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 10:40 am
its ok i’ve found it
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
whats this about a 45 min phone call and computer batteries? morning all
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:32 am
very spooky. maybe we lern more about the 45 minute telephone call and the computer batteries later. I’m running off.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:28 am
943 - Add. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha. Ha. We’ve been through all this last night.
We can read that interview for ourselves + all other interviews.
What this Kate McCann interview actually says is
“I’m sure people will learn from our mistake, IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT THAT”.
So no, this interview does not explain a lot. It is not an admission of any wrong doing regarding child “care” arrangements.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 am
952 m.e.
Sweet F.A. She’s dead…
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 am
add (943) ( “but if the parents did it themselves then it makes it easier to bear.”)
no, it is easier to bear the thought of the stranger coming from outside and taking madeleine than thinking such ‘lovely’ people as the McCanns did evil. and that’s why it took four months before people here in the UK started to ask questions about them.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:21 am
In a dramatic new twist to the McCann case a blood-stained iPod was found in a black plastic bag on a dump near an animal crematorium thought to be owned by exiled General Pinochet of Chile. The iPod had a “Find Maggie” sticker on the back. Earlier reports quoted the sticker as saying “Find Maddie” but these were discounted when the Pinochet connection was discovered. An anonymous source close to the PJ Portuguese police disclosed that the McCann connection was 100% ruled out after forensic test reports emerged on the shuffle folder’s contents. Songs were alleged to include:Cry Me a River, Cry Just a Little Bit, All Over but the Crying, Crying in the Rain, Your Time to Cry, Crying in the Night, Cry to me, Crying, Its Time to Cry, Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying, I’ll Cry Instead and I Cried a Tear.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:10 am
What the hell is going on here. There is no way to post the today sunday mirror link? Is anybody experiencing the same problems?
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Mods and Admin
I have no idea what is going on , but the spammer didn’t like your links!
I’ll get in touch with the Sepguy, but we think its heavy traffic is the problem
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:09 am
Dont read the papers much but could somebody tell me what the McCanns are actually doing at the moment to look for their child ?
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:07 am
Further tests are being carried out at Anorak Farm to determine whether any more animals have been affected by the UK’s first case of browntongue disease.
The insect-borne virus, which has killed open debate and McCann-bashing markets across Europe, was in a McLurker cow which escaped from a Pr McCannLand juggernaught’s backside.
Truth-seekers say the arrival of the disease is devastating for an industry already struggling with slease-in-mouth until it is eradicated and the sources put behind bars .
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:05 am
922 Momtoo,
crying in public is a national sport in the UK. Grown men weep on telly when somebody has painted the family living room.
So, here is a couple who do not show their emotions on TV. Of course they are guilty, they do not play the Bristish national sport!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:59 am
bc 948
you can buy it if you want. Thankfully I’m broke!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:56 am
People do things on holiday they would not do normally. They ride mopeds without a crash helmet, even if they have never been on more than a push bike, do bungey jumps even if the people running the jump look as if they have not worked out how to tie you in properly. You can feel safe on a holiday in a totally illogical way. This is the mistake they made.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 am
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/09/23/sighting-no2-but-cops-did-nothing-98487-19833529/
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 am
Ade is just my name - never get a job in Pinochet-loving McCannLand boo hoo…
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:51 am
And moderation in all things MCCann - we can’t critisise the poor fragrant darlings…
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:51 am
there’s no way to upload the link. look at the article in the sunday mirror from today about the trip to Fatima. I hope this post works.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:50 am
Then we have Garth
That superhuman character of Shetlands fame..
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/garth.htm
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 am
876
This post that links to Kate’s interview on her own is so touching and I think has helped explain a lot.
In a relationship one person is dominant and usually acts a spokes person (I have often noticed it is the woman but in this case Gerry acts as spokes person). Interviewed on her own Kate speaks exactly as you would expect a traumatised mother to speak, it seems very natural in the circumstances.
In the interview she says she wanted to be on her own for that interview so she could talk in her own words.
In the very early days they both looked traumatised. They also looked as though they had another layer to their trauma that could have been percieved as guilt but this can be explained by the wretchedness they were feeling of having left the children on their own (which is also guilt but on of contributory negligence not involvement in a crime).
She also says in that interview she knew cuddle cat could be important and she preserved it.
I think perhaps people want to believe it was them because the thought of some random bas***d taking your child and killing them and disposing of the body so it is never found and the parents have to live in limbo forever is too unbearable to contemplate.
No one would want a parent to suffer so much at another persons hands but if the parents did it themselves then it makes it easier to bear.
Poor family
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 am
938 Garth
But I assume you could see your chalet door? If not then you’re as believable as the McCanns…………………………
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 am
what the hell is going on here? I can’t post anything, have they put some filters?
