Madeleine McCann: Kate And Gerry’s Blood, Threat And Tears
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN front page: “KATE’S AGONY – CONFESS & YOU’RE OUT IN A YEAR.”
“Deal of blood, threat and tears.” Kate McCann is being interviewed by police. This is a “highly-charged confrontation, Portuguese officers citing forensic evidence told the GP she would receive a jail sentence of between two and three years if she signed a confession.”
Kate McCann is “horrified”. Says she: “How dare you?”
A source tells the paper: “The police were trying to get Kate to say she had amnesia or was in shock or had a breakdown. They said if she signed the confession she’d serve a year and that her husband would not be charged and could go home. It was effectively emotional blackmail.”
“SHOCKED” Gerry McCann has been named as a formal suspect.
THE SUN SAYS: “But the allegations made yesterday against Madeleine’s distraught mother Kate are astonishing and, in places, farcical. A suspicious page of the Bible left open? A call to a priest on the day of Maddie’s disappearance? Not exactly a smoking gun.”
Do all crimes involve a smoking gun?
The Sun concludes: “The Sun desperately wants justice for Maddie. But the greatest pity is that she is the one person who seems to have been forgotten in this mess of incompetence.”
And the Press continue to watch the parents.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: DEATH ON MUM’S BIBLE.”
THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER writes of “THE DAY THE JEERING STARTED”.
“Just two days ago Kate McCann, 39, was regarded almost universally as a victim who had suffered unimaginable agony. Families everywhere shared her heartbreak at losing her beautiful daughter. But it was clear yesterday, as the GP arrived to be formally named as a suspect in her daughter’s disappearance, that much of that sympathy has now gone.”
The crowd outside the police station – 400-strong – goes into a “frenzy” when Kate McCann arrives. “There were whistles, then jeers and boos before some in the crowd began to shout insults. ‘Whore… daughter of a whore,’ some yelled in Portuguese.”
The Express translates.
A local man says: “They will find this more and more because in Portugal harming a child is the worst thing…The Portuguese people took them to their hearts and now we feel cheated. It will not be nice in Portugal for them now.”
Kate is “cool and collected”.
DAILY MAIL front page: “THE ACCUSED. Portuguese police’s staggering grilling of Madeleine mother.
• Why was her blood in your car?
• Did you drug her that night?
• Confess and get just two years.”
DAILY STAR front page: “YOU KILLED MADDIE.”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE SENSATION. We have found her blood in the boot of your hire car.. DID YOU KILL HER BY ACCIDENT?” This is “what police asked Kate McCann during 16-hour grilling”.
THE GUARDIAN front page: “Mother, victim…suspect: police target Kate McCann.”
THE TELEGRAPH: “Kate and Gerry McCann named as suspects,” says the headline.
“Mr McCann stared straight ahead as his suspect status was announced and refused to answer questions from awaiting journalists. A crowd which had been attending a concert in the town square earlier listened to the announcement and several people gasped audibly.”
In “Villagers back Madeleine McCann’s parents”, the paper journeys to Rothey, Leicestershire, the McCanns’ home town. Michelle Canilleri, who lives in Rothley, shares with the world: “I can’t believe it. This is such a shock. They have got the wrong people. No way in the world would either Kate or Gerry harm any of their children.”
THE INDEPENDENT front page: “FROM ANGUISHED PARENT, TO GRIEVING MOTHER, TO SUSPECT.”
“Shortly before 11am, Mrs McCann’s spokeswoman, Justine McGuinness, revealed that the 39-year-old GP was being made an arguida – official suspect – in the case. And then she uttered the six short words which will be inconceivable to some who have followed this case and a confirmation of long-held suspicions to others. ‘Kate fears she will be charged,’ Ms McGuinness said.”
THE TIMES front page: A picture of the McCanns meeting the Pope.
Madeleine McCann The Public Spectacle
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September 10th, 2007 at 1:07 am
“1262# bulldump Says:
vc, david payne is the secretary of the wine society, gerry and kate are the undisputed king and queen of the whine society though”
Very apt !
September 10th, 2007 at 1:07 am
Hey BD
did you ever work out who the deeply dippy guy was in the picture?
