Madeleine McCann Missing-Praia Da Luz, Portugal 3/05/07 #2

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Kate McCann said the kidnapper who seized Madeleine may also have drugged her other two children, as she launched a new appeal in the hunt for her missing girl today.

Mrs McCann said she had to check that twins Sean and Amelie were still breathing because they did not wake as they began a frantic search for the missing three-year-old.

And the mother revealed she believes the man who snatched Maddie may have approached their Portuguese holiday flat the night before - but fled when he was disturbed.

 'There's no evidence to say that she's dead,' said Kate McCann, with her husband Gerry, in an interview with Daybreak this morning as they launched a fresh appeal
She was carrying out a fresh round of media interviews today as she publishes a new book about her daughter's disappearance, called Madeleine.

Kate and husband Gerry hope sales will raise £1million to provide continued funding for their private investigation.

Asked if the twins had been drugged, she said on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour today: 'On the night I just remember the twins lying in the cot and not moving - with lights going on and people moving around.

'There was a lot of noise and they just didn't move and I remember several times checking for chest movements. I did feel it was a bit strange that they were not moving let alone waking up.

 New outfit: Kate McCann writes that she admired Madeleine in her new pink outfit - but fears someone else did too
'I did consider with Madeleine perhaps she had been given something too.'
Madeleine disappeared from her bed on May 3, 2007, during a family holiday in the Algarve, and has not been seen since.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386093/Kate-McCann-I-believe-kidnapper-drugged-twins-night-Madeleine-taken.html#ixzz1M9HDpGIo

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Met Police 'bring expertise' to Madeleine McCann search Kate and Gerry McCann had appealed to David Cameron to launch an independent review Continue reading the main story


The Metropolitan Police are to "bring their expertise" to the search for Madeleine McCann, the Home Office says.

Madeleine went missing aged three on holiday in Portugal in May 2007.

Downing Street said David Cameron had written to the McCanns to tell them that Scotland Yard had been asked to "cast a fresh eye" over evidence.

Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, said they welcomed the news, which came after they asked Mr Cameron to launch a review of the case.

In a statement they said: "We welcome the government's response. This is clearly a step in the right direction.

"The expertise of the Metropolitan Police is renowned and we are reassured by our government's commitment to the search...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13378289

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Missing ... Madeleine McCann
 




Let’s hope we get her home
 




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By THERESA MAY, Home Secretary
 
FOUR years after she went missing, Madeleine McCann is still always in our thoughts.
 


So I welcome The Sun's role in making sure that her case is not forgotten.



None of us can know what Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, have been going through.
 


We can scarcely imagine the pain they have had to suffer or the pressure they have been under.
 


We all want to see this beautiful little girl returned to her parents.



That is why we have been doing everything we can behind the scenes in the search for Madeleine. Although it might not always be in the public eye, the British authorities have never given up on their work to find Madeleine.
 


Today I am pleased to announce that the Prime Minister and I have agreed with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner that the Met will now be using its particular expertise to review the case. The Met have skills, techniques and know-how which we hope can bring a new perspective to the case.
 


The Home Office will be providing the necessary financial support.



Of course, the Metropolitan Police cannot promise that this work will lead to Madeleine being found.
 


But it is right that we should do everything we can to help.



It is my sincere hope that this new police involvement will bring closer the day that Madeleine comes home.
 


 
 








Open up the Maddie files
 
KATE and Gerry McCann in plea to PM David Cameron over their missing daughter
 By TOM NEWTON DUNN, Political Editor, and ANTONELLA LAZZERIDAVID Cameron has ordered the Met Police to reopen every file on missing Madeleine McCann for a full review of all evidence gathered on her.

The PM acted after the abducted youngster's parents wrote to him in an emotional open letter, published in The Sun yesterday.

Mr Cameron wrote to Kate and Gerry McCann saying he hoped "new action" in the missing Madeleine case would "help boost efforts in the search".

