Madeleine McCann: Suspects Kate And Gerry And The Flight Of Fancy
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN front page: “EXCLUSIVE – ‘We’re being set up. I’ve had enough. Let’s go home.’” This is the “ANGER OF MADDIE DAD.”
Gerry and Kate McCann, “the doctors”, are back in their home town of Rothley, Leicestershire.
Pages 4, 5, 6 & 7: A statement from Gerry McCann in which he thanks one and all for the support and adds: “But we would like to ask for our privacy to be respected now that we have returned home.”
But their private grief is public spectacle. Can they be left alone with their daughter still missing and their campaign to find her in progress?
“YOU’LL LOSE THE TWINS.” Portuguese police are said to have told Kate McCann she should confess or face losing her two children.
“FACT OR FIT-UP?” The Sun considers the claims and gives each an “EXPLANATION.”
THE SUN SAYS: “McCanns’ hell”. The McCann’s “torment gets more horrendous by the day.” Where is the “kidnapper who might still have the four-year-old child in his clutches?”
THE TIMES front page: “McCanns fly home to fights their case.”
Mr McCann says the police’s focus on them is “deeply disturbing”.
Portuguese newspapers claim the McCanns failed to answer 40 questions put to them during interviews last week. “They apparently feared that they could wrongly implicate themselves if he [sic] did so.”
Pages 6 & 7: “Puzzles and mysteries at the very heart of the investigation.”
The paper tries to answer some of these questions. It tells us: “Although a small child could be killed quickly it would take time to hide the body so that it was not discovered in the biggest search in Portuguese history.”
The paper’s David Brown does not reveal how he researched this. He just knows.
The window to the McCanns apartment might have been opened from the inside. Brown of the Wapping Yard concludes: “Or was the window opened to make it appear as if an intruder had used it to enter the bedroom?”
Hmmm. What say you Mr Brown?
DAILY MAIL front page: “Police are determined to charge McCanns with killing Madeleine. HOME…FOR HOW LONG?”
Mr McCann is said to have told a friends: “We are being completely stitched up by the Portuguese police. We are completely f*****. We should have seen this coming weeks ago and gone back to Britain.”
Pages 2 and 3: “Madeleine’s parents consult Pinochet’s lawyer.” The McCanns have consulted with Michael Caplan QC, the British lawyer who represented Chilean dictator General Pinochet, who stood accused to torture and human rights abuses. Interesting?
Pages 4 & 5: “Questions the police must answer.”
The paper wonders if Robert Murat was named as a suspect in the hope his presence might “lead the couple into committing an incriminating indiscretion?” Or not.
In attempting to answer the key questions, the Mail produces more questions.
And the evidence..? The paper’s Michael Hanson wonders just how “foolproof” forensic tests are. You can’t argue with the science. Or can you?
DAILY MIRROR front page: “Kate weeps in Maddy’s room.”
The paper’s “EXCLUSIVE” is that Kate McCann sat alone in Madeleine’s “pink-painted room” and “sobbed in despair”.
How does it know this?
A friend says: “They are not running and will clear their names.”
Pages 4 & 5: Four pictures of the McCanns: arriving at Faro airport; boarding a flight,;on the plane getting ready for take off; and walking to their family home in Rothley.
Pages 6 & 7: “40 questions they both ‘refused’ to answer’.” And: “Officers say her replies left a lot to be desired, ‘it was claimed.’”
“McCANNS FACE KILLING CHARGE.”
“WHY COPS THINK SHE WAS NOT ABDUCTED.”
Page 9: Brian Reade has a daughter the same age as Madeleine McCann. Brian, who writes for the Mirror, has found it “impossible to imagine the depth of pain and guilt”. Without a body, says Brian, “They may never be able to prove their total and complete innocence.”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE ‘WE CAN PROVE PARENTS DID IT.’ Portuguese police make dramatic new claim over evidence.”
Pages 2, 3 4, 5: The paper’s Martin Evans is on flight EZY 6552. He sees the McCanns travel home. He experiences “first hand…Kate’s pain and anguish on that most difficult of journeys”.
The seatbelts sign goes off. A note is passed to Kate. It is from another passenger. Kate reads the “simple message” of support. “A female passenger kneels by Kate and gives her a “tight hug.”
Kate sobs, “tears dripping slowly down her cheeks”.
Page 6: “Questions for the McCanns.” The Express has a go at solving the mystery. It says “Case could hang over us for ever say parents”.
DAILY STAR front page: “Maddie’s parents surprise flight.” Flight?
Pages 6 & 7: “We’re not running away.”
Page 7: More from Martin Evans, who sees the McCanns’ “pained expressions”.
Pages 8 & 9: “Furious donors want cash back as pressure mounts on friends to reveal all. DAD: I’LL USE £1M MADDIE FUND TO CLEAR OUR NAMES.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “Year-long wait for McCanns to clear name.”
Says Kate McCann: “Portuguese law prohibits us from commenting on the police investigation. Despite their being so much we wish to say we are unable to do so except to say this: we have played no part in the disappearance of our lovely daughter Madeleine.”
Page 4: “Couple facing a ‘life sentence of grief’.”
THE GUARDIAN front page: “Exhausted and under suspicion, Madeleine’s family come home.”
Pages 2, 4 & 5: “Rothley villagers relieved to see family return.”
“Thank goodness. They’re back where they belong and it’s the best place they could possibly be,” says one young mother.
The Rev Mark Chandler adds: “My every sense tells me that Rothley is just pleased and relieved to have them back.”
THE INDEPENDENT front page: “130 days since they left for a family holiday, the McCanns return to Britain without Madeleine. This is “THE HOMECOMING”.
Pages 2 & 3: “A shattered family returns to Britain without Madeleine”. “Portugal’s media clamour for conviction”.
