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 1:54 am
Would an arguido be able to pass a CRB check?
October 26th, 2007 at 1:51 am
In Britain we don’t have an equivalent of “Arguidos” it’s neither one thing or the other really…..just like the rest of the case. You know, if you can draw a picture of someone taking your child, how come you can’t chase them, or get a bit of a look at their face, or point the police in the direction you last saw them run off in ….or pay a babysitter and not have gotten in to this mess in the first place?
October 26th, 2007 at 1:50 am
1597 I BET the GMC won’t let Gerry back until he’s “cleared” haha yeah right! Jailed morelike
October 26th, 2007 at 1:49 am
If the McCanns are guilty, the other tragedy of this case is that it will be remembered for this monumental act of cowardice by these so-called parents in orchestrating such a media fiasco in an attempt to save their own skins.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:48 am
You all know my views on this case. Despite my gloom and insidious feeling of unease that the McCanns really WERE going to avoid even a single CHARGE, let alone a trial, (with the help of Her Majesty’s British Government), I always clung on to some vestige of hope that amongst the Forensic evidence there really WOULD be something incriminating, that no amount of spin could detract from.
After all, it was the world renowned, BIRMINGHAM Forensic Science services that conducted the DNA testing. There skill, dexterity, genius and pioneering science has been respected and sought for many years, encompassing many famous cases, and their capabilities, results and work have NEVER, EVER been questioned or disputed.
Until now.
Just days away from learning the results relating to the Madeleine Case, after Gordon Brown requesting that they remain in the private province of the high echelons of the Policia Justiciary for the time being, the BBC this evening, on its Newsnight broadcast, has stated that an investigation by the BBC’s science team have uncovered irregularities that have brought into question the methods employed, not just in the Madeleine case, but in case of the Omagh Bombers.
So, as is something of a tradition on these forums, allow me to make my OWN ‘prediction’:-
After a weekend of ‘positive’ press, courtesy of Clarries editorial rounds, the PJ will announce next week that they intend to visit the UK, (yet again), to pose those infamous questions, (again), only this time, the judge, in light of this ‘new’ debilitating discovery, will announce its procrastination, (again).
By the time Christmas has come and gone, the decision will be taken “in the light of the current Political climate, and in the absence of insufficient evidence, to release Mr. & Mrs. McCann from their Arguido status, pending further investigations”.
When I’m proved wrong, I’ll be the FIRST to lock myself in the stocks.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Here we go, to sick to travel to Portugal!
October 26th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Here maybe the drawing of the male abductor is Gerry, a partial confession of a madman????
October 26th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Brandon,
The nervous breakdown and the 14 questions the PJ allegedly want to ask Kate McCann.
Are they by any chance related? I think we should be told!
October 26th, 2007 at 1:43 am
1596
Kitty: “The McCanns are Arguidos (is that a nice word for ‘out on bail’?) Why would any right-minded person contact them rather than the police?”
Well, I imagine if the McCanns are guilty, the Tapas 9 won’t be calling in (and they’d be the only witnesses, most likely).
I imagine if the McCanns aren’t guilty, someone with information would be happy to speak to them (especially if they have insider information and they know they aren’t guilty). Such people may be wary of going to the PJ for whatever reason, some people just hate the police in general.
Guess we’ll just have to see what happens?
October 26th, 2007 at 1:43 am
LOOK AFTER YOUR HEART!
Or you may end up being treated by Gerry McCann.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:42 am
1543 Judith C
Yes, the grief could have another cause as you point out.
Remember that video you pointed me to with them wearing the non-U shoes? At about 7:10 into it, there is a point where Jerry chokes and nearly breaks into tears - the Sky people obviously thought so too because they switched to a very close shot to catch it. But I am sure you will interpret it quite differently.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Wanderer,
I know you do I was joking because I found Stig’s argument weak. I don’t know if they sedated their children. I agree although kids at that age are scared of needles they get a lot of them (innoculations) around Madeleine’s age don’t they? As doctors, and if they were habitually sedating them I don’t see needles as being out of the question. However as doctors (isn’t O’Brien a pharmacologist?) they could have created their own night time elixir that the children would drink. I think they have the knowlege and access to the proper ingredients.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:41 am
1592 brandoflour
And Gerry is hoping to get back to work next week.
