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
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October 27th, 2007 at 10:05 am
1714 Peter
Thabks for that Peter, I will have a browse and if all else fails, will ask Stevo
October 27th, 2007 at 9:19 am
1707 Ann Says:
Edit…. “Dispatches” programme on Thursday on ITV 2 Edit….
I didn’t see the programme myself and wish I could find it on the ‘net
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Have a look back through the posts on Thursday/Friday (I think, I could be wrong…) Look for posts by Stevo, he found the program online somewhere. Either that, or post a message to Stevo and ask him? If you get really stuck, I have a copy on DVD.
The RTE program is much better that the Channel 4 Dispatches program by the way. The RTE program is online at http://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/
October 27th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Will,
It is strange since you asked the question another memory came up which ties directly into this case.
When I was 9 (42 years ago) I went to visit my father.
I had not seen him for several years, indeed I did not know him.
so I land on a strange continent.
Spent a few days with him and his wife (who never left the darkened bedroom with the TV blaring) and their two young babes and a host of nanny’s.
I enjoyed being there. But then he got on a bugbear about taking me up to Northern California. At that age it did not make sense to me, I mean surely there was more to do in S. Cal. Anyway up north we went. It was pre cell phones and he kept stopping by the side of the road at phone booths. I became terrified. He was calling so regularly that I thought he was arranging to have me kidnapped.
I am sorry but I can’t stop myself now. The parallels are huge and I have just recalled this now.
Anyway after hours we drive through a town and up into a mountain ranch cabin. it is very remote. One cannot see any other accomodation.
I enjoy there is a forest outside and it is fresh and cozy.
He tells me to dress for supper. I want to stay here we have travelled all day, but anyone I dress and we drive all the way back into the town.
Get to the country club. Very opulent, hardly the place for a 9 year old child.
He orders me a drink and when it arrives he tells me to go and look at something in the foyer.
I come back and finish my drink.
Suddenly I am so heavy, like just before an anesthetic. I cannot keep conscious.
I apologize and tell him I have to sleep. I can barely walk to the car.
So we go back to the ranch on the mountain.
He kisses me goodnight, and leaves me completely alone, high up in a mountain in strange place and goes back down to the club to meet his lover for dinner.
I have always wondered why I have been so incredibly drawn to this case and now, because of your question, I come to understand.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:37 am
All the way along I have said that Madeleine is in water and will be found when the rains come and that there is a dilapidated farmhouse in rough terrain involved, and other posters go… “..get real ” and “…yeah , dream on” and stuff like that like they obviously know better ?? obviously they all know exactly where she is and what happened, so I was gratified to hear that on the “Dispatches” programme on Thursday on ITV 2 there were various teams of detectives and forensic experts and so on, discussing the ins and outs of the McCann case, who said - amongst other things - that there were about 20 to 30 wells in the hills around Praia da Luz, and showed one at….a dilapidated farmhouse ….none which they said had ever been checked out by the Portuguese Police……as I also keep saying….watch this space !!
I didn’t see the programme myself and wish I could find it on the ‘net
October 27th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Will, greetings.
Played tennis really badly yesterday a whole group of us.
We all started jokingly being verbally abusive to the others.
Being the only female I really lacked in insults, I battled to be vicious in a funny way.
So there I stood on this cracked tennis court, surrounded by thorn trees, and ringed by mountains and lo and behold Will was with me.
I need your help with some really good insults. Will have a reply tomorrow,. Can you give me a few. It is a releaser.
You asked earlier if any of us ever had a huge lie and how long has it lasted.
My lie started 25 years ago. It would have an absolute enormous aspect on several people’s lives.
When I lied it was because it was the situation that would make more sense, for many people. One person would be devastated but in my future vision I saw it as the best possible move.
I still have no regrets about it, because it has turned out well.
Although through the years there have been times that I have held my breath for what seems like an eternity.
It is not a legal issue rather a moral one.
But what constitutes a secret. Two other people know this secret. Does that make it a secret?
