think there might be some news on Maddie...
07 June 2007, 02:37 PM
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07 June 2007, 02:47 PM
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07 June 2007, 02:48 PM
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if it carries on he is in serious danger of becoming a troll
07 June 2007, 02:50 PM
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Child goes missing, huge amount of sympathy for parents. Parents start fund. Loads of money comes in. Man makes call, ransom demanded, ransom paid by some mug like Branson. Child returned........ 6 months later the McGanns get their share from the 'kidnapper'.
Sound far fetched?
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Sound far fetched?
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07 June 2007, 02:55 PM
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Child goes missing, huge amount of sympathy for parents. Parents start fund. Loads of money comes in. Man makes call, ransom demanded, ransom paid by some mug like Branson. Child returned........ 6 months later the McGanns get their share from the 'kidnapper'.
Sound far fetched?
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Sound far fetched?
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Some people have very dull lives to have to invent stuff like this.
07 June 2007, 02:57 PM
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A mystery phone call from a man claiming to know the whereabouts of missing Madeleine McCann could provide a new lead in the case, it has emerged.
The caller provided such detail that Kate and Gerry McCann put their European search for their daughter on hold in case they needed to act.
The couple were informed of the potential development while in Germany, where they were appealing for information about their four-year-old child. It is 35 days since Madeleine was abducted from her bed in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.
The "credible" call was taken from a man who wanted to speak directly to the McCanns, according to a Spanish police source. It was traced to an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone from an unidentified country but not thought to be Morocco, where a previous possible sighting of Madeleine was reported.
The caller did not reveal his identity or nationality, but the information was considered important enough to alert Mr and Mrs McCann, the source said.
At around 3pm on Wednesday, the couple - who were about to go to Tempelhof airport in Berlin to fly on to the Netherlands - were advised that the caller might try to contact them, so they stayed on at the British embassy.
At 6pm, journalists travelling in the eight-seater private jet with the McCanns were told by the flight crew that there might be a change in destination. They revealed they had been asked to draw up a new flight plan involving a possible change from Amsterdam to East Midlands Airport.
It was thought the McCanns might need to go back to the UK to talk to advisers about the call.
But all efforts to re-establish contact with the man failed and the couple decided to go on to Amsterdam. They left Berlin at 7.30pm, three hours later than planned, for the hour-long flight to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to continue their search. Mr and Mrs McCann are thought to be on standby, ready to return to the UK if necessary.
A Spanish police source said: "A man called saying he knew where Madeleine was and wanted to speak to the McCanns. This did not appear to be a crank call and the information was felt credible enough to warrant the couple being informed immediately."
The caller provided such detail that Kate and Gerry McCann put their European search for their daughter on hold in case they needed to act.
The couple were informed of the potential development while in Germany, where they were appealing for information about their four-year-old child. It is 35 days since Madeleine was abducted from her bed in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.
The "credible" call was taken from a man who wanted to speak directly to the McCanns, according to a Spanish police source. It was traced to an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone from an unidentified country but not thought to be Morocco, where a previous possible sighting of Madeleine was reported.
The caller did not reveal his identity or nationality, but the information was considered important enough to alert Mr and Mrs McCann, the source said.
At around 3pm on Wednesday, the couple - who were about to go to Tempelhof airport in Berlin to fly on to the Netherlands - were advised that the caller might try to contact them, so they stayed on at the British embassy.
At 6pm, journalists travelling in the eight-seater private jet with the McCanns were told by the flight crew that there might be a change in destination. They revealed they had been asked to draw up a new flight plan involving a possible change from Amsterdam to East Midlands Airport.
It was thought the McCanns might need to go back to the UK to talk to advisers about the call.
But all efforts to re-establish contact with the man failed and the couple decided to go on to Amsterdam. They left Berlin at 7.30pm, three hours later than planned, for the hour-long flight to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to continue their search. Mr and Mrs McCann are thought to be on standby, ready to return to the UK if necessary.
A Spanish police source said: "A man called saying he knew where Madeleine was and wanted to speak to the McCanns. This did not appear to be a crank call and the information was felt credible enough to warrant the couple being informed immediately."
