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
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October 11th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
There has been hardly any internet news on MM today - how about the TV in UK?
October 11th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Here’s another thought…
What if one of the parents lost their rag with Madeleine that day. What if she did fall onto the steps and was carried back into the room by the parent that found her? That parent may have felt that nobody would believe them if they said Madeleine was found like it on the steps. I can see this scenario as being disastrous and you’d want to cover it up for several reasons.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
738 - tony Bennett
The power of suggestion is very powerful. Perhaps only one or two of the Tapas crew were involved directly. When you get a group of people all saying the same thing, it’s surprising how many go along with it and then you get a communal “story” albeit with a few holes.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
JON CORNER
Is this our ‘PR’ adviser to the McCanns - and Madeleine’s godfather?
http://www.msif.co.uk/events_past/events_creative.htm
From Merseyside. Kate’s neck of the woods, I think.
More Labour Party connections?
October 11th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
So Tony that unfortunately brings us back to the question -
What would an autopsy on Madeleine show that would have destroyed them all???
October 11th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Our team headed by me, the renowned and insightful Inspector Paulo Clouseau, are only trying to understand how the DNA in the trunk that we know is Maddies, will never to be confused with the twins: Now the donor uterus poses additional problems but we have a DNA data bank for that too!
“The allegation that Gerry is not Madeleine’s father clarifies those doubts, the paper claimed, saying it explained why any DNA found would be unequivocally Madeleine’s, and could not be confused with that of the twins.
Another Portuguese newspaper, Correio da Manhas, said today that the final conclusive results of those tests from the Birmingham laboratory are expected by tomorrow. ”
And by the way, we don’t own the Correio da Manhas either!
October 11th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
738 The tapas 7 could be invoved in partial knowledge. They may simply be sticking together to avoid criticism for neglect, because they were involved as well.
Hence they made sure someone was visiting the children all the time. They probably didn’t coordinate their stories and over did it. Maybe they also thought the Portuguese police were incompetent anyway so it didn’t really matter what you told them.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
738 - tony Bennett
Tony, I don’t know. The timeline may be shot full of holes for various reasons including human error. I know they’ve been silent (the other Tapas crew) but they may be shit-scared to say anything. Think about this - they may have accepted the McCann’s word on it all that night and they may be having second thoughts on it all as more evidence has come out. I’d protect a mate if I thought he was innocent and I might be bending some times to fit what I thought. Perhaps they realise they made a boo-boo and that’s why they’re staying silent.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
733 Roger
I don’t know. I think the McCanns have already displayed behaviour in the past 5 months that tells us they are no-fault people. I really doubt that if Madeleine died as a result of a traumatic accident where they would be seen to be at fault, they would openly admit to it. We know this already - they still haven’t admitted to leaving the kids alone. They write it off as being in the backgarden at home or they were lulled into a false sense of security because it seemed like a safe resort.
Neither of them will admit they were wrong in leaving the kids so why would they admit to an accident, indirectly or directly of their own causing?
October 11th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Stevo and 603 DeeDeeDee
The ‘Madeleine fell from the patio’ theory does not help to explain why some or all of the ‘Tapas 9′ joined in with the abduction claim, and appear to have lied about all sorts of things, like the timelines that evening. Why would they participate in covering up a death, and preventing an autopsy, which is against the law in any country? Is it conceivable that none of the ‘Tapas 9′ would have told the PJ what happened by now.
Sorry to say it, but something worse than the accidental fall you suggest - which is bad enough - appears to have happened here.
Something so serious that it warrants the ‘Tapas 9′ ‘pact of silence’.
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October 11th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
735 - supergirl
Ok, I get you. No, I think it came from an article where G was briefing the press. I have seen it before but never read the info on it until now.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Here’s what I think it comes down to:
Taking the McCanns decision to leave the kids because they thought it was like being in your backgarden at face value, what degree of an accident would they be happy to disclose to the authorities?
I can only think of an accident that would result in anything that would not be visible to a third party. I think that any kind of accident likely to cause significant trauma is going to be a huge embarrassment for them.
So, it seems that if the accident is such that they could cope with it themselves, then they would have. That really only leaves a significant accident of a type where the trauma had gone past the point of no return. I wonder what the storage room under the apartment will reveal…?
October 11th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Stevo - I meant by ‘real’ - was this a fake photoshop image or
does it have a crediblt link where it originated from?
October 11th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
708 Ramon
ha ha ha sadly no personal experience——-
But I did know of a case involving several adults, all of whom were into swapping between themselves for fun, and some kids ended up looking more like the other guys, than the so called father .That was back in the days I lived in SA for while….
It got really messy and ended up with several divorces and remarriage withing group and serious spats about who got whose kids…..
