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 1:24 pm
Julie
Well, he could have just said that instead of going all hostile and then cryptic on me.
A couple of his other comments made it sound like he disliked the Masons in general, so I don’t think it was that unfair of me to think he meant it that way.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Dear ALL - a petition was launched yesterday to question the role of HM government in this event.
WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS FINDING OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO MADELEINE McCANN.
THIS PETITION IS IN CIRCULATION.
11.11.07 To be sent to your local MP in the House of Parliament;
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House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
Dear…………………………….– MP.
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann has unquestionably become the most heart rending, perplexing and complicated case in recent years. There can not be anyone who would not dearly love for her to be found safe and well and reunited with her parents.
However, it is unequivocally clear that there is much contention, conflict and potentially irreparable damage being caused between the two countries concerned, Britain and Portugal, much of which appears to have been effected by the Government of this country, including the current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
This case is surely unique in the annals of Legal history, not least because it is unquestionably the first time that two official suspects in a serious criminal case have ever been appointed the Director of HM Government Media Monitoring Unit to act as their mentor and spokesperson, effectively from as early as when Madeleine McCann first disappeared, not to mention being permitted to form a Business COMPANY in order to raise remuneration from sympathetic members of the General Public.
Furthermore, whilst it is neither prudent nor legally permissible to specifically comment on particular aspects of the case, it is a matter of common knowledge that the Portuguese Authorities have never placed any significance on the alleged sighting of an ‘abductor’ made by Jane Tanner on the night of May 3rd. It is also a matter of common knowledge, however, that an appeal WAS made for information relating to this ‘abductor’, both in Portugal and on the BBC’s ‘Crimewatch’ programme, some weeks AFTER the alleged event, as a consequence of the direct and personal intervention of Gordon Brown.
Whilst it has never been reported or even intimated in any media outlet in this country, (at least to the best of my knowledge), much of the Portuguese Authorities, the Media, the Police and the general populace of that country are in the belief that Kate and Gerry McCann have been permitted to avoid the consequences of Portugal’s legal system due to Political pressure being applied by the British Government. When Alberto Costa, the Justice Minister, was asked on Portuguese national television to comment on whether Political pressure was being applied in this case he refused to comment.
Additionally, it is commonly perceived and widely reported in Portugal that the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has asked Jose Socrates that the results of the DNA tests (from Birmingham) are not to be published immediately in Portugal. Again, on Portuguese TV, Paulo Rebelo, the current Chief of the Policia Justiciaria in mid October, explained not only how the DNA results WOULD be published within the next 24-48 hours, but that a team of Portuguese Detectives, together with the Portimao prosecutor, were preparing to fly to oversee ‘further questioning’ of not only Mr. and Mrs. McCann, but the other members of the party that were in Portugal on the night of 3rd May.
It is NOT, understandably, perceived as mere coincidence that after Gordon Brown had ‘discussions’ with Jose Socrates on the 18th October at the Lisbon Euro Summit, in order to make sure there was “proper co-operation between the British and Portuguese police,” that neither the DNA results nor the Portuguese Police visit materialised.
I am well aware of the curious and diverse array of Conspiracy Theories circulating on the Internet, and I do not wish this letter to be in any way perceived as part of either those writings, nor as part of a ’witch-hunt’ that the British media so like to refer to whenever anything potentially detrimental is printed about the McCanns. I am, as should every one else in this country, be reliant on one of our oldest British bastions, that we are all deemed to be innocent until proven guilty.
However, it is abundantly obvious that every Media outlet in the UK is operating under an Editorial policy being dictated to outside of the normal realms of their respective journalistic circles. Every week, either in the newspapers or as part of some ’documentary’, another retired British Police officer appears to explain in detail how, not only are Kate and Gerry McCann entirely innocent of all suspicions being levied by the Portuguese, but that the PJ themselves are clearly incompetent, ineffective and are solely responsible for the failure of Madeleine McCann being found. The most damning statements were made by Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, the former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Gordon Browns Senior Advisor on International Security Issues. He stated that the McCann’s were clearly the “victims of a witch-hunt“.
Such diatribes are frequently printed and spoken in the British media, often with outrageous and clearly xenophobic abuse attached, levied at the Portuguese. Do you not find it outrageous that Home Secretary Jacqui Stevens should appear on BBC television, asking for an end to ’Media Speculation’ and to concentrate on finding Madeleine?; when the Portuguese Police have not only stated their belief that Madeleine died on the May 3rd, but that her parents, are two of the official suspects in her disappearance?
