Madeleine McCann: Watching The Parents
MORE no news on the Madeleine McCann case.
It is now a week since the three-year-old girl was snatched from a Portugal holiday resort.
The story has been distressing to watch on our TV screens. What it must like for the parents of Madeleine only a few can know.
BLAME
But their misery is far from complete. With no news of Madeleine, and the Portuguese police having no need to indulge the British tabloids with speculation and theory, Madeleine’s parents are the central characters.
And today’s front-page news, as reported by the caring Mirror, is: “THEY KNOW LEAVING KIDS WAS WRONG.”
Does the Mirror mean to say that Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry, now think they did the wrong thing in nipping out for a bite to eat and leaving the children in the apartment on what they thought was a secure resort?
Does the Mirror mean that the McCanns know that popping back regularly to look at their children and checking on their well being was less than perfect?
Does the Mirror mean that the McCanns realise they should not have left their children alone, just like it is wrong to leave a child in a hotel under the auspices of a baby monitoring service, to leave a child in the car while mum goes to pay for petrol, to talk to a neighbour over a garden fence while the children are indoors?
Of course this is not the Mirror’s view. Oh, no. This is Madeleine’s grandmother, Susan Healy, saying: “They know this was a mistake. But it wasn’t child neglect, it wasn’t not caring for your children.”
That she feels the need to say this is wrong. That the Mirror can lead with Madeleine’s grief-worn parents is pathetic and misguided. That the paper can talk of “people are asking why they didn’t make use of the crèche” at the resort or take the children out to dinner with them is wrong.
But the Mirror has news to write. And the police aren’t playing the game.
THEORIES
So the Mirror produces: “THE 6 THEORIES.”
Only six! Why this cautious approach? But it is all the Mirror has. And readers hear of the “PAEDOPHILE GANG”, the “LONE PAEDOPHILE”, the “JEALOUS MOTHER”, Madeleine wandering off and “DROWNED”, the “OPPORTUNIST PAEDOPHILE”, the “CHILDLESS COUPLE”.
But the Sun has more. It has 130 more. As the front-page headline screams: “MADDIE COPS HUNT 130 BRIT PAEDOS.”
The paper says “at least” 130 British paedophiles “might” have taken Madeleine McCann.
In “ALGARVE IS ‘HAVEN’ FOR PERVS”, readers learn that Portugal is a “magnet for sun-seeking perverts from Britain and the rest of Europe”.
Who knew that perverts get off on watching children at the beach?
Us And Them
But help is on its way. The Sun lists the British coppers who will go out there and see to it that justice is done. We, says the paper, are the only country with a sex offenders’ register.
All convicted perverts must inform the police of their desire to go abroad. At least 130 have. And the police are looking for them.
But – and whisper this – might it be that convicted sexual deviants don’t all tell the police what they plan to do? They are not monitored while overseas. And might it be that not all sexual predators are caught and make it to the list?
Among the policemans’ names is Detective Superintendent Graham Hill, attached to theChild Exploitation and Protection Centre. Hill is on the case. He has flown to Portugal.
Hill worked on the case of Milly Dowler. She was snatched from near Walton railway station, Surrey, in 2002. Her body was found six months later. Her killer or killers have never been caught.
Perhaps Hill’s experiences can help. Perhaps he’ll have more luck. Perhaps not.
Meanwhile, a family is distraught, and bearing up incredibly well under the strain and the merciless gaze of the newspapers…
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September 10th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
A Person…..I was being sarcastic actually….Gerry had time to tell us about his jogging, lunches with friends, dinner and swimming with the twins, haircuts, etc. Most of the time Madeleine’s name was not even mentioned.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I am not going to make any comments on what up to now is assumtions and theories,but with what I have seen of the mccanns on tv I have to say they are the most outwardly unemotional parents I have ever seen,I know they have to appear to be strong but I know for sure had it been my daughter I would not have been able to go out jogging the following day and leave my other children in the crech,I would have been out searching for her then to be accused of causing her harm still no emotion….I would have had to be sedated due to being hysterical with fear of what had happened to her,something is so very WRONG in this case.very wrong indeed….
September 10th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
are you for real star lmao
if you havnt noticed he has had abit more on his mind and time between answering questions for over 13 hrs and packing his stuff and moving back to the UK …. i mean how selfish of him not to think of updated you all on what you already know from the media.
I was at the page for support today and there was quite alot of people offering thier support still.
I am sure once they are settled back at home the web page will be updated if they manage to stay.
September 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I have a question….when trying to check the Madeleine website and clicking on the messages of support…i get a blank page. Has anyone gone there recently?
