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 4:45 pm
“Dr McCann yesterday returned to the apartment where they had been staying - now a crime scene - to retrieve a suitcase of belongings and a bucket and spade for the couple’s two-year-old twins.
The couple, who on Friday night made a brief appearance before the cameras to plead directly to anyone holding their daughter to let her go, kept a low profile yesterday.
At one point they were seen walking hand in hand to the apartment where they are now staying after dropping off the twins with friends. They later met British ambassador John Buck. ”
the scottish herald
September 28th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
505
i dont think the secrecy applied till they were arguidoed.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Krissie - there are some things about this case that are true. One being that Gerry McCann told his relatives in Scotland that the appartment had been broken into. ‘The shutters had been jemmied,’ were his words. It came to light that the appartment had NOT been broken into and then they admitted that the patio door had been left unlocked. To lie about this raises many serious questions.
Why lie about something that could delay finding out what really happened to Madeleine? If you lie, you have something to hide. We are just debating what else could have happened.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I have to go, rehearsal at half five. Will probably be late as it is.
Krissie, if you’re Maura, I’m prepared to forgive and forget since I like Krissie better.
If not, I expect I’ll end up clashing with her again.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
503
hardly any of the ‘bad stuff’ has been in the british papers.
only the online editions.
the tv has had even less.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Gerry talking tosh about the difference between metric and imperial measurements regarding the abductor’s height:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1269023,00.html
To all those that still harp on about secrecy laws, I hadn’t realised that Crimewatch did a show on Madeleine on June 5. If the McCanns were bound by secrecy laws then why did they do this video back then - 1 month after the disappearance. People have short memories and need to go back and look at this material before forming biased opinions and opinions based on short or bad memories.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
499. Didn’t they fly to Rome on that patron saints private jet?
September 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
The Telegraph is actually rather balanced. They seem to report everything, at least. But like I said, it’s not like any media are so pro-McCann that they dont’ REPORT the bad stuff.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
if they buried her at sea there was a boat.
unless it was a tiny dinghy, it should be on coastguard radar.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Try posting something unfavourable about the McKillers on the Daily Mail website.
You can’t.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
470 Batman - me likeeey! I had my fears that my ‘reclaim the insult direct action’ might go winging over the heads of the non-satirical part of our audience. Pity to see it come true. C’est la vie!
September 28th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I think on 6 may when gerry left the apartment with a suitcase and spades for the twins was when they gave her to ob and t.
in an airconditioned apartment in a case topped up with bags of ice/ and or fridge.
then when they were in rome and hired that car they put her in the boot and they disposed of her when the spotlight was in rome and stuff.
the popes blessing i think was the same day as the buriel at sea.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
491 I agree karen
Safer to hedge bets in favour of les fragrances for now.
Just one trigger can cause them all to flip completely the other way though… I’m waiting anxiously to find out what it is…
September 28th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
442 - LL Cool J
Almost missed your reply but yes, their reaction looks contrived doesn’t it?
If you go on Sky News and trawl through their videos section I find they are all editorial or interview videos. Youtube is a waste of time because there’s too many tribute videos on there now.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
477. Yeah lol all you like.
If you knew anything at all about past criminal cases there have been plenty of murderers (many without much education! and they weren’t even good looking!) who have embalmed or dismembered their victims with the precision of a doctor or scientist. So just imagine what a real doctor or scientist can manage if they need to try and cover up a crime.
Since you are 100% supportive of the McCanns could you please answer the questions I asked in #376? The other pro-McCanner has her tongue stuck in an orifice but since you are able to laugh I am guessing you’re available.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
gotta run again, hi Moderation!
September 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
469 harry Hind Sight
“they are searching motor CCTVs to try and work out where the Doctors went - no tracking device then”
But maybe the tracking device has made it easier to identify which CCTVs to look at…
September 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
487
dont forget, especially you foreigners, that the online editions and paper ones are different.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
470,
hate monger is appropriate if that is what you are.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
476. Krissie. They repeat the rumours, then they say the rumours are crap. It’s called having your cake and eating it. Also, hedging your bets.
Right now, the British press is pro-McCann - it daren’t be anything else.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
485 - noonethere
Like I said - read all the posts and absorb what’s written before making stupid false claims about what people said.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
clingfilm reminds me of the episode of ‘bottom’ where they hid the dead gas man on the ceiling.
hope they’ve checked.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
447 - krissie
I’m not passing myself off as anything. I just want the truth like the sensible people in here do and in the public at large. Apart from spouting sarcasm, you’ve not actually contributed anything to the debate. That’s why I don’t know what your point is.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
No, I think not the Daily Mail. What’s the one with the big red banner on their webpage?
September 28th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I don’t believe she is buried in Spain. Too much of a risk. The trip to Huelva was to distract the attention of the PJ, to give them the false idea that the corpse is not in Portugal.They did it on purpose. Was August 3 the day the PJ started digging Murat’s garden? Interesting that Gerry did not refer to the exactly three months of disappearence of the girl on his site on that day. I noticed it. He commented 50 days, 100 days but no 3 months. In the early morning they went to the church, in the afternoon to Huelga.Were the digging machines and the sniffer dogs close to the buried body?Not in Murat’s garden but somewhere in the resort or right outside? The couple knew the police would
not find anything in Murat’s property. “Let us attrackt the police attention to Spain?”. This could be a sign that the corpse is very near to the resort of even in ?
September 28th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
467,
please just listen to yourself.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
but clingfilm is easier.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
468. Krissie. I know I haven’t seen any evidence, that’s why I don’t go about screeching - How can you think she’s guilty!!! Or - I know she’s guilty!!!
If they appear on T.V., I am allowed to discuss how I felt about what they said and how they said it, and I’m allowed to compare it to other people’s views.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
459 freezers again
In my Act 1 play analogy (see 405) I wrote that I now think this was all premeditated. One box to tick on the checklist would be find a freezer in some back shed out of the way. Or maybe they even bought one from McComet’s local branch. A swift check of credit card transactions could show up something, I imagine.
September 28th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
the freezer isn’t that far fetched.
i believe there was one in obriens flat.
a bit of domestos and the sniffer dog wouldn’t sniff anything.