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LaMisty
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 Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 09:26:14
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QUOTE "SUNDAY EXPRESS
I’VE SEEN MADDY IN BRITAIN
Couple brought her to my house, says councillor
The hunt for Madeleine McCann switched to Britain last night after a man claimed he saw her with a Portuguese couple in Dorset.
The alarm was raised after the pair turned up at the home of a parish councillor in the village of Stratton.
Retired civil servant Alan Cameron said “They knocked on my door and said they had come to buy the garden furniture I’d put on sale in a local as”.
As police launched a major enquiry, Mr Cameron, 66, a former clerk with the Director of Public Prosecutions, said: “Straight away they struck me as odd. The woman said she was Italian but I know Italy well and they weren’t speaking Italian, they were speaking fluent Portuguese.
“The man had a few days’ growth on his face and was wearing filthy clothes. He told me they ran a language centre in Weymouth, but then the woman hit him and told him to be quiet.”
It is the first time a sighting of Madeleine has been reported in Britain since the three-year-old vanished in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3 last year.
Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Gerry and Kate McCann, said last night that the private detective agency employed by Madeleine’s parents had been informed.
He added: “There’s a lot about this sighting which suggests that, at the very least, we are talking about an abducted young girl. We are eagerly awaiting any outcome.
“We take all sightings seriously, and we would urge people to remember that and not to feel that something they may have seen may not be important.”
Mr Cameron became suspicious when he saw the girl matching Madeleine’s description in the couple’s car.
He said: “I heard a voice, in perfect English, say “I need to use the toilet.” I could see that she was blonde and about four years old. The woman was thin and wearing a very dirty long white coat. She replied in English and told her to wait.
“I said of course she should use my bathroom. The woman grabbed her and scooped her under her arm. She didn’t allow the little girl to walk and deliberately pushed the hood of her jersey over her head.
“They went into the bathroom together and I could hear raised voices and the sound of the woman slapping the little girl. She was sobbing.
“Even if it wasn’t obvious just from looking that they were not related, I have never seen parents treating their children like that. This was not a relationship of love. The little girl was unhappy and she was scared.”
As the girl was taken back to the car, Mr Cameron managed to see her face. “I knew straight away is was a face I’d seen in the news. I’m convinced of it.”
He spotted another girl in the putty-coloured people carrier. “She was a bit older. She sat very still and looked very unhappy. After they left, I remembered reading about a Portuguese girl managing to escape kidnappers in a light-coloured people carrier.”
Mr Cameron added: “Yesterday I got a call from someone at CID telling me they were taking it very seriously and had launched an investigation into child traffickers.”
A spokesman for Dorset Police yesterday confirmed that inquiries into the sighting were ongoing.
Police in Portugal are investigating five attempted child abductions in the past month.
The most recent case involved nine-year-old Clarisse Ramos who was walking to school in a village near Coimbra in the north of the country when two men in a light-coloured vehicle pulled up.
They tried to persuade her to get into the car but she refused and fled into a nearby health centre where she raised the alarm.
In December another nine-year-old was bundled into a light-coloured car in the nearby village of Charneca. Detectives are investigating the possibility that the men could be operating as part of a child trafficking network." END QUOTE
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Madison
Seasoned Reporter
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Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 11:30:30
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| Just been reading about this on 3As. I think this should also be posted on the Bizarre News Stories thread.I hope Mr Cameron is ready for all the flak he will get.I, like every one else, would love this to be true but come on this is really stupid now.For this to be in todays paper it must have been known yesterday. Surely with all the means at their disposal the Police would be able to trace suspect 'light coloured/putty coloured ' people carriers.Still I suppose Clarrie will have hot-footed it to Dorset for yet another photo opportunity. |
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justagrannynow
Senior Correspondent
France
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Posted - Feb 24 2008 : 13:28:29
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So Abductorman and accomplice go shopping for garden furniture with Madeleine and another young girl in the car and once more the person reporting the sighting doesn't take the car registration number or anything to substantiate his story. Surely even the arrogant McCanns have to see that all these sightings of little blonde girls in the clutches of scruffy foreigners are quite unbelievable.
I felt uneasy and disrespectful to Madeleine when I went to PDL to ogle and take photographs, and I didn't know the child. What does it say about the parents that they can allow their spokesperson to comment on this rubbish which, IMO, only the sick and deluded can believe. If they had any feelings at all for their daughter they would distance themselves from this disgusting spectacle.
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LaMisty
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Posted - Mar 05 2008 : 15:01:48
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| This hasnt been denied or mentioned again so what do you make of it? Another erroneous sighting? |
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24 February 2008.....Dorset, UK
