Madeleine McCann: Gerry On The Telly And It Could Be U
“MADELEINE: It’s not too late says mum.”
The front page of the Express contains a “Dramatic Plea”.
But it’s not dramatic so much as it is desperate. “It’s not too late, please give her back,” says Kate McCann.
As ever the Express tells readers that Mrs McCann is a GP. Gerry McCann, we learn is a “consultant cardiologist”.
Says she: “Every day is hard. Every day is very difficult… The important thing is getting Madeleine back and we hope that what we are doing increases the chance of that.”
What’s The Story?
Indeed, that is the important thing. It is the only thing. But the press want more.
Says Gerry McCann: “We have a mix of very positive days, when we have done big things and achieved things or big events with the campaign, but we are aware these things are secondary.”
He’s right. Of course he is. But the press have been pointing fingers at the police, gawping at “creepy” men, listening to anyone with a paedophile story, looking for bodies and signs. They have not been on the trail of Madeleine. They follow the McCanns around, first Spain, then Germany, then the UK, the Vatican and Morocco. They are watching the parents. The parents are the story. And we are invited to look on like voyeurs.
We can wear braclets. Find Madeleine is this year’s Make Poverty History campaign.
Infotainment
The Sun says Gerry McCann is to appear at the Edinburgh TV Festival. No, not because he’s given us hours of great telly. Although he is taking the slot once occupied by Simon Cowell and Michael Barrymore. Gerry will be “quizzed” by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Walk on the media campaign to find Madeleine McCann.
Peter Barron, organiser of the event, rated the Find Madeleine campaign a “new and moving phenomenon”. What was that about good telly?
But it’s scaring the children. The Star says an appeal to find Madeleine is being screened before cinema showings of U-rated Shrek The Third.
Children with faces full of popcorn and crisps hear that Madeleine was “snatched” from her bed. “Madeleine’s parents are devastated, but they haven’t given up hope.”
A mum says it’s “unfair” to show this to children. “It makes them fear that they too could be abducted.”
It spreads the fear. It creates anxiety. And it shows no sign whatsoever of finding Madeleine nor the person or persons who might have taken her…
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July 11th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Have these friends of the McCanns been in Portugal this whole time? If so, was it at the request of the police? If so, that’s pretty weird in itself unless they’re under suspicion; after all why else would they be requested to stay? It’s been over two months now.
July 11th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Cathy, just thought I should correct what seems like a misunderstanding in your posting, The Mcanns friends have been called in to go through the final days. This would be very normal in situations like this. It does not mean that they are being questioned as suspects, it means that if there is a suspect then it is even more crucial that the witness statements is absolutely accurate and in light of any new evidence it is necessary to expand the questioning of any witnessess.
July 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
..If you really want to help with the campaign to help find Madeline there is a website that you could visit to do so. These people are looking for people who will help keep the profile of Madeline high.- please get in touch BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO:-
helpingtofindmadeleine@hotmail.co.uk.
THE MORE PEOPLE WHO SATURATE THE WORLD WITH DETAILS OF THIS CASE THE BETTER CHANCE THERE IS OF FINDING MADELINE.
July 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
If you really want to help with the campaign to help find Madeline there is a website that you could visit to do so. These people are looking for people who will help keep the profile of Madeline high.- please get in touch BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO:-
helpingtofindmadeleine@hotmail.co.uk.
THE MORE PEOPLE WHO SATURATE THE WORLD WITH DETAILS OF THIS CASE THE BETTER CHANCE THERE IS OF FINDING MADELINE.
July 11th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I have said from the very begining of this case - from day one - the body language of Gerry McCann is not that of a daddy with his little daughter missing - just read news that Mcanns mates have been called in for questioning - Oh and on the Friends reunited profile of Gerry Mccann it seems like a couple of years ago he was job hunting - made it good quick or what?? or owes a lot from keeping up with the Jones?? we may never know
July 11th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Hi Cher - good to ’see’ you again
Are you well? I’ve missed my old sparring partner!!
Rosita - support in this context means to give financial assistance … at some time this week they did announce, via a spokesman, that they were now starting to pay out from the fund - mainly legal fees.
July 11th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I stopped thinking about this for a few days as it was starting to really affect me mentally.
