Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell Speaks, Make Madeleine History And Breastfeeding
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL pages 10 and 11: “Madeleine cried for 18 hours a day. Kate tells of the special bond forged in the painful days of early childhood.”
Kate McCann is speaking with Portuguese magazine Flash!. This interview took place before Kate McCann was named as a suspect in Madeline’s disappearance. Kate says the first six months with Madeleine were “very difficult”. Madeleine had colic. “I had to carry her around permanently,” says Kate.
What does it mean, this interview that has “emerged”? That what you tell magazines can be taken out of context and used in evidence against you, or something else?
THE TIMES page 9: “McCanns go straight to the top in search for powerful backers.”
Gordon Brown is being kept abreast of the investigation on Kate and Gerry McCann, possibly by reading the British press and watching the news bulletins.
(Is any MP still wearing a yellow ribbon?)
The McCanns have a new spokesman. He’s called Clarence Mitchell. He resigned as head of the Government’s Media Monitoring unit to take this new post.
Mr Mitchell once offered: “There’s a whole level of debate taking place online which simply didn’t exist before and departments feel they need to be fully engaged in that.”
Look out for Kate’s blog.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “THE TIDE TURNS.”
“McCanns WON’T be ordered back to Portugal says Judge”
“Gordon Brown briefed on the case”
“New spokesman will declare Gerry and Kate innocent today”
Clarence Mitchell says: “They have nothing whatever to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.” And as the McCann’s new spokesman he should know.
Pages 4 and 5: “RAY OF HOPE.”
Madeleine has not been found but Kate and Gerry McCann will not have to fly back to Portugal for more questioning.
On the downside sales of the “Look for Madeleine” wristband are not going well in Portugal. In “LOCALS REJECTS ‘FIND HER’ BRACELETS,” this year’s Make Poverty History band is being turned down at a car boot sales in Praia da Luz.
Says one ex-pat: “It’s as if they want to forget something so horrible happened.” Or buy something less with their money?
Says another: “We can’t understand how they can carry on jogging after losing Madeleine. Gerry went to a hairdressers a few weeks after she disappeared and continued tennis lessons. The Portuguese feel they should b hysterical.” But not the British, who understand reserve…
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE COPS SLAPPED DOWN. KATE BACKED BY JUDGE. Mum won’t be hauled back to Portugal.”
Judge Pedro Anjos Frias rejected Portuguese police calls for the McCanns to return. “He is thought to have ruled the case to flimsy to justify the move.” Or, to put it another way, he has not received sufficient evidence to be convinced of the need for a trial.
Pages 4 and 5: “COPS CASE COLLAPSING.”
And: “McCanns tell Brown: We have solid defence.” Gordon Brown’s reaction to this news is not known.
THE INDEPENDENT page 32: Thomas Sutcliffe says the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been “yoked by journalists to another kind of story – the primal faction of fairytale”. Here “the beautiful child is swallowed by something that has emerged from the dark”.
It is, is it not, every child’s worst nightmare.
Page 4: “Kate McCann ‘will not be reinterviewed in Portugal’.”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE POLICE CASE FALLS APART.”
“Judge refuses to recall the McCanns”
“Impossible to detect sedatives in hair”
“But slurs against the parents continue”
Slurs?
Pages 8 and 9: “My struggles to control Madeleine – BY KATE MCCANN.”
As told to Flash! magazine. The twins arrive. “The worst thing is that she started to demand lots of attention, especially when I was breastfeeding them.”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE ALL SEVEN McCANN PALS IN FRAME.” The seven dwarves, to continue Mr Sutcliffe’s analogy?
“Cops set to name them as suspects.”
Pages 6 and 7: “BRIT PALS ALL SUSPECTS.”
The Tapas 9 are in the frame. This will put the lid – the tapas – on the case. Right?
“Maddie cops jet to UK as group face grilling” – Portuguese police are “planning” to come to the UK to continue the investigation. British police will conduct interviews.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 8: “McCanns to be interviewed by British police.”
Kate and Gerry are also keen to reach Gordon Brown. A source tell the paper: “The McCanns do not expect help or influence to be exerted on their behalf but want to get messages to the very top that they are innocent.”
Does Brown read the Telegraph?
THE GUARDIAN page 35: “Never mind the high street: Branson sells his Virgin Megastores.”
No mention of Madeleine McCann, granted, but this news one day after Branson pledged to help the parents clear their names looks like interesting timing?
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September 18th, 2007 at 11:40 am
This is going to sound silly but … a few years ago someone stole one of our dogs from under the fence. We knew he had been stolen because it was clear that the fence had been pulled up. We made posters, mailed them to all kinds of places (veterinary clinics, petshops, etc.). I phoned everyone I knew and many people I didn’t (including pet food distributors to ask them to circulate the poster around their clients) in an effort to find him. Also, of course, the police, the city council, the microchip database, even a court of law (to get information on a telephone number), etc.
