'Suspect/Sighting of the Day': A list of known suspects in the Madeleine McCann case

TORTURE gang leader Steven Johnson had his daughter’s clothes seized by police — after fearing they could belong to missing Madeleine McCann.

The monster — caged for 25 years for the savage attack on James Ross — was quizzed by cops investigating the little girl’s disappearance following his arrest in Portugal.

The dramatic details can now be revealed after Johnson was jailed for the sickening torture attack on abduction victim James, 28, from Wick, Caithness.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/766446/cops-took-my-girls-clothes-to-see-if-they-were-maddies/

A BRIT arrested over an alleged holiday child abduction attempt probed by Madeleine McCann cops is a father of two.

Married James Lawlor, 62 — also known as John — was held at his North West London home on Wednesday night.

Police had launched an appeal after a little girl’s dad said he stopped a man taking her from a mall in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote.

They received a tip-off after releasing a picture of the suspect taken by the three-year-old’s dad, of Milton Keynes, Bucks.

Landscape gardener Lawlor lives in Harrow with his wife and has two daughters.

A woman answering the door last night declined to comment.

A neighbour said: “We are all shocked. He seemed a very nice man.”

Officers confirmed a 62- year-old held in Harrow was still being quizzed last night on suspicion of attempted kidnap.

Met Police probing Maddie’s disappearance in Portugal in 2007 are working with Thames Valley cops on the Lanzarote case.

The dad who confronted the man in January last year later saw him at a beach.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/660963/brit-father-in-maddie-cops-hols-kid-probe/

Was Maddie snatched by monster who killed this little lookalike? That's the dramatic new lead uncovered by British detectives so why are the Portuguese refusing to investigate?

Have you seen me? asks the little girl in the poster. The youngster is Madeleine McCann; not the Madeleine we all remember, but Madeleine as she might look today as a ten-year-old.
Her once-blonde hair is darker, the button nose has gone, along with those babyish chubby cheeks, and while the distinctive black ‘flash’ in her right eye — where her pupil runs into the iris — is still visible, it is not nearly so distinctive.
Behind this latest digitally created picture of Madeleine, now being circulated on the Continent, is renewed hope: that one day Madeleine’s parents will find out what happened to her, and so end perhaps the most enduring and haunting mystery of modern times.

That hope, if truth be told, had been all but extinguished, such were the shortcomings of the original Portuguese police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance on the Algarve a few days short of her fourth birthday in May 2007.
Only now, with the intervention of an elite team of detectives from Scotland Yard which has been carrying out a review of the case on David Cameron’s orders, has evidence been properly accessed and analysed. It may be six years late, but at least this basic groundwork is finally being tackled.

The 30-strong squad working on the inquiry — codenamed Operation Grange — has identified 20 potential suspects, among them several Britons, as the Mail reported last week.
But who are they? 
One of the 20, the Mail has learned, was a notorious paedophile who kidnapped and murdered a five-year-old girl in his native Switzerland less than three months after Madeleine vanished from the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz.

Urs Hans von Aesch, 67, shot himself dead after poisoning and sexually abusing Ylenia Lenhard. 
Like Madeleine, Ylenia was blonde and blue-eyed. At the time Madeleine vanished, von Aesch was living in Spain, but he had visited the Algarve in the past and was known to have friends there.
Interpol twice contacted the Portuguese authorities about von Aesch, but information supplied by the Swiss about possible links with Madeleine was not followed up because senior officers in the Policia Judiciaria — the Portuguese CID — were wrongly convinced that Madeleine’s parents were implicated in their daughter’s disappearance.
The ‘very urgent’ messages from Interpol are there, in black and white, printed in publicly available documents in Portugal.
Unlike the Policia Judiciaria, however, detectives from Operation Grange did rigorously pursue this line of inquiry. Last year, they flew to Switzerland to probe von Aesch’s movements. He is still believed to be a ‘person of interest’.
Two other convicted child abusers — including one believed to be from Britain — who were on the Algarve at the relevant time, are also understood to be on the Scotland Yard ‘list’, together with a number of hotel workers and lorry drivers.
Detectives are now ‘actively’ examining mobile phone traffic in the Praia da Luz area on the day Madeleine was last seen.

