Madeleine McCann: Mafia, A Bag Of Clothes And Missing Children
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
NEWS OF THE WORLD: “Maddie DNA clue in airport bag”
A bag of clothes containing “DNA linked to Madeleine McCann” has been found dumped by a road in Portugal.” It is a white carrier bag. It was in a layby two weeks ago near Faro airport.
“The bag contained a blue fleece jacket and a pair of adult jeans with traces of DNA that contained ‘moderate’ links to Madeleine”. And: “There was also a SHOWER CURTAIN inside.” And a white flannel, a green elastic band, a light green child’s T-shirt with a green flower on the front and a pink and blue pencil case with a pink heart motif
“Godfather in Madeleine hunt… Crime godfathers in Morocco—where there have been several alleged sightings of Maddie - have been told cops will scale back drug busts if they do”
SUNDAY MIRROR front page: “MY LITTLE MADDY” - a picture of Madeleine McCann on a pony with Kate McCann by her side
• “McCanns heartache as Cops say: “Case closes in 7 weeks
• Police to leave cloud of suspicion over Kate and Gerry”
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE MYSTERY – McCANN FRIENDS TO BE NAMED AS SUSPECTS”
“Dr Russell O’Brien and his partner Jane Tanner, Matthew Oldfield and Dr David Payne were last night forced to bring in their own lawyers after increasing fears that Portuguese police were preparing to implicate them in the case of the vanished four-year-old girl”
So will they be named as suspects or not? The Express say yes and then prevaricates
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY front page: “MADDIE SIX MONTHS ON – 15 NEW CLUES”
That picture of Madeleine McCann on a horse. A clue?
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “ANSWER OUR PRAYERS - ON THE SIX-MONTH ANNIVERSARY OF LOSING MADDIE Kate weeps at church service for Maddie as parents suffer crushing blow”
“The devout couple first took two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie for ‘a few moments of solitude’ at their village church to remember missing Maddie”
A solitude watched by person who told the press? No need with Clarence Mitchell to fill in the gaps, Says he: “Kate and Gerry wanted a few moments of solitude praying for Madeleine with the twins”
Inside the church: “A collage of pictures of a happy Maddie - including the one…of her sitting on a black Shetland pony - took pride of place near the altar. Six snaps of the youngster next to smiling faces of other missing children were pinned onto a green notice board. Supporters were encouraged to look at the pictures before praying”
And they pray for…
The People looks at “respected” Portuguese daily Publico, which tells: “Six months on from Madeleine’s disappearance, the police theory remains the same. That the child died by accident in her room - and her parents committed the crime of hiding her body”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine’s parents hold prayer vigil six months to the minute after she disappeared”
There are about 200 people at the “700-year-old church” near Rothley, Leicestershire
The McCanns are suspects
“Other missing children - including British toddler Ben Needham, who disappeared while on holiday in Greece in 1991, were also remembered at the service”
Did Ben Needham’s family ask for this? Want it?
Says the Rev Rob Gladstone: “Comfort and liberate all those, especially young children who have been taken from their families against their will, give courage to their grieving families”
A board says “Pray for all missing children.” How were the faces on the board selected? Many children are missing
THE INDEPENDENT: “Six months after Madeleine, another 600 are still missing”
Missing persons charities yesterday released figures “showing that more than 600 children have been missing in the UK for as long as Madeleine McCann, and are still unaccounted for”
Many are foreign. Many are teenagers. Not all are blonde
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Prayers for Madeleine McCann, six months on”
“The 3,500-strong population of Rothley - its trees decked in yellow ribbons and messages of support - came to a near standstill as Kate and Gerry arrived from their nearby home”
Locals can’t move for the press?
Rothley is an “affluent Midlands enclave”. This is McCann Land – the enclave - a small territory culturally and ethnically different form the surrounding lands
Says Gerry in his blog: “We have no idea whether she is suffering, but we have to hope and pray that she is being treated like a princess, as she deserves”
THE GUARDIAN: “Madeleine book notes the ‘contradictions’”
More on Maddie 129, a book by Hernani Carvalho and Luis Maia
“The message is that the case just doesn’t add up,” says a representative of the book’s publishers
THE SCOTSMAN: “Six months on, McCanns in new Maddie plea”
The picture of Madeleine on a Shetland pony was taken on a day out at the Hatton Country World park in Warwickshire on April 13 – “less than three weeks before she went missing”
THE TIMES: “Gerry McCann: ‘our princess prayer for Madeleine’”
Gerry McCann’s blog: “It is so painful for us simply being separated, but all the more distressing when we have to speculate about the situation Madeleine finds herself [in]. We have no idea whether she is suffering but we have to hope and pray that she is being treated like a princess, as she deserves”
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November 5th, 2007 at 12:06 am
1016Peter O Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 11:53
Well lets hope your mum has more preparation than Gerry’s or Kate’s. Come on! There is no way you expect me to believe that they could buy off everybody and be absolutely sure they would not break down under intense and expert police questioning. You really believe they would all lie ,cover up a baby’s death and place themselves in danger of a jail term if one was caught out or broke ranks ? Do you have friends like that ? Would you do it? The doctors would lose their jobs if covicted of fabricating evidence,they would be jailed and possibly as a result lose their homes! e
The detectives would know the cosequences of withholing evidence. They would be capable of finding evidence against the McCanns if it existed. Would you really hire them if you were guilty and sane?