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 am
What’s in a name?
A lot I think if you are speculating as to spotting the McCannics amongst us. McCannics PR machine people think they are smart and superior, anonymous and glamorous. Now what name would I choose? - let’s try The Real Stig.
Is it Stig of the dump - a callous, arrogant reference to where the suitcase and its human contents are located?
Is it The Stig (apologies to Perry McCarthy, the excellent F1 driver) of Top Gear fame, that masked knight in white armour?
Any comments and any other name possibles for our McCannics fans?
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 am
Moderation
Garth, having once again skimmed a few of the posts from overnight, I realise there is no point in trying to put across any points that the cyber bullies don’t agree with.
I give it two minutes before you’re accused of working for the McCanns… I notice Stig got that one last night and maria and Fiona were accused of being supporting Catholics!
I know………………………sad isan’t it?
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
Ann,
Okay, you have a point.
Mr. McCann’s blog came across very strange to me too. I would not have been jogging but I assume they had a different way to cope. Finally when Ylenia went missing I realized her parents were probably not jogging and blogging about it. So, it took all of that for me to have trouble writing off some of the behavior of the McCanns. Without knowing the McCanns before the disappearance it is difficult to notice what might have been different or out of character about them. For that reason I give much benefit of the doubt.
YES. I agree with your reasoning about leaving the children alone. What would a three year old and two two year olds do if awake alone for any length of time? I have said that over and over again right here on this forum. YES.
The problem I have is I don’t have a clue what Mrs. McCann was like before Madeleine went missing. There is nothing before and after to compare.
Now that you wake me I remember making a few observations. Mr. McCann said “was” and that struck me at the time. He made excuses after excuses, “safer than riding in a car” YES, I noticed. No, I don’t believe leaving the children alone was like being in your garden. Mrs. was upset in the beginning but not when the dog study was done and the death theory considered. That was odd to me. Mr. McCann stated before leaving Portugal that they didn’t want all the press. He said that had not been the intention. Now, with Clarence the articles are spinning faster than I can read them all?
Ann, wow, I like you. You remind me of Nancy Grace.
My concern what I wrote in #925. The McCanns act unusual, okay. My concern is what happened and what is happening now. I think what is happening now is as unsual as anything else in this case! YES.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 am
m.e. wrote
Left alone with no babysitter with the door unlocked. I CANT believe this and yet it happened.
Beleive it!
I have done the same thing myself whilst on holiday in Cyprus. My daughter was 7 and my son 3. Our chalet was right opposite the pool and we were at poolside.
The thought of a paedophile coming in and taking one of our children didn’t cross our minds. Why should it? We were on holiday. We were in the presense of nice people within a very family oriented complex. But in truth the very same could of happened to us. Hindsight is a great thing.
Lets move on!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 am
moderation - what site do you go to for adult discussion?, I tend to agree with you.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Garth, having once again skimmed a few of the posts from overnight, I realise there is no point in trying to put across any points that the cyber bullies don’t agree with.
I give it two minutes before you’re accused of working for the McCanns… I notice Stig got that one last night and maria and Fiona were accused of being supporting Catholics!
There is a lot of interesting stuff in the papers today but its not even worth repeating because no-one now is interested in anything other than nit-picking on every little irrelevancy!
I come here for amusement and research but go to another forum for adult discussion!
I’ve visited Anorak for years and love the ironic take on the news but that has now been lost…. shame.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 am
I thought we knew everything.
Nappies, fish$chips, rotten steaks, stinking rats and labradors.
But no. Their computer batteries last for 4 or 8 hours without charging up…what make are they? I would be interested in one of them.
I also would be interested to know what the … and the Mccanns had to talk about for 45 minutes?
More: would it be possible that the Mccanns had a nice gossip with the … whilst they burried the child?
And what did they do on their way back?
that’s the sixt try to post.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:29 am
posting will not work
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:25 am
930 ANN
you are correct but as I’ve said numerous times on here we have to follow this argument to its almost inevitable conclusion:
Left alone. I can believe this but not agree with it.
Left alone with no babysitter. I can believe this but not agree with it.
Left alone with no babysitter with the door unlocked. I CANT believe this and yet it happened.
So logic to me says that because the final option is something nobody would contemplate then the McCanns are hiding something in saying that it did. Because they wouldnt have done it either.
Think about it. Kids alone, no babysitter, door unlocked. Its the most absurd arrangement that one could possibly devise for childcare but it is the ONLY story that allows for the McCanns to be hiding a probable alternative truth here.
We really need to stop accepting that they did it and question, in the absence of any logic to the arrangement, the likelihood that this story is a deliberate fabrication to facilitate the real events that night.