Australian Bound!
IF there are any Internet Cafes close by to where we are staying then I may well add some posts from time to time ....
Daily Merlin Insights may or may not be undertaken in the next two weeks. I will still be 'linked in' to the situation. No doubt there will be flashes of inspiration and contacts in the next two weeks ... I have no doubt because I'm never actually 'switched off' ... I'm always on 'open channel' ...
Anyway. Its now definitely time for the land of nod with such a long day tomorrow ....
Before I know it ... such is the way of things ... the two weeks will have flown by and normal service will have resumed .....
Worry not. If anything of great significance is 'given to me' ... I will make sure I find an internet cafe and post it on the blog ....
Added by Matthew James At 1/12/2008 10:51:00 PM "
I just thought you might want to see this.
Murat is saying he wants to sell his story for £1 million and he also said in this article that the police haven't talk to him since august.
His lawyer is saying that the police have no evidence against him so will prob let him go even though 9 people have now come forward to say that they seen him that night hanging outside the Mcanns apartment.
I cant believe that there is enough evidence against Murat that he was involved someway with Madeleine's abduction with:
1) Child porn on his computer which was said by the Portuguese police to Murat's girlfriend .
2)Sniffer dogs reacted at his house with scent of Madeleine.
3)9 people have come forward saying they have seen him which proves he lied and was not at his mothers house.
But there is no evidence against the mcanns and they are being held as suspects prob for another 6 months.
So it looks like the Portuguese police only made Murat a suspect to protect him so nothing would come out about the abduction.
MURAT WANTS £1M FOR HIS TALE OF WOE
Thursday January 3,2008
By Martin Evans in Praia da Luz
Have your say(999)
ROBERT Murat hopes to make £1million if he is formally cleared over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
The first person to be named as a suspect – or arguido – plans to sell his story, go on TV and write a book about his experience. Murat, 34, was named a formal suspect 11 days after Madeleine vanished on May 3.
But today, eight months after the investigation began, a legal deadline expires and detectives must reveal any evidence they have against him – or rule him out as a suspect. A source close to Murat said: “Maddie was the biggest story of 2007 and Robert Murat has been a massive part of that.
He’s been living under a cloud since being named a suspect and feels he should at least have some compensation for the trauma.” Publicist Max Clifford speaks regularly with Murat and has pledged to represent him if he is ruled out of the investigation. Mr Clifford said: “He has been attacked fromThe family are of the opinion the Portuguese police should either let him go or charge him so he can stand up for himself in court. “When he’s declared innocent I hope he can make enough money to compensate him for this nightmare he’s been through and all the money he has lost from not being able to work.”
Murat’s family are planning a massive party if he is cleared. His aunt Sally Eveleigh demanded that Portuguese authorities end her nephew’s eight-month nightmare and formally clear him.
She said: “There is not a shred of evidence against him but we have had to live through eight months of whispering and suspicions.” She added: “We’re all praying this nightmare will come to an end and he will no longer be a suspect, but if that’s not going to happen then charge him so he can defend himself in court.
“The worst thing would be for this to be allowed to carry on as it is, with no decision.” Murat’s lawyer, Francisco Pagarette, is set to receive a letter today outlining whether authorities have enough evidence to press charges.
The investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance from her family’s Ocean Club apartment in Praia da Luz started on May 3. Under Portuguese law, suspects must be charged, released or told why they remain a suspect eight months after an inquiry begins.
Murat is confident he will not be charged because he says he has had no contact with police since August. That is despite eight witnesses claiming they spotted him near the apartment on the night of May 3. He has always insisted he had been at home with his mother, Jenny, 71. Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann, both 39, should also be ruled out today or told of any evidence against them.
But it is thought the prosecutor may have granted an extension of up to six months because the case is considered to be so complex. If Murat is cleared of any involvement in the disappearance, Kate and Gerry will be the only remaining suspects.
all sides and not been able to defend himself thanks to Portuguese secrecy laws.
Do you know when the psychics from the program haunting evidence are going to portugal as i watch them and find them genuine and fantastic.
Keep up the good work Brian
Jennifer *** from Scotland Glasgow xx
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Hi Jennifer, I do not know when the show is going to Portugal, my wife watches the show too.
In the US we have a man named Drew Peterson that's doing almost the same thing with a book.
Brian
Hi Brian,
I think this photo needs to be on your site just in case anyone can find out who he is, where he's from or what he does.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1301452,00.html
He looks like one scary man!
Also apparently Jane Tanner has looked at this picture & says it looks like the person she saw carrying a child that night when MM went missing.
I hope to god this comes as a big break through, it's just finding him now!
Hope you & your family are ok.
Take Care
K
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Thank you...and I agree.
Brian

The drawing looks a lot like Davie Bowie... (is the witness a fan..?)
I’m sending you a comparing photo, maybe just to show how easy it is to be mislead.. Isn’t it a striking resemblance?
/Annika

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Yes it does, I really wish Gale could have come forward with this a long time ago.
Brian
Hi Brian,
Just sending the link from the English newspaper News of the world they have a detailed sketch of the man they believed kidnapped Madeleine.
I know you are so busy but perhaps if you could put this image under your pillow and see what you come up with?
You still amaze me with your determination and huge heart, you are an inspiration!
Hope you are well
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/2001_maddie.shtml
Laurax
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Hi Laurax, all I can do is try :)
Brian
Mathew James: I have received over 50 emails telling me Mathew is on vacation...seems many people really follow what he does...and I guess I should pay more attention to his site myself...and will.
Brian
Hi Brian
Matthew James is on holiday until the end of January, but he may add some posts if he gets access to internet somewhere. Spooky has now stated when Matthew will be back, on Matthew’s website. http://mara-gamiel.blogspot.com/
Kind regards
Z
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Thanks Z, will post this link.
Brian
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Hi, link posted...Brian
Dear brian
I've visiting your site and reading about MM...
on page 2 in one of your DD, there's a sketch of a man with moustache.

on todays news about MM there's a sketch about the who was seen at the crime scene on the 3rd of May
carrying a little girl in pink pyjamas, believed to be four-year-old Maddie. could this be the man in your DD?????
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Hi, anything's possible, but I do not think this sketch is of anyone that I have seen in my dreams.
Brian

this is the article:(http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/179598.html#more-179598)
Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s Hairdresser, A Suspect Look And Amaral
NEWS OF THE WORLD front page: “MADDY’S KIDNAPPER – Beast who took McCann’s little girl”
A “WORLD EXCLUSIVE”
The paper says the witness, Gail Cooper, was staying with her family 600 yards from the McCann’s apartment in Praia da Luz.
She told the police of a “creepy man” in the area. A picture of the man has been produced
Gary Thompson, an associate editor at the News of the World, tells the BBC the picture was being taken seriously. Well, it on the front page. “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 asks.
“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”
Is he the man who abducted Madeleine McCann? Or was Mrs Cooper listening to The Beatles at the time?
SUNDAY MIRROR: “THE MAN WHO RAN OFF WITH MADDY?
EXCLUSIVE Hunt for Madeleine: Day 262 First image of suspect”
Or the second image…
“This is the face of a stalker now believed to have snatched Madeleine McCann. The image is a former FBI artist’s impression based on a detailed description given by a key British witness. It clearly reveals the features of a moustachioed man - who was carrying a little girl in pink pyjamas, believed to be four-year-old Maddie”
It’s a photofit, an artist’s impression. Like this FBI picture of Madeleine
The original photofit issued by Portuguese police showed only a round egg-shaped head and blank face and was widely criticised as being useless. The Sun had an eFit. Jane Tanner’s efit had hair and a jacket
The man is “thought to be aged between 38 and 45. He has sallow skin, lank dark hair, large teeth and a distinctive droopy moustache. The suspect, who is said to have spoken in broken English, knocked on the door of Mrs [Sarah] Cooper’s apartment claiming to be collecting for charity. Mrs Cooper says: ‘He made my blood run cold - he gave me the creeps. My judgment is that this man was very suspicious and could have been the kidnapper’”
EXCLUSIVE – Picture of man who gave woman the CREEPS!
“262 DAYS MISSING AND.. MADDY’S BLUNDER COP BACK ON CASE – “Lazy Goncalo Amaral - fired from the investigation after the Sunday Mirror exposed his long, boozy lunches - has held a string of meetings with new chief detective Paulo Rebelo”
The Mirror is on the case. It got Amaral. It got “creepy” Robert Murat. But now Amaral is back. Says the paper: “The move will be a massive blow to parents Kate and Gerry.” It will be “heartbreaking for 39-year-old doctors Kate and Gerry”. Why? Was Amaral the casue of their problem?
DAILY STAR: “SPANISH COPS SHOW UP MADDIE FLAWS”
The Spanish police are looking for Mari Luis Cortes. Says the Star: “Friends of Kate and Gerry McCann say missing Madeleine might have been found by now – if Spanish police had been involved”
Maris Luis Cortes has yet to be found
Says a friend of McCanns of the Portuguese police: “They acted like real amateurs, so it’s no wonder they don’t seem to be getting anywhere finding Madeleine”
The Portuguese police also named the McCanns as suspects
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “McCANNS SPLIT BY AGONY OF MADDY”
“The lives of Kate and Gerry McCann are moving in “opposite directions” because they have developed strikingly different ways of coping with the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine”
We are watching the parents
“Kate is living the life of a semi-recluse as she focuses on being a stay-at-home mother, virtually shutting herself off from the supportive community around her. Gerry, meanwhile, has thrown himself into working full time as a heart specialist during the week, while running the campaign to find four-year-old Madeleine in the evenings and at weekends”
And Kate McCann: “Kate has abandoned the village routine she once shared with Madeleine. She no longer has her hair styled at Dawn Newcombe’s salon, which she regularly visited with Madeleine. Her mother normally takes the twins for haircuts when she is staying”
One of the stylists says: “She was almost in tears as she watched them and my heart went out to her.”
Such is the news in the search for Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: “Maddy’s off the front page”
“Followers of the Madeleine McCann story have been able to depend on the ‘Evening Standard’ to clear the front page for any development. So how come a potential breakthrough, with police looking into the disappearance of another little girl near Praia da Luz, was buried on page 17? The answer is: sales fell by 10,000 the last two times Maddy made the cover, so the news desk have been told to curb their Maddy enthusiasm. If only they’d tell the ‘Express’ to do likewise”
thx....
Do you think MM is still alive and will be returned to her parents soon?
where do you think she might be now??
thx a lot
Nonitta.........
Hi Brian,
I have to disagree with the person who said about David Bowie, yes the man does look like him BUT i don't think the women who discribed this man is thinking of David Bowie.
The women came face to face with this man because he knocked on her holiday villa door saying he was collecting for an orphanage! She saw this man 3 times you can find the whole story www.newsoftheworld.co.uk
Obviously in this world there are people who like like celebrities & famous people so the likeness is there.
I believe this is a major break through, i believe this is the man who was there the night of may 3rd.
All the stories about him on the beach in the rain nr the children from the ocean club who were out on a trip & also MM went on 3 of these outings, maybe this man saw her when she was out with the ocean club staff on the outings & thought then she was the one he was going to snatch.
This was a planned operation, i think this man had been looking for a specific child (in looks) & found what he wanted when he first saw MM, i think she has been stolen to sell, i pray to god she is alive.
When i saw this picture of this man, my heart sank because for any little girl his face is scary, let's face it he's no oil painting is he?
I hope the man hunt that is now in force find out who he is & either eliminate him or get the beginning of there path to find MM, her family need her more than ever now & i am praying so hard she comes home, bless her soul.
Take Care
K
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Thanks, will post this...Brian
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Thanks for sharing your dream and for the kind words.
Brian
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Thank You, and yes I do...Brian
Hi Brian!
I finally found some photos I’ve been looking for. You have been talking so much about MM being near the cross and under your feet and near and so on... I figured there must be an entrance somewhere near the church, maybe leading to some sort of underground room / container / cell, maybe even near or at Murats place,
It turns out that there is a tunnel entrance just near the church, I did’nt know it was actually that near!
Take a look at these pictures
http://madeleinemaccann.blogspot.com/2007/10/um-rapto_30.html
Actually, take a look at the whole site, interesting: http://madeleinemaccann.blogspot.com/2007/09/madeleine-mccann-crnicas-de-um-atoleiro.html
/Annika
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Thanks as always Annika...Brian
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Thanks V...Brian
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Thanks Pat, have compared the images...the face does look similar, but not the hair...as well, this new sketch does not even feel familiar.
Brian
Hi, Brian
As painful as it is to have this sketch released so many months later, it just might solve the case.
Natasha
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Thank you, I'm not sure about this image...but I hope it does help to locate Madeleine.
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New Suspect in Madeline McCann’s Case: Is This Madeleine’s Abducter?

A promising new photo fit of the man suspected of kidnapping Madeleine McCann has been handed to the police. The artist’s impression shows a man of North African appearance, this particular man was seen by several witness in Praia da Luz in the days before the 4 year-old disappeared from her bed.
The man is said to look similar to a man who was seen by a friend of the McCann’s carrying Madeleine away from the Ocean Club resort shortly before she was reported missing.
This is a major development in the Madeleine McCann story.
The suspect is aged 38 to 45, with sallow skin, dark hair, droopy Mexican-style moustache, large teeth and speaks in broken English. The man has been seen by several British tourists
The sketch has been handed in to both the Portuguese and British police. It has also been given to Interpol by a firm of private detectives hired by Madeleine’s family.
The McCann’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, has said,
“Who is he? Where is he? What, if any, is his connection to Madeleine’s disappearance? If he is innocent we want him to come forward for his own sake so he can be ruled out. We believe this man could be linked to Madeleine’s disappearance.”
The sketch was based on the description given by Gail Cooper, 50, who was on holiday in Praia da Luz at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance. Mrs Cooper said she first saw the man on the beach on April 20. She then saw him later on in the day when he called on the holiday villa where she was staying with her husband.
She said,
“He must have seen my husband leaving because the bell rang only seconds later. He flashed what he said was an identity card but it could have been anything really. He said he was collecting for an orphanage in nearby Espiche that was caring for three children whose parents had recently been killed in an accident on the main coast road.
The man was rambling and becoming agitated. He really unnerved me even though my two grown-up daughters and two grandchildren were with me.”
Her description matches the one given by Jane Tanner, one of the friends staying with Kate and Gerry McCann.
Although the police have had this information for a while, Mitchell isn’t going to criticise,
“We’re not going to criticise the police in any form - they have got a difficult enough job. It seems drawings of this sort are not done as a matter of course in Portugal.”
The new plan for the investigation seems to show that the McCann’s are feeling closer to finding their little girl. First will come a worldwide search for the man, which will be co-ordinated by a central telephone number manned by their private detective agency. This information will be passed on to the Portuguese police.
Then the police records and witness statements will be reviewed. The third step in the plan would be for complete collaboration between the Portuguese police, Interpol and the authorities in Spain, Morocco and Britain.

Goncalo Amaral
M
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Hi, I think they want Goncalo back for one reason, and it's not to help search for Madeleine...I actually think he was dismissed for show in the first place.
Brian
opening up my yahoo there was a face i had been looking for in the news and praying it was something positive, cause frankly i am tired of how much the mcanns are fighting and they are just being abused by the media. but Madeleine Mccann was on the home page for yahoo canada and the FBI has released a sketch composited by a certified FBI sketch artist... so that means that the FBI has stepped in... the Police in portugual have not given up yet, as far as i know but i was very excited, but i dont know the dd for it, i cant seem to find it... the one where you wrote that the FBI will take over, and the JP will give up, so sofar you are half way.. but that means that she will be gone for a bit longer if they give up. It just breaks my heart, but your site gives me a hope that she is partially safe... in my books if the guardians dont have the child that belongs to them... no child is ever safe... i am still praying for the mccanns and thank you for taking the time out to ease the hearts of those that follow your page.
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Me too CA
Brian
Hi Brian
Spooky (ex-White Cloud) from Matthew James website has posted also his dream insights: http://mara-gamiel.blogspot.com/2008/01/im-feeling-that-in-march-something-big.html
Kind regards
Z
Sunday, January 20, 2008
im feeling that in march something big will happen in this case not sure ,it could even mean maddy home in march or the parents get to say their side of the story ,so im feeling maddy home between jan-may ,i also feel that may time it will be all over meaning all the slurs etc against the family ,dates that were given to me by spirit was ,12th 13th 20th 25th ,not sure on which month ,i had a dream some months ago ,and maddy was with a woman with blonde hair ,she was driving a white car ,now not sure if white car was broken down or she just dumped it the feeling i had from the dream who ever has maddy had enough of hiding ,and walked straight through a market right in the open the crowd parted ,and hearings wispers isnt that maddy ,the market felt foreign ,so the two of them just carried on walking through this market ,it felt like to me to proove to the world maddy is still alive ,also i had a feeling that who ever owns a castle whos connected ,owns a aston martin and a collection of vintage cars possibly sports cars ,and also in this castle i saw ,and felt a army or ex army feel ,and on the wall was two swords of some kind on a plack ,my grandmother used to say to me ,son the proof is in the pudding ,so when i doubt myself like all psychics and mediums do at times ,i hear spirit say go to the start of youre messages ,and then i remember ,that i have always felt amddy alive and well and will be returned unharmed to her parents ,unfortunatley timing is the worst thing to get spot on ,so i say to all who prayer for maddy and family stay positive ,and dont let negativity enter the mind ,miracles do happen ,i also had a vision or dream of possible one of the hide outs maddy may have been in ,it was a unused barn that used to store horses ,and felt like this barn was not the only building on the land ,wether the barn has now been converted i to not know ,so possibly someone connected to horses too ,possibly an old breeding ground ,for breeding horses ,
Brian,
According to this article, it was known already back in june that the
building you were drawing (Estrela da luz) was just the place the media was
staying.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2607184.ece
God I wish you or someone told med that sooner, it took me so much time to
figure it out...
/Annika
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Hi Annika, this news report is posted in one of these older pages, not sure which one though...sorry about that.
Brian
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Thanks Alex, we are just fine...and I see what you're talking about.
Brian
present suspect 20 jan 2008


1.21.2008
This is the pic I was talking about same teeth kinda Michelle...PS if the pic doesn't show up its on page 5 of
case 347
Police in Belgium are investigating a possible sighting of the missing British youngster Madeleine McCann.

