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 22nd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
(446)
Good post, and point. I’ve read that the McCanns were told to act without emotion in front of the cameras in case the “abductor” got off on seeing their grief. If this was the case then I must admit that it is first time that I’ve heard about a parent with a missing child being told to act this way and indeed I cannot recall an occassion of a parent with a missing child not breaking down in someway when giving a press conference.
Looking at one, I think the first interview with Sky News, video there is a point at which Mrs McCann is describing how the twins picked up Madeleine’s toys and said, “Madeleine.”. I simply find it incredulous that at that moment her voice doesn’t break, she doesn’t pause and she doesn’t look down she just carries on speaking as though reading from an auto-cue.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Oops… here comes tomorrows’ Sunday papers story:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8579
It will be all over soon now. Remember you saw it here first
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
“however it does seem as though paedophiles seem to target children from a lower economic bracket, ”
I think it’s just that they have more success and opportunity with children of neglectful or uncaring parents.
Neglect provides opportunity. Lack of care makes children readier to respond to any expressions of friendship/concern.
Better-off parents are likely just as often neglectful/uncaring , but can normally cover this by paying more for others to do their job.
Just a general comment, not necessarily connected with Maddy.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Where is the pink blanket that Maddie always slept with - and which in the Times article from June - was still on her bed? Anyone any follow up on that.
Also - back to 387 and why the McCanns did not welcome suspected sightings. This is also a key issue surely.
The fund was (supposedly) set up to help find Madeleine.
To raise awareness of her.
Spread her photo around in case she was recognised.
This too is why Gerrypops was gracious enough to appear on so many chat shows and give so many interviews.
This is why they went on their ‘European Junka’.
SO - why when people come back and say we think we saw her did they - personally using all the funds they sponged - not go and check them out.
Like other posters have pointed out - the answer is probably very clear. Because they knew it COULDN’T be Madeleine.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:15 pm
451 nice one Brandon
Reminds me of The Sting film when Paul Newman and Robert Redford talk about “suitcase murphy”… great line!
So now we got our own “Suitcase McCann”
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Is it my imagination or has anyone else noticed the unusual silence from McCannLand? Looks like they are taking proper advice from Anorak for a change and ignoring that prat Mitchell.
Just after 5 p.m. is a good time to pump out some news for the telly after the footie results, after all. Awwww Cuddle Cat got yer tongue?
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Anyone heard about the elusive David Payne?
he’s pretty matey with O’Brien and Tanner:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2147172,00.html
can’t find a pic of him though…
maybe he’s the missing priest
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
361 from times on line 6 MAY 2007
McCann and his wife, both 39, yesterday walked hand in hand through the apartment complex. They had lunch with the twins at the same tapas bar as the evening before. McCann returned alone to the apartment, EMERGING WITH A SUITCASE and a BUCKET AND SPADE for the twins.
A friend at the resort, who did not wish to be named, said: “It’s a nightmare. Every time the parents see Madeleine’s face on television they fall apart. We all do. We haven’t slept for 24 hours. Please God they find her. The longer it goes on, the worse it is. All we can do is pray
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:07 pm
THE HISTORY OF CLAN McCANN
http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/maceachain2.htm
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
gracias
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
lunalunera Says:
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
436 Francisco
“I really don’t have an accurate answer to your question, however it does seem as though paedophiles seem to target children from a lower economic bracket, and usually take them straight from the street and not from their bed with the risk this entails.”
both we arrived has same conclusion. obrigado!!!
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
McCann thought Madeleine might have gone to the bathroom and he ’senses’ a
stranger in the bathroom.
So he goes back on the piss.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:03 pm
ORGANISED - NOT DISORGANISED
Here’s a valuable snippet from Matthew Parris’s article in ‘The Times’ today:
QUOTE: “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”. UNQUOTE
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Last night, Mr Paul Glasgow from Essex came round to see me again, for advice in his continuing efforts to find out exactly what happened to his daughter Natalie - and what went wrong with the Police investigation into the case and what led to the CPS to prosecute the offending driver with relatively minor offences.
In this case, Natalie, it may be recalled by some, had her life cruelly taken by a driver in a blue van, speeding along a road between Epping and Loughton at about 11pm, when he hit her as she was walking on the edge of the road with three friends, killing her outright. She and her friends were not drunk nor on drugs. The driver had been on several drugs and had been drinking nearby at the ‘King’s Head’. Several witnesses reported that the van had no lights. The driver did not stop, but was traced eventually, telling police: ‘I thought I hit a tree’.
In a case that led to a national outcry and Paul’s appearance on the Jeremy Kyle show, Natalie’s killer was given 100 hours’ community service and a short driving ban. For reasons the CPS has yet to explain convincingly, the fact that the driver had several previous motoring convictions (no tax, no insurance etc.) and a driving ban, which he was in breach of, were not brought to the Court’s attention before sentence.
