Madeleine McCann: DNA Jigsaw, Torture And The Twilight Zone
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE DNA PUTS PARENTS IN FRAME. British experts insist their tests are valid”
Page 7: “DNA tests ‘fill in more pictures of jigsaw’” – A source close to the investigation provides the headline quote. But what has been found is unsaid, and how it involves Kate and Gerry McCann
“New police chief is accused of torture” – Chief inspector Tavares Almeida is to face charges of “beating up a robbery suspect in custody”. The Express says this is a “torture scandal”. The alleged victim – who was accused of being part of a gang that sexually abused children and coerced them into violent muggings - was acquitted
Mr Almeida was dubbed “Kate’s Tormenter”, possibly by the Express today
DAILY MAIL page 8: “New DNA tests ‘put the McCanns back under suspicion’”
The McCanns, both “doctors” are said to be “extremely distressed by the claims”
DAILY MIRROR page 7: “COPS GAVE UP SEARCH THREE MONTHS AGO”
“Investigation in tatters as second detective accused of violence”
THE SUN front page: “McCANNS’ AGONY – MADDIE: NEW DNA LINK TO KATE”
British forensic scientists “are said to believe tests on fresh clues support earlier findings that led to the McCanns being declared suspects”
Page 4: “McCANNS ‘LIVING IN A TWILIGHT WORLD’”
Clarence Michelle says: “We had reports that DNA had proved ‘inconclusive’ and even it had put the McCanns in the clear.”
Reports from whom is not reported
“Now there are reports that the DNA is making them look suspect. There are wholly innocent explanations for any material police may or may not have found. This just goes to show what a twilight zone we are operating in”
The Twilight Zone – wasn’t that the name of the TV show with the sting in the tail?
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE: NW DNA DAMNS PARENTS. Brit police find shock evidence”
But they have not been arrested. The McCanns are just suspects. How is this damning?
Pages 8 and 9: “MADDIE: SHOCK NEW DNA CLUE TO PARENTS – Boffins say cops on the right trail”
“Torture rap cop” – Tavares Almeida is 48
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 9: “Portuguese police ‘right to focus on McCanns’”
A British source says “Everything that has emerged indicates that the investigation is focusing where it should”
A British detective says the case is being “done back to front” – the parents should have been looked at first. The mantra is: “Clear the ground from under your feet”
THE INDEPENDENT, THE GUARDIAN and THE TIMES: No Madeleine news today
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October 9th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Stevo,
I am sure that her terms and conditions (ie daily rate + expenses) were agreed in advance. And, I repeat, her fees - as a freelancer, rather than an employee - were very low compared to those normally charged for high-profile commercial or NGO / charity work.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
bulldump
Any more on your dildo story or was that just something you mentioned while stoned?
October 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
576 - innocenttillproveninnocent
Which makes you dread whatever the reason was for keeping this all a secret. I can only think of two accidents you’d like to cover up…
1. Something illegal…drugs etc.
2. Madeleine fell of a cliff or something else causing atrocious injuries occurred.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
jesus wept thea, kate was an aneathsis, i guess you have just joined the book at chapter last but one
October 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/09/nmaddy209.xml
they’re checking apartment again
October 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
firestar
Na……..leave that to me You Twat!
Anyway women aren’t allowed to attend social events such as stoning!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
mary bell
October 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Foolish meanderings creates much mischief amongst this crew of sex starved bloggers who get a kick in the butt out of their phallic jokes of incestuous muck making on innocent little blond girls.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
The saint,
Time for your medication.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
well, i’d say mildly stoned. the quality of weed i been getting here in dk is not up to much. i usually have it sent throught the post from england but the postal service in the uk is playing up at the moment. I’m looking forward to an extra fat parcel during the mayhem after the industrial action finishes
October 9th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
innocenttilrproveninnocent,
that’s very true. the kids wouldn’t have drifted off to sleep so easily. they would have been excited havinga slumber party. does anyone know if any of the honourable doctors might be a pharmacologist or an anaesthetist. i know i’m really going out on a limb here but if all the kids were easily and quickly put to bed could it be that narcotics are involved? and then there’s the tanner-o’brien child vomiting?
