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.
Posted: 30th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,108) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 30th, 2007 at 10:21 am
26: Eva
Nanny Pennington was sacked by Mark Warner (for not turning up after a night of partying) so she needs some cash coming in – as I said yesterday they should have used this photograph of her instead of that “thinking on the bench” one:
http://tinyurl.com/2ha46q
September 30th, 2007 at 10:15 am
To be fair, I think the way the Foreign Office reacts to ANYTHING has changed drmamtically since its castigation over their abyssmal responss during the Tsunami crisis in Thailand. They now react to the opening of an envelope for fear of getting it wrong!!
I noticed how quickly they were on the scene when the plane crashed in Phuket lat week……. In like Flynn they were.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I can’t keep up with all the ’sightings’. Here’s another one I hadn’t read about before today:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2558233.ece
“The team is also looking at a third sighting, made by Jeannie Thompson, 56, from Devon. She says she saw a blonde girl looking “dishevelled” as a man took photographs of her at the Café des Epices in Marrakesh on May 11. She reported the sighting to British police, who took her statement, but has heard nothing since.”
Has Jeannie Thompson been mentioned before? The only ones I’d read about were the Norwegian woman and the Yorkshireman in Marrakech, and the one about a Muslim woman dragging a child across the road (another recent one). Oh, and the one about the suspicious looking character in the stairwell (yesterday’s news, I think). Oh, oh…and nanny Pennington at the beach late at night.
Is it just my imagination, or have there been too many ‘witnesses’ coming forward in the last few days?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:14 am
15 mojo
On the subject of predictions, I have suggested they will cut down on using “ludicrous” in their propaganda statements and I have shown Comical Clarrie what a thesaurus is.
Have not had much time to check this one out yet.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:12 am
20 chloe
I am beginning to think that
“not followed up”
is Comical Clarrie speak for
“didn’t get us the media hit we were banking on in our ever-worsening PR disaster and inevitable slide towards long jail sentences”.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:10 am
So, it was Clarence Mitchell who gave the photograph of “Madeleine in Morocco” to the newspapers:
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3236,36-961079@51-953038,0.html
September 30th, 2007 at 10:08 am
12 pixie
Well I agree and I thought it a bit odd. Having said that it is REALLY easy to send Prince Charlie an e-mail message:
http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/contactus/
I am impressed Your Royal Highness…
September 30th, 2007 at 10:07 am
(Pixie) 12 You might if you were from Gibraltar!
By the way, am I reading right - he says he saw her on 8 August? It is now 30 September. Even if it were true, it would seem a little late.
Also, I am sick of reading that the sightings haven’t been followed up. Both the petrol station sighting and the Ibys hotel sighting in Morocco were followed up. Both had CCTV. At the petrol station, there was clear footage of the Mary Olli person who reported the sighting but no small blond child at the same time. People were questioned and nobody had seen her. Same at the Ibys hotel - CCTV but no child. No employee had seen her. The sighting in Murcia in Spain was followed up by the Spanish Civil Guard (even though they thought it unlikely) but they found nothing. And I imagine that many other sightings have been followed up bythe police in the respective countries.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:05 am
16: Michael:
The US media do cover the Madeleine story already - what the McCanns would like to do is “speak about the Portuguese investigation, DNA and leaks”. How do you think that would help find Madeleine?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:04 am
If I were Kate I would talk to whomever I wanted to talk to. But I would also answer those 40 questions.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:04 am
And on the subject of 40 questions… Surely there must be more than 40 by now.
You could probably ask 40 questions on why they didn’t answer the first 40 questions.
I reckon it’s now 40 times 40 (and rising).
That makes 1600 questions! That’s nearly as many as the number of times they have changed their stories… this week!
September 30th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Good for kate! Do everything that is possible.
September 30th, 2007 at 10:00 am
13 lol Ade ty. Any more predictions?
September 30th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Well at least Prince Charles did something with the information.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:59 am
11 mojo
tongue in cheek at 10 a.m. today…
Watch this space for true
They do read this site’s postings.
I was the first on here to mention using a freezer after all… Bloody obvious to me!
I also predicted opening up the “fund” to look for other kids - not happened - yet…
September 30th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Honestly – if you had what is claimed to be ”vital information” or ”important evidence” – would you send it to Prince Charles?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:54 am
9. Ade is that post tongue in cheek or true?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I think it would b so good if Madeleine were to be found.
