NOT AGAIN!!!!! - Portugal cabbie offers lead to Scotland Yard's Madeleine McCann investigation -Standard 16/8/13

Praiaaa wrote:7.50. An hour's drive away. Hasn't he read the 'timeline'?

Woofer wrote:

Praiaaa wrote:7.50. An hour's drive away. Hasn't he read the 'timeline'?

I think he says its the night after she vanished, so the evening of the 4th.

He must have really stared into her eyes to have noticed that `hardly noticeable fleck`.

candyfloss wrote: Portugal cabbie offers lead to Scotland Yard's Madeleine McCann investigation

Hear my story, pleads driver ‘haunted’ by sighting

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Published: 16 August 2013
Updated: 11:16, 16 August 2013


A taxi driver who says he could help solve the mystery of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance has urged Scotland Yard to investigate his claims.

Antonio Castela says he picked up three men, a woman and a girl who looked like the missing three-year-old near the Spanish border in the Algarve the night after she vanished.
He has previously claimed he told Portuguese detectives what he saw, but was not questioned, even though a lawyer for Maddy’s parents said he could provide vital clues.
The case was closed five years ago but  Home Secretary Theresa May has sent an official request to Lisbon for permission for the Met to station officers in Portugal to begin a fresh investigation there. It is expected they could fly out within weeks.
Mr Castela, 73, said: “I want to tell them what I saw and assist in the investigation. I remember all the details. I would be very happy if the police re-open the investigation and if I could help in this case. This case has haunted me for a long time.” Maddy, from Leicestershire, vanished from the holiday flat rented by her doctor parents Kate and Gerry in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in May 2007. Mr Castela said he picked up the men, woman and child at 7.50pm, an hour’s drive away.
He took them two miles to the Hotel Apolo in his neighbourhood, Vila Real de Santo António, near Faro, where they got into a blue BMW and drove away. He said: “In 2007 I called police and told them what I had seen. Since then, no one from the police has spoken to me or showed interest in my story. No one came to collect my statement.”
He said he recalls Madeleine, in pink pyjamas, sitting on one of the men’s laps, and he noticed the “black spot” — a distinctive mark in her right eye. “I think my story may give a clue that has not been followed. I do not know what happened to Maddy, but I know that day, she was still alive in my cab.”
The Met has identified 38 potential suspects, including 12 Britons “of  interest” who were in Portugal when Maddy vanished.

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jeanmonroe wrote:Cherry wrote:

"Throwing red herrings right left and centre"
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Surely you mean lovely silver sardines!

Much better for munching on!

Cherry Blossom wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:Cherry wrote:

"Throwing red herrings right left and centre"
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Surely you mean lovely silver sardines!

Much better for munching on!

Love your version 

I wouldn't believe that man if he said "Good Morning" to me

candyfloss wrote:The original story was that he had Madeleine in the taxi on the night she vanished



 TAXI-DRIVER IS SURE THAT HE TOOK MADDIE IN HIS CAR IN THE NIGHT OF THE GIRL DISAPPEARANCE

“It was 20h10


Bit difficult if GM saw her at 9.15 pm that night.





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candyfloss wrote:The original story was that he had Madeleine in the taxi on the night she vanished



 TAXI-DRIVER IS SURE THAT HE TOOK MADDIE IN HIS CAR IN THE NIGHT OF THE GIRL DISAPPEARANCE

“It was 20h10


Bit difficult if GM saw her at 9.15 pm that night.]

jeanmonroe wrote:

Cherry Blossom wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:Cherry wrote:

"Throwing red herrings right left and centre"
___________________________________________

Surely you mean lovely silver sardines!

Much better for munching on!

Love your version 

I wouldn't believe that man if he said "Good Morning" to me

"Listen very carefully, I shall say 'zis only once! Good moaning"

candyfloss wrote:The original story was that he had Madeleine in the taxi on the night she vanished



 TAXI-DRIVER IS SURE THAT HE TOOK MADDIE IN HIS CAR IN THE NIGHT OF THE GIRL DISAPPEARANCE

“It was 20h10


Bit difficult if GM saw her at 9.15 pm that night.





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Casey5 wrote:Does the newspaper think it's helping the McCanns in rehashing this story?
After all, the taxi driver fingered Kate as the woman in his taxi.

jeanmonroe wrote:

Casey5 wrote:Does the newspaper think it's helping the McCanns in rehashing this story?
After all, the taxi driver fingered Kate as the woman in his taxi.

You might want to re-word the 'fingering' thingy!
   

Cherry Blossom wrote:I don't understand why the newspapers are allowed to print old news, surely members of the public must read and think "I've read that story before, so what's new." If this is the only way they can sell their newspapers then there in a sorry state. There are more important issue's in this country they could print to keep people informed.

aiyoyo, So agree.