Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat Innocent, Private Detectives & Kate McCann’s Hot Lips
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “WE’LL FIND HER OURSELVES. Maddy parents bring in SAS private detectives”.
Kate and Gerry McCann have hired Control Risk Group, billed as a “crack security firm”, to find their daughter.
Page 5: “THE PROFESSIONALS” – There’s TV show in this. The Portuguese police could be the Keystone Cops, at least that’s what the tabloid press portrays them as.
“Millionaire ex-double glazing boss” is the mystery benefactor paying McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell’s wages. The former window cleaner owns Sale Sharks ruby union club. Look out for their new sponsor.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. ‘McCanns ARE LYING’ - Portuguese police says friends are in cover-up.”
Robert Murat is to be told he will not face charges. Kate and Gerry McCann will be the only named suspects.
“SMILING” – The WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPERS leads with a picture of Kate McCann grinning.
Pages 4 and 5: “Kidnap? We just don’t; believe it.” It is reported in Portugal that an unnamed Irishman has come forward to say he was in the same place as the McCanns’ friend Jane Tanner. She told police she had seen a man carrying child dashing from the Ocean Club resort in the direction of Robert Murat’s home. The new witness says he saw no-one.
“’GUILT’ OF PARENTS - More than 60 per cent think the couple know what has happened to Madeleine.”
“WHEN KATE WAS HOT LIPS HEALEY” – 15 YEARS AGO Kate was nicknamed hot lips for her resemblance to Loretta Swit in TV comedy M*A*S*H. The Express has seen her Dundee University year book and the comments - “Kate was great fun”; “renowned for alcoholic binges and some ‘dance till you drop’ nocturnal activities”; “she was certainly more interested in going to the pub than she was in her studies” etc.
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: PARENTS ARE LYING. Cops say McCanns & friends tried to frame suspect Murat.”
Pages 4 and 5: “McCANNS ‘ARE LYING’.”
A phone poll: “DO YOU BELIEVE THE McCANNS ARE LYING?” Let’s see if we can top that 60 per cent in the Star’s sister paper the Daily Express. Vote now and vote often.
THE SUN pages 12 and 13: “TWIN’S LIFT FOR MUM AND DAD.”
Kate and Gerry McCann are with son Sean. They have been to Mass. Kate sobs when Ave Maria is sung. Daughter Amelie is in nursery school. She is plying with the Cuddle Cat. She bursts into laughter, “her giggles rang around the building”.
DAILY MAIL front page: “Madeleine:
• Ex-SAS team joins hunt
• New sighting in Morocco
• Kate breaks down in church
• Police accused over forensics”
Page 8: “McCanns hire an ex-SAS team to hunt for Maddie.”
“Second witness supports sighting in Morocco” – Remember when Marl Pollard said she saw Madeleine in Morocco? Now we lean that a man also saw Madeleine in Morocco.
THE INDEPENDENT PAGE 17: “Murat no longer suspect.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 10: “McCanns hired detective firm with ex-SAS men”. Under Portuguese law, the McCanns are not permitted to carry out their own investigation in Portugal. But they can investigate in other countries.
THE TIMES front page: “McCann investigators” – McCanns hire private security firm.
Pages 12 and 13: “How they managed to turn campaign around.” The McCanns are “winning the propaganda war”. They have gone on the “offensive”.
A family source says: “It is for the police to prove they are guilty.”
GUARDIAN: No Madeleine news today.
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October 2nd, 2007 at 5:17 am
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September 29th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
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September 27th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Just goes to show you can’ belive everything you read in the papers !!
CBS News says : -
An Associated Press reporter reached the girl and her family Wednesday in Zinat in northern Morocco, the mountain village where the photo was taken and where the family works a modest olive farm.
The girl is 3-year-old Bouchra Ahmed Ben Aissa, and in the photo she was being carried by her mother, Hafida, while her aunt and father were also pictured, family members said.
reports from Morocco.
First Post says :-
The blond child in the snap which emerged yesterday is five-year-old Bushra Binhisa from a Moroccan farming familyreports from Morocco. The blond child in the snap which emerged yesterday is five-year-old Bushra Binhisa from a Moroccan farming family
September 26th, 2007 at 8:28 am
1054 bulldump
Well thanks for sharing that with us - not something most of us would readily admit to knowing so let yourself down a bit there, obviously YOU are not one of the “High TEA” brigade !!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
‘HIGH T’ IS A TRYST WHEN YOU ARE STONED
September 25th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
987 and 1028 Molly
Thanks for informing us about the interview with the PJ spokesman. I hope he’s being truthful about how confident the PJ are in their case and it’s not just a bluff. Your point about the PJ taking the full time they have allotted to them to investigate and make further discoveries before pressing charges makes a lot of sense.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Molly 1051
You could be right, I have a “family member ” who continually refers to the sitting room as the “Drawing Room”, not even “the lounge” you note, and then there’s the classic thing where intelligent people supposedly suffer from “Alzheimers” but the lesser mortals suffer from “dementia” - like one sounds more sophisticated than the other !!
