Madeleine McCann: Team McCann The Armada, Bugging Calls And ‘Inhuman’ Kate
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN front page: “Cops to Maddie parents: We have nothing.”
Pages 4 and 5: Portuguese police are “understood” to have bugged the McCanns’ mobile phones, placed a tracking device on their car and checked their emails.
Con by lawyer: “Master swindler” Paul Bint, dubbed “King Con”, pretended to be a lawyer representing the McCanns to cheat money from a businesswoman. To date, Bint has posed as a ballet dancer, a policeman and a duke.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “WE ARE BEING BUGGED – Phone eavesdrop fear of Madeleine parents.”
A friend of the McCanns says that Gerry McCann will “often refuse” to talk on mobiles because he considers Landlines “safer”.
Kate and Gerry feel they are “being watched all the time”. (See Mirror’s front-page and BBC news.)
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. NOW THE MYSTERY DEEPENS. Case is wide open again as judge say parents will NOT face more questions.”
Page 2: “It’s back to nursery for the twins as life goes on.” Madeleine’s twin siblings Sean and Amelie are back in class. “They enjoyed it,” says Clarence Mitchell, giving up-to-the-minute briefings from the sandpit.
Page 3: “New slur: ‘Kate is inhuman, even animals will look after their young’.”
The WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER is shocked and deeply saddened by goings on in the Portuguese press. A Filomena Teixeira, whose son was abducted nine years ago, tells magazine TV 7 Dais the McCanns are “human beings at their worst”. The magazine notes: “Instead of calling Sky News she contacted the boy’s friends, the fireman and the police. At the same time she never dreamed of contacting the press or a PR.”
A newspaper labels the McCanns and their PR team the “British Armada”.
Pages 4 and 5: “Now police bug parents and track every move they make.”
DAILY MAIL front page: “MADDIE CASE IN MELTDOWN. Police told: There’s not enough evidence to quiz McCanns again.”
Pages 6 and 7: “British police bugging calls.”
THE TIMES front page: “Police ‘have found no new evidence against the McCanns’.”
Pages 10 and 11: “Who is who in Team McCann.”
Clarence Mitchell: Kate and Gerry’s official spokesman
Michael Caplan, QC: Lawyer who prevented extradition to Spain of former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet
Angus McBride: Criminal solicitor
Carolos Pinto de Abreu: Portuguese lawyer
Esther McVey: Former GMTV presenter and Tory parliamentary candidate. Spokeswoman for Madeleine Fund. Has known Kate McCann since A-levels
Father Haynes Hubbard: Anglican priest at church of Nossa Senhora da Luz.
Calum MacRae:2 18-year-old producer of Find Madeleine website
Philomena McCann: Gerry McCann’s sister. A head teacher.
Trish and Sandy Cameron: Gerry McCann’s sister and brother-in-law
No mention of Robert Murat, the other named suspect.
DAILY STAR front page: “POLICE SET TO DIG FOR MADDIE.” Police have tracked the phone records of Kate and Gerry McCann. They have studied their movements. And now they are ready to send in infra-red equipments and sniffer dogs.
Pages 4 and 5: “DIG FOR MADDIE BEGINS.”
THE GUARDIAN front page: “McCanns: further questions ruled out.”
The Portuguese attorney general says there is not enough evidence to justify questioning Kate and Kerry McCann.
Luis Bilro Verao tells one and all: “No new evidence justifying further questioning has emerged since September 7.” So that’s it? Er, no. The McCanns will remain suspects until “not line of investigation” has been excluded.
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “McCanns will not be re-interrogated.”
Page 9: “Madeleine’s last dance with father.” Restaurant owner Miguel Matias says he saw Madeleine eating ice-cream and fruit juice before dancing with Gerry. It was May 3, the day she vanished. Says he:” We didn’t see anyone suspicious looking at the girl.”
THE INDEPENDENT page 19: “Pressure on McCanns eases as police back off.” Clarence Mitchell says: “On the face of it, it does appear to be encouraging.”
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November 18th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
The fact that kate Mccann will now not take a lie detector test is significant as it is completely at odds with reports from the Mccann camp in September. Back then It had been front page news that the Mccanns had been willing to participate to clear their names. It all appears to have been a PR exercise to divert negative media attention about their possible guilt. They clearly knew back then that they would never be asked to take part in one by the PJ as it was inadmissable in Court. Of course, this does not mean that they are guilty but it goes to show that we are being fed a lot of spin from their PR machine.
