Madeleine McCann: The Tapas 7 Speak, Blonde Children In Morocco And Hashish
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN front page: “McCANN FRIENDS HIT BACK – FURY OF TAPAS 7. Pals: there is NO pact”
Say the McCanns dining party: “The police told us not to discuss our statement. We’ve always tried to honour this. We wish to state there is categorically no so-called pact of silence – or indeed anything secretive between us. Just the desire to assist the search. It is frustrating that the facts we have done as we were asked is till being looked upon as suspicious”
“COPS IN WINDOW PROBE” – Paolo Rebelo is looking at the window of the McCanns’ holiday apartment. “is this how evil Maddie snatcher struck?”
Four pictures:
1. “Rebelo pushes window
2. Net curtains rustle in breeze as the window swings open
3. Detective leans in
4. Team confer about possible escape route”
“Fund paid mortgage” – Some of the £1million Madeleine McCann “fighting fun”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “NOW THEY BELIVE US – Police finally accept Madeleine was snatched”
Portuguese police are looking at possibilities
Says a friend of the McCanns: “At last, after all these months, Kate and Gerry’s story is being believed. They are very encouraged by the re-enactment of Madeleine’s abduction and the police now accept their version of events”
A policeman climbs through a window. He passes out a “large bundle”
“MADDY ‘SPOTTED 10 TIMES IN MOROCCO’” – Says private detective Francisco Marco: “Several unconnected people have told us of the same girl with the same woman. She has shorter hair than Madeleine. But everything else matches”. Like her name?
“MORTGAGE FUND FURY” – Says Clarence Mitchell: “The fund exists to help them when living costs became difficult”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – McCANNS USE FUNDS TO PAY MORTGAGE” – Two mortgage payments on their “£600,000” home
The Express leads with picture of Gerry McCann playing golf. Inset is a picture of Gerry McCann on a bicycle
“We’ve found a kidnapped blonde girl, but it’s not her” – A blonde girl in Morocco. She can speak English. She must have been kidnapped. Right?
Says Francisco Marco: “Blonde children are a valuable commodity in North Africa. They can be sold for huge sums and give prestige to families who buy them”
DAILY MAIL front page: “MADDIE FUND PAYS McCANNS’ MORTGAGE” – Mortgage repayments on their “£500,000” home. (How long before the Express and Mail start a heated debate on the value of the McCanns home and how that value has been affected by the story?)
Page 4: “Is she in the mountains? Investigators scour Morocco in the search for Madeleine”
Says the Mail: “In an extraordinary coincidence the detectives are reported to have already found an English-speaking blonde girl of about Madeleine’s age living with a local family”
How many more blonde children are in Morocco? And can we find them all?
DAILY STAR front page: “Maddie ‘alive in drug den’”
Page 7: “MADDIE’S IN MOROCCAN MOUNTAINS – Ten sightings with rich Arab”
Says Francisco Marco PI of the woman with the blonde child found in the Rif mountains: “My feeling is this woman is some sort of carer who is working on behalf of other people”
Says an “insider”: “It’s a very secretive country and the Rif mountains enjoy official protection because of the importance of the hashish production”
“McCanns in the clear – Portuguese police now believe Madeline was kidnapped”
THE TIMES page 13: “Police return to holiday apartment in attempt to solve Madeleine mystery”
Paulo Rebelo is inside the apartment. He walks to the beach. He passes Sergey Malinka’s home. He is on a road leading to the N125 main road
In Morocco, a 60-year-old woman is seen with a blonde child
“Funds for search used to pay mortgage on McCanns’ house” – The McCanns’ home is worth “460,000”
THE TELEGRAPH front page: “Police re-enact Madeleine night”
Page 17: Paulo Rebelo is at the Ocean Club. Says a source “close to the couple”: “Blonde children are a very valuable commodity in places like north Africa”
Paulo Rebelo is looking
THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news
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October 30th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
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Garth Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 10:22 am
It would appear that we are getting somewhere near to what actually happened that night.
