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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September 9th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Hello Anon, yes it is speculation that they killed Madeleine but it is not speculation that they left the children alone for hours on end sometimes with them screaming and crying for ages before they turned up, and they had been told about it but carried on doing it, except that night when the woman upstairs thought she heard something earlier on but then nothing.
As if that is not bad enough, they left the doors unlocked as well, and some nights were much further away than the Tapas even, and that is more like 150 yards not the 50 yards that the McCanns keep telling everybody.
Anybody else would have been arrested if their child had gone missing in those circumstances, but the McCanns have cleverly introduced this so called abductor of whom there is no evidence at all except what the McCanns tell people, and to quote Mandy Rice Davies ‘well they would say that wouldn’t they’, just like the woman who is a friend of theirs comes up later with the man carrying a child sighting, albeit that would then take suspicion away from her partner who did not turn up at the dinner table that night until much later.
How can we believe any of them when they all could be said to have ulterior motives for saying what they say.
At the end of the day what I feel most strongly about is that they should be charged with child endangerment even as an example, because what happens next time when somebody decides to nip down the pub and leave the kids alone and something terrible happens do we overlook that as well. Or, do they have to make out that there has been an abductor and hide the body, in order to get a pass on being charged with anything.
I don’t know if that is what the McCanns did but I hope you get the message of what I am trying to say and please stop thinking of these people as victims.
Ask yourself, victims of what?
September 9th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Agree Tiana, cannot believe that K & G left their kids alone, disgusting and neglectful to say the least. I am not debating the idiocy of leaving young children alone. I have a three year old and I wouldn’t even dream of having dinner and drinks anywhere other than with the kids.
I am just commenting on the way that public perception and press have done a complete u-turn, even some of the comments are very similar to when the chamberlain case happened. Believe it or not, Lindy Chamberlain was convicted due to blood in the car …. later she was exonerated, not until she had spent three and a half years in jail.
Even the crowds in Praia, had previously been respectful and quiet are the McCanns were jeering and booing Kate when she arrived for her interviews. Quiet similar to the arrival of Lindy to some of her interviews…and yet no-one actually knew what happened, just a lot of speculation assumed to be fact.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Hey anon there were no dingo doggies around at the time or no doubt they McCanns could have used that.
Don’t you understand that they have to represent it to everybody that they are the VICTIMS, when the question should be asked, the victims of what?
There is no evidence whatsoever that Madeleine was taken, she could just have easily walked herself out the apartment and fallen into something, in which case Madeleine is the VICTIM. She is the victim of Gerry and Kate McCann for leaving her and her siblings night after night while they partied. But we are not meant to look at that because the McCanns have done a sleight of hand on everybody and got everybody to look for this so called ‘abductor’ when we have only their word for this, and being as how they were not there at the time HOW DO THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
How many times have we heard since that the McCanns are the VICTIMS.
That is what they want everybody to think, and the only victim we can really be sure of is Madeleine who is a victim of her selfish parents for going out night after night and being left alone in an unlocked apartment when she is only three years old.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I don’t know whether they are the ones who caused Madeleine’s death or not but I could see how a person could preserve a body for a length of time until they could get somewhere permanent to put it, namely, by the use of a freezer and help from people who are close up and personal to them.
They are hardly going to shop them now are they, after it was explained that it was an accident and they had so much to lose.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Are you kidding me … this is just like Azaria Charmberlian (a dingo took my baby) all those years ago. No body is found , public aren’t happy with the way the parents grieve in public and the woosh…. lets all turn on the parents!!!! Well we all know how that ended.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Quote: I would have followed the advice of the Portuguese police and kept publicity to a minimum to avoid a possible abductor killing her in panic…
Dont forget that in the beginning the McCanns weren’t 100% with the police and believed that they weren’t doing everything they could. Also CEOP (UK) advised to saturate the media as much as possible with her image, as this was proven the best way to have an abducted child recovered safely.
