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 4:34 pm
The only distinguishing feature Madeleine has is a strange eye, and the only part of the body not covered by a burka is?
Ideal kidnap garment.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
528 232
Back to the plot - Deal or No Deal was looking tempting and that is SAD…
This new nanny development thingie is quite interesting and I think there a lot going on here. Is this the first skirmish in a new PJ offensive? As I posted earlier she’s a bit of a sort and the tabloids will just LOVE taking her picture. Poor old katiepoos needs one of those makeovers pdq ‘cos she’s been looking a bit rough - and could get knocked out of the limelight by nannykins.
Bad form for PR and all that. Plus the nanny has something crucial to say about the words - that have already had to be changed in the limelight. And the “just before 10 p.m. line is tricky for the story line writers. I wonder what else nanny has seen and will comment on?
This looks like fun…
September 25th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
538
Have a good time Karen.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
540. Yeah.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
What if they have our Maddie wearing a burka - a burka is an ideal garment with which, among its many lawful uses, to clad a kidnapped child what what
September 25th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
538 - KY jelly more like.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
AT last, ARSE has butted out.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I help out with a theatre company - and we’ve got a rehearsal at 5, so I have to go.
Hey, ARSE, if you get too slapped, remember there’s always Savlon.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
532
Maybe he’s a good Christian - he wants you to slap that one too
September 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Not very funny being the butt of everyones jokes is it ARSE?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Wonder how long itll be before the muslims are blamed for this…… Oops, Seems to have started. Bin ladens Wife i assume……
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483856&in_page_id=1770
September 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Charlotte Pennington is a reassuringly proper name for a British nanny what what
September 25th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
526 chopper
And Father Jack Hackett is not amused either…
September 25th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I think ARSE has turned the other cheek
September 25th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
528
I am not sure if “they’ve” would be the first word to spring to mind when a child goes missing.
She’s gone, he’s gone, who’s got her/him - maybe, but “they’ve got her” - they’ve who? That implies more than one person, and there was no evidence it was more than one.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Not so cheeky now are we ARSE
September 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
527
I feel quite glad now that I didn’t decide to just ignore Anorak completely and immerse myself in work, as I am quite enjoying this bout of @rse-slapping! It’s really cheered me up no end.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
The nanny, Miss Penington story, which I just read thanks to Stevo’s request, is the most credible I’ve seen.
The “they’ve taken her…..” has nothing to do with KM seeing anybody, but a mother’s utter fear, that she may have been abducted. It’s fear not knowledge or foreknowledg, in my view.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Hey ARSE, name something that constantly pours out shit and hot air.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
520 LOL
He is jealous because I have a job, and he doesn’t. He feels inferior knowing that my tax money pays his Jobseekers Allowance!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Calling yourself ARSE must be a real insult to arses all around the world.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
517 well spotted bulldump
I think I might have a look out for a bijou residence in Saudi, looking ahead to the rapid approach of democracy there… Maybe set up a tapas bar with fine wines…
September 25th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
517 @rse
But I never claimed to be a detective, whilst you claim to be a comedian.
What medication are you on out of interest?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Arse, you must have eaten lots of joke books
September 25th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
CHOPPER … YOU MUST HAVE EATEN A WHOLE LOAD OF DICKS MATE CUASE YOU REALLY ARE A DICK HEAD
September 25th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
518 arse
Why is it so important to establish if one has a job? It seems to crop up here time and time again. Is it just one person with lots of names who has this obsession or is it a widespread condition?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
506 Megz
It may be that subconsciously he is reliving the feelings of loss he had which are associated with losing his father, when his mother goes out with the new boyfriend, and as he isn’t feeling emotionally secure, this is why he is clinging to her more.
I think you should stick with your plan to go and see the G.P and discuss these concerns with him/her.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
501 509 516
Yes I know Miranda was the nearest discovered one in the 70s
September 25th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
516 sss IF I WAS YOU I WOULDN’T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB EITHER BECAUSE YOUR A SHITE DETECTIVE. THERE AGAIN I DONT SUPPOSE YOUV’E GOT A JOB SEEN AS YOU SPEND SO MUCH TIME SPOUTING YOUR SHIT ON HERE
September 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
strange how portugal is moving away from a dictatorship, whilst our own civil rights are eroded.