Says one mother holidaying in Praia da Luz: “You don’t want to believe the worst but when you read headlines like these [in Portuguese media], obviously one conclusion seems more likely than another.”
Says the Diario de Noticia: “PJ wait for final examinations to arrest Madeleine’s parents.”
Madeleine McCann: private grief as public spectacle
Posted: 10th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,280) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 10th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
(377) bulldump
Nooooooooooooooooo…. We are related???
September 10th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
We all seem to be getting slightly off topic…..
No more Auntie Phil jokes….
September 10th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
lololol, hey moriarty
i just found this publication called ‘everyones a parent’
by philamina moriarty!!!!!!!
http://www.trumbore.org/sam/sermons/s6a3.htm
September 10th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
(374) Chopper
Fantastic
September 10th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
No Chopper, they vote Tory, because - rather like the old feudal days, they think that people of wealth and title are their superiors and therfore have a divine right to rule.
Chavs are the new peasant class.
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Come teddy boy as chavs are ‘offtopic’ I can have a wonderful go at them, peasant is far too top drawer for them, they are out on their own they are so awful;sticky bit that takes ages to get out of the rubbish
September 10th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Aunty Phil is a Mark F.
That is one size bigger than a Marquee.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
341, noseycow, with your contacts you could make a lot of money from interviews!
September 10th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
If you come back again you will be frightened by everything - it’s a bit of a toilet as countries go. Most of what I said in my previous post has more than a grain of truth in it.
We are a society obsessed with celebrity status and that is what the McCanns have banked on. What they need to remember is that we also have an obsession with waiting for just the right moment to pull the rug from under said celebrity to watch them fall - hence them doing a runner. They will be out of England within a month I predict - hopefully in a Portuguese jail, but more likely in a country with no extradition treaties.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
First sign of genuine emotion from Gez (reading out his statement), and it’s when he’s thinking about his own plight.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Eva 236. If you were an abductor, why would even need to touch the cuddle cat, let alone put it on high ledge? you wouldn’t. the mccanns put it there.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
yup, i used to buy a curly wurly priced 2p on my way to the ABC Minors saturday matinee
September 10th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Teddy boy 355- loved your post very funny
September 10th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
(362) bulldump
Please do not direspect Auntie Phil. She is a media giant !!
September 10th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
miwnf = aunti philli
it would have been a little ironic if her name had been aunti philidelphia
September 10th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
(361) Annika
Do you remember Spangles? Or Curly Wurlys when they were twice and big and only 2p?
September 10th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Oi Teddy Boy, get your facts straight. Most chavs vote Labour as they provide the life to which they have become accustomed.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
175 Chopper, 207 CJ
Can anyone name even one child under the age of 10 who was abducted in a similar way to what K and G claimed happened to Madeleine - while on holiday or in Britain - in the past year?
I havent heard of one in the four months since K and G spun their story.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
i think aunt phil was brought in to get the american sympathy vote personally, sine her input has been fairly damaging to their campaign, as illustrated by my friend cj. He posted an article damning the portugese police in order to prove some kinda innocence by the mccans.
aunti phil rubbished the article and claimed she had confidence in the copper involved
September 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I’m Australian and live in sunny (read: drought stricken) New South Wales.
I went on a holiday to England when I was a kid (my Dad was from Liverpool)and can remember clearly the delightful Knickerbocker Glory’s and lollies called Minstrels (I think).
And I was almost frightened to death by madame Tussaud’s horror waxworks.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
noseycow - the only time my shutters have been damaged was when I faked a break in for the insurance.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
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gecko 100
September 10th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Mods and Admins: Can we extend the ban on revolting imagery and comments to INCLUDE the McCanns?
September 10th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
(354) bulldump
Now Auntie Phil really is a MILF. Can you imagine a night of passion wth her followed by Cream Cakes, Doner Kebabs and a flame grilled Whopper (or two). I am so glad I quit smoking
September 10th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
I have a question for anyone who still supports the McCanns and their friends.
Would you be 100% happy for any of these doctors to perform a procedure on YOUR child?
Would you let any of the Tapas 9 babysit YOUR children for a couple of hours?
and finally;
Do you think they should still be responsible for their remaining children whilst suspected for a death of a child - who none of us can say for sure has died by accident?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Thank you for the compliment Annika. Yes a council house is subsidised housing. It’s where we put the species we call ‘Chavs’.
These houses can be easily identified by the broken window in the front door - usually filled with cardboard, the broken down car in the front garden and the discarded supermarket trolley.
The occupants usually wear cheap sportswear, although the only exercise they get is from mugging and running from the police.
They exist on a diet of Sunny Delight and Monster Munch. They are incapable of holding down a job and are unlikely to know more than 30 words of English - the immigrant householders will know considerably more.
They will invariably vote Conservative and are known to have an obsession with TV programmes like Big Brother and Magazines which show celebrities with their tits out.
I hope this goes some way to explaining the phenomina - with any luck the McCanns may find themselves there when they lose their jobs and the support of the media.
Where do you live by the way?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
and if philamina is worth her weight in gold she should be very carefull, or the mccanns might sell her and be able to buy every barrister in the land
September 10th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
cj 345
you contradict me via insult and not argument….
My post 74 is there for you to disagree with if you wish. I think its VERY telling thats all. I cant prove the parents are guilty of anything. Dont think it looks good for them though.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
bulldump have you become bulldholmes?
September 10th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
bulldump 346
September 10th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
exactly nosey heffer that midget weasel and his wife intend to use their position as suspects to evade awkeward questions now.
since when has the law of the land in portugal extended to the shores of good old blighty.
that whinning midget will just use this unenviable position to further his decision not to answer an questions he doesn’t want to