Madeleine McCann: A Bedroom, A bed And A Blanket
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR front page: “FIRST PIC OF SNATCH SCENE – INSIDE MADDY’S BEDROOM”
A picture of the holiday bedroom from where Madeleine McCann vanished. Useful. Perhaps seeing it will jog your memory…
The Mirror highlights three areas of the room:
DOOR: “LAST LOOK. Dad Gerry last saw his daughter form this door”
BED: “HER BED - “Rumpled covers and pillow on mattress”
WALLS: “UNTOUCHED – Room is as it was after police forensic team finished work”
We commend to your attention the shards of sardine roll, cigarette ash dropping and big footprints
The picture is an “EXCLUSIVE”
MADDY COPS WANTS McCANNS SILENCED” – A plan to do harm to Kate and Gerry McCann?
Almost as bad: “Portuguese police may gag Madeleine McCann’s parents by keeping them suspects for the next 15 years.” So too Robert Murat. This one has along way to run
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – THE HUNT SWITCHES TO BOSNIA AFTER NEW SIGHTING”
Page 9: “Tourist spotted Madeleine – I heard her yell: ‘I want my daddy’”
The Express hears news from Medugorje, Bosnia, the site of a Catholic shrine. As reported on Anorak, the man sees a girl who looks like Madeleine. He reports it to local police. Police shrug. He tells the McCanns’ private detective firm. They check the expense account. They respond
The “father of six”, from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, who asked not to be named, says: “From the minute I saw them, there seemed to be something odd going on. They both had a very swarthy complexion and the toddler with them was a blonde, fair child.” Dark, you say?
“She was wearing a little pink coat and was very agitated and sobbing. The instant I saw her my heart skipped a beat because it struck me that she looked like Madeleine McCann. I felt sure there was something wrong and started to move towards them. As they saw me coming, they started walking faster away from me. I was sure the child they had was not theirs. I got right up beside them, and was about to speak to the child when the man put his hand over her mouth and shoved her into the car. He was pushing her into the back seat and was yelling in a language I didn’t understand.”
“First look at bedroom” – Unless you have already seen the Mirror that is
“New nightmare as McCanns could be suspects for 15 years” – Says Francisco Pagarete, Robert Murat’s lawyer: “The problem is that in Portugal a suspect can remain an arguido for 15 years without any need for police to reapply or extend the status”
No problem for the press
THE SUN page 11: “MADDIE;S BEDROOM.” This is the “FIRST PICTURE” of “Inside the McCann holiday flat”
For those readers unfamiliar with the contents of a “bedroom”, the Sun uses an arrow pointing towards a box-shaped presence and tells us: “Bed she was in before she went missing.” A second arrow points to a “Blanket”
Clarence Mitchell hears of the sighting in Bosnia. Says he:”We are not dismissing it. The witness was 99.9 per cent certain the child was not with her natural parents”
DAILY MAIL page 19: “First photo of Maddie flat as hunt switches to Bosnia”
“Its narrow beds have been stripped of their sheets so they can be analysed for evidence”
And in Bosnia, the “very swarthy” people are with Madeleine. Like the man in Belgian, perhaps…
DAILY STAR page 9: “BOMBSHELL BOOK POINTS FINGER AT MADDIE PARENTS”
Hernani Carvalho and Luis Maia have written Maddie 129. the Star says the book claims some of the Tapas Seven “had already given up searching for Madeleine and were in their own flats 90 minutes after the alarm was raised because ‘they already knew where she was’”
An American artist has been employed by the Star to make Madeleine’s hair from blonde to dark. (Non-experts can use a felt tip or boot polish)
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “MADELEINE DETECTIVES CHECK NEW SIGHTING AT BOSNIAN SHRINE”
Page 7: Says Clarence Mitchell: “But as with all these reports, the McCanns refuse to raise their hopes until it has been investigated fully”
NEW YORK TIMES: “European Tabloids Still Agog Months After Child Vanishes”
“Six months after Madeleine McCann, then 3 years old, disappeared from her family’s vacation apartment in Portugal, no development in the case seems too small to merit a banner headline — even the news that her father had returned to his job as a doctor. Similarly, no story is too speculative”
THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT and THE TIMES: No Madeleine news
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November 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Mods and Admin,
Is there any way I can become Susannah again?
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Mods and Admin
We are still having problems,there was an upgrade yesterday which apparently has caused all the problems……
I shall keep on about it, don’t worry
November 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Post 100 by a couple of months or more I think Sherlock,coming round to Soothsayers way of thinking,to many people makes for a greater chance of someone giving the game away,conspiracy to use the in word ludicrous.lol.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Karen, I never said Gordon Brown was a paedophile and I never said the Queen was involved with the opium trade. There are other politicians, past and present. And there are other members of the royal family without implicating the Queen.
So you do think the Case de Pio child abuse scandal in Portugal is not true? Supposedly affluent powerful people are involved and were both the architects and predators.
