Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  jd on Thu May 03, 2012 12:22 am

Clarrie is some slime ball


This is the understatement of the century!!!

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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  nomendelta on Thu May 03, 2012 12:31 am

pauline wrote:Just wondering why these 'guilty' people would use a public taxi to transport themselves and the kidnapped child (who was not struggling and screaming) to their own car. Why not have their car convenient to the scene of the crime...?!!!


You make a valid point but I think TM are inferring, from comments that the child sat silently staring into space, that she might have been drugged.

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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  candyfloss on Thu May 03, 2012 12:38 am

3rd May 2012


By Tom Hutchison

I DROVE MADDIE IN CAB

A TAXI driver last night claimed he had Maddie McCann in his car the day after she went missing but has been ignored by Portuguese police for five years.


Antonio Castela wants answers after officers failed to follow up his sighting.

He took a fare from three men and a women who sat silently during the journey along the Portuguese border with Spain.

A girl, who he is convinced was Madeleine, sat on one man’s lap without speaking.

Maddie's mum Kate last night urged police to get in touch to see if his information could help find her missing daughter.

She said: “If there is any kind of lead that hasn’t been investigated properly, we want police looking into it.”

Mr Castela said the child he drove back in 2007 appeared “doped” and was “staring ahead” blankly.

She wore pink pyjamas and was fully awake but no-one in the group spoke to her as they travelled from Monte Gordo, an hour’s drive from where Madeleine missing in Praia da Luz the previous night.

Mr Castela, 72, a cabbie for 23 years, said: “The little girl who looked like Madeleine was sitting on the lap of a man at the back of the cab.

“I remember thinking it was odd because they did not speak during the entire journey, apart from at the end when the man sat in the passenger seat and said to me: ‘How much?’”


He added “Only when I heard about Madeleine going missing and seeing her picture on the TV did I contact the police.


“The little girl in the back of my taxi had the same distinct mark in her eye as Madeleine.

“After I went to the police I never heard anything from them again.

“They did not seem to take me seriously and never questioned me.

“They simply took down the details and that was it.

“I am amazed it has been five years and nobody has ever asked me what I saw that night. I am absolutely certain it was her.”


Kate and husband Gerry’s lawyer in Portugal, Isabel Duarte, said the sighting is crucial to the hunt for Maddie ahead of today’s fifth anniversary of her disappearance.

British police were last night poised to follow it up alongside other missed leads from the original investigation.

Metropolitan Police officers have already found 195 “investigative opportunities” after examining just 25% of the 40,000 items of evidence from the original probe.

Kate and Gerry, from Rothley, Leics, last night said they felt the most hopeful in four years of finding their girl alive.

And they have “no doubt” the Portuguese authorities will eventually reopen the case.


Police in Portugal said last week they have found “no new elements” to justify re-launching their inquiry into how the little girl vanished.

But the McCanns added their voice to calls by Scotland Yard to reopen the case.

Gerry, 43, said: “I think the most important thing is that a lot of the investigation opportunities are in Portugal.

“It’s fairly clear the case will have to be reopened for those to be pursued adequately.

“We weren’t expecting immediate reaction by any means.

“This is an ongoing dialogue and I am sure the investigation will get opened again in due course.”

Kate, 44, added: “It’s certainly the best way we’re going to find Madeleine and who took her. If people want to find Madeleine, and want to find the person who took her, then we need the case to be reopened.”

The officer leading Scotland Yard’s review told last week there was evidence she could still be alive.

Det Chf Insp Andy Redwood wants the case reopened but stressed the decision was out of his hands and was one for the Portuguese judiciary.

Gerry McCann added: “The only way everyone will be able to move on is for the case to be solved and that is for Madeleine to be found and the perpetrators brought to justice.

“Until then it’s not going to go away, it can’t go away.”


The couple also revealed last night that Kate’s book about the disappearance has sold nearly 400,000 copies.

It has raised up to £1million for the fund to find Maddie


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/249209/I-DROVE-MADDIE-IN-CAB/


Strange how he has suddenly forgotten what these people looked like, unlike the old articles duh

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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  jd on Thu May 03, 2012 12:40 am

Its all lies.......2012 and in 2008...Just lies lies lies

The British police, British media and the ones that believe the scam are in truth the laughing stock of the world

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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  jd on Thu May 03, 2012 12:51 am

Maddie's mum Kate last night urged police to get in touch to see if his information could help find her missing daughter.

She said: “If there is any kind of lead that hasn’t been investigated properly, we want police looking into it.”


Dearest kate.....the mother of Madeleine....Please let me just remind you of what your spokesman who acts for you said back in 2008 when this happened

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCanns, reacted yesterday with amazement at the declarations of the taxi-driver. “The declarations of Mr. Castela are false. They are a perfect nonsense. He can only be mistaken when he says that at that time he transported Kate and Madeleine with three men”, he said, underlining the fact of being several independent witnesses who place Madeleine's parents in a completely different place. “How is that possible, if at 20h35 several witnesses say that Kate and Gerry were sitting down on a table of the Tapas restaurant”, he questioned. Clarence doubts of the intentions of the taxi-driver. “It astonishes me that only now, ten months later, he talks about this. These are declarations that only cause pain to Kate and Gerry", he said, advancing that that the McCann's daughter has no facial twitches. “The only sign to report is the one she has in the eye.”

and.....

