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 10:03 am
Moderation, do you remember when I devestated every single point in your giant slur and you left this thread with your tail between your legs saying, “Its not good here anymore.”
No, I won’t do you the favour of not debating you. I understand you lose and it’s upsetting. Suck it up or raise your game.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:59 am
I normally like to be measured and fairly polite and well-mannered, I am after all the oft-accused fence sitter and a libran by birth.
However, just this once…
Christoph….. just SHUT THE F**K UP.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:55 am
786: their is hard forensic evidence -> there is hard forensic evidence
September 9th, 2007 at 9:54 am
They did, Pete. I admire William Wilberforce more than any historical figure that I know.
I want the same thing to happen with abortion, which I consider similar in certain ways (the rights of a person not respected… except, well, in certain bizarre circumstances like if the mother wants it and then it is murder… and only then).
Anyway, I don’t mean to debate that here. But William Wilberforce and the British campaign against slavery was a great good in the world.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Given that the McCanns have been allowed to fly home surely the
Portuguese police cannot be that close to charging them.
A British Police source in the Daily Mail highlights the unsubstantial nature
of the evidence and …
“So the main theory being pursued by British police is that she was abducted.”
If this is true then perhaps the PJ think the same, and this is all a big smoke screen?
It’s all too confusing for me to keep up though to be honest, but I do think
it is unfair to accuse anyone (McCanns, their freinds, Murat, the Russian
guy, anyone else) unless their is hard forensic evidence.
The police should continue to look for Madeleine though.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Yes, Angry, but remember, Miguel’s frame of reference will be largely the British tabloid media.
And they’ve acted like the typical Grade-A Arseholes they are.
That is, after all, the whole raison d’etre for this site: ANORAK: KEEPING TABS ON THE TABLOIDS.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Although the British were a bit enthusiatic with slavery, they did lead the world in its abolition.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:49 am
For the non-UK residents worried that everyone is biased because they are ‘White English’.
Gerry Mcann is NOT English, he is from Glasgow which is in Scotland.
Kate Mcann is a Scouser (from Liverpool). The most distrusted City in England.
No prejudice here!
September 9th, 2007 at 9:48 am
I wish the Brit bashing would stop. Not everyone on here is British, and very few of us agree with the McCanns actions.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Angry, I disagree (nicely of course!!) with you about Ben Needham, I followed that at the time and it was really intense but the big difference between Madeleine and Ben is the new power of the internet and SAT-TV..
We talked to neighbours and colleagues about Ben but there wasn’t the potential to reach out all over the world on forums like this.
Ignoring the rights and wrongs for the moment, I’n SURE Ben’s mother an grandparents would have done exactly the same as the McCanns if the opportunites had been there..
And also, for a long time the police accused Ben’s uncle of having killed him accidently and disposing of his body. That shadow has never really been lifted from him…..
Very similar I think.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:39 am
767 -
1). Just because the McCanns doped their kids doesn’t mean we all do it. If you can expect from two to three years in jail, for doping a child why have the Mccanns not be charged.
2). There are two reasons why this case is so high profile. The first is because the McCanns made it that way. The second is because it was the McCanns negligence that resulted in Madeline going missing. There was none of this when Ben Nedham was snatched from Greece.
Point 3: People are frustrated by your judicial system because we don’t understand it. In addition nothing seems to be happening, and the police have already given up searching. That wouldn’t happen here.
Just because the police believe she may be dead doesn’t mean she is. Therefore if she is alive the Portugese police have given up on her and that is scandalous.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Many, many, many people have criticized the Portuguese police to such a strong degree and in such terms and accusing them of such perfidity that I for one consider the accusations to be xenophobic, typical “British elitist”, and disgraceful.
And I’m not even Portuguese.
However, many other commentators haven’t criticized the Portuguese like this and bless them. And some who criticized the Portuguese police did so in more measured and fair ways.
But, yes, Miguel, and I’m sad to say it, if you read some “elitism” coming from the British press and some commentators here in regards to the treatment of Portugal, I agree with you.
As several British here would probably sadly admit.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:35 am
770 Angry - well that’s a relief, someone else who has experience of the spirit world an is not getting on my case !! …not much anyway. I could fill this space with what my friend has come up with since Maddie disappeared and she sent it all to the PJ, the Leics Police, the ” Sun ” , the “Mirror” the “Express” Sky News and various other places but apart from the fact that we hear that the PJ have a file of stuff from Psychics and Mediums which they are allegedly going through, we have heard nothing since. She knows what she knows and you should know “they” can only come up with so much, it isn’t as if someone is going to draw maps and the case would be solved, how good that would be though !!
September 9th, 2007 at 9:34 am
EVEN if the parents didn’t… let them serve at least some type of sentence or punishment for their neglectful parenting that cost this child her life… so that other SELFISH parents (the good ones don’t need it) have an example of the consequences to themselves of failing to provide reasonable protection to their children.
Thanks again, Miguel.
[I had to break that long comment down into smaller comments to get it past the spam filter.]
