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 8th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
I think about bad situations so I’m prepared for them. I give them brief thought, make decisions, then move on with my life.
When I think about anything I personalize it for a moment. I think what would I do in this situation?
The decision I made is I would immediately offer to assist the police in any way, say I love my family member or spouse to bits and would never hurt them, volunteer to take a lie detector test or any other test so they could rule me out as quickly as possible and focus on finding my loved one, let them access my computer, home, office, and anything else they needed to from day one, embarrassing or not, admit any untoward behaviour I had engaged in — flirting with other women, affair, dropping my baby on the head by accident, whatever — and beg them to put every resource they can into finding my loved one.
That’s how I would react.
I don’t think the McCann’s reacted that way. Doesn’t mean their guilty. But they sure do things different than me.
What’s more… I would even understand if the police considered me a suspect and I would make a public statement how I understood that and respected the police for looking at all angles. I would also beg them publicly to look for my loved one because I ain’t goin’ anywhere except to find him or her.
September 8th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
358 Who you calling a dog
359 TMI
362 What you saw was correct however you miss a point, where were the twins in the footage. That is also the footage that shows Madeline slipping when getting on the plane.
September 8th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Dont know if this question has been asked why would they have moved her body if they had her so well hidden that when half of Portugal was searching they couldnt find her and then move her when the worlds media was on their doorstep it doesnt make any sense to me
September 8th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Christophe..
But if you were only having dinner or adult fun (or sex/orgy also) why no babysitter and why not sedate (if indeed that occured) after you finish at the bar?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Doctor, well said.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
357
Yes, to both.
356
I’m not sure I’m afraid.
I think the McCanns should offer to take a lie-detector test. They need to be more proactive in proving their alleged innocence…. instead of relying on the ‘it’s a disgrace’ card…. I think they’d fail it.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
So I’m very clear, I do not think it likely that Madeleine was sexually abused by either the parents or their friends or that this was a premeditated killing by them.
The police, of course, have to consider all possibilities however unlikely.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Most of the press couldnt decide whether to run with the foxes or chase with the hounds today-you read it first here but its an unthinkable outrage! Can anybody shed any light on something that puzzles me? What happened at the so-called showdown that took place between RM and 3 of the tapas9? I heard that this was significant to the police and provided the answer to a riddle-very cryptic! Would appreciate any more details.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
m.e., I read your previous to last post and I thought about it. You could be right. But … well… doesn’t prove much.
I think they could be more evil than the accident crowd are considering… but one hopes not.
If they were planning on killing her before they left Britain, then, wow… the only reason I can imagine that is to involve her in an abusive sexual game, maybe torture.
That would make them paedophiles and would explain why they were so quick to jump on the organized adult paedophilia ring… it would be their kind.
Possible. I want to say it’s not, but it is.
However, the other explanations about an accident or drugging the children so they could have dinner — or adult only sexual games — are much more likely.
I do not believe there is any evidence to point to sexual abuse of Madeleine. At all.
If the police show otherwise, well then at that point I’ll be pretty sickened.
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Its probably wiser not to venture too far down that path, and just keep to the much lesser awfulness that she died accidentally.
That is for very experienced ‘experts’ to discuss and prove first, but there is so far no body. So the least said on those lines, the better.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
sorry for lack of paragraphs Christoph
September 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
And please, Doctor 353…
Sorry to keep coming back, but could swelling caused by an allergic reaction to chlorphenamine on a second oral administration compromise breathing, resulting perhaps in the ‘damage to the neck’ that has been reported as something put by the PJ to Kate McCann, in an attempt to restore breathing?
But then, without the body, what could be the basis of that alleged suggestion put by the PJ to Mrs McCann?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I just wanna change tack for a moment. It might be completely harmless and irrelevant but my initial suspicion of the parents was formed very early on and not only by what I thought was a bizarre reaction to their ‘abducted’ daughter. I remember early on they showed mobile phone footage of Madeleine getting on the plane for the holiday and then some footage which I remember was apparently on the bus after getting off the plane. Maybe one or two of you remember this but what struck me (call it instinct or call me deluded) was the camera scanned them left to right but as I remember, momentarily focused on Madeleine (only) and I still to this day find it strange as if there were some sort of planning behind whatever happened. Would like to see that footage again as I only saw it once and would like to confirm that is what I actually saw. Now of all the absurd theory and speculation I realise I may be clutching at straws a little but it did concern me (still does) and I cant really explain it. Just thought I’d relay it though it could be that I need a holiday.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
bulldump, as I’ve said before, I lived with a woman who also looked like Kate and was enormously selfish.
