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
Comments
September 25th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
567 chopper
I don’t think anyone is commenting on muslims or the middle class or anything else of that sort. It’s just our ever-more jaded view of the way the PR machine mindset works. It’s almost the case that the most stupid comment or change of tack possible becomes their policy and action. They are becoming almost predictably incompetent and outrageously far-fetched in the same breath.
As they say: You can’t make this stuff up…
September 25th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Let us keep in mind:
The evidence is not the crime.
Just because it may not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt
doesnt mean the McCanns didnt do it.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Next time I see one my Saudi clients should I risk burning the relationship by discussing my Maddie burka theory with them.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I came back. Maybe Penster is at the nude beach and won’t tell me to go get a life!
September 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
How will the new developments affect the reputation of the UK sniffer dogs?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
See you lot tomorrow for more “debate”!
Have a good evening, Ade wear pull ups lol
September 25th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
My clients were Saudi - very nice people too - as with many of their friends and extended family, they like to spent May - Aug in Europe, many in England to avoid the hottest time of the year in the Middle East.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
566
It is unlikely as no one has said that they saw some one in full niqab clutching Madeleine and running off.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
One hour to go to the 6 o’clock news. C’mon spinners, I’m dying for a leak…
Must be all that tea
September 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
It is perfectly acceptable to accuse two middle class white people of killing their own daughter, but suggesting a Muslim has any involvement is apparently ‘irrelevant and offensive’.
That is the UK we live in today!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
561
No, they were more likely Muslims brought up in Saudi who think such thing is normal, as oppposed to followers of Wahhabism.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
On the tv show made by Fátima Ferreira, Pros e Contras, RTP (of Portugal), a very high placed man of the PJ said that the Mccanns arrived in Algarve on April 30. They were only 3 days in Portugal when Madeleine vanished.
Did they know that, by law ,the PJ are not allowed to comment ongoing investigations? In Portugal it was easier than in the UK?Was that an accident?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
557 michael
offensive yes I agree. When the bogeyman for keeping the US population under control was “the commies” it would have been a Cuban. Fashions change, hence the change of bogeyman. I’m surprised we have heard nothing of Iran. Had this been a US circus with Hoer Marge and Lisa I feel Iran would feature nicely…
I can still remember when things like this were blamed on gypsies… It wasn’t just Jews who perished in the camps - although notalota people nowadays know that…
September 25th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I appreciate your comments in 312 Ade but I’m not trying to get on Team Mccann as you put it. I simply wanted to make an honest comment about the risk of sending in ex SAS.
I am genuinely concerned that this may not be such a good idea to advertise. I honestly don’t know whether Madeleine is alive or not. However, if there is the remote possibility that she is, then I would not want it on Kate and Gerry’s conscience that a decision they made on advice has in fact led to the death of Madeleine. Now that would be the real tragedy.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
555
Or the Edgware Road, during the summer months when the gulf is too hot for all but squaddies and GIs- had some work not long ago from such a source - damn disorientating not being able to see who was talking and how p1sed they were what what
September 25th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
556 Michael
Blame the daily mail
September 25th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Maybe it was Darth Vader who was seen with her!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
556
I agree with you Michael, but feel that I should put these misconceptions concerning the use of the niqab and hijab to rest.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Muslims have got Madeleine. The case is clear as crystal now. The only thing I’m worried about is : this Spanish woman, could it be she’s a close friend of the family as well, or shall we now refer to her as a ‘witnes’
September 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
These Muslim references are irrelevant and offensive.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
552
The wearers of such garments usually practice a most extreme form of Islamic belief that is rarely seen outside of certain parts of Saudi Arabia!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
547 karen
that’s not a theatre company you’re doing a PANTO… I caught you out now which part of the panto horse can I be?
September 25th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483856&in_page_id=1770
A muslims got her!!!!!!!!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
The attributes of a burka are slightly outside my core area of expertise.
However, I am aware that some have a sort of lace/net screen across the eyes - not simply a clear slit for the eyes - so one cannot even see the eyes.
It would be my garment of choice for both ugly wives and kidnapped children what what. I no, I do not possess either.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
541
Only very extreme Muslims make very young girls wear niqab or hijab and it would be unlikely in North Africa where the majority are moderates. It is not the norm for young ones like that to be in full niqab.
It is only since the Taliban fell that young Muslim girls have started to really wear niqab and this is because, unlike older more moderate women, they feel a “need” to be connected with their culture and religion and think this is one way they can do this.
The ones in this country feel that there is a high anti-Islamic feeling, and so feel that the wearing of a hijab/niqab is a way they can take pride in their culture.
Unfortunately, to Westerners, the niqab/hijab is also the symbol of extremism and they do not understand the reasons behind the wearing of this item.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
535
‘A gist of wind took the girl’s hat, and he/she regognised her’ Bloody muslims! It’s all Bin Laden’s fault.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Maybe this is the nanny seems the name and the ah… interests are the same….. http://community.livejournal.com/desires/profile?mode=full
September 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
543. Thanks. I will. And now I really am going.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
The odd thing about the Telegraph article was the date that the McCann’s hired the detectives. It was about the same time they hired the car.
If there is enough DNA in the hire car to convince the police that the child is dead, the timing is significant. If the police only know that Maddie was at some point heavily sedated, it’s still significant.
Since hiring the private detectives was an illegal move on the McCann’s part, and it came at the same time they hired the car to leave behind so they could drop in on the pope, psychologically this action could have served to begin the media show. And it’s been show-time ever since.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
541. Burka’s aren’t used by the under 12s. But she could hide under an adults Burka. Or she and another kid (or dwarf) could be standing on each other’s shoulders.