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Whale found dead in Wash. had swallowed golf ball
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UK police: Missing girl Madeleine may be aliveWhale found dead in Wash. had swallowed golf ball
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Traditional values are increasingly being discarded as old hat and a laissez faire attitude of doing whatever one feels that he or she can possibly get away with, and that includes murder, is seen as perfectly okay, and if challenged those involved will defend till the cows come home what they’re in the right and it’s their critics who are in the wrong.Traditional values are increasingly being discarded as old hat and a laissez faire... more
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Traditional values are increasingly being discarded as old hat and a laissez faire attitude of doing whatever one feels that he or she can possibly get away with, and that includes murder, is seen as perfectly okay, and if challenged those involved will defend till the cows come home what they’re in the right and it’s their critics who are in the wrong.Traditional values are increasingly being discarded as old hat and a laissez faire... more
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Madeleine McCann's Kidnapper has supposedly been located.
According to the Daily Express the man that snatched Madeleine lives only 500 yards from the resort that the McCann's were staying in.
Information at link.Madeleine McCann's Kidnapper has supposedly been located.
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Raymond Hewlett was living in Tavira, a coastal town between Faro and the Spanish border, when Madeleine disappeared on May 3 2007.
Tavira is about an hour's drive from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine vanished while on holiday with her family.
It is understood the former soldier was tracked down in Germany, where he was being treated in hospital for cancer.
Reports said Hewlett, 64, has a long record of sex attacks on young girls and is wanted by police in the UK and Ireland.
Since Maddie's disappearance he has gone back on the run, it is claimed.Raymond Hewlett was living in Tavira, a coastal town between Faro and the Spanish... more
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Father of the missing child, Gerry McCann, have returned to Portugal along with friends Jane Tanner and Matthew Oldfield, to advised the private detectives about her disappearance.
The investigators are making a documentary for Channel 4 where they'll re-enact what happened to Madeleine McCann on May 3, 2007, complete with witness statements. Negotiations are currently underway to broadcast the documentary in Portugal.Father of the missing child, Gerry McCann, have returned to Portugal along with... more
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Shannon Matthews was "drugged to subdue her" after she was kidnapped by her own mother and an accomplice, a jury has been told.
Shannon Matthews was the victim of a staged abduction orchestrated by her own family following the worldwide attention given to the Madeleine MacCann case last year.Shannon Matthews was "drugged to subdue her" after she was kidnapped by her... more
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A girl who went missing 4 years ago was apparently found alive last night.
Denise Pipitone was only four when she vanished in September 2004 from outside her grandmother's house in Sicily where she was playing. Last night police picked up an eight year-old girl matching her description on the Greek island of Kos following a tip-off.
News of the discovery, if confirmed, will bring fresh hope to Gerry and Kate McCann. A girl who went missing 4 years ago was apparently found alive last night.
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A girl who went missing four years ago, and became known as Italy's Madeleine McCann, appears to have been found safe and well in Greece.
Police on the Greek island of Kos were alerted after an Italian tourist grew suspicious after the girl approached her with another youngster offering a bracelet for sale. DNA tests are currently being carried out on the eight year old girl to see if she is Denise Pipitone, who vanished in 2004. The DNA tests were ordered after Denise's mother Piera, shown photographs of the girl found in Greece, said the "shape of the eyes was exactly that" of her daughter. Other similarities were a birthmark under the same eye as Denise, the fact the girl spoke fluent Italian and most strikingly the 30-year-old Roma gypsy woman who was with her admitted to police she was not the girl's mother.
Six weeks after Denise disappeared from her home at Mazzaro dell Vallo near Palermo a bank guard in Milan saw a distressed little girl with a group of Roma gyspies. He made a videoclip with his phone but did not approach them. The footage was given to the police who showed it to Mrs Pipitone and she confirmed it as her daughter. In the footage the woman said to the girl: "Danas" and she answered, in perfect Italian "Dove mi porti" (where are you taking me?). The guard also noted the birthmark under the left eye.
Italian police scientists analysed the film and later said that the clip showed seven facial feature points similar to Denise but as no DNA was taken it was impossible to say for certain.
News of the discovery will bring fresh hope to Gerry and Kate McCann after their daughter disappeared in Portugal last year, and for the parents of Ben Needham who vanished in 1991 from the same Greek island where the Italian girl was found.A girl who went missing four years ago, and became known as Italy's Madeleine... more
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Some of the UK's top police detectives are being asked to join a team to search for Madeline McCann, well over a year after her dissapearence.Some of the UK's top police detectives are being asked to join a team to search... more
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A team of private investigators working behind the scenes to find Madeleine McCann has been axed after being paid £500,000 from publicly donated funds.A team of private investigators working behind the scenes to find Madeleine McCann has... more
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Turns out it wasn't Maddie after all...the search goes on
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The parents of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from a holiday villa in Portugal last year, have suggested that they may take legal action against the police who handled their daughter's case.
