Maddie McCann

[Minder]

I remember half joking to someone a few months back, when the Mc Canns were on their world tour, "when was the film out?" They have once again shown appalling taste.

[gaagaa]

any more word on the child who was taken about 100 miles from the spot madeleine was abducted from?

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any more word on the child who was taken about 100 miles from the spot madeleine was abducted from?

No. I guess her parent's aren't middle-class white doctors.

[oiddas]

Or the thousands of kids that are abducted around the world - almost daily!!

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The face of the man it is claimed may have abducted Madeleine McCann has been unveiled by a Sunday newspaper.
A police artist sketched the likeness after the News of the World tracked down a holidaymaker it claims could be an important witness.

The photofit shows a man with long hair, bushy eyebrows and a moustache. The paper says it has passed the picture to Interpol.

According to the News of the World, the witness, Jane Tanner, was staying with her family 600 yards from the McCann's apartment on the Algarve.

It said she rang police when she saw Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, was missing and gave a police statement to the local force reporting a "creepy man" in the area.

Gary Thompson, an associate editor at the News of the World, told the BBC the picture was being taken seriously.

"The picture has been passed to Interpol, police in Portugal and also in Leicestershire, so the important thing is - who is he? Where is he now?" he said.

"We'll be urging all our readers in the morning to get in touch with the authorities if they've got any information at all about this man."

[pintsofguinness]

I'm sorry but my first reaction to seeing that picture is 

[Aerlik]

I thought George Harrison died in 2001?

[J70]

I thought George Harrison died in 2001?

That was my first reaction too!

[pintsofguinness]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7198450.stm

Madeleine 'suspect' images issued
   
Sketches of suspect released by family of Madeleine McCann
The family's spokesman Clarence Mitchell released the images

The family of Madeleine McCann have released sketches of a man they believe may have abducted the four-year-old.

An artist drew two likenesses of the man from a witness statement made by a holidaymaker who stayed in the same Portuguese resort as the McCanns.

Madeleine vanished on 3 May 2007, while on holiday on the Algarve.

One picture shows a man with long hair, bushy eyebrows and a moustache. Another image shows him walking in a light jacket and blue trousers.

   
We want to know who he is and we want to know where he is
Clarence Mitchell, McCanns' spokesman

Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said the description came from British holidaymaker Gail Cooper, who was staying with her family 600 yards from the McCann's apartment in Praia da Luz at the same time.

He said she rang Portuguese police when she saw Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, was missing and gave a statement reporting a "creepy man" she had seen in the area.

Mr Mitchell said: "We want to know who he is and we want to know where he is. We want to know that as soon as we can. We are asking for people's help today.

"If he isn't connected with Madeleine's abduction, at the very least he now needs to come forward himself so that he can be eliminated from both the police and the private investigations that are under way into Madeleine's disappearance."

Mr Mitchell said the sketches made by an FBI-accredited police artist had only recently been commissioned from the McCann's private investigation into the disappearance of their daughter.

He said Mrs Cooper, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, "of course gave this information about the man and his activities to the police back in May.

"That information has been with the police since then, however, no sketch of the man has actually been commissioned or done until now."

'Nervous'

Ms Cooper said she saw the man walking by himself in heavy rain on the beach near the resort on 20 April last year. She said he drew attention to himself because he was the only man on "the otherwise deserted beach".

She said later that afternoon she believed the same man visited Ms Cooper at the resort while her eight-year-old granddaughter was playing near the pool.

She described the man as "agitated, nervous" and that he may have been of North African descent. The man claimed he was collecting for an orphanage at a nearby village.

He flashed some sort of ID which she believed was fake, Mr Mitchell said, and she told him to leave.

Mr Mitchell said there were "similarities" between the images released on Sunday and other artist's sketches released last year.

These showed a man with dark, greasy collar-length hair and wearing a purple or maroon top with beige trousers, carrying a child, which were made after a testimony from Jane Tanner, a friend of the McCanns.

Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann remain official suspects in the case, but have always denied any involvement in her disappearance.

Briton Robert Murat is also a suspect in the case. A judge is considering whether to extend the period of judicial secrecy covering police evidence against Mr Murat, who also denies any involvement.

That's nearly as good as Robert Murat being suspected because he wouldn't give a journalist his mobile number 

[seanf]

Papers today are quoting a siting in Columbia!

[Norf Tyrone]

Maybe there is another thread for it, but apparently that young girl Shannon Matthews (Think that's the name) has been found....

....alive!!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm

[Square Ball]

thats a brilliant result for all concerned.

Great to see and I honestly thought she was dead and buried.

[Minder]

Extremely rare for a child to be found alive after that period of time, allegedley the 39 year old man arrested is part of the mothers extended family. They seem to be a rare crowd.

[glenullinabu]

any more word on the child who was taken about 100 miles from the spot madeleine was abducted from?

i read she was found dead in a river last week
only able to identify her by the clothes
god help the family