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 8:52 pm
Puzzled… the photo was taken by a Spaniard on holiday in Morocco. I think thats why the child looked so unusual. Not very Moroccan but to my mind maybe too young to be Madeleine?
I’m sure photo labs can compare it digitally to a photo of Madeleine and compare key features….
September 25th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
807. Pixie - look at how high the forehead line is on that child - and the hair is naturally curly. Madeleines hair is darker and straight - although it could be lightened - the high forehead cannot be faked.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
815 - Garth - murderers, kidnappers, abductors, liars, are dumb. That’s the point.
I’m not saying they were calculating. I’m not saying they planned and executed something. I’m just saying that on May 3 they lost a daughter and they haven’t shown emotions consistent with a parent losing a toddler. Of course they’re dumb. That’s why they’ve become suspects. Their actions defy logic.
This isn’t my opinion - this is fact. Look at it objectively yourself.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
768 Portia: Portia says (September 25th, 2007 at 7:44 pm)
From Times Online, Sept 25.:
“A Portuguese newspaper claimed yesterday that British sniffer dogs had searched the British homes of the seven friends who were dining with the McCanns while their daughter was allegedly being abducted. The unconfirmed report in Jornal de Notícias said that a ‘cadaver’ dog had detected the scent of a corpse on clothing in one of the homes. It was claimed that Portuguese prosecutors are to write to the friends asking them to return for more questioning.” — Any confirmations of this report?
REPLY: If this astonishing report were to be true, I suggest it was the house where Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner live. Where was O’Brien until he dropped into the Tapas bar around 9.55pm? Caring for his ’sick child’? - I somehow doubt it. He wasn’t at the Tapas bar - that seems certain.
And who was the woman said to be with Kate McCann up in the apartment at around the same time - a few minutes to ten? - when it was alleged she went up just on her own to ‘check the children’? Was it Jane Tanner? And who was it who came up with the ’sighting ‘ of an egg-shape headed man with some hair on his head, seen from behind - then embellishes it two to three weeks later to say she saw a girl in pink pyjamas and being carried in a blanket? - and in the direction of Robert Murat’s house? Jane Tanner again.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
809: Yes – I agree Puzzled – it’s still too unclear. But somehow the picture doesn’t look like “abductors running away” kind of thing…does it?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I wonder if the parents or the Tapas 7 are charged whether the money from the fund will be used for their conviction. The fund policy says:
1.1.2 To procure that Madeleine’s abduction is thoroughly investigated and that her abductors, as well as those who played or play any part in assisting them, are identified and brought to justice;
September 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
802
stevo
If you think the McCanns were so calculating (and lets be honest ‘pretty clever’ to murder their daughter and have the so called ‘tapas 9′ be party to it all), do you honestly think they’d be daft enough to go jogging within the two weeks after Maddies disappearance?
They must obviously be calculating and dumb!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Stevo - I agree with you.
However I noticed red eyes and a look of almost shock on Kate and Gerry the first few days which subsided quickly.
As time went on there were no more red eyes.
Even when the police said they believed she was dead - no more red eyes!
Almost as if they have gone through the grieving process!
Yet we still feel upset don’t we? And she wasn’t even our child!
How many of us cried when we heard the police thought she was dead? And she wasn’t even our child.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
808 - Wendy. One of the uses to which the £1,036.104.16 is:
1.1.3 To provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine’s family
So absolutely no need to have to think about a day job for many months to come.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
810 Stevo
Did they actually change the policy after they got the money off the public???
September 25th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
802
stevo
If you think the McCanns were so calculating (and lets be honest ‘pretty clever’ to murder their daughter and have the so called ‘tapas 9′ be party to it all), do you honestly think they’d be daft enough to go jogging within the two weeks after Maddies disappearance?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
808 - Wendy
Look at the new policy on findmadeleine.com. It says amongst other things:
1.1.3 To provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine’s family.
I don’t think they’ll be worrying about bills do you?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
803 - Pixie. Unfortunately it is still unclear. Lots of spanish people have blond or light hair. Could be the child is a product of mixed-race parents. Would be great if it were M. I presume GM is on his way though to check it out first-hand like I would be (especially if I had over £1m in a fund to help me).
September 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Does anyone know if GM is back at work?
He previously stated that was the reason he wanted to return to England.
Or are KM and GM not allowed to work as doctors as long as they are arguidos?
If they are not working then how on earth do they survive financially. It has soon been five months. Even if doctors are well paid, they are not millionaires…are they?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I’ve played a bit with that photograph. Here is a magnified and sharpened version if want to have a look:
http://www.pixiegate.com/madeleine_interpol.htm
September 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Anyone got ideas as to what happened to “smell of death” who posted in here regularly for a few days after the McCanns came back to the UK?
