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 6:20 pm
419. firestar.
‘flid’ is a derogatory term to describe the offspring of parents who took Thalidomide whilst pregnant. Although now used in much the same way as ’spastic to describe someone you disagree with or dislike.
I must say I haven’t heard it used for many years though.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
422 IF YOU DONT BLOODY READ THEM HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY ARE THERE
September 30th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
425
that 7 people would risk their own jobs, families amd freedom unless directly involved.
seems to be the key to the whole thing.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
HEY..Stop who did that??
September 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
i think he thinks he works for the news of the screws.
it was his exclusive for sunday.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Just finished ploughing my way through Gerry’s blog. Thank you for the link. I’d read bits and pieces since he started, but reading it in one go was certainly very strange.
The first impression I got was his sycophantic tone regarding the PJ, (to start with at least). You could almost feel the relief that they were on his side to start with in his ramblings. The lack of emotion was strange too. It was just too bright and breezy and never once did he have days of desperation, guilt about leaving Madeleine and her siblings alone, anger, depression, despondency and all the other emotional ups and downs that you would expect with having a child go missing. He did seem to express some emotion after being made an arguido though.
His use of an exclaimation mark is pretty strange and inappropriate at times too.
I don’t know if anyone else here has read books about other people’s true life traumas. I have read a few and always get the same sensation of feeling slightly drained when reading them. I didn’t feel that at all with Gerry’s blog. It was too upbeat, too much about him and the celebrities he met, too eager in promotion the happy family, quality time with the children type of thing.
If this man is nothing else, he is really quite bonkers, self absorbed and completely unaware as to how he comes across. The blog is a psychiatrist’s dream, (or possibly nightmare).
September 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
384 sophie
Tough one- neither Y nor N. I can’t believe 7 people would risk their own jobs, families amd freedom unless directly involved. 1 or 2 may have been drawn in but its unlikely unless they too had something to lose. Overall, its a No.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
this board is hours of fun, can’t believe someone used the word “flid”
September 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
hi auntie phil hows it hanging (your stomach that is)???
September 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Andy…exactly, I don’t understand all the name calling, squabbling etc.
I thought this was a forum for adult debate….all these insults, swearing, caps etc reduces it to the level of a drunken row in a pub on a Saturday night …..I for one don’t even bother to read those posts.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Firestar 414 Did he really think that I’d be stunned by his investigative skills?? A silly spambot!!
September 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
416 ARE YOU TAKING THE PISS
September 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
although i’m not altogether sure what a ‘flid’ is.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I’m Auntie Phil…Want to have some fun??
September 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
i’ve herded cows.
and they’re not innocent until proven guilty.
theyre either innocent
or their guilty.
that’s why we’re debating it.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
WHAT A LUCICRUOS THING TO say
September 30th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
404 YOU FLID HAVE YOU NOT EVER HERD INNICENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY .
DIMWIT
September 30th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
413.
np.
i thought he was being very spiteful.
it’s partly my fault because i’ve been telling everyone he’s a spambot and he’s a bit miffed.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Justice..Quit being such a Hawk..If you don’t like our comments then get outta here.. YOu’re the IDIOT..for reading these comments you don’t agree with..
September 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
398
what’s the freekatemccann site for?
September 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Thanks Firestar…. Tony Bennett is a pratt!!
September 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
don’t drive over any mines or anything dear.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
and having dinner 5 miles away from them the night before.
good job they didnt crash into a tree on the way back.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
399. Vera.
I haven’t seen the film but I’ll keep an eye out for it now.
Regarding the Huelva link, I noticed the “man who never was” thing yesterday while wondering why the McCanns chose there to visit. Made me chuckle.
I was wondering if anyone else would pick up on it but they’re all busy fighting and name calling.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
WELL FIRESTAR YOU SEEM TO POST EVERY 10 SECONDS AND SPOUT THE SAME OLD CRAP OR JUST TRY TO PROMOTE YOUR SELF HOW ABOUT ANSWERING ME YOU IGNORANT KNOB
September 30th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Ian said….
All I want of the Mccanns is for them to say ‘We regret leaving a sub-four year old to babysit our twins and fully accept criticism of good responsible parents who have said that. Of that we are without doubt guilty.
why on earth should they apologise to you? Regrets / apologies are between them, their family and their priest!
Sackcloth and ages went out eons ago.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
403
i don’t know.
look at the swiss air traffic bloke, i think he was.
he got murdered by an irate relative.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
398..Justiceforgerry&kate:
What evidence do you have that they are innocent?
September 30th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
398
don’t any of you people know how to turn off the caps lock?
no onder their case is all muddled up.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
394 Obviously Mccann spin, its obvious that if a prosecution hands over some evidence to a defence, the defence can simply destroy it!
I hope that the Mccanns are suffering becasue they wont get punished in any other way.