After a couple of days, we got a “sighting” in a really run-down suburban area. My husband worked from 7.00 to 15.00 at that time and, every day on leaving work, he went to the area where the dog had been spotted. As I say, it was a bad area - there were people on every corner apparently looking under car bonnets but actually controlling everyone who came or went. Nevertheless, he persisted and finally, after 5 days patrolling, I got a phone call from a vet who had been doing a home visit saying he’d seen the dog outside a certain address in the area. I called my husband and the police. Both arrived immediately. The police said they couldn’t go in without a warrant so in went my husband and his mother (who was accompanying him). After a great deal of snooping around and enquiring at different doors (it was a block of flats), somebody very subrepticiously gave him a flat number. He knocked on the door and, after a great deal of argument, threats, etc., managed to get the dog and leave with him.
Now all this (and I’ve abbreviated considerably) was to get a dog back. I cannot imagine what we would be capable of if it had happened to a child.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:40 am
197, I did the reverse, UK - sheffield, 20 years, then hout bay, fish hoek, toti, st winifreds and now waterfall. not too shabby,
September 18th, 2007 at 11:37 am
187 ~ also spotted at “bbc online” today:
“Abandoned girl sparks global hunt”
Police in Australia, New Zealand and the US are searching for the parents of a three-year-old girl abandoned at a train station in southern Australia.
Qian Xun Xue - known as Pumpkin until she was identified on Monday - was found in Melbourne on Saturday. Qian Xun Xue is being cared for by a foster family in Australia
Police are pleased to dispel the rumour that the gorgeous and caring kate mccann and her brilliant cardiologist husband gerry mccann are suspects in this case. The police stated that they have discounted any involvment of the mccanns on the grounds that the police pr budget couldn’t afford it.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Does this lend credibility to the reports that Mrs. Fenn heard a child crying for “Daddy”?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/09/17/maddy-waiters-gerry-was-perfect-dad-89520-19801178/
September 18th, 2007 at 11:36 am
http://mara-gamiel.blogspot.com/search/label/Madeleine%20McCann
yes I know no-one believes this but there is that couple again, tanner and obrien, that is the missing link, mark my words, they know something
September 18th, 2007 at 11:35 am
187 ~ also spotted at bbc online today:
Abandoned girl sparks global hunt
Qian Xun Xue is being cared for by a foster family in Australia
Police in Australia, New Zealand and the US are searching for the parents of a three-year-old girl abandoned at a train station in southern Australia.
Qian Xun Xue - known as Pumpkin until she was identified on Monday - was found in Melbourne on Saturday. Qian Xun Xue is being cared for by a foster family in Australia
Police are pleased to dispel the rumour that the gorgeous and caring kate mccann and her brilliant cardiologist husband gerry mccann are suspects in this case. The police stated that they have discounted any involvment of the mccanns on the grounds that the police pr budget couldn’t afford it.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:35 am
167 Toni…I could have just said …”the aggh sis ” types……When we lived there it was Inanda, then Bryanston , then Gillets, Doonside, then Biships Court ending in Hout bay then back to UK after some 20 years.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:34 am
also spotted at bbc online today:
Abandoned girl sparks global hunt
Qian Xun Xue is being cared for by a foster family in Australia
Police in Australia, New Zealand and the US are searching for the parents of a three-year-old girl abandoned at a train station in southern Australia.
Qian Xun Xue - known as Pumpkin until she was identified on Monday - was found in Melbourne on Saturday. Qian Xun Xue is being cared for by a foster family in Australia
Police are pleased to dispel the rumour that the gorgeous and caring kate mccann and her brilliant cardiologist husband gerry mccann are suspects in this case. The police stated that they have discounted any involvment of the mccanns on the grounds that the police pr budget couldn’t afford it.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:34 am
191 That is absolute bullsh!t (scuse my language) I can’t believe these people (the Teflon 2) will profit even MORE from this, as bet any money, including Billy’s $1, that they will be “consultants” and don’t they own the LOOK logo thing?
September 18th, 2007 at 11:34 am
179
McCann isn’t referring to his daughter, he’s referring to himself and his wife!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:33 am
BREAKING NEWS:
Maddy is out!!!
(Run out by McMillan/Martin with a score of 50 runs)
Sorry couldn’t resist……
September 18th, 2007 at 11:31 am
#187 LOL
September 18th, 2007 at 11:31 am
183 Billy
There was a case here last year, I think, where a girl was abducted from the BATH in her home whilst her mother went to answer the phone.
