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 11:46 am
Moderation Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
“If you’re so well up on irony then how come you just don’t get Seymours Law?
You don’t actually think he’s for real do you??”
Rather like the Curate’s egg dear boy, good/real in parts”
September 17th, 2007 at 11:46 am
“Asked about whether she and her husband were responsible for their daughter’s disappearance, she said: “It cannot be considered a crime. Someone committed one, but not us.”
strange response as usual, could be read as:
“It cannot be considered a crime” - we killed her by accident
“Someone committed one, but not us” - Explains Kate’s ‘they’ve taken her’ & my guess is she didnt agree with Gerry & friends plan to hide the body…
“The re-interviewing will only take place when further DNA testing in Birmingham is completed, either tomorrow or Wednesday.” — what else are we waiting for tests on?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:45 am
226
don’t you think that a lot of your friends think the m’s are guilty, but are scared to say so for fear of being thought of as part of the lower orders by people such as yourself who think that the higher your status the less guilty you are?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I thought Seymour Laws was THE Gerry McCann testing the waters of his faithful minions on Anorak?
September 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am
(204) Carmen
Further to your point about the totaliser on the “Fund McCann (TM)” web site, did you notice that about 3-4 weeks before they were questioned the total was stuck around £1 Million. Then as soon as they were interviewed and made “arguidos” the fund miraculously leapt up another £36,000 to the new improved £1,036,104.17….
Now that has also stuck and not changed since
So I believe that this sugests that there is far more than the £1 million in the fund - a fact that they clearly do not want the general public to know. Also I find it incredible to believe that if people are STILL donating then they managed to generate and extra £36,000 on the day they were effectively nicked (albeit not charged) and have raised nothing else since.
Clearly the McCanns first priority is money… Simple as that
September 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am
# nononethere Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Boo hoo Paulette, even if you chose to call me a *nt, you would never hurt my feelings because when it comes from a foolish person there just is not sting. Now I really have to go because I am super late. Damn this addictive site.
Dear Nonomedicationleft,
Why dontcha’ just go go?
Said a few times now bye bye
I won’t cry cry
Cause your a
(*nt
Dammit could not find a rhyme with cry! Hate when that happens!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am
219 - Karen
She’s about to snap and as her face shrinks, her teeth protrude more. I think it’s make up and good lighting though (not to make her look good but to make her look more of a victim) I would not be surprised if they’ve taken tips on how to look dowdy and upset. If I see Gerry in another polo top i’ll scream. He has them in every colour. Burtons Man Overkill
September 17th, 2007 at 11:42 am
225 How interesting. That accounts for why none of his circle have an opinion on this - they can’t read
September 17th, 2007 at 11:42 am
208 - It may have been the way I asked the question when conducting my survey
along the lines of “no one here believes these absurd and baseless rumours about the Doctors McCann do they” - “err no Seymour” came the responses, save for the football (association) manager who said, in his own tongue “they have guilty written all over their boats” - not a reference to some writings on their yachts, but, I am told, a cryptic reference to face derived by application of some form code or other in which the lower orders speak to each other
September 17th, 2007 at 11:41 am
i happen to know seymour is actually a scouser living on a council estate.
that’s why he can’t spell.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:40 am
221
Moriarty reckoned that the General Public wouldn’t be as sympathetic on account of the ages of the boys (youngest is 12) and not as photogenic as girls
Boo Hoo
September 17th, 2007 at 11:40 am
This is very interesting and shows possibly what alot of rubbish some of the claims have been.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22432197-912,00.html
September 17th, 2007 at 11:40 am
218 You keep threatening to go!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
215 ~ SSS….. £750,000 for 3 boys…..Mccanns getting £1M for 1 girl….you’ve bin done….
September 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
If you’re so well up on irony then how come you just don’t get Seymours Law?
You don’t actually think he’s for real do you??!!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I think the McCanns are really odd.
Sure, Kate has got thinner but she always was thin. As for the crying in private - she looks stressed but I’ve never seen her eyes red. When my dog died I cried in my room for four hours and my eyes got so swollen they were stuck together and once I’d calmed down (she was very old, so it wasn’t unexpected) I was mortified by having to walk around in public with a deformed face.
Gerry - I’ve never come across anyone who thought their daughter’s disappearance was a political platform. The Edinburgh T.V. Festival!!! When she’s not even been missing for half a year!!!
They’re acting like Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman at Cannes promoting a movie about a kidnapp (that happened ten years before - that they didn’t know about till they read the script - and even then I bet Nicole would manage a sniffle).
September 17th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Boo hoo Paulette, even if you chose to call me a *nt, you would never hurt my feelings because when it comes from a foolish person there just is not sting. Now I really have to go because I am super late. Damn this addictive site.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:37 am
after the british invented time and clocks and things, some other countries didn’t like it going dark at breakfast time so they altered their clocks.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:37 am
202. Moriarty,
Sorry didn’t mean to sound as if I thought you didn’t. A lot of negative stuff about him today. Maybe if I were a Brit I’d be more outraged but I just see him as doing what he does best which is self-publicity.
Seriously though he & Kate though……:)
September 17th, 2007 at 11:36 am
211 Impressed
Hey listen, after the weekend I have just had, I have renamed them the Savage Seven (ex-Magnificent Seven) again. Moriarty reckons 3 boys might be worth £750,000 nett.
Who’s out on the lash with me tonight????
Moriarty, you’re in charge of the PR and fund raising as discussed on Friday!!8
September 17th, 2007 at 11:36 am
it probably hasn’t had it’s breakfast yet.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:35 am
201 Thanks helsangel. Yes I did call her a brat. You’d think I called her what I really wanted to call her which is I think the Brits say (*nt.
But I held tight and called her a brat instead not just because he/she/it is a brat because it’s only afternoon and I wasn’t sure if he/she/it had had their tea and crumpets yet.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:33 am
205 Darn it, just realised I have been calling nononethere, noonethere! Maybe it should be noonehome
September 17th, 2007 at 11:33 am
193 ~ SSS….just be carefull…. don’t on the piss and leave the doors unlocked…. it might turn out to be less than 7….
September 17th, 2007 at 11:33 am
205 please see 201
September 17th, 2007 at 11:32 am
oooh helsangle finally you find a friend on this site. Bye bye!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:32 am
188 SSS
To be fair Seymour is simply stating a hypothesis, based on personal experience. It is interesting when there was the phone in on BBC 5 Live, a lot of people considered their media treatement a class issue. Dunno if it’s right or wrong, just interesting…
Seymour I do find it strange that NO ONE in your circle considers them suspicious (except for the footie coach)…..
September 17th, 2007 at 11:32 am
202
you’re only saying that in case he’s reading it.
no more barbequeues for you!
September 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
199 Good point, this whole forum is based, after all, on speculation, conjecture, rumour and prejudice. What is one more bigot amongst so many? At least you are an unashamed unabashed snob!
P.S A cousin of mine is a Duke.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
194. Moderation,
You’ve insulted me plenty of times and today nononethere for making a joke on a satirical site. Some of you commenters really need to get off your high horses. This is a humor site. So I kindly ask you to piss off. I really don’t care what your thoughts are on anything. If you don’t like what I write then don’t read my comments - it is really that simple.