October 27th, 2007 at 8:28 am
“smells like bullshit to me” We’ve all heard that phrase!
October 27th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Personally, I find the perceived attempt to re-inforce the Tanner “sighting” with the apparent Irish tourist “sighting” a bit odd, unless I’m missing something of course.
Tanner apparently “saw” this character in an alley (disputed by 2 witnesses including GM, but no matter) somewhere around 21:15 to 21:30.
The Irish tourist ostensibly saw a figure carrying a child at 22:00 or later.
We are told the two locations are 400m apart.
So, either the two people “seen” are not the same person, or there is something really odd about taking 30-45mins to walk 400m.
Perhaps the “fiend” walked with a serious limp, and it really did take him 30-45 minutes to walk 400m.
Or, maybe he was going from door to door betwee the two points, knocking and asking if someone could please keep this child (perhaps ina freezer) while the search was on?
Or maybe he decided he would take the child on a protracted and meandering walk around the town, kind of a “goodbye tour”?
October 27th, 2007 at 7:49 am
1700
Edna, that’s weird. It doesn’t appear to be powered milk, so it must be UHT milk?
(morning btw)
Andrew, I hope you have a good day with your son (and the rest of your family) and hopefully take care of yourself a bit as well (possibly by taking a nap?). Although, he may think a zombie father was cool for a little bit (it is around Halloween, after all).
October 27th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Cor, I’m tired again. Haven’t had much sleep this week because my Son’s been in hospital. I think it’s catching up with me now. Went to sleep early last night, got up early this morning. Have to go in to town shortly, go to the bank.. all that boring stuff… I notice Anorak is a bit slow with the news today.. Wakey Wakey Anorak
October 27th, 2007 at 7:34 am
1698
Morning Carmen. I hadn’t seen that comment by Andrew, interesting.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:33 am
I wasn’t here when the milk posts were happening. I have to write about milk in Portugal. It comes on the shelves in cardboard cartons and is very cheap — from .99 Euros to 1.20. I was really shocked when I first saw it and couldn’t figure out how it could be safe. Ive personally never had it as I’m lactose intolerant and drink rice or oat milk, also sold in cartons on a shelf.
See one brand here:
http://www.mimosa.com.pt/site/cgi-bin/mm_produtos_01.asp?categoria=3
October 27th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Absolutely beyond belief some of those quotes. Although some good has already come out of all this. People have realised that people can, will, and do lie… time after time after time and are sometimes quite convincing with it. And of course the friendships we’ve all made in here. Madeleine’s life won’t be in vain
October 27th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Thanks for the link, Andrew. I see they’ve added to it with the “They would say that wouldn’t they?”
I am taken aback by some things that come out of their mouths. Perhaps they do speak like that…but the whole “we have to clear our names to find Madeleine, so people will start looking for her again”, followed by talks of Gerry “working hard to achieve EU missing child alert services” (not the exact quotes for anyone reading, but you can go find them if you’d like). Do you think Mitchell is just sitting in the back with a little stress ball?
It really does sound like someone is messing up in politics at times…
October 27th, 2007 at 6:35 am
1690
Andrew, the whole Kate being an advocate for missing children. I don’t see that going down well, even if she isn’t guilty. I believe with Chamberlain it was a case of her turning her back and something happened (plus, the dingo story does sound less believable than an abductor), rather than not being there night after night. And the PR thing hasn’t seemed to help them (where she probably would try to assist, as I doubt she’d actually do the searching, that isn’t meant to be a slam on her, but I think she’d be more behind the scenes).
October 27th, 2007 at 6:33 am
This will keep you amused Wanderer… well amused/bemused/angry/sad/depressed
http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2007/10/mccanns-what-is-your-favourite-or-most.html
October 27th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Same for Mrs McConn. she’s displaying psychological weirdness. No way would she be allowed near a patient
October 27th, 2007 at 6:30 am
I pressed the send button… “tab” abuse… I hadn’t finished my anti-McConn sermon regarding money! I doubt any hospitals health and safety policy would let them back. The risk assessment would say “no” Gerry’s emplyoyer could recruit somebody easily with much less risk. I doubt the General Medical Council would allow him to practice until he’s officially “cleared”
October 27th, 2007 at 6:30 am
1689
Not that others haven’t suggested and suggested that they share more stories of Madeleine. It is just the McCanns have a counterclaim for most things.
