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 1:47 pm
275 soothsayer
As you know I am a Celtic supporter although I was brought up in the CofE. Cracks me up when I hear the bigots going on about religion at Celtic Park - Our greatest player and manager were both protestants lol.
I think the Vatican should get an executive box at Ibrox for all the masonic brothers in the Vatican to use.
If my history is correct (and it can be a bit weak sometimes) wasn’t a large portion of King Billys army in fact Catholic?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
284. Although I like your options, you f orgot “suffering from delusions of grandeur”.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
still awaiting the mccann suporters explanation of the door business
November 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
278
Will Says:
269 Hideki
“Thats right I remember now - I said something along the lines of suggesting you leave it before you looked stupid. That is a bit of friendly advice in my book. ”
Your posts leave me with no sense of “friendliness” and certainly you are not my friend. I would suggest that in the future you save yourself the trouble of giving me any “friendly advice”.
That’s just advice — not meant to be friendly at all.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
271 thea
Ah, I’d forgotten that bit!
Seriuosly though, I can see a blanket but surely there would have been a sheet over the mattress?
Anyone who has had to take the kids sheets off in the night because of bedwetting will usually put something on the matress in its place, like another blanket or even a towel! It would have been hot and sticky sleeping on that bed, poor kid.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
soothsayer, “it’s only the unentered who use the word freemason.”
No one here claims to be a Mason. So why is that something to mention?
And maybe that’s how it is in Europe but in the US, Mason and Freemason are interchangeable. And yes - plenty of RC’s are Masons in the US - as they are all over the world. Vatican City is no exception.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Elizabeth 116, Lyn 131: the truth about Medjugorje came out last night.
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Hafida Binhisa took the unprecedented step today of calling a press conference to ask the public and media to leave her family alone.
Speaking from the home of her cousin Najet, near Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hafida explained:
“My daughter Bouchra had just pointed out to me a rather florid looking man drinking from a bottle of some kind of dark brown beer, and I had told her off and explained that we Moroccans were never rude to foreigners as we had a strong tradition of hospitality.
“Being a typical Daddy’s girl, she shouted “I want my Daddy”. Girls are all the same, aren’t they?
“Anyway, the next moment this man started staring at me and saying something like “Begorrah, is dat de Voirgin Mary over dere wit dat little girl”.
“I almost fainted from the fumes coming from his mouth, and we had to jump into a taxi to get away from him.
“The irony is that we came to Medjugorje to visit my cousin Najet and get away from all this. In Morocco recently we have had lots of foreigners bothering us and offering us money to speak to my daughter or take her photograph. Only a couple of weeks ago one foreign woman tried to get into our taxi would you believe! And now some Spaniards calling themselves The Metodo Three are here. I thought they were some traveling musicians with a name like that, but they said they had arrived on a gravy train from Portugal – what nonsense, there are no boat-train services across the Mediterranean”.
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November 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Soothsayer how can you possibly know about the prosecutors and what is going on in their heads,you are fishing or bull shittin.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
depends which city you are in Chenier, I am in Durban SA and I can see it (on sky news )
November 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Will
Other women can be bad, but a man can be a nightmare even when he likes you. My English professor, instead of listening to me when I ask him a question keeps telling me what paintings I remind him of and lots of other flirtatious nonsense.
I find it strategically easier to assume all men are a problem, while pretending that none of them are.
Still, I wont mention the whole Freemasons saga again.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
272
brandon flours Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
massive fire in london
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I’m sorry to say that the ‘huge pall of smoke over the capital’ reported by the Guardian is totally invisible here in the City.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
271
Clearly (in the photo) a blanket remains on the bed, but aren’t we told that the abductor used a blanket to wrap up the abductee! How many blankets would be needed in a hot country?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
271 Will,
Furthermore, I would say the biggest obstacle to a woman succeeding is other women.
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I agree but it is because they are acting like men. For example, the woman who assisted in killing Kirchner.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
269 Hideki
Thats right I remember now - I said something along the lines of suggesting you leave it before you looked stupid. That is a bit of friendly advice in my book.
