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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October 23rd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
portia
I would like Michael and co to write a list to why they think they are innocent
something like
1. they’re posh
2.Kates a yummy mummy
3.the sun told us
4. Lorraine kelly said so
5. they are doctors
6. they are respectable catholics
7.they went to uni
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Brandon - re KM not looking herself,
think Helen of Troy - the face that launched a thousand ships - Helen knew that she could get more boats in the water by campaigning mthat by toiling in the ship-yards herrself.
Similarly the Doctors McCann knew that their best bet was a massive campaign to get others looking in their thousansd than to limit themselves to a limited search on their own
Delegation is the name of the game in any big undertaking
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Now that two tourists have drowned trying to save their children I assume that the local police have the children as the main suspects, this being Portugal and all.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Stevo…….
re: the Brian Kennedys.
completely different people in age appearance and nationality. Just google under images! For info google also.
Brian Kennedy+Kate mcCanns Uncle
Brian Kennedy+Owner of Sale rugby club (or similar)
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Judge Dread-Ride a White Swan was the first vinyl my parents bought me, good taste in music, classic tunes!!!!
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
stevo
why wouldnt she want to look for herself?
the first thing a mother does when others cant find it
is look for it themselves
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
574, Stevo,
With all your photographic resources, would you be able to enlarge this picture, taken on 9th May, and tell me who the Maddie lookalike in the pushchair is?
Peter O asked earlier whether it was possible that another child could have been passed off as M on 3rd May. I wondered if this one, wearing a hat, could have been mistaken for her by some of the witnesses - we all know how unreliable witnesses can be.
http://www.getrealweekly.com/Images/get%20real_Ed%2019.pdf
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
On the question of how the Doctors McCann managed to attract so much media coverage - you cannot ignore Kate McCann’s looks - if she had looked like the back end of a bus, all the PR in the world would not have ignited the story.
The tabloids in particular need a decent photo for a story to run.
The irony is that these looks have antagonised many - that was my initial thought and I am sticking with it
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I beleive that the key to all this will be the connection between Murat and the T9.
An important question is, who told the Mccanns and party about this resort? Was it O’Brien, having been told about it by Murat (Exeter link)?
How helpful is Murat? Could it be that he was keen to get in with the well heeled Brits and help out or was it a financial arrangement? But why would the T9 turn on him?
Or was it that some of the T9 werent in on it, so they saw Murat carrying Madeleine away as he had been instructed by Gerry and O’Brien?
But the bigger question is, can Gordon Brown and his friend Lord Stevens, Kennedy, Branson and others afford to allow the Mccanns to be continue to be implicated? They have the power, when will they instruct the Portuguese authorities to step in and clear the Mccanns? How sill they conceal their pressure - will the British public awaken?
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
whats going on with anorak i keep getting host gator-
is there a different way to log in?
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Mods and Admin
We are hosted in California, the dreamin’ state which sadly is now the burnin’ state.
We haven’t been hacked or spammed or hexed by McCanns, well Clarence
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:11 pm
594 - great post. Can’t top it but the flippancy is what goads me more than anything.
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The speculation on Maddie’s health is appropriate, especially since it has emerged that GM is not the biological father (and this was revealed early on by friends of the McCann’s so the only surprised McCann’s are probably the elderly ones).
Why is GM not the father? That would require some explaining from KM. And did Maddie have a problem that caused KM additional distress? This is stuff for the psychiatrists. Too crazy for me to even begin to contemplate.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
595 brandon flours
So non-functioning that they could go jogging the next day eh?
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
591 Harry Hind Sight
The babies are born in the same weight range as normal babies. So at birth there’s nothing to tell you anything is amiss. As the children grow they still look normal and if anything they have a very cute appearance - almost pixie like. When you realise that your child is wearing clothes for a 3 year old and they are 5 or 6, you either accept them as being small or you start to seek expert advice. Even then, it took about a year of testing to see if it was a nutrition thing or something else.
Turner’s comes in various “types” for want of a better description. Lack of height is the number one feature and is present in all cases. Some combinations of the gene mean that some girls will have heart and/or kidney trouble. Those extreme cases of it usually have the undesirable features - webbed neck, fingers etc. The “better” combination will not have those extreme features. It’s an interesting topic.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
552 Helena
A space ( ) after the comma (,), please.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:05 pm
PMSL
I swear to God, some of you people are total fruitloopers. Absolutely, 100%ly nuts….Do the likes of Brandon and Stevo actually read the crap they type? I’m guessing not because they would stop posting and er, that ain’t happening any time soon.
Still NO EVIDENCE the McCanns are guilty of killing their child and covering it up. NO EVIDENCE. If there was evidence, they would be in custody. Not arguidos. Defendants.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:05 pm
“Back to the “Third Way” theory - don’t you think it’s consistent?”
No. There is no more to indicate the McCanns being swingers than of them being albatrosses.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
599
Thanks
mmm… it sounds me familiar (maybe it happens to me sometimes)
seeya later
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:03 pm
568 Marc Bolan - You must be a ghost, I live near the tree his car hit when he was killed. Its still a shrine with flowers and pictures fixed to it 30 years on.