November 5th, 2007 at 12:04 am
1028. Peter O and others,
I had thought that Gerry’s miraculous vision which made him a “man possessed” was at the church in PdL? And that this is an Anglican, NOT RC, church?
November 5th, 2007 at 12:04 am
maria,anyone of the catholic knows the difference in the service,as you quite rightly say i am sure all denominations are welcome in any place of worship,but if you HAD just had the honour their words not mine,of meeting the head of a faith ,would you not choose to use that denomination,if not that,could you as a jew,mouslim,angclian,budist,etc see yourself holding a prayer service in any other place of worship than your own….unless of course on forgiegn land and would use any house of GOD
November 5th, 2007 at 12:04 am
1015 Garth.
Then you will know that thre are either many more photos - or they werent with their kids much (as I said).
I notice you never give full responses - do you have any impediments?
November 5th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Please..come on some of you regular posters without accusing anyone just speculate how was the following possible?
where did they keep the keep the body? How did they hide it so quickly in such a way they could recover it later? How did they transport and dispose of it under the glare of the media? Where did they dispose of it when there car movements have been analysed by cctv?
November 5th, 2007 at 12:02 am
I thought as arguidos this means that PJ believe the McCanns of being directly involved with whatever has happened to Madeleine? Yet the McPologists still fiercely say that we cannot question the actions and odd behaviour of the McCanns? And the McPologists say that it is wrong to consider what may or may not have happened to Madeleine? Hmmmmm………
November 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
914 Stevo, Ade, Dr. Watson
Stevo’s a smart bloke, isn’t he?
Yes, if she was killed with the clothes on, they wouldn’t be able to get them off.
I wonder, wonder what is in the PJ’s files. If they confiscated the cameras, there’s real hope.
Are any of you still up, or all gone to bed now?
November 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
1004 Testing it out! Says:
clarkeson makes a good point. why go to the anglican church and not the catholic one. specially as he had his life-changing vision in a catholic church and had met the pope.
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Clarkeson might have made a good point… It may also have been because it was a non-denominational/ecumenical (whatever the correct words are) service. I’m no fan of the McCann’s but it’s probably not healthy to assume that everything they say and do is somehow suspicious.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
984
Stevo aka Odd Jobie
“Have a Blue Peter badge you supercilious tw*t.”
Never was into that whole boy scout thing. Why you would want to shut your willie in a freezer for an unhealthy length of time beats me - look, you obviously went to great pains to earn that badge, I really couldn’t accept, you keep it.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
1020 Garth.
Not a very good answer. It doesnt actually answer the question does it. Not like you to be evasive (I kid you).
November 4th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Stevo,
If you are not already sleeping (no, it must be different time in America),
What if PG asked American officials not to disclose their suspicions about BG and give them more time? They did it before , shortly before naming arguidos they denied that Mc. were suspects? Look at the careful wording… I may be wrong.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Ah but then Alexis - they would not have encouraged the 1 million plus fund to pay their mortage would they - and they would not have been prominent enough to have encouraged Branson to pay their legal fees would they? If they had slipped into insignificance and eventually had been charged - they would have not had the backing - all of which they have created for themselves. I am of the opinion that IF Madeleine was abducted there would have been a better chance of finding her if the mcs had not been so high profile
November 4th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
1009 Ian
I’m not at all saying I disagree with some of what you say!
Don’t forget she DID turn to practical help….and has, of course, been heavily criticised for it!
She turned to friends in the UK to try to get the thing taken seriously and get a proper search and investigation started. Seems they were pretty desperate because the police weren’t taking it seriously.
BTW, no way do I blame the police for initially assuming the child had wandered off and would be found safe and sound. But, as K seems to have been convinced she had been taken perhaps we can understand her frustration?
I agree that people might often “blame” God, but this doesn’t seem to be what’s happened with Gerry. But even if he is just supporting Kate in this “faith”, would that be so awful?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
good god. are these apologists for real? do they realise how lame they sound? obviously on some kinda backhanders. sad for maddy. let down and those who let her down are constantly being excused and their behavior rationalized. sad.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
1012 Maria
Child neglectors will often find they ‘cant do anything right’.
You seem a bit ‘churchy’.
What has the church actually done for them then? What has the church done for Maddie?
Lets look at just one policy of the catholic church. Africa, no contraception, Now - what has that resulted in? Oh yes, lots of catholics - many with HIV/AIDS, oh and lots of orphans.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
1007
Peter O Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
962 Garth Says:
Edit….
So again, no, it doesnt strike me as strange.
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Per chance, does anything about the McCann’s behaviour and actions since May 3rd strike you as ‘strange’?
No where near as much as some of the posters are here. Next!
