It’s been almost a decade since British 3-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her family’s hotel room in Portugal — but authorities say the case is far from cold.
In a statement Tuesday from London’s Metropolitan Police, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said a team of four detectives continues to work on “outstanding inquiries” in Madeleine’s disappearance, with aid from their Portuguese counterparts.
“I know we have a significant line of inquiry which is worth pursuing,” he said, according to a Press Association story also published Tuesday. “And because it’s worth pursuing, it could provide an answer. But...
In a statement Tuesday from London’s Metropolitan Police, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said a team of four detectives continues to work on “outstanding inquiries” in Madeleine’s disappearance, with aid from their Portuguese counterparts.
“I know we have a significant line of inquiry which is worth pursuing,” he said, according to a Press Association story also published Tuesday. “And because it’s worth pursuing, it could provide an answer. But...
- 4/25/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble and Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
Today's extract from the book After Leveson* is by the former national newspaper editor, Guardian deputy editor and academic, Peter Cole. He is firmly anti-statutory and pro-independent.
To that end, Cole considers what has happened in the aftermath of the publication of Lord Justice Leveson's report. After 86 days of public hearings and 474 witnesses, at a probable cost of £6m, what now for Leveson's recommendations?
It is not over yet. There is acceptance that there has to be a change in the regulation of the press.
There is division among politicians, editors, victims of shameful treatment by sections of the press, campaigners for reform, journalists and media academics about the precise nature of any reforms to be introduced, crucially whether or not they require legislation and whether that is acceptable in terms of cherished press freedoms that have existed for more than 300 years.
After the publication of the Leveson report David...
To that end, Cole considers what has happened in the aftermath of the publication of Lord Justice Leveson's report. After 86 days of public hearings and 474 witnesses, at a probable cost of £6m, what now for Leveson's recommendations?
It is not over yet. There is acceptance that there has to be a change in the regulation of the press.
There is division among politicians, editors, victims of shameful treatment by sections of the press, campaigners for reform, journalists and media academics about the precise nature of any reforms to be introduced, crucially whether or not they require legislation and whether that is acceptable in terms of cherished press freedoms that have existed for more than 300 years.
After the publication of the Leveson report David...
- 2/26/2013
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
From the 'toothlessness' of the Pcc to Hugh Grant's middle name, we round up what 10 days of testimony has taught us
Over the past 10 days, a succession of famous faces, and some who are less well-known, have appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to tell the Leveson inquiry into press standards about the worst excesses of the "gutter press". Lord Justice Leveson has listened intently from his lofty perch in courtroom 73 as his team has cross-examined those who feel they have suffered at the hands of the British media – an industry Tony Blair famously described as a "feral beast". As if that wasn't bad enough, two former journalists have lifted the lid on what it's really like to work for the tabloids. So what have we learned so far?
Comparing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to a crime cartel is all the rage. Murdoch's nemesis, Labour MP Tom Watson,...
Over the past 10 days, a succession of famous faces, and some who are less well-known, have appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to tell the Leveson inquiry into press standards about the worst excesses of the "gutter press". Lord Justice Leveson has listened intently from his lofty perch in courtroom 73 as his team has cross-examined those who feel they have suffered at the hands of the British media – an industry Tony Blair famously described as a "feral beast". As if that wasn't bad enough, two former journalists have lifted the lid on what it's really like to work for the tabloids. So what have we learned so far?
Comparing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to a crime cartel is all the rage. Murdoch's nemesis, Labour MP Tom Watson,...
- 12/1/2011
- by James Robinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Evidence given to the Leveson inquiry last week appalled many veteran journalists. Among them was John Dale - a former national newspaper reporter and magazine editor - who wrote on the gentlemenranters site of "journalistic corruption and debasement" that "shamed Fleet Street."
Another hardened old hand, Jim Cassidy, was disgusted too. As the editor of two red-tops - the Glasgow-based Sunday Mail and, briefly, the Sunday Mirror - he knows the business from the inside.
I am pleased to act as host to his passionate response to the revelations of the first week's hearings...
By Jim Cassidy
Do journalists cry? Do editors cry? Do photographers cry? They should. They do. They must. I advise any of the journalists due to attend court 73 of the Royal Courts of Justice over the next week to stop and take some time out at prayer room E131.
There, they can find time to reflect,...
Another hardened old hand, Jim Cassidy, was disgusted too. As the editor of two red-tops - the Glasgow-based Sunday Mail and, briefly, the Sunday Mirror - he knows the business from the inside.
I am pleased to act as host to his passionate response to the revelations of the first week's hearings...
By Jim Cassidy
Do journalists cry? Do editors cry? Do photographers cry? They should. They do. They must. I advise any of the journalists due to attend court 73 of the Royal Courts of Justice over the next week to stop and take some time out at prayer room E131.
There, they can find time to reflect,...
- 11/28/2011
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
Madeleine McCann's parents are marking her 8th birthday Thursday with a new book and renewed vows that their missing daughter will not be forgotten. In the book, simply called Madeleine, Kate McCann describes the moment she entered the British family's rental apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal, at 10 p.m. on May 3, 2007, and realized Madeleine's bed was empty. Seeing the windows open, Kate writes that she felt "nausea, terror, disbelief, fear. Icy fear," and said to herself: "Dear God, no! Please, no!" Related: 'We Want Madeleine Back' - the Madeleine McCann Mystery - 3 Years Later On the Find Madeleine website,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
Britain's Prince Charles met mourning parents at a memorial service yesterday (10.05.10). The service - which was held at Westminster Cathedral on the second anniversary of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen's murder - was also attended by Kate McCann, the mother of missing child Madeline McCann. Speaking during the service, Jimmy's mother Margaret said: "To all the mothers, take your babies and your children in your arms every day and tell them how much you love them." Mrs. Mizen urged those in attendance, including hundreds of relatives, school children, police and members of the public, that there needed to be change so that these horrific tragedies could be prevented. She added: "Building a legacy of peace involves change in all of us.
- 5/11/2010
- Monsters and Critics
Gerry and Kate McCann are thanking supporters and vowing to continue their search for daughter Madeleine as they mark the third anniversary of her disappearance while on holiday in Portugal. A note posted to findmadeleine.com this weekend reads: "Thank you to everyone who has stayed with us during the past three years - hoping, praying and supporting our efforts to find Madeleine and bring her home. We know we couldn't have achieved as much as we have without this help. "Milestones and anniversaries are never easy, but the work to find our little Madeleine will continue regardless, with the...
- 5/3/2010
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
Could a sketch of a man seen near the apartment where Madeleine McCann vanished two years ago provide new clues in the hunt to find the child? At least, that is the hope of her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, who are participating in a new film alongside a team of detectives they hired to help re-investigate the case. So far, those investigators have discovered that some potential witnesses spotted a man, with pockmarked features, watching the holiday apartment in the resort of Praia de Luz, Portugal. It was from there that Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday.
- 5/7/2009
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
Two years ago, 3-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared while her parents were at dinner during a family vacation in Portugal. Now, the McCanns are speaking out in a heartbreaking new interview to air on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the day after the anniversary of her disappearance. When asked whether she allows herself to imagine the worst, Kate McCann, who was once a suspect in the unsolved case with her husband Gerry, reveals, "I do. As a mom, inevitably there are times when I do. There are the times that I kind of dip down." And does she suspect an abductor spent...
- 5/1/2009
- by Kristen Mascia
- PEOPLE.com
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