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 19th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Ian Willis 875
“………Time will reveal the truth…..”
Sadly not, my friend. That has always been MY crux. Given the artillery on team McCann, before we run through HM Government representives who are batting for the team, the “only thing that is going to come out” is the Headlines that the McCanns have been “exonerated from what was clearly a setup and an inept Portuguese Investigation that almost destroyed two loving, innocent parents who had to suffer the ignominy of ………………………….continued on page 1089
September 19th, 2007 at 12:04 am
MARIA
“They were unable to break Kate and make her confess to killing her child, even with an 11 hour and further 5 hour grilling, the first one lasting into the early hours of the morning”
Given that she only answered a fraction of the questions put to her, I would have to respectfully suggest that she avoided the points at hand, rather than the inabilities of the PJ to ‘break her’.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Maria,
I have never read anywhere that the McCanns and friends were drunk except from Wilkinson (I believe) who said that the reason Tanner IMAGINED seeing him and a mystery man carrying a child along the path that night was because (I’m paraphrasing):
They’d all (meaning McCanns and Tapas 7) had a lot to drink that night.
If you knew anything at all about common sense it would be logical to wonder if they were or were not in control of their faculties that evening.
I read a few reports (all from unbiased non-UK journalists) that according to the tapas bar staff, the McCanns and Tapas 7 had started drinking wine way before dinner time that evening.
Applying common sense, logic and critical thinking to a missing child case and child endangerment situations is perfectly NORMAL. That’s what a good detective, a good journalist and a normal person watching a story from the outside looking in does naturally. Unless they are stupid or suffering from an illness like NPD. Or possibly drunk themselves? Or have something to hide? Or have political connections which can assist them in sweeping their culpability under the rug whilst finding a juicy scapegoat to sacrifice in their stead?
September 19th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Most 2 year olds I know can string the odd sentence together.
I wander if expert child interviewers can be given access to the Mccann Twins to see if they know what might have really happened?
Or has Daddy promised to buy them lots of new toys from the proceeds of his future book deal if they keep quiet? He could even offer them a job on the chat show he’s going to host on ITV in the summer…
September 19th, 2007 at 12:03 am
876, I’m not maria 871 (maybe change name to eye of an octopus or something)but yes I was eyeing some foreign media of inside the EU which I quoted here before… It was the archives of some Scandinavian papers that were openly telling that and even more. I got a strong impression that the investigation was leading somewhere and some outcome was to expect in the foreseeble future.
Ludicriously enough, some of the articles appeared to have British sources like “Daily Mirror”. They don’t publish these articles themselves, then? Who is to say that the Portuguese media or the French media is purely malevolent?
September 19th, 2007 at 12:02 am
MARIA 871
“….Over the last couple of days we have seen a bit more sanity in the media as it has become evident that the police simply have no evidence for the McCanns’ involvement. They were unable to break Kate and make her confess to killing her child, even with an 11 hour and further 5 hour grilling, the first one lasting into the early hours of the morning………”
??????!!!!!!!!!??????
Bit more sanity in the Media? You mean a bit more of the usual “Portuguese Dego/wop/useless/inept/screwup/corrupt/incapable/plodding/bullying/women beating/set up merchant/framing/ filthy Foreign Bastards??…………. at the same time Canonising Saint Gerry & Kate of Luz, Patron Saints of Marital Infidelities as …………”Courageous/Grief Stricken/heart Broken/mystified/hurt/amazed/astounded/brave/coping/bearing up .ad nauseaum.
Sanity? Salacious cover up, methinks.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:01 am
How dare the mccanns say they have done nothing wrong…that they are innocent….they were guilty the minute they stepped out of the room leaving the children. It is a known fact it takes only seconds for a child to get into harms way.Look at the story last week of the poor mum who was only in her kitchen making coffee and her poor child choked on a biscuit.I’d like them to explain to me how they knew thier 3 children would be safe!!!! .
September 18th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
879 = Yes he said that alright.
And Miss Marple said this:
Did we not here of a Dutchman being involved, with a girlfriend called VAZ who is known for illegal child adoption
And a whole lot more on “her” post #859.
I think Miss Marple is fooling a lot of people, a lot of the time.
Sorry to borrow from you once again Abe Lincoln, but is sure comes in handy!
Abraham Lincoln said: “You can fool some people for all time; all people for some time; but you cannot fool all people for all time.”
September 18th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
877. Maria,
Your weak argument works both ways. How do you know they were not drunk? Surely their comical time-line confession for their excellent lets-take-a-peek-at-the-little-children-we’ve-left-on-their-own-in-our-unlocked-holiday-apartments
could be due to excessive alcohol consumption? Or that the press has gotten all that information wrong? Or that the some or all of the Tapas 9 are lying?
You are speculating as well.
Why don’t the supporters of the Mccanns ever realize they too are specualting?
Is everything Camp McCann and those who support (inluding the heavily biased UK press) them ALL suffering from MASSIVE NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?
I have never seen such lunacy in a private case of a missing little girl.
(Although the Terry Schiavo case was similar to this. And had the Simpson-Ron Goldman Oj Simpson on the run had happened with the internet in everyone’s homes in the US it would probably have been a lot like this.)
