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
Posted: 17th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,074) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 17th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
While we await further leaks/rumours/reports, another possibility occurs to me.
I did not realise that the “patio type doors” were actually reported as “hanging open” when Kate found M Missing. Likely this is an error, as I have not heard it before.
But if it were true, the most likely explanation is perhaps as follows. Oldfield apparently entered the aptmnt (through these unlocked doors), listened at the bedroom door, then left. By this time he was probably pretty intoxicated, and could have simply forgotten to close the doors behind him.
Raising the possibility that little M went walkies and wandered into an impulse abductor that way.
I still put the abduction possibility as below 10%, but this open/close door thing is just one of the many that we really need official information on, so that we can reduce the uncertainty in our judgments.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
761 - The McCanns said the group had about 4 bottles in the evening.
The police say they have a receipt for 14 bottles, 8 red and 6 white. If a receipt exists, it will come out as evidence.
It’s possibly they started drinking earlier in the day and just kept a tab open. That way both stories could be mor eor less true.
14 bottles between 9 people over a few hours. Sounds possible. Some folks may have been a bit worse for wear, but peraps not paraletic.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Stevo - 757
Good to see your still here talking the same old drivel…….
‘That’s why the McCann’s are just not producing a plausible reaction to the whole incident. It’s not just their lack of emotion. It’s a collection of things including the way they go about their daily routine as if they just lost a pet dog. Kate grooms herself with nice hairdo and fancy earrings. They both live up to the cameras and seem to revel in the attention’.
You seem to be a very good judge of character. How the hell do you know what its like and how you should react to have a daughter go missing - presumed abducted by a padophile?
……..’Kate grooms herself with nice hairdo and fancy earrings.’
I think you have personal issues you need to sort out my friend.
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September 17th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
(774) Judge Dread:
No facts, no good evidence, nothing. I really do believe it is time to start looking for the one-armed man. Just don’t point your chainsaws at a certain translator just yet…
September 17th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
773 ~ bulldump….. says it all really….and until the judge decrees otherwise…. we shall contemplate our navels….. taking the piss out of those witless and clueless journos…
September 17th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Isn’t the whole McCann story so “perfect”?
Hey look people….our daughter is missing because we left her alone in the room while we were out boozing, someone MUST have abducted her because that’s the only possible explanation, we’re both devout Catholics so that is in our favour because it helps us in our grief, and to top it off, we’re good business people who can raise millions and travel to see famous heads of state!
Yeah right….!!!
September 17th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Well having watched the ITV program, my posts have been confirmed. Dogs may be good but they are not infalible. While they may smell blood and death, as I have said, its up to the police to find evidence of the dogs finding.
As for hair, it could have got in the boot by any number of means, but most probably during the moves between apartments.
Portugal police have also confirmed they have no conclusive evidence.
So the only known fact remains the fact that Madeline is missing.
Having seen the clip in of what police did to the mother of the 8 year old that went missing 7 miles from PDL, I wouldn’t believe a word the Portugese police say. The beating they gave her was brutal, and thats an understatement.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
IMPRESSED, 765. i’m impressed, i don’t mean I’m impressed, cause i know you are impressed….good post
lol
September 17th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
and as for their sincerity, The Times reported in June that “His wife, Kate, a part-time GP, has sworn not to return to England until Madeleine is found.”
yet the Mccan friends and families always have excuses and incredible explanations for the continuous exposure of their falseness
September 17th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
767 - Canada
That’s a misconception that doctors see people dying all the time. I still doubt that Kate came into contact with 6 dead bodies shortly before going to Portugal. “Came into contact with” is not the same as being in the same room. Plus…doesn’t she wash her clothes properly?
September 17th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
679 pete
“I haven’t seen an odometer reading givem in km; have the Mail cocked up and forgotton to convert.”
Could be, NASA have been known to do that.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
765 ~ bulldump…hey bulldump read my post 419….don’t think i’ll be led to the slaughter just yet thanks…
September 17th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Gerry Mccan showed more emotion when he allegedly had his wallet stolen during a visit to London…
But yet again all the facts cast suspicion on his claim - he did not file a police report, but instead went off to the press first! and miraculously his “stolen” wallet with Maddie’s lovely photos was returned to him anonymously in the post…. what a load of *^!%&!
September 17th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
I would assume that being doctors who see dying people all the time and have to inform relatives, they would eventually get used to it and eventually behave clinically to a dead body. Maybe that is why the mccanns don’t seem to be very emotional since the start.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
…and what Portuguese or Spanish type resort is going to object if you took your toddlers out with you to a Tapas Bar in the evening?