October 6th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Dont care what anyone thinks, McCanns DIDNT do it. Just for arguments sake and they did, then it was an accident and there’s some sort of comfort that they know thatsome gang of Peodos havn’t got her
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:15 am
1292 Krissie
Common sense will tell you that they are guilty.
Are you a fellow sociopath? how can you condone what they have done or be soft soaked by thier lies?
You are in a minority of 5% of which 1% are Sociopaths, 1% just want to be different, the rest are the likes of Richard Branson and Clarence Mitchell trying to get into the limelight or cash in on the proceeds of the scam, Team Mccan and a bunch of journalists who have reportedly proclaimed their innocence just because they got it wrong and thought that this was what we wanted, this was reported yesterday. The evidence speaks for itself but is not enough to secure a conviction, so wise up and join the rest of us in fighting for justice for maddie, who should at least have a proper burial, no one wants the truth but it is there and nothing can be done about it apart from bringing this pair to justice and, giving little maddie a proper burial and securing the safety of the twins.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:09 am
1274 anonymous.
See, this is what the people desperate to have McCann’s guilty resort to. Absolute stupidity. You are not showing yourself terribly intelligent, dear. Not even all that clever or funny. I could do a better job myself.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:28 pm
1289 Krissie
Evil, is when you neglect your kids, they get hurt, you cover up the evidence and blame it on someone else. Then you realise that there is a fortune to be made from this so you set a fund to find someone who you know cannot be found, you sue the media, you target the rich and famous, you sell your story.
You deceive the public and get them on your side, you destroy the evidence against you, you seek attention and sympathy, and show no remorse for what you did.
This is what we call evil, this and those that condone this sort of behaviour.
Luckily enough 95% of us have got the common sense to realise whats happening, as for the rest of you either your just like them or too thick to see through these Psychopathic mind games.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:11 pm
1289 Krissie
We did`nt hurt the child, they did. The only people who would support them and condone what theyve done is rich pratts like Richard Branson and other Narcissists and sociopaths. I you can brush this aside and condone what they done which which category do you fall into?
The rest of us just want justice for Maddie and can see clearly through this web of lies.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:17 pm
You anti-McCanns are pure evil, plain and simple. It’s disgusting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2459924.ece
September 21st, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Wheres my paulette?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
The English Professor Boulton said that the second thing that can be done with the left over plutonium in Britain is to make it more radioactive, so it could be more difficult to handle and the idea way to do this is to burn it.
This Professor Boulton does not sound like a scientific intellect. Having tons of highly radioactive material in Britain will only put the lives of all the British people in mortal danger. The terrorists don’t care about dying, that is why they commit suicide to become martyrs. The most likely scenario is that a suicide bomber will dash the compound and blow everything to bits, spreading this highly radio active material all across Britain. The entire Island of Britain will have to be evacuated thanks the brilliant Professor Boulton. Professor Boulton just helped the terrorist accomplish their task with more proficiency. The only solution to the problem is to store it in an underground compound, which is in a hidden location with army personnel protecting it 24 hours a day. The safer that material is the less use it has for the terrorist. The more dangerous the material the more alluring it becomes for the terrorist because of its potent destruction.
You have to warn the British people so a protest can be assembled to protect the lives of all the people of Britain. Because of this maniac Professor Boulton time may be running out on you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7006056.stm
This reminds me of the patent, royalties that the Queen of England collected from the Germany government for British machine guns which were being used in world war one to butcher thousands of British troops which were loyal to the crown. The Queen should have never collected those royalties from the German government as a patriotic symbol to the British people that she does not collect blood money.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
(1285) The Real Stig - You are quite good!! Spot on~~
I vote you change your name to the “The Real Gig”.
You called a spade a spade. For that, I applaud you!!
Please take a bow ~~
September 21st, 2007 at 12:11 pm
1272 bulldump
Now the name bulldump tells us a lot for a start, it suggests the expulsion of a large quantity of faeces. But that really isn’t enough to go on. But when we see that the person with such a name engages in references to toilets and depositing into them, it becomes clear that there might be a certain fixation with matters scatological.
It is probably a reasonable conclusion, therefore, that someone so fixated is likely to be full of it themselves, hence the fixation.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:59 am
1276 brandon flowers
“Another thing i dont get, if i thought my child was being abused for hours being raped and molested by some evil paedo bastard, i would not sleep, eat, shower, go to church by now i would be suicidal and mad with trawling the world looking for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
In the first week this happened, one of kate’s friends reported she had not been eating. TV footage seemed to back that up as she looked terrible. She didn’t look like she was getting much sleep either. I have already argued in detail that the media campaign they did get going was “trawling the world” as it got millions of pairs of eyes to keep a look out for her.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:30 am
Does someone have any information about the Murat - Malinka link. I have always thought it possibly the single most suspicious aspect of this case, yet I never see it mentioned or discussed.