September 18th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
It doesn’t matter whether or not the McCanns actually were drunk or not. It makes a MUCH better story to say they were.
The trouble is, relatively few people are really fooled by stories for very long……….
September 18th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Abraham Lincoln said: “You can fool some people for all time; all people for some time; but you cannot fool all people for all time.”
And one might also say, “if you try to fool the whole world, you might end up fooling yourselves.” and I think the Team McScam have only fooled themselves into thinking they had “nothing” to do with M’s disappearance.
There are dozens of unanswered or unconvincingly answered questions. The Mcscams can protest all they want that they have innocent explanations for “everything” - until the PJ have stories which can be independently verified, the Mcscams will stay in the spotlight.
If my Mrs find a lipstick stain on my shirt, I’d be out on the streets before I could finish an explanation of “secondary transfer”!
The criminal charge/trial issue is being based on a technicality - has enough evidence been found to incriminate them in a court. This is different to whether or not they did it.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Miss Marple,
NPD! Yes! But I see it coming much more from Gerry. He is a complete narcissist to the 100th degree. What does Kate do which makes you think she’s got NPD? Personally I view Gerry as the one surrering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Kate as an enabler.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
How can anyone know the Mccanns were drunk?!?!
………..Well……..someone I used to know read that someone had said that their sister-in-law’s cousin’s husband’s mate knew someone who used to work in the tapas bar and this person told his doctor’s receptionist that he’d heard that his neighbour had heard that………they were drunk………….
Oh, I see!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
871. Maria,
What papers, websites or tv programmes do you watch and read? All the news from the UK that I read/watch online is severely slanted in the McCann’s favor. This is why I try to read and watch more non-UK media about this case. The foreign news imo is reporting this tory in an balanced unbiased professional ethical manner - the UK press is not.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
The only real “support” the Mccans have is from their paid advisors, egoists and immediate family and friends, and some exceptional odd people like Branson etc. They also have the support of the friends and contacts of people like the latter who they lean on to twist and spin stories.
Does anyone remember “weapons of mass destruction” that iraq was about to unleash on the world… these lies were peddled in parliament, in the press day in day out, and even the UN!
From my reviews of forums and polls of the Mcccan issue, for every 1 person who thinks they are wholly incident (except for neglect) of murder/manslaughter, there are 4 others who think they are guilty.
Time will reveal the truth.
While none of us really want to believe poor M is dead or was killed, there’s not really much sign otherwise.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
859. Miss Marple
Vaz’s partner in crime is a man by the name of Chenello. He is Italian. They are a very dangerous couple. Someone yesterday said that they were never arrested even though they admitted guilt in trying to blackmail the McCanns with false promises of having information which would lead to finding Madeleine alive. Very strange isn’t it that both Vaz and Chenello have fallen off of journalists’ radar?
Even though I think the McCanns could have had something to do with Madeleine’s disappearance and I definitely believe they are negligent parents for leaving their children alone - I still hope that reporterr & police are still watching this cruel sick couple in hopes of getting more important information from them. It has been said that Vaz is connected to illegal adoptions in Europe and has been arrested for this in the past. (This is if all the information I’ve read is even true?!)
I thought Madelein was biologically the McCanns’? Can you tell me where I can find info on their having gone to Holland? They visited Holland just before going on holiday in Portugal?
September 18th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
(860) Miss Marple:
I’ve never heard about the Holland thing, interesting theory though, but I suppose the IVF records could easily prove that, right?
Also, yes, if they are ever found guilty or if one of them confesses (but then possibly isn’t around), I hope the funds are seized and relocated to a similar charity (as I doubt the funds could be sent back to all the people who contributed).
I’m not sure if they are guilty or not, but I don’t like the media, etc. being so biased in favor of anything or anyone. Obviously, there haven’t been many new developments, so that casts the suspicion on everyone involved, everyone that could have been involved, and any possible scenarios, no matter how far-fetched, concise, or heartbreaking.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
866- “That’s what bothers me about the proMcCanners here as well”
Really?! I don’t think there’s many left on this Anorak forum. I could be mistaken but most of the posts I read - 75% at least - are anti McCann.
I guess Yahoo forums are pro-McCann, according to Moderation
September 18th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Call me old-fashioned, but if I’d been accused of killing my daughter I would be pretty keen to clear my name. I would be livid, sickened and incredulous as well as still desperate and grieving for my missing child.
The media have smearing the McCanns with their usual mix of lies, speculation and inuendo. The Portuguese police have continued to leak to their press (for money???) only to gleefully follow up each leak with a denial. Hasn’t de Sousa himself resigned because of this? There has been a furious media circus. The McCanns are desperate to move the focus and attention back to where they belong, their missing daughter. To do that, they MUST first remove suspicion from their names.
It’s difficult to believe that people don’t understand that.
Over the last couple of days we have seen a bit more sanity in the media as it has become evident that the police simply have no evidence for the McCanns’ involvement. They were unable to break Kate and make her confess to killing her child, even with an 11 hour and further 5 hour grilling, the first one lasting into the early hours of the morning.