George Bush the First is linked to a paedophile ring. Although, since his family is verey powerful and he has in the CIA and has powerful friends - nothing ever came of it.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
195 Karen
It wasn’t a meaningless comment - in fact you could learn more from that one statement, than you can in a whole term at Glasgow Uni.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Julie
What did he mean then?
November 12th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
192 Julie
Thankyou.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Will
There’s no other interpretation that could be made.
Unless I was supposed to know it was meaningless.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
LOL will, dont be drawn in
November 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
191 coolandcalm
….is that one of those links Bulldump posted last week
November 12th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
189 Will … not me …. your intention with your statement was fairly clear to me, your words have been twisted entirely out of context!
November 12th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Childrenofsteel 176 says:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BIG FOOT.
………………………………………………………
How very dare you! I saw ‘Bigfoot and the Hendersons’. Bigfoot is out there, you mark my words you disbeliever you.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Can someone clarify if today’s pictures are of the same room where Madeleine was sleeping? and where Gerry McCann allegedly thought that an abductor was hiding behind the door when he went to check?
If this is the room, the door opens to the outside of the room, so what was Gerry mcCann talking about????
November 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
***** Hands up who thinks I said all freemasons are nasty bastards *****
November 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thea
I don’t think Gordon Brown is a paedophile, I don’t think the government would be unchallenged by any other MPs if they were covering up a paedophile network.
If there’s a court case in Portugal then it’s not a secret.
The Opium Wars in China were to protect the interests of British traders - I don’t think the Queen was any more involved than a nominal Head of State would be (unless she had shares in what was a legal company?)
November 12th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
181 Karen
I said Nepotism is one thing, nasty bastards is another.’
Nowhere does it say ‘All freemasons are nasty bastards.’
I said show me where I said it, you couldn’t. You cann make up your own wild interpretations if you so wish, but that suggests far more about you than it does about me.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Didnt anybody hear Clarence explain the goverment etc…. involvement?
He used his influence ( as ex goverment worker )
Gordon Brown was interested as they were 2 parents abroad
The pope was interested because he found 2 devout (ahem) catholics finding comfort in the mass.
He Clarrie arranged it, because he “Mc” cann.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Per…..**”AN UNREPENTANT COMMUNIST Blog*****
Nothing changes really regarding UK xenophobia.
***It is interesting, depressing, but frankly unsurprising,
that the British press is digging into reservoirs of cultural
memory, derived from a world view which was probably
quite out of date within a century of its publication in 1719.
(((ie…Robinson Crusoe….see after “End” re relevance to article)))
Digging into veins of racism and prejudice which only need
the slightest of prompting for it to come oozing out of British
middle class opinion. Meanwhile it is widely reported that the
Portuguese police are continuing along a definite line of enquiry,
a line of enquiry that posits the notion that in common with 70%
of all child homicides, no abductor at all was involved, no abductor,
neither Morrocan, nor Muslim, in fact no dirty greasy foreigner of
any description appears to be in the frame at all.
Instead the Portuguese police are annoyingly insistent on
investigating issues such as DNA traces, employing almost
100% foolproof UK based ‘cadaver dogs’ , and questioning the
existence of an ‘abductor’ who quite apart from having no
facial features at all was only ’seen’ by a close friend of the
McCann’s and not by one single other of the thousands of
holidaymakers thronging the resort of Praia de Luz that
evening in May. I suppose eventually they will see sense and
search instead for ‘Corsairs’ in Dhows with turbans, beards,
and an unspeakable appetite for the strange and previously
unseen and unheard of curiosities spoken of in the hareems of Araby
as ‘the blond haired ones’ ****
“End”
‘Robinson Crusoe’ by Daniel Defoe was published in England 1719.
Robinson Crusoe amongst his many misadventures is captured by
Moors and made a personal slave….as described in Defoe’s classic
prose below,
“However, to cut short this melancholy part of our story,
our ship being disabled, and three of our men killed, and eight
wounded, we were obliged to yield, and were carried all prisoners
into Sallee, a port belonging to the Moors.
The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first I apprehended;
nor was I carried up the country to the emperor’s court, as the rest
of our men were, but was kept by the captain of the rover as his
proper prize, and made his slave, being young and nimble, and
fit for his business. At this surprising change of my circumstances,
from a merchant to a miserable slave, I was perfectly overwhelmed;
and now I looked back upon my father’s prophetic discourse to me,
that I should be miserable and have none to relieve me, which I
thought was now so effectually brought to pass that I could not be
worse; for now the hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was
undone without redemption; but, alas! this was but a taste of the
misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.
As my new patron, or master, had taken me home to his house, so
I was in hopes that he would take me with him when he went to sea
again, believing that it would some time or other be his fate to be
taken by a Spanish or Portugal man-of-war; and that then I should
be set at liberty. But this hope of mine was soon taken away; for when
he went to sea, he left me on shore to look after his little garden, and
do the common drudgery of slaves about his house; and when he
came home again from his cruise, he ordered me to lie in the cabin
to look after the ship.”*****
************************
November 12th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Thea,
Love your posts.
