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Madeleine McCann: As A Ward Of Court Will Our Maddie Reappear Only To Vanish Again?
MADELEIENE McCann: How would the Metropolitan Police deal with Dr. Gerry and Dr. Kate McCann if they again demand answers and ask to see the evidence?
Almost three years ago and after the Portuguese Police had removed the Arguido (suspect) stigma from them, the couple tried to force Leicestershire police to hand over files which the police team, then co-operating with Portuguese police, was suspected to have amassed.
The action was brought by the parents acting in the name of missing daughter Madeleine. It was said to be so they could then hand the files to their private detectives – a company called Metodo 3.
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Posted: 17th, May 2011 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (12)
Madeleine McCann: Facing Facts With Lee Rainbow
MADELEINE McCann: Times is hard and members of the Metropolitan Police Force’s Governing body are rightly upset and confused by UK Premier David Cameron’s request the London Woodentops carry out a review of the strange case of missing child Madeleine McCann.
They want to know who is going to foot the bill? That answer is easy…everyone.
Cameron’s decision to involve Scotland Yard was defended by Downing Street officials as a whirlwind of complaint struck with cries of “Foul” around claims intervention was a “PR exercise”. Others say the move could take years and cost millions.
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Posted: 15th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann Comments (18)
Madeleine McCann: Leicestershire Police, Jet Trips And Maddie Cops
MADELEINE McCann has not been in the news much of late. But the Mirror can now report that “Maddy cops £22K bill for 196 jet trips”.
Yep, just over £112 for each flight, or jet trip, as the Mirror calls travelling by air. Nto much when you look at like that. But, still, where did the “Maddie cops” fly and what did they discover?
The flights were taken to Portugal by Leicestershire Constabulary from May 2007 to July 2008. The exact cost was £22,055.
The force said:
“Officers used budget airlines.”
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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (3)
Ian Huntley, Jon Venables, Roy Whiting In ‘Hot Jam’ Murder Plot: In Pictures
CHILD killers Ian Huntley, Jon Venables and Ray Whiting are in the news. Whiting killed Sarah Payne. Huntley killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Venables killed James Bulger. And here’s a link…
Yesterday the Star told readers that “lags have vowed to gouge out the eyes” of Whiting.
In pictures: The Soham Case & Investigation
A search of Whiting’s cell turned up newspaper cuttings about Sarah and “other young girls”. A prison source offers:
“They reckon is someone gouges out his eyeballs, he won’t be able to look at any more pictures.”
They can’t be certain. But they reckon…
This echoes the news that prisoners had placed a bounty on the head of Shannon Matthews’ mum, Karen Matthews. The Sun told us:
The reward for beating up Meehan is, reportedly, ten ounces of “prison baccy – worth about £8.”
The Star trumped that:
SHANNON Matthews’ mum was banged up on a prison’s isolation wing last night after lags put a bounty on her head – of 10 cigarettes. The promise of the Lambert & Butler fags was enough to have most of the 442 queuing to attack Karen Matthews.
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Posted: 23rd, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comments (21)
Sahil Saeed: Timeline Of A Curious Story
SAHIL Saeed: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the British boy from kidnapped from his granny’s house in Pakistan as he and his father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, were nearing the end of a holiday. The kidnappers wanted £100,000 for the boy.
Missing five-year-old Sahil Saeed has been found safe and well in Pakistan – and was reportedly handed to authorities “four to five days ago”.
Sahil Saeed – A Strange Affair – in pictures
So, Sky News was right when it said he’d been found on March 11.
On Friday a Pakistani government minister Rana Sanaullah told Sky News the young boy had been found, a week after he was reported missing. But the law minister later retracted his account, and apologised for his “mistake”. He has now told Sky’s Alex Crawford his initial statement was correct.
Reports suggest Sahil was found in Dinga, only 20 miles from his grandma’s home.