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Thanks, teeth look almost identical...was this the same person that the Belgian sketch?
So could be the same person, assuming he cut his hair after the abduction?
Brian
UPDATE: If this sketch turns out to be the person that took Madeline, then she could be in Belgium.
This drawing is from last night, well actually this morning...I have been trying and trying for some time now to have another dream about the McCann's case that does not involve this same underground room...but I'm sorry, for some reason I'm not able, and I do not know what I'm doing wrong.
So this is all I have, and I believe it's the same room or chamber under PDL, and most likely close, if not next to or under the Murat home.
One note, the DD says 'attaches to police drug impound area'...I'm not sure if this is the room itself, or a pipe.
Brian

hello Brian hope all is good with you.I have seen the pic of the man that they are looking for Awhile back there was a pic of a man that kinda looked like this with big teeth and all I think it was in a food place with a man and a woman and a little girl remember they took the pop bottle or glass to test for DNA on it (which they probably didn't really check out )It was at the beginning when Maddie first went missing I have looked all Thur your site but cant find the pic of the man.I don't remember if you drew it or it was in the news papers Ill keep searching for the pic but if any of your readers remember this maybe they can find it.Peace to you and yours Michelle
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Thanks Michelle
Brian
Hi Brian
Nothing against you - I have been following your website about this whole tragic case from the beginning but I have one question for Susan Healy Madeleine's Grandmother
Why if she reads your website is she not prepared to ask any other psychics for help?
Ones that specialise in being able to pinpoint where people are by looking at a map? She must have some belief in this type of approach but still will not ask any other psychics for help I am totally confused about this, and with each passing day we learn further how absolutely useless the Portuguese investigation (and I might add the UK police force) has been where simple police procedure like following up on credible witnesses has not been done and is left to PI companies to do it 8 months down the track. Poor Madeleine.
There is a programme called Sensing Murder shown in the UK with 3 very gifted psychics 2 of which follow. They can pinpoint areas on Maps get names very clever much more than the ones on Haunting Evidence.
Deb Webber – http://www.debwebber.com.au/
Kelvin Cruickshank - http://www.kelvincruickshank.co.nz/
I contacted Deb early in Madeleine’s disappearance and her reply through her Assistant to me was
Blessings to you for your concern. Deb is unable to help as the request must come from the family. Deb has however given some information to the policed already. Deb would love to help even more but this is up to the family to contact her. We can give information to the police, but do they use it???? We are praying from here that Madeleine is returned to her family safely. Thank you etc.
Therefore I hope you publish this on the Website and Susan Healy contacts one of these psychics to help find Madeleine.
I hope that no one else contacts them in regard to Madeleine so that they are not bombarded.
God Bless Madeleine – God Bless all the children.
Liz
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Hi Liz, she may read it, but it does not mean she's believes anything we are saying...this is very common.
Will also post these links.
Brian
Hello Brian,
A few days ago, I sent you some pictures of a dream that I had
about an apartment building and Madeleine McCann. In the attachment, is
another dream that I had and I believe that it might be connected to the
apartment building dream, although they are not the same location. This
location was in a beach/resort area where I have never been. I don't
know where it was. I have been to Lisbon and Spain, but never to the
coast of Portugal. It's not at all familiar to me. I have tried to
draw a map of what I saw in this second dream.
The beach was not large and there was a huge rock cliff to the
left. The town was directly behind the beach. It was a very nice, clean
town. Most of the buildings were white. The streets in the center of the
town were made of some kind of stone. There was one significant shop in
the town. It looked like a two story white house with a business on the
first level. There were dark shutters and wrought iron decoration. I
don't know why it was significant.
To the right of the town was a section of homes. These were
small, one story white homes. They were well kept. Someone who was
significant in the dream walked from one of the white homes to a small
convenience/grocery type store that was a few blocks away, The person
met with other people in a car outside of this convenience store.
Further along the beach area was something that might have been a
factory. It was light or tan in color and might have been made of
concrete. There was a tower or a light house near this factory.
To the left of the town and above/behind the cliff was a very
nice hotel. Near the hotel was a covered arcade of shops with archways.
The shops were each small and they were upscale tourist type shops.
Near the cliff, there was a boat that was anchored. It was a
large and sleek, black boat. There was a gold crest or insignia on the
side near the front. This boat was frightening and I had a fear about
the owner of the boat. The boat was somehow connected to children and I
saw a young boy who had been somehow connected to the boat. He looked
traumatized. The owner was a wealthy and powerful business owner or
factory owner in the town. In the dream, I was walking with a little
girl who became separated from me. It could have been Madeleine.
I am wondering if this beach town was a location where Madeleine
was taken. From this location she might have been moved in this black
boat and ultimately ended up at the apartment building location.
The photograph that has been released as a person of interest is
not the same male that was in my apartment dream this past September.
The male in my dream did not have teeth like the one in the photograph,
he did not have a mustache, and he did not have an olive complexion.
Madeleine was not being abused in any of my dreams.
I wish I knew for sure if these dreams that I have had are
directly connected to Madeleine. I just have a very strong feeling that
they are. I also have a very strong need all of a sudden to reveal the
information from these dreams. I found your website somehow the other
day. I don't know how I managed to click on a link that brought me to
your website. I immediately felt that you were the person that I had to
give my dream information to. I hope that in some way this information
will be helpful to you or someone else.
Sue

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Thanks Sue, will share this.
Brian

If this is the person who took Madeleine, he could still be in Belgium, this could also mean the sitting of Madeleine in the De Pauze restaurant was real.
Brian
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Will do Nelly
Dear Brian,
I thought I might help some of your readers understand the frequently
asked question "Why don't the McCanns seek psychic help to find
Madeleine?". This is not intended to offend any of your readers or
the many contributors to your sight. Nor am I speaking on behalf of
the McCanns but merely interpreting their behaviour based on my
knowledge of their faith. The McCanns have faith in what they have
come to know as The one true God of creation who came to earth as man
to set us free - otherwise known as Jesus Christ. They have
established a relationship based on his teachings in the bible and
have developed what Christians know as a natural fear of God. God
clearly says in the Bible that his people are not to seek help from
psychics or mediums but rather look to him as the greatest force on
earth for answers to all things regarding mankind. So you see, it is
not that the McCanns do not believe, but that they do believe in
forces and are reluctant to disobey the greatest force of all in whom
they have placed their faith. The other requests which God makes of
his people are that they should be completely honest and abide by the
law of the land. I believe this is to protect his people from
persecution.
I have had a similar dilemma myself about visiting your sight but upon
further reading believe that as you categorically state that you are
not a psychic or medium but merely the relator of dreams, that there
is something of great importance to be had from your visions. The
bible has many stories of non believers who have had clear dreams that
require interpreting (Joseph and the Technicolor dreamcoat being the
most famous). The only problem is that if these dreams are indeed
from God then it requires one of his own to clearly interpret them.
The dreams of the bible are often cryptic and unclear to the owner so
that God can ensure that his chosen interpreter gives an accurate
reading of the dreams meaning.
I hope that this has helped in some way to answer this very baffling
question to those who are not practicing Christians.
My warmest wishes to you and your family Brian,
Claire
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Yes, I do not believe I'm a psychic, nor do not consider myself a Christian, but I was brought up and baptized as one.
I have read both old and new testaments (well listened to on audio tapes) and I feel people need to make their own decisions about faith.
I do believe we are all in some way connected to each other, and no sane person of God would would wish suffering upon any person.
We all dream, and I think we are all able to learn and connect to others in our dreams.
Brian
Ok, I think it might be a good idea if we relook into the theory that Madeleine was at this cafe in Tongeren, and that the man she was with was the man in this sketch.

The DNA on the straw could have been contaminated...can we find out who else was there at the time, and where he might have taken her?
I believe this is an image of the town...and I'm not even sure where to begin.
Brian
I have found too (from Google) information that there is new abusers in Casa Pia. Casa Pia II. It is quite shocking.
I think this is very important article about Casa Pia II:
http://www.tinyurl.com/33ocpg
Here short quote:
" * There is still abuse the children from the Casa Pia employees and networks of paedophiles and has been open a new investigation.
* The amendment of the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure has been motivated by the process Casa Pia.
* Catalina Pestana initially believed in the innocence of Paulo Pedroso, but changed its mind.
The interview is cut when starts to get interesting.
"I have no doubt that there are still internal abusers in the Casa Pia. And I have strong suspicions that external networks continue to use kids of Casa Pia for sexual abuse. On May 10 (I went out to 11), the last thing I did was write to the Attorney-General of the Republic and tell you in detail the suspicions I have. I know he has opened an investigation, because I was heard. "- Begins the last published response, which follows the wish that the prosecutor" do not let this investigation remain at the bottom of a drawer. `A 'continues in the next edition 'creates expectation about what comes next."
Here is same information, important article too, everyone should read it.
http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=22176
Short quote:
Updated: 18 October 2007
The latest moves in both the McCann case and the Casa Pia investigation also come days after explosive ‘tell-all’ revelations in the weekend broadsheet newspaper Sol by retired Casa Pia director Catalina Pestana, in which she claimed sexual abuses of minors within the state-run establishment for orphans and children at risk were “still going on”.
In the first of a sensational two-part series of interviews, Catalina Pestana, who retired from her position as now defunct Governess or Prefect, Provedor, of Casa Pia in May, was quoted as saying: “I have no doubts that (sexual) abuses are still going on within Casa Pia in Lisbon.”
And here is still more information:
http://portugueselostchildren.blogspot.com/
This blogger lives in Portugal and in Portugal has been (since Madeleine vanished) enormous and very aggressive hate campaign against Madeleine parents (reminds Nazi-propaganda in German). So you can see it in her/his attitudes sometimes.
But this blog is important, because it is for all missing children and it shows what happens in Portugal (and she/he is able to see it and she/he is able to call Portuguese politicians into question).
This was somewhere in his/her older posts:
"New abuses in the Casa Pia:
A sculptors house in Lisbon, where known artists and other figures use to be, is to be investigated by the Public prosecution service in the scope of the new case of sexual abuses involving the Casa Pia.
A 14 years old boy, received in the Filipe Cruz House, already gave declaration in the inquiry, that is lead by the solicitor João Guerra (magistrate that investigated the 2002 cases). The young accuses an educator, Pablo R., which will serve of intermediary, leading the pupils to related sculptor house. This case it is very recent and did not consist of the denunciation made in May by Catalina Pestana.
The Jose's acusations (fictitious name) are corroborated by other young ones inquired by newspaper "Sol" and that they told suffered abuses. The witnesses still make reference to reference the 2002 case: Manuel, of 16 years, relates to have been led by Carlos Silvino(now on trial for pedophililia) to a house in Lisbon - and is said can testify to the authorities. The educator Pablo R. - with who the "Sol" tried to speak, without success - he was suspended in the monday. The direction of Casa Pia(from whom depends Filipe Cruz House) also restored a labor dispute on grounds of discipline to an educator for breaking of the rules of monitoring in the institution.
SEEMS TO ME THAT THE CASA PIA HIGH LEVELS HAD TO BURN A MINOR CASE TO SAVE THE HIGHEST PERSONS INVOLVED IN OTHER PEDOPHILIA RINGS."
I could say:
1:That all is being done to innocent the bad boys and guilty the innocent.
2:The Casa Pia affair not stoped yet - another scandall with Cruz Filipe House (depending from Casa Pia).
3:That a new (taylor law) made to Casa Pia affair,will free the guilty
I JUST HAVE ONE THING TO SAY
I AM ASHAMED TO BE A PORTUGUESE CITIZEN"
- Maria
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Thanks Maria, and please think that way, this happens all over the world everyday...it's just not reported.
Brian
I have found more information about portuguese missing children (missing in 2006)
http://tinyurl.com/2zbwjh
Children missing: line opened 31 processes 2007/05/08 | 17:27
The line SOS Children Desaparecida, of the Institute of the Child Support (IAC), opened in 2006 thirty-one new cases involving minors missing was located 24, the news agency Lusa.
The figures, revealed by the institute, show that in two cases the children were already found without life, seven in whereabouts remains unknown despite the joint endeavours of the IAC, Judicial Police and other police forces.
Most of the disappearances reported, according to data from the IAC, relate to the leak of children (61 percent), especially at home but also to institutions where they are hosted.
However, six cases fall within the concept of abduction by third and four in the parental abduction. From the statistical analysis of the series of 2006, the IAC states that the situation came to its attention by section (3 cases), via E-mail (12 cases) and, in particular, the line 1410 (16 cases).
Of the situations reported, 19 were girls and 12 were boys.
More than half of children (55 percent) as missing data had between 11 and 15 years of age (17 cases) and between 16 and 18 years (7 cases). In 2006, five cases were also reported concerning children between one and five years.
In most cases (54 percent) minors resided in the district of Lisbon (16 cases), and that four disappeared in Porto, three in Faro, two in Setúbal and one in Viseu.
According to data from the IAC were also reported four cases of missing children abroad, particularly in Brazil.
The Institute for the Child Support, Portuguese only organisation that integrates the European Federation for Missing and Exploited Children Sexually, it has to work since May 2004 a green line (1410) designed exclusively for the withdrawal of disappearances.
From 2004 until the end of 2005 were reported to the IAC a total of 48 cases of disappearances in 2006 and the line opened 31 new cases.
These new cases were initiated in view of the five concepts adopted in 2001 by the Council of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs of the European Union in its resolution on the contribution of civil society to the search of missing children and sexually exploited.
***** Here you can find same information too:
http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=19001
Alexandra Simões, co-ordinator of the SOS missing child phone line for Instituto de Apoio à Criança, told The Resident that last year the institution opened 31 new cases relating to missing children. Of these 31 cases, five were of children under the age of six and 17 related to children between the ages of 11 and 15, with 54 per cent of children going missing from the Lisbon area along.
Unfortunately, only 24 of the 31 missing children have so far been found and two of those were found already dead. Sadly, reported cases of missing children have increased since the SOS phone line was created in 1988.
***** So it means 7 portuguese children missing in 2006 are obviously still missing because this IAC report was given in May/2007. But I'm not able to find any information of them and who they are?
***** These kind of missings reminds me of about what happened in Portugal before Casa Pia-scandal came out.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,848412,00.html
"Investigators from the Swiss-based Innocence in Danger group, which claims children regularly disappear from the poorer streets of Portuguese towns and cities, say they too have been harassed and threatened."
-Maria
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Thanks again Maria...Brian
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Did that a hour or so ago...all I did was superimpose one over the other. I would like to know if the person that did this new sketch did the other one, or at the least has seen it before...the eyes and teeth seem to match up almost perfectly.
Oh, and will also post your dream drawing.

Brian
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You're welcome, people will see them...Brian
REQUEST: Can anyone find out who did each one of these sketches...where and when?


Is this a joke?
http://www.hotelscompare.com/Belgium/Brussels/Hotel+La+Madeleine/info/
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Hi, looks like it's real to me.
Brian
Brian, you have a God-given gift, and it is not for us to understand how it works, but to gratefully accept its existence.
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Hi Natasha, will post this and I'm doing all I can on this case, and I have also sent additional information on who this person in the new sketch maybe to a friend of the family...although at this time I cannot make it public, nor can I say where it came from.
Brian
Suspect: Gail Cooper says she saw the man hanging around the complex three times before Madeleine was taken
Hi (again:) )
I cant find anything on a new missing child on gran canaria, only this:
Sara Morales, who disappeared from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at the age of 14 in summer last year, and Yeremi Vargas, who went missing from Vecindario at the age of seven in March this year. http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_12834.shtml
And regarding ROBIN from the ocean club, that was very correct but.. his last name is Crossland... Found this statement:
"But Robin Crossland, the administrator of the resort said he had been present when the McCanns were first interviewed by police soon after Maddy vanished. "They clearly said that they had left the French windows unlocked as they were using them to access the apartment to check on the children throughout their meal," he said"
And thanks this was great that someone picked up the request, please continue gathering names connected to
1) Ocean club
2) the PJ
...and whatever else that can be interesting to gather. We need to get organized. This case is HUGE and we cant be efficient in this ... mess.. (sorry). Brian, it would be absolutely wonderful if you could organize the pages a bit. For example make one resource page where we can gather names. Another one for pictures or something else whatever helps and makes it easier.
By the way it is a bit confusing with the DDs and RVs they don't all seem to have numbers, they don't all have your "translations" written under them and some are not completely copied (missing edges...) Would be great if this could be handled, don't hesitate to ask us all for help, just send out the tasks, you know we are all listening! (reading..)
I’m still working on the schedule too, but time is running out, soon I have to go back to work and can’t spend all these ours every day... so whoever has time to help is great.
/Annika
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Hi Annika, I spoke with Kevin a few days ago and he is now working on a Forum for this...and thanks again.
Brian
Dear Bryan,
Could V.A. stand for Von Aesch, the guy who kidnapped and killed Ylenia Lenhard? Anthea
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I do not know, but I found this.
Brian
hello Brian,
I was just browsing for information of Corlett Line boats and came across this website..
as you can see there's 2 pictures...same place.1st picture has a blue flag with a familiar cross on it....strangely the second one doesn't....if you zoom up to the blue flag though there are 2 horseshoes on it?>?
does anyone know what it says on the flag or where it comes from?
also picture of man outside Corlett line office?
http://es.geocities.com/internacionalwebdx/246ATDXFotos.htm
After all this, I am certainly more aware of this huge problem we have globally. I would hope that in the light of all this information coming out i.e. paedophile networks and the like.....people/parents will take a stand in their countries and demand answers and more adequate punishments. The fact that some countries like portugal and spain do not liketo discllose any information in regards to missing people is absoloutely ludicrous...How would people be able to search if they didnt even know these kids were missing in the first place.
Kind Regards
Be well
xzoex
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Thanks, will post this.
Brian
Thanks, oh and by the way if you are right about that the PJ have not found the doors we will find by looking at pictures, we might as well have better pictures : )
So here are two more of Murats garden of which one is quite clear, less bushes.
Brian, do you think MM can be under Estrela da Luz? You drew an exact copy of the place once, it even had the flag on the side and the building you drew matches the exact one facing the tennis courts too. (Not the ocean beach club but next to estrela da luz).
Hotel Address: Rua Da Escola Primaria, Lagos, Portugal 8600-152
It’s so strange cause this hotel has a similar address to a school in lagos that I found at “Apartado 272” Rua Das Escolas Primarias, an international school but it turned out Lagos isn’t always the same as Luz Lgs... it’s hard to keep track of the different names used. The school is in the town Lagos, but there is still a road with that name in Praia da luz, and there is Estrela da Luz and anyone can rent an apartment there.
I also wonder if this was the place Sergey was staying? You drew the laptop and other things I recall.
It is so near so I should be possible this is the location you are feeling? Someone also found a picture of the room that you drew, from Estrela da luz.
There must certainly be some connection to this place cause none of your DDs are such an exact match as the ones matching Estrela da Luz, but what do you think is the connection?
/Annika
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Hi again, sorry it's taking me so long to answer your emails...I still think, and dream seems to confirm ir again, Madeleine is still in PDL...I realize that it seems impossible, but that's all I ever see.
Brian


If there is some sort of underground tunnel, passageway or whatever that's not been looked at, this is what I could be seeing.
found this post:
“i dont now if any of u remember it was said that maddies dna was found in another apartment in the ocr! well i believe this was the apartment of this family gorrods
Gorrod rented a blue Opel Corsa in Portugal five days before Madeleine McCann went missing. He returned the car on May 6. Staff at the rental centre were shocked to see that the car was fitted with a child seat. They believed Gorrod was travelling alone.
gorrod said that he had spoke to police and they have no plans on interveiwing him!!
Mr Gorrod has “close links” with friends who were on holiday with Kate and Gerry McCann
The Gorrods live in Exeter, Devon, close to Dr Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner, witnesses in the investigation who have pointed the finger at Robert Murat. The Gorrods are believed to have been staying in the same resort as their friends and the McCanns
also Robert Murat was in Exeter 10 days before Madeleine vanished.
this may just be coincedence but it dos seem odd!!
any thoughts on this? “
and this:
As we all know, the PJ announced that the Tapas 9 definitely know Robert Murat. I haven't been able to unearth much on these individuals but James Garrod of Exeter who specializes in real property law is a good friend of Russell O'Brien's and he is registered at The Ocean Club during the stay of the 9. Murat deals in real property. Des Taylor of Exeter is an architect who contributed to the Murat villa in PDL. He knows Js. Garrod. It would be very easy for an investigator in Exeter to quiz the associates or staffs of these individuals to learn if there was acquaintance. Maybe that is what they did. Js. Garrod had a car at his disposal but I haven't been able to find out anything about it.
Tuba
/Annika
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I believe that part of the evidence that the PJ is keeping secret is the connection between Murat and Gerry, not sure about the rest of them...anyway, posted.
Brian
Hi Brian,
You usually say you like to hear about dreams and thoughts of a missing persons relatives and have requested this also in the Madeleine case. I found something about what Gerry has been seeing, actually there is a whole lot of interesting information on this page, even though some of it is a bit “extreme” (maybe too much science fiction : )
Give it a scroll:
http://ben-fairhall.blogspot.com/2007/07/has-gerry-mccann-met-valis.html
Also found a link through this site to PdL pictures, one attached of the statue overlooking the McCann apartment.
http://www.luzholiday.com/Portugal13.htm#Photographs%22%3Ehttp://www.luzholiday.com/Portugal13.htm#Photographs
/Annika
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Thanks...link posted...just out of curiosity, do you know if anything is under this pyramid?
Brian

Hi Brian,
This might be kind of off topic... but just thought of something
Reading about the awful websites bubbles.... that you linked to from the Denise Pepitone case I did a search for the site at Google and even thought they say themselves that it is totally legal and totally not nude... (just to say such a thing says everything doesn’t it...), the search for this site gives a lot of “sexual” hits. It seems “bubbles “ may be some kind of code word for this kind of disgusting interest..
And when I thought of that I just realized something strange.
Michael Jackson - not that I have any idea whether or not we was guilty of the crimes he was accused for – named his pet monkey: “Bubbles”.. Just a coincidence..??
/Annika
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I goggled bubbles when I first received your email, and I'm still not sure if its any sort of slang not.
Brian


The sketches above were drawn by Melissa Little, an FBI-accredited police artist, after an interview with British tourist Gail Cooper, who said she saw an olive-skinned man with collar-length, scraggly hair.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=84675&in_page_id=34

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That was fast!
Thanks Teresa...Brian
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Hi, thanks...not sure, would have to look back...I'm now wondering when the FBI did this second sketch...if it was done some time ago, did the PJ stop it's release to the public?
I have not personally had any dreams I know of that related to the person in the sketch, nor do I get any feelings about him. Hopefully we will be getting some good news soon.
Thanks for the kind words, they are appreciated...as it seems some people do not feel the same way.
Brian
Robert Murat 'seen talking to man matching artist's impression of Madeleine suspect '
Last updated at 12:37pm on 21st January 2008
Robert Murat: 'Spoke to a man who looked like the new suspect'
• New e-fit of man seen 'acting strangely' around complex prior to Madeleine's disappearance
• McCann family friend says sketch 'strongly resembles' man she saw carrying a child wearing pyjamas identical to Madeleine's on the night of the abduction
• Information hotline has been inundated with calls since the sketch was released
Robert Murat was spotted chatting to a man who resembled the 'oddball' in the new sketch released by the McCanns and who is suspected of abducting Madeleine, it has been claimed today.
Charlotte Pennington, a nanny at the Ocean Club holiday complex where the McCanns were staying, told police last May she saw Murat chatting to "a man aged around 27 to 35, average height, very dark eyes and of Portuguese or Spanish appearance".
She told detectives she saw expat Murat, who lives with his mother near to holiday complex, talking to the man outside the Baptista supermarket in Praia da Luz.

