Madeleine McCann: Exclusive Interview With New Paedo Suspect

MADELEINE McCann Watch: Having re-established Our Maddie as a lead news story, the Sun sends Alex West  to Germany to interview Raymond Hewlett…

The Sun has managed to catch up with wheelchair rider and cancer patient Raymond Hewlett at a hospital. Having tracked down the man a couple of days after German tabloid Bild interviewed him and he agreed to speak with the McCanns’ detectives, the Sun reacts:

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Posted: 27th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (36)

Madeleine McCann: Kidnapper Located

MADELEINE McCann Watch: Having re-established Our Maddie as a lead news story, the Daily Express delivers a front-page headline to match anything that has passed as news before:

MADDIE: ‘SNATCHER’ LIVES ONLY 500 YARDS FROM THE FLAT

Nick Fagge and Martin Evans deliver the killer facts. Not only was Madeleine McCann “SNATCHED” – Fact! – but the SNATCHER lives – not lived; lives! – a short distance from the McCanns’ holiday flat.

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Posted: 27th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (7)

Madeleine McCann: Calling Cindy and Alan Thompson

MADELEINE MCCANN’S lastest crack team of private detectives are on the trail of Raymond Hewlett, who can’t be hard to catch because he’s in a German hospital undergoing treatment for throat cancer.

The reasons why the tecs want to speak with Hewlett are:

1. It keeps Our Maddie in the news

2. They want to know if he took her

3. They are acting on information received from Alan and Cindy Thompson

4. Why not?

5. He’s a convicted paedo.

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Posted: 26th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (14)

Raymond Hewlett Is Today’s Madeleine McCann Victim

MADELEINE McCann Watch: convicted paedo Raymond Hewlett agrees to meet McCanns’ detectives…

The Sun screams: “Paedo Hewlett says he will talk”

Says Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCanns – no longer suspects in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine McCann but who, nonetheless, retain a PR to offer this no comment-comment on Raymond Hewlett:

“The investigators are pleased to hear that Mr Hewlett has agreed to speak to them.

“An interview with him will be arranged and will take place in due course.

“We will not be going into public detail about where or when that interview will take place.”

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Posted: 26th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (6)

Madeleine McCann: An Interview With Raymond Hewlett

BILD, the German tabloid, has spoken with Raymond Hewlett, the convicted paedophile, about being on the Madeleine McCann radar.

Interestingly, the paper blurs a  picture of his face. Innocent until proven guilty? Well, in Germany, it would seem so. But in the UK..?

BILD: How are you?

RH: “Not very good, more like bad!”

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Posted: 25th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (24)

Madeleine McCann: The Third Summer of Maddy

IT’S the media’s Third Summer of Madeleine McCann – and the current subject is Raymond Hewlett…

Mirror (front page): “TRACE HIS CALLS.”

Ryan Parry and Stephen Moyes are in Aachen, Germany, where Raymond Hewlett is undergoing treatment for throat cancer.

Madeleine McCann cops ask couple who raised alarm about paedophile Ray Hewlett if they have his mobile number

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Posted: 25th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (32)

Madeleine McCann: Three New British Suspects

IT’S the media’s Summer of Maddy – and the media is watching the McCanns’ detectives watching “paedo” Raymond Hewlett…

In the News of the World, Keith Gladdis delivers:

“Maddie suspect’s past fits crime“

Says the cracker:

A COP who interrogated Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett says the case carries all the hallmarks of the sick sex beast.

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Posted: 24th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (12)

Madeleine McCann: McCanns Want Hewlett To Co-operate

IT’S the media’s Summer of Maddy – and Clarence Mitchell, Kate and Gerry McCann’s spokesman, is talking about Madeleine McCann and a Raymond Hewlett.

Mr Hewlett has denied any involvement in Madeleine’s abduction.

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Posted: 23rd, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (11)

Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett And Suspect Evidence

IT’S brewing up for Summer of Madeleine McCann in the media.

Yesterday the Sun (“MADDIE PEADO SUSPECT”) and Mail (“A NEW BRITISH SUSPECT”) led with news of a new line of enquiry. The Mirror went further and named “paedophile” Raymond Hewlett.

