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.
Posted: 25th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,296) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 25th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
406 oment of truth
“just wait till it’s a bad mccann news day.”
I thought every day was a bad Mccann news day
September 25th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
420. Well, I’m Scottish too, so you’re buggered on a racism charge.
Anyway your slang’s all over the place. No Scot says fings. Maybe you’re a Scotney?
September 25th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
remember when that bad news day comes, and for sure it’s coming, you won’t have time to yawn, you’ll be too fkg busy skirting from one forum to another. but till then like the rest I’m happy to watch and wait.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
423 Should read “ask for more” lol
September 25th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
413 OFF YER GO THEN YEANY WAYR AINT GOT NOWT TO SAYCANT SAY WELL MISSYER
September 25th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
135. I agree with you that it doesn’t sound healthy to drug healthy children but more like child abuse.
As some “information” is again leaking from the Portuguese police about their conviction that the parents killed their daughter and the only remaining problem is to find the body (something the parents are urging too), I’m wondering how life is going to taste after this episode. If innocent because not enough evidence of guilt, how do all the inconsistencies, evidence and dirt throwing going to affect their lives. Can anyone really trust they are innocent after all this? Is there a further medical career to proceed? Is there going to be a harmonious childhood for the twins etc… I wish to see undisputable evidence of innocence or guilt. This doesn’t necessarily involve a dead body nor eccessive sugar talk.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
421
Did he ask for me because his head still hurt? (See, I can’t resist and work is boring!)
September 25th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
417,
yawn…dull comment and ridiculous. Anyone have anything intelligent to offer?This is now getting really boring.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
liver/kidney problems is what i’m worried about, he is 10 and he had some as he said he had a sore head, but not long after that he asked for more. Didn’t give it to him though. Not said anything to her either as i don’t want to cause any disagreements.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
406 USE BETTER BE CAIRFUL AS USE STARTIN TO SOUND RASIST YER CANNIE SAY FINGS LIKE THAT. GOOD JOBS I DONT TAKE IT PURSONAL LIKE
September 25th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
368 moment of truth
I tend to agree. It can be OK to use the vernacular (if that’s the right term) once and a while innit? But all the time gets tedious and encourages one not to bother to read it…
September 25th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
As I have said all from when it all started……….”No Body, No Crime”
What a waste of time this has all been. Without a body, they’ll never convict. Yes, Judge Dread will tell you about this case and that case in the U.S. where iit’s been done, but we ain’t talking about the U.S. here. We’re talking Portuguese as in Portugal, and that ain’t the U.S. This case is done without a body. Unless anyone wants to send a diver into the Mediterranean, there’s not going to be a body found. Even that is not going to turn up anything either. Not after 4 1/2 mos gone by.
“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: “FIND THE BODY OR THEY WALK. Law bosses tell Portuguese cops to step up hunt.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 13: “Case against McCanns ‘rests on finding body’.”
THE TIMES page 11: “No body, no conviction says McCann police.”
September 25th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
clearly you are in the nerve centre. get caught out and you revert to type. the pr team for mccann are a bit like prostitutes. Happy to jump into bed with who ever will pay. screw the client for as much as they can get. the only difference being is that prostitutes don’t make their clients look fools and at least their clients get some satisfaction at the end of it. Enough said don’t you agree.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
393 I FINK MABEE YUO ARE
September 25th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
409.
Dull comment again…really this claim is so so boring, can you not think of something interesting to post.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
moment of truth Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
nononethere, how would you know if you’re not in the team mccann nerve centre ?
Because I said it was so, didn’t you notice? I send subliminal messages thru cyber space to the non-believers among us!
September 25th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
bye to all the sensible posters on here, will be back later to look in. I’ve had enough of reading silly dribble for now, hopefully ‘ARSE’will climb back up his or hers by then.. x
September 25th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Right, I really am off now, Megz find out who your local Health Visitor is and have a word with him/her.
See you all tomorrow (if I can resist coming back on later!)
September 25th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
362 McNotts
Yep I agree about same old stuff- but it ain’t our fault. We are just following the drip drip of snippets and your point just shows that the PR machine has changed tactics. They are saying a LOT less than before so we have less to chew over.
I’m hoping the PJ lot take the initiative and start giving us some new stuff to knock around.
I might even join the head gardener and have a look at the drainage in the lower field for a few minutes…
September 25th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
400.
yawn… dull comment. How much are the PJ paying you? Didn’t quite hear the amount that you mentioned in one of your earlier posts.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
nononethere, how would you know if you’re not in the team mccann nerve centre ?
September 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
383 - lunalunera
No worries…
Where are you in the world?
September 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Oops - that would be ‘any juicy leaks’ - only one cup of coffee and brain/hands aren’t functioning in unison yet.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Is arse Scottish? Or does any part of England use yer?
September 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
just wait till it’s a bad mccann news day. they’ll be working their bollocks off then. They’ll have no time for jokes then.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
400
Clearly @rse was French…..look at his use of the word “non”
September 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
megz Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
my step-sons mother gives her son calpol or the like to knock him out and gave us a nice big bottle so we could do the same to him (which we haven’t done btw) beginning to wonder if i should report it although i have no proof other than what she has said.
Response, I don’t know of anyone that does it. NO.
Years ago my son had a friend who was hyper. One night I went somewhere to buy coffee and my son and his friend asked for some. They were wide awake and the friend was hyper. I bought them some coffee and happened to glance in the back of the car after a few minutes and the friend was sound asleep sitting up holding the coffee. So, that is as much as I have ever observed.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
What Happened???!
I’m trying to catch up - I’ve been away for a week on vacation/holiday. When I left the police were going to seize GM’s computer, KM’s Diary and Cuddle Cat AND call Kate back in for questioning. When I Google it there’s no mention of any of this past the 14th.
Did I not miss anything juicy leaks this past week???
September 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
390,
no Arse is just a little boy trying to be funny and he is still too immature to realise that he just isn’t funny. Good try though 390.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
you see sss call their bluff find them out and they f**k off. paid chumps the lot of them.