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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August 9th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
look into your heart is to long to type!!!.
‘Matt’ is my new name.
August 9th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Hello Miss Marple
The details of ‘keeta’, were revealed in a very well thought of, Portugese national
‘Diario de Noticias’ and also in the British paper ‘The Telegraph’.
Remember TWO dogs went to Portugal, one to search for traces of LIVING people’s movements and 1 (keeta)to look for any blood.
one should also remember that ‘keeta’ is a cadaver sniffing hound and as such the traces she picked out will indicate Death rather than injury,
it is also worth noting at this point that Robert Murat is no longer considered a suspect in this case and will be officially cleared by the PJ in the coming days as BOTH dogs examined the house and grounds of Mr Murats mother and found absolutely no traces.
The Portugese are suggesting that Maddie was killed in the apartment.
Daz.
Daz.
August 9th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
look into your heart455: where did you read about the sniffer and about the height of the blood spot? I thought the sniffer was still in Portugal.
August 9th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
the British sniffer dog ‘keeta’ was due to be in Portugal for a week, but left after 24 hours!.
‘keeta’ found blood traces on the wall of the McGanns apartment, these traces were at head height for a child of Maddies age.
there had been a significant attempt to remove these stains with some form of detergent,and could only be seen with ultraviolet light ‘keeta’ has been trained to recognise and disregard such contaminants and is the best sniffer dog in the UK, she has been specifically trained to disregard any other bodily fluids and is purely a blood sniffing dog, who is VERY GOOD at what she does.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
i reckon the parents or one of their friends did it and i know many who (tastless jokes aside) think that too.
August 9th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
we pray for made she must be fond
August 9th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
As a Proud father and English citizen i too, am sick and tired of the constant critisism’s toward the Portugese.
as i have mentioned before, the Portugese used to own the bits of the world we didn’t!.
there will always be people who get frustrated when things don’t go the way they expect them to and it is easy to point blame at something we don’t understand.
evidence at the apartment suggests that (a) a body had been in the apartment and (b) cleaning of Artireal blood had been attempted from the same apartment.
intercepted e-mails are now pointing towards the McGanns or someone in their party!.
Remember, this is a joint investigation between both countries, but, it is out of our jurisdiction and any help the Portugese accept must be on their terms, the Portugese are notoriously tight-lipped in such matters, a long term tactic which brings great results.
we in this country have seen numerous press conferances where the person making the appeal for missing loved ones have been the guilty party, the fact of the McGanns supposedly being ‘decent’ parents should not be the reason they are not questioned intensely.
i for one would be grateful that the police were leaving no stone unturned when it came to finding my daughter if i was them, the way Gerry tries to control the British media coverage is Laughable and his responces to less friendly journalists tells me he has something to hide, why else would he want to be so controlling of matters he has no knowledge of.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Marian (449) thank you. It is exactly the way I think.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I know that I will be ‘lamblasted’ for this! but take a look at Brian Ladd’s latest dream prediction, last night,-http://www.briansprediction.com/dd/5441page5.htm
It is very interesting and if you study his past record of finding missing persons, worldwide, you will see that he has a high success rate, however, he says that the McCann’s , due to religious beliefs, will not accept his offers of help, he has ben in touch with their Manager for the Find Madeleine campaign.
I realise that not everyone believes in this sort of thing, but he does have a way of ’seing’ as is shown in the Shawn Hornbeck/Ben Owlby case recently, very many of his facts were extremely correct , both boys were found in the US alive and well and together at the abductors house, and it is worth looking if you have time.
I sincerely hope and pray that the child is safe and well and I hope that the wrong people do not get accused of a wrongdoing ,please god we get news of her soon, Sue
August 9th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I for one cannot understand the behaviour of the usually predatory British Press.
Their only criticisms are for the PJ. It was not they who destroyed the evidence, but the tapas 9 and their pals.
Hopefully there will be apologies for this thorough and careful police force. But somehow I doubt it.
August 9th, 2007 at 8:38 am
The Daily Mirror is publishing today that the Portuguese police distroyed the DNA in the apartment, in May.
It is very well known that after the disappearence more than 20 people went inside it to search for Madadeine. Some weeks later the PJ declared that the DNA was nearly or compleetely distroyed.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Hello
here’s the latest developments regarding the McGanns.