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Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3578232/PM-David-Cameron-reopens-Maddie-McCann-files.html#ixzz1MCxuCBZF

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 Maddie: Yard will hunt missing clues
 By MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor and GRANT ROLLINGS
 Published: 14 May 2011
 

 THE Metropolitan Police was last night setting up its special squad to review the Madeleine McCann case - as a former top cop said: "If something's been missed they will find it."
 
A team from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command is being assembled under a senior investigating officer expected to be appointed today.
Initially around ten officers will work on the review - rising dramatically if new evidence is found.
It is expected a scenes-of-crime officer and a forensic scientist will be among them.

The team will review witness statements, make a fresh appeal for information and carefully re-check alibis given after three-year-old Madeleine was abducted on holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

John O'Connor, former Commander of the Flying Squad at New Scotland Yard, said: "They will be looking for something that has been overlooked or not developed which could lead to a fresh line of enquiry.

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Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3580138/Former-top-cop-John-OConnor-backs-Madeleine-McCann-probe.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News#ixzz1MNUmbn7W

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Around 10,000 members of the Rock Choir hold up posters showing pictures of missing children at Wembley Arena
 
The face of Madeleine McCann was among more than 10,000 images held up at Wembley to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of children who go missing every year in the UK.
 Members of the Rock Choir, a community singing phenomenon that is sweeping the country, filled the London stadium with posters of some of the 100,000 children who go missing each year.
 
The move comes after Prime Minister David Cameron told Kate and Gerry McCann their ordeal was "every parent's worst nightmare" as Scotland Yard pledged to lend its "particular expertise" to the search for their

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Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/rock-choir-targets-missing-children-16000378.html#ixzz1MYXKRESD

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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/190970/Maddie-McCann-paedos-probed-by-cops/

MADDIE MCCANN PAEDOS PROBED BY COPS
15th May 2011
By Jonathan Corke

BRITISH detectives are investigating a secretive paedophile internet network over encrypted messages about Madeleine McCann.

Police, alongside intelligence experts and the McCanns’ own investigators, are probing a series of posts made about the youngster on a sickos’ web forum.

In the posts – which have been seen by the Daily Star Sunday – the perverts revel in describing abuse missing Maddie may have suffered.

Chillingly, they also talk of her being “deleted” and “offed”.

Other sick messages on the site – which is heavily encrypted – include talk of drugging and killing children.

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Madeleine McCann: 30 Metropolitan Police detectives to search for missing girl

 A team of 30 detectives from Scotland Yard will be assigned to the search for missing Madeleine McCann in an investigation which could cost millions of pounds, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
 
Some of the team will be officers who were due to retire or take voluntary redundancy, a police source said.
 

The details came as Sir Paul Stephenson, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, defended Scotland Yard’s decision to take up the case, insisting that Madeleine could still be found alive.
 

She went missing from her family’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3, 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/8519870/Madeleine-McCann-30-Metropolitan-Police-detectives-to-search-for-missing-girl.html
 

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Missing Madeleine McCann, from Leicestershire, could be found alive, Britain's most senior police officer has said.


Sir Paul Stephenson said it was right for Scotland Yard to agree to Home Secretary Theresa May's request for help and said there was "always a chance" that the young girl could be found alive.

His comments come after the decision to involve the Metropolitan Police was described as a "ludicrous" move that would deny other victims of crime the chance of justice while using up valuable police resources.

But the Commissioner told LBC radio it was not unique for the Met to lend its expertise in difficult cases outside of its normal jurisdiction, saying a team were sent to Antigua in the summer of 2008 to help investigate the murders of British honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany.

Two years ago, Scotland Yard was also asked to help Jersey police investigate the disappearance of two people who had been missing since the 1980s with the result of one of them being found alive.

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http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/regional/madeleine_could_be_found_alive_1_2687985

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Living through every parent's nightmar

ANN MARIE HOURIHANE

MEMOIR : Madeleine: Our Daughter’s Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her By Kate McCann Bantam Press, 392pp. £14.99

EVERYONE SAYS THAT Kate McCann has got very thin. “She looks gaunt,” a woman said to me after her appearance last week on The Late Late Show, with her husband, Gerry. It is four years since their daughter, Madeleine, disappeared while they were on holiday in Portugal. The McCanns are now so saturated in public attention that their faces – well, Madeleine and Kate McCann’s faces; Gerry McCann is less distinctive – are etched on to our brains. And in that time our various obsessions about the adult McCanns have remained remarkably constant.