Why not just refer to the kids tea as just that ? why give it a perceived elevated status by calling it “high” tea ? My aforesaid “family member” also used to put her children in the nursery all afternoon for their afternoon “nap” before giving them their “high tea” because that’s what “posh” people do !!
Sorry if we lesser mortals find it hard to get to where K & G are coming from but it is just another measure of how out of touch with reality they are, or perhaps they are in denial…….
September 25th, 2007 at 11:22 am
I wonder if ‘High Tea’ are the words that Mark Warner actually use to describe this children’s meal, or if it is a phrase Team McCann themselves have chosen to use as a way of demonstarating just how far above the rest of the population they are in terms of class? …. I must check that out when I have a spare 5 minutes.
‘Ludicrous’ is the ‘post being made arguido’ Buzzword - it replaces it’s cousins ‘Hurtful’ and ‘Unhelpful’ which were bandied about freely before 7 September.
The fact that the whole Team continually overuse the same words at any given point leaves me torn between sending them a Thesaurus and incapacitating laughter at the …. well…. sheer ludicrousness of it all
September 25th, 2007 at 10:16 am
High Tea is actually a main meal for kiddies served earlier in the evening, for those who can’t obviously wait until their parents choose to eat at around 8 or so. It isn’t necessarily the province of the “upper class”, just a sensible eating arrangement and a darn sight less stressful than trying to eat your own meals a) a lot earlier than you really want to and b) so that you can enjoy your meal and not have to grab a bite between scraping mush off Junior’s chin whilst trying to stop them playing with their food and wiping it up the four walls !!
September 25th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I prefered the SAS before they became a “brand name”. It started when they stormed the Iranian Embassy in 1980 went further down hill with the 1982 film “Who Dares Wins.” and hit the bottom with Andy McNab.
Now the Royal Signals (my old corps), you don’t get them blowing their own trumpet and jumping into burning buildings on TV. Although if someone where to make a film of them in action, I think Sean Connery could do a passible me!
September 25th, 2007 at 10:10 am
new thread…
September 25th, 2007 at 10:10 am
(989) Andy and (1010) Chloe, isn’t “high tea” a term used to up the resort’s “ambiance” (sorry)? (Wonder how many non-English speakers resort there?) Create illusion for well-heeled young professionals of a time-capsule back to the Bertie Wooster age, as you say. A cross between demi-colonial sunny clime and poolside in Palm Springs.
On the subject of terms, one word thrown in a lot after PJ accused Kate McCann is “ludicrous” e.g.
“Suspicion of McCann’s ‘ludicrous’: Spokesman …. September 18, 2007 “To suggest that they somehow harmed Madeleine accidentally or otherwise is as ludicrous as it is nonsensical,” Clarence Mitchell l told reporters with the McCanns standing beside him outside their home.”
Gerry McCann attacks ‘ludicrous accusations’ ( “sleeping pill line ‘ludicrous’”) Sept 14
Madeleine’s grandmother: Suspicion ‘ludicrous’ Sept 12
“I have never heard anything so utterly ludicrous in my entire life.” Philomena McCann Sept 8
“hurtful and all rather ludicrous” reports in the Portuguese press.” Rachel Oldfield, in joint statement by the friends, Sept 7
“Ludicrous” appears to be Gerry’s word, picked up by family and friends and now by the p-r guy. Does it tell us anything compared to, say, reliance simply on terms like “untrue” or “false”? He could have said accusations against his wife are “utterly wrong” or “grotesque” or even “viciously cruel” (to accuse a bereft mother). Instead, ludicrous and utterly ludicrous (also, relatedly, “ridiculous” and now from the p-r guy “nonsensical.”) These are belittling, scornful, incredulous terms (”how could anyone believe anything as SILLY as that!”).
The arrogant-sounding “ludicrous” clashes with all the misty, sympathetic words evoking Madeleine. Not a good word for diplomatically fending off true accusations. However, it’s a word an innocent man might use if he genuinely feels utterly frustrated and insulted and also afraid of what he feels is inexplicable idiocy.
Ludicrous. Absurd. Elements here of Camus’s Etranger? The absurd as trap. The guy whose failure to cry at his mother’s funeral is held against him when he’s tried for murder. Elements of this in reactions to both McCanns especially Kaste. Held against them both that they don’t *look the part* of grieving parents AND that they look as though they’re overplaying their parts.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:02 am
1044 - can’t bloody trust anyone any more boo hoo.
RSPB? Ade retirement fund?
September 25th, 2007 at 10:00 am
1041 andy - who knows what (if anything) they are doing. The SAS story is perfect GCSE PR coursework summer project stuff. Just use the SAS brand again. The Iranian embassy stuff an’ all dat (Iran/Contras again…).
The hacks like to have SAS on the front page ‘cos they can use big letters at the news stand.
MOSSAD is a bugger ‘cos if you want big letters and do the MOSS above the AD people won’t buy the paper ‘cos they think it’s about that ugly, skinny bint YET again.