Mind you, still cant believe K & G left those kids so far away …
September 8th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
On another board someone has posted that the McCanns were given the keys to the church to enable them to go whenever they wanted to - to pray - and they have also said that the one place where it would be unlikely that a search would take place would be the church. The church could provide the forensic links to where Madeleine was taken (if, of course, she was taken anywhere)
September 8th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
The recent develpoments sure make sense of what Molly said on this site months ago:
“Well personally Jane (assuming that I had had a frontal lobotomy and thought it was a good idea to leave 3 under 4’s alone) … I would have followed the advice of the Portuguese police and kept publicity to a minimum to avoid a possible abductor killing her in panic… then I would have re-mortgaged or sold my house to raise money for private investigators and let the police and my own PI’s do the job that they were being paid for, quietly and behind the scenes.”
I beleive the McCann parents are as guilty as —-. and are taking money using Maddie as bait. How COULD they ellicit money from well-meaning people when they knew their child was daed!!!!! It seems they did not care for theior child, but care more for money. I wish all parents wanted and cared for the children they brought into htis world, but unfortunately this is not true.
If I am wrong WRT what I say above, I will be one of the first to apologise.
September 8th, 2007 at 5:34 am
What I find more surprising is the initial assertion that the child was seemingly effortlessly abducted from the holiday apartment within a very short period with almost no clues left behind or witnesses to the event.
From the 1st week I was suspicious of the comportment of the mother in particular and nothing up to this latest twist has lessened that.
The Portuguese police sent the samples to one of the best forensic labs in Europe apparently and positive DNA evidence is pretty damning .
In these cases where a body is not found then a chain of irresistible inferences can be built up with appropriate evidence to form a prosecution case.
If such evidence is available to the police then the McCann’s have reason to be fearful.
September 8th, 2007 at 4:25 am
I’ve been reading todays headlines and a couple of questions jump out at me…
It has been said that Kate and the room had the cadaver smell, could this have been a false positive.. the dogs were brought in 3 months after the fact I was lead to believe that they are only viable for 28 days.
The blood that was found in the car, that was hired 25 days after she went missing. This sounds very odd, are they suggesting that K & G moved her body after she went missing and if so wouldn’t her body be decomposing rather than bleeding??? Also considering the amount of media spotlight on the couple after a week, surely someone would have noticed them leaving in the car that was out of the ordinary??
I am not saying that I am pro-McCann, just that these were some of the interesting questions I had when I heard the news.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:52 am
In The Mail Newspaper it online is saying that one of the questions asked Kate was about the cadaver smell and she explained that by saying that before she went on holiday she had been involved with people who had died and the smell must be on her clothes, so that must mean she is wearing the same clothes on holiday as when she had been touching dead bodies, etc. This may be true but it sounds disgustingly dirty.
Anyway, she might have been able to talk her way out of that but they ought to check her every word just to make sure it is true and that really did happen and they are the same clothes she wore.
I thought Gerry was looking very down when he came out of the questioning. Wonder whether they have any cadaver smell on his clothes as well.
Have you noticed how these McCanns always have an answer for everything, but the answers are not always the truth.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:45 am
From day one i have though the lack of emotion shown by the parents was odd, heartless would be the word. They looked and acted suspect and now it looks like they were heavily involved somehow and used it as a way to make a lot of money. As a parent i am disgusted that they left their very young child alone, whilst aboad, with another two younger kids, while they enjoyed themselves. They should be locked up for that alone. When you have children you have a responcibility to look after them, they rely on you to protect them. I find the parents disgusting and if they weren’t educated then the papers would be pushing for them to be locked up. Hope for the safe return of the wee one.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Miss M. I watched sky news today and this was a statement - not from the police - but repeated by the McCann family after what was probably 3 fold translations from Portugese/English etc. The word “deal” could have been translated to actually mean option - I would assume that Ms. McCann would have had to have to options spelled out and as the suggestion was that she had accidentally killed her daughter, it would probably have been pointed out to her that should she choose to come clean and confess (if it did indeed happen that way) she would be faced with a much lesser charge than would be the case if she insisted that she was not involved, but it was later proved in a trial that she was. I think that is probably more likely that she was given her options than offered a “deal”
September 7th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Gerry’s sister said today to the media that the Portuguese police offered a deal to Kate: if Kate tells them where Madeleine’s body is or if she admits Madeleine died(on of this two possibilities, I forgot which one) Kate would be prosecuted only for child neglect.