The point that Paul made last night - which ties in with Matthew Parris’ observations and many others on this Forum - was that he could barely function for the next 3 months or more after Natalie’s death, with his overwhelming distress and pain. He could barely sleep, keep his eyes open, he was crying, and others had to help him limp through the awful loss of his bright, healthy, happy daughter with all her life in front of her.
Whilst being more cautious than me in his interpretation of McCann events, he did strongly agree with me, based on his personal expereince, that the McCanns are not grieving parents
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
435 swannie
I wonder if Tanner knows about her fragrance and O’Brien. Things must be frosty in Exeter now if she just found out reading Anorak. Maybe when they do a runner it will be separately…
Lots of destinations from Exeter airport, after all… FlyBE is quite good too
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
441
I thought of that too and also wondered whether Maddie was trying to reach it and fell but I have no idea how high the shelf was and I hope this did not happen
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
(420/436) Francisco:
That is a good point, I think it was discussed a bit before, it seems quite an odd choice.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
sorry that’s 435 swannie
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I’ve been thinking about Cuddlecat being on the high shelf.
I’ve though of a third (rather unpleasant) explanation.
What better way to punish a child than put its favourite toy out of reach but in sight.
“If you don’t be quiet CuddleCat will go back on the shelf”
Forgot to take it down until others had seen it, then needed an explanation other than the true one. But “abductor put it there” is just about impossible for me to believe. Sounds “Ludicrous” in fact.
By guess is it was part of a punishment regime, and if so, a sufficiently sadistic one as to raise serious further questions.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
433 swannie
That’s a mean explanation and I like it…
How about if the twins’ father is really O’Brien. That’s why Gerry keeps away from the kiddos - none of ‘em were ever his!
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
436 Francisco
I really don’t have an accurate answer to your question, however it does seem as though paedophiles seem to target children from a lower economic bracket, and usually take them straight from the street and not from their bed with the risk this entails.
My heart goes out to the family of little Jeremy abducted in Spain and who was taken off the street while playing with friends. I wonder what his loving, working class family think of the show the Mccans are putting on??
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:55 pm
the two year thing would be a ruse. According to my source (cannot disclose) that would have been offered and she would be tapped to see what she would say. Clever huh?
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
433 Canada
I agree but they also know that they will be found out eventually. I bet the fragrant Kate wished she took the deal and the two years in jail. I bet the rest of the tapas 9 wish she has too ‘cos now they are all for the chop as accessories whereas before it would have just been Katiepoos.
Still no priest then - Mrs Doyle has the tea and sandwiches ready…
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I repeat 1 simple question : how many children of parents with economic, social status and political of the McCann had been abducted for pedófilos ends?
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Ok Gerry - this is a way out for you.
Admit that when you came back from tennis, the kids were already ‘asleep’ in bed, because Kate had had enough of them being “hysterical”. You didn’t bother checking them at all before you went out to eat because, as usual, you weren’t that interested. NOW you suspect that Kate had already killed Maddie and put the body in the bed to look as if she was asleep. She knew you wouldn’t check because she knows you weren’t that interested.
NOW you think she must have told Tanner what had happened while you were out/having a shower, who then told O’Brien when he returned. They came up with the abduction plan, because it was O’Brien’s idea to sedate all the children and his sedatives that were used. He didn’t want any more trouble with the medical authorities - and anyway he’d do anything for Kate (you’d always suspected they were having an affair behind your back.)
So it must have been Tanner and O’Brien who removed Madeleine’s body just after you’d ‘checked’ on the children. In fact you know this for sure NOW, as that must be why Kate had shouted, “They’ve taken her” when she came to tell you all the pre-planned lies about an abduction.
You knew nothing about ANY of it. After all, you’ve already been quoted in The Independent on Sept 9th as saying, “Physically it’s an impossibility that I had anything to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.” So you say you were already beginning to suspect Kate and the others then, especially when she wouldn’t let go of that damn cat.
Go tell Clarence, Gerry.
Now can anyone put forward an even better get-out plan for poor Kate?
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
For some reason, I’m still waiting for Ashton Kutcher to tell us we’ve been punked
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:40 pm
The mccanns have no choice but to keep the act going. Can you imagine the world’s reaction to finding out they are guilty? Talk about the worlds most dispised couple.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
414 - “394 judge….you say there is no evidence-where the hell have you been, the pj obviously think there is some evidence”
This forum isn’t about what we think the PJ know, these posts are based on the evidence that WE do know which is a big fat zilch.
You said “372 wanderer….just wandering wanderer what you’re talking about - there was no abduction, there never has been the slightest bit of evidence pointing to abduction!!”
How do you know there was no abduction, that scenario is just as credible as any other at this point in time. Get a life mate, just because you don’t agree with a post don’t knock the poster. Respect other peoples opinions.
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Further to 423
This does mean however one of the McCs would have had to lock it from the outside.
If the pair left through the patio this is unlikely. Are we giving away too many clues?
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
so the jogging next day was to find a spot
have they still got that suitcase i wonder
any pics
get googling
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
426
The only green plant I have is……….nevermind, this is Canada you know