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 28th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Bulldump, if one of my children went missing from a holiday apartment the LAST thing on my mind would be to seal off the apartment as a crime scene, even if my worst, immediate fear was that someone had taken her. To be thinking that way a person would have to be profesionally involved in a career like the police, (where your automatic pilot clicks on and realises that an area has to be sealed off). I think it would be very far down a lay person’s list of priorities.
My immediate reaction would be to get as many people as I could involved in a search, the base for this would naturally be the holiday apartment.
August 28th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
the whole thing stinks. consider this, 2 well educated and level headed people discover thier daughter is missing and immediatly decide an abduction has taken place. They are fully aware that the door had been left open, why didn’t they seal, what they already considered a crime scene. And then slag off the local police for suggesting that it was difficult to harvest any forensic evidence due to the fact no less than 20 people had been in the flat before the police were called.
August 28th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
i am getting bored with this whole thing now. I have been a regular contributer here for sometime and I have been dubious about the mccanns since the beginning of the fund. (kate looks like some one I caught an std from some years ago) I have never ever seen or heard a credible bit of evidence to suggest a kidnap or abduction took place.
August 28th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
(80) Wow!!! You have certainly thought about that one!!
August 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
on may 3rd, this day the family went on a day tour and it turned to be maddies “best day ever”. so after returning home by 06:30 pm maddie and the twins get their sedative dose, as usual.
but the night before madeline cried “daddy, daddy”, and mrs fenn complained about it. so the parents have to make sure, that the still very excited maddie this night will keep quiet in the room. thats why her sedative dose is increased.
while the mother goes for showering, gerry checks emails.
when she returns, the kids usually are already pretty sleepy and so easy to get into bed. but this time she finds madeleine in physical trouble - due to the overdose.
she calls gerry and both try to help maddie. its about 07:15 pm, they are panicing, maybe maddies doesnt breath anymore, and gerry does a tracheotomy, while kate calls russel o´brian, who is a specialist for narcotics things.
when he arrives, maddie is gone already. they know about the consequences for them - within all grief: maddie is dead, that cant be changed. they will get accused for this (”bodily harm with fatal consquences” maybe) - for what kate will get jailed and who btw wants ever get treated by a doctor who killed his daugther accidentially by an overdose ?
all this gerry considers, while kate for all sorrow doesnt do or say anything anymore. the most rational conclusion of all of this is what gerry has done: pretend a kidnapping.
by 09:30 pm russel o brian puts the body into the trunk of his rental car.
btw i guess jane tanners description of the guy carrying a child might be the pretty opposite of russels look this evening.
in the following days or weeks the body is placed at a “save” place.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
thanks moriarty,emma makes me laugh dissing people on this site,but HEY she’s on here!!!
August 28th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Joe (77) sadly people like Emma are the people who but into every sob story, and who probably wept for weeks when Diana died. These people are the liberal guardianistas of this world who ultimately make the world a much more dangerous place for all of us with their appeasement to violent crime. “Oh, just brush it under the carpet and go on one of our wonderfully theraputic courses”……
August 28th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Actually ,Emma,Im married with 3 children,Had a great upbrinning!,Not blaming anyone of murder,but our prisions are full of PARENTS! who abuse/murder their children,OPEN YOUR EYES NON OF US KNOW!!,Unfortunatly shit happens!
August 28th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Madeleine living with a young couple in the hills. Oh no, I wish I still believed in fairy tales! And I suppose there’s a trail of crumbs leading them to her. I wish! (Sorry just had to get that in – sick sense of humour sometimes).
Further to my previous posting on the other forum, let me elaborate a bit on my theory about why this case has been so publicised.
