Madeleine McCann: Call Off The Dogs, Kate McCann’s Tears And Fatima
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE TIMES page 9: “McCanns send to US for help against evidence of sniffer dogs.”
Gerry and Kate McCann have consulted lawyers working on behalf of Eugene Zapata in Madison, Wisconsin.
In October 1976, Zapata’s wife, Jeanette, went missing. Her body has never been found. Last year sniffer dogs were brought in and Zapata was charged with her murder. The case went before Judge Patrick Fielder who said the evidence – dogs had picked up the scent of a corpse in Zapata’s basement – was inadmissible. He said the dogs were unreliable.
The dogs have yet to make a comment.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADDY JUDGE: LET ME TELL ALL.”
Pedro Daniel dos Anjos Frias wants to “speak freely” about the case.
Pages 6 and 7: “Mum’s tears at 11am Mass.” Once again the Mirror is all eyes for Kate McCann’s eyes. She is crying.
In church, Father Keith Tomlinson narrates the parable of the Prodigal Son. An eight-year-old child called Molly Earp reads “Jesus please continue to love and protect us, until she is found.”
And then Jesus can have a rest and the police can resume normal duties…
Pages 8 and 9: “On the beach Gerry gave Maddy loads of hugs and kisses, he was a perfect dad..The next time I saw him was about midnight..I saw a man alone, desperate. He was crying and screaming her name over and over and over again.” Words from a “WAITER AT MADDIE’S LAST MEAL” before she vanished.
THE SUN front page: “Maddie ‘gag’ lift.” Friends of Kate and Gerry McCann are hopeful of being allowed to speak out and defend themselves. A judge has asked for a lifting of Portugal’s secrecy laws.
Pages 6 and 7: “AGONY TO COME.” The Sun produces a picture of Kate and Gerry McCann’s wedding day. They are holding Kate’s goddaughter Ellie. There is also a new picture of Madeleine McCann “looking angelic”. Have you seen her? Or are you watching the parents?
THE EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. POLICE TO SEARCH SHRINE FOR BODY.” The McCanns went to Fatima. The McCanns car clocked up 1,709 miles in the fives weeks after their daughter went missing.
THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Pages 2 and 3: “Hand in hand, McCanns go to family church.” The “devoutly Catholic couple” are leaving for church from their “£600,000 home”. Kate McCann is carrying Cuddle Cat.
Pages 4 and 5: “1,000 letters each day in support of the McCanns. Between 500 and 1,000 letters a day arrive at the McCanns’ home. “There are some crank letters,” says a spokesman for the family, “but that’s inevitable.”
None of these letters are believed to point to the whereabouts of Madeleine McCann.
Alex Cayles, a former neighbour of the McCanns, says “I never heard Kate or Gerry raise their voices to their children or anyone else.” Can the same be said of any parents of three very young children?
DAILY MAIL front page: a picture of Kate McCann smiling.
“MADELEINE:
• Doubt cast on sniffer dogs
• Police frontman quits investigation
• Branson funds the McCanns’ defence
• Witness’s vital new evidence”
Pages 10 and 11:2 “Maddie: Is the case crumbling?”
Chief inspector Olegario Sousa has resigned “in disgust” at the way in which fellow Portuguese officers have been briefing the media behind his back.
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE MUM ON MURDER RAP. Now cops claim to have found ‘a motive’.”
The Star says police have read Kate McCann’s diary and “claim it reveals she had a motive to kill”.
Pages 4 and 5: “DID KATE HAVE A MOTIVE?”
Well, we haven’t read the diary, but…
“The idea that Portuguese detectives are looking at my daughter’s most personal thoughts and taking them out of context is terrible,” says Kate McCann’s father Brian Healy.
Pages 6 and 7: “HUNT AT HOLY SHRINE.” Is Madeleine McCann’s body buried at Fatima, one of the Catholic Church’s holiest sites? The Star says the couple went there three weeks after their daughter went missing.
We wonder. Is she? Or is she buried in Germany, America, London or Morocco, places also visited by the McCanns?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “New allegations against McCanns - As the McCanns begin a new campaign to clear their names, further allegations emerged over the weekend.”