“Reports of my weight loss were greatly exaggerated,” Kate McCann writes of the period immediately after Madeleine’s disappearance. “In the first week I did lose about 4½ pounds, which I could ill afford, and which it took me months to regain, but nowhere near the stone removed from me by some of the press. I have always been thin. It’s the way I’m made.”

This is in several ways a terrible book. At its heart is a child who is missing and quite possibly dead. It is written by a desperate mother and was published on what is to be hoped was Madeleine’s eighth birthday, lest she be forgotten. It recalls the media circus sparked by the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007, from which no one emerged very well except, bizarrely, Clement Freud.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0521/1224297421483.html

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McCanns fly to Portugal for new appeal for MadeleineBy Gerard Couzens

 
Kate and Gerry McCann have flown to Lisbon to appeal for information about their missing daughter ahead of the launch of their heartbreaking new book, Madeleine, in Portugal.
The couple did a series of TV, newspaper and magazine interviews yesterday in the Portuguese capital in their latest bid to move the nation’s hearts and minds.

Many in the country remain unconvinced by the McCanns’ claims that a kidnapper snatched Madeleine from their Algarve holiday apartment four years ago as they ate tapas nearby.
The trip is their first since Scotland Yard announced a review into the flawed Portuguese police probe into the then three-year-old’s disappearance on May 3, 2007.
Kate’s moving 384-page book, already out in the UK, is due to be launched tomorrow in Portugal.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389600/McCanns-fly-Portugal-new-appeal-Madeline.html#ixzz1N60FAHcp

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Reviving the search for Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann went missing while her parents were vacationing in Portugal in May 2007. Four years later, on the child’s eighth birthday last week, her mother Kate released a memoir, simply entitled Madeleine, which details not only the family’s grief surrounding the disappearance, but also the pain of being vilified by the British press and Portuguese police, who suspected the parents were complicit in the crime—or at least negligent, for dining nearby while leaving three children under five alone in a hotel room.

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http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/25/reviving-the-search/

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Britain's top policeman has faced accusations that the Madeleine McCann case was getting "unfair" and "special" attention at Scotland Yard.
 Sir Paul Stephenson denied claims that his decision to agree to review the investigation into the girl's disappearance could come at the cost of other inquiries.
 
The commissioner, appearing before members of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said additional funds from the Home Office to support examinations could help save jobs in the force's homicide division.

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Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/met-chief-denies-mccann-case-claims-16004620.html#ixzz1NUtEgtxC

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Agony of the mothers left behind: Kate McCann's emotional plea to Parliament as she joins campaign for families of the missing

Last updated at 5:21 PM on 13th June 2011

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Nothing protects the families of missing people left behind, Kate McCann has said.
Mrs McCann, whose daughter Madeleine went missing from her family's holiday flat in the Algarve shortly before her fourth birthday, joined other mothers of missing children as she talked about the lack of emotional support available to families.
Calling for the Government to show its support, Mrs McCann said there was 'currently no legislation to protect missing people and their families left behind'.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003006/Kate-McCanns-plea-Parliament-joins-campaign-families-missing.html#ixzz1PBYbFIlS

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The chances of missing Madeleine McCann being found are improving after Scotland Yard was called in to review the investigation, the young girl's mother Kate has said.

Mrs McCann, whose daughter went missing from her family's holiday flat in the Algarve shortly before her fourth birthday, said grieving families should not be left to search for their loved ones alone.

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Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/families-hunting-for-loved-ones-need-more-help-kate-mccann-16011553.html#ixzz1PI1OcIxx

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A BUSINESSMAN whose firm helped look for Madeleine McCann has failed in a last ditch High Court bid to escape extradition over an alleged £1.3m fraud.
 
Kevin Halligen is now set to stand trial in the US accused of defrauding a London law firm.
 
