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 24th, 2007 at 2:58 am
“This is what the Find Madeleine money is being used for and, see we are doing something to find Madeleine.”
Part of an emerging pattern ? The new management seems to have audited the expressed concerns of the blogging population, and are now dishing out an explanation for each, at about one-per-day. Ticking them off.
Makes sense, I guess, if you are being paid to improve their image.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:54 am
1507
rab i think the others just believed what they were told like us and the press
If they have tried to influence them since sept then hopefully this will be their undoing
I bet one of the tappas 9 not checking will break
has anyone noticed or wondered the silence of grannytappas
has she been sedated?
shes got to be questioned?
I think shes in a mental bedroom locked up and sedated since september
September 24th, 2007 at 2:53 am
1502.
Thanks for the link. What is it supposed to tell people though? So they’ve had a firm of Private Investigators working for them since May, and?
Is this another bit of spin designed to kill two birds with one stone? i.e. This is what the Find Madeleine money is being used for and, see we are doing something to find Madeleine.
To be honest though, if this firm is so s**t hot why haven’t they found anything to support the abduction theory?
September 24th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Is it 9:50 pm anywhere else?
September 24th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Andy - sorry - the post was meant for Simon (it really is too late), but hello again (and goodnight) anyway.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Whats with hiring the detective stuff. Why couldn’t they have mentioned this way before now?
September 24th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Brandon, if I infer correctly, you believe that only a few of the Tapas 9 know what really happened, and the others are unaware. Could the remainder, although unaware of any wrong-doing, have been advised on their statements as well?
I would suspect, for friends to collude in such a crime, one would have to hold something serious over them. I am not sure I can realistically accept this. The other thought is that a collection of them is seriously deranged and everything was pre-mediated far in advance. But this thought is even more outlandish in my opinion.
I don’t think there is some large Governmental conspiracy in this case; I just think it is another example of how well connected people (read wealthy) can manipulate and corrupt.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:47 am
Rab - most people here seem to think (strongly) that O’Brien is involved, and probably Tanner, but none of the other 9.
O’Brien is a clinical pharmacologist (who develops and tests drugs). He and the McCanns were the only parents not to use the babysiiting or (FREE!) baby monitor services provided at the resort. The MCann twins slept through mayhem in the apartment between 10:00 and 12:00 in the evening of May 3.
He was also away at his apartment (right next to the McCanns) for a very long time between 9:00 and 10:00.
Not to mention that his daughter of exactly the same age as Madeleine is apparently ’strikingly like’ the missing girl (who, unlike the twins, does not resemble Gerry).
Various theories, some more far-fetched than others, have been built around these and other facts.
Personally I incline toward the premeditated murder theory - and the fascinating stuff about the British police manual - which was presumably brought from Rngland before the ‘disappearance’ further strengthens that theory. Not to mention the ‘last phot’ which the McCanns thought they were time/date stamping ‘2:29′, a minute before Madeleine was dropped at the kids’ club - but they got the time difference wrong, and the stamp would actually have corresponded to 1:29 Portuguese time, if correct.
I don’t yet completely rule out the ’straight abduction’ scenario.
The Portuguese police (and any critical observer) know they’re covering up something. Just conceivably they started by covering up their use of O’Brien’s home-made knockout drops (which would have helped a ’straight abductor’, but been bad for their careers) and it all got a bit out of hand.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:45 am
I think unfortunately that the case against the McCanns is folding
September 24th, 2007 at 2:42 am
1496. Murder.
Hello from Spain. Where it’s past my bedtime too. I think you meant that post in reply to someone else though.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:40 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/24/nmaddy124.xml
thought i would post this for anoraks lie in tomorrow
September 24th, 2007 at 2:37 am
1499 Judith C — “But why is government so involved?”
Well, on the face of it, some from belief that a miscarriage of justice is underway (MCCann’s unfairly suspect), with others roped in by Gerry on basis of some previous acquaintance. Sure is surprising.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:36 am
1499/1500
I think gerry or kate might have things over a couple in group
not all
if i told my mate its ok they’re asleep in bed - why not believe me
the goverment has had floods foot and mouth etc……….
scottish uni connections
bad press
I think GB believed them as most did and took risk
might end his career
I think all pjs need to do is bide their time
” give them enough rope etc……….”
