Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann Becomes Mum
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – I CRY EVERY DAY SAYS KATE”
“For the first time she reveals her torment” – Kate gives the papers what they want: tears
Pages 6 and 7: “Madleine’s mum: I can’t stop crying” – Kate McCann is no longer Kate McCann; she is above all things Madeleine’s mum
“Obviously nothing can compare with the night Madeleine went missing,” says mum. And Gerry – dad’s – worst moment? “I think when we were made suspects in our own daughter’s disappearance – when the inference was that Madeleine was dead and that, somehow, we were involved…”
Yes…
“But, no it can’t get any worse than that first night…”
DAILY MAIL page 7: “Some days I just can’t stop the tears, says Maddie’s mother”
“Second police chief quits the case” – Tavares Almeida has followed his boss Goncarlo Amaral and left the business of Madeleine McCann to another lucky Portuguese cop
DAILY MIRROR front page: “KATE McCANN SPEAKS AS NEVER BEFORE..Every day felt like a week”
Page 5: “Being named suspects, the idea that we were involved, was terrible. But NOTHING can compare to the trauma of the first night our Madeleine went missing”
Kate is a “locum GP”. Gerry is a “heart specialist”. These are the facts. And they remain unaltered
The couple give an interview as they visit the offices of the Leicester Mercury newspaper, where they are presented with a cheque for £57,000 from the sales of the Madeleine wristbands
THE SUN front page: “KATE’S MADDIE ORDEAL – NOTHING’S AS BAD AS THAT NIGHT. Mum tells of torment”
Page 6: “I weep for Maddie…but we still have hope”
Says Kate McCann: “I’ve had days when if I wasn’t crying for Madeleine, I was crying from the messages people have sent us”
The McCanns “say their lowest point…was when Portuguese police declared them ‘arguidos’ – formal suspects over their daughter’s disappearance”. So not the night Madeleine disappeared, as the Express says?
Gerry is a “cardiologist”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE – Kate: I cry for my daughter every day”
Page 8 and 9: “Finding Maddie had gone was far worse than being named suspect in killing”
THE TIMES page 14: “The twins are the only part of our lives that are normal”
Kate McCann says: “There is a semblance of normality returning. It’s more normal than it was three weeks ago, Amelie and Sean can see that. But really how can it be normal without Madeleine?”
THE INDEPENDENT page 8: “Second officer steps own from Madeleine inquiry” – Tavares Almeida. Bad Times, as Tavares were wont to say
THE GUARDIAN page 15: “Sacked Madeleine detective’s deputy seeks leave” – Senor Tavares. (Heaven Must be Missing An Angel)
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “KATE McCANN: THE DAILY TORMENT OF LIFE WITHOUT MADELEINE”
Page 3: “The McCanns have kept Madeleine’s room the same as it was. The twins are allowed in for a few minutes - “Otherwise, the door remains closed most of the time”
Detectives make notes.
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November 27th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
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November 1st, 2007 at 9:17 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
What was the purpose of bringing in cadaver dogs if the results are discounted? How much longer will it take to get forensic results from Birmingham? Do we just wait until the answers amount to what the McCanns would like to hear?
October 27th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
The display on this site of the arrogance of ‘knowing’ or even thinking, that Kate McCann was in any way responsible for her daughter’s disappearance, is way beyond the limits of unkindness that human beings could possibly be capable of.
It reminds one of the accusations levelled against the late Jane Tomlinson who was accused of money-making and attention seeking as she fought to raise over a £million for cancer charities before she died of cancer herself. Where are those accusers hiding now?
I suspect in the same armchairs as the ones from which accusations against Kate McCann are now being spouted forth.
I wonder if they also think she is responsible for the regular abduction of children from a famous Portuguese orphanage by high government officials and others in public office, in the pockets of those, I have no doubt, that are involved in distracting public attention from the perpetrators of this heinous crime, to the detriment of the child’s poor mother.
Don’t give up Kate, heroines never get recognition while they are fighting the battle. If you cry they’ll accuse you, and they’ll accuse you if you don’t. But one day, these Portuguese officials will come out of this with egg on their faces, and many, many other children may be saved from abuse and abduction once the truth comes out into the open, as surely it must. You don’t know yet what part you may play in the protection of innocent children in the future, whether or not your dear little Maddie is found.
