Madeleine McCann: Enright In Hiding, Lord Stevens Deduces And Antonio Teixeira On Homicide
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE MYSTERY – GUARD AS GERRY RETURNS TO WORK”
No small development. Gerry McCanns returns to work…
Or not. “Police are poised to protect heart surgeon Gerry McCann when he makes an emotional return to work.” That’s right – Gerry McCann is a “consultant cardiologist”
“However Kate, 39, who worked part-time as a locum GP, has said in the past that she is unable to contemplate working again while her daughter remains missing”. Indeed. Kate is a “GP”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: New police chief’s anger at mess he inherited”
Paulo Rebelo is the new broom. A police source quoted in a Portuguese newspaper says: “There was important material lying all over the place that hadn’t been considered by investigators. A lot of key information was discarded. The whole process is being reviewed. Putting all the papers in order has been a massive task”
Rebelo, “previously involved in investigating a Lisbon paedophile ring”, has taken on Antonio Teixeira, a 59-year-old murder squad detective
Teixeira once said: “Homicide is a crime we’re all capable of committing.” A colleague says: “By bringing him onto the case, the police are sending out a clear sign that the main lead as far as they concerned is homicide”
“’NO chance the McCanns would be charged with murder in the UK,’ writes Britain’s former top cop” – Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Stevens is raising his media profile
Says he: “I’ve been a detective at the most senior level for 30 years and have never seen such a witch-hunt, or one based on such flimsy evidence”
Has he seen all the evidence?
NEWS OF THE WORLD: “Maddie’s parents are INNOCENT. I do not think they did it. It doesn’t make sense”
It’s Stevens formerly of the Met once again. He tells us: “There’s absolutely no chance that the parents of Madeleine McCann would be charged with her murder in this country.
“It would be an outrageous miscarriage of justice if they were. I don’t say that from any feelings of sympathy for Kate and Gerry McCann, but from examining the facts of the case — or rather, the total LACK of them.
“I’ve been a detective at the most senior level for 30 years and have never seen such a witch-hunt, or one based on such flimsy evidence”
Stevens looks only at the facts: “They’re both highly professional medics, one a surgeon the other a GP.” These are the facts. And that Madeleine is missing. Stevens, now retired and known as Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington is 6ft 3in
THE PEOPLE: “INEPT.. INCOMPETENT.. I’M INCANDESCENT EXCLUSIVE MADDIE: SHOCK NEW CLAIMS AGAINST POLICE”
“Horrified Kate and Gerry McCann were incandescent with rage last night after cops were accused of a catalogue of incompetence in the hunt for their missing daughter Madeleine”
Anger issues?
“Insiders claim vital evidence was ditched by boozy officers and crucial documents were ignored”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We’d be very concerned to hear all the information in the police’s hands has not been properly or effectively co-ordinated or collated. If Mr Rebelo is strengthening their system that’s all to the good”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Booker winner who misread the McCanns”
Anne Enright, Booker prize winner, has made comment son Gerry and Kate McCanns. Liz hutn has read them: “Kate McCann’s face and figure have always been a factor in this story. Indeed, the only obstacle to a new picture of Kate making the front pages is a new CCTV grab of another tortured blonde in another ongoing soap opera, The Diana Inquest. The camera loves them both”
So too the press…
Hunt reads Enright’s words and concludes: “For Kate to be derided for her composure, and Gerry for his courage in public, or to suggest, as Enright does, that it masks guilt and denial, is despicable. And it won’t do much for the sales of her prize-winning novel, either”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Booker winner ‘lost for words’ – Anne Enright remains silent in controversy over McCanns article”
“By Thursday, Ms Enright appeared to have gone into hiding. She was not to be found at her home in Bray, Co Wicklow, and several agreed media engagements were cancelled”
Where is she? Why, on a reading tour in the US
THE TIMES: “Too serence for sympathy”
“After an astonishing attack on the family by the winner of the Booker prize and Kate’s suggestion that people don’t sympathise with her because she doesn’t look maternal enough, our correpsondent asks why some people find it so easy to dislike the McCanns”
The Times is on the case
Margarette Driscoll looks at the evidence and tells us: “But if she thinks people don’t like her because she does not appear sufficiently maternal, she’s way off beam. This is the age of the yummy mummy and in those stakes McCann, who looks as though she could be Sienna Miller’s older sister, is queen. It is her coolness of her manner that repels, not her skinniness, nor her careful choice of jewellery”
And her shoes?
