Articles by Nick Fagge re: Madeleine McCann

1/11/2012 Posted by Winnower

Nick Fagge Articles
Daily Express

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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Driven to succeed

4/01/2008 Posted by Winnower


April 01, 2008
Manchester Evening News

ON the eve of his 13th birthday tragedy struck Edward Smethurst. While the young boy was spending the night at his grandparents' house, fire swept through the home he shared with his father who died in the blaze.

His parents had divorced when Edward was six and, after the death of his father, he then went to live with his grandparents. However, his grandmother died a couple of years later and his grandfather had a stroke, leaving Edward to fend for himself. By the age of 16, he was living alone in bed and breakfast accommodation.
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East Lancs solicitor leads Madeleine hunt

11/25/2007 Posted by Winnower

25 November 2007
This is Lancashire
Catherine Pye

AN East Lancashire solicitor is leading a private investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance - and believes she is still alive.

Edward Smethurst is the in-house lawyer based in Clitheroe for double-glazing tycoon Brian Kennedy, who has pledged to bankroll Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann's legal and media costs.
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Solicitor's new role for Law Society

3/02/1999 Posted by Winnower

2 March 1999
Manchester Evening News
Neil Barker

...ROCHDALE solicitor Edward Smethurst has been appointed by the Law Society to head a key representative group. From June 1 Mr Smethurst will become national chairman of the society's Commerce and Industry group, which represents more than 6,000 solicitors working in commerce and industry. At 30, he is believed to be the youngest-ever national chairman. He has been chairman of the Law Society north west Commerce and Industrial Group for four years and a Law Society main committee member for three years. Mr Smethurst, an in-house commericial litigation lawyer at a company in Warrington, says it is a "tremendous honour" to have been appointed by his peers to "this prestigious and important position."
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