Although the Policia Judiciaria had this information at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance, they did not find out who the phones were registered to, even though ‘cell-site’ analysis is now a crucial investigative tool and the catalyst for solving countless crimes.
Had standard police procedures been followed back in 2007, it is conceivable that you would not be reading this article now, for the mystery of Madeleine’s disappearance may have been solved.
Nevertheless, Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, are said to be encouraged both by the progress of Operation Grange, and recent events in the U.S., where three women who had been missing for a decade were found alive and well in Cleveland, Ohio.

Kate and Gerry, both doctors,  still refer to Madeleine in the present tense.
‘She lives in the village of Rothley in Leicester with her mummy and daddy and little brother and sister, Sean and Amelie,’ is how they introduce her on the ‘Find Madeleine’ website.
‘Madeleine is a very happy little girl with an outgoing personality’ . . . like most girls her age, she likes dolls and dresses (and anything pink and sparkly).’
Madeleine was wearing pink pyjamas, with an Eeyore motif, on the night she was taken from apartment 5a on the ground floor of the Waterside Gardens at the Ocean Club complex.
Her parents were at a tapas bar with friends a few hundred yards away, taking it in turns to return to the flat every 30 minutes to check on the children.
It was Kate who made the final, fateful check at around 10pm. She found the twins were asleep inside but Madeleine’s bed was empty, a moment Kate would later relive in her book, Madeleine.
‘My heart lurched,’ she wrote, ‘as I saw now that, behind them, the window was wide open and the shutters on  the outside raised all the way up.  Nausea, terror, disbelief, fear, icy fear. Dear God, no! Please, No!’
Experts will tell you that what happens in the immediate aftermath of a child going missing — the so-called golden hour — is critical. Yet Portuguese police took four days to even issue a description of Madeleine.

They failed to ‘lock down’ the resort or set up road blocks because they assumed she had just wandered off. The apartment itself was not taped off until 10am the following morning, by which time dozens of people had traipsed through the ‘crime scene’.
Ash from policemen’s cigarettes would later be found among contaminated forensic samples from the flat. Not all the staff and guests at the Ocean Club were traced and interviewed. Those who were interviewed were not always properly eliminated.
And a photofit picture of an early ‘suspect’ consisted of nothing more than the sketch of a face with hair parted on one side but with no actual eyes, nose or mouth.
The catalogue of mistakes and official complacency is almost endless and culminated in a shameful shadow of suspicion over Kate and Gerry McCann, who were treated as suspects themselves until their ‘arguido’ (suspect) status was removed in 2008, the same year as the inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance was formally suspended.
There were, declared the Portuguese police, simply no more leads to pursue.
Within months of Operation Grange being set up in 2011 — after Mr Cameron received a direct appeal for help from the McCanns — dozens of fresh leads had been identified. 
The only British involvement in the case before this was that of Leicestershire police, the McCanns’ local force, who were responsible for collating all the investigation work carried out on behalf of their Portuguese counterparts, such as interviewing British witnesses.

All this evidence was later made available to officers from Operation Grange, drawn from the Met’s highly skilled Homicide and Serious Crime Command.
Two detectives first visited Praia du Luz in October 2011 and spoke ‘informally’ to staff at the Ocean Club. Colleagues are understood to have returned there up to ten times over the past two years.
Of particular interest were the numerous holiday flats, some of which were sub-let at the time the McCanns were staying at the resort. They have spoken to residents on the phone in recent months as well as emailing them questions.
‘When I spoke to the police they were asking about other crimes happening in the area at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance,’ said expat Christie Jones, who works  for her family’s villa management company.
Two private detectives employed by the McCanns, Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley, have also been interviewed.
‘They [detectives from Operation Grange] came to see me late last year about specific people who were of interest to them,’ said Mr Cowley, a retired detective sergeant, who lives in Holywell, North Wales.
One of those people, of course — according to a source close to Operation Grange — is the aforementioned Urs Hans von Aesch.
His exact whereabouts when Madeleine was abducted on May 3, 2007 are unclear. He was living near Alicante in Spain with his wife, but border records show that, driving a white van, von Aesch re-entered Switzerland on July 10.

