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

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Unseen evidence from 'psychics and dreamers' will now be analysed in renewed effort to find Maddie

 ::snipping2::  There was so much left on special hotline that Leicestershire police asked Crimestoppers to stop passing it on.   ::snipping2:: 

Unseen evidence relating to Madeleine McCann has been passed to police, including testimonies from psychics and people who have dreamed about what happened.

Around 100 pieces of information sent to Crimestoppers but never shared with investigators have emerged on the fifth anniversary of her death.

The logs come from a special Crimestoppers hotline set up a week after Madeleine vanished in May


For several months it was all passed to Leicestershire police, but sources say the McCanns' local force was so inundated with information it asked Crimestoppers to stop sending details supplied by psychics and dreamers.

A source said the material may prove of no value at all, but it was important it was shared with police, according to Sky News.


'Psychic stuff is often very precise and is therefore easily eliminated, if nothing else,' the source said.
'But sometimes it can corroborate more tangible information already in the system.'

Another source said sometimes witnesses claim to have learned details through psychic powers just to distance themselves from what they know.

Scotland Yard said they were in dialogue with Crimestoppers to ensure that all material in their possession is looked at.  ::snipping2:: 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138286/Madeleine-McCann-latest-news-Antonio-Castela-claims-picked-girl-taxi.html#ixzz1tqm9KaVt

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Madeleine McCann suspect was never ruled out of inquiry by police


A British man whose family contacted police after suspecting he was involved in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance was never fully investigated, the Standard can reveal today.
 


The expat, who was living in the Algarve at the time the child vanished, was put forward as a suspect by his brother but detectives failed to rule him out of the inquiry.

Today, on the fifth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance, the lawyer for her parents Kate and Gerry said she hoped the “crucial lead” will be investigated by Scotland Yard, which has launched a review of the case.

The man, who is named in police files but cannot be identified for legal reasons, was allegedly desperate to have a child but he and his then partner were unable to conceive.

His brother informed British officers the suspect told him and other members of his family that if he could not have a child he would kidnap one. The information was apparently passed on to the Portuguese authorities but the McCanns’ lawyer Isabel Duarte said he was never “properly investigated” nor eliminated from the inquiry.

The suspect — who lived in Espiche near Praia da Luz, where Madeleine vanished on May 3, 2007 — also had a boat in the marina at nearby Lagos.  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/madeleine-mccann-suspect-was-never-ruled-out-of-inquiry-by-police-7711245.html

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30 kids lost in Portugal since Maddie went missing

THIRTY children have gone missing in Portugal since Madeleine McCann disappeared five years ago, official figures reveal.
 
The grim toll contradicts Portuguese claims her case was unique and abduction was rare.
 

Madeleine, who would now be nearly nine, was snatched from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3 2007. Since then, 30 youngsters under 18 have vanished. But it also emerged an abduction alert system introduced in 2009 for cops and other law enforcement has NEVER been activated. This week law chiefs in Portugal snubbed a plea by Scotland Yard to reopen Madeleine’s case after a review unearthed 195 new leads.
 

And yesterday the Portuguese Attorney General Pinto Monteiro said British and Portuguese police weren’t even speaking.
 

He insisted there had been no formal request for Madeleine’s case to be reopened. When asked if he was having any talks with Brit cops he replied: “No.”   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4296421/30-kids-lost-in-Portugal-since-Maddie-went-missing.html

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COSTA RESORT SEARCH AFTER MADELEINE MCCANN SIGHTING NO3

THE hunt for Madeleine McCann is focused on a Spanish holiday resort foll-owing another sighting.

Expat Rose Johnson is certain she saw Maddie playing on a beach in the holiday town Nerja.

Investigators are already probing a tip-off that she is hidden in the town.

Student Billy Sousa, 18, last month said he “walked past her” in the Costa del Sol resort.

“I got a really good look at her face. She looked just like Madeleine,” he said.

Last night, Ms Johnson, 70, said she saw Maddie run over to a table of Spaniards. She said: “The whole family was dark skinned, whereas she had fair hair and pale skin and obviously was northern European.

“She hardly spent any time with the family.”

The former cleaner also saw a people carr-ier with a Portuguese number plate. Regretting that she did not contact the police last August, she added: “We just couldn’t believe it could be Maddie.”  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/249386/Costa-resort-search-after-Madeleine-McCann-sighting-No3/

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Five years after she disappeared there’s little sign of Maddie in Praia da Luz, just note saying... 'Still missing, still missed'
 The McCanns vow to continue search for daughter


Published: Today at 00:36


AT a whitewashed church in a Portuguese village, a tiny card displays three photos of a little girl.
 