I believe the mother might have been a chav, she lived on a council estate, but she instantly called the police.
There is another case I recall, where the child was killed whilst asleep in bed, the parents too were asleep but obviously NOT in the same bed.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Please tell me I’m dreaming…
Blanchett, Crowe tipped to star in Madeleine movie
http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/blanchett-crowe-tipped-to-star-in-madeleine-movie/2007/09/18/1189881508873.html
September 18th, 2007 at 11:29 am
186 SSS
Other “Anonymous”s started appearing so I started differentiating…
September 18th, 2007 at 11:28 am
the word Ludicrous sure pops up a lot in the maccann camp, figures I suppose
September 18th, 2007 at 11:25 am
There is not enough “LEGAL” evidence to convict them. And maybe the body will never be found. However, anyone who can think logically, can only come to one conclusion, the McCanns have done it themselves. Just look at the whole story and forget the sentimental bull.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:25 am
This is what http://www.bbc.co.uk reported today on line….
Madeleine search ‘must be focus’
Madeleine McCann has been missing since May
The new spokesman for the parents of missing Madeleine McCann has called for the focus of the investigation to return to finding the four-year-old.
Clarence Mitchell attacked the “rampant, unfounded and inaccurate speculation of recent days”.
Well my message to you sir clarence is this….
get off your arse, stop the spin an start looking….
September 18th, 2007 at 11:24 am
178 OMG that is awful! What happened? Obviously not a big PR effort, as I am not sure I know I have heard of this?
Hello Karen, I thought maybe you weren’t bothering today. Wondered why anonymous had changed his name back from anonymous the 1st!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:24 am
172. Yes. Hello? Separate Justice and profiting from a high position. Coincidence, a thing called corruption pops into my mind.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:23 am
182: Rab: Me too.
I have just posted a comment there saying that I think he’s right. I’ll wait patiently to see whether they publish it…
September 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am
so KM says it happenend under other circumstances other than leaving her children asleep.
What she didnt leave them asleep? (all) because one was dead?!
Lets take a big picture look at it.
In australia 150 persons go missing each year ,that are never seen again.From 20 million.
Out of that I can only recall 1 boy who was almost abducted in brisbane earlier this month but it didnt happen as he woke up, but I know no more information than that.
So what count is there of children who were snucked from their beds whilst sleeping(apart from maybe those who have broken homes or parents who are divorcing and live in another state or country)
So 20 million people in Australia 1 potential abduction from a home.
That would be a 20million -1 chance.
So did M have a 20million -1 chance of abduction.
But a 90% chance of her parents covering something up from crime statistics.
I often have a flutter on Melbourne cup day (1st tues in Nov) but with the equine flu we have it may not happen this year.
To be blunt 20million -1 for abduction or 90% chance K&G involved.
I know where my $1 each way will be.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am
172. Pixie I am with the Police Cheif.
Regardless of whether you think the McCanns are involved or not, everyone should take a step back and objectively view this situation. It surely should strike everyone that the use of high ranking PR spokespersons is unbelievable. And it cannot be good for democracy and justice.
Does this mean that every time somebody is made a suspect in a case they should involve PR people and involve the government? This sounds highly dangerous to me.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:19 am
weeblondie Says:
September 18th, 2007 at 10:42 am
“Kate and Gerry McCann’s new spokesman said today he had given up his Government job to help the “innocent victims of a heinous crime”
I think the Heinous Crime he is referring to is the the crime of PJ actually having temerity to suspect McCann’s.!!!!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:18 am
170. I’m not anonymous. I’m Karen. For some reason my name has disappeared from above the comments box.
Does anyone have any idea why that would have happened? Is anyone else having any problems today?
September 18th, 2007 at 11:16 am
165.The mcCanns would be logical to fight for Madeleine’s life. I’m sorry they have been pushed in a corner but that can’t mean the truth never will out. There are so many inconsistencies in this story for the “blind to see”. The mcCanns may be fighting for their twins, jobs, home, friends. That shouldn’t stop anyone - including themselves - from fighting for the truth. If there is a cover up, is it possible that only half of the couple is aware and part of that and had another accomplice? Sorry, only an objective investigation will stop the public to speculate.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:16 am
137..SSS
I speak from a personal experience by the way……with 2 of my sons !!! A lot of years ago now.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:16 am
174 ~ SSS all my dreams have been answered ….. oh yes please.
175 ~ Maicen….. I can feel a visit to the pope is in order…..
September 18th, 2007 at 11:15 am
I try to post the link again and see if it works
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482337&in_page_id=1770
September 18th, 2007 at 11:14 am
135 Impressed…look at how much publicity he and Branson have already got.!! Sainthood level in fact.