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DNA samples 'too small' to be conclusive evidence
10 September 2007
Nick Fagge
DOUBTS over the forensic evidence used to implicate Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine emerged last night. Samples of DNA, taken from two places, led police to question the couple and later make them formal suspects, or arguidos, in the case on Friday.(Article sources: sources at Forensic Science Service in Birmingham / Independent experts / Forensic scientist Alan Baker)
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Heartbreak
27 September 2007
Nick Fagge in Morocco and Martin Evans in Portugal
HOPES that Madeleine McCann is still alive were dealt a severe blow last night after the most promising sighting yet was proved false. Kate and Gerry McCann faced fresh heartbreak after a photograph of a blonde girl taken in Morocco, turned out to be a local farmer’s five-year-old daughter.(Article sources: official Policia Judiciaria spokesman / Clarence Mitchell / Spanish holidaymaker Clara Torres / friend of the [McCann] couple / Portuguese police)
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Stolen by people smugglers
29 September 2007
Nick Fagge in Morocco and Martin Evans in Portugal
MISSING Madeleine McCann may be in the hands of North African people smugglers. Police in Morocco, investigating a reported sighting, believe they have identified a link with a ruthless gang of traffickers.(Article sources: Moroccan secret police / Senior officers / Police chief Abdelkada Chouhou / 60-year-old Spanish tourist Isabel Gonzalez / Gendarme Commander Mohammed Hamed)
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Is Madeleine a child slave in Morocco?
1 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Morocco
Madeleine McCann may have been condemned to a life of slavery working as a “little maid” for a rich Arab family in Morocco, child trafficking experts claimed yesterday. But as a child slave, Madeleine could be regularly abused by her host family or by visitors invited to meet the blonde-haired “curiosity”.(Article sources: child trafficking experts / Inspector Hicham Alaoui of the Moroccan Police in El Hajeb near Fez / Metodo 3 / Christine Beddoes of ECPATUK)
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I looked her in the eyes
2 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Morocco and Padraic Flanagan in Spain
The search for Madeleine McCann received a major boost yesterday following the most compelling sighting yet in Morocco. A Spanish tourist claims she saw the girl get into a taxi with a middle class Arab woman before being whisked away into the lawless Rif mountains on North Africa’s Mediterranean coast.(Article sources: Spanish tourist Naouval Malhi / Metodo 3 / Francisco Marco (M3) / head of the Moroccan secret police in Al Hoceima)
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We're closing in on Morocco hideaway
3 November 2007
EXCLUSIVE From Nick Fagge in the Rif Mountains Morocco
Detectives are closing in on the secret hideaway where they are convinced Madeleine McCann is being held. The Daily Express can reveal that the private investigators are concentrating their search on a remote region in the north of Morocco. A highly placed source close to the team said last night: "We are confident we are near to finding Madeleine alive _ we're on our way to get her."(Article sources: highly placed source close to McCann private detective team / Metodo 3 / Moroccan teacher Majid Jazoili / Said Aloua deputy chief of police at Tetouan / Tourist Naoual Malhi)
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The hope never dies
3 November 2007
Adrian Lee and Nick Fagge in Morocco
Exactly six months after she disappeared and with the search finally making progress, we reveal the astonishing determination of her parents to scour the world for their precious daughter HIGH in the Rif mountains of Morocco the village marketplaces are in a frenzy of activity. Scruffy Berber children play in the street, flies buzz round the carcass of a goat on a stall, and a brokentoothed man wearing a hooded robe haggles over a few household items. The cool air is heavy with the scent of spices.(Article sources: Francisco Marco, director Metodo 3 / Gerry McCann / McCann family source / Ross Miller of the charity Missing People / Valerie Nettles (mother of missing Damien)
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Farm to be searched after new sightings
5 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Karia Ba Mohamed Morocco
The hunt for Madeleine McCann intensified last night as investigators prepared to search a farm in the Rif Mountains of Morocco. A “little blonde girl” was said to have been spotted inside the remote walled farming compound outside the town of Karia Ba Mohamed. Detectives called the sightings “highly credible”. The child was said to be living with an Arab woman of about 40 and a teenage girl.(Article sources: 'detectives' /
Teacher Majid Jazouli / Private detectives working for the McCanns / Karia’s police chief / Commandant Abdul Khalik Houde / Naoual Malhi / Francisco Marco (Metodo 3)
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Chase for £1m Madeleine bounty
Bounty hunters chasing £1 million reward join hunt for Madeleine
