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 18th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
This is so weird…
On the early hours of that day, after the first journalists arrived at the local, Murat was near the Ocean Club and talked with several of them.
“Casually dressed, with jeans, blue plastic sandals and a blue and white chequered shirt, Murat took the initiative to talk with two Portuguese journalists, saying that he knew very well Madeleine’s parents, that they were both doctors, and he was “deeply disturbed with the abduction, because he had a three year old daughter who, by coincidence, was also called Madeleine”. His daughter, as was later revealed, is called Sophia.”
This is an excerpt from a Portuguese paper, dated May 20th. How odd that he originally told journalists HIS DAUGHTER WAS NAMED MADELEINE. I’ve heard this before, doubted its veracity and have now found the link; in fact the whole story makes interesting reading:
http://www.gazetadigitalarquivo.blogspot.com/2007/05/gazeta-digital-madeleine-mccanns.html
How strange also that he should say he knew Madeleine’s parents well, and that when Gerry McCann was asked the same question, he said ‘no comment’. Something is certainly a bit fishy here.
July 18th, 2007 at 8:42 am
hello all im charbel from lebanon.we all here sad about Made all the lebanese pray for here to be found as soon
plz god help us to find the littel angel….
Another time another place,I will never foget your beautiful face..even if we fall apart I will always keep your memory in my heart.
At night look into the stars and remember me each one is a kiss for you.
Mady must be found…….thx
July 18th, 2007 at 1:28 am
I just read this on the Sky News website - It all sounds a bit odd to me = what do you think?
“Quote”
Since Madeleine McCann disappeared, it’s a question that’s been frequently asked - when will her parents return home?
Brian Kennedy, Madeleine’s great uncle and closest relative in their village of Rothley, thinks it could be soon.
“Kate still keeps quoting the end of the summer as a possible date of return. It will be a great ordeal coming back without Madeleine” says Brian.
Brian and his wife Janet are frequent babysitters for Gerry and Kate.
“I think when they do come home it will be low-key. We’ve talked about a party but that’s not something we’d do instantly. There will be a lot of settling in to do.”
Gerry, a consultant cardiologist at Leicester’s Glenfield hospital, and Kate, a GP in Melton Mowbray, made a fleeting visit to the UK last weekend for a family baptism in Yorkshire where they were godparents.
“They’ll have to go back to work in due course” says Brian. “They have a family to support. They’re both highly-trained medics and they’re needed.”
But the retired headteacher, whose sister Susan is Kate’s mum, thinks they’ll be strong enough to allow their younger children Sean and Amelie a normal life.
“It would be a natural reaction to feel very over-protective towards the twins but they’re sensible and I’m sure that won’t happen”.
Brian is chairman of Madeleine’s Fund, now in itself a full-time job. So far they’ve raised more than £900,000.
“We’re going to need it, there are big bills coming in for things we’ve produced, for travel, for accommodation while Gerry and Kate are out there. They’re not wealthy and there’s no way we could carry on without it”.
Responding to criticism that the McCanns wouldn’t have had so much help if they weren’t doctors he says: “It’s true we have friends we could call on that others may not have and we used them, we called in favours.
“Our view is that any parent wherever they are, whatever they do, should get the same publicity as Madeleine has and if we can do anything through the fund for others then we will.”
The centre of Rothley, where the war memorial has been covered in ribbons and gifts for Madeleine, is slowly returning to normal.
The toys are being sent to charities, the messages are being saved for the McCanns’ return and the yellow ribbons will be taken away by August 1.
Brian says: “We have to slowly return to normality. We’ll put yellow bands around the trees instead to keep some kind of link. We’re not giving up. There will always be a lantern lit there, as it has been since she disappeared”.
“end Quote”
“We’ve talked about a party”??? Just what the bloody hell is going on? Do they think they are the Beckhams or what? Why on this earth would anyone under the circumstances suggest a party????? OH but pardon me - he is manager (full time) of the fund…..
There is more than meets they eye with this whole clan of McCann and I am hoping beyond hope that the authorities will grasp the thistle and get to the bottom of this whole unfortunate issue
July 17th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
There seem to be a lot of conspiracy theories going around and I have a theory of my own.
I think it was Sherbert Holmes who said if nothing makes sense it’s best to go back to the beginning and look for the obvious, it usually turns out to be the answer.
Firstly I don’t think this is some big plan by the Mccanns to make money, they are clearly distressed even though their actions seem odd.
