Madeleine McCann: A House Of Love, Find the Body & What Kate McCann Screamed
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. ‘FIND BODY OR McCANNS WILL ESCAPE’ – Prosecutors ultimatum to Portuguese police.”
The case against Kate and Gerry McCanns is “hanging by a thread”.
A police sources says: “There is a determination within the force to bring this investigation to a satisfactory conclusion but there is a growing fear that without a body, that goal will be impossible.”
Pages 4 and 5: “Our reputation is tarnished forever” – Each day the McCanns prepare themselves for the “worst case scenario”. No, not that they will be wrongly convicted, rather they will learn of Madeleine’s death.
Clarence Mitchell says: “In the middle of this people forget this is still a family who are potentially facing bereavement but are still in that awful limbo position of not knowing what has happened to their daughter.” Thankfully Mr Mitchell is on hand to remind people of this every day.
“Doubts on the McCanns by a lie detector expert” – THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER asks John Ryan, of International Truth Verification Technologies Institute, to listen to Kate McCann’s voice. Says she: “However I think there is some sort of deception when I hear the lady speaking, either over the event or in avoiding showing her true feelings”.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE – find a body or there is no case.”
Page 5: “Gerry and Kate have often talked about the possibility of Madeleine being found dead. That would be the worst news but it would at least give them some..CLOSURE”. So says a “source close to the legal team”.
Antonio Cluny, President of the Public Prosecution Service, says: “Without the little girl’s body, everything is complicated… In the Maddy case, there is no confession and, according to what has been made public, the evidence gathered up until now keeps all leads open – from abduction to homicide or at least to a simple accident”.
DAILY MAIL front page: “EXCLUSIVE: Eyewitness reveals Maddie’s mother DID shout: ‘They’ve taken her’ after four-year-old vanished. WHAT KATE DID SCREAM.”
Nanny Charlotte Pennington is in Praia da Luz. She hears Kate McCann scream: “They’ve taken her, they’ve taken her!” The McCanns say Kate screamed “Madeleine’s gone”.
Sensation. Front-page news.
Page 4: “Nanny Pennington, who worked at the Ocean Club, is pictured. She’s wearing a brown beret and a pink coat. Her tights are black. Her legs are crossed.
“I was in the apartment less than five minutes after they found that Madeleine had gone. When we were coming out we saw Kate and she was screaming: ‘They’ve taken her, they’ve taken her’… It might not have been the first thing she said. But she definitely said it.”
So…
“She also repeated Madeleine’s name and said: ‘She’s gone, she’s gone.’”
Anyone hear anything else?
THE SUN page 24: “MADDIE LAW CHIEF: NO BODY, NO CASE.” Antonio Clunes says: “There have been cases in which it was possible to obtain a conviction without a victim – but there were confessions.”
But the McCanns are innocent, says a source. And they are not confessing. They are talking through their spokesperson.
DAILY STAR front page: “COPS CLOSE IN ON MADDIE. Final pieces of tragic jigsaw falling into place.”
Pages 4 and 5: “FIND THE BODY OR THEY WALK. Law bosses tell Portuguese cops to step up hunt.”
“TWINS’ HOUSE OF LOVE” – Clarence Mitchell says the McCanns have built a “house of love” for their family. Mr Mitchell says the McCanns are living “every parent’s worst nightmare times ten”. Mr Mitchell used to work for the tabloid press.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 13: “Case against McCanns ‘rests on finding body’.”
Clarence Mitchell says: “They did not harm, let alone kill her.”
THE TIMES page 11: “No body, no conviction says McCann police.”
THE GUARDIAN & THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news.
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September 25th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
209. Michael would kill to be in the press every day solid for four months, so I think I probably can. Plus they have a P.R. Their strategy is similar to launching a film or some other showbiz event. And I bet you anything they will be studied in future media classes - I’m doing English and Politics and several lecturers have already factored them into their classes.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
206,
you are assuming that everything was to the dot, spot on 10 oclock. Most people say around, just before or just after if they are asked about timelines of past events.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I am not on the jury!!!!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
207
I mean
the pope
the priest
the plane
the church
the couple hand in hand
the suitcase
the crosses
the blood
the wide eyed little girl with gapped teeth
the skeletons and skulls
the lady
the priest holding cuddle cat
the laptop
the long knifey thing
the churchdoor way
SKSK
Where did the original poster go?
when were thy drawn?