5 November 2007
Nick Fagge in the Rif Mountains, Morocco
A British businessman is offering bounty hunters a reward to find Madeleine McCann in Morocco, the Daily Express can reveal. Unofficial tourist guides, off-duty policemen and drug dealers are scouring the country after doubleglazing millionaire Brian Kennedy put up the cash. One of those hunting for Madeleine said he understood the reward could be up to £1million.(Article sources: One of those hunting for Madeleine / Ali El Bouazaout (tourist guide) / Brian Kennedy / police chief of one major town in the north of the country)
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Mountain folk who love their children so keen to find her
7 November 2007
Nick Fagge in the Rif Mountains
VILLAGERS in the isolated mountains of Morocco yesterday joined police and private investigators in the search for Madeleine McCann.(Article sources: Louali Bushta farmer recruited to the Find Madeleine campaign / Mohamed Tijani father of 9, builder also recruited)
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Police quiz priest again
20 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
Church searched and he is questioned over close links to McCanns DETECTIVES have carried out fresh searches at the church where Kate and Gerry McCann prayed for their missing daughter, it emerged yesterday. The Roman Catholic priest who offered comfort to the distraught parents and gave the couple their own set of keys to the chapel has also been reinterviewed by investigators.(Article sources: friend of Father Jose Manuel Pacheco / Police sources)
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No DNA on the holiday hire car
20 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
NEW tests on the McCanns' hire car have found no traces of their missing daughter's DNA, it emerged last night. Portuguese police named Kate and Gerry McCann as formal suspects in Madeleine's disappearance in September after apparently discovering traces of her DNA - hair, body fluids and fibres - in a Renault Scenic they hired about three weeks after she disappeared. The couple have always maintained their innocence and last night their fight to clear their names was gaining strength from the latest test results. The tests were carried out by an independent team of Home Office-accredited pathologists whose results appear to contradict Portuguese police findings.(Article sources: a source close to the McCanns / Brian Kennedy)
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Madeleine - I saw Madeleine with Murat's girl in Morocco
21 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
ROBERT Murat’s lover was seen in Morocco minutes after Madeleine McCann was spotted nearby, it was claimed yesterday. A tourist who saw a little blonde girl being dragged across the street there by an Arab woman on June 15 says she also saw Michaela Walczuch in the same town that day. Isabel Gonzalez, 60, who made the alleged sightings in the north-eastern town of Zaio, insisted yesterday: “I have always been convinced the girl I saw in Morocco was Madeleine. “Now I am equally sure the blonde woman I saw that day in the town was Murat’s girlfriend.”(Article sources: Isabel Gonzalez / Michaela Walczuch / A source at Metodo 3 / the McCanns’ spokesman / Moroccan police / Police chief Abdelkada Chouhou)
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Gang smuggled Madeleine
21 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Silves
A NEW witness saw Madeleine McCann being handed over to a professional gang who smuggled her out of Portugal to Morocco, police believe. The witness called a detective agency to tell them he saw a woman “deliver” a little blonde girl who looked just like Madeleine.(Article sources: source at the Metodo 3 private detective agency / spokesman for the McCanns)
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Madeleine - McCanns are still the main suspects
22 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
PORTUGUESE police are preparing to halt their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - despite insisting her parents remain the prime suspects. Detectives led by one of Portugal’s most senior policemen Paulo Rebelo are preparing to pack up and return to the capital Lisbon. National Director of the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) Alipio Ribeiro is also said to be considering dismantling the team created especially to investigate the disappearance of the four-year-old youngster from Praia da Luz on 3 May.(Article sources: One police source / Another police source / Paulo Rebelo / Clarence Mitchell / A family friend)
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Why Madeleine is probably dead by top law officer
23 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
The parents of Madeleine McCann suffered fresh heartache yesterday when Portugal’s most senior law officer said she was almost certainly dead. The Attorney General claimed it would have been “natural” for an abductor to kill her. He delivered his verdict as part of a brutal assessment of the missing four-year-old’s chances of survival.(Article sources: Attorney General Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro / Clarence Mitchell)
