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 11th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
But we are not privy to the facts! are you?
August 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Try this one!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005320001-2007250393,00.html
August 11th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I posted wrong link ooops. Will try and find the other one. It would be nice to be technically savvy!
August 11th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Without making judgement….
here are photographs taken by a previous visitor at that apartment….. if one could see the Restaurant from the balcony then prseumable one could see the balcony (and patio doors) from the restaurant.
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/05/some-pictures-from-praia-da-luz-crime.html
The medication that Madeleine alone was given was Piriton anti-hist. available over the counter for allergies etc.
Maybe its best to stick to facts.
August 11th, 2007 at 6:17 am
I wonder if the McGanns themselves prescribed the drugs they gave the children?, if so they have broken their duties as doctors as it is illegal for GPs to administer drugs to family.
I was also said by early media coverage that the apartment could be seen from Tapas9, but, after seeing the recent BBC news it is impossible!, the apartment seems to be on a road with parked cars outside and the apartment is surrounded by walls 6ft high with the bar being round a blind corner, not the”butlins” type family freindly resort i was led to believe!.
And like ’sue w’ i’m also intrigued by the theory that something happened to Maddie before the 3rd, when was she last seen?
I wonder if the McGanns will be jogging today?(are they just ‘limbering up’ for when they Take the money and run!?).
August 10th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
With regard to the window query above, I’m not sure that the window story is even true. I think that may well have been used as a ploy to reinforce the abduction theory. Yesterday, I honestly felt that the McCann’s couldn’t be culpable in any way but, today, I’m having my doubts.
I don’t believe too much coming from the Portuguese newspapers because I do know that the JP don’t talk to the media about ongoing investigations. Of course though, there’s nothing to stop leaks but, by the same token, as long as one is shielded by being anonymous, you can say pretty much anything you like, without fear of repercussions.
Today I just feel hopeless that there will ever be a resolution as to what happened to Madeleine. If that is the case, I sure hope there will be a stringent audit of the donation fund to ascertain exactly how much and for what purpose funds have been utilised. Anything (if there is anything) left over should be donated to a reputable organisation and employed toward education of parents and assisting in finding other missing children, imo.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
actually I’m not sure he even got his wallet stolen when in London.
Is he trying to account for the disappearance of something else?
August 10th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
More thinking on this, the saga was ‘alleged’ to have been that the child was a sleepwalker, and was given drugs for this ,I have read ,however, this is unconfirmed, the twins were also alleged to have had the same medicines each night. This as supposed to be why the parents categorically deny that the children ‘could not have wandered off’
There was some talk of an accident of overdose, of course, this is of course only conjecture.
Some were saying that the parents delayed calling the PJ due to the fact that the twins would not be able to be woken up for talks with the authorities…? To give them time to get the two young ones awake?
I have read that some think the child woke, drank the medicine and it was a fatal dose or that it made the child vomit and choke to death ,also, some say that the dose could accidentally have been administered by each parent, in the false belief that the other had not given it yet, but not sure about all this, I am not accusing anyone, but i do believe that all round bad parenting was going on.
Why would anyone give meds to all the children except for a quiet life if this is what did occur?
August 10th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
I’m not confident that they wouldn’t face an investigation from Social Services in the UK. I have no doubt that they may have tried to get some assurance here.
They won’t be given that I’m sure and they are in the safest place.
Not been a great deal of travel lately, are you sure they have authority from PJ to go anywhere?
August 10th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
I have read also, that the children were not in the creche that day because it was closed ,-so were they with the parents all day? and if so, when was the little girl last seen by any other person on this day or any other? Sue
August 10th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Hi Rosita, No I’m Sue! from Bournemouth, not sure if its ok to put email on here? but have seen others do it. I feel that the conclusions we are all coming to are unfortunately correct, and it is sad,
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August 10th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
now they McCanns are upset over the ‘intrusive’ media. they should welcome all the publicity even if its against them. because it does what they swear they want which is to keep Maddy’s disappearance in the forefront. question why are the twins going to the crutch when they are even at that holiday place anymore.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
How can they hold it together if this is a scam??
Why do the British media insist that it most certainly is not a scam?
Dangerous territory to consider the Portuguse Investigation incompetent. These are sophisticated people who may have different crime problems than the UK.
But they started with a group of people who I’m sure would have locked IPODS, jewellery and money away in order that preditors did not steal them.
If this was a stolen property situation, the insurance company would not pay out.
I hope there is a solution that recovers this little girl but I certainly wouldn’t give her back to this family. She needs (needed) someone who valued her more that just an inconvenience all day (kids club) and all night (adults club).
Why don’t they hire a Private Detective if they think that more can be done?
Or maybe that would mean having to give accurate replies to difficult questions outwith the (covenient) privacy laws stuff.
Womens Hour Radio 4. “Tell me Kate about the day she went missing?”