September 24th, 2007 at 2:29 am
But why is government so involved?
September 24th, 2007 at 2:29 am
1491 Brandon, that article, if accurate, is interesting. There does appear to be something amiss in this case, but, of course, this could be a result of the myriad misinformation and media distortion.
If the PJ do, however, believe the Tapas 9 are complicit, do you and others think it feasible that the McCanns would and could enlist the compliance of such a large number of friends? Would a friend really collude in such a major crime and could they really be trusted to remain silent and consistent in their story?
September 24th, 2007 at 2:24 am
LYING - TO THE POLICE OR ANYONE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
24.09.07, 1:45am
sorry seemed to have copied a posted comment not mine from daily express
mods admin feel free to remove
September 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Andy - greetings from Amsterdam (where it’s way past my bedtime).
Of course, on the ’straight abduction’ hypothesis, Gerry wouldn’t intentionally stall Wilkins - what I meant was that the ‘abductor’s’ window would have been about 9:10 (when the shutter was still apparently closed) to about 9:30 (when Oldfield saw ‘extra light in the room’ from the open shutter.
I think the new lawyers must have explained to Gerry that for this story to work, the abductor would have had to be in the apartment at 9:05, since there wouldn’t have been time for an abduction by someone entering through the front patio door between the time Gerry left the alley (nearly 9:25) and Oldfield’s approach toward 9:30. To maintain a consistent hypothesis, the abductor would have had to be in the apartment when Gerry arrived at 9:05 (I think that’s where the new version comes from).
There’s also the ‘moving a body to the O’Brien’s’ hypothesis. The McCanns were in 5a; I think the O’Briens were in 5b or 5d (next door down the alley, or three doors down. On that scenario stalling Wilkins certainly makes no sense. But hiding a body there, with the possibility of sniffer dogs arriving, seems rather risky. I think it might have been taken away from the immediate area by car or perhaps boat (much safer with sniffer dogs around).
And maybe you’re right that chatting to Wilkins for 10 minutes was a natural thing to do. Maybe, but I’m not personally convinced. I think perhaps either O’Brien or Murat was in the street with the body and Gerry was out at the front making sure the coast was clear.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Everything else said, I think there is about a 10-15% probability on current data that there was actually a stranger-abduction and that parents are therefore guilty only of neglect.
Which neglect might include allowing her to escape from the apartment and stumble into the arms of an impulse abductor, or under the wheels of a body hider.
If this is all they did, they are making a bad mistake with all this endless stream of pseudo-evidence from their expensive PR machine. It gives the impression of trying to disrupt and undermine the investigation, and to carry out a pre-trial in the disgusting media, seemingly designed to compromise any trial involving a jury.
The appearance is that everything they release now is the result of a careful pre-calculation with the aim of manipulating the public in their favour. Exactly as in the original campaign, when it seemed clear that each time media attention drifted away, a new “event” was engineered exactly as needed to prod the “story” back into life.
Maybe that was Clarence’s doing too. But it antagonised many of us - presumably the opposite of what was intended.
I really think that it would be in their interest to stop all this spin dead. Close the mouths of all these spurious “sources close to the family”, and start showing some respect for the rule of law.
I really don’t believe they are in danger of being framed. Their expensive lawyers will get full scope to discredit any dodgy evidence in the fullness of time, if there is a trial.
And if the PJ wanted to frame anyone, all they needed to do was plant a bit of DNA from the apartment onto Murat. Everybody would have cheered his oh-so-obvious guilt, and his defense resources would have been puny in comparison.
All this endless leaking and spinning and media hysteris must be very stressful for them too. It serves absolutely no honest purpose. It should stop. It isn’t even dignified, and does Maddie no good at all that I can see, wherever she is.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:20 am
1488. Murder.
I agree. Something stinks.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:18 am
said duplicate can t find it sorry if already posted
was in the same spot as Miss Tanner at the same time and saw no one.
