Maddie snatched for 5 euros (Daily Star)

Another contemptible headline from the Daily Star tomorrow suggests Maddie was snatched by a disgruntled waiter who was sacked for nicking 5 euros.

Someone post picture please.

This is really distressing. Have they no respect for the poor wee soul's memory?

Thanks Iris ,they have no shame.

Daily Star: PROOF PLEASE ????

It is shameful that no respect is being shown not only to Madeleine but to the family of this unfortunate man.

I thought it was beyond stupid before, now it's just pathetic.

Yes, completely disgusting! Just a commodity to flog newspapers.

Madeleine McCann key suspect was heroin addict who burgled holiday flats to get fix


Euclides Monteiro, who died aged 40 in a tractor accident four years ago, was a restaurant worker at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz



Revenge theory: Madeleine McCann
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A key suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation was a heroin addict who used to rob holiday apartments to fund his habit, it was claimed last night.

Euclides Monteiro, who died aged 40 in a tractor accident four years ago, was a restaurant worker at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where Madeleine was snatched just before her fourth birthday in May 2007.

It is believed he may have been raiding rooms on the complex for drug money before he was finally sacked in 2006 for stealing from the tills.

Police are investigating the possibility that 6ft 2ins Monterio, known as Toni, may have been responsible in an act of revenge for losing his job. Another theory is that Madeleine was kidnapped and killed after disturbing a burglar.

Angry denial: Euclides Monterio's widow Luisa Monterio at work  

Monteiro’s widow Luisa confirmed she had been quizzed by police but insisted her husband was innocent.

She said: “It is disgusting they are now looking for a dead man as a scapegoat.

“It’s very easy to blame someone who can’t defend themselves any more. My husband would never be capable of committing such a crime.” Monteiro’s close friend Sergio Paulo, 44, a builder from Lagos, told how his pal’s drug habit made him to turn to crime – although he too doubted if he had taken Madeleine.

He said: “Toni was a good guy but had some serious drug problems. He would smoke heroin and became a slave to it. 

“I know he would sometimes break into apartments and rob them. He was taking valuables from rooms at Ocean Club and selling them for drugs.”

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Sergio said he remembered Monterio – an immigrant from the ex Portuguese colony of Cape Verde, off West Africa – mentioning Madeleine’s case when he saw a report in a local newspaper.

Sergio said: “He held up the paper and said, ‘I wonder who took her?’ He never said much else about it.”

In the three months up to Madeleine’s disappearance police said there was a four-fold increase in low-level burglaries around the holiday complex.

Mentioned: Sergio Paulo, friend of Maddie McCann suspect Euclides Monterio's widow Luisa Monterio  

Monteiro’s home in Lagos was a just a 15 minute drive from the resort.

Mobile phone records placed him near the McCanns’ apartment around the time Madeleine vanished.

Monteiro had several convictions for theft but was saved from being deported in 1996 after a presidential pardon.

Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry, both 45, from Rothley, Leics, declined to comment yesterday on what they described as “speculation”.

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That is how much the new suspect in the case stole from a till which led to his firing and subsequent actions.

Waiter Euclides Monteiro was said to have taken money from the till in the restaurant at the Portuguese holiday resort from where Maddie vanished in 2007.

Police are probing if he returned to the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz.

He may then have snatched then three-year-old Madeleine from her parents’ apartment in a twisted revenge bid to embarrass bosses over security.  

An unnamed ex-colleague told Portuguese newspaper Sol: “He was caught taking €5 and we invited him to leave.

“We were very surprised with that because he was always a straight guy, looked good and was a good speaker. And as it was such a small amount we didn’t even lodge a complaint to the police.

“Stealing €5 is one thing, killing a child is another.

PAIN: Kate and Gerry are not giving up the hope that Maddie will be found [GETTY]
“We were very surprised with that because he was always a straight guy, looked good and was a good speaker”
An ex-colleague of Monteiro
“Moreover, he was always talking about his son who he loved.

“It is funny police coming now saying that he may have kidnapped the girl as a revenge for being sacked because he humbly accepted the fact.’’

Monteiro, then 40, died four years ago in a works accident involving a tractor.

His widow insisted he was being made a “scapegoat” by police, who she plans to sue.

It’s claimed the new line of inquiry prompted the country’s Attorney General to reopen the case last week.

A Portugal police spokesman said: “A secrecy order placed on the reopened case, and our professional secrecy, prevents us from making any comment.’’

