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 9:00 pm
627 - Thinking forward, if it is proved that the hair is 100% Maddies and contains traces or even significant traces of sedative, their defence will have to switch to saying that they did sedate her from time to time but that there was no way a large enough amount of sedative would show up in the hair in such a short space of time.
Doesn’t look good but doesn’t make them killers either.
And byway of pure speculation, the police would surely have taken samples of the twins’ hair by now. We know that their hair still exists, cos we see it all the time.
By way of strong circumstantial evidance, the police demonstrating that the twins had been sedated (via hair samples) would be compelling!
Unless of course, they took the hair and found, nothing.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:59 pm
627 633
Well it wouldn’t be exactly their first PR own goal
Have they scored any yet?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
628 Simon
As she’s not in jail, I presume the washing machine preceded the lab.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
604 - Most cases of coloboma are not connected with other health problems.
I tend to agree with you there as well.
I have a friend, with brown eyes, who has one normal eye, and the other one is partially orange in color. she has no other conditions related to this, just two eyes that are not identical and don’t match. That’s not unusual.
Now, if we want to get personal, I have heard - and can vouch from my own personal experience/status that no two boobs are the same in size.
One is always a bit bigger or shaped different than the other. Brassiere companies, take note!! LOL!
Of course, there’s also snowflakes - no two are alike.
So the disfigurement in Maddy’s eye, may indeed be local to that one eye with no other clinical findings.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Re my posting (481)and my anagrams of NO STONE UNTURNED: someone asked (and I can’t trawl back to find out who) what the macabre interpretation I mentioned of DUNE N TRUST NO ONE was if the first word of the sentence was DUN and the second word was EN making DUN EN TRUST NO ONE. I imagined that, if spoken with a West Country accent, the sentence would sound like ‘DONE IN TRUST NO-ONE’ which might be quite apt in the circumstances.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
627 - Wanderer. For sure it would be a PR own goal if they went down that route given the wide coverage of their finger pointing. For now they are keeping stumm (first time since coming home I hear you say!).
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
626 - Maria, to feed your enquiring mind, I do not beleive that I have been implicated.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
623 wanderer
Good point about O’Brien. Concoctions maybe harder to trace by forensics. Sherlock Holmes knew all about that stuff. Maybe one of O’Briens “specials” went wrong and he killed her. Remember, he’s the one who is under investigation for negligence over the death of a patient already. You can imagine him in blind panic when it happened. I just thought it was her because she specialised in anaesthetics. I think he’s yet another cardiologist. He’s written papers with the elusive Davis Payne…
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
626 - Maria. ‘Evidence of sedation? None whatsoever. Not a scrap. Not the teeniest, weeniest bit’. Do you have private access to all the PJ files then?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:52 pm
624 - Sources close to the kitchen state that it’s not been out the machine since they got back…
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
614
Ade, you and I both know that the washing of cuddle cat was no accident.
I dont know which came first. Do you?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
(619) Simon:
If they did sedate her over a long period of time, there is a more likely chance that it could be found in hair samples, etc. (I’m going off of my understanding of this)
(620) Bishop Brennan:
I’d be shocked if Murat accepts that, as apparently some of the Tapas 9 were a bit more…insisting and finger pointing (literally) when he was answering the police officers’ questions.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
603 Simon
Evidence of sedation? None whatsoever. Not a scrap. Not the teeniest, weeniest bit.
But I find it very suspicious that you’re looking for evidence. VERY suspicious. The more I think about it, the more suspicious it sounds.
Evidence? Are you sure you’re not implicated in this yourself??!!
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
613 - Wanderer, sort of agree with you and I still beleive that the twins sleeping though is one of three reasons why and accident did not occur.
