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Post by Admin on Jul 14, 2015 2:43:58 GMT
 The parents of Madeleine McCann have hit back at outrageous allegations made by the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe in a series of bizarre letters to his female 'admirers'. The serial killer, who is currently locked up in Broadmoor Hospital, claimed 'there's something not quite right' about Madeleine's 2007 disappearance in a note sent to one woman.  In response, a spokesman for the McCanns told MailOnline: 'We are not going to comment on the word of a psychopathic serial killer.' The 69-year-old murderer, who killed 13 women over a five year period until he was caught in 1980, made a string of false accusations against Kate and Gerry McCann.  According to the letters published in The Sun, Sutcliffe wrote: 'As for the Madeleine McCann case? For quite a while I had every sympathy for the parents at their terrible loss. But there's something not quite right about it all.' In his letters with the women, Sutcliffe illustrates the margins with a range of doodles, and in some, uses 'text speak' despite never legally having access to a mobile phone. A spokesman for the McCanns told MailOnline: 'We are not going to comment on the word of a psychopathic serial killer. He knows nothing about the case. We will not dignify his views with any comment.'  The Sun did not print the full allegations made by Sutcliffe for legal reasons. Sutcliffe even sent Valentines cards to some women expressing his love, while another he said he felt protective towards her. The murderer, who received a life sentence in 1981 and was told he would serve a minimum of 30 years informed one of his female admirers that he regularly goes to sleep with a teddy bear. He asked another whether she had a regular boyfriend. In one of the notes, he claims: 'I would like to visit the seaside and have fish and chips and mushy peas. I've done more than my original sentence after all.'  The killer, who believed he was on a 'mission from God' to kill sex workers, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1984. He refused treatment until 1993, when the Mental Health Commission ruled that he should be given anti-psychotic medication forcibly. He has been attacked at least three times behind bars. The second assault put his right eye out and another inmate then unsuccessfully attempted to do the same for his left. It costs taxpayers more than £300,000 a year to detain him in Broadmoor, at least five times the cost of a prison cell. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 31, 2015 2:42:08 GMT
The decomposed remains of a young girl found in a suitcase dumped in Australia do not belong to missing British girl Madeleine McCann, police say. The bones were found earlier this month in bushes near the South Australia state capital Adelaide.  South Australia police detective superintendent Des Bray said late Wednesday that 43 children had now been eliminated as the victim in the murder investigation, including McCann. “I can confirm that Madeleine McCann has been totally excluded as a potential victim and U.K. police have been advised,” he said. McCann was 3 when she went missing while on vacation in Portugal with her family in 2007. The case has never been solved. British police investigating McCann’s disappearance said this week they had been in touch with Australian authorities about the discovery of the young girl’s remains. Police believe the remains belong to a fair-haired girl aged between two and half years and four years who might have been dead for up to eight years. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2015 1:21:14 GMT
 A Queensland magistrate has highlighted the Madeleine McCann mystery to admonish a mother for "grossly negligent behaviour" after she left her toddler at home alone overnight and went on a drunken spree slashing the tyres and smashing windows of two parked vehicles. The 25-year-old Gladstone woman was angry after a break-up with her partner and used bricks to attack his parked vehicle and apparently that of a friend. The mother, who cannot be named to protect her child, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court to leaving a child without supervision overnight on July 7 between 10pm and 4am, and two counts of wilful damage to a Toyota four-wheel-drive and a car. Magistrate Penelope Hay said the mother placed her child at serious risk in a a "fit of jealous rage". "Children can be abducted. The parents of Madeleine McCann left her asleep in a locked apartment. She has never been found," she said. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 1, 2015 1:25:35 GMT
What happened to Madeleine McCann? A self-proclaimed psychic claims that he knows exactly what happened, and he has an idea of where she may be. The Sun reports that clairvoyant Michael Winger believes that the missing tot was stolen right under the noses of Kate and Gerry McCann, and unfortunately, she won’t be coming home alive. Winger believes that a single abductor took the little girl while Kate and Gerry were busy wining and dining more than 100 yards away from their rental apartment. Rather, he believes the abductor was in the apartment during one of the times that her father came to check on her and her infant siblings.  The little girl, he believes, was taken with the intention to sell to human traffickers. Unfortunately, he also thinks the abductor murdered the long-missing toddler before burying her body near a lake. He believes he did this after his attempt to sell her failed. He attributes this belief to getting “a lot of images” in his head.  “He wanted to take a girl and drive her north of Portugal to deliver her to some people. I believe Madeleine was taken and the abductor was in the same room at the same time as Madeleine’s father was inside the bedroom just checking everything was OK.” Winger is far from the only psychic claiming to know what happened to Madeleine. In fact, her case was featured on an airing of Haunting Evidence, starring psychic profiler Carla Baron. Like Winger, Baron and her crew believe that the child was kidnapped while her parents were dining at a nearby tapas bar.  On the other hand, a plethora of evidence has been recorded against Kate and Gerry McCann. They were, at one point, declared suspects in the disappearance and presumed death of little Maddie. Some of that evidence included blood and bodily fluids, which were sniffed out by trained cadaver- and blood-sniffing dogs. Some of this evidence was located in the McCann’s rental vehicle, which wasn’t even obtained until after their daughter went missing. DNA tests also reportedly confirmed a close match to Madeleine — as far as the blood and fluids go. Their behavior has also been used as a warning to other parents who leave their children unattended for unnecessary periods of time. Nonetheless, Kate and Gerry have never been charged or convicted of any crimes associated with Madeleine’s disappearance. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2015 1:35:32 GMT
The British investigation into missing Madeleine McCann is still "live" and is not about to be wound down, sources have revealed. The news comes after ex-Metropolitan Police officer John O'Connor yesterday questioned whether the hunt for the missing child was a good use of resources.  It has been claimed the Scotland Yard operation has already cost the taxpayer £11 million but there have not yet been any arrests. But well-placed sources in Portugal insisted there was no evidence to suggest Operation Grange was going to be shelved in the short or medium term.  And they said they were expecting to receive a new international letter of request shortly from UK authorities - the second since DCI Nicola Wall took over from previous Operation Grange boss Andy Redwood at the end of last year but the first she will have been involved in preparing.  The regular meetings DCI Redwood held with his Portuguese counterparts in the Algarve city of Faro have been put on hold since the takeover. Her successor is understood to have asked police in Portugal to put on hold some of the work they were undertaking while she reviewed outstanding requests and the way she wanted to progress in the future.  Responding to grumbles about the cost of Scotland Yard’s probe and fresh claims it should be wound down, the Portuguese source insisted: “Nothing is going to be shelved. “Co-operation right now between the British and the Portuguese police is at a moment of great synchronisation.” Portugal’s Attorney General’s Office, which in May confirmed it had so far received five British requests for international cooperation on the Madeleine McCann case including one in January 2015, did not respond to emails today. But insiders said they were expecting to receive a new request shortly. |
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