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 13th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
I heard British Child Services has paid the McCanns a visit, has anyone heard anymore on that?
September 13th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Just a few questions re: telephone call to Sky News …
I always thought that the Resort Manager called the police, not Gerry. If Gerry did make the telephone calls, I wonder whether these are from the hotel apartment or his mobile. Because if it were from his mobile, wouldn’t the police need to have declared them airguido’s to be able to obtain telephone records from Britian???
Also found this at Gazeta Digital (from Luz in Portugal) The Journalist Paulo Ries reported on this same fact and a sceptical reader (due to the fact the source is just listed as ‘police source’) did a little researching and recieved this reply from sky:
“13 September 2007 19:18
DoodleBugStudio said…
Paolo -
This is what I just received back from Sky. I suggest you follow-up with them about this so-called fact. It is untrue. Jill Renwick contacted GMTV the next morning. No one from the McCann family contacted Sky the night before.
Dear ****
Thank you for watching and contacting Sky News.
Thanks too for your email about the Madeleine McCann case.
I have spoken to senior news executives and they are not aware that Kate or Gerry McCann contacted Sky News about the disappearance of her daughter before informing the police in Portugal.
I will pass your comments on to the message board moderation team.
Best wishes
Paul Bromley
Viewers’ Editor
Sky News
Mind you, if this was proven true, I think personal view would change dramatically!
September 13th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Um I have no idea what you are talking about - mostly because I have been away and certainly haven’t posted any personal insults.
I too believe in karma, however I don’t know how this relates.
Just because I don’t believe that the McCanns killed their daughter does not mean I am incapable of debate - also I would love to know what personal insults I have delivered!
September 13th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
[...] Anorak TVAnorak - There you go again anon, incapable of debate and resorting to personal insults. And I believe in Karma too, and I pity all of you who cannot have an compassion. Marian how do you know what you would do until (god forbid) you were in that situation [...]
September 13th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
appalled mother
if you’re going to be appalled by any FACTS as you point out what about the oparents who put their socialising before their kids
Trina :
the scam isn’t really whats crossing my mind, however the main reason that i feel that people ar vehemently defending the mccanns despite their recklessness is that the groundswell of public support and caring has struck a chord across the world and a lot of people around the world have for once invested emotionally in the good of the fellow human
if it is the case that the mccanns are found guilty it will destroy this sense of caring and people will be very slow to care again and that is the reason that they want the mccanns found innocent
September 13th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
I think you’ll find the medicine in question in is calpol. A paracetemol based drug commonly given to feverish children in the UK. You would have to give a child a massive dose to kill it and it would be very obvious as their liver would malfunction and they would turn yellow.
September 13th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
JOKE……………………
Whats worse than leaving your kids with Micheal Jackson ?????
ANSWER…
Letting them go on holiday with the Mcanns……………lol
September 13th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Searching on internet I did not find Copcol but Copco sedative.
My information desk in Portugal speaks and understands very well English.
Portugal has the system of undertiteling on tv. Possible the translator wrote Copcol, which could be the name of the medicine in Portugal and she does not know this medicine and accepted the word Copcol as being the only one.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Correio da Manhã and Diário de Notícias are talking today(sure the Correio, Diário could have been yesterday) about Kate’s diary, which has been take by the police already at the beginning of August. Only now the media are talking about it. Correio says that in the diary, Kate complains about her children and complains about her husband who does not help her to look after them.
I am repeating what the papers are saying in Portugal, I am not saying this is true. By the way: it seems that the name of the medicine they used to give to the children is Copcol. It has been said on RTP tv.It even seems to have been said by one of the grandfathers.Does anyone of you know why the music “Look into my eyes”disappeared from Gerry’s site? Was’nt it specially composed for Maddie?
September 13th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Not that I am suggesting for one minute that any nannie should feel any responsibility for this because the McCanns are the ones who should have been watching out for these children day and night.
Not too much to ask of them I would have thought.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:06 am
I have read somewhere that the McCanns had a nanny usually but that for some reason she had to pull out of the trip so the children were left solely with the parents.
