Madeleine McCann: The Nanny Suspect, Amaral Policing And Jail
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE MYSTERY. BRING IT ON.”
The Sunday Express is not the Express, which has form some weeks led with the front-page banner “MADELEINE”. The Sundays Express goes its own way.
“McCanns remain defiant as they face 40 questions from UK police this week”
“Kate and Gerry’s fury as new sighting in Morocco by businessman is ignored”
SUNDAY MIRROR front page: “MADDIE HUNT: THE TRUTH.”
The truth… At last…
“DISGRACE.”
A picture of Madeleine McCann (on the right). A picture of Portuguese copper Goncarlo Amaral (left).
“Police have ignored 250 sightings of her” – and have investigated how many?
“Cop leading police probe works four hours a day” – Amaral’s not overworked and fresh.
“He has three-hour boozy lunches with pals” – Amaral holds lengthy meetings to discuss and masticate over the case with team.
“Puffing on a cigarette and knocking back beers, the man leading the world’s biggest missing child inquiry enjoys yet another long, boozy lunch.”
Good to know that the Mirror is not wasting its time and watching him.
STAR ON SUNDAY: “THREATS TO McCANNS.”
“Friends say the couple are ‘extremely concerned’ by the nature of the threats and are considering hiring extra security.
Last night a spokeswoman for the McCanns, both 39, confirmed that they had been sent what she described as ‘negative letters and fear mail’.”
INDEPENDENT: “Maddie ‘kidnapped by maid’, says email.”
“The McCanns’ spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said they were ‘encouraged’ by the development.”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Kate McCann will risk jail to find Madeleine
Kate McCann has been told by her legal team that she faces jail sentence if she flouts Portuguese law to discuss details of the four-year-old’s disappearance in a high-profile television interview.
She tells a “close friend”: “I will do what I must. What does any of it matter if it helps find Madeleine?”
“It is what Kate thinks will help,” a close friend tells the paper. “What choice does she have? Unless Kate and Gerry ignore the law and speak out, their chances of finding Madeleine will dwindle further. Better to risk prison if it helps find her.
“Will the Portuguese police really prosecute a mother whose sole aim is to find her daughter or at least, God forbid, discover the whereabouts of her body? Kate, most of all, believes risking a jail sentence is nothing compared to finding Madeleine.”
Who needs an interview with Kate with friends like that?
THE OBSERVER: “This limbo that lasts a lifetime,” writes Carol Sarler.
“The McCanns are said to be devastated by dashed hopes; if so, they must get used to it, for there will be more sightings, more dashing and, to add to their misery, more harassment of more innocent families. I know this because, having investigated the disappearance of Ben Needham on Kos in 1991, the unfolding of the McCann case has felt like one long, wretched, groundhog summer.
“Ben, recapped in a nutshell: his grandparents, Eddie and Chris Needham, moved from Sheffield to Kos with their teenage son Stephen, daughter Kerry and her boyfriend and their son, Ben…
“…The singular difference between the Needhams and the McCanns is, crudely, class. Eddie has homemade tattoos on his knuckles, Chris was a grandmother at 38, Kerry and her boyfriend - a man known, as they say, to the police - lived in a council block. Perhaps this explains why, throughout their ordeal, nobody from the British consulate in Athens once got off their butt or went to Kos to help or support; surgeon Gerry McCann, by contrast, mobilised the world.”
“Arabic adverts aid Madeleine hunt”… “Despite the disappointment of last week’s misleading sighting of a blonde girl in the Moroccan town of Zaio, the McCanns believe that their daughter might be somewhere in the country.”
TIMES: No Madeleine news today.
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September 30th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
September 30th, 2007 at 4:33 am
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September 30th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8237/img0002apptza6.jpg Plan of McCann’s holiday apartment,allegedly.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
111 Batman, I would say that the answer to that lies in the fact that the Mc’s had ALL the right connections, in the right places! (I feel that their connections go deeper than what is publicly known).
September 30th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Pixie,
Sarah payne’s body was found after (I think 2 weeks) Rhys Jones aged 11 was shot dead after getting caught in the cross fire in gang warfae in Liverpool.
