Madeleine McCann: The Observer, The Locator And Bloody Footprints
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: Bloody footprint found in McCanns’ apartment”
“A bloody footprint was found in Kate and Gerry McCann’s apartment, matching a print on their hire car, according to a forensic report” shown to the paper
“The existence of the two marks, which has never been revealed until today, is apparently at the heart of renewed suspicion that the couple were involved in their daughter’s disappearance”
So it’s her blood. This is rightly headline news…
“New tests carried out at the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Birmingham show there is a ‘moderate’ chance that the blood belonged to Madeleine. But the results are inconclusive”
So it might not be Madeleine’s blood. It could belong to anyone. Hold the front page. Too late…
Clarence Mitchell comments: “We simply cannot comment on unsubstantiated reports that touch on any evidence at the centre of this inquiry”
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “Bloody footprint clue to mystery of Madeline”
NEWS OF THE WORLD front page: “MADDIE KIDNAP – THE PROOF”
“Police have been told Kate KNEW instantly little Madeleine had been snatched because there was still a clear imprint of the youngster left in the unruffled bed sheets”
Says a..?
A source tells us: “People keep asking how did Kate know so quickly that Madeleine had been taken and not just walked out. But it’s obvious. When she put Maddie to bed the child was all tucked up around the shoulders, and when Kate realised she was gone all the sheets were still neatly in place.
“A child of that age wouldn’t have been able to get out of bed without moving a thing. Someone had clearly been in and carefully lifted her out. Kate realised that right away.
“This evidence must now refocus the police attention. Kate and Gerry should be released from their suspect status”
Because a “source” close to the suspect says so…
SUNDAY MIRROR: “COPS PROBE NANNY’S DUMPED AT SEA CLAIM”
“Portuguese police are becoming increasingly convinced Madeleine McCann’s body was dumped at sea”
But the bloody footprint..?
“Last night nanny Charlotte Pennington told how she saw a sailor kicking at something in the hull of his vessel in Praia da Luz” two days after Madeleine went missing”
Says Charlotte: “I’m really pleased they are taking this seriously because it means they aren’t just looking at the McCanns as suspects”
A “source” says: “Whoever had the expertise to make Madeleine disappear from the flat also had the expertise to throw her into the sea”
Or take her to Morocco, Belgium, Spain etc…
THE PEOPLE: “MADDIE COPS: SHE WAS THROWN OFF BOAT”
It is an “EXCLUSIVE” (see Sunday Mirror above) Charlotte Pennington speaks out
“Little Madeleine McCann was dumped at sea hours after she was snatched from her family’s Portuguese holiday apartment, police believe”
“Cardiologist Gerry and GP Kate vigorously deny the police allegations against them” – the facts!
TAKING HEART: “Gerry and Kate McCann put on brave faces yesterday as they took their little twins to a special children’s service at their village church. They then returned to their £600,000 home nearby” – More facts!
THE TIMES: “McCann case detective faces ‘torture’ trial”
Tavares Almeida, who interviewed Kate McCann, is “one of three officers accused of beating Virgolino Borges, a railway worker, during nearly eight hours of interrogation”. Read more here
But he is only accused, and not proven guilty. He is a suspect
THE OBSERVER: “The readers’ editor on… DNA and the hunt for Madeleine”
The Guardian reports on Danie Krugel: The Locator –“It’s also disappointing that this appeared in the newspaper that was first to discount the wilder DNA theories that swirled around the Madeleine inquiry last month, theories that are now largely discredited”
McCANN Watch: In an article about, er, Gordon Brown, Mariella Fostrup works in The McCanns: “Does anyone remember St Diana, currently back in the headlines, being vilified as a loose cannon by all and sundry just weeks before her death led to her canonisation? How many times have Kate and Gerry McCann found themselves riding the metronome of public opinion back and forth between monsters and maligned victims?”