Portugal’s main daily ‘Diario de Noticias’ reported Wednesday 08/08/07 that the joint police team has used telephone wiretaps and intercepted e-mails from the girl’s parents and their circle of friends which has led them to raise the possibility that Madeleine may be dead.
The police “have never accused the McCann couple of anything,” an official spokesman announced. “But in a case like this, until we are certain, everyone is suspect.”
Portuguese television broadcast Wednesday 08/08/07 showed Gerry and Kate McCann visiting the police station at Portimao in south Portugal. The nature and length of the visit is not known.
Police also this week resumed searches along Portugal’s Algarve coast, using information from experts on ocean currents in the region.
A spokeswoman for the McCanns, Justine McGuinness, also published on Wednesday a list of events to be held Saturday 11/08/07 to mark the 100 days since Madeleine’s disappearance, including church masses in both Portugal and Britain as well as releasing posters and balloons.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
i’m so glad that i found this site, so many well reasoned arguments and theories. Its just such a relief to find other like-minded people out there. I fully agree with the accidentaldeath in the apartment then frantic cover up angle. Remembering that for the Cadava dogs to pick up a scent, the body had to be in the apartment for at least 2 hours. With the family and friends statements being so inconsistent, its feasible that there would be plenty time to drive away with the body and get back to stage ‘raising the alarm’.
I had hoped that it was only Gerry involved, not Kate. But the revelations that they were leaving the kids every night, and going further afield (up to a km away) has forced me to view her differently. At least now the writing is on the wall….
August 8th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
the British paper The Times published about a paedophile from Swiss who committed suicide not long ago, after beeing caught with a child. The Times said that that man had been in Praia da Luz at the time Maddie disappeared.
Today a high Swiss police officer declared (Portuguese TV) that this is not true.
The man has never been in Praia da Luz.
For heavens sake, which paper can we believe?
August 8th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Hello
if we, the general public, are thinking there may be foul-play, then you can be certain that the PJ and Scotland Yard will have thought it a possibility.
i personally think the McGanns should be questioned on the matter further.
The worldwide press are not giving the McGanns such an easy ride as we are.
it has even been remarked that any British paper daring to be anything but sympathetic to the McGanns would be seriously lambasted.
and now i hear Gerry has been in private talks at least twice a week with the prime minister, surely this should not be allowed, after all Gerry is still a suspect in this case no matter how many times he tells fleet street otherwise.
the truth will out, i personally hope Maddie is safe and well and would never want harm to come to any child, but, like ‘Columbo,’ “theres something that bothers me.”
August 8th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I would just like to add my thoughts in all of this in saying why don’t we just wait for the truth to come out with what has happened to Madeline instead of speculating and assuming things.
August 8th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I remember something:
One Sunday Gerry wrote on his blog that they had gotten a telephone call very very early in the morning, before they even were washed. A journalist asking him about a corpse that had been found in the sea in Lagos. (Later it appeared to have been of a man).At that moment Gerry still did not know about it.
It was the first an only time I noticed emotion on Gerry’s words.
In his words, commenting the journalist should better have checked with officials, Gerry showed a mixture of shock and upsetting.
Different of his comments of a anonymous letter on a news paper, sightings of Madeleine here and there etc He sounded really shocked.
Is Madeleine in the sea in Lagos? Once I went to Lagos. The streets along the harbour were full of rats, walking around. Big ones. Disgusting.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
From day one I’ve always thought there was something funny about Maddy’s disappearance, that somehow the McCann’s were involved and so none of this recent speculation surprises me.
The McCann’s were all too composed from the beginning, now maybe that’s an inner strength I don’t have or I watch too many Law and Order type programmes but it struck a chord with me and I’ve yet to see anything in their behaviour to change my gut feeling.
Do we know if psychologists have studied the McCann’s behaviour? Are there tells/signs that indicate that perhaps they are hiding something? It’s a question I’d love to know the answer to. And to just back up what others have said, it’s been a failing on the British media’s part to take the McCann’s word for it that Maddy was “abducted”. I do hope I’m wrong but can you imagine how detrimental to similiar (and future) campaigns for missing children this would be if the McCann’s were found guilty?
