Madeleine McCann: Ben Needham Is Missing, Operation Predator And Maddie’s Cops
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “McCanns warn: We’ll sue over claims we drugged our children”
Page 7: “Madeleine parents: We have never sedated our children” – The “slurs” are “outrageous” and “hurtful”.
The theory that they sedated all of their children is a “wild theory”. It appears in Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas, a source for “some of the more outlandish reporting”. The Express reproduces the outlandish reporting for its readers to digest and marvel at
“Grim hunt for images as child-porn ring is smashed” – Operation Predator is a clamp down on child porn in Portugal. A friend of the McCanns says: “This shows the scale of the problem in Portugal and appears to show that the Portuguese police seem to be looking in the right direction. It may provide vital leads”
But the raids were not directly connected with the Madeleine case. Operation Predator was six months in the planning
THE SUN front page: “Maddie: cop raid on pervs”
Page 7: “McCANNS’ DELIGHT AT PAEDO SWOOP” – Kate and Gerry McCann are “encouraged” that 300 Portuguese police “smashed” a 80-strong paedophile ring
“’FIND OUR KIDS TV’” – Kate and Gerry have backed a TV channel that features the 150,000 UK children that go missing each year. Pictures of missing children will be shown at GP surgeries, shopping malls and hospitals
Page 37: “MISSING BEN AGONY – We were too working class to get help like Maddie’s family” – The mother of Ben Needham, who disappeared 16 years ago on the Greek island of Kos – sees haves and have nots
“I was 19,” says Kerry Grist. “Just an ordinary girl from a council estate and people thought, ‘She will just go away in a few months, have another child and forget about it…I don’t think people thought Ben was important enough.” Or the media didn’t…
Kate McCann is a doctor. Gerry McCann is a heart specialist. Both Madeleine and Ben are blonde
DAILY MAIL page 5: “Huge porn swoop offers hope of a Maddie clue”
“Could Ben still be alive?” – Ben Needham disappeared from near his grandparents’ farm house
Says Mrs Grist, Ben’s mum: “Madeleine’s parents are middle class people with important jobs and seemed to have had a publicity machine behind them straight away”
DAILY MIRROR page 15: “WHY STAY IF SHE HAD SOMETHING TO HIDE?”
A pal of Kate McCann says: “She could not tear herself away [from Portugal]. What mother could leave the place where her daughter vanished? …If she had something to hide why would she hang around in Praia da Luz waiting for the police to come knocking on the door?”
We don’t know. Why?
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE POLICE ARREST 80 PAEDOS”
Madeleine McCann does not have her own police force – not yet. But the police working on one case are Portuguese, like the police in her case. It’s an “EXCLUSIVE”
Page 7: “MADDIE COPS RAID PAEDOS” – The Star sees Gerry McCann leaving his home in a car. “STRAIN” reads the caption
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 17: “Madeleine police turn spotlight back on paedophiles”
“Missing children TV hopes to jog patients’ memories” – Ben Needham is missing. Xiao Xiao is missing. Lee Thomas Wedge is missing. Leanna Petrenko is missing. Abigaile Sommerville is missing. Andrew Paul Gosden is missing
THE INDEPENDENT page 24: “Mother in plea to missing son” – Ben Needham is missing
THE TIMES page 11: “Madeleine police return to kidnap theory”
German and Dutch police are believed to have been asked to trace and interview guests staying at the Ocean Club when Madeleine went missing
THE GUARDIAN: No Madeleine news today
Posted: 11th, October 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,683) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 11th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Has Windows Live Messenger service broken or something?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Andy,
In Portuguese court I think the accused have the right to remain silent without it jeapordising their claims of innocence?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Well I used to be gay but I got fed up of my boyfriends shagging behind my back all the time.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Ramon- yes from his grandad whose sisters are Nazis for a start!
October 11th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
BrandonFlours,
I think whoever supplied the sedatives would have been keen to dispose of the body. These could possibly be traced back to the hospital where one of them was working. The others would also want to protect their careers.
I dont believe the DNA/hairs were found in the car the the McCanns hired after 25 days but it a car that was available to someone in the Tapas 9 at the time of the incident. (This was suggested by someone else). The PJ have allowed the McCanns to believe it was and that is why they said they were being stitched up because they thought the PJ had planted evidence in the car that they new had never transported a body.
I think the publicity was started by other members of the McCann family and they obviously had to go along with it to avoid suspision.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Pissflap face - first of all I am not a lesbian so i don’t have a missus.
Secondly if I was married to a lesbian I doubt if she would be having it off with Prince Harry.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
JB.
The abuse link is for posters who feel they are being personally abused by other posters not a direct link to the McCanns lawyers.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Besides we all know where Prince Harry gets his Nazi sympathies.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
passing the school playground earlier to collect kids
under 4 year old blonde kids look the same
I dont think if i was asked to pick one from the other I could
October 11th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Not the old masticate on the Mars Bar trick?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Anonymous the very 1st Says:
October 11th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Abuse? click date link above, then copy the URL/web address from your browser & email it here
“North” is north of Watford.