September 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Although, if on a jury, I would consider letting Mr. McCann off for a panic, the rest of the story on tape is another thought entirely.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
200
Know a few geologists - as they say, when looking for oil, it is all in the play -
but not an A P Blair.
At the risk of giving too much away - the clue to the Rt Hon. A P Blair reference lies in the history of 11KBW.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
nononethere Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
193,
” I don’t think that most doctors would unnecessarily medicate a child. I DO think hiding mistakes, lying, and covering up is embedded in the mentality of the profession..”
Massive assumption based on your own opinion and would never stand up in court as “proof of the mentality of the profession”.
Possibly the statistics involving insurance fraud would? or the statistics of the numbers dead as a result of medical mistakes? There are statistics but as the mentality of cover up I was only trying to say that on a jury I would possibly excuse Mr. McCann for a panic and a cover up because he likely spent much of his time doing that daily in my opinion. YES. So my thought actually was in his favor.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
143. Sam.
I read the article early this morning so didn’t quite take it all in. That’s a good point you’ve raised. I wonder how the spin will work on this. Will they take a chance and discredit the nanny, therefore putting everything else she says into doubt or let it stand and hope it gets buried soon?
Another thing that I noticed, and somebody else earlier mentioned, is the nanny says “Just before 10pm the last mother arrived to collect her child from the creche and mentioned that she had just bumped into a man, who had been shouting a name.”
So, given this, that means that Mrs McCann must have walked back to the apartment, discovered Madeleine was missing, looked around for her (as was said earlier this week), ran back to the restaurant to tell Mr McCann, then she ran back to the apartment (I assume Mr McCann would also return and not just start randomly running around shouting on his own immediately.), showed Mr McCann that indeed Madeleine was missing and then waited at the apartment while Mr McCann started his search, (when he was seen by the woman going to pick her child up.) ALL BEFORE TEN!
Given the distances (from the restaurant to the apartment and back and from where the woman saw Mr McCann to the creche.) , the time taken by Mrs McCann to search around the apartment (why not anywhere else?), and the time taken for Mr McCann to accept that his daughter was missing and start to search I’d say a good ten minutes must have passed since Mrs McCann got up the last time. As the nanny says just before ten, this makes it around 9.45 - 47 when Mrs McCann stood up.
Now how does that add up with the facts as presented before?
“9.25 Gerry McCann returns to the restaurant. Mr Oldfield leaves to check on his own children
9.30 Mr Oldfield goes to the McCann’s apartment; he doesn’t raise any suspicions at the time but later says that he noticed there was more light in the apartment. Russell O’Brien leaves at the same time, to discover that his daughter is vomiting
9.35 Mr Oldfield returns to the table
9.55 Mr O’Brien returns.”
Why would Mrs McCann get up at 9.45-9.47 if Mr Oldfield returned at 9.35? Why would Mr O’Brien return at 9.55 if Madeleine had been discovered missing by then?
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Sorry if this appears convoluted, I am staying awake on Coke and Coffee!
September 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
184, 205
Yes me too - I’m no spring chicken (although not quite an old boiler yet either
), and life experience taught me long ago to accept little at face value!
September 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
203, Bollocks! Big rude word for a teenager.
You can not equate the celebrity status that is the magnitude of Micheal Jackson to your sister being in love with Kate McCann because she likes her clothes etc. It is not good debating material.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
204 karen
Blood Fame - Oooooh Errrrrr I like that one
The McCanno Machine will be using that one te be sure begorrahhh…
September 25th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
198 brandoflour Says:
“What did you see?”
Not sure I understand your question…just very harrowing images (here: http://www.flutgut.com/maddie/ ).