Hewlett is said to look like the picture of a suspect. But how many men don’t look like one of the suspects?

Clarence Mitchell has spoken of “operational issues” and that Mr Hewlett was of “interest to the investigation”. It is the language of the police adopted by a PR.

Hewlett told the paper that he is innocent. He says he was at a market 30 miles from Praia da Luz at the time when Madeleine McCann vanished. He then went to his “base” at Tavia, “an hour’s drive from Praia.

So the Mirror will leave a man alone – leave him to the investigators. Or…

The Mirror: “MADELEINE POLICE PAEDO QUIZ”

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Posted: 23rd, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (15)

Madeleine McCann And The Paedo Priests

IT’S Tabloid Bingo time, readers – see if you can put these two stories of Madeleine McCann and Catholic priests together and make a new more exciting story:

Hundreds of Catholic priests ‘to be implicated in child abuse report’

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Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (7)

Madeleine McCann Blamed For Falling Euro

OFF to Portugal for your jolly holidays this year, readers? But be warned, the news is of the Madeleine McCann effect.

As the Mail says:

The ‘Madeleine McCann Effect’ is still hitting holiday bookings to Portugal more than two years after the little girl disappeared there.

The number of Britons booking holidays to Portugal this summer has plunged 30 per cent according to one British holiday company.

And it’s all because Madeleine McCann went missing.

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Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (29)

United In Mourning For Missing Madeleine McCann, One Of Many

MADELEINE McCann: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the missing child in the news – with new clues, shared grief and a promise of tears…

Daily Star: “MADDIE: NEW CLUES TO SPOTTY PROWLER”

DETECTIVES hunting Maddie McCann say they may have identified a prowler seen outside her apartment on the night she was snatched.

The man with the spotty face – the face that once seen would be hard to forget? And when did the man, reportedly, seen standing about become a “prowler”?

Investigators working for Kate and Gerry McCann claim releasing a photofit of the spotty-faced man seen watching their holiday home has resulted in a host of new leads – and even a name.

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Posted: 19th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (13)

Shannon Matthews Teddy Bear Related To Madeleine McCann Cuddle Cat

KAREN Matthews – Kate McCann wannabe – is the subject of a TV documentary.

And you need to watch the show because Sky tells us:

The jailed mother of Shannon Matthews is convinced by her own lies, a documentary will suggest tonight.

Convinced. Suggest. Two words that don’t sit comfortably together. But what of the news that the woman serving an eight year sentence for kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice thinks she is innocent?

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Posted: 18th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (25)

Facebook Jokes About Madeleine McCann

THE Liverpool Echo brings news of Our Maddie – Madeleine McCann:

LIVERPOOL schoolchildren have been caught leaving obscene messages about Madeleine McCann on a social networking site. It has led to one pupil, who clearly stated his link to a leading city school, being investigated by horrified staff.

What was said?

Facebook group Let’s Not Give Up On Madeleine McCann has more than 13,000 international members keen to show their support for the missing child.

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Posted: 16th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (6)

Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann And Gerry McCann Sue Goncalo Amaral

MADELEINE McCANN: The parents of Madeleine McCann are suing the
former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral.

Over the newswires, a statement by Kate and Gerry McCann:

“We – together with our three children Madeleine, Sean and Amelie – are taking this legal action against Goncalo Amaral over his entirely unfounded and grossly defamatory claims -made in all types of media, both within Portugal and beyond – that Madeleine is not only dead, but that we, her parents, were somehow involved in concealing her body.”

It had to happen. The McCanns are innocent. Amaral is acting on a hunch. If he had proof that Madeleine McCann is dead – let alone that she died in the family holidy flat; let alone that crime has been committed –  he would have presented a case against them.

Instead he has become a celebrity. He wrote a book – The Truth of the Lie – and featured in a television documentary.

The statement continues:

“The primary reason for our legal action is simple: to stop any negative effect that these absurd and deeply hurtful claims may be having on the ongoing search for Madeleine.

“We can no longer stand back and watch as Mr Amaral tries to convince the entire world that Madeleine is dead.

“Nor can we allow this blatant injustice to Madeleine, with its obvious risk of hindering our attempts to find her, to continue.

