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”
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September 23rd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Maybe they got the Wolf to take care of the body. might also explain the timeline thing. He drives very fast.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:48 pm
A member of staff would be nabbed by now. No, that would’nt account for the
‘bad vibes’ so many people are picking up from the Weird Pair and their silent chums.
Theres a feel of ‘by prior-arrangement’ hanging over this case.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:48 pm
1197 Bit below the belt, mike…
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
There are only three things that smell like fish, And this is the third.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Suitcase anyone?
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September 23rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…..
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Has anyone done a runner yet?
Anyone seen katiepoo live and talking compus mentis?
I reckon she’s lost it completely…
Not had so much fun in ages. This Internet thingie is so good…
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
1188 mike
Social of course, one bin bag or two?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Is the answer 42?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
i did see somewhere that murat was to be released as an arguido but he was to remain under oath of silence along with his mother. i can only assume it is because he has some evidence that will be used by the prosecution.
OH GOD!!! I HOPE ITS A LINK TO THE MCCANNS BEING SWINGERS.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
And od course grandpa McCon is the one who knows all the proper people. I seem to remember reading that at the beginning the hacks were prevented from naming one of the tapas 9 - and it was him. Obviously something to hide, then.
I reckon the whole of tapas 9 were in on it (including grannie who has not had a high profile so far). That’s completely different, of course to who of them will be set up as scapegoats. I have said before that their strength is in sticking together. If some are fingered and others not we could see some breaking ranks. Tricky to say the least. I really do not know how they are going to get out of this one. A plane carrying the whole lot crashing in flames is about as far as I go. Individual accidents are no good as there’s time to let individuals sing like canaries…
Oooo errrr this is fun
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Anyone wanna buy a spare wheel for a renault?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Anyone for Tennis?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:34 pm
balldamp, rotflmfao
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
1182 - obviously should read ‘they have no plans to release him for the moment’
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Agreed BallDamp
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
1178 I agree, although something still feels wrong about this one.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
they are as guilty as sin
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
1163 - Moderation. Murat not cleared of arguido status and the PJ have said that they have to plans to release him for the moment. HOWEVER, they have said that they have ruled him out of their enquiry. (Was on Sky News but would have to find a link).
Have never heard about Gerry McCann being ruled out or that he might shortly be released from arguido status. Can you please let me have your source. That would be very interesting and I would be most grateful and I do not live in Praia de Luz.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
1179 mike
No but brown tongue runs in the family from the look of their connections…
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
“There’s another rumour that Gerry McCann might be released from that status also… no-one bothering to report that as fact” !!!
Then Gerry must have adopted the get-out story I made up for him (See 435) . But, shucks, doesn’t he realise he can’t use that now, as ‘friend of the family’ has just invented that Dr Payne saw Madeleine being put to bed at 7pm that night ………
Perhaps then it was Dr Payne who put Cuddle Cat on a high shelf to teach it a lesson and he’s now worried about his DNA being in the room? Or perhaps he was merely going through the ‘arrangements’ for later - dinner arrangements, of course!
So he’s helped the McCanns out, and so has Tanner with ‘the mystery man carrying the bundle’, so has Fiona Payne by fingering Murat, so has O’Brien by removing the body. That leaves a few others yet. I predict it will be grandmother, Mrs Dianne Webster next, who will suddenly admit that K and G pleaded with her to babysit the children that night - but she turned them down at the last minute, because she didn’t want to miss ‘The Pub Quiz’ or ‘Bingo’ later. “She is riddled with guilt.”
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Has gerry got that blue tongue disease yet?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
1174 bulldump
Are you being straight and level with us there bulldump? Is your all-seeing-eye obscuring the glory and beauty of the day and the great and sacred name of gerrykins?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I truly don’t think it was anything to do with any of the group, but I do think maybe a member of staff at MW and A. N. Other.
Paedophiles come in many shapes and sizes, they don’t have 666 tattooed on their foreheads. They are usually very anonymous and low profile and very very cunning.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:21 pm
1162 Moderation
Sadly, I am with you on this. I could have written that post.
Just not sure how far it extends.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Does anyone think the parents had something to do with it?
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
GERRY MIMIKIN MCCANN WEARS THE TROUSERS IN HIS FAMILY, i HAVE CLEARLY SEEN THEM BENEATH HIS APRON
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
1171
Nice one Mike
Breaking News… It’s a Mystery by Toyah found on iPod discovered on the dump near the animal crematorium…
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I agree Mike. Cool name too.
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
1171 Nice one mike
Breaking news…
It’s a Mystery by Toya was found on the blood-soaked iPod on the dump near the animal crematorium…