Having said that I also believe then that the authorities need to have to guts to deal with the child neglect issue.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:52 am
7 Eva
“He was very white, overweight and about 5ft 10in with fair hair. He looked to be in his mid-30s and appeared to be from northern Europe as he was so pale.”
Breaking news, Jane Tanner, key witness in the Missing Maddie Mystery now remembers that the man she saw abducting Maddie was not the egg-head man, did not have dark hair but was an overweight fair-haired man in his mid-thirties, with a pale complexion.
Cross me ‘eart an’ ‘ope ta die M’Lud…
September 30th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Morning all - and what a lovely fresh morning too…
Wot’s this “fear mail” stuff? Is it like the Daily Mail when it eventually turns against their right royal fragrant ones?
Nope Comical Clarrie has been at the thesaurus:
Fear: Dread, Terror, Horror, Fright, Panic, Alarm, Trepidation, Apprehension
Now that sounds like what the whole of tapas 9 and the McCannics team must feel every day when they wake up. Don’t need any hate mail letters or blogs mateys…
Wot? Did I say Hate Mail? Now that’s probably what Comcal Clarrie REALLY meant…
Hate: Abhorrence, Detestation, Odium, Revulsion, Disgust, Extreme dislike
Now that’s what people really feel. C’mon Comical C - say what yer mean fer a change
September 30th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Oh, and here’s yet another sighting…
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/20546/McCanns-remain-defiant-as-they-face-questions-from-UK-police
Hotelier James Valarino, 65, from Gibraltar, is certain he saw the missing four-year-old in the clutches of a European man at a market in Tangiers on August 8. The sighting has given fresh hope to her parents that their daughter could still be alive 150 days after she vanished.
Last night Mr Valarino said: “I was shopping near the Old Medina about five in the afternoon when I saw a man acting nervously as he carried a little girl with blonde hair.
“At first I thought nothing strange of it because the man looked like he was the child’s father but when I got closer I saw her face and knew immediately it was Madeleine McCann.
“She was barefooted and he was trying to buy some shoes from a stall. I got closer to try to call her by her name but the man saw me and rushed off.
“The poor little child looked distressed and unhappy. She was clearly undernourished and appeared to be frightened of the man.
“He was very white, overweight and about 5ft 10in with fair hair. He looked to be in his mid-30s and appeared to be from northern Europe as he was so pale. I heard him ask the stall owner about children’s shoes in English and it sounded like his native tongue.
“He was carrying the youngster on his hip and stood at the stall for about five minutes. I did not get the chance to see her eyes but I have followed her story from the day she went missing and I am certain it was her. I only wish I had been brave enough to say something to him.”
September 30th, 2007 at 9:42 am
I posted these on the other thread.
Eva Says:
September 30th, 2007 at 9:29 am
The McNotts posted this same link earlier, but in case you haven’t read the article, here’s the link again, and two excerpts:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/3009_maddie.shtml
“BRITISH cops launched an urgent hunt for a new suspect in the Maddie McCann case — after an astonishing tip-off from the PRINCE OF WALES.
An anonymous email sent to the prince’s official website insists three-year-old Madeleine was kidnapped from the Mark Warner Ocean Club holiday resort in Portugal by a disgruntled ex-employee.
The informant named a maid who was sacked from the apartment complex in Praia da Luz and claimed she snatched the child in a crazed revenge plot.”
“As soon as the whistleblower’s email arrived on the royal website aides passed it to Scotland Yard.
Officers from Leicestershire police— the McCanns’ local force—are now trying to trace the writer.
The detectives have already established that the named ex-employee EXISTS and the checkable details appear to be ACCURATE.”
Didn’t one of the regular posters predict that there would be another ‘amazing revelation’ on day 150? Perhaps this is it.
Eva Says:
September 30th, 2007 at 9:34 am
This is from the same article about the disgruntled employee:
“The housekeeping staff are given keys to the apartments which are cleaned at least twice a week.”
I thought they had to do their own cleaning, or was that the villa that was subsequently rented by the McCanns?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:40 am
3. If I were the McCann’s I would be encouraged by any development.
Having said that there does seem to be a lot of evidence that people get involved ie by giving interviews to the press etc when they seem to know more information.
Remember Ian Huntly did that? There have been others too.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Good for Kate. Of course she should do everything she can to find Madeleine, with God’s help alive.
September 30th, 2007 at 9:33 am
sorry, my girls left the caps lock on. that’s better.
now, why are the mccanns taking the maid theory so seriously?
September 30th, 2007 at 9:32 am
SECOND! YEY!
September 30th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Is it me or do things seem to be changing for the McCanns?