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 10:25 pm
no evidence eh???
October 9th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
865 - AuntEdna Says:
Who is Madeleine Mccann?
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Sadly it seems, no one of any importance. We can tell you LOTS about her parents though if you are interested?
October 9th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
It is written that a kidnapping is unlikely because of the frequent checks on the children - you know, the every 1/2 an hour (which is reported to be 9 & 10 pm……)
What frequent checks for crying out loud!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Here we go round the mulberry bush…
the mulberry bush…the mulberry bush..
here we go round the mulberry bush…so early in the morning.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Who is Madeleine Mccann?
October 9th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
peter o
I was pointing it out to fellows from yonder shores
I am posh dont you know
I went to the same school as tony blairs daughter
October 9th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
The media lies to sell papers - headlines sell trash? So what’s new…..samo samo samo.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
840 - Brandonflours.
This is what I mean. Youv’e got to be quiet most of the time.
Seems a strange type of evening to choose if you know you are going to be jumping up and down every few mins. Also surely, Gerry would not want to miss out showing off his (allegedly) immense knowledge by loitering with Wilkins.
So, either they needed a convenience cover nearby to the apartment so the abduction could be staged, or for a real abduction to take place they couldn’t have left the table. [impossible according to new box-thing the PJ are using.]
October 9th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Cynic.
Clarence the clown was a civil servant remember, he is trained to lie and do our heads in, badly but nevertheless trained.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
An effect (sorry)
October 9th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
several things this case proves
we can not trust the media to tell the truth -
we expect rubbish from the tabloids but ‘the times ‘taking a story from a tabloid in portugal and printing it ?
so now we can’t trust the quality papers
we can’t trust tv news -
as it is clearly a puppet of pr agents
that the whole case is class related -
as the whole world knows about this but hundreds of missing children get no media attention in the uk
that if you are ‘middle class’ its ok to go on the piss with yer mates leave the doors unlocked and return home from holiday with one child missing
that if you are a doctor its ok to leave your child alone when she has vomited and go on the piss with yer mates
that if you are ‘middle class’ (nice) you become super-human become a celeb and are imune to dna tests and snifferdogs unlike ordinary mortals
October 9th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Peter O - nanny? Are you refering to Charlotte Pennington, Mark Warner nannny from creche, or personal nanny to Mcs. Long time ago it was reported Mcs had a nanny who went to Canada to look after her sick mother.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Would you imagine the proportions of such news revealing tomorrow that all the anti-Mc Canns were right?
For the size it has grown on the British mind very serious consequencies should occurr even for Gordon Brown’s gov and the majority of the media institutions.
A effect similar to Iraq Dossie 45 minutes should be expected? Who will appear have commited suicide in somewhere remote?
October 9th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
843
Are you the real Tony Bennett?
October 9th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
840 brandonflours Says:
When I visited working class butlins a year ago…….
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Darling, you really are so ‘common’ – Don’t you understand that we middle/aspiring upper classes trust each other impeccably? Don’t you know that EVERYTHING we say and do is true?;-)
October 9th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
How much longer do we have to tolerate Clarence the clown? or should that be Clarence the mystic clown?. for someone who was not present at the scene of the crime he seem to know a lot about it. This muppet is doing my head in.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
When all of the people presume its us
we say in the paper its ludicrous
we live in denial, blame paedophile
then watch all the media buzz
Ask the police “how do you tell”?
cadavier, damned rotten smell.
thats hurtlful / unhelpful
to put us in jail
cos you found DNA in the wheel well
The body it may be well hid
along with our millions of quids
but nobody knows, and the way that our luck goes
we will just carry on killing our kids
The lesson is clear for you to see
parade yourself on international TV
when your killing your own children
you’ve got to have some decorum
and do it while eating your tea.
middle class? law doesn’t apply
too busy being mighty and high
sorry we werent there at that moment
you know…
when the aliens came down from the sky
October 9th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
814 lilith
“He was head of the Criminal Investigation department in Lisbon when it uncovered a notorious paedophile ring.”
That is completely untrue. A woman - Teresa Costa Macedo - had been warning and urging action about this matter for 20 years - the PJ knew about what was going on but took no action for a very long time.
“What has most shocked the Portuguese have been the revelations that systematic sexual abuse of children at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had been known to police and other authorities for most of that time.
A former president, General Ramalho Eanes, was allegedly among those who knew about abuse at the home but failed to stop it.
The identity of the mysterious group of powerful paedophiles remained a secret yesterday, with only one person prepared to admit she knew at least some of the names.
