Madeleine McCann: Jane Tanner’s eFit, A Spanish Angel And Wearing Pink Pyjamas
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – 70% DON’T BELIEVE McCANNS”
The McCanns are on the TV in Spain. The show is followed by a phone vote. The people vote, at least some of them do; how many, we are not told. One, two, three..? Gerry is a “cardiologist”
Pages 4 and 5: “Police: Parents are hampering probe.” Angel Galan, head of the Spanish National Police’s kidnap, extortion and murder squad says: “There is no real information to indicate that Madeleine could be in Spain although Mr and Mrs McCann might think so. I think the question is why couldn’t she be in France or in the UK? Why does it have to be Spain, Portugal or Morocco?”
“Drawing that could catch her abductor” – an artist’s impression of a man carrying a child in the vicinity of the McCanns holiday complex on May 3. The man is of average height, of average build, with dark hair and with his facial features not filled in. Do you know him?
The artist was commissioned by the McCanns in light of a person their friend Jane Tanner said she saw on the night Madeleine disappeared
THE SUN front page: “PICTURE SENSATION. He took Maddie – MAN SEEN BY McCANNS’ PAL ON FATEFUL NIGHT”
A drawing of a man. The caption: “Hunted…a drawing of man with child in his arms as seen by Jane Tanner”
Page 13: “MADDIE IN ARMS OF SNATCHER. Pyjamas ‘prove it is her’” – The man is 5ft 6. He is 5ft 10 in the Express. He is “slim”. The girl is wearing pink and white pyjamas. The man is in a maroon shirt, camel coloured trousers and black or brown shoes
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We hope this will go a long was to proving the independent eyewitness account that she was taken by someone and the police’s focus on Kate and Gerry as potential suspects is wrong”. See drawing of a man seen by McCanns’ friend
And: “We believe it does show Madeleine in his arms. The description of the pyjamas is accurate enough to believe that is the case.” The McCanns’ friend sees the girl wearing pyjamas like those worn by Madeleine, whom she knows
“GERRY BACK AT WORK” – Gerry McCann is a “cardiologist” – lest we ever forget
DAILY MIRROR front page: “This is the man who took our Madeleine. PARENTS RELEASE SKETCH”
Page 11: “’He was slim with untidy black hair, plastered back. He was hurrying with a child in pink pyjajmaas’” (No songs please)
“’KIDNAPPER’ SEEN BY KATE’S PAL”
Paul Routledge: “All I want to do is put my arms around her and say: ‘there, there’ while she sobs out her grief on my shoulder”
DAILY MAIL front page: “Friends’ fears for ‘increasingly fragile’ Kate”
Pages 8 and 9: “Is Kate at breaking point?” – If she cracks up will the papers like her better? “Friends fear for Maddie’s mother after TV ordeal”
“SPANISH EYES” – The McCanns have launched a private “proxy investigation” in Spain. Under Portuguese law it is illegal to use private detectives while an investigation is ongoing
The mystery man who may have taken her” – Mrs Tanner sees the man. She is later “racked with guilt”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE PARENTS ‘HIDING TRUTH’ – 70 per cent of TV viewers thinks McCanns are lying”
Pages 4 and 5: “BODY LANGUAGE SPECIALIST GIVES HIS VERDICT ON KATE – ‘MUM WOULD BE VERY GOOD POKER PLAYER’.” Robert Phipps watches the interview with Kate McCann on Spanish TV. She is frowning, and expert Phipps says this is indicative of “pain” and stress. Who knew? We do not know if he then voted in the subsequent poll
THE TIMES front page: “Madeleine ‘abductor’” – The white man is of “medium build”
Page 9: “’This is the man who took Madeleine away’” – The Times says the new picture bears “no resemblance to Robert Murat”. The picture has been handed to the McCanns’ detectives who are operating across Europe and North Africa
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “Madeleine ‘abductor’” – This is the man Jane Tanner says she saw at 9:15pm on May 3
THE INDEPENDENT and THE GUARDIAN: No Madeleine news today
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October 26th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
1144 Will Says:
1142 Anna
On that we agree and concur.
In that case do you believe that thaey should be punished for what they did?