THE GUARDIAN: “McCanns ‘victims of a witch-hunt’” – More opinion from the ex-copper’s copper Stevens
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November 8th, 2007 at 7:52 am
[...] In the Book section is Booker Prize winner Anne Enright: [...]
October 25th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I only have one comment to make. Am I right , in thinking, in this country, it is always people who are closest to the victim that the police first suspect. Why has it taken so long for them to question Kate McCann?
October 24th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Goooooooooooooooooo d morning Vietnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!!!
October 24th, 2007 at 4:44 am
546
I remember reading when you mentioned.
Not right away, but later.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:30 pm
I’m confused about this DNA evidence. I dont see how it can show a strangeer was in the apartment on the day she disappeared. All it shows is that someone not identified was there on an unknown date - doesnt it? Me I’ve no sympathy for the parents at all just a little girl who is either dead or in a situation where she’d be better off dead because her parents preferred to be out drinking then spending time with her
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:01 am
morning all
71 susan
unfortunately own kids are no reference. best example: my neighbour is a child minder, wow, they should have checked what her own kids are like before they gave her the all-clear..
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:06 am
If the McCann’s had footage of tears they would unquestionably use it. Let’s not kid ourselves
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:55 am
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Taybie the Saxon, had this ready to send you at a bout 10pm last night but Anorak has been down since then. P.S. Please also see my observations at the end of this post about tonight’s Spanish TV interview with Kate McCann’s parents tonight
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re: 422 and 599 SUNDAY Taybie the Saxon.
Missed your post 422. I’ve written extensively on the Father Pacheco/Roman Catholic Church/secrecy of the confessional etc. issues over the past few weeks. To summarise:
1. The McCanns visting the priest within hours of Madeleine ‘disappearing’ is very strange, to put it mildly
2. For them to be given a key - apparently that night - was stranger still. It appears that Father Pabcheco’s Bishop was consulted about this
3. To get the Pope to bless a photo of Madeleine in front of the world’s press was an amazing scoop
4. The Vatican was tipped off in August that the McCanns were about to be hauled in for questioning, and treated as official suspects, and immediately wiped all references to Madeleine from their website
5. If the McCanns confessed anything to the priest, whether assault, child rape or murder, or whatever, the priest would be honour bound - nay, bound by the most solemn of oaths - to keep it a secret forever, under pain of being defrocked or even excommunicated. IMO this is indefensible; no wonder so many R.C. priests have got away with horrendous child abuse and the U.S. Catholic Church alone has paid out $2,000,000,000 in compensation to victims already
6. Father Pacheco, having gone to ground for several days in September, and apparently with a very troubled conscience, suggests to me that he knows more about the disappearance of Madeleine than he admits to knowing
7. The McCanns, though NOT ‘devout Catholics’ as was claimed, both appear to come from strongly Roman Catholic families. I suspect that Kate in particular was troubled about Madeleine needing the ‘last rites’ (or whatever mumbo jumbo is involved) on 3rd May, knowing that she was dead - and that is why she consulted the priest. Or it was part of a plan to hide the body.
Father Pacheco maybe both gave away the key and ‘holds the key’ to this case, if you see what I mean
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TONIGHT Spanish TV interviewed Kate McCann’s parents - AND the Roman Catholic priest - in an interview I would describe as very significant. I would recommend all Anorak Forum users interested in the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann to obtain and digest as much informatiion as you can get about this interview. Three experts and/or journalists were commenting as well and their insights added significantly to the programme. I think some significant deductions can be made from the series of interviews Spanish T.V. were able to arrange
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October 23rd, 2007 at 12:49 am
638 brianthesnail
I mentioned this yesterday, The video footage of the first few days news coverage is not on the net. There are several eyewitness accounts of Kates grief but anti-McCanners always say such reports aren’t good enough so I won’t bother.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:12 am
Sorry about 544. This site has been down for sooooo long. Bad pc, I guess
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 am
http://www.anorak.co.uk/?p=177059&cp=1#comment-88646
Well done!