Everyone knows that Stevo….
North is north of Watford Gap services on the M1 motorway- which Leicester is
October 11th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I think that all people in prison should be given free mars bars to masticate on!
October 11th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
If your missus was having an affair with the postman and then had a child which looked very very similar to the postman you would be suspicious, but Prince Harry…
October 11th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Butlins is fully booked next summer I hear
October 11th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
JB,
I have no idea what you are yammering about . I said I don’t ( DO NOT)believe the stories that Gerry is not the biological father and commented how Madeleine looks very much like Kate refuting another poster’s assertion that Kate was not the biological mother. I merely made a side comment that genetially the darker hair is usually superior to blonde just as brown eye is to blue or green.
I blame the children for nothing. It’s not their fault they’ve been handed to 2 such underserving careless people.
Now please go back and read the post I was addressing and then maybe expel some gas and you’ll manage to wriggle your noisy pneumatic head out of your arse.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
I bet there are more people in Blackpool who wish they had gone to Portugal instead.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
JB - I agree - I mean just because Prince Harry has red hair and looks just like someone that Di was having an affair with does not mean Charlie isn’t the father…..gosh how silly does that sound….snigger…
October 11th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
627 - bet there are a lot of people in Portugal who wish they had gone to Blackpool instead.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
632 - Ramón
I agree with you. I think parenting is one of the most important skills but it is the least taught and is left to people to work it out for themselves. People forget that it hasn’t always been compulsory for children to go to school. Most kids were illiterate in historic times.
I say that governments should make and enforce guidelines on parenting and stick to them and make them part of the statute. For instance, James Bulger would be alive if his killer’s parents were made accountable and forced those kids to go to school instead of allowing them to roam the streets.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
We are doing our best to make prison life comfortable and with state of the art cameras in the showers, by last count, only three people bent over to pick up soap and they didn’t seem bothered by the….deleted…..blip………when they stood up again - there were lots of toothy smiles!
October 11th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Andy - I will never be a fence sitter - I will rather be wrong and apologise that sit with a stake of wood up my …ask me not where!
October 11th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
617 Brandon. I think almost anything is possible at this stage. My hunch is that it was in the afternoon, very early evening on 3rd though. Wasn’t M in the creche until lunchtime on 3rd? I do think that her body was disposed of quickly and not stored in a freezer or whatever. I feel it may be the calm before the storm, the new PJ chief sounds determined.
Poor little Madeleine - no matter what happened, she certainly has suffered. I want whoever is responsible to be found and to pay. Can’t bear to think this might not happen because of ‘words in ear’.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
630 - supergirl
bending over for the soap at showertime…or is that considered foreplay?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Our ex-inmates, once violent rapists now reformed and currently door to door vacuum cleaner salesmen, report to their parole officers that they only adhere to strict missionary positions during attacks and progress is being made - they only attack woman who refuse to buy their vacuums.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
supergirl….hopefully maturbation…
October 11th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Stevo,
In the Finland or Denmark they’ve had remarkable success with rehab. But what I really meant by rehabilitation was ini theh way of the whole society. It begins with the family this is why I said “healthy family” as opposed to a dysfunctional family. I don’t care what anyone has to say about the veneer perfection of the McCanns - they are imo dysfunctional and need parenting classes asap. If it is true they’ve received thousands of letters of support with people confssing they too have left little children without proper supervision then I think much of the UK needs parenting classes.
I know for a fact drug addicts can be successfully rehabilitated and much of the crime in the US is directly related to drugs.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
546 Ramón Says:
Well me thinks although the twins resemble one another the boy hit the McCann ugly family tree branch(poor boy’s got the old man’s ever growing snout) but the girl is very pretty, like Madeleine. Odd that they are all so blonde as I think brown and black hair typically dominate genetically but looks like Kate’s genes superseded Gerry’s.
This comment is absolutely disgusting and sickening and not one of you have bothered to challenge it although you all profess to be concerned about this ‘poor boy’s’ sister and talk about emotional abuse such a lot. Whether his parents are found guilty or not the children are innocent in all this. I think you forget that when you’re hell-bent on your feeding frenzy. I would have thought most people would immediately recognise that Madeleine bears a very strong resemblance to Kate McCann although some obviously have a problem with facial recognition. It’s just pointless banging on about different hair colouring among siblings - my 3 sons are totally different in looks, one dark, one fair and one redhead, and I guarantee they ALL have the same biological father. If I see another sick comment like this I will report it as abuse.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
What is ‘normal sex’ in a prison?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
you can find out when you reach 16
October 11th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
pissflaps face:…that depends how long you have been married ahah!