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Will, I know you asked Anna.. but hope you won’t mind me commenting…
I don’t think they should be punished re the McCann’s Baby Listening Service (McBaLS ™ ) because:
a) If Madeleine was truly abducted as they claim, then they as parents are being punished every day they are without Madeleine. I also suspect that their friends and family will leave no stone unturned to find every possible opportunity to remind them what a pair of fuckwits they are. (Yeah, I know, they don’t publicly at least appear to care…)
b) Madeleine wasn’t abducted and therefore McBaLS ™ is an elaborate fabrication in an attempt to force the investigation to focus on a very narrow time window when:
1 – They think they have proven they all have alibis
2 – No crimes against Madeleine were committed – i.e. In the 9.00 to 10.00 PM time frame on May 3rd.
I lean towards scenario b) – I have no evidence to support this. Just my opinion based largely on their appalling PR of late – (The DNA tests proving the twins weren’t sedated, the lie detector test that wasn’t, the ‘artists impression’, that Spanish TV interview, that new hotline, etc, etc…)
October 26th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
1162
Thea this is my difficulty. If the McCanns are guilty of directly causing Madeleine’s death they REALY take the cake. And the story would be just so extreme it seems unbeleivable. I could not really go as far as to imagine people being so mad. It would mean collecting from pensioners for a fund to find a child long since burried. It just doesn’t make sense.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Garth - you playing rugby tomorrow?
October 26th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
1144
Maddie is dead or alive.
if dead it is the result of her parents wilful neglect - yes they should be punished.
if she is alive, she can be
with a loving family - highly unlikely
with a paedo, being raped and horrifically abused - yes her parents should be punished as much as her abuser.
Whichever way this case goes, whether the McC’s are found innocent or guilty or no charges are brought against them, the majority of the population worldwide will condemn them for their wilful neglect of their 3 children and as a direct result of this neglect Maddie has disappeared.
If Maddie is found alive and well, G & K will remain guilty of this neglect, that is something this media circus has drummed home to everyone and something the majority of the population will not forget or forgive.
They are condemned to remain guilty of this neglect for eternity, this case will go down in history and their own mortality will not release them from this guilt in the eyes of the world.
Yes, they should be punished whatever the outcome IF there ever will be an outcome.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
1161
Don’t worry Mars bar. i’ll get Gerry to pop you over a few tabs!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Ha ve anyone saw the new 3 D video , made to show how it was impossible to have an abduction ???
October 26th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
1154 Anna
Agreed except I do think that they should be punished over Maddy as well.
Social Services will do nothing - because they are on the whole useless and I expect many behave just as the McCanns did. The British middle classes off load their kids to boarding schools at the earliest opportunity ffs.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Personally I wouldn’t place much value on what a profiler says when that profiler doesn’t even know what a serial killer is. Ms Brown would have us believe that a person who has never been convicted of killing anyone is a serial killer.
Here is an article she wrote about serial killer myths.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/profiling/s_k_myths/index.html
The first myth is about Bobby Joe Leonard, now serving a life sentence in Virginia. He was covicted of the kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder of one person. He was a suspect in another murder but never brought to trial.
As she herself says, a person is deemed to be a serial killer havinf comitted a minum of three murders, so how can a person who has never been convicted of killing anyone be a serial killer.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Anna 1154
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I think that certainly there should be some intervention with regards to the twins
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What? Like just in case they do it again?
October 26th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
1145
I,m just saying that being professional people (Doctors) and very close friends, when a child dies from having a nightie nighty they might panic and think maybe they might have their children removed not realising how this was going to snowball.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
“But if the McCanns are guilty, they take the cake.”
The “laced” cake.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Ha ha Garth , sorry, but i sooo mad with all these
October 26th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Wrong link previously - try this one?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=490015&in_page_id=1811
October 26th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
As to how parents deal with grief and loss, I remember my mom when her husband died, my stepfather, a man we all loved. My mom couldn’t accept he was dead. She didn’t want to go to the funeral, she didn’t want to see him in the coffin. I forced her to go and paid for the plane tickets back to where he was buried in a family plot with his first wife and where his children will be buried too.