By all accounts Gerry made his check on Madeleine shortly after 9.00pm. It now seems likely that the abductor was in the apartment. Gerry (without trying to disturb the tots) has just poked his head into the room. Everything is as expected. Tots asleep. He then exits through the patio doors, down the steps and proceeds down the side road towards the Mwv entrance only to notice Wilkins in the rear alleyway where he strikes up a conversation.
In the folowing 15 - 20 mins or so Tanner has exited her apartment and walks along the alley way past Gerry/Wilkins and onto the side road. The abductor at this time has opened the shutter doors to the bedroom and managed to get Madeleine out. He then proceeds across the road which at this time Tanner (whom I asssume has looked to her left on the exit of the alleyway) notices someone crossing the road, with, what she now believes is the abductor. Which road was this person crossing has not been made clear. It was either the side road or the front. The side road seems to be the obvious one which infact would be going in the direction of Murats home. But that might be pure coincidence. Who knows?
Yeap me ol muckers ………thats my angle!
October 30th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
John 984 wrote
As far as it has been reported in the press between 4-5 May- source was the manager who stated that McCann had said that the shutters were “jemmied” by the abductor. Also verbatim reports from Jill Renwick (friend) and Trish Cameron (sister of GM) state that the McCanns had told them of a break-in through the window.
I think that was the initial suspicion. Not confirmed. But it now seems that the shutters were opened from the inside.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
808. fencesitter,
Telling the truth can incriminate oneself if you are exposing the criminal actions of others and thus become an accessory to the fact.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
895 Thea
I came into the case about 2 weeks after May 3 because here in the US they didn’t report it for quite some time. As soon as I saw the McCanns on telly and read reports of Kate crying and sobbing but could see with my own eyes that she wasn’t, I thought the pair of them were hiding something. Huntley sprang to mind. They talk the talk but I’d like to see them walk the walk….right back to PJ Headquarters.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
798. That is my understanding of it. It is their “Miranda”.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
887 just_me
Thought you were. Let me know if they decide to show it over there. I read yesterday that someone in here saw it and said it was nothing like the Madeleine case.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
834 jcb
Don’t know why I’m bothering, seeing as you say you won’t believe me. But I never left my child alone, ever, when he was small.
Why would I? I need to drive everywhere; there are no shops close by. If I went in the back to garden, I made sure the front door was locked.
It simply wasn’t hard. My mate was baby-besotted and liked carrying our son around in a snugli when we went out.
One time I was outside with the baby, working on the deck, stripping paint. I turned to get a new rag, and the child took the opportunity to put his hands on the wood with the paint stripper on it. I feel guilty to this day, but I picked him up and rushed inside and ran water over his hands for a long time. He was fine. But that one careless minute could’ve harmed him and it was my fault.
I’m not being holier-than-thou. I just can’t comprehend leaving children alone, little ones who might wake up with nightmares, crying for mummy or daddy. And to leave a door unlocked, a door onto the street, in a place which had been burgled only recently —
Every time I want to believe the McCanns are normal people, I remember that the loss of their child, if it was an abduction, was their own fault.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
True John but I also so reports where Gerry McCann was quoted as saying the shutters were jemmied. Also, the Mark Warner reps (I read quotes from 2 different MW employees) that there was absoluttely no sign of forced entry. Whether this is true I don’t know. I’m sure this has been a publicity nightmare for Mark Warner and that they too may have their own special spin.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Stevo,
I’ve felt since midsummer when I began to doubt the McCanns’ story and that of their friends is that the confusion is created with intent to further obfuscate and mislead.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
890 SilentObserver
As far as it has been reported in the press between 4-5 May- source was the manager who stated that McCann had said that the shutters were “jemmied” by the abductor. Also verbatim reports from Jill Renwick (friend) and Trish Cameron (sister of GM) state that the McCanns had told them of a break-in through the window.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
881 JCB
Nope over the course of today she have made dozens and dozens of statements that are not facts and not even have you quoted the hype from McCann team correctly.You have also made many many incorrect assumptions about baby sitting services and kids being forbidden in Tappas none of which are factually true.So I am afraid you know very very little
Therefore do not get shirty, and tell others you know more or that they know zero because you are on very thin ice with your “facts”
October 30th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
John,
You’ve brought up interesting points about the various claims as to how checks were made. I always felt Oldfield’s story that he never entered the apartment but only placed ear to door odd. Also, that the stories about how they checked on their children seem to be one sided. What I mean by this is that everyone claims to have been checking on their own children AND the McCann children. Yet the McCanns checked solely on their own?