He is the second independent witness to dispute her story and police sources said they viewed Miss Tanner’s evidence as “unreliable” because of inconsistencies.
Officers are concerned that she apparently changed her version of the sighting.
She originally claimed she saw the suspect rushing towards the Baptista supermarket in Praia da Luz. She told police the child was wrapped in a blanket.
A second independent witness reported seeing a similar man with a child in a blanket near the town’s church heading towards the beach. The route he took matches the alleged trail of death discovered by British sniffer dogs who detected the scent of a corpse.
But Miss Tanner has now told detectives that the man was heading in a different direction – towards Murat’s home.
Police regard her account as one of a series given by the McCanns and their friends to convince them that Madeleine had been kidnapped.
Officers believe former hospital anaesthetist Kate, 39, killed her daughter by accidentally giving her an overdose of sleeping pills. They are working on the theory that consultant cardiologist Gerry, also 39, helped to dispose of Madeleine’s body.
Police are awaiting results of toxicology tests carried out on bodily fluids with an 88 per cent match to Madeleine’s DNA found in the boot of a hire car the couple rented 25 days after she went missing.
Dr O’Brien, along with Mr Oldfield’s wife Rachael, 36, and another friend Dr Fiona Payne, 34, said they saw Murat near the McCanns’ apartment on May 3 and their claim appeared to shatter Murat’s alibi.
Detectives interrogated the McCanns at police headquarters in Portimao 17 days ago over the discrepancies. The couple were told separately later that day they were being named as suspects or arguidos.
Last night another member of the McCanns’ holiday party was reported to have stepped into the mystery. The move came after it was revealed that police in Portugal were focusing their investigation on a “lost seven hours” on the day Madeleine disappeared.
Now Dr Payne’s husband – medical researcher David, 41 – has claimed he saw Madeleine being put to bed when he visited the McCann flat at 7pm.
Before his new testimony, police sources admitted they could not confirm the whereabouts of Kate and Madeleine after 1.29pm that day.
Kate’s movements were said to be unaccounted for until she sat down to have dinner with Gerry and their friends at around 8.40pm. But the McCanns believe Mr Payne’s testimony will be crucial in proving their innocence.
That would leave just an hour and a half in which they were supposed to have killed their daughter and disposed of her body.
But last night a source in Portugal said police were viewing alibis provided by the McCanns’ friends with suspicion. They are convinced that some or all of them may have known what happened to Madeleine and may have helped to cover up her death.
The source said police had not ruled out the possibility of naming them all as suspects – and they could face being charged as accessories.
The source said: “It has long been considered a number of people may have been involved in this unfortunate case.”
In Portugal yesterday it was revealed that detectives have seized a British police manual from the McCanns.
Officers believe the book could be used as a key piece of evidence in building a case against them.
A Portuguese police source said: “It is certainly not the sort of reading material you would expect a couple to take on a relaxing family holiday.”
LYING - TO THE POLICE OR ANYONE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
24.09.07, 1:45am
The McCanns and their friends and anyone else involved in this child’s disappearance can have a field day lying like a Persian rug. But the day of reckoning does arrive. If the lying has been done to the police with a view to throwing them off the scent, then that reckoning can be very costly. Here in the U.S. you’d better think twice about lying in statements that are made a matter of record. Those records turn up in court and in depositions. In court, they can be thrown in your face. Here the penalty for perjury is enormous. Thus, it does not get me in a lather as it does some here to read the various media reports of discrepancies, changed stories, etc. Ultimately, someone is going to be put on the spot. Unfortunately, “I don’t recall” later does not quite cut it. Neither the McCanns, nor their friends, nor anyone else who is a subject of the investigation, can slither away from the naked truth in a court. That is gratifying to know, if only on the account of this poor missing child. As for courts as it concerns what newspapers say, whoa there! newspapers are in the business of reporting. If the Daily Express quotes another newspaper in its reporting, it’s all part of the dissemination of information. Far from suing anyone, I think the McCanns would do well to shut up! In the words of Hamlet, “methinks you protest to much” might well apply to them. Saying nothing is the best defense. Good lord! Are the British becoming as sue-happy as the Americans? A lawsuit is not the answer to anything in this sad case. But a trial in court may produce wonders. Lie all you want to in Portugal or Britian, just make sure you’re right before you’re wrong in any court, British, Portuguese, or whatever.