07 June 2007, 03:03 PM
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no duller than yours if you are inventing them starting a fund for all other parents who lose a child by it being abducted from a foreign apartment cos their parents are too irresponsible to look after them properly. (must be all of ... 1 family they would help)
07 June 2007, 03:04 PM
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Not saying its the case here, btw, just an observation
07 June 2007, 03:05 PM
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and........
While on standby at East Midlands Airport Kate McCann spotted a lovely Rolex in 18ct gold and decided it would be the perfect keepsack to remind her of Maddie, so she withdrew £7,950 from the fund and bought the keepsake to remind her of the passing time where she's seperated from her daughter, she also picked up a nice set of diamond earrings... as a pick me up.
That woman is SO STRONG
While on standby at East Midlands Airport Kate McCann spotted a lovely Rolex in 18ct gold and decided it would be the perfect keepsack to remind her of Maddie, so she withdrew £7,950 from the fund and bought the keepsake to remind her of the passing time where she's seperated from her daughter, she also picked up a nice set of diamond earrings... as a pick me up.
That woman is SO STRONG
07 June 2007, 03:05 PM
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That would be a positive thing ad the right thing and i am sure will be the case, far too many people looking at the donut and just seeing the hole in the middle
07 June 2007, 03:09 PM
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other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
07 June 2007, 03:13 PM
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the fund was started to help in the search for Maddie. if the family and friends had not gone 'big' in the media then they wouldnt have the help they now have.
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
07 June 2007, 03:15 PM
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the fund was started to help in the search for Maddie. if the family and friends had not gone 'big' in the media then they wouldnt have the help they now have.
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
I'm sure many families who have lost children for whatever reason would be incapable through grief alone of doing what the McCann's have done.
Fair play to them if its genuine, but not everyone is equal.
07 June 2007, 03:17 PM
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the fund was started to help in the search for Maddie. if the family and friends had not gone 'big' in the media then they wouldnt have the help they now have.
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
In truth (and I hope) they will find her alive, at which point the McCanns will make a 'significant' donation to a charity, or charities, of their choice and retain some of the funds for Maddies medical treatment.
In reality this means they'll give 10K to charity and bank the rest, but it doesn't bother me as I'm not one of the idiots that donated... so its not MY money they'll waste.
Instead I donated £25 online to the NSPCC
07 June 2007, 03:18 PM
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the fund was started to help in the search for Maddie. if the family and friends had not gone 'big' in the media then they wouldnt have the help they now have.
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
other parents of other missing children are perfectly capable of doing the same thing if they so wish.
and yes, i do believe that any cash left will go into helping other families
They seemed to have used it for an extended jaunt around Europe to meet anyone willing to listen to their half cocked story! They are, by their own admission, devout something or others, I wonder what their chances of a personal meeting with the pope would have been if not for this incident!
Even this phone call is very odd. If it's true, the it is irresponsible to publish the info. If we can see this story on the internet, then so can the people are holding her. Surely a better tack would have been to keep it absolutley quiet unti lthey had followed it up or been contacted again.
Her captors would be well away by now once they got wind of this.
It's fast becoming a farce.
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07 June 2007, 03:19 PM
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Anyhow, I hope they find the kid.
07 June 2007, 03:22 PM
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha, how exactly did it help the search for Maddie? Did they use it to pay the Portugese police? Did they have to pay the papers to get the story put in? Oh please!!!!!
They seemed to have used it for an extended jaunt around Europe to meet anyone willing to listen to their half cocked story! They are, by their own admission, devout something or others, I wonder what their chances of a personal meeting with the pope would have been if not for this incident!
Even this phone call is very odd. If it's true, the it is irresponsible to publish the info. If we can see this story on the internet, then so can the people are holding her. Surely a better tack would have been to keep it absolutley quiet unti lthey had followed it up or been contacted again.
Her captors would be well away by now once they got wind of this.
It's fast becoming a farce.
Geezer
They seemed to have used it for an extended jaunt around Europe to meet anyone willing to listen to their half cocked story! They are, by their own admission, devout something or others, I wonder what their chances of a personal meeting with the pope would have been if not for this incident!
Even this phone call is very odd. If it's true, the it is irresponsible to publish the info. If we can see this story on the internet, then so can the people are holding her. Surely a better tack would have been to keep it absolutley quiet unti lthey had followed it up or been contacted again.
Her captors would be well away by now once they got wind of this.
It's fast becoming a farce.
Geezer
