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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October 1st, 2007 at 12:36 am
Thank you Spindoctor!
And Stevo I can vouch for the fact that a whole lot of ‘Sweet Tea’ is consumed in these here parts.
And to think I thought all you Brits were tweaking from the caffeine consumption!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:36 am
876 - Stig
As per usual your analogy is wide of the mark. Stupid in fact. Considering my kids have always been on holiday with me since they were babies and never woken up scared, your scenario makes no sense whatsoever. There is a world of difference between your kids waking and you being in the same apartment and your kids waking and you’re boozing down the road.
Apart from talking daft, I can see you have about as much compassion towards toddlers as Ian Huntley does at bathtime.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:31 am
874 - Sorry, I copied Murder’s post to help answer the question and didn’t delete it so my post now looks completely jumbled. My post ends with the paragraph - ‘just typing this…..’ Apologies.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:30 am
874
i think it’s more likely she fell down the stairs.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:29 am
741 stevo
“The thought of the terror an infant feels to be left alone sleeping and then wake up in a strange bed/room and find themselves all alone is enough to warrant throwing the book at Gerry and Kate. That itself is enought to say they are guilty of extreme child neglect.”
A statement such as that beggars belief.
Go on holiday with the kids, they’re in one room you are in another part of the house you rented, it’s hot so the airconditioner is on as well as the TV - which is loud to over ride the noise of the Airconditioner, and you closed the connecting door to the kids end of the house so as not to disturb the kids with the TV, laughing etc.
Kid wakes up - strange room, all alone, utterly traumatised, cries.
Yes Stevo, I can really see how you would want to jail parents every time that happens.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:29 am
they chucked a shitload of tea in the harbour as i remember
(from school that is, i’m not that old)
October 1st, 2007 at 12:29 am
833 Murder
An anaphylatic reaction is the most severe allergic reaction and can result in death if not promptly treated. This is a possibility and would necessitate an emergency DIY tracheostomy to enable air to enter the lungs. People are allergic to so many different allergens and it is impossible to guess what Madeleine was allergic to, if anything. You are right though, in that the second dose could have caused an allergic reaction. If the allergic reaction was secondary to non prescribed prescription drugs being administered, then this would be discovered during an autopsy and would be reason for the McCanns to want to cover this up.
Trauma associated with bleeding that the McCanns could not risk an autopsy: Possibly an initial loss of control by a parent resulting in a blow to the body causing Madeleine to fall and bleed followed by further blows, hits, smacks, strangulation, shaking which would leave visible handprint bruises or also smothering, either by a pillow or a hand. All these things would be evident at an autopsy and would indicate physical abuse.
Just typing the above and thinking that this is possibly how Madeleine died, if she is indeed dead, is very difficult and heartbreaking. I sincerely hope the truth comes out.
Many reports suggested that the PJ were looking at two ’sedation’ scenarios - overdose OR adverse/allergic reaction.
What do you make of the scenario in which, following Mrs Fenn’s complaints of Kate crying for her daddy for 1 3/4 hours on May 1, the McCanns, perhaps in association with O’Brien (who lectured on opiate pharmacology in 2003), started a new sedation regime on 2 May, which sensitized Madeleine to a drug which, orally administered, provoked an allergic reaction that compromized breathing on 3 May?
As doctors, the obvious emergency intervention would have been an improvised tracheotomy, resulting in the apparently attested bleeding which is otherwise difficult to relate to a sedation scenario.
And if sedation is not a factor (despite the McCanns and O’Briens using NEITHER babysitting or bay monitors, like the other two familes), then what kind of trauma (with bleeding) would be so compromizing the parents couldn’t risk an autopsy?
After all, the parents and any accomplices were risking an awful lot, on the almost unavoidable ‘cover-up’ hypothesis - the end of their careers, many years in prison, loss of their (remaining) children. What inevitable autopsy results would make this risk worth taking?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:28 am
870
yes, they had the boston tea party i think when they wouldnt pay for it.
ended up with us letting them run the place themselves.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:26 am
866 am i going to call what?
i must have missed a bit.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:26 am
Free Kate McCann with every Cuddle Cat purchase…
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Now I’m going to bed, really.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:26 am
865 - firestar
Wasn’t there a tea-tax back in the day?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:25 am
861
but dinner can be at lunchtime or in the evening.
depends where you live.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:25 am
On toddlers with concussion (information from a medical website):
When should I call the doctor?
It’s common for children to hit their head when they fall, and in most cases there’s nothing to worry about. If your toddler loses consciousness, though, have him checked out by his doctor or by the doctor at the emergency room.
Sometimes, even with a minor blow, the brain can be injured. Also take your child to see a doctor right away if he hit his head and in the next day or two he:
• Has a lingering headache, lightheadedness, or vomiting. It’s okay to have a headache that’s relieved by acetaminophen or a bout of vomiting after a fall. But neither should persist.