November 4th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
No one replied to my late message last night so I’ll put the questions again….Been thinking…I’ve been against the Mccanns it’s true - for their neglect, but put that away… if they did it how? I just can’t see how - if the DNA evidence is correct and they transported her body in a hire car 25 days later - where did they keep the keep the body? How did they hide it so quickly in such a way they could recover it later? How did they transport and dispose of it under the glare of the media? Where did they dispose of it when there car movements have been analysed by cctv? If they did it they must be criminal masterminds
Has anyone got any plausible explanations as to how the Mccanns did it? Otherwise I think we all have to accept they didn’t do it
November 4th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
1006. Clarkeson, You sound, albeit far more polite and write amazingly like soothsayer. I thought the two of you were friends who often chatted in unison on Anorak?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
1004Testing it out!
Iwould say because it was an ecumenical service, the choice had to do with either location or size or both. This type of service is new and encuraged by all Christian churches in the name of unity, I believe.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
987 ALEXIS Says:
If you had commited a crime would you give a list of witnesses to the police and hire private detectives? Iwouldn’t. It would be insane!
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Of course I would! Especially the ones who had been well briefed and/or who had absolutely nothing whatsoever critical to say about me.
My Mum would be first on my list!
November 4th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
1001
Ian Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
986 Garth.
You really do not see what a paradox that statement is, calling me blinkered!
I’ll consider and discuss ANYTHING - you will not. But I’m the blinkered one? Only been there 4 days? Do you have kids and a digital camera Garth?
Funny enough yes. Next question?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
1007 Maybe garth doesnt understand the word ’strange’ - maybe he thinks it means ‘perfectly normal’.
So when we say ‘arent they strange’ .. he hears ‘ arent they perfectly normal’. Of course he answers ‘No way, not at all’.
Maybe English isnt his first language - I think he did mention not being English.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
441. ALEXIS,
By all means do travel to the Rif Mts in Morocco to look for Madeleine. I have a son to watch or I would travel to PdL and do my own sleuthing. Bon voyage!! (You sanctimonious thing!)
November 4th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
993 clarkson
I don’t understand all this fuss about the anglican church. We are talking about British catholics in 2007, after all! There is close cooperation between the churches all over the country. There are many ecumenical services everywhere.
This was probably a mark of gratitude and respect to the many Christians, of all persuasions, in Rothley who have given fantastic support to the McCanns over the last six months. They go every week to their catholic church. What on earth was odd about holding the ecumenical service in the anglican church? It wasn’t an anglican service but an ecumenical, Christian one.
There simply is not the bad feeling between the churches that some people seem to think there is. A lot of ordinary christians like to concentrate on what unites them rather than on points of dogma, authority etc. which divide them.
Holding the service in the anglican church was a generous and courteous mark of respect on the McCanns’ part. I bet, if they’d held it in Sacred Heart, some people would have said,
“Since there were so many non-catholics there as well, wouldn’t you think they’d have made the gesture of holding it in the village church.”!! In a village, inevitably it is the anglican church which is seen as THE local church.
This seems to me to be part of the “they-can’t-possibly-do-anything-right” syndrome.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
1004,maybe gerry now annoyed at the vatican and says stuff you ill take my service somewhere else,for taking madeline off vatican site
November 4th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I think Stevo has come up with a very promising clue re what Madeleine was wearing when ‘taken’. Another possibilty for the lack of photos taken during the holiday could be that they are destined for a book, along the lines of ‘Madeleine; Her Last Holiday’. Am I too cynical?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
999 Maria.
I have to admit that I never understood why people turn to the very ‘creatures’ they think are omnipotent all powerful deities when something happens to them, as surely it is the will of those deities that the things happen in the first place?
Anyway, I dont really want to get into discussing the one issue which divides the world and is used to justify why some areas are made hell holes.
My point was that it would have been a little premature for Kate to have leapt straight back to her ‘faith’ when surely she needed more down to earth assistance. At that point, wouldnt searching on the earth have been more productive than fishing in the heavens? Unless of course her child had indeed stepped over the line?
As to Gerry - bollocks. People who arent religious are more likely to blame the deity rather than turn to them. Perhaps he cut a deal with kate to keep her quiet?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Annie1,
The Next bag sums this pair up a treat. They are sooooo Next.
KM has two children to feed so, of course, she needs to shop, but at a time when there are (allegedly) qualified reports of her daughter being held captive in Morocco and the body of a child with similarities to Madeleine has been washed ashore in Galveston, she decides to pop into Next???
Before anyone rushes to tell me that the next visit may have been for the twins - I realise that, and it isn’t the point.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
962 Garth Says:
Edit….
So again, no, it doesnt strike me as strange.
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Per chance, does anything about the McCann’s behaviour and actions since May 3rd strike you as ‘strange’?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
thea,no just me who pops in now and again ,with things that pop into my mind,father of two,and for what ever reason cant get this out of my head,as i have said before ,i think ALL of us on here hope madeline is found alive and safe,BUT and its a big BUT ,things are not quite right