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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September 5th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Emmy, do u know thw mccanns? i expect not. innocent until proven guilty. how dare u
September 5th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
A little girl is lost and maybe dead. Taken from her bed by a stranger with only evil in his heart. The McCanns are doing whatever it takes to find her and her abductor. Think about the balls it takes to kidnapp a child from her bed. Do you really want this person walking on this earth?
September 5th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Hi
If it is an abduction, and I think it is, then Kate & Gerry McCann, should do everything in their power to work together privately and with a private investigator (I presume they don’t have to tell the police or the fund managers what they are doing in private) and they should work as quickly as possible to get Madeleine back –offer a reward to anyone who is willing to talk, or pass on leads, etc., to the private investigator, but don’t waste any time and don’t wait for others to take the lead. Don’ wait for the fund to make a decision because I feel that God will intervene and somehow Gerry will find the money.
All we have now is Prayer to get Madeleine McCann safely home to her family, and the concerted efforts of her parents, Kate & Gerry, to get her back safely.
Some time ago I asked Kate & Gerry to visit Our Lady of Victories Church in Prague, to kneel before the miraculous statute of the Infant Jesus of Prague and pray and ask Him for a miracle to bring closure of this sad case or to send Madeleine back home safely if she is still alive.
The background to the Miraculous Statue is that in 1638 a young priest named Fr. P Cyril, a Matre Dei, returned to Prague and found the Holy Infant statue buried in the ruins of the Lady of Victory Church. Fr Cyril cleaned the statue and placed it in the oratory for worship. While he was praying before the Infant Jesus, he heard the Infant Jesus say: “Have pity on Me and I will have pity on you. Give Me My hands and I will give you peace. The more you honor Me, the more I will bless you.” The repairing of th statue’s hands was a miracle since Fr Cyril and his peers did not have the financial resources or the know-how to repair it. Through prayer, Fr Cyril asked he Blessed Virgin Mary in several occasions to provide the necessary funds for fixing the Infant statue. The Divine Infant spoke to Fr Cyril again: “Place Me near the entrance of the sacristy and you will receive aid.” Fr Cyril then did what he was told and in a few days time the Statue was fixed by a man who came to the sacristy to offer help. Since the Statue was fixed, a number of miracles had ocurred and the word began to spread, resulting in a large increase of veneration to the Holy Child. This includes the Czech nobles as well. These early miracles were recorded in a book by P. Emerich St Stephano, published in German in 1736 and in Czech in 1749. Since then copies of the Infant Jesus were made and distributed throughout European churches. The Spanish colonial eforts later brought the Infant Jesus to the Philippines and to central America.
If Kate and Gerry read these comments, or a relative of the McCanns reads this, then I would advise them to make the effort to visit the Miraculous Statue in Prague, and take the twins with you, and ask Him to give you peace and an answer to what has happened to Madeleine and if she is still alive to bring her safely home to her family. The Infant has performed so many mirales and I am sure He will grant Kate and Gerry’s request. All the Best, Marlene
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:13 pm
i have a valid point!! This whole case is suspicious!! Gerry thinks it would be good to lower their public profile!! Maybe so people will keep the posters up but not think about the parents,
Maybe hes thinking it would all blow over and then they get on with their life? nooo that wont happen because police WILL find out what happened.. When they do… in a months time or even a year.. When they find out.. The parents were involved….They will come down hard on them…
Gerry obviously didn’t see how big it would get!! They are in over their head, and its making their marriage on rocks and making them very nervous? Why? because they are guilty of something…
Police say they a trashing the idea if an abduction because there isnt enough evidence to prove their was one!!
They will be getting away with the murder of Madeleine Mccann because police are too scared to go down there… They need to be treated as suspicious. Whether innocent or not,
They need to take a lie detector test about what happened that night.. I hope they find some pretty interesting results
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
I can’t even begin to imagine but ??????
Emmy
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:26 am
Oh, forgot to say please tell me what I am not considering as evidence of an abduction and why do you think there are no leaks if there is more evidence of an abduction?
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:22 am
Response to Kris I have been trying to believe you for a while.
Remembering that some posters have suggested, for a while now, that there is little abduction evidence. Finally, I am questioning exactly what evidence is there of an abduction. The mother said the the window was up and Madeleine was missing and Ms. Tanner said she saw a man walking off with a child. Possibly someone by the church saw a man with a child but someone claims that would have been too much time between the time Ms. Tanner saw the man and the people at the church. I DO question what Mrs. Fenn might have seen or heard? Other than that am I missing anything encouraging considering an abduction theory?
