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

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"Cheers" Toler...thanks for the article....

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Yes, Toler and Trimm, thank you for all the updates.
Wow, the pix of that little girl looked so much like Maddie.

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Yes, Toler and Trimm, thank you for all the updates.
Wow, the pix of that little girl looked so much like Maddie.

I thought so too Sister...

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Evidence in the hunt for Madeleine McCann is being reviewed by the Home Office
Monday March 8,2010
By Daily Express Reporter EVIDENCE in the hunt for Madeleine McCann is being reviewed by the Home Office and could lead to a fresh inquiry, it was claimed yesterday.


Two thousand pages of evidence were released last week amid claims Portuguese detectives failed to follow up leads.

According to sources close to the McCanns, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has ordered ­officials to examine the “feasibility” of British or Portuguese detectives having a fresh look at all the evidence.

Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leics, recently met Mr Johnson to plead for help in their search for their daughter who vanished aged three in 2007 from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

The source said: “The latest we have heard from the Home Office is officials are undertaking a ‘scoping exercise’ to look into the possibility of a review of the case.

“They are looking at all the options.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “Leicestershire Police stand ready to co-ordinate and complete inquiries if further information comes to light in the UK.”

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Two thousand pages of evidence were released last week amid claims Portuguese detectives failed to follow up leads.
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A Home Office spokesman said: “Leicestershire Police stand ready to co-ordinate and complete inquiries if further information comes to light in the UK.” [\quote]


Sure y'all stand ready now. Not then, but now. Why is that? Then you were blaming the parents. Ok, then when every test was passed, why keep blaming the parents. Unless, some wealthy connected pervert is Buying Time.

I keep saying these high profile pedo crimes are high profile for a rea$$$$$$$on: they go to the top.  You want to know what happened to Maddie, tap into the political center of the California pedo ring. Or lets see, what's another big pedo State, e.g., Florida, tap into Florida's pedo ring. Every LE officer worth his or her salt already knows that. Ask them where their State's pedo power-center is geographically located. Come on now, don't be shy. Get political names.  Ask them. Do a poll. Post it here. Let's get real. If you want to stop this, it get stopped at the top. It goes to the top, it is not just street scum crime.

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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/125836/Kate-keeps-shrine-to-missing-Maddie/
KATE KEEPS SHRINE TO MISSING MADDIE

11th March 2010
By Jerry Lawton

MADELEINE McCann’s mum has kept her bedroom as a shrine to her missing girl for nearly three years.
Kate, 41, a GP, has refused to change the room since her daughter vanished, aged three, on a family holiday to Portugal in May 2007.
She goes into the room daily to give herself strength to cope with the disappearance.
During a visit to Lisbon with husband Gerry, 41, to meet their Portuguese lawyer, Kate said: “We haven’t changed anything.
“There’s still a lot of pink.
“I continue to go to Madeleine’s room twice a day. It’s a comforting feeling.”
Heart specialist Gerry, from Rothley, Leics, said he is convinced that their girl is still alive. “There are several cases, some recent, of missing children that were found,” he said.
“That makes us believe our daughter could be alive and that’s why we continue to have hope.”
The couple flew to Portugal after the Daily Star obtained a 2,000-page file of sightings, tip-offs and potential suspects logged with the police since the case was archived in July 2008.
The McCanns were not aware of how much extra information was contained within it.
Their investigators are now working their way through the document.

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Anyone actively protecting a pedophile should go down as hard as the pedophile.  I want to see a bill introduced for that.


Of all the horrible cases here, I do believe it is the Maddie McCann case, like the JBR case among others,  that also "goes to the top" in terms of those who control intl pedophile networks. I feel this case may be the one that exposing those at the top, the wealthy connected powerful perverts that keep this global crime or all crimes lucrative and protected. I'd put money on it that pedophiles at the top in CA know about this.

SO I place this here, a repeat, a plea from the McCann's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8339258.stm


"Internet users globally are being urged to spread a video message aimed at "pricking the conscience" of people who know what happened to Madeleine McCann."

Pedo perverts visit sites that keep track of who knows what in their cases.  I would put money that someone in power with money in California specifically has knowledge of what happened to Maddie, I know they are out there, are likely visiting here. 

They like all these other pedophiles have zero conscience. But someone close to them might. So the msg is "DO the right thing or else you're going down when it all comes out, and come out it will."