I also noticed how on Friday, you were the on line moderator, encouraging, applying balm - nice qualities you have.
I am not sure if you have already read this piece, I suggested it to Pat this weekend, but you were not around.
Worth taking a look at.
I posted the link but it did not come up just google Battling the Behometh
I wish I could remember where I read about the ludicrous allegation of the British Royal Family and the Opium Trade.
Entirely credible. I don’t know why so many people think our leaders are honorable.
I think Iraq was definitely about oil, Afghanistan about opium and Iran - well that is also oil.
Watched a documentary on the Mayan calendar ending in 2012. It speaks about a cycle ending, a cycle which has been about power and force.
It speaks about how at this time, the powers that are are in the process of becoming transparent which will bring about their collapse. And how rapidly is that happening?
We are all hoping that the P.J. produce an absolutely air tight case against the Mc’s allegedly of course. But imagine if they throw in some big names as well.
Imagine if it is not just K and G but perhaps some influential British Police and Ministers who have perverted the course of justice.
That would be a lovely little coup d’etat.
Word is again candy - talk about subliminal messages.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
If some of us are so sure that there’s some sort of government involvement in the Madeleine McCann case, why not ask the government?
What role are we playing as British citizens if we just come on here and suggest all sorts of conspiracies and theories without giving the democratically elected British government a chance to set the record straight.
If you click on the link below, you’ll be taken to a webpage that allows you to send questions to n10. Just ask them what role have they played in this story, and if the Prime Minister thinks that the type of assistance provided to the McCanns is proportional and in line with the assistance provided to any other parents of missing children. Ask also if he can give some other examples where British citizens made official suspects of a crime in another country have been given similar consular and public political support.
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page821.asp
November 12th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I still think David Icke will get them banged to rights!
November 12th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Will
We weren’t discussing your attitude to people in the theatre. You didn’t say, I agree, bastards are everywhere. You said nepotism is one thing (which has to mean the nepotism I was referring to in theatre etc), nasty bastards is another (which if it’s another thing - could only mean the Freemasons).
Learn to construct a coherent sentence before you get nippy with other posters.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Karen, Yes it is true. But we’ve also sold arms to bin Laden when we thought he was a ‘freedom fighter’ fighting against the Soviets. It’s well documented that both Britain and US have mysterious contracts with the Saudis. And I believe during the Opium Wars the Bitish Royal family was involved in decimating whole segments of Chinese communities and profitting not only from the manufacturing and sale of opium - but the taking of Hong Kong and other parts of China.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Thea
Britain sells Saudi Arabia arms, I expect America does to. I think it’s one of those cases where they use Afghanistan and Iraq as a kind of proxy they can negotiate around without having to have a direct confrontation.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
173 Karen
It does! Especially with reference to the theatre. Are you lacking in the comprehension department? I asked you to show me where I said that all freemasons are nasty bastards - you failed to do so!
November 12th, 2007 at 11:55 am
174. Oh thanks Will. I never knew that.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Ok, I just can’t take it anymore!! THERE IS NO LOCH NESS MONSTER. I don’t care how many glasses of scotch…THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BIG FOOT. no matter how many joints you smoke in your tent..SIGHTINGS OF ALIENS ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO QUANTITIES OF TEETH MISSING IN SIGHTERS MOUTHS…and MADDIE IS NOT ON A WORLD TOUR WITH HER CHANGLING ABDUCTORS..Get a GRIP people/papers!!!! AND FIY… NOT ALL DARK SKINNED PEOPLE ARE BUNGLING BOOZERS OR PERVERT PAEDOS… Its not brain science.. or heart surgery (as it were)…Now, I feel much better!! Keep up the common sense Anorak people!!
November 12th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Karen,
Do you think the paedo court case in Portugal is a fabrication of the British press?
November 12th, 2007 at 11:54 am
170 thea
From the age of 16-18 kids in uk can either enter work or carry on with further education either in school sixth form or at a college (further education or sixth form) they may then decide to go to university from there. University and college are not really interchangeable in UK.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Will
As a statement in it’s own right, it makes no sense. I was justified in thinking it referred to Freemasons.
Hannasus
The British Royal Family have nothing to do with the heroin trade. I can’t vouch for what our government turns a blind-eye to, but I doubt drugs or child trafficking figure in this case.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Here’s guessing the Bosnia sighting comes to nothing, police have car registration number to check records, how easy and quick would it be to get to Bosnia undetected ? Portugal, through Spain maybe into Morocco and now Bosnia, someone posted why would madeleine still be shouting for her dad 6 months later but if she saw someone who lookeed like him or spoke the same language maybe she would, lets hope it does lead to something though but I have my doubts ?