THE TIMELINE
March 3
On the last day of his holidays, Sahil Saeed and his dad Raja Naqqash Saeed are attacked by men armed with guns and grenades at the home of the boy’s grandma in Jhelum. In a six-hour ordeal, Raja is tortured.
March 4
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Sahil Saeed: ‘Suspect’ Raja Saeed Arrives Home
SAHIL Saeed: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the kidnapped Oldham child with the £100,000 ransom on his head in the news…
The Sun: “Kidnap lad’s missing dad was ‘in on plot’
Can Sahil Saeed be this year’s Shannon Matthews, the Dewsbury girl ‘kidnapped’ by her own family in a scam for cash? Mr Raja Seeed is innocent. But that Sun headline is suggestive of more:
Suspicion fell on dad Raja Saeed after he defied detectives in Pakistan – where Sahil, five, was seized – and flew home to the UK.
Sahil Saeed – A Strange Affair
So he is back in the UK. Sky News was wrong when it claimed Mr Saeed had not returned home but had remained in Pakistan. The Telegraph said he “flees” that country.
Witnesses said Raja, 31, was met and escorted away by “men in suits” when he reached passport control at Manchester airport.
No, not tracksuits. Actual suits. In Manchester. Sounds suspicious, right?
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Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Reviews Comment (1)
Sahil Saeed: The Story So Far In Pictures, Speculation And Timeline
SAHIL Saeed is is still being held by kidnappers, says the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Those reports that he’d been found alive and well are wrong.
March 3
On the last day of his holidays, Sahil Saeed and his dad Raja Naqqash Saeed are attacked by men armed with guns and grenades at the home of the boy’s grandma in Jhelum. In a six-hour ordeal, Raja is tortured.
March 4
Sahil is kidnapped. Raja Naqqash Saeed claims that the villains want £100,000 ransom for Sahil’s safe return.
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Posted: 11th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comment (1)
Ryanair Scratchcard Winner Eats 10000 Euros
ABOARD a Ryanair plane from Poland to East Midlands airport, a man has won a scartchcard game. His prize: 10,000 euros. He then eats his winning ticket.
As anyone who has endured a Ryanair flight knows, the journey is peppered with offers to buy all manner of wonders – but not porn stars. Every so often the captain and his plane-mates pick up tinny instruments and with a blast of Speedy Gonzalez-style intro tell the seated that they can win big money.
Ryanair Offers Liverpool Flyers Emergency Landings And Chute Rides
Having been softened up by the bun-fight for seats, a hideous wait and frisking at the airport and the vague smell of sick, here is the chance to win money and thus afford to travel in something better than abattoir class.
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Posted: 26th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True Comment
I’m A Celebrity Schoolgirl Sam Fox Inspires Helen Flanagan’s ‘Vile Sex Secret’
What links I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’s Samantha Fox, Coronation Street’s Helen Flanagan, Shannon Matthews and “vile sex”?
THE News of The World says Coronation Street’s Helen Flanagan is on “top form” as she dressed in short schoolgirl skirt, long socks and sucks on a lollypop over a pushed up cleavage and school tie combo.
HERE’S a sight to make ’em sit up and pay attention at the back . . . it’s soap star Helen Flanagan back in her sexy schoolgirl routine…And she was lucky not to have been kept in after school – because she was a VERY naughty girl.
Can this be the same News of The World that brought us the Shannon Matthews’ story: “SHANNON MAN’S VILE SEX SECRET.”
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Posted: 15th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment
Madeleine McCann: Eddie The Dog, Haut de la Garenne And A Coconut
MADDYWATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann – with Eddie the death dog, Haut de la Garenne and scent of a coconut.
REMEMBER Eddie The Morbid, the sniffer dog who found the scent of death in the McCanns holiday apartment in Praia da Luz?
Scent of death was a phrases first introduced to reasders in September 2007, when the Daily Star reported:
“TOY HOLDS CLUE. British sniffer dogs found the scent of death on Madeleine’s favourite soft toy Cuddlecat, it was revealed.”
