The Sun newspaper today

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2985757/I-saw-Maddie-in-pyjamas-the-day-after-she-disappeared.html

Peaceful my friend, thank you for this news.

You're welcome Pedro, was trying to C & P it but it kept going wrtong, silly PC of mine playing up.

Had we heard of this one before?

Catkins my friend, this one is new to me.

Peaceful1 wrote:You're welcome Pedro, was trying to C & P it but it kept going wrtong, silly PC of mine playing up.

Here you are Peaceful, very interesting article.

‘I saw Maddie in pyjamas the day after she disappeared’

By ANTONELLA LAZZERI

Published: Today

A DRAMATIC sighting of missing Madeleine McCann the day after she vanished is being urgently followed up by private investigators.

A man has reported seeing a girl he is now sure was Maddie lying in the back of a van.


Missing ... Madeleine McCann

She was wearing pyjamas identical to the pair Maddie had on when she was abducted.

The vehicle was white - and other witnesses have recalled seeing a white van near the holiday apartment in Portugal from where she was taken.

A child in pyjamas was also seen being carried by a man at the resort.

New witness Carlos Moreira, 65, has told investigators the little girl he saw was with a man and woman who looked like gipsies.

When shown a previously-unpublished e-fit of a suspect, he identified it as being the van's driver.


E-fit ... drawing of
previous suspect

A source close to Maddie's parents Kate and Gerry said last night the sighting was "highly significant" and added: "It could be a key breakthrough."

Maddie, of Rothley, Leics, was three when she disappeared on a family holiday in Praia da Luz, on the Algarve, on May 3 2007.

Portuguese Mr Moreira said he only recently connected his sighting with the Maddie hunt because it was 160 miles from where she vanished.

He was driving from Carregado, near Lisbon, to Alentejo on May 4 when he stopped at a snack bar in the Benavente region at 8am.

He told The Sun: "I saw a white van with the back door open. I saw a girl, lying on a pile of clothes in the back. She was wearing a two-piece pyjama set, pink and white, or yellow. I saw her back, I could see her hands and feet.

"She moved one of her fingers but she was deeply asleep. When the van door was opened, she did not wake up, as if she was drugged."

"This girl was blonde and looked around four. A woman came out of the back of the van. I noted that a strong and tall man, wearing a suit, was in front of the snack bar.

"He looked like a gipsy. He was with the woman from the van, he was younger than her. He told her off for leaving the van."

Mr Moreira said the experience stuck in his mind - but he only realised it could be useful when he saw a cop being asked on TV why roads to the north or to Spain were not blocked after Maddie vanished.

He explained: "The road I saw the van on was such a route."

He said the man he saw was clean-shaven, aged 40 to 42, fat but good-looking. The woman was 60 to 65, fat with grey hair.

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "His account is being looked into. He has done the right thing in coming forward."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2985757/I-saw-Maddie-in-pyjamas-the-day-after-she-disappeared.html#ixzz0owT0fxvL

Just read it on line in the Australian. I hadnt heard of this one either. And yes, Christabel, very interesting.

Yes, I agree with you christabel my friend, very interesting indeed.

Yes ...its just confusing when they say unreleased photofit........but then show two old photofits......

Notice that there is no description of the van, and that the identikit has not been released. I am very very curious as to the colour and make of the van.

Dianeh my friend, it says the van is white, what I would to know is the license plate of the van, and the manufacturer of the van: ford, renault, etc.

Your right, it is white. I read another article and I dont remember the van being white.

A white van appears again and again in this case.

Plus its late and I have a terrible cold. Sorry about that.

dianeh wrote:Your right, it is white. I read another article and I dont remember the van being white.

A white van appears again and again in this case.

Yes it does......

I've got a white van. Well, it's white occasionally. Not very often.

Think you are safe Sabot.......

Catkins wrote: Think you are safe Sabot.......

You really couldn't miss my van. It is such a wreck. I am nearly ashamed of it.

This article has set my positive radar twitching! I think this one is genuine, though after so long I don't know what good it will do, but hope springs eternal!

If this is a breakthrough i would imagine there is a third guy involved to.The one in the description there is fat...the one who carried her away is thin.So not the same guy who actually took her...thats if we are to belive the guy tanner saw was infact the man carrying Madeleine away.

There was a white van parked near the ocean club in the days running up to Madeleine's abduction which vanished the same time maeleine did.So this could very well be a breakthrough,i hope it is. Whos the thin guy who was seen carrying a child thought to Madeleine away from the complex? And where does he fit into this new sighting i wonder!Could it be he is a side kick of these two fattys who drive the van around??...a guy who as been given some cash to take a child?A guy who we know of??...a guy who maybe as been brought up sooo sooo many times in this case before??Someone who maybe lives nearby and can scoot off home and get an alibi from mammy because she thinks he is in bed??After all he wouldn't have had to be gone long...it only takes a few mins to run up the road and back!

Sabot wrote:

Catkins wrote: Think you are safe Sabot.......

You really couldn't miss my van. It is such a wreck. I am nearly ashamed of it.

At least no one will nick it !!

Catkins wrote:

Sabot wrote:

Catkins wrote: Think you are safe Sabot.......

You really couldn't miss my van. It is such a wreck. I am nearly ashamed of it.

At least no one will nick it !!

More's the pity. Even the insurance company wouldn't believe what a state it is in.

The weird thing is this. In the early days of Madeleine going missing, some woman on a forum (and I forgot which) said she sighted a girl in a white van (Transit van) in Blackburn, UK. This is close to the relatives of G & K in Skipton (not a great driving distance away)
and another woman on the ForMadeleine forum swears she saw a girl in a wite van (again a Transit van) in Liverpool outside a school.
She looked at the man in the driving seat, she had never seen him before and then from memory she said the girl seemed to duck down in the front seat and then the driver moved on.
Probably unrelated, but both times a white van!

That white van man has a lot to answer for!

http://droitfondamental.eu/06-Ylena_lead_to_maddie-GB.htm

it's old..but white van..

http://www.allvoices.com/news/5911720-portuguese-man-saw-missing-madeleine