Madeleine McCann: Spies, Richard Branson PI And Maddy TV
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. SPY-IN-SKY PLAN TO FIND HER KIDNAPPER.”
So she was kidnapped. Wasn’t she?
“Satellite and aerial footage as well as internet traffic should be used to help the hunt,” say “intelligence experts”, including Professor Anthony Glees, Director of Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. Security is his thing.
Pages 4 and 5: “Riddle of the McCanns’ day out” – Why did the McCanns go to Spain on August 3 and what did they do there? Clarence Mitchell says the TV cameras and journalists tracked their every move.
“Branson: They are innocent” – Richard Branson PI calls it a “grotesque nightmare”. He has donated £100,000 to help the McCanns clear their name. He says the McCanns have “the weight and support of Britain behind them”.
THE SUN front page: “OUTRAGE AS COPS CLAIM MADDIE ‘BURIED IN SPAIN’.”
Pages 6 and 7: “POLICE PROBE LOST 2 HOURS” – Police Claim the McCanns buried Madeleine during a “missing two hours” in Spain.
Kate and Gerry are “shattered”.
Says the Sun:
“SUSPICIOUS the trip was postponed from the day before – because Gerry had intestinal problems.
“’STRANGE’” that the couple from Rothley, Leics, chose to visit Spain on a national holiday, when the shops were shut.
“MYSTERIOUS that the McCanns racked up ‘unjustified mileage’ in their Renault Scenic – hired 25 days after Maddie disappeared.”
A source says a new ad campaign to find Madeleine will start in two weeks.
DAILY MAIL page 3: “Police use CCTV to map McCanns trips.”
As newspaper Correio de Manha reports, Spanish police have given their Portuguese counterparts CCTV footage “showing the Renault Scenic in places in Spain where there was ‘no reason’ for the couple to be.”
A TV series based on Madeleine McCann is being produced in Chile. Says Chilean newspaper El Mercurio: “The case is becoming a soap opera.”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “KATE IS SO FRAGILE. Fears for mum after latest blow.”
Kate McCann’s face is all over the front page. “The anguish is plain to see.” A friend hears that Madeleine had not been found in Morocco: “Kate is so fragile. She’s suffering a devastating disappointment.”
Page 5: “They suffered a devastating blow with the false alarm in Morocco. Kate has crashed.”
“COPS PROBE SPAIN TRIP.”
DAILY STAR pages 6 and 7: “MADDIE DUMPED IN SPAIN.” An “exclusive”.
THE TIMES page 16: Mick Hume says: “The line between investigation and emotive entertainment has disappeared.”
THE TELEGRAPH page 6: “Portuguese focus on McCanns’ Spain trip” – Clarence Mitchell says the McCanns are innocent.
THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: no Madeleine news today.
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September 28th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
get a room!!
bulldump and karen
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No, they can’t, Karen has to study
September 28th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
LET THEM ALSO SEE THE CCTV FOOTAGE / VIDEO OF THEIR MOVEMENTS SO THEY CAN CLARIFY SHY THEY STOPPED AT THOSE CERTAIN PLACES.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
it is a book, look it up
September 28th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
karen, where do you come from?
September 28th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Bulldump, I meant about the dead speaking to us. Not Judith Chalmers.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
#107 ‘Gerry McCann assumed she’d gone to sleep in their bed to get away from the sound of the twins crying.’
Twins crying?? Even if it was only an assumption, who could go off and have a nice evening out with friends and leave their little children alone crying.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
78, Batman,
I think there is a good case for witnesses to be interviewed under hypnosis to help recall facts which may have been forgotten - re sightings of an abductor, etc.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
116. What do you mean?
September 28th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
and to think i had been fantasizing that you were judith chalmers
September 28th, 2007 at 11:59 am
90 mark
There are only 365 days to choose from, there is always something interesting happening, somewhere, every day of the year.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:59 am
oh lord!!!!!! how the dead talk to us
September 28th, 2007 at 11:58 am
105 Matty that was an interesting article.
109 Toni, I have to leave now, busy afternoon today. I will try to get back on later, if not probably Monday. Hopefully, Sunday will bring results!
TTFN - Karen, keep STUDYING!
September 28th, 2007 at 11:57 am
i was wondering how long it would be before a connection was made to branson and all of this and i think this is a little blatant.
john mccann is the managing director and they are going to sel out virgin radio.
i didn’t realize it before now: http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/story/0,,2179294,00.html
September 28th, 2007 at 11:56 am
104. To think I replied to your first post not realising another tosser alter-ego had arrived.
Well, I hope you’re funny this time.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Oh, I’ve blown my own cover by typing in my full name. Never mind! I’ve got nothing to hide, so nothing to fear, eh, Mr. Brown?? My Siamese cat is on my knee - he’s more trouble than any of the McCann children could ever have been - and he distracted me. Anyway, refer to me as Judith C in future, if you will? Many thanks.
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September 28th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Toni
you are more clued up than me.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:52 am
99. Surely not.
I don’t fancy her, but she does have brilliant cheekbones.
