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 11:21 pm
836 Wanderer
I seriously believe that the Mcanns are guilty, of what though i am not sure.
On may the 3rd, i heard that a 3 year old child had gone missing whilst her parents were out. immediately i thought of a teenage sinlge mum who had fallen on hard times and had no support from her parents, i sympathised with the situation, she was naive but did not deserve this. Then i heard that the parents were 39 year old doctors, something did not ring true, responsible adults do not leave children alone, unless there is a motive.
It was as early as this that i suspected the parents. I then heard of the IVF treatment, The stay in Holland. Something was definately not right.
They did not appear to be the kind of people to hurt children. I somehow got it int my head that Maddie had been made to order during the stay in Holland, and that the deal was to be sealed on this portugal trip. Given that robert Murat met the Mcanns at home before the trip and that the tappas 9 all seem to be involved, I would suggest that if Maddie is alive, that she is with her biological parents in Holland, having been drugged and transported from her apartment by her mum, then by Roberts cruise trips.
Did we not here of a Dutchman being involved, with a girlfriend called VAZ who is known for illegal child adoption.
I know that is going miles away from the case and the evidence, it may be that madelaine has died, but given that the police are not mistaken then the mcaans are guilty of manslaughter or murder, but if the evidence is unreliable and there is no body, i go back to my own theory.
After all Kate seems to have explained the scent of death and the blood. not that i believe any thing she says.
I strongly believe that she sedated all the children, and is guilty of abuse and neglect.
I have also studied NPD and strongly believe that Kate does have NPD which would explain her need for excess cash, attention and the ability to lie her her way out of any situation, decieving anyone she needs to. It also explains the lack of emotion and the need to be in touch with the worlds top people.
I am willing to sign any petion which brings them to justice. Not to sure about gerry though.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Let us not forget that the night Madeleine disappeared she was still only 3 years old.
No-one (except those who had a hand in her “disappearance”) know if she ever saw her 4th birthday!
All I want to see is justice for this beautiful little girl who had no means of defending what happened to her on that night.
And with that, I say a very good evening to all of you. Bed calls now!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
… You know, where you construct things that don’t bear much relation to reality…
September 18th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Judge Dread (368)
I also wondered about a new version of Cluedo - but I guess it would have to have another name.
McCanno?
(geddit?)
September 18th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
62. Moderation Says:
September 18th, 2007 at 9:43 am
A vote taken on the three private yahoo forums I’m on put it at over 80% think they are innocent. (Professional forums)
so it depends on where you go to get the figures!
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1) What kind of ‘professional’ forum is discussing the McCann case on Yahoo? A forensics specialists forum? Child napping/paedophile profiling experts?
2) What is your professional expertise?
September 18th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
827 - Pardon me? But the histrionics came from your post # 803 in response to mine, where you said “oh brother!!”
I may have posted a longer post, but no where near the length of many other posters on this forum. I also gave you the abridged version in post # 790. But I think the display of emotions came from you in your original response to me. I was merely mimicking your poor etiquette. A mistake, in retrospect, on my part.
I’m a passionate and compassionate person - and it’s revealed in my writing. I think that’s what keeps me real. And I don’t intend to change that. I hope you can respect that. It’s all I ask.
I think you’re baiting and trolling - but I think I’m not going to fall for it.
Other posters said they liked my post # 787 - for that I am grateful.
Namaste - I honor the peace within you.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Why do the McScam team keep repeating “they had nothing to do with the four-year-old’s disappearance”, when the whole world knows they left 3 babies alone at night unlocked rooms in a foreign country night after night, out of sight, while they ate and drank wine with friends late into the night.
Thats the MINIMUM they had to do with it.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
We are told Kate Mccann wont have to go back to Portugal…phew, thats a hure relief! Its only the place where her daughter was killed/abducted and is most likely to be. But dont worry, Kate dear, we will not make you go back there.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
836 Wanderer
I seriously believe that the Mcanns are guilty, of what though i am not sure.
On may the 3rd, i heard that a 3 year old child had gone missing whilst her parents were out. immediately i thought of a teenage sinlge mum who had fallen on hard times and had no support from her parents, i sympathised with the situation, she was naive but did not deserve this. then i heard that the parents were 39 year old doctors, something did not ring true, responsible adults do not leave children alone, unless there is a motive.