It is no secret that Gordon Brown has made innumerable personal telephone calls to Mr. McCann throughout this case. Whilst, officially, these calls are stated to have ceased when Mr. McCann was made an official ’Arguido’, it is non-the-less obvious that Gordon Brown continues to play some roll, quite possibly a pro-active one, in this whole matter.
It is not inconceivable that Kate and Gerry McCann were complicit in the disappearance and possible death of their daughter. It is inarguable that they were culpable of what is decreed to be abandonment of their children, both under Portuguese and UK legislation.
There is an increasing number of people in this country, (and certainly the majority of those in Portugal), that suspect that our Prime Minister and the Labour Party in general, is involved in either some clandestine cover up, at worst, or at least, extending privileges and advantages that would not be proffered to other people in the McCann’s situation.
Whether that is the case or not, I feel it essential that the Prime Minister clarifies his position and involvement with regards to the McCann’s, because irrespective of the final outcome of this case, its repercussions may have consequences for us all.
Yours sincerely
……………………………………..
November 12th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
122 Hideki Says:
76 Karen Says:
Edit… Recently pro-McCann posters have become slightly more sly than previously, and like to pretend that they are in some ways critical of the McCanns. This is at the instructions of Clarence Mitchell, their boss.
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Oh look Clarence, another ‘ludicrous’ suggestion. Can I have a biscuit now please?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
256 248*
November 12th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
not sure if it is an “important” masonic lodge but yes there is: http://templars.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/
Where my family is from in Greece is small and there is a Masonic lodge there. Also I’ve lived in about 4 different regions of the US and rural or city - there is always a Masonic lodge within 10 miles.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
48 Julie
Splendid, smashing, super
Congratulations. For your insight and old fashioned common sense you win tonights star prize……………….
Karen - look what you could of won………
November 12th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
OK this is getting boring, the news I mean, will wait for comical clarrie to come up with the next ludicrous headline / sighting / counter sue.
til them adious
November 12th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
245..Hideki
Attempts at “Backfitting” can seriously harm
your “story”.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
252 Hideki
The Brian Kennedy issue is totally 100% discounted because it isn’t an issue. Nothing personal just reality.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
242
Julie Says:
“Oh dear Karen, go read the post AGAIN! Hideki’s post is not directed at YOU! (I rest my case)”
True, God Willing, my post was directed at Will, so in this case I rest too.
241
Karen Says:
Hideki
“I’ve never commented on the Brian Kennedy issue, because I don’t know anything about it.”
One reason you don’t know anything about it is because people like Will discounted it. LOL.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Yes isn’t it interesting how many links there are to Masonic imagery/symbolism there actually are. IMHO most masons belong to this ’secret society’ because it affords them advantages and favours when they’re needed from a ‘brotherhood’ that is global. Still whether or not it is relevant in this case who knows. To put a metaphorical cat amogst the pigeons isn’t there a quite important lodge/temple at Rothley?!!!!!!!
November 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
223 Karen Says
Yes it was pretty shitty of me to actually consider going into a meeting the outcome of which have a big impact on my family and perhaps more so those I employ, rather than spend my time freely educating someone who, from their actions just doesn’t want to see.
238 Hideki
I would like to see what I wrote again as my recollection was - you had a bee in your bonnet about the two Brian Kennedys being one and the same. Several people had posted to inform you they were different people, which you wouldn’t accept without proof. I posted to assure you they were and just to accept it as one of them was well known in the UK and the other was a former teacher.
Feel free to re-post what I actually did post though. If I was wrong I will happily apologise.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
239 soothsayer
Thanks for that. But can I just clarify. I didn’t realise the prosecutor was relatively new to the position. So am I right in summising that at the moment the prosecutor is deciding not to use the priest’s testimony until all hope of finding a body is over. But, if no body is found then he may THEN decide to include the priest’s statements.
I just hope that national and professional pride will come into play and that the PJ - lead by Amaral - will allow Madeleine to get her justice.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Karen, the way I read Will’s post … the bastards he was referring to are those people who did him in - people he’d mentioned a short while before that (they just so happen to be part of a certain group of people as well). I did not at all take his post to be referring to EACH AND EVERYONE who is a part of this group!
