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?
Posted: 18th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,047) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
404
SSS
That’s the problem, the money’s not worth the travel trust me. The M62 does go past Leeds, and sometimes you can actually drive on that large car park.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
397/398/400/403
I must apologise Real Stig, for yesterday referring to you as the REAL STINK!! In my favour, I thought you were the The Real STING at first (as in Gordon Sumner), then realised it was (as I thought) STINK.
SO BASICALLY, YOU DON’T (? WE DON’T KNOW THIS TO BE FACT SO ASSUME) STINK YOU ARE IN FACT STIG
September 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
If I were reading this forum, and wanted to find quotes to discredit it, I would be having a field day today.
The truth is, a forum like this doesn’t have an identity or an integrity. Anyone who finds it can turn up and post libel, filth, or other nonsense.
The value of it as an information resource, or for exchange of relevant views on the case, often depends on a small minority of posters.
I am afraid some of the the rest make it SO easy to argue that free online discussion of live criminal cases is an abomination. Look for silencing legislation soon. But be aware that many of you here are gifting them the justification.
It is always the idiots who abuse valuable freedoms and rights that provide the justification for their destruction. Trouble is, it’s a one way street.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Moderation and Stig are flies and were on the walls of the apartment
September 18th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
402
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
How is it that only Moderation and Stig have access to the truth and ‘facts’ … the rest of us are theorising on the bull spun by the media. I’ve seen little that i consider to be fact… save that a little girl is missing and the parents were negligent.
I think if the aforementioned know the truth and have the facts … they should toodle off to the Press … and then the Police, quick smart.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
392
Veres
I am local - ish and available - ish (local as in North West, available as in if I get the chop from here although I must admit, it’s only because work has dried up so much that I am on here so much!)
The M62 (? I think) goes to Leeds.
Whats the £?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
390 - The Real Stig. We’re making fun of the press coverage not Madeleine being missing. Have you overdosed on coffee or something? You seemed sane a couple of posts ago.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Hello
I’ve heard and read all the stories and followed this board and although I must admit I thought the McCanns were guilty of manslaughter or worse murder, my opinion has changed.
I thought the PJ really had something on the McCanns but it doesn’t look that way any more. Infact its questionable whether they had anything of any substance at all.
I know most (myself included) are not keen on the McCanns due to their negligence on that night but I think they’ve paid a bigger price than anyone could comprehend.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Awww Stig did someone upset you. Fancy a game of hangman
September 18th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
349 - LOL - South Fork was demolished 15 years ago. Where have you been hiding out?
356 - It would certainly a refreshing improvement over the old campaigns on the telly here “Prince Charles wants to be a tampon inside of Camilla, going every where with her all day long. Wouldn’t your lover want that same exhilirating experience?” Oh, maybe that wasn’t a real commercial - just late night comedy!
Tampax Sales soared after Prince Charles became the unofficial spokesperson. And never looked back since.
Glad to hear that Kate Blanchett is going to play Kate McCann - if it’s true about an upcoming movie release. She’ll fit the bill well. Very plain looking, like Kate McCann. Can’t see what the fuss is about that woman. She’s far from glamour as the press seems to believe. Skinny seems to equal good looks these days. Pity, used to be that skinny meant scrawny and malnourished when I was a youngster.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
The Real Stig;
I would argue that I am not “moving the goalposts”. What I am alluding to is that you have links to corroborate your points and other people have links to corroborate their conflicting points.
What makes your and moderations points the definitive truth?
I agree with you that people here often use any source to justify outlandish ideas.
For example, when someone writes that Tanner made her statement days after Madeleine’s disapperance and then possibly added the part about the pyjamas, I have seen the rebuttal being that is not the case. My point is that aren’t there sources that would corroborate both statements?
So I would say that nobody can currently claim anything is the definitive truth. It is left to opinon, conjecture and, I suppose, instinct.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Are you upset Stiggy Boy?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
does anyone know how long tanner stayed in portugal?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
390 ~ TRstig … calm down mate take a chill pill…. read my post 367 … for christ sake get a grip on you self !!!!
September 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
And 12 years after the OJ case, he wrote a book “If I Did It”.
So, in 2019, we can expect Kate and Gerry to still be cashing in with “Ludicrous?”
September 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
#363
I get the credit for naming them as swingers? Cool.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
SSS
I’m not catching your drift. I need someone who’s available and local.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
372 Rab, I suggest you drop it with Stiggy
I had EXACTLY the same discussion yesterday. He kept trying to “prove” he was right when infact both statements were right, i.e.
- the McCs had stated a week before that they were going home, and
- then they flipped and flopped on the final weekend after the interrogations (first “we’re staying to clear our names” then a day later “we’re leaving for the twins’ sake”).
Stiggy can’t handle the fact that two statements can be simultaneously correct…and always has “proof” he is correct.
It’s a hopeless and a boring arguement to have.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
I know, I know - lets have some ideas here for games based on Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Nanking — Ooooh!…OooooH.. even better! Beslan!
Yeah, we could think up pressure we could put on the captives so the little children stripped off. You could get points for how quickly you get them to strip by making the conditions intollerable. You could have a board and you would roll the dice to determine where you would place your bombs - the winner is the one who gets his bomb into the most ideal spot to kill the most kiddies.
What fun that would be!
You sick bunch of fu**s!
September 18th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
#310
How could I go soft when I’m thinking about you my little chicken?
September 18th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Whoops !
“without their children” not “without there children”.
My old English teacher would kill me.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I think that this could turn out to be the UKs equivalent of the OJ Simpson case back in 1994.
Remember OJ trying on that glove?
I can imagine a ton of evidence weighing against Kate and Gerry and in court it will all turn into a farce with pink-shirted smarmy bastards as character witnesses.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
381 ~ Stevo that too would have been ironic… suspected [its offical so i can se the word] child killer and the press love em …. but if they happened to be swingers and the press would have crucified them …. now that I like
September 18th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
she reminds me of huntleys mol
September 18th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
355:
blunger: If it’s released then I’m sure the Portuguese media will not try and “protect” the McCanns.
I suspect that some new – not so flattering – information comes out very soon, perhaps tomorrow.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
380 - Bettina
After seeing Tanner, it’s possible someone DID take Madeleine - thinking that the toddler may be scared out of her wits to encounter someone looking like that!
September 18th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
blunder i agree