It is tucked away in the display box outside the church in Praia da Luz, with the words: “Still Missing — Still Missed”. The faded message alongside it reads: “Please pray for me.”
 
Five years on from her abduction, the card, at the church of Our Lady of Light, is the only sign that Madeleine McCann was ever here.
 
She was snatched from her bed at a holiday apartment at the Mark Warner Ocean Club in the centre of the village on May 3, 2007.
 
Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann were dining at a nearby tapas bar. When Kate went to check on Madeleine and her two-year-old twin brother and sister, Sean and Amelie, the little girl had gone.
 
It was the start of a nightmare for her parents that has lasted five years — and for the world, the beginning of one of the most puzzling mysteries of all time.
 
Number 5a, the apartment from where Madeleine was snatched just days before her fourth birthday, remains locked and shuttered. All attempts to sell it by its British owner have failed.  ::snipping2::

As the McCanns have suffered — in public and in private — the man many hold responsible for bungling the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance has mercilessly cashed in on the little girl.
 
Goncalo Amaral led the woefully inadequate Portuguese police probe.

He was sacked from the case and after his retirement wrote a book, The Truth Of The Lie, in which he asserted that Madeleine was dead and that her parents had lied about her abduction.
 
The McCanns won a court case banning the book, although this was later overturned.
 
They are currently waiting for a £1 million libel case against him to be heard.

But unbowed as ever, Amaral travelled to Praia da Luz recently for a TV show in which he again attacked the McCanns.
 Standing outside apartment 5a, he asserted that Madeleine had died in the apartment and that for the past five years her parents have maintained an elaborate charade of lies.
 
When the TV host remonstrated with him, the vile ex-cop replied: “I do not know why he (Gerry McCann) says there must be a body. In order to prove the child is dead it is not necessary to have a body.
 
“In this case, if we could abstract ourselves of the name of the child that disappeared, of the child’s parents and just look at the facts in an objective manner and move forward with the investigation, facts would speak for themselves!”
 
For Kate and Gerry, his disgusting accusations will be no surprise.

At least they can take comfort from one of his other assertions — that the truth about what happened to Madeleine will only be learnt if the Portuguese police investigation is reopened.
 
It is something they have demanded for nearly four years.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4298857/The-McCanns-vow-to-continue-search-for-Maddie-five-years-after-she-disappeared.html
 

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KATE AND GERRY MCCANN KEEP ON RUNNING FOR MADELEINE

They were among hundreds taking part in Liverpool’s Festival of Running. The event came three days after the fifth anniversary of their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

Kate, 44, wore a vest with a picture of Madeleine on it and the words “Never Give Up”. Before the event, she said they had never felt able to take part in the run in previous years because it was so close to the poignant anniversary.  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/318524/Kate-and-Gerry-McCann-keep-on-running-for-Madeleine

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 ::snipping2::  Kate McCann, Madeleine's mother, describes the moment of discovery in her book, Madeleine. Explaining how, during the meal, she, her husband Gerry and a friend took it in turns to check on Madeleine and her twin brother and sister, sleeping together in one of two bedrooms, she writes: "When I realised Madeleine wasn't actually there, I went through to our bedroom to see if she'd got into our bed. That would explain the open (bedroom) door. On the discovery of another empty bed, the first wave of panic hit me. As I ran back into the children's room the closed curtains flew up in a gust of wind. My heart lurched as I saw now that, behind them, the window was wide open and the shutters on the outside raised all the way up. Nausea, terror, disbelief, fear. Icy fear. Dear God, no! Please, no!"
 
No trace of Madeleine McCann has been found since that night, despite the expenditure of vast amounts of effort, time and money.
 
Few disappearances have commanded such attention over such a long period of time. Like all great mysteries, it divides, between those who champion one explanation and those who favour another, darker one. It also occupies its own landscape: as the Kennedy assassination has the Texas Schoolbook Depository and the Grassy Knoll, so the Madeleine McCann disappearance has Flat 5A and the Ocean Club tapas restaurant, where the McCanns dined on that fateful night.
 
The people of Praia da Luz would prefer it otherwise. They have no wish to be a destination for ghouls – or journalists. For many of them, May 3, 2007, is a day they would rather forget, a blight on a resort known for being family-friendly and safe.
 