To think that we claim to live in a civilised society that doesn’t do things like stoning women to death - yet what is being done to Kate McCann with vile, facile words is of exactly the same ilk. Shame on you all, who accuse her.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Yes, I totally agree with Julie. Grieving parents are not normally trying to convince the world of their innocence. Everything seems out of proportion now and although I would never have suspected the McCanns of anything other than child neglect, there are too many contradictions, that is assuming that everything we read in the papers is accurate. Little girls do not appear into thin air, and someone, one of the formal suspects, I feel, knows what happened that night. Gerry McCann is not someone I like and trust for that matter and he comes across as somehow involved. I wish I was a psychic as I have a gut feeling in this case. I used to feel strongly that Murat and his mother were involved. I believe that DNA of hair samples was found in his house.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Have the PJ arrived yet.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Hi everyone
Been lurking for a while, but it’s time I posted.
A bit off-topic but has anyone heard about this?
http://MyLongLife.com/lifespan.htm
Seems out there, but who knows?
So did the internet 20 years ago, and biotechnology is exploding.
Do you think this could be for real?
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October 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Maggie made a good point that the McCanns are really grieving even though they have forced themselves to make the grieving fake. In order to make their lies seem sincere, they attempt to align those lies with some of the real feeling. This is very clear in their interviews. In the very first interview, Kate said she noticed Madeleine was missing on her check… she stops and corrects herself… “on one of my checks”. Actually their own eventual story was that she only checked once. But she got confused, thinking of their story (at that time) that they checked frequently. She had the cold calculation to realize that she had not bolstered that story, and so corrected herself.
So they have the burden of constantly thinking of stuff like this, while knowing that their daughter is dead. Another example is Gerry saying in the interview that they are responsible parents, but yes they do feel bad about not being there “at that moment”. But an abduction does not take place in a moment! Gerry is apparently referring to the death, that occurred suddenly in an accident. He is using an element of the truth to help make his act look sincere.
Analyze all you want, but the conclusion is simple. The McCanns are liars and frauds; they belong in jail for child neglect and defrauding the public. AFTER they are safely in jail, it should be investigated how the girl died. The priorities in this case are upside down.
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October 7th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Re Kates crying every day . Many people dont realise that a parent can grieve for dead and missing child even if they are directly responsible for what happened to it. Women who have had social abortions can morn for that lost child just as much as women who miscarry. And lets say she didnt do anything to her daughter knows who did i? What a conflict- give up that person and maybe lose everything she’s worked for, and for what ? the child is beyond help. And the other explanation is - if they didnt do anything to Maddie- that it’s finally dawned on her that this mess is directly due to their actions and its simple overwhelming guilt. Whatever reason its about time any of the McCann clan displayed some emotion about their child being one.
Oh and have you noticed how many of the pro- McCanns do or know hundreds of people who routinely leave their kids alone? Sounds like they feel guilty to me. orare trying to justify their own actions
October 7th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
this little snippit should ensure that every one retains their faith in the fss,and that there is not the slightest chance that Madeleine’s dna alleged or otherwise could have been spoiled in any way by such a well run organisation,with such upstanding employees and fandabbydozy security……………..
The FSS - which is suing the five men in the High Court - helps police investigate evidence from crimes and sells its services to commercial customers.
It also maintains the controversial database containing DNA samples of almost four million people, the largest in the world.
The men, all from the Birmingham area, are named on the writ as Azim Akhtar, his brother Zaheer Akhtar, Sultan Mahmood, Nisar Ahmed, and Athar Agha.
It is alleged they set up a company and planned to compete against the FSS by providing similar services.
The case will inevitably raise concerns about the vulnerability of genetic data, especially since the FSS was turned into a Government-owned company in 2005 as the first stage of privatisation.
At the time Tony Blair faced a barrage of protest, with one Labour MP denouncing the scheme as ‘a criminal’s charter’.
Civil rights groups have also been critical, arguing there are no real safeguards to prevent misuse of the DNA database.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said the case involving the five men raised serious concerns.
“This is hugely significant and should make every law-abiding person seriously worried. People are looking after these databases who have less and less of a public-service ethic,’ she said.
According to the High Court writ, the FSS began developing a website in 2005 called Iforensic.com targeting international law enforcement and private markets.
It says although the plans were secret, they were known to the five defendants who had access to the DNA database. The writ alleges the men set up their own company, Iforensic Ltd - having appropriated the name from the FSS.