It was all over the Sunday rags for ages, and then I discovered gobsmacked , they all lived fairly near me !!… and I had seen comings and goings and thought nothing of it at the time. Too busy living my own life etc…..
October 11th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I don’t think its a cover up for an accident. The cover up, if that is what this is, exposes neglect, which will be a hard deal to erase. If it is an accident, and careless accidents do happen, the best cover up would be an admission and no press involvement. Then anything can be said as an excuse back home. the media mars reputations.
So for me it cannot be a cover up for an accident, it would have to be for a murder or an accident that a “reasonable” person considers to look like murder.
Remember the downsiude risk of a cover up of an accident is probably jail, worse than the penalty for an admission in the first place.
On the other hand a press campaign might, if a child is lost in the Iberian peninsula, be the only way of exposing the matter to scrutiny and getting it taken seriously by the police.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
If this was an important meeting no photos would be taken.
Interestingly though the Illuminati Agenda allways follows the same rules;
Problem, Reaction , Solution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHQ37WaTaXI
October 11th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
We are way ahead of you. We have sent crayons to all guests at the resort and asked them to fill in the egg head - then we do an analysis on the most common and most likely facial features and that is our suspect. It’s a proven method. Then we send the face over the wires and ask people to check their friends and relatives for a match.
We have sorted the responses to date, so far we have Brad Pitt Look Alike, Elvis, Prince Charles, and one that vaguely resembles the Pink Panther.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
717 - Andy
I think I saw it in an article where he was briefing the press.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Mr Egg Head AKA The Invisible Man!
October 11th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Stevo
Any normal parent would! lol
October 11th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
718 - supergirl
What do you mean by “real”? It originated in a paper article but Pamela Watson posted it on her McCann site. She does sterling work on the case. Check out her other links. She’s the person who has archived Gerry’s Blog.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
724 - Casey
I know. It’s simple but what parent is going to admit they left their child alone for them to be able to do that? It’s simple but it explains their neglectful attitude.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
720 SteveT
Yes, that’s about right! I thought those diamond shapes look like eyes and the other diamond at the bottom could be a mouth. The lower left and right arrows are cheeks. Put those on Mr Egg Head and we have a better description of the assailant!
October 11th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Stevo
I’m still thinking about Madeleine wandering out - not sedated and she fell out of that arch onto the steps. Expanding on this idea…I’m thinking that it would be possible to see the Tapas Bar from that archway and Madeleine could have been stood in there shouting for her mummy or daddy before slipping and falling.
If Madeleine did wake up to find mum and dad gone she would then go outside to look. She wasn’t very tall and maybe climbed onto one of the chairs to look over the wall and went headfirst, patio chairs on a tiled floor are very slippy.
Why if this was the case did they cover it up…..poor girl to have parents like that.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
703 - Maicen
Not necessarily…
Think about it. It only takes a few seconds for Madeleine to walk out onto the patio and climb onto the railing. She could have shouted “mummy, daddy” a couple of times and slipped. She wouldn’t make a sound after that. Remember it would be very dark in that stairway so who is going to see or hear her?
The next time one of the parents went back to the room would be before 10pm. It’s possible that Madeleine was suffering concussion and only had a minor cut/blood. They may have laid her down and thought she would be ok. Coming back a second time they may have found her dead. I’m not ruling out this as a potential accident because to me it is a)simple, b)fits the scenario and c) would be seen as gross negligence to a degree likely to affect your career. More importantly, d) it could have had some interaction with one or more of the Tapas crew to help assist Madeleine medically.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
700 Ian
I know that peado is old…and I think new dude is using it to sweeten UK press whilst the other are not fired at all but working undercover on parents ……in other word conning the conners over her UK press and team McCann
October 11th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
http://freemasonrywatch.org/pics/mason.gif
The “wider agenda” photo is intriguing. Gerry’s squares are distinctly Masonic symbol of the compass over square 33 degree symbol. Seriously.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Stevo,
The next page on the presentation is:-
-Move Funds to Cayman Islands
-Book flights to Rio
-Tell Clarence he has been taken in
October 11th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Reporter: So you are investigating Catholic Priests for rumors of pedophilia?
IPC: We are not investigating Priests. We are only bugging confessionals to get leads to computers and then we peruse the images and sort by hair color. It is a dirty job but someone has to do it!
Reporter: So your search excludes the Priests.
IPC: Right now that line of inquiry is in limbo. If the Vatican gives us permission to question Priests then yes we will question Priests but only on the exact evidence retrieved from the confessionals and only if an exact voice match can be linked to specific moans.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Where did the wider agenda photo originate Stevo? Is it real?