Madeleine McCann: When Waiters Attack, Kate McCann Childcare Inc. And Feudal Powers
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – ‘McCANNS OR A FRIEND MUST BE TO BLAME’. Tapas bar waiter’s astonishing attack”
Jose Batista served the McCanns and party on that night Madeleine disappeared. “I did not think she had been taken by an abductor,” says he. “I told them [the police] it had to be one of the family or a friend. It had to be someone close”
Mr Batista is a “crucial eyewitness”
Page 4: “Nanny would have cost just £10” – Batista is standing with his “partner” Maria Fernandes, who also works at the Ocean Club complex. She does not speak. She smiles for the camera. Why is she there? They are holding hands. He says the Tapas 9 did check on their children regularly: “I know that because I often took food to the table and found one of them not there. I would take it back to the table to heat it up. But it was always the men who went to check never the women.” Apart from the time Kate McCann went to check. So not always the men. Jose thought that strange. Why?
Says he: “They left heir children alone. If I had been in that position I certainly wouldn’t have done that.” Maria smiles
“Kate may be a child carer after ruling out GP work” – But would she make living at it?
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE EXCLUSIVE: WHAT WAITERS SAW. Kate left kids alone 3 hours a night”
It’s Jose Baptista, not to be confused with the Express’s Jose Batista, even if this waiter does look very similar and is seen holding hands with his “wife”, also called Maria
Pages 4 and 5: “The men normally checked on kids..Kate only went that one night”
Kate and Gerry are “doctors”. Says Jose: “They left their children alone for up to three hours every night.” Apart from when they all went out as family, with the “cranky” children
Maria speaks: “I definitely remember Madeleine. She was like a little angel, very quiet and good as gold. Just a lovely little blonde girl.” Blonde, you say?
“CAREER PLANS STILL ON HOLD”
DAILY STAR page 7: “holiday waiter describes horror night girl vanished – MADDIE: ‘ONLY PARENTS OR PALS COULD HAVE DONE IT’” – Jose Batista says…
“Kate wants job in child care”
DAILY MAIL front page: “I want to work in child care says Maddie’s mother”
Page 7: “Kate McCann ‘wants a job in child welfare’” – So it is “claimed”. So she ahs “told friends”
“FRIENDS ‘SHARED EIGHT BOTTLES OF WINE A NIGHT’” – Says Jose Baptista. Yes, eight bottles between nine Britons. On holiday. In the sun. Indeed, is that all?
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 9: “Madeleine’s mother ‘to as GP for a child welfare job’”
“One possibility is that she will set up a charity to raise awareness of the extent of child abductions across Europe, and help parents and children who suffer such an ordeal”
Fernando Jose Pinto Montiero, Portugal’s attorney general, says the country’s Ministerio Publico, likened to the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service, is a “feudal power”
THE INDEPENDENT, THE GUARDIAN, THE TIMES and DAILY MIRROR: No Madeleine news today
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November 14th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Just read that the Bosnia sighting was a hoax? How awful that someone would go to the trouble of “inventing” a sighting…people can be soooooo cruel. And supposedly this man has like 5 kids?
November 12th, 2007 at 3:33 am
and a new bit of info…..
The hunt for Madeleine switched to Bosnia yesterday after a tourist saw a blonde girl struggling with a man and heard her scream: “I want my Daddy.”
The McCanns’ private detectives have travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina to investigate.
The witness, a father-of-six from Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, said: “The instant I saw her my heart skipped a beat because it immediately struck me that she looked like Maddie McCann.
“I got very close to her, right up beside them, and was about to speak to the child when the man put his hand over her mouth and shoved her into the car.
“He was pushing her into the back seat of a Volkswagen Golf and was yelling in some language I didn’t understand. But my blood ran cold when I heard her cry, ‘I want my Daddy’.”
**just wondering WHY the private detectives have run off to Bosnia…BUT they did not go after that last sighting of the girl in the taxi?
Seems odd that all these people are close enought to KNOW it’s Madeleine…BUT they cant step in or draw attention to her. This man did say he wrote down the number on the car so it should be easily checked out i would think.
November 10th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I think someone should take af VERY close look on that waiter, Jose Baptista - and his girl friend, Maria.
Then go to Carol Everetts site and compare them to her drawings of the abductors!
November 9th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Yeah, I suppose there are those questions that we are all asking ourselves and each other. What did the McCann’s do with Madeleine and why … ??