Madeleine McCann didn’t make it onto Fox news in anything other than a minor headline until several weeks after she disappeared…..
It is the length of time she’s been gone, the fact that the family was on holiday and the internet rumours that has made this what it is. IMO.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Carmen, thank you for that response … as you see from the post just below yours, I am not from England … from deepest darkest Africa in fact … and I was wondering how much significance could be placed on the fact that the mail was sent to The Prince of Wales.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
81 firestar
Oh I got there before any of you. Days ago I likened Tony to people who stood around at witch burnings of yore, selling wood and matches to the mob.
The civil action he is trying to organise would need a solicitor to push it - he’s a solicitor. They usually get paid, so you need donations - someone in Ireland, a retired solicitor, offerd €50K .
Looks to me like someone might be trying to do what the McCanns have been accused of vis a vis the M fund - organising a fund and using it for personal gain.
I posted all these ideas days ago but I’m just the dumb pro-innocent until proven guilty real Stig so no one pays attention to anything I say - well almost
September 30th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Portuguese detectives plan to send a legal letter to their British counterparts outlining more than 40 questions they insist the parents of Madeleine McCann must answer.
The British police will then decide how and where the questions will be posed.
The move has been ordered by prosecutor Luis Bilro Verao, who issued a public statement earlier this month saying there was not enough evidence against Kate and Gerry McCann to order a fresh grilling about the little girl’s disappearance.
http://tinyurl.com/3cbdm4
September 30th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
#97 Moderation. Since 3rd May, I believe many other British children have gone missing and remain missing. Can anyone on this forum name any of them off the top of their heads? I can’t.
Why are these other children not considered to be every bit as valuable as Madeleine McCann?
September 30th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Justin … no need to be so rude! I was asking a question! I am not from England, and YES I have heard of Diana!
September 30th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
97:
I think hippiechickie is actually right – perhaps if you follow the British media only you could claim that she/he is wrong. But if you look at the global scale of this story it compares to none of the other cases you’ve mentioned. I don’t live in the UK and I’m still bombarded with “breaking news” and images of the McCanns.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Firestar, I shall plug your website very shortly….. I shall be departing here and will put you on my blog! (But not your views!)
September 30th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
100 and you would trust charlie boy,ever heard of Diana.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
92 it was you who started it mate so if you cant take it dont dish it out. im happy to leave it at that if you are.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
#96 Rosemary. I thought she would be found just after the Papal visit. I was sure she would be ‘miraculously’ found. By then a lot of money was in the fund (still VERY unhappy that this was set up so fast) and the McCanns had achieved celebrity status. I really did think all we would then have is a series of stories being sold to newspapers/magasines - a book. Then maybe a TV drama and all would be forgotten in a few months.
Day 150 is not yet over, and oh to be proven wrong, but at this stage I think any chance of finding Madeleine either alive or dead is well and truly gone.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Judge,why would they want to go to a country with no extradition,do you know something we don’t,do you work for the mccanns spin team.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
What do you lot make of the mail that was sent to the Prince of Wales? Do you feel that a newspaper would DARE use his name to sell a story that isn’t true?
If he did receive such a mail on his website, why would this person send it to him? Possibly because they trusted no-one else to make use of the information? I mean what with all the poo-slinging going on between everyone else, they would have simply taken no notice of it, and carried on trying to make themselves the all-important ones. There are so many people out there who are just simply forgetting that this is a case that is first and foremost to find justice for a little girl who was unable to defend herself (no matter what actually happened to her).
Any thoughts on this particular “new development”?
September 30th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Rosemary,hands up those who think Madeleine will never be found,which would suit some parties agenda very well.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
83 - There is no restriction to the McCanns travelling anywhere in the world including countries with no extradition.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Hippiechick… I think you’re wrong. I think the same amount of publicity and funding would have happened regardless of class; its the age of the internet that has made this the huge story that it is.
The press were totally behind the Paynes when Sarah went missing and they lived in a council house…..