Kate, “I can’t really go into that”. Yeh right, you mean she was with other people all day and at night you went out drinking with your mates.
I think I’d take the 5th as well.
This group of people drank much farther away from this precious little child in the nights leading up to her disappearance.
Why don’t the British media ask about that? Baby listening service?? Please!!
August 10th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Matt, I agree with you. An accidental death, parents not present at the moment(child negect), fear to lose the twins. 99% of the parents don’t wish their children dead. It seems that the police want to know what happened between 06 an 09 pm, when parents and the three children were together in the apartment. A sniffer dog reacted on a odour of a corpse.
This must have been a nightmare for the MCcanns.I believe they are taking heavy medicins against depression and fear.
Thank you Sue W. You sound like Anne (UK). Are you Anne?
August 10th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
The McGanns are culpable, lets just say that they abandoned Maddie (as always),
only this time she awoke(when the drugs wore off), fell, and was dead when they finally checked on her.
knowing they would probably lose their remaining children , careers, and would be hounded by the public, they came up with this abduction theory.
August 10th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Hi Rosita, I have just read this on another website and have copied it, too many inconsistencies with the McCann’s stories, however Brian Ladd , (if you believe his dream views) says that the Portugese police will frame the McCanns (!)
August 10th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
This is what I’ve just read on the news :It is a little disjointed some of it should read on but skips a bit for some reason, but you can get the storyline ok, things are not looking good for the family and friends, who if guilty, deserve all they get.
“Intercepted telephone calls and emails between the McCanns and their friends have “confirmed the death of Madeleine” say police, according to one Portuguese newspaper today. The intercepts are said to have been made in a joint operation conducted by Portuguese and British police officers.
Diario de Noticias reports investigators have already concluded that the missing four-year-old was killed in the apartment where she slept in Praia da Luz.
It says that Maddy’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann (right), and their friends who were holidaying at the Ocean Club, will be brought in for further questioning. Police are awaiting new tests from the McCanns’ Renault Scenic.
According to another paper, Jornal de Noticias, police want to examine inconsistencies in the statements of Kate and Gerry McCann, who were
gibby zobel on the latest news from Portugal about Madeleine McCann’s disappearance
interviewed separately late into the night early on in the investigation. In particular, they want to focus on a three-hour period in which only the McCanns saw Madeleine.
Respected news agency Lusa quotes one police source saying that they think “there’s light at the end of the tunnel” and that the authorities have “an idea of what could have happened” to the four-year-old.
Police have known “for a month” that Madeleine had died in the apartment, it is widely reported. The tabloid newspaper 24 Horas says that the police are looking for Madeleine’s body in the sea, helped by English sniffer dogs. They have intensified searches around the nearby town of Lagos and along the Algarvian coast, it says.
Blood found in the apartment two days ago has arrived in Britain for DNA analysis: a result can be expected inside 48 hours”
August 10th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Hi Sue, door open, door shut, window shutters forced, window shutters open, window open. The PJ must be as confused as we are. At the time the PJ said that there were no signs of the apartment have been broken in.
Time missing: missed on 09.50, 10.00, 10.10, 10.15.p.m.
Checked every 20 every 30 and even every 10 minutes. The every 10 minutes has been told short ago again by the party group. They all started with 20, up to 30 and now 10.(Summer sales).What the party group say to have seen has not been seeing by other people.A man running with a child in his arms.
Also the Mccanns contradicted themselves many times during the interrogations. The PJ will again interrogate some people next weeks.I don’t know who they are. You write …”or I’m missing something”. We all, to begin with the PJ, are missing something.I’m sure at least one person of the group knows what happened to Madeleine.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
its a sad thing that has happened to the Mccann family, im sure they must be thinking they wish they could go back in time and do things differently, my heart goes out to madeleine and only hope she is found she is the victim in this horrible affair, I keep hearing people say why did the parents leave her? why did they? they are in a foreign country, its bad enough being home in England and knowing to be on your guard, I really dont understand, but that is not what the focus should be right now, maybe when their daughter is found that can be addressed,I truly hope they get their daughter back it must be heart breaking.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Hi Rosita, not quite sure about the proximity of the road works, but due to the differing reports of ’shutters broken’ ‘ no shutters broken’ etc and time scales am totally confused are we being kept in the dark on facts? or am I missing something.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Correction: my reply about the hole in the road was for Sue W.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Leanne, quite complicated your theory. Madeleine stands up, walks to the door, opens the door, shuts it, come downstairs, walks some yards in the resort, crosses the gate, walks on a busy street without being seen and falls down in a hole.
What about the open window the Mccanns told about?
AM, if she went to the supermarket she would have been seen by somebody.
99% of the humanity is honest about children.
Perhaps the parents went shopping that afternoon and took the children with them.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I read about two weeks into the investigation that a detective from Scotland Yard had said that Madeleine’s trail had gone cold at the supermarket and that this was the likeliest scenario. She had wandered off and either met with an accident or an opportunist abductor.
