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
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September 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Christoph, And Justice for All:
Why don’t you just call it quits at 95% +/- 5%, then you’re
both right.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
937 - Statistic Angry, Statistics.
You’re talking dreams. Not real numbers.
Look - domestic abuse crosses both genders, I’ll give you that.
We are talking about Pedophilia and Rape and Incest. AWFUL Subjects to discuss. Which is why I won’t go do this road any further.
BUT - to my earlier pts w/ both you and Christoph, I have the data. Now just tell me where to fax it if you’d like. Otherwise, this discussion is over and the torch is passed back to the Madeleine Mccann posts exclusively.
I have my data. I can send it to you via fax. It’s a 375 page report researched by the U.S Child Welfare and Protection Agencies. Do you have yours? I am willing to look at it, will you email it to me? Otherwise, you’re making it all up and you have no leg to stand on. OK, ’nuff said.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
There’s a lot of links to qualified studies in the bibliography of the “More Info” link above.
Your numbers are daft. You’re saying only 1 out of ever 10,000 children molested is molested by a female.
And that’s horse crap.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Re - defreezing body. Hot weather, two hour drive, outer layer defrosts enough to drip.
Re - decay - it obviously lay in McCanns apartment for the requisite 2 hours, partly pre-discovery, partly whilst they decided what to do. The dogs say so.
Or maybe it had an intermediate unrefrigerated resting place.
I only suggest freezing for most of the time because otherwise the stench after 25 days in that climate would surely have attracted attention from yards away.
I think this best fits the facts - eliminate the freezing if you wish. Why else would intercepts of communications (apparently to another of the Tapas9 ) be incriminating unless they helped conceal the body ? What way would they have helped but this ?
September 10th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Wheeew (940) … I was just about to slink out of the room quietly!
September 10th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
What drivel. You’re welcome to link to it. You don’t win a debate because I’m not giving you my private fax number.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Or at main news at ten. Are you posting from Rothley?
September 10th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
(934)Julie - I am female too. ( I was going to say “I am woman hear me roar in numbers too big to ignore” but don’t think that would go over too well with this crowd).
And that’s just one of many reasons why I feel so strongly to defend the stance here.
Don’t worry Julie - You are not alone.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Males are reported to be the abusers in 80-95% of cases
-Thoringer, D., et al., 1988.
Female Child Molesters
More info
I’m not going to spend the entire day debating it. Most sexual abuse is committed by men. About 10% by women. Plus or minus, but not plus or minus 10%.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
blunger 933
So you can prove beyond doubt negligence on the previous nights?
Er, not…..
September 10th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
“Police are saying that the reports of full dna match are not true- sky news.”
Not in their last report?!
September 10th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
And Justice for All 920 - Thats a load of BS but I’m not here to debate your crappy statistics so forget.
As for “Anatomically, it’s almost impossible for a woman to rape a man.” - never heard of a strap on.
next you’ll be saying males can’t be the victims of domestic abuse, and sexual harassment
September 10th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
930 - I got the number baby, do you want them? Then fork over your fax #.
If not, then this debate is OVER. And does not belong here on this forum.
And since I am offering the data, and you are refusing acceptance of it. I therefore, win by your default.
The stats remain as I said - 99.99% of Pedophiles, sex offenders are MALE.
And this is a NON-DENOMINATONAL Statistc. Not any one religion, in otherwords. And that was my point, all along………
DONE - as in Fait Accompli.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Police are saying that the reports of full dna match are not true- sky news.
bogus rumours again then……….
September 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Hello, anyone forget there’s a woman here at the moment? This is getting embarassing …. even if I am sitting here reading it by myself!
September 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I think it is established that the PJ would have a strong case in prosecuting the McC’s for simple child neglect on the nights preceding the fatal one, let alone the further neglect of the younger ones that night, even if MM was by then dead.
You can be charged and prosecuted for each breach of the law, separately or combined in a single trial, in any mix the prosecutors wish.