“Mr Amaral’s entirely unjustified claims have not only brought indescribable devastation and suffering to our lives, they have hugely compounded the already immense pain and anxiety we have endured since Madeleine’s abduction.”

We have been here before. And the McCanns have won before.

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Madeleine McCann: Police Errors, Kate And Gerry McCann Speak, And Amaral’s Book
Madeleine McCann: Selling Amaral’s Opinion As Faction
Madeleine McCann: The Maddie Crunch, Goncarlo Amaral’s Interview And Lawyers
Madeleine McCann: The Truth Of The Lie, The Missing Pages And Blonde Lawyers

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Posted: 16th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (126)

Hundreds Of British People Missing Overseas

UNDER the Freedom Of Information Act, the BBC learns from the Foreign Office that 145 Britons were missing abroad at the end of 2008.

2008: 481 new cases reported. At end of year, a running total of 145 cases remained open

2007: 401 new cases reported. At end of year, a running total of 41 cases remained open

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Posted: 13th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment

Madeleine McCann: Police Let Kidnapper Go

MADELEINE McCANN Watch: In which Mr Scar Face is named and detectives find five new suspects..

Daily Star: “MADDIE COPS SNUBBED ME OVER SPOTTY”

THE key witness who saw the spotty man suspected of snatching Madeleine McCann says she was ignored by bungling police.

Of him – WTF! Face, the latest and ugliest suspect do far. So who is the women who saw the unforgettable face of the man?

The creepy character was seen watching the McCanns’ holiday apartment three days before the youngster was abducted. The British tourist witness, 36, was so spooked by the sinister stranger she pulled her three-year-old daughter away from him.

Because he was trying to get her?

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Posted: 12th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (62)

Madeleine McCann: A New Suspect

MADELEINE MCCANN Watch: In which Scarface is spotted, a suspect sex change and enjoying Princess Diana…

Daily Star: “HELP US TRACE MADDIE SUSPECT, SAY MCCANNS”

THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann are praying that a suspect dubbed “Scarface” will be found within days.

Given the look of contestants on Britain’s Got Talent, they could do worse then stay in and wait.

Investigators working for doctors Kate and Gerry are believed to have been offered names for the pock-marked man.

Scab Face
WTF!
Moon Man
E.T.
Beam Me Up Spotty
Gaston

A source close to the McCanns said: “We need the people of Portugal to help. Someone in the country knows who this man is and where he might be found.”

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Posted: 11th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (7)

Madeleine McCann: The McCann’s Documentary Video

Madeleine McCann: The McCann’s Documentary Video:

What is the point of showing Kate McCann and her twins? Does that bring her missing daughter back?

Let’s have a heated debate…

Anorak

Posted: 9th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (15)

Pictures Of All The Madeleine McCann Suspects

MADELEINE McCann Watch: In which Anorak looks at the efits and suspects so far…

The Spotty Weirdo

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Posted: 7th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (52)

Madeleine McCann: The Story In Pictures

MADELEINE MCCANN – ever since Madeleine McCann went missing and the single thread story began to be spun by a voracious media, taken up by a mawkish commentariat and vain MPs, enjoyed by armchair detectives and turned into a public spectacle, Anorak has followed the story of the girl who became the media’s Our Maddie.

We now bring you the Madeleine McCann story in pictures:

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Posted: 7th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (15)

Madeleine McCann: Oprah Winfrey Community Blames McCanns

MADELEINE McCann Watch: Introducing Daniel Morcombe and Oprah’s online community point the finger at the McCanns…

Brisbane Times: “’Keep searching’ Morcombes tell McCanns”

The disappearances of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe and British toddler Madeleine McCann, who vanished in completely different circumstances and different time zones, have drawn together families both desperate for closure…

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Posted: 6th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (40)

Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s Coma Nightmare

MADELEINE McCann Watch: In which Kate McCann cries for Oprah’s fans…

TWO years of Madeleine McCann news and the Daily Mirror delivers this front-page headline:

“I wish I was in a coma”

This is “Sobbing Kate” McCann. This is “Haunted Kate McCann”.

