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Kate and Gerry McCann set for second police quiz over Madeleine’s disappearance

Kate and Gerry McCann set for second police quiz over Madeleine’s disappearance

By Emily Miller 29/02/08 Police probing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance are poised to fly to Britain to quiz her parents and their friends. Portuguese police have waited for months for UK approval to re-interview Kate and Gerry, both 39, and the Tapas Seven over the May 3 night the four-year-old vanished. Crucial witnesses David Payne, 41, [...]

Day 302 – 29/02/2008 – Friday

Day 302 – 29/02/2008 – Friday

It has been a relatively quiet week for us. We did hear from the UK police that the French have officially ruled out the reported sighting of Madeleine in Montpellier. It is disappointing that it took so long, particularly after the widespread coverage the reported sighting received in the media. Today Kate and I met [...]

Spaniel used in the hunt for Madeleine McCann unearths child’s remains

Spaniel used in the hunt for Madeleine McCann unearths child’s remains

By Adrian Shaw 25/02/08 A sniffer dog has pinpointed SIX more places where bodies may be buried at the ex-children’s home where a youngster’s bones were unearthed. The child’s remains were found by a spaniel, used in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, under inches of concrete on Saturday. Now police will dig up other areas [...]

Police search 200 homes in a bid to find missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews

Police search 200 homes in a bid to find missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews

Flat of mum’s ex-boyfriend scoured in extensive hunt By Jan Disley 25/02/08 Police have made painstaking searches of more than 200 homes in a bid to find missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. One flat scoured by officers is believed to have belonged to the ex-boyfriend of the nine-year-old’s mother Karen. All the properties searched are within [...]

Day 295 – 22/02/2008

Day 295 – 22/02/2008

There has been a lot of media attention focussed on a possible sighting of Madeleine in Montpellier one week ago. We only heard of this two days ago and this was from a report sent into the website. Clarence has been inundated with media requests from all over the world for further information. Despite this, [...]

Sketch of man student convinced she saw with Madeleine McCann

Sketch of man student convinced she saw with Madeleine McCann

EXCLUSIVE Student still ‘convinced’ it’s her Tom Parry In Nijmegen Tom.Parry@Mirror.Co.Uk 22/02/08 This is the first image of the man a student claims she saw with Madeleine McCann in a cafe. Melissa Fiering, 18, described the dark-skinned male to sketch artist Emre Altin, 28, exclusively for the Mirror. Speaking at her home in Nijmegen, Holland, [...]

McCanns beg to see French CCTV film of man and girl

McCanns beg to see French CCTV film of man and girl

Emily Nash In Montpellier, France 22/02/08 Kate and Gerry McCann last night urged French police to show them CCTV film of a girl with a “striking resemblance” to missing Madeleine. They are desperate to see the images taken at a motorway service station for themselves. Yesterday French officers appeared to rule out the sighting of [...]

Madeleine McCann ‘sighting’ reported in south of France

Madeleine McCann ‘sighting’ reported in south of France

By Mirror.co.uk 20/02/08 French police are investigating a suspected sighting of Madeleine McCann at a restaurant in the south of France. A Dutch student spotted a blonde girl bearing a resemblance to the missing four-year-old near Montpellier last Friday. Melissa Fiering, 18, claims she saw Madeleine with a man at the L’Arche motorway service station [...]

Donegal trip ‘too painful’ for McCanns

Donegal trip ‘too painful’ for McCanns

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 The grandmother of Madeleine McCann today said it may be too painful for the missing girl’s parents to return to a Donegal village where they all spent a happy Easter holiday last year. Eileen McCann, who owns Peoples Bar in tiny St Johnston, close to the border with Co Londonderry, said [...]

Fury over Kate and Gerry McCann using photograph of missing Mari Luz Cortes

Fury over Kate and Gerry McCann using photograph of missing Mari Luz Cortes

19/02/08 Kate and Gerry McCann have been threatened with legal action after using the photograph of a missing Spanish girl in their poster campaign. The father of five-year old Mari Luz Cortes, who disappeared in January, said he had not given the couple permission to use his daughter’s picture in 17,400 A3-size prints distributed across [...]

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