Everytime i saw a little girl all i could think about was what that poor child may have been going through.
I have really started to believe one of the storys i felt back in the beginning of the forum was way to far out to be true about how they may have her hidden away ready for one day to have her returned to them publicly and they all live happily ever after on the fund but after this was put into the papers it was to much of a coincidence for it to happen so they had to go back to another plan.
That idea is possible as they had enough time to have her whisked away by friends as they dined at the tapas bar with alibis and another friend of thiers could have taken her out of the country hours before the alert was called out and have her back in the uk with them.
I just hope that she is safe and if that story ever turns out to be true then i hope they rot in hell when they are caught.
I have done a complete turn around on this case because the Family seem very strange in the way they have reacted to Maddies abduction.
July 11th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Probably means the same as “keep them in the manner to which they have become accustomed”.
That money will, I am sure, be miraculously used up at the end of all this.
July 11th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Molly, in FindMadeleine.com they say that ” the funds will be used to help find Madeleine M….., SUPPORT HER FAMILY and bring the abductors to justice.”
What does the word support mean in English?
July 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Hi Anna, Molly
That’s been my question all along “They’ve taken her” suggests a THEY, not a “SOMEONE’s taken my child” implies that there had been a previous threat to take Madeleine.
Anna you’re point that there was already a female child asleep in the room, ( a twin) is most relevant and does not make any sense at all to what Mrs McCannes called out.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
OK here’s another weird connection: Malinka’s business partner is Matthew Fazakerley (of Flikr) who happens to live in Leicester. The Mccanns live near Leicester of course, and Jane Tanner (the MccCann friend who reported seeing a man carrying a child that night) is a Leicester-based website designer.
These coincidences probably don’t mean anything at all but they’re certainly interesting.
The Murat connection with Leicestershire is apparently that he did some property dealing there. Don’t the McCanns have more than one property? Could be another coincidence of course …. lets not get carried away.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Something else has just occurred - when Kate McCann ran back to the group shouting that Madeleine had been snatched, why did she say ‘ they’ve taken her’, rather than ‘they’ve taken Maddie’? In the absence of any evidence of what had happened, ‘they’ is weird enough, but what about ‘her’, when there were apaprently two girls sleeping there that night? Surely you’d shout ‘Maddie’s gone’, ‘Maddie’s not there’ or ‘I can’t find Maddie’?
Another thing, why did Gerry McCann tell the press her name was Madeleine not Maddie when apparently he calls her Maddie on his Friends Reunited page? If she answers to Maddie why would he not want people to call her this?
July 11th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Rosita -
Mr McCann is on compassionate leave from his job - he is receiving full pay, and will continue to do so for at least 6 months. His employers will pay his ‘replacement’, not him… this is how our Health Service works.
Mrs McCann is a locum doctor (she ‘fills in’ for other doctors on holiday or sick and just gets paid for the hours of work that she does - she does not work full time).
So their income is just the same as normal.
Granted that staying in Portugal may cause additional living expenses - but weren’t they offered free accommodation by Sir Cliff Richard?
July 11th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
i agree. poor little girl. i think about her every single day and hope that she’s okay. i also saw that link to leicestershire and found it intersting - to me, there is something else going on here, i don’t know what it is but it all just seems weird. the illegal adoption is a thought. i remember the grand mother saying “give her back she doesn’t belong to you”… and the uncles first interview saying “she’sa lovely girl, bit difficult at times but what interesting kid isn’t” - i found that odd to say about a little neice who had been potentially abducted by paedophiles or something….
July 11th, 2007 at 11:59 am
John, about the money,
It is possible that the Mccanns are not allowed to leave Portugal as long as the police don’t solve the problem.They are the last ones who saw Madeleine before she disappeared.They must have found two doctors to substitut them in UK and they have to pay a high salary to them and they can not live from the left overs.And they still have their normal costs in England and costs in Portugal.That is probably why they raised the fund.I still think this is a terrible tragic story. Poor little Madeleine.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:57 am
It’s all so odd. Surely if someone was ‘after them’, the McCanns would have had an inkling of this, so they would have taken far more care of their children, ie babysitters or at the very least, locking them in at night when they went out? And no way would Kate have left Sean and Amelie on their own again while she rushed out to look for Madeleine? If her first reaction was ‘they’ve taken her’ (they???), how on earth could she have guessed ‘they’ wouldn’t come back to snatch the other two? Even in all the chaos and shock, surely one thing wouldn’t leave you - the mother’s instinct - which would be at an all-time high at a time like this - so you’d cling onto what you still have: your other two babies.