Oh?
“The hire car: The Renault Scenic hired by the McCanns 25 days after Madeleine went missing. New claims centre on its high mileage. Between May 27 and July 3, it was driven 1,700 miles, with police looking into the possibility that it may have been used to dispose of a body…There were also reports that detectives were waiting for permission from a judge to seize and dismantle the car to search for ‘traces of skin’.”
THE GUARDIAN: No Maddy news today.
Madeleine McCann The Public Spectacle
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September 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
The Holy Grail..sorry, Mail, now claims that the PJ case is crumbling because of the evidence of the sniffer dogs. So that’s all the PJ has got is it? dog shit! I don’t think so and I hope that they either don’t understand enough English to read the rubbish that is being churned out by this paper and others, or that they treat it with the contempt it deserves and carry on regardless.
As for the “slick” PR campaign to be instituted soon. It will backfire as the best thing the McCanns can do (how appropriate their name is…) is to lie low, let the Fund earn its interest - they’re not touching it, remember! - and let the public turn its attention to other things, as would inevitably happen. To raise their heads above the parapet again with a spurious ‘new’ initiative to ‘find Madeleine’ is ludicrous and will be seen for what it is, an attempt to look as though they are looking for her and spending the Fund in the way it was intended - only £80,000 of it though.
McBranson has said he will only hand over the money “if” they are charged. I suppose he feels he’s on a safe bet.
As for the nanny!! Bundled off to Australia from the scene of the crime pretty quickly then wasn’t she? Why is no hack flying out there to interview her? If someone sponsors me I’ll do it. Hey, Branson, how about it?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:30 am
(195) paulette
Don’t get me wrong. I like the man personally. I just question the motives thats all
September 17th, 2007 at 11:30 am
192 I believe Paulette called you a brat. And guess what she’s not the first or last person to think that either. Go and get a sense of humour
September 17th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Who makes Cuddle Cat ???
Don’t they realise it’s going to be this years much sought after Christmas present now. Every Kid wan’t cuddle cat.
The makers need 3 versions of the cat
Freshly Bathed Cuddle Cat
Key Witness Cuddle Cat
DNA Rich Cuddle Cat
September 17th, 2007 at 11:29 am
188 - SSS Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Seymour,
“You are assuming a lot about the people on this forum. How do you know who is a member of the lower orders? According to their opinions on the innocence of the Teflon 2?”
SSS that would be unpardonablely circular reasoning - I have conducted my own informal poll upon which I have based by tentative conclusions - it would be unfair to assume that everyone propounding theories that the McCanns are guility are riff raff. But is fairness a necessary ingredient of comment here?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:29 am
196
they do it in the states too.
that’s why, instead of ‘what do you do?’
people ask ‘how much do you make’
September 17th, 2007 at 11:29 am
(191) Carmen
That is an absolutely outstanding point !!! Very well said
September 17th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Gosh - glad I don’t live in Britain if people still talk about lower orders and higher echelons!
Don’t know where I would fit in: university graduate, self-employed, daughter of university graduate (in the days when there weren’t so many) and schoolteacher.
And I think the McCanns were involved.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:27 am
187. I was told by some sacrosanct here that my prediction of Sir Richard riding off with delicate Kate to Los Angeles was in poor taste! That I was silly! AS soon as I heard he was involved he saw him & Kate together. SHe gets pregnant by him almost immediately - like just when he looks at her his gris-gris and mojo are so powerful she is made instantly fertile and with child.
Anyway, I love Sir Richard. HE looks like a Muppet. He’s wealthy. HE smokes pot. He’s friends with cool musicians. He’s smart but yeah I can see that gnat attention span. He’s like a big 17 year old with billions and lots of big toys. What’s not to like?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Paulette, remember….. we all know that insults are only used by those who have minimum literacy levels and zilch debating skills!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:27 am
189 Impressed
Ah but what better way of convincing the world then a PR person with 7 kids???
Think about it…..it could work…………..