If this is true, then she must be feeling really bad that she couldn’t go along because then at least these children might have had somebody there with them all the time and Madeleine would be here today.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Hello Frank, see 604 above. Malou gets to hear news we don’t hear from our UK media.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
tiana where did you hear that they contacted sky news before the police. its the first Ive heard of it from anyone. i would have thought at someone would have mentioned it before. oh i see that the prosecutors been handed 400 pages of proof
tahts a lot isn’t it
September 12th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
This whole situation is a disaster - Nobody, it seems, has been telling the whole truth about the day in question - May 3. Appartently the McCanns did not arrive in Portugal until 30th April, - not sure if they were due to stay one or two weeks - but they sure did start to burn the candle at both ends from day one>> If the reports are correct - and you really do start to question everything you read - but IF the reports are correct they must have left their kids alone in the evenings from day 1. Maybe they did not give themselves much time to suss out the local situation before leaving their kids alone - It must have been - arrive - unpack - find a route to the bar - and off you go……..leave the kids, who knows what the reputation around here is - but Hey - we are on our holls…..I think that the only hope if they get called to court is to plead insanity!!
September 12th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Hello Malou, yes I’m beginning to wonder whether the girl that was seen at 6.30 with Gerry and O’Brien was really O’Brien’s daughter and they have said it was Madeleine or she was mistaken for Madeleine, so everybody is saying that Madeleine was alive at 6.30 when nobody really saw her at all.
Trouble is, so many people have been taking everything the McCanns have been saying as Gospel truth, but when you look at some of the things they have been telling it is obviously not true.
I am wondering whether Gerry perhaps writes intricate crime thrillers in his spare time or maybe reads them, because this has so many twists and turns that nobody knows what to believe. Red herrings everywhere. Is this being done deliberately?, and am feeling very sorry for the Portuguese and UK police who have been trying to sort it all out.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
John regarding the McCanns contacting the Sky News see 604 from Malou.
We aren’t getting the whole picture here in UK.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
The telephone call to Sky News happened imediately after the parents missed Madeleine and before they called the police.That is what the boss of the PJ told on RTP television yesterday or the day before yesterday. I forgot to tell here that he also said that they still don’t know what happened in that afternoon of the May the third.This could mean that nobody saw the girl or at least nobody reliable.
Long time ago I started to suspect she died much earlier, begin of afternoon or even the night before.From 6.00 to 9.00 pm(when the couple arrived on the restaurant) is too short time to die, to start emanating cadaver scent,to plan the disappearence, to find a safe place, to hide her on a perfect way without being seeing.There was day light uptil 9.30 pm.It seems the dogs smelt cadaver scent in a closet(cupboard) in their a apartment and in another apartment, in the same building.The PJ seems to have already a photo coppy of Kate’s diary.That happened longer ago, days or few weeks.Since the very begining The PJ is working with the Scotland Yard.If the PJ made any mistake, the S. Y. made it as well because they were discussing every issue toghether.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Hello John, yes that is interesting.
I wonder if anybody has asked them how much they are being paid from the Fund themselves being trustees or are they willing to be doing it for free?
It now looks like there will be another Fund started for the McCanns defence fund, because if they had used the money from the Madeleine Fund and had been found guilty they then would have had to pay the money back to the Madeleine Fund.
This way, apparently. they get to use all of it because besides finding Madeleine, it is also for the use of the McCanns for their own personal use.
What the police should be doing is freezing the Madeleine Fund until it is found out whether the parents have know all along that Madeleine is dead, in which case it is a fraud on a massive scale.
September 12th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Apalled mother
So are you saying that the McCanns are talking FACTS when they say Madeleine was abducted. How could they know, they weren’t there, so why could she not have walked out the door for instance.
It would appear they don’t want that to be considered, preferring to have everybody concentrate on the abductor ‘theory’ thereby not looking too closely at their role in her disappearance by not being there that night.
Or, you have to ask yourself, did they know something we don’t as to why she could not have walked through the door and slipped into one of the holes that had been dug by the road works that were filled in the next day.
I, for one, would have used every penny of the Fund if necessary to find that out and at least set my mind at rest on it.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Gilly what a lot of rubbish if the child abducted from the bathtub was 3 rs old, was left alone and drowned or turned on the taps and scalded herself the mother would have been guilty ofneglect. but she was 7 or 8 wasn’t she. and her mum let her just long enough to dry of the other child and dress it. and the next room isn’t a tapas bar 150 yids away is it. by your reasoning we couldn’t let an 8 yr old go to the toilet alone. so if you want to compare two cases find two that are similar
September 12th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
PS Who the hell did you think I was?
