa Pia Case
THE CASA Pia case evokes the name of Madeleine McCann in the Independent, where Jerome Taylor says the investigation is a triumph for the Portuguese police:
The successful convictions, eight years after the paedophile scandal was exposed, is a major victory for Portuguese police, under intense criticism over their handling of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. One of the lead detectives in the Casa Pia case, Paulo Rebelo [picture], also investigated the Madeleine McCann disappearance after the original lead investigator was sacked. Rebelo and his team of forensic investigators – called “the cleaners” because they leave no stones unturned – are said to have played a pivotal role in securing the convictions.
No stones unturned is a phrase used by the McCanns in the hunt for their daughter.
As for the guilty:
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Posted: 4th, September 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (22)
Powerful And Rich Child Rapists At Casa Pia Children’s Home Named And Madeleine McCann
THE SEVEN defendants in Portugal’s sex abuse trial, in which children at a home were routinely raped and abused, have been found guilty. The seven include TV presenter Carlos Cruz, a woman and Jorge Ritto, a retired ambassador.
In the 1990s, the gang taped 32 boys at Lisbon’s Casa Pia children’s home.
The scale of abuse is horrendous.
A former driver and gardener for the home, one Carlos Silvino, 54, confessed to 639 charges. Others involved are a doctor called Joao Ferreira Diniz and Manuel Abrantes, a former Casa Pia governor. And to go with those professionals, there was Hugo Marcal, a lawyer, and the woman called Gertrudes Nunes, who allowed her house in Elvas to be used by the child rapists.
Cruz (pictured) declared:
“This is one of the most monstrous judicial mistakes in Portuguese history.”
Anorak first brought you news of this scandal in October 2007. There was talk of a link between the place and Madeleine McCann: This was the…:
…17th century Lisbon orphanage where more than 4,000 children are cared for each year behind “high stone walls” – “the doctor would summon selected boys and girls from their beds for examinations one night each week”
The Mail mused:
“It is crucial for two reasons; first because it proves what international crime agencies have long suspected: that Portugal has become a magnet for predatory paedophiles from around the world, using the country’s lax laws and preying on the high numbers of poor, abandoned children.
“And second, because Paulo Rebelo, an urbane, methodical detective who led the Casa Pia paedophile inquiry, was last night finishing his first week as the new chief of the investigation into the disappearance of the British child”
Adding:
“Of course, the Casa Pia case may have no direct link to the disappearance of Madeleine, but the culture in which such a serious child abuse network was allowed to operate is the same culture that pervades the whole of Portugal. Was it this attitude that led to the bungled initial investigation in the McCann case?”
Back then a country was being demonised. Now the story will surely start again…
Posted: 3rd, September 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (21)
Madeleine McCann: Man Confesses That Gipsies Took Her
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak looks at the missing child in the news: today we learn that “Maddie paedo”Raymond Hewlett “confessed on his deathbed”.
Hewlett died in April 2010. Antonella Lazzeri and Andy Crick have news:
In a letter to his estranged son Wayne, he denied having anything to do with Maddie’s disappearance.
Hewlett was not the Maddie paedo, as billed in the tabloids? He said he did not harm her nor ever meet her. There was no death bed confession to the contrary, then?
But he said he knew she had been stolen to order by a gipsy gang who kidnap children for wealthy couples unable to have kids or adopt.
Gipsies! Always the gipsies * * * * *. Remember those “Gypsy snatchers“, Maria Alice dos Santos Silveira, Jorge Vitorino Cabral Martins and Yvone Albino.
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But this is a confession, so good that the case has progressed. What other facts, then?
A source close to their ongoing investigation said: “What he says fits the No1 theory, which is that she was stolen to order.”
Isn’t the No.1 theory, as furthered by the tabloids, that paedophiles stole Madeleine McCann, it having taken the top spot from the libellous theory that the parents, Kate and Gerry McCann had a hand in their daughter’s disappearance? And what then of the Daily Mirror’s six theories, published in May 2007:
“PAEDOPHILE GANG”, the “LONE PAEDOPHILE”, the “JEALOUS MOTHER”, Madeleine wandering off and “DROWNED”, the “OPPORTUNIST PAEDOPHILE”, the “CHILDLESS COUPLE”.
