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Michael Jackson Wanted Muslim Burial
BY now you’re probably wondering what Michael Jackson’s been up to. Good to see that the news and broadcast media has been given the King of Pop his dues and playing his songs non-stop for hours now.
For years all we’ve heard about Jackson is that he’s nuts and has a face that presents his impersonators with a moving target.
But then we get a text message that say Michael Jackson has died. And who cannot help feel an extra pang that no sooner has the world woken once more to his talent than he is dead.
It’s a cruel irony, but one Jackson with his keen sense of the absurd would have enjoyed.
Of course, with Jackson gone, you can now say what you like about him. You can’t libel the dead, so here’s the Sun to say that Jackson had converted to Islam, or hadn’t:
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Posted: 27th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (189)
Michael Jackson Ends Hunt For Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news – Case remains closed…
Portugal News Oneline tells readers: “Recent reports not enough to re-open Maddie case -Attorney General”
This was to be the Third Summer of Our Maddie, in which the story of the missing child would give the newspapers something to fall back on should Big Brother fail and a shark not be spotted off Bournemouth pier.
But Michael Jackson has died. Iran is broiling. Andy Murray is doing well. And as Sky News – live from LA tells us – it’s Tuesday so it must be Farrah Fawcett’s burial.
Portugal’s Attorney General has this week voiced its opinion that recent reports about British paedophile Raymond Hewlett, who was embroiled in the Madeleine McCann [sic] after it emerged the former convict had been staying in the Algarve at the time of her disappearance, were not strong enough to re-open the case.
Well, if there is no evidence…
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Posted: 27th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (6)
The Real Story Of How Michael Jackson Died
FOLLOWING the death of Michael Jackson for any of at least any of these five reasons, we wonder what next for the resting star, and how long before we read about the real reasons Michael Jackson died?
Five things to look out for in the post-Michael Jackson media:
1. The Lovers
You can’t libel the dead so here’s to men and women and children and pets that can communicate through pet psychics coming forward to say that Jackson loved them and how this child is his. Look out for the first media interview with Jordy Chandler.
2. The Conspiracy.
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Posted: 26th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (15)
The Five Craziest Michael Jackson Death Theories
MICHAEL Jackson’s death has not only knocked Iran from the news but allowed the media to speculate on what killed the King of Pop.
Anorak brings you the Top Five Theories of Michael Jackson’s death:
1. Overdose on Painkillers:
The Sun reports on “an Emergency Room source at UCLA hospital said Jackson aides told medics he had collapsed after an injection of potent Demerol — similar to morphine.”
Says a Jackson source:
“Shortly after taking the Demerol he started to experience slow shallow breathing.
“His breathing gradually got slower and slower until it stopped.
“His staff started mouth-to-mouth and an ambulance was called which got there in eight minutes “But found he was in full respiratory arrest, no breathing and no pulse. They started full CPR and rushed him to hospital.
“When he arrived they started resuscitation, giving him heart shocks and inserted a breathing tube and other supportive measures to try and save his life.
“He never regained consciousness.The family was told that he had passed.”
2. He’s not Dead – It’s just a publicity stunt to drum up, er, publicity.
Perez Hilton, the unctuous gossip blogger says:
As Gawker notes, “In the last hour Perez Hilton has taken down the photo shown here and amended his original post so he doesn’t look as bad, but here’s the text of what he originally posted”:
We knew something like this would happen!!
Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance from his Holmby Hills home to a nearby Los Angeles hospital on Thursday afternoon!!
Supposedly, the singer went into cardiac arrest and the paramedics had to administer CPR!!!His mother is even on the way to visit him!!!
We are dubious!!
Jacko pulled a similar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in ‘95 when he “collapsed” at rehearsal!
He was dragging his heels on that just like his upcoming 50 date London residency at the 02 Arena, of which he already postponed the first few dates!!!
Either he’s lying or making himself sick, but we’re curious to see if he’s able to go on!!!
Get your money back, ticket holders!!!!
Look out for the return of Heath Ledger – the world’s leading method actor.
3. Killed By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
For well over a week, Iran was the media’s lead news story. But now Iran is old news, overtaken by the dearth of Michael Jackson.