Less than a month later, he used this vehicle to abduct Ylenia as she left her local swimming pool in Appenzell. The day after she vanished, von Aesch was discovered in woodland with self-inflicted  gunshot wounds to the head.
Ylenia’s bicycle helmet, rucksack and a scooter were found nearby. All of the items contained von Aesch’s DNA. Shortly afterwards, the remains of Ylenia were found in a shallow grave in nearby Oberbueren, a 20-minute drive from the spot where she was abducted. 
At von Aesch’s home in Spain,  police seized diaries — in English — revealing his dark sexual fantasies about children and computer discs containing evidence that he had frequently visited child sex websites and forums on the internet.
Swiss police officers were immediately struck by the physical similarities between Ylenia and Madeleine, who had both gone missing within weeks of each other. They alerted Interpol which, in turn, contacted the Portuguese authorities about its suspicions on August 17.
When it did not get a response, it contacted them again on September 3. Again, there was no response, we were informed by sources  in Interpol.
We now know why.
Just four days later, on September 7, Kate and Gerry McCann were named as arguidos in the Portuguese investigation. On September 11, police submitted a summary of their case against them to prosecutors.

In his report, Chief Inspector Tavares da Almeida concluded — without a shred of hard evidence — that Madeleine had died in the flat, her parents had hid the body, then faked an abduction and got their friends to lie to the police.
‘Kate McCann and Gerald McCann are involved in the concealment of the cadaver of their daughter Madeleine McCann,’ he wrote.
Could a police officer have made a more catastrophic misjudgement?
Meanwhile, Ylenia Lenhard’s heartbroken mother Charlotte believes her daughter was not  von Aesch’s only victim.
‘I am convinced that my little girl was not the only one,’ she told the Mail. ‘I simply cannot believe that a man, at the age of 67, suddenly chooses to become a killer. It was in him all the time and I am certain he has struck before.’
Indeed, after von Aesch’s death, Swiss police re-opened inquiries into the disappearance of five girls who disappeared from the area in the Eighties, before he moved  to Spain.
These include five-year-old Sarah Oberson, whose neat features and bobbed-hair are also reminiscent of Madeleine McCann, and who went missing in September 1985 when cycling to her grandmother’s house 50 meters away; doe-eyed seven-year-old Loredana Mancini, who vanished in April 1983 and was found dead in September of the same year: and eight-year-old Rebecca Bieri, who disappeared in March 1982 and was found dead five months later.
The police were unable to prove links between von Aesch and the missing girls.
Under Portuguese law, a case can be reopened only if there is  new evidence.
Yet the senior Scotland Yard detective who oversaw the two-year-review of the evidence before he retired says it is ‘perfectly probable’ that information that could identify the suspect responsible for Madeleine McCann’s disappearance was already in the  Portuguese files.
‘Of course, there is a possibility she is still alive,’ said former Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell. ‘But the key is to investigate the case and, dead or alive, we should be able to try to discern what happened.’
It is the very least Kate and Gerry McCann, indeed any parent of a missing child, deserves.
Additional reporting: Neil Sears in Praia du Luz


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330660/Madeleine-McCann-Was-Maddie-snatched-monster-killed-little-lookalike-British-detectives-uncover-dramatic-new-lead--Portuguese-refusing-investigate.html

Madeleine McCann detectives examine man's pictures after Sunday People probe

Officers are scouring ­dozens of images from the camera of businessman Wojciech Krokowski, from Poland.
They are focusing on those he took while in Praia da Luz around the time Madeleine went missing – on May 3, 2007.
Krokowski’s flat was searched after the three-year-old vanished. Portuguese cops later ruled him out.
The images British ­detectives are looking at is in a batch of hundreds handed over to us by the Pole during an interview.
Among them is a ­picture of Mr Krokowski, 52, taken in Portugal in May 2007.
It bears a resemblance to the image of a man walking with a sleeping child – an ­artist’s impression of the ­kidnap which was released in September 2007.
The picture was publicised widely in the hope it would jog ­memories about Madeleine.
But British police agreed the picture was not Mr Krokowski.
Mr Krokowski told our ­investigators he liked taking pictures of ­children while he was on trips abroad.
He said he was amazed he had not been contacted since ­police reopened the case in 2011. The Pole insisted: “ I am ready to speak to them any time they want.”
Mr Krokowski said he ­wanted to ­remove a shadow that has been hanging over him since he ­became the ­subject of an international manhunt over Madeleine.
It is the latest twist in the long-running saga in which British police have vowed to leave no stone unturned to solve the mystery of what ­happened to Madeleine.
The extensive Scotland Yard review, which began in 2011, has so far cost more than £10million, with an extra £2million set for next year.
Mr Krokowski and his wife Anetta, 50, stayed in the Solimar apartments in Burgau just two miles from Praia da Luz between Saturday April 28 April and Saturday May 5 in 2007.
Madeleine was snatched from her apartment while her doctor parents Kate, now 47, and Gerry, 46, dined nearby with friends.
We tracked Mr Krokowski to his office in the Polish ­capital. He admitted he enjoys taking pictures of ­children on holiday but ­that it was for ­artistic purposes. In his first-ever newspaper interview he said: “I take ­photos of old people, young people, landscapes and I have a lot of pictures from places like Thailand, Greece, Portugal, France, with kids on them.
“But I never thought about kids as a sexual object. Nothing like this, never, never never. I am a simple man with normal sexual orientations.”