Some residents retain the sympathy for the McCanns that was universal in Portugal before they were declared arguidos, suspects. Others are hostile, accusing the British couple of everything from neglect to concealment of a death.
 
Most, though, are simply apathetic, wanting it all to go away.
 
"It's over," says Paul Luckman, publisher of the English-language newspaper in the Algarve, the Portugal News.   ::snipping2:: 


Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/madeleine-mystery-fails-to-fade-20120505-1y5x0.html#ixzz1u8XyyOrr

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'I think there is a great chance of her still being alive': Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart says there is still hope for missing British girl Madeleine McCann

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and held captive for nine months when she was just 14, has revealed she thinks there is a 'great chance' that missing British girl Madeleine McCann is still alive.

Speaking with Anderson Cooper, Ms Smart said she believes Maddy, who was just three when she was kidnapped during a family holiday to Portugal in 2007, might be being raised by another family.
'With her being as young as what she was, I think there is a great chance of her still being alive and being out there whether she's been sold or whether someone's trying to take her or raise her as their own,' Ms Smart said in the interview that will air on Tuesday night.  ::snipping2:: 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140793/Kidnap-victim-Elizabeth-Smart-says-believes-missing-British-girl-Madeleine-McCann-alive.html#ixzz1uENC8c6A

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'Groggy' girl identical to Madeleine McCann spotted at Costa del Sol campsite just three days after she went missing

A blonde girl identical to Madeleine McCann was seen at a campsite in Spain just three days after the British toddler went missing five years ago, it has emerged.
The groggy-looking child appeared alienated from the German family she was staying with at the resort on the Costa del Sol, according to a witness.
The potential sighting came three days after Madeleine was abducted from Praia da Luz in Portugal, a few hours drive away.

British detectives investigating her disappearance have been told the German family paid extra after arriving at the campsite with one more child than expected on May 6, 2007, reports The Sun.
It is also believed that their vehicle had fake number plates to avoid detection.
The alarm was raised by holidaymaker Karen Sisson, 49, who was staying at the Cabopino campsite near Fuengirola.
Ms Sisson, from Gibraltar, told police at the time that the girl was wearing a pink T-shirt, shorts and a beige hat and seemed 'out of it'.
She said that the girl seemed out of place with the German couple and their two curly-haired children.
The mother-of-two's suspicions were further raised when she saw the girl wearing the same outfit the following day.

Ms Sisson left the next day but records show the German family stayed at the campsite for two weeks.

They checked in under the name Karsten Mayer, who gave 1970 as his year of birth.
Their car had a 'BE' German number plate, which went out of official use 38 years ago - but the vehicle was a Mercedes Vito people carrier that was first manufactured in 1996.  ::snipping2:: 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141100/Madeleine-McCann-spotted-Costa-del-Sol-campsite-3-days-went-missing.html#ixzz1uIIipnDQ

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Madeleine McCann photo used in holiday advert

Kate and Gerry McCann were “horrified” to discover that the last photograph taken of their missing daughter Madeleine had been used to promote holidays in Portugal.


The familiar image of the three-year-old was used to illustrate deals offered by lowcostholidays.com on the website VoucherDigg.
 
But the travel company said it had no advertising contract with the voucher website and admitted that the use of the little girl's picture was “vile”.
 
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, branded it “appallingly insensitive” and said law firm Carter-Ruck had been called in to demand removal of the picture with “immediate effect”.   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/9252450/Madeleine-McCann-photo-used-in-holiday-advert.html

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Madeleine McCann photo used in holiday advert

Kate and Gerry McCann were “horrified” to discover that the last photograph taken of their missing daughter Madeleine had been used to promote holidays in Portugal.


The familiar image of the three-year-old was used to illustrate deals offered by lowcostholidays.com on the website VoucherDigg.
 
But the travel company said it had no advertising contract with the voucher website and admitted that the use of the little girl's picture was “vile”.
 
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, branded it “appallingly insensitive” and said law firm Carter-Ruck had been called in to demand removal of the picture with “immediate effect”.   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/9252450/Madeleine-McCann-photo-used-in-holiday-advert.html

Using the image of a missing little girl in this manner is terrible!  And besides, using the image of a missing child for a holiday advertisement would be ridiculous.  Not good at all!!  What's the message?  Visit Portugal and your child might go missing?   

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Madeleine McCann photo used in holiday advert

Kate and Gerry McCann were “horrified” to discover that the last photograph taken of their missing daughter Madeleine had been used to promote holidays in Portugal.


