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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2013 20:56:41 GMT
Paul Luckman, editor of 'The Portugal News', describes to Sky's Robert Nisbet the route Madeleine McCann's abductor is thought to have taken. German television station ZDF will stage a reconstruction of the events of the night of May 3, 2007 when Madeleine McCann disappeared from the room in which she was sleeping in Prais de Luz. The reconstruction is an attempt by authorities to appeal to German tourists who were at the popular tourist destination. A special edition of the crime programme Aktenzeichen XY - Ungeloest which is translated as "File XY - Unsolved", will be aired on Wednesday night and will feature an appeal for information from Kate and Gerry McCann. The fresh appeal follow's last night's Crimewatch appeal for new witnesses to come forward. Parts of the reconstruction, due to be aired on a special broadcast tomorrow night.
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2013 0:47:38 GMT
KATE McCann missed walking in on her daughter Madeleine’s abductor by minutes, police revealed last night. British detectives who have spent two years reviewing the case have compiled a new timeline of events for the night Madeleine vanished. They now believe an Irish family spotted the abductor carrying the sleeping youngster towards the beach in Praia da Luz at 10pm. At exactly the same time, Kate, 45, found the three-year-old was missing from her bed in the family’s holiday flat a few hundred yards away. It means police now think Kate almost ran into the fiend who stole her eldest child. Last night police launched a Europe-wide hunt for the mystery man after a reconstruction on BBC One’s Crimewatch. They said she was either the victim of a planned kidnapping, which may have involved a team of bogus charity collectors. Or she was snatched after disturbing a burglar while Kate and husband Gerry, 45, dined with pals in a nearby tapas bar.
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2013 6:00:43 GMT
Two separate people came up with the same name in response to computer-generated sketches of a man whom London's Metropolitan Police are working to identify in possible connection with the disappearance of then-3-year-old Madeleine McCann, the case's lead investigator revealed Monday. The two people had phoned in the same name based on the sketches, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood said during the BBC's "Crimewatch" program, which aired an appeal Monday night for information about a man police want to track down. The man was seen carrying a child matching McCann's description on the night she vanished in 2007 around the resort town of Praia da Luz in Portugal. The man is described as white, between 20 and 40 years old, with short brown hair and a medium build. He was seen carrying a blond child, who might have been in pajamas and who was estimated to be 3 to 4 years old, around the time Madeleine disappeared, police had said. The sketches are based on descriptions from separate witnesses, investigators said.
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Post by Admin on Oct 18, 2013 5:05:20 GMT
500 viewers contacted police after an appeal for information on missing Madeleine McCann was shown on German television last night. The appeal by Maddie's parents on Aktenzeichen XY...ungelost was watched by 7.26 million people - the show's highest ratings in 15 years. Emotional mum Kate said on the programme: "Please have the compassion and courage to tell us what happened to her." Her husband Gerry said: “There is no evidence that Madeleine is dead. We miss her every day.” A similar crime programme in Holland, Opsporing Verzocht, on Tuesday night prompted over 150 people to call in or email. Appeal: Kate McCann on German TV
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2013 8:05:02 GMT
The family of missing Ben Needham were given fresh hope last night after claims their son was held by gypsies in the same camp a four-year-old girl was rescued from this week, according to the Sunday Mirror. His mother Kerry Needham, 41, said: “The authorities in Greece always told us, ‘Gipsies don’t steal babies’. Now we know they do. We are very optimistic this new information may help us find Ben.” The astonishing claims come from Andonis Bedzios who had gone to the remote camp in Larissa, central Greece, to search for his own son when he saw a child matching Ben’s description. The house at the Roma camp in Farsala, central Greece, where the four-year-old blonde girl was found this week during a raid by police He gave a statement to cops – but Ben’s family say it was never properly followed up by officers. The account is one of a string of links between the Greek travelling community and the disappearance of the 21-month-old toddler from Greek island Kos in 1991. Six reasons that give new hope for Ben 1. The discovery of snatched Maria is in the same area as the sighting of a blond boy at a gipsy camp in 1995. 2. In 2011, a retired doctor said he had seen a blond toddler, who spoke a few words of English and said his name was Ben, with a gipsy woman who could not have children. Sotiris Papachristoforou reported the sighting in the town of Larissa in 1992, but police were not interested as there was no crime. 3. Another sighting in the Corinthia area in 1995 was revealed last year after Ben’s mother made an appeal on Greek TV. 4. Gipsy camps were never investigated at the time of Ben’s disappearance as police were “scared” to go into them. Ben’s sister Leighanna said Maria’s discovery showed authorities are now willing to go into gipsy settlements. 5. In 1996, a prisoner in a Larissa jail told police Ben was being held by a gipsy family. Andonis Bedzios visited their camp looking for his son when he noticed another boy. The family said they got him from Kos where Ben vanished. 6. Police always believed Ben was the victim of a gipsy kidnapping. Maria’s discovery gives weight to this theory.
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