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 7:52 pm
1288 Surely the club’s professional swinger…
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Bloody hell Corrie’s a bit tame compared to McCannLand. Gail looks a bit rough - mind you katiepoo’s due for a bigger makeover.
Even the adverts are tame… denise van Outen walking across a field with a Morrison’s shopping trolley and wearing black wellies. Who’s gonna believe that. Well quite reasonable really… in comparison…
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
1287 McVities Hob Nobs, So to speak?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Sorry guys - Gerrypops was not playing social tennis - according to ‘Breaking News’ he was playing with the club’s professional player.
Please please be careful. After all we are talking about Gerrypops McConn who never plays with the minnows when he has the big-boys at his disposal.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:35 pm
1282 - you can tell I’ve started on the Gin - I mean ‘zip off to Malta’.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Swingers, McAmera And McOcksuker?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:34 pm
1277 John Well I wonder too. As I’ve said before they were probably as pissed as farts before they even started hoofing back the plonk at the tapas bash.
How many is a “social” tennis match anyway?
As many as the amount that changes a dog into a fox perhaps?
I’ll have a look at Corrie for ten minutes and make a nice cuppa…
…. Mrs Doyle…
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:33 pm
McCareless, McIller and McCreamcakes?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Whatever about the going to Morocco thing (was it really 4 weeks later???). Another poster earlier on today - said that the fact that they did not chase up all these sightings was suspicious. I have posted that I find their claim that sightings were ‘hurtful and unhelpful’ were very odd and surely EXACTLY what the whole Find Maddie Campaign was set up to do!
A pro-McCanner came back at me and said that false sightings were ‘hurtful and unhelpful’. Well - yes it they were deliberately false, but for example why did they not zip off to Portugal on the next available private jet to chase those (multiple) leads up?
Still find that aspect of this difficult to explain.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
1278 Are you referring to McCash McScara And McCandy?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
1275 Could that be Inspector Jacques Clouseau-Murat, on undercover secondment from Paris?
And are you affiliated to CEDNAE, the Campaign for the Eradication of DNA Evidence which sponsored Cuddle Cat in its accidental reverse tombstone stunt from the bin liner into the washing machine? Formidable!
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
1272
who do you mean? Mr McCannot and Mrs McCannes, or the sister Ms McCanneloni?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
1274 Auintie Phil is a BIG MCCANN
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
The timeline of the McCanns and their friends has now taken over from DNA/body fluids/sniffer dogs as their point of attack.
The PJ will have the original statements and will use them to cross reference against current and future ‘McCann source’ revelations.
I have seen at least 3 versions of the GM 9.05pm check on the children:-
Which is the correct version?
1 GM went into the bedroom saw the children were asleep and left.
2 GM went into the bedroom, could not see M but thought she must be in the other bedroom and left.
3 GM went into the bedroom, thought that’s strange the door is open, saw the children were asleep and left.
May be GM really does not know what he did that night - which one, however, fits in with a caring but more tragic scenario?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:22 pm
1269 Wot? This Auntie Philomena you mean? And I thought I’d had a bad paper round…
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42932000/jpg/_42932067_mccann_mps203getty.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6661113.stm&h=152&w=203&sz=15&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=G92oicz375WTNM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphilomena%2Bmccann%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN
I didn’t realise Gordo was on the case so early. Not even 2 weeks. As I said before it’s amazing they are sole suspects after 4 months of top level slease help.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Robert Murat, 33, the first person to be declared a suspect in the toddler’s disappearance, told ABC News Saturday that he believes he’s still under suspicion.
this would fit in with my theory that he was a decoy suspect and that he is still working for the police
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm
any had one of them new burgers at mcdonalds.
i think its call a mcmurder burger. And very tasty according to auntie phil, she ate 2 in one go!!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I wonder if The swingers used McCondoms?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:17 pm
My kid and I were staying in a B&B at the time the Maddy thing broke. Our room was right above the bar. I would NEVER have thought of popping downstairs for a pint once my kid was asleep, even though I would probably have been no more than 10 feet away in real terms. NEVER.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:14 pm
1269
good laugh
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:12 pm
maybe auntie is a McCannibal
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:11 pm
19281 signatures on the petition…
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:10 pm
What happened to Cuddle Cat’s smiley badge? The abductor may be trying to sell it on eBay. I think someone should be told so that McCannClan can pencil it in to follow up this lead in November.
2008, of course
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:09 pm
1263
McCannabis in O’Brain?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:06 pm
1262 1263
And katiepoo is thinking of naming the new on on the way: Poppy of course
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
1258
I thought the morocco story was put of. The first sighting of the child was made by a norwegian woman. She was either the wife or related to a Brit, i think from Leicester. Connections were made to health farm or similar in the south of Spain, also with connection to the meds cities and this norwegian element. The farm or center or whatever it is, is very few miles away from the Maddie Spainspotting.
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:03 pm
McCannabis anyone?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
MMMM Morrocco, Amsterdam,javascript:emoticon(’:smt019′)
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Have any of the tapas tossers been back to work since May? I should imagine extraction of urine on a big scale would be expected…
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Tony Bennett
You’re Good!
I noticed the “sources” too but you’re good at spelling it all out for everyone.