I think you’re still first
October 21st, 2007 at 8:54 pm
538
They are always defending themselves instead of showing remorse. Am sure doctors do this all the time when they make mistakes - but to disengage from your missing daughter is odd to say the least.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Wendy Nilsson,
This case drew my attention because a child has disappeared under very strange circumstances, not because of the personal appearance of either of the McCanns. They will always be ugly to me because they have turned their daughter’s disappearance into a grotesque corporate event.
Your blanket defence of Kate McCann seems excessive to me since she already has the support of the British media. You may be doing more harm than good by trying to silence and ridicule a handful of people who don’t concur with the mainstream media. She may not thank you.
Finally, and I mean finally, you need to learn the difference between a spelling mistake and a typographical error.
Jimbo,
No, I’m afraid I don’t have proof, just my own thoughts. Remember, my comments were made in response to Mrs Healy’s comments in The Daily Mail. The point, which I made so long ago I’ve almost forgotten, is that any lack of sympathy from the general public is as a result of Kate McCann’s apparent lack of suffering, not because of her good looks, which are largely manufactured, as opposed to natural.
PS; Don’t go home with that Wendy Nilsson, you’re too good for her.
Night Night
October 21st, 2007 at 8:52 pm
540 Garth
If her parents have anything to do with her death or disappearance, the truth needs to be uncovered, no matter what. Compassion will not provide answers.
If they are guilty and they are continuing on with this elaborate masquerade, they are undeserving of compassion, don’t you think?
October 21st, 2007 at 8:47 pm
The truth is Brian and I’m sure for a lot of posters on here is that the issue of ‘neglect’ as you put it, rightly or wrongly, doesn’t bias our opinions about what happened to Madeleine that night. Yours does.
This isan’t a big brother forum whereby we can slate someone cos we don’t like them. The McCanns have lost their daughter. And if your so blinkin perfect a parent as you make out, then have a bit of compassion.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:43 pm
536
The Real Stig Says:
“The DNA sample is the first piece of scientific evidence showing that a stranger was in the room the night she vanished. It will be sent to Britain to be checked against the national database of convicted or suspected sex offenders.”
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hope it has been crosschecked with DNA of the Tapas-how-ever-the-many-of-them
October 21st, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Simply put nobody knows what evidence there is regarding Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. We can’t know what any of the witnesses have actually said to the PJ. What PR people tell us has been said, is not necessarily what was said to the police. We simply don’t know what went on that night. We only know what has come in the form of statements from the McCann family and friends. If we haven’t heard it from their mouths or from the mouth of their official spokesperson( and even he was contradicted by them last week), we cannot KNOW that they said it for sure. All the rest coming from sources does not mean it came from the McCanns but if they aren’t threatening to sue over it, we can assume they concur with the said source. All is supposition.
We do know they said they did not “sedate” their children. ( We know that this only means they did not use a medication that is intended for sedation purposes). We know that they have not mentioned what happened to the twins in the immediate aftermath of finding their child had gone missing. We know that they have not at anytime admitted that they regret leaving their children unsupervised. they have been extra careful, again, in their choice of words. They “regret that they weren’t there when she was abducted”. Presumably, they would not have been happy had they been there to see her off. That aside, they have been remarkably careful about their words at all times regarding events of that night. It is not in their words necessarily, that the key lies, however but in their silences. they are silent about the twins and them waking up or not waking up during the events of thata night. They have not said they were asleep and we woke them to check they were alright, or had they seen their sister being stolen. When specualtion about sedation appeared in the newspapers fuelled by rumours that the twins had slept through everything, they categorically stated that they had nevere sedated their children. They remained silent on the other part of the specualtion that the twins slept through. Did they or didn’t they? “Wouldn’t you say no the twins were wide awake, we woke them to ask what had happened.” No, there was silence on that part off the rumour. they also carefully, did not say, none of our children received any medication that night. Silent on that too.
