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 1:06 am
889. ‘but i’m sure a few hail mary’s are better than nothing’
In the case of the McCanns kids, they are certainly more preferable than one ‘Our Father’
October 1st, 2007 at 1:05 am
900 - DeeDeeDee
It’s not that bad lol…
Although we have a case down here right now that hasn’t received much national press but it’s the worst case of kidnapping I can ever remember.
Where are you at?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:04 am
906
we don’t know about the hours.
theres a possibility it may have been five or six hours don’t forget.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:03 am
905
as long as you’re not one of those clumsy criminals.
wouldn’t want you falling down the steps.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:02 am
Firestar - I think to go to the quiz night and act as if everything is ok to support an abduction theory is a reasonable thing to say but then they could do that anytime and have time to think about it if they chose to stay in that night. What you’re really saying is that in less than a couple of hours, a terrible thing occurred including death of your first born and then you choose to put on an act to make it look credible. I don’t buy that. It’s too risky. If it did happen that evening in the room (death), then I think whatever happened must have been a very heinous thing - perhaps Kate got into an incredible temper rage and something bad happened to Madeleine as a result. Maybe Madeleine destroyed something that was dear to Kate…flushed a sentimental piece of jewelry down the toilet for instance…anything in fact that ignited Kate’s rage.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:00 am
Oops, but I did post a prisoner forum link once and they did want to fry Kate.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:00 am
903
are you sure?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:59 am
Sunny that is so not true. I posted once under the GW Caption and I am not in Prison.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:56 am
898
the diana inquest next sweetie.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:56 am
893 - Stig
OH! So someone signed in as you did they? When I mentioned someone doing it to me yesterday you weren’t very sympathetic were you? Serves you right for being so obnoxious to people.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:56 am
I was under the impression that only one of the T9 (or one couple) had the monitor and McC’s and another couple did not.
Anyway I am beginning to think they are really are covering something up other than a simple accident. Not likeing this much at all. But I’m still backing the doggies.
Stevo - if you need to vent about being in WV I’m here for you!!! (Ya’ll would have to experience WV in order to understand it fully!)
October 1st, 2007 at 12:55 am
were they doing the okey cokey and singing ‘knees up mother brown’?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:55 am
MOD AND ADMIN
Funny how I am not allowed to have a laugh regarding some of your posters but its okay for you to dedicate an entire forum to the constant mocking and bashing of an entire family.
WHO are you kidding MODS and ADMIN, you have NEVER been open to a real debate. Your agenda has always been clear. 99% of your posters are from nut jobs who hate the McCanns and want them burned at the stake. I am sure soon you will be asking people to register and perhaps even pay for a subscription rate. Do you ever notice how none of your other stories get posts, only the McCann story gets hits. When its all over M & A, what then? Maybe you can turn it into a dating site. Only problem is most of your posters are posting from prison. BYE!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:54 am
Another reason I’m not very enamoured with the Catholic Church is because they instigated the first true genocide in Europe with their invasion of the French town of Beziers in 1209. The Catholic - Papal decreed crusade decided to kill everyone in that town because they supported a different faith…Catharism.
Imagine…they killed every man, woman and child because some in that town weren’t Catholics and didn’t want to join that gang.
http://www.languedoc-france.info/120701_beziers.htm
The Catholic Church has plenty to answer for…
October 1st, 2007 at 12:54 am
892
and, i think you’re saying how did two people go out to dinner and carry on as if nothing had happened.
if they were all involved in the sedative thing and all knew what had happened, there’d have been no need to act.
does anyone know anything about the atmosphere at the gathering?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:53 am
883 - Stevo
I remember reading that one couple hired a baby sitter who stayed in the room with the children, another couple used a baby monitor. The McCanns and Dr O’Brian and Jane Tanner did the checking thing.
I agree that the friends would not cover up the negligent actions causing the death of Madeleine unless they were somehow involved.
The more I think about this mystery, the more complex it becomes and the more confused I become.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:52 am
892
Ok, so why make the decision to go out to the quiz night as if nothing has happened?
maybe exactly that.to make it look as if nothing had happened.
if they’d stayed in, she couldn’t have been abducted.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:50 am
745 anonymous
“I am not Judge Judy although I wouldn’t expect you to stop spreading even more rumours and lies. I can only guess then that last week when someone signed on under my name it was you. You were very active that evening and the person who was making extremely foul comments in CAPS (as if that’s any sign of intelligence or truth) kept saying I was a man and that I was Judge Judy - or somethign to that effect.”
On the night I think you are referring to Judge Judy referred to me using terms that only your alter ego Paulette had ever used. So in one post I replied to JJ and asked ‘or is that paulette’ - thats all I did. I am not the person who made foul comments - that person probably picked up on my query to JJ and assumed there WAS a connection, even though I had only ASKED the question.
I have never used another ID on here. I do not recall ever being ‘foul’ with you. I did insult you AFTER you had first insulted me.
mods and admin
If I have EVER used another ID on here, please let anonymous know.
You still have not answered a simple and polite question - why do you hate me so that you accuse me of misogyny, sexual inadequacy, aged decrepitude, mental inadequacy and of poor writing?