Full article here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-detectives-examine-former-6699750

THERE was an international scramble to identify a Swedish girl who bore a resemblance to the missing McCann child.

Face-mapping technology proved that her facial features matched the missing tot’s, and she was also said to speak perfect English.

She was spotted at a car show in 2009 with a couple who apparently refused to be photographed.

The man was said to be Swedish, while the woman did not speak. It matched with theories that Maddie had been smuggled out of Portugal on a Swedish yacht, snatched to order by a childless Swedish couple.

FOUR months after Maddie’s disappearance, a blonde child being carried on the back of a Moroccan woman sparked hopes that she’d been found.

In reality, it was 5-year-old Bushra Binhisa, the daughter of local olive farmers.

WERE Maddie’s snatchers Benfica fans?

When a blonde girl was pictured in the stands watching a Europa League final between the Portuguese team and Seville, Twitter went in to meltdown.

A BLONDE tot was seen being led by the hand by a woman of North African appearance in 2008.

The pair were spotted in a branch of KBC Bank in the west of Brussels by an eagle-eyed security guard.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/146885/five-false-sightings-of-madeleine-mccann/

By Rund Abdelfatah

A GERMAN holidaymaker has claimed he saw Madeleine McCann aboard a flight from Ibiza to Munich.

Frank Bode, 42, was returning home to Germany earlier this month following a five-day break in Spain when he caught sight of a girl that immediately reminded him of the missing toddler.

“My intuition told me that the girl, who was around seven to 10 years old, could be Madeleine,” Bode told the Olive Press.

“She didn’t seem to fit with her family at all. Her father was clearly German, as were her two brothers, both around 10 to 12 years old, but her mother appeared to be British.

“They were all speaking German except for the girl, who I clearly heard speaking British English.”

He continued: “The two boys were touching her strangely and the girl seemed totally out of place – nervous, stuttering, just not normal. And her mother, who bore no resemblance to the girl, was a strange woman and didn’t talk the entire trip.

“I was never very interested in the case but my instincts told me something was up, and I’m almost never wrong about these kinds of things,” added Bode, a sales manager for a currency printing company.

“I took a photo and showed it to some of my friends who agreed it could definitely be Maddie.”

Bode was so convinced the girl on his Lufthansa flight was Maddie, who disappeared from Portugal in 2007, he immediately contacted the British police.

“The woman at the hotline said it is on file, but that’s all she said.

“I’m mainly interested in the family getting the photo, but it’s difficult to find a channel through which to contact them.”

When the Olive Press contacted British police about Bode’s report, they said: “At this time we cannot find any record of his information.”

http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/08/27/was-madeleine-mccann-in-ibiza/

Police search for Madeleine McCann in Majorca after British couple report 'sighting' on beach

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1062750/Police-search-Madeleine-McCann-Majorca-British-couple-report-sighting-beach.html

https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t521-how-many-more-false-sightings-will-there-be-of-madeleine-mccann-article

I saw Madeleine McCann playing outside Costa del Sol beach restaurant

A BRITISH expat has come forward believing to have seen Maddie McCann in Nerja – exactly five years since her disappearance.


Rose Johnson, 70, reckons she saw the missing girl playing on Penoncillo beach – between Torrox and Nerja – last summer.

The Frigiliana-based pensioner hopes her sighting will help Portuguese police who sensationally sent a request to their Spanish counterparts to investigate other sightings in Nerja just a fortnight ago.

The former cleaner, who has lived in the area for a decade, has spoken out after reading an article in the Olive Press, last issue.