Since there was such a short time for anyone to dispose of young Madeleine during the dinner (and in the time that the parents checked on their children) it must have happened earlier the day or even the previous day … Or those were my thoughts at the time anyway and the reason for Gerry texting furiously.
However, all these invented witnesses who stepped forward to bear false witness about seeing Madeleine earlier that day throws one completely off the track (as was probably intended by the McMeans). Whether those witnesses ever truly existed no-one really knows! I have a feeling that Jane Tanner and partner arranged for Murat to assist the McCann’s in storing young Madeleine’s body temporarily (since they knew him - despite them denying it). Naturally this is all speculation but until the truth surfaces (which shouldn’t be long now) that’s what we will all be doing!
Gawd … I would be totally devastated … utterly destroyed if I should harm any one of my children. I think at that moment I would just stop functioning … completely!
November 9th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Portuguese police have identified three moments which they believe could hold the key to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, according to a television documentary.
Detectives are said to be focusing their investigation on three time periods on the night of May 3, which they believe were crucial when the four-year-old went missing from her parents’ holiday apartment.
**They made a comment in reference to something happeneing to Madeleine BEFORE the Mccanns went to dinner. I thought this from the start. But i kept telling myself HOW could a parent go off to eat and drink and party with friends knowing their daughter was dead? Rumors are flying that the “friends” that want to be interviewed again…are tired of holding the info they have and it was mentioned that Madeleine fell down the stairs looking for her mom and dad? The only thing worse that this is…WHAT DID THEY DO WITH MADELEINE?
November 9th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
I so wish little Madeleine (or her remains) will be located soon. In my opinion, the McCann’s actions are very predicable and yet they’re still roaming around playing the victims. At one stage I actually considered the Portuguese police to be as bad as the South African (SAP) police. Albeit, by this time I am sure the SAP would have lost the McCann’s documents and all vital evidence … (if they ever managed to get hold of any evidence in the first instance)…
Ouch! 14 text messages in 2 hours is rather excessive! It is as you say rather odd for a cardiologist to be caught up in technology when he could be sitting back and relaxing with his family and friends! One would generally expect an infatuated teenager to be texting messages fervently in one evening! Maybe Gerry (blush) … or … (sigh) you’re right! I’m surprised in his frame of mind he could text anyone!
I just need to say this … apologies if I offend anyone in the interim but the identikits of ‘Baby Grace’ are awful! I find it upsetting to look at them especially the ‘head and shoulders’ sketch as it looks like an identikit of a corpse …
November 9th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
in ref to Baby Grace….I also find it odd that no one has come forward to identify her. I mean if her parents(one or both) did this horrible thing, wasnt there OTHER family or friends that would know WHO this innocent child is? How terrible that she went missing for atleast 2 weeks and no one missed her…..
She is a lil angle now and i hope they find who did this and make them pay!!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Oh now they are checking out Gerry….
Detectives are reportedly investigating a series of text messages sent and received by Gerry McCann on the night his daughter disappeared.
The consultant cardiologist is alleged to have exchanged up to 14 messages on his mobile phone during dinner with the so-called Tapas Nine on May 3.
Gerry and Kate McCann mark six months since Madeleine’s disappearance
Police were said to be interested in discovering with whom Mr McCann was in contact that night, before Madeleine went missing from the family’s holiday apartment.
I wonder who Gerry was texting…seems strange that your out with your friends and your wife and you spend the time texting someone else…14 times? I would like to read them….
November 8th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I think the McCann’s are only wanting the Tapas 7 to be requestioned by the police since two of them are threatening to blurt it all out. In this way, they’ll beat them to the chase - The friends will appear guilty, while the McCann’s will naturally stand back trying to appear stunned … expecting the public to pat them on their backs for ’smoking’ the culprits out!
I understand that two of McCann’s friends told the media that Madeleine accidently fell down the steps, after she walked around dazed looking for her parents. Thereafter Murat was asked to hide little Madeleine’s body until such time they could dispose of it! Ag, whether this is true or not … who knows! All these conflicting stories leaked to the media (by the McCann’s and Portuguese Police) is making my head spin!
I must say it is most upsetting that “Baby Grace’s” family hasn’t stepped forward to claim her little body.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
interesting piece of info…
Lawyers of two of the friends of the McCanns that dined with them on the night of May 3 in the tapas restaurant have contacted police recently and said their clients are willing to be re-questioned so they can ‘correct’ details of their original statements.” said the report in the El Mundo newspaper.
“These two members of the group have asked for their identities to be kept secret because they fear that as a result of the ‘clarifications’ they intend making about what happened the night Madeleine disappeared, they may be pressured by people linked to the McCanns.