That last one hurt the most.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:49 am
888 - firestar
True. I’m trying to work out a theory based on probability and logic. To have so many people conspiring to cover up the death of a child is almost nil given the circumstances of that evening. I mean…it’s tough enough thinking Kate and Gerry did it in the space of a couple of hours and then had the bottle to go do a quiz night.
Here’s why I think that story is flawed.
Ignore how you have a dead child on your hands for a minute. Just accept there is one. Ok, so why make the decision to go out to the quiz night as if nothing has happened? Why not stay in that night and tell your friends you don’t feel like going out? That would buy you lots of time and more opportunities to get rid of the body. If you include someone else in the scheme then you don’t know they’ll go along with it or believe you.
That’s why all along I have said that if Madeleine died at the hands of or with the knowledge of the McCanns, it most likely happened earlier in the day and the sketchy evidence we’re getting is just that - sketchy and ambiguous.
It makes no sense at all to carry on going out once the calamity has occurred in the room - IF indeed that’s what happened.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:49 am
unless you say sorry to a priest before you die, of course.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:48 am
is there a place in catholic hell that’s more hellish than the rest of hell?
where the really bad people go, or once you’re going does it sort of give you the license to be as bad as you like?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:45 am
885
but i’m sure a few hail mary’s are better than nothing.
many catholic childeren have been buried with less.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:43 am
883
having a monitor doesn’t mean lack of sedation, or fear of being found out.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:42 am
Stig - read this and learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
October 1st, 2007 at 12:42 am
882
because criminals are very clumsy.
sir stafford cripps said so.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:42 am
THE BURIAL OF LITTLE CHILDREN
The “Rituale Romanum” provides a separate form of burial for infants and children who have died before they have reached years of discretion. It directs that a special portion of the cemetery should be set aside for them and that either the bells should not be tolled or that they should be rung in a joyous peal. Further, custom prescribes that white and not black should be used in token of mourning. The priest is bidden to wear a white stole over his surplice and a crown of flowers or sweet foliage is to be laid upon the child’s brow. The processional cross is carried, but without its staff. The body may be borne to and deposited temporarily in the church, but this is not prescribed as the normal arrangement and in any case no provision is made for either Office or Mass. One or two psalms of joyous import, e.g. the Laudate pueri Dominum (Ps. cxii), are appointed to be said while the body is borne to the church or to the cemetery, and holy water and incense are used to bless the remains before they are laid in the ground. Two special prayers are included in the ritual, one for use in the church, the other by the grave side. The former, which is certainly ancient, runs as follows: “Almighty and most compassionate God, Who upon all little children that have been born again in the fountain of Baptism, when they leave this world without any merits of their own, straightway bestowest everlasting life, as we believe that Thou has this day done to the soul of this little one, grant we beseech Thee, O Lord, by the intercession of Blessed Mary ever Virgin and of all Thy saints, that we also may serve Thee with pure hearts here below and may consort eternally with these blessed little ones in paradise, Through Christ our Lord, Amen.” On the way back to the church the Canticle Benedicite is recited, and the prayer “Deus qui miro ordine angelorum ministeria hominumque dispensas”, which is the collect used in the Mass of St. Michael’s day, is said at the foot of the altar. The cross without the handle which is carried in the procession is considered to be symbolical of an incomplete life.
The existing legislation with regard to the Communion of children has been definitely settled by the Fourth Lateran Council, which was afterwards confirmed by the authority of the Council of Trent. According to its provisions children may not be admitted to the Blessed Eucharist until they have attained to years of discretion, but when this period is reached then they are bound to receive this sacrament. When may they be said to have attained the age of discretion? In the best-supported view of theologians this phrase means, not the attainment of a definite number of years, but rather the arrival at a certain stage in mental development, when children become able to discern the Eucharistic from ordinary bread, to realize in some measure the dignity and excellence of the Sacrament of the Altar, to believe in the Real Presence, and adore Christ under the sacramental veils. De Lugo (De Euch., disp. xiii, n. 36, Ben. XIV, De Syn., vii) says that if children are observed to assist at Mass with devotion and attention it is a sign that they are come to this discretion.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:41 am
880 - DeeDeeDee
Same here in WV. Sweet tea is everywhere.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:40 am
874 - Miss Match
Didn’t O’Brien or some of the other Tapas crew have an electronic baby monitor with them in Chaplins that night? If so, I doubt that one of the other Tapas crew helped the McCanns with anything as they’d have a different mentality - not as neglectful as Gerry and Kate. To have an electronic baby monitor would at least show a modicum of care.
I don’t think you’d get doctors to conspire to cover up death of a toddler because why put your own reputation in jeopardy when someone else did something wrong? I mean…it’s not even their own offspring is it?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:40 am
Why do the police always say people fell down the stairs?
October 1st, 2007 at 12:40 am
these stairs are the first time i’ve been able to make any sense out of it, that fits the facts and the rumours.
she was sedated, door open, woke up, looked for kate, fell down the steps.
(the blood found in a place it shouldn’t have been)
they carry her to the apartment, get blood on the windowsill lby scraping her on it (maybe pissed)
blood gets on floor, they get help to clear it up.
twins and tapas 9 kids sedated,
so tapas 9 help with story,
and mark warner send pr guy straight away
then it goes too far to stop.
all perfectly reasonable.