People say they are making it about themselves. They say they have to clear their names in order for the PJ to look for Madeleine. And all of that…
October 27th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Well, I can’t see any solicitor of theirs wanting to go the whole distance really. Imagine dirtying your name with those awful villains. They have no morals. I would far prefer to prosecute them than defend them… Then again, money talks, they are the same type of people. Money money money.
Can you see them going back to work? I can’t. Not that they need to with all that MADELEINE FUND
October 27th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Andrew, they claim that as well. And also claim the lawyers are there so they won’t have to deal with such things.
A good way to deflect all of those reports, instead of making statement after statement that selectively answers something and then claim the secrecy laws the next, it would be better if they did start telling stories about Madeleine, etc. I think that would be a good way to deflect all of this from themselves at the moment and the public would still be interested. And it doesn’t have to be just the parents, as people could pick apart their stories, but from a range of people who may have been close to the family.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Brandon flowers makes a greeat point there. The McConn’s seem far more interested in themselves than Madeleine. Personally people could say anything they liked about me, all I would want is my Child back.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:03 am
1682
That’s the thing about experts though, isn’t it? You can always find some that will disagree and if they are paid for it, well…
1683/1685
Brandon Flowers, I really do think they are serious about suing. If they ever will and if the cases won’t be dismissed, that is a different story. It depends when they do it, if any official decision (guilty/not) has come in, and if they have the finances to take on a bigger paper at the time. I wonder if the reason they had the twins hair tested was for the case they had against that other paper (they didn’t end up suing because the paper backed off I believe?), but that dispute was over the sedating the children issue.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:59 am
Night night Brandon sweet dreams xx
October 27th, 2007 at 5:59 am
1683 they threaten and that’s all. I was always taught as a kid. Dont threaten, just do.
For example: if a villain was going to shoot you, he wouldn’t tell you. He would just do it. The same goes for TeamMcCrap. That’s all they are, full of crap. Imagine if they sued and it came out that they were actually wrong all along. In my opinion they will not sue
October 27th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Finally loaded all photos and videos
night/morning all
Andrew hugs for boy ((((((((HUG)))))))))XX
October 27th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Our lawyers are watching the media coverage very carefully in both Portugal and Britain and action will be taken against anything we feel has gone too far.”
They havent been charged yet
Shame they arent so focused or bothered in finding their daughter more
October 27th, 2007 at 5:55 am
What’s funny about the psychological analyses of the interview from the Experts is that they differ so much… one says Gerry cared only about controlling his wife. The other says no, Kate is the one in control.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:52 am
I must say though that they ALL didn’t get away with it, just the police chief really (what a surprise) and a few of the others. Most of the accused went to jail, one died in there. Funny how the police chief profited from it in the end. Well, I worked hard for my house here, he just fiddled with kids “allegedly” and bought his with the proceeds of the libel payout. Well, he was chief constable too… By the way, he can’t sue me because I actually saw him in one of the places he denied being with my own eyes.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Wanderer, aha! Yes. THat makes sense. I’m big on the Slow Food movement and I think we’d generally approve of having the milk delivered, from a local dairy, by a local guy, in bottles that can be recycled. (Local over organic, although organic is good).
October 27th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Madeleine: McCanns consider suing after Kate accused of ‘putting on a circus act’ with her tears on TV
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Last updated at 00:20am on 27th October 2007
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Analysed: Kate McCann wipes away a tear on Spanish TV
Kate McCann was left reeling yesterday after her tearful breakdown was savaged as “a circus act” by critics who claimed it showed she had “psychiatric problems”.
Friends of Mrs McCann and her husband Gerry said they were stunned by the “vile criticism” about their behaviour during a television interview.
They are considering taking legal action against a Spanish psychiatrist who made the worst of the slurs.
