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 2:10 pm
I saw Satan in photographs from the WTC attack. You could clearly make out Lucifer in the billowing smoke. It must be fact. I saw the photos on the internet.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
311 Sherlock, Id go for the Mccann spin release.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
312 Rockhopper
Couldn’t this all be achieved without being a secret society?
November 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
292
coolandcalm Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Chenier…. must be blowing thw wrong way for you.
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I think you mean that it is blowing the right way for me:-)
November 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
308
chenier Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
283
toni.b Says:
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 )
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Thank you!
For the benefit of those of you in Durban, and indeed, elsewhere, the City is the City of London itself, the square mile in which the Bank of England resides.
And the sky here in the City is still resolutely blue…
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That’s terrific news. It was just a spot of mass hypnosis brought on by the magicians working in British news. What a relied! What’s her name can make her Docklands’ meeting.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
293 PEterO
I think that it’s a made up story frankly.
why it is made up or by who i don’t know.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Will
Absolutely.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
http://firefightingnews.com/firenews-uk.cfm
chenier you must be on the other side
November 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
296
brandon flours Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
chenier
looks pretty bad from the news bulletin
near olympic site
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There have been stories circulating about nasty toxic waste on sites due to be transformed for the Olympics; and the sky here is still blue.
Just as well, really…
November 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
305
Raising money for charities, hundreds of thousands of pounds, for Masonic charities and non Masonic causes. All monies raised come from within (no shaking collection boxes on street corners) and largly donated without publicity.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Peter O 293 - we don’t know.
But there’s something in the way that this story has been reported that makes me smell a rat.
I think it’s unlikely that this would be completely made up rubbish by some bored yet creative spanish journo.
But, I also think that if they really wanted to change their statements it would happen quickly and without breaking news exposure. I stick to my immediate reaction:
Either this is pre-meditated spin from the McCanns camp - and in reality O’Brien and Tanner are just going to change their statement in a way that further confirms the abduction theory.
Or alternatively, this is the PJ launching some false information in an attempt that some of the Tapas 7 have second thoughts and start cracking (afraid that they’ll end up looking guilty if any of the others spills the beans).
November 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
vera, I don’t know. I value my friends who are in the KoM and to my knowledge they are not secretive. I don’t believe the Masons are either. I think they get a bad rap due to malicicous lies which were spread about them by the RCC who was envious of their wealth and power. Oh, I know some Shriners too. I believe they are part of the Masons (at least here in the states). Like Karen says, in most cases it is no different than joining a country club or trade union. But maybe as in politics, some branches have become corrupt?
November 12th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
306 Karen
You are not wrong. I am of Irish descent and lived in both the north and south briefly. I think conflict over history is pointless and it is the present and future that matters. Lessons can be learnt from history but it’s battles should remain there.
I think blaming the Church of England is the only sensible option
November 12th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
283
toni.b Says:
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 )
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Thank you!
For the benefit of those of you in Durban, and indeed, elsewhere, the City is the City of London itself, the square mile in which the Bank of England resides.
And the sky here in the City is still resolutely blue…
November 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
287. Sammy J, I was kidding.
I think the photos were taken recently so they are not of the crime scene. At least I don’t think they are.
Oh, but maybe they confused the Mc villa with the Tanner-O’Brien apartment? We all remember the vomiting child story. Must be true!
new linens haven’t arrived yett. My God the Portuguese of slow. They must be drinking and eating….again! 
November 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Will
Ireland’s got a very long and complicated history for all they keep simplifying it - it would take ages to explain every alliance and conflict, and it would give you a headache.
My family is half-Catholic, half-Presbyterian, so I always blame the Church of England.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
262:thea,
Masons, Knights Templar, knight of Malta etc etc in my mind are all ’secret societies’ run by men to ensure their role of influence and power………..I’ve no time for any of them. What is their purpose other than for self-interested motives- they are anachronisms!
November 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
302 soothsayer
thought that was the case lol
November 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
170. thea.
A little more information about the hair analysis I posted earlier.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7088691.stm
Dr Black said: “We can analyse very small concentrations of those chemical elements, look at and compare with databases of previously published data so we can find out, potentially, what type of diet they had, where they were living and what their relatively recent movements were, according to what was in the hair.”
November 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
ah well will we all have our crosses to bear,pun intended,the surreal thing about King Billy’s army apart from a large part of it being of the tim variety,it was financed by the church of rome aka el papa the pope,you really couldn’t make that up………..LOL.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
299
Providing everyone is safe of course.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
lol stickler 285,
a clever Moroccan-Medjugorje mélange of Maddie sightings?
I know someone who would like to hire you as their PR person. 
November 12th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
296
Never mind, it’ll save on demolition costs!
November 12th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Hubby is in erith Kent and he can see the smoke from there
November 12th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Clarence is very unfriendly then
November 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
chenier
looks pretty bad from the news bulletin
near olympic site
November 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
288 Hideki
To attempt to prevent another human being from appearing stupid is one of the friendliest acts somebody can perform.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
sorry, just noticed my typo.
I meant seriously.
honest!
November 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
159 Salomon ES Says:
Edit..
Earlier in the week most british papers identified the tapas2 as being Jane Tanner and her partner Russell O’Brien.
Would it be fair to think that as a couple, they’d have the same legal representation and not two individual lawyers?
In which case, either they are not the Tapas2, or this quoted london-based lawyer is not representing 1 but both of them. Or alternatively, this story is made up.
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Don’t know, if I’m honest… However given that the Tanner and O’Brien have always been the two most likely suspects as accomplices (allegedly) you do have to wonder quite what it is they could alter about their statements whilst still staying ‘on message’?
Tanner can hardly further modify her already ‘ludicrous’ sightings claim?
I suppose O’Brien could change his without impacting on the overall alleged version of events? i.e. Something like admitting his daughter wasn’t ill at all and he was actually behind the bike sheds having it away with one of the nannies? (I don’t believe or have any evidence for that, I’m just surmising..) The ‘nanny’, or whoever, could then vouch for his new version of events?
If it really is these two and they now want to change their statements substantially you would imagine it would be fairly damning to the McCann’s version of events?
So…. Somebody else or a made up story?
November 12th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Chenier…. must be blowing thw wrong way for you. The pall of smoke really is huge and very black. I’m so glad I cancelled my meeting in Docklands today……
Re: the bedroom photo and the blanket…. the apartment has been re-let since madeleine went missing so its all a bit pointless!! The blanket is probably from the police reconstruction……….
I feel sorry for whoever owns the apartment though!!