Sunday Express and Daily Star - child killer questioned about Madeleine

Freedom wrote:I've now found a link to the front page of tomorrow's paper. This appears to be a different man.

https://twitter.com/JillyCL/status/660578115371028480

chilli wrote:@ deecoy

Having first hand knowledge of the areas KH grew up in and the school she went to, I would be being extremely complementary if I said she was upper working class. The words 'rough as .....' spring to mind. I cringe everytime I hear her's and Ma Healey's voices. All contrived. No one speaks like that naturally in Liverpool. Just think Hyacinth Bucket.

Dee Coy wrote:

Walt wrote:It pains me to admit it,but its for research,I've just gone out and got a sun,the closing paragraph states and I quote.

Crucial to the new search will be access to information Operation Grange has uncovered.The McCanns can only hope it will bring them more success.

Walt - you are a martyr to the cause.

Hmm, not sure what to make of this. Would the McCanns be legally entitled to look at police files paid for by the government? Our money. Or is the article saying the McCanns would hope to have access, that would be crucial to their private search?

Walt wrote:

Freedom wrote:I've now found a link to the front page of tomorrow's paper. This appears to be a different man.

https://twitter.com/JillyCL/status/660578115371028480

Thats the one,they are getting there,from a live findable child,its now onto child killers.

His father was a sheep breeder and his mother runs a small corner shop.

Dee Coy wrote:

chilli wrote:@ deecoy

Having first hand knowledge of the areas KH grew up in and the school she went to, I would be being extremely complementary if I said she was upper working class. The words 'rough as .....' spring to mind. I cringe everytime I hear her's and Ma Healey's voices. All contrived. No one speaks like that naturally in Liverpool. Just think Hyacinth Bucket.

Fantastic, chilli - love it, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm getting at. Ma Healy obviously recognised the discrepancies and took steps to start the haul upwards. Hence the refined words and subdued accents. Hyacinth Bucket was already firmly in my mind when conjuring the image of Mrs Healy.

In fairness, you can't lay the same claim at Eileen McCann's door. She's honest to her roots.

This class stuff sounds trivial and I bet many are thinking it's shallow and irrelevant nonsense.

But I think it's crucial to understanding why things evolved as they did. I do believe Gerry in particular considered he'd made great strides. Social improvement was extremely important to him. His status, connections, Rothley house and lifestyle reflected his achievements and were a signal to the world that he was now someone of import. And in fairness he'd worked hard for this advancement. I honestly think this is why he did everything to avoid the unravelment of all he'd achieved and it is this desperation that underpins this case. His whole life achievement was at risk and he'd risk everything and do anything to protect that. It meant so much more to him - he'd climbed a mountain to get where he was, his peers had wandered a meandering trail.

So that's where the labyrinth started, in my opinion.

It is expected they will ask their German counterparts to check the killer’s passport to see if he was ever in Portugal.

Bampots wrote:They try so hard! Maybe it's me,the cynical old trout I've become. The first thing that screams out is the fact that the victims are two boys! I've read something yesterday that said although his offences involved boys,pedophiles are not fussy what sex the victim is. Sounds questionable to me but let's say it's correct and all that we have is an opportunist who grabs the nearest child. and travels the world to do so. Although in this case  both children have been boys and both in Germany and less than 80 miles apart.
So is this man a real threat,why has he been plucked from hideous obscurity and thrust onto the world stage? Is this another attempt to throw the investigation way off from the place it needs to concentrate on? Should we all be looking world wide when these cases occur? Or should we trust in the stats that tells us where to look.....closer to home!

Walt wrote:From the article posted by Candy.

It is expected they will ask their German counterparts to check the killer’s passport to see if he was ever in Portugal.

Now forgive my ignorance in such matters,but with Europe's open borders, how is a passport  with out a stamp going to show this,brilliant faux pas by a family spokesman.

Walt wrote:

Bampots wrote:They try so hard! Maybe it's me,the cynical old trout I've become. The first thing that screams out is the fact that the victims are two boys! I've read something yesterday that said although his offences involved boys,pedophiles are not fussy what sex the victim is. Sounds questionable to me but let's say it's correct and all that we have is an opportunist who grabs the nearest child. and travels the world to do so. Although in this case  both children have been boys and both in Germany and less than 80 miles apart.
So is this man a real threat,why has he been plucked from hideous obscurity and thrust onto the world stage? Is this another attempt to throw the investigation way off from the place it needs to concentrate on? Should we all be looking world wide when these cases occur? Or should we trust in the stats that tells us where to look.....closer to home!

Sidney Cooke and his ilk were only interested in boys.