He obviously sick of having to be around Kate when she is so depressed. He certainly nows how to support someone.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:41 am
TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK TOCK ……………….
Is Madeleine’s mother finally beginning to crack?
26.10.07
Friends fear Kate McCann is near breaking point as the six-month anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance approaches.
She and her husband Gerry are “going in opposite directions” as they struggle to cope with life without Madeleine, it was claimed yesterday.
While Mr McCann is desperate to return to work and regain at least a sense of normality, his wife is said to be increasingly fragile.
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Tears: Kate McCann wept during the interview on Spanish TV
Fragile: Kate wipes away a tear during the TV interview
The couple insist they remain completely united but friends say they are dealing with the loss of their four-year-old daughter in completely different ways.
They say Mrs McCann, 39, is dreading next Saturday, November 3, which will mark six months since she last saw her daughter, and is falling into “moments of total despair”.
“Kate is in a much worse frame of mind than Gerry as it comes up to the six-month mark,” said one friend.
“They are totally united but they are going in opposite directions in terms of their handling of it.
Breaking: The emotion is too much for the mother of three
“There was the first-week landmark, the first-month.
“And now they are facing the six-month. They never thought they would be doing that.
“But Gerry is buoyant and he feels the search has been reinvigorated by the appointment of the new police chief.
“Kate is dreading the six-month anniversary. She has good and bad days but a lot more bad days at moment. She broke down at the end of the Spanish TV interview.
“She looks very gaunt and pale. She has moments of total despair.”
Careworn: Kate rallies to insist on the couple’s innocence
A family source said Mr McCann felt the decision to set up a 24-hour hotline, staffed by the couple’s own private detectives, had allowed them to gain some control over the hunt for their daughter.
But he too is worried over his wife’s emotional state.
When she broke down at the end of the Spanish television interview his first thought was to stop her from speaking while she was still being recorded.
Instead of comforting here, he said: “Don’t say anything till they’ve taken off your microphone.”
In the interview, seen by millions of viewers on Wednesday, Mr McCann appeared focused and deliberate as he appealed for help in the hunt to find the missing four-year-old.
But Mrs McCann, a GP, could not maintain eye contact with the interviewer and frequently let her responses trail off into long pauses, punctuated by heavy sighs.
She stared blankly off-camera as she told how empty her life was without her daughter.
“I think she is possibly being held by someone in their house,” she said, but her words trailed away again, and she finally said simply: “I don’t know why.”
She appeared to have tears in her eyes as she said repeatedly: “We still have hope.”
She was resolute as she insisted she and her husband were innocent of any wrongdoing.
“We know the truth, I know I’m innocent, Gerry knows he is innocent, we know each other are innocent,” she said.
Last hours: Madeleine was pictured enjoying herself with her father Gerry and the twins on the afternoon she disappeared on May 3
The couple sat close together and Mrs McCann constantly grasped one of her husband’s hands between hers.
At their first TV interview, in May, Mr McCann dropped his head down on to her shoulder, seemingly seeking comfort. Now it looked as though Mrs McCann was drawing on her husband for strength.
Friends say he is better at “compartmentalising” his emotions and is accustomed to speaking in public through of his job. Mrs McCann is much shyer.
Friends said Mrs McCann found the interview - her first since she was named as an official suspect in the disappearance - extremely difficult and emotional.
She became visibly agitated as she was asked if she had ever sedated her children, and a family source said Mr McCann’s warning not to speak until the microphone was turned off was because they had been advised not to speak about the allegation.
The couple, of Rothley, Leicestershire, were warned by their legal team they could be prosecuted for talking publicly while still bound by strict Portuguese secrecy laws. But their lawyers cleared them to speak last week.
They will hold a vigil and say prayers for Madeleine to mark the six-month anniversary of her disappearance on Saturday. They will be joined by family and friends for a service at the parish church of St Mary and St John.
A four-hour vigil will be held from 6-10pm, with lead prayers taking place between 9.30-9.45pm. It is during those 15 minutes on May 3 that Madeleine vanished.