I thought that this was feasible as Madeleine was the oldest of the group on holiday and possibly the only child sleeping in a bed. I think I read that the twins were either side of her in cots. She would have been the only little one who would have been physically able to wander off.
However, her parents have always maintained that she was abducted from the apartment and the Police confirmed this initially.
Now It seems that since the sniffer dogs from the UK have been in the apartment, there is no sign that she left it other than with someone.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I have also thought that this was a possibility, did anyone look into this at the site? (post 461) wouldn’t any right minded parent insist upon the redigging of this area?? or maybe this has been done, I remember talking about it to my husband athe time it was released by the press, not sure if dogs would trace this or not.”””””””””””””””’as follows
When Madeleine first went missing, on one of the (I think it was) Sky broadcasts, it was mentioned that the road leading from the Ocean Club to the Church (and a convenience type store IIRC) was undergoing repairs (right next to the sidewalk and that culverts had been dug. According to the resident who was interviewed, the rubble removed during the digging was laying on the side of the road. This person then mentioned that if someone had walked over the rubble and fallen into the culvert, the rubble could well have covered the body of a small child. Apparently the morning after Madeleine went missing, the culverts were filled and asphalt laid. If Madeleine had woken up and left the apartment on her own, this is a possible scenario, in my opinion.
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August 10th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Marian, I personally find the McCann’s behaviour reprehensible but, for some reason, I don’t feel they are guilty of killing or making Madeleine disappear. Perhaps it is wishful thinking on my part - I honestly don’t know.
I can no longer bring myself to read Gerry’s blog because it pisses me off no end. I wish they would utilise some of the donations they’ve received to hire a good PR spokesperson who would not take bullshit from him and get the true facts out there. I cannot, for the life of me recncile the timeline of the night Maddie went missing anymore than I can the behaviour of both Kate and Gerry upon finding her missing, let alone their actions subsequent thereto.
I would like to know all that Law Enforcement know about Robert Murat and Sergei Malinka. Those two send my hinkey meter off for some reason although, I must admit, that with the dearth of information coming from the Portuguese police, I couldn’t convict him of anything at this stage.
I have my doubts that we will ever know what happened to Madeleine unfortunately.
Julie
I’m an ex South African but am now an Australian citizen, living in Sydney and, to be honest, never believed Lindy was guilty of murdering Azaria so was very relieved when she was set free. That case and the case of Jon Benet Ramsay worried me for years.
I pray that Maddie is not in the hands of a paedophile. As a mother of 3 adult daughters, I think, if I had had to lose one, I would have preferred to have lost them to death than to a paedophile. JMO of course.
August 10th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Be very careful about judging the McCanns harshly because, in your opinion, they are too calm and not, in your opinon, showing enough grief. Lindy Chamberlain languished innocent in an Australian jail for precisely this reason. Her manner was not what people expected of a grieving mother, so it was easy to think that she lied when she said that a dingo took her baby. For a while she was the most hated person in Australia and it was a grave injustice.
August 10th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Leanne, this is a possibility, but then wouldn’t you think the McCann’s behaviour would be that of any normal parent, i.e frantically, haggard looking searching the beaches, golfcourses streets etc for your child.
Instead we’ve been presented with a daily blog from Gerry about his increasing fund, jogs and visits to the spa from photo-op Kate.
And no monies spent on private investigators to do the rounds of the paedo-brigade. They are also insistent that “she couldn’t have got out on her own” even though the doors and windows were left open.
How could she not? Was she tied down, was she drugged?
What about the tapas 9’s other children. Were they treated the same way?
August 10th, 2007 at 5:06 am
When Madeleine first went missing, on one of the (I think it was) Sky broadcasts, it was mentioned that the road leading from the Ocean Club to the Church (and a convenience type store IIRC) was undergoing repairs (right next to the sidewalk and that culverts had been dug. According to the resident who was interviewed, the rubble removed during the digging was laying on the side of the road. This person then mentioned that if someone had walked over the rubble and fallen into the culvert, the rubble could well have covered the body of a small child. Apparently the morning after Madeleine went missing, the culverts were filled and asphalt laid. If Madeleine had woken up and left the apartment on her own, this is a possible scenario, in my opinion.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
matt great,great.
much shorter.
thank you
August 9th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
How very sad.The only people on whom Madeleine can count are the policemen of the PJ. They are the ones who are doing everything they can to give her a funeral and a grave to let her rest in peace.
Party group 9 continue being cowards, they know a lot but they chose for themselves.Why bother? She is dead, isn’t she? Let us continue living.
How can you all live without remorse? How can you all be so immoral?
The poor thing depending on strangers in a country far from home and you still can sleep every night? Which one of you dares to stand up and go to the police telling them what you know? Does the killer have such a power on you?
Cowards!