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 10:12 pm
921 Jane, I never compared it to UFOs, or implied that a corrupt police officer is as likely as some sort of UFO abduction. Although, that would still fit in with the abduction theory.
I said that to me it sounds like a conspiracy theory, like let’s say the US government were involved in 9/11. These ideas are exciting, but just not feasible.
I have no problem with believing in corrupt coppers, but taking samples of a dead body and then placing it after the event becomes too involved if you analyse it, in my opinion. If the other members of the PJ were not involved what is to stop them smelling a link to one of the other coppers, or a witness seeing something else? Also, the alleged evidence suggests she is dead, so that would most likely not have been a trafficker.
I will accept it is not impossible, but it is highly improbable, surely even moreso than to entertain the possibility that the parents or their friends were involved. I would put random abduction well above the possiblity of police being involved.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
927 Steve
“Running does relieve stress for some people but don’t you think your time would have been better spent looking for said missing daughter instead of jogging in front of TV crews and papparazi?”
Absolutely!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
“It is still up to the state to carry out criminal investigation. That kind of activity has no legal standing. Anything that results from private investigation has no substance.”
But presumably they would still have to investigate the results of the private investigators in the same way as they have to follow up any information that’s given to them by anyone else. I don’t think it means they would ignore it.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
(from Gerry’s blog) “In the meantime we will continue to cooperate fully with the Portuguese authorities. I will update the blog periodically especially if there is any major development”
HOW is not answering 40 questions, cooperation for the authorities?? I don’t care if those questions were about how often they have cheated on one another, have sex, eat, drink, pee or whatever else, if one’s child was truly missing, and getting her back was truly your only interest, then what the hell, ask away…..and respond to every damn question put forth to you!!!
When your child is missing - not answering ONE question, regardless of how irrelevant it may seem is shady - but 40 questions???!!! Come on!
I believe that Gerry’s blog is written, and rewritten and rewritten 20 - 40 times by his PR machines before it ever goes out live to the public. That’s the reason for the delay more than any other reason today. They want to be sure NO STONE is LEFT UNTURNED. Not in finding Madeleine, for they know what stone she’s under; but for the CYA PR machine running at full throttle today. Which is why his earlier blog is more important than anything he says today. It was less censored if at all…
I was able to pick up one small tweak that they overlooked today - here it is - I’m a nit picker so perhaps tis not that big of a deal, but it’s an opening.
“For Kate and I it has been incredibly difficult to come home without Madeleine but particularly in such circumstances”.
I have one question here:
1) Which circumstances is he referring to? The fact that they are under the microscope and suspects? You mean, it would be easier to come home without Madeleine if you were not suspects? Or if you had not been responsible for her disappearance? Hmmm…that leaves much to the imagination.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
910 - Ade, thanks for checking
911 - Patricia — I didn’t read the full article. I just posted it for the purpose as a news reference that comments on Kate jogging the day after Madeleine was discovered missing.
913 - Puzzled, Strange, isn’t it? I’m glad it’s not just me having trouble with the blog entry.
919 - DeeDeeDee
I definitely agree that jogging could be used as an outlet for stress, even or especially in the event of a major trauma such as a missing child. So on that alone, I wouldn’t say it indicates unfeeling, insensitive parents.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
if what the mcanns believe is true and that madeline is alive and will be found then I would love to hear what they would tell the poor child when she asks them “why did you leave me on my own mummy and daddy for those nasty people to take me away ” ..
September 25th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
926 - Puzzled
Murat works with the police as a translator, perhaps he is involved. Perhaps he did take her. That would explain why he wouldn’t be targeted with false evidence. Also, it was the Portugese police, not the British who searched his home. I wonder which officers carried out the search?
September 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
906 tony
the bedroom door opening outwards is shown in the floor plan that I posted in one of the other threads (can’t remember which number posting - it was from a German site). Maddy’s bed was on the door-frame wall so he would have to go into the room to see her in bed - which he said he did. Of course with the door open there is no way someone could hide behind it as it opens outwards.