November 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
soothsayer 239
What “relatively new prosecutor” are you talking about?
There’s a new leader of the police investigation (Paulo Rebelo) but he is a detective and not the magistrate from the Public Prosecution services. The magistrate has not changed…
November 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Toni.b
I don’t enjoy anti-Karen posts.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
236
Julie Says:
“No, no, I’ve got it all figured. They removed the door to do forensic testing on it, I mean the abductor was right up close to that door! And then when they came and put it back on, they put it on upside down, hence the door now opening outwards.”
Yeah, possible, lol… but more likely Gerry was talking out of his arse. Let us give him credit , though. He made up his story without even reflecting on the physical reality of the room. Quite likely he was constantly drunk and/or high on drugs and had no idea which way doors were opening. In his defense.
Knock knock. Who’s there?
Ab.
Ab who?
Abduhl.
Abduhl who?
Abduhl the abductor.
Abduhl the abductor who?
No, no. Abduhl the DOCTOR!
Oh! Come on in. Madeleine is waiting.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Julie
Okay, so I didn’t notice it wasn’t directed at me.
I would like to point out that I didn’t get mad at Will, he got mad at me.
And I really don’t know what he meant in his post. Who were the bastards?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
stop entertaining her julie, she knows exactly what she is saying and enjoying every anti-Karen post that bites
November 12th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Oh dear Karen, go read the post AGAIN! Hideki’s post is not directed at YOU! (I rest my case)
November 12th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Hideki
I’ve never commented on the Brian Kennedy issue, because I don’t know anything about it.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
224
Well that is my point - it’s all ludicrous.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
howdy batman/212,no i dont believe the pressure is political in the sense of being from the politicians at this stage,i believe a deal was done to keep the church out of the loop if the priest told all,as i see it this new prosecutor or relatively new,has to decide to go back on any deal and use the priests evidence or statement i think he may have decided that to force the issue would be unwise and not in the best interests of the case at this time.i think he will have a time scale in mind,allowing the PJ time to exhaust every avenue to find the body,whatever posters are saying here the PJ know Madeleine is no longer of this earth,if no body is found and i doubt if one will be, i would think he would have second thoughts about pursuing the priests evidence and honouring any deal made by previous incumbents of his office,that in itself could cause a furore in Portugal a roman catholic country,we will see if justice is served,as for our esteemed prime minister to suggest any involvement of a nature other than him asking about the situation regarding two of his country’s subjects involved in the biggest story in the uk,is frankly nonsense.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
178
Will Says:
173 Karen
“Are you [Karen] lacking in the comprehension department? ”
YOU seem to be. You once commented that I was not too bright (when I suggested that the dual Brian Kennedy issue is central to the Team McCann “money laundering”) , and now I see you are attacking others.
Good for you.
But reading your posts, it seems to me that you are not nearly as bright as you think you are, and I wonder if you have ever set foot in the Comprehension Department.
Why don’t you try laying out your argument (whatever it is), without the reflexive impulse to put down others? Too difficult?
November 12th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
229. I noticed that too Pat. It looks like a closeup of Madeleine’s eye.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
No, no, I’ve got it all figured. They removed the door to do forensic testing on it, I mean the abductor was right up close to that door! And then when they came and put it back on, they put it on upside down, hence the door now opening outwards. Gerry will adamantly deny that the door faced outwards on the particular evening that Madeleine disappeared!
Spam word : door (now isn’t that just a ludicrous co-incidence?)
November 12th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
218 Rockhoper - good point
“I agree that from what we have seen it would be impossible for an abductor to be hiding in the bedroom or behind the door.What about elsewhere in the apartment though?”
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Rockhoper I think that the article says “the bedroom door”. But it’s a fair point in anyway.
Does anyone have any information about the inside of the holiday apartment and if there could have been another door that Gerry was talking about?
November 12th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
230. Solaris, I don’t know? I don’t think it impossible though that someone from the UK told Socrates that if he didn’t do a,b,c that they would lessen the amount of the funding? Does anyone know when the decisions by the EU are made as far as what country is getting how much and how it will be distributed?
November 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
220
I guess that would have to be some kind of high speed revolving door!!
November 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
228
clouseau
I know……Gerry lied again?