The top stories on Twitter at the time of writing are:
Michael Jackson
Jacko
Ticket refunds
I am Michael Jackson
Wacko Jacko
Jordy Chandler
Farrah Fawcett
Habitat – Michael Jackson’s favourite high street future store
Farrah Fawcett swimsuit
Obama says “we bore witness to Jackson”
4. Michael Jackson only 45% dead.
Michael Jackson is not dead. According to cosmetic surgeons, only 45% of the original Jackson remained, which means 55% – the greater part – remains alive.
Although being a Michael Jackson impersonator is akin to hitting a moving target, there are now so many people who look like Jackson that the King of Pop swapped places with one of them in a Prince And the Pauper-style story.
5. Madame Tussaud’s is missing a waxwork.
Posted: 26th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (20)
The Truth About Farrah Fawcett’s Swimsuit
FARRAH Fawcett’s star rose to the stratosphere after she posed in 1976 for a poster wearing a one-piece swimsuit. It’s gone down in pop culture history as the famous “red swimsit poster.”
Only it wasn’t red.
Posted: 25th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)
Habitat Introduces The Neda Soltan Twitter Picture Frame
MORE news on Habitat’s interesting use of Twitter and its efforts to ensure the people of Iran that whatever their troubles they can still get their hands on and “arch” Pack of 3 tea towels to help mop up all that blood.
Now Habitat is blaming an “overenthusiastic intern” for using online interest in Iran protests to promote their goods on Twitter. What you might call a company spammer:
“The hashtags were uploaded without Habitat’s authorisation by an overenthusiastic intern who did not fully understand the ramifications of his actions.”
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The Most Controversial Michael Jackson Pictures
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: HELLO! magazine leads once more with pictures of Michael Jackson. These are “UNSEEN PICTURES”.
It would always take something special to make the lead Jackson narrative something other then the abuse allegations and the mobile face, and thanks to his dying the media has some new threads to tug on and unravel and tie in a knot.
Hello! lists them all on its cover:
“DEBBIE’S CUSTODY FIGHT”
“THE FAMILY FEUDS”
“THE LAST PERFORMANCE”
“THE WILL AND FUNERAL”
All good stuff for the media to sink its teeth into. But can any of these achieve a legacy that will surpass the Jackson controversies to date?
Lest the story move on, Anorak takes a look a nostalgic look Most Controversial Jackson Pictures (so far):
Posted: 25th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comments (79)
Angelina Jolie’s OK! Magazine Interview
ANGELINA Jolie is a “supermum”. She was “public enemy number one”, when she first hooked up with Brad Pitt, who one married to “girl-next-door” Jennifer Aniston. Brad is best known the Most Fanciable Man in Film. Or superdad. Or one half of Brangelina.
For someone who speaks so often to celebrity magazines, Jennifer Aniston has so little new to tell us.
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Posted: 25th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Cashing In On Farrah Fawcett’s Death
FARRAH FAWCETT is dying. Her cancer is on the telly. Anorak’s Man in LA has more:
Friends of Farrah Fawcett tell us her passing is near. Her doctors confirm the sad inevitability. And as the brave, beautiful blonde takes her final breaths, the battles surrounding her are amped up amid the emotion and panic among her loved ones and those who want something from her alike. The friends and colleagues who’ve been kept away from Farrah since her longtime/sometimes lover Ryan O’Neal moved in and took over her affairs have taken to various websites and press releases with accusations that we can’t repeat unless or until we or someone who’s paid to do the work can prove them.
The most unseemly deathmatch is between the true Farrahcites, the network news buzzards who preach high standards yet grovel in the dirt as they ape the tabloid form in search of the next bug “get.” Word tonight is that the good folks at NBC and NBC News are in an uproar that old Barbara Walters and her crew at ABC’s 20/20 hijacked the sequel to their high-rating tabloid special “Farrah’s Story” for ABC’s own “Love Story,” set to air Friday night and getting a lot of play for Ryan O’Neal’s jocular announcement that he plans to marry Farrah on her deathbed if “maybe we can just nod her head.”
Tonight we hear that NBC’s biggest fear is that Farrah will pass away in the next 48 hours, leading to giant ratings for ABC. So NBC plans to counter-program with three primetime hours of Farrah Fawcett on Friday night, rerunning “Farrah’s Story,” the maudlin, morbid tale helmed by and starring Ryan O’Neal, followed by a “special” one-hour retrospective on Farrah’s life hosted by Meredith Vieira.