So what they said the first time is NOT correct? Odd…very odd. Wonder if this will make Kate and Gerry a bit nervous?
November 8th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
So the lil girl in the box is NOT Madeleine? The woman who is sure she saw her(identified her eye) is getting death threats? And 2 of the Tapas 9 have CHANGED their story after 6 months? Oh and the Mccanns have given the police a “list of suspects” THEY want questioned, because they hold the key bits of info into their daughter’s disappearance?
I see they still have NOT identified the lil girl in the box…..a real shame that no one misses her and has come forward. Sad world our children must grow up in!!
November 7th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Today the Evening Standard (London) had a front page saying that two of the tapas gang wanted to change their statements with the PJ. Aparently, they wanted to remain anonymous ????? due to bullying from people associated with the McCanns!
I’m not sure what that means as the Evening Standard (not a rag) has had quite a few vitriolic attacks on the McCanns recently.
On another note, I was surprised yesterday to find that the Madeleine McCann ‘fund’ is not a charitable organisation (not hard to set up) but in fact a Ltd (limited liability company). Why not set up a charitable organisation - there are many tax breaks and also certain things such as flyers are VAT exempt! I don’t understand why there was a need to set up a company. Anyone have any thoughts on this??
November 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
The officers claimed that Mr and Mrs McCann and their seven British friends had been difficult to deal with because they had been drinking.
“They were upset, panicking, wide-eyed, the usual, but there was something else. They were scared — not the usual scared, they were jumpy, nervous. It wasn’t normal. None of it was normal,” said on officer.
“They’d all been drinking. They weren’t falling over but it was hard to deal with them.”
November 6th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Stephanie, I live in South Africa where we are almost the last to hear the news. So what is ‘old news’ to you is completely new to me! Nevertheless, my main concern at this point is that our children worldwide are being hurt, abused, murdered or basically they … (pfoof) disappear! In South Africa we often hear of cases where babies are thrown down manholes, in toilets, rubbish bins or dumped in rivers. Madeleine McCann case has grabbed the world not just because she’s cute, but subconsciously for many she probably represents all children worldwide…. regardless of their colour, race or creed. How many more children are going to become statistics because of poor parenting!
November 6th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
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marina Says:
Marina, if I offended you in any way then I apologise to you sincerely. Regarding the McCanns and the child washed ashore in Galveston - don’t take this the wrong way please - but if it had any credibility it would, most certainly, have been in the papers here in the UK. It hasn’t. We have the Sun for and most others against the McCanns.
The saddest thing is that there is a child misssing, washed up and no one knows where from?
November 5th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I agree marina. we live ina democratic society where everybody has the right to express their opinions and concerns without anyone seeming to intimidate individuals by attempting to control discussions by addressing them in any condescending manner. I wnt and lookd up the URL u indicated and evidently the forensics have actually estimated the little girls age to between 2-5yrs old. although we are all hoping for the madeliene to be alive we must expect the worst and pray whoever that little one belongs to God will comfort them in their dark hour. personally i dont think the mccanns are involved but thats my opinion.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Stephanie - if anyone or anything is volatile it most certainly is you. I think you should just try to be adult about this situation and not over react and be petty over little matters. We are all entitled to have our say without you pouncing all over us. No matter how much you or anyone argues … we just have to wait and see what the future brings. Nevertheless, getting back to my previous posting, if Madeleine was abducted there is a possibility she could have been taken anyway, and once the kidnapper got scared he/she could possibly have done away with her… whether in Praia de Luz, Spain, Morrocco or Galveston… It is not cast in stone that she was dumped out at sea in Portugal … if anything we have just been fed contradicting stories by the media! Furthermore Stephanie, I have nothing further to say to you …
November 5th, 2007 at 3:15 am
Was this child just found? According to the paper here in the states a fisherman JUST found the child in the plastic container. How said that no one missed her and how sad that someone would do this to a innocent child. This world is becoming a sad place for children to grow up…
November 4th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
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marina Says:
Marina Madeleine was almost 4 years old NOT 2. Secondly, the currents and tides are at times volatile on the atlantic ocean but certainly not that volatile to transfer from Portugal to the states. I have heard of this story before ………… it’s a bit sad that it has to be constantly rehashd again and again!