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Now Murat Lover's Alibi Is Trashed By Church
24 November 2007
Nick Fagge
Robert Murat’s lover has been accused of inventing her alibi for the night Madeleine McCann went missing. Michaela Walczuch has said she was “miles away” at a Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting. But the Daily Express can reveal she had been barred from the meetings months before and kicked out of the church because of her adulterous relationship with British expatriate Murat.(Article sources: Jehovah’s Witnesses Church elder Teofilo Castela / Portuguese truck driver / Spanish tourist / British tourist Graham Desuys / Murat’s lawyer Francisco Pagarate)
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Madeleine - Mum faces ten years in jail
24 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
THE mother of Madeleine McCann could be jailed for up to 10 years for abandoning her children, it emerged last night. Kate and her husband Gerry face being put behind bars even if they are cleared of any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.(Article sources: Lawyer Jose Olimpio / Clarence Mitchell)
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I saw man like Murat try to kidnap a child
26 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
A MAN resembling suspect Robert Murat tried to snatch a child from the apartment where Madeleine McCann went missing, a new witness has claimed. A British nanny has told police that she caught the intruder trying to climb through the ground floor window while a baby slept inside.(Article sources:British nanny who asked not to be named / source linked to Metodo 3 / friend of Michaela Walczuch / Clarence Mitchell)
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Madeleine DNA Clues Locked Up
27 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
CRUCIAL evidence which could point the finger of suspicion at Kate and Gerry McCann is being kept under lock and key, it was revealed last night. DNA tests are said to undermine their claims that they had nothing to do with the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. A piece of lining from the couple’s hire car is being held in high-security storage at a laboratory in Birmingham.(Article sources: sources within Birmingham Forensic Science Service laboratory / sources close to the McCanns / Clarence Mitchell / Portuguese police sources / McCann lawyer [Madeleine Fund Board member] Edward Smethurst)
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Madeleine - McCanns should be 'cursed' says lawyer
28 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
In an astonishing attack, Robert Murat’s Portuguese lawyer claimed Kate and Gerry McCann deserve to be cursed for leaving their children alone. Francisco Pagarete also labelled the Metodo 3 private detectives who are investigating Maddy’s disappearance as “mercenaries.”(Article sources: Francisco Pagarete [Robert Murat's lawyer] / Marita Fernandez [founder Metodo 3])
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Madeleine 'seen at marina'
28 November 2007
Nick Fagge
A British expat says he saw Madeleine McCann being dragged towards a marina by a "very suspicious" couple, just hours after she vanished, it was reported last night. Businessman George Burke says he saw a small girl resembling Madeleine being hauled along by a "vicious looking" man and woman, as he drove past Lagos marina in the early morning of May 4, just eight hours after she vanished.(Article sources: Businessman George Burke [Brooks])
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Madeleine - Police in make or break summit
29 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz and Martin Stote in Rothley
Police flew to Britain yesterday to view evidence which could condemn or clear Madeleine McCann’s parents of involvement in her disappearance. The visit – dubbed a DNA summit – is crucial to Portuguese detectives who have accused the doctors of being directly involved in the four-year-old’s death.(Article sources: a police source / Clarence Mitchell)
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£1million fund running out of cash
29 November 2007
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The resources of the Find Madeleine Campaign are rapidly dwindling it emerged yesterday amid concern about how long the hunt for the missing four year old can go on.(Article sources: Clarence Mitchell)
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Madeleine: 'Someone's holding back the truth'
29 November 2007
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
Kate and Gerry McCann are behind a deliberate campaign of misinformation about the disappearance of their daughter, it was claimed yesterday. In a thinly veiled attack on the couple and their private investigators, a high-ranking police source in Portugal rubbished recent "sightings" of Madeleine and accused them of trying to suppress the truth about events on May 3.(Article sources: high-ranking police source in Portugal)
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Gerry and Kate 'still the prime suspects'
1 December 2007
Nick Fagge and David Pilditch in Praia da Luz