“In order to facilitate the creation of a DNA database to be operated by Iforensic Limited…the defendants copied, retained and/or adapted software and/or other confidential information’ belonging to the FSS, says the writ.
The document adds it would not have been possible for the five men to create the software necessary to produce a DNA database without having had access to ‘and copying and/or retaining copies of the software and/or the database.’
IT specialist Azim Akhtar, 30, is alleged to have registered three internet domain names using the word Iforensic - and later, through a friend, tried to sell one of the names back to the FSS for ‘an attractive price’.
He and the four others worked in the FSS’s Birmingham headquarters in the information systems division, which is responsible for developing and maintaining the DNA database.
The FSS is seeking damages for infringement of copyright, breach of trust, breach of confidence and misuse of confidential information.
It is also seeking injunctions to make the five change their company’s name, return confidential information and transfer internet domain names to the service.
According to the writ, the five set up Iforensic Ltd on September 29, 2006, to unlawfully exploit ‘goodwill in the name’ by extracting money from the FSS for the sale of the company name at an inflated price.
They chose the name with a dishonest motive, to use it as an ‘instrument of fraud’, it is alleged.
It adds they set up Iforensic Ltd to compete with the FSS to provide forensic goods services and products, including national DNA database services.
Mr Akhtar, from Yardley, Birmingham, said: “We have never been accused of taking personal information about individuals from the DNA database.
“What we are accused of is taking the database itself, not the information.”
He added it was never the intention to set up a firm to rival the FSS or the DNA database.
Mr Akhtar went on: “The FSS said if we have registered the domain names using the iforensic word then we must be going to do the same business as them and thus must have taken the database system.”
He added the FSS was making IT redundancies and ‘we plan to set up a company to offer the services the FSS will be looking to outsource.”
The FSS said it could not comment because of the investigation. The Home Office insisted there was no question information held on the database had been ‘compromised’.
October 6th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Julie
Accepted, accidents do happen. Children fall over, swallow things they shouldnt etc.etc.
Kate has said in her diaries that she could not cope and that gerry was not helping. If this is the case, then Maddie may have died following a tragic accident whilst arguing with her mum. No-ones fault, no-one at all.
But what happened to the body? Was maddie given a proper burial?
And to top it all, no amount of stress would you give the greiving parents an incentive to set up a large fighting fund to look for someone who cannot be found.
So what is going on? If there was an abduction, why all the lies? why the smell of death, the mystery trip and the DNA?
Why the need to visit the worlds top people, have they got maddie?
The mind boggles.
October 6th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
to James (237)
I was providing the Linda Chamberlin case in Australia as an example how the parents were innocent all the time, even whe the media cause the case to be rushed and fabricated stories and evidence for quick answers.
I did not state a dingo was in Portugal and snatched Madeleine, you Wally!
to Portia (236)
Yes, I have 3 children. One Maddie’s age, one two and an one year old. What are you trying to say is easier than you realise? What to kill your kids!
Acidentially or intentionally? Parents killing kids is easier than I think? If it was that easy through screaming kids, or carelessness/ or neglect on the parents behalf would’nt there be an epedemic of deaths of children from psychotic or bad parents?
I have been there and still there with screaming kids with teething, ear-aches, tummy pains, etc . But I have never thought of solving the problem by killing my kids. If the parent is in that state of stressed mind they are better off leaving the baby screaming in the cot then trying to fix the screaming. Get help from family or help lines! Hurting a baby because it is crying too much means the mum must have some disturbed problems such as postnatal depression, stress- which is a illness that needs to be fixed before it exculates. I know it can be easy for some parents, a minority group, a group that needs help.
Accidental death can be caused by a number of problems, like lack of supervision, lack of parenting education and not child proofing the house properly.
Then there are child deaths which are unexplained, illness and could not be prevented which luckily are not as easier to occur as you think.
October 6th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
812 Maria
I know you are not as naive as you would like to present yourself.
Why would I doubt a man who makes a living in presenting a positive image to the press? Why would I doubt a man who goes to the press to with an interview to polish up the McCann image on the same day that stories reveal ‘Kate cries every day.’
I didn’t say that by disbelieving Mr. Woolfall says is true that it necessarily means the McCanns are guilty.