She revealed how she had made the sighting while eating at Merendero restaurant with her partner in August last year.

“We were quite taken aback when we saw this Maddie look-a-like walk off the beach and join a table of what we could only describe as a party of Spanish people or similar,” said Johnson.

http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/05/03/i-saw-maddie-at-costa-del-sol-beach-restaurant/

DETECTIVES searching for Madeleine McCann are following up fresh clues from a potential sighting on Spain’s Costa del Sol.

A blonde girl identical to Madeleine was seen at a campsite there three days after she was snatched a few hours drive away in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

A witness said the groggy-looking child seemed alienated from the German family she was staying with in a caravan.

Now Brit cops have been told the family paid extra for bringing one child more than expected when they arrived at the site on May 6.

And questions over the number plates on their car have raised fears they could have been fakes used to dodge detection.

Holidaymaker Karen Sisson, 49, who saw the child at the Cabopino campsite, near Fuengirola, said she got no response from cops when she raised the alarm at the time.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/595207/3-new-clues-to-maddie/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255297/Riddle-Madeleine-McCann-fat-gipsy-women.html

Claims Madeleine was quiet and dressed in her pyjamas

By Natalie Paris
11:31AM GMT 28 Feb 2008

A taxi driver has reportedly claimed to have taken Madeleine McCann and Robert Murat for a ride in his cab on the night the toddler vanished.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580173/Madeleine-McCann-was-in-my-taxi-man-claims.html

Ivan Mochacho, who works at a beachfront restaurant visited by Kate and Gerry McCann, told police of a 'strange man' taking pictures at Zavial beach

By David Harrison in Praia da Luz

2:11PM BST 09 Aug 2008

Officers received several complaints from holidaymakers about a man they had seen behaving strangely near Praia da Luz, where the McCann family was staying.

The revelation will add weight to the theory that Madeleine was snatched to order by an international paedophile gang after being photographed by a "spotter".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2529324/Madeleine-McCann-Strange-Englishman-photographed-children-on-beach.html

MARTIN AND MARY SMITH (? and 59) Year 2007

According to their deposition to PJ, Martin Smith, his wife (Mary) and his children, after leaving the Kelly bar, which is located approximately 400 metres from the Ocean Club, around 9.50 / 10.00 p.m., saw an individual described as caucasian, measuring 1.70 - 1.75 m, walking towards the beach. The Irish man told Sol that he knew Robert Murat (the only arguido in the process) visually for years and also remembered seeing the anglo-portuguese man in a bar that evening, "already a bit intoxicated". Therefore, the Irish dismissed the possibility that the person he saw carrying a child could be Murat. "If it was him, I guarantee to you that I would have recognized him".

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/PJ/MARTIN_SMITH.htm

Child rapist quizzed in Madeleine McCann disappearance died while serving sentence at Devon prison

The 69-year-old, who was an inmate at Channings Wood prison, died of natural causes after being taken to Torbay Hospital

26th September 2017

A convicted child rapist, who was quizzed as a suspect over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, died of natural causes while serving a 17-year prison sentence in Devon, a coroner has ruled.

Anthony Woodhouse, 69, who was jailed in 2008, was an inmate at Channings Wood Prison in Denbury, near Newton Abbot – where in 2014 he was interviewed by Scotland Yard detectives investigating the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann from a holiday apartment in Portugal.

An inquest in Torquay on Tuesday heard that Birmingham-born Woodhouse died of natural causes at Torbay Hospital on March 1, having been admitted to hospital on February 21. There is a statutory requirement for the coroner to hold an inquest when someone has died while in the custody of the state.

Dr Ryan Miller from Torbay Hospital said in a statement that Woodhouse was admitted to hospital on February 21 with abdominal pain and rectal bleeding. The diagnosis was alcohol-induced liver cirrhosis. Dr Miller said: “He remained critically unwell but stable until the day of the death when his condition deteriorated. He died on March 1.”

Coroner Ian Arrow recorded the medical cause of death as gastric variceal haemorrhage, liver cirrhosis, alcohol dependent syndrome, and pneumonia.

Woodhouse spent more than 10 years on the run in Portugal after raping a 14-year-old girl, who became pregnant, in Hertfordshire in 1998. He was jailed for 17 years in 2008 after giving himself up to the British Embassy in Lisbon.

