The Sun, Daily Star, and Daily Mirror Have Different Quote

"Have you got the girl?"/"Have you got the child?"

All of Friday's front pages: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Fridays-Papers---Newspaper-Front-Pages-Friday-August-7-2009/Media-Gallery/200908115355933?lpos=Home_News_in_Picture_UK_News_Region_0&lid=GALLERY_15355933_Fridays_Papers_-_Newspaper_Front_Pages_Friday%2C_August_7%2C_2009

Bluj, this just gets worse and worse.

It does look like came from a leak, as if it were a direct quote, it wouldnt be changing as it appears in different papers.

I'm beyond disgusted, Diane. It's so upsetting. I can't believe the sieve. I wonder if the differences are a matter of translation, the Sun and the Mirror and Star hedging its bets, etc.?

I'm still playing catch up, but I dont believe the woman said what has been printed. If this does have anything to do with Madeleine's abduction, the woman was obviously in contact with someone to arrange a meeting point, that being the case surely she would have known who she had to look out for. I find it a bit incomprehensible for her to ask a complete stranger, "do you have the girl". that is some chance to take and it would ring most normal peoples alarm bells.

There is obviously a very good reason as to why they are not disclosing the contents of her conversation, otherwise why would they not release the details for operational purposes ?. Just what was said in that conversation, I think it is more specific then what has been published.

I thought it was stated she said more than one line...she is suppose to have said somethign along the lines of..''have you got her..have you got my new daughter...have you got the child''.

3 times she asked the witness if he had her before walking off towards another bar.

Thats maybe why different news papers are choosing to use different parts of what she said.I could be wrong of course.

Lets assume for a minute that the leak about the content of the conversation came out of Portugal. Very hard to picture,but just hang in there a moment and concentrate very hard.

The original witness spoke English. this was translated to Portuguese and then translated back to English again. That is why they different quotes are similar, but slightly different.

Just my opinion of course, but we have seen this a number of times already.

dianeh wrote:Lets assume for a minute that the leak about the content of the conversation came out of Portugal. Very hard to picture,but just hang in there a moment and concentrate very hard.

The original witness spoke English. this was translated to Portuguese and then translated back to English again. That is why they different quotes are similar, but slightly different.

Just my opinion of course, but we have seen this a number of times already.

Diane, I find it hard to assume for a micro-second, never mind a minute that the leak came out of Portugal.

calcite51 wrote:

dianeh wrote:Lets assume for a minute that the leak about the content of the conversation came out of Portugal. Very hard to picture,but just hang in there a moment and concentrate very hard.

The original witness spoke English. this was translated to Portuguese and then translated back to English again. That is why they different quotes are similar, but slightly different.

Just my opinion of course, but we have seen this a number of times already.

Diane, I find it hard to assume for a micro-second, never mind a minute that the leak came out of Portugal.

Nah those highly trained PJ Elite the third best police force in the world, they would never leak would they?