I also notice Gerry has no time to update us on what he is up to these days?
September 10th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Biological fluids” that are believed to be blood and which have an 80 per cent match with Madeleine’s DNA were found underneath the upholstery in the boot of the McCanns’ rented Renault Scenic, it was claimed today.
The sample was too badly deteriorated to make a 100 per cent match possible, according to the Diario de Noticias newspaper.
Meanwhile, detectives are understood to be searching ’specific locations’ for the body of Madeleine McCann.
So what was Madeleine doing in the car trunk, under the upholstery? Is that how the Mccanns transport their children?
It also appears to back up the theory that detectives believe the couple may have moved their daughter’s body many weeks after her disappearance.
I wonder where they kept her after she died. I mean you cant hid a body for long, no matter how small it is.
September 10th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
DNA comfirmed as Madeleines
September 10th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
so Me are you saying that the priest in the church is involved aswell ? because a body hidden in his church would smell pretty bad, and of course all of the people that use the church aswell would have noticed the smell of a decaying body it would have been there for 5 weeks at least.
Sorry but if they are guilty then i have said before i would be happy to be proofed wrong but only if the body is found and the child allowed to rest in peace, or the parents were to say that they were guilty and tell where the body is but only then.
I am in no way a detective i am going on gut feelings and the fact that from day 1 this case has not been handle properly mistakes were made that could have damaged evidence that could bring what happened to Madeleine that night to light.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Some keywords for you to remember for the future:
CHURCH - night prays all alone
Kate’s bible also “accused” by the BRITISH dogs.
Gerry admited (finally..but things tend to take some time to come out in the news…) that they sedated their children in the 3 May.
Question: what other evidence exists proving she was abducted ? Only their theory that mainly distracts the police from then main objective: finding Madeleine, they don’t want it to happen, that would be terrible for them, but will happen…soon.
Just for the future…
Conclusion: they are loving parents, that act for the cameras, always hand in hand…pretty image…really! An Oscar to them, they must nominated!
Oh, I forgot to say, and of course poor parents are being framed by BOTH polices that are concerned about tourism…
Nice thoughts, but I’am afraid you will have to accept the truth …soon.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I think emmy watches too many miss marple or murder she wrote stories, i really am amazed at how many of you suddenly hear something in the media and dont think to question it.
If you harmed your child accidentally then why cover it up as they are doctors they would know this would not work. They also would know that by telling the truth they would not be serving a life sentance for murder.
Plz people get real something in this case dosnt seem true, the blood wasnt found the first time the police done the checks surely the whole apartment should have been sealed off and everywhere searched and tested. If so why wasnt the blood found.
I really dont see the parents harming her and covering it up at all they were wrong to leave the kids but murder no.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Emmy and Me.
Well, at least they had the courtesy to finish their dinner before going off on their evening of murder, the wine must have come in handy for all the stuff you believe Gerry did. That must have made a colourful night of conversation.
For God’s sake. You have them hanged, drawn and quartered with your theories.’
Kate is a part-time GP - why would she have been wearing a gown if some of her patients died at home? Does your doctor visit you in a white coat - or maybe a bullet proof vest?
September 10th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
i have been really shocked by some of the storys on here but me you must have the most ridiculous story so far, just because he was a McCann didnt mean he wasnt searched when travelling unless your saying your security is that bad of course then that night anyone could of got Maddie out unnoticed.
Also with all of these stories you have not gave a motive, so say it was accidental death how and why?
if they drugged her how did the blood get on the wall?
If they killed her by hitting her then why was there no blood on the carpets or bed?
how did they hide a body for that 5 weeks without anyone finding it it would be really smelling by then and then they moved the body to where.
And if thats the case are all the people that are there to help her and the media involved because in the last few months niether Kate or Gerry could blow thier noses without a reporter telling the world.
Or are you saying that they had people helping them.
why would Gerrys sister say that Kate was offered a deal if this was not true?
I think that to bad mouth the McCanns now was a ploy to stop the tourist trade being disturbed anymore and a law suit against the media would have made things worse.
So when they had decided this was going to happen and the McCanns gave a statement to the fact all of a sudden they were suspects.
In the UK the parents would at some time be suspects this normally happens first but i feel this was done more as a tourist trade save. The locals had said they wanted the McCanns out and they are now out.