Someone said the McCanns have a lot of support. If they didn’t have support before their arguido status and the subsequent smear campaign, they certainly have it now! I have yet to meet anyone who isn’t disgusted by it. There but for the grace of God…… I think people really have realised what a frighteningly dangerous beast we have in our media. Support for the McCanns has almost gone back to what it was in May/June and this time with a further element of anger and shock against what they have had to endure recently as well as pity because they have lost their child.
It doesn’t surprise me that money is flooding in for legal fees etc. People want justice to be done. Grave miscarriages of justice threaten us all indirectly. We never know when we might find ourselves victims of something similar.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Gordon Brown’s politically quite smart…look how he let Tony Blair take all the discredit for the Iraq war and kept a low profile for himself while other cabinet ministers at the time were actively peddling the Blair lies.
So, (as far as I have been to read in the press) he’s gone quiet recently about the Mccan affair in case their guilt is exposed. I wouldnt be surprised if Gerry McScam and his team of paid liars continue arguing they are “in close contact” with the Prime Minister that Downing Street will make some sort of statement distancing themselves.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
miss marple:
The police know, just from all the conflicting (and changing) Team McCann accounts that there’s a cover up for something.
They don’t yet KNOW what the McCanns are covering up, but there’s very strong circumstantial evidence of death from as yet unknown causes (which doesn’t fit your theory).
Trouble is, the Portuguese investigating magistrate probably knows that all this isn’t enough to produce a murder or manslaughter conviction in court.
But the McConns must at least be provably guilty not only of criminal negligence, but of making false statements, and perverting the course of justice.
And MAYBE the judge is trying to decide BETWEEN the charges of manslaughter and murder…
September 18th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Gordon Brown, David Milliband, Justine McGuiness, Clarence Mitchell, Richard Branson, Philo McCann, John McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, they’re all cunts.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
The PJ are here apparently:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482490&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
September 18th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
853. Ian,
Neither parent will admit any culpability I think not because they don’t believe it was stupid to leave their kids alone but due to their professions. Even if Madeleine is never found- Even if Madeleine is found alive or not-Even if criminal charges are ever brought against either parent……Will either of them ever be able to work in the medical professional again?
I find it strange that there is not a focus on the fact that more than likely the Mccanns and other cohorts of the Tapas 9 were probably quite drunk yet believed they could be “responsible” enough to care for children.
I’ve noticed in other criminal cases being drunk & proven guilty of negligence doesn’t seem to be a big deal in the UK.
I was shocked to find out that the Marchioness party yacht investigation had successfully proved the captain of the other vessel had been drunk when at work. His boat hit and sunk the Marchioness, killing several passengers - including the young Portuguese man who had hired it to celebrate his birthday.
Yet the drunk guilty captain of the other ship - was never jailed, never made to attend alcohol counseling & really bizarre to me is that he was permitted to keep his captain’s license and is working as a captain today many years after the tragic accident. He also showed no remorse for his poor choices which led to the deaths of those on the Marchioness.
I love wine and am not a goody-goody. But the McCann’s are acting like business people working in public relations overdrive to keep their *brand* popular and desirable. They are not acting like healthy normal parents who actually have a child missing. That’s what bothers me about the proMcCanners here as well. They don’t see anything wrong with getting drunk, NOT properly watching children, NOT looking for Madeleine- but they scream and yell about no evidence, PJ being inept and at all the anti-Mccanners/ those undecided but believe they are negligent parents saying we are “merely speculating” or that our facts are incorrect because they know a-b-c. When the truth is no one knows if the majority of their facts are correct or not. We are all speculating.
The only facts which seem to be 100% conclusive are that the McCanns made a very irresponsible decision to leave their children alone, unsupervised and so too did several of their friend. Second undeniable fact is that Madeleine is missing. And since I never hear anything from Camp McCann about how they are using their millions of pouds in donations to actually look for Madeleine I can only assume that this means they are not looking for Madeleine, the perpetrator who snatched her or doing anything of any real value for Madeleine with the money which people donated for just that cause in mind.
Pathetic.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
So Thursday is do or die day for the McCanns and the PJ, is that right?
September 18th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
843 Wanderer
If it is found that the mcaans have raised this cash to find Maddie, knowing that this is not a possibilty, them having either murdered or sold her then they should be prosecuted for obtaining funds by deception.
It think that this is a possibility, if we ever convince these rich idiots of their guilt.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
855 - LOL! I wondered the same questions. But I didn’t dare ask. Thanks!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
742 Julie
“I have one thing to say to you : MADELEINE WAS A REAL PERSON TOO!”
Thanks for the insight, the thought had never crossed my mind. God, why didn’t I see it!
September 18th, 2007 at 11:23 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.’
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Not only is no reference of this made by all those in sympathy but they are now being helped and supported in a way that no other parents of missing children ever have been.
I just hope that the next time a parent is questioned by the social services in the UK for leaving their children at risk they too will get the backing of the Prime Minister and Richard Branson. The whole thing stinks.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
844 Ian Willis..I reckon he is paid by and has next job with..Murdoch Empire.