September 25th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
nononethere 188
“Just before 10pm the last mother arrived to collect her child from the creche and mentioned that she had just bumped into a man, who had been shouting a name. ” http://tinyurl.com/34xuqv
Therefore, the search was going on before 10pm unless the nanny too got the time wrong. I’m just going by what is written/quoted.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
184 m.e.
Good point about “trusting mindset”. In my lifetime I have clearly noticed how my own levels of cynicism (I has to write an essay on it at 16) and disillusionment have dramatically changed. It is likely that the posters here have a fairly wide age range, I being one of the - let’s say - mature examples.
I think this has a profound effect on the whole business of “I don’t trust them, I don’t believe them, nobody would leave a child” etc. You have had to be around a bit to pick some of these things up. And it’s a question of confidence too that comes with age and experience.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Response to: 2 that they such make a statement (in writing and not before the cameras) sayings simply that they were prepared to answer any questions that the PJ may wish to put to them, that they were going to make no further comments to the media, and that they expected the PJ sources to do the same.
To answer the questions the first time around would have been the appropriate thing to do. To go back after there all the “heavy weight’s” appeared could be questioned as something worked out behind the scenes?
September 25th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
190. Bollocks. By day three Kate was a heroine in the Women’s press. If you’re a man you might not know that. My sister is 29 and ten years older than me, by the way, and she loves Kate. She loves her house, her clothes, how thin she is, her career combined with the kids, her patience in the face of her suffering… She tells me that I don’t understand because I’m a teenager, like I don’t understand about Michael because I don’t remember the 80s.
Instant Celebrity is a feature of British life - although Blood Fame is a new one.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
193,
” I don’t think that most doctors would unnecessarily medicate a child. I DO think hiding mistakes, lying, and covering up is embedded in the mentality of the profession..”
Massive assumption based on your own opinion and would never stand up in court as “proof of the mentality of the profession”.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/09/morocco-police-and-madeleine-sightings.html
Maddie, sorry! Madeleine in Morrocco? Seems doubtful accoriding to this article.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
139 A P Blair is a well known geologist.
As you know from your geology reference above.
Perhaps a ‘comedic’ online geologist character would be less pressure for you to maintain than this SL character you keep on churning out.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Paticia, yes agree, have you noticed that there are never any “bad” pictures of them, you know the ones like, putting the rubbish out, no make up, hair amess, crumpled clothes, the twins are always immaculate, all the photos are posed, even the damn cuddle cat is spotless, how come we never saw photos of the rotten meat in the car !!!
September 25th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
194
What did you see?
September 25th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
188,
No I don’t agree because where does it state that the woman was there precisely on the 10 oclock dot. I pick up my daughter at 3pm form her nursery and many times I am usually 5-7 minutes late so in acutality it would make sense that this woman did hear the commotion outside at the time that Kate found Madeleine missing.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
187 - You, me! In total agreement. You have made my day!!! If they did this it would also help bring all the focus back on finding that poor child.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
(143) Sam.
If you look at GMs FriendsReunited entry (most of which was prior to Madeleine’s disappearance, although he apparently removed a line that referred to their need for babysitters at a later date!!!), you will see that he calls her “Maddie” (spelt like that). So their insistence that she be called Madeleine must be for some other reason, not because they called her that.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
167 brandoflour Says:
“I am upset by these pictures”
Me too….very disturbing….
September 25th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
One more thought about the medicated death theory. I don’t think that most doctors would unnecessarily medicate a child. I DO think hiding mistakes, lying, and covering up is embedded in the mentality of the profession. For that reason, I think IF, in theory, Mr. McCann could actually be a victim of that aspect of the profession he is in to the point it should, in theory, be considered a defense.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
188
john yes indeedy
99
http://www.flutgut.com/maddie/
please look at these pictures !!!!
and tell me where they are from
September 25th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
189 john
yep good point..
September 25th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
176,
michael Jackson is a well established celebrity who has been making popular music for years, so it makes sense that your little sister who sees him as a musical hero could not admit that he might be guilty of any wrong doing.
No one knew the McCanns before Madeleine went missing, so it is unfair to compare those who think the Mccanns are innocent to the experience with your sister and Micheal Jackson.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
173 brandoflour
Don’t understand. I wrote 99…