• Gerry McCann hopes to go back to work next week, friends said yesterday.
The consultant cardiologist believes going back to his job will help give his family a sense of normality and is waiting to hear if management at the Glenfields Hospital in Leicester have approved his request.
“Gerry has wanted to return for a while now,” said a friend. “He has kept in regular contact with work friends.”
Medical chiefs must decide if Mr McCann could focus on his job - whether he works part-time or full-time - while he is still an official suspect.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Well said Kitty!
October 26th, 2007 at 1:38 am
1593 - and they didn’t appeal to the ‘abductor’ for the safe return of Maddie
October 26th, 2007 at 1:37 am
• Gerry McCann hopes to go back to work next week, friends said yesterday.
The consultant cardiologist believes going back to his job will help give his family a sense of normality and is waiting to hear if management at the Glenfields Hospital in Leicester have approved his request.
“Gerry has wanted to return for a while now,” said a friend. “He has kept in regular contact with work friends.”
Medical chiefs must decide if Mr McCann could focus on his job - whether he works part-time or full-time - while he is still an official suspect.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Bob I think that’s one ofthe most propagandist Bush-Cheyney articles I’ve ever read. The election was extremely close in 2000. And the deciding state was curiously enough, Florida where Bushs’ older brother was governor.
As the returns came in on election night (November 7, 2000), it became clear that the presidential election was unusually close. With the exception of Florida, Bush carried the Southern states by comfortable margins, and he also scored wins in Ohio, Indiana, most of the rural Midwestern farming states, and most of the Rocky Mountain states. Gore balanced Bush by sweeping the Northeastern United States (with the sole exception of New Hampshire), most of the Upper Midwest, and the Pacific Coast states, including California. As the night wore on it became clear that while a handful of small-to-medium sized states were extremely close, it was the State of Florida that would decide the winner of the election. As the final national results were tallied the following morning, Bush had clearly won a total of 246 electoral votes, while Gore had clearly won 255 votes (270 votes were needed to win). Two smaller states - New Mexico (5 electoral votes) and Oregon (7 electoral votes) - were still too close to call. It was Florida (25 electoral votes), however, that the news media focused their attention on. Mathematically, Florida’s 25 electoral votes became the key to an election win for both candidates, and although both New Mexico and Oregon were declared in favor of Gore over the next few days, Florida’s statewide vote took center stage even as voting continued in western states. The outcome of the election was not known for more than a month after the balloting ended because of the extended process of counting and then recounting Florida’s presidential ballots.
For 2000 it breaks down like this:
count percentage electoral
George W. Bush Republican Texas 50,460,110 47.9% 271
Al Gore Democratic Tennessee 51,003,926 48.4% 266
October 26th, 2007 at 1:37 am
What is the purpose of that bloody hotline other than to further provoke the Portuguese police and/or provide spurious ‘leads’.
Anyone who has (or even thinks they might have) information concerning Madeleine’s whereabouts should be encouraged to contact the police.
The McCanns are Arguidos (is that a nice word for ‘out on bail’?) Why would any right-minded person contact them rather than the police?
That hotline will attract every loony caller under the sun, and each one will be logged by a McCann flunky as a ‘hot lead ignored by the Portuguese police’.
A disgusting waste of time and money. That Clarence Mitchell should use some of those crappy plastic wristbands to make colour co-ordinated gags for this silly pair before they create an international incident.
I’d better go straight to bed now.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:36 am
1584
Thea, I know about syringes. The fact is, most kids are terrified of them. So I doubt that would be a method to drug a child for the hell of it. Personally, I don’t think they drugged their children anyway; but if I had to say which method they’d probably use? I’d still go with some kind of oral medication. Although, I’m not sure if they have the skin patches for things like that, I know they have them for pain killers. My mother’s friend’s daughter put two on her body and one on her tongue and died.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:35 am
I know I said , lets not keep on surmising about this tragic event, but I saw the interview with Kate and Gezz tonight and I have to admit to feeling very uncomfortable with Gerry’s aggression and Kate’s flick of her eyebrows on the statement “…you will find we have nothing to do with this…” I have never seen anyone look more like she is desperate to burst out and say something in my life. They never once looked at each other, no tears were shed YET AGAIN, and now they have issued a drawing of a “man” carrying their child off ….a man…..a figment of their warped imagination and yeah, like we are all going to spot a bloke with NO FACE? What the hell is going on here, I suspect Jacquescousteau may well be right …..classic Moors murderers syndrome me thinks…….???