This is not tribute. This is not homage to a princess. One insider tells TabloidBaby what it is: “NBC is looking to crush ABC.”
“Farrah’s Story,” you’ll remember, was a two-hour recut of the cancer journal documentary Farrah had produced with producer Craig Nevius. But as her condition worsened, O’Neal took over not only her affairs but the doco, pushing Nevius aside (Nevius sued), and with the help of the heavy hands at NBC Dateline, turning Farrah’s story into Ryan’s real-life Love Story.
Farrah’s journals, we’re told, are being turned into a book by Alana Stewart, her friend who helped film much of Farrah’s treatment at cancer clinics in Germany, and who later sided with O’Neal in the doco heist after demanding a fat payoff for her work. The book, we’re told will be announced after Farrah’s passing, “for maximum effect.”
April 2nd, 2009:
– TB
Posted: 25th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Pictures Of Neda Soltan And Neda Soltani
NEDA Agha-Soltan, aka Neda Agha Soltani (who is alive), is the unwitting face of Iran’s revolution II. And now the media are getting to know her, and owning her. First up, getting her name right.
Iranians are looking not to Barack Obama but Neda Soltani for inspiration in their power struggle with the regime.
Her death may be a “divine calling.” Yes, this is what her name means in Persian. Some say, everything is written, our lives, and our destiny.
The name Neda translates into “The Call” in Farsi.
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Posted: 25th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
Miley Cyrus Does Soft Porn
MILEY Cyrus is growing up, and what does a soon-to-be-fomer underage teen star does when she wants to develope her career?
Well, Adam Shankman, the director of Miley’s film has lent her ahelping hand by posted this image on his Twitter page. And lest you think the pocure a soft porn shot, or a perlude to a harder porn shot, Shankman (nominative determinism again) explains:
“Miley is a sweet angel who works tirelessly and endlessly, and is allowed to have fun in the make up room! Seriously! Lighten up or no more behind the scenes pics! She’s like my angel little sister.“
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Posted: 24th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Katie Price Twitters Her Twat To Tiny Peter Andre
PETER Andre and Jordan Watch: Katie Price is back in the UK, Jordan calls Pete a c*** and becomes a tiny role model…
Daily Mirror (front pages): “WARNING: THIS WOMAN IS BACK IN BRITAIN”
Can’t Katie Price be added to the list of undesirables?
The Sun: “The Twitter batter of Tiny Pete”
More than 196,000 fans have signed up to read Price’s Twitter comments. Who knew there were so many journalists – but that’s blogging for you.
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Posted: 24th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (15)
Barack Obama’s Secret Picture Gallery 2
AFTER the Barack Obama’s Secret Picture Gallery we bring you the second album. These are pictures from Obama’s White House Flikr stream.
Barack Obama is transparent. He is almost see through. If you hold him up to the light you just see more light.
Posted: 22nd, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (4)
Prince William’s Tampon Tennis
PRINCE William and gelfriend Kate Middleton are holidaying under the names Mr and Mrs Smith. This, says the Sun, is to ensure that when they arrived with their armed escorts, drivers, valets, maids and facilitators they blend in with the hotel’s staff.
That’s Wills stood by that ginger lad in the baseball cap and his braying chums playing rugger on the sands in readiness for war in Iraq.
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Posted: 22nd, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (18)
Katie Price Is Dead And Peter Andre Weeps
KATIE Price is dead and Jordan rises from the dusty rack of the clothes at the back of the cupboard, resurrected like a zombie that thanks to lashing of silicon, collagen and wood stain will never age. She remains impervious – and impermeable – to change.
So who does the press cover this waking of the dead?
Sun (front page): “Jordan’s mum: Pete’s a cry baby”
Beside a picture of Jordan’s smiling mum, Amy, readers learn:
But Amy, 56, sneered: “He wanted this divorce, he instigated it, and he got what he wanted. So why is he upset? He’s crying. That’s normal, he’s emotional.” She added: “Katie’s fine.”
Peter Andre “normal”, says Jordan mum!
What about the Star, can it imptove the narrative?
Daily Star: “Jordan club attack terror”
Having survived a threat to be cut up by Jordan, Jessica Brown continues to track the most evil woman on the face of the Earth:
Hate-figure Jordan came under attack yesterday by a gang of drunken clubbers who screamed at her: “We love Pete!”