I read that they all left their doors unlocked to make checking on the kids easier. However, in the very early days, I read that entrance to and from the villas were made through the windows.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
877 Amused Bystander
Charged and convicted on virtually no evidence. Cases like this give us no right to be scathing of other country’s judicial systems.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
john Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
m.e. 873
Good point.
The unlocked door is a key piece of evidence from the point of view of known statements and how the initial story was relayed to friends and relatives in the UK. Initially it was a break -in through the window - door locked. When it was pointed out that there was no sign of forced entry the story changed to an unlocked patio.
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When was it ever stated that it was a forced entry?
October 30th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Stevo
I think that Wilkins appearing out of the blue put the spanner in the works.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
660 Bob
“I asked what they ate for dinner a long time ago and never got an answer.”
I think it was red herrings!
October 30th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
875 - stevo - Im in UK, I looked up the trailer online and have no idea as yet if it is being shown in UK, but will certainly be looking out for it
October 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
676. Ferdinand, Seriously, the McCanns are awkward, but I wouldn’t go so far that they are walking away scot-free, regarding they might have lost their daughter.
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You assume they loved and cherished Madeleine. Something I find more difficult to believe as I watch them not looking for her and not talking to her or speaking lovling about her, nor being capable of writing like normal loving parents on Gerry’s blog or the fund website about her.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
I wonder if the other Tapas couples admitted to leaving their doors unlocked?
October 30th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
880 john
Something I will say in the McCann’s favour is this; if they are guilty of covering up the disappearance (however it happened), how come they would be so inept in the timeline and with simple issues where they’d easily be found out?
Or am I being naive and it’s just as simple as “there is no perfect crime”?
October 30th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
671 Stevo
You were asking about the Tapas 9 and Quiz Night. I heard that Gerry and Kate came last in it, because they refused to answer any of the 40 questions!
October 30th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
834 jcb
“If you have children, you cannot say that you have not left them unattended at some stage and regretted it when you thought what the consequences may have been. If you do, I’m afraid I don’t believe you.”
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Don’t believe me then. This wasn’t rocket science or heart surgery. This was as simple as falling off a log. You make a decision a) take kids with you to Tapas Bar or b) stay in.
Why do you apologise for the McCann’s behaviour and make out like other parents are just as bad?
October 30th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
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With all due respect you don’t sound like you know very much about this case. Not even the basics.
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With all due respect, I know a darn sight more than a lot of you do apparently!!!
October 30th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
m.e. 873
Good point.
The unlocked door is a key piece of evidence from the point of view of known statements and how the initial story was relayed to friends and relatives in the UK. Initially it was a break -in through the window - door locked. When it was pointed out that there was no sign of forced entry the story changed to an unlocked patio.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
874. Thank you jcb I rest my case. No firther comments to you are necessary. The court bailiff is going to handcuff you and you will be transferred to the asylum for your chronic paranoia and delusions of grandeur.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
THE SUN front page: “McCANN FRIENDS HIT BACK – FURY OF TAPAS 7. Pals: there is NO pact” Say the McCanns dining party: etc…
If there’s no pact then how come they’ve all spoken out simaltaneously and collectively?
October 30th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Stig, I didn’t know about the Veronica Guerin case. I have just read up a bit about it and it is certainly creepy. I agree that Jill Dando’s murder was probably also a contract-killing. It has always seemed to me to be the most credible explanation and I was quite surprised when the police charged Barry George with her murder.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
694. Bob says, I happen to be a devout Presbyterian.
Bob don’t tbe shy. Tell her how you remarkably look like the young dashing actor Ronald Reagan.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
842 just_me
Are they going to show it in the UK now then? Actually…I can’t remember asking where you are before!
October 30th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
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Thea Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
jcb,
The McCanns started the name calling with their descriptions of PJ being morons.
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I have never heard it reported that they said that - but if the cap fits!!!