Suspect: Gail Cooper says she saw the man hanging around the complex three times before Madeleine was taken
The Madeleine information hotline has been inundated with calls since the sketch was released by investigators.

Charlotte Pennington has claimed she saw Murat chatting to the man in the sketch
An international manhunt is now underway for the man seen near the resort in Portugal.
The sketch was based on the evidence of a British tourist who came forward saying she had seen a "creepy man" lurking around the resort pretending to collect money for a fake orphanage.
The dramatic development comes amid fears that he may have acting with an accomplice in a paedophile gang to "case" the holiday complex in the days running up to her disappearance.
Grandmother Gail Cooper, who was staying just 500 yards from Gerry and Kate McCanns' holiday apartment, told police how she came face to face with the "disturbing" man hanging around the resort three times.
Based on her descriptions, an FBI-trained artist produced a likeness of the suspect whom British and Portuguese police and Interpol were desperately trying to trace last night.
The sketch bears a striking resemblance to an image of a man seen by family friend, Jane Tanner carrying a child away on the night Madeleine vanished on May 3.

Left: The man described by Jane Tanner. Right: The sketch produced by information from Gail Cooper
Yesterday the McCanns' official spokesman Clarence Mitchell said it was vital to trace the man as soon as possible.

Witness: Grandmother Gail Cooper claims she saw the man in the picture
And last night he said the hotline set up to help find Madeleine had been inundated with calls. And he said the response had already been "very encouraging".
Gerry McCann wrote on his blog: "It is essential that he be traced. We believe many people must know who this individual is.
"We appeal to anyone who knows him or may have seen him to contact our private investigators.
"This man may have key information that will help us locate Madeleine."
A million posters appealing for information in English, Arabic and French about the suspicious character are now being distributed throughout Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula where private detectives working for the McCanns believe she has been taken.
At a press conference in London, Clarence Mitchell said: "Who is he? Where is he? What, if any, is his connection to Madeleine's disappearance?"
"If he is innocent we want him to come forward for his own sake so he can be ruled out.
"We believe this man could be linked to Madeleine's disappearance.
"We need to find this man and find him quickly."
But Portuguese police have dismissed the sketch as having "no credibility".
Officers have accused the McCanns - official suspects in the case - of diverting attention away from themselves. Carlos Anjos, president of the Judicial Police Inspectors Union, said: "All sense has been completely lost."
Another police source said the picture was based on information "without any consistency", shows a man who could be one of "hundreds of people" and is "another diversionary manoeuvre".
In the days following Madeleine's disappearance, Mrs Cooper, from Newark, Nottinghamshire gave a statement to police describing him.
But Portuguese detectives failed to quiz her further and a image of the suspect has never been produced until she was reinterviewed last week by the McCanns' private detective agency Metodo 3.
It also emerged yesterday that a 12-year-old girl living locally has come forward with information after seeing a "strange man".
Mrs Cooper, who was staying with her husband Jonathan in a villa close to the apartment later hired by the McCanns, described seeing an olive-skinned man with collar-length scraggly hair acting suspiciously on a number of occasions.
She first saw him on April 20 walking by himself in heavy rain on the deserted beach at Praia da Luz.
The 50-year-old healthcare coordinator said: "He was wandering alone, even though it was pouring with rain. I watched him for a few minutes before I went back to chatting to my friends."
Later that afternoon, the stranger turned up at their villa where Mrs Cooper's eight-year-old granddaughter was swimming alone in a pool visible from the road.
Heavily-clothed despite the warm weather and carrying what he claimed was an ID card, she said he appeared nervous and agitated.
Speaking in broken English, he claimed that he was raising money for a local orphanage in Espiche, but Mrs Cooper said she quickly got rid of him.
"He must have seen my husband leave, because the bell rang only seconds later," she recalled.
"He seemed really strange. It was a warm afternoon, but he was still wearing khaki trousers or joggers, a T-shirt and a bomber jacket.
"He said he was collecting for an orphanage that was caring for three children whose parents had been killed in an accident on the main coast road.
"It just didn't add up - everyone would have known if there had been a tragedy like that. He was rambling and becoming agitated. He really unnerved me.
"I thought he was a conman trying to pull a fast one. He was very creepy. He wasn't Portuguese - I think he was either Tunisian or Moroccan.
She added: "We have been going out to Portugal for 10 years or so, sometimes four times a year, so I like to think I know the Portuguese pretty well.
"They are always smartly-dressed and polite - and this man wasn't. He stuck out. He was unpleasant, and I felt vulnerable when I was in his presence."
Investigators have since discovered that no such orphanage exists and they have found no evidence of the supposed accident.
Two days later Mrs Cooper saw the same man hanging around a children's outing to the beach organised by the Mark Warner resort.
Madeleine took part in the same outings in the days leading up to her disappearance.
She said yesterday: "I just hope they either catch this person or he comes forward.
"My memory of him is very vivid. It was unnerving. He made my blood run cold and gave me the creeps.
"In my job I have to assess people and make a judgement. My judgement is that this man could have been the kidnapper."
She also blasted Portuguese police for not taking her report seriously of the sightings during her family holiday between April 18-25 last year to celebrate her 50th birthday.
"It's certainly some time since I went to the police. I was a bit surprised it took so long for something to be done," she said.
With the help of police artist Melissa Little, two sketches of the man have been produced.
He has been described as aged 38 to 45, with sallow skin, lank, long dark hair, a distinctive droopy moustache and large teeth.
Yesterday Jane Tanner said one of the sketches showing the man wearing a safari jacket and light-coloured trousers "strongly resembles" the man she saw carrying a child wearing pyjamas identical to those worn by Madeleine on the night of the disappearance.
Mrs Cooper's evidence also echoes that of another holidaymaker, Paul Gordon, 34, who saw a man hanging around the McCanns' apartment days before Madeleine vanished.
The father of two told police that he spotted a man outside the two-bedroom flat's patio doors while his own two children were sleeping inside.
Mr Gordon, who stayed in the Ocean Club flat immediately before the McCanns did, said when he confronted the man he claimed to be collecting money for an orphanage in the mountains.
Yesterday there were fears that the second man - who does not match the description of the figure seen by Mrs Cooper- may have been an accomplice checking out the layout of the apartment and security with a view to snatching a child.
A friend of the McCanns said yesterday: "We fear that a group of two or three paedophiles may have been fishing around the apartments, casing it with a view to taking children."
Now the McCanns want a review of all the witness statements, including one taken from a 12-year-old girl who is being interviewed by Metodo 3 in the hope of obtaining a sketch of the "strange man" she saw in Praia da Luz in May last year.
Early calls to the Madeleine McCann helpline yesterday also suggested that the man in the sketch had been seen in Faro several years ago.
Mr Mitchell said developments such as this gave Mr and Mrs McCann renewed hope.
"That is exactly the sort of call we want. We think the image is of such a quality that anyone who knows him will be able to identify him," he said.
"Kate and Gerry are quite buoyant at the moment - every time we do something like this and move things forward it gives them strength."
Last night Clarence Mitchell said the Madeleine McCann information hotline had been inundated with calls, saying the response had already been "very encouraging".
Gerry McCann wrote on his blog: "It is essential that he be traced. We believe many people must know who this individual is.
"We appeal to anyone who knows him or may have seen him to contact our private investigators.
"This man may have key information that will help us locate Madeleine."
It has just occurred to me that there may be a link in the sightings of Madeleine case 347 that have been disregarded by the police, including the latest one and your DDs. I searched on the internet but the timelines I discovered where all mixed with what the Mccanns did and the sightings etc. It might be clearer if a timeline of the sightings is drawn up?
1 What if your underground room DDs represent the fact that RM is an underground agent-working for UK etc and has infiltrated the child smuggling operation? Then your DDs might all be 'spot on' or near enough to pin down this case? - even the fire one- the Church involvement-or religious aspect to abductor etc he may need to create a fire in order to disappear from Portugal? - or from Praia da luz etc.
organization- or digging himself a deeper hole to implicate himself somehow?
You have drawn several underground rooms - could be why you get such a strong link between RM and MM
5. Teeth Man Belgium-Present abductor=gypsy abductor=gypsy cart sighting?=good way to smuggle someone out from under noses of Media and search team for
MM?
6. Teeth Man (present one) asking for donations to orphanage-is this a slip-up on his part. Is he doing pre-scan search for Casa Pia type orphanage?
(also Jehovas Witnesses visitng residents in Ocean Club for donations-was that for some orphanage too? I can't remember what I read on this.
Perhaps that is why gypsies who know abductor will not come forward in Mari Luz case - for fear if they do - their child might be taken?
Or the abductor/s could be in the gypsy opposition group?
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be sought according to means of travel and areas in and around these destinations, ports etc- and abductors descriptions given by all who saw MM?
Then if a pattern emerges that a group has been involved definitely- then some must have had past records. This cannot be the the first time for all members surely? And if you search your DDs for MM - perhaps you might find that they link better to the trail - leading to the abductors? And the reason you kept visualizing MM not being moved was because of the 'underground' connection (i.e. underground room) of RM?
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Rough sketch of what sighting-timeline might be drawn up:
pic pic
Teeth Man Cart sightings sightings
Portmao
____________!_______________!____________!_______________!__________
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of Rm could be DD for Mari Luz?
with moustache Gypsy might also link
(not removed) yr DD to MM
Best Regards,
Alex
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Good points Alex...have to get to bed, but will post this ASAP.
Brian
1.22.2008
Hi Brian,
Did you know there are two sketches of the new possible abductor?
Here is the link to Madeleine's parents blog :
http://www.findmadeleine.com/news/drawing.asp
I haven't seen the second sketch before..
Good night!
C.
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Thanks C...have seen them both...more times than I wanted to.
I personally do not feel any connection to this person, but I could be wrong and I'm trying my best to figure out how this person connects to the case...if at all.
Brian
HI Brian
In regard to the latest ID photo matching the previous "Belgium" ID photo - thought it should be mentioned about the following witness that was on page 5 - if they are the same guy and he was in the internet cafe he probably used it - it would fit with one of your DD where you stated "Check the mail" - Did the portugese police ever check those computers? Also the fact that he was with a woman in her 30's could this be RS and WS as in 5441.
"Briton Alex Murray, 60, recognised the man from the photofit image drawn up by police in
Belgium. He spotted the Dutchman in Praia da Luz near the time the four-year-old was
snatched.
The utilities worker from Newbridge on Wye, mid Wales, said the man was ;hanging around the
Jasmin Cafe ; less than half a mile from the apartment where Madeleine was taken.
When I saw the picture I recognised him straight away; Mr Murray told the Daily Express.
Mr Murray said: ;He would always be in there talking to the bar staff and hanging around
some of the people using the internet in there. He didnt strike me as being on holiday
because he never seemed to wear holiday garb.
Sometimes he was in there with a woman I thought was in her 30s"
Thanks
Liz
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Hi Liz...when it comes to the PJ I'm assuming that they did not investigate anything or anyone other than the McCann's. Another think, if this man in the new sketch is the one that took Madeleine, I can't help to think that Madeleine might have been home much sooner if this sketch was available the day she went missing.
I also think this Jasmin Cafe needs to be checked out...seems to easy to find this guy if so many people recognize him.
Brian
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Thank You...Brian


