Gypsies are back on the agenda....

Police are hunting three men said to be gypsies seen lurking near Madeleine McCann’s holiday apartment before her disappearance, the Sunday People can reveal.

The men were suspected of being behind a string of burglaries around the resort in the weeks leading up to the youngster being snatched .

Police on the re-opened case want to interview janitors who blamed the gypsies for the break-ins.

Officers believe the maintenance men, who fixed a blind in the McCanns’ holiday flat two days before Madeleine went missing in May 2007, are crucial to the case.

Luis Ferro and Mario Moreira were ordered to flat 5A to mend a broken blind in Kate and Gerry’s bedroom at 10am on May 1.

Mr Ferro, quizzed by Portuguese police four days after Madeleine vanished, said gypsies had been active in the area at the time.

He mentioned a warehouse near the resort’s Millennium Restaurant where he said the three gypsies had stolen firewood and scrap metal.

The “potentially highly significant” evidence was dismissed as “not relevant or useful” by officers involved in the controversial initial probe – led by disgraced former police chief Goncalo Amaral.

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But it is now being taken seriously after a four-year-old blonde girl was last week found living with gypsies, who had bought her for just £750 in Greece.

As part of the same line of inquiry, police are also re-examining a suspected sighting of Madeleine the day after she vanished.

The witness reported seeing a girl matching her description laying in the back of a white van driven by two “gypsies” 160 miles away.

The new probe by Portuguese and British police has boosted the hopes of the missing youngster’s anguished parents Kate and Gerry, both 45.

Police in Portugal have drawn up a list of 41 “people of interest” and e-fit pictures have been issued of a man seen carrying a child near the resort after Madeleine was taken.

Aged three, Madeleine vanished from the McCanns’ apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, while her parents were eating tapas nearby.

They are being kept briefed on developments, but their Portuguese lawyer Rogerio Alves said: “The police asked us not to compromise the investigation and we are obliged to respect the secrecy order.

“It would be a crime for anyone working with full information on the details to talk about it.”

Kate and Gerry, of Rothley, Leics, yesterday appealed for people to be “patient” as the new begins.

In a message on their Find Madeleine website, where they have posted a picture of how Maddy would look today aged nine, they asked people to “respect the work of the police as they endeavour to find the answers.”

They added: “We’re very pleased the investigation to find Madeleine has officially been reopened in Portugal.

Anyone with information should contact police, either here in the UK or in Portugal.”

 

FFS!!!! You can't make it up

But they have.......

.......... and no doubt will continue to do so!!

The witness reported seeing a girl matching her description laying in the back of a white van driven by two “gypsies” 160 miles away...



How the hell did they know they were gypsies...did they shout...'we are gypsies by the way' whilst bundling the girl in the car.


This 'sighting' is in the files somewhere I think

BULLS**T the lot of it    

It really is disgraceful the way everyone is behaving, Clarence, the McCanns and the Press  if they didn't keep stoking the fire it would have gone out years ago. Give it a rest for goodness sake , intelligent people know they are doing it to convey the idea that Madeleine was abducted  , I hope the Portugese Judiciary sees this latest attempt.

kitti wrote:The witness reported seeing a girl matching her description laying in the back of a white van driven by two “gypsies” 160 miles away...



How  the hell did they know they were gypsies...did they shout...'we are gypsies by the way' whilst bundling the girl in the car.


This 'sighting' is in the files somewhere I think

Perhaps they were selling clothes pegs and lucky heather  

'the witness knew the man was a gypsy because he had a blond child under each arm '...

kitti wrote:'the witness knew the man was a gypsy because he had a blond child under each arm '...

And as recent cases have shown gypsies can't have blonde children ...... (oooooops!)

Oh FFS. It was proved by DNA about three days ago that the raggle taggle gypsies were telling the truth. Do keep up at the back!  

But these a different gypsies.


Their 'cleaner/german/Dutch/gypsies..

they didn't have the same sources as the Times then otherwise they wouldn't be talking about gypsies.

Gypsys dont do cleaning they do tarmac and block paving !

FFS can't they leave these poor people alone?

Anything to slip in a kick at disgraced cop, etc who didn't focus on the raggle taggle gypsies ho because the parents were obviously lying and the sighting of interest then as now was Smithman, Gerry's doppelganger.

I thought the gypsies who had the Bulgarian child were given her, did not buy her.

It's got feck all to do with gypsies.

Kate went out there telling people the BEST way to find MM apart from throwing money at them and never publicizing the reward was to go around looking for children who didn't fit in etc. How much misdirection will people tolerate, I wonder.

So we are now to believe that the gypsies went from stealing firewood and scrap metal to stealing children. All in a days work

I did not know the People newspaper still existed!

Lioned wrote:Gypsys dont do cleaning they do tarmac and block paving !

Oiiiii...wot about scrap metal...and roofs...

kitti wrote:

Lioned wrote:Gypsys dont do cleaning they do tarmac and block paving !

Oiiiii...wot about scrap metal...and roofs...

and clothes pegs, and fortune telling on Blackpool sea front.

Erm I went to see one off those years ago.


I ended up,with victor ...say no more.

There a bit like buses,there will be another one along soon.

Iris wrote:

kitti wrote:

Lioned wrote:Gypsys dont do cleaning they do tarmac and block paving !

Oiiiii...wot about scrap metal...and roofs...

and clothes pegs, and fortune telling on Blackpool sea front.  

......and lucky heather

They are getting more sophisticated now.The last one to knock on my door wanting to do my driveway had a tablet with all his video's and photographs of previous jobs and satisfied customers.

I would imagine they will soon be doing mail order children.

stoppit lioned. The bit about the video is so true. we have one showing on his laptop the drives he had done and where they were for reference to go and have a look and ask the people what we thought.