Madeleine McCann: Missing Hours, Found Again And A PR Disaster
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE DAD AGONY. Fiend hid from Gerry. He was already in room he tells cops.”
A source close to the family says: “When Gerry went to check on Madeleine at 9.05pm he realised the bedroom door was open. Gerry is firmly of the view the abductor was already in the apartment.”
It’s another theory.
“When he went in he saw Madeleine was asleep but the bedroom door was slightly open. He thought, ‘That’s odd’ because he had left it firmly closed. But all the children were asleep. So he just went in and closed the door again and came out about 9.10pm.”
Good to hear Gerry McCann joining in the mood of speculation?
“Gerry is convinced the man must have been hiding, and once Gerry went through the patio doors the only way out was through the window. The front door was locked so the kidnapper took Madeleine and climbed out the window.”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “HOW SHE WAS TAKEN. The McCanns’ story.”
“Stolen to order after being spied on for days
Abductor hid in flat as Gerry looked in on kids
He got in through patio doors and out by window”
Gerry is a “heart specialist”.
Says a source: “When Gerry leaves, the man realises he has only a few minutes. He thinks the only way to get out without being seen is through the window.”
And: “Initially he thought Madeleine might have got up and gone to the toilet, or to get a drink or something.”
So what has changed? Why a new theory now, with a new spokesman on hand and the McCanns named as suspects?
DAILY STAR front page: “SEVEN HOURS TO KLILL MADDIE. Police probe her ‘lost’ final afternoon”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: THE MISSING SEVEN HOURS.”
Police sources reveal that “despite exhaustive inquiries they cannot confirm the whereabouts of part-time GP Kate, 39, and her daughter after 1.29pm on May 3”. A source said Kate’s movements were “unaccounted for until she sat down to have dinner with friends at a tapas restaurant within their holiday complex at around 8.40pm”.
The last photograph of Madeleine was said to have been taken by Kate at 2.29pm on May 3.
DAILY MAIL: “McCanns: What we really did in the missing six hours.”
“Madeleine had high tea at 5.30pm with staff at the Kids Club. She was picked up shortly before 6pm by Kate and Gerry.”
The friend insisted: “Kate was never alone with Madeleine that afternoon. There were always other witnesses present. These details were all given to detectives during police interviews, so they know what Kate and Gerry said happened that day.”
So no missing hours, then?
THE TIMES front page: “MADELEINE McCANN: Matthew Parris laments a PR disaster.
“The fatal flaw of David Cameron and Kate and Gerry McCann” - Our correspondent looks at the baleful influence of the marketing men.
“Look what they’ve done to Kate and Gerry McCann. Here were two people deserving of the most intense public sympathy. On a superficial level they got it – by the media bucketload. Yet did you not sense from an early stage an undertone of irritation at the couple? I’ve sensed it everywhere I go: not a sign of doubt about their innocence, which most of us take for granted, but a feeling, nevertheless, that they in some way invited trouble – though we banish the thought as brutal and wrong.
“Which it is. So why the ungenerosity? I believe it is because Kate and Gerry McCann have allowed an impression to arise that they and their advisers are marketing their own tragedy. Where we would have expected to see parents distracted and disorganised by grief, we have seen a professionally run campaign to find out what the media want, and give it to them.
“This has been done for a most defensible reason: to enlist the entire European public as amateur detectives in the search for Madeleine. But now her parents have ended up looking like film stars in a Hollywood weepy.”
“Put up or shut up, Madeleine McCann police told” - Friend of McCanns counters claims of ‘lost’ six hours before girl vanished
DAILY TELEGRPAH: “Madeleine McCann: Gerry certain he was in bedroom with kidnapper”
THE GUARDIAN: “From prime suspects to hounded victims - how parents turned the media tide”
Posted: 22nd, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,536) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:14 pm
The whole thing is clear to me. Its just a big mystery.!!!!!!!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:11 pm
1161 Moderation
“Filmed. Killed”
This crossed my mind and dismissed it. Too frightful. Somesort of ‘tapas-ring’?
Trying to be careful what I say here, truly nightmarish.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Disposal is a proble. they need to implicate one or more of tapas 9. Gorgie is itcjing for a snap election and he needs this done and dusted. Gerrykins spent 45 mins on the phone to Gordie trying to save his skin.
The Matthew something doctor under a cloud already for negligence should be a good scapegoat. Tanner is expendable too, plus O’Brien ‘com gerrkins wants revenge for the affair. there’s three accomplices plus nuttyone. Sorted…
How can they get gerrykins off?
Time for a cuppa…
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
1167 Hang on there are some loose ends. How do they explain disposal of the body. If she’s a nutter how did she think compus mentis do it all on her own. And it was him carrying the bucket, spade and suitcase…
Not quite there yet, chaps…
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Things are looking interesting. Are they gonna pin it on Katiepoos and claim insanity? That was Gerrykins can get a respectable divorce, dump the kids on Social Security (to save them the paperwork of a care order). O’Brien can get a job in the mental hospital and comfort her - Bob’s yer uncle.