It has been claimed that detectives spoke to Woodhouse in March about a cleaning business he ran in the Algarve, close to where Madeleine McCann went missing from a holiday apartment in 2007, while her parents Kate and Gerry McCann were out having dinner.

Coroner Ian Arrow recorded a natural causes death. A representative from the prison attended the inquest. There were no members of his family present.

http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/child-rapist-quizzed-madeleine-mccann-537227

Lead: This CCTV image of a girl strongly resembling Madeleine in a supermarket in New Zealand was among the leads deemed 'not relevant' by Portugese police

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254997/Madeleine-McCann-suspect-photo-files-kept-secret-Portuguese-police.html

ISABEL GONZALEZ AND JAVIER GALLEGO (60 and 61) Year 2007
Isabel Gonzalez, a Spaniard, also said she was certain she saw Madeleine being dragged along a street by a Muslim woman in the remote northern town of Zaio, in the north of Morocco, at the end of May. She said she saw a "sad and scared" blonde girl being dragged across a street by a woman in a Muslim headscarf. She told how she and her husband, Javier Gallego (a retired Spanish air force helicopter pilot), were on a day trip from their home in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, when they believe they saw Madeleine. They were driving when the Muslim woman walked out into the road in front of them, "walking very fast and dragging a young blonde girl with her".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-495140/Murat-lover-Jehovahs-meeting-Maddie-vanished.html

Maddie suspect images chilled me to the bone


 By IRINA WILKIE  
20th October 2013, 11:18 pm
Updated: 5th April 2016, 2:08 pm

THE daughter of a woman murdered by two paedophiles told last night how she
was “chilled to the bone” by the killers’ likeness to suspects wanted in the
Madeleine McCann case.
Elizabeth McGarrigle was shocked by the fiends’ resemblance to e-fit pictures
of two men being hunted by detectives investigating Madeleine’s
disappearance.
Brutal Charles O’Neill and William Lauchlan slaughtered her mum Allison when
she threatened to expose them as child abusers.
And tormented Elizabeth, 32, of Glasgow, revealed she has been haunted by the
two e-fit images since they were shown on TV last week. She said: “The
e-fits of the main suspects in the Madeleine case chilled me to the bone.
“When I saw those pictures I thought, ‘That’s Charlie O’Neill and William
Lauchlan’.
“Then I started thinking about how they were abroad at the time and how they
were involved in a business.”
We told yesterday how O’Neill, 50, and 36-year-old Lauchlan had come under the
police spotlight after officers questioned their friend Ewan Wilson.




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‘I hope with my heart she’s alive’ The 62-year-old had given the pair a home
after they served time in prison — and police hope he can tell them exactly
where they were when Madeleine disappeared in Portugal in 2007, aged three.
The fiends had run a cleaning business across Europe. Cops have previously
claimed cleaners could be suspects and officers from Leicestershire Police
quizzed them over the missing girl two years ago.
Elizabeth added: “The police told me before, when they were investigating my
mum’s death, that those two had been questioned over Maddie. That really
chilled me.”
The mugshots were featured on BBC’s Crimewatch last week, sparking a flood of
calls to police.
And Elizabeth was immediately struck by the striking resemblance to evil
O’Neill and Lauchlan — and contacted the police.
Allison, 39, had been living with the beasts in Largs, Ayrshire, in 1997 when
they killed her because she was about to expose them as paedophiles. The
twisted pair have never revealed where they dumped the tragic mum-of-three’s
body, leaving her daughter with a desperate search for answers.
And Elizabeth told how Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry faced the same
torment of not knowing what has happened to their daughter.
She said: “It broke my heart when I saw the documentary about Maddie. Kate
looked totally distraught. She looks how I feel. It is the not knowing that
hurts. I just hope with my whole heart that Maddie is alive.”
Lauchlan and O’Neill were caged in 1998 for sex attacks on young boys then
fled to Spain after being released. In 2004, the beasts were found guilty of
a targeting on a 15-year-old boy in Benidorm.
They headed back to Spain on fake passports in 2006 and formed Rainbow
Cleaning Services.




