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
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September 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIT31Is_Av8
Do you blame yourselves?
K - I think as time goes on we feel stronger and supported from that point of view.
-so the answer is NO you do not blame yourselves then eh Kate!
Is there a lesson here to other parents?
G- I think thats a very difficult thing to say because if you look at it and weve tried to rationalise things in our head and ultimately what is done …is done..and we do continually look forward..but weve tried to put it into some sort of perspective for ourselves ..were in a very safe resort ..if you think about the millions and millions of British families who go to the Mediterranean each year…really the chances of this happening are in the order of one hundred million to one…
K- I think…I think at worst we were…naive..erm ..and we were very responsible parents..we love our children very much and I dont think any parent could ever imagine or consider anything like this happening.
- so the answer is NO you do not have a warning message to other parents then eh Kate and Gerry!
This was the one of the first interviews they gave - you know when they were happy with the Portugal Policeforce as they were going along with their version of events! - now they are called Imbeciles by them!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 pm
1367 Chloe
Well thank you very much for springing to my defence. I was somewhat confused because I cannot see any posts from Paulette. Being identified with someone who isn’t even a contributor is strange. then I thought Paulette was a character in the McCann/maddie circus. I’m certainly not from the Colonies as you correctly point out. I’d rather not say where I live anyway. It’s not really Monaco though as you probably would guess.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
1373 Well said ben.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
i have been on his forum since day one,
its been interesting-
fun-and most of all endearing of all the concern that is being taken,
what i cant stand is people who come on here to show there comic vocabulary on the back a child who is missing!
its not big and it sure aint clever
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
1363 Carmen
I’m a non-smoker and I’m sure Roy’s bar does not serve Sharp’s Doom Bar, so that’s a respectful no but thank you anyway.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
…..a typical example……..
..Do you support parents go out to get pissed and leave their drugged-up kids on their own like the McCanns
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I tink the poeple on hear tat cnat spel propperley shud be band
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
1347
Sorry if you took my remarks the wrong way but I do actually agree with you contrary to what ade seems/wants to think.
As far as the strapping down of little ones is concerned, of course, all I wanted to do was interpret things the way I wanted them to be heard so peeps might think ” blimey she’s a right one!”
But of course we know thats not true. But as for the McCanns - when you get people on here twisting and scrutinizing every little thing they say or do it can quite easily be taken out of context………as some people on hear like to do.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Haven’t posted today (and I assure you there’s only one of me) but, honestly, Ade sounds nothing like Paulette. Now Paulette might be Judge Judy, that’s a different question. Paulette has an American vocabulary and American spelling. Ade does not.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Eliza it’s such a shame to see you getting upset and expending all of your energy being rude to people. Don’t you have anything interesting to contribute? Do you know any jokes or have you seen something new about the Maddie case? Try to be a bit more positive.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
1320:
“Judge Dread Says:
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 pm
1295 He saw her being got ready for bed so she wasn’t in bed at the time, and must have been wide awake.”
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So this elusive David Payne “saw” Madeleine “being got ready for bed” did he? Hmmm…..perhaps this should be investigated further…do male ‘friends’ of the McCanns usually get invited in to females bedrooms when they’re getting ready for bed - especially when the female is a child? Isn’t this alleged to be more in Murat’s line, or the ubiquitous ‘abductor’ (or ‘fiend’)? - unless that really was a deliberate mistake in the ‘Sun’ today and we were supposed to see it as ‘friend’. Makes you think!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
could i ask one question?
if madeleine is found
should they be punished?
or have they been punished enough?
i personaly think they have been punished enough
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Well im off now, Gotta sedate my cat and get a quick game of social ping pong in before before playing who wants to be a millionaire at the topless bar. Or something like that anyway. This series of events may be changed tomorrow if the need arises……..
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Will Clarence Mitchell from now on be doing any pro bono PR for deserving causes or only those who can at least match his (former) civil service salary?
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:30 pm
1351 Thanks eliza
Ahem (deep cough) I will carry on as I started and hope you find paulette one day. I’m sure you will be very happy together.
Do you support parents go out to get pissed and leave their drugged-up kids on their own like the McCanns?
Of course it’s a form of natural selection I suppose. I read it in Woman’s Weekly… Ooops At the dentists I think…
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Well Im sure the answer is 42. Just gotta work out the question now.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:24 pm
1356 - Damage control.
Hey, here’s an idea….maybe you should hire Clarence Mitchell. LOL!!!!!!
Sorry - don’t let me interrupt you. Carry on!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 pm
1352 - shut up and stop the act. she’s out already. you’re only making yourself look more dumb. Dumb and Dumber.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 pm
1344 C’mon Mike out with it, it’s on the tip of yer tongue…
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
1347 Blunger
You are absolutely correct - NSPCC guidelines concur. NSPCC nor the law say that if your child is killed or abducted because of negligence that you are absolved of any responsibility because of your tragic loss.
Unless anyone knows otherwise.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
1349 - LOL!! She’s a real gas, eh??
NOT!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
1349
Sorry that’s Dick McCann and Stig McCann
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Where are all the other Mikes? has anyone seen mike revice?
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:19 pm
1346 - Crikey girl, you just fessed up in post 1341 for all to see!!! No going back now. Carmen was right about you all along.
Silly girl. Who is Paulette? You just told us. Now we know.
So carry on…if you so choose..in whatever name or gender you want to carry on with. Just don’t call others out on it, as you do the same thing and that’s called being a Hypo-Crite!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:19 pm
1343 john
I cannot tell a lie. I have been Hawthorns bound on one or two occasions but a supporter I am not. Ya see it’s me arthritis and that damp atmosphere gets to me bones. Here in Monaco we have such a civilised climate which suits my constitution so much better…
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
1341
So let me introduce stig McCann and Garth McCann. Just watch what they post from now on and see how it links to the main PRMcCann strategy. Should be a bit of a laugh for us all…
lol lol……..I like that…..nice one!
Dick!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
1308
Absolutely, goes without saying really. Look after your kids, make sure they have a great holiday.
How could you be comfortable knowing the possible scenarios if you left the tiny tots - at most unpredictable age - makes no sense to me.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm
I’m getting cross !
Is there anyone here who has ACTUAL RECENT EXPERIENCE of caring for an average 2 or 3 year old who actually DISAGREES with this -
“IT IS HIGHLY UNSAFE to leave even one such child beyond sight/earshot for 30 minutes. Let alone three. And in a strange place.”
Being asleep is nothing. That can change in a moment.
HIGHLY UNSAFE ! My experience is three hours old. Want me to describe my this afternoon with a 2 year old ?
SERIOUS CHILD NEGLECT, EXPOSING ALL THREE KIDS TO DANGER FROM THEMSELVES/EACHOTHER. PROVEN OUT OF MCCANNS OWN MOUTHS.
Yes, I’m shouting. Know why ? Because we are dealing with vulnerable little children here, and some of you just don’t seem to get the dangers inherent in them being unsupervised. How badly this betrays their trust. Hospital A&E depts are full of them.
New, less experienced parents are listening. Neither we, the legal system, nor Kate “FeltSoRight” McCann should be telling them this is OK parenting. It really, really isn’t. It is far, far beyond the line.
And to go DRINKING !
Come on - those who think this is good parenting - stand up and explain yourselves.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
1337 Eliza
Sorry but Ade’s just a simple bloke - so that means he not she. I’m here just as one person - Ade. Sorry to disappoint. I have never undesrood the point of beig two people anyway. Can someone explain the reason for doing this please?
And who is Paulette? I can’t see anything from Paulette here.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
1342. piggy - I was afraid to mention names but I knew someone would pick me up on that one…lol