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 10:58 pm
Is there a moderator here? Someone is acting as my sockpuppet in 491 and that is a big internet no no.
It’s unethical.
MOD? ADMIN?
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yes, you bellowed, ok its been deleted and the naughty boy who did it will NOT do it again, second strike and banned.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
one of you will have to be elizabeth the second
September 8th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
I gather non-hyperlinked Elizabeth is the one I’ve been communicating with the longest who has earned my respect.
And thank you for making my stay here more pleasant by not attacking the Portuguese from an elitist viewpoint. That’s off-putting as I’m sure you agree.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Okay, 486, that explains it. What a relief. I thought my identity had been stolen.
I don’t mind if we are both Elizabeth (just so it is understood that I’m am not free to embark on a relationship with Martin or Christoph!)
How come your name is in blue?
September 8th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
G’dam, Elizabeths, what to do… lol… well, if we were flirting, I’d say two Elizabeths are better than one!
But my girlfriend would kill me so instead I’ll ask so I know where you each stand and don’t get too confused… do you the McCann’s were involved or not?
September 8th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
christoph 481
morally decent plus smart. In that order, oh deear this relationship is doomed from the otset, its like chalk and cheese
September 8th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Christoph, I did not post 474 that has my name it.
Who posted this?
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there are two of you, could you be Elizabeth 2 or even E11R
September 8th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Whoops! Just realised - there are two of us posting called Elizabeth.
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Elizabeth as you were here first could you assume the mantle of the Virgin Queen and be Elizabeth 1 please? Or Bess if you can bear it
September 8th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Let’s have it. (The newspaper article.)
September 8th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Elizabeth 481 is just one of many fantastic points.
While I’m not flirting with you in seriousness and was joshing with bulldump… I will say that you are the type of MIND I like… morally decent plus smart. In that order.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Christoph - okay - where and when?
Sorry everyone - I really should not be flippant. This is serious. I have just read a very interesting newspaper item by the Times online, when you want a break -you may find it of interest also.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Yeah, just insane to leave them there.
She’s in Australia, bulldump.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I think if the Portugese police were inclined to frame somebody, they would have framed Robert Murat months ago. He practically walked on stage wearing a sign that said “Frame me - I’m a misfit.” But they didn’t. So.
I agree with 468 that when the British media “pack” turns on the McCanns it will be “ugly” - the backlash will be in proportion vast movement of commiseration the Mccanns called forth when they were the darlings of the media. If you want a preview of this ugliness, you have only to look at the faces (some stony, some simmering) in the crowd formerly-kindly Portugese people who welcomed Kate Mccann at the police station the other day.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
christoph what country is your girfreind in?
September 8th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
re. ‘I’ve had lots of fun’ quote - I thought it was an odd thing for a 3-year old to say, and a strange thing to repeat - if Kate is telling the truth about that.
The position that cuddle cat was left in is strange too - if Kate is telling the truth about that. What would an abductor move it?
Why didn’t she scream the place down as soon as she saw her child was missing - instead she walked 100 yards to let others know.
I have thought since May that they sedated their kids that night - how else could they have been so confident that they would wouldn’t wake up and wander off?
September 8th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
My girlfriend’s also in another country and she’s sleeping now. But if you want to embark on a relationship with me, it’s gotta be a quickie ’cause she wakes up soon.
Ooh! Moderation. Sexist enough for you?
September 8th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
I’m not sure.
I don’t usually.
I care about this case. But I did make it outside for a bowl of chili. Yumm.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
i hope that is all he has on his hands
September 8th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
elizabeth: that is why i was asking if you would like to embark on a relationship.
not with me but with christoph, he seems to need someone cause he’s got too much time on his hands
September 8th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Christoph - I am intrigued - how do you manage to say on here for so long? your first post at 8.41am - last one 8.49 pm.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
i know a woman who lives in cloud cuckoo land and she often makes things up, like the mummy quote, about her son
September 8th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
It’s not strange.
If I lost one child, and I had three, I’d be grateful the other two were okay. For goodness sakes. And I think he did.
But c’mon!
September 8th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
she prolly said, mummy this is such fun cause her head was spinning from all the drugs and bullshit her mum feeds her
September 8th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
453 - Abi
Yes I remember those comments and I thought it a strange thing to say too. Nothing could be worse than losing a child, whether it be one, two or three. The pain would be the same.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Good point, Elizabeth 464, I’m sure the Portuguese have vast vats of English tourists blood on tap just in case they need to frame somebody.
/sarcasm — and humour — off
September 8th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Haven’t looked at the last few hours posts yet. But just watched Sky News.
Sky, like the rest of the guys and gals on the bandwagon, seem to be getting a bit disoriented, trying to play it both ways until they work out which direction the mob is going to run. As Paxman said at the same Edinbugh Film/TV festival that Kirsty brought Gerry to, the media ‘hunt as a pack’. Must be really fascinating in all the newsrooms now. And when the pack turns viciously on ‘Gerry & Kate’, probably rechristening them ‘McCanns’ or something far, far worse, in the next few days, it’s not going to be pretty.
Very old news, but again, one of those ’slightly wrong’ things from the parents hit me. Sky reminds us that ‘The day before she was ‘abducted’ (wonder how long that will last), she told her Mummy (no, not mother or Kate, but ‘her mummy’ - thanks again, Sky, very objective) that ‘this was her best holiday ever’.
The kid was 3 years old, for God’s sake. Just how many holidays, ever, could she remember??? Do they have a recording of this comment? Just sounds slightly wrong, like everything about McCannWorld, to me. And that’s before taking into account the fact that, abandoned again, she’d been crying for Daddy for several hours the previous night.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
good point elizabeth. would you like to embark on a relationship?
September 8th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I think not, Gabrielle.
I think it would be absolutely insane of them to frame a couple that are the darlings of the British public.
If they were caught in this, it would devastate relations between Britain and Portugal, harm their economy, and make their justice system the laughingstock of the world.
I also think it unlikely the police are so callous as to:
1. not try to find the child’s killer
2. frame the hurt victims of the child, the child’s parents
Gabrielle, I think you’re so busy defending likely evil that you’re near accusing the good guys of evil. The ones who risk their lives trying to fight the evil in this world.
Frankly I find your suggestion despicable.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
i think if the police were gonna frame someone to make themselves look good they would have framed a bum.
it would have been someone that would not have the resources to defend themselves.
the mccanns are gonna need a johnny cochrane type dude to wiggle their sorry asses out of this one!!!!
September 8th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Where would they have gotten Madeleine’s blood, if they don’t have the body?