September 1st, 2007 at 3:54 am
In Olivias post above, I have to say that I just don’t think this idea would work. Even if the money was released to try this angle. Only because the reward money was known to the public to be building at the beginning of all of this and put out there. If someone wanted it they would find an elaborate way of trying for it back then without being caught. We are dealing with someone who is smart at what they are doing, and calculated. And for all we know (because we are not “in the loop” so-to-speak) is that a ransom may have been demanded and the family & police know about it but it has not been released to the public.
I still feel that they are playing their cards, a smokescreen if you will, and that Maddie is in fact alive unlike what they are reporting. Police will resort to elaborate acts, and throw out Red Herrings to the public & press when they really know what is going on. I think there is something missing that is keeping them from getting her and making the arrest, or she has been found and is in seclusion somewhere for reasons the PJ know. Possibly to break up a crime ring? I feel very strongly on this, and that all you see is not as it is behind their closed doors. Even possibly the accusations against the Mccanns, if it looks to the abductor as though there is discord within the parties in the investigation, and the parents are leaving it may flush someone out enough to make a mistake.
I just finished watching a movie called “Taking Lives” with Angelina Jolie, and if anyone can catch the ending of this movie you will see that not all is as it seems in the end. It is a clear picture of just how far the Police & FBI will go as to making a perpetrator see exactly what they want them to see to be able to crack the case & have the outcome in their favor. For those of you who have not seen it check it out. To me it is very real because I know how elaborate they will go because of my family lineage all being in law enforcement, and the ending of this movie, to me, can be parralleled to exactly what I think the PJ are doing with this case right now. They are making the public,media, and perpetrator see just exactly what they want him to see. This is just my opinion but I have other reasons to think it to be true, reasons that only someone who knows police well, and thinks like a cop would know. And I have acutely picked up on some things that make me feel this way.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Hi
I read that Gerry McCann put out a call to his daughter Madeleine’s abductor (s) and said: “Pleae give her back.” His wife Kate had made the same plea some months earlier. Did Gerry and Kate offer a reward when they made their plea ? I believe that if they offer a Reward then Madeleine McCann should be returned home safely to her parents. The Reward should be a substantial sum of money, perhaps $1 million for the safe return of Madeleine, with perhaps the promise that no action will be taken against the abductor(s) and in this way perhaps Gerry might receive a favourable response and Madeleine will be returned to her family. Gerry could arrange this thru the Private Investigator.
We are talking here of the precious life of Madeleine McCann, an innocent little girl aged four. I am sure Gerry and Kate McCann could make an effort to ask for this money from the fund or to try to raise this money from a generous and sympathetic benefactor.
All the Best, Olivia
August 31st, 2007 at 9:16 pm
I read that from an official news report…
”Her twin brother and sister, Sean and Amelie, two, lay in cots either side of her. They had been tucked up at 7pm. Half an hour later the McCanns had joined their friends for dinner at the tapas bar.”
They would have sedated their child.. left for food… and Gerry would have come back to the apartment and found her dead… not knowing what he could possibly do…
I reckon he took the cuddle cat off her… put it on the side and tried to revive her, well not being able to panicked, He could have wrapped her in a blanket and threw her in the back of a rental car.. gone back to dinner and then took her to the sea in a bin bag and dumo her!!
This would be all to easy as the beach was only 10 mins away!! This could have happened in the time Kate didnt call the police…. she waited 30mins until gerry was back in the hotel to call….
August 31st, 2007 at 6:24 am
All I can say is a school desk waiting for Madeleine.
Earlier I read Mr. McCann plans to sue a Portugal newspaper for libel. I don’t know the specifics but I question if Mr. McCann lawyer is completely informed IF there is anything to some of the recent theories. That is the danger there, my guess anyway.
Oh, so now we might watch lawyers in action.
What about the Portugal police officer where UK press put the picture of the lady with the blackeyes suggesting the officer beat and framed her? No infomation, for the most part, included for any member of the public to sort and decide designed to appear an indication of guilt. Finally information comes claiming that a jury convicted the woman. I don’t know the details, just speculating that the reporting can work both ways and lawsuits too. At the time I didn’t pay careful attention because I didn’t see the connection. Later, when the McCanns came under scrutiny I realized possibly that reporting about the Portugal detective was to imply they could be set up in the same way. I don’t know, just something odd in all of this.