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Posted: 4th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comments (5)
Jack Tweed’s Suicide Watch With Jade Goody
JACK Tweed says he wants to kill himself. In “JACK: I WANT TO KILL MYSELF”, the News of The World places Mr Jade Goody on suicide watch – “nor death shall us part”.
Beneath a picture of Tweed, readers are told:
QUIET NIGHT IN: Prison beans and orange squash is far from Jack Tweed’s usual Champagne style
One would venture that Tweed is sipping on “prison orange squash”. But we should not interrupt the facts as Jack’s mum, Mary Tweed, tells her story to the tabloids, and so – finally! – welcomes a bona fide outlet of Jade Goody Industries.
THE distraught mum of rape charge widower Jack Tweed told yesterday of her torment at seeing her “baby” in prison and hearing him threaten to take his own life.
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Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts Comment
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:
Posted: 7th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (15)
MORE news on the Tabloids’ Suicide watch as the Mail cheers readers with news that “Love cheat MPs” are on “’suicide watch‘ as expense claims threaten to expose affairs”.
How the media loves a good suicide story. Having wished death on bankers, the Mail waits for MPs to kill themselves.
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Posted: 1st, May 2009 | In: Politicians Comment
HAVING negotiated the journey to fame and rehab, Susan Boyle is now staring death in the face.
Earlier Our Susan was in rehab, following a makeover. Now Susan Boyle moves onto Stage 3 of her media narrative: the decline.
Susan is being spoken about in the same breath as death. Who is death? No, it’s not Simon Cowell, who has had his maw darkened to make his teeth appear ever brighter.
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Posted: 27th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities Comments (8)
Madeleine McCann Spotted In Malta And Chicago
MADELEINE McCann has been spotted in Malta. Madeleine McCann has been spotted in Chicago, on the Oprah Winfrey TV show.So far, Madeleine has also been seen in: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Belgium, Bosnia, France, Australia, Brazil, Wales, Italy and Dorset. Now she’s in the US.
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Posted: 24th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (8)
Jade Goody’s Jack Tweed Is On Suicide Watch
BERFORE we get to the news that “Fragile” Jack Tweed, Mr Jade Goody, is on “suicide lag wing”, we introduce Sun scribes JAMES CLENCH and ANDY CRICK to nominative determinalism.
Clench and Crick tell us:
FRAGILE Jack Tweed has been locked in a tough jail’s secure hospital wing to protect him from hard-case lags, we can reveal. Bosses at Chelmsford Prison have put the terrified 21-year-old in a single cell alongside inmates on suicide watch amid fears he will be targeted.
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Posted: 16th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts Comments (13)
Madeleine McCann Spotted In Italy
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
The competition is – as ever – Tabloid Bingo – the writer’s challenge to link Madeleine McCann with any major news event. Your caller toay is MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN, of the Irish Times.
Irish Times: “An ogre of the Apennines called on L’Aquila”
Midst the ochre, azure, terracotta and mimosa, there are jagged black holes from which men, women and children are being pulled: barely alive, barely dead.
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Posted: 8th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (7)
Madeleine McCann: Murat, Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen And Jade Goody
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat, Lembit Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Jade Goody and a heated debate
AFTER a winter-long hibernation, Madeleine McCann returns to the newspapers and front-line debate.
The University of Cambridge’s organ tells its readers: “Robert Murat holds Cambridge Union spellbound in tabloids debate”
The debate, which brought together some famous names from the media, was notable for emotional highs and lows, as well as some colourful tabloid-style language and plenty of laughter.
Speaking for the motion were Michael White, Associate Editor of the Guardian, Robert Murat and his lawyer Louis Charalambous, and the Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik, whose personal life has regularly been splashed across the front pages of the tabloids.