It is claimed he took the money to secure the release of Dutch business executives arrested in the Ivory Coast but instead spent it on a mansion   ::snipping2:: 


Read More http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/06/21/madeleine-mccann-detective-loses-appeal-against-extradition-100252-28917701/#ixzz1Pwx1yIZF

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DOZENS of people had a collective photograph taken as part of a fund-raising effort to help in the search for missing Madeleine McCann.

Julie Hancock arranged for 60 people to strike a pose, which, when viewed from above, spelt out Madeleine's name.   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Dozens-pose-help-search-Madeleine/story-12839774-detail/story.html

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Washington musician’s song for missing Madeleine McCann tops chartPublished on Thursday 14 July 2011 07:28

A MOVING song penned by a Wearside musician for missing tot Madeleine McCann has gone soaring to the top of the charts.
Warehouse worker Nigel Graham first set a heartfelt poem to music in 2008, a year after little Madeleine went missing.

Now the stirring plea to her kidnapper is in the top five of social networking site Twitter’s Tweet My Song chart.

We’re Still Looking for You Madeleine has received thousands of hits from eager fans, who can either listen to the song or download it for free.

It features a young girl called Katie singing a poem by Janet Marie James, a campaigner hoping to keep the search for Madeleine in the spotlight. Nigel met Janet through video clip sharing site You Tube.

The 42-year-old, from High Usworth in Washington, said: “It’s a free song I composed to help raise awareness for the Madeleine McCann campaign.

“I wanted to help them out, so I composed a song to remind the public every time they hear Madeleine’s song that she still needs their help.  ::snipping2::


http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/washington_musician_s_song_for_missing_madeleine_mccann_tops_chart_1_3579455

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COPS CRACK MADELEINE MCCANN CODE
These things are planned. They may even have been watching the apartment for a week or more.
Dave Edgar, a former detective now investigating the case


 17th July 2011


By Jonathan Corke



MADELEINE McCann’s abductors may have daubed coded messages on the outside walls of the family’s holiday apartment to indicate when she was alone.

Police in Portugal’s Algarve recently discovered arrows or circles are being used by criminals to signal a chance to break into homes.

A horizontal arrow means property is easy to get into during the afternoon. Semi-circles underneath a line indicate a child is alone in the evening.

The signs, believed to originate with Brazilian crime gangs, have been found on or near properties across the popular holiday region.  ::snipping2:: 

 
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/201447/Cops-crack-Madeleine-McCann-codes/

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/28/india.madeleine.mccann/
Madeleine McCann's family plays down reports of spotting in India
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 28, 2011 11:18 a.m. EDT
(CNN) -- There is no reason to believe a little girl spotted in India is Madeleine McCann, the British girl who has been missing for more than four years, a family spokesman said Thursday.

Reports of the spotting of a girl bearing a resemblance to the child who disappeared while on vacation with her parents in Portugal sparked a frenzy on Twitter.

But Clarence Mitchell, a spokesman for her parents, Kate and Gerry, said the latest reports were no more credible than other tips that proved incorrect over the years.

"They have learnt not to take these reports seriously," Mitchell said of the parents, adding: "There is nothing to suggest that this is a breakthrough."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/madeleine-mccann-sighting-india-investigation-_n_912011.html
Madeleine McCann India 'Sighting' Under Investigation Despite Doubts
First Posted: 7/28/11 11:44 AM ET Updated: 7/28/11 11:44 AM ET
The ongoing search for Madeleine McCann took a potentially surprising twist this week after a young girl matching the missing youth's description was reportedly spotted in an Indian market.

As the Daily Mail is reporting, a British woman spotted a youngster "bearing a remarkable likeness to Madeleine" at a market in the northern Indian town of Leh, which is situated mostly in the Himalayas. Madeleine, who disappeared in 2007 just days before her fourth birthday while vacationing with her parents in Portugal, would now be eight years old.

Though the British woman is reported to have raised concerns with other tourists, including an American man who is said to have tried to take the girl from the couple with who she was seen to be traveling, they were unsuccessful. The couple -- a French woman and her Belgian husband -- have insisted they are the girl's parents, according to the Mirror.
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