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 9:40 pm
829 ~ the real stig…as for your first picture …you know the one that the cheap jack journo had the ordacity to call katemccann cries.jpg….. download it and zoom in…not a kg drop of water [aka tear] in sight…
September 17th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
818 - Stig
I think you’re only allowed to put 1 link in a message in here.
In the very first few days after May 3, I didn’t see the story because here in the USA they didn’t make anything of it. I first saw interviews a week or so after because I visited Europe in mid-May. When I looked to see early interviews on the Internet, I didn’t see those sob-type displays and that’s why I have maintained that I personally haven’t seen them. I have seen the screwed up face of Kate like the photos you showed but no videos.
I’m a believer that they are guilty of child neglect because that is a 100% fact. As to whether they are guilty of more than that I can only guess. Most of the time I think they are but perhaps a small percentage of the time I do find in their favour.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
802 - SPUDGUN…………bloody cap gun more like!
LOL!! Either that or he’s shootin’ blanks!!!!
Well done Spit!!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Gerry Mccanns email address at work:
Dr G. McCann, Department of Cardiology, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK. E-mail gerry.mccann@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
September 17th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
829 …. Nope, that one’s definitely saying ” Cuddle Cat … you need another wash”!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
829 ~ the real stig…. i dealt with this issue last week…post a picture of real tears…..you know the wet stuff that comes out of tear ducts….. till then keep rolling !!!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Slow getting to this (I am plod) but the doctored last photo blog on the mirror forum is amazing - have all the regulars clocked it?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Perhaps worse than these photographic evidences above is what GM had to say at this time. He spoke of having courage - and hoping “for the best possible outcome for US”. Brain going into gear he then added ” - and for Madeleine”.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
824 … Looks like she smelt a turd there …. perhaps Eddie’s?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Stevo
Appear to be on a roll here! :
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_03/KMcCannDM_468×575.jpg
Have a real hard look at his eyes - I don’t think it is hay fever.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
821 - looks like she’s half asleep in that one …. my parrot cries bigger tears than that …. anyone got a camera, I can do better, and my kid aint missing!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Team Mccan have actually been quite smart in their use of the term “ludicrous”.
They havent actually said Gerry Mccann or Kate Mccan didnt murder Madeleine, they’ve just said the PjJ’s accusations are “ludicrous”
If you look up the definition of “ludicrous”:-
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ludicrous
it simply means humourous or funny.
SO! not only did they kill the poor baby, they think its funny too!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
That looks more like Joey’s “smell the fart” acting from Friends.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
809 Blunger
I’d always thought of those steps but thought there may be blood to cover up. Perhaps as you say, she could have cracked her head and died without bleeding.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Stevo
Will miracles never cease, looks like my post slipped by the censors, lets try another:
http://images.newsquest.co.uk/image.php?id=507656&type=full
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
A back rub would do nicely ta
September 17th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
816 ~ Spit… & 790 b…. blimey you are….. both of you…you’re on cm’s team…. its started, the mccann pr team have now started the fight back here on anorak…
September 17th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Stevo
Here goes nothing 1:
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_03/McCannCriesDM_468×567.jpg
September 17th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
As if scooby wasn’t enough, now spit is here too. This forum sure is going to the dogs.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
SPIT 802!
LOL!! SPIT. What a curious, inept name for someone who spends their life sucking their own dick.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
740 Stevo
You’re welcome. There should have been a post from me numbered 730 with links showing the sort of emotion you are seeking, but when I posted it the forum software said ‘your post is awaiting moderation’ Now the post is ‘gone’ so obviously the moderator decided a post with links to two pictures of Kate crying was unacceptable.
I will try and insert those links again into a couple more posts as the forum software does not like more than one link per post.
As to your later comment about a lack of emotion in TV coverage - I have been watching this awful story unfold since day 1. In the first few days there was footage showing Kate weeping with the most awful to look at expression of abject misery and despair. I found it excruciating to watch. Misery personified. So there were public displays of emotion ‘early’ on.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I’m so sorry … will a back-rub make up for the two little hidings you’ve received this weekend … LOL … only kidding.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
8Stevo Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
793 - Ian
Over here in the USA, people have enough missing children to worry about so the Madeleine case is nothing over here.
Well it must mean a lot to you as you seem to have a lot to say.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
806 - Do get’em Scooby-Dooby!!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
It doesnt surprise me that a site’s been forced to take off gerry mccan jokes, but i managed to salvage some from google cache…
Why did Kate McCann bury her daughter?
Gerry was too busy wanking!
Jerry and Kate McCann went to see the Pope to ask if he could help find their daughter.
The Pope said he’d love to help but the Catholic Clergy was more used to hunting down small boys.
What’s the difference between an Emperor penguin and Gerry McCann?
An Emperor penguin doesn’t leave his egg to spend three hours throwing cheap wine down his neck in a local bistro on the pretence he can still see the vague area the egg was left in.
What’s the difference between Kate McCann and OJ Simpson?
There’s a possibility Simpson was innocent!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Bludger 779
I may have read it incorrectly on first reading. Not sure if it was the bedroom door or patio now on second reading.
If it was the bedroom door wouldn’t Oldfield have noticed it at 9.30 - listened at the door which paints a picture of it being closed or mainly closed. If the room seemed lighter, as per Oldfiled, the shutter must have been up and the window open.
Daily Express 5 May - note it is presented as verbatim
The youngster’s aunt, Trish Cameron, of Dumbarton, near Glasgow, said: “The phone went last night and it was my brother Gerry, distraught on the phone, breaking his heart.
“He said, ‘Madeleine’s been abducted, she’s been abducted’. They kept going back to check the kids every half-hour.”
On the last visit, at 10 pm, Mrs McCann went into the apartment, then ran out, screaming.
Mrs Cameron said: “The door was lying open, the window in the bedroom and the shutters had been jemmied open. Nothing had been touched in the apartment, no valuables taken, no passports. They think someone must have come in the window and gone out the door with her. It looks as if somebody has either been watching, or they’ve targeted her.”
Police were keeping an open mind about what happened. They were also investigating whether Maddy could simply have wandered off.
Interesting that Cameron reports McCann as stating that they came in through the window and left through the door. The doors are supposed to have sophisticated locks - I would presume that the McCanns would deadlock the door at the back making it difficult for someone to get out of that door.
There are so many contradictory reports that you need a side by side comparison of everyones’ supposed movements and comments.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
(808) Judge Dread:
“Then there is the fact that O’Brien is reported to have listened at the door rather than go in. Why?
A reliable friend would go in to ensure the children had no had an accident, been sick, or were awake.”
Especially as his own child was ill as well. I assume the two little girls hung out together and could have indigested similar things, if that was the case.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Hi Julie - Not talking to you, you beat us in the 20/20 as well.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Interesting programme tonite on Trevor McDonald with lots of experts speaking. Sounds like all the DNA evidence carries no weight whatsoever. It also made the Poruguese police look pretty corrupt.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Judge Dread Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
1700Km = 1055 miles.
May 28th - September 9th = 104 days
Average daily mileage = 10.15
How is this in any way excessive?
It’s not - but too bad you have the facts all wrong.
It was stated in today’s “Telegraph” that the mileage was 1,700 miles in the time period between May 27th and July 3rd.
“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”
Where are earth are you coming up with September 9th and 1,700 KM’s? It’s 1,700 miles that was posted. I gave Pete the conversion of Miles to KM’s.
You need to Read the last paragraph at the top of the page today and see where you’ve mixed up all the data. 1,700 miles driven is a lot of driivng in 36 days.