Complainant Name: Portuguese Embassy Clauses Noted: 1 Publication: Daily Mirror Complaint: The Portuguese Embassy complained that a comment piece, on the subject of Anglo-Portuguese relations in the wake of the Madeleine McCann investigation, inaccurately characterised the Ambassador’s views on the issue, and contained what were considered to be offensive comments about the Portuguese Ambassador, the [...]
October 29, 2007 | Posted in
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Tony Parsons 29/10/2007 Portugal’s ambassador to Britain, Senor Antonio Santana Carlos, says that the Madeleine McCann case has seriously damaged relations between the two countries. Well, whose fault is that? It is the fault of the spectacularly stupid, cruel Portuguese police. I have never much cared for the convention of calling cops “pigs” or “filth”, [...]
October 29, 2007 | Posted in
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By FIONA BARTON - Last updated at 22:03pm on 26th October 2007 Since Madeleine McCann vanished on May 3 the plight of her parents has rarely been off the front pages of Portugal’s newspapers – and often reported in the cruellest terms. Staring out, day after day, are the now iconic images of four-year-old Madeleine, smiling [...]
October 26, 2007 | Posted in
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Last updated at 15:46pm on 25th October 2007 Gerry McCann warned his wife: “Don’t say anything till they’ve taken off your microphone” as she broke down in tears at the end of an interview on Spanish television. Kate started sobbing as the 30-minute interview by a Spanish TV presenter drew to a close. But instead [...]
By DAN NEWLING - Last updated at 23:11pm on 24th October 2007 British detectives are said to be preparing to re-interview the McCanns and the seven holiday friends who were dining with them in the Ocean Club’s tapas restaurant on the night Madeleine vanished. The interviews will be conducted by Leicestershire police with Portuguese detectives sitting [...]
October 24, 2007 | Posted in
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By VANESSA ALLEN - Last updated at 12:22pm on 24th October 2007 Gerry McCann organised a game of tennis in the days after his daughter Madeleine disappeared, it has been claimed. In an allegation likely to infuriate the McCanns, a waiter at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Laz said Gerry and Kate were ‘very [...]
From The Times October 22, 2007, by David Brown Portuguese police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will arrive in Britain this week to interview friends of the missing girl’s family, Portugal’s national police director has revealed. Detectives and a public prosecutor will oversee interviews with at least four of the seven friends who had [...]
October 22, 2007 | Posted in
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By Gary Cleland Last Updated: 2:50AM BST 22/10/2007 Portuguese detectives will travel to Britain to re-interview the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann who they dined with on the night their daughter Madeleine disappeared, it has emerged. The move was confirmed by Portugal’s top police officer, Alipio Ribeiro, who said a team of detectives and [...]
Last updated at 16:00pm on 21st October 2007 Police are poised to protect heart surgeon Gerry McCann when he makes an emotional return to work. Officers visited the father of missing Madeleine McCann yesterday to finalise security arrangments at the hospital where he will resume his treatment of heart patients once more. Gerry McCann is [...]
I do not think they did it. It doesn’t make sense. THERE’S absolutely no chance that the parents of Madeleine McCann would be charged with her murder in this country. It would be an outrageous miscarriage of justice if they were. I don’t say that from any feelings of sympathy for Kate and Gerry McCann, [...]
October 21, 2007 | Posted in
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