Rhys Jones family have received a lot of money from Liverpool/Everton football teams from donations but the difference is that the police know who killed the boy, its the silence of the villainous public in the area that is the problem not lack of funding or publicity and certainly not class.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Hands up all those who thought Madeleine would be found on day 150.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
51 agw
got it - thanks.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
A sourse close to English dictionaries told me: “To mccann” - is a new verb.
” I mccanned my glasses” - means that I broke my expensive glasses by mistake, hid them and told everyone that my glasses were stolen from me, and now I suffer because I can’t see.
“a mccanned homework” - will be popular words among teachers.
The sourse did not want to be named.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Is 57,this the same Amaral who obtained the evidence that convicted Cipriano for murdering her daughter i.e. blood in the fridge/freezer and other evidence,strange or there again perhaps not that the British press would choose to try and discredit a policeman,who is obviously very good at his job,ah sorry I forgot he is Portugese so to the British press he must be lazy and useless.You could not make it up,but the British press can.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
71 - Why the personal attack. I am defending no one. The McCanns are guilty of neglect and at this moment in time, that is the only fact in the public domain.
I dispise neglect of anykind. As adults we all have a duty to protect our offsprings, irrespective of where you live or who you are. You mention a 25 year old single mother on a council estate, and I would have to ask why. Could it be that such people are more likely to neglect their children given the fact that they cannot afford adequate childcare. It stands to reason that such people will constitute the larger part of those who neglect their children, but you can’t tar all council estate residents with the same brush. Some very affluent people neglect their children, and the McCanns actions of constantly leaving their children both prior to and after Madelein disappeared is perfect evidence of the lengths they went to not to be with their children. Their actions were not paternal, because having lost one child they still dumped the twins at daycare every day, when a grieving parent would not have let the others out of their sight.
I was one of 7 boys, and brought up on a council estate. My mother worked 3 jobs, and we were never once left without a responsible person to look after us. That was in the 1960’s when children were safer, and social workers were unheard of, but her forst instinct was to protect us.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
87 the real dick
does he need you to defend him
September 30th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
85 your link doesn’t seem to work. i would interested to see it
September 30th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
76, slyfox
I think it went down because it showed the super-sized fridge-freezer.
Perhaps the photos were out of date and gave the wrong idea.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
As I posted yesterday the McCanns PR campaign (orchestrated from Night 1 even, allegedly, before a proper search of the grounds had been completed!!) is going to be their downfall.
Innocent or guilty they are doing themselves no favours by continuing to maintain such a high profile. A clear pattern is now established where both the McCanns and the PJ are trying to discredit each other. Do any of them really think this will help find Madeleine? The McCanns are on very dodgy ground because they have refused to answer questions - which might help find their daughter, after all. And PJ past behaviour in similar cases also raises serious concerns.
All this stuff about people under stairwells, maids with a grudge, abductors hiding behind doors in the apartment etc. are making things worse and worse for the McCanns because it destroying their credibility. And all this rubbish is going to continue unless they deliberately stop it because newspaper editors are making a fortune out of their never ending useless statements.
Eventually people are just going to get fed up with these ‘new’ revellations and ‘breaking news’ things. Eventually people will start wondering what the McCanns real motivation is - in keeping themselves, more than their missing daughter, in the news. For example, the McCanns think Madeleine is most likely in North Africa. Why then were they going to go the North AMERICA to do a TV intereview?
Sad to say, especially for Madeleine, but I really think the McCanns are now so addicted to their celebrity status that they simply cannot stand back and get out of the spotlight, and let the police and the McCanns own investigators get on with the real job - finding Madeleine.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
71 the horse pointing north viewed from the south looks like an arse
He is correctly pointing out the PJ have nothing that one could say is evidence to implicate the McCanns in a crime. All they seem to have is a prejudice against them and a determination to do nothing except look into matters that would support that prejudice. They clearly no longer have an open mind.
Judge Dread is not pro McCann as far as I am aware.
September 30th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
80 lets hope your not the judge that tries the mcmonsters as you have obviously made your mind up of their evidence based on what nobody knows…..