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 11:14 am
63
SSS Apprently 4th May 1994
September 28th, 2007 at 11:13 am
52 Stig
Yup, can’t deny it’s possible…keeping quiet makes sense.
On a more cynical note;
Given Control Risks Group long involvement in the energy sector, they probably got a recommendation from Andrew Brown on using them.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:13 am
the express more likely,
although I have always wondered about Martin Brunt, just joking,
September 28th, 2007 at 11:11 am
58/59
What date did this girl go missing? I would like to check the numerology out.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:11 am
55 Rosemary- as a parent I agree totally. That is why people question how genuine/truthful/good parents???? the Mcs really are because it beggars belief that you wouldn’t do a thorough check when you realised your daughter wasn’t in bed. People can question these things on the few facts that we have.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:10 am
59 toni - are you saying that it was sky news that abducted Madeleine?
September 28th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Moral of the story - dont leave your kids laone between 1 & 4th May
September 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
May 3rd is also WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
WOW Now that is interesting in the least
September 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Toni - knew it was somewhere round there - wonder what she is doing now.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:06 am
32 SSS Says:
“Funny though, how all these seemingly “seperate” notes all seem interlinked.”
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Nope Sir Branston Pickle is just a serf promoter….period.
;o)
September 28th, 2007 at 11:06 am
52
Has Control Risk ever searched for children before? I thought they did other jobs. I don’t think they have a lot of experience in this kind of work.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:06 am
46, matty,
Yes, but interesting, isn’t it that there were not enough traces of DNA left by the abductor for the police to get a profile.
I’ve read here many times that there could not have been an abductor as no foreign DNA was left behind. I can still see several possible scenarios.
However, what parent, finding a child missing from her bed, would go off and chat in the lane to a tennis partner - having noticed a bedroom door ajar, and then later come up with the feeling that there was an abductor lurking in the room?
September 28th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Cassie it was May 4th, OMG
September 28th, 2007 at 11:03 am
44
I’m waiting for a Churchill type speech from GM ending in the phrase “We will never surrender”, just as they both high tail it to the Tora Bora Mountai Range to live with Osama Bin Laden to live a life on the run!
September 28th, 2007 at 11:02 am
35 anonymous the 1st
Fair enough, but hiring Control Risks would seem to me to indicate they genuinely do want to find her. Everyone is always criticising them for not doing more to try and find her but don’t seem to realise what they do may best be done in secret. Supposedly they hired CR 4 weeks or more ago and kept quiet aboout it for that reason. If it was just a smoke screen don’t you think they would have mentioned it sooner
September 28th, 2007 at 11:01 am
39
And if I might say something extremely stupid A La Brandoflours, in The Fugitive they weren’t much good either, so that MUST mean that they are rubbish, because it took Tommy Lee Jones MONTHS to find Harrison Ford, and even then, Harrison gave himself up
September 28th, 2007 at 11:00 am
The Matthew James website is interesting regarding the latest sighting in Morrocco thought that it was deefinately madeleine and after seeing the picture of the girl that it was supposed to be I still thought there was more of a likeness to Madeline than this little girl, but how convinient that a journalist managed to trace this girl take a photo and make headlines twice in one day has there been any official reports from Police, Interpol etc to confirm that these sightings were one and the same, I expect there are a lot of Moroccons in that sort of typical dress carrying chuldren in the same way (and why was this girl being carried anyway if she is the cild of an olive farmer who lives in the middle of nowhere surley she is more that capable of walking ?
September 28th, 2007 at 11:00 am
42, Tony Bennett, not 44
September 28th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Such has been the success of dogs in detecting bodies, drugs, and bombs, that their work is now being expanded.
Britain has just trained the first mobile-phone detecting dogs. The first dogs are working in UK prisons: their remit is to find inmates hidden phones which are routinely used to organise crime from withing the prison walls.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:59 am
44, Tony Bennett,
This is all very interesting if we could believe it. Who knows whether the leaks are credible or not? Not me, certainly.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Rosemary- Ilizabeth Smart case-the sister heard the mans voice and 4months later something she read triggered her memory. She identified the man as someone who had worked for the family. The police didn’t find this information valid enough to act so the family put together a photofit and the man was identified and arrested.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:55 am
39 Strange then that so many police forces across the world invest in their lengthy training and subsequent care
September 28th, 2007 at 10:55 am
10. But she does cry in public, she cries in Church and then mysteriously all signs of it disappear the instant she steps out the door (or that photograph would be printed and reprinted everywhere).