A bizarre idea struck me this morning - what if Madeleine wasn’t conceived by IVF at all but had been adopted (illegally) from abroad? And the real parents had lost her to a kidnap, and wanted her back?
Another thing - I saw on another forum a reference to the ‘third party connection to Murat’ being somone in Leicestershire. I don’t know where the origin of this story comes from but if true, then the suspicion could be that the connection is between Murat and the McCanns - in other words they, or one of their friends, have known him all along.
I see three of their friends have been pulled in again for questioning today - ostensibly to clarify the original evidence they gave, but who knows what else for?
Or perhaps most of us are barking mad here and everything is exactly as it’s been presented. No doubt all will eventually be revealed, hopefully with an alive, well Madeleine back in the care of people who don’t go on to neglect her again in sucg a frankly outrageous way.
And on that subject, does anybody reading this forum know ANYONE who would leave three small children in an unlocked apartment and then go somewhere 50 metres away completely out of sight to eat, drink and be merry? I certainly don’t, and a lot of my friends are extremely laid-back parents by anyone’s standards - only they wouldn’t do that.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I had wondered about an ex patient’s aggrieved relatives too.
Possibly the PJ* have searched through patients’ medical records * or UK Police?
July 11th, 2007 at 11:24 am
We don’t actually know that it was planned though do we? That is the impression which the ‘abducted from the apartment’, ’snatched from her bed’ scenario seems to suggest - but as of now we still have no proof that Madeleine even went missing in this way.
I must admit that I also considered this possibility Lisa - although more in terms of them having done someone a disservice (referred another mother to social services perhaps, or a relative of someone who died on the operating table). In the end I decided that I was beginning to think like an episode of Messiah and went back to basics lol.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:05 am
All right, I apologise. I can actually see what you mean now.
At the start I thought it might have been one of the party they were with who was involved since they would know the routines etc. What you’re suggesting is definitely a motive.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:48 am
suspicious minds..
think you mis-read my message. i said someone may have been jealous of them before hand? no-one would want to be in their situation now which is exactly what i am suggesting. think i may have touched a nerve there though as you jumped dowm my throat without reading my message properly. it is possible that the person who took madeleine wanted to put them in this position and it has worked hasn’t it as people are angry at them and they are getting a slating. i am also annoyed at them for putting madeleine throught this. can you not see it from that perspective? it was planned obviously - so well planned that the police haven’t got a clue where she is, so this would have taken time and so it is likely it was someone who knew them before hand and maybe had a disliking towards them for some reason, maybe they wanted to see them suffer? to me it makes perfect sense - and that is my opinion -you have yours and i have mine.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Oh yes Lisa, we are all jealous of the McCanns. We all wish our children could have been kidnapped. Get real.
Some of us are just wondering how it is that THEY have done something wrong (that is the bottom line, they neglected their children), yet they manage to get the media circus eating out of their hands and turn it round so that anybody who is even the slightest bit critical of them is jumped on. How have they managed to make the nation feel such guilt and sadness when countless other children are going missing every day.
They are over-exposed. Yes they are doing whatever they can to try to get their poor daughter back. Unfortunately the personality of Mr Mc under normal circumstances would appear to be exaggerated in these times of stress and they are not coming over well to me at all.
We are all different and we all act differently and have different opinions. This is not necessarily because we are jealous.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Renee
I think if they had been ordinary working class people they would have been ripped to bits by the media - but Doctors? Oh no, they couldn’t be wrong, they must have our symapathy. As I have said before - Harold Shipman was a doctor too.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:52 am
To put this in perspective, would any parent leave their children asleep in their beds with the doors unlocked while they went to the shop around the corner or indeed the pub up the street? I think no is the answer here. If the McCann’s were working class people with no connections to the media would all the coverage of this still take place? No. If Mrs. McCann were not an attractive working professional would the interest remain? No is this answer.