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The pair were thought to be living in Gran Canaria when seven-year-old Yeremi
Vargas vanished while playing near his home.
Just weeks later, Madeleine disappeared from her parents’ holiday villa in
Praia da Luz.
The pair were first charged with Allison’s murder in 2005, but were not
indicted.
But in 2010 they were convicted of her killing following a trial at the High
Court in Glasgow and are now serving life sentences.
Elizabeth said: “I wanted to shout at them in court and tell them what I
thought of them, but I was warned not to.
“I told my mum not to trust them, but they preyed on her.”
She added: “Those two tied her to a chair and wouldn’t let her leave the
house.
“They wouldn’t let her out because they knew she had too much on them and was
prepared to speak out when others had failed to do so.
“I get so depressed — I think about my mum every single day, she was a
brilliant mum.” Shattered Elizabeth admitted she is desperate to grill her
mum’s killers, but fears the callous pair would enjoy seeing her suffering.
She said: “I sometimes think about writing a letter and asking them what they
have done with my mum’s body.
“The police did ask me to go and visit them in prison to ask them, but I was
too scared — in case I attacked them.
“They would probably turn nasty if I sent them a letter. They are manipulative
and would probably enjoy turning the knife.”

BRUTES WON’T TALK

O’NEILL and Lauchlan refused to talk to private detectives hired by the
McCanns.
A prison officer at Glasgow’s Barlinnie Jail alerted the PIs that a sketch of
a possible Maddie suspect strongly resembled O’Neill.
He was on remand at the prison with Lauchlan, charged with murder and child
sex offences. The drawing was made by a witness who saw a “spotty” man
acting suspiciously near the McCanns’ apartment in Portugal in 2007.
The PIs made several requests to meet the evil pair in jail. A Scottish
prisons spokesman said: “We’re not able to comment.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/1068359/maddie-suspect-images-chilled-me-to-the-bone/

MAJID JAZOULI (43) Year 2007

Investigators scouring Morocco for Madeleine McCann are preparing to narrow their search to an isolated farm in the Rif Mountains, it was claimed today.
The move follows reports a "little blonde girl" was seen at a compound a short distance outside the town of Karia Ba Mohamed.
Witnesses say they have spotted a child of about Madeleine's age living with a woman in her 40s and a teenage girl, a report which detectives are said to have described as "highly credible".

Speaking last night, resident Majid Jazouli, 43,who claims 15 people can back up his story, said: "The little blonde girl was seen about a month ago at a farm on the outskirts of Karia.
"I sent a boy inside the compound to verify it, and he said there was a blonde girl there. I could not go in there myself because I am a stranger and that would be against our culture."
Moroccan police appear to have been slow to respond to teacher Mr Jazouli's information so he contacted the Madeleine hotline.
Private detectives working for the McCanns are now understood to have moved into the area, according to the Daily Express.
Karia Ba Mohamed, a remote and barren Moroccan town nestling in mountatins near the city of Fes, is far from the tourist traps of the country's north coast.
It is home to a working-class farming community where Western faces are rarely seen.
Last month however, the attention of detectives scouring the world for the missing four-year-old was abruptly drawn to its dusty streets after a sighting by a schools inspector.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-491601/Madeleine-detectives-close-remote-farm-Morocco-sightings.html

Naoual Malhi says men claiming to work for the Morocco's crime barons have warned her to keep her mouth shut

Naoual Malhi, 24, says men claiming to work for the country's crime barons have warned her to keep her mouth shut about what she saw - and ditch plans to probe the sighting herself.
The mum-of-one, whose daughter Ines is Madeleine's age, has told how one growled: "Let this lie if you know what's good for you, your daughter and the rest of your family, otherwise you're a dead woman next time you're in Morocco."
But brave Naoual is pressing ahead with plans to defy the threats and return to her homeland to look for the girl she saw.


She is also getting the calls - which come from withheld numbers - taped so she can hand them over to police helping in the hunt for the missing four-year-old.
Naoual, who lives near Marbella, Spain, said: "I'm not frightened by the mafia.
"It's obvious I'm on to something otherwise they wouldn't be calling.
"They've warned me I'm going to be killed next time I step on Moroccan soil unless I shut my mouth about Madeleine.
"But I know the girl I saw getting into that taxi was her and I'm not going to stop until I find her.