The familiar image of the three-year-old was used to illustrate deals offered by lowcostholidays.com on the website VoucherDigg.
 
But the travel company said it had no advertising contract with the voucher website and admitted that the use of the little girl's picture was “vile”.
 
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, branded it “appallingly insensitive” and said law firm Carter-Ruck had been called in to demand removal of the picture with “immediate effect”.   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/9252450/Madeleine-McCann-photo-used-in-holiday-advert.html

Using the image of a missing little girl in this manner is terrible!  And besides, using the image of a missing child for a holiday advertisement would be ridiculous.  Not good at all!!  What's the message?  Visit Portugal and your child might go missing?   

Muffy, I believe the message from these heartless you-know-whats is...they don't give a damn other than, look at all free advertising they're getting.    Just as they planned.

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Madeleine McCann photo used in holiday advert

Kate and Gerry McCann were “horrified” to discover that the last photograph taken of their missing daughter Madeleine had been used to promote holidays in Portugal.


The familiar image of the three-year-old was used to illustrate deals offered by lowcostholidays.com on the website VoucherDigg.
 
But the travel company said it had no advertising contract with the voucher website and admitted that the use of the little girl's picture was “vile”.
 
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, branded it “appallingly insensitive” and said law firm Carter-Ruck had been called in to demand removal of the picture with “immediate effect”.   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/9252450/Madeleine-McCann-photo-used-in-holiday-advert.html

Using the image of a missing little girl in this manner is terrible!  And besides, using the image of a missing child for a holiday advertisement would be ridiculous.  Not good at all!!  What's the message?  Visit Portugal and your child might go missing?   

Muffy, I believe the message from these heartless you-know-whats is...they don't give a damn other than, look at all free advertising they're getting.    Just as they planned.

Yep, free advertising with no regard to human decency.    

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Madeleine McCann photo used in holiday advert

Kate and Gerry McCann were “horrified” to discover that the last photograph taken of their missing daughter Madeleine had been used to promote holidays in Portugal.


The familiar image of the three-year-old was used to illustrate deals offered by lowcostholidays.com on the website VoucherDigg.
 
But the travel company said it had no advertising contract with the voucher website and admitted that the use of the little girl's picture was “vile”.
 
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, branded it “appallingly insensitive” and said law firm Carter-Ruck had been called in to demand removal of the picture with “immediate effect”.   ::snipping2:: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/9252450/Madeleine-McCann-photo-used-in-holiday-advert.html

Using the image of a missing little girl in this manner is terrible!  And besides, using the image of a missing child for a holiday advertisement would be ridiculous.  Not good at all!!  What's the message?  Visit Portugal and your child might go missing?   

Muffy, I believe the message from these heartless you-know-whats is...they don't give a damn other than, look at all free advertising they're getting.    Just as they planned.

Yep, free advertising with no regard to human decency.    

What's the old saying, "The only bad publicity is no publicity."  If you don't believe it, look at bozo.  What a dweeb!

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I didn't say Madeleine McCann was dead claims TV psychic Derek Acorah as he says no-one can know where she is
Psychic says he will visit apartment where she vanished from to 'pick up what spirits say'
TV medium, 62, says if she is dead she will be reincarnated as 'another little girl'
He vows to fly to Portugal to 'lend his expertise' to the hunt


Television psychic Derek Acorah today denied claiming missing Madeleine McCann was dead and 'has been over in the spirit world for some time' in a newspaper interview.
The medium, 62, said he would fly to Portugal to join the hunt for the missing girl and turn his findings over to police.
Mr Acorah allegedly told The Sun that Madeleine, who vanished five years ago, would be reincarnated before long.

He was quoted as saying: 'I know her parents are convinced Maddie is alive and I'm really sorry - but the little one has been over in the spirit world for some time.
'I don't think she will be there long before she reincarnates.
'When children pass over who haven't had full lives I believe they choose the time to come back in the same form again - as another little girl.'
When contacted by the MailOnline today, he said that 'no one knows' if the schoolgirl is dead.
Mr Acorah refused to repeat the comments and said he had been 'misquoted' by The Sun.

