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 12:48 pm
http://news.sky.com/skynews/home
for preggers video do the latest doing another public announcement
September 18th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I just saw the smarmy pink-shirted get make his announcement outside Playa de la Rothley. He obviously thinks he’s still in Portugal with his shirt undone and no tie while Gerry and Kate look freezing with their coats on.
Will the pair of them talk now the Judge said they can?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I think this pregnancy assumption is far fetched and more of a joke, but theoretically it could be Madeleine’s twin sister in process.
If the mcCanns are innocent I feel for them as they just can’t do anything to look normal and innocent at this stage. And they are not innocent just because the relatives/PR persons/politicians/Popes tell us so.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
287 Stevo
Seems more of a media concept than a legal one at the moment.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
281 Can you not just email me any work that needs doing? Or fax it perhaps? Come on now Veres, work with me here!
For God’s sake, I might have to get rid of one of the Magnificent Seven in order to pay my bills at this rate (especially if my boss finds out I spend more time “surfing” than I do working!)
283 I can’t imagine them sloping off on the quiet to have IVF! Surely The Sun or The Daily Mail would have taken pictures?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I haven’t read all the posts yet but did see another “innocent until proven guilty” entry.
Sorry to whoever put that but you’re either innocent or guilty. Proving it one way or the other is just a legal concept.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
So Affleck has to cancel his movie but now Hollywood is lining up people to play “Madeleine”!
The whole world has gone bananas.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
282 ~ Karen…OMG you’re right ….mccgerry the second coming…. Kate the immaculate conception [aka IVF] the visit to the pope and now sir CM the defend of the faith…its all coming clear…
mccgerry is the new messiah…..
hail mcgerry….hail mccgerry oh wise and wonderful one….we all adore you …we’re all converted…..
September 18th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
If she is pregnant, I suspect it was at the suggestion of the PR team … if she is found culpable, they can always spin… OK, maybe she is guilty … but at least she’s replaced it with a new one
September 18th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
shes wearing a white blouse and she has a bump and as shes normally so thin i doubt if she had 4 pints and a kebab last night unless she went with phil of course
lets hope gerry babysat
September 18th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Why are the McCanns such publicity junkies?
I don’t get it.
Why did their new spokesperson bang on about leaving his government career to dedicate himself to proving their innocence?
Why is their situation considered so grave, there aren’t even any friggin charges. Why are they so important?
Is this the precursor of the second coming? Is Sean Jesus and the new Holy Family have to be protected? I think we should be told.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
271
The job’s more five days a week sadly.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
271 ~ SSS having seen you in action on here….i’m know you’re not just good you are …..erm how can I put it….. erm….. good ?
270 ~ BF…. just a thought… are really Brandon Flowers ?…you know the Brandon Flowers…… if you are give us a song… entertain us whilst there’s a lull in mccann media diatribe of crap
September 18th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
if she is pregnant, then they must have done the deed when they were suppose to be looking for Maddie, have they no compassion lol
September 18th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
265:
Maicen – It was Oldfield who ”only listened” – O’Brien went to see his sick child.
Dr Matthew Oldfield, 37,
Dr Oldfield, an endocrinologist at Kingston Hospital in South-West London, went to check the McCann children at 9 25pm.
But he did not look inside the flat - simply listened from outside to ensure Madeleine and the twins were not crying.
Dr Russell O’Brien, 36.
A consultant in acute medicine at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, he knew Gerry McCann from Leicester.
He was on holiday with his partner Jane Tanner and their two young daughters.
At 9.25pm he left the restaurant for around 25 minutes to check on one of the girls, who was ill.
He has been subject to a vicious Portuguese press campaign alleging he was absent for over an hour when Madeleine went missing. He has threatened to sue, insisting: “These reports are completely untrue and extremely hurtful.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=481890&in_page_id=1770
September 18th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
270. Who looks pregnant?
No no. Can’t believe anyone already worn out by babies would voluntarily get another one.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I think Gerry should become a politician as he talks a good game but never actually answers the question or takes any positive action.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
270
Which picture have you seen in which she looks pregnant? Maybe she is hanging out with Aunty Lardy and comfort eating?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
(268) I’m beginning to think that too. That’s what I meant by blackmail in my previous post. It would explain a great deal.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
#260 - Wonder what changed their mind?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
255 Teddy Boy..because Team McLawyer got a judge here to refuse to send them back, and said to send the questions here ..which the police here may or may not bother to ask…..
The only ones being “stitched up” are the PJ.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Sorry had to take a phonecall and got dragged away!
226 South Africa suits me! Did you know, that in UK you can claim Child Benefit even if your kids live abroad, as long as you live here so I will leave Mr SSS here to claim the paltry family allowance
P.I agency sounds good 
233 Impressed - you do not yet know how very very good I am
239 - Veres - I am in also in the North West, drive past Leeds every fortnight!
September 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
she definately looks pregnant km
September 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
267 - touche
September 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
265
see 248
i think there might be a twist in all this
September 18th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
262 ~ Chopper …read my post 187… nothing is being done… why…. because team mccann is too busy saving it’s only sorry arse… There is only one victim in this case and its madeleine mccann and in my humble opinion I happen to think she is now longer of this planet.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
How does inviting the media to gaze from a reasonable distance whilst going to church help find a missing child?
Day by day this turns more like a series of the Osbourne’s or similar.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Sticking with O’Brien….. why was his young child vomiting..he should know being a doctor.Why did he leave her alone knowing she was ill.How long was he with her for when she was vomiting,and why did he leave her afterwards to go back to table..she have chocked to death on vomit. Why listening at door did he simply assume no noise meant all was hunky dorey in McCann children.s camp.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
256
nice one
September 18th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
i wonder how many hoodies are round the corner of the northern rock banks?