September 9th, 2007 at 9:33 am
More, I am glad the Portuguese put a strong emphasis on family and protecting and loving children. Many British do too of course, but Miguel, if you missed it, several British people were on here to criticize what they see as less than good child-rearing (”child looking after) in Britain and they complimented Portugal’s emphasis on the family.
God bless Portugal, Britain, my country, and every country. But especially the soul of this innocent child.
Let justice be done whoever harmed her.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:33 am
But… one thing British AND Portuguese cops have in common… is they hate the killer of little kids.
And I do not believe for a second that they would frame the already victimized parents of the child. That’s crazy. And it’s an offensive suggestion.
Even if the Portuguese police were this evil — and they aren’t — there is no way the British police would go along considering that it was a British girl who was murdered.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Miguel, I understand your anger but I don’t think there are many here who have criticised th Portugese people. Criticising the police is something different.
I don’t think there is anything remotely racist in this and I’m sure this case would have caught the imagination reagrdless. There is just something about it.
Having a go at the Brits per se is not fair.
And again of course, the McCanns have still not been charged with anything and they are, as we speak, on a plane back to the UK.
The evidence can’t be that hot can it?
There is still something about this that sits uncomfortably with me. Why is Murat still an Arguido and NOT allowed to travel? Surely he should be released from that status and allowed to visit his daughter?
Something is not right and everything is not as it seems.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Not all of them. Some are okay. But they have a reputation for just having awful pack-feeding frenzied irrational media.
Now as to a comparison between the two countries. Both have good and bad things in their past. Slavery is a bad thing. I’m sure we can all agree.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Not all of them. Some are okay. But they have a reputation for just having awful pack-feeding frenzied irrational media.
Now as to a comparison between the two countries. Both have good and bad things in their past. Slavery is a bad thing. I’m sure we can all agree.
But… one thing British AND Portuguese cops have in common… is they hate the killer of little kids.
And I do not believe for a second that they would frame the already victimized parents of the child. That’s crazy. And it’s an offensive suggestion.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Miguel
I Agree 100%. If they lived in a council flat, or were of an ethnic minority they would not be treated with’Kid Gloves’.
They are white middle class and can do no wrong.
It does seem the attitude is we will only believe this if there is a body with evidence on it.
I am white English but the ‘Rose coloured glasses’ adopted by so many seems so hypocritical to me.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Miguel, thanks for coming.
You make some good points although I have to read through some misspellings and grammar to get to them.
No matter! I’m an English speaker by birth (from Canada) and I still make plenty of misspellings.
Not everyone here is critical of the Portuguese police. Some, like myself, but also like many in Britain, believe the police in Portugal are doing the best they can.
I believe there are many good police officer’s on the case — as intelligent as any police officers in the world — doing their best to achieve justice.
Yes, SOME of the British reaction has been obnoxious, but remember one thing: The British press are the worse in the world. Their media are vultures.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Miguel, thanks for coming.
You make some good points although I have to read through some misspellings and grammar to get to them.
No matter! I’m an English speaker by birth (from Canada) and I still make plenty of misspellings.
Not everyone here is critical of the Portuguese police. Some, like myself, but also like many in Britain, believe the police in Portugal are doing the best they can.
I believe there are many good police officer’s on the case — as intelligent as any police officers in the world — doing their best to achieve justice.
Yes, SOME of the British reaction has been obnoxious, but remember one thing: The British press are the worse in the world. Their media are vultures.
Not all of them. Some are okay. But they have a reputation for just having awful pack-feeding frenzied irrational media.
Now as to a comparison between the two countries. Both have good and bad things in their past. Slavery is a bad thing. I’m sure we can all agree.
But… one thing British AND Portuguese cops have in common… is they hate the killer of little kids.
And I do not believe for a second that they would frame the already victimized parents of the child. That’s crazy. And it’s an offensive suggestion.
Even if the Portuguese police were this evil — and they aren’t — there is no way the British police would go along considering that it was a British girl who was murdered.
More, I am glad the Portuguese put a strong emphasis on family and protecting and loving children. Many British do too of course, but Miguel, if you missed it, several British people were on here to criticize what they see as less than good child-rearing (”child looking after) in Britain and they complimented Portugal’s emphasis on the family.
God bless Portugal, Britain, my country, and every country. But especially the soul of this innocent child.
Let justice be done whoever harmed her.
EVEN if the parents didn’t… let them serve at least some type of sentence or punishment for their neglectful parenting that cost this child her life… so that other SELFISH parents (the good ones don’t need it) have an example of the consequences to themselves of failing to provide reasonable protection to their children.
Thanks again, Miguel.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:27 am
763 - Sorry that should have been ‘Ethnic Minority’. I fully agree brick.
764 - What a load of rubbish, and before you call me a sceptic, I believe in the life hereafter and have indeed been contacted from the other side by someone I would never have expected to hear from. I attended a spitualist meeting out of curiousity and a long dead very close friend of my brother contacted me to pass a warning on to him about his stomach. He was later diagnosed with a Hyatus Hernia, (probably spelt wrong) but has a phobia about hospitals so wont have it treated. He calls it his alien, (after the film).
