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 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Was the Spanish interview in England?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Bob,
Basically, I reckon KM is gearing up for a very convenient nervous breakdown and I was making the point that anyone can fake that sort of thing by making one or two small adjustments to one’s appearance and adopting a few strange mannerisms.
Judith C previously commented that KM’s trainers seemed an odd choice for the Spanish TV interview, and I was just commenting that that fitted in well with my breakdown theory.
Sarcasm really, like my tapas comment. I’m tired and getting spiteful. Time to go!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Correction to my post 1511: My belief is that O’Brien is relied upon to take charge of disposing of the body and does so without any of the others knowing except for his partner Jane Tanner, Kate and Madeleine.
I meant to say ‘Gerry’ and not Madeleine although of course poor Madeleine knows what has happened to her. She doesn’t understand why but she knows.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Peter o
http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/larmanil/?action=view¤t=Abductor.jpg
In the Guardian they say the PJ’s being like Madeleines is relevant! They seem to have forgotten its a bloody drawing!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:38 am
1516
Why?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:37 am
I think it’s always been reported the door was unlocked.
Haven’t read anything about Kate McCann wearing the wrong shoes.
I have read that she doesn’t cry enough and doesn’t have big
breasts.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Butterfly I was under the impression that every one was enthralled by Pat Browns posts and her aciberic wit,all except one from the posts that I have read and in my opinion he came out best.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:36 am
1514
Thanks for answering, Scarlett. Goodnight.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:36 am
My grandmother always said that you could tell about someone by their footwear. She married a deep sea diver.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:36 am
1507
Bob, the shoe thing concerns them wearing hiking type shoes (I didn’t think they looked like jogging shoes? Maybe they were). To an interview at one point. I don’t think it means anything, but others find it significant.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Wanderer, the sands were shifting but now the picture is 100% clear. Peter O, feasible for one person to put a 3 year old in a car and drive, and if the prosecutor and judge “accept” it as feasible then end of story. If WE don’t believe it, nothing we can do.
Definitely good night now, you’ve all been very polite this evening.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:33 am
1493
Stig, I posted this awhile ago and I’m sure it is old news to you now. But in response to this bit of yours:
“There are logical problems also. Kate trained as an anaesthetist. This might sound silly but I think an anaesthetist would be one of the least likely of people to ever sedate their child for the sake of convenience. Even if they were to, such a person is also LEAST likely to use a strong sedative or get the dosage that wrong. I have seen an expert opinion that it would be very difficult to persuade a child to consume enough oral sedative to constitute a lethal dose. If you want to get really loopy and start talking about intravenously administered sedatives - I would sooner believe in fairies at the bottom of my garden.”
I don’t buy that at all, as I’ve said, doctors specializing in anesthesiology are four times more likely to come down with an addiction. There are cases of them “self-medicating” in the operating room as well (because they couldn’t stand being without it so long due to the addiction). So to think such training automatically makes someone a more responsible parent or a more informed, sensible person where drugs are concerned. Well, I don’t agree with that.
Also, pharmacies have those flavor things now, where they can make children’s medicine taste a certain way. Anyway, none of this makes Kate an addict or anything, I just won’t put them on a pedestal because of work qualifications.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:33 am
1497 - Bob - No one claimed the door was unlocked. Gerry aditted it to the world in an interview for the BBC.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:32 am
1093.
Carmen, If a child ingested cocaine in one dosage it would very likely kill them. Even an adult can be killed by consuming too much cocaine in a short period of time.
Although it is possible Kate or Gerry were careless with their ‘party’ supplies and Madeleine accidentally ate their coke my thoughts have always been what if they were recreational drug users and from the nightly drinking and taking cocaine were on edge and easily annoyed more and more with each consecutive night they went out? Maybe Madeleine was crying because she didn’t want to be left alone or she was awake when she was checked on and Gerry or Kate in their poor state of mind accidentally killed her by shaking her too hard or something like that?
Or another theory I have is that the parents go out every night partying and they leave Madeleine alone with the twins. Madeleine is scared each night more and more. She is disoriented because she is crying for her parents and she is unfamiliar with the apartment. She tries to leave the apartment to look for them and falls down the steps or falls out the window and dies instantly of a broken neck. On one of their child checks one of the Tapas 9 finds Madeleine. The entire group is not in on what has happened. My belief is that O’Brien is relied upon to take charge of disposing of the body and does so without any of the others knowing except for his partner Jane Tanner, Kate and Madeleine.
In my opinion, Kate does not have a strong personality but easily goes along with the opinions and actions of others. This is common in some people with NPD. Because their desire is to be popular at all costs they will do anything to be accepted and liked. Plus it isn’t difficult for her to place herself before her children’s needs especially when Gerry and friends condone the operation. She did this when agreeing to the groups foolish ‘babysitting’ from 200 yards away system and again with plans to dispose of the body and pretend there was an abduction when Madeleine was found dead. The four of them (K, G, Russell and Jane) made a pact of silence - the others are going along for similar reasons of their own even though they do not have full knowledge of exactly what happened that evening.