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http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/i-pray-for-maddys-kidnappers-says-kate-mccann-2099145.html
I pray for Maddy's kidnappers, says Kate McCann

Monday March 15 2010

Kate McCann said yesterday that she prays for the people who kidnapped her daughter, Madeleine.

She also revealed that her belief in God gave her an "inner strength'' on the day police made her a suspect in the disappearance.

Mrs McCann (42), a Roman Catholic, used a Mother's Day interview to talk about how her faith has helped since her daughter, then three, went missing in Praia da Luz in the Algarve in May 2007.

In an interview on Britain's BBC Radio 2, Mrs McCann said: "Obviously I always pray for the family, obviously most of the prayers are centred on Madeleine. But I pray for the people who have taken Madeleine, the people who know what's happened to Madeleine and the people around and related to the person who's taken Madeleine. I pray for the police and investigators, the people who are looking for her. And I pray for other children who are missing or have been exploited."

Mrs McCann said her faith lifted her when detectives named her as an 'arguido', or formal suspect. She said: "The day I was going in for my arguido interview was quite a strange day because I had been really low and feeling quite weak and fragile. Then suddenly I just felt really strong. I was angry. I was angry that people hadn't been looking for Madeleine.

"But also I just thought to myself, 'I know the truth and God knows the truth, and nothing else matters'."
Mrs McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, said her faith had "sustained'' her in the years without Madeleine. "I've never blamed God for what's happened at all,'' she said.

"There are times when I've got angry with God -- certainly the additional things that I've mentioned that have happened where I just think: 'How can we have extra suffering put on us at such an awful time?'" (© Daily Telegraph, London)

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2920177/Kate-and-Gerry-McCann-delighted-at-poilce-Maddie-alert.html
By ANTONELLA LAZZERI

Published: 05 Apr 2010
THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann were "delighted" yesterday as police announced plans to put the whole of Britain on alert if a child is abducted.
Kate and Gerry, both 41, have campaigned for the public emergency system - which could see radio and TV shows interrupted - since their daughter vanished in 2007.
The Child Response Alert would see a youngster's description and information such as a suspect's car registration flash up on motorway boards in an appeal for help. Details could eventually be sent to millions of mobile phones.
A similar system in the US has saved 400 kids in the past seven years - 80 per cent within 72 hours of being snatched.
Yesterday, the McCanns said: "We are delighted and relieved that this system is being introduced. The first hours after a child goes missing are crucial."
Madeleine - now six - vanished from a holiday complex in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
Her parents, of Rothley, Leics, saw the US Amber Alert system on a trip to Washington. It is named after nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was abducted and murdered in Texas in 1996.
Kate and Gerry went to Brussels to beg the EU for a UK version. Some 100,000 kids a year are reported
missing in Britain, but most are found quickly.
The alert system - which will link to police in Europe - would only be used in a few cases where a child is believed to have been kidnapped and in danger.
It will launch on May 25 - International Missing Children's Day - and be co-ordinated by the National Police Improvement Agency.
NPIA Chief Constable Peter Neyroud called it a "powerful tool" which will bring together police, media and the public within hours.
He said: "These are often vital hours which could mean the difference between life and death."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2920177/Kate-and-Gerry-McCann-delighted-at-poilce-Maddie-alert.html#ixzz0kRHYvH7F

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‘Maddie perv’ dies with his secrets

By NEIL SYSON

Published: Today
A PAEDOPHILE who was a prime suspect in the hunt for Madeleine McCann has died - taking any secrets he had to the grave.

Convicted child rapist Raymond Hewlett, 64, died of throat cancer and was cremated at a pauper's funeral in Germany four months ago.

His ex-wife Susan, 64, and children in Telford, Shropshire, were unaware of his death.

Two private detectives hired by Maddie's parents Kate and Gerry went to Aachen, Germany, at least three times in a bid to interview Hewlett.

But a source said: "He always wriggled out of it, saying he was too sick to see them. He was never eliminated from the inquiry."

Maddie, of Rothley, Leics, was three when she vanished on holiday in Portugal in May 2007. Ex-soldier Hewlett bore a close resemblance to a straggly-haired man seen lurking near the McCann apartment.

He was in Portugal when Maddie was snatched and left for Morocco three weeks later. And he told a pal he knew gipsies who sold children to perverts. Hewlett's German second wife Mariana, 35, refused to comment.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2926826/Maddie-perv-Raymond-Hewlett-takes-his-secrets-to-the-grave.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News#ixzz0kjnjNeco

Pic of this monster at this link.