How does it all work does anyone know? Would this tactic cause more to come or stop the reporting? Within the UK maybe it would stop some reporting. In Portugal ??????
The story continues… Spudgun could give the soap opera a name?
So, if the reporting is true does that mean Madeleine will soon be at school Stephanie? Now everyone knows why I trust Stephanie so much!
August 31st, 2007 at 5:46 am
Pepe,
You said: “Hi Jeeves, you must be a very experienced investigator yourself – saying that the PJ are not very good. Why exactly do you say that? I’d like to have your expert view on the PJs investigative methods:”
Here it is:
http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=maddie-cops-are-totally-clueless&method=full&objectid=19658501&siteid=93463-name_page.html
Tne most breath-taking omission was the police not even taking fingerprints at the scene the night they they were called in.
No one suggested the Portuguese borders had to be closed, only that the border police ought to have been alerted and they were not.
As for the case of Amanda Dowler, police all over the country and neighbouring countries are alerted of missing persons as a matter of course. Amanda was old enough to have simply run away from home as many kids of that age do (she was 13). The conclusion that she must have been abducted was therefore not a natural one to draw to draw as it was in the case of Madeleine, who was but a 3/4 year old year old. Besides, the British police did rather well at least to find Amanda’s body and determine that she was murdered.
However, I’m not here trying to compare the work of the British and Portuguese police. I’m speaking of the police job specifically relating to this particular case, and I give credit where credit is due.
The Portuguese secrecy laws seem to me to have been misinterpreted by the police. I don’t believe for a minute that they mean that details such as what Madeleine was wearing at the time of her disappearance should not have been released to the public.
That is borne out by the fact that the PJ did an about-turn on that later on in their investigation and did release details, allegedly under threat of legal action.
Evidently then they had misinterpreted those laws. There are details that simply have to be made public, if you are going to conduct any kind of serious investigtation.
On the plus side, the Portuguese police at least had the humility to call in the British Police to review the case after 100 days. I commend them for that. For everyone’s sakes, most especially Madeleine’s of course, I hope the PJ do finally crack this case, at whic point they will morph into heroes, even demigods (said with a wry smile). They certainly have the potential to achieve this. The very fact that they have been so badly slated shows just how much better a job they are capable of performing.
August 31st, 2007 at 4:16 am
330 - sorry for the delay. I was out and about all day.
Early on in the investigation there was a lot of information published on Von Aesch, who is of Swiss decent but lived in Spain. I have to dig it up and get back to you on it but if you remember early on when there was a Spanish Investigative Journalist who came out and said he knew exactly who took Madeleine from the very start of this case. I can’t recall his name either right now, and it’s very late over here where I am now so forgive me for not getting you this information but it’s out there. His wife has been covering up for him for years so she’s certainly not the St. Theresa of who’s who as in not a reliable source.
This is all ancillary information because this guy is not involved in the Madeleine case. He’s been pretty much ruled out already. But I will dig up the documentation that you and Pat are requesting to substantiate this vile creature’s status as a Pedophile. I would not have said this if I hadn’t seen the documentation. It’s just old news now so I’ll have to find it in the archives. You can easily go back to the early on news about Madeleine and find it for yourself though. Not being lazy - but I am on holiday now and want to wean myself off of this forum for the weekend to enjoy the sunshine and last bit of warm weather of summer’ 07.
Til next time….
August 31st, 2007 at 3:54 am
Molly how in the world did you come up with that poem?
Think about the theory of an accident. Maybe it has taken me so long to really think this far but if something like that did happen then where is Madeleine?
NO. No matter what happened I don’t believe her parents would put her in the sea.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:43 am
Oh Molly if you and Spudgun got together that would be a wild combo
Seriously Molly you could convince a person of anything.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:16 am
Molly I like poems. Hopefully you will be back tomorrow.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:09 am
Emmy Your time of McCAnns left for Tapas at 7:30, don’t know where you got that time but it sheds a new light for me in theory. With the two hour dog scent body theory involved it was hard. If the parents actually left at 7:30 someone else could have done something to Madeleine and a two hour dog scent possible by say 9:30. Thinking only in theory by what leaks and doesn’t all is hard to know.