Kate and Gerry McCann are still regarded as the prime suspects in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine despite inconclusive findings from DNA evidence. Portuguese police will come to Britain next week to re-interview the seven friends who were dining with the couple on the night the little girl vanished, a highly placed source claimed yesterday.(Article sources: highly placed source / Portuguese daily newspaper 24 Horas / Respected Portuguese daily newspaper Correio da Manha / British Embassy in Lisbon / Clarence Mitchell)
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Madeleine: Diplomat's secret file that raises fears about her parents
3 December 2007
Nick Fagge
A British diplomat warned the Foreign Office of concerns regarding Madeleine McCann's parents, it emerged last night. Doubts about Kate and Gerry McCann were raised almost immediately by an official sent to Praia da Luz due to what he considered to be "inconsistencies" in the couple's testimonies about the night the four-year-old vanished. The warning was contained in a classified document sent from the Algarve to the Foreign Office days after Madeleine's disappearance.(Article sources: British diplomatic mission in Brussels / respected Belgian newspaper Deniere Heure / unnamed diplomat / Foreign Office refused to comment on the report)
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I saw intruder try to get into McCann flat
7 January 2008
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
An intruder tried to break in to Madeleine McCann’s holiday apartment just days before she vanished, the Daily Express can reveal. British holidaymaker Paul Gordon confronted a man trying to get in through the patio doors of flat 5A at the Ocean Club Resort in Praia da Luz where his two young children were sleeping.(Article sources: British holidaymaker Paul Gordon salesman, from Fareham, Hampshire / unnamed British nanny / British mum Karen Sixsmith / Clarence Mitchell)
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It was her blood in parents' hire car
8 January 2008
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
New DNA tests report BLOOD found in the McCanns' hire car and holiday flat DID belong to missing Madeleine it was claimed yesterday. It reflects detectives belief that she is dead and her parents Kate and Gerry disposed of her body. New results sent to Portugal in the last few days show the blood samples could only belong to Madeleine it was claimed.(Article sources: Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha / Police sources / Clarence Mitchell / A friend of the McCanns)
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Kate's screams as police told her: You're a suspect
10 January 2008
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
KATE McCann screamed when told by police that she was a suspect in Madeleine's disappearance, it emerged y esterday. Opening the door of her rented villa to a Portuguese officer the family had come to know, Kate, 39, shouted: "Do you honestly believe that I would murder my own child?" The officer had called to tell Kate and Gerry McCann: "You are being made arguidos (suspects)".(Article sources: Vanity Fair interview)
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The Madeleine lookalike on hire for £600 an hour
11 January 2008
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
A LITTLE girl who bears a striking resemblance to Madeleine McCann is being offered out for hire at £600 an hour, it emerged yesterday. The blonde American youngster is the spitting image of the missing four year-old and her British agent claims she has been "stopped everywhere" by passers-by who have mistaken her for Madeleine.(Article sources: Clarence Mitchell / Shona Juliet-Adams boss of Juliet Adams Model and Talent Casting)
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Madeleine British odd-job man quizzed
12 January 2008
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
A BRITISH gardener and odd-job man has been questioned by police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance after a tip-off named him as a suspect. An anonymous email sent to Portuguese detectives claimed that Daniel Groom was spotted lurking in an alley close to the McCanns’ apartment on the night Madeleine vanished.(Article sources: anonymous email / Daniel Groom / a police source)
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Police ignored my vital tip-offs
12 January 2008
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
Marcos Aragao: Madeleine MADELEINE McCann was raped, murdered and her body dumped in a lake within 48 hours of her abduction, it was claimed yesterday. Underworld figures reported her death, three days after she disappeared, to human rights lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia, he said. But he claims his potentially case-cracking leads have been ignored by officers from the Portuguese investigative Policia Judiciaria. He told Portuguese weekly magazine Lux: "Madeleine was abducted, raped and murdered and her body was thrown into the reservoir in Silves [in the Algarve]. It's the ideal place for somebody to get rid of a body, practically without leaving a trace." Mr Correia, 32, said yesterday an underworld source contacted him on May 6 last year.(Article sources: lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia / Portuguese weekly magazine Lux)