I’ll recount what I recall and I would welcome any further info or corrections. I am just mostly going from memory here.
The PJ were pointed in the direction of Murat and detectives started following him around. They also obtained his phone records. They noticed that on the night Madeline had disappeared, Murat had made ’several’ calls to a 22 yr. old Russian - Malinka - who was called an IT expert. I think he mainly did web sites for people.
CCTV footage supposedly showed Murat meeting Malinka and having an ‘animated’ discussion in days following Madeleine’s disappearance.
Now this is the bit I could not believe when I first read it - it has to be one of the three biggest police bungles in this case. They had Murat’s phone records - which is how they got onto Malinka. I presume in following Murat they saw him meet Malinka or got it off the CCTV. I also presume they would have known Malinka was a computer whiz. So knowing Murat and Malinka had exchanged several phone calls on ‘the’ night and Malinka’s skills - they go and bring in Murat for questioning WITHOUT grabbing Malinka at the same time. So by questioning Murat they tip off Malinka, because questioning Murat certainly made the news. The following day, or several days later - bit fuzzy on this - Malinka HEARS that the police are looking for a Russian and goes to them - how sweet.
Every time I think about this I have to almost pinch myself to make sure it isn’t a bad dream. The police went to Malinka’s residence and seized two hard drives and a laptop. But according to a direct quote from a PJ they had all been wiped clean. If he knew his stuff, he wouldn’t have just reformatted the drives, he would have done security wipes of them overwriting every single bit on the drive - several times! But maybe he didn’t have times because this process can take hours if they are big drives.
The NSA and GCHQ/MI6 might still have been able to retrieve what had been on those drives, but this is only a child abduction and doesn’t warrant a national security scale effort. It is supposedly possible to remove each disk from a drive and meticulously peer at it’s surface through a very special type of electron microscope which can read what the bits were before they were wiped. My brain hurts when i think how painstaking this would be, though the spooks must have this sort of thing automated by now to be able to do it in any reasonable time frame, but I digress.
Modern day pedophiles, especially the really hard core nasties who have the most to hide, are very cunning, clever and organised. They have networks and share sick stuff with each other and cooperate in their repellent deeds, even to the point of passing kids around their networks. Excuse me while I throw up. To hide their dirty activities they have resorted to stuff like encrypting their emails and other stuff they send to each other.
The easiest way to read an encrypted email is to have the machine that was used to encrypt it because it will have the encryption keys and emails on it - probably in their unencrypted form as well.
Now a report in a paper purported that someone who had once worked with Malinka , said Malinka had boasted of having had sex with a minor. When questioned about his links to Murat, Malinka had supposedly said that he hadn’t spoken to him in over a year, but the phone records show he had exchanged several calls with Murat on ‘the’ night and CCTV showed them talking in person in the days that followed.
Apparently Murat supposedly claimed, when asked about his whereabouts, that he had been in bed at 11:40pm that night. The phone records show him talking to Malinka at precisely that time. But that’s perfectly Ok because it is easy to see how a 33yr old would be in bed by 11:40pm, someone who doesn’t have a 9-5, talking about his website problems.
I hope someone somewhere is looking at Urs Hans Von Aesch’s computers to see if he had ever exchanged emails with anyone in Portugal.
Early on in all this, when Gorden Brown first offered assistance, and if it had been me, I would have asked him to get MI6 to put surveillance on Malinka in every way possible. Not that I am suggesting for one moment he had anything to hide, you understand, or had done anything wrong. Just as a precaution.
But this is just a child abduction and not a national security issue, so it’s just dreaming.
Anyway, if anyone has info, like some of this has been discredited, I would like to hear, because this whole thing really bugs me more than anything else.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:23 am
gaunty@the-sun.co.uk
Email him for speaking up for us
September 21st, 2007 at 11:21 am
Ok, now they have asked for a lie detector test.
Isn’t this what you people have been asking for a long time? But of course, now it is not good enough for you anymore. It is a “stunt”, “will not detect lies from a sociopath” etc. etc.. Most of the people on this forum are so desperate to make the McCanns guilty that they cannot see what is happening in the real world.
The case against McCanns is evaporating away. The only real choice left is an abduction. Is this so difficult to accept? Are you feeling sad because the McCanns actually did not kill their daughter?