It was basically desperate measures taken by selfish desperate people who didn’t want to see their careers or upper middle class lifestyles destroyed due to their negligence (all of them committed gross negligence in the welfare of a child when they left their children alone without supervision imo). They’ve convinced themselves that what they did was for the good of their well respected vocations and their desperate actions were necessary to preserve their finances and their families and keep them intact.
I don’t believe either Kate or Gerry is sincerely religious and don’t believe they would be motivated or disuaded by anything based on RC law. Their actions have always been based on self preservation of their image and career status. And also ensuring that their savings would not be touched or even dipped into hence the fund. Their inability to use their own money towards anything for getting Madeleine back is extremely suspicious regardless of the fact that the donations were not at first initiated by the Mcs. When they started receiving donations they could have held a press confesrence and thanked those who have sent them money but requested that they send their money to a well established missing child and exploited children’s charitable foundation. Instead what they saw was a way to actually profit and make themselves look like victims, like martyrs in this way taking more attention away from Madeleine and deflecting any possible criticism of themselves.
They have successfully created a martyr/victim aura around themselves. This has made any critical observations of them almost nil in the media with the exception of US, German and Portoguese asking a few hard hitting questions - the British media has not. With their ability to charm people by pretending to be martyrs they managed to get very high profile people to do their bidding. It started with John Buck the British ambassador putting pressure on a questioning PJ to focus solely on abduction by stranger theory. Then Justine McGuinness as their first PR rep and attracting billionaires and celebrities to their ’cause’. But all that they money has doen for them is create a cottage industry with Madeleine as their paper doll mascot. They haven’t really used the money to search for her as a normal healthy anxious couple with a legitimately missing child would do and often do with their own meagre savings and without all the media hype the McCanns have created. Instead, the McCanns have dishonoured their daughter’s image and have profitted greatly from it to their own advantage.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:32 am
1505 brandon flours
Lets threaten to send the McCanns to Iran rather than the sanctions. They will shit themselves.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:32 am
peter O
nearly ate your balls then saw smiley lol
October 26th, 2007 at 12:31 am
1491 trainer Says:
peter o …….pog?
++++++++
Pardon?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Kitty.
What was wrong with her shoes?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:31 am
1495 Judge Dread - Bob
I believe that they initially said the door was locked but then changed their story to it being unlocked. A bit like when the they said there had been been a break-in.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:31 am
They are making me fucking mad i tell you!!!!!!!!!
BTW
We are close to declaring war on Iran, cos USA told us
weapons of mass destruction again!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANORAK FARM!!!!!!!!!?????????
CALLING IN ITS LEADERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Bob,
Yes, the footwear comment was in response to an earlier posting from Judith C regarding the trainers Kate McCann wore for the Spanish TV interview.
Its a bit of a girl thing really.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:30 am
1499
Who said the door was unlocked?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:29 am
1488 brandon flours Says:
Edit….
picture of man holding child on night
bollox
wheres blanket?
++++++++++++++++++++++++
It’s an artists ‘impression’ – do keep up! Probably removed the blanket to give us all a better idea about the pyjamas.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:29 am
1494
Kitty brought up dodgy footwear and I was wondering who she
was referring to?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:28 am
1488 Brandon, looks like a sedated kid to me.
An now i doesnt look like Murat, she said it did didnt she?
Another translation issue?
http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/larmanil/?action=view¤t=Abductor.jpg
Did I show you this?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:28 am
1487
Bob, maybe you’ve been looking at it too long. It does make sense.
“They not only left them alone they left the door unlocked. They can’t claim that the door was unlocked so that if an emergency arose they could get out because they were too small and weak to open a heavy patio door.”
They left the children alone. On top of that, they left the door unlocked.
Why leave the door unlocked? An emergency? No, that couldn’t be, as the little documentary showed Madeleine probably wasn’t big enough to open the door by herself (even if it was unlocked).
October 26th, 2007 at 12:28 am
The criminal profiler Pat Brown has missed a main point in her argument.
Suggesting that Kate has convinced herself that Maddie is unharmed and not being abused by whoever took her sounds comvincing as to why she has a lack of emotions - she suggests it is because she is not worried as she knows she is safe.
Yet the McCanns have visited all sorts of people who deal with paedeophile rings as part of their campaign.
They would know exactly what may have happened to Maddie.
If she was that deluded into believing her child is safe she should have her remaining children taken into care - if she has not let those thoughts cross her mind - why did she say on National TV that they have?
Sorry Pat - too good to be true - and if they are truly a pair of deluded doctors who have probably seen child abuse in the flesh have not visualised that something bad may have happened to their daughter by now - they are headed for the loony bin!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Judge.
Someone already claimed it was unlocked.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Which Ian are you?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:27 am
1480 - Bob - I wrote
“They can’t claim that the door was unlocked so that if an emergency arose they could get out because they were too small and weak to open a heavy patio door.”
Read it as
They (the Mccanns) can’t claim that the door was unlocked so that if an emergency arose they (the children) could get out because they (the children), were too small and weak to open a heavy patio door.