I agree with you that he is calculating - evil, perhaps. But more worrying is that this story has clearly come from the PR team - from someone who made it up, not knowing that the door opened outwards. So the calculating trait goes beyond mr mccann himself and into the core of the spin machine…
This is the clearest proof that these are very desperate and devious people.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
#900 Chloe,
YEs, why don’t they just say we didn’t and she was never in the boot.
Does anyone know how Ylenia’s parents reacted to her disappearance? Did they jog and all the rest people discuss? I tried to make excuses for them for a long time. There is something that appears so much worse about the scene that LUDICROUS could sound like a good thing. There is no way I can sit here and know what took place. As a result of careful observation I don’t like what I see. NO. If people are sincere I don’t think the situation could be this confusing. Every aspect of the case is met with excuses. There is something wrong with this picture.
The people who continue to believe in the McCanns don’t know what happened anymore than I do. Obviously those people are better at overlooking the dog study, the failure to answer police questions and so on. I have heard that, in theory, there are people for whatever reason protect abusers. I don’t know if the McCanns are guilty of any type of abuse regarding Madeleine but if they know she is not missing they have been abusing many people otherwise. The SELLING of bracelets was in poor taste in my opinion regardless of the circumstances. As you can probably tell, I was shocked but now disgusted with the spin and what is possibly an exploitation of many well intended people.
But who am I to judge?
September 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
For all we know, the British Police may be working overtime behind the scenes on the McCanns. Out of respect for the Portuguese Police, they’re maybe keeping tight-lipped on it. It may be a case of ‘watch this space’.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Tony Bennet
I’m not going to try to make a mockery of anything you say and I do understand your point of view. However, all the facts that you have stated bear no significance really do they? Because we don’t know if all that has been reported are infact correct.
That aside, your and my instinct paints different pictures. Who knows who’s correct?
I could go on about all the blunders that the PJ have made. But even those leakages could be incorrect.
Anyone who says what the McCanns should of or shouldn’t of done in the situation the McCanns happened to be in, are either narrow minded or just downright arrogant.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
(924) Rab
Even if that is true, which it well might be, they are explaining away things that they could simply deny if they knew they were impossible.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
916,
I agree but unfortunately it won’t happen. I just hope these private investigators find Madeleine. I also found it funny that in the times today it was reported,
“Antonio Martins, president of the Association of Portuguese Judges, told the 24 Horas newspaper: “It is still up to the state to carry out criminal investigation. That kind of activity has no legal standing. Anything that results from private investigation has no substance.”
So I guess if the private security force actually does find Madeleine or at least what happened to her, Antonio Martins and the rest of the PJs will simply ignore it.
I also read somewhere else that the PJ were possibly going to make all the other 7 friends of the McCanns “Suspects”. You know I am pretty sure all of the UK will be made argidos but the end of this case as according to the posters on this site the PJ really seem to know what they are doing.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
919 - DeeDeeDee
Yes a nappy is a diaper.
Running does relieve stress for some people but don’t you think your time would have been better spent looking for said missing daughter instead of jogging in front of TV crews and papparazi? They say the 1st 24 hours is the most crucial. If it were me, I’d be leaving no stone unturned as they say.
The only stone I can think of is the stony ground on which the McCann’s alibi is based upon.
After reading Tony Bennett’s last post, I think I’m probably veering more toward thinking Gerry knows more than Kate. It seems like he had more opportunity and as he says, is the calculating one who also did most of the travelling away from PDL during the first month. Perhaps it was his way of vacating the scene because he felt bad about what really happened.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
921 - but why not plant evidence at Murat’s place instead? I bet that would have gone down much more easily than falsely implicating Snow White and Rumpelstilskin.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
909 nononethere
word!
September 25th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
900 Chloe, my suspicions are that the McCanns are responding to these “rumours”, because they are more than rumours, and they were probably asked these very questions by the PJ during investigation. That is why I believe they probably, as reported, did not answer certain questions, the number of which can only be guessed.
If the claims were merely media nonsense then I cannot see that McCanns would respond to them. Surely this is all part of the defence they have been working on, which must include the questions during the interviews.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Yes, a nappy is a diaper.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
918 - Ade. I much prefer the Columbo approach, which I think the PJ have down to a fine art ‘oh and just one more thing…….’
