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 9th, 2007 at 2:19 am
One down one to go…
Please don’t let me interupt your gossip, it all sounds perfect sane and legal. Go for it.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Goodnight, Martin. Goodnight, m.e. Goodnight all.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:16 am
gecko100 is a computer programme.
I met it once before.
Don’t know how it does the sums, though.
Goodnight all.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Selfish. Sociopaths.
Completely meaningless — but fitting — that it should be comment 666 where you should point this out.
Although there’s a good 300-comments here that do the same.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:09 am
One of Britain’s leading forensic scientists, who asked not be named, said: “If they are spots of blood, it could not be from a car used by the McCanns 25 days later. That doesn’t make sense.
“The blood would have dried and it would not transfer as spots unless the child is alive. It would be fragments [of dried blood].
“But that is not what the police are saying they have. This is the prevailing view among other forensic scientists I have spoken to.”
John Barrett, a former Scotland Yard dog handler, also indicated that the trained dogs used in an attempt to detect a “death smell” on Mrs McCann’s Bible and clothes were brought in too long after Madeleine vanished.
The crucial scent lasts for no longer than a month, he said.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:07 am
gecko100 - What medication are you on? Can’t be bothered to listen to more of your ranting. Off to bed.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:07 am
so much for implicit, eh?
September 9th, 2007 at 2:04 am
Is it true that they’ve given interviews for the sunday papers? What is it with these people? I heard that a rumour in one paper is that they’re going to try to get the foreign secretary to intervene in this ‘possible injustice’…..
I’ve had enough. Even if they’re innocent I want to meet them at the airport and give them a good slapping. They’re a f*****g disgusting disgrace to humanity.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Everyone who hates me…haha
My interest is clearly not your interest.
My opinion is neither here nor there.
But I do have a veiwpoint nonetheless, and it does not lie in the specifics, or it didn’t until I saw the behaviour, and now that has become more interesting than the case. That’s all.
Ps my self esteem is in tact.
The world is obviously a nightmare of half developed people, and I hadn’t realised.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:59 am
662 Yum sounds nice.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:58 am
The funny thing, m.e., is you’re more convinced of that that I am.
I’ve considered that for a long time, since May. Yet I still think it not the most likely explanation.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Dude, it’s better than that.
I had hot chili with cheese and crackers.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:55 am
I dunno, Barry. Whoever is effectively leading the investigation, I’m sure those assigned to it, British and Portuguese, are doing serious work.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:54 am
like many things said on this forum, it’s pure speculation that English Authorities have been running the show. I would suspect that most of the 55 mentioned personel are involved in back end administrative chores and very little crime related police work. and it appears that the Portuguese authorities have always maintained strict control of the investigation, including sticking their necks out, (Which UK authorities have never publicly backed). I would suspect that PJ have targeted the MC’s from day one and have only used British police to counter the backlash that would erupt from the Media Horde.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Keep talking, my interest gets bigger by the moment…
September 9th, 2007 at 1:53 am
OG 651:
I asked yesterday for suggestions for the colour of ribbon/wristband for the forthcoming ‘Reintroduce capital punishment for Kate & Gerry’ tabloid campaign.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:52 am
did you have fries with the cheeseburger? and you’re STILL F*****G HERE!
looks like you’re less and less liked with every post. Too honest and intelligent for your own good methinks. Jealousy, no doubt. Maybe you should try the implicit as opposed to the explicit. I’m good at that. And thats probably a good thing considering my inner thoughts on this matter……..
September 9th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Methinks gecko100 is not who he says he is.
Unless:
are reactions of a 20-year veteran in child protection in Britain.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Please raise the bar kids, you are not helping yourselves.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Oh, and as I’ve said several times earlier, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to learn that the PJ have actually had the body for some time.
And just to embroider a little more, they wouldn’t then have any toxicology evidence for a fatal adverse reaction to a sedative administered for the second night on 3 May, following the complaints about crying on 1 May, for example, but they might have skeletal and tissue evidence of some attempt to stop her dying of asphyxia, or perhaps, of just shaking her with frustration when she wouldn’t go to sleep after being given sedatives.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Giggle giggle me too. But it seems like you already are. A child that is.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:49 am
gecko100 I hope you’re shitting me when you say you have an unhealthy interest in children..
September 9th, 2007 at 1:48 am
647 Christoph - I always did not trust them from the 1st week of this ordeal - the idea that ‘justice’ is being served for the poor child is ridiculous. This act by the McCrim’s of leaving PJ will show people what they truly are.
If they are ever found guilty of this crime then I seriously hope public anger at this case will force the re-introduction of the death penalty in these extremely upsetting cases. The McCrim’s have the potential to be as loathed as Myra Hindley & Ian Brady still are. The scale of this could be enormous if they are indeed both guilty.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Martin: No doubt about it. Someone is going to make a large amount of money on the coat-tails of a tragedy, - however it pans out. And we will forget what it was really all about.
And being blessed with the gift of ‘hindsight’ in forsight, I predict exactly that.
Now what are we actually ‘learning’ here?
September 9th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Actually, I think it’s quite posible that the English authorities have been working on this scenario for a few weeks now. I mean, an ‘unlawful killing’ team of 55 before they come back…
September 9th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Well put, Fizz.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:43 am
ObberGoober 643… that’s my take.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:43 am
geckp100 - I’m glad I’m not a child in your care!
September 9th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Rosemary, having that fraud in the mix isn’t going to help.
And if the McCann’s refused his help, more power to them. Unless he was going to walk a line of people searching for clues or a body or donate cash, his “help” is worthless.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:42 am
…And I think it’s quite possible that somebody will start a civil suit against them in England to revover money they contributed to the Maddy fund on false pretences. Bit like getting Al Capone for tax evasion.
The circus could go on for years.
The tabloid editors, having been thrown for a couple of days, will be rubbing their hands with glee.