did i send you this - really great they added UK to their site. Was thinking you could ask them to adopt the software for your own missing person files. i know you are so busy but flag this to check out another time. IN essence it uses google maps to mark out where missing kids are in USA and now UK (although sadly list is not at all compete cause they need to be RSS compatible.. see below my correspondence to date)
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Great news and will post a link to the site...I will ask them, but I can already imagine their reply :)
Brian
This is a link to the UK Missing Persons Map, will also be posting it elsewhere on my site when I can figure out where.
On Jan 22, 2008 6:40 AM, Chloe **** wrote:
Dear Steve, that is really fantastic news - thank you for doing this. Lets hope other countries get their acts together soon! I am going to look at it right now. With Is RSS the data you can 'read'? Out of interest what does it stand for.
Best regards, Chloe.
On 22 Jan 2008, at 04:41, Missing Kids Map wrote:Hello Chloe,
This note is a follow up to your email. Over the weekend, we added the United Kingdom to the list of countries that we have data for. You can see this map here:
http://www.missingkidsmap.com/United_Kingdom_Missing_Child_Map.html
It does not look like there are any other countries with available RSS feeds at this time.
All the best,
Steve
Missing Kids MapOn Jan 17, 2008 1:13 PM, Chloe Lander******> wrote:
Dear Sirs, I want to discuss the idea of your site becoming an
international missing persons map. Or at least start an equivalent
for europe, using your domain as parent site. Can we start up a
discussion about the possibility.
http://www.missingkidsmap.com/
Some questions:
Are you independent or government funded.
On your USA map, I know of many more missing kids who are still
missing in USA who for some reason do not seem to be on your website.
Is this because you are getting data from one source only. i.e
national missing persons bureau. Would it not be amazing to create a
more comprehensive list not only in USA but also other parts of the
world from many charitable organisations? Of course I expect you have
not done this because it is harder to monitor what kids are
subsequently then found and what is out of date but also more chance
of finding more missing kids.....spotting trends etc...? Your
thoughts and feedback appreciated.
Best wishes, Chloe lander
Dear Brian,
With all this talk of Gypsies I googled Gypsy and paedophile and came up with some sordid story of a UK mother who took her two boys to live in Varna, Bulgaria with her two gypsy lovers – one a pedophile.
As Varna is a small village just on the Black Sea – I suddenly thought back to your drawings of a location beginning with a V….
Anyways I googled the Varna and came up with this story:
PLEASE DOUBLE CLICK ON THIS LINK – BECAUSE IT IS THE FULL BBC REPORT AND THERE ARE PICTURES OF “HARRY”
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Will do...Brian
- 30 Jul 07, 04:30 PM
This weekend the Mail on Sunday published an article under the headline, "BBC may be prosecuted for offering £40,000 to 'child smugglers'".
It followed a report on Thursday's BBC Ten O'Clock News (which the programme's editor blogged about here) exposing a Bulgarian man willing to sell children.
The Mail on Sunday quoted extensively from a press conference given by the chief of police in Varna, Bulgaria, where the investigation was carried out. He said the BBC offered money for the children and that, according to their information, "the BBC's investigation was flawed." He added, "we have found nothing to back up claims of an organised group selling children for €60,000."
The article also included the paragraph, "neighbours who know the man added that they would not be surprised if he had taken money from the BBC's journalists to fabricate the story, but doubted he was involved in baby-trafficking". It also made a point of the fact that the story comes in the wake of BBC staff being suspended after faked phone-in competitions.
However the police chief made a number of demonstrably inaccurate comments in his press conference and clearly has a vested interest in down-playing the significance of the BBC's investigation, as it reveals potential criminal activity in his jurisdiction. For instance, the police chief claimed that the BBC had sacked the journalist responsible for the report and had written a letter of apology - both of which are untrue.The BBC did not offer money for the children. In fact "Harry" - who boasted to us that he was a people trafficker, and has a criminal conviction for it in Germany - brought a succession of children to us, and set a price of up to €60,000. The evidence is on tape for all to see - you can watch the report here.
The police chief claims we deliberately attempted to delay the arrest of "Harry" by providing false information. Again, this is incorrect. He also claims Varna doesn't have a problem with people trafficking. Both the United Nations and the European Union say it does - with reports warning of many gangs .
The investigation was carried out under strict editorial guidelines, with the BBC's Editorial Policy department consulted at every point - it exposed a trade in children going on within the European Union, something of great public interest. BBC News is proud of the report and the journalists who worked on it - at significant personal risk - and we stand by the report, and how it was made, fully.
I WAS THINKING THAT PERHAPS THAT SOMEONE LIKE CAROL GIVING THE AREA BELGIUM – COULD ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN BULGARIA – THIS I A TOWN WITH A VERY LARGE GYPSY COMMUNITY AND I THINK IT MAY BE WORTH LOOKIING INTO. IT MAY ALSO EXPLAIN GOING THROUGH MOROCCO TO GET THERE.
Xk
Further to my e-mail regarding Bulgaria, after looking on the internet I came upon these two pieces of information:
Saturday May 19, 2007
In these days of mass media sophistication, no one needs it explaining to them that where a child who gets kidnapped is news, a pretty child who gets kidnapped is headline news and a pretty child who gets kidnapped and whose parents save lives for a living and go to church is rolling news. Even so, in the days since she disappeared, the Madeleine campaign has, for scale of involvement, outdone anything we've seen before. There are 90 different Madeleine-related groups on Facebook alone, circulating her photo to user communities of between six and 76,000 members. The official website has registered 60m hits and posters of her have been seen in campsites as far away as Bulgaria, translated into local languages via appeals put out by bloggers. At least four premiership football stars have made TV appeals and there is reward money on offer totalling some £2.5m.
http://truecrimemagazine.com/articles/404:
The onslaught of web traffic drawn in by True Crime Blog UK’s posts about Maddy is remarkable in that visitors are coming from everywhere, and not just English-speaking countries. Comments have been left by people stating they are from Ireland, England, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, and even Bulgaria (though the rude nature of that comment didn’t deserve publication). The impact of Maddy’s story is obvious. It is pretty much inescapable the moment you see the child’s photo, and realize just how small she is.
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Thanks, I read the articles...the part about the American Press is true, the only thing I have ever seen on TV was a report a week or so ago after she disappeared, when the parents were made suspects, and just recently when this new sketch came out...yet my inbox is full of people concerned about her from people all around the world.
Brian
Hi Brian
I hope this email finds you well.
I have a few questions/opinions on this that I really need to share, so hope you and your readers don’t mind!
Why oh why aren’t Kate, Gerry or grandparents turning to psychics to help find Madeleine, as one of your readers said? I have a 2 year old and a four year old and I would try absolutely anything, regardless of whether or not I believed in it, to try to find my kids.
If this new suspect picture is accurate, then surely a close knit community like Praia de Luz’s should have noticed this individual?
The press in the UK are reporting that the PJ are saying this new suspect is a diversion tactic by the McCanns to take the heat off them!
I really believe this has become very political and police, both Portuguese and British are not helping the McCanns at all. Come on British police/government – What happened to good old fashioned detective work and helping our own? The only thing holding up this investigation is politics. Where are our morals – restore the nations faith by showing that children’s lives are more important than letting oddball politicians get away with fulfilling their sexual fantasies with abducted children?
I may be gullible at times, but I really do have a feeling the leaked intelligence report is right and that’s what’s halted this investigation. I sincerely hope I’m wrong.
To Kate, Gerry and Susan Healy – Please try a psychic, you have nothing to lose only your daughter to gain. X
Sorry and thanks for letting me rant Brian! I will keep this for the forum in future!
Sally
(Wiltshire, UK)
P.S. I post on the forum if anyone wants to email me
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Hi, will post this...I do believe that many psychics have been to PDL, I'm not sure what was accomplished. I do agree that if a psychic did talk with the McCann's, she or he might be able to help...many of them work with personal objects and photos that only they would have.
Brian
You may be right, especially if the following article is accurate....Teresareply
Hi Teresa...assuming the PJ are at least allowing a organized crime ring to operate in the area...I would think that some of they are getting compensated for their troubles.
Maybe worth wild to see what members of the PJ are living above their means.
Brian
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article707850.ece
THE British woman who may have seen Maddie McCann’s kidnapper has NOT been quizzed by Portuguese cops.Gail Cooper, 50, told British police about the suspect on May 7 – four days after Maddie, four, vanished in Praia da Luz.
The man – with a moustache and long hair – was seen near the McCann’s holiday apartment by two other women.
Parents Kate and Gerry had a sketch of him released last week.
Gail, of Newark, Notts, said yesterday: “They never contacted me. He must be found, even if it is to rule him out.”
1.23.2008
DD wrote earlier today:"I did a bit of digging and found actual photos of the Belgian man from the original photfit. (This was originally posted on page 6 of this case). This was the father of the Madeleine lookalike who was spotted in the Belgian cafe back in August. The childs name was Sjanneke Hofstede. To me, these pictures of the girl's father look absolutely nothing like the photofit produced at the time. I remember thinking back then that there was no likeness but that seems even more suspicious now in the light of the new photofits which look remarkable similar to the older one except for longer hair. Something doesn't fit!!! "I agree with DD. Something isn't right. What do you think?reply
I'm not sure...Brian
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Hi, Brian
The Symingtons (the local wine-making dynasty) have been mentioned before in discussions about R.S. initials in your DDs (there is a Rupert Symington-R.S. -in the family).
The article below curiously brings a Symington into the mix as Murat's look-alike. Murat is more than happy to confirm their likeness, which would mean that it was Angus Syminton the witnesses saw on May 3. Especially since Angus Symington has a real estate office at the Ocean Club Resort and thus would have had every reason to be there.
One little problem which makes this whole look-alike discovery useless: Angus Symington absolutely denies being there past 6 p.m. May 3!
So, if he is telling the truth, Murat's alibi is still shot. If Symingon is lying -then there is another person to investigate.
Background info: "Mark Warner Holidays manages Ocean Club, which was established in 1982, but three British residents, David Symington, John Garveigh and Robin Crosland, founded the resort and remain the owning partners. All three partners still play an active part in the running of the resort.
David Symington came to the Algarve in the 1960s. The Symington family has been in the Port wine shipping business in Porto for generations."
There is something odd about this, something to look closer at.
Natasha
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Posted...Brian
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LOOKALIKE 'WILL PUT NO 1 SUSPECT MURAT IN CLEAR'
Was Murat confused with Symington?
Thursday January 24,2008
By Padraic Flanagan
THESE lookalike pictures may clear Robert Murat, the first suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
On the left is Praia da Luz estate agent Angus Symington, 37, and on the right Mr Murat, 34.
Their resemblance shows that witnesses who claim they saw Mr Murat outside the McCanns’ apartment on the night Madeleine vanished may have named the wrong man.
Expatriate Mr Murat has always insisted he was with his mother.
Now many in Praia da Luz believe that the eight witnesses who say they saw Mr Murat could have confused him with Mr Symington.
The resemblance has emerged just two weeks after police revealed that one of the McCanns’ friends, 41-year-old medical researcher David Payne, could also have been mistaken for Mr Murat when Madeleine vanished.
The lookalikes could force police into a total rethink of their eight-month investigation.
Mr Symington, who is about the same height as Mr Murat, is a father-of-two who runs the Ocean Country Real Estate office at the Ocean Club complex where the McCanns were staying in Praia da Luz.
When shown his picture, Mr Murat said: “I’m amazed by the likeness, The hairline and the nose, it could be me. Just the chin is different.
“This guy has every reason to be at the Ocean Club. Remember – people work. I wouldn’t want what happened to me to happen to anyone else.”
Mr Murat said he intended to give the new evidence to his lawyer so that it could be forwarded to Policia Judiciaria investigators in nearby Portimao. Later, Mr Murat’s uncle Ralph Eveleigh was shown Mr Symington’s picture and said: “Bloody hell – it’s Robert. They are very similar.”
Mr Murat has always said he spent the fateful night at home in the villa he shares with his mother Jennifer, 72, fewer than 150 yards from the McCanns’ apartment.
But a series of witnesses have given statements claiming to have seen him around the Ocean Club in the hours after Kate McCann raised the alarm. They include three friends of the McCanns – Russell O’Brien, Fiona Payne and Rachel Oldfield.
There is no suggestion that Mr Symington had anything to do with the tragedy. He insisted that he was at home with his family six miles away when Madeleine vanished.
He said last night: “I had been away in England for 10 days and came back the day before Madeleine went missing. I was here on the day, and for a few days following, but then I left again for a week.
“I categorically wasn’t around on the night she vanished. I left Praia da Luz at close of business at 6pm to go home. It couldn’t have been me. The first I was aware of the story was when I arrived at work the next day.”
Hi Brian how are you doing.I was looking at your dd on page 23 and you mentioned these things:
1)Attaches to police drug impound area2)Sound proof walls3)Murat found the place4)Under DA Luz5)White light6)Basement7)Open holeI thought why not try and put bits of what you draw in google to see what i come up with.So i tried Portugal drug impound areas address etc and i came up with this webpage that has tourist info for Portugal like,Portugal fire station address and laundry services etc.That's when i remembered that on 1 of your pages that there is something about Madeleine being held where the Portugal police wash their uniforms,i do not know if this was from yourself or someone sent it in to you.This was 1 of the things on the webpageTourist information Lagos, Praia da Luz, Sagres, Algarve
I noticed the laundry service had the no.5a and the no 8 .You have mentioned these no.'s in your dd's and i thought it was a coincidental or fate that they came up together.So i took the name lote 8 loja and put it into google and guess what loads of estate agents came up including a few of remax estate agents and Murat worked for Remax estate agents.By this time i was thinking that it could not just be a coincidence that the things you have in your dd's that i googled are all coming up together so it must mean something.This was 1 of the estate agents that came upRE / MAX - Bom SucessoRua Joaquim Patrão Casaca Lot 6 - No. 37 The
Vila Cubista, Med. Vila Cubista, Med. Imob. Imob. Lda. Ltd. AMI 7321 MAI 7321
Olhão, Olhão, Portugal Olhão, Olhão, Portugal
8700-351 8700-351If you notice Brian the no. 37 is the address no. for the estate agents and you have mentioned this no. in your dd's you have mentioned the no.6 in your dd's which is is part of the address as well.Another coincidence or what that there is more things you have mentioned in your dd's that have all came out of me putting bits of what you have written in your dd's into google,it must be some sort of sign,it must mean something.It also had people who work for the estate agents so i copied them down as well:ConsultantsYou have mentioned the name Carlos in your dd's as well and carlos is 1 of the staff that work at this estate agents so i felt i had to send all of this info into you.Sorry if there is alot of it,but it is more than just a coincidence that i took bits of your dd on page 23 and put it into google and came up with things that all relate to your dd's and not just things that are on page 23 but your other pages of your dd's as well.I hope i haven't wasted your time with this info but you must agree its a bit of a coincidence is'nt it?What a gift you have Brian,keep it upJennifer *** from Scotland Glasgow xxreply
Thank you...no such thing as a waste of time :)
Brian
Hi Brian,Just found this piece in the newspapers, tonight, it is in a few of them ,BUT depends on which reporter you believe, he lives somewhere between 4 and 12 miles from PDL. To me he bears no resemblance to the photofit, but maybe thats my eyesight, and the wrong reading glasses lol The story however leaves me wondering why he was in PDL for days on end (if it was him), knocking doors, begging for donations to a ficticious orphanage,and why the police interviewed him back in May, if indeed he wasn't the man in question.?What do you think?Keep up the good work Brian, you are a remarkable man doing alot of good things for the missing children, keep on smiling , and deleting the negative mail. !!!Best regards to the familly,
Cy ukreply
Will do...many people could look like this sketch and for the police to actually interview him again (it it happened), I think there would have to be something more they were going on.
If he was collecting money for orphanages, fictitious or not, can't the police prove or disprove this? especially if they did talk to him in May.
If he was not in PDL at the time, and is innocent, then I see the reason for his anger.
Brian
Found: The man in the Madeleine photofit
Last updated at 23:22pm on 24.01.08A Portuguese pig farmer has been identified as the man shown in the sketch of Madeleine McCann's alleged abductor.
Joaquim Jose Marques was questioned by police this week after a holidaymaker told detectives he resembled the image released by Kate and Gerry McCann, which is being reproduced on a million wanted posters.
The farmer, who has a daughter of Madeleine's age, has been eliminated from the police investigation. He has not been arrested or named as an official suspect in the case.
Joaquim Jose Marques and the sketch from the McCanns
Police said they also questioned him in May last year, 20 days after Madeleine vanished, after another tourist said they found his behaviour suspicious.
The Daily Mail yesterday tracked Mr Marques to his ramshackle farm in Pedragosa, four miles from the Algarve resort where Madeleine disappeared.
He refused to speak about the international hunt for the man shown in the posters - which have been sent to Interpol and to Portugal, Spain and North Africa.
He screamed obscenities at callers to the isolated farm and then returned brandishing an ancient-looking rifle.
Standing among his pigs and surrounded by feral dogs, Mr Marques shouted: "Leave me alone, leave me alone... look at this face, is this the face in the picture?"
Questioned: Joaquim Jose Marques yesterday
Mr and Mrs McCann, both 39, believe the sketch could show the man who took their daughter from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.
It was drawn by an FBI trained forensic artist based on descriptions by British tourist Gail Cooper, who told police how a "creepy man" came to her villa in Praia da Luz, asking for donations for a nearby orphanage, only days before Madeleine went missing.
Mrs Cooper, 50, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, said she saw the man three times, once when he was hanging around a children's beach outing.
Portuguese police have dismissed her sightings and the e-fit as having "no credibility" and say the McCanns are using them as a "diversion tactic".
They remain convinced Madeleine died last May 3 and that her parents were involved in her disappearance. Mr and Mrs McCann, of Rothley, are still official suspects in the case.
But the couple's private investigation agency Metodo 3 believe the sketch could show the abductor. Their hotline has received dozens of calls from those who think they have seen the man in the sketch.
A police source told the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha the image "could apply to many, many people," and said Mr Marques was not a suspect.
He said: "Contact with the individual was not in any shape or form an interrogation. It was just an informal contact to clear up any suspicions."
Neighbours described Mr Marques as a reclusive character who had moved to the isolated farm last year to live quietly with his British-born girlfriend and their daughter, who is three or four.
Hi Brian,sorry to bother you again but I found this site called Sunrise in Portugal which is a property Management site.Their logo is also very similar to 1 of your dd’s which looks like a sun.There web address is:http://www.sunrise-lmg.com/property_management_service.php#
They offer
Holiday rentalsPool servicesMaid servicesGarden servicesGolfCyclingThere is more that they offer as well.You mention in your dd’s that the kidnapper works at the hotel.Is it possible that the Mark warner resort hire people from the Sunrise agency to work at their hotel.You must of drawn that sign that looks like a sun for a reason and it is strange how the sign you have drawn has services that relate to this case and your dd’s.Is it possible that people who are involved in Madeleine’s abduction could work for this agency and worked at the Mark Warner resort and you have drawn the sun sign for this reason,just a thought?Your work is excellentJennifer from Scotland Glasgow xxreply
Hi Jennifer, I do not know but will post this information.
Brian
Hi, BrianLike the pig farmer Joaquim Jose Marques said (well, screamed) to the media: "Look at this face! Is this the face in the picture?!"Nice try, PJ. Natasha=
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Hi Natasha...I think this new sketch might be doing more harm than good.
Brian
Hi, BrianI find the latest news of Murat's look-alike and about the "pig farmer " identified as the creep in the sketch unbearably annoying.
Talk about "smoke-screens" -the PJ take the prize for that!First, maybe it was not Murat the witnesses saw (although Symington was never really there), then maybe it was the pig farmer
(who does not really match the picture and has DREADLOCKS!)
I guess the PJ are putting out more stupid false info than usual because someone is on their tail, and they know it.Natashareply
Hi again...removing the dreadlocks could make his hair look like the picture...but just going a a sketch like this is not a good idea.
If he was in PDL at the time Madeleine went missing, then he should explain why he was there.
If he was spotted lets say on the 6th of May or beyond collecting for charity...then I doubt he was involved...but would still investigate all leads.
Brian
Hi Brian,Just found this in the Daily mail, there is a strong likeness between Murat and Symington!!!!! And both names have come up on your pages.Keep on doing a great job!!!!Best wishesCy ukreply
Hi, thanks, I think I may have already posted this report, so will just post the headline.
If Murat is innocent, then why is he still being protected by the PJ as a suspect?
Madeleine: Witnesses may have mistaken suspect Robert Murat for his British 'double'
Dear Brian, it is hardly surprising they look similar the symington
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Thanks, did not know this.
Brian
found this:
If he was not there when a witness saw someone, then who did this witness see?
I'm referring to this event
Madeleine McCann was spotted by a woman on the night she disappeared in Portugal. At the time, she just did not did not realize the significance of what she was seeing, reports now claim and guilt is consuming her. The vital witness, a close friend of Kate and Gerry McCann, was on her way to join Madeleine’s parents for dinner at the tapas bar when she saw a man with a blonde girl wrapped in a blanket.
The scene is eerie. On the night Maddie was snatched, she saw a man with a blonde girl wrapped in a blanket. She was wearing “distinguishable” pink pajamas, the woman has told police. At the time she thought it was odd, but only realized to her horror too late that it was probably Madeleine.
Also, The woman saw the man close to the open window of the bedroom where Madeleine, then 3, had been sleeping with her two-year-old twin brother and sister, Sean and Amelie. It is being described as the clearest evidence yet about what happened on the night Madeleine disappeared 25 days ago.
This will bring more criticism to Portugal cops. The friend reported the sighting to police immediately but detectives released the description only after Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister in waiting, intervened last week. Despite the three-week delay, hundreds of people have called police with information. What is wrong with these investigators?
The man is white, 35 to 40 years old, of medium build and 5ft 10in. He has short hair and was wearing a dark jacket, light beige trousers and dark shoes.
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Seems that Symington can prove he was not there when the McCann's friend saw someone...so who did she see carrying a blonde girl in pink pajamas?
If it's proven Symington did leave at 6pm, there is no way it could have been him...so in this particular event only, Symington could not have been mistaken for Murat...as he was not there at the time, and I'm sure he would remember carrying a child if he was.
He may have been seen before or after Madeleine was taken, but not during the only time period that really matters.