Given that Jordan is pictured looking like a copper-finished, fossilised version of Rachel Welch in One Million Years BC, that headline club promised much.
And the new man in her life – hunky Anthony Lowther, 28 – dressed as Tarzan to show off his bulging muscles.
The attention-seeking couple caused a storm in the Boho club – finding themselves the target of ridicule.
One girl started singing: “Who let the dogs out?” and another shouted within earshot of Jordan: “Ain’t you a bit old to be in that swimsuit, love?”
Revenge is dish best served in print, with quotes gleaned from anonymous sources.
What about this news man, Andrew Lowther, he of the bulbous chests and Tango-toned skin?
Daily Mirror: “Jordan’s latest guy Anthony Lowther tells about holiday affair and hard partying”
Tom Bryant tells us:
Speaking at 4am from the BoHo club in San Antonio, 28-year-old model Anthony said: Were having great time together. I really love her, shes a very sexy girl. Everyone’s saying were boyfriend and girlfriend but were just having a bit of fun.
So the man with the excitable hair and the hairless and braless chests is not her boyfriend?
As the Sun’s glassy-eyed Alex West says:
JORDAN’S hunky new fella spoke for the first time about their holiday fling yesterday and admitted: “She’s really sexy.”
But 6ft 2in Anthony Lowther – dressed as a CAVEMAN for a wild club night out – said he found it “scary” to be described as the busty glamour girl’s boyfriend.
Over in the Mail, the mood is of deep shame and disgust:
“She needn’t have bothered with her cover-up, which was hardly suitable for a day out. The loosely crocheted shawl hid nothing from view, as attention-seeking Katie probably intended.”
See pictures of Jordan, which allow Mail readers to be disgusted in the privacy of their own loos. See pictures of Jordan everywhere.
Posted: 22nd, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)
Iran Kicks Out BBC Reporter Jon Leyne, And Neda Dies
IRAN has turned on the BBC and kicked reporter Jon Leyne out of the country, and Neda dies:
“With regret, Jon Leyne, the BBC’s permananent correspondent in Tehran, has been asked to leave by the Iranian authorities. The BBC office remains open,” a brief statement from the broadcaster said.
Iran’s Fars news agency said Leyne had been ordered to leave the country within 24 hours and that he had been accused of “supporting the rioters”.
Not good news for Jon Leyne, but the troubles in Iran are being played out not on the BBC but on YouTube and Twitter. But what it needs is someone of Leyne’s calibre to make sense of it. As he says:
It is difficult to get any reliable picture of the scale of the protests in Tehran, let alone the whole country..
Make no mistake, President Ahmadinejad still has plenty of supporters. They turned out in large numbers in the victory rally he held in central Tehran on Sunday afternoon.
He has focused his rhetoric on foreign governments and the international media, blaming them for stirring up the trouble.
There is a danger now that the two sides could come to blows.
On YouTube, you can watch the death of “Neda”, a young Iranian woman allegedly shot in Tehran a Basij.
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Posted: 21st, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Detectives Identify Madeleine McCann Murderer
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news – Raymond Hewlett’s alibi forgets and a new murder suspect…
Remember Raymond Hewlett, the “””Maddie paedo”””? Well, forget about him. There’s a new suspect. It’s the Third Summer of Maddie – If you whisper it, they will print it.
Sky News: Madeleine Hunt Targets Murder Suspect
Private detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann want to speak to a man who is currently on remand in a British jail, it has been revealed.
A hospital dweller and now a prisoner. These detectives always track down their man.
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Posted: 21st, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (13)
Katie Price Erases Her Peter Andre Tattoo
KATIE Price has a Peter Andre tattoo. No, not an actual life-size tattoo of Peter Andre on her Jordans – just his name on her wrist.
Or at least she did have. The Mail says the tattoo might have been erased.
Katie Price was spotted wearing a mysterious bandage over a tattoo of estranged husband Peter Andre’s name today.
During a shopping trip in Ibiza town, the model popped into the Inkadelic tattoo parlour and left wearing a blue bandage over her wrist.
Katie, who split with the Aussie singer a month ago, had a tattoo of a the word ‘Pete‘ surrounded by hearts, a crown and the name ‘Princess’, after their one-year-old daughter.
Has the “Pete” tattoo has been removed, or reconfigured to say:
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Posted: 20th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Soccersexual Cristiano Ronaldo’s Hotel Date Tells All
THE British media’s fascination with Cristiano Ronaldo shows no sign of abating as the Sun features “TWO girls” who “dirty danced” for the Real Madrid w*nker.