919. Yes. Nappies are diapers and not dead bodies!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
907 - Rab
It’s really not that far fetched, Rab. All it takes is one or two rogue cops to plant evidence. When legitimate police officers find the evidence, they proceed in an entirely honest and upstanding fashion thus their conviction that the parents are involved. I don’t see how you can dismiss the possibility that a couple of cops could be receiving kick-backs from traffickers. Especially when there is a documented case of this very same thing happening five years ago in Lisbon. So, we KNOW it has happened before, therefore, it IS possible. Trafficking is big business in Portugal.
Also comparing corrupt police to UFOs is laughable. There are corrupt police in every country. I’m not suggesting that she was abducted by aliens! LOL
September 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
892 Well Stevo - I would have been up all night in a panic - I think most of us would.
Although I haven’t run in years - it does relieve stress and when I would miss a day I would get more stressed - so maybe it was more therapeutic. I don’t see the McCanns on TV here in the US so can’t really comment on how they are behaving emotionally. And if I did I am not knowledgable in that area anyway. But I personally would not be out running the next day after my child went missing.
But there is no way you can convince me that the dogs confused rotten meat with a dead body.
And is a nappie a diaper?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
892 Well Stevo - I would have been up all night in a panic - I think most of us would.
Although I haven’t run in years - it does relieve stress and when I would miss a day I would get more stressed - so maybe it was more therapeutic. I don’t see the McCanns on TV here in the US so can’t really comment on how they are behaving emotionally. And if I did I am not knowledgable in that area anyway.
But there is no way you can convince me that the dogs confused rotten meat with a dead body.
And is a nappie a diaper?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
901 Pam
Seems to me that DNA evidence is only part of the picture. They assemble a whole portfolio of evidence from statements, location geography, scene layout, timings of events and DNA then bring it all together to make a case.
Except on The Sweeney they just burst in, duffed a few people up and sit “you’re nicked…”
September 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
903,
actually no we do not know everything that is happening behind the scenes. There is a secrecy law in place. Why don’t you chill out for a change, the non-stop beating up of a family does not make you right about anything. You are as clueless to what actually happened to Madeleine as the PJ are and the rest of us.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
889 jane
“Should he really be leading the McCann case under these circumstances?”
No, because what if HE is behind the disappearance of both children? He would have a motive to frame the mother in the original case to put an end to any investigation of it and with Kate, he couldn’t use the same tactic - if indeed he actually did do as been alleged. He could however muck up any investigation and leak anti-McCann tidbits to the Portuguese press through the ex-police chief who is also implicated with him in the first case.
The whole thing stinks worse than rotten fish too long in the sun.
I think all PJ currently on the case should be pulled off it and replaced with a fresh crew from other parts of Portugal and they should start again from scratch with fresh eyes, perspectives and hopefully no hidden agendas or vested interests.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Must go get dinner sorted now…its almost 5pm here.
Garth - if you think the jogging story about them is wrong, then in the words of Gerry and Kate - put up or shut up. Show us what you have that is different.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
898 - And what about an answer to why they are not following up the Morocco lead? Why court all this publicity - make sure Madeleine’s face is know the world over and then not follow up leads?
They did go to Morocco once, but it is suprising they haven’t cough up to send a team of private detectives out to Morocco, unles they have and we just don’t know about it.
I remember a news article from around August time saying that Kate would often sitting on the beach, alone, looking out to sea.
In the direction of Morocco.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
910 - BLOG UPDATE.
Now you see it now you don’t. It was there about 20 minutes ago. Now it has gone again.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
905 - Tony Bennett
The most sense I’ve read in this site for a long time. Great theories!
I hadn’t thought about Gerry acting as a lookout but hey…what an intelligent idea.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
#883 Stevo,
What you say is where I am left too. Add to your thoughts all of the spin…
#888 Jolie, I don’t know because I can’t relate to any of it. NO.
What I can understand is there are most likely many people who have absorbed, on way or another, the bad energy generated. These people aren’t worth it! If I figure that out on this level I can’t imagine how others must be feeling. Wow! Regardless of the circumstances, the McCanns are one big pain in the ass for many. According to them, they are only victims of sitting in their garden. Okay, I am in a fussy mood today.