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/08/murat-didnt-travelled-alone-in-his.html
September 10th, 2007 at 1:01 am
i did hear that the friends were going to be reinterviewed, but i’m afraid i cannot substantiate this with a link though
September 10th, 2007 at 1:01 am
1262. Lizzie - to drop off the kids with family I guess!
September 10th, 2007 at 1:00 am
vc, david payne is the secretary of the wine society, gerry and kate are the undisputed king and queen of the whine society though
September 10th, 2007 at 12:55 am
So anyone? Wheres the link saying that the friends are going to be interviewed?
Also if the Portuguese police really believe that the McCanns are guilty why have they let them return to the U.K?
I dont get that.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:48 am
David payne,
why is he gone from this?
http://www.le.ac.uk/cv/staff/index.html
He is also scretary of it’s wine society!
September 10th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Bob - Gosh. What’s most amazing about that Mail piece is the reader comment.
Previously the Mail only posted positive comments (I tried to post 2 very carefully-worded sceptical comments on Friday, in the Mail and Telegraph, after reading their reporting, but neither comment appeared).
Here the comments are ALL negative.
AMAZING. The Mail has more or less turned on the saintly couple. Wait for the avalanche.
When, though, will God (aka Rupert Murdoch) turn against his darlings? And (eek!) just what will he do to them when he does? Send them from Heaven to Hell (with no appeal)?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:44 am
if jane tanner has escribed someone with an eggshaped head, you can be damn sure oldfield and payne have square heads
September 10th, 2007 at 12:40 am
“1250 bob Says:
Horay! Some proper reporting at last instead of the spoon-fed bull from team McCann. This time from the Mail.
‘Why aren’t the McCanns more keen for their friends to speak out on their behalf?”
100% right - we should all be thankful that the poodle-journalists have finally awakened and are smelling the McCrim’s for what they surely are now - a pair of monstrous child-killers.
My sincere wish is they rot in jail where fellow prisoners ‘know’ how to properly treat child-killers of their status.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Has anyone got links to photos of Matthew Oldfield or David Payne?
I was wondering if they had a head shaped like an egg without any facial features…..no really…have you???
September 10th, 2007 at 12:38 am
jacqui smith aint gonna be there by the time this becomes an issue though
September 10th, 2007 at 12:35 am
i don’t think they can fight extradition to another eu state.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=69+European+Prisoner
September 10th, 2007 at 12:33 am
i was starting to get a bit annoyed cause someone was hammering some wood,
i then realized they are preparing the gallows, so thats ok then
September 10th, 2007 at 12:30 am
“The McCanns had more bad news when they were told a request for the case to be reviewed by British police had been turned down.
“Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, said she was satisfied with the way Portuguese police have conducted the investigation”.
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST. Martin Ladboke’s odds on the McCann’s lawyers fighting extradition have just gone down a bit more.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:30 am
because they don’t wanna incriminate their friends
September 10th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Horay! Some proper reporting at last instead of the spoon-fed bull from team McCann. This time from the Mail.
‘Why aren’t the McCanns more keen for their friends to speak out on their behalf?
They are the key witnesses to Madeleine’s disappearance - the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann who could help unlock the mystery of what happened that fateful night.
But despite their knowledge they have strangely said virtually nothing in four months.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=480807&in_page_id=1770
September 10th, 2007 at 12:25 am
1240
Where does it say that their friends etc are due to be re-interviewed this week?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:23 am
bulldump Says:
September 10th, 2007 at 12:19 am
vc, you seem to know so little i’m wondering if you been living under a stone.
if you have did you notice anyone else under there?
Bulldump
Remember there are no silly comments only silly people
September 10th, 2007 at 12:23 am
I found this on the court tv thread;
Rachel and Matthew Oldfield:
Rachel Manpilly is 36 and she is married to Matthew Oldfield.
The couple has a daughter, who was only 18 months old when Madeleine McCann disappeared. The Oldfields reportedly asked for the Ocean Club’s babysitting service.
Matthew met Gerry McCann when both doctors worked together at a hospital in Leicester. Matt has a pending accusation for medical negligence in that hospital, after a late diagnosis resulted in the death of a patient.
This was not the first time the Oldfields spent their holidays with this group. The last trip had been to Greece – where they also stayed in a resort of the Ocean Club’s group – but that time Gerry and Kate did not accompany them.
Matthew Oldfield is the one who is quoted saying: “so we drank, we were on holiday” talking about the 8 bottle of red and 6 bottles of white wine the 9 reportedly consumed at the Tapas dinner on the night Madeleine disappeared.
David and Fiona Payne:
It was David Payne who organized the group’s holidays at Praia de Luz. The reservation was made over the internet, after a good experience with the Ocean Club’s group in Greece.