ALLISON AIMEE, 26, and SUZANNE COPPIN, 32, flirted with the footie ace in his hotel bar.
They then went back to his room — and left at 4am as he was snogging a THIRD girl on the sofa.
So rather than talking with the thirtysomething who now carries a trophy-sized smudge of Touche Eclat on her top lip, the Sun cops an eyeful of Allison on LA’s Venice Beach, who opines:
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Five Ways Andy Murray Can Win Wimbledon
WITH Rafael Nadal out and Cliff Richard muted by the rain-proof roof over Wimbledon’s Centre Court, Andy Murray is edging closer to the Wimbledon title, this nation’s first since Harvey Templeton-Peck won it on horseback in 1786.
But what can we do to help Murray win the day? It’s pretty clear that what stands between Murray and a chance to introduce the ballgirls to the Dukd of Kent is Roger Federer, all flicky hair and too-close together eyes of Swiss precision.
Anorak delivers our Top Five Tips for Murray Success.
Kipling Test
The doyennes of the All England Club can introduce their much-vaunted Kipling Test – can Roger Federer recite all the verses he passes on the walk from changing room to court? If he can’t he’s out. It’s all about standards, dear boy.
The Blonde
With her long blonde hair, longer legs and over-sized sunglasses Andy Murray’s girlfriend is the ultimate in court-side chic. So says the Mail, which gives a heads up to cameramen looking to fill those frequent breaks in play and moments before and after a big point with a hot of a blonde. Kim Sears fits the bill. And if she can keep Murray lean and hungry his hope can only be increased.
Murray Maniacs
The Murray Maniacs are a chippier, less HRT-fed lot than the Henmanics, Tim Henman’s band of sectioned supporters. But they do have one advantage: less letters means lee T-shirts and less time spent organising people to stand in line to spell out their hero’s name when the valuable minutes could be spent chanting. Murr-eeee fits neatly with the Timm-eeee call, but Anorak suggests a twist and shortening Murray to Muzz, so creating the Muzz Buzz, a slow hissing fizz that at moments of tension causes Federer to believe he is under attack from angry wasps.
The System
The introduction of the esoteric Duckworth Lewis System has made one-day cricket a lottery. With just a few games played, the onset of rain or failing light could see Federer needing to win 17 games in a row inside 34 minutes.
Scotland Expects
Hiring the Scottish football team to Train Murray, thus ensuring the Muzz never hits a ball into the net no matter how hard he tries.
Come on, Murray!
Posted: 20th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Che Guevara Is Peta’s Dumb Animal Of The Month
THAT’S Lydia Guevara, granddaughter of Ernesto “Che” Guevara working the carrot ammo belt for PETA in Argentina, home of the gaucho grill.
The campaign’s tag line: “Join the vegetarian revolution.”
Like Che:
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of ‘The Che Guevara Myth,’ says that Che was in reality the architect of Cuba’s infamous labor camps, which housed dissidents, gays, and devout Catholics. He was also a sadist who loved to simulate executions as a form of torture.
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Leighton Meester Sex Tape Uncensored
THANKS to news of an uncensored sex tape – yeah, it’s Fathers’ Day (get one for dear old dad to go with the book) – Leighton Meester, star of the TV show Gossip Girl, is famous the internet over. I
We’ve received so many sex tapes that the jaded viewer requires the actress to do something new, show some real talent. And this tape is said to feature 23-year-old Leighton in a scene “involving her very talented feet.”
Meenster’s other notable claim on fame is that she was born in a jail. Her mother was serving time in a state prison in Texas for smuggling marijuana when she gave birth. She was released 16 months later and went on to raise Leighton.
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Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Madeleine McCann And Raymond Hewlett’s White Van
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news – Raymond Hewlett’s white van and James Bone Damman, and more jokes…
Daily Mirror: “MADDY’S MAN LIE – Paedo’s story falling apart”
Raymond Hewlett faces more questioning over missing Madeleine McCann
While all other papers lads with news of the “black out” of MPs expenses, the Labour Party-supporting Daily Mirror leads with news of Raymond Hewlett and Madeleine McCann. Such is the papers desire for, er, justice.