It was as early as this that i suspected the parents. I then heard of the IVF treatment, The stay in Holland. Something was definately not right.
They did not appear to be the kind of people to hurt children. I somehow got it int my head that Maddie had been made to order during the stay in Holland,
September 18th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Oh… and the McCanns were so keen to get off to, and stay at, the quiz night / final booze-up, that they appear to have sedated at least 2 of their children. So why did Gerry, who ‘the friends’ say arrived at about 8:55, and left ‘to check the kids’ at 9:05, then spend a quarter of an hour chatting in the alley outside the flat?
Not, perhaps, to prevent the passer-by seeing his accomplice disappearing with a body, or returning?
September 18th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
If people like Harold Shipman can find lawyers to represent them, the taking of jobs in the Mccan spin campaign by top lawyers and PR agents doesnt mean the Mccans are innocent.
All it means is these people have no problems about morality and they put their careers and ability to make a quick buck ahead of anything else.
The ONLY way I would believe otherwise is if any of these people were doing the job voluntarily without fees or other material benefits (eg. commission from Gerry’s future autobiography book deal)
September 18th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
835 - Natalya - My belief that they are guilty stems from my “searching for a motive” for them disposing of Madeleine’s body. I don’t profess that I am correct in my assumptions, but I have been posting here for quite some time now, and I made this observation some weeks ago.
Should a terrible “accident” have occurred that led to Madeleine’s death … something which I have never believed would amount to “murder”, but instead, possibly “culpabile homicide”, the very real possibility would lie with the fact that the remaining two children would be removed from their care immediately and permanently, and also that they would both lose their jobs as practising doctors.
Now, faced with this situation, they had one of two options - dispose of the child’s body and cry “abduction”, and hope that this would work, OR contact the relevant authorities, admit to their “mistake” and have their other children taken away from them.
And YES, I also truly hope that I am wrong, and that Madeleine is found alive and well, however, statistics are stacked heavily against her being found alive.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
(845) Ian Willis:
It’s been said he will not and is not being paid by the Madeleine fund and also is unlikely he is being paid for by their legal fund.
I think I read somewhere a private contributor (Scrooge McDuck?) is paying for him and after he is finished working for the McCanns he will continue working for the private/mysterious Mr. Moneybags.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
What caring person wouldn’t wish to be able to believe the mcCanns are innocent?
Unfortunately, there are just too many inconsistencies, odd statements, reactions, too fierce fighting so that it doesn’t look probable. From what I gather, this is the general “air” in the media outside the UK.
I could buy a theory that the mother accidentally overdosed the little girl, hid the body in the next room with the help of a friend, then in the church and finally in the sea etc. and having cleared the mess up with God somehow, started to pretend she was abducted and to act accordingly. I mean, what parent is not fearing the worst and not insisting the missing child is safe and being well looked after? Safe and well with God? Sorry, I wish the facts pointed more to innocence.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
812:
I think the body may have been passed out through the famous window (whence the forensic evidence on the windowsill), which was not nearly as visible as the French windows. This would have involoved (at least) 2 people.
Also, there’s all this talk of O’Brien attending for ages to his ‘vomiting child’. Not only is this not (apparently) corroborated by any other evidence or testimony (except perhaps, Tanner’s), but his account is (like so much else) contradicted by staff, who say that he cannot have ‘changed the sheets’ as claimed, because there were no spare sheets in the apartment.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Of Clarence Mitchell the BBC website says… “He said he had resigned from his Cabinet Office job to act as the McCanns’ spokesman, because he “feels so strongly” the couple were innocent. ”
So nothing to do with the premium fees he’ll get from the McScam fund or the instant worldwide publicity he’ll get to further his PR career…
September 18th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
(841) Miss Marple:
Ahh, thank you for that. That is one area I’m really not good at it and I haven’t looked into it much. I know it was answered before but couldn’t remember what the overall conclusion was. Your last bit of information is interesting, I wonder if it also wouldn’t be fraud as well?
September 18th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
816
Blimey are you psychic?
September 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Garth:
The figures mean that I think there’s a 60% chance of someone other than the McCanns & O’Brien’s being involved. Of the others that I think might have been involved, I think the chance that Murat was involved stands at about 50-50, or 50%.
