Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann Sobs, Gerry McCann Points And 14 Questions
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR front page: “KATE’S TORMENT – ‘I think she is being held by someone in their house..as Madeleine’s mummy I feel in my heart she’s out there’”
“Distraught” Kate McCann is on Spanish TV. She is being interviewed. Says she: “I don’t know how anyone could harm anyone as beautiful as Madeleine”
Pages 4 and 5: “TEARS OF KATE – After six months of holding her heartbreak in check..Madeleine’s mum breaks down on TV”
Three pictures of Kate McCann:
“SO EMPTY: Kate tries to explain her loss on TV”
“TOO MUCH: She can’t hold back the tears”
“SOBBING: Kate and Gerry on TV”
“14 questions Portuguese police are flying to Britain to out to the McCanns and friends” – So reports Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas. Why would the police publish the questions and allow the McCanns and their friends to prepare answers? Why only – or as many as - 14 questions? Unless these are questions made up by the media, questions the police are “expected” to ask…
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – POLICE WANT ANSWERS TO 14 QUESTIONS. What detectives demand to know”
Pages 4 and 5: “Kate breaks down during TV grilling.” Kate and Gerry McCann are on the telly. Says Kate: “I feel sad and I feel lonely and our life is not as happy without Madeleine…we want people to try to reunite us with your beautiful girl”
And: “We know the truth. We know we are totally innocent. That is why we are calm. We know each other”
Says a “British detective”: “The detectives could be giving the suspects enough rope to hang themselves. It is a common tactic in police investigations to let those under suspicion speak on television in case they trip themselves up”
THE SUN front page: “KATE WEEPS FOR MADDIE – I feel in my heart she is out there”
“Distraught” Kate on the telly. Kate and Gerry are publicising a telephone hotline. No, not 999, their own number
Pages 4 and 5: “MADDIE NEEDS US – So lonely without our lovely girl, sobs Kate”
Three pictures of “Precious..the happy Maddie her mum longs to see”
Three pictures of the McCanns:
“Anguish…Gerry faces TV quiz”
“Ordeal…Kate fights back tears”
“Brave…but the McCanns struggle with their emotions as they relive the night Maddie vanished”
The hotline. Says Kate McCann: “We want to appeal to the people of Spain, Portugal and North Africa to help us and to tell them we have a new central phone number for them to call”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE MUM FINALLY CRACKS – Suspect Kate sobs on TV as she is quizzed”
Pages 8 and 9: “MADDIE’S MUM TV BREAKDOWN – Torment as Kate’s sobs halt interview four times”. Spanish TV journalist Roberto Arce sees Kate “prostrate with pain”
The McCanns hotline number is 00 34 902 300 213
DAILY MAIL pages 8 and 9: “I’M SAD AND LONELY…LIFE IS NOT HAPPY”
Says Mrs McCann: “Somebody knows something. It is not about us. It is about Madeleine.” Is it? We are watching the parents
Gerry McCanns is a “consultant cardiologist”. He says: “We have not been charged with anything”
“Will they find her in Spain?” – Gerry McCann tells El Mundo newspaper (Spain): “The possibility that Madeleine is alive and in Spain is real…If someone had a car, it is clear they could cross into Spain. There is no border guard and no one closed the border the night Madeleine disappeared.” And we look again at the police
THE TIMES page 3: “Sobbing Kate McCann insists that Madeleine is alive and being held”
“Days of hope and despair” – The Times looks at some key dates: June 21 (Madeleine in Malta); August 3 (Madeleine in Belgium); August 23 (Madeleine in Morocco)
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “’I’M SO SAD AND LONELY’ – KATE McCANN WEEPS FOR MADELEINE ON SPANISH TV”
Page 5: “’Sad, lonely’ Kate weeps for Madeleine in TV interview” – Kate McCann wept “uncontrollably”. Says he:” I feel anxious she is not with us”
THE GUARDIAN page 12: “McCanns set up phone line to seek Madeleine”
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October 25th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
1202 Ian
The PJ are probably loving all this! Heh.. much better than them disappearing of the radar. Now the PJ can keep looking for clues, analyse behaviour, actions etc. I bet they actively encouraged their defence team to let them go ahead. Enough rope an all that.
Honestly I bet average Joe on the street must be getting pretty sick of the site of them. With all the best intentions there’s only so much the observer can take, specially in this quick news cycle world we live in. I’m surprised the media are still giving this much attention. Then again, maybe it really has the legs of a good soap. Kate does look like Gail Tinsley - whatever the surname is - doesn’t she.