Pervert Raymond Hewlett’s lies were unravelling last night as he faced renewed questioning over missing Madeleine McCann.
What lies? Can the Mirror prove Hewlett has lied? What say the paper’s lawyers?
The convicted paedophile rekindled suspicion after it was revealed he tried to mislead detectives over the vehicle he was driving at the time the youngster vanished.
Which detectives – private or the police?
He claimed he only had one motor – a blue Dodge truck. And he said it was so distinctive that he could not have driven into Praia da Luz in May 2007 without being spotted. But now a former friend has dramatically come forward to say Hewlett was lying.
He actually owned a white Mercedes van at the time – similar to one seen parked near the McCanns’ apartment before Madeleine disappeared.
What white Mercedes seen parked near the McCanns’ apartment “before” Madeleine disappeared? And how soon before was it spotted there? The Mirror does not are to say.
As Sky news told us:
“One report suggests he was sitting in a small, white van. Police have got a good description of the man: about 5ft 8in tall, between 30 and 35, not Portuguese according to one of the witnesses, wearing a blue jacket and white trousers.”
The Telegraph added:
Mr Flack, a freelance engineer designer from Ilford in Essex, has a holiday home in Praia da Luz, near the McCann’s family’s apartment at the Ocean Club resort.
On either May 2 or 3 last year – the day Madeleine disappeared – he saw a man standing near a dirty white van, staring intently at the couple’s ground floor veranda.
He said he noticed that the man – aged between 25 and 35, tanned, medium height, with thick dark hair and fringe – was behaving oddly.
So back to 30-ish Hewlett, lionine-haired Hewlett and the white van…
Ex-Scots Guard Peter Verran, 46, decided to contact the Maddy inquiry team after being disturbed by Hewlett’s claims in our sister paper, the Sunday Mirror.
Mr Verran, who befriended Hewlett on a campsite in Morocco in June 2007, said: “He told me he owned a white Transit-type van before his blue Dodge truck. He said he’d swapped it for the Dodge in order to leave Portugal and travel to Morocco.
“The white van didn’t have enough room for the whole family, so he sold it to a pal who traded on the same market as him in Fuzeta, about 40 miles from Praia da Luz.”
The white van…
According to Mr Verran, Hewlett also said that he had driven from Portugal’s Algarve to Spain in the Mercedes van around the time Madeleine vanished. But Hewlett, who was living near Praia da Luz, insisted recently that he only had the Dodge truck.
So he had a rare white van, maybe. Does this mean Hewlett’s “lies are unravelling” as the Mirror stats?
A source close to the Maddy inquiry team said yesterday: “This new information could be very significant. Hewlett has repeatedly said that he could not have been at the scene without someone remembering his distinctive truck. But if he was driving a Mercedes van at the time, his reasoning is shot to pieces.”
So the detectives will now be able to try and track down this van, right? And get some evidence firstly of a crime having been committed and secondly of a suspect. In the meanwhile, it’s all speculation.
Meanwhile, in othe news, too many of our politicans are lying, cheating, grasping scumbags – something the Mirror missed…
Update – Times:
The FBI last night squelched the claim by a Michigan man that he was the victim of an infamous child abduction on New York’s Long Island more than half a century ago.
The FBI said that DNA tests proved that John Barnes was not Steven Damman, the two-year-old child snatched outside a grocery shop on the afternoon of Hallowe’en 1955 while he waited with his little sister Pamela for their mother buy a loaf of bread…
Steven Damman’s disappearance was the Madeleine McCann case of its day, sparking front-page headlines and a nationwide search for the missing boy.
Sometimes these things never end…
Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (25)
Google Street View Is For Sex: Gallery
GOOGLE Street View tells us as much about the streets we live in as it does abaut what interests the kind of people who drive cars about filming people and tarmac.
In this image from Google Street View, the driver of a Transit Connect is seen talking with a young woman in very short shorts – possibly a thiong (use zoom lens) and small top.
The rest of our gallery shows direstion to the driver’s brain:
The Weirdest Vending Machines Dispense Gold, Drugs, Used Panties And Breasts
IN GERMANY, shoppers and any waiting for a train or plane can buy gold from vending machines.
TG-Gold-Super-Markt wants to place machines at 500 locations in Germany to cater for anyone desperate to buy gold at around 30 per cent higher than the spot market prices for the cheapest product.
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Posted: 18th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comment (1)