I also do not believe that any abductor who show his/her face after the crime was committed...only if they lived in the area and knew some sort of secret place he/she could take her would this person try and return to the scene of the crime...or if the PJ already knew what was going to happen.
So either this witness (Jane) was lying or she saw someone other that Symington.
As to why she was not able to connect knowing Madeleine was missing and seeing a man carrying a blond child with pink pajamas right away is inconceivable...so I'm assuming she told police right away, and the news reports are just wrong. If this is not the case, then I do not know what to think.
This is the first sketch drawn from Jane's description.
Brian
Hi, Brian
I thought Gail Cooper flew to PDL this week -she would know for sure whether this is the man she saw or not. No need to guess.
Strangely, there is nothing in the news about her identifying the man to the police or to Metodo 3. I assume M3 flew her to Portugal.
In fact , below is the response from Clarence Mitchell stating that Metodo are still looking, and this man "bears no resemblance".
So, I guess it's up to Gail Cooper to say, since this was mostly her lead.
Natasha
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Thanks again Natasha, I just want to know if this guy was in PDL collecting for orphanages or not, and if he was, which ones.
Also, can you confirm this second sketch was done by the same person?
Brian
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McCanns still focus on photofit lead
By Tim Walsh
Friday January 25 2008Madeleine McCann's parents dismissed reports yesterday that the man depicted in an artist's impression of a possible suspect in her disappearance has been found and ruled out by police.
The striking image of a man with long, dark hair, a moustache and prominent teeth was widely publicised earlier this week when issued as part of Gerry and Kate McCann's campaign to find their little girl.
It was drawn from a description given to an FBI-trained artist by British holidaymaker Gail Cooper, who was in the Algarve around the time the then three-year-old vanished from her family's Praia da Luz apartment.
But yesterday it was reported in Portugal that detectives know who he is and have ruled him out of their inquiry.
He was found in Barao de Sao Joao, 10 miles from Praia da Luz, said Portuguese newspaper 'Correio da Manha'.
It is reported the man was originally contacted by investigators about three weeks after Madeleine vanished. After the image was released this week, they got in touch with him again.
The McCanns' spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Our investigators have not been informed that the man we are seeking has been ruled out.
"We have no reason to believe he has been ruled out and our search for the man in our image is very much continuing.
"Our understanding is that the man reported to be linked to our image bears no resemblance," he said.
- Tim Walsh
1.25.2008
Kate and Gerry McCann in £1million deal to tell all to Oprah Winfrey
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Hi, will just post link...this story cannot be true, Oprah does not pay guests...I don't think she ever has...if she did, I think many of her viewers would change the channel.
Where does this Daily Mail get their information?
Brian
Hi Brian,
I found this article. It is Google translation from dutch:
http://tinyurl.com/2dndq6
Maddie in Tongeren was Sjanneke
Tongeren - Without realizing it himself, the father of Sjanneke Hofstede (3) the study of the in Tongeren on a terrace identified Madeleine McCann ceased.
Like more than forty other owners of a black Volvo with registration VUV in our country was also forced Ed Hofstede Hoogstraten from the beginning of this month a call from the police. "She wanted to know if I had been in Tongeren weekend. On the assumption that I weekends only in Riemst was, I said no. " About the investigation into the missing British toddler Maddie was no mention in that phone call. Ed Hofstede there was also not a second thought. Until Friday, he was again confronted with the police. 'They had anyone seen my car to the restaurant Pause in Tongeren. Then came my frank: that restaurant was in Tongeren and not in Riemst as I thought. " According to Ed Hofstede he never intentionally delayed the investigation. ' "I have simply never stopped that Saturday that a link was established between Maddie and Sjanneke."
According to Ed Hofstede his entire story is simple. "I was on Saturday, July 28 to pick up my daughter with my ex in Riemst. ' Then something we are going to drink on a terrace. The day after he was moved to the opsporingsbericht (?). "I have read none themselves. ' But if you brave citizen leg with yourself no link with a criminal. " Also robotfoto similarities between himself and he is not. 'Was that me? He seemed rather at a Dalton (laughs). "
Meanwhile, all the puzzle pieces cases. Ed Hofstede drank the bottle Fristi of his daughter empty. That explains the male DNA on the bottle investigated. And the kindertherapeute who told that 'Maddie' strangely did, was right. '"My Polish girlfriend who was also Saturday. She speaks English and for her it was her first encounter with Sjanneke. ' My daughter was indeed what awkward. "
The police van Tongeren said to be glad that they finally able to shut down the slopes. (bjm) (BJM)
From second article:
http://tinyurl.com/253rqk
"The kindertherapeute alarm that hit, had also told the police that the girl was strange. And that the woman spoke English in their company. Ed Hofstede: 'Now is the puzzle together naturally. This Saturday met my daughter for the first time my new girlfriend. She comes from Poland and thus speaks English. ' Sjanneke was just awkward and shy. "
There are many strange things:
1) Police found Sjannekes father only because they had tracked him down by his car number plate, black Volvo with registration VUV. It happened about three weeks later.
2) Police called to Ed in the beginning of August (sighting was 28.7.2007), because he was among 40 owners of Black Volvo with registration VUV in Belgium and wanted to know if he had been in Tongeren weekend, but he first said no. (Ed: "On the assumption that I weekends only in Riemst was, I said no. ") Couple of weeks later, when police called again and said they have seen his car to the restaurant Pause in Tongeren he remembered he had been there. There is about 6 miles between Riemst and Tongeren. Is it possible he couldn't remember he had been in Tongeren weekend?
3) Ed's girlfriend who spoke english and (as they said) met Sjanneke first time was polish! (Michaela Walczuch is polish too)
4) Why child therapist was 100% sure the girl was Madeleine. I mean Sjanneke don't resembles Madeleine so much, that you could say Sjanneke is 100% Madeleine (You could say 80-90%, but NOT 100%). Sjanneke has a round face and she's got mole on her chest. Child therapist works with children and sees lot of children in her work, how could she mistaken in this way?
It is true, that girl at the table had long, blond hair like Sjanneke has (according to waitress), but it is always possible, they have colored Madeleines hair or put wig on her hair. We don't either know if Sjannekes long blond hair are real or not.
5) Ed Hofstede drank the bottle Fristi of his daughter empty. Or maybe he drank this yoghurt drink to cover Madeleines DNA?
It is possible child therapist saw Sjanneke and her father, but it is possible too that child therapist really saw MADELEINE not Sjanneke. Maybe she was right, when she said the girl was "100% Madeleine"?
Maybe they just picked up some girl and said it was his daughter? I don't claim anything, it is possible Sjanneke is really Dutchman's daughter. But I ask some questions, because there is also STRONG link between this photofit of Ed Hofstede and photofit of PDL-man as you know.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/6901
"Briton Alex Murray, 60, recognised the man from the photofit image drawn up by police in Belgium. He spotted the Dutchman in Praia da Luz near the time the four-year-old was snatched.
The utilities worker from Newbridge on Wye, mid Wales, said the man was “hanging around” the Jasmin Cafe – less than half a mile from the apartment where Madeleine was taken.
“When I saw the picture I recognised him straight away,” Mr Murray told the Daily Express.
“It just jumped off the page when I saw it.”
Mr Murray said: “He would always be in there talking to the bar staff and hanging around some of the people using the internet in there. He didn’t strike me as being on holiday because he never seemed to wear holiday garb.
“Sometimes he was in there with a woman I thought was in her 30s.”
Child therapist also said little girl was accompanied by a "swarthy-looking Dutchman" in his 40s and an English-speaking woman in her 20s.
http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t65946-500.html
Maybe swarthy-looking Dutchman in Belgium and swarthy-looking Dutchman in PDL really are one and same man? Maybe he sometimes used wig and false moustache in PDL?replyThank You...Brian
Hi Brian,
Although I have searched for this news in newspapers from Chile, I have not been able to find any mention about it ... yet. Neither do I see any mention about this findings or sighting in the Portuguese or UK news.
This news was just posted in a newspaper in Ecuador. (I have included a rough translation after the article for everyone's benefit in case you decide to post this info in your site).
Magdareply
Thanks Magda, and will post it.
Brian
Policía chilena confirma que realizan busqueda de Madeleine
SANTIAGO, Chile | EFE
La Policía chilena afirmó este viernes que busca en el país a la niña británica Madeleine McCann desaparecida en Portugal hace ocho meses, tras recibir una denuncia sobre el avistamiento de la pequeña en la norteña ciudad de Vicuña.
La información fue confirmada a Radio Cooperativa por el subprefecto Segundo Leyton, jefe nacional de la Brigada de Ubicación de Personas (Briup) de la Policía de Investigaciones.
El efectivo dijo que un equipo de cinco detectives investiga en la zona de Vicuña, luego que un hombre -cuya identidad no fue revelada-, alertó sobre el presunto avistamiento de una niña de similar apariencia a Madeleine, en el museo de Gabriela Mistral en esa localidad, situada a 530 kilómetros de Santiago.
La niña supuestamente estaba acompañada de dos adultos extranjeros, una mujer y un hombre, dijo la fuente a la Policía.
Según el policía, al testigo le llamó la atención la presencia del sujeto que acompañaba a la niña, que "lo encuentra muy similar a la persona que aparece en la prensa", en alusión a un sospechoso cuyo retrato hablado fue publicado por medios de diversos países.
Madeliene, de cuatro años, hija de los médicos ingleses Gerry y Kate McCann, ha sido intensamente buscada tras su desaparición en la localidad portuguesa de Praia Da Luz, el pasado 3 de mayo.
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Chilean police confirm that they are conducting a search for Madeleine
SANTIAGO, Chile | EFE
Chilean Police have confirmed this Friday that they will look in the country for the British girl Madeleine McCann abducted in Portugal eight months ago, after receiving a sighting report of the little girl in the northern city of Vicuña.
The information was confirmed to Radio Cooperativa by the Vice Prefect Segundo Leyton, national chief of the Brigade for the Localization of Missing Persons (BRIUP) from Investigations Police.
The officer said that a team of five detectives is investigating in the Vicuña area, after a man -whose identity was not revealed- alerted the possible sighting of a girl of similar appearance to Madeleine at the museum Gabriela Mistral in that area, located at 530 kilometers from Santiago.
The girl was apparently accompanied by two foreign adults, a man and a woman, said the police source.
According to the policeman, the witness' attention was caught by the presence of the subject accompanying the girl, who "he finds him to be very similar to the person who appears in the press," in allusion to a suspect whose spoken portrait was published by the media of several countries.
Four year old Madeleine, daughter of British doctors Gerry and Kate McCann, has been under intense search after her disappearance in the Portuguese locality of Praia Da Luz, last May 3.
link to the article http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/01/25/0001/14/5738C4A43C234321BF21F968C003B9AB.aspx
Hiya Brian,
I Hope You have seen this article, this is the same man in the Scetch ? I
think Not.
Yes an Angry Man ... But He Raped a british teenager in the same area in
which Madeleine went missing.
Okay, This is why He was questioned earlier in May, This is Making Me SO MAD
It is All on My Blog.http://janetmariejames.blogspot.com
You are Truly Amazing .... keep up the Good work :]
Javno portal has published the article '`Innocent` Marques Raped Brit Teen!'
at
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=117721Webmaster Javno
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Will do Javno...Brian
Although Joaquim Jose Marques was not suspected of kidnapping Madeleine McCann, it seems he is not completely innocent after all. Allegedly, Marques had raped a British teenager in the same town where Madeleine went missing, while his accomplice targeted her friend, a Portuguese reporter told the Diario se Noticias. Marques, who has a daughter of Madeline’s age, was sentenced to five years in prison for the offence. His rape accomplice, whose was not identified, was also convicted. Marques, nick-named Quim Ze, was a gun-runner and drugs trafficker.The police questioned Marques earlier this week, to determine if he had anything to do with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Marques was reported by a tourist, as his faces reminded him of the one posted on the FBI`s APB. Still, the police said Quim Ze was not linked with Maddie`s kidnapping.
Marques was also questioned in May last year, 20 days after Madeleine went missing, as he was reported by a tourist for his suspicious behaviour. Marques` farm is 6.6 km away from the spot Madeleine went missing. He refused to talk about the international search for the mystery man, whose images were sent to Portugal, Spain and north Africa by the Interpol.
Upon arriving on his farm, he stood among his pigs and shouted: - Leave me alone, leave me alone... look at this face, is this the face in the picture?
The McCanns believe the photofit might lead them to the man who took their daughter. An FBI expert made the sketch some 15 days ago, based on the description by witness Gail Cooper, who said she saw this “creepy” man three times in Praia de Luz. He once hung around children, while he came to her door the second time, asking for financial aid for orphanage children a day before Madeleine was taken.
Still, after some time, Maddie`s parents, Garry and Kate, were suspects in the case and still are prime suspects. On the other hand, the sketch raised hopes this mystery man, Maddie`s potential kidnapper, will be found. After the APB was issued out, their telephone did not stop ringing.
The Portuguese police notified Marques was not longer a suspect. Acquaintances described him as a reclusive character, who isolated himself to the farm with his wife and daughter.
Published: January 25, 2008 15:31h
PS...this is another reason when a public sex offender database should be created.
Also, can anyone verify that Marques did spend time in prison for rape?
Brian
1.26.2008Hi Brian
Please find attached files of some of my search on the internet.Hope this helpsAlexreply
Thanks Alex, posted.
Brian
After spending two hours at his apartment, plain clothes officers carried out two hard drives, a laptop and a black bin bag.
Joao Marques, a local businessman who uses Mr Malinka's IT services, described him as an "honest, normal young man".
The man in the new image released by Kate and Gerry McCann as a possible suspect in Madeleine's disappearance has been found and is a local pig farmer who has now been ruled out of the case. The farmer was originally contacted by Portugal's criminal investigation department 20 days after Madeleine vanished aged three. After the image was released this week, they got in touch with him again.This is London.uk 23 jan 2008
Madaline: Maddy Sketch susect... a local pig farmer ..
He was interviewed yesterday by Portuguese police and was ruled out of the hunt for Madeleine McCann's abductor.The looking worker lives close to a village called Pedragosa, which is about five miles from the resort of Praia da Luz.
dishevelledPortuguese newspaper Correio da Manha said the man was found in the village of Bar\'e3o de S\'e3o Jo\'e3o, 10 miles inland from Praia da Luz.
The man, who has been named as Joaquim Jose Marques, was discovered living five miles from the holiday resort in the Algarve but police say he is not connected to the case.'There is an orphanage in Espiche by the wai it is called Lucinda dos Santos orphanage.
Fully backed by Gerry Breen’s Algarve Airsports Centre, Lagos City Hall, the Aero Clube de Lagos, and APAU – the Portuguese Association for Ultra-light Aircraft – the day also aims to raise funds for local charities the Lucinda dos Santos orphanage, and Lagos Bombeiros (Fire Brigade). Fully backed by Gerry Breen's Algarve Airsports Centre, Lagos City Hall, the Aero Club of Lagos, and APAU - the Portuguese Association for Ultra-light Aircraft - the day also aims to raise funds for local charities the Lucinda dos Santos orphanage, and Lagos Fire Brigade (Fire Brigade).
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There is an orphanage called Lucinda dos Santos on the EN125 road between Portmao and Lagos.
mirror forum hunt for maddy- Lurker's orphanage story
posted jan 20 2008 by sk3ptikThe focus of the investigation, 16 days after Madeleine's disappearance, has returned to the Russian computer expert Sergey Malinka and his links with Robert Murat, the only formal suspect. Detectives have reportedly discovered that Mr Murat telephoned Mr Malinka on his mobile at 11.40pm on the day the four-year-old disappeared.
Police sources claim there had been a series of calls between the pair that day \emdash despite Mr Malinka allegedly claiming they hardly know each other. They were also seen talking in an "animated" fashion by surveillance officers following Mr Murat in the days after Madeleine's kidnap.
In interviews with three journalists in the past week, Mr Malinka's story has allegedly changed. He is said to have told a reporter, hours before he was detained, that he had not seen Mr Murat for three months.
In another interview after he was released by police, he reportedly said he had not spoken to Mr Murat for "around a year".
He told The Daily Telegraph on Thursday he "could not recall" when. Asked again on Friday to clarify, he said: "I have never officially talked about when I last spoke to Robert."
Mr Malinka was questioned for five hours by police on Wednesday and computers were seized from his home. He was released and is being treated as a witness and not a suspect. He insisted yesterday he is innocent and had "nothing to do" with the kidnapping of Madeleine. Police chiefs said that investigations are continuing and there is the possibility that those released could become suspects\
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21765811-2703,00.htmlQuestions were also raised last week as to why Murat hired a rental car at short notice two days before he was taken in for questioning.
Sally Everleigh, Murat's cousin, said: "There's nothing suspicious about it at all. He hired the car so that he could go to Portimao to help police to translate. It wasn't a getaway car or anything like that. He was just trying to be helpful."
http://www.anorak.co.uk/news/tabloids/173412.htmlMADELEINE McCann is still missing. And readers are introduced to Sergey Malinka.
In the Mirror looks beyond Robert Murat and sees 22-year-old Malinka. His parents flat is two minutes walk from where Madeleine was stolen.
Malinka knows Murat, having helped him to set up a website. Malinka has a computer shop in the area. Setting up websites is what he does for a living.
The Mirror sees computer equipment being removed by police from the Malinka apartment. There is mention made of emails on his laptop from Murat, the one-eyed Briton .
Is this now a story that embraces paedophilia and the internet? Is this what the Mirror is hinting at?
Says Malinka: It s definitely not me. I ve just had my residency papers approved and checks are always made for criminal convictions. I ve none whatsoever. I did do some work for Robert. He wanted a website created and I got it together.
But the Sun hears Portuguese TV report that Malinka has convictions for sex crimes. Does he have any criminal convictions? Not as far as I know, says Moscow-born Malinka.
Express sees more. It hears reports that several links tAnd the o paedophile sites, encrypted emails and messages were found on three computers removed by police from Murat s home. It hears of removed tapes featuring depraved sexual acts and bestiality.And there s a cellar beneath Murat s home. Or a secret chamber , as the Mirror has it. The Sun says this void measures nine yard by five yards. I m totally, totally innocent, says Murat .
At Murat s home, police are tearing down a garden shed. Police are searching a water tank. Police are demolishing an interior wall. From operating in secret, the Portuguese police are now making a lot of noise.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=russian-quizzed&method=full&objectid=19116082&siteid=89520-name_page.htmlLocal reports claim Malinka disappeared from Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine was plucked from her holiday apartment. Malinka is the third friend of Murat to be interrogated.
YOU TUBE VIDEO INTERVIEW OF SERGEY MALINKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOUddTHQNYolook at this hear him speaking , his reactions etc. Brian does it tell you anything? is he involved?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1805411.eceMr Sousa said that several items had been seized from the home of Sergei Malinka, 22, who is believed to have had several telephone conversations with Mr Murat around the time of Madeleine's disappearance two weeks ago.
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But he conceded that Mr Malinka remained a witness in the case. He also dismissed reports in the Portuguese press today that police were investigating a sighting of a girl similar to Madeleine in a red car in southern Lisbon. Mr Sousa said the focus of the inquiry remained in the Algarve.
Earlier today, Mr Malinka said he had been ruined by his involvement in the investigation even though the computer equipment seized from his home was returned today after police found no incriminating evidence.
Mr Malinka, who lives with his parents just 500 yards from Madeleine s holiday apartment, said: My telephone number was on Mr Murat s mobile phone.
"Everybody on his telephone has been spoken to. But I can t comment on telephone calls. I ve invested seven years of my life in this country trying to succeed and suddenly in one hour it s all fallen apart. Mr Mr Malinka he was completely innocent and had no criminal record in any country.
It is believed detectives asked Mr Malinka about a tour company he was involved with at Lagos Marina, five miles from Praia da Luz, which organised boat trips to the Mediterranean and North Africa.
Detectives have searched the records for yachts which visited Lagos after receiving reports of girl resembling Madeleine being dragged down to the Marina. Posters appealing for information about Madeleine have been printed in Arabic after fears that she may have been smuggled to Morocco, Algeria or Tunisia.
http://www.tribune.ie/article.tvt?_scope=Tribune/News/International&id=68822&SUBCATwho r the two associates interviewed with murat?
Murat, who has one eye, was interviewed along with two associates but was released without charge. He was not arrested but is being officially described as a suspect under Portuguese law.
0 It had been expected that Murat's detention would result in a breakthrough but five days after his release this hasn't happened. A Russian computer expert, Sergey Malinka, was questioned on Wednesday but was also released.
http://www.tribune.ie/article.tvt?_scope=Tribune/News/International&id=68822&SUBCATWe're just waiting for it to end, " one journalist said, his nose peeling from the sunburn.
There is clear tension between the British print journalists and their Portuguese counterparts.
This mostly stems from the fact that any rare titbit of information is going to the locals, something Fleet Street's finest are not happy about.
"Look at the crap they wrote today, " a journalist from a daily tabloid said, shaking his head. "They claimed the Russian has sex with cats and dogs every day. What a disgrace. Half of what they've been saying is totally made up."
You know you are in a unique situation when you hear hardnosed British tabloid journalists bemoaning a lack of ethics and proper reporting standards.
A lot of what has been written has been untrue or blown out of all proportion and the Portuguese police have to take responsibility for that.
From the first day they have refused to cooperate with the press corps and have not shared any developments in the case. This has meant that journalists, under severe pressure from their newsdesks, have been hyping up innocuous stories.
A good example was an angle that was frontpage news in a number of tabloids on Wednesday.
The man who designed Robert Murat's mother's villa told of how there was a secret underground chamber measuring 27ft x 15ft that can only be reached by a secret trapdoor.
Suddenly there was talk of secret passages and entrances and it was speculated that Madeleine could be locked inside this secret room.
Media hype The story was untrue, or a flyer as it is described in journalism, and was given credence simply because there was nothing else to write about.
I asked one journalist if the room actually existed. "It exists all right but it's under about 20 foot of concrete. What a load of rubbish that was, " he laughed. His own paper had hyped up the same story.
Witnessing the rituals and where each media organisation fits in the food chain is fascinating.
When I arrived, Sky News and the BBC were in discussions with the British embassy's media person over the timing of a press conference.
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4090786054They have named a suspect - British ex-pat Robert Murat - and confiscated computers belonging to his business associate, Sergey Malinka.
Both men have protested their innocence.
However, inconsistencies have emerged in a Mr Malinka's account of his relationship with Mr Murat.
The 22-year-old Russian reportedly said this week it had been a year since he spoke to Robert Murat.
0 But Mr Murat's mobile phone records show he called Mr Malinka at 11.40pm on the night Madeleine went missing, according to London's Evening Standard newspaper.
The Russian IT specialist told the paper he had not spoken to Mr Murat for 12 months - but he told another reporter he had not seen him for three months.
Mr Malinka, who moved to Portugal from Moscow seven years ago, said today he could not comment on the reports until the police investigation is over.