Enlightening stuff
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH and SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news today
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November 5th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
1032
Kris
see 1016
October 17th, 2007 at 2:24 am
35 Man on the Hill
26 roger
man on the hill/What right do you have to desecrate someone for not jumping in on this gangland lynching. everyone has a right to their opinion and if Roger 26 does not agree that is his right. To compare him with Hitler is an over reaction from someone who is a little zealous to say the least. This is an open ended forum. You are not HItler or any other dictator. I may not agree with some but I will defend there right to free speech.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
hello gerry and kate , my name is debbie carroll and i live in ireland . i no madeleine is still alive , because i watch sky tv every morning .it is very good it brings you up to date with everything that is going on in the world. i pray every night for little madeleine . to come home . i no she will be home soon. kate you will not go to jail ok . nor will gerry ok . be strong for little madeleine ok. f debbie carroll . tonyanddebbie@eircom.net if you want to email back.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.love you both .
October 16th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Must say this case is getting more interesting day by day. I know if I was Kate McCann I would not be as arrogant and as a parent I would be falling apart as I suspect most mothers would. But her composure has been a little too perfect, her manipulation of the facts and last but not least I do not think I would be blaming the police for the missing body of my child. Wasn’t she the one who left this innocent child alone not once but on many occasions. Let us never forget the first crime here the crime of child negligence and she should be thanking her lucky stars she still has the twins. At age 2 they are not going to realise what is going on but she does the church thing and going to the Pope (now that was a mind blower). Shows a very clever cover upper to me. God bless you little Madeleine. I hope the truth comes out soon so you can rest in peace. After all this is about you and how you were betrayed by those you loved the most.
October 16th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Everybody is looking for some drama and the Portuguese police is just providing more. And why didn’t they find the footprints earlier? Dumped in the sea? Why is that so surprising? If she was killed she could’ve been dumped anywhere. For heavens sake, can’t these police shut their mouths for some time!!!! And do some real work.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Anybody got anything else to say?
October 15th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
“theese reports seem sonclusive and i think they should be taken off the suspect list AT ONCE!”
Irony indeed. Surely you aren’t for real?
October 15th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I offer a hug to gerry and kate - theese reports seem sonclusive and i think they should be taken off the suspect list AT ONCE!
October 15th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I am amazed by the way in which the persons who defend the innocence of the McCann try to become discredited to the press when it publishes something “that is not convenient for them”, nevertheless the same persons do bear in mind the news appeared in the same newspapers when the news support there theories.
My analysis. Perhaps some employee of the laboratory of Birmingham has facilitated part of the forensic report to News of the World, perhaps footprints were found and perhaps one of these footprints had a spot of blood. Also perhaps this spot found has a “indeterminate” correspondence with Maddie. If we are selective, we must be it with everything.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
What about to ask the Mccanns to help Robert Murat financially who is innocent and got in trouble because he was trying to help?
The Madeleine fund has enough money to help him.
The Mccanns knew from the first second that Murat was innocent and they alowed his humilliation and crazy high expenses.
GERRY, SO MANY PEOPLE HELPED AND BELIEVED YOU!
WHAT ABOUT HELPING MURAT WHO IS INNOCENT?
October 15th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
What a crazy story about the foot print. I don’t believe that.
The papers are saying that, not the police.
It seems that a group of 6 new Portuguese dete ctives arrived Saturday in Algarve, to analise the documents.Millions of pages to be read.I was shocked when I read that one of them is specialised in child sex abuse.
I hope this means only to test all possibilities, including child sex abuse.
I hope this never happened to Maddie, poor little girl.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Weird, I had a page open on my laptop and decided to try to comment there and now my name shows. I don’t know if this is registered or not. Again, apologies for being so off-topic with all these posts.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Have the McCanns lost the services of their PR man? Recently we have had quotes attributed to “friends” which seems odd if you have a pro PR chap.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
test
October 15th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
testing old site
October 15th, 2007 at 9:42 am
I thought I was already registered - yesterday went away to enjoy the sunshine and found when I returned late at night the format had changed and I was locked out. The font size is even smaller than before and a password is now required to log in. There’s no longer a spam sum (good, I was always getting that wrong).
October 15th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Test
Back in August someone posting here suggested Barragem da Bravura would be the ideal place to hide a body.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Ferdinand,
“It could for example be valid evidence in a case when for some reasons one would be sure that the blood would be of either person A or person B - and person B could be exluded with very strong evidence, whereas the test would state moderate evidence for the test against person A’s DNA”
I think we’re saying the same thing, then. The blood from the ‘bloody’ footprint could only have come from a very limited number of people. Coupled with the shape of the shoe, that takes on a greater significance, and taken with evidence of an identical partial footprint having been found on the rental car starts to make a compelling bit of evidence. I’m not suggesting for a moment that this evidence is sufficient in itself to prove anything but it forms part of the total evidence.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:48 am
“…one would hope that if the FSS report does say that the match is “moderate”, it is using the term as used by ordinary people.”