I did think that something strange was going on with the McCanns but i feel stronger towards something stranger going on with the way this case has been treated police messed up at the start and have been making mistakes ever since, i really have no faith in the portugal police system i think they need to train more on abduction cases or missing child cases so they are able to deal better when and if something like this happens again.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Many points here…and what is worse is that during their holidays their were seen by other locals and tourists, in pubs around Lagos which is 8 Km away! After dinner. Obviously they knew the children would not wake up! I believe the church “knows” many things and was possible a good place to hide a body. When people say “blood” spots in the car I’ve also read “body fluids”. I believe the Mccanns are trying to throw everything they can against the police, a the issue about the so “called” deal proves that they are really desperate. It was impossible for the police to offer a “deal” because that is against the law, the police would be in trouble. So, in a case like this, do you think the police would be so naive ? They tried that maybe because in England that is possible, but not here, if there is a crime, consequences go until de end, no “deals”. They are incriminating themselves each time they open their mouths although they have assistants and all that team around. What should be really important, finding Maddie is nor forgotten in Portugal, police continue to search…everyday, every minute, the Mccanns just don’t know it, or don’t want to, because they want the police to look for Maddie ALIVE, but as the police already eliminated all the other possibilities, the only remaining is Maddie is dead. And they don’t like that because all evidence points to them and the group, all starting with their awfull negligence which was noticed by everybody in the Ocean Club and around. Thank God not all English people are like that!
If the police was looking for Maddie alive that would give them more time to make more money, spend more time in holidays, and of course, more time to the body to decompose. Because when the police finds the body they’ll have to analyze and then the all truth will rise. The more time they gain…the better.
I just hope they did not do like some awful crimes I’ve read about, when people are so desperate that they cut the body (sorry to be so graphic) and separate the parts for several places, or burn. It would not be a very good image to imagine Gerry transporting …..in his travels …..separated pieces, GOD Help us, if they are guilty, at least not that way, but then I don’t know, we never know anything in this cases, people are capable of anything when they are desperate and lost, in a foreign country, with other children to take care, with their carriers…
September 10th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
i think…. kate wud have come back to give her another dose b4 8… gerry comes back and finds maddie dead… so he panicks…
obv he would have tried 2 revive her… tht wud explain the blood on the window seal and cuddle cat… cus he wud have had it on her hands..
Maybe she fitted n bit her tongue to bleed?!? He picked her up n put her under the sofa… then went back.. told his mate to go see cus his daughter was ‘’sick” .. yehhh right…
Neway he would have tried 2 revive her with adrenaline… not worked he moved the body….!! Obv sumwhere… dunno tho!! if not it was gerry who picked up the body and took her out of the holiday complex!!
Weeks later they get the car.. go to pick up her body and take her to the sea?!
If nt… straight to the sea… blood n hair could have been from maddies pjamas… cus they would have stripped her naked to dump her so they cant identify her..
Think of it this way?! Why the hell would Kate have been near dead ppl in normal clothes?!?! She WOULDNT!! she would have been wearing a gown or something!!
Maddie wud have had to been dead near 7.. cus they left for food at 730
It was a friend of theirs… i reckon tht obv gerry ran sumwhere with her say at 9:10 with her.. then got a friend to say they saw sum1 at 10:45!!
Maybe used murats car?! cus they took that to ”look for maddie” then framed him for the murder/kidnapping!
September 10th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
You know what shocks me… Not the fact that maddies mum is a suspect, i believed that all along!!
The thing is i don’t think that Kate has bonded with her son!! Every picture of her shes carrying her little daughter or holding her hand… Even pictured playing with her daughter!!! The picture on front of paper shes holding her.. shes closest to her daughter on the plane journey home!!
What kind of mother is she?! I mean come on yeh she might have killed her daughter or part of an abduction… but why is she so cold towards her son?! Ive never seen anything like it before!!
Try and show me a picture of her with her son!? + they always put their children in a play group… like ALL the time!!
What kind of parents are they?!… I want them to be arrested for neclect!!! Any other parent would get years for it!!
September 10th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
LONDON — Portuguese police are expected to give prosecutors papers Monday outlining their case against Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of their 4-year-old daughter, Britain’s Press Association reported.
Prosecutor Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses then will decide whether to bring charges against the McCanns, the Press Association said, quoting Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa, spokesman for the Portuguese police inquiry.
This is why i find it hard to believe they let the Mccanns go home. Now they are gonna decide whether to charge them? IMO gramma or some other family member should of went for the twins and the Mccanns should not of been allowed to leave. I think the police have more on them. Maybe they are waiting on a confession. I can hear Gerry now…Kate did it and i didnt know…..