(He is not an arguido-why can't he make this information public?)
But he stressed his relationship with Mr Murat was "strictly business" and added that if he could give his side of the story, "it would prove me innocent, that everything is correct".
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/7230Yesterday computer-mad Malinka was told detectives were hunting a Russian man with a criminal record for sexual violence. Hours before he was picked up he said: I don t know who they mean. It s definitely not me
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The girl was identified as Sjanneke, the four-year-old daughter of a Belgian man from the town of Hoogstraten.
The girl in Belgium had been accompanied by a man speaking with a Dutch accent and a woman who had spoken English, both with dark hair, in the town which is near the border with Holland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6953380.stmarrested an unemployed portuguese and maddy police say confident she will be returned safe and sound
Now they are looking at the first man, Murat, they thought could have taken Madeleine, hair and fluid might be hers in his home, what have they been up to all this time for goodness sake. This is truly unbelievable. All this suspicion on the McCann's and they are back to square one. As for leaving children alone, Elizabeth , Polly , Jessica , Danielle, and JonBene' were taken from their homes while the parents and grandparents were asleep in the same house. These creeps can find a way no matter how safe you make your children.
REQUEST: Can someone find the exact location of there two orphanages?
Lucinda dos Santos and Aboim Ascenção orphanage.
Brian
Hi Brian how are you.I found this article and it Say's that Joaquim Jose Marques spent 5 years in jail.It also said he had an accomplice that targeted his victims friend.By the DAILY MAILLast updated at 15:34pm on 25th January 2008The man in the sketch of Madeleine McCann's alleged abductor has been identified as a pig farmer who raped a British tourist in the town where the three-year-old disappeared.Joaquim Jose Marques raped his teenage victim while an accomplice targeted her friend, the Portuguese daily newspaper Diario de Noticias reported today.Marques, who has a daughter of Madeleine's age, was sentenced to five years in jail in 1996 after being found guilty of the 1995 attack in Praia da Luz.Just three weeks into the Madeleine investigation, which started in May last year, investigators ruled him out of any involvement in her disappearance.His unnamed accomplice was also convicted of rape in 1995, the Portuguese paper added.The girls, both British and aged 17 and 18, were said to have been staying with a relative at the time.Dreadlocked Marques, nicknamed Quim Ze, was also a known gun-runner and drug trafficker, the paper claimed.He was linked to Madeleine's disappearance earlier this week after being identified from a new sketch of a man suspected of snatching her from her family's holiday flat in May last year.They interviewed him for a second time earlier this week after Kate and Gerry released an artist's sketch of the scruffy stranger seen by a British tourist in and around Praia da Luz in the days before the abduction.Portuguese police ruled him out of the abduction but the McCanns spokesman Clarence Mitchell said they did not believe the right man had been found and said the hunt for the man in the drawing continued.The Daily Mail yesterday tracked Mr Marques to his ramshackle farm in Pedragosa, four miles from the Algarve resort where Madeleine disappeared.He refused to speak about the international hunt for the man shown in the posters - which have been sent to Interpol and to Portugal, Spain and North Africa.He screamed obscenities at callers to the isolated farm and then returned brandishing an ancient-looking rifle.Standing among his pigs and surrounded by feral dogs, Mr Marques shouted: "Leave me alone, leave me alone... look at this face, is this the face in the picture?"Mr and Mrs McCann, both 39, believe the sketch could show the man who took their daughter from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.It was drawn by an FBI trained forensic artist based on descriptions by British tourist Gail Cooper, who told police how a "creepy man" came to her villa in Praia da Luz, asking for donations for a nearby orphanage, only days before Madeleine went missing.Mrs Cooper, 50, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, said she saw the man three times, once when he was hanging around a children's beach outing.Portuguese police have dismissed her sightings and the e-fit as having "no credibility" and say the McCanns are using them as a "diversion tactic".They remain convinced Madeleine died last May 3 and that her parents were involved in her disappearance. Mr and Mrs McCann, of Rothley, are still official suspects in the case.But the couple's private investigation agency Metodo 3 believe the sketch could show the abductor. Their hotline has received dozens of calls from those who think they have seen the man in the sketch.A police source told the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha the image "could apply to many, many people," and said Mr Marques was not a suspect.He said: "Contact with the individual was not in any shape or form an interrogation. It was just an informal contact to clear up any suspicions."Neighbours described Mr Marques as a reclusive character who had moved to the isolated farm last year to live quietly with his British-born girlfriend and their daughter, who is three or four.Brian we know that whoever took Madeleine would of needed an accomplice to help them pass her out to them through the bedroom window in the mcanns holiday apartment.Could Joaquim Jose Marques and his friend be involved,could he of straightened his dead locks at the time as some people do.You said that the police have the kidnapper and he does it for a living,could this of been him when he was in jail.Could the police be protecting him also.You said in your dd on page 23 that Murat found the place,this must mean something important as it must either mean:1)Murat found the place were Madeleine is and it was his idea of were to hide her(his basement)OR2)Murat was not directly involved in taking Madeleine but knows were she is.The Portuguese police then use him as a diversion tactic,then made him an suspect to protect him so he would not say anything and then say there is no evidence so they can let him go,then set up the mcanns to blame them,which is what the Portuguese police are trying to do.Could Murat being friends with the Portuguese police prob gets away with doing some doggy deals and knows what doggy deals they do as well.Could Murat of been told about Madeleine's abduction which was prob for selling her on as right now in the sick world of child abductions their is hundreds of thousands of pounds to be made and he was called in to help the Portuguese cover it up.Could maybe that's why Murat was outside the Mcanns apartment the next day and was saying to reporters things like they will never find Madeleine she is prob in Spain by now,that was a Quote by 1 of the reporters said to them by Murat.Why was he saying that,as knowone knew what had happened to Madeleine at that point as she could of wandered off.I think the Portuguese police sent in Murat to look like he was helping so he was able to do these things:1)Go into the crime seen(the mcanns apartment)2)Sent to mix up stories were Madeleine could be.3)His girlfriend Michaela was suppose to look after Madeleine but could not due to publicity so Murat had to hire a rented car fast so he could go and collect her in Silva's,were they handed Madeleine over to someone else.Could it be that's why Murat needed the rented car fast and that's why Michaela said she was at a Jehovah's witness meeting when she wasn't.Michaela murats girlfriend was spotted handing a child wrapped in a blanket over to someone in a car in silvas by a truck driver but the portugues police are not taking this as evidence,well it must be because shewas seen handing Madeleine over and it is true.It looks like when the truth is out there the portuguese police avoid it and try to blame others to divert the truth.What do you think Brian?How do you think Madeleine was actually abducted,do you think she is in Murats basement or in some basement cell of a police station,as in your dd's you have drawn a room which Say's next to a drug impound area.What do you think your dd on page 23 means?Your work amazes meJennifer *** from Scotland Glasgow xxreply
Hi Jennifer, I think Murat and his Russian friend are directly involved and I think Murat is the one who took Madeleine...by himself...I also think Madeleine is still with Murat, but I do not have proof other than my dreams, which most people do not take seriously.
I have no idea who this pig farmer is, nor the person in this new sketch (actually I try not to think about it)...but what I do know is that all possible leads need to be investigated and following up on...but I'm not sure how this can be done if local authorities are corrupt.
Brian
'Maddie lies here'
It is in these idyllic surrounds on the Portuguese coast that Danie Krugel believes Madeleine McCann is buried. Glynnis Underhill reports
Former South African police superintendent Danie Krugel is haunted by the muddy pink and white child's blanket he found at the site in Praia da Luz in Portugal where he believes the body of Madeleine McCann is hidden.
Now, due to his frustration at the lack of progress in the case, the ex-cop - dubbed "The Locator" as a result of his high rate of success in tracing missing people in SA - has broken his silence about the results of his search for Madeleine last year and revealed a map of the area where he believes she is buried.
With the consent of her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, Krugel spent three nights searching for missing Madeleine (4) in July, using the Matter Oriented System (MOS) equipment he has developed.
The site he outlined to be searched for Madeleine's body is a wasteland, full of black refuse bags, building rubble and rocks, and is located only 900m away from the Ocean Club resort apartment where the McCann family were staying in Praia da Luz.
Krugel said sniffer dogs and a full forensic team should have searched the area, but this had not happened.
"I kick myself every day that I didn't pick up the blanket. I just didn't want to disturb the investigation. The blanket was full of mud and had a light white, light-pink colour, and it was definitely a child's blanket.
"It was also clear that it had been in the elements for a while. I showed the police the blanket but I don't know if they picked it up," he added.
Taking a hair from Madeleine's coat, which was given to him by her father, Krugel's equipment repeatedly gave him signals that led him to the site, which is within walking distance of the apartment. Madeleine is alleged to have been kidnapped while her parents dined at a nearby tapas bar.
Krugel said he gave a copy of the map to Madeleine's parents and to the Portuguese police at the time, but refused to disclose details of his findings to the press for fear of anyone trying to disturb the scene. Now he wants to return to Praia da Luz to see if his equipment indicates that Madeleine's body is still there - or if it has been moved.
Asked whether he would like Krugel to return to search for Madeleine, Gerry McCann said he had no say in the matter.
"Kate and I have no control over who is allowed to go come and go into Portugal.
"This is a matter for the Portuguese authorities. Officially I cannot comment further, sorry."After his search, Krugel requested the Portuguese police to use sniffer dogs and a forensic team to search the area. But when they were brought in a few weeks after he left Portugal, the sniffer dogs picked up a scent on Kate McCann and in the hired car, which changed the focus of the investigation, he claimed.
Portuguese police have now named three suspects in the case: Gerry and Kate McCann and Praia da Luz resident Robert Murat.
"After the sniffer dogs were brought in, I think the police altered their line of investigation, and I don't believe they searched the area I gave them.
"I am almost 90% sure Madeleine is dead. There is always the slight possibility that she could be held hostage in one of the houses in the area on my map, but I feel this is very unlikely. If her body had been moved, my equipment would tell me she is no longer there."
With 16 years' experience in policing cult-related violent crime, Krugel has devoted his life to finding missing people - free of charge.
"When children disappear, what is important is what went through the child's mind. A child is supposed to be safe and protected. When I first saw Madeleine's face in the paper, I could see this child had an angel's face. Immediately I wanted to catch the person who took this child. There is somebody out there who is guilty. That person belongs in a place where he must not see the blue sky."
In SA, Krugel's free services are used regularly by private investigators and police officers, who frequently call him in to help, with many insisting that he helped them locate people.
Brushing aside the sceptics, South African senior systems engineer Johan Booysen believes Krugel was "spot-on" in the co-ordinates he gave last month to locate his missing father, pilot Dirk Booysen.
The wreckage of his plane and the charred body of Dirk Booysen were found in the dense Baviaanskloof mountains shortly after Christmas.
"At first we misinterpreted his co-ordinates, but when we looked again, we saw he had been spot-on," said Booysen.
"It was very difficult terrain and Danie never gave us any false hope about my father. He just offered to help - for free - and that's what he did.
"I can see now that he was spot-on in his search. I can vouch for him and his equipment, and would be happy to talk to Madeleine's parents if they want to talk to me.'
Krugel has been in regular contact with Madeleine's parents, who have thanked him for his help. But his appeal for them to turn their attentions to the site to help find her body has not been answered.
Last year, Krugel claimed to have uncovered a "forensic route" from the McCanns' holiday apartment at the Oceans Club Resort, along paths and roads to a nearby beach.
At the time, he said: "The area is in walking distance from Praia da Luz. I don't want to say exactly where because I don't want to interfere with this investigation. I don't want to give anyone the chance to destroy his or her prints. If I look at the area, there is a very, very slight possibility that she could be alive. From the piece of hair I was able to conclude that she was in the area.'
But Krugel is still anxious to help find Madeleine, as she is constantly on his mind.
"The sooner we find Madeleine's body, the sooner the police can find out who murdered her," he said.
The locator
While he is currently working as the director of health and safety at the Central University of Technology of the Free State, Danie Krugel (right) is also trying to patent his equipment, which works on satellite technology. Details of the controversial equipment he has developed are being kept under wraps until it has been patented, he said.I thought you might find this interesting as it reinforces your own suspicions.
All the best
Claire
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Thanks Claire will post this.
Brian
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325799,00.html
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Again, Oprah does not pay guests...she says it all the time on the show.
Found this link directly from the Oprah website.
Brian
http://www.oprah.com/community/message/50534
Centro de Assistência Social Lucinda Anino Santos
Lagos - São Sebastião
Rossio S.João-Stª Maria
8600-324 LAGOS
* 282 780 560
* larsantoamaro@net.sapo.pt
and
s Refúgio Aboim Ascensão - 8000 Faro
Phone 289 822039
Fax 289 801472
Web www.raa-ei.org
Email raa-ei@ip.pt
http://www.raa-ei.org/
http://www.raa-ei.org/uk_main.php.htmreply
Thanks...Brian
Hi Brian,if you think that Murat took Madeleine by himself,what do you think of the man Jane Tanner seen with a child wrapped in a blanket with the same pjamas as Madeleine.There was also a family who said they seen the same man with a child in a blanket and the family said to him"is the child sleeping" and the man put his head down and walked straight on. What do you think of those possible abducters as the mcanns are putting all the hope on that man,what do you think?Jennifer Scotland Glasgow xxreply
I think this man is Robert Murat, and the area seems to be crawling with pedophiles, corrupt cops, drug smugglers and rapists...I don't know what the McCann's are doing...but I have an idea what their detectives are.
I do not think it's wise to put all efforts toward one sketch that's 9 months old...makes no sense to me...but it still should be checked out...these are just my own opinions.
Brian
Oprah!
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=34412&cat=0
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Ok, again I see how the media works in this case...instead of using investigating reporting, they just copy the same story, change a few details and release it. If you read the article, it says 'According to the Daily Mail'...the same website as mentioned above...has the Daily Mail contacted the Oprah Show to confirm this? Wouldn't surprise if Oprah make a public statement denying there claims. I realize that the McCann's need money...but their are thousands of people that are and have been willing to help them for free...regardless of the outcome or reward money.
Brian
Hi BrianWhat do you think?Alex
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Not sure, I'm also not sure why the McCann's say for certain he did not take Madeline.
Brian
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Hi Brian
in newspaper article I referred to for today Sunday- they also mention he may have taken the child for himself-Murat that is.Alex
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Ok, thanks.
Brian
Hi Brian,This is the latest story from the uk tonight, in the News of the World paper. I don't know for sure if i beleive this man is the one in the photofit though.The man in the drawing looks much thinner, and the man in the pic is said to be a penniless drop out, so i doubt if he had much money to "fatten" himself up in the past 8 months!Thanks for the work in finding the missing children. Keep up the good work!Stay strong and possitive, you are doing so much for many people. God Bless you and yours,Cy uk
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Hi, will do...I do see a similarity, but only the person that is qualified to make that decision is the witness that saw him.
QUESTION: Have the PJ even taken this mans DNA and compared it to what they have already?
Can anyone tell me when this area I have circled in blue is? I think it a salt field but I wanted to make sure.
I do not think this has anything to do with Madeleine, but maybe case related.
Brian
1.27.2008
Centro de Assistência Social Lucinda Anino Santos
Lagos - São Sebastião
Rossio S.João-Stª Maria
8600-324 LAGOS
* 282 780 560
* larsantoamaro@net.sapo.pt
THIS name interests me posted earlier on page 23. You remember joana cipriano case you type "maria" church, school . I presumed it was college d maria de pia (run by casa pia crew), but given the address of this one i.e. st maria. it is is worth checking out?reply
Hi, yes I think it is.
Brian
You asked "Can anyone tell me when this area I have circled in blue is? I think it a salt field but I wanted to make sure"Mines of Huelva spain.. I found these Brian hope it helpsRegardsSWreply
Thanks, looking at these links right now.
Brian
Hi Brian, this is a great article that is said to be quite accurate, taking into account the press' need for dramatization and such. Please post the link on the site, as it does call into question many of the suspicions we all have been having lately. For example, the press' ability to locate and recreate suspects or Madeleine sightings......Tara:)reply
Thanks Tara...Brian
Dear Brian,
A pattern of distracting and discrediting is emerging from the PJ's
methods of "solving this crime". The latest suggestion that the pig
farmer is the man in the drawing was designed to discredit the
photofit as a "waste of time". Also, the characters we are being
introduced to all have one thing in common, they are either loners or
live with their parents - this fits with the stereotype for such a
crime. Unemployment is also typical to the profile. Also, I would
remind you of what Murat said to the media the next day "she's
probably in Spain now". If Robert is involved then we must look to
the opposite - e.g. still in Praia de luz or an alternative border.
Remember "distract and discredit". I suspect that all of the related
sightings are designed to distract and further discredit the McCanns
for their insistence that she might still be alive which is why there
are so many mysteries attached to these sightings. Think about chess
players - they are either making positive moves forward or they are
playing defensively when under pressure. There have been no positive
moves forward in this investigation - only defensive attacking! If
you want to see human nature at its most powerful and constructive
then read your own sight Brian - everyone is working "together" to
provide and pool information - questions are being asked and then
answered - there is no secrecy and no attempt to sabotage another's
suggestions - everything is relevant until it isn't.
My warmest wishes to you and your family
Clairereply
Very good points...and same to you and yours.
Brian
I do not believe these cases are related, but since there is always a possibility I will link to 600.
Brian
Hi Brian,the thing that puzzles me is who was the man that jane tanner seen then with a child wrapped in a blanket with the same pj's as madeleine.Just after the time jane Tanner gave of her sighting a family gave the same decription of the same man with the same child and this man looks nothing like Robert Murat so do you mean you think the man who jane tanner seen and the family was just a man with his own child?Jennifer xxreply
Hi Jennifer...I think that any man carrying a child in his arms, wearing pink pj's at the time Madeleine disappeared is the person that took Madeleine. If there was another man doing the same thing at the same time, I would think he would have come forward by now.
I think this photo could be inaccurate, especially if it was taken from memory more than 8 months after the fact.
This is all I could find right now, will be looking back at some earlier pages too.
Brian
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Article by Toby Serter
Wednesday 2nd January 2008, 12:05
The No.1 suspect or ‘Aguido’ in the disappearance of 4 year olf Madeleine McCann may be taken into custody in Portugal at any time following fresh evidence that the 34 year old British Ex-pat was close to the scene on the night Madeleine vanished.
The new evidence which came to light only yesterday comes from a British barrister who came forward only last week to say that he saw Murat close to the McCann’s apartment on the night of their daughters disappearance.
There are more than six witnesses who have now cast doubt on the alibi of Robert Murat and Portuguese Police took action this morning and the suspect remains in custody.
Robert Murat, has always maintained that he spent the night of May 3, 2007 at home with his mother in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz, but all six witnesses directly contradict his version of events.
Now, he is named as prime suspect following the latest accusations and Madeleine's mother, Kate McCann, is said to believe that there are "questions that need to be answered" concerning Mr Murat's movements in the hours around Madeleine's disappearance.
British expatriate, Murat, strongly denies any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine shortly before her fourth birthday. His mother Jenny, 71, has told Portuguese police that her son was with her all night.
But it has emerged that the British barrister who gave a statement to officers told them he saw Mr Murat on a street corner opposite the McCanns' Ocean Club apartment 30 minutes after Madeleine was reported missing.
The barrister shared a drink with Mr Murat the following evening, together with Jayne Jensen, a British holidaymaker. He described Mr Murat's behaviour as "odd", saying he went to change his clothes because it had been a long day, even though the barrister was sure Mr Murat had changed his clothes earlier. Mrs Jensen, a 54-year-old businesswoman, has told police she saw Mr Murat smoking a cigarette on the street corner at the time he was seen by the barrister.
Charlotte Pennington, a nanny working at the Ocean Club resort, also claims to have seen Mr Murat in the hours after Madeleine vanished.
The other three witnesses who say they saw him that night are all members of the McCanns' holiday group, who are understood to have told police that Mr Murat introduced himself to them on the night of May 3. According to Fiona Payne, Rachael Oldfield and Russell O'Brien, Mr Murat said: "I am Robert. Can I help in the search?"
Mrs Jensen contacted police in Portugal within hours of Madeleine's disappearance, but it was not until six weeks ago that police officers from Leicestershire took a formal statement from her, which has now been passed on to Portuguese police.
Last month, Jenny Murat said anyone who claimed to have seen her son on the night of May 3 was a liar.
Mrs McCann and her husband Gerry, of Rothley, Leics, also remain official suspects in the case. They deny any involvement in their daughter's disappearance.
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Updated:08:54, Wednesday May 16, 2007
Robert Murat is a well-known figure among journalists in Portugal.
He worked as a translator for the local police and was on good terms with them.
He told reporters he had been in the McCann's apartment in the aftermath of the abduction, translating for the police.
Mr Murat, who is believed to have a four-year-old daughter in Norfolk, also worked as a fixer for Sky News for several days.
But among journalists he was regarded with suspicion.
A joke began spreading among the press pack that he was the "prime suspect".
And the joke spread to Mr Murat as well, with him introducing himself as the chief suspect, Sky's Ian Woods said in Portugal.
Woods took him aside and pressed him as to why he was so involved in the case.
"He told me he had an estranged wife and a daughter and he was upset because Madeleine reminded him of his daughter," Woods said.
"People began to ask who he was. After a few days people were getting a bit suspicious as to who he was and why he was around so much.
"I asked him to do an interview but he refused, which was unusual because everyone was happy to do an interview."
Woods asked twice if Mr Murat could do an interview for Sky News.
Woods said Mr Murat left the area a few days ago because he had become concerned about the attention he was receiving.
"He became very spooked by the news photographers who were taking pictures of him," Woods said.
"He became uncomfortable with the amount of attention he was getting.
"He told me he was going to withdraw from the scene because he felt he was becoming a distraction."
