Re: Maddie 'look-alike' DNA to go to the UK from Queenstown

by russiandoll 09.02.13 18:43

shubob....." think it's a valid assumption given the press release by Queenstown police on January 4 " :

"Queenstown
Police investigating a reported sighting of missing British girl
Madeline McCann say they have identified the young girl seen in
Queenstown on New Years Eve and are 'absolutely satisfied' that she is not the missing schoolgirl."

Agree 100% this DNA test is needless. But it is being/ has been done and it is not this test which has ruled the chid out in NZ afaik but other steps taken by the NZ police, which should imo have been enough. The DNA is a valid assumption, this is what CH should imo have written, it is not a fact that DNA has ruled the NZ girl out....unless it is the NEGATIVE result sent to SY and the great UK media are not reporting it.

Sorry for being picky, but it is this inaccuracy that certain others look for then jump on....I don't want them having any ammuniton !

by Inspectorfrost 09.02.13 23:16

I find it hard to believe that

A) the British police/Mccanns would not have been sent a photo to look at, especially as this wasnt the first time this girl was pointed out to the police

B) that the parents would not recognise their own daughter 6 years on, that they wouldnt ask for the birth mark to be checked

C) that the parents, if not sent a photo, did not insist on one but seem OK sitting back and letting dna tests be done? for a family to prove their child is not an abducted Madeleine and throuh their spokesman are said to have no comment apart from saying they have faith in the police and will let them get on with it

Therefore I do not believe this story. But if it is true it is even more bizarre.

As for Chelsea Hoffman either she has insider info or as a crime writer doesnt pay that much attention to detail

by Inspectorfrost 12.02.13 19:35

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/245574/test-proves-queenstown-girl-not-madeleine-mccann

As if the result could have been any different.

by Olive_Boyle 13.02.13 11:46

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/madeleine-mccann-lookalike-dna-test-negative-020847743.html

I missed IF's post last night and have just spotted this. Always interesting to read the comments.

by Olympicana_Reloaded 13.02.13 13:55

DNA Test Confirms Identity

February 13, 2013, 1:42 pm

Southern Police advise that they have received confirmation from Scotland Yard that a DNA sample provided voluntarily from a girl mistaken as missing British girl Madeleine McCann on New Year's Eve in Queenstown last year does not provide a match for that of the missing girl.

At the time of the sighting Police made thorough inquiries into the sighting and were completely satisfied that the girl was not Madeleine McCann. The DNA test result, as requested by Operation Grange - the British police operation investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance - supports and confirms the original Police investigation into the matter.

The sighting is the second of the same girl, the first being in March 2012. At that time Operation Grange did not exist and therefore there was no follow-up request for a DNA test by British authorities.

Police say that at no stage has the girl been identified by NZ Police. Her family has made it very clear that although they appreciate the concerns raised by the public, the family wish to maintain their own and their daughter's privacy.

Given that there is conclusive evidence that their daughter is not Madeleine McCann and has no connection to Madeleine McCann, it is only right that she and her family are entitled to a level of privacy that most of us enjoy.

The family has asked that their privacy continues to be respected and do not want any contact from media.

ENDS

Released by Detective Inspector Steve McGregor, Southern District Crime Services Manager

https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/34260.html

by Inspectorfrost 13.02.13 19:03

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277943/Madeleine-McCann-DNA-tests-prove-New-Zealand-girl-NOT-missing-Maddie.html

So, no comment from the parents or their spokesman. Majority of the public's comments cynical. And rightly so.

Hopefully this will put an end to fake sightings and harrassment of innocent families.

by Mirage 13.02.13 19:34

Maddie 'look-alike' DNA to go to the UK from Queenstown - Page 5 393338

And just when you thought the pantomime season was over, the following bombshell news from New Zealand ................

Maddie 'look-alike' DNA to go to the UK from Queenstown - Page 5 841898

Maddie 'look-alike' DNA to go to the UK from Queenstown - Page 5 841898

by Guest 14.02.13 13:03

Look at the comments in the Sun, the Murdoch paper, never allowed before Maddie 'look-alike' DNA to go to the UK from Queenstown - Page 5 195540

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4793491/madeleine-mccann-lookalike-is-not-missing-girl.html

by jd 14.02.13 13:05

candyfloss wrote:Look at the comments in the Sun, the Murdoch paper, never allowed before

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4793491/madeleine-mccann-lookalike-is-not-missing-girl.html

Why do they keep using that old 6/7 year photo of Maddie with the 'eye'

by **tigger** 14.02.13 13:35

jd wrote:
candyfloss wrote:Look at the comments in the Sun, the Murdoch paper, never allowed before

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4793491/madeleine-mccann-lookalike-is-not-missing-girl.html

Why do they keep using that old 6/7 year photo of Maddie with the 'eye'

a) it's a 'trigger' for people to buy the paper?
b) more importantly - probably don't have to pay copyright on it - I expect there's copyright on a lot of others, including the age advanced. After all, one has to pay for a poster if one wants to join the search. That only buys you a poster, not the right to copy it anywhere.

by cass7 14.02.13 14:02

from birth of a child there are records -- they take a blood test -- cuthrie --yep spelling

this child will have

medical records -- birth certificate

prob passport

dental records

school records

blood type

baby pics

list is endless

so why dna --there is something more to this story imo -- why go to these lenghths when all the lesser distressing things could have been used

wonder what the markers came back as --

by Guest 14.02.13 17:20

Re the coloboma. I googled a bit for information and pictures. Have to say that few if any at all look like Madeleine's alleged coloboma, nowadays referred as "a fleck" ...
Strangely enough I cannot copy the link here.
Just google : coloboma picture
and you'll see what I mean.

by T4two 14.02.13 17:44

cass7 wrote:from birth of a child there are records -- they take a blood test -- cuthrie --yep spelling

this child will have

medical records -- birth certificate

prob passport

dental records

school records

blood type

baby pics

list is endless

so why dna --there is something more to this story imo -- why go to these lenghths when all the lesser distressing things could have been used

wonder what the markers came back as --