What we have here is a whirlwind of PR spin that is trying to convince the readers/viewers of what they should think of the McCanns because their team are worried about our perceptions. It is insulting if they think that the public is that gullible to fall for such obvious attempts at damage control.
You’re entitled to your opinion, of course. Mr. Woolfall may be telling the truth–I admit that much, but he doesn’t have any built-in credibility with me–I don’t know him or his ethics.
October 6th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Keith,new thread started,the sayer does seem to bee one sharp fellow.
October 6th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Yeah, I’ll admit that!
October 6th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Keith I have checked back on the posts you noted to me,seems like you were a bad second in all of them.
October 6th, 2007 at 10:04 am
831, Milkman Joe:
Simple? Absolutely. And ‘Why?’, would you say? Have you not considered that the aptly self-titled “soothsayer” might just be taking the piss out of you all?? As a neat, satirical comment on all your (crackpot? oops! sorry!!! shouldn’t have said that…) theories… See my exchange with him: 644, 674, 686, 698, 709, 721. Have a nice weekend!
October 6th, 2007 at 9:30 am
I’ve never read such insensitive comments.
The McCanns are not guilty until proven otherwise. For god sake, they lost their child! If it happend to all of you freaks, how would you feel? Is one of you a perfect parent here? From what i read, i dought it.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:00 am
812 Maria
So articulate…and so deluded….
So you have ‘MANY’ friends that have left their children of very young ages alone, no babysitter, out of sight and earshot AND WITH THE DOOR UNLOCKED.
Its no good giving examples of people who dont match EXACTLY with the above criteria or you are missing the point as to why this scenario is potentially so suspicious.
The question is not whether what they did was wrong but rather whether what they did was possibly DELIBERATE.
If you cant see this then no wonder you’re able to skip over the other (many) inconsistencies.
You fear a miscarriage of justice. And pray tell how the McCanns can be convicted without evidence against them?
The only miscarriage of justice will be if the police really were as trusting and incapable of lateral thought as you in those early days when vital evidence may have been lost to determine the McCanns involvement or otherwise here.
Therefore the only fear for the McCanns may be that if they are innocent they could be left with a cloud of suspicion forever. But that will have to be their price for such pathetic, unbelievable child care arrangements.
The cost in relation to justice however, could be tragic. These people could potentially walk for murder.
So when you articulate such views on miscarriages of justice be very careful in your apologist stance towards the parents to the detriment of an equally valid and far more serious possibility.
We are looking for justice for Madeleine here. And no stone should be left unturned irrespective of whose garden we end up finding the answers in.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:35 am
824 Krissie
If you read all the blog today did you read 117.
When I read the first part of para 2 I though I was reading a confession.
Para 3 then made it clear that he was clearly (politician word) talking to the abductor.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:18 am
WILLO 828 I refer you to post 634,a very simply put theory.Just finished my round and catching up.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Can we say Murderer? She crying because she is going to prison.
Mr Softy Dot Com
October 6th, 2007 at 6:32 am
Could the McCanns be leaking stuff making out to be PJ through an insider perhaps? To muddy the waters and make the PJ look silly. In reality it’s only a phonecall to a tabloid who would lap it up. Not every leak maybe just a few well chosen ones.
It seems strange that the PJ hierachy has not commented on the leaks. Maybe because they know they can prove the above is the case when they make their move against the McCanns, or whoever.
Just a thought.
October 6th, 2007 at 6:01 am
827 - run that by me once again?
October 6th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Is it possible the McCanns are responsible for the leaks on both sides?
October 6th, 2007 at 5:38 am
krissie pull-lease stop talking so much. stop writing incessantly. its damn unnerving. give it a break. u r not telling anyone anything we don’t already know. stick a sock in it krissie. you’re bloody bath boring bullocks and blasphemy. spewing nonesense day in and day out. just stop.
October 6th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Lex, do you have some kind of proof that Kate refused to answer questions during the police interviews? From what I know, that is mere rumor and speculation. In addition, if you DO have proof, do you know why her attorney may have advised her to do so?
What do you think Kate is lying about? What is wrong with the timeline? Were you watching them that night– can you prove their timeline is a lie? Why do you suppose they are lying? What is the correct timeline, according to you?
You’re painting some seriously broad strokes here, dude, why don’t you take a step back and see if you really know what your’e talking about, or whether you just already made up your mind and see what you want to see.