And then there was the Madeira Liberation Army.
The Sun goes on:
Hewlett died of throat cancer in April, aged 62, after persistently refusing to meet the McCanns’ detectives.
No. He declined to meet the McCanns’ private detectives. He was spoken to by the police.
He became a suspect because of his appalling record of rape and abduction of children.
He was never a suspect. He was a tabloid “person of interest“. Says Hewlett’s son Wayne, 40, of the letter:
“It was a bolt from the blue and I shook when I read it. He stated he didn’t want to go to his grave with us thinking he had done such a horrible thing. He said he had had nothing to do with taking Maddie but did know who had.”
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Posted: 1st, September 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (15)
Madeleine McCann: Rhys Jones, Peacocks And Pre-Teen Swimwear Photos
MADELEINE McCann is back in the news because a 48-year-old grandfather called Rhys Jones has been taking pictures of boys in their swimwear as he holidays on the Algarve. He is having beach holiday in Vilamoura. The boys are, reportedly, aged 8 to 15.
Parents approach him. They don’t like it. He is “arrested”. He is an arguido.
Mr Jones works for Peacocks, the high-street clothing chain based in Cardiff.
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Posted: 24th, August 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comment (1)
Madeleine McCann’s Name Dragged Into MPs’ Expenses Scandal
IT’S the Fourth Summer Of Madeleine McCann, albeit a belatedly. We had thought this summer would be Our Maddie free unless she was joyously found or there was a clue to what occurred that fateful night.
But she has been in the news for other reasons. Gerry and Kate McCann have speaking with another Home Secretary – this time it’s Theresa May being inducted into her job with a chance to appear caring but do nothing; and we met Kiesha Abrahams, Australia’s Madeleine McCann.
She has still not been found:
The air and ground search for missing six-year-old Sydney girl Kiesha Abrahams has been called off but anyone and everyone remains a suspect. Police announced on Sunday that the massive search in areas around the family’s home at Mt Druitt, in Sydney’s west, has been suspended unless they receive new information.
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Posted: 8th, August 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (15)
Tories Use Madeleine McCann To Pretend They Care
MADELEINE McCanns parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, have welcomed in the new coalition Government by meeting with Home Secretary Theresa May.
Mr and Mrs McCann are asking for a full independent review of the police investigation into the disappearance of their daughter.
Says Mr McCann:
“I think people are reluctant to undertake a review because there’s been difficult, sensitive issues. But Madeleine’s rights should be put first. She’s missing, she’s innocent and whoever’s taken her is still out there, and that has to be of paramount importance.”
We still have no proof a crime occurred and befell the media’s Our Maddie.
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Posted: 6th, August 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (3)
Kiesha Abrahams Is Australia’s Madeleine McCann
KIESHA Abrahams is missing. Can she be Australia’s Madeleine McCann?
The last person known to have seen the six-year-old is her mother Kirsti, who out her to bed at the family home in Hebersham, western Sydney last Saturday night.
Next day, Kiesha was gone. The front door was ajar. The was no sign of a forced entry.
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Mum and the child’s step-father, one Robert Smith, are part of big hunt.
The officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Inspector Russell Oxford, revealed that the last time anyone had seen the little girl outside her immediate family was on July 7, when her half-brother Levi Smith was born.
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Posted: 4th, August 2010 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (4)
Madeleine McCann And The Reappearance Of Amber Nicklas
AMBER Nicklas is alive. She went missing in 2003. She was kidnapped by her three teenaged aunts from an eatery in LA. She was 13 months old. Amber Nicklas had been living with foster parents. Her real mother arranged to meet them and Amber at the fast food restaurant. Amber Nicklas was taken.
She has now been found.
Amber Nicklas cannot read. She has never been to school. But she is healthy. She speaks English and a little Romanian.
She was found living with a woman who said he had adopted the child. This was a lie.