And I was one of the original Telegram Sams when I left school.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:03 pm
STEVO
How have they managed to captivate the world’s media? Who is the brains behind their campaign? Does it improve the chances of finding Madeleine or hinder the police investigation? And is it good for the McCanns themselves?
IN the dark hours following Madeleine’s disappearance on the night of May 3 the McCanns searched the streets of Praia da Luz until 4.30am. Later that morning Kate called a family friend, Jill Renwick, who had worked with her and Gerry at a Glasgow hospital.
“At that point she was crying out for help,” said Jill. “She was desperate. I didn’t know what else to do so I picked up the phone and called GMTV. It was a random thing to do.”
So began one of the biggest missing person appeals in history. As hundreds of journalists began to flood into Praia da Luz, the McCanns realised the media had a key role to play.
Within two days after Madeleine’s disappearance, the holiday firm Mark Warner had sent a crisis management team to Portugal. It included Alex Woolfall from Bell Pottinger, the public relations company. Woolfall, who has 20 years experience in PR, spent the next two weeks advising the family on how to keep the media interested.
“From the outset the experience I had was two people in utter desperation,” he said. “They feared that it would be a one-day story, a girl taken from a resort and that’s the end of it. They were aware that there were journalists outside, and that if they could get pictures to them it would increase the likelihood of them finding their little girl.”
The McCanns were faced with what they have described as an “information void”. The Portuguese police refused to release even the most basic of details about Madeleine’s disappearance, including the clothes she was wearing.
“The reason [the McCanns] ended up doing more than they would have done if this had happened in the UK is because there was a news vacuum,” said Woolfall. “They knew that the pressure was on them in the absence of any new information coming from police.”
Every morning, Woolfall and the McCanns worked on a strategy for the day after they had brainstormed ideas overnight with a close circle of friends in Britain. They then organised a series of carefully scheduled statements, interviews and photo-opportunities.
Back in the UK, the McCanns relied heavily on their family and friends, asking them to help in any way they could. Within days thousands of e-mails had been sent.
“They are a middle-class family who knows someone, who knows someone, who might know someone important,” said Woolfall. “They were trying to push every lever.”
One early idea from the family was for Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United’s Portuguese winger, to make an appeal. Gerry called a friend who had contacts in the football world, and word reached Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager.
“The quote that came back from him was ‘the boy will do it’,” said a source close to the family. Other football stars, including David Beckham, soon followed suit.
Family and friends took direct action. Jill Renwick approached Gordon Brown’s brother, John, who lives in her street in Glasgow.
Soon the chancellor contacted the McCanns and promised to help them “in any way he could”. It is thought pressure from Brown helped force Portuguese police to release details of a potential suspect seen by friends of the McCanns. He is also understood to have been instrumental in putting the request for the Harry Potter bookmarks to J K Rowling, the author.
When Woolfall left Portugal his role was later assumed by Clarence Mitchell, a former BBC journalist who works for the Cabinet Office but was seconded to the Foreign Office because of his experience of working in television.
Under Mitchell, the campaign stepped up a gear, with the papal visit and European tour. The meeting with the Pope was not instigated by the McCanns. It arose from a combination of the Catholic authorities in London and a media request to the Vatican. The European tour, however, was very much their plan.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I’m going home to hug my kids.
Ciao…
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
595 pilimary
narcissistic personality disorder
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
594,
Harry Hind Sight
You are special in your own way!
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
590 - I think its an interesting point., If madeleine did/does have turners, then it may account for why Kate had trouble in caring for her, as in behavior problems at the least
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
582 Rosemary
Thanks for the Strongwood Link. I hadn’t remembered that name so didn’t know what to look for.
As to Madeleine having the looks of Turner’s (or not), the first time I ever saw her photos I thought she could have. Several people in my family said the same thing because like I said before, we’re used to seeing it.
Most of the Turner’s associations used to have pictures of kids on their sites but stopped doing it without becoming a member. Otherwise, I’d have given you links and you could see the distinct features. Today, there’s surprisingly little on the web in pictures but five years ago there was a lot more.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Kate spoke for the fist time –
“I did want to go and look for Maddie myself
– and we’ve been working really hard every day – the first 48 hrs were the most difficult we were almost non-functioning to begin with – but the support and strength from others has really helped – we may not have been physically searching but we have been very busy.”
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Rosemary, what does it mean NPD? (remember Im Spanish)
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Rosemay,
Damn you - there I was thinking that I was special.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
why we think they did it
1.instinct
2. experience
3.research
4. their body language
5.their actions
6.their words
7.their flippancy toward leaving the children alone
8.their NPD tendancies
9.their inconstancies in their statements
10.their bizzare behaviour in regard to the press
11.their website
12.the money collected
13. the jetting campaigning
14. the missing decieved priest
15. the mothers gob
16. the silence of the tappas9
17.they’ve never looked for her
18, the photoshoots
19. THEN THERES THE ACTUAL POLICE EVIDENCE
please add your own and copy and paste it
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
588,
Harry Hind Sight,
The truth is we all have some of the traits of NPD to varying degrees.
It is those who can’t see it who have got a problem!
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Stevo,
surely one’s doctor would spot it, or at least suspect it and refer you to a specialist?