Madeleine McCann is the three-year-old girl who was snatched from a Portugal holiday resort. Follow breaking news on the Madeleine McCann story, and hope for the best as authorities search for clues and try to find the young girl.
...................................... ..................................... Daily Mirror 12/12/09: "DISTORTION, LIES, FABRICATION AND SLANDER." Outside the Civil Court in Lisbon, where Gonçalo Amaral had been due to present witnesses in his effort to have a temporary injunction on his book, " A Verdade Da Mentira ," overturned, Gerry and Kate McCann took advantage of their right to freedom of expression to accuse Dr Amaral of distorting the truth about their daughter's disappearance... Read Full Story
A WARPED Facebook group claiming to have been created by Madeleine McCann’s “kidnapper” has been removed.
A group called “If 2,000,000 people join this group, I will give back Maddie McCann” was slammed by users, who campaigned to get it banned.
The page included jokes about Maddie’s disappearance and attracted about 60,000 members. It contained dozens of spoof snaps of Madeleine depicting her kidnap.
The group was littered with messages from its anonymous creator, purporting to... Read Full Story
.................................. ................................. From Esther Addley of the Guardian , an article that takes an unusually objective look at the media campaign that transformed a little three-year-old girl into an icon. I say 'unusually objective,' compared to the usual sycophantic rubbish churned out by the UK media, wherein Kate and Gerry McCann attain the status of sainthood and become the self-pitying martyrs of the decade. "It's the unsettling mix of the incredibly... Read Full Story
Madeleine McCann: a vibrant three-year-old frozen in time. Photograph: David Moir/Reuters
In November, 30 months after their daughter vanished from their holiday apartment, Kate and Gerry McCann released two images of how Madeleine might look now. Her face is a little longer, her jaw stronger; she has grown out of her toddler's button nose. In one, she is shown with long blond hair, in the other with darker hair and a deep suntan. But in both images she retains the distinctive black... Read Full Story
THE grandmother of missing Madeleine McCann has appealed for whoever knows where she is to “end our agony.”
Speaking on the day Kate and Gerry McCann launched a fresh appeal, Kate’s mum Susan Healy, of Mossley Hill told the ECHO: “Like Kate we continue to hope Madeleine will be found and it would be nice for her to be home to Christmas.
“I remember last year thinking I hope we don’t have another Christmas without her, but here we are.
“We just wish whoever knows something would come... Read Full Story
Kate and Gerry McCann have issued a fresh plea for information to help them find daughter Madeleine as they prepare for a third Christmas without her.
A message on their website says: "There will be a spare place at the Christmas table again this year. If you know anything, do the right thing and help us fill it."
The McCanns, both 41, have also released a photo of Madeleine taken at their home in Rothley the Christmas before she went missing, aged three, from the Portuguese holiday... Read Full Story
ROTHLEY, England, Dec. 18 (UPI) --
The parents of Madeleine McCann said in a holiday appeal they long for the safe return of their missing daughter to their home in England.
Sky News said Friday that Kate and Gerry McCann paired their message on their Find Madeleine Web site with photographs of their daughter, who vanished in Portugal in May 2007 when she was 3 years old.
the two parents, both 41, said online.
"If you know anything -- do the right thing and help us fill it.
Kate... Read Full Story
............................. ............................. And in today's Daily Express , we have the...traa laaaa...Christmas appeal! Is this going to be a regular occurrence for the next 50 year until 89 year-old Kate McCann is pleading for her daughter to walk through the door of Rothley Towers, where her bedroom is just as she left it, with all her Christmas and birthday presents from the intervening years blocking the way to her toddler bed? Now, I know I must be sounding unsympathetic... Read Full Story
Thanks to a few helpful folks, who suggested where I might find the appropriate photos, I now have the photo from the PJ files of the inside of a wardrobe in apartment 5A, the McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz. This is one of the images from the PJ's first visit immediately after Madeleine disappeared. As you can see, there is a rather large holdall, which could be described as a sports bag, sitting on one of the shelves. The photo is from the following section of the PJ files... Read Full Story
