MADDYWATCH: Madeleine McCann’s Family House
Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: Front page, plus pages 4 and 5, with logo (“THE HUNT FOR MADELEINE: Day 117”). “MADELEINE: NEW SETBACK OVER CRUCIAL DNA EVIDENCE” announces THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER.
It reports that a “devastating blow” has been struck – which turns out to be the news that the DNA tests will not be ready for weeks. The tests are being carried out at the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham, so there is no opportunity to blame the Portuguese authorities on this occasion. The paper has to content itself with the comment that the tests are being delayed by “the nature of the evidence”.
The paper notes that as the McCanns try to come to terms with losing Madeleine “they continually face new accusations”.
It then lists these “vicious smears” and describes each one in detail: “Kate’s guilt”, “Drugging their children”, “Wife-swapping holidays”, “Excessive drinking”, “Children left to cry”, “Killed in the apartment”, “A body in the hire car”, “Emergency call delay”, “Intercepted phone calls and emails”, “Friends under suspicion”, “Forged birth certificate”.
For reasons best known to itself, the paper prints a picture of the McCanns’ home, with a caption noting that it is worth £600,000.
THE STAR: Most of page 9. “DIVIDED IN GRIEF: Pals fear Maddie parents’ rift. “Friends” are apparently “concerned about GP Kate’s crestfallen body language”.
Portuguese newspapers are accusing the police of driving a wedge between the couple to test their individual accounts of what happened on the fateful night. They also claim that a rift has developed over the media campaign.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Small box, page 2. “Expert warns McCanns of long wait for DNA results” The paper reports on the delays, and says that the McCanns have been advised not to return to Britain until the results are known.
OTHER PAPERS: No Madeleine news today.
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August 30th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Rosemary (267) Thank you for correcting me on the McCann’s going to Morocco. It’s reassuring to know they did go.
itsme (271) Whereas you says the police have clearly stated there was no kidnapping we cannot ignore the possibility it isn’t true, when they don’t know what happened to her, and, they constantly give out contradictory statements. She’s dead, she may not be dead, she’s been murdered, we have no idea etc..
A forum like this is a way to exchange ideas, maybe come up with scenarios or possibilities the PJ have not considered. “Many hands make light work” so to say.
How are we to know until she’s found dead or alive what has happened? How are we to know that a kidnapper, kidnappers demands aren’t such that Madeleine’s life would be in extreme danger were the public to be made aware of their existence, their involvement. An organisation like ETA springs to mind and everyone is well aware they don’t make threats lightly.
Not revealing information can in some situations allows the police to investigate in a manner that whoever is involved would be off guard.
“A criminal always returns to the scene of the crime”, so they say. Maybe this is what they are waiting for, to see a return to the scene, to the place where the body was hidden, knowing perhaps exactly who they’re looking for but unable to find a body or the incriminating evidence.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Re 286, Pat, it was reported that Mrs von Aesch said (to Blick)that according to her husband’s diary he was not in the Algarve at the time Madeleine went missing. I don’t know if there is any other proof whether he was or was not there. Interestingly, the number plates of his white Renault Traffic van have never been shown, neither has there been an appeal for witnesses who may have seen it. I can only guess that witnesses who saw a spanish-registered van near the Ocean Club apartments, before Madeleine disappeared, have stated to the police what they recall the registration was. So it might have been another van altogether. It is clear, though, that driving distances was not uncommon for VA.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
even the dutch strongwood study presumes the kid is dead and has been dropped into the sea
August 30th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Rosemary (281) - The statement about a man carrying a child from the apartment was made by a friend of the McCanns (Jane Tanner), originally stated that it was a man carrying a bundle, and was not disclosed until the day AFTER the disappearance, even though the ‘witness’ was present from 10pm on May 3rd. Additionally another, external witness who was talking with Gerry McCann, in the place and at the same time as she claims to have ’seen’ the man, says that he saw neither the mystery man NOR Jane Tanner.
Another statement from a local (Irish ex pat) was made, but the timing does NOT fit with Jane Tanner’s - she claims to have seen her man at 9.15pm, whereas the local says he saw someone (who he did not recognise - so not a local) at 9.45pm. The walk between the two ’sightings’ is only 5 minutes or so.
Cadaver Dog - No, a cadaver dog does not distinguish between one dead human’s scent and another dead human’s scent … it just pinpoints the smell of a decomposing Human (decomposition starts from 2 - 4 hours after death. BUT THERE HAVE BEEN NO OTHER REPORTED DEATHS IN THAT APARTMENT - EVER. Sorry to ’shout’ that, but this point seems to be causing some confusion! Of course it is *possible* for someone else to have concealed a death there at some point in the past … but is it PROBABLE????
As for Justine McGuinness … it reminds me of a favourite poem of mine by Sir John Betjeman :
The Village Inn, the village inn
So ancient, clean and free from sin
So spake the Brewer’s PRO
A man who really ought to know
For He is paid for saying so
August 30th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Rosemary yes I remember also they visited Morocco
August 30th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Rosemary I wonder if he was traveling when Madeleine went missing or if he is accounted for at that time?