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Our hearts go out to you Kate, but the truth is it's time to find some peace...
By Esther Rantzen
Last updated at 8:59 AM on 29th April 2010

Comments (239)

Dear Kate,

Can it really be only three years since your little daughter Madeleine disappeared? It feels like a century ago when her three-year-old face first began to haunt us.
Her angelic expression and solemn eyes engraved themselves on to our hearts; they reached out to us from posters that went up everywhere, from airports to village shops.

Even now, the questions remain. Could she still be alive? Worst of all, is she the prisoner of some twisted individual? I know that must be your deepest fear - indeed it doesn't bear thinking about - although of course it must always be at the back of your mind.

Over the years we have shared your nightmares. In those early months, as news story followed news story, we pored over the events of that fatal evening she went missing. You must have relived those hours a million times, and so have we.
So I hope it doesn't sound too harsh to suggest that three years later, the world has moved on. Not because we have forgotten Maddie, nor because we have lost sympathy with you and your family, but because the pain we felt at the time has begun to numb and heal with time.

No doubt that's what motivated you to appear on GMTV yesterday. To remind us. To shake us into caring again. Clearly you are still in agony - perhaps, for you, time has even intensified it. As you and Gerry publicly accuse the police of 'giving up', it is obvious that your agony is caused not just by loss, but by not knowing if your darling girl is dead or alive, safe or suffering.

You are still tormented by the fact that nobody can answer your questions, because Maddie has not been found, and may never be found.
Let us for a moment face the tragic truth. Maddie may not be alive. How will you feel if one day her body is found? My guess - and it can only be a guess because no one can truly know how you feel - is that after the first terrible impact of shock and grief, you may even feel a small glimmer of relief that at least she is at peace.

That is not in any way to diminish your terrible loss. It is simply a human response to your current purgatory. No more guessing; no more false hopes cruelly disappointed. Perhaps the fact of knowing might bring with it the understanding that, at last, you might be able to move on with your lives.
For at the moment you are still stuck exactly where you have been for the past three years. As you say yourself: 'As a parent of an abducted child, I can tell you that it is the most painful and agonising experience you could ever imagine. My thoughts of the fear, confusion and loss of love and security that my precious daughter has had to endure are unbearable.'

So maybe if you knew the truth, no matter how tragic that truth is, you might find it easier to bear.

You are not alone. Parents who lose children have told me how important it is to have something, even a body, to centre their grief on. I remember interviewing Winnie Johnson, mother of Keith Bennett. Keith was one of Ian Brady's child victims, murdered and buried somewhere on the Lancashire moors, the only child victim whose body was never found.

Unlike you, Kate, Winnie has known for years that her child is dead. But like you, she is still tormented by not knowing where he is.
Keith's murder took place 46 years ago. Yet only a couple of months ago Winnie took a helicopter flight over Saddleworth Moor to search for her boy's body yet again. And to pray for him.

She said: 'I know these moors go on for ever, but I know one day we will find my Keith. I will never give up hope. I want him back. I will fight for ever more until I find him and I hope I will find him before I'm dead.'

Although Manchester police have called off their search for Keith's body, Winnie is appealing for £20,000 to pay for a special scanner powerful enough to find buried remains. After nearly half a century of uncertainty, she still yearns to find him, to be released from rage and pain, and be enabled to grieve.
Make no mistake, that need to mourn a lost child is one of the most powerful emotions a mother can feel.

I once made a television programme about still-born babies. At the time, it was the practice to try to pretend the babies had never existed. Fathers were told to go home and redecorate the nursery and give away the baby clothes. Hospitals buried the tiny bodies in unmarked graves.

There were no photographs taken, nothing to remind the parents of their loss. Annihilating every trace of the child was considered the kindest way to help a grieving mother cope. But it was terribly wrong. Bereaved parents told me that years later their grief was as fresh as ever; that they had constant dreams and flashbacks of the baby they had lost.

So now the practice has changed completely. Doctors and midwives encourage parents to create memorials, books and gardens for still-born babies.
Grief, mourning and a carefully created memorial can bring healing. Which brings me to another family in despair.

Seventeen years ago, when he was a toddler, James Bulger was brutally murdered by two children, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. That murder is engraved on our national memory and broke his mother Denise's heart.