I only remember one of the timelines indicating the McCanns were already at the Tapas by 8:30 and the rest of the party all arrived by 9. Also, that Mr. Oldfield allegedly left the table about 9, after being the last in the party to arrive, to check on what I believe were his children. Then Mr. McCann supposedly left, according to the timeline I saw, at 9:05. Whether that timeline is accurate I CAN’T KNOW. All I know is that is what I remember reading.
If that helps clear any differences in timelines going around.
August 30th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
332, Nick, I don’t think her parents had anything to do with her disappearance, as I’ve said several times. It was only after wild allegations started appearing in the press suggesting that they were, that I started reading the posts here.
August 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
The parents of madeleine left for the tapa’s bar at 7:30pm.. Everyones saying he left at 9:05pm to check on his daughter… but some places ive seen that he went to check on the kids and 9:30pm.. which would then show it was him carrying maddie off!!!!….. strange..
And why cant they get straight how old kate is? It says shes 38 sometimes and others it says they are both 39?! what the hell?!
Some quotes from a news report i read that stood out..
”Her twin brother and sister, Sean and Amelie, two, lay in cots either side of her. They had been tucked up at 7pm. Half an hour later the McCanns had joined their friends for dinner at the tapas bar.”
”But what is now perturbing Portuguese police is how could she be abducted when the McCann group were checking so often? Or have reports inadvertently exaggerated how vigilant the parents really were?”
”There is another conundrum too. It concerns the sighting by Jane Tanner of the man carrying a child. He was wearing beige trousers and smart black shoes. Her report is taken seriously by police.
Yet a British holidaymaker, Jeremy Wilkins, has given a deposition that does not support her evidence. He knew Mr McCann because he played tennis with him, and was walking his eight-month-old son in the night air when the drama unfolded.
He says that he met Mr McCann, who had come out of his apartment at 9.05pm, and had a word with him. Soon after that Jane Tanner would have crossed paths with Mr Wilkins and his baby.
Mr Wilkins says he saw no man carrying a child or Jane Tanner herself. “It was a very narrow path and I think it would have been almost impossible for anyone to walk by without me noticing,” he said.
So today the questions remain. Was Madeleine kidnapped or killed? Or unwatched, did she simply walk out and get lost? How could there be a break in with a jemmy through metal shutters without waking the twins or alerting a passerby? ”
I think the parents + friends are lying to cover their tracks… lead false ‘’sightings” so set the police down the wrong path!!!
”Even her bedtime toy Cuddle Cat - which is now carried by Mrs McCann - was not isolated for forensic analysis.”
August 30th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
imagen how heer parents would feel like if they found this and they were innocent!!! you are not detectives!!! you were not there!!! you do not know!!! so wait and see!!!
August 30th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Pat, re 323, yes, white vans, boats disappearing after two years…a lot of leads to follow up and that is besides the usual suspects who have some very unusual links. The trouble with paedophiles is that so often they seem to be such nice, friendly men, the sort children and their mothers, (particularly their mothers), wouldn’t ever suspect of being dangerous.
August 30th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Have been away for a while - Von Aesch is thought to have been seen by witnesses in Switzerland with at least one accomplice. I would guess the shootout, when he died from a gunshot wound to the head, was also the scene of a rendez-vous and handover of Ylenia to someone in another car, since there is no trace of her in the forests. In the case of Madeleine, several people might have been involved, people who wouldn’t think twice of killing witnesses. I think the confiscated computers and other material from his house will shed some light, and perhaps evidence will be found at the internet cafes some of the suspects frequented.
Tessa: what evidence do you have to say that Von Aesch was a paedophile? His wife says not, there are reports of photographs on his computer suggesting this, although this has not been confirmed by official sources.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
I’ll check back.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I have a thought suddenly and I have not heard this idea considered, though it probably has been and not mentioned on here. I don’t know.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Tessa are you there? I have a thought. You or Rosemary.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Tessa I don’t know how many peadophiles are murderers too. I assume some are and some aren’t. How does his wife deal to think or even consider he would murder? It is all so hard to imagine.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
But I think the man supposedly seen walking off with a child was described as 35 to 40 and that is a lot of age difference than 67.
That does not mean Mr. Von A always acted alone. I don’t know.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Tessa OK when I say I don’t like talking about someone dead I am not usually thinking about criminals, just people in general.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
But, being Mr. Von A lived in Spain and there are many white vans I don’t know. This much, the description of the man seen walking off with a child was a much younger man than Mr. Von A.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Rosemary I have had a lot of trouble with the white van knowing that is not new info I read about a white van very early on.