I could picture her doing something like this.
Fortunately, she was young and, knock on wood, I missed out on the STD!
Rotten luck. But I believe you. Good looks and goodness are not the same, however much some sickos here (not all of you support the McCann’s, just a few) seem to think so.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
That would be foulmouth fever or trenchgullet then?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
i used to go out with a girl who looked just like kate. She was evil and she gave me a sexually transmitted disease.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Bulldump, do you mean ‘Here’s one , and Here’s one I did earlier’? but it might frighten the dogs……
September 8th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Doctor 353
Many thanks for both those bits of information. So, as I understand it:
(1) It would be very difficult to move a hastily hidden 4-week old corpse in the boot of a car without directly or indirectly contaminating the boot?
(2) If chlorphenamine was first used on the evening of 2 May, following the problems with neighbours complaining of crying children on 1 May, then an allergic reaction, if it was going to occur, would be most likely if the drug was given (presumably in the famous syringe orally, rather than with the Express’ ‘hypodermic needle’) to sedate the child a second time, on 3 May?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
330, Doctor, Would you know whether an item, of clothing, for instance, or a suitcase would transfer the scent of a corpse to other items (the car, Kate McCann’s clothing, the car key, etc), as many people here have suggested is possible? It has been said that the scent remains detectable to cadaver dogs for seven years, in spite of attempts to wash it off.
Re you previous posts, I can easily see how someone who, discovering their child was dead following an accident while they had been out, might try to cover it up for fear of losing their other children.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
when they are found guilty, i think their execution should be shown on blue peter live
September 8th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Since the investigation that has led to the recent developments has apparently been more or less led by the British police (with 55 (!) now in the British team assigned to the case), and causing the death of a British citizen (like Madeleine) is justiciable by British courts, any ‘escape’ to Britain - which has an extradition treaty with ‘our oldest ally’ anyway - is probably just another panic-based fantasy, like the original story, and the move to suddenly set up the whole FindMaddy operation when the PJ announced after a week they were scaling down the search operation.
I haven’t anywhere seen the suggestion that setting up the wildly extravagant (in every sebnse) FindMaddy bandwagon might not so much have been a subsitute for failing Portuguese police efforts, but rather a desperate attempt to keep pushing the abduction story, if the McCanns the PJ investigation might be turning in their direction - might actually have developed a better chance of SUCCEEDING, because it was no longer being distracted by the abduction scenario.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
341
A 4 week old body could be in a terrible state, with liquefaction of tissues, skin slippage… and so be very leaky and messy. Temperature would be the main determinant. Not sure about the mode of a sedative causing death at sub-toxic doses, unless it was an allergic phenomenon, in which case dose would be irrelevant. This would classically occur on or after her second exposure to the drug (the first exposure sensitizes susceptible individuals).
September 8th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
No, bulldump, I certainly wouldn’t , but there has been discussion that the McCanns might well use English legal representation in Portugal.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I looked at the time and am waiting for McDonald’s to switch from breakfast to lunch menu, m.e.
Then I truly will go.
Now, what’s sadder… staying here still… or waiting for McD’s to switch to lunch?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Thanks, Alison, I really appreciate your taking the time to give that informative link.
As I’ve often said, evil isn’t the province of men, it’s shared with women. Sad.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Can I defend them?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
good god Christoph, do you live on this forum?
I come back and you’re still here even though you claim you were going.
Are you to be trusted? Have the pj interviewed you yet?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
sorry, i was being sarcastic. I wouldn’t have read gerrys blog even if it meant getting my ass cheeks split by a big portugese refugee
September 8th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
why isn’t gerry writing his blog anymore, it was such compeling reading
September 8th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I think having English lawyers parachute in wouldn’t be helpful with the jury. They’d be better off with good Portuguese lawyers.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
lol, i don’t wanna state the obvious june johnson, but would you wanna employ a lawyer / barrister without a full working knowledge of the law?