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 12:33 am
Trismegistus
Fresh change having someone give the Portuguese police some credit. Sure they may have made some mistakes, but we all know how difficult it is to get a child back once missing;proof of that is the sheer number of missing children ALL over the world.
And in this particular case the parents and their friends have been a definite hindrance, with their red-herring tactics and contradictory evidence.
In most cases the police at least get full cooperation from the parents.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 am
Correction to 838:
I find them quite bourgeois.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 am
Guys can we settle this once and for all . GMK is a consultant cardiologist . He is a physician - NOT a surgeon. So he is not a heart surgeon , he does not crack peoples chests etc.
He uses medicine and interventions ( ie catheters/stents etc guided by himself using x ray, to fix problems like blocked arteries, faulty valves,electrical problems in the heart etc.). His approach is a possible alternative to bypass surgery for some patients for example.
Interventional cardiologists and McCann especially have widespread use of radiological equipment( he spent time in Holland working on imaging techniques) which should answer a previous posters question about why McCann should have any interest in Radiological issues.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:31 am
832. Stevo.
I’d be surprised if that fall produced blood at all.
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Does anyone else besides me think that that is a really strange place to be taking video? Especially on a phone? I don’t know about other people but I turn mine off as soon as boarding is announced.
Not reading anything into it, just find it odd.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:31 am
Look closely at the video of Madeleine boarding the plane and you’ll see she only falls onto her hands. Certainly not a fall likely to cause bleeding.
Until I looked at that video this evening, I had forgotten about it and assumed it was a bad fall. So, when the McCanns mentioned it in relation to the DNA in the room I assumed it could be legit. That video shows how easy it is to be taken in by the press and believe anything that is said unless you look at it for yourself in an objective manner.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:30 am
827 WTF said
Don’t you at least like Kate’s earrings?
REPLY:
LOL
No I don’t, if find them quite bourgeois.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:28 am
and Stig - tell us all what good the McCanns have done?
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:27 am
827 - WTF
Since I started posting in this forum, I’ve had nothing but stick from Real Stig. We’re all entitled to opinions in here and I never complain because someone doesn’t like my ideas. I couldn’t care less. But for Stig he/she always wants to make personal attacks.
All I can deduce is that Stig is a McCann in disguise and like their camp, they don’t like any negative comments or anything that’s close to the truth.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:27 am
834 … that’ll do … thank you kindly!
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:25 am
830 julie… and real stig earlier…
Something positive about the McCanns…
They have not committed genocide. It’s unlikely that they are mass murderers. They probably aren’t cannibals. They are smart enough to be cynical, and to have the media eating out of their hands.
Does that work for you?
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:23 am
828 - Julie
Already did it - look on my last post (832)
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:22 am
Here’s the video of Madeleine falling over while boarding that plane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYMf_wgyffA
Tell me if that would produce the blood in the apartment?
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:22 am
822 Andy - Yes, it is amazing what money can buy.
Are they spending the Find Madeleine fund to pay for this fancy PR? I know the board said no to their requests to pay silk-clad lawyers with it, but I don’t recall any public discussion about whether they could use it for branding, marketing and PR.
Somebody is paying for it, and I bet it ain’t Richard Branson!
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:22 am
Stiggie … want me to say something positive about the Mc’s too? Erm …. erm … erm …. nope, sorry can’t come up with something yet!
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:21 am
815 - Stig
You seem to forget or gloss over the fact that if the parents looked after their children properly on May 3 then they’d presumably still all be alive and well today.
Why do you stick up for them so much?
It seems like you may be a relative in this site to counter the criticism levelled at them.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 am
Stevo 823 … copy and paste the link, then remove the http://www. from the front, that way you can “ball” the spam filter (for whatever reason it doesn’t want to let the link through)
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:18 am
815 The Real Stig
You’ve got a point there.
Stevo - say something positive about our lovely couple who leave their kids night after night to go out drinking (after having already left the kids in the creche all day), leave their tiny twins behind while they go abroad to visit the Pope etc, won’t admit that leaving children alone is dangerous, and don’t get me started on the media campaign, the backtracked (x 4)statements and mad questioning of DNA.
what’s that you say? They are suspects in a manslaugher case? That’s no excuse! Don’t you at least like Kate’s earrings?
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:18 am
800 stevo
Yes, stevo today I’ve been thinking along those lines. Frightening but not nearly as chilling as the too much to bear disposal of your own child’s body.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:18 am
821 - trismegistus
I guess that both parents must have felt like that to want to go on a “family” holiday but leave your kids alone each evening.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:17 am
813
the brazeness of it though
remember all thoughts were on a paedo and the mail lady was on to murat
see my theory 585
brandon flowers Says:
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:55 pm
tappas9 regularly sedate kids
3 may around 6 km doses m up and dies
gm becomes saviour convinces km to do exactly what he says
cant risk calling for help as twins already taken some, make twins sick
phones o b and t tells them to make daughter sick
ob goes round and agrees with km and gm
concoct abduction theory/ checking alibi as a time to remove m body
buys ice and wraps body in suitcase
go out to tappas
gm gives tanner nod to get suitcase speaks to bloke in alley for alibi
tanner removes case and takes to apartment
gives km nod and has idea to implicate murat as dodgy looking and convenient
km goes to apartment
screams theyve take her — no lie
goes back to tappas at last relieved to be able to cry and grieve
km then goes into hero mode searching calling etc
police sky informed
keep going on about abduction to delay police corrupt scene make them search further than the complex
make up cuddle cat lie window and unlocked door
maddie in o brien apartment
6 may suitcase leaves apartment goes somewhere hidden in church
25 days later car hired
press quietened down
go to see pope
ob and t drive body weighed down miles away and out to sea and drop body in case
pope visit bless photo
funeral done
penance to spend rest of life campaining for missing kids
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 am
I have a video clip link that I keep posting but it never shows up in here. Is it being censored? It’s a video clip of Madeleine boarding the plane at EMA.
Remember she fell over and the McCanns cited that as a reason for the blood? If you look at the video there’s no way she bled from falling over while boarding that plane.
I have the link but each time I paste it in here and hit submit it doesn’t show up…
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 am
777. Pixie Says:
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Here we go again – sources close to the family:
Sources close to the family say that David Payne, one of the holiday party, saw Madeleine being put to bed when he visited the McCann apartment at 7pm. Previously the last confirmed sighting of Madeleine was at 2.29pm when a photograph of her and Gerry was taken at the swimming pool.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2511985.ece
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It’s amazing isn’t it how all this information is coming to light now just when people are questioning the time line? I wonder what the next snippet of information to fill a hole will be?
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 am
794 stevo: Yeah, ok, so you’d be over the moon going on holiday at 39 with 3 brats, 7 boring friends and Kate?
I don’t like him one little bit, but enough is enough!
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 am
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7026495023842754032&q=madeleine+mccann&total=1497&start=220&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8
Check out Madeleine falling over in this clip. No way would that be the cause of blood in the apartment. Whoever said that is crazy.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:13 am
818
fat chance
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:13 am
815 - Real Stig
You should go and re-read all I’ve written then. I’ve given my opinions and backed them up everytime. This couple neglected their children and that’s why 3 became 2. I don’t need to satisfy your requirement about saying positive things about the McCanns.
And…my postings are not slanted. I always give reasons.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:11 am
maybe aunty phil will become a ” sting” and stitch them up
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:11 am
inside it more likely
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 am
804 - Wasn’t Madeleine’s bed supposed to be between the twin’s?
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 am
807 Stevo
That might be so, but have you ever said anything positive about them? You may have done, I don’t read every post - I don’t know, but I don’t recall any positively slanted posts.