Spokesman Clarence Mitchell told the newspaper: "We are dismissing this primarily because the timings are entirely wrong."

and.....

The PJ confirmed having been contacted by the taxi driver and his witness statement taken at the time. But these claims had been rejected after verification.

This country is already a laughing stock because of you, but at least have some respect for your daughter...You are her mother!



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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  saltnpepper on Thu May 03, 2012 12:56 am

jd wrote:
Clarrie is some slime ball


This is the understatement of the century!!!



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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  aiyoyo on Thu May 03, 2012 2:18 am

jd wrote:
Maddie's mum Kate last night urged police to get in touch to see if his information could help find her missing daughter.

She said: “If there is any kind of lead that hasn’t been investigated properly, we want police looking into it.”


Dearest kate.....the mother of Madeleine....Please let me just remind you of what your spokesman who acts for you said back in 2008 when this happened

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCanns, reacted yesterday with amazement at the declarations of the taxi-driver. “The declarations of Mr. Castela are false. They are a perfect nonsense. He can only be mistaken when he says that at that time he transported Kate and Madeleine with three men”, he said, underlining the fact of being several independent witnesses who place Madeleine's parents in a completely different place. “How is that possible, if at 20h35 several witnesses say that Kate and Gerry were sitting down on a table of the Tapas restaurant”, he questioned. Clarence doubts of the intentions of the taxi-driver. “It astonishes me that only now, ten months later, he talks about this. These are declarations that only cause pain to Kate and Gerry", he said, advancing that that the McCann's daughter has no facial twitches. “The only sign to report is the one she has in the eye.”

and.....

Spokesman Clarence Mitchell told the newspaper: "We are dismissing this primarily because the timings are entirely wrong."

and.....

The PJ confirmed having been contacted by the taxi driver and his witness statement taken at the time. But these claims had been rejected after verification.

This country is already a laughing stock because of you, but at least have some respect for your daughter...You are her mother!




The point is:
did this cab driver say the woman was the "drugged" child was kate? If not, why did CM feel the need to refute his sighting?

Far as I read, the cab driver said 3 men and 1 woman, and a child (possibly Maddie). No mention that that group of adults was kate and Tapas mates.

Come on the mccanns faces are plastered all over the front pages, surely if the cab driver can recognise Maddie he should be able to recognise Kate, right? Since he did not mention it was kate, where did CM get that idea?


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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  Ribisl on Thu May 03, 2012 5:55 am

aiyoyo wrote:

The point is:
did this cab driver say the woman was the "drugged" child was kate? If not, why did CM feel the need to refute his sighting?

Far as I read, the cab driver said 3 men and 1 woman, and a child (possibly Maddie). No mention that that group of adults was kate and Tapas mates.

Come on the mccanns faces are plastered all over the front pages, surely if the cab driver can recognise Maddie he should be able to recognise Kate, right? Since he did not mention it was kate, where did CM get that idea?



Aiyoyo - apparently he did claim in February 2008 to have recognised not only Madeleine by her coloboma but also Kate and Murat.

On his side a man seated who was using “fine glasses”. “He was similar with the one that appears in the television like the third suspect”, says António, concerning Robert Murat – who is arguido in the case. In the seat behind, a woman “like Kate” sat down, between two men. The girl that the taxi-driver says to be Maddie sat down to the lap of one of them.
“She was wearing pink pyjamas. The mother had the hair tied and a yellow coat”, he remembers, with exactness.
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/02/taxi-driver-story-and-rogatory-letter.html

I suspect he was dismissed by the PJ as an unreliable witness, at the same by CM as an inconvenient one.
For some reason, it appears he is now saying he only recognised Madeleine. TM is getting their way again! tongue

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Re: Madeleine McCann got into the back of my cab the night after she vanished

Post  tigger on Thu May 03, 2012 6:33 am

Looks like a case of constructive memory again. The report of the PJ is dated the 9th. The incident was on the 4th - then moved to the 3rd.
He may well have driven these people. But they would have been other tourists.
But by 8.30 pm. it would have been dark.
a) He can never have seen the coloboma because:it didn't exist
b) the girl was sitting on a lap - in the back of the cab it would be dark and he'd have to see that in the mirror. When they got into the car, the only way he could look into her eyes was by bending down or getting fairly close to the person carrying her.
c) He mentions Kate' tied back hair. Which had already been seen in the public domain - on TV .
d) He may already have seen shots of e.g. DP et al. Perhaps he knew Murat.
e) Not speaking during a short ride is nothing special for tourists - probably not normal for the Portuguese.

This is beginning to look desperate. Nothing better in the tombola?


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OMG a repeat

Post  MrsDoubtful on Thu May 03, 2012 7:13 am

Not this old chestnut again.

The taxi driver was on the telly way back in 2007, and stated he was convinced it was McCann and Murat lol in the back of his taxi with Maddy.

Then zap nothing.

Now its been dragged up again but the time and date and what he said has been edited out. Thank god we are not all stupid. I sent a good link to Daybreak on their Facebook page about what he REALLY SAID lol.

All this crap is not going to find this child, if the police have only this rubbish to work with there is never going to be hope for MADDY.

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