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.
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September 10th, 2007 at 2:59 am
someone posted earlier that the brian adams tune has been removed from the find maddie site
September 10th, 2007 at 2:52 am
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September 10th, 2007 at 2:49 am
What do you think the McCanns will do? Hide or come out fighting?
I found it odd when Kate’s mother was asking ‘who is looking for Madeleine?’ I thought that was what the £1 million fund was for.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Hi guys - been away.
So it looks like The Mail have decided to risk leading the pack into the “Big About Turn”. Thats where the money will lie now, I think. It’s all a gamble though, isn’t it.
One just can’t help being fascinated, watching all this unfold, can one ?
Mind you, our media are so shameless, I bet they can manage a total about-turn without batting an eyelid, the moment they deem it expedient.
So that’s it. Mail goes first. Who owns it ?
September 10th, 2007 at 2:42 am
lol.
karen if you look at the latest reorts in the media today you may notice that the tide has changed since it has been revealed that the british police were sitting in the other room feeding the portugese police questions.
this compounded with the fact the samples were exmined in the uk the ‘framed’ allegation against the portugese is lookin pretty shakey
September 10th, 2007 at 2:39 am
I think Kate and Gerry are extreme control freaks who can’t bear the idea that they were wrong to leave thier children alone (and deep down they must know it was neglect) - but I don’t think they’re guilty. It would be too risky and I’m sure they would have cracked by now. Having said that - we have no idea what the police evidence is and what the real timeline is, so it may be possible.
I think the media coverage is grotesque in it’s bias. Murat has been called sinister and creepy and has been compared to Huntley. The McCanns get nothing but support. When it’s all calmed down I think it will look like another shameful British Media Moral Panic - Maddy Mania.
About Trolls. Are Christoph and Gecko100 the same person? Are there really people posting under more than one name? Why would someone do that?
Can’t Mods and Admin tell us who they are?
September 10th, 2007 at 2:38 am
if the police have enough evidence to convict the mccanns but are sure they will return to portugal when requested, why is murat alledged not allowed to leave?
September 10th, 2007 at 2:34 am
especially since the crowd was already shouting that kate is the ‘daughter of a whore’
the shouts of kate is the daughter of a whore went largely unreported in the uk. they just said she was booed
September 10th, 2007 at 2:33 am
gerry that is, not the police
September 10th, 2007 at 2:32 am
This has just come in - who are the friends in the photo and what is all that stuff about ? It doesnt make sense
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05_02/McCannFriendsCRP_468×374.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html%3Fin_article_id%3D456560%26in_page_id%3D1770%26ICO%3DNEWS%26ICL%3DTOPART&h=374&w=468&sz=78&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=MPXB2ww47vwQ6M:&tbnh=102&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2Bphotos%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmccann%2Bfriends%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
September 10th, 2007 at 2:32 am
the police have been very discreet in my opinion. When the mccanns were attacking them for saying that valuable evidence was destroyed after they invited no less than 20 people into what kate had already decided was a crime scene. they remained composed.
after gerry refused to answer 40 questions during his interview, had the police have brought gerry on to the steps of the police station and said that gerry had been hurtfull and unhelpful to the investigation they would have been lynched
September 10th, 2007 at 2:27 am
you think you can’t plant the seed and make a report believe she has a scoop?
September 10th, 2007 at 2:26 am
oh, dear!!! the walls of gerry & co truely are crumbling
September 10th, 2007 at 2:24 am
It was a reporter that singled out Murat - do you really think the police are that clever?
September 10th, 2007 at 2:23 am
“we can prove parents did it”
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/18738
September 10th, 2007 at 2:20 am
it would mean that when they say their stories do not corroborate other witness staements, they are not just talking about a couple of discrpancies in timing diiference
September 10th, 2007 at 2:18 am
i don’t need the money but prhaps the parents of daniel entwhistle could do with some of it.
they didn’t have a pot to piss in when their child went missing and they don’t have a pot to piss in now
September 10th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Why didn’t I think of that???
September 10th, 2007 at 2:15 am
…Like they suspected Team McCann almost from the start, and were trying to lure them into making statements they (the PJ) KNEW were false, because they’d actually invented the Murat-being-round story themselves…
God… it’s so obvious, it almost MUST be true…
BD, I think you’re entitled to part of the £2.5 million!
September 10th, 2007 at 2:14 am
if he worked for the police prior to the investigation surely they must have checked out his integrity and crudentials and condidered him of good character.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Yes 1297 excellent post
September 10th, 2007 at 2:12 am
i think gerry is talking shit, since when does portugese law extend to our lands regarding making statements.
he is planning to use this as an excuse for not answering damniing questions
September 10th, 2007 at 2:12 am
So now the shite has hit the fan will the McCanns bring the rest down with them?
September 10th, 2007 at 2:11 am
..But it would also mean that the JP were onto Team McCann very quickly… but didn’t have enough direct evidence.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:10 am
BD 1297 - that’s actually brilliant…. why have I never seen that suggestion before!!!???
Now you suggest it, it seems that, like the McCanns’ guilt itself, it MUST almost be true, because it fits so much else together.
September 10th, 2007 at 2:09 am
when the journalist pointed the police in murats direction and they said that they already had him under observation, why would they make an admition like that?
September 10th, 2007 at 2:08 am
If these people were just ordinary people they would have been treated so differently
Interesting theory on swinging as well that was made here> BD
Your right Spin. Cannot see pictures of them anywhere!
September 10th, 2007 at 2:07 am
What was that word Gerry used about how ridiculous it was that he couldn’t use HIS fund for his own legal defence? Please remind me, someone, it was yet another of those STRANGE choices of words…
I guess he’d be able to make enough money for fancy lawyers in England and Portugal from tabloid interviews (if they haven’t refused to talk to him by then… I suppose the Express and Murdoch will be the last to desert them), book and film deals, public speaking and so on… but I think there’s now some law in England about not being able to make money on the back of criminal activity…
September 10th, 2007 at 2:06 am
1295. bulldump - interesting!
September 10th, 2007 at 2:04 am
if the police had planted the seed that murat was the prime suspect and got the fiends to verify that it was him the police would automativally know their testimony is bogus, after all he does look very confident for a man still classed as a suspect