News and current affairs from the Portuguese Algarve.

[Brietta]

Try the Lisbon case.

Can you be a bit more specific?

[ShiningInLuz]

Can you be a bit more specific?

3 'bodies in rubbish bins' stories.

Madeleine McCann - not found.

8 month old child in Lisbon rubbish centre - body found.  Mother got 7 years and 10 months.  I don't know all the details because it's a pay-site.

Soldier in the UK tracked to a rubbish dump via his mobile.  Body not found.

[misty]

3 'bodies in rubbish bins' stories.

Madeleine McCann - not found.

8 month old child in Lisbon rubbish centre - body found.  Mother got 7 years and 10 months.  I don't know all the details because it's a pay-site.

Soldier in the UK tracked to a rubbish dump via his mobile.  Body not found.

I think this is the sort of story to be highlighted, not those where foul play is involved.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4244502/UK-woman-faces-trial-burial-husband-Portugal.html

[misty]

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Video interview of German couple who found the missing 7 year old in Luz.
The lad was crying & screaming....broad daylight......so if Madeleine woke & wandered why did no-one hear her in the dark?

[Angelo222]

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Video interview of German couple who found the missing 7 year old in Luz.
The lad was crying & screaming....broad daylight......so if Madeleine woke & wandered why did no-one hear her in the dark?

You make a big assumption there.  Not every child cries and screams when looking for their parents.

[Angelo222]

I think this is the sort of story to be highlighted, not those where foul play is involved.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4244502/UK-woman-faces-trial-burial-husband-Portugal.html

Typical overreaction by the Portuguese authorities, this woman is to be pitied and not punished. Typical daughter too sticking her ore in after the man had died of cancer.  Why has it taken her eight months to suddenly be concerned?

[G-Unit]

Typical overreaction by the Portuguese authorities, this woman is to be pitied and not punished. Typical daughter too sticking her ore in after the man had died of cancer.  Why has it taken her eight months to suddenly be concerned?

I'm sure she was aware that she couldn't just bury someone wherever she liked.

[misty]

You make a big assumption there.  Not every child cries and screams when looking for their parents.

So Mrs Fenn was mistaken then.............

[slartibartfast]

So Mrs Fenn was mistaken then.............

So she was looking for her parents on the Tuesday/Wednesday as well?

[Angelo222]

So Mrs Fenn was mistaken then.............

A good point but you cannot assume that her actions outside would have been the same as those inside given the different stimuli.

[Brietta]

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Video interview of German couple who found the missing 7 year old in Luz.
The lad was crying & screaming....broad daylight......so if Madeleine woke & wandered why did no-one hear her in the dark?

In the still of the night had Madeleine been distressed enough to cry out I'm sure someone would have heard her.

I'm intrigued as to why the couple didn't phone the police with the boy's information rather than taking him to them in Faro?

[Angelo222]

In the still of the night had Madeleine been distressed enough to cry out I'm sure someone would have heard her.

I'm intrigued as to why the couple didn't phone the police with the boy's information rather than taking him to them in Faro?

They only took him down the road to the PSP post in Lagos.   Faro is much further away.  One would have thought that in the middle of the day in summer that a busy resort like Praia da Luz would have had a police presence somewhere locally?

[Brietta]

They only took him down the road to the PSP post in Lagos.   Faro is much further away.  One would have thought that in the middle of the day in summer that a busy resort like Praia da Luz would have had a police presence somewhere locally?

Lagos it is, Angelo.

Even if there was no police presence ... a phone call would have got the police there within minutes.  Surely while one was calming him down the other could have made the call.  It would have saved time all round.

Just shows that people don't always react as one would expect in any given situation.

[ShiningInLuz]

Tomás Revez, aged 4, died in the early hours of Wed, 2 Aug 2017, after falling from a balcony in Tavira, Algarve, late on Tuesday night.

The boy was with his grandma in her home while the father worked in a café he owned nearby.  The parents had split up and the mother lives in Olhão.

Grandma went to make some toast for the boy.  While she was doing that the child decided to go upstairs to play with their dog on the veranda.  He overbalanced and fell a total of about 6 metres.

Emergency services were quickly on the scene and the boy was still alive.  He was rushed to Faro hospital, but soon succumbed to his injuries.

http://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/crianca-de-4-anos-cai-de-terraco-e-morre?ref=HP_Grupo1  has more + photos of the boy and the block.

[ShiningInLuz]

"The 15% drop in the value of the pound after London (sic) decided to leave the European Union is alienating the British from the Algarve.  In July alone, hotels registered 56 thousand less English tourists than a year earlier."

More at http://www.dn.pt/dinheiro/interior/brexit-tira-56-mil-ingleses-do-algarve-mas-ha-mais-turistas-alemaes-8702578.html

Portuguese down, French down, Germans up.  Perhaps I should be learning the 'courtesy' words in German.