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Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (12)
Madeleine McCann: David Peace’s West Riding Trilogy, Fact And Fiction
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann:
The Independent: “Red Riding: Yorkshire noir on TV – Channel 4’s trilogy of films based on David Peace’s ‘Yorkshire noir’ novels, will shock even seasoned viewers of crime drama, says Gerard Gilbert”
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Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Reviews Comments (4)
Alfie Patten And Chantelle Steadman: Gordon Brown Asks, Spice Girls To Blame And Jade Goody
ALFIE Patten, 13, claims to have fathered his inamorata Chantelle Steadman’s baby daughter, Maisie Roxanne in Eastbourne, Sussex. But Alfie might not be the daddy.
A DNA test will sort out the daddy from the boys, that gaggle of lads who claim to have squired the fragrant Chantelle, 15.
The papers have their latest story on Broken Britain, the grotesque world in which little girls have babies with little boys. And not just any babies, but healthy ones. On with the story. And eyes down for Tabloid Bingo:
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Posted: 18th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comments (16)
Green Shirt Offer: Save The Planet With The Earth S-Mother
JONATHAN Porritt, chair of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says “couples” who have more than two children are being “irresponsible”.
The third child creates “an unbearable burden on the environment”. So the third child has to go, for the good of mankind. Abortion for Mother Earth!
Says Porrrit:
“I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. It is the ghost at the table. We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don’t really hear anyone say the “p” word.”
The P word is of course Baby P. He is the ghost at the table, or one of them.
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Posted: 1st, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews Comment (1)
Baby Dump For Tired Mums And Dads
AFTER Baby P, Shannon Matthews and our Maddie, now this – the Baby Dump.
A shop.
Sick! Sick! Sick!
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Posted: 25th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews Comment
Revealed: Katie Price Is Mrs Ahmadinejad
“JORDAN’S a naughty schoolgirl,” says the Sun, which shows readers a picture of Katie Price and her slimmed down Jordans.
Readers will note that mature students dressing up as school girls turns men into pervs and paedos. We know this because the Sun and her sluttier sister organs have told us so:
Lily Cole: Playboy, Perverts And Peados
Shannon Matthews: The Psychic, The Reward, The Ex-Wife, The Kinky Sex, The Speculation
So what if Schooly Jordan turn you into a slavering sex case? Readers in OK! may recall how Jordan told one and all:
Jordan seems to be auditioning for the role of the next Mrs Ahmadinejad.
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Posted: 23rd, January 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment
Gordon Brown To Underwrite Madeleine McCann Entertainment Industry
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
WHAT’S ON STAGE: “New Spring Seasons Announced – Finborough Theatre and Southwark Playhouse”
South London venue the Sothwark Playhouse have announced their new spring season line-up which will follow on from a successful autumn season which saw the venue play host to a diverse range of shows including Moll Flanders, Unstated and Shakespeare’s R & J.
Bravo!
The new season will include the return of new writing theatre company Nabokov with further instalments of their Present Tense series in February and April. The series unites top talent from across the theatre industry to create a response to a particular topic in current affairs in just seven days. In previous years artists have tackled a wide range of news stories including the Brixton McDonalds shootings; the schism in the Anglican church over homosexuality, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, and the Baby P case.
Now that’s entertainment.
GET SURREY: “Fresh appeal to find missing Ruth”
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Posted: 10th, December 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (76)
BABY P Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Baby P in the news…
THE SUN (front page): “Haunting portrait of baby P shows cuts and bruises”
These are the:
“FIRST SIGNS OF TORTURE”
The torture and death of Baby P is not enough for the Sun which continues to search for more pictures of the child to broadcast and therewith show how much it cares for the “blue-eyed angel”.
Here’s one of Baby P fresh out the womb, born on Wednesday March 1, 2006. He’s a healthy weight of 7lob 1oz.
Here’s one of baby P is an Army-style fatigue jacket. He’s smiling. And here’s that front-page shot again, this time with arrows pointing at his “old bruise”, “new bruise” and “red marks”.
Wannabe social workers should make notes. They should be shown the front-page picture and asked to spot any abrasions, lacerations and contusions. Failure to get less than the full three marks would result in a fail, and a job in Haringey.
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Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Reviews Comments (44)