That, of course, is not to say they did harm their children that night but silence is normally used to disguise something. We know that parts of the story do not work but we are only hearing parts of the story. They could be guilty of nothing more than not supervising their children. However, if I had not supervised my children and one was abducted, I would have scant regard for the words I used to describe the situation. I would have scant regard for my own legal status. They could lock me up for mouthing off, they could lock me up for neglect but I’d have my lawyers fighting such things while I told everyone I could exactly what happened. I wouldn’t care about my image in the media or my career, I’d hold my hands up and say. “We were fools, lulled into a false sense of security, in a country with a very low crime level and extremely rare cases of child abductions. our kids were healthy and we thought they were safe. we had a few glasses of wine. All of us did the same and we were wrong but we are suffering for it now, so please help us”. but that’s not what they did and it is not for any of us to say that makes them guilty of anything worse than being remiss in their duty of care but once they got a media and legal machine around them, they became fair game for analysis. So back to the silences…. they never came back with an answer for the rumours regarding the missing hours in huelva either
October 21st, 2007 at 8:41 pm
534 garth
very good garth, avoid the question, oh yes how very intelligent of you..
October 21st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
524 ian
“None of whom can provide any evidence backed arguments to support the fantastical abduction theory.”
I have been over this ground as well. An abductor would not necessarily leave any evidence behind, so it could still have happened and there might not be any ‘evidence’ to find.
However, have you forgotten about the sighting of a blond woman in a coat lurking outside the apartment or the unaccounted for DNA in the apartment?
“The DNA sample is the first piece of scientific evidence showing that a stranger was in the room the night she vanished. It will be sent to Britain to be checked against the national database of convicted or suspected sex offenders.”
There was the email claiming a disgruntled former maid had taken Madeleine, but the PJ said they would not investigate the report so who knows …
October 21st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
532 ian
the scary thing is these mccann supporters probably are parents. They mostly appear to think its quite normal to go on piss all night and leave the kids to fend for themselves. And worst of all they think they are good parents!
October 21st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
532 533
They can’t bothered to answer the typical drivel more like!
October 21st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
532 ian
probably wont answer you cause they are just like the mccanns. Only answering questions that suit them!!
October 21st, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Well, I cant be bothered arguing with the Mcann sympathisers tonight - I just hope you lot dont have any children, for their sakes.
Hopefully justice will be done, though there are plenty of cases where it isnt, especially when the English class system is involved.
Mccans apologists, why dont you want to clear up the inconsistancies in the T9 stories, then we can discuss the alternatives allowed by the timeline?
October 21st, 2007 at 8:27 pm
528, sigh.
I know you will not question the inconsistancies in the statements of people we know have committed one crime for sure, that of child neglect.
You cannot consider any of the tappas nine as being unbiased as they may well be involced in a cover up of some kind.
The nannies - Im not sure about I admit. However Mccanns supporters (why do these exist? Why support child neglect?) are selective about what they will accept in the statements of the nannies. ‘Theyve taken her’ was confirmed as being the cry of Kate on the night. Yet the Mccanns sought to deny it.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:25 pm
527 Ade
Well, that answers that. Thanks for the history lesson.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
522, if there were evidence presented to debate, which there is not.
However I think it most sensible to address inconsistancies whcih are evident rather than seeking shadows.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Ian, sigh, we’ve been over it soooo many times.
The reason I feel absolutely certain Madeleine did not die on May 2 (rather than May 3) is because we have not one, not two, but THREE confirmed sightings — PUBLICLY confirmed sightings — of Madeleine that afternoon. Madeleine , alive, late afternoon of May 3. Two nannies and one David Payne have all publicly said they saw Madeleine alive that afternoon. THis is not a newspaper report of “Sources close to the nannies say Madeleine was seen alive that afternoon.” This is nannies and Payne, publicly announcing they saw her.
That’s enough to convince me.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:21 pm
508 jolie
origin if virgin records
“Virgin — Founder Richard Branson’s first company sold records by mail order. He and his friends chose the name Virgin Records as they were all virgins when it came to business”
that’s according to digg:
http://digg.com/business_finance/Where_Company_Names_Come_From
October 21st, 2007 at 8:21 pm
514 he should be ok if they check on him every half hour or so as long as they are no further away than say 150 yards
October 21st, 2007 at 8:21 pm
505 Willo
“Virgin Airlines. Seems a wierd name now. Or is it just me?”
Nah - just you.
All started with a wheeler dealer in a school playground and some tubular bells.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Surprise! Kris agrees with coolandcalm who agrees no doubt with bob and with Stig!
None of whom can provide any evidence backed arguments to support the fantastical abduction theory.