• Seems unusually sleepy during the day or can’t be awakened at night. Try waking your toddler a couple of times the first night after his fall, just to make sure you can.
• Has any problems with his coordination, mental ability, or strength — like weakness in his arms or legs, slurred speech, confusion, or impaired vision.
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Out of curiosity what is the protocol when your parents ARE doctors? Does first aid/hospital go out the window? Do doctor parents normally go get a 2nd opinion? I wonder how that works?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:25 am
860 Gerry…
I did always think you were a wife swopper.
(Oh dear is any of this in poor taste?)
I’ll get me coat.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:23 am
862 firestar…
So you gonna call?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:23 am
we used to hang them for messing about with our tea.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:21 am
859 - firestar
Sure…
861 - spindoctors
Mine’s black with one sugar thanks!
Here’s some more trivia for you about tea. I found out after I moved to the USA why they think Brits drink a lot of tea. It’s not because of the drink “tea” it’s because us Brits will often say “I’m off for my tea” but of course we mean “tea” in the context of an early evening “dinner”. With all the sweet tea they drink out here I think the Americans actually drink more of it than Brits.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:21 am
so you could ring up saying theyre libelling you can you have the address please and see what they say.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:19 am
i did find a useful titbit if anyone cares to ask them, you never know.
‘I can tell you from personal experience that if any dispute arises about the domain domains by proxy will release your name without a court order. They will not protect any of your information including the billing information if someone calls and tells them they have a dispute.
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October 1st, 2007 at 12:17 am
852. Steve - okay okay!!!! I get you!
I’m off to make a cup of high tea - oops I mean a cup of tea.
High Tea is an early evening meal, typically eaten between 5 and 6 o’clock in the evening. It would be eaten as a substitute for both afternoon tea and the evening meal. The term comes from the meal being eaten at the ‘high’ (main) table, instead of the smaller lounge table. It is now largely replaced by a later evening meal.
It would usually consist of cold meats, eggs and/or fish, cakes and sandwiches. In a family, it tends to be less formal and is an informal snack (featuring sandwiches, biscuits, pastry, fruit and the like) or else it is the main evening meal.
On farms or other working class environments, high tea would be the traditional, substantial meal eaten by the workers immediately after nightfall, and would combine afternoon tea with the main evening meal.
In recent years, High Tea has become a word for exquisite afternoon tea.
Yes I did get that load of twaddle from Wickepedia - I was wondering why the nanny was giving caffeine tea to small children - now that clears it up I guess we know how the children got fed and that it was probably between 5 and 6 pm!
Anyway - I really am off to get a cup of tea and some biscuits - xxx
October 1st, 2007 at 12:15 am
848. If this lot goes pear shaped, I’ll give them a free Kate McCann. Actually, they can have her now if they want - she said two words the other day and interrupted my latest diatribe. Put me right off my flow she did.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:15 am
855.
yes thats what i meant.
they’re paying to keep it private.
i’m not saying theres anything wrong with it.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:14 am
Miss Match:
Sorry to nag, but could you look at my post 833 - I’ve been confused by the alternatives of ’sedation without bleeding’ or ‘trauma that can’t be disguised as an accident’ for a (very) long time, and thought maybe you could help resolve some of the questions?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:14 am
847 spindoctors…
My experience is that godaddy is all over the place… despite their silly name, they seem to be fairly ubiquitous.
Well, never mind… Get a Free Kate McCann with every new case of foot in mouth disease…
October 1st, 2007 at 12:13 am
Domains by Proxy is an Internet company owned by Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons, that offers private domain registration to its users. Ordinarily, the domain owner’s contact information is listed in the WHOIS database. Using one of their partner registrars such as Go Daddy or Wild West Domains, Domains by Proxy leaves their information instead
October 1st, 2007 at 12:13 am
851 - firestar
Not necessarily. My domains show up the same as that site - I’ve got two domains and websites with Godaddy. You pay extra for private registration.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:13 am
711 anonymous / p / jj
“Stig, I believe you may mean “smokescreen”?”
Hadn’t the cat already been tested/examined by the PJ and they were no longer interested in it?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:11 am
848 . Yes a blog with carefully selected news stories!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:11 am
847 - Spindoctors
In the USA, Godaddy is the largest and one of the easiest/cheapest web hosting companies. I use them because they have tons of useful features. Contrary to what you’ve been told, they do loads of webhosting.
It doesn’t make any difference about private domain registration if you want to sell it. In that case, you contact the registrar and make a bid and they get in touch with the private owner.
Like I said, it really is not worth commenting on - it’s a normal day to day thing to select private registration.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:10 am
837
that’s incorrect.
it’s not that they’ve registered it and ticked a privacy box, they have paid a third party to register the domain for them anonymously.