Have to fess up, I was anonymous-sly earlier, just wnated to see how easy it is to change your name. Wil do it again and again.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
1188 Jolie
Not at all. I just thought it interesting that one way you could interpret that report was that it wasn’t necessarily the mother who pushed the poor girl out the window, but a third party who then dragged the mother off and did her in. Of course, there should have been lots of screaming if that were the case.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Swannie, well done!
October 25th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Hi all, does anyone have a link to the video where Kate is sobbing? I just watched one on Sky News …. and if this is the particular video they’re referring to …. they need to change the definition of the word “sobbing”!
October 25th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
“The Portuguese newspaper states that a very rudimentary system is used to incinerate the animals and the furnace is nothing but a metal drum laid down on its side, covered in concrete and stones.”
Tell me everyone here - could you place your child’s body in such a drum and stand by and watch and smell her burn?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
1206 stig
just got the latest MT code (number 11)
Updated list of McConnSpin Tactics Codes:
MT1: Accuse anti-McConn poster of being a sponger, out of work
MT2: Be abusive to individuals (e.g call them a tosser)
MT3: Remember it’s about a missing child…
MT4: Raise the neglect debate YET AGAIN
MT5: Ask for links to points and then claim stuff in the paper is not reliable.
MT6: Forensic evidence is completely unreliable.
MT7: PJ are incompetent and lazy (trying to frame them), therefore not reliable.
MT8: We’re not going to comment on that/We can’t comment on that right now
MT9:Ludicrous for you to suggest it happened like that you havent seen the evidence
MT10: We’re co-operating fully and will do anything to help find madeleine
MT11: Threaten legal action/law suit
User Guide: Simply type MT3 or appropriate MT code as a response to a McArse, thus saving valuable time and bandwidth. Multiple codes are acceptable if separated by forward slash (/).
October 25th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
1192
Judith C Says:
I did ask the other day but missed any responses.
Who said Maddie was autistic?
Autistic children/people cannot relate to others. They cannot empathise, they cannot understand that others have feelings and feel pain. This does not sound like the loving child Kate was describing in the interview?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
1209 Ade
MT11 That comment/question is hurtful and unhelpful
October 25th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
1206 The Real Stig
I think you forgot what satire means Stig.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
1184. Yes the mother pushed her and then went off to kill herself…or something like that.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
1206 - Can you not have a sense of humour??, can you not see its ‘funny’, then again you probably dont know what funny means do you…but, I will tell you what is even more of a joke….Kate & Gerry!!
October 25th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
McConnSpin daily briefing agenda - Friday 26 October
1) Winner of yesterday’s biggest PR disaster/biggest gaffe
2) Suggestions for number 11 McConn Tactics Code
3) Suggestions for new word to replace “ludicrous”
4) Suggestions for next PR disaster/gaffe topic - only completely barmy ideas please
5 ) er… that’s it
October 25th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
1200
Yeh- someone should put him in a santa suit.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Judith, Ian etc
I think some of you were being driven insane yesterday, trying to remember where you’d read about Gerry not actually seeing Madeleine on his check.
Here’s one quote:
‘SOL’ 11TH AUG:
“That gate, which accesses a small patio, and according to Maddie’s father, was used by him and Matthew Oldfield to check on the children. In that moment, the girl’s father noticed that the door to the children’s room was more open and that there was more light than usual. Yet, he thought that Maddie, disturbed by her siblings’ crying, would have gone into her parents’ room, leaving the door open. But he did not check whether his daughter was there.”
This would then have put Matthew Oldfield in the frame as the last person to have seen Madeleine alive as he checked AFTER Gerry. But then, lo and behold, Matthew conveniently changed his story too. He then said he didn’t actually see Madeleine as he didn’t go into the bedroom, just listened at the door, but he was aware that there was more light in the room, as if the shutters had been raised.
Lots of people on other forums have been questioning this inconsistency too.
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=23144&start=60
October 25th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
1194 just_me
Can you think of any uses for these two words; libel; lawyers?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Read what the Crematorium looks like:
Updated: 20 April 2006
Monchique’s illegal animal crematorium continues to operate
A COMPANY, apparently operating an unlicensed animal crematorium in the Monchique hills, has refused to cease its activities, despite receiving a closure order and instructions to demolish the facility from Monchique Câmara.
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According to the same report, local residents in the area are complaining about the intense smell of burning animal flesh. They claim that the crematorium does not have the necessary conditions to operate and cannot guarantee safety or environmental protection. They also claim they are breathing in foul toxins and are worried that effluent from the facility may even be contaminating the nearby river. The Portuguese newspaper states that a very rudimentary system is used to incinerate the animals and the furnace is nothing but a metal drum laid down on its side, covered in concrete and stones.
http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=12743
The Resident’s Caroline Cunha contacted Evert Hendrik Hoos, the Dutchman who owns the Creon Starlight animal crematorium, for his response to the accusations in the Barlavento article. “We are legal, we are not closing and we have all the necessary paperwork,” he said. “Nobody has been here to speak to me and what is being written is not correct. I am not at war with my neighbours. The Portuguese people here support what I am doing, there is only one Italian man who objects to my work.”