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Posted: 5th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (17)

Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s ‘Life Sentence’

MADELEINE McCann Watch: In which Our Maddie on on the telly and forgets her name…

Daily Mirror: “KATE AND GERRY: IT’S A LIFE SENTENCE – Hunt for Madeleine will never end”

Well, surely it will end when she is found?

Rod Chaytor has the front-page “exclusive”.

Kate and Gerry McCann are doomed to spend a lifetime hunting for their missing daughter Madeleine, a friend revealed yesterday.

The friend is…

Film director Emma Loach, who spent eight weeks with the couple for a new TV documentary, says they will never give up.

Emma Loach whose work will be broadcast on Channel 4. Does the subject matter influence the PR?

Says Emma:

“This is a life sentence for them. They will never be able to move on and the deep scar will not heal until they have an answer… either Maddy comes home or they know what happened to her.”

So not what the Mirror’s headline said. The hunt will end when the child is found. And as for that “exclusive”? Well, Anorak readers read that yesterday…

Such are the facts.

In other facts, the Mail and Sun hear from Professor David Canter:

The Mail delivers:

Madeleine McCann may have forgotten who she was, claims top criminal expert – Madeleine McCann may not remember who she is two years on from vanishing during a family holiday to Portugal, a British crime expert believes.

More facts?

The British girl, just three when she disappeared, could have a new identity and speak a different language, according to the top criminologist…

‘You could call out Madeleine to her and she wouldn’t respond. She doesn’t remember being that child,’ he said.

Professor Canter said Maddie could be anywhere in the world, speaking a different language and looking completely different to how we know her.

We’ve heard from Professor Canter before:

DAILY MAIL front page: “Five top British crime experts went to Portugal to examine the Maddie case. What is their verdict…?”

A verdict? No body. No arrest made. No court case. Just a verdict. And from “crime experts”…

Pages 18 and 19: “THE MADDIE FILES – Five of Britain’s top crime experts were sent to Portugal to give their verdicts on the McCann case. Here they reveal their deeply disturbing conclusions…”

Who sent these sleuths? The British police? Richard Branson? The Pope? No – Channel 4’s Dispatches. The Madeleine McCann mystery is a media circus, so what more fitting than the TV as a courtroom and arbiter of justice?

The Mail’s Roger Graef presides. He says that under Portuguese law, the age of consent is 13 (“between couples of the same age”). It’s not, yer honour. It is 14. “Portugal has many more paedophiles than it cares to admit.” How many? We do not know. It pains Graef to divulge the hideous details. But there have been two cases of child abduction in the past 15 years over there

The crackers are THE CRIMINAL PROFILER (David Canter), THE SEARCH EXPERT (Gary Lig), THE FORENSIC ANALYST (David Barclay), THE SOHAM DETECTIVE (Chris Stevenson) and THE MEDIA HANDLER (Matt Tapp).

They unearth no new clues, no new evidence, no new ideas. But they get to be on the telly and in the papers. And then they return to the UK to crack other cases, like the murder of Rhys Jones, the whereabouts of Suzy Lamplugh, the capture of Osama bin Laden, the wheabout of the UK’s most wanted Paul Bures “wanted in relation to multiple charges of Rape and Sexual assault on male children aged 13-16 years. He currently resides in Spain”) and…

Madeleine McCann is missing – but if you wait long enough the story will roll around again…

Two years of news here.

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Posted: 4th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (26)

Madeleine McCann:Tunnels Under Praia And A New Theory

MADELEINE McCann: Hidden in tunnels, alive in America and a new theory…

Daily Express (front page): “MADDIE: DID SHE VANISH IN MAZE OF TUNNELS?”

Dunno? Did she?

“TUNNELS BENEATH RESORT MAY BE CLUE TO MYSTERY”

James Murray investigates a phone call:

Secret tunnels beneath the Portuguese seaside town where Madeleine McCann vanished two years ago today may hold the key to her disappearance.

The tunnels, dating back to Roman times, have never been thoroughly searched, despite repeated requests.

Documents in Portuguese police files, published today for the first time, suggest a vital line of inquiry was ignored and have led to fresh calls for a proper investigation into the tunnels…

Anorak

Posted: 3rd, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (31)