If anyone less successful or attractive with no media connections had left their children alone the media and public would have denounced them as irresponsible and that they deserved it.
A bit of balance is important, a bit more awareness about other children abducted is important. The advert before Shrek 3 is so inappropriate as if we are all responsible for the McCann’s child’s safety.
Of course I hope and pray that Maddy is alive and well and that she will be returned to her family. She is the one who is suffering or who has suffered. I hope someone will turn up something soon. For everyone’s sake and most of all her’s.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:50 am
For the Person asking what a Chav is
The word Chav was made up by a group of girls trying to explain the boys in thier town which was Chav =Council House and Vilolent but
What is a Chav?
‘chav’ (slang) - a young person, often without a high level of education, who follows a particular fashion; Chavs usually wear designer labels including the chav favourite ‘Burberry’, and if they’re girls, very short skirts, large hoop earrings and stilettos.
Chavs see branded baseball caps as a status symbol and wear them at every opportunity. Normally found hanging around shopping centres.
Also known as Townies, Kevs, Hood Rats, Charvers, Steeks, Stigs, Bazzas, Yarcos, Ratboys, Chorer, Skangers, Scutters, Janners, Kappa Slappers, Scallies, and Spides. Also known as Neds in Scotland, knackers & skangers in Ireland, and Guidos in the USA
Real meaning of Chav is derieved from a Romany Gypsy word Chavvy meaning Bloke
July 11th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Don’t take this as Gospel, because I haven’t had the time to check it out properly yet, but I have heard that the latest media stories in respect of the cancelled PJ vacation time, and yesterday’s re-interview of Murat were both released to the press by a McCann family spokesperson rather than the PJ themselves.
If this is true then one has to ask why?
July 10th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Someone asked what chav meant, Council Housed And Violent.
The Petition to Gordon Brown could have been started by anyone, its on the Number 10 website, and anyone can petition the PM for anything, so maybe not read too much into Gordon Brown’s personal involvment. I signed one today about a mosque that Red ken wants built
July 10th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
i have thought about madeleine and her disappearance so many times - is it not possible that their perfect lives (obviously not so perfect now) being doctors, having a big home, money, 3 healthy chidren, good looking people etc upset someone so much that they decided that they wanted some of their happiness or were simply jealous of them and decided to ruin it all for them?? maybe they felt they didn’t deserve all that happiness… i know i sound like morse but being objective about this family and seeing how some people feel about them (quite honestly i think some people like to see successful people suffer whatever they say the reason is that they don’t like them) i think it could be as simple as that. but … where the hell is madeleine?
July 10th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I have come across this discussion board , whilst having a look for any news updates on maddie mcCann.
I am discusted that you sad low lives are sat there critisising maddies parents . Do you have children?????? would you not go to any lengths to find your missing child. The adverts do seem a little unnecessary But they are just keeping that poor little 4year old girls memory in our minds so we do not forget the search and those who have donated to help in the search can follow its progress.
And to be honest there hasnt been much publicity for a while on the subject…….and i for one whould like to see that little girl found and back with her loving parents!
July 10th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
But please God Anna she will be found alive. I believe she will be. Somehow I do.
July 10th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Coffee, I totally agree with you that people can be charged and found guilty without hard evidence - lamentably it happens all the time.
I happen to know someone whose brother knows Barry George (in jail for killing Jill Dando) quite well, he swore blind at the time that the Barry George he knew couldn’t possibly have done it. As a child I wrote to Sydney Silverman (Shadow Home Secretary at the time) to plead for James Hanratty. I subscribe to a couple of conspiracy sites (9-11, 7/7) and don’t think ‘Al Qaeda’ was behind 9-11, or if they were, are not what we’re being told they are. But neither do I believe that everything is a conspiracy…
OK, in this case if Madeleine is found dead, then someone or a group of people could well be falsely charged and imprisoned, but if she’s found alive then the chances are she’ll be found in the company of the people holding her, in which case it would stand to reason they’d catch the right people. If only her body is found (god forbid) then yes, someone or some people could be falsely accused just so they can get a conviction. I agree with you - it happens all the time.