The question to the McCann’s should be “why did you leave the kids alone?” It should be “what was wrong with taking the kids to the Tapas Bar with you?”
September 17th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
PLEASE CAN ALL THE LAMBS WITH SHIT IN THEIR EYES FOLLOWING THE MCCANNS SPIN PLEASE TYPE BAH! BAH! BAH! BEOFRE THEIR POSTS SO I CAN SIMPLY FILTER OUT THE FOOLS PLEASE
September 17th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Can you imagine if you went on holiday and got chatting to a group of people in a bar and it turned out that they all had kids and had left them in a room to go out drinking?
Who in this forum can honestly say they wouldn’t raise an eyebrow at that farcical situation?
Kate McCann says the resort was family friendly. Pity she wasn’t family friendly eh? I like to take my own kids to dinner so I can sit and eat with them as a family!
September 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
This is far-fetched and classic deflection, but if the McCanns are so concerned about what is said and done online regarding child abductions. Wouldn’t it be best to use those excellent lawyers, they’ll most likely not have to pay, and start a campaign to find and persecute the online pedophile rings, who are far more related to trauma and pain caused by child abduction? Just a thought…
September 17th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
759 - Spudgun
You’re not wrong about that!
September 17th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
755 - Simon
I’m curious to know how much alcohol they all consumed that day. The restaurant waiter around 6pm says the group had quite a lot of alcohol. Did the McCann’s or their friends have much booze during the day? Not only were the parents (O’Brien and Tanner included) negligent, they may have been quite tipsy come 10pm.
I get the feeling that the McCann family would be the first to leap on a single-parent council house mum if they’d done that and it resulted in a lost child.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
754 so if I get knicked tomorrow, or say anyone, is it acceptable to call Gordon Brown?
September 17th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Hello Bully & Stevo;
See the McCann publicity trolls are rocking on here tonight.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
752 - burden of proof…..my my we have touched a raw nerve…. but what your religion has to do with it beats me…..
September 17th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
727 - Head nurse
I agree that a doctor is likely to be trained or behave in a professional and non-emotional way when they have to tell someone a patient died for instance. But we’re not talking about a professional scenario. We’re talking about the disappearance of their own flesh and blood. That is sure to produce an involuntary emotional display.
In September ‘97, I was at Olympia for a trade show. I walked over to Kensington Palace to see the floral tributes to Diana. It was on the Monday following the funeral that had been held on the Saturday two days prior.
On that Monday, there was an estimated 20,000 people in the park. I went out of curiosity and respect and of course the opportunity because I was right by the park. What still stands with me today is that I saw people of all ages crying and in some cases, balling their eyes out with tears. I said to someone it was like the death of a Pharoah. The fact that people can be reduced to tears and in that case it wasn’t even a close family member or anything - Diana was unconnected to anyone in that park but her death produced a reaction that you will probably never witness in your life again.
That’s why the McCann’s are just not producing a plausible reaction to the whole incident. It’s not just their lack of emotion. It’s a collection of things including the way they go about their daily routine as if they just lost a pet dog. Kate grooms herself with nice hairdo and fancy earrings. They both live up to the cameras and seem to revel in the attention.
To me, it’s just not natural at all and it shows they are hiding something.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Being negligent doesn’t mean they murdered their daughter. There are few laws regarding whom can fertilize and egg and give birth, that would stop most people from becoming parents. You can’t control it, parents make mistakes and bad decisions sometimes, however unfortunate those mistakes become.
It seems the basic negligent issue is just a way to “nail” the McCanns even if they are innocent or guilty. The courts probably won’t go after them for it, and I think we all know they made a mistake. I don’t see the courts picking it up because they have a nanny at home and supposedly they did have care for the kids the other nights.
The only thing I think could be applicable of relating to the negligence claim, is the issue of the door being unlocked. That’s a tricky fact to explain well and sympathetically. Other than that, there are other facts and peculiarities within the case and people involved, for one to form a somewhat prudent opinion on (for both guilty and not guilty).
Impressed, I think most contributors here are sympathetic. If they do take an internet forum contributor to court, I think we’ll see an uproar concerning the class/privilege issue (as we’re all just so Earthly), unless whatever was posted was truly malevolent, malevolent enough that Earthly people are equally appalled.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
745 - Julie says
Yes Simon, I agree that the CCTV film supposedly says this and eyewitnesses have supposedly testified to the fact as well …. however, every little thing we’re hearing in the media at the moment needs to be taken with a pinch of salt! For a country with “secrecy laws” there’s certainly been a good amount of leakage (intended or otherwise) to the press, what do we perceive to be correct and what can we perceive to be incorrect reporting? I would say very little at the moment in both directions.