September 12th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Actually I’ve never been here before. And won’t be again. And I didn’t think Murat was guilty particularly. Neither am I brainwashed by Murdoch.
I just happen to think that all you lot are talking about is hearsay. NOT hard fact.
Like Manuel we know nothing.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
LISTENING TO RADIO 5 LIVE THIS MORNING 12/9/07, A PHONE INTERVIEW ARRANGED WITH JOHN McCANN, A DIRECTOR OF THE MADELEINE FUND & BROTHER OF GERRY. WAS ASKED HOW MUCH OF THE ONE MILLION PLUS FUND, HAD ALREADY BEEN USED IN SUPPORT OF THE PARENTS, THE PHONE WENT DEAD, A FEW MINUTES LATER CONTACT WAS AGAIN MADE AND ON BEING ASKED THE SAME QUESTION, THE PHONE WAS DISCONNECTED AGAIN. NO FURTHER CONTACT WAS MADE, SO THE QUESTION WAS LEFT UNANSWERED ? MAKES YOU WONDER DOES IT NOT ?
September 12th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
tiana 613……is that actualy true ?,surely that is the wrong thing to do ?
September 12th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
alex,im thinking that the apalled mother is the same person you think she is too!!!!!
you lot could read her previous posts……….if they were still here!
September 12th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I am still reeling from hearing the McCanns contacted Sky news before the police.
What kind of people think like that? For all they knew, if what they said is true, somebody local had been in and snatched Madeleine. Surely then the first resort should have been to the local police, what a time waster to phone Sky News first if time was of the essence.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I think the way these two of acted stinks of GUILT,I would happily convict the pair of them on the way they have acted alone,” we want to leave no stone unturned in our search for maddy” ,then refuse to answer 40 questions during interview and flee home. Now they have hired a lawyer who specializes in extradition proceedings. We have people who refuse to accept they have any case to answer regardless of the facts, I honestly think if they dig that poor Childs body up the mcanns will accuse the police of planting it, it is so obvious they are going down the “we have been fitted up road”
September 12th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Gilly
There is a big difference from the case of the child in the bath and the disappearance of Madeleine, and please don’t try and deflect from the FACT that Madeleine’s parents were away down the road drinking with their pals and the kids home alone with the door unlocked.
Hardly the same as the mother whose child is in the bath and she is in another room.
The child in the bath’s mother is blameless as far as I can see, but the McCanns are certainly not and how you can say it is the same beggars belief.
September 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
malou. i hadn’t heard about sky news being called. when was that? if you mean the day she vanished, that’s really suspicious
September 12th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
It occurs to me, that as ever we are all trying and by the looks of things, finding the McCanns guilty without the benefit of fact.
Newspapers and their reporters are not privy to factual evidence, so what they don’t know they make up and slip in as “sources close to blah blah” We know all this from other highly profile people and cases. The only people who really know what happened are the McCanns. But I would ask you all to cast your minds back to the case reported last winter - the little girl snatched from the bath, indecently assaulted and left completely naked and crying in a street miles away.
Perhaps imagine yourself as the mother of this child had she not been left on the street, but dumped in some hole.
‘I left her in the bath, I went to make tea’
how long did you leave her
‘not long, a few minutes’
really ? and you say nobody came in or out and you were here alone?
‘yes I just left her for a minute, she was playing in the bath’
so what happened to her ?
‘I don’t know, somebody must have taken her’
and I put it to you that she drowned in the bath, because you were negligent and left her alone. You have disposed of her body somewhere and now you’re making up this elaborate story and trying to elicit pity and funds from the public
Simplistic perhaps BUT what an incredible scenario - you can leave a child playing in a bath and within minutes some sicko has wriggled in through a small window grabbed her and gone - would any of us have believed it had it not been PROVED true?
Doesn’t this sound like the McCanns ?
Might this child’s mother have been a suspect if the child hadn’t been found?
I don’t know what I would have done - or indeed would do now in the McCanns position. How can we know how they feel, if they cry, if shock has sealed from emotion. How do we ‘know’ what is the right reaction – we are all different after all - so I suppose I’m asking for thought and consideration of the available fact instead of salacious and mostly baseless gossip produced by companies whose prime motivation is to sell copy, to make money. Or are there people who still believe that what they read in the papers / news is unbiased fact ?