Jose Cabrera analysed the couple’s television interview on Wednesday for the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, who described him as a forensic psychiatrist and facial expression specialist.
He said: “When people cry they move the muscles in their face and she (Kate) did not move one single muscle, just like poker players. That is very significant.”
“It brings us the certainty that she is hiding something.”
He described the interview, with Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, as “staged” and “nothing but big theatre”, and said he thought Mrs McCann “has had psychiatric problems for a long time” before saying: “Now they’ve got worse.”
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He added: “Any Englishman is cold but she has something else - her personality is not normal - and he (Mr McCann) causes an impression because all he worries about is her answers.”
Mrs McCann, 39, has faced criticism about her apparent “coolness” and her seeming control over her emotions in public.
Last night her mother, Susan Healy, 61, said: “I want people to start being kinder to Kate, she has enough to cope with.
“Yes, she is distressed at times and she can’t smile that often at the moment. But she is very strong and she is going to fight on to get Madeleine back.
“People are saying she’s at breaking point but she’s not going to have a nervous breakdown.”
Mrs Healy, of Allerton, Merseyside, added: “Kate was speaking for herself in that interview - there were no restraints on her at all. Yes, she was very distressed at times but she can’t be blamed for that.”
A friend of the McCanns said Kate had been schooled not to show emotion because psychologists warned Madeleine’s abductor could get kicks from watching her emotional response.
He said: “It is devastating for Kate and Gerry to be criticised in this way. Some of what has been said is beyond belief.
“The same people who criticised Kate when she managed to hold herself together are now attacking her because she couldn’t.
“The fact she cried during a TV interview proves nothing except the fact that Kate is running on high emotions, as you would expect any mother whose child has gone missing would be.
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“Kate and Gerry are philosophical about the media coverage but they cannot let this level of vile criticism go. They are absolutely shocked and stunned.
“When the time is right they will be taking action against anyone who they feel has overstepped the mark. It is good that Correio printed the name of the Spanish psychologist whose opinions they published. He is one more person on the list of people to sue.”
The couple have already threatened legal action against the Portuguese weekly newspaper Tal e Qual, which accused them of killing their daughter, and the daily tabloid 24 Horas, which claimed Mr McCann was not Madeleine’s biological father.
Mr Cabrera, 50, did not restrict his comments to Mrs McCann. The Madrid-based psychiatrist - who has never met the couple - said Mr McCann’s only concern during the interview was to “control” his wife.
He said: “All he worried about was controlling her. It’s extraordinary. Whenever she opened her mouth to talk he squeezed her hand - and all this because the key to this mystery is definitely with her.”
He added: “It is he who dominates the whole situation. He is aware of everything and knows he has to control her and her problematic personality so that she does not go too far in front of the cameras and speak too much.”
Mr McCann, also 39, did whisper a warning to his wife at the end of the interview, telling her not to speak until her microphone was taken off, but friends said that was because they had just been asked a question which their lawyers had told them not to answer.
The couple were said to be horrified by the response to the interview, which was given to appeal for help in finding Madeleine and to launch a 24-hour information hotline.
Mr Cabrera was not their only critic. Portuguese criminologist Moita Flores, a former detective with the Policia Judiciaria, said: “The interview was a circus act.
“The most curious thing is that before this interview was agreed to, everybody already knew she was going to cry, which is what happened, and she even managed to play the part quite well.”
He told Correio da Manha: “It was an act which nobody believes. After their theory of abduction they now insist on their innocence, and those who are innocent don’t need this.”
McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “A few days ago Kate was criticised for not showing enough emotion and then when she does cry she is criticised too.
“Everything Kate and Gerry said on that interview was totally genuine. They have nothing to hide.
“Our lawyers are watching the media coverage very carefully in both Portugal and Britain and action will be taken against anything we feel has gone too far.”
The 24-hour hotline was said to have attracted a huge number of calls in its first day of operation. It was set up on the advice of private investigators working for the McCanns, who will follow up potential sightings and leads.