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 5:29 pm
601 patricia
Solving the case?
Not on here. I’m waiting for high tea with that nanny sort in half an hour…
Anyone for social tennis?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
#603 in theory, as always.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Chloe,
Everything about the case has been odd, YES.
I am astonished that there are so many people that will assist, although I am not speaking of the many people who were ripped off for money.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
#596
I noticed it too but wrote it off to bad journalism.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
599 bulldump
Back to Miranda again and the mooning details of Uranus
September 25th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Moderation,
Do you suppose anyone is even trying to solve the case at this point?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
594 Naaah it must have been Aunty Phil’s secret love child in town with the circus…
September 25th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
patricia it was a joke,
i am as inclined to believe that an abduction took place is as likely as the moon being made out of a small section of aunti phill’s buttocks
September 25th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
595 edna
Oooo Eeeeerrr missus a threesome on telly!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Not even had time to read properly today but, subconsciously mulling things over, I suddenly realised that the nanny’s story (which I thought was totally credible) appears to have the following inconsistency:
The nanny says she was helping Kate give “high tea” (which I assume to be the MW word for it) until 6 o’clock and that both parents and the three children were there. Why then, does she later say, “We knew that one of the other nanny’s charges was called Maddie. We told the head of department what had happened and she took us straight to the apartment.”
If she had been helping Kate with the tea, she presumably knew Madeleine -and her name, Maddie- in her own right, rather than being simply aware that “one of the other nanny’s charges was called Maddie. The most normal thing she could have said was that she knew that one of the children she had been giving tea to was caled Maddie.
I really am trying not to split hairs, but does anyone else find this odd?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
588 bulldump
Well Eddie looks like a plucky sort - much better in the balls department than a poodle. Wants to have a sniff or two at some corgis, according to a source at his kennel.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I heard a rumor they’re going to be on Jonathan Ross!
September 25th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
586
Be serious : It is probable that Maddie may have been abducted by aliens (a source close to the cleaning lady who once took the McCanns garbage out)
September 25th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
seymour, $8 billion from the usa given to bin laden, who at that time was training the mujahadin to fight those nasty communists for us.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Lets just wait until Aunty Phil starts singing then!
September 25th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Bulldump,
For now judging from the evidence that has been reported I am inclined to think of a joke I have heard about how parents bring children into the world and can take them out. That could be the case here, in a nutshell? I don’t know. A lot of what I observe is how everything falls into place and that is telling… YES.
I don’t think I have ever seen anything like this, NO.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
585 bulldump
Shome Mishtake Shurely
Singing with her arse? Ya wouldn’t want to be too near the speakers though, so to speak…
September 25th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
577 In an earlier chapter, your Taliban were of course the mujahedin freedom fighters with whom the UK and the USA found common cause in their scrap with the Russians.
Now, our Defence Sec is saying that any Afghan solution will need to include the said Taliban - the burka will be required day and evening wear for some time yet what what.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
ade, why do you want a sniffer dog as pm, we already have a stinking dog doing the job
September 25th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
When the shit truly hits the fan im sure the spin doctors will be able to relate this to the Roswell incident/ JFK/Rasputin……. Anyone wanna join in….
September 25th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
574
I-dont-believe-them Says:
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.
…………………………………….
Nor does it mean they did it.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
listening to mimikin mccann is no more preferable than the thought of aunti phill bending over and singing with her ass
September 25th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
572 patricia
Eddie the sniffer dog for PM, I say
I’m thinking of changing my Official Monster Raving Loony Party name to Eddie the sniffer unless someone gets there first… Doh I gave it away.
And I’m missing the conference in St Helier… boo hoo
September 25th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
It seems silly to believe the story in the Daily Mail about a sighting in Zaio in May. If this lady is so sure, then there is no doubt about it this report would have been told much earlier. Look at that lady in Belgium at how convinced she was that she had seen Madeleine, when the child didn’t even have her face covered. The lady in Belgium insisted it was Madeleine but as we now know it clearly wasn’t.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Oh well, not much news on this case today. I suppose the fat lady doesn’t or won’t ever know what or when to sing?
If nothing else, this has been the most eye opening case I have followed in a while. Possibly I have never seen anything quite like it! To observe what appears so many trying to obstruct justice is ????? could this be true? Is there anyone to explain?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
would it be possible that someone liberated maddie from her horrible parents and she has decided to follow suit so that she is not rescued and returned to her horrible parents.
lol, it is as plausable as the foolishness the mccanns are feeding us with their abduction theory
September 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
556
??????????
September 25th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
566 SSS
I think more and more witnesses will come forward. There could have been an eskimo wearing an iglo on his head containing Madeleine.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
it seems a little strange to me that we went to afghanistan to overthrow the nasty taliban that edicted sharia law and tortured women by making them wear burkas. Now these women have been liberated there seems to be more of them wearing said costume than ever before.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
571 - I’m sure their mates down the pub will still think they are cool.