For 15 of those years she has been unable to leave her home alone. I have visited her there, in the house that had become a shrine to James. All she had were constant reminders of his terrible death, not of his life. 'He was such a positive little boy,' she told me, 'I'd love him to have something positive to celebrate him with.'

So I suggested to her that we could create a special memorial to James, a project on Merseyside, her home town, to help children who have been badly bullied. Run by the Red Balloon charity, it could be called James Bulger House.
When Denise visited a Red Balloon project with me and saw their fantastic work in giving traumatised children their lives back, she leapt at the idea of a similar project in her son's name. 'I would love my children to have a positive memory of James,' she told me.

James Bulger House is about to open now; there are already children on its waiting list. And on what would have been James's 18th birthday, Denise took 18 red balloons to his graveside.

Why is this relevant to your own terrible heartache, Kate? Well, what I am suggesting is that you and Gerry need a similarly positive memorial to celebrate Maddie's life, too. Not because I am assuming she is dead, but because when we last met I saw how frail you are, and how unhappy. And no wonder.
I know that you and Gerry are constantly with parents of missing children who, like yourselves, are lost in the no man's land between grief and hope.
The work has inevitably immersed you in the hideous world of child pornography and sexual exploitation, because that is often the motive of those who abduct children. You say that now you know about 'the unbelievable existence of such a horrifying activity and its vastness in our socalled civilised and "child-loving" society', your eyes have been opened to a terrifying new world.

With that nightmare constantly before your eyes, no wonder you accuse the police of 'giving up' on Maddie. Let no one judge you harshly for keeping the flicker of hope alive in your hearts.

But alongside your campaign to tighten laws against child pornography, why not also create a Madeleine McCann charity - one that would not simply fund the search for your lost daughter, and others like her, but which would also help children in other distressing situations?
It could be medically based - perhaps as Gerry is a consultant cardiologist, it might work for children with heart disease. Or perhaps it could provide respite for families battling with disability - for example, the thousands of children who spend their exhausted lives helping to care for a disabled parent, day in day out.
These are only suggestions. You as a GP and Gerry as a consultant must already know many other ways in which you could give practical support to other children, in Maddie's name. And the happiness you create would surely give you both the strength to heal the past, and optimism to face the future.
In the meantime, be assured, we have not forgotten Maddie, or you. But we recognise, in your anger, that time has stood still for you.
And although we would not wish you to lose your commitment, we would also like to feel that you find comfort in the knowledge that Maddie's name will live on, and will contribute happiness to many other children's lives - wherever she is.
Wishing you happiness as ever,

Esther

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1269641/Its-time-Madeleine-McCanns-mother-Kate-finds-peace-.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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Missing Madeleine parents want to reopen inquiry

Sat May 1, 7:14 am ET
LISBON (AFP) – The parents of British girl Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal almost three years ago, will ask police to reopen the case to follow new leads, they said in an interview published on Saturday.

"We are going to ask for the reopening of the case. This is what we have come to do in Portugal," the father Gerry McCann told the weekly Expresso.

Private detectives working for the McCanns have "identified a new line of investigation", Gerry McCann said, "the trails leads to other trails and we have to convince the police to follow them".

Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family's apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday.

After a 14-month investigation, Portuguese police decided to shelve the inquiry.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100501/wl_uk_afp/britainportugalcrimemissing

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'Three years on, the only ones looking for Madeleine are us'
Time, and the public, has moved on since their daughter vanished, but the McCanns have not, writes Sarah Caden


Sunday May 02 2010

Around this time last year, as the second anniversary of his daughter Madeleine's disappearance approached, Gerry McCann returned to Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve. Primarily, he was there to help with the filming of a Channel 4 documentary, due to be broadcast days after the anniversary on May 3. For obvious reasons, it was a difficult trip for Gerry McCann, but made all the more difficult by the reception he received from some.

Already, a renewed appeal for information around the resort had met with some hostility. Posters of the three-year-old had been torn down, apparently by locals sick of the association between their home town and this lost little girl. There were more who heckled Gerry McCann in the street -- "Go home, leave us alone," they shouted. "We're fed up with Mr McCann," another told a newspaper. "We want him to disappear for good from this place."

Last year, two years after Madeleine McCann's disappearance from her holiday apartment bed, emotions still ran high. High enough that a TV documentary was made, re-examining the evidence; high enough that the residents of Praia da Luz worried their town would always be tied to this tragedy; high enough that Kate and Gerry McCann warranted a slot on the Oprah show in the US. This weekend, however, three years on from when the little girl just vanished into thin air, it is all a bit more subdued, and you can't help but agree with the fears expressed by the McCanns on English television last week, that the whole thing has run out of steam and stalled.