My prediction of all over by Monday may still happen too
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:57 pm
892
“campaign is a penance”
Some penance. They’ve done fuck all.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:56 pm
1159
Roll up your trouser leg, and put on your apron. Maybe not for you megz, Theyre very sex specific. Careful now!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
1164 moderation
“There’s another rumour that Gerry McCann might be released from that status also… no-one bothering to report that as fact.”
So why didn’t Aunty Philly include it in her statement, bearing in mind the stranglehold they have on the establishment media?
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Murat has not been released from Arguido status… this was another of those ‘a source close to the enquiry’ comments. Might happen, might not.
There’s another rumour that Gerry McCann might be released from that status also… no-one bothering to report that as fact.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
1158
“Murat was unavailable for comment last night.”
I love this one-liner. We get dozens of crap spoken through gritted teeth from Aunti Philly about how “pleased” they are at being the only suspects and Murat says nothing.
A triumph of PR, Mr Murat…
Take note tapas 9 junta…
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:50 pm
don’t forget that in the initial flurry of ‘hang im’ it was the McCanns who said ‘innocent until proven guilty’ about Murat!
Can I just say again……….. I am not pro-McCann, I don’t know them, same as I don’t know Murat.
I am however with the abduction.
I really think that is what happened. Spotted, stalked, snatched. Filmed, killed.
All in a couple of days.
It will all come out eventually but I have not been persuaded from it and many of the residents of Praia think that also and they are at the hub of the investigation.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
1155 swannie
I was the one who hoped that murat’s new status would be today’s main story, pushing les fragrances off the top spot. I guess the tabloids are a bit slower than us to react. Someone else suggested their spin would welcome the news.
One nil to murat
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
i’m sorry deep throat but what is the obvious meaning as it isn’t obvious to me?
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
[1014] and other Mikes.
Even allowing for the obvious meaning of the date its still overwhelming how the organisation has kept the media in check and silent on this. The tentacles must be everywhere
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
1155 swannie
yer tiz
http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=we-re-glad-murat-s-in-the-clear&method=full&objectid=19833251&siteid=93463-name_page.html
the spin is that it shows “police harassment” what a hoot
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:41 pm
i think that o’brien should be discounted as maddies dad, if you look at her picture then she is clearly a McCann, seems a very strong gene pool at work there.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Sorry - I’m a novice at these technical computer things. Try this and scroll down to
‘McCanns: Were glad Murat’s in the clear’
http://www.people.co.uk/
(Third time lucky!!)
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:35 pm
1151 swannie send it again as a URL - it’s got your hard disk stuff in it. Ask the admin to delete that one…
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
1147 I know Freddie is dead. I was talking about an event decades ago, when he was still alive…
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
1143 puzzled
I look just like Trev - when he was younger of course
Naaaah, I’m nearly as good-looking as Columbo’s dad and he sits all day in Jurassic Park shouting feck arse drink girls (when the lights are on)
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Which clever person predicted this would be said today???
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Mods and Admin
Swannie, I think you put too much info on this , and I have deleted it.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
The lack of babysitting at night only that is!
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
It seems a little contrived to me!
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
1137 lilith
Well done. You have a solution that fits the timings and discrepancies. However I reckon the twins are O’Brien’s. I feel they look like her. Remember Maddie was IVF and she came first.
What a hoot - with all this talk of DNA testing all the family secrets are gonna come out of the box ha ha ha. Brilliant. I said above that they seem to have a problem with DNA. This could be it!
Excrement and fans and all that… pip pip…
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Simon 1122. In the Sunday Express today there is a map of the area with arrows etc for who was walking where. Its on page 7 if you want to sneak into the newsagents and take a look.
Ade… Fred West is dead.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
But quite like that young lad in the new series of Silent Witness. The broody thoughtful one.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
1134. Tilly.
Why use the facilities available during the day, exactly the time you’d want to spend with your children, and not at night? Arse about face surely?
And why haven’t any people staying at the MW resort at the same time come forward to say that they felt so safe that they too left their children unattended?
And why did one couple in the McCann use a baby-listening device but not the others?
And why did the Tapas 9 not leave all the children in one apartment with the listening device?
Why would a father leave a child that had been “vomiting” alone in an apartment?
You can ask why until the cows come home but you won’t get any answers from the McCanns or their spin machine. Even those who defend everything the McCanns say and do have trouble with why they left their children.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Opps dogs not digs
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Ade - must say Trev has the edge of Amanda anyday - but maybe that’s cos I’m not a bloke.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Just checked the news. This country has gone to the digs. A 4 yr old boy was stabbed to death and a 14 yr old girl has serious chest and stomach stab wounds. 2 men known to the victims, one a 47 year old have been arrested.