
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.
Posted: 24th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,048) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 25th, 2007 at 9:12 am
1023
It means sedate kids in food before shagging
September 25th, 2007 at 9:11 am
1022
Oh gawd. I meant you’re………..trust me!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:10 am
1019 just me
Bingo:
http://www.swingersboard.com/?swing=dictionary
September 25th, 2007 at 9:09 am
1019 just me
Someone posted here recently that terms like “social tennis” are euphemisms in the swinger circuit (means a “foursome” I think nudge nudge…). So maybe “high tea” means something the queen might not have heard about…
I’ll see f I can find out more. never really thought about swinger culture before…
September 25th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Anyway, nuff said. I think you’ve proved to most that your just a jerk!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:04 am
1014just me
Agreed but I tend to find it’s the best way to silence little oiks who have a class problem and vocabulary limited to “fuck off”. I find it not important or necessary to point out simple grammatical and spelling errors when people post comments here showing they actually have something to say.
Nuff said…
September 25th, 2007 at 9:02 am
1016
You what?
Like yours are? The wolhe pnoiit about my didsain towadrs a letlite tirwp lkie you is beuacse of teh carp taht enmaites form oens gob!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:57 am
re: high tea, I thought it was the likes of the Queen who use terms like that. very la di da in my opinion.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:55 am
1010. Chloe.
Thanks for the reply. Indeed I am in Spain, only been here four months though so still learning the language and customs. At the moment I still say Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Ade - now now lol, ive read some of your posts on previous days, why now lower yourself to the standard of Garth? he obviously has nothing better to do or say.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:53 am
1012 garth
Shurely shome mishtake…
“poor bleeder’s” is better grammar, I fear
Shoe eh? How posh…
Do you have any original comments about the thread topic, by some remote chance?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:51 am
(987) Molly.
Thank you for that. Very enlightening. But if they have so much evidence, why don’t they charge them?
(982) BT. I agree except that my choice would be your number 2! If she really thought M had been taken, however hysterical she was, I believe she would somehow have been able to answer the questions of resort staff about what M was wearing. Plus the fact that surely somebody -the friend who was “looking after her”, for example, or GM himself- would have been desperately trying to find out who “they” were. GM was out looking for M and calling her name (which, I grant you, could also have been the case if she had been abducted). However, if the abduction was so clear, why wasn’t he trying to get this information from KM?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:51 am
seems a bit pathetic to me really, if all people can do is slate spelling mistakes, how childish is that? lol
September 25th, 2007 at 8:48 am
1007 Ade
Not ” gotten” unless he is American but it should be “must have” not “must of ” - a common grammatical mistake, if we are nit-picking of course. Gotten is a horrible word….
1008 just_me
You are joking of course !! in the absence of anything new on the case under discussion, it seems to be down to “let’s have a go at each other”…..!! Everyone makes spelling and grammar mistakes but apart from that twit who uses capitals all the time and deliberately mis-spells, I think we can be excused because it’s too late once you click the “Submit” button and “Spellchecker” doesn’t seem to work on here and after all - does it really matter ? we all know what we meant to say and it is only those of diminished intellectual capacity who seem to find it necessary to “point and laugh” !!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:46 am
1007
……..poor bleeders still stuck to the bottom of my shoe!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Molly
987
Don’t ever underestimate the sharply honed minds of the Portuguese. They’re smarter than given credit for.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:42 am
(989) Andy, they probably say “high tea” at the resort to make it clear that it’s a proper meal. Perhaps Portuguese children are like Spanish ones (you’re in Spain aren’t you), who have “merienda” (tea) on returning from school at around 5 p.m. and ·”cena” (the main evening meal) later (the time depends, probably between 8 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.).
September 25th, 2007 at 8:38 am
good morning all, whats new today then apart from more personal attacks on each other?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:35 am
1005 garth
“Well spotted. I guess you must of got some sleep last night then? Now fuck off and get a job!”
Did you mean “must have gotten” perchance?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am
1001
Well spotted. I guess you must of got some sleep last night then? Now fuck off and get a job!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am
1002 bt
Well maybe that’s what her age would have been by the time this circus is over…
September 25th, 2007 at 8:28 am
998 carmen
Could this be linked to the “rationing scandal” too?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7010413.stm
Our nice Dr O’Brien could save Gordie a few million a day, te be sure begorrah
September 25th, 2007 at 8:26 am
999
Just shows how difficult it is to get facts right in the newspaper
5 year old daugher?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:25 am
995 garth
your
Did you mean you’re, the shortened version of you are, perchance?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:24 am
993
On compasionate leave surely.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:24 am
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297598,00.html
September 25th, 2007 at 8:23 am
995 garth - yep you still seem to be here with your erudite comments…
September 25th, 2007 at 8:20 am
As the old saying goes Ade - You can tell a lot about people by their friends.
As to prescriptions … well who knows? But IF sedatives are involved, then logic dictates that they will be sedatives not available over the counter, and I find it hard to forget that Russell O’Brien is a clinical pharmacologist who specialises in opiates.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:19 am
988
Looks like we’ve still got the blumbering idiots on this site.
Ade, your like a bad smell that just won’t go away. Oooooh how I’d like to pay you a visit and freshen you up a little. TWAT!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Hi
Thanks for the reply. Anyone got reliable references to the police manual and the forensic book, by title and by whether they were there before the abduction.
Obviously they might have it after that especially if they are concerned about police practices in Portugal.