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 24th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Blunger… what did I say to you???? Nothing I don’t think!
Bulldump asked what he’d said and I told him. He doesn’t offend me, I made no comment and its not your problem!
My name was chosen in the beginning because I tried to be moderate.. I offered to change it, mods and admin said no prob.
I don’t know where you’re coming from with regard to me right now! Unless of course you’ve been promoted to mods and admin?
September 24th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
“656 Yes, that is the nature of a belief: it is applied to more than one example of a practice.”
Now there is a MUCH nicer, cleverer post, eh ? If you really must compete, do it WELL !
rofl
September 24th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
blunger
i personally think it would have been more eloquent as a translation of my quote to have descibed it as an excrement recepticle as oppossed to a container for excrement.
ps. standards is not spelt satnards
September 24th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Marvellous day out. A choice pint of Doom with Karen Carpenter on the juke box “We’ve only just begun” - could be an excellent choice for Maddie’s song - just listen to the words. Especially - as how similar Karen’s early death robbed us all. Then walking back up the lane on tonight’s moonlit night (as it was on 3rd May when they were desecrating that poor young girl’s dignity) I have just heard the screech of the barn owl. Whispering death the Japs called the WW II Bristol Beaufighter. Came up silently from nowhere to destroy its prey. Just like my local barn owl. Equipped with stealth feathers to make it the silent assassin… The bringer of justice to the evil conspirators…
Fiction? Nope it all just happened to me and I felt it through my very soul and that’s why I know we will nail the bastards…
Now give me an hour or two to read what has happened since I was shopping at 3 p.m.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
656 Yes, that is the nature of a belief: it is applied to more than one example of a practice.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
570 - The Real Stig
I would have replied earlier but the site wasn’t working for me.
I gave one link to stories about the blood being from falling over on the plane steps but there are plenty of them…look in Google yourself.
To clarify my point…
The papers were full of stories refuting the blood DNA evidence and said it could have come from Madeleine falling over and bleeding when she slipped while boarding the plane. Whether those stories came directly or not from the McCanns is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the McCann supporters circulated that story. By supporter, I include papers that are pro-McCann.
The video shows clearly that Madeleine did not bleed heavily if at all from boarding the plane. There was hardly any tumble at all - indeed, she fell on her hands quite softly and the call from the cameraman “are you alright” was not shouted with the sort of vigour that one would do if she had fallen really badly. In fact, I think the call was from the cameraman who filmed Gerry saying “f-off” to the camera on the other clip we’ve all seen. At least the voices are the same.
But let’s give them the benefit of doubt for a moment. Let’s say Madeleine did cut herself there so badly that it dripped blood. Firstly, don’t you think her trouser leg would be badly stained and require washing? Don’t you think the parents would have remembered that months ago instead of coming out with the tale after getting grilled about the DNA evidence? Don’t you think a cut so bad would require medical attention and be remembered by all? And hey…it would surely have healed inside a week wouldn’t it?
You give me a hard time because I’m not pro-McCann. Well, today after reading stories about whether Kate is or isn’t pregnant, I say that is distasteful and although I’m not a pro-McCann, I do think that line of discussion is out of order and disrespectful to anyone.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
447 Brandonflour
“PR at its worst
If she knows people who regularly leave their children on their own and says nothing ? Shes a horrible human being”
Well if you think that about her you would also think that about this journalist also because he says essentially the same thing: http://tinyurl.com/yrz7bu
September 24th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Oh alright. I’ll find it myself then! (-:
September 24th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
The last line of my last post should read of course
The judge does NOT comment upon whether K & G answered any or enough questions before.
Incidentally, that is the difference between being a witness and an arguido in Portugal.
The former does not have to answer all questions while the latter does.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
bulldump
Sorry……….I wasn’t supporting you. lol.Think you read into that one wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time though would it?
September 24th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Moderation
We all just have to try to get on, read past each others little idiosyncracies and try to tease out the actual points being made, where there are any.
Bulldump spreads filth and insults, I sound unbelievably pompous, Judith C criticises the spelling/grammar of people typing as fast as possible who may not even have english as their first language, The Real Stig and Maria appear so closed-mind as to maybe be in the pay of the McCanns, you chose a name apparently designed to mislead the newbie, and respond with relish to every opportunity at being personal…..
I could go on and on. But it doesn’t matter, see ? We have to live with it and each modulate our behaviour by our own satnards, regardless of how others behave. We’re like a horrid dysfunctional family. Stuck with eachother unless we want to depart.
Only June Johnson decides what is unacceptable, and the rest of us can leave if we don’t like it.
Just like many of us can leave (and I’m sure some have gone for good) when the selfish personalised bickering clogs things up to much.
So all calm down, adhere to your own standards, and if some people want to compare you to a container for excrement, just see it as their problem and ignore it.
There, that’s my pompous two-pennorth (again).
September 24th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
andy, i don’t wanna sound petty, but could you please refrain from using uppercase initail letters when refering to the mccanns.
they don’t qualify for proper noun status
September 24th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
647 So the McCanns took the book with them for reference and then didn’t bother to hide it/get rid of it? even though it is oh so relevant? and even though the villa was never searched by the PJ? Did they just hand it over and say ‘fancy some evidence’?
Come on, that really is a big leap for the imagination even if the McCanns are guilty. Especially if the McCanns are guilty.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
643
The statment you quote does not touch on whether Kate answered all or some of the questions put to her in Portugal.
“Since the police have not collected any elements of proof after the parents became arguidos on September 7 that justifies any new actions, I have not requested any new interviews” .
It is an explanation of why further questioning is not going ahead now.
The explanation is that no new evidence has emerged since September 7th.
The judge does comment upon whether K & G answered any or enough questions before.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
lol, thanks for the support gareth
September 24th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Real Stig says
“British police took forensics book to Portugal”. What happened next, according to this theory which you consider to be the MOST likely explanation?
Surely the most likely explanation for a book being in the McCann apartment would be that said book belonged to the McCanns.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
stig, how abouts kate’s lie that she was offered a deal for a confession, or did aunti phil dream that up over a cream bun?
September 24th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
638
not quite as much as bull shit!
September 24th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
633 Then truly it must be a gift from Our Lord, A miracool.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
442 puzzled
“I ask all those who are so convinced the McCanns are innocent - why do they not answer the questions and help? If they have nothing to hide - why are they hiding?”
They have NOT refused to answer questions. This is a lie cooked up by the Portuguese leak. Here, verbatim, is what the judge who reviewed the evidence presented to him by the PJ said.
“Since the police have not collected any elements of proof after the parents became arguidos on September 7 that justifies any new actions, I have not requested any new interviews.”
September 24th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
eloquent and illiterate
September 24th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
why has my last post been under moderation since y/day?
September 24th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
damn, i’m elloquent
September 24th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Oh and how can I rubbish the article when what I said was more or less the same?? give it a rest, you’re a pain in the arse.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
lol, and mods and admin let it stand.
mods and admins actions speak volumes
September 24th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Bulldump…. you said…..
moderation, you still keep on with your condescending tone, even though you are only good for opening up and shitting in
Okay? remember it now?
September 24th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
rab, i could have told you moderation would rubbish the article as soon as i posted the link. it was in all the papers though
September 24th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
i have never for one minute believed mimikins claims that he was working as one with the pj.
they may well have led him to believe this was the case though!
September 24th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Cheers for the article, Bulldump.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Can someone post a link that say’s the IVF conceptions were required because of Mrs McCanns infertility and not Mr McCanns please?
If Mrs McCann is pregnant (I can’t see it myself) and she is not infertile then maybe the explanation is a simple one. It’s not Mr McCanns.