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 10:20 pm
895 ~ Ian Wills….you don’t need to fight his case…team pr mccann are already here doing it for him…all under the guidance of sir clarence mitchell
September 17th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
889 - Blunger
I just read the mirror forum thing on that photo.
Isn’t it easier to dispense with all the math and complexities and just go do a reconstruction with an actor taking the place of GM?
I’m sure that the police forensic people will be looking at Gerry’s laptop to see his computer skills in effecting forged files etc. That will all come out in the evidence.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Wanderer, are you saying I cant email him a proposal that he split the money with me if I fight his case in this forum?
September 17th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
(884) Slyfox:
“So they knew, or at least were not stupid, that letting 20 people search was going to cause forensic problems.”
I suspect you’re right. Even if grief and panic took over, people keep saying that their profession has left them with a mindset to keep their heads clear and be rational about things (hence their emotions). If that is the case, I’d think it would kick in immediately, apparently it didn’t.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
882 - Spudgun
Are you serious? Was that book found in there? Isn’t that the name of their limited company though? I thought it was called something like No Stone Unturned Ltd.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Slyfox - if you mean me by reference to the ‘johns’ I am on the side of those who think something does not add up in the witness statements etc. It just seems too random an abduction - everything points towards easy abduction possibilities (open patio door) but its too obvious.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
For people who think parents don’t hurt their own children or cover-up their disappearance, given the known facts of the case it is at least a hundred if not a thousand times more likely that Madeleine walked out on her own, since she was left so early in the evening in an unlocked apartment. Kids get just as tired of their parents as parents get of their kids. If there turns out to be no evidence of sedation in her hair samples that were reportedly found, I think she most likely just ran away.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
885 ~ Stevo…that clinches it….your mum gets first go……
September 17th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Some of you may wondering about the long and complex analysis claiming to prove that the “last photo” at 2:29 is a fake.
Don’t bother, I have all the skills necessary to evaluate his analysis, and trust me - it is TOTAL GARBAGE. So much so that I suspect he doesn’t believe it himself.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
(879) Ian Willis:
The problem I have with it, is the fact it was set up before their daughter went missing. I think email accounts are personal when they don’t come from the person first hand, unless the person sharing has the permission to share the information, or with the description of the public email it implies all emails are welcome (I suspect the emails that account welcomed were work related ones).
I realize his work email account was there for the public to see. I just believe he’ll probably be harassed if the email is spread throughout forums. I’m sure you weren’t verbally harassing them in your email, but if you intended to get a response back and post the email for others who aren’t as prudent with their words, the likelihood of any response (even a general one), is that much more slim.
We are gossiping/speculating about it. I would ask the McCanns questions if I knew them personally or had for some time, but I wouldn’t bombard them directly with my theories of what happened unless they asked for them or of course, if I was the investigator or news reporter.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Many years ago whilst at home a man jumped over my back fence whilst I was in my kitchen (true story!) I was shaking like jelly, looking at his face whilst he run down my garden. Instinct/survival kicked in… I ran to the back door and locked it, my 18 month old was upstairs and I knew I couldn’t go upstairs to get him and couldn’t possibly run out the front of the house and leave him, so still shaking head to toe while this man attempted to get in my house I called the police - no other option whilst he attempted to get in my house. Why did Kate leave the twins on their own again after the so called abduction of Madeleine, if there was an abductor did it not occur the other children could be taken as well? Why didn’t take the children with her? or use the phone? or ask the next apartment etc.. etc…
September 17th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
This IS funny!! Good ol’ ANORAK!!
http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/176435.html
September 17th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
877 - impressed
Yes, my mum would give Kate something to cry about alright. I still can’t believe you could go out boozing after leaving your kids alone at night - not just on May 3rd, but every night prior to that!
September 17th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
781. I reckon Mitchell knows what he’s doing. Probably has a very long brief.
Gressin Says:
“CPS lawyers are after all, gearing up for a murder prosecution if the manslaugher prosecution fails in Portugal.”
Is that true? How would they be able to go for “murder prosecution” In UK if pj can only do manslaugher?
What does everyone else think of the jon/johns here? They seem to be doing a lot of testing and fishing.
Final, irrelevent point: Someone mentioned on this blog that being in the “profession”, they would have an idea of how important the crime scene is.
Read earlier, sorry no link, about crime scene book in English, used by the police, found in their apartment. I think that was portuguese news but can’t be sure. - could be a plant of course….