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I later informed you that BOTH of them are “search for madeleine” FUND committee members.
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Yes, the key word being later.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
The current thinking of the Portuguese police is that an abductor probably got in through the patio doors by the swimming pool and took Madeleine out the same way, said Brunt.
From Skynews - who also state ‘Gerry and Kate McCann left the little girl and twins Sean and Amelie, two, asleep in the room while they dined at a nearby tapas restaurant’.
They dont say ‘Kate and Gerry claim’
Is Brunt quoting from the Portuguese police (about their thinking) or is he making it up?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
oops meant
November 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
being a Mason it’s only the unentered who use the word freemason i am having a quiet chuckle at the abject nonsense being bandied about with regard to the craft.will as you know i am a Rangers supporter,but that doesn’t prevent me from acknowledging that there are powerful Masonic Lodges within the vatican,i have often wondered if the brothers are secret Rangers supporters sing the sash and shout ftp at the harmony……..lol
November 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Will ((((((((((( hug ))))))))))))))
Take a break mate ! ;-0
heres a cuppa and a nice bisquitx
November 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
268 Karen
I am not being mean to you.
I am not sure all men would stand in the way of a woman trying to succeed, however I would conceed too many would. Furthermore, I would say the biggest obstacle to a woman succeeding is other women.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
massive fire in london
November 12th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Sammy J, I think the sheets were used to wrap the body.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
156 thea Says:
Edit..
I find it weird that the charities for missing children have not openly expressed their need for funding and remind people that other children are missing besides Madeleine who do hot have her parent’s money or connections.
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Indeed! Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the PJ could find a way to make public their evidence that Madeleine is allegedly dead. That way we could all press for the damn fund to be closed down and the remaining funds transferred to other ‘deserving’ causes.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
250
Will
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.”
This was because you had not set foot in the Comprehension Department. IOW it was your own misinterpretation that my point was that the two BK’s were the same.
“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.”
(ahem…and telling me that I “looked stupid” for harping on the issue…)
I later informed you that BOTH of them are “search for madeleine” FUND committee members. The Tycoon BK was listed as a member on Gerry’s blog. The Uncle BK was listed as a member on the McCann FAQ page. There were THREE pictures of “Brian Kennedy” on Gerry’s blog page — 2 of the Tycoon, and 1 of the Uncle. That way the Tycoon could be identified in two ways — once as a “financial donator”, and then once again as “FUND committe member”. Meanwhile the other BK was ONLY identified as “Uncle” even though he IS ALSO a committee member.
Go look and see if it has been edited. I could not be bothered. LOL.
“Feel free to re-post what I actually did post though. If I was wrong I will happily apologise.”
Who is asking for an apology? Save it. You’d be better off directing all your energies toward the Comprehension Department. LMAO.
The Richard Branson/Brian Kennedy connection will be crucial to understanding why the McCanns are being protected. Follow the money trail…
November 12th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Will
Then why be so mean to me?
I don’t have much suspicion of secret societies because all men stand in a girl’s way if she wants to succeed in anything - it doesn’t matter if they’re in the Freemasons or the head of a department.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
batman yes to that,sherlock,District Attorney Jose Magalhaes e Menezes is the local prosecutor, chief prosecutor Luis Bilro Verao has been brought in from Lisbon to oversee the case.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
259…Peter O
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November 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Hideki
Sorry about that.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
261 Karen
I do have a distrust of any secret society, and would question anyones motives for joining such an organisation.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Good afternoon folks!
Just been looking at the picture of the bed in todays Mirror.
Don’t know if anyone has already mentioned this but if that is exactly how Madeleine’s bed was left then where the bloody hell are the sheets?
Just how neglected were these kids exactly?
A hot country and no sheets??
November 12th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
257. Correction it is a Knights of Templar chapel in Rothley. Although many conflate Templars with Freemasons - I believe historically there is no connection other than at some point in Freemasonry they adopted the history and mystery surrounding the Templars and made it their own.