August 30th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Rosemary I noticed something in reports about the child carried away. If correct I read Ms. Tanner saw a man carrying a child with a blanket. Another reports said the people by the church remarked how odd the man carried the child but had no blanket. I can’t figure that one out?
August 30th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I don’t know, since I haven’t seen the proof, that von Aesch committed suicide.
Witnesses might conveniently have been disposed of, mightn’t they?
Von Aesch seems to have spent a good deal of time travelling alone. His wife
would not have known what he was doing.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Rosemary that is what I always thought too. Whether or not the child was alive I don’t know. I assumed so until the recent reports.
I don’t know what the evidence the police claim to have which indicates death other than the dogs. The police have made a point to say there is other evidence so all very confusing.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Rosemary Oh, his wife said she did not think he was a peadophile. There is still a person who must have been at the scene who is unknown or missing? I don’t know if there was some way to set up Mr. Von A or if there is other evidence against him.
I guess all hard for his wife.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
268 - there is evidence, a man was seen carrying a child from the apartments and was later seen near the church with a child in a blanket.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
If there was mention of fraud I suspect not in the sense of intentionally misrepresenting findings.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Moderation what I read about the Dutch study was somehow the Portugal were okay with it initially but there is a problem with, technically???, not suppose to have private investigations.
When the Dutch study gave info earlier date they said they were funded by private donations type thing individuals all sounded without any reason to spin or smear just sounded like a sincere attempt to find answers.
My reasoning is people were asked to join in the search so some did a little more than others maybe thinking they were helping as a result of the many indications the “Portugal police were incompetent, not acting fast enough, could be trying to set up people, and so on” Just a guess but hearing all of that might cause groups or people to want to observe for themselves.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Pat, I think what has changed is that on the basis of statistical evidence regarding kidnapped children a very small percentage are ever found after so long. I would never rule out the possibility and keep hoping.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Re:269, Pat: In her interview with Blick (in German) she said she had to believe he could have murdered her because there was forensic evidence that he had been in touch with Ylenia’s belongings and that later, forensic evidence taken from his van proved Ylenia had been inside it. No details of the evidence, of course. Without this evidence I don’t think she would have said she believed he had anything to do with it. She also stated he was not a paedophile and that they did not have the internet at their home in Benimantell, Spain. I don’t know if he had a laptop or used wi-fi.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
If I had a spokesperson it would most likely be a family member type of thing.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
A combination of circumstances led me to start losing hope. Not only the reports about the dogs sniffing death but what the police say, the parents are leaving soon, the PR lady is leaving… All indications something has changed.
I doubt I would have a PR person if I had a missing child, meaning I don’t know how to accurately read all of that anyway.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Some of us don’t want to believe the death theory that is.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
itsme I convinced myself for the longest that a cut on the leg with dead tissue can cause a false reading with dogs. Some of us don’t want to believe that theory. At the same time all of the recent reports offer little hope.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
270 - I think they are linked to psychics.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
256 re-read your post, and I had not thought there might have been unpublicised ransoms. Yes this is possibly why there seem so sure she is not alive.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I understood Strongwood have been discredited in Holland as they are connected to fraud. Can’t remember it all but it was in, I think, The Times.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Rosemary Why do you think Mr. Von A wife would think or even know enough of him capable of doing anything like that to think of someone being buried?
August 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
265, no - if the police have indications of a kidnappers looking, a car or something else involved, they make it PUBLIC - especially if some deadline for a ransom has passed…
what the police here does, is stating clearly that there was no kidnapping.
why are you all ignoring ?
August 30th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
256, Birchell, they visited Morocco:
http://helpfindmaddie.blogspot.com/2007/06/parents-of-missing-madeleine-visit.html
August 30th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
The reports I read about a child crying in the McCann apartment on a previous night before the abduction were later hours remembering reading indicated cried until the time the parents came home along those lines.
I didn’t notice what time the child was allegedly crying the night of the abduction.
What has beent the biggest hurdle, theories, appears the dog sniff dead body reports.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
262, Pat I think the truth is, quite rightly, such information is not being made public until a suspect is identified and a trial happens. Only then will it all come out. I don’t know what happens to all the evidence if a body is never found. Does the evidence ever come out, I wonder? I doubt it.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Molly I have heard a hospital story, which turned out true, where one nurse gave medication and failed to inform or write and the nurse coming on duty gave the medication again resulting in overdose of a very young woman.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
259, itsme, yellow also.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Rosemary Yes, how to know whose body? I have asked over and over if the dogs went to Madeleine’s bed, for example. At an earlier date there appeared people on the forum who knew more but not recently. If the dogs went to Madeleine’s bed or where she was sleeping that would be more alarming. For the longest time I had myself convinced a cut on her leg could cause a false alarm, dead tissue. Someone, Spudgun I think, wrote the other day that that would not happen. So, once people treat me like a dummy I don’t know what to think.