This was the second time that David came to Portugal. The first time was eleven years ago, before he got married.
David and Fiona have been together for seven years and are both doctors.
The couple has two children and they were the only ones in the group who used the babyphone system to keep watch over the children during dinners – which always took place without the small ones.
David is a senior research fellow in Cardiovascular Sciences at Leicester University.
Fiona was back in the Algarve on July 11, along with Rachel Oldfield and Russell O’Brien, in order to give their third deposition to the PJ.
Dianne Webster:
63 year old Dianne Webster is the oldest element of the group. This credit controller is the mother of Fiona Payne and the grandmother of two of the children from the group that was spending their holidays in the Ocean Club.
Dianne told the Portuguese police she could not precise which parents left the table during dinner on the night that Madeleine disappeared.
Fiona’s mother is also the only witness that said each couple was responsible for their own children, and did not enter their friends’ apartments.
After Kate entered the restaurant –- visibly upset and yelling “they’ve taken our Madeleine” –- Dianne was the only one who stayed seated at the Tapas’ table, then left five minutes later.
It is reported that she went to the twins room, then later returned to the Tapas to pick up her purse and camera.
Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner:
Russell O’Brien is a doctor and moved to Exeter (the same English city where the sister of Robert Murat lives) this year.
Working at Leicester University with David Payne, O’Brien met Jane, with whom he has two children.
The friendship between Russell and David is so strong that David chose him as his wedding godfather when he made his relationship with Fiona official in Italy.
Coincidentally, Jane and Kate became pregnant at the same time, as the O’Brien couple’s oldest daughter is exactly the same age as Maddie.
Jane Tanner is one of the key witnesses in the ‘Madeleine case’, given the fact she says she saw a suspicious man, walking with a child in his arms, on the night of the disappearance.
Jane describes the individual with extreme precision, although she was not capable to recognize the child he was carrying until later when she described the child’s pink pyjamas and bare feet.
The man that Jane saw has dark, thick hair and is 1.70 m tall. She drew his likeness for police and that was compared to an egg with hair (no face).
Gerry and Kate McCann:
Gerry is a Cariology Consultant and Kate is a GP. Both were 38 at the time of Madeleine\’s disappearance.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Again - just idle curiosity, but DOES ANYONE KNOW WHICH OF THE 9 ARE DUE FOR QUESTIONING IN PORTUGAL THIS WEEK, AND WHEN?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:22 am
bulldump, perhaps Maddie is under VC ’s stone?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:21 am
if they are guilty, which i am sure they are, there must be some significance to the slogan, which seemed to take no time at all to make up, ‘leave no stone unturned’
September 10th, 2007 at 12:19 am
vc, you seem to know so little i’m wondering if you been living under a stone.
if you have did you notice anyone else under there?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:18 am
VC, Murat’s a red herring. Team Mccann were desperate to find a local paedo. Fitted the bill as he lives with his mum and has an odd gaze.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Martin - I think you are spot on!
September 10th, 2007 at 12:17 am
BD 1235, As far as I can see, there are at most 5 people still in the frame: the McCanns, the Tanner-O’Briens, and Murat.
It really does seem tricky to imagine how - as the family keeps on saying - a body could have been hidden and disposed of without an accomplice with local knowledge.
But then there’s the police-organised confrontation between Murat and the O’Briens, where, apparently, they flaty contradicted each other (Murat’s mum provided Murat’s alibi, so presumably that’s why she’s still bound to silence).
Probably just a bit too conspiratorial, but either this was a clever ploy concocted by all of them as co-conspirators to confuse the police, or else the co-conspirators must have been just the O’Briens (or perhaps just O’Brien), or just Murat.
One thing I’d really like to know: how many of the McCann 9 (apart from the parents themselves) are due back in Portugal for interrogation this week, and when?
That seems to be the next big event down the line.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Yes, murat
Where does he fit in with all this.
Didn’t he know he know Russel O Brain in Exeter?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Bob
That article in the People is very interesting about Kates body language etc etc.
I hope this gets cleared up shortly. I am just wondering about what surprises are to come still.
Its so sad for the twins,and I worry for their future.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:10 am
post 1234;Vic - Hi! It was Jane Tanner - you probably know that and mistyped
Yes and did you also know that the child throwing up that night was a little girl exactly the same age as Maddie - which begs the question - did they BOTH have an increased dose that night???