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New manhunt 'another diversion by McCanns'
22 January 2008
Padraic Flanagan in Praia da Luz and Nick Fagge
THE manhunt by Madeleine investigators prompted by a drawing of a possible abductor is designed to divert suspicion from Kate and Gerry McCann, the Portuguese police believe. Last night, sources in the Policia Judiciaria revealed reports of a dishevelled man lurking around Praia da Luz were investigated months ago and found to be groundless.(Article sources: sources in the Policia Judiciaria / Gail Cooper / Former PJ inspector criminologist Francisco Moita Flores / Nanny Charlotte Pennington / Jane Tanner / Clarence Mitchell)
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'Madeleine': Let me go home
11 August 2008
Nick Fagge in Brussels
A British girl who looks just like Madeleine McCann was heard pleading to be allowed to go home. CCTV images of the blonde blue-eyed youngster, seen just seven days ago at a Brussels bank, are now being studied.(Article sources: Belgian police / source close to the police investigation / Clarence Mitchell / A police spokesman)
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30 new 'sightings' of Madeleine in Belgium in a week
12 August 2008
Nick Fagge in Brussels
Detectives in Belgium have been alerted to 30 new “sightings” of missing Madeleine McCann in the past seven days, the Daily Express can reveal. They come a week after a blonde, blue-eyed child was spotted outside a Brussels bank, pleading with a north African woman in English to be allowed to go home.(Article sources: Belgian federal prosecutor Lieve Pellens / Clarence Mitchell / Britain’s leading search adviser Mark Harrison)
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Girl seen near bank wasn't her
13 August 2008
Nick Fagge in Brussels
Kate and Gerry McCann were dealt a fresh blow yesterday after it emerged the girl seen outside a bank in Belgium last week is not their missing daughter Madeleine. The blonde blue-eyed girl – whom Belgian police described as looking “very similar to Madeleine” – is a member of a Flemish family. She was out walking with her Moroccan nanny.(Article sources: Father of Flemish girl who resembled Madeleine / Belgian State Prosecutor Lieve Pellens / Clarence Mitchell)
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Maddie: New Brit 'suspect'
Paedophile was 2 hours away on day she vanished
23 May 2009
Martin Evans in London and Nick Fagge in Aachen
A notorious British paedophile has become the new focus in the hunt for Madeleine McCann. Raymond Hewlett, 67, was living just two hours' drive from the resort of Praia da Luz on the run from British authorities when she disappeared. In a photograph used by Crime stoppers, Hewlett bears a striking similarity to an artist's impression of a man seen hanging around the Portuguese resort before Madeleine went missing in May 2007.(Article sources: 'Sources' / One British police source / Clarence Mitchell)
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Suspect is a monster
23 May 2009
Martin Evans and Nick Fagge
THE daughter of the convicted paedophile wanted for questioning over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann said last night that she does not care if he dies. Gina Hewlett, 41, said she would never forgive serial sex beast Raymond Hewlett for what he had done.(Article sources: Gina Hewlett [Raymond Hewlett daughter] / Universitatsklinikum medical staff / One British police source)
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Police to test the DNA of Madeleine 'suspect'
25 May 2009
Nick Fagge in Aachen
Raymond Hewlett: DNA samples are to be taken from a fugitive British paedophile linked to Madeleine McCann's disappearance. Private detectives hired by Kate and Gerry McCann will today fly to Germany in their hunt for clues.(Article sources: Mariana Schmuecker [Raymond Hewlett's wife] / youth club worker)
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'My husband is innocent'
25 May 2009
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Raymond Hewlett's partner yesterday declared that her sick husband was innocent of any connection with Madeleine McCann's abduction, writes Nick Fagge. Hewlett's German commonlaw wife, Mariana Schmuecker, said she was standing by him but refused to discuss the case. She said: "My husband has nothing to do with little Madeleine. He is innocent."(Article sources: Mariana Schmuecker [Raymond Hewlett's wife] / youth club worker)
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Portugal police ignore 4 new Madeleine leads
26 May 2009
Nick Fagge in Aachen
FOUR potential new leads in the hunt for Madeleine McCann have been dismissed in the past week by Portuguese police, who told the callers: “She is dead.” They were told not to bother detectives with any new information about the missing youngster, a source close to the investigation claimed.(Article sources: a source close to the investigation / family friend / McCann detective Dave Edgar / McCann spokesman /
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Swearing pervert denies he is linked to abduction
27 May 2009
Nick Fagge in Aachen