I have long beleived they sedated their kids. I have never bought into the accident theory.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
614 Simon
Was that before or after she accidently gave it a good wash in the washing machine?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
(618) Ade:
That’s the thing though, I bet they would have their friends write the script for them, and then claim they were the ones that were taking the medication. There is also the theory that O’Brien may have made special concoctions, but there doesn’t seem to be much proof of anything (literally anything and everything in this case, not just the sedatives).
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I wonder what others think of this link…..it would help explain why the Mccanns have had so much ‘high powered’ help…..the bit about the other uncle is interesting!
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=13329&start=30
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
609. Yeah…whatever. I mean I actually disagree and would not put my babies in a kids club, sorry.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Can I make a prediction for the next announcement out of Camp McCann? How about “We never thought Murat had anything to do with it and were appalled that he was hounded”. This despite trying to turn the heat up on him in the last 2 days. Odds anyone?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:46 pm
610 - I am no medical expert so I’m just making a guess here.
If it turns out to be 100% Maddies hair and it contains evidence of sediative/lots of sedatives/ridiculous amounts of sedatives, this would suggest that sedation occured over time. Correct??
If she were sedated to death on May the 3rd, the death would have occured within a short space of time from taking the drugs. For the sake of argument, lets say half and hour (just a guess)
We know that when a person dies , there system as a whole stops working (i.e. hair stops growing.
In which case, is it likely that any sedatives that entered her system on the evening of the 3rd May would show up in her hair, seeing as within such a short space of time she was dead?
Thoughts?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
613 Wanderer
Or maybe a check of her GP drugs cabinet records. I assume they are prescription drugs and that she nicked them from there so there would be an audit error. If she prescribed them properly there would be a record. Knowing the way they think, I expect one of the others did the prescription for her - less easy to trace. She seems to get on with O’Brien - I’m sure he would help out…
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
607 Spudgun. Agree - see 455 above.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
611
every time he says a positive thing he is shaking his head and closing his eyes.
god he’s a crap liar!
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Does anyone find it odd that they celebrated the child’s birthday just days after she went missing?? What frame of mind could they be in? Having done it themselves or having been abducted you’d think there’s no way they could celebrate anything
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
608 - Trevor Eve would have got it off her and into the lab by now…
And the Portuguese Police already did that too. They found nothing. They wanted a secong look but I think they changed their minds. I could be wrong on that one.
Botton line though. If cuddle cat were a medicine cabinet, pajama case or secret hiding place for the rotting corpse of a 3 year old, I think it would have been spotted by now.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
(609) Simon:
I think the best “evidence” for sedatives is the fact that the twins slept through everything (including hysterical Kate and a search party). I don’t think the DNA could hold a trace of sedatives for that long (I think someone said it was clearest for 28 days?), and if they ever did use sedatives, I doubt they’d risk it again. Plus, the twins were never tested for sedatives that night either, so if anything is to come out of the sedative theory, I would think it would be more along the lines of a confession from someone.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
607 yep spudgun I thought the same. they were almost smug about it too - I know something you don’t know…
God knows what they did and I hope we do find out but I for one am not looking forward to finding out the truth. I think what they did is that bad that the Hollywood movie will never be made.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
603 - Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUdynuECbE
I find the ear scratching, nervous laugh, shifting eye directions deeply suspicious. But decide for yourself!
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Prediction:
The next bombshell (surely not the last one) will be the forensic evidence coming back from Birmingham very soon saying that the hair samples showed evidence of sedation (possibly regular, and that it was definitively M’s hair).
Also cannot be ruled out by any means is forensic proof that the hair sample was not from a live person. If so, the final act surely beckons.
The world class Birmingham forensic team cannot be as easily discredited as foreign cops. And they’re not leaking tabloid fodder.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
605 I have absolutly nothing against cuddle cat and certainly do not beleive he/she is implicated.
Is there any evidence at all of sedatives? Or is it just speculation because sven doctors were on holiday together when a child went missing.
601 - Not odd at all. Kids clubs are brilliant. Kids love them and parents love them too because they get a little time to themselves.