October 25th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
If she was put in the incinerators 2 weeks after she went missing then the ashes spread on scrub land.
Then surely the claim that has put the McCanns into the suspect stage that her DNA was found in the hire car is a load of Bollox .
14 days after missing some guy says he may have inncinerated Madeleine
25 days after she went missing the pjs say they have found Dna in a hire car that the McCanns had just got.
More and more things that the Media or PJs or someone is making up.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
1125 and 1121 — I don’t think Clarence Mitchell is really in control anymore. When Gerry McCann contradicted Mitchell about whether he and Kate think Madeleine is alive, it was an indication that GM does what he wants. I think Mitchell is too smart to be behind these knuckleheaded p.r. moves such as the TV interview and the newly released sketch of Madeleine’s abductor. My guess is Mitchell advises against doing these things; GM says they’ll do them anyway; Mitchell does the best he can to limit the damage. As Ian (1121) put it, this has become a farce.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
1197 its not a photofit, its a bloody joke!
The PJ allowing this? Are they rolling over and letting these bastards off the hook?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
1196 judith c’s link again
http://www2.inthepaper.co.uk/createpaper/emailpreview.aspx?preview=25102007!55058245-bbd9-4564-a255-eaf8e61116de.jpg!emails
October 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
1197 Pat,
no…actually, back for Christmas……………………
October 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
1196 - you have to copy and paste it from the http:// to the end including the word email, not just the blue link part
October 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
1194 Batman
The mole reminds me of Austin Powers Goldmember. He was Dutch too wasn’t he? From Amsterdam?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
I can’t understand why they are releasing a photofit 6 months later. Kate believes this person would not have hurt Madeleine - Clarence reckons it’s accurate. We have to believe it’s an abduction You will beleive - if that’s him then don’t worry he’ll bring her back on her next birthday
October 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
1193
just_me Says:
October 25th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
BREAKING NEWS………………… paste this whole link into browser…………..
http://www2.inthepaper.co.uk/createpaper/emailpreview.aspx?preview=25102007!55058245-bbd9-4564-a255-eaf8e61116de.jpg!emails
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I can’t open this, what does it say?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
1179….
They (the Mccanns) say that the undisturbed bed proves that Madeleine was abducted and the Cuddle Cat was put on the shelf, also proving abduction. Itss all fantasy land stuff, total bollcocks, These lying scumbags really need to be sorted out. I wish this had happened in the UK because the political and cultural issues are more important here than the child.
The Mccanns are unbelievably callous bastards, in my opinion. Without doubt their caeeer’s and ‘£’s are much more important than a child.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
1189 Stevo
Surely you are suggesting that it was Dianne Webster carrying that child in pink pyjamas (size 90cm) with a brown mole on her left leg and a colombo in her right eye?
October 25th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
BREAKING NEWS………………… paste this whole link into browser…………..
http://www2.inthepaper.co.uk/createpaper/emailpreview.aspx?preview=25102007!55058245-bbd9-4564-a255-eaf8e61116de.jpg!emails
October 25th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
1165
Lilith Says:
“October 25th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Judith C
1054
Just following you on the psychic thing: would it be possible Madeleine does not understand she is dead? Especially when she is autistic. Could that be the reason psychics have not been helpful yet?”
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Psychics get what they are given. There’s no hot line to anyone in particular. Often if a psychic makes a connection an unexpected and unknown person drops in, sometimes with a message, sometimes just to make the connection and say their name, or give some other, often quite banal, information.
Madeleine will understand where she is and why. Autism has no meaning in the afterlife. Who knows how many psychics have actually forwarded information to the PJ? And who knows if any of it has been helpful or not? No-one’s going to tell us. I think it is significant that her mother said that Madeleine visits her. In other words, she is haunted and why shouldn’t she be? The child probably wants some ‘closure’ to use that awful word. The information about Madeleine visiting her mother, inadvertently given by her own mother,is probably the most important piece of evidence so far.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
1184 stig
Yep I saw that one and immediately thought of ComicalArse’s reply to a question at Coventry poly
“Asked by Jane McAllister, a project leader in the university’s work placement unit, whether he agreed that a working class couple in the same position would have been “ripped to shreds” by the media far more quickly, Mr Mitchell said no.
He admitted this was a frequently asked question but insisted: “The level of support offered to British nationals abroad would have been the same.”
So why is the ambassador to Spain not with the Cooper family - who is the government appointed PR agent?