November 4th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Has anyone seen the article in the media regarding a little blonde girl dressed in a pink skirt and top with matching floral shoes washed ashore in Galveston, Texas. Identity unknown. Police named her “Baby Grace”. Fractures to skull. Police are approaching televised media worldwide to help identify her. The identikit looks so similar to our Madeleine McCann. Dental forensics estimate her age to be approximately 2 years old. Web address : http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/02/body.found/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:59 pm
NEW forensic tests appear to support the theory that Kate and Gerry McCann could have been involved in daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.
Sources say the results from a second batch of testing, conducted at a laboratory in Birmingham, include the discovery of the girl’s DNA - believed to have been obtained from Madeleine’s bodily fluids and hair - in the McCanns’ hire car which was rented 25 days after she went missing.
Tests on bodily fluids found in the hire car are understood to show they came from a corpse and that the body was moved.
Sources also indicate the volume of material found is too great for it to have been transferred via Madeleine’s toys or clothing.
It is also believed that the tests have produced no evidence to indicate the involvement of any other person.
**Oh look…NOW it’s NOT an abductor and it IS Gerry and Kate AGAIN? This case is all over the place.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:02 pm
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Anne Says:
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Guess what peeps! I have three little toddlers … my collateral to a ‘get rich quick’ scheme if all goes well. Watch this space for my address and our Itineraries … anyone interested?
ANNE - that is a REALLY SICK THING TO SAY.
SORRY FOR YOU BUT PERSONA NON GRATIS!
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Today the Evening Standard had a front page about the McCriminals which has basically put them back into the front line - again to do with the DNA forensics! Unfortunately I was in a rush and didn’t buy a paper but it seems that the forensics from the UK have gone to Portugual and the tests indicate that the McCanns are involved …….!
However, it also may be that the Portuguese police are playing fire on fire!…….?
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Guess what peeps! I have three little toddlers … my collateral to a ‘get rich quick’ scheme if all goes well. Watch this space for my address and our Itineraries … anyone interested?
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Gerry and Kate offered to go for a lie detector test but their spokesman squooshed that thought before anyone got any ideas. Even though polygraphs are not admissable in most Courts around the world, positive results arising from these tests most certaily would convince the public of their innocence. Is their a possibility that this whole fiasco is just a set up to collect money for their morgage and other bad debts? Unless Gerry and Kate are psychopaths (which I doubt) for remaining totally unemotional throughout these months besides the latest little tearful incident … I really don’t think Maddie is dead. Is it possible that little Maddie is being kept somewhere safely until such time enough money has been collected to pay their overdue morgage and other bad debts? If this little girl with Coloboma in Morrocco proves to be Maddie and she is returned safely to her parents - I still think the money should be repaid by the McCann’s and donated to charity. The police seem to be sent on a wild goose chase … like puppets on a string! Guess who the puppetteers are?
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Oh and another new bit of info…..
Private detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are following up a sighting in Morocco of a blonde girl reported to have the same distinctive mark in one eye as the missing toddler.
**So this woman got close enough to this child to see the mark in her eye? Well then, why did she not scream and yell and get someone to pay attention…she saw her in Aug…and it is now Nov? How many lil blonde girls have a distinctive mark in one eye?
Oh and yes, the case is strange, BUT the parents are stranger!!
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:39 am
P.S.
Bring it on Gerry! ….Please! Please! prove me wrong!! Been waiting 6 months for the truth.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:30 am
1564/Stephanie
Actually these “parents” are sly like a fox. Look at the empire they have built based on the tragedy of their daughter. Now they have all the greedy hang’ron’ers who are in their camp milking this case for all they can get. And these vultures are considered “respectable contributers to society”. Give me a break….It is the poor innocent gullible members of society that are being taken. If the whole weak bunch of these so called humans can do this, then there is no hope for sweet innocent Madeleine.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 am
1560/jillypicken
This is not an open and shut case by any means. If we knew who was last with Madeline we would not be speculation. Based on lack of any serious evidence of an an abduction I think the parent(s) were the last to see Madeleine. I ,more than anything hope I am wrong and that Madeleine is being “cared for” in Spain as gerry say’s. Now that to me is “speculation.”
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:53 am
1564/stephanie
This is exactly my point..If I suggest “weird” meaning it does not add up. Then I do hope the “experts’ in charge are doing their job, and not being paid off.
I do think the Poruguese police know something and are waiting ’til they have all there ducks in a row before they pounce. They have been conned royally by the McCann’s, and as soon as they were on to them the McCann’s left town. Having the press ( of whom they Manipulated) do all there mudslinging for them. After all the press do not want to look like they have been duped like the Portuguese police.That being said lets hope the McCann’s high paid experts do not find a loophole. That is what this case will come down to “semantics”.