(tongue firmly in cheek - no not that cheek mike this one.)
October 9th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
570 - Paulo
I disagree. $700 per day is ludicrous! That’s a doctor’s salary ($182,000 per annum). A PR FIRM handling the PR for a Royal or a politician might charge that but this was PR for a missing child by an individual. Madeleine isn’t a missing Royal child or a missing politician’s child.
This was daylight robbery of the Madeleine Fund. If a door-to-door conman salesman robbed an old lady of fifty quid, people would be outraged. Why is McGuiness any different? She isn’t. She’s the very reason why I personally don’t give to any kind of high-end media led charity. I doubt if 20% of that fund will be spent on anything to do with finding Madeleine.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
thesaint, saint peter is gonna laugh his fuckin head off when the mccann get to the gates, he’s just gonna sentence them to eternal damnation.
And as for jane tanner , he’ll prolly let her in just to show the good people how ugly it is possible to be if you are a sinner
October 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
so if you click the abuse thing, does anorak email you and call you a twat or what?
October 9th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
if the mc canns go to court in england, i think i might go and throw stones at them.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
@theSaint
Promise me you’ll buck up…
October 9th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Anyone else here other than thesaint stoned right this minute?
October 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
hey innocent i am in denmark and the story has been raising eyebrows for some time, in fact i think jyllands posten made an accussation quite a while before anyone else
October 9th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
the real stig,
was it british or north american?
October 9th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
568 stevo
Not in the least, I don’t give a toss for sports, unless I am taking part myself of course.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
remember the twins wouldn’t wake up.
wonder if the others were sleepy.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
i believe the mccann party did have a roole in making murat a suspect.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Oh, sorry fools don’t read Shakespeare! They rap to the endless nonsensical mindless ruminations thinking themselves clever they are……..
October 9th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
It has been repeated over and over again that the mcCann children were put to bed at 7 on the night Madeleine disappeared. I was surprised why they put the children to sleep earlier on holiday than at home (according Gerry’s own blog), while i’d happily do just the opposite.
Being in a Scandinavian country were only a dog and a cat are interested in the mcCann story (though on line news continue to cover the episode) I found an opinion on a discussion forum mentioning that an English holiday group on Mallorca this Summer had the routine to gather all their children in one hotel room and leave them there wake while all the parents went to dinner and this would somehow be a common thing to do among British holiday makers.
If that were true in the mcCann case, the little children hardly were asleep at the time. Or how would they provide so many beds for all the children. And to think a doctor would leave his vomiting little child alone or worse yet, among other children that would get the same disease…
Why would the holiday makers lie about this (,too)?
If this was really how their own baby-sitting service was organised, they might be covering some accident that happened within the group of children or they might be covering one specific child. What is more terrible than a child causing the death of another child? Typically, it is also difficult to squeeze the truth out of children and understand what exactly has happened. Ultimately, the negligent parents would be responsible for whatever happened when children were left without supervision.
I have some doubts about if this is what happened - maybe this theory will develop or be replaced by yet another.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
gerrymandering, or is it gerrymarrowing.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
i have been busy with gerry and a cucumber for a few days. he has managed to extract it though
October 9th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
thanks for that stevo.
i’d prefer them to alter the site so it works with the world’s no1 not anticompettetive or anything browser though.
and get rid of this crappy new font while they’re at it.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Thesaint,
You are a wind up, right!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
429 Judith C
I am puzzled by this Murat thing, are you saying the McCanns made him an Arguido?
October 9th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Stevo @ 554,
I have no idea whether Ms McGuiness is wealthy or not.
I do know, however, that her daily rate for her PR services was on the low side - and, having worked on PR-type projects in various countries myself - can state that her 20 grand extra, incurred over 90 days, was not in any way exceptional. She would, presumably, have had to pay for accomodation / travel / food etc from expenses, as she would have been living away from home during that time. She would also have been working exceptionally long days - and sometimes 7 days a week - hence the ‘overtime’ kicking in.