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 3:05 pm
Solaris, Gerry McCann clearly states “ABDUCTOR HIDING BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR”. No mention of bathroom, closets or wardrobes.
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What about the loo?
November 12th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Hey looks like Thea’s a crotchety old bag!
November 12th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Mention of Children in Need worries me.
Will the obnoxious McCanns try to hijack the programme - it wouldn’t surprise me if they did.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Totje
When blown up it does look like 164 but what you really have are two silver coloured knobs (6 and the 4 - the light shining on the knobs give the appearance of those numbers and the 1 is the shank of the knob).
You may be right but that is how I see it.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
370 It’s not cods but cots. Sorry
November 12th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
352
Vera,
how on earth can you be so negative about people giving money to charity. Is that what’ll be happening on Friday when the children in need fundraising happens, rich people buying a place in heaven? Do something positive, make an annonimous donation yourself, it won’t guarentee you a place in heaven but when you close your eyes tonight you can allow yourself a smile of self satisfaction knowing that you have helped someone/an animal for no reason other than you wanted to.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
imho…
November 12th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Excellent letter, Sherlock. I shall certainly forward a copy to my MP. This matter is too serious to be swept under the carpet, or for the impact to be lost with the passage of time. Powers behind the scenes influence too much of our life choices already.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Totje, it’s the handles of the wardrobe doors.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
359 john Says ….knobs
If you enlarge the picture and zoom in it really is a number. Maybe it’s got nothing to do with this (let’s call it) “disappearance” but it puzzled me because there were some remarks about someone hiding behind a door or being impossible.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
For those who have not seen it, here’s Clarence’s counter-spin:
1) deflect attention from the real issue of the day (ie. allegations that Tapas 2 were put under pressure by McCanns political and economic lobby), by creating a new issue (ie the PJ may have got the statements wrong in translation therefore inconsistencies).
2) dismiss the real issue of the day as “ludicrous” or “outreageous”. So, now Mr Mitchell says that all of the Tapas friends only have 1 and the same lawyer representing them and that the lawyer has not made those statements to El Mundo. (so maybe it was another lawyer pretending to be working for the Tapas lot that called El Mundo and gave those statements…)
This guy just gets better and better everyday.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Once again about the bedroom picture : Madeleine slept in between the twin’s cods, didn’t she? And now her bed is against the wall?
November 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
teddyboy
see
365
November 12th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
362. Ruth I bet you look fabulous in a uniform. There’s this thing called “reasoning” and then there’s this other thing called “diplomacy”. You’ll find it much easier on the soul and more cost effective than constantly being on the defensive. Anyway, war is just another form of big business. It doesn’t surprise me that you dislike pacifists - most arseholes do. I learned about pacificism from my grandfather (WWI) and uncles (WWII and Korea) and friends and cousins (Vietnam).
November 12th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
#362
“Where I come from Thea we don’t protest,we put on a uniform and defend our country,as all of my family have,the last thing I need advice from pacifists.”
What on earth is that all about? A bit of chest beating? Fucking pathetic.
Where is this fantastic place where you all seem to like dressing up?
They say that stupidity runs through inbred families - looks like you’ve upheld the theory.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Have to go now, will probably pop back this evening.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
nothing to do with the case
but this made me laugh from the new armstrong and miller show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DR3vGUOVUA
November 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
clarkeson 356 true! It’s not unusual for the women and girls to be veiled. Good point. No need to dye her hair.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
357
thea
“That’s a very interesting comment. Not one I expected from you. So do you always consider yourself an amateur or student?”
Haven’t been a student for a long time. I’m strictly amateur. My father used to say ‘give me a gifted amateur over a professional, any day’.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Where I come from Thea we don’t protest,we put on a uniform and defend our country,as all of my family have,the last thing I need advice from pacifists.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
From another forum, quoting Martin Brunt of Sky News, complaining about the size of his equipment:
‘They had a much bigger crane than ours”
November 12th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Macien, I’m wearing a crimson velvet fez and have my ritual robe of royal blue. Beanie sounds nice. I especially like the tapestry ones or satin paisley.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Totje
I think that the number is in fact 2 silver anodised knobs on a built in wardrobe.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
345
piglet
“oh, he was having a shower then?”
I have no idea, I’ll be sure to ask her next time I see her.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
17. Stiggy says, “I am not a professional anything.”
That’s a very interesting comment. Not one I expected from you. So do you always consider yourself an amateur or student?
November 12th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
why do these sightings keep happening in mostly mueslim countries where you could quite easily put head scarf,full viel etc and no-one would bat an eyelid,would you let her wander around with blond locks showing if you had a very easy way to hide them…..
November 12th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
WTF - please see earlier posts.
Gerry McCann clearly states “ABDUCTOR HIDING BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR”. No mention of bathroom, closets or wardrobes.
So - I don’t know how many bedroom doors can there be in a bloody holiday apartment in the algarve, but he said BEDROOM DOOR so unless someone show’s me a picture to suggest that there is another bedroom door that an abductor could have used to hide himself, I just take it that Gerry McCann once again spoke too much too late.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
343
Dib dib dob dob! Lol
November 12th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Will.. your meaning was clear to me and my brain has not yet turned to mush after todays onslaught of nuke meds. in my veins. You are being misread…
Thea..Beanie in place !!!
November 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
312
Rockhopper Says:
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”
What like giving alms to buy a place in heaven…the privilege of the wealthy!