Nor do I believe that some international paedophile ring was involved. The police might not have solved the case, but they would have been pretty sure what had happened. Word gets around.
I think the big clue is in the part open shutter.
These shutters are hard to open from the outside and it would have been likely to cause a lot of noise if someone tried to prise it open.
No self respecting idiot would have done this without trying the (open) door first.
So here is my theory.
Little Maddie awakes to find herself with only the twins for company and goes to look for her parents. Not knowing the door is open she tries to open the window shutters and gets caught up in the shutter opening mechanism, which can be quite powerful and she accedentally chokes herself.
It is quite a period of time before her body is descovered by the Mccanns or one of the group.
What to do now ? They know with their medical knowledge that a cock and bull story of being out of the room for only a second will not hold water, and what then ?
They have already lost dear Maddie, but what if the truth comes out they will lose their careers, their liberty and their surviving children.
They will be finished. No wonder they want people to look for Maddie everywhere but Portugal !
Just a theory but it does seem to explain why the Mccanns have not employed a private investigator, and why several times Gerry refers to their greif in a past tense as though talking of a past event rather than an on going one, that of his missing child…..
July 17th, 2007 at 10:13 am
does anyone of you know a detective or a policeman in your sorroundings (or not)who has an opinion about this case?They are used to this kind of reflexion and they have experience in this kind of stories.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:40 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 3:08 am
I think the McCannes know a great deal more than they are letting the media know. Why the battery of lawyers?
They know there is money to be made out of their story hence the fund.
Truly grasping, awful, people.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
The thought that Madeleine is already dead is just too horrible to contemplate. I do think it’s unrealistic of the McCanns to say that because her body hasn’t been found, there’s every chance she’s alive. Bodies can be well hidden, so the lack of any discovery doesn’t unfortunately mean what we all want it to mean.
On the other hand, children are sometimes found long after being snatched, like the child in Austria not long ago.
We all just have to keep on hoping and praying for her safe return.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
i am hoping that the constant coverage of madeleine will be a reminder to the kidnapper/s everyday of what evil they will be doing by hurting her in anyway.
July 16th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
All this talk of selling semen and its connection to Maddie’s supposed kidnapping its a bit wild isn’t it?. For the record, if a man is infertile and a donor is used, that’s usually by Artificial Insemination. These children are IVF babies and so are most probably the couples ‘real’ children. Lets face it there’s not been one reliable, verified sighting of her since that night. The two obvious thoughts that occur to me are, that if she was kidnapped, all this publicity has frightened the kidnapper and hes killed her or shes been dead all this time. Unfortunately its been shown that the longer a child is missing the lees likely it is to be found alive.
July 16th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
hi anna, where did you see this?
July 16th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Just seen a report that Chemello dealt in the sale of gametes via a doctor at an American laboratory and Greece, and he seems to be back in the frame again regarding the investigation. Madeleine is also reported with connection to the same line of enquiry to be alive and well according to this report which may or may not be true.
Lets hope and pray it’s true and that she’s about to be found.
July 16th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
In other words it’s looking less and less as if Murat had anything to do with it, and for some reason he’s being virtually framed. Surely he wouldn’t say ‘I don’t care about the McCanns’ if he had anything to hide?
Imagine if you were innocent and in Murat’s position. You’d feel just the way he describes - trapped, your life virtually ruined; you’d also be starting to feel angry with the McCanns, especially if you were the type of parent who wouldn’t dream of leaving little children alone in an apartment, because if it wasn’t for their negligence, your life wouldn’t be in tatters.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Yes this whole thing’s quite weird. From the picture of Murat’s daughter I don’t actually think they look any more alike than any other pair of little girls with blonde hair, but every picture of Madeleine makes her look different, and as so many people have pointed out the resemblance between the two children - perhaps they really do look very alike.
On the other hand, I can’t think up any scenario with Sofia Murat and Madeleine McCann being related that makes any sense. Unless…
What if when they had IVF, they sold one of the other gametes? To, say, Chermello? And Chermello sold it on to Murat and his then wife? And they gave birth to Sofia? She’s not exactly the same age but that wouldn’t matter with IVF. Or what if both children are Kate McCann’s daughter but also Murat’s?
OK, imagine they children are twins, with Kate McCann as mother and Gerry McCann as father. There were some extra gametes which were illegally sold, and they came into the hands of Chemello, who sold one on to Murat and his wife, who went on to have Sofia.