British paedophile Raymond Hewlett refused to talk about Madeleine McCann yesterday when he was confronted about a possible link to her disappearance. The child rapist said: “I have done nothing wrong.” He was tracked down in Aachen, Germany – his latest bolt-hole after 30 years on the run. In a foul-mouthed tirade, the 64-year-old serial offender swore at reporters urging him to eliminate himself from the inquiry.(Article sources: Raymond Hewlett / Clarence Mitchell)
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'Snatcher' lives only 500 yards from flat
'Answer to Maddie kidnap lies yards from flat'
27 May 2009
Nick Fagge in Aachen and Martin Evans in Praia da Luz
THE key to solving Madeleine McCann’s disappearance may lie within 500 yards of her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, investigators believe. The hunt for the missing youngster has dramatically switched back to Portugal, where investigators last night said they were focusing their probe on a predatory paedophile still living in the area.(Article sources: investigators / source close to the investigation / a close source / McCann detective Dave Edgar)
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Maddie Hunt for woman
6 August 2009
Nick Fagge
Detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are hunting for an Australian woman who asked a British tourist if he was about to deliver her new daughter. The woman, described as a glamorous Victoria Beckham lookalike, spoke to the businessman in Spain just 72 hours after Madeleine disappeared from her family holiday in Portugal.(Article sources: Private detectives working for Kate and Gerry McCann / Dave Edgar / Clarence Mitchell / Portuguese source)
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Maddie yacht mystery
7 August 2009
EXCLUSIVE By Nick Fagge
A yacht which left the Algarve just hours after Madeleine McCann disappeared has vanished without trace Daily Express can reveal. The luxury Swedish cruiser sailed out of the Portuguese harbour at Portimao on May 4 2007(Article sources: A source close to the Portuguese authorities / private detectives searching for Madeleine / Clarence Mitchell)
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We'll never stop looking for Madeleine says Kate
24 September 2009
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KATE McCann yesterday said she would return to the resort where her daughter Madeleine vanished. She was speaking in Portugal during an motional appeal for new information. It was her first visit to the country since she was questioned over Madeleine's disappearance more than two years ago.(Article sources: Kate McCann / Gerry McCann)
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We'll find who took Maddie and fight them
4 November 2009
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THE four-year-old twin siblings of missing Madeleine McCann want to fight their sister’s kidnapper, parents Kate and Gerry revealed yesterday. Gerry told how Sean and Amelie often ask about Madeleine and have vowed to track down her abductor themselves.(Article sources: Kate McCann / Gerry McCann)
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Police chief faces libel trial in Madeleine case
2 December 2009
Nick Fagge
Kate and Gerry McCann will come face to face in a courtroom with the Portuguese policeman who accused them of being involved in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. Madeleine McCann's parents will confront discredited former police chief Goncalo Amaral at a libel hearing next week where he will be accused of peddling distressing lies about them.(Article sources: Clarence Mitchell)
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Detective sued by McCanns releases new Maddie book
11 December 2009
Nick Fagge
The disgraced Portuguese policeman who claimed Kate and Gerry McCann were involved in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine is to publish a second book about the case, it emerged yesterday. Former detective Goncalo Amaral will release the book – called The English Gag – today as the McCanns go to court to sue him for libel for his first book, The Truth Of The Lie.(Article sources: Clarence Mitchell / Senior Portuguese police officers)
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McCanns head for heartache resort 'to be close to Maddie'
12 December 2009
Nick Fagge in Lisbon
Madeleine McCann’s mother Kate yesterday returned for the first time to the Algarve holiday resort where her daughter went missing. She had said for some time she wished to return to Praia da Luz because it is where she feels closest to her daughter who was nearly four when she disappeared on holiday in 2007.(Article sources: Kate & Gerry McCann / Goncalo Amaral)
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McCanns back in Portugal to face detective in court
12 December 2009
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Kate and Gerry McCann returned to Portugal last night for a courtroom showdown with the detective who accused them of being involved in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. The couple face fresh heartache as they battle to ban a best-selling book by Goncalo Amaral about Madeleine, who went missing on May 3, 2007.Daily Express Archive
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McCanns fight police 'slander'
12 December 2009
Nick Fagge in Lisbon