Their lawyers will spend the next few weeks going over case files for unexplored leads in the case, to make a decision whether there is a case against them.The parents of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from a holiday villa in Portugal last... more
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Portugal's attorney-general has told police to halt their investigation into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann for lack of evidence.Portugal's attorney-general has told police to halt their investigation into the... more
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A man named by police as a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann won £600,000 ($1.2 million) in libel damages Thursday from nearly a dozen British newspapers, his lawyer said.
Robert Murat's lawyer, Louis Charalambous, said the papers had agreed to pay Murat and to issue an apology. The settlement was formalized with a joint statement at the High Court in London on Thursday.
Murat sued The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Mail and other daily and Sunday newspapers over stories -- often lurid and based on anonymous sources -- claiming he was involved in Madeleine's disappearance.
The eleven newspapers had no immediate comment on the libel award.
Murat, 34, is a British man who lives near the southern Portuguese resort where 3-year-old Madeleine disappeared in May 2007.
Last year Portuguese police named Murat, along with Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann, as "arguidos," or formal suspects.
Despite a global campaign by the girl's parents, no trace of her has been found, and no one has been charged in the case.
Outside court on Thursday, Murat blasted the newspapers.
"(They) brought about the total and utter destruction of mine and my family's life and caused immense distress," he said.
In March, the McCanns won front-page apologies and a large libel payout from several newspapers that had made claims about their role in their daughter's disappearance. The McCanns, like Murat, strenuously deny involvement in the disappearance.
Portugal's attorney general said Wednesday he would announce next week whether he plans to bring charges in the case.A man named by police as a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine... more
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Portugal's attorney-general says he will announce next week whether he plans to bring charges in the disappearance of British child Madeleine McCann.
Attorney-General Fernando Pinto Monteiro could also order the case closed or request that police continue investigating the girl's May 2007 disappearance in Portugal's southern Algarve region.
Pinto Monteiro told reporters on the sidelines of an official ceremony Wednesday that "the 'Maddie Case' will have a solution on Monday, and you will be informed of it." He did not elaborate.
Prosecutors have been reviewing the final investigation report on the girl's disappearance, just days before her 4th birthday. The attorney-general said he would make his decision early next week based on their recommendations.Portugal's attorney-general says he will announce next week whether he plans to... more
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Over a year of speculation, accusation and counter-accusation appears to be coming to an end. With not enough evidence to bring a formal charge and no sign of the missing child. It appears another sad tragedy will be consigned to the annals of history.Over a year of speculation, accusation and counter-accusation appears to be coming to... more
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Portuguese police are dropping their investigation into the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann due to a lack of evidence, media reported Tuesday.
Three Portuguese newspapers said the Public Prosecutor's office would call off its search for the British girl before Aug. 15, when the customary official secrecy period covering the investigation ends.
Closing the case would mean that official suspects, including Madeleine's parents, would no longer be under formal investigation.
Police could reopen the case if new evidence were to emerge, the newspapers said.
The three -- Correio da Manha, Jornal de Noticias and Expresso -- cited unidentified police sources saying the 14-month investigation had reached a dead end.
The police media office in Lisbon said there was no official comment on the reports.
Madeleine McCann went missing in Portugal's southern Algarve region during a family vacation in May 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday. Detectives named her parents, Kate and Gerry, and local man Robert Murat as formal suspects in the case. All denied involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.
The Portuguese lawyers for the suspects could not immediately be reached by telephone.
The McCanns, who have waged an international campaign to find their daughter, returned home to central England with Madeleine's younger sister and brother last September, a few days after they were named as suspects.
Clarence Mitchell, the parents' spokesman, said they were trying to confirm Tuesday's media reports but said he expected the search for Madeleine to continue.
"The information in their files surely cannot sit on the shelf gathering dust. Kate and Gerry will never give up searching for their daughter," Mitchell said.
He said that if Portuguese police end their inquiry they should hand their files over to the McCanns' private investigators.
"The police themselves must continue looking for Madeleine. We are concerned that if they are to simply shelve the case then what will happen to all of the information in their files? They must be made available to our investigators, who are working extremely hard to find Madeleine," Mitchell said.
The case has drawn global interest. A few weeks after Madeleine vanished, Pope Benedict XVI blessed the McCanns and a photo of their daughter during his weekly general audience at the Vatican. Numerous reported sightings of the blonde-haired girl proved to be false.
British and Portuguese police have cooperated in the investigation. Sophisticated forensic tests on evidence gathered at the resort where the girl disappeared were carried out in Britain.
In April, British police in England, accompanied by Portuguese detectives, re-interviewed the McCanns' friends, who were having dinner with them when Madeleine vanished.
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Portuguese police are dropping their investigation into the disappearance of British child Madeleine McCann due to a lack of evidence, media reported Tuesday.Portuguese police are dropping their investigation into the disappearance of British... more
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