Please drop this suggestion that you can’t charge them with neglect if you charge them for something more. A little thought shows that it is utter nonsense.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
927 - Because the police are not going after that. They’ve already publicly said it’s most likely an “accident”.
It’s all over the news. Never has their been any claims that it was intentional, IF the Mccanns are responsible. No one has doubted the loved their daugther and wish it didn’t happen and that she is with them today.
They had no life insurance policy on her either I read. So, it’s not like they came to Portugal claiming to kill her. It was negligence. But that’s manslaughter, not murder I.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Your theory has fatal flaws. (No pun intended).
Firstly - If the body had been frozen until it was put in the car it would take days to defrost and would not have started to decompose.
Secondly - The McCanns were followed everywhere they went, as confirmed by a Sky reporter so how could they have transported a body anywhere.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
No we did NOT agree on a margin plus or minus 9.99%. That’s horse crap.
It’s closer to 90%. Not 80-100%.
And if you’re talking about full grown men… at least not elderly, disabled, or frail full grown men where it does happen some time, you’re right… but male children are molested… usually by men… and sometimes by women… and a lot more often than 0.01% of the time.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
924 If they fight extradition in theface of strong evidence they won’t be safe anywhere. Fighting extradition will be perceived as an admission of guilt by the public.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
923 -Don’t name call. It weakens your credibility.
I am not a fanatic. I have the stats for proof and you don’t want them.
You say 90% and you’re wrong. I say 99.99% and I’m right.
Can you send me your data? I’m happy to look at it since you won’t look at mine. Fair enough??
September 10th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
924
Not pre-meditated? Maybe but how the hell do you know that?
They’ve put on a good act if there was absolutely no planning to this. Just a thought.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
923 - Wasn’t this debate finished an hour ago?
We agreed on a margin of (+ or - )9.99%.
I have the stats and you wouldn’t disclose your fax # for me to send them to you. So, we can only conclude that there is a margin of differentitation of + or - 9.99%.
Yea, it would be embarrasing if a full grown man tried to convice law enforcement he was raped by a woman. Which is because it’s so preposterous.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
m.e., legally they could both be tried. The twins are individual people. They were the victims of neglect although fortunately no harm came to them. So the sentence here would have to take that into consideration.
And you would also prosecute the Madeleine McCann manslaughter. Poor girl!
September 10th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
917 - They would get nothing more than manslaughter. If that.
This was not pre-meditated. I don’t think anyone could claim otherwise.
The IVF, alone is a sure bet to beat that rap. This was an accident. The police have even said that’s what they think.
915 - What do you mean here? They are safer in England their homeland, than Portugal.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
It’s about 90% not 100%, Justice. And it is often not reported because either it’s considered embarrassing for a male — even a young male — to admit to sexual abuse from a female or simply because it’s not considered wrong by the young male and his mates, even though it is.
And we’re talking about molestation not just forcible rape. It damn well is possible to sexually molest a male even if you’re female. Arousal in the victim isn’t required to molest them.
And in many cases — it’s a normal physiological response — both with male and female victims arousal occurs during criminal victimization.
You’re a fanatic on this issue. You’re not going with the evidence. Your main point is right, but you weaken it by exaggerating the percentages. The absolute numbers are on your side. Be happy with that.
And don’t downplay males molested by females. There are some sick females out there.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
angry 914
point taken but if the negligence was to them a necessary by product of the crime, I dont know if legally that can be seen or prosecuted in isolation. Maybe you all know different. I’m no expert, just a point of view…..
September 10th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Damn right, dude, I’m going to devour a helpless Slushie® next.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
877- Absolutely wrong. No Substantiation, No Case. There has never been any reason NOT to have women reported on sex crimes. There is an overwhelming # of men - almost 100% - who commit these crimes. From Pedophilia, to Rape etc.
Anatomically, it’s almost impossible for a woman to rape a man.
Uh, no, here come the personal experiences……me and my big mouth!
I’m not talking fantasy - I am talking REALITY here!!
You’ll never win this argument.
EOD.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Are child negligence and child endagerment considered to be the same thing in Portugal?