August 8th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Rosita
thanks for the information. if the dog senses there was a death in the apartment, it does seem to indicate it is probably maddy. what a tragic end to a life. It does cast new suspicions on everybody though and as i’ve always felt the McCann and group stories were inconsistent. Also the tone of the posts are changing as well. in the early ones her parents were victims and what an uproar when a TV interviewer implied that they might have something to do with her disappearance. Now almost every post is beginning to believe they might be involved. So where are all the McCann supporters now, they are very quiet are they? Gerry has always seemed to say the wrong thing doesnt he, now Kate has joined in. she was talking about people trying to get her to go out somewhere with them instead of just dumping her precious twins while she walks and stares at the ocean. she said, ‘I’d rather be alone thinking of Maddy then going out having fun. an odd remake surely.
just one more thing. i cant understand these people who keep reporting they are100% sure a child they’ve seen is her. even if they are only 1% sure why dont they say good and loud ‘i think this might be Maddy Mccann’ then take a good look. if you are wrong, big deal. but dont make a song and dance about it after and waste valuable police resources following dead ends.
August 8th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Hello.
the sea in that area is abundant with large sharks who feast on carrion as well as live food and has large numbers of other predatory fish. any flotsam or jetsom will be checked out by such animals as they may provide an easy meal, in that area the sea creatures could consume a child’s body in 4 hours or less,they would leave no trace of Maddie’s body if this is how Gerry disposed of her!.
August 8th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Rosita
It’s not that difficult to bury a corpse, yes it’s hard work, but not impossible for a grown man. It wouldn’t have to be a proper grave , just enough to conceal it from a casual observer. Remember that the object doesn’t have to be that it’s never discovered - that comes down largely to luck really. It needn’t have been in the dark either, just a few kiles inland from that resort on the dirt roads and you’re very unlikely to be seen. And it needn’t have been done in a hurry really, remember that at that time it wouldn’t matter if he was missed, because no one was particularly noticing whether he was about. Other people are just getting on with their own holidays.The same would apply to the sea, yes a corpse might be brought back, but there’s a good chance that it wouldn’t.
I don’t believe that you would have to go very far before going beyond the immediate area that the police searched. It’s actually very difficult to search large empty sandy areas for recent disturbance. On the only occasion that the police did follow a clue to a possible burial spot they took a whole day just to search an area of a few hundred yards.
Again I can see a tendency here to over complicate the very simple. You don’t need deep motives and plans for a murder. You don’t need to imagine a complex plan with their friends to murder their daughter while on holiday. That’s the sort of thing you only find in detective stories. Most people kill without any planning, in a moment of loss of control.
Ian Huntley had not planned to kill that day either, the circumstances just all came together. And when his wife/girlfriend was confronted with it she had to make an instant choice between her loyalty to him and her ‘duty’.
As for wanting to get away from Portugal afterwards - well it’s well known in police circles that murders like to be close to the scene of a crime. They reckon that for an average killing the murderer is usually amongst the crowd outside the next day. Remember that Ian Huntley couldn’t keep away from the events and the media afterwards. The alternative is just to go away and wait to see if you are discovered. Staying involved provides the sense that you are still perhaps in control of the way the investigation will go.
August 8th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Craig, to be at the scene of the crime:
Gerry has a controlling personality. He controles his wife, the media perhaps even the PJ.
He was controlling the scene of the crime to eventually make more smoke around the story when necessary.Besides he must have been scared all the time. He had to be sure everything was ok.
Mods and Admin
Rosita, could you reword and repost this its a little too strong and certain to be supposition.
I can then delete this post
June
August 8th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Ken, it is very difficult to bury a corps on an improvised way when you are a tourist in a country and besides you don’t have instruments to dig the ground and you don’t have much time.Everything had to happen in dark, I believe, otherwise the person would have been seen.The burier would not have much time to drive away with the corps, to bury it and to come back on time not to attract the attention of others. A few miles away not further and they would have found her already. The sea could be her grave now but the waves bring back a corps.Gerry said many times to the media”-This was very well planned”.
It sounded he was commenting the capacity of the abductor but now I think he was saying:”Forget about finding her.We planned it very well.” Did something bad happen to Maddie in her previous life, were the parents cruel to her and she startet telling around and they had to get rid of her? It is too perfect, isn’t?Could it be only an improvisation after her death?Was it premeditated?Did they planned it with the party group of some of them? That is why they all went together to Portugal?