SUPPOSING my theory is correct, if I remember correctly it was Mr M’s sister who started the e-mail campaign to find Madeleine. They couldn’t exactly whisper in her ear to try and keep it as quiet as possible because the “abduction” was a fabrication! I’m sure she would have spilt the beans fairly quickly. So, whoever was involved had to go along with it. Once an e-mail of that sort starts, it multiplies by the second, and therefore many people who would have not even known about a little 3 year old girl who had been “abducted” while she was on holiday, received a mail in their inbox. Curiosity aroused, they google the story, and start following it (in the meantime they’ve forwarded the mail already).
Media is very interested in this little 3 year old, and requests interviews with the devastated parents (which they couldn’t exactly turn down as they want to find their “abducted” child), and so the snowball gets bigger and bigger.
I’m not even going to mention the “Find Madeleine” fund any more, as quite frankly that little “collection of money” sickens me to my stomach! If it had been used for the purpose it was collected for, I may have felt a bit differently about it.
Let’s face blatant facts, if Madeleine died in the apartment that night as a result of something that her parents had done, they had a very sickening choice to make : many years in a jail cell and the loss of their other two children, or an elaborate cover-up ……. Let’s leave it there …….
And now … the time has come for the Mc’s to depart from the public spotlight. However, the cracks are getting wider …. Mr Mc “left” an interview with Spanish media …. Why? Pressure getting too much now?
People may call me what the heck they like for the way I think, but to be quite honest I don’t give a frog’s butt! There is a little girl who can no longer speak for herself, DIRECTLY because of her parents’ actions! I’m getting quite sick and tired of those “sorry for the McCann’s” …. The Tapas Bar was more important to them than the safety and well-being of their own children …. Far too late for them to cry “foul” now!
Pat, would love to hear your theory (from the other forum) ….
And if it does turn out, that little Madeleine is living in the mountains somewhere and is found SAFE and SOUND, I will gladly eat every single word that I have posted here on Anorak. Unfortunately I closed my children’s story books a long time ago!
August 28th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
i cant believe this site. obviously lots of single shits looking for something to do. angry lifes, abused as children maybe? you are so absolutely disgusting blaming the parents of murder, rot in hell u disgusting skip rats.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Congratulations Moderation. Not an easy job to maintain the line of reason and balance in the midst of lurid speculation, sensationalism, amateur sleuthing, hate-mongering etc. but you seem to doing it excellently.
Agree with everything you’ve said. Of course Gerry has needed to “do something” in order to deal with the unutterable pain of the loss of his child. Kate probably does react differently in some ways. We are all different, as you’ve pointed out, and none of knows how we would react to a tragedy of these dimensions.
If Madeleine is never found, or her remains are found, they will have their unimaginable loss to deal with, their sense of guilt and, now, a whole stream of abuse and irresponsible accusations based as yet on no real evidence.
If they are found guilty of any direct involvement in this hideous crime (although that does seem unlikely from the points of view of motive, practical considerations and their determined and high-profile response since the terrible events of May 3rd), that will be soon enough to throw mud.
If they start to spend the money from the fund on luxuries for themselves, that will be the time to suggest that they are doing all this for profit, however preposterous an idea that seems at the moment given all the checks and balances built into the use of the funds. I think for now we have to wait for definite evidence and rely on official police pronouncements which is what Gerry has asked for.
Fortunately the McCanns have a wide circle of family, friends, colleagues, patients, students and neighbours who hold them in sufficient affection and respect to be determined to help and support them in any way they can and for as long as is necessary. They also have thousands of supporters throughout the world who send them encouraging messages all the time, more so now than ever. Of course, these don’t sell newspapers.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I just don’t know how I’d react in a real tragedy, as in death of a child. I also think men and women react differently, especially in UK where the ’stiff upper lip’ syndrome still exists.
I think Gerry McCann was just desperately looking for ways to do something, anything. In days gone by the reaction would have been to ’round up a posse’!
I wasn’t sure how I felt about Rhys Jones’ parents as guests of honour at the Everton football… and next week they’re going to Liverpool football. Is it appropriate? In a couple of years time they probably won’t think so but at the moment they are shell-shocked and being led..