However what your friend says has nothing to do with known facts, and if she can come up with such detail why can’t she come up with what happened at the time of the abduction?
September 9th, 2007 at 9:26 am
765 OK Christoph , that’s your opinion but when someone comes up with stuff of which they could not possibly have any prior knowledge, and I do mean detailed stuff, and things of such a personal nature that she could no way know, then there is no question, they are not all wrong you know !! They are not all Gypsy Petulengros or Derek Acorahs and she certainly doesn’t sit there burning incense and asking “…is anybody there ? ” and all that crank stuff, she doesn’t do like some I have been to see where they come up with stuff like “…there’s a person in spirit name begins with a B…” yeah right !! and also “..there’s a person in spirit named Albert ” …fairly safe bet that someone in their lives will have had an Albert or someone whose name began with a B !! I am under no illusions about the cranks in the world but my friend is not one of them, in fact I think her gift, or ability or whatever you want to call it, is more of a curse than a blessing to her. Some of the stuff she has come up with has been of great comfort and has helped us all through some pretty bad stuff so I actually feel sorry for you that you have such a cynical attitude, you should be more open-minded, we are not all the same !! ….thankfully….
September 9th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Christopher says:
“A person who isn’t a liberal before 30 has no heart. A person person who is a liberal after 30 has no brain”
Is that because after 30 we all get greedy and become conservatives? Call me crazy but I’ll never vote Republican no matter how much of a tax break they’re offering. I guess that makes me a brain dead 30 something.
Better not post anymore if that’s the case….not with all the Einstein’s floating around here..lol!
September 9th, 2007 at 9:18 am
TO THE ANGRY PERSON: I´ll not go in the history of slavery and commerce of people, you have much more to tell and ask for forgiveness in your own history than the portuguese people
We, as latins, have another concept of FAMILY, you´ll never see a family dropping its kids doped to go to get drunk, for that, only, in Portugal or Spain you could expect from two to three years in jail, that´s point 1
Point 2: I´m not talking of ethnic origins, but is a fact than if this family were black people from one of the gettos you have in your cities, all this probably were less mediatic
Point 3: Why all this pressure over the Portuguese jucicial system?,
criticizing it, calling us third world by your tabloids, and questionig it continuously?
I´ve seen how many kids are killed every month in your country and in some of the cases never had an end?
God bless Madeleine, she´s the victim, a child, and his murderer should be in jail for ever, wherever.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Ann, to be clear, at best your friend is a self-deluded moron.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:14 am
I would not. Psychics are invariably frauds and/or deluded mystics.
They are often right in the sense of predicting generalized things one would expect to be true since most cases follow a similar pattern and then being proven glaringly wrong on occasion… because most cases follow a similar pattern.
Through confirmation bias, they remember and advocate their successes and downplay their failures. This is a normal function of the human brain anyway.
And I think the odds are strong your friend will be “half-right”.
You will say that proves something. It does. My assertion.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:11 am
760 - Christoph, if you knew half of what my friend has come up with over the past fifteen years that I have known her, you would most certainly change your tune !! No - she is not a self-deluded Moron although I have met some of those in the past, and really, you should wait until what happens, happens before you judge. We hope we are wrong.
Although I can see your lip curling as you read, I will tell you what my friend came up with from the beginning only because if I tell you AFTER Maddie is found , you wouldn’t believe me, if my friend is half-way right that is.
She says that Madeleine knew or had seen, the person who took her and he smelt of beefburgers and had a white ( silver ? ) ring in his ear. From this we conclude it could have been someone who works in the kitchens at the complex whom she would certainly have seen, who would have seen her and knew where she was staying. She says Maddie didn’t like it in the dark room and she heard two men arguing loudly outside and they “..spoke like Dora” Anyone with kids knows that Dora the Explorer is a kiddies programme wherein she ( Dora ) teaches simple Spanish. She says they went into the room and shone a light in her eyes ( looking for the blemish ) and then went out and argued even more loudly and then the “big white angel” took her out of the water. We conclude that they realised they had a “hot potato” and got rid of her because those sort of people only see stolen children as merchandise. My friend sees her in still water, not the sea or a river so we assume a well, a tank or a pond. This was also somehow connected with the dilapidated farmhouse and the man with the white van. The man who used to live in the farmhouse with his wife Maia or Maya, said they planted the old rose which grows round the door and they were not pleased that the house had been allowed to fall into disrepair.
I don’t think the McCanns did away with her but I do not like the fixed expression on Kate’s face, it is unnerving, no change no matter what or when she is photographed or filmed
September 9th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Angry says : “I detest the term ‘ethnic origin’ because it is often used to denote someone inferrior to an anglo saxon person”
Point of contention:
Ethnic origin is also used to describe “caucasians” - as in whites - so I don’t know why you would think it is an inferior term. It is not. We live in the 21st century people - who cares what color your skin is? Can’t we all just get along and live in peace?? Personally, I am white and would love to have dark skin. It would be nice not to worry about things like skin cancer and sun burns all the time - especially since I’m outdoors so much.
We all want what we dont’ have. Let’s just live in peace and harmony and be color blind.