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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October 1st, 2007 at 2:06 am
If she fell hard enough to break part of her scalp away from her body would there not have been copious amounts of blood?
October 1st, 2007 at 2:05 am
967 - firestar
Goodnight…and where are you at by the way?
October 1st, 2007 at 2:04 am
In any case, if Madeleine was found at the bottom of the steps, you’d be very aware that it was public and anyone could have walked past at anytime. That’s why I can’t think of Kate giving first aid in that scenario.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:03 am
anyway i’m really going to bed now.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:02 am
957 - zippo
It’s hard to say isn’t it? I mean on the one hand you’d expect Kate to administer first aid on the spot as a doctor. But on the other hand I guess if I was to find one of my own toddler kids at the foot of some hard stairs - possibly comatose, I’d be incredibly embarassed at that situation because it would have been of my own doing. It’s almost impossible to put yourself in that situation because you have to have a negligent frame of mind to even think of leaving the kids in the first place - something I can’t do.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:01 am
961
it wouldnt.
you’d have all on losing even a tiny fragment of skull without having had a serious head injury.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:00 am
958
are you only assuming it was dark?
i’d have expected it to be well-lit.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:59 am
958
depends if she was dead or not.
maybe they didn’t move her straight away, and if there was no hope, tried not to get blood all over.
but i know what you mean.there should be more blood.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:59 am
the last sentence should have read - ‘have seen kate diong this’
October 1st, 2007 at 1:58 am
ooh Firestar….that would have to be some nice chunk of head.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:57 am
946 - annie
Yeah I know you’re right…I said every half-hour in my posting to give them more credit than they’re due I guess.
My mum told me there was some bloke in the Tapas Bar who wasn’t with the Negligent Nine who said he can’t remember anyone getting up from that table during the times they said. I haven’t seen that anywhere but it’s interesting because we don’t hear much from any other people in the bar that night - only the McCann group.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:57 am
951
or possibly a fragment of skull near the steps.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:57 am
I thought that the blood dog found the blood on the stairs. Well at least it said so in one article. Hence the bleeding head wound. But surely I would have killed my own self trying to get blood up in the dark off the steps.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:56 am
940. Thanks Stevo - I see what your saying, but surely a frantic mother’s panicked reaction would have been to examine poor Madeleine on the spot and at least attempt to revive her before for calling for medical assistance. This would be a tragic accident now rather than a murder inquiry - additionally, wouldn’t some one have kate doing this?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:56 am
951
by finding hair in the boot with bits of head on it.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:56 am
948 - Paragraph 1 should read - ‘no way of knowing’, not, ‘know what of knowing’.
If FSS had received samples which confirm Madeleine had died of a head wound, this could be skull fragments or brain tissue. If this is true, the clean up was pretty shoddy which seems strange like everything else in this case.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:55 am
I cannot see a child-proof safety gate on the picture that the Star have of the stairs. Wonder where the Times got that info from.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:54 am
I’m posting slow. Got it Miss Match! Thanks! So we’ll just wait for the next round!
October 1st, 2007 at 1:53 am
DeeDeeDee and Miss Match
I doubt there was any blood if at all from falling down those steps. Blood is difficult to clean up. I know when I’ve cut myself and cleaned up drips on the floor, weeks later you find some obscure tiny drip you missed the first time. I would think cleaning up blood at night on the steps when you’re a bit tipsy isn’t going to happen. If she fell I think she just banged her head - perhaps fatally.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:51 am
So how does one determine that someone died of a head wound with no body????
Miss Match!!! Are you still around???
October 1st, 2007 at 1:50 am
835 :The Usual Arguidos Says:
826 Willo, Sorry, see post #221 from yesterday!
Well TUA, I think my wording, which was more succinct, resulted in a somewhat more polished pun.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:50 am
932 - DeeDeeDee
It doesn’t take much impact to cause death from a bang to the head. It doesn’t have to produce blood at all. Clots can occur and cause death within a short space of time. Look at some boxers who have died in the ring from what turned out to be a killer blow.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:49 am
Oh goodness me. I just read the Star article about the possibility that Madeleine died due to a head injury and falling down the steps. Unless the police have a body, DeeDeeDee, there is know what of knowing from blood splatter where she hit her head. Even more unlikely considering that there was an attempt to clean up the blood. That claim makes this article less credible.
In 24 hours, our wonderful British press have claimed that a disgruntled maid, sacked from MW, kidnapped Madeleine from the apartment in an act of revenge. Now, there is the theory that she was medicated and fell down the steps and had a fatal head injury. Two completely different stories, and possibly, neither true. The others continue with the abduction theory.
No blinking wonder I am confused.
Stevo - I too hope that the second batch of forensics will reveal something.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:48 am
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2563493.ece
“However, there was a child-proof safety gate at the top of the only stairs that lead from the rear patio down to the street. The newspaper said that the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham had discovered samples which showed that Madeleine had died of a head wound. But it is highly unlikely that traces of bodily fluids and hair recovered from the McCanns’ apartment and hire car would allow for such a conclusion to be drawn.”
October 1st, 2007 at 1:47 am
But they didn’t check on them every half hour. Gerry checks at 9pm, Kate checks at 10pm, you don’t have to be Einstein to work out that that’s 60 mins or 1 hour NOT 30 mins or half hour duh. That other guy said he only put his ear to the door, didn’t hear anything so didn’t actually see the kids - or has that story changed as well?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:46 am
941 - firestar
I know. Imagine coming back to check on the kids and one is missing and you look outside and don’t have a clue how long Madeleine was laid at the bottom of the stairs like a rag-doll. Imagine Kate finding that situation. I doubt she’d run back to the Tapas bar to tell everyone - she’d kick in the doctor instinct and realise that perhaps she was dead. The twins may not be 100% asleep and they’d be trouble witnessing all this….
October 1st, 2007 at 1:45 am
So if they found a body in a state of decomposition and it wasn’t readily identifiable they would announce ‘we found a body’ before identifying it? Just asking. They seem to be more closed mouth than we are here in the states. I know they would have here. There would have been reporters on the scene and a press conference.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:45 am
if it’s true the british police told the portuguese about it, i can’t see how the telly can not report it.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:44 am
935 - Stig
No, I was referring to your poor analogy about leaving kids in a room and them waking in a strange bed/room. You need to back up and read your earlier postings before that one.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:42 am
940
if she fell down the stairs and laid there unconscious in one of those half-hour spells between checking on the kids
that hadn’t occurred to me.