The percentages don’t need to ‘add up’ to 100…
September 18th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Wanderer 818
The cash in the fund is not trading income or capital gains, it is likely that it will be treated as donations. The business is not a charity neither is it a trade and it is unlikely that the income will be taxed at all, although interest may be taxed.
Think of lottery winning or similar income, this is treated in the same way.
Saying that, proceeds of crime are taxable in full. If the Mcaans have raised the cash under false pretences, the fund may be taxed at 30 to 32.5 %
September 18th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
There is a lot of “speculation” from some quarters that Madeleine could still be alive and well despite having been missing for four months at four years old.
Many continue to believe this and despair that not enough is being done to find her.
Under what circumstances would this be likely?
Theories welcome.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
(835) Julie,
You do not have to make a donation. The host website asks for a donation, but that does not mean you have to give one, if you read carefully at the top of the page it stated that your signature has been submitted and if you check, it should be submitted.
I signed one of those petitions, my response shows up, and I did not and would not make a donation. Also the donation, once again, is for the host site, not the people who started the petitions.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
772 Judith C
I was not looking for sympathy concerning my brother, but thanks - I am genuinely sorry for your loss also.
It was supposed to be a direct personal example of how emotion, invisible on the surface, can really and truly exist within where voyeurs can not perceive it. I didn’t put it in there looking for sympathy - it was to illustrate a point.
The point is you and others think everyone else’s emotions should be expressed either as you yourself choose to express them or think they should be. So if you don’t see what you want or expect - they either don’t exist or aren’t real. That is an invalid and presumptious attitude.
I don’t know about you, but when I was born I did not emerge with a large manual clutched in my hand titled ‘How to be a human’ I made it up as I went along so my script is different from yours, which is different from… They are all valid.
‘Gruesome twosome’ is discussion and conjecture? Suggesting punching Kate in the face is the same?
September 18th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
(833) Miss Marple:
“Do you believe Gerry and Kate McCann are Guilty of neglect, and possibly more serious Criminal acts? This Petition is is direct response to the McCann’s which is being used in an attempt to sway Justice, and to spread and encourage misinformation.
The purpose of this petition is to show the Government, and any other observer that there is clear opposition to the “Team McCann”®™ Version of events, and that we in no way support Criminals.
If possible, Please leave a Visible Name and comment, however small. This makes our Petition far more credible. Your views are all respected.
Please try not be foul or abusive, remember… We respect people, the Law, and Justice!
Please tell anyone you may think would take an interest in this issue. Let’s all support the true meaning of “leaving no stone unturned” instead of the dubious ®™ version.”
The possibly not innocent McCanns petition, the person who set it up does suggest using respectful language, hopefully that will happen.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GuiltyOrNot/index.html
September 18th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Julie - your posts on here are very serious, factual and you certainly do not stoop to the rudeness and arrogance of so many who believe, like yourself that they are ‘guilty’ I don’t agree with you, because I am judging them by my standards. I would die for my children and grand-children and if anything happened to any of them, which was in any way my fault, there is absolutely no way that I could dispose of their body. I would have to face the consequences - I cannot believe that parents could dispose of a child’s body in any way that has been suggested. That is my reason for thinking that they ‘did not do it’ I really and truly hope that you are wrong.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
828 - Please note that you cannot sign the petition without making a DONATION! …. to whoever … I don’t sign petitions that I have to pay for … don’t know if it’s the same for the other “innocent” petition …. but WTF?
September 18th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
(830) Ian Willis:
I think they are just using their friends connections. The “I know someone, who knows someone…”
I don’t think they knew the PM before this, although in the press it has been stated they have since talked to him and that he wants to help them.
I think people are just a bit confused by how big and how many big players are suddenly involved with this case.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
820 Canada
I Agree. A petition is a good idea.
The last one fell apart because some of us were so rightly annoyed that we resorted to bad language and slander. The petion should state that any signatory should express their feelings in a more appropraite way that will get results. I back you 100%. there is no greater power than the general public. Good luck.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
For those who dont get the “james bond” reference, havent you read that he’s considering putting himself forward for the next movie…
September 18th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Betina 790
Thats a bit better. At least its not as long as the load of crap you put us throught.
Anyway , Murder (or whatever your passtime is) since when did “others” make 60%
Murat 50 and the mysterious yachtsman 15. Your going to have to start again Your figures just aint adding up!