If Murat had snatched Sofia because she was his biological daughter, you would have to explain a number of scenarios. Firstly, why would the McCanns decide to take their holiday a few metres away from Murat’s home? Why would they even know he existed? If you sell a gamete (god forbid) you wouldn’t know who it ended up with.
On the other hand, if Gerry McCann was unable to have children and a donor was used, how could it have been Murat? The McCanns were living in Amsterdam at the time, Murat was either in Norfolk or Portugal. But suspend your critical faculties for a moment and imagine somehow Murat was the biological father, again why would the McCanns decide to take their holiday near him, even in the unlikely scenario of their knowing his identity and whereabouts?
Unless they all knew each other already and had worked something out between them re gametes? In other words, the McCanns got one gamete (mother McCann, father Murat) and the Murats got another? But then still, why would the McCanns take their holiday near Murat? Surely not total coincidence? Far too unlikely.
Also, if Murat had taken her knowing she was his daughter, why would he insist on pointing out the resemblence to the PJ? Surely he’d want to keep that quiet.
Back to mulling this over instead of getting on with work, ahem.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Anna(UK) 13th of July writes down (see above)about a site in which also a certain Geoffrey Livock tells that Madeleine could be a twin sister of Murat’s daughter, so much they look alike.
Could it be that the two girls belong to the same family and is that the reason why the police asked Murat for a second DNA test?
July 15th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
That sounds like he is doomed if he does show emotion and doomed if he doesn’t.
If I have read what your saying right Pmihc I agree totally that’s if I have read it right.
None of us are qualified to be able to tell if the McCann’s are lying, and everyone deals with emotion differently only a trained professional would be able to read the body language and then determine if the McCann’s were lying.
I have a bad gut feeling about some aspects of this case but it is only a gut feeling and I hope that I am wrong.
I also cannot see why the fact that the children were conceived through IVF would make him less attached to maddie in fact most people that go through IVF realize the gift of having a child more than people that conceive naturally.
July 15th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Why? You suggested that it was _because_ he might not be the biological father that he is not emotionally connected to the situation of his daughter. Non-biological parents might find that offensive. I’m not sure how to make my point clearer than that.
I’m sorry if I came across as aggressive in pointing out what I think you said.
As for point about body language, I don’t know. I’m not trained to read or distinguish between the body language of guilt, the body language of trauma, the body language of shock, and especially not when it’s body language I’ve seen on tv and not in a face-to-face situation. Psychologists and police presumably are trained to read body language in that way, but I know I’m not qualified to say anything.
“And - if the reason to put oneself in the public eye is to wrench at the hearts of the general public and encourage them to become whisked into the frenzy - then a little emotion by the one pleading would not go amis = I have seen nothing of this in any interviews with Gerry McCann.”
You see to me that would be a point _in favour_ of the genuine and sincere nature of an emotion: an inability to act it out in public in order to manipulate people. But again, I’m not qualified to argue that point with any conviction.
But it’s interesting that a lot of people read him as manipulative, therefore dodgy while you read him as non-manipulative, therefore dodgy.
July 14th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
pmihc = Adoptive and non-biological parents might find that a very offensive statement.
WHY? Most “parents” adoptive and otherwise would be openly heartbroken if confronted by this situation. Can you suggest another viable reason why so many people have quoted that they cannot understand the body language - and the seemingly lack of emotion shown. On lookers and folk who have posted on message boards like these have shown more emotion than Mr. Mcann - in public anyway. And - if the reason to put oneself in the public eye is to wrench at the hearts of the general public and encourage them to become whisked into the frenzy - then a little emotion by the one pleading would not go amis = I have seen nothing of this in any interviews with Gerry McCann.
July 14th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
“From all of the above - can it be assumed then that Gerry McCann is probably not the biological father of Madeleine? or the twins for that matter? Maybe this is why he has come over from the very begining as being detached from the real emotions of the situation.”
Adoptive and non-biological parents might find that a very offensive statement.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I don’t know Cathy, but its very creepy.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
From all of the above - can it be assumed then that Gerry McCann is probably not the biological father of Madeleine? or the twins for that matter? Maybe this is why he has come over from the very begining as being detached from the real emotions of the situation.
July 14th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
An interesting business, the selling of babies, children, gametes, and obviously a lucrative one.
Like organ harvesting, only available to those who can afford it.
July 14th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Actually I believe Sean and Amelie were also conceived by IVF; a report did also say they were conceived in Holland, so presumably they got the IVF treatment there. This was in the Mirror:
‘Meanwhile grandma Susan revealed that Madeleine and her twin brother and sister, Sean and Amelie, were all test tube babies.