No, it is a terminus technicus.
It is only step 3 on an eight-point scale: no scientific evidence, limited, moderate, moderately strong, strong, very strong, extremely strong and conclusive.
It really doesn’t mean more than “it could well be Maddi’s blood, but it could as well be someone elses”. It could for example be valid evidence in a case when for some reasons one would be sure that the blood would be of either person A or person B - and person B could be exluded with very strong evidence, whereas the test would state moderate evidence for the test against person A’s DNA.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Ferdinand,
I don’t think that it’s as hit-and-miss as you are suggesting though neither of us could be sure unless we knew how the particular lab classify their results. The following link is interesting…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fingerprinting#Considerations_when_evaluating_DNA_evidence
…one would hope that if the FSS report does say that the match is “moderate”, it is using the term as used by ordinary people. While there is scope for massive blunders with DNA testing, it is extremely reliable for confirming circumstantial evidence and for helping to formulate postulates. After all, if the police (at this stage I include the UK and PJ) have a working theory that is very accurate is far easier for them to search for evidence to corroborate that. Sadly, it is also far easier for wrong-thinking people to plant or manipulate evidence to fit a guilty charge, but that’s another issue.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Sorry, it should read
“moderate” is only a weak classification, …
October 15th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Seraphina Says:
“What does “moderate” really mean in the context of the blood on this shoe?”
It means that the probe is of poor quality (probably contaminated).
Given that the spot is near the entry to the children’s bedroom, it could for example mean that the child had walked over this spot barefeet, so that the blood could be someone elses and the probe would be contaminated with Madie’s DNA.
“moderate” is only a week classification, and given that it is obvious that the girl lived in this appartment for a week, I dare to say that “moderate” proves virtually nothing.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:00 am
What does “moderate” really mean in the context of the blood on this shoe? If they’d found a bloody footprint in some place previously thought unconnected with Maddie then “moderate” would not be very conclusive, perhaps. On the other hand, if you find the footprint in her apartment, “moderate”, in this context, could be the equivalent of dead certain. The circumstances are vital - the footprint is hard evidence but its location is circumstantial. Both together could be quite damning.
October 15th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Edna, who hadn’t read the previous comments about being logged in as anonymous after registering, though I believe Chole got her name…could be wrong about that. I noticed someone wrote of the change in order…to get around that, select “all” and it’s like it was before. I sure hope this is solved soon with so many anonymous’ here.
I guess there’s no more option for reporting abuse.
“What can I say, you’re not like the others…”
Foo Fighters brilliant “The Pretender” fueling me at the moment and I apologize for not writing anything about the case at hand or sticking up for the Portuguese. Change throws me for a loop, spins me round round round, left brain shorts, right brain does this.
I’ll shut up and say I hope with everything I have Madeleine is found today.
October 15th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I’m more confused than ever. Now I show up as anonymous after registering and I see other peoples’ names.
Under “Leave a Reply” it says “Logged in as .” and then Logout
This is Edna, btw.
October 15th, 2007 at 7:04 am
I’m so bloody confused by the new site. I tried to comment and there was no math question so it wouldn’t go through. I didn’t read anywhere on the site registration is now required. Someone please explain! thanks
October 15th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Got past the new hurdles OK in the end. As long as it keeps out the the nutter-tude-isity from colonyland (as dubya would grunt), that’s a small price to pay.
I think today’s a big day…
Sadly I’m off to the big city with traffic lights n’ all in the padded room with no windows - not the nut house (that’s tomorrow) so I will miss sharing with you events as they unfold…
I hope you all have fun today…
Send my regards to Auntie Phat Phil
October 15th, 2007 at 5:58 am
testing times
October 15th, 2007 at 3:54 am
I was singing “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain when She Comes”
just because it’s an old favorite.
October 15th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Why am I supposed to care what Paulo Reis thinks?
October 15th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Anybody know why we have a whole new look here?