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 11:26 am
Now we’re back onto Brown tonguing and disease (bearing i mind that Gordie had his alleged famous 45 minute chat when he was still Chancellor) do you think Gordie knows what really happened?
The mind boggles…
September 25th, 2007 at 11:25 am
53 ade
“South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other areas whose culture was recently linked to the United Kingdom, the title Doctor generally applies to both academic and clinical environment. “Registered medical practitioners” usually do not have a doctorate; rather, they have the degree of Bachelor of Medicine (usually conjoint with Surgery). Cultural conventions exist, clinicians who are Members or Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons are an exception. As an homage to their predecessors, the barber surgeons, they prefer to be addressed as Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss, even if they do hold a doctorate. ”
Perhaps you are thinking of Germany. What you said would be partially correct there.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:25 am
93,
hardly the voice of truth, just another journalist trying to make an name for himself.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:24 am
92 - where to?
September 25th, 2007 at 11:24 am
81 He can call himself doctor (because that’s the job he does) and Mr and mister but strictly speaking he cannot call himself Dr because he does not have a research degree. His degree is a degree in medicine i.e. MD a lower level than PhD research degree.
I have a PhD degree so I can call myself Dr, mister and Mr but not, strictly, doctor. For me to call myself doctor would imply that i was a medic in a job.
If postman pat changed jobs he wouldn’t call himself postman any more. God knows what would happen to his black and white cat though…
September 25th, 2007 at 11:23 am
91,
It is utterly clear your thoughts on the McCanns. However your posts to Ade are not read as DEFENDING the McCanns, you were merely stating correct facts which can only be a good thing as so many things on this forum are stated as facts when they are mere speculations.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:23 am
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2007/09/morocco-police-and-madeleine-sightings.html
September 25th, 2007 at 11:17 am
88 - I don’t care anymore - I just found myself DEFENDING the teflon 2….OMG must be because I’m on nights - so I’m going to bed to see if I can sleep off the shock of it all……
September 25th, 2007 at 11:17 am
My opinion is doctors are doctors when they are doctoring. When they are drinking they are drunks.
If the police are searching for a body have they taken the dogs to the private jets used by the McCanns? The reason I ask is if the police haven’t searched the private jets that would indicate the police have evidence otherwise, which would be strong evidence? If the dogs sniffed a death scent in the back of the McCann vehicle and if true the vehicle was obtained before the Pope visit? then I am confused about how the effort to find a body. If the dogs have not been on the jets, considering the death theory, and the police don’t have strong evidence of the location then how is that explained?
September 25th, 2007 at 11:15 am
88 - LOL
September 25th, 2007 at 11:13 am
and in order to become a GP one has to pass additional post graduate courses, which probably are equivalent to your PhD. So KM can be addressed as Dr, Doctor and Mrs….
September 25th, 2007 at 11:12 am
80 - Oh my God. Freudian slip - that should all be in the past tense because you now have a new chappie in No. 10. What’s his name again…?
September 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Im gonna watch Dallas Jocks died and I am bored shitless with mc canns now
its cold and i am going to snuggle with some bovril
September 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am
81, Noseycow again you are totally correct see my 74 post.
Ade is not correct.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Caption Competition for the photo at the top of this page:
Gerry turns to Kate and says “For fook’s sake Kate you’ve gone and overdosed the cat again ! “
September 25th, 2007 at 11:10 am
76 Ade - am not sure that I follow your logic - and I hate to defend the McC’s but GM is a consultant cardiologist at the Glenfield Hospital (No.1 heart hospital in the UK - latest league table). While I don’t KNOW - I think it’s safe to assume that he can be called Doctor, Dr. or Mr. as it is very unusual for consultants not to have done any postgraduate studies (usually in research).
September 25th, 2007 at 11:09 am
78 - Quite wrong Carmen! I saw the film ‘the Queen’ and it is actually Cherie running the country - she just pulls Tone’s strings…….well that is when Bush is not pulling them.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:09 am
like Dr Doolittle ???? Okay dokey that explains it I mean why they take more care of cuddle cat than there own kids
September 25th, 2007 at 11:04 am
75 - all clear now. And just for the record I am actually Princess Puzzled.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:03 am
71 Interestingly, David Owen, once Foreign Secretary, WAS Dr Owen and Doctor Owen ‘cos he held MD and PhD degrees. Notalota people know dat…
September 25th, 2007 at 11:01 am
71 Elementary Doctor Watson
The point is that to use the prefix title Dr as in Dr McCann you have to have a PhD (or DSc or equivalent research degree). A doctor usually had MD which is not a research degree an is not a high powered.