Also, her family feel the need to tell us she cries in private (which is making it public).
Personally, I think she’s too irritated by Gerry to cry. It must be hard to give in to grief when Mr Showbiz starts making stupid speeches (of zero relevance to getting Madeleine back) next to you. Sometimes, when he’s not talking, I think he’s nice person, but someone needs to get him away from those microphones.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Toni -(you are from SA) do you remember the baby - Michalea Hunter that was snatched from the maternity hospital 13 years ago that was also beginning of May (i think 3 or 4th 1994) - but she was found 3 years later in 1997
September 28th, 2007 at 10:54 am
735 (yesterday’s Madeleine thread) Moderation
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‘ANONYMOUSE’ IS RIGHT AND ‘MODERATION’ IS WRONG:
GERRY MCCANN *DID* WONDER FOR MONTHS IF THE ABDUCTOR WAS THERE IN THE ROOM
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Anonymouse was 100% correct in what he said about Gerry McCann having believed for months that the abductor may have been in the same room with him, and - rather typically for you if I may be so bold as to say - you rubbished his claims without giving the source(s).
Well, here is one of the sources, from ‘The Scotsman’ last week, based on a Press Association report, the PA being amongst the best sourced and most credible and trusted news sources worldwide:
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Gerry McCann ‘came close to Madeleine’s abductor’
JOHN BINGHAM - PA Chief Reporter in Praia da Luz
[EXTRACTS - verbatim - T.B.]
MADELEINE McCANN’s father believes he might have come within a few yards of his daughter’s abductor when he saw her for the last time, a friend said today.
Gerry McCann has become convinced an intruder was already hiding inside the family’s holiday flat when he left his meal to go back and check on his children on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance.
Madeleine, now four, went missing from the apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve on on the night of May 3 while her parents were dining with friends in a tapas restaurant nearby.
It was Mr McCann’s wife Kate who raised the alarm at about 10pm when she is said to have [well done PA for putting it like that! - T.B.] gone back to the apartment to check on the sleeping children and found Madeleine missing.
Mr McCann is believed to have gone to check on the children at around 9.05pm and saw them still asleep, including Madeleine. He spotted that the door to her room was ajar but thought nothing of it at the time, a friend said today.
But over the months since Madeleine’s disappearance he has become increasingly convinced that the intruder was already in the flat.
“He believes there was certainly something odd,” a friend said today. “The bedroom door was ajar when he got in and he thought: ‘That’s strange’. He went into the room, checked that Madeleine was still asleep in bed; she was and he came out, closed the door.
“Initially he thought that she might have got up and gone to the toilet or gone to get a drink or something but now he thinks that the abductor must have been in there hiding.”
The friend added: “He believes he came in, opened the door and didn’t have time to close it [as he went to hide before Gerry arrived].
“Once Gerry had left he would have known he had to come out very quickly and because Gerry went out through the patio door, went out through the window. He has no proof but that is what he believes.”
It is believed that when Mrs McCann went to check on the children a gust of wind in the room caused the door to slam behind her. It was then that she realised that the bedroom window was open and Madeleine was gone.
It emerged earlier today…[ SNIPPED]
Clarence Mitchell, their spokesman, said… [SNIPPED] “Kate and Gerry McCann have absolutely nothing to hide…” [SNIPPED]
A judge is now believed to have completed his review of a 4000-page dossier of evidence in the case from police, and handed the files back to prosecutors.
[SNIPPED]
September 28th, 2007 at 10:53 am
23,
Danie Krugel?
September 28th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Cheers for that Veres- sick of checking my son for the 3 sixes.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:53 am
13 rosemary
“what on earth were the sniffer dogs up to?!”
This is one of my hobby horses. Innumerable times I have read of missing person cases where dogs are used to try and locate the person and they almost never do. I will admit that perhaps it is only the cases where they fail that get reported but I couldn’t count the number of times I have read in the papers that dogs were used but failed to locate the person. They are much overrated IMO.
It’s a bit like the disease outbreaks that are always feared after floods and earthquakes, but which almost never happen.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:52 am
36 great
September 28th, 2007 at 10:52 am
30
Hey there’s a LOT you don’t know about me
But, you have given me an idea….I think I will look into the numerology of the 2 specific dates we know about, the one Madeleine went missing and the one Alexis went missing.