IMO that’s what the McCanns were doing. And their situation was compounded by guilt as well. A guilt that will never go away for either of them.
I guess it will all come out eventually… But I would like the right person caught whoever it may be. Not a scapegoat.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
No Kaydee.. you have the official line there from Gerry I am afraid
August 28th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Emmy
`The ‘’sighting” was made by a friend of theirs… ooo what a surprise..!! Gerry said he couldn’t find madeleine in her bed…Why didn’t you go check where she was?! Thats irresponsible!!`
I`ve not heard about this before, when was this, the night she disappeared? Surely he didn`t check on her, not be able to find her, and just walk off back to the tapas bar? Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick completely?
August 28th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Obviously that was meant to say “find Madeleine” not “fine Madeleine”…
August 28th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Moderation (68)
Ok fair enough. Then your opinion and mine differ. Had Gerry been a little more low key in his celebrity status, and had the website been less about making money, and had the money been used to try to fine Madeleine, and had the leaks from the PJ not have been published in the portuguese press, and had the witnesses statements to the police all tied up… then yes I would probably have the same opinion as you to this day.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
so, they were still eating at 6.30… they leave at 7 at the earliest, (staff weren’t sure) fifteen minute walk back from the cafe, get three children bathed and ready for bed, sedate them, get them in bed, wait for sedation to work…. doesn’t work for me at all. There is no way they would have left the apartment at 8.15 to go to dinner knowing their child was dead. never ever IMO.
By the way, I’ve never claimed to have evidence Moriarty, if I did then I would have chatting to the PJ and being their only witness! I’ve always said IMO!!
August 28th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
(66) Moriarty: hopefully you have seen my repsonse to Mods & Admin.
Opportunity is of course a little different from actual evidence…..
August 28th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Moderation (57)
I am pleased that finally you admit you have no evidence for the “abduction” claim, and also that Mods and Admin have pointed out to Jonathan the following “I shall step in here as the Portuguese Police do NOT say there was an abduction, they still maintain that Madeleine is MISSING”….
Now if we just look a little at your post Moderation. You state… “I don’t buy the sedation thing…. the family were still in a beach cafe at 6.30 so the dead for two hours doesn’t work”….
Erm.. surely you mean the three and a half hours until 10pm when KM allegedly discovered that Madeleine was missing?? If you remember, GM went to check, allegedly, on Madeleine at about 9.05 - 9.15. The cadavar dogs need only a two hour scent… at worst from 7.05
August 28th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Dogsar/Kath (posts 60/61) - how right you were to include the treatment of the McCanns by the media, when I compared Murat to Jewell (post 32). Lets not forget, the media are not providing a not-for-profit information service, they are in it to sell papers or advertising. This story has teeth, so every excrutiating nuance is being picked over, recycled, and quite frankly, embelleshed - all to string us along so we continue to be interested and buy papers. Somewhere, in the midst of all of this, is the truth, and unfortunately, we may never learn it. I am not a fan of the PJ myself, but frankly, even here in the States, there are several high-profile missing children cases which have never been solved. Even with all the resources available in the States, some cases just never resolve. Sad but true. So, I still say, the trustees of the fund should spend the money on finding Maddie, as that is the reason why people, including myself, gave the money in the first place. But meanwhile, let’s not assume the McCanns, or Murat, or the McCanns friends are guilty unless we see real proof.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Paulo Reis is back on his blog:
http://gazetadigitalmadeleineandthemedia.blogspot.com/2007/08/forgotten-victim-in-mccann-case.html
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/08/dangerous-connections.html
also with Duarte Levy on:
http://sosmaddie.dhblogs.be/archive/2007/08/26/liaisons-dangereuses.html
Those are the journalists that wrote on The Times about the DNA is not from Madeleine McCann
August 28th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Mods & Admin: “Madeleine is missing” is splitting hairs.