October 26th, 2007 at 1:34 am
IS MADELEINES MOTHER FINALLY GONNA CRACK?
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23418194-details/Is+Madeleine’s+mother+finally+beginning+to+crack/article.do
October 26th, 2007 at 1:33 am
1587
Stig-
W-“The higher than average incident rate of addiction in her profession proves that just because you have experience and knowledge of the drugs and the consequences, doesn’t mean you won’t misuse the drugs.”
S-“I wasn’t addressing misuse at all, I was addressing knowledge of their nature and effects - technical expertise and competence.”
I said the experience, knowledge of the drugs, and the consequences, would that not include knowledge of the drugs nature and effect (possibly consequences). Technical expertise, I already covered in that everyone is a fallible at some point, sometimes it is deadly, sometimes it is not- regardless, you learn a hard lesson from it.
“I think it more than a step up, more like a giant leap into LaLa land.”
Well what if the parents are already in a drug-induced LaLa land?
W- “I don’t think they sedated their children, the question you posed was why would anyone sedated their child with something stronger? People do, because they forget about the risks, and they know it will work.”
S-“My point about technical competence again - ‘forget about the risks’? You might as well postulate a commercial pilot forgetting how to land the plane at the end of a flight.”
I doubt it, people can misuse drugs for awhile before they experience what they would consider “true danger”. If a pilot forgets how to land a plane, you can bet that won’t go “unnoticed” or “glazed over” in the memory (plus, it involves more people who will hold them accountable). I’d consider this more along the lines of drunk driving, if you were going to criticize it. People say “oh, well I just did it once and what else was I supposed to do?”, they get home safely. Another night sometime in the future, they drive home drunk again and think “well nothing happened and you know, I had to do it, it is fine!”. Third time they do it, they kill someone in a car crash, and that is when the wakeup call will be cemented in their head.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:32 am
The Daily Express reports that in a phone poll of viewers who watched the McCanns interview, 70% didn’t believe them.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:32 am
I like her shoes
October 26th, 2007 at 1:32 am
do the shake and vac and put the freshness back
do the shake and vac and put the freshness back
if your carpet looks fresh and your room does too
every time you vacum remember what to do oooh
October 26th, 2007 at 1:30 am
How about a commercial pilot getting loaded and then landing poorly at Manchester airport?
People frequently make poor judgement calls especially when their judgement has been impaired by drugs or alchol. This even effects so called “professionals” and doctors are no different than any other segment of the population. In fact, there is a greater chance your doctor or surgeon is an alcoholic or drug addict than your kids’ teacher or the neighborhood electrician.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:25 am
1551 Wanderer Says:
“Stig, my point was that you were pointing to her background and experience with such drugs as an automatic voucher for her responsibility with such drugs.”
NO. not ‘responsibility’, technical expertise and competence.
“The higher than average incident rate of addiction in her profession proves that just because you have experience and knowledge of the drugs and the consequences, doesn’t mean you won’t misuse the drugs.”
I wasn’t addressing misuse at all, I was addressing knowledge of their nature and effects - technical expertise and competence.
“Misusing the drugs could easily fall into using the drugs yourself, for no reason at all, or using them on someone else (including your child, although that is a step up).”
I think it more than a step up, more like a giant leap into LaLa land. Just my opinion of course. There are nutters who willingly abuse their children but we have no evidence or even hearsay about there being anything untoward in the McCanns past, so speculating about intentional abuse involving sedatives is padded cell territory.
“I don’t think they sedated their children, the question you posed was why would anyone sedated their child with something stronger? People do, because they forget about the risks, and they know it will work.”
My point about technical competence again - ‘forget about the risks’? You might as well postulate a commercial pilot forgetting how to land the plane at the end of a flight.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Judith
You and Kitty seem just a little catty don’t you think?
October 26th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Murder 1571
I guess I’m not getting what you’re saying.