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 6:09 pm
Anyone else think it is monumentally arrogant of Team McCann to continue to moan about the ‘police/everyone else in the world’ not doing enough to find M? If they had made proper provision to care for their kids in the first place we would probably be talking about something else.
I would love to know how many man hours and millions of euro/sterling has been spent looking for one little girl. Just one.
‘Oh yes officer. I know that I left the keys in the ignition, engine revving and my car door open in the high street while I went off shopping for 3 hours - BUT MY CAR HAS BEEN STOLEN - and I want to know what you are going to do to find it’
September 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
663 patricia Well I haven’t been investigated… eeermm well I don’t think I have…
September 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
654 - Puzzled
No wonder you’re puzzled. I am too. My mum reckons she read somewhere that the McCanns went on a boat trip as well on May 3.
Maybe it’s like the Boys From Brazil and there’s several Madeleine clones running around. Perhaps the staff saw one of the cloned copies.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
(652) I honestly doubt that their new house did not have rubbish collection. I believe we established in some thread or other that the Portuguese system is similar to Spain, where there are huge containers dotted along the roadside that are emptied every day. You wouldn’t have to walk more than 50 yards to reach one.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
659
similarly, if it smells like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quack likes a duck, then it probably is a duck.
Not quite matey
What you should of wrote:
similarly, if it smells like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quack likes a duck, then by eck its a chicken!
September 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
662 I-dont-believe-them
Positively quackers…
September 25th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Portia and Patricia,
I also thought that was a very interesting change in the McCann’s PR campaign–to start talking about expecting a call about Maddie being found dead. I would think those thoughts would have been with them from the start, when Madeleine first was missing, with every call they would receive. Mentioning it now seemed to me to suggest that perhaps they think someone is getting close to finding the body and that the McCanns are trying to put a spin on that ahead of time. But Patricia, I think you may have hit on an even more likely reason for their new approach.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
i have found a link to chalky white….enjoy
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1533707,00.html
September 25th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
626 Bulldump….
I kept one of yours that was particularly gross, I kept another from Christoph was was going to punch me in the mouth!
But there are more insults I’ve kept…. (not from you I hasten to add). I’ve been called:
The Evil Liberal who sticks needles in babies brains.
The Hitler Supporter who keeps a photo of him over the bed.
The Closet Paedophile into bestiality.
Oh the joy of not running with the mob!
Good research material for my book.
Talking of books, where’s Firestar?!!
September 25th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
611 mod
So you think she’ll be found dead and that her image will be found on a website.
With no evidence of an abduction your assumption could have even worse implications for McClique McCann………..
September 25th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I am curious how many people have been investigated as a result of Madeleine missing?
September 25th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
585 moderation - duh - of course the ABSENCE of evidence doesnt mean they did it. how could it???
similarly, if it smells like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quack likes a duck, then it probably is a duck.
i think the mccann look awfully ducky.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
moderation, my appologies, i do have another post saved, it was the one about the waiter overhearing gerry boasting about the size of vibrator he could insert into his anus without lubrication to o’brian, whilst kate laughed and said he didn’t need lubrication since the tool didn’t even touch the sides.
you must remeember that one
September 25th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
585 moderation - duh - of course the ABSENCE of evidence doesnt mean they did it. how could it??? but again, the evidence is not the crime.
similarly, if it smells like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quack likes a duck, then it probably is a duck.
i think the mccann look awfully ducky.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
651 carmen I thank you…
September 25th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I meant to add a reference to a Sept. 20, 2007, article about the rubbish reports:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2172765,00.html
The information I referred to is in the last few paragraphs.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
643 bulldump
yep I remember Chalky White - I just changed Mirror to Mail in 628 to be contemporary…
September 25th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
647 - Stevo. Not only conflicts with that but also the ’social tennis’ event that GM was enjoying the the clubs pro at exactly the same time. And I thought only the divine could walk on water.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
carmen, i was knee high to a grass hopper then, but i still have vague memories of it, could you find me a link, i would be really gratefull
thanks
September 25th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I was thinking through the excuse the McCanns gave for the sniffer dogs smelling death in the boot of their rental car and rechecked an article that stated the hired villa they had moved to did not have rubbish collection and they made trips to the local rubbish tip and dumped their bags of soiled nappies and rotting food, etc. Has there been any reports of anyone verifying this information is true about both facts? It should be easy enough to do. Wouldn’t the local dump keep records of who comes by to unload rubbish and even charge for the use? Do these people, who spend inordinate amounts of (donated) money to have everything done for them seem like the type to do that type of menial labor themselves? And, although unlikely, if they were making trips to the dump, why couldn’t the remains of Madeleine have been in one of the bags, etc., disposed of? It would be nearly impossible to find, I’m sure after all this time, but a possibility nonetheless, that both are true–the sniffer dogs did smell a corpse (Maddie) and it was with the rubbish taken to the dump.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Portia Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
GERRY AND Kate McCann live in fear that the next phone call will tell them their daughter is dead, their spokesman said today (Monday). from the Portugal Resident web-site.
This revelation is an abrupt change in the PR game they have been playing.
Is it because the police are researching the original sites that were searched early on, in the first three weeks?
Developing…
Portia,
I suppose it would be good if there are indications people are trying to solve the case.
What I think for now is there could be an attempt of the McCann PR to find a way to stop looking for a child that is alive. If the McCanns know what happened to Madeleine, for instance, surely they don’t want to get up everday and put on what could very well be a soap opera forever?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Patricia
Mr McCann said “if the worst possible scenario happens”, then he was at least comforted by the belief Madeleine was “in a better place”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6942978.stm
September 25th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
641 Why is the word c o c k t a i l s so offensive and thus beeped out?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Hang on a moment…doesn’t Nanny Pennington’s story conflict with staff from the Paraiso Restaurant? Am I missing something or is it the same place where they had high tea?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Stevo (631) Having rather outdated English, I noticed it and thought it was just a modern way of saying they had removed the seats. Now if it isn’t, I find it rather strange.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
630 624
Now let me get this moustache thing straight. Is there a bloody Groucho MacCann as well?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
What’s the bet that the new forensic results will show that Cuddle Cat was not washed but deliberately drowned?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
anyone remember or have any links to the daily mirror promotion in the seventies, where you had to hold a copy of the mirror and approach someone and say “You are chalky white and I claim my five pounds”
September 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
634 - Seymour. Have you been at the ######### already? The sun has not yet gone down on the yardarm and yet you are becoming wittier and wittier as the day progresses!!!
And…did you have time to think about negligence for 3 vs 1?
September 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
620
Moose Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
It would be nice to see Brown get as involved in Burma as he has done in Iraq and with the McCanns. Of course it won’t happen because he’s a cowardly popularity whoring media driven little shit.
yeah, and so is gordon brown.