The PJ denied this story this evening. They never offered a deal.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I started to suspect the parents right after they started to make a terrible noise around the case.I think this was in May. Privet jets, a fund, even a Madeleine store which changed in online store.It was obvious they were hiding things. I always suspected Gerry and it is a shock to me that it seems to have been Kate. As a mother, I always think mothers per definition protect their children. Lazy people they are: children the whole day in the creche, sedatives in the evening, and if it does not help, she loses her temper.Disgusting people with disgusting friends. Better: they are all scoundrels.
That’s why Gerry never allowed her to talk in public.Afraid she would talk too much. Will they do the same to the twins? They are in danger! I agree with Malou who said that the whole bunch of the 9 group should be dismissed from the hospital.Nobody wants scoundrel doctors.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Its all getting interesting now that the Kate’s been named as a suspect but not formally charged & Gerry’s going to be interviewed later this morning. I’ve read some of above and it’s all interesting but the 1 fact that stands out is that from the word go I thought how could any sane parent leave their child (children) alone, it doesn’t make sense? They were some 100 yards plus away from the house, not 10 yards but 100+ yards, 3 little children, not 8/9/10 year olds but under 3’s were left alone, what possed them to leave their kids there, what type of parenting is that? Is that supposed to be good, normal parenting? If nothing else the book should be thrown at them for being such lousy parents. And please don’t say they the parents have suffered enough becaue of missing Maddy because you bring children into the world to be loved and looked after not to be left on their own when you feel like a bit of a break.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Hello Grace, yes, how can we believe anything those people say, and it’s all to cover up for the fact that they left these little children alone night after night, and it gets me when Kate McCann says ‘I’m sorry I wasn’t there at that MOMENT’ as if it was some tiny moment when she looked away and Madeleine was gone. They are so good at minimalising everything these McCanns, so the distance of 150 yards becomes 50 yards away.
And why hire a lawyer as one of the first things you do? Were they thinking they might be needing one even then?
September 4th, 2007 at 11:21 am
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September 4th, 2007 at 6:36 am
I would love to know that if they supposedly checked every half an hour, what happened the night before?? Apparently Maddie cried for 75minutes!!!! Do they claim to have done half hourly checks every time they went out socialising?????
September 4th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Hello Lucy, yes it is very confusing, and people have been saying the Portuguese police haven’t been doing enough to find Madeleine, but I’m starting to feel sorry for them because it sounds like the puzzler of all time. The Marie Celeste can’t beat this mystery so far.
It’s got just about everything in there including white van man (you might know he would show up as well!). Where is Madeleine? Did she go in the sea, or did she go to Spain? Or did she fall down one of the road work holes? Nothing done about digging them up to find out just to be sure even though we are told they will leave no stone unturned.
Apparently the McCanns had been told there had been burglars breaking into the apartments previously, so I wonder, did they take their valuables along with them when they went out for the night.
September 4th, 2007 at 3:01 am
its all so confusing. but if you look back its because the parents story is so confusing. gerry denies giving her mediaction to help her sleep. but family members, said maddy was given meds for sleepwalking. (as a nurse i find that odd as ive never heard of any meds that help stop sleepwalking so i must assume its a sedative to stop her walking in her sleep). but if they claim its for sleep walking not to sedate her then both he and the other family members are ‘right’. the shutters were messed with and a bit open according to the mccans not acording to the resort people. the shuters were only a focus untill they admited the patio doors were open. up till then the focus was she must have been kidnapped as she went out through the shuters, so you have to ask whe were the police given that little nugget of info? if they had know it at once maybe the police would have serched those holes in the road instead of being sidtracked by the kidnap idea. the bar, well we know thats all wrong they couldnt see the apartment door, they ate inside and its a lot furthur away then they say. Kates crying ‘theyve(?) taken her’ which sugestsshe thinks the child has been kiddnapped at 10pm ,but everyone starts loking around the apartment and all over the grounds, messing up the crime scene really well. and no one calls the police for well over an hourand a half, and they all serch just as you would for a kid that wandered off . the parents say they checked every 30 mins. first we hear that one parent would do the rounds of all the apartments A bit later another would go in a kind of round robin. the person who checked about 9pm dosent remember if he even went in and looked or listened at the door. then its every parent was responsiable for their own child. weve got the bar staff saying no one went, just one tall man. so did her parents hurt her, was there an accident,was she kidnaped, wandered off, i dont think we will ever find out. but these parents do need questioning again with the kid gloves off.to be told that theres no more evasionon or half truths. that this time they tell exactly what happened. what time times thay checked on their kids, who was mising from their party and when all the stuff he police need to know for a through investigation.