You can say Doctor McCann as Symour did just as you can say Postman Pat (with his black and white cuddle cat?) or Cooper Bloggs but not Dr McCann.
Surgeons (and barbers) call themselves Mr ‘cos that makes them feel important in the wards.
So that’s why I used Doctor with Watson.
Confused? Don’t blame yer… Dr Ade
September 25th, 2007 at 10:58 am
69, you are right. More info below from http://www.academicapparel.com/caps/History-Academic-Degrees.html
“During the thirteenth century a system of degrees seems to have come into being at the universities then in existence. The three grades common to all were those of Scholoar, Bachelor, and Masters (sometimes called Doctor or Professor). The scholar attended lectures and argued on set questions in the schools, the bachelor was a student-teacher who was seeking to obtain a license to teach in his own right. The mastership was the highest grade in any faculty, and carried with it the obligation to lecture in the university for two years after inception. [1] ‘Doctor’, like ‘Master’ and ‘Professor’, originally meant no more than ‘teacher’ or ‘learned man’.[2] All three terms were thus at first synonymous, but during the fourteenth century the title ‘Doctor’ began, particularly in southern Europe, to be used instead of ‘Master’ for the chief degree in the Faculties of Canon Law, Civil Law, and Medicine, but not in those of Theology and Arts.[3] Masters of Theology later became known as doctors except in France where as late as 1584 they were still called masters.[4]”
So yes the McCanns are entitled to their titles as Doctors.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:53 am
65 - Mr. Law/Seymour Law/Seymour/Mourie!
I know you are not really working flat out but also dipping it every now and then - at tea breaks - so…
What about them having to face charges of neglect in the UK? Obviously the incident involved took place in Portugal, but someone else suggested a couple of days ago that if they are not charged by the UK authorities then that could be a problem for social services - in terms of appeals against others who HAVE been charged for leaving kids alone.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Seymour or should one address you as Mr. Law? Your ‘what what’s are very funny - so please continue…
September 25th, 2007 at 10:46 am
‘by stumps’ - delicious language.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:44 am
61 they are not brians dreams but a woman who dreams and sends them to brian for opinions, his drawings are not so curly, his latest reports are still that she is alive and will be returned safe, he still says that RM in his dreams is Murat but one of his followers have reported that Rachel O’briens maiden name is the initial M (cant remember the name at the mo) so she is also RM this fits with what Matthew James keeps saying that the freinds know something and they are involved.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:41 am
GM is a consultant cardiologist and DOES (did?) perform heart surgery - so could also claim to be a surgeon. The Doctor bit is an honary title given to all those who hold a medical degree.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:41 am
53 and 57. Ade and Toni
Are you trying to make me go completely bananas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought that if you got a degree in MEDICINE you were allowed use the title Dr. I know that if I only have a degree in Tiddlywinks, then I can’t, but if I get a PhD in Tiddlywinks then I can be Dr. Puzzled.
Also, if you are a Dr. as a result of getting a degree in Medicine and then go on to become a surgeon that you use the title Mr. (even though you could still call yourself Dr.) so that people know you are a big-boy.
Its all much easier in Austria. There you just keep adding your titles on. So if you are a doctor and get a doctorate then you are Dr. Dr. Puzzled. And if you are a woman and married to a Dr. Dr. then you are Frau Dr. Dr. Puzzled.
Simple really, but what is Gerry - a Dr. or a Mr. And Is Kate Mrs or Dr.
I am going to get a valium now.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:39 am
61 brandoflour
Bloody hell they are a bit different. I can’t make them out. I’d like to see the originals to find out what is going on though…
September 25th, 2007 at 10:39 am
What stands out to me is that they finally have a witness to Maddie being alive at 6pm at “high tea”… that makes the timeline more compressed does it not. (following along from new zealand)