I do not like the McCanns PR campaign and I do accept that their parenting skills need improvement. They made a serious mistake but this does not make them killers as well. And I would think that the fact that Madeleine is missing is hard enough punishment for their mistake. Your petitions and planned law suits are just pathetic. Don’t you people have your own life to live?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:50 am
1279
Another question. Would it have been greener to take the nappies to the incinerator?
If any CCTV turns up of them at the incinerator I bet that’s what the new “story” will be.
And no I’m not a PR spinner employed by the fragrant couple’s machine.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:44 am
Interesting Channel 4 story:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/mccanns+happy+to+take+lie+detector+test/828147
“Friends have revealed a series of details in recent days which could form part of their defence if they were ever charged with causing Madeleine’s death and disposing of her body.
It emerged this week that partial DNA matches found in the car hired by the family almost a month after her disappearance could potentially be explained by contact with Madeleine’s clothes which were transported in it when they moved to a rented villa.
The car was also used on a daily basis to transport bag-loads of household waste including her younger siblings Sean and Amelie’s nappies.
A friend said: “If they are asked to take a lie detector test by police they would.
“They have said all along that they want to co-operate fully with the Portuguese police, but as of today they have received no such request from the Portuguese authorities.
“Kate and Gerry are happy to do anything that will help clear their names.”
I’d like to propose some of the 40 questions:
1. Why are the PR Machine’s anonymous friends suddenly feeding snippets “to be used in their defence” if they are innocent and confident of not being charged?
2. What did they do instead of “daily car trips” to the tip with rubbish bags in all the weeks that they didn’t have a hire car (like when the disappearance happened)?
3. Or are the rubbish bags a smokescreen for rotting meat and DNA samples?
4. If they want to “co-operate fully” why not answer the 40 questions?
I don’t trust ‘em one little bit…
September 21st, 2007 at 10:23 am
1268 m.e. and 1273 brandon flowers, exactly my point I find it (perhaps like most people) ‘easier’ to deal with that she accidently died of overdose then an evil predator lifting her out of bed. On the suicidal point, I think your other children keep you going?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:12 am
Bulldump… I see mister manners had abandoned you completely now! tut tut!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:12 am
Another thing i dont get, if i thought my child was being abused for hours being raped and molested by some evil paedo bastard, i would not sleep, eat, shower, go to church by now i would be suicidal and mad with trawling the world looking for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Either they “know” shes not by some hoax which i’m beginning to suspect or they really know shes safe in heaven!!!!!
surely they would have cried ” lie detector test” before now when kate first got called in!
Whos going to arrange it?
jeremy kyle?
the police?
Richard branson?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:07 am
New thread is up!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:06 am
Do you think the McCanns will insist on the format of the questions for any lie detector test? Could insist on something along the lines of:
Is the food in the Tapas Bar good?
Is Cuddle Cat green?
Is red wine red?
Is Aunt Philomena pregnant?
Does Aunt Philomena have a thyroid problem?
Gerry, are you really stuck up your own arse?
Any others you can think of that might be suitable for them?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:04 am
Tigers and lions are waiting for breakfast….
September 21st, 2007 at 10:04 am
my appologies that should read: moderation, you are only good to open up and shit in!!!!!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:02 am
1264 Anna
Just remember, as we all should that if (god forbid) paedophilia is involved in any way here, that it may involve people not currently on any register or suspected of such.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:00 am
1262
Is it legal to make money with/on your children? Isn’t this child abuse?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:00 am
moderation, you still keep on with your condescending tone, even though you are only good for opening up and shitting in
September 21st, 2007 at 9:57 am
Why is there not a new forum? Someone must be sleeping on the job?
All of us have been watching the movie.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:56 am
1080: my post about Ylenia was meant to ask where you got your info from you stated yourself :post 978:”Like the paedo who raped and murdered Ylenia and was surrounded by police last week. He committed suicide.” Not true, yes murdered but not raped and man was not ’surrounded’ but found dead in his car…
He lived in spain and apparently was seen in algarve, I think he could have something to do with madeleine.
Anyway, ‘ludicrous or not’ speculation, there have been reports that apparently the pj are searching an animal incinary run by a dutch ex-con 50km from luz….. How morbid can this drama get…..
I’m secretly hoping it has all been a huge scam , invented by english tabloids to boost newspapersale….. and madeleine is having a wonderfull holiday on brandson’s island.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:52 am
1257
I’m not bothered but Branson clearly is:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/229411/Richard_Branson_says_he_wants_to_guarantee_fair_trial_for_McCann_s
I bet the nice couple are too…
September 21st, 2007 at 9:51 am
Do you realise how much money they must be making for all these interviews?
So much for actually searching for your daughter………