He said he would fly to Praia da Luz to see if 'the spirits' can solve the mystery of what happened.
Critics have questioned why the television psychic has waited until now to join the search for the missing child - as he promotes a theatre tour.
Psychic Derek - who used to host TV's Most Haunted - was allegedly exposed as a fraud by psychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe.
While filming at Bodmin gaol in Cornwall he said he was being possessed by Kreed Kafer - an anagram of Derek Faker - which Dr O'Keeffe had invented and mentioned when he was within earshot.  ::snipping2:: 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2144596/Madeleine-McCann-Derek-Acorah-says-know-is.html#ixzz1uyjxT4oO

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Really positive": Maddy's mum Kate goes to Downing Street to back new missing children hotline
 
Kate McCann has hailed the launch of two initiatives to help find missing children.

She was among guests at a Downing Street reception tonight to celebrate the introduction of a new Europe-wide hotline and the relaunch of an official website with information about Britain's missing and abducted children.

Mrs McCann, whose daughter Madeleine disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged three, said the 116000 missing children phone number was a "lifeline" for families like hers.

She said it was a "really positive day" and spoke of a shift in attitudes among politicians towards the problem.

In the last few years there's been greater awareness and certainly there's been a greater political will," she said.

"We just need to keep spreading the message. It is a big problem, and we do need the Government's backing."

The 116000 missing children hotline, which is free, confidential and available 24 hours a day, is operated by specialist support groups in 16 European countries, including France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Holland and Poland.

Britain's official website to help find missing and abducted children - www.missingkids.co.uk - has also been redesigned ahead of International Missing Children's Day on Friday.

Home Secretary Theresa May hosted the reception in Number 10 for campaign groups, celebrity supporters and families of missing children.  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-mum-kate-goes-845462

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£6K A DAY BILL TO FIND MADELEINE MCCANN
3rd June 2012

THE British police hunt for Madeleine McCann is ­costing almost £6,000 a day, we can reveal.

Around £4,400 goes on ­detectives’ wages while transport, “supplies” and other police staff bump the figure up to just over £5,800.

Figures obtained by the Daily Star Sunday show the probe – launched last May – is likely to have cost around £2.15million.

The Home Office, which is footing the bill, has pledged no expense will be spared in trying to help the ­Portuguese authorities solve the case.

It is now more than five years since Madeleine – then aged three – vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.

Her parents Kate and ­Gerry McCann, from ­Rothley, Leics, believe she is still alive and police also think there is a chance she can be found.

An invoice sent to the Home Office by the Met ­police team reviewing the case shows the wage bill for “26.5” detectives, is ­estimated at £1,447,263 up to April 5.

A further £388,906 is ­estimated for the ten police staff helping the hunt.  ::snipping2:: 



http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/254673/-6k-a-day-bill-to-find-Madeleine-McCann/

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Still have hope for Madeleine...

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Still have hope for Madeleine...

 

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Burnley psychic in hunt for missing Madeleine McCann
Published on Sunday 10 June 2012 09:59

A BURNLEY psychic medium who helped the FBI catch a serial killer has spoken out about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Grandfather John Warne is convinced that the schoolgirl was snatched on behalf of an American, and that she is now living in Minnesota and attending college.

Mr Warne (82), a respected Spiritualist for 57 years, began his own pyschic investigation after being annoyed about a claim by television psychic Derek Acorah.

Acorah said that a messenger from the spirit world told him: “She’s not on this earth any more”, but he has since apologised to Maddie’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, saying he was misquoted.

Mr Warne, of Morse Street, Burnley, said: “I always thought the police would find the little girl. I didn’t want to bother looking into what has happened to her it because it is a lot of strain, but when Derek Acorah said she was dead I had to do.

“It doesn’t make sense to go to people and say she is dead. It’s diabolical. If it was the case that she had died he should have known what happened, who did it and where she is now. It is a terrible thing to say that someone’s missing child is dead.”

Mr Warne’s pyschic investigation leads him to believe that Maddie was kidnapped to order in May 2007, and that the snatcher was in the Algarve holiday resort the day before.

“The bloke who took her was in his early 30s with brown hair, he was 5ft. 8in. and in a light blue outfit. He checked her out the day before it happened.

“Once he grabbed her, he put her in a car round the corner and drove to a waiting boat. By the time the alarm was raised they were gone.

“The guy was an American, but he didn’t take her for himself. He was working for someone.”

Mr Warne is convinced that Maddie is alive and well, but knows nothing of her early life.

“I know she is at college in Minnesota. It is a reddish brown building with several storeys.I have never been there, but I can see it.”  ::snipping2:: 

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/strange-but-true/burnley-psychic-in-hunt-for-missing-madeleine-mccann-1-4628588