It's Mitchell she needs to sue...these headline didn't come from the police.

The Mccanns just don't care how many families are destroyed, these people will always have an association with the case, even though it is obvious that they aren't connected at all.

fred wrote:The Mccanns just don't care how many families are destroyed, these people will always have an association with the case, even though it is obvious that they aren't connected at all.

... when the real perps are identified, charged and convicted - then they can sue every rag which dragged them into it just to increase its sales - and I hope they all do. Perhaps they should contact GM/Hacked off for advice on the best way to go about it.

That headline is truly libellous, it's absolutely disgraceful that it has even been printed. I sincerely hope that the wife of this man sues for mega money, the paper can have no defence against their disgusting behaviour in printing such a headline. Stealing 5 euros and stealing from apartments does not mean he would steal a child, it's a completely ridiculous farce. If he was a drug abuser he certainly wouldn't be concerning himself about leaving traces of his dna whilst going about his stealing. It's quite beyond belief that whoever is coming up with all this utter trash obviously believes the public at large are all extremely gullible and stupid.

these headlines have got sicker by the day my dad who only believes in the neglect said the other day - it is sick and although as i said he believes in abduction said why arnt the mcanns doing something about this crap being printed - poor madeleine and all the people that have been affected by this sick shite

It will get worse before it gets better, sadly.

They are desperate and that will result in desperate action. They have always been manipulative. We know how rats act when cornered.

The Times Article, Crimewatch, E Fits not unlike Gerald himself and the libel case going badly. All in the space of two weeks. This is what we know about, I am certain there are things we don't know. Even Clarence seems to have taken one small step away. He's still hovering but he could yet jump ship.

Gloves are off.

They could not do this to an alive person, that is why tractor man was chosen by them.

this poor woman could get hate things against her now - what is it gonna take for all this to stop where poor people going about their daily lifes get dragged into this - i hope that whatever is happening behind the sceens is done fast now -6 years of this crap - sy could end this today with reinterviwing them all - i am awaiting the headline he knows murrat soon too watch

cass wrote:this poor woman could get hate things against her now - what is it gonna take for all this to stop where poor people going about their daily lifes get dragged into this - i hope that whatever is happening behind the sceens is done fast now -6 years of this crap - sy could end this today with reinterviwing them all - i am awaiting the headline he knows murrat soon too watch  

They won't touch Murat with headlines, I don't think.

Tractor man is not here. Can you libel a dead person, in legal terms ?

You are right, it needs to stop now. It's all well and good the police having a plan, if they have one, but the longer they drag their heels the worse it will get.

cass wrote:this poor woman could get hate things against her now - what is it gonna take for all this to stop where poor people going about their daily lifes get dragged into this - i hope that whatever is happening behind the sceens is done fast now -6 years of this crap - sy could end this today with reinterviwing them all - i am awaiting the headline he knows murrat soon too watch  

Best not to give them any ideas cass - you know they monitor everything written about them on the web

these headlines are sick maddelines name then 5 euros - nobody knows the truth of what went off - but the mcanns should be going crazy at these headlines - wonder what the pros think of this so bleeding annoyed that this crap can continue on and on - its innocent peoples lifes that the press are after

T4two wrote:

fred wrote:The Mccanns just don't care how many families are destroyed, these people will always have an association with the case, even though it is obvious that they aren't connected at all.

... when the real perps are identified, charged and convicted - then they can sue every rag which dragged them into it just to increase its sales - and I hope they all do. Perhaps they should contact GM/Hacked off for advice on the best way to go about it.

Beautiful.

So tractor man started off as a petty thief. he has now become violent, a drug addict and acted suspiciously around children. His poor wife and the little boy, this is shocking and no way should this be all over the papers when it is not proved. This case just gets more sick every day

I think it has reached the stage now where those who have suffered in any way because of this case (blonde children and wrongly accused 'suspects' splashed all over the papers for example) should form a Victims Of The McCanns Support Group.

Countless innocent people have had their lives interfered with or even ruined merely to keep the usual suspects out of jail.

margaret wrote:

T4two wrote:

fred wrote:The Mccanns just don't care how many families are destroyed, these people will always have an association with the case, even though it is obvious that they aren't connected at all.

... when the real perps are identified, charged and convicted - then they can sue every rag which dragged them into it just to increase its sales - and I hope they all do. Perhaps they should contact GM/Hacked off for advice on the best way to go about it.

Beautiful.

Brilliant