So my money’s on letter size as the answer to it all…
42 is brilliant ‘cos that fills the whole page!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I wouldn’t give a cent to the NSPCC. They spend far too much on advertising and paying big salaries than they do actually helping children. Plus they aren’t always above board.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=481243&in_page_id=1770
September 25th, 2007 at 9:51 am
deram - great record label…
September 25th, 2007 at 9:51 am
1039 I agree molly
I posted something about the SAS being a secretive lot and if this mob do have any real SAS connections they will hate the media circus that is McCannoLand!
Did I deram it or wasn’t that firm also involved with Pinochet or Iran/Contra affair - on the baddies side, of course. If so it’s interesting that they employ the Pinochet extradition lawyer (on the baddy Pinochet’s side) as well. A source close to the family will announce Joseph Goebbels has joined the PR team from his SAS base in Paraguay.
Funny that, Goebbels got his missus to kill his 6 children in early May 1945, before they both topped themselves. Not a lot of people know that…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
September 25th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Regarding CRG what capacity do people think they’ve been employed in? After reading their website I think they’ve been taken on as another form of damage control. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was CRG that found the nanny and persuaded her to speak up now.
Does anyone believe the “official” (read media) line that they are searching for Madeleine and checking out possible sightings? Of which I believe there have been none, at least none published, for ages.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Just had a quick google news to see what’s afoot… They all seem to be about a day behind us!
Just had an idea - like in that film called something or other. Someone knows what horse will win the next day’s race… No not the jockeys!
Anyway as we are a day ahead, when we know who dunnit we can go down the bookies and place our bets. Return the next day with a tidy profit pip pip. I’d probably give mine to the NSPCC ;-(
September 25th, 2007 at 9:37 am
On a more relevant note … I see that CRG have not ‘made a statement’, regardless of what Clarence said in HIS statement yesterday about them doing so.
Hardly surprising - I think this company would rather that everyone did not know they existed. Having their name plastered all over the Media is probably not in either their best interests or those of their other clients LOL
September 25th, 2007 at 9:36 am
1034 1036
Bloody hell it’s possible to spin even “high tea”. I can’t believe all this McCanno stuff. It’s like everything becomes tainted with something not very nice… Scary…
September 25th, 2007 at 9:33 am
1033 patricia
yup I agree but surely that’s why katiepoo looks so terrible these days. I’ve posted before that I thoght she looked better on the May videos than she does now. She must be on medication just to get her through the day. gerrykins seems to cope better but I reckon he’s the type who bottles things up then suddenly explodes.
Like shaking up a bottle of champers at high tea maybe…;-)
September 25th, 2007 at 9:26 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)
Apparently ‘High Tea’ is a meal served between 5 and 6pm which combines and replaces both Afternoon Tea and Dinner … it takes the name ‘High’ from the fact that it is served at the main dining table rather than from a low table in the parlour.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Garth…Erudition not your strong point I take it .?
Do you simply come here to abuse people or have anything relevant to actually say ?
Over endless posts you have yet to comment on the subject really.
Best advice from Chinese Philosophy ” If you have noting to say ,then do not say it .”
September 25th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Sod Mick Jagger and HM
One takes high tea at 6 p.m.
http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/culture/a/aftervshigh.htm
Does this mean any alibis/storylines need changing YET again????
September 25th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Live from America
Yesterday, I think, there was a picture of the apartment where Madeleine and the twins were left alone. Some time back there was a picture showing the room set up where Madeleine and the twins were left sleeping. My thought was the room with an exist door didn’t look like a good idea at first glance. The initial problem of leaving the children unattended was met with excuses. Why from beginning to end is there a need for so many excuses?
If your child is missing you answer the questions. Why would stories about the twins attending pre-school be more important than providing answers the police need to make determinations? Why so much time spent preparing for photos and stories that offer nothing in comparison to what might be gained by cooperating with the police?
If the situation since Madeleine’s disappearance has been a hoax, I have difficulty understanding the desire to continue… To wake everyday with the idea of salvaging a reputation that was lost using the same approach is LUDICROUS.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:20 am
1027 sorry, that’s brandoflour. I was laughing so much my finger slipped…
Is that a good defence in court?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:20 am
The Famous Five always had High Tea
Of no use whatsoever in the context of this thread, but I’m feeling whimsical…
Ham, Bread and Butter, Cakes and Lashings of Ginger Beer
September 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
1027 brabdoflour very sharp…
September 25th, 2007 at 9:17 am
1019 just me
High tea doesn’t seem to be in the url I posted and I can’t find it in several other swinger sites either.
It could be that high tea means what the Queen does at 4 p.m. ?
(Mick Jagger had dirty habits, taking tea at three in the song…)
Such a breath of fresh air to get something without a spin on it…
September 25th, 2007 at 9:13 am
1015 - Hi Chloe
I would imagine that the PJ aren’t charging them yet because they don’t have to… they have another 7 months to investigate, search for Madeleine’s body and refine the evidence into a cast iron case. At the moment they presumably (judging by that interview) have enough to charge them with concealing a death/disposing of a body … but they are still waiting for more results from Birmingham, which may make cause of death and events clearer, and if they can find Madeleine’s remains in the time available to them (up to 11 months with an extension) then so much the better.