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
Posted: 26th, October 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,749) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 26th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
838 coolandcalm
I’m aware of the layout of the apartment and the rest of the complex. I didn’t understand what you were telling me.
As to what is the front and back I have no idea. I’ve been calling the carpark the “back” and the poolside the “front”.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
834 Portia
Our oldest son is an aeronautical engineer and specializes in avionics. The kid is brilliant, and I might add, home schooled.
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Hi Portia, I has German friend she does home schooling too, but its very difficult in Germany. You how we are
She is also doing a kind of research. She would be glad to speak with you about your experencies.
If you like you can mail me and I bring you in contact with me friend.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Stevo
Venlo
October 26th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
839 MichaelRob
Roermond. My dad was in the military just over the border in Germany.
But I have watched many bands in Holland…toured with one in 2003 and did Maastricht, Tilburg, Rijssen etc. Love the place. Where are you at?
October 26th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
762. Uta Hagen,
I wish I could believe you but I am sorry to say I cannot at this time. It is my opinion that the unprecedented support of the McCanns by high level officials and by the British media is simply another ruse - it merely appears that it is the McCanns and Tapas 7 who are being protected and given massive resources. The real fact is that there is a missing person or persons from the McCann group at the MW resort on May 3rd. It is actually this person or group of people who are being protected. High ranking government officials know the id of this person or people. That’s why Clarence Mitchell was summoned to PdL on her majesty’s behest and then hired…..errr I mean placed in the PR position for the McCanns.
The tycoons who have offered money and invaluable resources are connected as big business always is these days to government. They are merely returning someone’s numerous favours by being charitable and generous towards the McCanns.
It is not the McCanns who are being protected by the British government - this is where most everyone has gotten the story very wrong.
The above thoughts are my opinions only and were made at 14:03 on October 26, 2007 without the aid of any drugs or alcohol or a gun to my head. For lunch I had tofu ginger soup and a cup of coffee. Even though it is the middle of the day it is dark and raining and everyone around me has clearly definable facial features. Some of these people have slicked back hair due to the rain. None are carrying blanketed bundles or comatose children.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
841 coolandcalm
Don’t get you…”the other way”?
October 26th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
834 Portia
Because kids love America! Simple answer really. American campuses have all kinds of facilities that are usually lacking in Europe.
Did you mean to ask what I thought of avionics or did you mean aviation? I love aviation anywhere but here I can fly for about a third of the cost in Europe. Plus no landing fees! Put it into perspective…here there are 17,000 places to land a plane and in the UK there’s about 250!
On education, a friend of mine was telling me how his son got a good report because the teachers didn’t want to say anything bad in case it injured his self-esteem. The friend was furious with the school because he wanted honesty, not bullcrap.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Stevo… clicked too soon….
No the others would have gone the other way out of the Tapas Bar…..
October 26th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Portia the UK is not Socialist. Not since Thatcher destroyed it in the 80’s
October 26th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Stevo,
You said you liven in Holland, which town?
October 26th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Stevo…
The patio doors are the nearest to the Tapas Bar. They face it. If I could draw a map I would! The back of the apartment faces the pool.
The main front door is onto the carpark area along with the childrens bedroom window.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
The reason why the McCann’s are untouchable is because they hail from a socialist empire and the McCann’s have to be innocent, they hold it together.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
828 Stevo
Good comment.
The other thing I would do is stand side by side by the PJ without fear knowing that i am innocent, then the public would start to take me seriously.
I would have no need to hide behind spokesmen or lawyers.
I would win the public over my admitting I made the biggest mistake of my life in leaving her alone and dont deserve any help but beg for it.
I wouldnt ask for money for a fund ( remember mcguinness and her bill?)
I would ask for help.
No lawyers no spin no conflicting stories and no guilt.
Just shame for my mistake.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
825 Wendy Nilsson
It’s not about legal validity. It’s about what the public thinks. That’s why they call it PR. The P in PR stands for public relations. Sorry - I’m sure you know this already.
The McCanns must be the only people ever to employ a PR team after a child goes missing and they fail to grasp the concept of what PR means. A lie detector test would be perfectly admissible to 99% of the public if not the PJ. If you’re trying to get people on your side then why not do what the public would accept as proof rather than falling back on silly issues of what is legal or not?
It’s the same with the hair tests on the twins. Publish the results. Let us all see they were never sedated.
To the McCanns: STOP telling us things all the time…SHOW US instead.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
809. Stevo. How do you like those American avionics? Our oldest son is an aeronautical engineer and specializes in avionics. The kid is brilliant, and I might add, home schooled. Both of my parents were pilots, my father was an orthopedic surgeon (now deceased).
You are right about the public schools - they dumb things down because they don’t want the uneducated to feel marginalized. The private schools in America are better.
I have been surprised at the number of European students who our children have met who attend American universities and report that the European universities are a waste of time.