Kate and Gerry McCann hit out at police investigator Goncalo Amaral after their courtroom showdown with the man who led the hunt for missing Madeleine was postponed yesterday. The couple accused the detective of using human rights legislation to distort the truth, spread lies and slander them by writing a book about the case.(Article sources: Kate & Gerry McCann / Goncalo Amaral)
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Kate 'too traumatised' to see Madeleine flat again
14 December 2009
Nick Fagge in Praia da Luz
Heartbroken Kate McCann returned to Britain yesterday without visiting the holiday apartment where she last saw her missing daughter Madeleine.(Article sources: McCann’s Portuguese lawyer Isabel Duarte)
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McCanns back in Portugal to face detective in court
12 January 2010
Nick Fagge in Lisbon
Kate and Gerry McCann returned to Portugal last night for a courtroom showdown with the detective who accused them of being involved in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. The couple face fresh heartache as they battle to ban a best-selling book by Goncalo Amaral about Madeleine, who went missing on May 3, 2007.Daily Express Archive
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Maddie 'died' in apartment, court hears
13 January 2010
Nick Fagge in Lisbon
MADELEINE McCann died in her family’s holiday apartment as the result of a tragic accident and her parents concealed her body, a police chief told a court in Portugal yesterday. Kate and Gerry McCann neglected their children and lied to detectives investigating Madeleine’s disappearance, a senior government lawyer also claimed.(Article sources: Court testimony of: Chief Inspector Tavares de Almeida; District Attorney Jose Magalhaes e Menezes; Luis Neves (head of Portugal’s anti-terrorism unit); Police liaison officer Ricardo Paiva; Isabel Duarte (McCann's lawyer)/ McCann spokeswoman / Gerry & Kate McCann)
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McCanns' fury at death claim
14 January 2010
Nick Fagge in Lisbon
DEFIANT Gerry McCann yesterday hit back at courtroom claims that his daughter Madeleine is dead and that he and wife Kate concealed her body. In an emotional outburst, Mr McCann blasted Portuguese police for their blinkered theory that is harming the search for the missing youngster.(Article sources: Gerry McCann / Portugal’s leading criminologist Francisco Moita Flores)
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It's hard being told I faked Madeleine's abduction but nothing's as bad as losing her
15 January 2010
Nick Fagge in Lisbon
THE strain was etched across Kate McCann’s face yesterday after she sat through three days of accusations that she faked Madeleine’s abduction. As she left court – having faced the last day of the hearing without husband Gerry – she was close to tears, looking pale and exhausted. But she said confronting ex-police chief Goncalo Amaral – who alleges in a banned book that the McCanns concocted a kidnap story to cover up their daughter’s death – was nothing compared to losing Madeleine.(Article sources: Kate McCann / Goncalo Amaral)
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McCanns make fresh plea after court ordeal
11 February 2010
Nick Fagge in Lisbon
GERRY McCann yesterday called for a review panel to be set up to analyse all the evidence gathered in the Madeleine investigation. Mr McCann spoke out after another harrowing day in court in which it was claimed he and his wife Kate had been made suspects on the advice of British experts.(Article sources: Gerry & Kate McCann / Goncalo Amaral’s lawyer Antonio Cabrita)
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50 sightings in hunt dismissed
3 March 2010
Nick Fagge
DRAMATIC new leads in the hunt for Madeleine McCann can be made public for the first time today. More than 50 sightings stretching from Europe to the US, Hong Kong and New Zealand are contained in a disturbing 2,000-page police document in Portugal.(Article sources: 2,000-page Portuguese police document / Leicestershire Police report / source close to the McCanns / Clarence Mitchell)
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Madeleine 'held in remote shack'
4 March 2010
Nick Fagge
Madeleine McCann was held captive at a rundown hut in an isolated orange grove just a few miles from where she disappeared, investigators believe. The new theory followed sightings by British tourists of a blonde girl in an “unnatural looking” black wig which prompted a major surveillance operation by private detectives working for the missing youngster’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.(Article sources: McCann private detectives / tourist Jean Godwin)
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Briton seized for snapping children on holiday beach
21 August 2010
Nick Fagge
A BRITISH tourist has been arrested in Portugal on suspicion of taking inappropriate photographs of children at a beach on the Algarve. The 48-year-old man was held after three sets of parents noticed him taking pictures of youngsters playing on the sands. Police said they found a number of photos of children, some as young as eight, on his camera.(Article sources: Maritime Police Commander Marques Ferreira)
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