So they knew, or at least were not stupid, that letting 20 people search was going to cause forensic problems.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
847 Stevo
The most important follow up query in the history of this forum
******MUST READ LINK***
To anyone sitting on the fence (if you’re already brainwashed don’t bother)
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9782
Take a few minutes, off the fence now?
September 17th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
880;
Bully, Stevo?
Do you reckon the McCanns were taking the serious piss??
September 17th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
878 Maicen … exactly as I said earlier. No child of Madeleine’s age would have ventured out into the dark with screeching the place down!
September 17th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
And now, for a little light hearted distraction……………. a book that “alledgedly” was found in the SECOND apartment that the McCanns stayed at. A book about ‘lost corpses’!!!!!!………………Its titlel.??.. “NO STONE UNTURNED”……….!!!!!!!
http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/863732/-/Product.html?source=5064&cm_mmc=Summit-_-Shopping-_-Froogle-_-No+Stone+Unturned&engine=froogle&keyword=No+Stone+Unturned
September 17th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Well if you call the internet a “personal” thing, his emails are all over the public place, just do a search yourself on msn, yahoo or google
I’ve emailed him some questions, and I’m awaiting a reply.
Or are you just a gossiper who wants to chat about someone behind their back, but daren’t speak out to their face (or email)?
September 17th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
If Madeline had simply wandered out, and fallen and cracked her head and died ,they would have found her body within a couple of hours..how far can a 3 year old wander in the dark?
So unless she fell INTO the roadworks hole and got filled in without anyone spotting the tiny body, I have a real problem with that scenario. of just wandering off.
I have 3 years olds in family ( not mine but blood relatives) . if they wake up in their own home !!! at night even if they see a light way down the end of passage and down stairs, they take but a few steps and then bawl for attention, because they are scared of falling down stairs in the dark.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
871 ~ stevo…no snivelling is not crying….. for leaving 3 kids under age of 3 in an unlocked room in a foreign country whilst going on the piss..now that deserves a smack round those beautiful cheeks….. now that would give her some thing to cry about…. anyone out there want to give it a try ?
September 17th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
865 - Stig
No I wouldn’t. The photos you show do not have any tears. Tears require a tissue or a hand to wipe them away. Kate snivels at best but does not shed tears or sobs under her interview.
I’m not being a smart arse. There is a big difference between crying with tears and snivelling like you want to cry but can’t.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
(867) Come on, Scoob!
If I get a taxi, I won’t be able to hitchhike; then you can’t get excited and smell my scent of death when I’m found in a ditch somewhere. You’ll be forever hunting for that one last scooby snack.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
869 - Krissie …. emotion? tears? heartbroken parents? Nope none of those links even remotely showed such things! Screwed up faces, pulennnty of that, but that anyone can do, like I’m doing now … just to prove that it CAN be done …. Like it or not … it’s the truth!
September 17th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Whatever the McCanns are - whether it is “only” guilty of child negligence, GMcC will keep on saying things and doing things which point to KMcC being guilty of something. If she is guilty of nothing then it is very unfortunate for her that she has a husband who is constantly making these (un)conscious slips.
1) His appeal to “the abductor” talked of an accident, and something getting out of hand.
2) His body language at another appeal: he sat on the settee next to KMcC who held a picture of MMcC. He was displaying Kate and the picture she held. I haven’t got links at the mo but you know the one I mean
3) Then there was his statements about how incredibly rare, if not unheard of, child abduction is from homes in his promo film (the one where he is driving around in a car for some reason). I didn’t know this until he broadcast the fact.
4) His statement outside the church on day 8 asking for courage and “the best possible outcome for us” before hastily adding M to the equation.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
869 - Krissie
Because the links to alleged pictures of Kate crying are just a scrunched up face and there’s no tears. If you’ve got video or photos of real tears - the sort you have to wipe from your face, then show us all.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
858 - impressed
Snivelling isn’t crying is it? I remember “old-school” parenting when they’d say “stop snivelling or I’ll give you something to cry about”.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
(866) Ian Willis.
The McCanns have been housed in the media tent of ill-repute, I know. But I just don’t think posting such a personal thing in a public forum (with the odd, exceedingly disgruntled member) is the best thing to do. I’m sure he would love a fan club though, as long as they didn’t ask him questions or criticize him.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
People have posted several links up above– why do you want more?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
863 - should read the unlocked patio door