September 10th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
And a little more …from 34 minutes ago in a newspaper “Correio da Manhã”. Kate refused to answer many questions and lost control. Witnesses state that there were moments of agressivity towards the children. Gerry was away many times and left Kate alone, so she was most of the time alone to take care of them. Gerry did not deny but did not answer and asked for evidence. The investigations are continuing in Lagos, the witnesses may be called again.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Some questions…food for thought:
After the alert was on and everybody looking for Maddie, PJ, GNR, local people, tourists, (starting 11 pm..) why did Kate phone her mother to tell Maddie was taken and that they were all ALONE ?
Why did Gerry need a priest at 1 am ?
Why did Gerry need a church at 4 am ?
Why did the couple phone first to their friends in the British media and much after to the police ?
Why are they recruiting now the lawer that handled the case of Pinochet extradition, who is a speciallist in extraditions ? Who is paying that lawer ?
Madeleine’s Fund ?
September 10th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
May I remember that since the very beginning, the case is being handled by the Portuguese police and the BRITISH police ? If they are being framed they are being framed by BOTH polices ?
Some witnesses also afirm to have seen moments of agressivity from the parents to their children…
They were in Portugal already 5-6 days and the children were left alone EVERY NIGHTS. It was the services from the Ocean Club that suggested them to use the babysitting services during the day and night because they thought it was strange for them to leave the kids alone everynight. The services during the day were included in the amount paid by the holidays, and the babysitting at night is until 1 am, paid from 11pm until 1am. They refused everytime. But even though they should have some money to pay babysitting, considering the 14 bottles of wine and each bottle being around 6 pounds each…
And I can remember too, that all the investigations is being paid with the taxes of all the portuguese people.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I do not believe the mcanns killed their child i have read up on the facts and i just cant figure out how they would have hid her body for a month and then moved her into the car. Ok look at it this way the mcanns went out to dinner sometime within this dinner they just wanted to kill there child hmmm odd then afterwards they hide there child and go back to dinner then when the meals done kate screams the news is now involved with everyone and some the mcanss have hid her body and then there is a search they must have hid her in a pretty god damn good place even though they hardly knew there way around portigal and couldnt have carried her far without a car and if they did they would have been seen so mannaged to hide her for a month then got a hire car and chucked her in the boot of the car oh yeah great story I support the mcanns all the way they did not kill there child. Portugese police r just trying to pin it on them coz they know britains involved and know that they needed to do something!!!!!!
September 10th, 2007 at 2:12 am
UNBELIEVABLE…..
BATAVIA, Ohio — A police report indicates that an Ohio woman had left her 2-year-old daughter alone in a car on previous occasions prior to the girl’s death, reported WLWT-TV in Cincinnati. Brenda Nesselroad-Slaby will not face criminal charges for leaving her daughter Cecelia Slaby in a hot sport-utility vehicle Aug. 23 for more than eight hours, the Clermont County prosecutor’s office said. Nesselroad-Slaby’s attorney, R. Scott Croswell III, has said that she became distracted from her normal routine of dropping Cecilia at a baby-sitter’s house because she stopped to buy doughnuts for a faculty meeting, then forgot about the girl when she unloaded the doughnuts from the back of the vehicle.
Union Township police released security camera video on Tuesday that showed that Nesselroad-Slaby returned to the SUV five times during the day, and once moved the SUV to another location in the parking lot.
And guess what…..She got off with NOTHING!!! How do you leave a child in a car, return to the car 5 times, move the care and STILL forget there is a baby in it?
I know this is off topic, but another example of a parent leaving a child. something
September 10th, 2007 at 1:42 am
I believe the parents went for dinner, and from what I have read from police statements they drank 14 bottles of wine between them and friends, 8 bottles of read and 6 bottles of white wine. This is wht was on there dinner bill statement. I believe the mother went back to check on the children and found that little Madeleine had woken and her mother has sedated her, so she could return to dinner, and due to being under the Influnence of Allcohol he has Accidentally killed her by overdosing her.
September 9th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
The issue about the 40 questions is in the british media (telegraph) and it was also the first time in the history of our country that 2 persons are called to speak to the police in the quality of WITNESSES and take a lawer, really weird, and tell it all.