As for freedom of speech — sometimes the most voiciferous defenders of it are the most adamant about others not availing themselves of it. So be it.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:12 am
Perhaps it’s just because I’m still up and it’s 2-am, but I feel terribly depressed because usually, when governments are involved in shady business - this one included (think David Kelly) - they do a cloak and dagger routine…was it suicide, was it murder? We’ll never know. But this case, with the ghastly Clarence Mitchell, the stinking rich businessmen and the direct and acknowledged link to Gordon Brown — it’s all out in the open and the papers are buying it hook, line and sinker (or being forced to buy it). The fact that the powers that be feel safe and secure enough to get away with this (Brown’s lead in the polls increasing) means that they have utter contempt for us (the public) and feel they can get away,perhaps literally, with murder. Why even bother to roll the sickly Mitchell out? Who cares whether we believe what he says - or the McCanns’ themselves say, or not? The next step could simply be a news blackout on all things McCann in order not to disrupt Gordon’s election platform (probably financed by ‘Lord’ to-be-Branson while the coterie of lawyers and government officials, behind the scenes, lean heavily on the PJ to wrap the whole thing up.
This is why I feel depressed - justice! It will be seen not to be done.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:10 am
NEWS / SHOWBIZ’MCCANNS ARE LYING’
Madeleine McCann
Monday September 24,2007
By David Pilditch and Martin Evans in Praia da Luz Have your say(19)
Portuguese police believe Gerry and Kate McCann are using friends to hide their role in killing Madeleine.
The Daily Express can reveal that their seven holiday friends may now be named as suspects as police believe they are hiding the truth about Madeleine’s death.
The dramatic move comes as it was reported that former chief suspect Robert Murat is to be told he will not face charges over the four-year-old’s disappearance. Ruling him out of the four-month investigation will leave Kate and Gerry McCann as the sole suspects. Last night police sources said the decision could have a devastating impact on the McCanns’ defence.
In an astonishing twist, British expat Murat could be used as a key prosecution witness against the McCanns.
Almost the entire police case against Murat was built on evidence from the couple’s holiday friends. Investigators believe the McCanns “cooked up a story” that Madeleine had been kidnapped to throw them off the trail and enlisted members of their party to provide them with an alibi. They also believe the group tried to turn the focus of the investigation towards Murat.
Yesterday it was revealed that police are questioning new witnesses who cast doubts over the evidence of members of the holiday group.
The McCanns and their friends told how they took turns to check on their children every 30 minutes as they ate at a tapas restaurant on May 3, the night Madeleine vanished.
But one Portuguese newspaper reported that employees at the restaurant insisted that only Dr Russell O’Brien, 36, and hospital consultant Matthew Oldfield, 37, left the dinner table that evening.
Another witness has come forward to refute the testimony of a third friend Jane Tanner, 36, who told police she saw a man carrying a child rushing from the Ocean Club complex at around 9.15pm on May 3.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:09 am
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/19984
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/19982/Amelie-cries-out-for-her-sister
At last some anti mc cann press
September 24th, 2007 at 2:01 am
blunger i agree
watching some of the photos i have been disturbed by the way they have been distributed as a video
why was the cctv not available from creche/cafe/ tennis ground to show
why dark people are craving blonde kids is a myth
September 24th, 2007 at 2:00 am
1485 Before I head off for my flight to Amserdam…
I see broadly three possibilities; Straight abduction, Prearranged abduction and accident/murder. (the ‘kid wandering off’ theory is a joke)
Personally I have never bought into an accident/murder and as time passes and we are fed extra tidbits of information, I am more and more confident this did not happen.
But assuming it might have done…
Straight Abduction - Gerry talking to Jeremy Wilkins is irrelevant. His daughter either had been taken and Gerry was incredibly stupid not to have spotted it or she was about to be taken in which case, Gerry could have been in close proximity to the abductor.