In itself, this is an unexceptional case. But to the Telegraph’s Nick Allen, it is relevant to other cases. Not, not Kyron Horman. No, not Ben Needham. No, not any of those missing children. Says Allen:
The case also bears similarities to that of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was snatched in Antioch, California in 1991 at the age of 11 and held captive in the back garden of her alleged abductor Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender, for 18 years.
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Posted: 16th, July 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Madeleine McCann: Will Theresa May Reopen The Case?
MADELEIEN McCANN: Kate and Gerry McCann are to meet with Theresa May, the Home Secretary. They will discuss how the search for the missing girl is “progressing”.
The case in Portugal and the UK has been shelved. The police are, of course, willing and ready to take any call should evidence emerge. But the only people really looking for Madeleine McCann are the family’s private detectives.
Sky News reports:
Mrs May’s interest in the case follows an internal review of evidence ordered by former Labour Home Secretary Alan Johnson last year. Mr Johnson wanted an outline of how a new investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance might work.
He wanted to outline for an investigation into a child who went missing three years ago, and on whom there is a welter of speculative pros, libel litigation but so evidence – might work?
The report is understood to be almost complete and there is speculation that a fresh probe into the case could be ordered. However, the Metropolitan Police have said there are no plans to reopen the investigation.
So. What will Theresa May do with the case of a missing child who has become the benchmark for all missing children?
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Posted: 5th, July 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (16)
Madeleine McCann Spotted At World Cup
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: CAN Madeleine McCann somehow be linked to the World Cup and, specifically, England’s failure to win it?
Tom de Castella tells BBC online readers that she can. Roy Greenslade provides the answer:
“Make no mistake the papers set the agenda. And today we have feeding frenzies. Savage as it sounds the Madeleine McCann story sold papers and previously there was Princess Diana. The World Cup is another first class example of a feeding frenzy that electrifies the newspapers.”
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Posted: 29th, June 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comment
Madeleine McCann: Rothley Man Arrested For Child Porn
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: MICHAEL Nolan has been jailed for possessing 17 photographs of naked children at a printing shop in Grafton Street, Dublin.
Images were found on a memory stick Nolan was using to print images from. He said he had “found it in a library“.
But what has this to do with the media’s Our Maddie?
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Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (5)
Madeleine McCann: Charles O’Neil And 30 ‘Sex Beasts’
MADELEINE McCann: The News of The World says 30 “twisted” sex beasts are “on the run abroad”. Charles O’Neil is mentioned. He’s the new man in the Our Maddie frame.
The headline screams:
30 Scots sex beasts on the run abroad
At the end of the article we hear a spokesman for Scotland’s police chiefs say:
“Offenders who have left the country continue to be monitored.”
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Posted: 20th, June 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (55)
Shannon Matthews: The Story Of Media Greed And Karen Matthews’ Tears In Pictures
SHANNON Matthews: In February 2008, Shannon Matthews was ‘abducted’ by her mum, a Buzz Lightyear look-alike called Karen Matthews (pure evil), and her uncle, a pasty Crazy Frog impersonator called Michael Donovan, and a school uniform pervert to boot.
They did it for money. Were they spurred on by the voracious media coverage of Madeleine McCann? Did the media want this as much as Karen Matthews?
Karen Matthews: On Sex, Shopping And Kate McCann
The hunt for Shannon was West Yorkshire police’s biggest and most expensive operation since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. It lasted for 24 days. Shannon was found in the box of Donovan’s bed. She’d, apparently, been kept in his loft, tied to the rafters with a length of elastic. In her blood were traces of temazepam and melcozine.
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Madeleine McCann: Is Charles O’Neill The New ‘Maddie Paedo’?
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: RAYMOND Hewlett is dead. The “Maddie paedo” – as the tabloids called him – is dead. None of these men have been found. Introducing Charles O’Neill.
A SERIAL paedophile linked to the Madeleine McCann case was yesterday jailed for life for murder.
Linked how?
Charles O’Neill has repeatedly refused to be quizzed by detectives working for Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry.