They can leave the country because for now they are only suspects and have to inform there residence to the police. They tactically gave their address in England and the next day they went away so that that can contact the British government, the Foreign Secretary. So for them being in England or Portugal is the same, except there they are closer to their contacts, they are under surveillance and portuguese police may do investigations in England as well as in Portugal or call them back. But that must be decided by a judge which did not happen because it was weekend. They are not escaping anything also because there is no way they can, anytime the charge may be issued and things change. It’s only a matter of time, after the other results arrive, if they confirm the police line of investigation, they’ll have to return. The police knows since day 4…evidence point towards them since the very beginning, but evidence needs confirmation, and so, just in case there could be doubts, the dogs, tests, investigations and the all process is being made TOGETHER WITH THE BRITISH POLICE. So there is no way of speaking of set-ups, and things like that. Which would be a crime, right ? We only know that our police does not play around with serious matters, they do their very low profile jobs and the results appear. They don’t talk much, first, because they can’t and then ….because that way they would help the criminals find their way out… what really devastated the Mccanns was not knowing anything about what was going on on their back…the police kept saying they were not suspects, they seemed worried about that and only that, poor Maddie was almost forgotten and then, there they go as witnesses and take lawers ??? Strange thing.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
The Car that was tested was the car that they hired after Maddie had disappeared 5 weeks after I think, so I have no idea why it was tested, seems to me that we are still no closer to finding Madeleine but as the McCann’s have left Portugal they have noone there pushing them into doing anything.
I cannot see them allowing the McCann’s to leave the country if they were near to charging them, they had nothing and were just clutching at any straws but what they did achieve was to get the whole world pointing the finger at the McCann’s so that the law suit they were about to take out on the Portuguese media is less credible, coincidence maybe one week they were not suspects and were not going to be then the law suit claim and they are suspects the next day or 2.
sorry about double posts
September 9th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
The Car that was tested was the car that they hired after Maddie had disappeared 5 weeks after I think, so I have no idea why it was tested, seems to me that we are still no closer to finding Madeleine but as the McCann’s have left Portugal they have none their pushing them into doing anything.
I cannot see them allowing the McCann’s to leave the country if they were near to charging them, they had nothing and were just clutching at any straws but what they did achieve was to get the whole world pointing the finger at the McCann’s so that the law suit they were about to take out on the Portuguese media is less credible, coincidence maybe one week they were not suspects and were not going to be then the law suit claim and they are suspects the next day or 2.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
me…..did you notice how many times we were told the Mccanns stopped in at the church for 10 minutes to pray for Maddie and spent the rest of the day swimming, running, having lunch, doing interviews, going to the zoo, lunch and dinner with friends?
Also they attended separately? Didnt that one guy that has dreams say something about a church? I could be wrong. I dont think they hid Maddie any where alive, cause they would not have left. Did anyone check children of that age that were going to the UK during the time Maddie has been missing? One can only wonder what happen to her
September 9th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
it is the car the Mccanns were currently using? I thought it said in one article that they car they left in to go to the airport was the same one that had the blood?
I just wonder how the Mccanns will spend their days now? No one to pay their way? But i’m sure someone is watching them
September 9th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
just wondering why was the hire car tested when it was not even there when little madeleine went missing..
September 9th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
If it turns out that the Mccanns were involved in Maddie’s disappearance dont you think it would be wise for someone to keep an eye on the twins?
I mean i dont think they would set out to hurt Maddie, but if something did happen.
I dont see why the police did all that questioning and then let them leave. It doesnt make much sense, but then again does much in this case make sense?
The main question is where is Maddie and what happen to her.
Was it her blood in the car trunk? In the cupboard? Was she alive and well when Kate and Gerry went to dinner that night? Why was she crying in the room? Did someone really take her? What happen to the phone, text and email records the police had? What was the BIG evidence the police had? What happen to the search and arrests in UK? What happen to something will happen in 48 hours? The only think that happen is Kate and Gerry took the twins and went home?
September 9th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Me
Where are you getting your information from
what 40 questions did they not answer?
Did the dogs find the DNA in the car i thought it was just to the carpark and the stuff on the apartment walls the stuff from the car came later i thought.
Just wondering where you seem to be getting this information about the interview with Kate and Gerry is it fact or media here say or just made up from here.
If they killed Madeleine i would be happy to be proved wrong, but one persons life has been ruined by the portugaul polices not closing off the crime scence and not being able to cope with child abduction and i hope they dont go ruining 4 more, the twins have lost thier sister they dont need to lose thier parents too because the police in portugaul couldnt work out what happened to a little girl.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Another very strange thing….The Mccanns are catholics…by the 3rd May their holidays were ending , they were in Portugal for almost a week. In the 3rd May, by 11:30 pm after the disappearance, Gerry asks at the Ocean Club for someone to call the priest. As it was too late they said they could not do that, maybe later on… SO Gerry asked a policeman to show him the way to the church ? That means that during the past days they never went to church, they started to go…after it all happened, then they got the key from the anglican priest so that they could pray alone…
So…in conclusion they became “more” catholics after that night, because after almost one week there they did not know the way to th church which is really near…
And they need to pray alone, inside the church everytime they want. But, help me here.. isn’t God everywhere ??