Why is that?
October 26th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
829
It’s also like the police in Portugal saying there is evidence against the couple but never managing to convict them. And what about those DNA results. What happened to them?
October 26th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I could write a fiction where one person glimpses the guilty party but can’t remember his face, maybe she’s even seen him before, but just can’t put her finger on it. But she smells him, and the smell haunts her. Then one day she smells him again, a dark lurking figure in the elevator, on the bus, everywhere she goes - there’s the smell.
The pressure is intense, she needs to remember the killer for the sake of the dead child, but she can’t. She fingers all the wrong people and loses all creditability, and in the end the killer goes after her but no one will believe her story.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
827 coolandcalm
I know it looks like a rabbit warren but the people had been there a week and would have developed habits. For instance, walking back from the Tapas Bar through Ocean Club, it’s obvious the McCanns apartment is the first one you encounter. That’s a no-brainer that they’d most likely go in the patio doors because it would mean walking uphill and further to go in the car park facing door.
But what about the others? Where were their apartments in that block? Wherever they were, the occupants would have the same consistent walk to it. Anyway, didn’t those blokes make a 3D model animation of the movements about 2 weeks ago? I remember they said someone was coming or going about the place nearly every 5 minutes.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
824
I am not sure what made me change my mind. The interview is not straightforward, but it is clear that Kate is in despair. I think it is just adding up all the details that finally has turned me around. I don’t think this couple are odd, but nor mad. Not mad enough to put hide their dead child in a freezer for 25 days while the world is watching them. In the end, the abductor makes more sense.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
817 MichaelRob
You’re right of course. Its like Kate saying in the interview that she’ll take anything thats thrown at her. Its like them saying they’ll take a lie detector test.
But nothing ever happens and like you say if you were sincere you’d take the test and invite the media to interrogate you if you wanted to change people’s perception.
There’s only one conclusion to draw…………
October 26th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
817 MichealRob
I’d do all that and I’d publish those DNA hair tests on the twins. I’d do all kinds of things and would channel the attention on proving my innocence with real physical tests and not just rhetoric.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Thea 798
I said logistical nightmare because of the rabbit warren of alleyways. For the PJ to check where everyone was at the crucial times would be difficult…
if you look at the map from MW you can see what I mean. Its not like a US gated community, there is free access……
October 26th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
817 You wrote:
“This is quite a simple case to analyze”.
Then you sure do know more than the rest of us!
“Just put yourself in the McCanns position and ask yourself what would you do”.
The trouble with that is that I am not in their position and therefore have no idea what I would do. Also, different people react differently. I don’t think there are two people on this site who would react the same in this situation.
“I would go straight to an independent, professional who could make available a lie detector test providing any questions that would confirm my innocence”.
Lie detector tests are not considered valid evidence in Europe.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
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Wendy Nilsson Says:
“Many writers say reality surpasses fiction.”
Yes. That’s right. But reality doesn’t surpass commom sense. If you are writing something fit to people with a very low culture or IQ then you could present something like that. But not when you have had the ability of planning something so audacious, so perfect. That is like to think that someone would project an airplane, build it from the first screw and then put very little fuel in it before taking off.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
818. Mostly I think they didn’t do it. But yesterday after that terrible interview, I thought- well, maybe.
But the sketch, the sketch is important. I don’t think her friend would lie for her. Sorry, I just don’t.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
810 we’re so socialist in Britain we sold the steelworks, the railways, the mines, the vehicle manufacturers, the telephone networks, the parcel delivery service, the water and gasworks to private people, we have an unelected prime minister who claims to have come from this amazing “socialist” party known as Labour. It’s an embarassment
October 26th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
801, 760 — Stevo and Canada — “I really believe the British interrogation will crack them. No interuptions to translate.” I agree. I think Kate McCann is on the edge and won’t hold up under much mroe pressure.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
804 thea
Having lived in the UK most of my life and adapting to the US after emigrating here, I can vouch for the fact that the education in Europe is far more difficult. In the USA I have witnessed kids getting good grades where they don’t deserve it. So much of the school grading system overlaps into daily life so the grades have to be good or you go without. For instance, to get a driving license at 15 here, you have to have a minimum grade point average. Also…the vision requirement to drive is more lenient than in the UK.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
815. Like pulling up a van and emptying the house of all its belongings. Neighbors think, Gee I didn’t know they were moving. Wonder why they didn’t tell me?
As to the man carrying the child, oh, she looks sick, can I call you a cab?
October 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Wendy Nilsson Says:
“Many writers say reality surpasses fiction.”
Yes. That’s right. But reality doesn’t surpass commom sense. If you are writing something fit to people with a very low culture or IQ then you could present something like that. But not when you have had the ability of planning something so audacious, so perfect. That is like to think that someone would project an airplane, build it from the first screw and then don’t put very little fuel in it before taking off.