Is he a suspect because he does not want to meet with private detectives? And if he is, have the Portuguese police spoken with him? Is he now media “Maddie paedo”?
O’Neill, 47, is believed to have been in Portugal when Maddie, then three, vanished…
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Posted: 11th, June 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (17)
Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s Art For Sale On eBay
MADELEINE MCCANN: For sale on eBay – a Kate McCann artwork.
Kate McCann, mom of Maddy McCann, original art for PACT
PACT: Not Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television. Our Maddie is not a form of entertainment. No, really.
But the Parents & Abducted Children Together
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Posted: 10th, June 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (10)
Madeleine McCann Is A Mental Condition
ELIZABETH Renzetti is the Globe & Mail’s woman in London. She’s talking about childhood freedoms with hard drinking mums and dads. Thoughts turn to Our Maddie:
Reader, I gave up. There was an unbridgeable chasm between the nostalgia we all felt for our helmet-free childhoods, with their parent-shaped holes and wonderful freedoms, and the chances we are willing to take with our own children. No one wanted to admit that childhood is safer now, by every empirical measure, than it was when we were young. Instead, they have the ubiquitous picture of three-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in 2007 from the hotel in Portugal where she was staying with her parents, stamped on their brains.
Posted: 3rd, June 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (4)
Madeleine McCann: Gypsies, Child Alerts And Coronation Street
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: The Sun brings news that Our Maddie has been spotted, and a new child alert scheme is launched, and Coronation Street is on hold…
A DRAMATIC sighting of missing Madeleine McCann the day after she vanished is being urgently followed up by private investigators.
…spotted three years ago. We are not told whan the sighting was reported to police.
A man has reported seeing a girl he is now sure was Maddie lying in the back of a van. She was wearing pyjamas identical to the pair Maddie had on when she was abducted.
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Posted: 25th, May 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (2)
Lianne Smith: The Madeleine McCann Factor
LIANNE Smith: Can the deaths of Rebecca and Daniel Smith be linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann?
The judge overseeing the investigation has ruled that it should be conducted in secret. It follows the criticism attached to the publicity that surrounded leaks by the Portuguese police investigation into disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The judge is media savvy. Channel 4 has questions:
Have media learned lessons from Madeleine’s case?
…media lawyer Duncan Lamont writes for Channel 4 News about how the legal systems differ in the way they investigate such crimes – and how the media reports them.”
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Posted: 21st, May 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Madeleine McCann Is Not Missing Suzanne Pilley
SUZANNE Pilley is not Madeleine McCann. But she is missing.
Suzanne Pilley was just yards from her work in a city centre street in broad daylight, when she simply vanished. Richard Bath investigates the case of the woman who went missing 12 days ago.
She is 38. She was on her way to work in Edinburgh. And she disappeared. What of her?
No drugs, no alcohol, no stress, no mental health issues, no debt, no violence, no job loss.
Sylvia Pilley says her daughter’s vanishing “has just been like our worst nightmare – we almost cannot believe it is actually happening.
Every morning you wake up and wonder, is this really happening? You never think it’ll happen to you. You see it on the television with other people, and you feel sorry for them, but you don’t really understand the grief. We just don’t know what’s happened. We just want to find out, get to the bottom of things and put our minds at rest.”
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Madeleine McCann: Sunday Express Publishes Picture Of ‘Suspect’
THE Sunday Express’ front page features a photo of Madeleine McCann and a figure.
And there is a question:
“Did this man take Maddie?”
The image is like something you get looking through frosted glass.
The man has dark hair and is not black.
Other than that, it’s hard to see any more.
So. Now you have the evidence. Did he take Our Maddie?
Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (11)
Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann Raises Jimmy Mizen’s Media Profile
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: Jimmy Mizen was killed. He was 16.
Jimmy Mizen was at the Three Cook’s Bakery in Lee, London, with his older brother Harry. Jake Fahri entered. There was a scuffle. Fahri tossed a glass dish at Jimmy Mirzen. It hit his neck. The glass severed his jugular vein. Jimmy Mizen died.