Former secretary of state for families, Teresa Costa Macedo, said she had sent a dossier containing photographs and testimonies from children to the police 20 years ago but they had done nothing about it, while she was subjected to a campaign of threats.
“He [Silvino] was just one element in a huge paedophile network that involved important people in our country,” Mrs Costa Macedo explained in a newspaper interview. “It wasn’t just him. He was a procurer of children for well-known people who range from diplomats and politicians to people linked to the media.”
The material sent to the police, which yesterday appeared to have been lost, was damning proof of the activities of the paedophile ring, Mrs Costa Macedo said.
“There are photographs, an account of the methods used to spirit children out of the orphanage and testimonies of a number of children,” she explained.
Mrs Costa Macedo said that many of the photographs were found at the house of a Portuguese diplomat in the town of Estoril, 20 miles from Lisbon. Four children who had gone missing from the orphanage were discovered at the house, where they had spent several days allegedly under lock and key.
President Eanes was introduced to five boys who told him of the abuse occurring at the orphanage in 1980 but failed to act on it, according to Mrs Costa Macedo.
There was no suggestion that General Eanes, a popular and respected figure who did not comment on the allegations yesterday, was involved in the paedophile ring.
Portuguese police insisted yesterday they had no record of the documents sent to them by Mrs Costa Macedo.
She said she had been the target of a campaign of intimidation to make her stop investigating the case.
“I received anonymous threats, by phone and post. They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things,” she said.
That campaign had started again yesterday, she said, with threatening phone calls made to her home.
Portugal has increasingly been under the scrutiny of anti-paedophile groups who have denounced its lax laws and uninterested courts for creating a paedophiles’ paradise in Europe.
Belgian and Dutch paedophile groups are reported to have operated in Portugal, with foreigners travelling to the island of Madeira to seek out young children.
Investigators from the Swiss-based Innocence in Danger group, which claims children regularly disappear from the poorer streets of Portuguese towns and cities, say they too have been harassed and threatened.
Mr Silvino claimed his accusers were making up their allegations. “It is all lies,” he said.
The orphanage’s director and deputy director were sacked on Monday as the government pledged to clear up the case as soon as possible.”
October 9th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
If it is true that new results of the tests are pointing to the parents, this makes me very happy.
The only thing they did uptil now was thinking how to save their own skins.
They manipulated the media, the PM of England and even the pope.
If they are guilty, they have to pay for it.
It was a human being, it was a life and it was a life of an innocent little girl who depended on her parents.
How could the parents be so cold to the point of planning her disappearence in such a short time? Disgusting.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Tony, Are you a woman?? I think you’re more like an Antoinette…am i right..????
October 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Brandonflours-Been there done that, not Butlins but local pub. Wandered in for drink, quiz on , got sucked in, really competetive , next thing I know I’m in the corridor asking my daughter to check a question on geography(never my strong point)on my mobile phone.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
822 The Real Stig Says:
Especially when you have to add in the bit where they hypnotise the nanny so that when she gets back to the UK weeks later, she gives an eye witness account that categorically states Madeleine was alive and well at 6pm that day.
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The whole nanny thing confuses me!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
843 - Tony Bennett. Didn’t see yours….honest! I wasn’t trying to ‘abduct’ your words………
October 9th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
843 Good one!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
842 Evidently one with a very short fuse!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
803 The Real Stig Says:
If I recall correctly, the photo was trotted out at some point to give a boost to the media campaign. it was something new for the media to report and keep Madeleine in the news. I do not recall the McCanns making a fuss about the time, only it’s significance to them. Edit….
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Conspiracy theories or not, drip feeding the media is very probably the correct thing to do in the case of an alleged abducted child. I remember thinking at the time the picture was released how poignant (spelling?) it was. Almost like by releasing that picture they were having to let go of the last recorded family memory. Very sad.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Here’s a verse I posted two weeks ago:
Cuddle Cat, Cuddle Cat
Where have you been?
To Praia da Luz,
With Mad-e-leine.
Cuddle Cat, Cuddle Cat
What did you there?
Ended up on a shelf -
Someone put me there.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
815 Mary What kind of family was yours?
October 9th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Ought oh,…..duck, duck, it’s coming the brick of common sense to knock us all into our right minds - the truth is on its way! Tomorrow’s Tabloid will tell all!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
batman re pub quiz cant see numbers use msn
When I visited working class butlins a year ago
and in pubs in london
a quiz is full of mad crazed paranoid people
who dont let you come and go willy nilly
if you look in your bag or check your phone
people point
how they kept up this bollox without some one getting the ump
is unbelievable
I was told If I used the loo again I would be disqualified