If she looked like Auntie Phil, she could be screaming in the streets she wouldn’t get more than one front page and she’d probably be holding a picture of Madeleine in front of her.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:52 am
SSS Micheala Hunter was 19 hours old when she went missing on May 4th 1994 she was found on 13th - 16th February 1996 safe and well in SA
September 28th, 2007 at 11:52 am
103
Is which bed she was in actually significant though? I was merely replying to your post about the bed/door.
The only way that the bed is significant relates to IF she was abducted from her parents bedroom, that rather shoots down the theory that the abductor took her through the window in the children’s bedroom. After all, would a kidnapper risk waking up the 2 twins (assuming sedatives do NOT feature in this plot).
September 28th, 2007 at 11:51 am
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Rosemary Says:
September 28th, 2007 at 11:17 am
“In the versions of that account I’ve read weeks ago, it was reported Madeleine was not in her bed, but as the parents bedroom door was ajar, Gerry McCann assumed she’d gone to sleep in their bed to get away from the sound of the twins crying.
I’ve never read anywhere that he actually saw her asleep in their bed.”
Rosemary I read that too, many weeks ago, and have mentioned it on this forum many times as being so significant in that Mr. McC changed his story afterwards when, with useful hindsight, he claimed that he “knew” an abductor was hiding behind the door. However this opens another can of worms in that if he now thinks this is possible why didn’t this horrendous possibility occur to him when he checked and impel him look for Madeleine in the apartment? Of course, he has changed the bit of his story that claimed she wasn’t in her bed but he assumed she was elsewhere in the apartment, and he now claims that Madeleine was IN her own bed. This episode is so so important in its implications and, if nothing else, shows Mr. McC is a liar.
As for the trip to Huelva, Spain. I have some ideas here which I’m developing . However, what has been reported, and is important, is that they were supposed to go on August 2nd but Mr. McM reported sick (stomach bug allegedly) and called the major press pack, meetings with dignitiaries, etc. off. So when the couple went to Huelva on the following day August 3rd there were far fewer people around them and it was also a public holiday there. They apparently managed to shake most people off and disappear for two hours. Interesting!
September 28th, 2007 at 11:50 am
65 Anonymous the 1st
Ah yes!, but you aren’t thinking it through - perhaps they are getting mates rates because of that.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Found this article and blogs quite interesting
http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2007/05/madeleine_and_alex.php
September 28th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Karen - I’ve not seen you crying, what’s your point?
September 28th, 2007 at 11:48 am
84 SSS,
I’m sure the police will have the original account of whether Madeleine was actually seen asleep in the parents’ bed.
This is why it is pointless to go by newspaper reports of leaks etc., as you never get the full story and have to rely on other people’s (often dodgy) interpretations.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:47 am
44. How do you mean lying?
I think the Nanny said she was hysterical; I don’t think she said anything about crying.
Anyway, if they’re going to keep telling us she’s crying, and I’ve never seen a picture of her crying - which is highly unusual for someone who’s lost a child, to always be in control - then I’m going to assume that it’s more P.R.
And why’s that P.R. needed?
You seem to forget - for the first three weeks, at least - everyone, including me, was absolutely on their side. It’s their behaviour, esp. their P.R. that’s led to some of us and by no means everyone, thinking there’s something not quite right.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:46 am
95 & 92
Her Name was Micheala Hunter - she was abducted from the maternity home just after she was bron (the next day I think) - but she was found 3 years later in 1997
September 28th, 2007 at 11:46 am
55 rosemary
Didn’t Tony’s quote mention that Gm did not find Madeline missing from her bed - she was still in it. It is only LATER after she went missing, when he going through it all in his mind, that he remembered the open door and then realised what the open door might signify?
September 28th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Am I still banned for saying I fancied dear sweet Kate?
September 28th, 2007 at 11:44 am
3rd May 1979
Gordo’s and Tony’s favourite politician won the General Election boo hoo.
Bit out of McTouch for a day or two but it seems to me that the main developemnts are:
1. The Morocco “sighting” ruse has not lasted as long as they intended - bloody reporters tracked down the girl MUCH to quickly;
2. The Spain trip is proving to be a tricky one to invent a storyline for - have the McCanno team created anything yet with those little nuts and bolts and pieces of metal plate? I haven’t seen anything;
3. The “ill health” card is being used - probably earlier in the game than they would have liked - which shows they are getting desperate. As I wrote a few days ago they will probably eventually go for nervous breakdown, diminished responsibility and all that rubbish. Tricky again though ‘cos they will have to prove diminished responsibility on 3 May when she killed the girl - not 5 months later when she can’t live with what she has done any more and has cracked up.
Ho hum - I do like watching the baddies squirm
Not much time to contribute at the moment (as I’m sure most will welcome) - busy practising a new tune for Saturday. Will drop in from time to time.
Keep up the sterling work…
And many thanks again to spudgun for the excellent video…
September 28th, 2007 at 11:44 am
93
Good, I am glad to hear that you finally getting some reading done
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So am I! she’s allowed an hour off, then back to the grindstone