Mr Murat lives with his mother Jennifer, who is a long-time Algarve resident.
She had set up a stall on the sea front and asked people who did not want to give information to police to come to her.
Does anyone know what time was it when Murat said he heard the news about a missing child that looked like his daughter?
And how he knew what she looked like right away?
Brian
THE family of missing Madeleine McCann were being protected from some horrific aspects of the inquiry last night.
Child porn is believed to have been found on the computer of sole suspect Robert Murat, 33.
Detectives also discovered links to depraved websites featuring other sickening images.
Dad Gerry McCann, 38, has been made aware of the development but has asked not to be given details.
Police disclosed that mum Kate, 38, is being completely "shielded" from the nature of the web links.
Despite the discoveries, nothing was found to connect Briton Murat to Madeleine, four, who vanished from her apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, 24 days ago. Murat denies being the man seen carrying a child near the McCanns' holiday apartment on the night Madeleine disappeared.
He said: "It isn't me. But the description is so vague it won't put me out of the picture. I hope I'll soon be able to clear my name. It's been almost two weeks since my life was turned upside down
PJ
Hey Brian
I wasn’t sure what email address to get you on, so thought I’d try this one, if you get it, you get it, if not I’m sure someone else wil send it J
This is about Madeleine McCann (like many of your emails I’m sure!)
This is part of an article from yesterdays Daily star, I’ve highlighted the interesting part ;)
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/27826/Maddie-Cops-gave-up-hunt-months-ago/
And we can reveal that since their at the end of £50,000-a-month contract began August last year, Barcelona-based Metodo 3 have uncovered thousands of new clues which point to Madeleine still being alive.
investigators In the past week alone Morocco have received around 110 new calls, which has shifted the from focus and North Africa back to Portugal.
A source said: “The investigation is centred on Praia da Luz, the Vilamoura area and the southern stretch of Portuguese coastline.
“There are still men on the ground in Morocco, but Portugal is where the is at focus other places, including moment.” the
Since Metodo 3 took on the case around 16,000 calls have been made to investigators, their hotlines and members of the McCann team.
They include close to 1,500 suspected sightings of Madeleine, including those from psychics. Yesterday there was even a report of a girl matching Madeleine’s Vicuna, in description with a man resembling a recent artist’s in Chile, South impression of a suspect at a museum America.
But just 25 of the 1,500 to date have been tagged as “hard sightings”.
Meanwhile, around 1,000 of the other calls have what the private contained detectives have labelled “hard information deemed useful”.reply
Hi, this is it and thanks.
Brian
Hi Brian thanks for taking the time to send me that,i appreciate it.So does that mean, Robert Murat is going to get kept as a formal suspect.I have a feeling that you are right Madeleine is in Murats basement or near just like you have said.Madeleine is either still in Murats basement because if she was moved we would of noticed with all the media being about.The only other option is Madeleine was never taken to Murat's house and Murat took her somewhere else straight after she was abducted, which would tie in with you saying in your dd on page 23 "Murat found the place" which could mean he found the property which could mean he owns it.It would be fairly easy to move a small child in a tennis bag like it has said in the media that Gerry Mcann has had stolen while they were on holiday(which he denies has been stolen)It would be good if anyone could send in any photo's they find that has Murat carrying any large bags or anyone he associates with also carrying a large bags or something similar,because my little girl who is only a year old fell asleep when we were out shopping and i didn't have her pushchair with me so i sat her in my backpack on my back which was suppose to be for the food we were shopping for.She fitted right into the backpack which meant i could have my hands free,i left her head out of course.It just goes to show though that if i could innocently do that then who's to say Murat or anyone involved in Madeleine's abduction couldn't have moved her in the same way,just a thought.Thanks BrianJennifer xxreply
Hi Jennifer, I just hope some outside agency actually searches his home and follows up on all the leads the PJ did not...which seems to be almost all of them.
Brian
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Hi, so this is Murat's van correct? If so, has it been searched for DNA evidence like the McCann's hire car?
Brian
1.28.2008
how you doing,i know you already have been sent in a pic of Robert Murats REMAX business card for when he worked at REMAX but he has another 1 which is another business which is for properties.I don't think you have it so i thought i should send you it ,maybe this is the other business he has which he owns more property, maybe Madeleine is at 1 of his other properties through this other business.Just 1 other thing that was playing on my mind, someone sent into you that Robert Murat is related to Angus Symington, is this why they look so alike but 1 thing that doesn't add up is Robert Murat said he had never seen Angus Symington before and did not know who he was until he was should his photo.This is suspicious why would he say he has never met him before, is Angus Symington involved in Madeleine's abduction as well.People who have lied about were they were the night Madeleine was abducted:1) Robert Murat lied and said he was at his mothers all night when he wasn't because he has been identified as hanging about Mcanns apartment 30 min after Madeleine went missing and also offered his help the night she went missing by saying to the Tapas group "Hi my names Robert can i help"2) Michaela Murat's girlfriend lied and said she was at a Jehovah's witness meeting when she wasn't.3) Sergei Malinka said he had not talk to Murat for over a year but he lied about that as well.There is many many more lies as the list could go on all night.When you think off the amount of lies that has been told by many people, they must all be in on it and it must of been getting planned for a long time, even before the mcanns arrived in Praia Da Luz.Lets hope the dd you had were it said "the couple have the child will return her, punish the man they paid" do you know what you meant by the "couple" and punish "the man" they paid, who do you think these people are?Sending all my love to yourself and your family xxJennifer Scotland Glasgow
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Hi Jennifer, not sure as the initials do not seem to match.
Brian
Hi Brian,
I found this photo on the web, it's actually the Van of Jenny Murat
(murat's mother)and it has been searched. Attached you find a photo
of the Van, coming out of the underground Parking Center of Portimao
were it has been researched by the police. The police used the parking
center for the research of the cars (possibly) related to the case.
P.S. Something else that's a bit strange, i appears that the Portimao Prison
has been closed down since December 2007, all of the prisoners are placed
into Faro.
Groetjes,
Dolores
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Thanks, plates match...any idea who is driving and if the McCann's detectives have had access to it as well?
I also found this, it talks about the prison. Is it just me, or have you noticed that so many British people are involved crimes such as this and the drug trade. Could the organization operating in Portugal be run a British Mafia of sorts?
Brian
Hi Brian,
Found this article about Murat and his first knowing of Madeleine,
and some more stuff.
" I then asked him when he had first heard of Madeleine's disappearance
and he said: "It was first thing Friday morning. I went to the McCanns
apartment and immediately offered my services to police as a translator."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20070520/ai_n19164740
Groetjes,
Doloresreply
Thanks Dolores.
Brian
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I HAVE no idea if Robert Murat is guilty of the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann.
But I would never have been able to live with the guilt had I not told police of my grave concerns about his behaviour.
Which is why I reported him to British police, the British embassy here in the Algarve and to Portuguese police.
At first, little came of it and I began to wonder if I had maybe been wrong to speak up. Then, on Monday, when Murat was arrested, my heart raced and I was gripped by a terrible sense of foreboding. Within minutes, I was thrown into the epicentre of her disappearance.
TV crews from around the world were desperate to hear what it was I told police - and what police said to me. Since then, I have replayed over and over again in my head what the prime suspect in this case said to me, desperate for any more clues that could help police.
It was on the third day of Madeleine's disappearance that I interviewed Murat - and what he said left me deeply troubled.
Having seen him with police, I assumed that he was part of the investigation and asked him for any news. He gestured at me to sit with him on the pavement outside the McCann apartment.
He told me: "Officers have turned this whole area inside out looking for her. They have thoroughly searched a 3km radius around the apartment and found nothing. Soon they will abandon hope of finding her here and look further afield.
"It is likely that whoever kidnapped Madeleine is far away by now. They could have changed her appearance. The Portuguese police didn't take her disappearance seriously at first. They thought she had just wandered off. Because of this, it was 15 hours before they alerted the Spanish border police. It is only a couple of hours' drive to Spain. The poor little thing could be long gone by now."
I found it strange that he would criticise the police operation he seemed to be part of, so I asked what his role was. He said "I've been acting as a translator for the police. I live here and speak fluent Portuguese and English. I wanted to do anything I could to help."
I then asked him when he had first heard of Madeleine's disappearance and he said: "It was first thing Friday morning. I went to the McCanns apartment and immediately offered my services to police as a translator."
He added with pride: "I helped the McCanns communicate what had happened the night before to the police. They were frantic with worry and frustrated that they were not being understood.
"I have also been translating witness statements for the last few days from Mark Warner workers and holidaymakers."
Much of that, we now suspect, was not true. But at the time, he made it sound like the police knew him very well and he was trusted enough to assist them.
Since Murat's arrest, the McCanns have said they have no memory of even meeting him. One family member said: "He is talking lies and rubbish." But it is what he said next that really set my alarm bells ringing.
I asked why he was so touched by her disappearance. "I have a daughter of the same age," he replied. "In fact, she's the spitting image of Madeleine. I felt sick to the stomach when I heard. I rushed here as soon as I could to offer my help."
WHEN I pushed him further on his background, he suddenly became uncomfortable.
He said: "I'm going through a divorce at the moment so I don't see my daughter much."
There was an evasiveness and unease about Murat that left me feeling extremely uncomfortable.
Murat was reluctant to tell me what he did for a living when I asked. After pausing for several seconds, he said: "I'm in real estate. I've just bought a couple of properties in the Algarve which I'm doing up." Why all the mystery? At this point I still knew him only as Robert, so I asked him his surname. Again he stonewalled. "It's not important," he blustered. "I'm no one really. I'd rather not say."
One minute he was desperate to talk up his role in the investigation, the next he was acting coy.
I asked him for his phone number, hoping he might be a useful source of information.
"No." he replied. "I'm not giving it out to people. I don't want to be quoted. I'm just trying to help. I'll be here quite a lot for the next few days if you need me."
More mystery, more contradictions, more mixed messages.
While we had been speaking, Sunday Mirror photographer Alban Donohoe had taken our picture.
MINUTES after we said goodbye, Murat came back to our car, agitated. He was desperate for Alban to erase the photos.
"I saw you take my picture," he blurted. "I really need you to erase it. I'm not important in the investigation."
He was polite as always, but I sensed panic in his voice and it made me uneasy. Why would a man so apparently keen to attract attention suddenly be so concerned about a couple of pictures?
Like so much else about him, it just didn't add up. Later, as we drove past I deliberately glanced at him and waved goodbye.
He was holding court as usual at the centre of a dozen film crews. He stood, hands on hips, just yards from the police tape which cordoned off the crime scene. But as he caught my eye, he appeared to freeze for just a moment and his expression changed to one of a man exposed.
My encounter with him played on my mind that night. I rang my office in London and we agreed I should pass on my concerns.
I called Leicestershire Police and they took a statement and advised me to speak to the Portuguese authorities. I called the British Embassy in the Algarve and then approached an officer for GNR - the local police force - who was guarding the McCann's apartment.
I told him I had suspicions about a man called Robert who said he was translating for police. He knew instantly who I meant and assured me he would be checked out. I told him Robert had claimed he was translating witness statements and he replied: "That is very unlikely to be true."
My decision to report Murat had nothing to do with being a journalist. It was based on gut instinct and a natural sense of duty that I should share my suspicions. Given the unimaginable horrors which Madeleine's parents were enduring, it seemed the very least I should do.
Murat insists he is innocent, a scapegoat for the failure of police to find Madeleine. He also claims he is a victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by me.
Nothing could be further from the truth, or more absurd. I have no grudge against Murat - just a desire to see Madeleine found.
All I did was pass on information I thought the authorities should be privy to. The rest is in the police's hands.
CHIEF SUSPECT
ROBERT MURAT
Age 33, 5ft 8in, stocky build, glass eye. English mother Jenny, 71, and Portuguese rather John (deceased) Diorced, with four-year-old daughter Sofia, said to look like Madeleine. Formally classed prime suspect on Tues - not enough evidence to charge denies any involvement. Passport confiscated, banned from leaving Portugal. Under surveillance more than la week before picked up.
PHONE CALL
Local phone records show Murat called Malinka on mobile 11.40pm night sine disappeared.
ASSOCIATES
SERGEY MALINKA
Moscow-born computer expert lives with parents in flat over bar two minutes from McCann apartment. Claims not to be close to Murat but emails found on Murat's laptop. Reported convictions for sex offences denied, laptop and two computer hard drives seized. Linked to business offering boat trip in the Med and to North Africa.
MURATS MOTHER
Jenny Murat, 71 Giving son alibi - having dinner with him when Madeleine snatched.
LUIS ANTONIO
Portuguese pool cleaner married to Walczuch.
MICHAELA WALCZUCH
Murat's German lover.
Met working at Remax estate agents in nearby Lagos March 2005. They run property firm Romigen.
INSECT SPRAY
Chemists questioned on people buying large amounts of insect sprays containing chloroform - could be used to drug Madeleine?
Murat's Uncle. His BEB in nearby village of Burgau searched.
ABROAD
Possibly smuggled away by sea - Maritime Police not aware of abduction for 14 hours - or taken across border to Spain. Police there not alerted for 12 hours and no Madeleine pictures available for four days.
MADELEINE
Madeleine McCaann D.O.B - 12/5/2003
Snatched from bed at Mark Warner Ocean Club resort apartment, Praia da Luz, May 3 between 9pm and 10pm while parents ate at tapas bar 40 yards away. Wearing Marks and Spencer pyjamas - short-sleeved pink top with picture of Eeyore and white bottoms with floral design. Right eye has distinctive "black flash" where pupil runs into iris.
OTHER SUSPECTS
Man spotted taking photos of blonde female children on beach at nearby resort of Sagres.
Man spotted handing out sweets to young children Praia da Luz.
Four men seen driving around in a car suspiciously near McCann's apartment on the night Madeleine snatched, and few nights earlier.
Man spotted trying to steal pushchair at Praia da Luz, days before Madeline abduction.
UK CONNECTION
List of known sex-offenders who traveled from the UK to Portugal recently provided by British Police.
HIRE CAR
Murat desperate to hire car from Auto Rent III Car Hire in Praia da Luz two days before arrest. His other two vehicles already under surveillance. Friend says Murat's own car has clutch problems.
THE SECRET ROUTE
Direct route between McCann apartment and Murat's villas is 150-yard walk along busy Rua Agostinho Silva.
But on longer unlit, deserted backstreet routevia small car park, down little alleyway between apartment blocks - it is almost impossible to be spotted.
SECRET CHAMBER
Secret chamber under the living room floor of the Murat villa
Casa Liliana
Two-storey white-painted villa 150 yards from McCann apartment. Sniffer dogs go "mental" on entering. Search of villa, roof, grounds, garage, a small shed beneath the pool where chemicals appeared to be stored, and the Murats green van and a Hundai. Swimming pool drained, internal walls torn down, garden cesspit checked.
Three video cassettes and communications equipment seized. Shreeded paper found at Casa Liliana could not be reassembled. Results of tests for DNA and fibres found at the Murat villa awaited.
NORTH AFRICAN CONNECTION
Nor wegian marie Olli "very sure" Madeleine was young blonde girl at petrol station in Marrakech, Morocco, May 9. Girl asked man in late thirties, baggy clothes, empty eamouflage rucksack: "Can I see mummy soon?"
PHOTOFIT
E-fit of back of baiding man's head. UK police photofit of suspect, seen loitering outside McCann apartment - 5ft 8in tall, aged 30 to 35, partly-shaved head, light trousers and blue top.
APARTMENT
Abductor entered McCann apartment by unlicked patio doors, left open to allow access for parent's checks on the children.
Sniffer dogs found traces of Madeleine's scent leading 400 yards to another flat and supermarket where trail disappeared.
SIGHTINGS
Reports of girl resembling Madeleine being dragged to the marina in nearby Lagos by balding man.
Girl spotted waling along a road with couple acting suspiciously.
Two men and a woman, with blone child, caught on CCTV at Galp petrol station on the A22 road out Praia da Luz, heading east to Spain.
Girl like Madeleine seen in red van with false number plates in Lisbon.
BRIAN,
I have found some more info on RACHEL CHARLES, but am having trouble finding a pic of
Michael Cook, he was jailed in 1990 for 19yrs, could you please do a check on this man
to see if he has been given early parole??
Although I am preety sure that the man involved in taking Maddie has been found!
There definately is a resembelence- does anyone no if the family that ran into the man
carrying maddie has confirmed that this is him???
The big question is- Did he take her down to the area that Danie Krugel has mapped, and
kill her for his own sick satisfaction??
Has the area been dug up and searched, if not WHY BLOODY NOT???
OR was he paid by ROBERT MURAT & FRIENDS to abduct her and take her down to the beach
to a waiting car or boat???
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES THE FACT THAT THE PJ NEVER DUG UP THE AREA WHERE DANIE TOLD THEM
TO LOOK - SEEM AMAZINGLY STUPID???
IF I WAS IN CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATION I WOULD HAVE HAD A FORENSIC TEAM AND DOGS IN
WITHIN HALF AN HOUR TO SEARCH THAT AREA THOUROUGHLY...
DOES ANYONE NO WEATHER THIS WAS DONE OR NOT...????????
THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING TO THINK WE HAVE ALL SPENT 9 MTHS LOOKING FOR MADDIE, AND THEN
TO FIND OUT THAT SHE WAS THERE ALL ALONG...
UNBELEIVABLE..
ALSO DO YOU NO IF THEY HAVE TAKEN THE NEW SUSPECTS DNA, AND EXAMINED HIS BROWN JACKET
AND CLOTHES FOR MADDIES DNA YET???
ANGIE..reply
Hi Angie, I'm hoping she is still alive...I do not know anything about how Mr. Krugel's devise works, but is he has a specific location it should be checked out.
Will post the rest of your email and open a case on Rachel.
Brian
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Updated: 10 May 2007
Shockwaves sent across the AlgarveRachel Charles went missing one day after school in 1990. Archive Photo
RESIDENTS WHO have lived in the Algarve for many years may remember an incident which
sent similar shockwaves through the local community: the murder of Rachel Charles in
November 1990.
Rachel went missing after getting off the Vilamoura International School bus near her
home in Vale Navio, Albufeira. She was apparently on her way to a horse riding centre
nearby when she was seen voluntarily getting into a red car with yellow licence plates.
A huge search and rescue operation was launched, composed predominantly of local
residents, who combed the entire area in search of Rachel.
Search parties found her body under earth and leaves on Falésia beach, on November 22.
The autopsy showed that she had been strangled but there were no signs of sexual
assault.
Family friend, Michael Cook, was convicted of her murder in February 1992 and sentenced
to 19 years in prison, but the case was dogged by rumour and controversy.
Apparently, many still believe that her step-father, Ray Charles, kidnapped and
murdered Rachel. He was on the police suspects list but died of kidney cancer around a
year after her death. In the 16 years since this tragedy occurred, there has, arguably,
been no event of the same scope, which has touched and stirred the community into
action, like the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann.
The community should be applauded for the support it has shown to the McCann family
during this very difficult week.
Dear BrianI stumbled upon your website and maybe it was meant to be...!t is difficult for me to claim that I am a bit pshycic, but throughout the years things have happenned that makes me wonder. I seldom talks about it, as it scares me and normally I do not believe that the things I feel or sense could be correct. Sometimes I can sense or predict something 2 years in advance and am amazed when it does happens, but I sledom tells anybody.However, I had these images of Madeleine and have written it down and it bothers me so much. The first ever image was in July 2007. I asked her where whe was and her face appeared next to a bearded man whom I thought looked like Jesus.Then I asked her what happenned to her and the image that appeared was of Madeleine sitting like a broken doll with her legs slightly spread, her arms limply by her side her head bowed,like her chin on her chest.Then I also saw an image of her lying on her back with her arms by her side - buried??Then on another occasion I asked her who did it to her and the number 2 appeared, then the letter M - 2 men??? The place, the person? Then in the same image, her mothers face in profile and a small heart next it - a message to her mother??I asked her on another time where she is and the image several times of ripples and waves. Several times this image. Near the beach, the sea???I had no more images and it feels to me as if she let me know what is necessary and I feel guilty not doing anything about it. I have written all this down as soon as it appeared to me and kept it in a little notebook next to my chair where I usualy sit to read and relax.I feels almost embarassed by even telling you these things. What do you think it means??Kind RegardsLizreply
Not sure Liz, can you send me a few sketches of these images?
Brian
Hi Brian,1 of your readers sent you an email on page 23 saying the portimao prison has been closed since december 2007 and that all the prisoners have been moved to faro.Do you think that Madeleine could of been moved to hide her to the portimao prison since it has been closed down and your dd on page 23 said "next to drug impound area".Could your dd you have drawn on page 23 be a basement of some sort in the prison,next to the drug impound area.If the prison is closed down and Madeleine is being held there then knowone will ever find her there if it has been closed down.I wonder what they are still going to use the prison for and who has access to the prison.You keep drawing the same place which i think means you must be right,were as there is so many different theries to were Madeleine is,some saying she has been killed,by many people claiming to be psychics of some sort.You have never tried to fool anyone or claimed that you are a psychic.You have dreams which you use to help people and you do it because you want to help.You do not gain anything from wanting to help except from the feeling you get of knowing you are helping people, which is why myself and all your readers know you are for real, plus the fact that you are rarely wrong!All my love to your lovely familyJennifer *** Scotland xxreply
Hi Jennifer, not sure about the prison...if Madeleine is where I think she is, there does not seem to be any reason why she would be moved. You're right, I keep seeing the same thing...and never have I felt that she was harmed. It could be that I keep seeing the same time period over and over, but I do not think so. Thanks for the kind words too...and I am wrong all the time :)
Brian
Hello Brian, How have you been, I hope you and your family are so well.
Sorry if i hadn´t written to you before because i´ve been very busy in a new job, even so I wish a wonderfull year to you an yours.
Looking for some news about Madeleine i found this news in spanish that show Madeleine could be in La Roja Spain. Some man saw her the past wednesday, january 23, with 2 people (adults) that seem some nervous and suspects. This is the link of the news in spanish http://www.eldiariodeparana.com.ar/textocomp.asp?id=138013.
And i´ve been searching about La Roja, Spain and i found this page http://www.spanish-living.com/regional/indexR_Rioja.php, in that appear pictures of church and the desing of the houses are very similar that you dd in your page 2 where appear some man with moustache said "red brick".
Sorry for my english. It´s great talk to you again.
God bless you always.
AngelFacereply
Thanks, will post this ASAP.
Brian