Accident/Murder - It is very unlikely that during that 9.05 - 9.20 timeslot, the body would have been moved. It was almost certainly hidden somewhere (possibly in O’Brian’s apartment) until the evening’s activities were over and then disposed of somehow later. It’s possible that Tanner was moving the body, instead of witnessing a man with a girl, as she later said, but I don’t see why at just after nine a woman in the party (apologies to the women) would be tasked with moving a dead body.
Prearranged abduction - Under there circumstances, I buy into Gerry keeping Jeremy WIlkins talking, whilst the abductor, who he had possibly just met at the apartment, made a getaway.
Of all of these options, the accidnet theory is the one where the involved parties would have the hardest time sticking to their stories.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Andy - a more interesting question is raised by Kate McCann’s claim that she raised the alarm at 10:10 and the police record of a call to Sky News (presumably in England) at 10:11. How did they get THAT number in 1 minute (not to mention the time taken, one supposes, for some discussion about who to phone).
‘Hello Sky, one of my friends here in Portugal, where we’re having a drunken meal, says she couldn’t see her kid in their unlocked apartment a minute ago. Could you interrupt programming and issue an immediate global alert? We promise to phone back if it turns out she just went to find her best friend two doors along or something.’
No, exactly - just one of the very many things that simply don’t make any sense on the ‘official version’ - sorry, ‘versions’, of the story.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Under the leadership of the parents, much has been made in the media of Maddie’s exceptional “beauty” and therefore presumably attractiveness to an abductor.
This is fabrication. Certainly the three or for most used photographs show her looking “beautiful”. But this is true of the best few photos of any child, or indeed any person. Even I have a couple which make me look amazing.
If we look at more of Maddie’s photos we see that she is a perfectly nice, ordinary looking little girl, with nothing remarkable about her appearance except her poor eye and perhaps her unusually wide tooth spacing (is that unusual?). Both probably only noticed fairly close up.
The one thing that might add to her extra value for a commercial abductor is (I have heard said) the fairness of her hair.
So I don’t buy the idea that of all the children round the resort M would immediately be singled out for attention by a predator. And I agree that the presence of her younger siblings would be a significant disincentive, maybe enough to counterbalance the end position of the apartment.
One repulsive aspect of all the media hype has been this endless harping on about “beauty”, with the only slightly veiled implication that a less “beautiful” child might not merit such concern and empathy. Do we not bother to search for “ugly” children ?
All part of a campaign orchestrated from the beginning to make us think of this one child as a “special” loss, worth much more concern than all the other missing children who came before.
They are all equally valuable, and equally worthy of our concern. And worthy of an unbiased un-spun search for truth.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:47 am
1482
i know someone whos kid got sun burned on holiday and had to have treatment, one parent was at a game thing with another kid and thinking the father was on the ball with this one thought nothing of it.
The father met up with a fellow aquaintance and let the other kid play football, assuming mother put on sun cream.
An hour or so later he was blistered and had to be taken to A& E.
“Scan” was put on their file
Suspected child abuse noted
they werent rich they werent professional and its still on record today
That is a mistake
September 24th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Simon - maybe…
But this was precisely the time that Madeleine was supposed to have been taken through the window of the apartment.
I’m almost waiting for the ‘If only I hadn’t spent so long talking to Wilkins, he would have sen the abductor heading off up/down the street with Madeleine’.
Also, if you’re trying to set up an ‘abduction’ cover-story for what really happened, I think you’d probably stick as closely as you could to what really happened, altering only the details you needed to alter to make the cover-story work.
That makes it much easier for you and any accomplices to stick to the story without getting lost then tripped-up in an unnecessarily complicated web of fabrications.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:40 am
1413.
I thought most educated and travelled people knew that the number to call in an Emergency was 112 when in Europe. You will be connected to someone who speaks your language and they will get in touch with the relevant service for you when given the location. Like 999 in the UK and 911 in the US.
To waste time because you don’t have a local number is like letting your house burn down while you rifle through the phone book looking for the number of the nearest Fire Service.