Talking to Lorraine Kelly on GMTV last Tuesday, Kate and Gerry McCann despaired that anyone was still looking for their daughter, other than them. Since last year, there is not one police officer on the case, either in the UK or Portugal, and though they have hired private investigators, there have been no major new leads. The money no longer flows freely into their search fund as it once did, forcing them to run a fundraiser in January, and while an injunction in Portugal upholding a ban on the publication of a book by the former head of the investigation there, which essentially discredits the McCanns' story, was a victory, they believe the fuss around it has helped convince people that Madeleine is dead and there's no need to keep looking for her.

The McCanns argue, three years on, that there is a scattering of information on their little girl's disappearance all over the world, which, if it was collated in one place, could possible form a crucial piece of the jigsaw. The argument against this is, of course, that the sightings have proved to be false and that, one hopes, if there was any real lead in any of what was collected, it would have been followed up on. You could say that the McCanns are grasping at straws. And of course they are. That's their duty to their daughter. The problem is, however, their expectation that everyone else can remain equally engaged.

And how we became engaged. On the night of May 3, 2007, Kate McCann walked the less-than-100-yards from the hotel tapas restaurant in the Ocean Club Hotel in Praia da Luz, going to check on her own three sleeping children and those of the friends with whom they were dining. The McCanns, we learned later, had left their apartment to meet five friends at 8.40pm. They hadn't got a babysitter, but none of the couples had, and agreed to take it in turns to peep in at the slumbering offspring in the various rooms. Gerry McCann took his turn at 9pm, another friend went 20 minutes later, and all was well. When Kate McCann took the next turn, however, the windows and shutters in Madeleine's room were open and she was gone.

Later, one of the 'Tapas Seven', as the McCanns and their friends became pejoratively known, said she had seen a man carrying what could have been a child near the apartment that night. Later again, a British ex-pat, Robert Murat, was named as a suspect in the abduction. However, he was cleared of any involvement. Then, in September 2007, after months of criticism of the McCanns for leaving their children alone, libellous scrutiny of the 'Tapas Seven's' behaviour on the night, and DNA reports on

"bodily fluids" found in the car the couple hired weeks after Madeleine's death, Kate and Gerry McCann were named as suspects in their daughter's disappearance. It was a whirlwind of rumour and revelation and, it seemed, leads that were incomplete, inconclusive and ineptly handled. And all led to nothing. The public emotion ran high and then died down and we moved on. Three years later, despite the odd sighting that turned to nothing, Madeleine remains missing. And, it must seem, the McCanns are the only ones who still care.

Looking back on how we became involved in the case of a missing little girl we didn't know, the whole story seems extraordinary, and quite why we engaged with it as we did is hard to understand or explain. Of course, most people feel threatened and troubled by the case of a lost child, but countless children disappear every year and we don't get remotely as involved. It was, perhaps, the sense that if it could happen to these nice, relatively ordinary middle-class people, it could happen to anyone. And then, when those nice, relatively ordinary middle-class people became suspects, it unsettled us and excited all manner of sensation and speculation.

Aside from the obvious pain of losing their child, the McCanns would be justified in feeling a great deal of indignation that the world has gone silent and unfeeling for Madeleine. Because we cared so much at the start, it must seem unfair that our emotion could then diminish, that time, you could say, has healed the public wound.

It was awful and intrusive that the world had such a sense of ownership of their daughter -- and of their daughter as a story and not a human being -- but that was also what kept her name alive. If everyone knew about Maddie, then everyone would have an eye out for her, while now, they must wonder if anyone would even register the mark in the iris of her eye. They emphasised last year, and again for this year's anniversary, that we must remember it's no longer a case of a missing toddler, but that Madeleine will be six on May 12. Time has moved on, the world has moved on, but the McCanns, understandably, have not.

And then, in other ways, of course they have -- they have had to. The twins are no longer the tots who slept in the cots we saw in photographs of the apartment bedroom. They are five and they have been told, the McCanns revealed last week, that Madeleine was taken. They include her in their games and talk about her a lot, Kate McCann said, but given that they can't possibly really remember her, this must be the lead they have taken from their parents -- that Madeleine is still alive and will be back.