She said her daughter had IVF treatment after she and Gerry were unable to conceive normally.
Speaking from her home in Woolton, Liverpool, she said: “Kate and Gerry waited a long time for those children - that’s why they are so precious to them.”
Isn’t Kate McCann supposed to be pregnant right now? And it’s this baby that was conceived naturally, not the twins? I also found this, from The Independent:
‘Thursday evening began as just another relaxed time for Gerald and Kate McCann; he a heart surgeon in Leicester, she a GP in Melton Mowbray. Early in the evening, they put the children to bed, with Madeleine in her pink Winnie the Pooh pyjamas and the two-year-old twins in cots either side of her. All three were IVF babies.’
It certainly would be interesting to find out more about Chermello’s history of ‘gamete selling’.
July 14th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I would hazard a guess that it is possible to get IVF in just about any country if you are paying for it, although I would have thought that, with their medical connections, the McCanns would have qualified easily for IVF on the NHS.
I have also read elsewhere that although Madeleine was conceived by IVF, the twins were a surprise natural conception - hence the small age gap. That certainly isn’t unusual - I’ve personally known several women who have had natural conceptions following the birth of an ‘artificially’ conceived baby/babies.
Molly
July 14th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
To be fair the fact that Vaz (female) and Chemillo (male) dealt in the sale of human gametes and the fact that the McCanns had IVF in Amsterdam probably have nothing to do with each other; I was just speculating.
And the fact that Kate McCann said:’they’ve taken her’, a member of the McCann family said ‘give her back, she’s not yours’ and Kate said ‘give her back, it’s not too late’ - well, the last two pleas aren’t particularly suggestive of any foreknowledge of anything, although the first statement is definitely odd.
It would be interesting though to know exactly what Chemillo and Vaz were up to re the sale of gametes. Who did they sell them to? Where were they based at the time? Was there any particular reason why the McCanns would have chosen to go to crooks like them rather than through the normal channels? Can British people easily get IVF in Holland when living there? I wonder if the PJ are pursuing these lines of inquiry? If not, pehaps they should be.
July 14th, 2007 at 1:22 am
James McKinnon Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Olivia Says:
I read on the forum Gerry on the Telly….. that Madeleine McCann was born through invitro fertilization (ivf) from a donated sperm because according to Anna who posted, it is possible that Gerry cannot, and that Kate McCann gave birth to Madeleine (perhaps using her own ova/eggs or using donated eggs) — is it possible that Madeleine’s genetic father the sperm donor wanted her back (some are saying it is a man called Vaz and a woman friend who operate an ivf agency donating to infertile couples) — perhaps this is why Kate McCann cried out: “They’ve taken her…….” as if she was anticipating someone stealing Madeleine, and Kate also said recently: “Give her Back, it is not too late.”
I also heard from the forum that Madeleine was born in the UK but the twins were born in Amsterdam (Kate gave birth to them and to Madeleine) where the McCanns lived in Amsterdam for a year.
I would be interested in some facts on the above.
By the way, Olivia is not preaching, she is trying to help and at present prayer seems to be the only answer to finding Madeleine.
Best Regards, James McKinnon
July 14th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Thanks Anna
July 14th, 2007 at 12:02 am
‘Kate and Gerry, a consultant cardiologist, had left Maddie asleep with their baby twins as they ate at a tapas restaurant 50 yards from their holiday apartment in Portugal’s Algarve.
The pair took turns to check on the children every half hour. But when Kate returned to the room at 10pm on Thursday there was no sign of her angel-faced girl.
As a desperate police hunt continued in the resort of Praia da Luz last night, Maddie’s aunt Trish Cameron told how distraught Gerry described the scene in a frantic late-night phone call.
Trish, of Dumbarton, Scotland, said: “The kids were all sound asleep, windows shut, shutters shut.
“Kate went back at 10pm to check. The front door was lying open, the window had been tampered with, the shutters had been jemmied open and Maddie was missing.
“She came screaming back to the group crying, ‘They’ve taken her, they’ve taken her’. Gerry was crying and roaring like a bull…’
The Sun, May 6
The Telehraph printed the exact same quote, and that’s just two papers.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I have asked and would be grateful for an answer - where was it reported that Kate McCann said “they have taken her” when she discovered that Madeleine was missing and also where do the claims come from that Madeleine is prone to sleepwalking.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
ive missed something whats the long haired husband comment about?
Was thier a long haired person seen or something?
This is a real question i am not being sarcastic i just wondered what it was about.