September 4th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Hello Third Sniffer Dog
This just gets worse doesn’t it.
One of the things I read was that the lady upstairs had heard Madeleine (probably her, because Gerry said the twins slept soundly and never woke) on a couple of occasions when the children had been left alone for the evening, crying and screaming for her daddy, until they got back. But she though she had also heard crying earlier on the evening Madeleine disappeared but then it stopped, but that was much earlier on, and it could have been one of the others anyway.
I suppose another scenario could be that the children had been given some medication (I know hotly denied by Gerry, but that means they didn’t mind leaving Madeleine to scream, and apparently they had been spoken to about this), to help them sleep and Maddie a bit too much, and somebody did some very quick thinking when she was found! The shutters were open but the police did not think this likely to have been done from outside because they were not so easy to open from there.
Those times? Well, what is going on!!
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Dear Tiana, if you are getting terribly confused, join the club! Everybody is.Yes, I know about an odour of a corpse in the apartment and on the beach.
According to official publication of the Portuguese police, the Mccanns told them that they missed Madeleine at 10.40 pm(22.40hs). See
http://www.policia judiciaria.pt/ pessoas desaparecidas (disappeared persons).
I read several different “times”about when they left to the restaurant:8.00pm,8.30pm, 9.00 pm.
I think she died short after 6.00pm and sometimes I even think she died the night before. Too short time between 6.00 and 8.00, 10.00, even 10.40 pm to plan well the disappearence of her corpse. It was still day light uptil 9.30 pm.Besides the parents must have been extremely shocked because I believe in an accident, a great tragedy. They must have been helped by a third person because they needed an alibi, staying hours in the restaurant.
I don’t think it is easy to carry a corpse around without attracting attention.
That’s why I think(like some others also do) she died the evening before and they still had the night to remove her.But I also believe it was a terrible accident and they had no intention to lose their child.
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Hello, I have been reading that the cadaver dog picked up a scent from a body on the beach, but that for there to be a scent the body has to have been in a place for two hours at least. The dog is also said to have found this scent in the apartment. So if it takes two hours for this to occur then that would put the time back to the McCann’s being there??
They said they went to the restaurant at 8.30 and Madeleine was not discovered missing until 10.00, so that is only one and a half hours and Madeleine would have had to have been in the apartment all that time, plus another half hour, presumably before they went out or when they got back.
Does anybody have any kind of explanation for that? This just gets more and more mysterious.
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Anon…, I found Brian, thank you.
I don’t believe much in clairvoyance.Many times they are so unclear like Nostradamus is.
My sister is sometimes capable to feel things and she explained me that it has to do with telepathy with the victim, with the criminal or with someone who knows the story( it could be a detective).
At least one of them has to be alive for the telepathic contact.I hope Madaleine is still alive but I think she is not anymore.In this case Brian can have telepathy with the criminal who took her life. - I would like to ask everybody to stop saying her parents were negligent. It is already four months ago and it is no use to keep repeating that. We know the problem and now we have to concetrate on the solution.
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Brian is a dreamer - his website is http://www.briansprediction.com
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:09 am
Who is Brian and how can I find his website?
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Hi Tiana, II don’t think I really clarified my position in relation to the McCanns - I 100% agree that Kate % Gerry were incredibly negletful and selfish to leave 3 (very small!) children alone in an apartment!!! Infact I believe that at a later date they should be held accountable. I was just making a few points relating to an earlier post that had a lot of incorrect information on it.
Plus, personally I have looked at Brian’s website and agree that the McCanns should have somebody look into his predictions, he seems to have an awful lot of correct data!
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
there has always been a theory that she wandered off. gerry states that the last time he checked the door was ajar and her bed empty. she was known to run out of teh apartment. there was roadworks being done and there were holes all over. holes that wernt checked before being filled.this was mentioned when she first went missing. how about some of the find maddy money being released to dig up the holes?. but that wont fit with what the mccanns want. they have to believe she was kidnapped and so not ‘their fault’ instead if she had an accident it makes it all their fault. thats they only way they can cope. they dont want to find her if shes dead.
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I am back from abroad and still no results of the tests.
Very tiring and very complicated.