I said in an post last week, that I think the PJ have limited evidence and they look to see which theory it supports bests. Is this altered view, from abduction to missing, simply them being more correct because they can’t find evidence of an abductor?
Madeleine has clearly disappeared with third party asisstance otherwise the PJ would have been able to follow her trail with their dogs on day one.
Cuddle cat is reportedly the witness for the abduction theory….
August 28th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Kath, you beat me to the post there, I was just going to say that!
I also remember trying to stick up for Murat way back, months ago, and being accused of all manner of things.
It all depends which way the wind is blowing….
August 28th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
^^ replace him, he with them, they…
August 28th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Dogstar- I agree with what you say about Murat (post 60), but your words could just as easily be applied to the McCanns who are undergoing a trial by media as we speak.
(To be accused of the worst of all possible crimes in this hysterical world gone mad must be truly awful for him.
I still hope like hell he is innocent, but even if he is cleared, he will have to endure the snide comments and sideways glances of wicked people for the rest of his natural life. Where is justice?
Such is the poison seeping through societies the world over.)
August 28th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Tuscany (Post no.32) - your observations about the treatment of Mr Murat are spot on. Well said! Apart from the little girl herself, I suspect he has suffered the most through all of this. To be accused of the worst of all possible crimes in this hysterical world gone mad must be truly awful for him.
I still hope like hell he is innocent, but even if he is cleared, he will have to endure the snide comments and sideways glances of wicked people for the rest of his natural life. Where is justice?
Such is the poison seeping through societies the world over.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
“leanne Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
well i think that they r bein in very strong i have a 4 year old little boy and theres no way i would leave him at any time but people do as they think its safe is not safe 2 do any think these days but maddies parents needs support”
Call your parents or Social Services for advice Leanne, you’ve got me very worried.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Response to post 55 - I see the homepage says 500,000++ impressions per month. Don’t know if that is the current or oudated number.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Just wrote a long mail and lost it so be grateful!!
Yes I do buy the abduction thing but only on instinct. I have no evidence but then none of the other theories have evidence either. if they did then someone would be in the hell-hole of a Portugese jail!
I don’t buy the sedation thing…. the family were still in a beach cafe at 6.30 so the dead for two hours doesn’t work and that is aside from the fact that I don’t think they would have done that.
Same as I don’t buy the friends thing. Far too complex.
All these people are intelligent… they would definitely have got their stories straight in advance if there was any conspiracy and would certainly never have been daft enough to use traceable email and mobiles.
The abduction thing works for me because its happened before but you’re right, I don’t have anything to base it on but the other theories are all baseless if you remove the tabloid Portugese reporting.
Paedophilia is big business and nothing is sacred…
I think she was spotted, maybe around the pool, then the usual stalker routine followed.
I have no interest in the McCanns personally, I don’t know them, they could be nice or nasty, but I do hate the abusive and baseless stuff posted about them. All of them in fact, their friends, Murat, Malinka etc etc etc.
Supposition and debate are good but that could all be reasoned and fair……..
PS have you noticed that the multiple childish postings have stopped as quickly as they started?
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Mods and Admin
I’ll answer you, Moderation and Kath, both on here, there do seem to be a lot of kids loose on site, and some ghouls and some grief merchants, for now its being allowed to run so long as the usual posters are around, and ignoring them. This is a useful procedure as when it comes to deleting the crap at least the posts left make sense. So, one and all, just ignore the pains, we can sort them as and when they flood the place with idiocy and lunacy. But they usually get bored and sod off
August 28th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
You know, reading some of these bloodthirsty posts really makes me feel sorry for the McCanns.
I am not talking about the posts of anyone who is speculating about events, as is their right, after all, polite debate is healthy.
I am talking about the posters who are clearly DESPERATE for the McCanns to be guilty, who want to string them up and watch them swing. Once posters like this are up and running, they behave like an ugly, angry lynch mob.
Remember- at this stage everything is speculation.
Calm down- a bit of decorum please…