"Madeleine is a real girl and she is still missing," said Kate McCann, reminding us that their story wasn't just some crime novel we read three years ago, but real life, with real people.

"We will not be going away," she added, "and we will never stop looking."

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/three-years-on-the-only-ones-looking-for-madeleine-are-us-2161742.html

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MADELEINE SUSPECT 'ON BEACH SNAP' 



Gail Cooper with artist's impression of man on the beach
Sunday May 9,2010
By James Murray DETECTIVES have been handed a photograph showing a man behaving oddly in the days before Madeleine McCann was kidnapped.


A British holidaymaker accidentally captured him in the background of a family snap taken at the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in April 2007, days before Madeleine, then three, disappeared.

It was passed to detectives from Leicestershire who are assisting the police in Portugal. Last week we published Gail Cooper’s account of her encounter with the strange man when he later came to her holiday villa in the resort, asking for money for an orphanage.

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.

Although his features cannot be clearly made out, there is a rough image which could be enhanced with FBI picture improvement techniques.

Mrs Cooper, 53, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, told the Sunday Express last week she believes the same man went on to kidnap Madeleine McCann.

She had flown to Luz with a party of 13 family and friends in the week before Madeleine was taken, to celebrate her 50th birthday. Mrs Hodson-Mackey, 34, and her family spent four days at an apartment in the Mark Warner complex with Leanda’s mother Trudy Dawkins, 49, and her husband Lee, 40.

The apartment was directly above apartment 5a, where the McCanns would stay the following week.

Last night Mrs Dawkins, also from Newark, said: “When we were back home it was on the news that Madeleine had disappeared and we all racked our brains to see if there was anything we could remember which would help the investigation.

“We all remembered this man walking along the beach in the rain, then Gail recalled he later went to her villa.

 
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“Leanda had a throwaway camera. She went through the pictures she had taken and realised the man was in the background in one. Detectives took a statement from her and took away the picture, but we don’t know what happened after that.

Tomorrow Madeleine’s mother Kate, 42, from Rothley, Leicestershire, will meet Prince Charles at Westminster Abbey during a service to remember young victims of violence. She will be among 1,000 guests marking the anniversary of teenager Jimmy Mizen’s murder in 2008, during a fight in a bakery shop in Lee, south-east London.

The families of Damilola Taylor and Ben Kinsella will also be at the “Building a Legacy of Peace” service.


http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/174024/Madeleine-suspect-on-beach-snap-

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She said, “Leanda had a throwaway camera. She went through the pictures she had taken and realized the man was in the background in one. Detectives took a statement from her and took away the picture, but we don’t know what happened after that.”

An FBI-trained police artist working for the McCanns created a sketch using Cooper's description.

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The investigating police " Portuguese " are criminal in not releasing that photo as soon as it was turned over to them.

Having to depend on a scetch when a photo is available is limiting to investigation and witnesses who may have seen the man.. As time passes witness memory fail.

WHY does the Portuguese police always appear SO Corrupted ??
jmho

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She said, “Leanda had a throwaway camera. She went through the pictures she had taken and realized the man was in the background in one. Detectives took a statement from her and took away the picture, but we don’t know what happened after that.”

An FBI-trained police artist working for the McCanns created a sketch using Cooper's description.

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The investigating police " Portuguese " are criminal in not releasing that photo as soon as it was turned over to them.

Having to depend on a scetch when a photo is available is limiting to investigation and witnesses who may have seen the man.. As time passes witness memory fail.

WHY does the Portuguese police always appear SO Corrupted ??
jmho

cause they are! jmo

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2969081/Party-for-Maddie-McCann-on-her-7th-birthday.html
Party For Maddie On Her 7th Birthday
By ANTONELLA LAZZERI

Published: Today
MADELEINE McCann's little brother and sister will today mark her seventh birthday with a family tea party.

Five-year-old twins Sean and Amelie will be joined by relatives and friends at their home in Rothley, Leics.

A spokesman for mum Kate, 42, told how her daughter's third birthday since vanishing on holiday in Portugal was "particularly painful".

But both she and husband Gerry, 42, "still have hope and that keeps them strong".

Kate said: "The 12th is obviously a day when we should be celebrating with Madeleine."

The twins still talk often about their sister.