Madeleine McCann went missing from her family holiday flat. We do not know what happened to her.
So, then, to a service held in memory of young victims of knife and gun crime. And there is Kate McCann sharing a “sympathetic hug with Barry and Margaret Mizen on the steps of Westminster Cathedral”.
It’s all heart-breaking stuff. The Mail says Kate McCann was there having been personally invited by Mrs Mizen because “they were both mothers who had lost their children”.
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Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (10)
Madeleine McCann: The ‘Suspect Photo, Scotland Yard And A New Maddie
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann – the ‘suspect’ photo, the new Our Maddie and Scotland Yard investigates…
Daily Express: “MADELEINE SUSPECT ‘ON BEACH SNAP’”
Gail Cooper is in Praia da Luz, at the Express’s expense. She says she saw the man who might have kidnapped Madeleine McCann. He’s the suspect who looks like the late George Harrison (see images below).
There is news of a man in a photo:
DETECTIVES have been handed a photograph showing a man behaving oddly in the days before Madeleine McCann was kidnapped.
Today we reveal that one of Mrs Cooper’s friends, Leanda Hodson-Mackey, took a snap of her husband Stephen, 34, and son, then aged two, and the man appeared in the background, walking along the beach during a downpour.
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Posted: 9th, May 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (5)
Madeleine McCann: The Election, A Joke And In The Emirates
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann – Can Madeleine McCann feature in the election and advertise the Emirates?
Matthew Flinders: Yorkshire Evening Post:
Can Madeleine McCann be part of the election?
Let us not pretend that the Telegraph’s coverage of the MPs’ expenses scandal was concerned with public propriety, just as the tabloids’ focus on Madeleine McCann is not driven by concern for the child. The word “Madeleine” sells: the word “sleaze” sells. My message to politicians is simple: “Stand up, dust yourself down and begin to fight back”
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Posted: 6th, May 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comment
Madeleine McCann: Katie Price, JonBenet Ramsey And PR Paedos
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann – THE third anniversary of Our Maddie approaches. The PR offensive is in full swing. The McCanns are doing what they hope will keep their child in the public eye and bring her back alive and well to them. And the media is lapping it up:
The Independent: “Terence Blacker: Depressing clichés sadly perpetuated”
The decision to release images of Madeleine McCann wearing make-up seems misguided.
The Katie Price factor, right? She put her daughter in fake lashes and we got the predictable tabloid story that paedos would see the images and be unable to resist Princess. Blacker asks:
Can the McCanns be thinking straight?
We are invited to wonder about the McCanns’ mental state? We have been watching the McCanns – and now we are analysing them. Blacker see the altered image of Our Maddie, the one in which she is wearing blue eye-shadow.
It seems a bizarre and unsettling development. Clearly, Kate and Gerry McCann have been living through a nightmare of unimaginable horror and perhaps, even after three years, they are not thinking straight.
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Posted: 4th, May 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comment (1)
Madeleine McCann: New Suspect Captured On Video
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann – The Daily Express leads with news of a new suspect. And they have been caught on “film”.
As we approach the third anniversary of Our Maddie, a new suspect is introduced. Before that a prayer:
Daily Mirror: “HOPE FOR A MIRACLE”
Parents Kate and Gerry have worked tirelessly to find out what happened to her. So it’s poignant when their five-year-old son Sean tells them not to give up hope – as they never will. Neither should we.
Mawlish. Exploitative nonsense. These are easy, lazy words trotted out by a paper keen to foment emotion in its readers. Do all Mirror readers pray for Our Maddy? No. The child has become an emotional totem. We do not care all that much for the parents. We just stare at them. They entertain the masses. The McCanns distract us from our own problems. And the ‘what ifs’ entertain the ghouls. Amazing if the child were found alive and well – a happy ending to the story. But it would not be a mircale. It would not be a sign of God’s love.
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It’s front-page news:
NO1 SUSPECT IS ON VIDEO
“Key witness reveals existence of important new evidence”
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Posted: 2nd, May 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comments (5)
