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Abduction : ABD - Oct 28-McCann friend is certain she saw abduction
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From: MSN Nicknametin-lizzy  (Original Message)Sent: 4/1/2008 1:34 PM
 
The Sunday Times
October 28, 2007 (?)

McCann friend is certain she saw abduction

Steven Swinford and John Elliott

A FAMILY friend of Kate and Gerry McCann has described for the first time why she is convinced that she saw their daughter Madeleine being abducted shortly before she was reported missing.

Jane Tanner, 36, saw a man carrying a child wearing pink and white pyjamas away from the McCanns�?holiday apartment on the Algarve in Portugal.

The sighting was considered so significant by the McCanns that they commissioned their own artist’s impression, which they released last week.

At the time Tanner attached little significance to the sighting, assuming that Madeleine had recently been checked. She instead returned to the tapas bar where the McCanns and other friends were eating.

Tanner told the police as soon as they arrived about the sighting but details have only now been made public by a friend.

When she was formally interviewed by police at 3am that night, Tanner realised that the pyjamas on the child she had seen were an exact match with Madeleine’s.

A friend said: “She regrets not attributing more importance to it in hindsight, but she never thought in a million years that it could have been Madeleine. When she heard that she was missing the first thing that came into her head was this person she'd seen and she felt complete horror.�?

The McCanns have also launched a confidential hotline for sightings with an emotional interview on Spanish television in which Kate expressed her conviction that Madeleine is alive and “being held by someone in their house�?

The hotline yielded immediate responses, with three sightings of a girl matching Madeleine’s description in Morocco. Private investigators are trying to track down a 60-year-old woman seen with the child on each occasion.

A source close to the private detective agency in Barcelona which is running the hotline, said: “We are giving special importance to three calls we received about a girl resembling Madeleine in Morocco.

“One was from a Spaniard, the other two from British people. In each case the girl was about the same age as Madeleine, with blonde hair and blue eyes. And in each case she was with an old Moroccan woman, who was about 60 and middle-class.�?

Despite the sightings the police investigation continues to focus on the McCanns and their friends.

Additional reporting: Graham Keeley

 

To Lesley from southport, merseyside, I would sugest no one has suggested using clairvoyants, because all the evidence suggests clairvoyants are either con-artists, or for want of a better word 'crack-pots'. There is no polite way to say it really.
Has a clairvoyant ever won the lottery? Not that I have heard of.
And googling "clairvoyant wins lottery" proves that.

brendan, nottm, uk

I still don't believe a word of it all.Jane Tanner said,a man carrying an object,it became a very small child in a blanket,THEN,MADDY in pyjamas!
If a Child is missing,you can't be sure of ANYTHING:so you would LOOK&LOOK & carry on until you are SURE that 100% of a 100km radius has been covered.You'd also ask the whole country to join you,everywhere.
It's too odd,they act as if they KNOW where she is.
I won't understand it if people still donate towards this saga.Loans are available for doctors!

Magali, England, UK

Has anyone considered using clairvoyant's to assist in the search for Madeleine? If not why not?

Lesley, southport, merseyside

And she can even be sure what direction she saw him walking in... to within 180 degrees.

Gemma, Leighton Buzzard, UK

Any sane person observing this activity would have called the police. Unbelievable.

Kim Righetti, Upland, Calif. USA

If you know that your child is dead, you do not worry about the child's well being. The "worst thing" is the aftermath: the void, the infinite sadness, the impossible questions from the siblings. I know that from personal experience. But when your child vanishes, I would venture a guess that your focus is on the child, not on your own grief, not the void in the family... the twins asking: "when is she coming back?" could never be "the worst thing", if Kate really believes she is alive. Compared to the devastatation of waking up at 2 am wondering what your baby may be going through at that moment, knowing that you have 0 control over the well being of your child, wondering how she is coping alone, with possible suffering... Everything else would pale in comparison. She speaks as if she knew Maddie is dead. P.S. I was shocked by her statement : "we are not as happy without her". Really? Who would have imagined?? Even if the Brits are "masters of understatements", that is ridiculous.

Theresa M, Salem, Missouri, USA

Sorry, am I the only person to think this 'siting' to be a bit strange.
Jane Tanner says that she didn't attach any importance to the man, but has a detailed description of what he was wearing, the colour and condition of his hair, but no details at all about his face. Also the colour and pattern of the child's pyjamas and the blanket, but not the hair colour.
Is this a red herring, meant to detract from the fact that her partner Dr. O'Brien was one of the people who went into the apartment that night? He claims that he didn't do what he was supposed to be doing, which was checking on all of the children, and says that he didn't check Madeline's room. If not, why not, and why is O'Brien, for this reason alone not considered as much a suspect as the MCCanns, or Murat?

Lynn Rhodes, Leeds, West Yorkshire

This info has been around for some time , three weeks after Madeleine vanished J Tanner described it as a man carrying a bundle two weeks later it was a man carrying what could have been a child in a blanket another few weeks and it was a man carrying off madeleine with her pink pyjamas how can one believe anything this woman says says

helen brown, monklands, scotland

Christina of Essex: this information was made available six months ago! Ms Tanner has simply embellished the 'image'.

DC, Chatham,

Please keep in mind that in Marocco not everybody is very dark and with curly dark hair, (Likewise not all the Britons and Anglosaxons are blond and fair skinned with light eyes!!!) In Marocco as well as Algeria, there are a lot of Kabyle, Berebers (from the Tamaghiz culture) who are indeed light brown and blond (yes ! BLOND) and with quite a fair complexion for the area, and with green eyes....even, grey/blue...So the grannies (fully covered up with their costume, but still could be pale/blond) are carrying some children around (quite normally) ...and all you would see is a blond toddler...looking around curiously...and you would snapp THE PICTURE...but,besides the ethnological misconception: uh ! uh ! why would anyone want some extra child in Marocco, especially in the countyside...or among the "poor" class...Don't you think they have enough with their own ????

N.Beshara, Barcelona, Spain

http://www.missingpeople.org.uk/

there are other people who are missing and to whom we should equally be concerned for.

joseph, london,

if she saw somebody taking Madeline away why didn't she stop them???

christine balstra, Haren,

Yes - the Portuguese police didn't let on what they knew.

Even witnesses aren't allowed to speak about the investigation to the press, so the friend wouldn't want to jeopardise the investigation - or herself - by speaking out.

At this stage the search is are more desperate than ever, and also the maverick G.Amaral is no longer around, so relations with the police seem clearer and better and on a more rational and professional level.

So the witness has now been able to speak to the press. Thank God.

G. Amaral should have made this information available immediately. He has a lot to answer for.

Christina, Essex,

6 months down the line and evidence like this comes up?
Someones not letting on something they know.

Nick, london,



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