Kate recently revealed: "Amelie said, 'Mummy, she might speak another language'. And Sean said to me, 'Never give up, Mummy'. I just said, 'Don't worry, I won't do that. None of us will'."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2969081/Party-for-Maddie-McCann-on-her-7th-birthday.html#ixzz0nirBFXF9

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UK NEWSMADELEINE MCCANN: IS THIS THE MAN WHO SNATCHED HER? 



Madeleine McCann: The man Jane Tanner saw and, right, stranger on the beach/Pic: Jamie Jones
Sunday May 16,2010
By James Murray THIS is the sensational picture of a suspicious man on the beach which could lead to a breakthrough in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.


Snapped inadvertently in the background of a holiday photo, the mysterious man strolls along after a rain shower, staring out to sea at Praia da Luz.

The picture was taken at the Portuguese resort days before Madeleine, then three, vanished during the evening of May 3, 2007.

Briton Gail Cooper was having lunch with family and friends in a beachside cafe and taking photos when she saw him wandering along the beach, apparently in a world of his own.

“It was odd to see him walking around the beach alone in showery, cold weather.” she said.

Mrs Cooper, 53, added that a few hours after the snap was taken, the same man visited her at her rented villa 20 minutes’ walk from the beach. The £2million holiday property was in a quiet road near the Mark Warner complex where Madeleine and her family were staying.

During a tense conversation on the doorstep, the man sought cash with what she called “an obviously made-up story” that he was collecting money for an orphanage in a nearby town, where the children of Britons killed in a car crash were being cared for.

Just under a week after the unnerving encounter, when Mrs Cooper had returned home to Britain, Madeleine was taken from her holiday apartment.

Alarmed, Mrs Cooper contacted British detectives because of her ­concerns about the man on the beach and handed over the photograph, taken by a ­member of her holiday party.

Months later private investigators working for Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann asked Mrs Cooper to work with an FBI-trained artist to create a drawing of the man she had seen at the beach and villa.

 
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She described him as having protruding teeth, a handlebar moustache and wind-blown dark hair. In the photo the man is ­turning slightly towards the sea, so it is not possible to tell whether he has a moustache.

However, he does appear to bear a resemblance to a man the McCanns’ friend, Jane Tanner, saw walking with a child in his arms at about the time Madeleine disappeared.

Ms Tanner saw him crossing a road yards from the McCanns’ apartment and it is widely believed that he was the man who abducted Madeleine. She also worked with an artist to ­create a drawing of the man she saw. It did not include facial features as she did not see his face.

The man Ms Tanner saw, ­walking in the glare of an orange street light, was wearing light coloured trousers and a dark top and appears to have slightly hunched shoulders.

The man in the photo was also wearing light coloured trousers, a dark top and appears to have slightly rounded shoulders.

Mrs Cooper, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, said last night: “I am 98 per cent certain the man in the photo was the same man who made the strange visit to our ­holiday villa. His hair looks neater in the photo, but he is quite far in the background.” The picture was given to detectives in Leicestershire who are liaising with detectives in ­Portugal, but Mrs Cooper said she was never told whether the man had been identified.

“I believe it would be useful for the investigation if he was to come forward,” she added. Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, are hoping that new Tory Home Secretary Theresa May will call for a review of all the evidence in the case.

If you can identify the man in the photograph please call the Sunday Express on 0208 612 7073 or contact the website ­Findmadeleine.com.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/175407/Madeleine-McCann-Is-this-the-man-who-snatched-her-

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Portuguese man 'saw missing Madeleine'
Tue May 25 2010 15:19:16

A Portuguese man has come forward to report a possible sighting of Madeleine McCann the day after she disappeared.

Carlos Moreira, 65, saw a young blonde girl wearing pyjamas like those of the missing British child in the back of a van on May 4, 2007. But he only recently contacted the private investigation team employed by Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.

It is understood that he did not think the information was relevant until learning in a recent TV programme that Portuguese police did not mount roadblocks following the little girl's disappearance.

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on the night of May 3 2007 as her parents dined with friends nearby.

At about 8am the next morning Mr Moreira saw a young girl lying at an angle in the back of a white van at a roadside snack bar near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, some 170 miles to the north. He said she was with a man and a woman who looked like gypsies.

It is understood Mr Moreira was not certain that he saw Madeleine, but recalled that the girl was wearing pink and yellow pyjamas similar to the ones the missing child had on when she vanished.

McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "I can confirm that Mr Moreira has been spoken to by the private investigators currently searching for Madeleine. He has done absolutely the right thing in coming forward with his information despite it being so long after the event."
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