Spanish woman Naoual Malhi claims to have seen Madeleine McCann being bundled into a taxi in Morocco
"We're taping all the phone calls and I'm going to give them to police to investigate.
"It could provide them with another good clue to her whereabouts."
Naoual claims to have seen a blonde girl with Madeleine's distinctive right iris in the arms of a middle-aged woman in Fnideq, northern Morocco, at the end of September.
She lost them after they headed to the former Spanish garrison town of Al Hoceima, further east along the Mediterranean coast.
Last month she travelled to north Africa with private investigators working for the McCanns - and says she received hundreds of phone calls from people who had seen the pair in various locations in Morocco's Rif Mountains.
They were last spotted in the remote town of Karia Ba Mohamed near Fez - but the trail is now thought to have gone cold.
Naoual says she and her family have been receiving death threats on a Moroccan mobile she put on a picture poster of Madeleine distributed throughout the area.

Kate and Gerry McCann consider Naoual's information to be 'highly credible'
Her Fez-based family have been answering the phone and taking information down from callers since she returned to Spain on October 16.
Kate and Gerry McCann believe Morocco is the place their daughter is most likely to be - and consider Naoual's information to be "highly credible".
They insist Portuguese police are wrong in believing Madeleine died by accident in their apartment on May 3 when she was last seen - and they disposed of her body.
Naoual, who describes herself as a qualified doctor, said: "All I want to do is reunite the McCanns with their daughter.

Detectives working on behalf of the McCanns have been focusing their attention on the remote Rif Mountains
"I have a young girl the same age so I know how they must feel.
"There is no doubt in my mind Madeleine is in Morocco. Blonde girls are highly sought after there. I suspect the woman she is with is looking after for someone until she is old enough to be forced into child prostitution.
"After the death threats I've received, I'm more certain than ever that that someone is the Moroccan mafia.
"It's not nice to get these calls. But they just make me more determined to get to the bottom of this. I'm preparing to return to Morocco as soon as I can."
Metodo 3, the private investigators working for the McCanns, has said it also believes Madeleine is alive and being held against her will in Morocco.
They are currently trawling lists of Portuguese paedophiles in the belief a local man stole her to order from her Algarve apartment and took her to Morocco after crossing the border with Spain hours after the snatch.
A Norwegian tourist and two Spanish tourists have also reported sightings in the north African country.

A newspaper reported at the weekend that criminal Godfathers in Morocco have been told police will scale back drug busts against them if they agree to help the Madeleine probe.
Police chiefs in Morocco have angrily denied their country is a child sex haven and say their searches for Madeleine have produced no evidence she is there.

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Maddie lookalike quizzed by cops


Jon Hazelhurst with his stepdaughter, Devon England

Jon Hazlehurst and eight-year-old Lauren were at home when officers arrived at their doorstep and asked them to go to a police station.
A member of the public had seen the pair at a petrol station the day before and thought blonde Lauren was missing Maddie.
The concerned witness had noted down Mr Hazelhurst's car registration plate and immediately notified police.
Officers then visited the family home and Jon and Lauren were taken to a police station for an identification process.
Mr Hazelhurst, of Kingsbridge, Devon, said he thought it was a ''prank''.
He said: ''I was surprised more than anything. My first thought was that it was someone pulling a prank on me before I realised that they were quite serious.
''I've never been called into a police station as a possible kidnapper. The police were very polite and I understood that they had to follow up the lead, even if it didn't come to anything.
''There's always a chance a tip-off like that might lead them to Madeleine.''
Mr Hazelhurst and Lauren pulled in for petrol on their way back from walking their dog at nearby Slapton beach on Sunday.
The following morning officers knocked on Mr Hazlehurst's door asking him and his step-daughter to come to Kingsbridge police station.
The pair went with the officers but were later released after they were identified and it was proved that she was not Maddie.
Sgt Paul O'Neill, of Kingsbridge Police, said Lauren did bear a resemblance to Madeleine McCann - except for a different eye colour.
He added: ''I thank the lady for bringing it to our attention. She did well to spot the little girl and inform us. Fortunately, the parent was more than willing to help.''
Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 while on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal.
She went missing a few days before her fourth birthday and would be six years old now.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/6137830/Man-questioned-over-Madeleine-McCann-lookalike-step-daughter.html

British couple tried to 'rescue' Maddy lookalike... from a Croatian football star and his model wife

When two British tourists spotted a woman leading a child with long blonde hair on the Croatian holiday island of Krk, they immediately thought it was Madeleine McCann.

The couple became even more convinced that the youngster was the missing Briton after secretly taking a couple of photographs.

So when the adult leading the child was not looking, the British woman grabbed the youngster's arm.

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