Until that timeline is DEFINITELY established and confirmed by a genuine spokesperson from the PJ, we have to weigh up every single little thing that is being reported …. is it true reporting of facts that were leaked, or did they hear it from a buddy of a buddy who heard it from a “reliable source”? I don’t believe that anywhere can you actually find visuals of the supposed CCTV coverage of Madeleine being alive at 6.30. (If you’d like to correct my assumption here … please feel free to do so).
Simon says.
There is so much about this case that is conjecture. So little that us amateur sleuths can actually be sure of. Statements that we hear have been made to the police later turn out to have been incorrect, or at the very least, denied.
On the 3rd May, there are some things we know, like the children attending the creche in the morning. Nine friends drinking from about 8.30 til 10. Gerry McCann talking to his tennis partner around 9.05 for 15 minutes. Kate finding Maddie missing at 10.
A lot of the rest of the day seems to be contradicted by one person or another.
But the fact that she was caught on CCTV at 6.30 and there is corroborating testimony seems to be pretty concrete. Someone has the film, so it cannot really be argued with.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/17/wmaddy517.xml
Mr McCann wants to re-establish contact with Mr Brown, who he spoke to by mobile phone when Madeleine first disappeared.
Mr McCann will not meet Mr Brown face to face but it expected to lay out his defence via email or over the phone.
He has also been in close contact with Foreign Secretary David Milliband and spoken to him twice on the phone.
A family friend said: “The McCanns are wholly innocent and know that they can explain every point that the police may wish to put to them.
“There are wholly innocent explanations to things the police may have found and they are confident they can defend themselves.”
A) is this spin or what? so he has alledgedly spoken to brown on the phone.
B)close contact doesn’t really involve 2 calls over a four month period, does it?
C) if they can explain very point put to them, then why the hell did gerry mimikin evade and skirt every question put to hiim by the pj and anyone else that wants to get to the truth
D)if there are wholly innocent explanations to ‘things’ then why not explain yourself gerry and stop being a tosser.
we in england were removed the right to silence 1994, The right of silence long considered the most fundamental right of a suspect, was curtailed by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. In Potugal they still hae this right. The Act permits the court hearing the charge against you to draw such inferences as appear proper from the fact of your silence in the following circumstances:
Failure to mention a fact when questioned under caution before charge which is relied on in your defence.
Failure or refusal to account for objects, substances or marks found on your person, in or on your clothing or otherwise in your possession.
Since these rights were removed and they have a better chance of justice under the portugese laws it would be wholly wrong for Gordon Brown to interfer.
This pair of media pikees would have been charged in the uk and would be facing trial right now.
Jacqui smith said she was content with the manner in which the investigation has taken place
Any celebrites, branson and his croonies supporting thier defence are directly undermining our own legal and judicial system, since they have refused to answer questions from the pj
September 17th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Julie - if you think the photo is a fake…
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9782
more on that
September 17th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
(721) - Wander - You are correct. Pay no attention the misinformtion person behind “Impressed”. His/her information is erroneous and he enjoys planting the element of fear in people to control and censor them.
(723) - You’ve misunderstood. Wanderer was not saying that “forums are outside the law”. Re-read his statement. You are incorrect.
Your first comment to Burden of Proof will be ignored as it is entirely out of place and quite nasty. I’m shocked that it’s permitted on this forum. It’s tasteless. I realize you don’t like to be corrected or even wrong for that matter. You don’t have to agree. But do keep it clean mate!! Cussing is not necessary. Me thinks you may indeed be suffering from a “mood” disorder.
The net/net of all this? It’s not worth my time to debate you on the libel issues. I think Wanderer stated it quite right. I’ll ignore your posts in the future which contain profanity like most of the others are doing on here. I don’t “doubt” you on the laws of libel. But I “disagree” with you. Which evidently, is not something that you handle well. I’m an Orthodox Jew and find it quite hurtful for you to talk at me in the language and the tone in which you did in post 715.
(712) Today, I drive a black Beamer and have been pulled over just like the next guy driving a Lexus or an old jalopy. But when I drove a red car, I got pulled over more than most. I think it’s all in the color, not so much the make of the car.
September 17th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
good god. I dont think I’ll lose any sleep over what I post on here. Its the McCanns who have questions to answer not me.