September 25th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
796 - Garth
And yes ol’ fruit, I would do anything if I felt I had a forum to voice my feelings - i.e. the telly. I wouldn’t for one second think that saying something to the TV interview would compromise those secrecy laws. If I felt that balling my eyes out would appeal to an abductor, I’d do it. If I felt like telling an abductor that I’d gouge his eyes out for stealing a child, I’d do it. I know that emotion would take over and I’d be running on auto-pilot. I personally think you live in cloud cuckoo land to think otherwise.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
754 Jolie
I agree Jolie. A different person has written this entry on Gerry’s blog.
Scary!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
OK – I’ve played a bit with that photograph. Here is a magnified and sharpened version if want to have a look:
http://www.pixiegate.com/madeleine.htm
September 25th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
796 - Garth
I’m not dismissing moderation’s comment about it being weeks later.
If you and moderation are such experts on the date of jogging then put your money where your mouth is and show me. Give us all a link. I am sure they were jogging less than two weeks after May 3. I may be wrong or exaggerating to say May 4 but I’ll bow to your superior knowledge by saying “show us all”…with a link or reasonably valid story.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Garth - you are already calling people twits because they have a different view. Your points would carry more weight if you refrained from getting personal. I for one am not a twit, despite what you may think. Neither am I rude.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
So Murat showed up after all the commotion started. Sounds plausable to me - if they are anything like me and my neighbors we would have gone out to see what was going on and offer assistance at best or stand there and watch the circus.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
When do they have time to search for Maddie?
In between getting hair and make-up done, buying clothes,
visiting churches, jogging - oh and buying high heels - and
I meant Gerry not Kate!
And then there’s writing the blog, talking to lawyers, taking the kids
to other peoples houses because they can’t bear to be alone with them
- (this is normal behaviour for people who work and use childcare a lot- they panic when given their children back at the end of the day)
and when Kate is reading the Bible - well maybe just the one page on Solomon - (you know the Freemason guy!)
Gerry is busy reading up D.I.Y police books - maybe a change of occupation?????
But where is the search????
Seek and you shall find!
or maybe
The truth will always come out!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Should of read you would…………..80 wpm jobby!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
787 - spindoctors
I was being facetious. Like you, I find it amusing that Mr Mitchell seems to hang around death.
792 - Jolie
Considering cellphone towers are usually placed a mile or two apart, I find it weird how the authorities can pinpoint someone to their house using cell information. Even modern phones with GPS built in are not typically accurate to the level that it could know he was in the house and not stood outside for instance.
786 - moderation
I don’t need to call anyone. I said that you hadn’t lost a 3 year old to an abductor so your own traumatic experience couldn’t be the same as the McCanns. Going on all other televised situations that are very close to this one - namely a missing or abducted child, the parents are beside themselves with grief. Even the McCann grandparents were for goodness sake. It’s hardly rocket science to understand you’d see some tears within the past 5 months. We don’t even get a quivery voice from either of them.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
stevo 778
” Who’d give a damn about secrecy laws if you thought that what you had to say would get your kid back? I know I wouldn’t give a toss about the police if I could do ANYTHING to get an abducted child back.
You would’nt if it was your child me ol fruit and you believed the Portuguese were doing everything they possibly could to get your child back. Would you want to upset them? I doubt it very much. But hey, you know better, cos you’ve been in that position haven’t you?
And as far as the timing of the McCanns going for a jog is concerned….. well according to most of the twits on here its very significant (when it suits them )because it shows how cold and calculating they are. But like moderation pointed out (and which you chose to dismiss as irrelevent) it was about two weeks later.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
789 The real stig
you’re starting to creep me out.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
McNanny Saw Murat after 10.30. Phone data places him at home at the believed time of Disappearance. No conflict there.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
If we go along with the third-party abduction theory, why has no one grassed up to claim the reward money? After all it is at about £2.5m + I think.
If M is dead, I still bet that someone could make a bargain - I will tell you where the body is if I get immunity and some dosh.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
This article makes a very interesting point.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/16235/Maddie-Parents-are-lying/
Based on mobile phone evidence, apparently Murat is telling the truth about being at home with his mother all night. Therefore, it appears that the three of the McCann group* who state they saw Murat in the vicinity on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance were not telling the truth, which, of course, begs the question, Why? Why would innocent people place an absent person near the scene of a crime?
* and the McNanny, according to the latest press story (who had given a four-hour interview to the PJ at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance and yet felt compelled to be interviewed four months later by the press to put these facts out into the public domain–no doubt she was paid by press or the McCann team (or is that redundant, as the British press does seem to be on the McCann team). Even though Ms. Pennington says one thing that is negative–barely–about the distraught Mrs. McCann’s utterances that Ms. Pennington first heard upon her arrival at the hotel apartment, remember Ms. Pennington also allowed for the ’she’s gone, she’s gone comment to have also been cried out by Mrs. McCann. I think allowing this statement to be made could be an attempt to make the other things that Ms. Pennington said in the press interview to be more credible (and not to be perceived as a PR plant), including the information about Mr. Murat being there that night and would also explain the timing for this interview to appear, shortly after information is released to the press that Mr. Murat is no longer a suspect by the PJ.)