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
Posted: 9th, October 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,027) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 9th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Maria
If the timeline wasnt allowed to be revealed does this mean the parents were suspected early on? Whats wrong with revealing a timeline of people assumed innocent? Whats that to do with secrecy laws?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
who is the “egg head person”
October 9th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Chomp, slurp, slather, slather, burp! I win!
October 9th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Why would russell o’brien leave his vomitting kid alone in the first place?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
those poor kids should have spent the night dancing on the dance floor at butlins/or similar
what holiday did they have?
family holiday all apart?
why have children
October 9th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Chomp!
October 9th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Matty,
Well spotted! Does Clarence know a lot more than we think.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
898 Thepervetpervert
“Stop being a prick. Who gives a flying f***ck. Grow up. So what, jerk-off!”
Well you chose to comment on my earlier correction so obviously you care. I responded to you, so obviously I care as well.
So why don’t the two of us get out our hardons and both get ready while someone rolls some doughnuts past - on your mark…..get set…
October 9th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
889 m.e.
Don’t think it’s been done. I read somewhere that it couldn’t be because the timeline etc. wasn’t able to be revealed. Secrecy laws were quoted.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
stig thanks for that link interesting
October 9th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Clarence quote in Telegraph I posted earlier, him mentioning how hard it is to get 7 kids to sleep in one apartment when they are under suspicion of sedating the children.
None of the McCann’s friends were available for comment but Mr Mitchell dismissed the claims as “utter rubbish”, saying only Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings Sean and Amelie slept there.
“If you put seven children together, you’re going to have a far harder time getting them to sleep than three,” he said.
Could he not even get the amount of children involved right?
McCanns- 3
Paynes- 2
Oldfields-1
O’Brien Tanner-2
He said “get seven children to sleep” which means he is missing one child in his calculation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Thanks Stig
October 9th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Some children have dark eyebrows and very blond hair on their heads - doesn’t that go for eyelashes too? Etc….
October 9th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
889 m.e
No I gather they wanted to do it but PJ wouldn’t allow it - but don’t quote me on that.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Matty 903
Thank you.
Payne’s children….”no age, no sex”
virtual kids, then??!!
I was just wondering if any would be likely to remember what happened. Parents would have to be pretty sure they’d never, ever talk to anyone about anything they saw that night. Kids are notorious for talking, even if just to a best friend, nan or whoever. Even a four-year old could say something in complete innocence.
If heavily sedated they wouldn’t of course. (Spoonful of Calpol would make no difference.) Toxicology results still awaited, I gather.
Did anyone see these kids being taken out of the apartment and back to their own, either at 10.00pm or earlier?
Thanks again.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
sly on that clip of coming home a few maybe 5 people think the kids were wearing make up
i didnt
my husband did
October 9th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
886 maria
Dates from 2002: http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,,848801,00.html
October 9th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Oh God so pathetic ……..waaaa…..waaaa……waaaa……
October 9th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
ned thats what we pay the nanny for dahling!!!!!!!!!
unlike some people
October 9th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
907 Sucked up into our own assholes I suppose right oh wise one!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Brandon
Didn’t get it but I’m going to bed. Nite
October 9th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
m.e. they tried but the bbc budget couldnt spend that much
October 9th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Mike H. krissie,and Thea …a child is missing , maybe dead. I thought you were posting here because you felt some concern. I was wrong.
Shame on you. Go get your sick kicks elsewhere.
How do you lot and the other regs on this site find the time to chase your own tails?
You can’t possibly be parents because what the hell would your kids be doing while you’re bashing the keyboard all day?
Of course you can’t be parents because you’ve got lots to say about child neglect, and anyone can tell that you’d be the sort of people who’d be there for your kids.
Do you eat, work , talk to people you can actually look in the face?
Do you even get up to pee?
Its got to be an addiction.
It’s a good job you probably don’t have kids because you wouldn’t have time to even read a bedtime story - you’re all too busy inventing ones of your own. ‘Sick kicks’ is right.
Perhaps one day I’ll hit on this site by accident again and it will be deathly quiet - no posts - because you’ve chased your tails so much you’ve all disappeared up your own backsides.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
isnt that lily allen?
at first when you see me cry ie ie
i feel bad for a whiiiile
then it just makes me smiiile
October 9th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I wonder if i was to donate some cash would the Mccans forget Clarence the clown and employ Lord Charles instead. after all Clarence is just a puppet with Kate pulling his strings. I think maybe Lord Charles would be less irrirating.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Boring, boring boring….stupid trivia boring. Use your obviously god endowed brain to think of something interesting……
October 9th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Maria-
Fiona and David Payne- 2 children, no age, no sex
Matthew and Racleal Oldfield- 21 mnth old girl
Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner-2 girls, one same age as Madeleine, one younger. Jane Tanner was pregnant same time as Kate
October 9th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
If you want to trade insults with me fine. We will banter filth until vomit oozes from our eyeballs and drips off the end of our oh so correct noses …….might as well …this blog is bogging down with the media lies and will probably just fade away like poor little Madeleine.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
848 peter o
Nanny thing: http://tinyurl.com/2g9hf3
October 9th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
slyfox
i have a recollection
plus the kids eyemakeup