August 8th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Yesterday Gerry had a hectic day having a “much needed haircut”, the day before he had another hectic day “buying a new printer”………probably to print more money……………Gerry was quote “livid” that reports were in the press that Madeleine could be dead………..”livid”…..what happened to words like “sad”, “distressed”, “upset”………..livid because nothing can stand in the way of his 100 day jamboree……….this clown at the centre of the circus he created is getting more laughable by the day.
August 8th, 2007 at 7:10 am
A free bit of legal advice for Team McCann…….”take the money and run”.
August 8th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Ken, no “fierce criticism” from me. I thought your post well thought out and reasoned.
From day one I have found the whole “Team McCann” circus very nauseating, undignified and distasteful under the circumstances and there are many many things that just don’t add about the whole case, including the media circus that appeared from nowhere, videos at Wembley stadium, the “pact of silence” of the so-called “Tapas 9″, conflicting statements, the fact the Gerry McCann was apparently the last person to see Madeleine, the £1 million progressive jackpot of the “Team McCann” website, the keyboard monkeys of the “Team McCann” fan club that appear like a pack of hyenas whenever the McCann’s are criticised……..they’ll be on in a minute.
One can argue that the McCann’s should be prosecuted for Child neglect or not, one can argue if the rampant exploitation of the media circus by the McCann’s has made the return of Madeliene more likely or scaring the hell out of any abductors made it less likely but with all my doubts I have never once thought that the McCann’s were involved dirctly or indirectly in the dissapearance of Madeleine or involved in any cover up…..their friends in the “Tapas 9″ maybe but not the McCann’s themselves.
If they have, then along with a lenghty jail sentence they should be given Oscars Academy Awards in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor category and in addition, if they had been involved wouldn’t the last place they would want to be in is Portugal at the scene of the crime?.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
It often appears in cases such as these that the simplest explanation is the correct one. Of course it’s not impossible that there was a lone opportunistic abductor, or that Madeline was taken by a paedophile ring, or stolen to order, etc. But before considering these possibilities we should consider the obvious.
Most children who suffer harm, do so from their own family. That is the place where we are at our worst, where the stresses are greatest and the resulting explosions are at their worst.
My theory is that Madeline died as a result of the actions of her parents, probably accidental. A loss of temper that lead to an unfortunate blow, or that she died through an accident that was the result of their negligence.
Her parents panicked - the thought of the disgrace, the loss of their freedom and professions, their remaining children being raised by strangers. So they decided to fake an abduction. I believe that they disposed of her body (easier than you might think, there are significant desert-like areas around the resort), and then faked the evening meal bit.
This theory also explains their apparent inability to show the kind of raw pain that is common to other parents such as the Paynes. Although they are feeling awful, it’s a mixture of grief, guilt and anxiety at getting away with it.
This also explains their (subconscious?) desire to encourage Madeline’s search in places half a continent from Portugal, better than a search closer to home!
I expect that this post will produce some fierce criticism, but I’m not aware that anything in it contradicts the facts as they are known.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
CORRECTION CORRECTION CORRECTION
The material (blood) went already yesterday to a forensic laboratory in Lisbon.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
hi beam me up…(why such a long name?)
Yes, they found little blood in the apartment(some news say Madaleine’s bedroom, some other the parent’s room.)The blood was on a wall and you could not see it with a naked eye.Somebody tried to wash it out.It was localized by a British sniffer dog.That dog, as far as I read on many news, is trained to localize blood of a person who was already dead, not the blood of a person who was still alive when he was bleeding or only wounded.
This material (blood) will be sent tomorrow to Lisbon, for tests.
They just said it on the news in Portugal.I think(I say I THINK) the only clue the police have is the reaction of the dog and the blood.
The dog also demonstrated that there had been a corps in the apartment.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
in the Daily mirror, the report is the sniffer dogs scent blood, nothing about being the blood of a dead person. but the article does say that the new theory is that its hers and she died there. but it will take several days to do DNA tests. So until they are done it could be anyone’s blood. And the article says that the apartment has been rented out since then? surly not?