Well, my mom was not on meds, but she just started talking about opening up a business and what she was going to do - it was all so strange. I didn’t think that my mom didn’t love her husband, what I thought was that she was having a tough time of it and thinking these silly thoughts about a business was helping her - she couldn’t take reality.
People just react differently to stress and loss. Some are up front and cry and seem in the depths of despair, and others make odd plans that don’t make sense.
Oh, you may say my mom didn’t really love her husband. But that’s not true. She fought for his life and took him back and forth to the hospital and saved all the photos of their many trips across the U.S. She loved him, but she hated his death.
I wish I hadn’t forced her to go with me. It was my mistake.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Sorry,I don’t know if you can see my posts ?? It’s my first time here
October 26th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
1148 Garth
I am sure there will be plenty of numb-nuts queing to do the CS for them
such is their celebrity status. Although the thought of Branson scrubbing public bogs is a positive image in my mind.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
1146 - Mars
Well thanks for that!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
1140 muddy
have you forget that some of their friend are doctors… we all know doctors stick together and there is often a cover up when someone dies in hospital by mistake….maybe their friends are covering up because they owe gerry a big favour for a mistake by one of the others a little earlier in their hospital career! You never know, it makes more sense than this ludicrous idea of an abduction….
October 26th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Will
I think that certainly there should be some intervention with regards to the twins. Nothing can be done for Madeleine to go back in time and prevent her from harm. I also think if the McCanns are guilty then they should just say so, for the sake of the twins. I don’t know how social services respond to people going out to drink and leaving their children alone, but it does seem neglectful. I also wonder how often people do this with no consequence. I think children of such parents would feel abandoned, especially if they wake up to no soothing parent. That in itself is neglectful.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
forgot to add link:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23402259-details/Child%20abuser%20and%20girlfriend%20quizzed%20over%20%C3%BD%C3%BD2.6m%20Madeleine%20extortion%20bid/article.do
October 26th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Stig, I read in late August that they were fined for fraud but released on other counts due to lack of evidence. I had hoped that this was only a police strategy in that it would give Chemello and Paz a false sense of security and that they would hang themselves whilst the police were watching them. However, I cannot find that article and have looked for sometime.
I did however locate this article which is very interesting about Chemello and Paz.
Anyway, you still did not answer my question. Or are you saying that they travel the globe and have paid look-outs positioned all over the world as well so that they only kidnap 1 child from each region?
October 26th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
“Foreign Press Shows No Mercy”
They should have nice sensible papers like ‘The Sun’ and ‘The Mirror’ and ‘The News of The World’ etc etc
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=49001
October 26th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
1147
In UK kids can be removed if the social worker doesn’t like your perfume. An over exageration but the burden of proof and system is, as we say complete bollox.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
The day before the Spanish interview ,an ex-cop, told on TV, tomorrow Kate will cry,and that happened
October 26th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Will - 114
I suppose if they get Madeliene back then we could accept 80 hours community service.
What do you reckon?
October 26th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
1133 Marc
Legally, a child cannot be removed from a home without proof that they are in danger. Many kids grow up with narcissitic parents. They live. Some grow up with psychopathic parents. They live. The point is, if they are being cared for, you cannot take them aware because you don’t like the parents or they have psychiatric issue.
You can only take then away if there is child neglect or abuse.
I can say, yes, there is child neglect. I think what they did in Portugal was just that. If this is against the law, they should be charged with child neglect. If social services in England views this as child neglect and legally remove the children and/or require parenting classes, I am all for it.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
OK ! I’m from Portugal , and all I have to say ,is that they are guilty,but nothing will happen to them
October 26th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
1143
Giving one’s child a little nightie night help is not in the same classification as “accomplice to murder/manslaughter etc.”
Oh, you gave sleeping meds to your baby, so now you must help me dispose of my dead child’s body, or else I’ll squeal.
No, what you would do, you would cut a deal with the cops for your testimony against your murdering blackmailing friends …….
October 26th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
1142 Anna
On that we agree and concur.
In that case do you believe that thaey should be punished for what they did?
October 26th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Muddy yes there is if you all drug your children.