"They assure to have seen Maddie in a lodging of the Rioja a man denounced that vió to the minor disappeared in Portugal in Villa Union. She assures that the girl was next to two people. A man assured to have seen in the La Riojan locality of Villa Union Madeleine McCann, the English girl of four years of age disappeared in Portugal the year last, according to informed police spokesmen today. The denunciation was been by Javier Grapevineable, who assured to have seen the baby in company of two greater people in a lodging of Villa Union. The man indicated in his police presentation that the "finding" took place Wednesday 23 of this month. Grapevineable assured to have seen a baby whose characteristics are resembled the minor of English origin, in company of two greater people, than according to his sayings "they were quite nervous". The small "Maddie" intensely is looked for international level, after its mysterious disappearance in Portugal while it slept in the room of a hotel, at moments at which their parents had supper with friends in another side. In the last days, the version extended of which the baby would have been Vista in Chile, reason why every day new conjectures grow on their whereabouts. Those hypotheses do not do more than to confuse to the public opinion, still shocked by this event and the tender photographies of the niñita that circulate around the Web."
la rioja
A dream land for wine tasters
It’s the smallest of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions but its famous wines have made Rioja a household name throughout the world.
The local wines are without doubt some of the country’s finest but Rioja is home to many other lesser known attractions including spectacular mountain scenery, historic World Heritage sites and therapeutic thermal waters. When visitors to Rioja are not busy wine-tasting they can go ski-ing, white water rafting, hiking along the famous Santiago Way or following in the footsteps of dinosaurs which left their mark here 150 million years ago.
This tiny region in the north of Spain takes its name from the Rio (river) Oja – a tributary of the mighty Ebro River which is the longest river in Spain. The fertile plains of the Ebro valley have given rise to a wine producing industry which goes back to Roman times. The region’s rich soil and plentiful supply of water enable it to produce high quality fruit and vegetables (including artichokes, asparagus, aubergines and peaches) which together with Rioja’s excellent cured meats form the basis of some fine regional cuisine. Baby goat (cabrito), potatoes cooked with red “chorizo” sausage” and the popular sweet red peppers (pimientos del piqillo) are among the typical dishes of the region.
Rioja, a fun place for outdoors activities
Rioja’s diverse countryside makes it the ideal place to enjoy all manner of sports – from mountain climbing and pot holing to hunting, canoeing and fishing. The region’s rivers, lakes, nature reserves and mountains beckon sports enthusiasts and lovers of the great outdoors from other less blessed areas of Spain as well as from abroad.
Various specialist tour operators offer “wine and walking” holidays in Rioja, tailor-made for small groups of visitors who want a taste of the “real Spain” far from the madding crowds of the popular costas.
The Camino de Santiago ( Santiago Way) is one of the world’s most famous walks and an important section of it lies within the borders of Rioja. For more than a thousand years millions of pilgrims have made their way along this hallowed trail to the shrine of Jesus’ apostle Saint James (“ Santiago”) in the Galician capital of Santiago de Compostela. The 60-kilometre route through Rioja leads from the regional capital of Logroño eastwards to Grañon. One of the most interesting towns along the way is Santo Domingo de la Calzada (which literally means St
Dominic of the Roadway) named after a monk who dedicated his life to constructing roads and bridges to make the pilgrims’ journey easier. The town has a magnificent cathedral, built in the 12 th and 13 th centuries, an enchanting maze of medieval streets and a government-owned Parador Hotel housed within the old Pilgrims’ Hospital (built by St Dominic on the site of the former palace of the kings of Navarre).
Rioja’s importance as part of the pilgrims’ route means the centuries have left the region a rich legacy of monumental buildings including the great monasteries of Suso and Yuso at San Millan de Cogolla, which earned UNESCO World Heritage status in 1997.
Long before the first pilgrims trod the path through Rioja, this was a land dominated by dinosaurs which left tracks still followed by 21 st century visitors with a passion for paleontology. Some of the best dinosaur traces in Europe can be seen at the Paleontology Centre in Enciso which is the starting point of a fascinating trail of prehistoric fossils and footprints.
Dear BrianI have a pendulum which I use very occasionally. Some months/weeks ago (can't quite remember when) - maybe October, I dowsed about Madeleine. My pendulum said she was in a country beginning with T and then on further questioning was absolutely clear that she was in Tunisia.At that time I had not heard of Tunisia being in the frame at all. I mentioned it to my sister and asked her to remember the information if later on it proved to be correct. Today on your website is the first time I have seen Tunisia mentioned at all as a possibility so just thought I should let you know.Incidentally the international code for Tunisia is 217. I have just looked this up again and it now seems to be watered down to 216 and 217 but back then when I first looked, I could not believe it the coincidence given that 217 has figured in one of your dreams.Thought you might be interested.By the way I find your website is very interesting.RegardsMaryreply
Hi Mary, will post this information and thank you. Just checked a map and Tunisia is the closest country I could find to Portugal too.
Brian
symington murat family
The Symington Family Ancestry in Oporto
1652-2006
John Atkinson was born in 1758 and died in 1844. It is not certain when he first came to Oporto, but there is a passport in his name that is issued and signed by the Duke of Wellington. This is dated 1814.
He is also a signatory of a letter to George Canning, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs dated Oporto, 10th May 1825 complaining that he and other merchants were excluded from the Factory House. From this it is clear that he had been a merchant in the city of Oporto for some years. Other signatories to this letter are John Graham and George Reid (amongst several others).
John Atkinson married Ellen Latimer. They had 5 children, as follows:1) The oldest child of John and Ellen Atkinson: Edward (1819-1882) married Emily Whiteley.
They had eleven children; one boy, Latimer, and ten daughters.
Of these ten daughters, nine married. Their respective husbands were as follows: Hugh Ritson, Albert Kendall, Charles Adam (a partner in W & J Graham's), Gilbert Elles (and after his death; James Yates, also a partner in W & J Graham's), Honorious Grant, Robert Atkinson (cousin), George Dagge, José Valle and Charles Bartlett.
Various Oporto families married direct descendants of the above, including Coverely, Shore, Street, Wall, Rumsey, D'Albertanson (headmaster of the Oporto British School), Sellers, Delaforce, Tait and Symington.2) The second child of John and Ellen Atkinson was Ellen (1822-1899). She married Reginald Quarles Harris, from the Port company of the same name founded in 1680. His ancestor, John Harris is recorded as shipping 98 pipes of Port in 1689.
3) The third child of John and Ellen Atkinson was Eliza who married (in 1846) the Rev. Edward Whiteley, the last Chaplain to the British Factory. Edward and Eliza Whiteley had seven children; their third child married George Reid.
4) The fourth child of John and Ellen Atkinson was Margaret (1826-1898). She married Henry Murat, one of the oldest English Port shipping families in Oporto.
5) The fifth child of John and Ellen Atkinson was John WhiteleyAtkinson (1830-1899). In 1869 he married Maria José de Sousa e Barros Leitão de Carvalhosa. She was the daughter of D. Carlota van Zeller and Ignacio José Sampaio de Pina e Barros e Sousa Leitão de Carvalhosa, son of the Visconde de Santarem.
From this marriage of John and Maria José Atkinson, came two children, Robert (who married his cousin Abigail Atkinson) andBeatrice Atkinson.
Beatrice Atkinson (1870-1916) married Andrew James Symington(1863-1939) in 1891. Andrew James had come to Oporto in 1882. Their children were Maurice, Mabel (who married Phillip Elles son of Lucy Atkinson), Ronald, John, and Edgar Symington.Port Trade connections
Edward Atkinson (1819-1882).
John Atkinson's oldest son Edward was General Manager of Smith Woodhouse. His son; Latimer Atkinson followed him as General Manager of Smith Woodhouse.
'On the death of old Mr Robert Woodhouse in 1852, Mr Flude was commissioned by the London house to proceed to Oporto and take over the management of the business, for which purpose he was entrusted with power of attorney, which he eventually made over to the late Mr Edward Atkinson, whose son, Latimer, now holds the position'. Oporto Old and New, Charles Sellers 1899.
John Whiteley Atkinson (1830-1899).
John Atkinson's youngest son, John Whiteley Atkinson (father of Beatrice Atkinson), was General Manager of Offley Forrester for many years. 'The present manager in Oporto is Mr Arthur Standring: he succeeded the late Mr John Whiteley Atkinson who had been for nearly fifty years in the service of the firm' Oporto Old and New, Charles Sellers 1899.
John Whiteley Atkinson must have worked with Baron Forrester for some years as the latter died in 1861.
Beatrice Atkinson's grandmother was Carlota van Zeller. Thus the Symingtons are also related to the van Zeller family sometime owners of Quinta do Noval and of Quinta de Roriz (which the Symingtons now jointly own with Joao van Zeller).
Through the van Zellers they are also related to the Guedes, owners of Offley, Sandeman and Ferreira.
Maurice Symington married Eileen Hardey Mason in 1924. Her father, George Hardey Mason was a partner in the firm of Kopke during the 19th century.
Walter Maynard
1652
Walter Maynard was the brother of Thomas Maynard, the first English Consul in Portugal. Thomas Maynard had been appointed by Oliver Cromwell to Lisbon in 1656. His appointment was confirmed after the Restoration by King Charles II in 1660.
Thomas Maynard appointed his brother, Walter, to the position of Consul in Oporto in 1659.
Walter Maynard, who lived in Rua Nova dos Ingleses (now Rua do Infante Dom Henrique), is recorded in the official Portuguese archives as exporting 39 pipes of Port in 1652. This is the second oldest (by one year) recorded shipment of Port by a British merchant from Oporto and substantially pre-dates the famous Methuen Treaty of 1703 and also the foundation date of any British Port company.
Walter Maynard married Leonor da Silva Moura, who had been born in Oporto in Rua do pé das Aldas.
- Their daughter Dorothea Maynard de Silva was born in Rua da Banharia in Oporto. She married Henry Whittingham who lived in the Rua das Flores. Henry Whittingham, one of the first Port merchants, was a substantial exporter: 20 pipes in 1679, rising to 574 pipes in 1691 and 882 pipes in 1694.
- Their daughter Dorothea Ignacia Whittingham married a Dutchman, Johan Moring in 1704. Johan was the son of Jacob Moring and Marianna van Zeller.
- Their daughter Dorothea Moring Whittingham (1708-1759) married Christiano Kopke (1693-1759) in 1731. He was originally born in Hamburg and was Consul of the Hanseatic League in Oporto as well as being a Port shipper.
- Their daughter Anna Dorothea Kopke (1733-1757) married Ignacio Antonio Henckell (1712-1802) in 1751. Ignacio Henckell was son of Anna Maria Palmer who in turn was daughter of Port shipper Samuel Palmer and Eleanor Maynard da Silva (sister of Dorothea Maynard de Silva, see above). The Palmers had been Port shippers since 1666.
Their daughter Anna Francisca Henckell (1754-1791) married João van Zeller (Born 1741) in 1781.
- Their daughter Anna Dorothea van Zeller (1786-1854) married Francisco José van Zeller, (1774-1852) who was the Russian Consul in Oporto.
- Their daughter Carlota van Zeller (1817-1894) married Ignacio José Sampaio de Pina e Barros e Sousa Leitão de Carvalhosa in 1835. He was Portugal's Ambassador to Copenhagen and son of the Visconde de Santarem.
- Their daughter Maria José de Sousa e Barros Leitão de Carvalhosa (1838-1907) married John Whiteley Atkinson(1830-1899) in 1869.
- Their daughter, Beatrice Atkinson (1870-1916) marriedAndrew James Symington (1863-1939) in 1891.
Summary
The Symington family of Oporto are directly descended via Beatrice Atkinson, from Walter Maynard, Henry Whittingham and Samuel Palmer.
The Maynards, Whittinghams and Palmers, together with Richard Pervis Rowland Hill, Thomas and Henry Manin, were the first British merchants ever recorded as exporting Port from Oporto.
There have been 354 years and 12 and 13 generations from Walter Maynard to the present generation of Symingtons who are active partners in the family Port companies.
Paul Symington, Oporto, 27th March 2006
Sources
British Wine Merchants in Porto prior to the Methuen Treaty, Pedro de Brito. Published 2000. ISBN 972-98481-0-6
Oporto Older and Newer, Gerald Cobb. Published 1965.
Oporto Old and New, Charles Sellers. Published 1899 Herbert E Harper.
The Englishman's Wine, Sarah Bradford. Published 1969 Macmillan.
Van Zeller - Symington, Ensaios Genealogicos. Vol I & II, Vasco Valente. Published 1916.
Van Zeller, Descendencia de Arnaldo João van Zeller, Vasco Valente. Published 1932.
The Factory House at Oporto, John Delaforce. Published 1990 Christies.
Hi Brian
Hope all is well with you & family. Ive not had access to internet for 1 week as Ive been away, so just catching up. Wow, some interesting DDs this month so far!
Regarding Urs Hans von Aesch, his wife’s name is Vreni von Aesch. Initials V.A.
Apparently information was deleted from their computers that was meant to have child porn on, but I don’t know if that is true, as its hard to believe everything in the news. Often wives are involved somehow with their husbands paedophile activity or abductions though.
I can remember reading some time back that Vreni von Aesch said her husband wouldn’t even kill a chicken, then contradicted by saying she could imagine him killing Ylenia, that he was sometimes suicidal & suffered severe headaches & hated being in the hustle bustle of where they lived in Spain, so went to Switzerland where its more calm.
I certainly hope that Vreni von Aesch has been thoroughly questioned anyway.
Was it ever confirmed that Urs Hans von Aesch’s van was seen outside the McCann’s apartment?
I haven’t seen any update on the Ylenia story & if anything came out about the chap (not named) that was shot, supposedly by Urs Hans von Aesch & was too sick in hospital to be interviewed. I believe it was not known whether Urs Hans von Aesch shot himself or happened in a shoot out with the unnamed chap.
Found this English website from Spain http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/13574 with a piece, but nothing more recent.
If you click on the different areas of Spain on this site, you can see just how corrupt other authorites are, with stories like, prison officer involved in drug trafficking, majors & council officers arrested for fraud etc.
My goodness, how can we trust some people in authority.
It bothers me & many others I can imagine, that it is known by the UK police etc that Portugal is so corrupt, so why aren’t they or investigators checking out the Portuguese police & other authorities.
I have mentioned a few times on your site some time back & to the Leicestershire police, that the police stations cells should be checked out in the PDL area, going by your basement drawings & the bars on the door you had drawn.
Then I was quite surprised to see your most recent drawing saying that the underground room you have been drawing for so long, where Madeleine could be, may possibly be joined onto a drug impound area of the police station. So I sent them that too asking if only UK authorities could check it out. But why should they take any notice of me.
I suppose that this basement room could be in PDL (is there a police station there?), Lagos, Portimao, or in fact could be anywhere in the Algarve though. Ive been trying to find out the exact addresses of them all with building numbers, post code numbers, to see if any of your numbers came up, but havent found anything yet. Still looking.
Very interesting, Ive just seen someones post that the Portimao police station has now closed since December. Madeleine could be there with R.S.!!
You mentioned NPIA on one of your DDs of 23/5/07, which could stand for National Policing Improvement Agency, in UK (England & Wales), which was only operational from 1st April 2007 (1 month before MM went missing).
I wonder if R.S. is from the NPIA & holding/protecting Madeleine while they search for all involved in her disappearance & perhaps that’s why you feel & still say she is safe with R.S..
“The NPIA was created through the merger of the Police IT Organisation and training body Centrex. It aimed to improve police technology and training for all 43 forces in England and Wales.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Policing_Improvement_Agency
NPIA sniffer dogs snubbed in hunt for Madeleine http://www.k9magazine.com/viewarticle.php?sid=15&aid=2015&vid=0&npage=
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/police-reform/policing-improvement-agency/
I still cant help thinking for so long that Vilamoura & the Albufeira area has a strong link to Madeleine going missing, as Vilamoura was mentioned in one of your first DDs. Perhaps the abductors came from there but work in PDL, or perhaps the money man is from Vilamoura as its quite a rich area.
I did visit Vilamoura one afternoon a few years ago, but didn’t see the whole area, just the marina area with loads of very expensive yachts & noticed a few large villa places with arched railing gates.
I actually stayed in Albufeira not far from Vilamoura, in a lovely quiet area with mainly local Portuguese around & I felt quite safe there, as they are quiet & friendly people. But there was a huge English community the other side of Albufeira, a more rough area with a large road full of Brits staying there, loud & drinking heavily, so I avoided it like the plague, as that felt more scary to me walking around there alone during the day!
Also, it is a bit strange that the Portuguese police never did follow up on Daniel Krugel’s information, isn’t it? Something is so wrong down there. They should be checking everything out. And why have the McCanns not pushed for it to be checked out.
What do you think about Liz’s post about seeing Madeleine limp & then buried – do you have any feelings about anything close to that? Or do you still feel that Madeleine is safe in the same basement?
Speak soon. Say hi to Samuel
Take care
Kind regards
Z
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Hi Z...I no longer think its strange that the PJ followed up on any leads...I keep seeing the same underground room...and I will tell Samuel you said hi. Give me a call if you want.
Brian
Hi Brian,i thought you might be interested to know that the man Michael Cook who was arrested for killing 9 year old Rachel was hung upside down and tortured by Portuguese police men to get a confession out of him.Portuguese police tortured Michael cook just like they did Leonor Cipriano to get a confession out of her.If you think about it why would the Portuguese police have to torture someone for a confession if they have enough evidence against them.Which means they did not have enough evidence against him or they were involved with her murder and were torturing him to get him to confess so he would get the blame.Most people are manipulated with the press withought realising it,and by that i mean people read in the paper that Michael cook killed Rachel so they have already made their mind up withought going out there way to gather the full facts.For example:1)There was a red car that was seen,near were Rachel was found,so Michael cook got the blame as he has a red car.2)But so did Rachel's step-dad as he also owned a red car and so did a good few people in the same area.3)It was then found that the tyre prints were not them of Michael cooks car.4)Michael cook was beaten and tortured and had a gun put inside his mouth and they pulled the trigger making a mock execution.5)The Portuguese's police also hung him upside down and beat him black and blue.6)Rachel mother was scared of Rachel's step-dad temper so she would flew and took refuge at a friends house on many occasions.Let us examine the initial key facts. After nine months in gaol, Cook got two good lawyers and it was quickly discovered that the prime--indeed the only--hard evidence linking Cook to the murder was bogus. The tyre marks were of an entirely different type from those of Cook's car. It is also claimed that Cook's car does not have the ground clearance needed for the area where Rachel was found. Similarly, no confession was ever presented at the trial. It had been claimed by police that two officers heard the confession. One remembered it clearly ; the second denied all recollection of it. One would not expect to forget such a thing easily.Allegedly showed police beating Cook. Those lawyers were involved in a tragic accident involving a front tyre blow-out which, incidentally, it is claimed has never been properly investigated by the police. In that untimely accident, Dr. da Silva was killed and Dr. Coelho was severely injured.What of the final piece of the early evidence--Cook's record as a child molester? It too is quite bogus. At the trial, the police tried to rescue some credibility on the point. An officer said that Cook had been seen abusing a child a few weeks before Rachel's murder. One might wonder why that was not mentioned at the time. Nevertheless, the judge asked the officer how he knew that. The officer replied that someone, unnamed, had told him. The judge accepted that so-called "evidence" as clear and unequivocal.Michael cooks lawyer said"I must inform the House that I know of no evidence that Cook has ever posed any threat to children".So its begining to look like more and more that some of the portuguese police are pedo's themselfs.Even more worrying the Big man in power the judge seems to be going along with setting people up as well,because if they know someone is innocent then why would they want the real pedo and child murderer to be free roaming the streets to harm another child,well its because they know that there is no pedo or child murderer roaming the streets because they are the ones that are prob harming these poor children and getting away with it.Why is someone in power not doing anything about this,why are people who can make a change not stopping these little angels from being harmed and killed,it makes me so ****** angery and fustrated.Here is the link to the report about Michael CookI hope you find the report about Michael cook helpfullThanks againJennifer *** scotland xxreply
Thanks, will read it.
Brian
30/01/08
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was yesterday accused of stalling the Madeleine McCann investigation.
Portuguese police said the nine-month case had reached "a stalemate" because the Home Office had failed to respond to a list of demands sent almost a month ago.
Investigators sent a formal letter of appeal to Whitehall on January 7, asking that the seven friends who dined with Kate and Gerry McCann on the night of May 3 should face fresh police interrogations.
Three weeks have passed and the Home Office has yet to make any response to the letter, the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha reported.
British police cannot carry out the interviews on behalf of their Portuguese counterparts until the request has been rubber-stamped by the Home Secretary.
And Portuguese police claim they cannot progress with their investigation until the interrogations are carried out.
A source said the latest delay had stalled the entire case, adding: "It is very strange that we have heard nothing.
"There seems to be no sense of urgency on their part. But we cannot proceed until these interrogations have been carried out. It is a stalemate."
The police and the public prosecutor were notified three weeks ago that the letters had been delivered to the Home Office, the newspaper said.
Chief Insp Paulo Rebelo and his police team spent four months preparing the formal legal documents, which set out the requests for the so-called Tapas Seven to be re-interviewed and a list of questions for them to face.
The letter also listed a number of personal items the Portuguese police want seized from the McCanns, including Mrs McCann's diary, Mr McCann's personal laptop and possibly Madeleine's favourite Cuddle Cat toy.
Portuguese police want to be present when the Tapas Seven are questioned, and believe they have identified a series of contradictions and inconsistencies in their witness statements about the events of May 3.
They are expected to call for the McCanns to face another round of interviews after their friends have been re-interrogated.
The couple, who remain official suspects in the case, have said they are willing to be questioned again but have always insisted they were not involved in their daughter's disappearance.
A friend, who asked not to be named, said: "It's a bit rich that the Portuguese police are complaining about speed, almost nine months after Madeleine disappeared."
A Home Office spokesman refused to confirm if it had received the letters of appeal from the Portuguese police.
McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "For some months now we have actively offered to assist this process, to get it underway as soon as possible.
"Kate and Gerry's friends are keen that it should happen soon and want any bureaucracy - whether it's in Portugal or England - to be cleared quickly.
"Any inconsistencies the police believe exist in their evidence can be cleared up very quickly and then we hope Kate and Gerry's names will be cleared.
"As far as we are concerned this cannot happen soon enough."
page 23 is double printing....the other ones are fine.....this is in the Madeleine McCann case.....thanks for all that you do to help people....I really enjoy reading your website.....here is hoping Maddy will be home soon.....
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Hi, will check this...Brian
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I just check the page and did not get any problems...but it could be the amount of stuff on the page...will start page 24.
Brian
Dear Brian,Thanks for reading and responding to my e-mail. I will draw the images for you. I did send this same message to you last year, but I think it must have got lost in translation somewhere! You are a busy man!!! However, when I was reading the international newspapers one morning and saw the image of a bearded man as a possible suspect in the Madeleine Mccann case, I just about freaked out. That is when I was so frantic that somebody must justat least read about my images as I had them already last year. I have a very strong feeling that she is not alive and also that she is still in Portugal.The thing that frustrates me is that one can only sit and wait and look on. You do great work and I find it very interesting to read your website.Best RegardsLizreply
Looking forward to them Liz...and thanks for the help.
Brian
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