September 17th, 2007 at 11:26 am
And as I dash out the door, why am I a brat because I don’t think your are funny, sorry I am probably not the first or last person who will think that paulie.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:26 am
176. Gordon Brown did it? Southern Irish anti-IVF protestors?
Anti-abortion, maybe? But IVF? - if it gets another soul into the Church they’ll ignore it.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:25 am
183 ~ SSS…alas working for team teflon I doubt it……listen you’d be working 24/7 [because convincing the whole world what wonderful parents you are is not an easy task, unless of course you happen to be talking to some dim witted british journo that is]. Look at poor old Justine, she couldn’t hack it [no pun intended] and she was working 18 hours a day…..so I suspect its back to the day job for you….
September 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
182 Seymour Laws
You are assuming a lot about the people on this forum. How do you know who is a member of the lower orders? According to their opinions on the innocence of the Teflon 2?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
I once went to a barbecue at Bransons house in Holland Park (don’t asky why..) Anyway I met the great man himself and had a chat with him and his attention span was like that of a gnat. All he was interested in was the young impressionable girls getting drunk at his expense.. This was supposed to be a business party.. if there is such a thing
I was just thinking that perhaps he has a thing for the Ice Maiden?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
178.
Please get over yourself you brat.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
175 jessica fletcher
i’ve never heard of or seen a nanny or a name mentioned, other than what the mccans claim - and who can beleive them after their costant spin and lies
if there was a nanny, surely she would be quite attached to the children and would have flown down to portugal to help with the “search”… sorry… with the PR campaign
September 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
180 Aunty Lardy isn’t real. It’s Gerry in a wig and a Fat Suit.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:21 am
179 Impressed
I am looking for another job, want to go part time! Do you think if I wrote to Sir R.B he would give me a job??? If the Teflon 2 were in support of my application?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:21 am
I was not saying that the views of the lower orders are any less worthy - just that, on this one, they differ markedly from those of the upper echelons.
It is possible, just, that the great and the good may have misread this one, rather like they did the Suez crisis.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:21 am
169. Jazzy,
LOL. Yes I guess they can’t get there pretty little manicured hands dirty can they? It’s funny but very sad. They’ve made this case to be all about them and are in reality doing nothing of any value to find Madeleine. Complete narcissists - maybe even sociopaths. I don’t know for sure but they are not normal healthy parents.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Yeah don’t make of Aunt Lardy cos she might have a medical condition. As some of you know, I have a medical condition (no not the mental one, the physical one!) and it is hard to keep my weight regulated as a result. Saying that, even at my heaviest, I fitted into a size 14!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:18 am
175 ~ SSS….hahaha….go for it….who knows you may share in some of the spoils of Bransons gift to the nation…
September 17th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Okay Paulette yes I finally get it, all those baby steps were tiring, a silly site for silly people like yourself.
Have to got to work now, see ya.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:17 am
(156) she is the sofa
September 17th, 2007 at 11:16 am
http://mara-gamiel.blogspot.com/search/label/Madeleine%20McCann
I know alot of you dont believe in this …..but what he says does make alot of sense, I would like to think that this is what has happened.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:16 am
170 Impressed
WOW REALLY? Maybe I should add that to my C.V…….;-)
September 17th, 2007 at 11:16 am
166
sorry last week it got annoying with fat jokes as i feel sorry for her and the other family members
any more news on the nanny?
has anyone got the evidence or anything on gerrys mum?
totally unrelated really but does anyone know if the billionaire friend of richard branston who went missing turn up alive or dead yet?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:15 am
161. nononethere Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Post 148(Paulette)
its comments like that which show that this forum is not an intelligent debate. See Spudgun!
Dear Noonethere,
I am on the Anorak site aren’t I?
Please read the info about this site. You may wish to start at the header of this thread. There you go….Now scroll up….That’s it. See? Do you see the….yes they;re making fun of the various headlines about the McCann case, Branson….yes that’s okay I realize some people take a little longer to grasp the humor or subtle meaning in clever stories and phrases. Baby steps….baby steps……