Madeleine McCann - we need YOUR help to try and find this little girl.

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This is slipping from the news and the police are starting to scale down their seraches.

Evidence seems to suggest that Madeline may have been taken to Spain and yet very few people out there are aware of what has happened or what she looks like etc.

We need to send as many emails as we can to Spanish businesses with a poster attachment and highlight this case.

I need mumsnetters to volunteer.

I have called in sick today to get this started but this is a massive task and I cannot do it on my own.

Please let me know if you can help.

I will be in Alicante next week. I will make sure that I take some posters to put up with me!

I am in majorca at the moment, just been to the local shops and her poster is everywhere there too

tbh I think this poster campaign is now pointless. I think now that the only thing that sending out posters of Madeleine will achieve is to strike fear into every parent that "this could happen to you".

If Madeleine is still alive, I would imagine it is highly unlikely she looks anything like the child in those pictures. She probably has short hair, which has been died, and is most likely wearing contact lenses to cover the blemish in her right eye, she will be unrecognizeable from those pictures.

Also she's not likely to be in holiday resorts so tbh can't see the point of taking posters on holiday.

I do think the initial emailing was a good idea, but I think now that there is no longer any point to it.

contact lenses on a 4 yr old..tricky I would have thought.

happy for you that you know this could never happen to you though wannabe

not been reading the whole thread but do come back from time to time.

I feel so that she is still missing and the longer she's away the worse it looks

I hope whoever has her is taking good care of the wee angel

Wannabe
I think all this media stuff, posters etc is a good thing and also you say it may just make people feel worried it could happen to them..well surely it is not a bad thing for people to be more aware and not let their kids wander off or keep a closer eye on them. i know for me it has made me a lot more aware and I would not let my kids out of eye shot. The poster is still a good idea because if there are still posters up someone may spot her from that. I cannot believe that a four year old would be made to wear contact lens!

?I cannot believe that a 4 year old would be made to wear contact lense?. Well I cannot believe that someone would snatch a 4 year old from her bed but they did. The kinds of people who abduct young children aren?t generally the types to consider the feelings of said child, and I know people who have warn prosthetic eyes from a very young age so a contact lense is certainly not beyond the relms of possibility.

I think it?s wrong to emphasise the apparent dangers to people. The chances of a child being snatched by a complete stranger are extremely rare, hence why these cases receive so much coverage in the media when they happen. Keeping a child within eyeshot is just common sense, and most parents certainly shouldn?t need the constant reminders of what happened to one particular child to know that.

I think that the posters serve only to make the parents feel that they are doing something, but if Madeleine?s appearance has been changed then the pictures of her on those posters will bear no resemblance to the child that she might be now, so sending out posters of a little girl with long blonde hair are not going to make people look at little girls with short brown or red hair in the belief they could be Madeleine, in fact by reiterating her appearance we are perhaps only ensuring that whoever might be holding Madeleine will change her appearance so she will be unrecognizeable.

And I never said that I was confident this could never happen to me. Just because one holds an opposing view does not make one smug. In fact even the authorities have said the amount of publicity has beenhampering the investigation, with thousands of bogus sightings from people hoping to get their hands on the reward money.

keep sending and distributing the posters...even if she no longer looks like the pic, it keeps her disappearance in people's minds and someone somewhere just might notice a child or a suspicious scenario....you just never know.

I so much hope they get her back.

crikey..is it coincidence that there's a Mark Warner banner on the top of this page?

OK, forget that last post, now I see... the banner changes all the time.

dolally scuttles off feeling stupid.

Look at caroleverett.co.uk she has fresh information what do you think? Does anyone recognise where the boat location is?

no, but interesting site, bump

Please sign the petition being sent to the PM asking him to provide all available intelligence resource to the fight for Madeleine.
The address is

petitions.pm.gov.uk/HelpMadeleine.

Also it's worth emailing Joanne [email protected] as she is co-ordinating a large group of people who are anxious to get actively involved in the battle to get Madeleine back. If Jo has your email address she will write back to let you know how to help further.

Good luck everyone!

They already are involved:

Intelligence officers at GCHQ are believed to have made a breakthrough in the search for Madeleine McCann.

Staff at the Doughnut are said to have been helping in the hunt for the missing four-year-old.

According to press reports, staff at the Cheltenham base, using controversial phone-tapping system Echelon, picked up repeated references to a German man and a "little blonde girl".

The mobile phone conversations are believed to be "extremely significant".

The hunt for missing Maddie switched to Morocco on Sunday, with police now reported to be searching for the mystery German.

The calls, all in Arabic and made on a Spanish-pay-as-you-go phone, are said to refer to "the little blonde girl" and Kate and Gerry McCann's meeting with the Pope.

There were repeated references to Morocco, Holland and Germany.

The Arab speakers also talked about ferry crossings from the Spanish port of Tarifa, which could be a crucial lead.

Eight crossings a day are made from Tarifa to Tangiers in Morocco.

Tarifa is just three hours' drive from Praia da Luz, the Port-uguese resort where Madel-eine was snat-ched a month ago.

GCHQ staff are believed to have deployed the Echelon spy system, which listens for and monitors key words and phr-ases in phone conversations.

A source close to the investigation is reported to have said: "The information gleaned from these mobile phone calls is being treated very seriously. It could be extremely significant."

Portuguese police confirmed they are making inquiries in Morocco.

British forensic experts have gone to Portugal to help track mobile phone calls in the Praia da Luz area at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.

Mobile signals can be used to pinpoint exactly where the callers have been.

A spokesman from GCHQ declined to comment. He said: "We never comment on intelligence-related matters. We cannot confirm or deny it."

I know that some of you think that the brianspredictions.com website is a load of rubbish and some of you have looked at it a lot. I knew nothing about it until seeing it on one of these threads and have occassionally looked at it. Well tonight someone has posted something quite interesting on it. If you type madeleines name into the search on the site and then go to the bottom of page 2 you will see what I mean.
www.brianspredicitons.com

Well regarding the previous post, the most strange thing just happened went back into the website and the last comment that had been posted on brians page about madeleine had been removed. I am sure that I did not imagine it

What did the message say?

It said " We think we have found her, you will be glad to know your dreams were correct. Will let you know before the media"
When I went back into the page about 5/10 mins later it had gone. I know that I never imagined it but it was strange. It was not signed by anyone either. But brian had replied "ok thanks"
Maybe it was for another missing person and he had added it to the wrong page.
I see her parents are on crimewatch today and travelling to Netherlands today

hmm interesting that would match that other womans predictions, the one posted on the other maddy thread.

Hey Frizbe
What other thread was that? Did it say the same thing?

no!

stop!

Why oh why are people still reading this crap? That message is probably a random one. It?s possible to generate such messages on websites, like when you log on to the national lottery website it comes up with messages such as ?mr smith has just won a fiver?. That message probably appears randomly and it?s designed to make people believe what they?re reading and come back to the site.

There are thousands upon thousands of psychics out there who claim to know what has happened to Madeleine, and some are claiming to know where she is, some are claiming to know where her body is and who murdered her.

It?s a load of bolocks, don?t read it, don?t believe it, it's crap!

And there was me assuming that this thread was about posters and spreading the word. But no, it's that Brian chap again. Hasn't he solved it yet? What's he waiting for? Messages not getting through the ether?

can I kill it?

Kill what? The thread? No, let it roll? I have high hopes of Brian. Such a reassuring name for a start.

ah Brian. wonder if he's taken time out from the magic roundabout?