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 9th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Ok I’ll watch from the sidelines. I clearly un-nerve you.
And Fizz, funny you should mention funny farm.
I have ptsd from 20 yrs child protection.
Too many weirdos with guns and knives and drugs and needles and murderers and paedophiles and men and women who do bad things to children…
So yes, I’m a nut-job, and very flawed.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:55 am
A-hole.
You who claim to work in “child protection” with “an unhealthy interest in children”.
Troll is the least you are. Yeah, we owe them compassion regardless of what they did.
Jesus may give them compassion. If they did kill her, I will not.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:54 am
All together now “THEY’RE COMING HOME THEY’RE COMING HOME”. This is getting addictive to a scary degree! Anyway, too tired to do the sums anymore so going to bed-big day in the news tomorrow.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:54 am
sebastian, good link.
That is SO a propaganda piece for the McCann’s.
Aside from the salesman language like “revealed” et al., this para. stands out:
He’s setting the groundwork for the fact he expects to be charged and he’s going to, as Martin predicted, argue he can’t get a fair trial in Portugal (presumably because of their “amazingly” primitive laws).
This is all B.S., but that’s what he’s trying to do.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Fizz: don’t be a meany let me play too…
September 9th, 2007 at 2:48 am
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/0909_maddie.shtml
September 9th, 2007 at 2:47 am
Fizz: who he?
September 9th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Just imagine the amount of total loss they have to cope with. It is devastatingly
overwhelming, and nothing will be the same ever again for anyone, the poor lost souls. The ripples throughout the world are heavy with meaning for them.
They so deserve our compassion whatever they did.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Can’t sleep! Must make myself some hot chocolate. I see that gecko who is trying to convince us all that he’s from the funny farm is still here!!
September 9th, 2007 at 2:41 am
implicit mode returns…
September 9th, 2007 at 2:41 am
I have been out all night and yes I am a little tipsy as I fell on a taxi bonnet!
So please update me - if G and K are going home as suspects do they have to sign on at the Portugal police station in 5 days time or not?
And all this talk about interviewing the friends - is that true?
…Gosh that was quite clever for a drunk do you not think?
September 9th, 2007 at 2:40 am
Christoph: Professor gecko to you, but not to anyone else.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Wonder if Gerry has gone by any aliases?
September 9th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Wow, gecko100, you finally say something sensible. Stopped clock is right twice a day I guess.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Go to bed Christoph you are rambling…
September 9th, 2007 at 2:37 am
669.Daniella - it would not have been blood spots froma dead body, more like rotting carcass material.
Perhaps they called it blood spots as it was an easier phrase.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:36 am
Yes, but I always screw that up!
September 9th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Does anyone get the feeling gecko100 is about the most truly classic internet troll?
I mean, trolls usually don’t EXACTLY match the definition… they usually have some point, however obtuse.
But this one… seems to just troll and that’s it.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:35 am
AH HA! APOSTROPHE CHRISTOPH……
Are you tired?
September 9th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Don’t tell me I have to power to stop gossip in cyberspace, next I’ll be performing miracles…
September 9th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Forget the McCann’s, now this is the mystery case of the decade.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Christoph: what are we up to now 12- 14 hours hmmm
September 9th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Bye Christoph…
Bet you’re still here…….
for hours yet!
September 9th, 2007 at 2:25 am
Blimey, I have to start again with the creepy one. This barely above gossip. Now I hope you all leave.
My sadness is overwhelming.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Haven’t hit the hey yet, obviously.
m.e., without a doubt they would have been under electronic surveillance. I think this was a very interesting tactic of the PJs.
Not at all sure I disapprove.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:22 am
Leave me in the lurch then…:-(
September 9th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Very observant Columbo:-) Now answer me this. Why the hell was Kate allowed home to ‘brief’ Gerry before his interview? If the evidence is concrete dont you interview at the same time in different rooms?
Are the police idiots or is the villa bugged? or maybe the evidence they do have points primarily to Kate.
Have spoken about this before but again the portugese police have me frustrated and baffled again…….
September 9th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Im not sure that many are genuine in their sadness for M any longer. This has turned into the biggest whodunnit since “who shot JR”. You cant be bombarded with this for months on end without reaching saturation point as far as sympathy goes and the parents are no longer sympathetic characters.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:21 am
I can’t wait for tomorrow’s news and reactions to the latest McCrim move; maybe a non-poodle journalist will pose the quesion to them ‘what did you do with Maddy’s body?’
September 9th, 2007 at 2:20 am
woohoo 2 down, especially the creepy one.