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 6:36 pm
588
Garth
Good evening Garth. Peace be with you.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Hiya Julie you little gorgie you.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
484
Remigius
Clarence has an explanation for any eventuality that may be suggested by the PJ.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I see our very own Tony Bennett and Andrew have been mentioned in Transfattyacid
Congrats
http://trannyfattyacid.blogspot.com/
Sorry if this was already mentioned.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Tony Bennett 576
You’re unbelievable. And so is your posts!
Spam word ’salt’
November 12th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Stevo, 430,
Bravo!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
581 It was overturned. A new trial is set.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
575
Garth Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Its good to view this site.
Bliss, I love this site.
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Hey there Garthie boy, how ya doin’? So glad to see that we’re keeping at least one person happy
November 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
577…Andy
When I wrote to my local MP
to ask her a few questions relating
to the case….she said she wasn’t
very familiar with it.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
577, Yes, Yes, that’s it. Of course. The P. Police need others to help them fumble through the evidence….why didn’t I think of that….that’s it.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Thea thanks - why dont I have all the good ideas first?!!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
530 thea Says:
“Interesting US murder case where suspect was successfully prosecuted without body and with very little evidence. Small amount of blood found under bathroom tiles. Nearly, if not all evidence, wass circumstantial. Wealthy businessman too.”
Interesting, but I think it is just the kind of conviction that is unthinkable in a continental law system.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
576 - TB
You didnt tell us the spam word?! Ficks sake
November 12th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Report from News Article:
Creon Starlight owner Evert Hoos, 61, told detectives a couple claiming to be Polish but with English accents arrived at his premises two weeks after Madeleine vanished.
He was asked to dispose of “two dogs” in black sacks which he incinerated without looking at them.
He told the Sunday Mirror the couple seemed emotionless and did not ask for the ashes, instead insisting they were scattered on local scrub-land.
Mr Hoos said: “I am now haunted by thinking, what if one of the bags contained something more sinister?”
The police who called had claimed they were investigating a strange smell.
But Mr Hoos said: “They then asked me straight away if I knew anything about what happened to Madeleine. I said no, but I immediately thought about that couple.
“Usually the people coming to me are upset and in tears but they weren’t.
“It was also strange how they didn’t ask me for the ashes. And I thought it odd that they spoke such excellent English. It was all just a bit strange.
“They said they had to dispose of two dogs. Afterwards I scattered the ashes. They left quickly when it was done.”
Prin
November 12th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
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Bizzy - you asked and you shall receive.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Be careful what you put in letters to politicians!
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=26459
Roger Knapman MEP has asked me to thank you for your email and to reply as he is currently travelling to Strasbourg.
First I should advise you, for your own good, to be very cautious about circulating potentially high libellous statements about Kate and Gerry McCann.
The law of defamation applies to email and the internet. Secondly your suggestion that the Prime Minister is involved in some sort of conspiracy involving a clandestine cover-up is absurd. It is a wild allegation with no evidence at all.
One of the first duties of the British government is to support its citizens abroad. It is therefore entirely correct that the government should do this in the case of Kate and Gerry McCann.
One of the elements of this supporty is to protect British citizens against the actions of foreign governments. The Portuguese police and judicial system is known to be suspect. Elements of the police are corrupt and indeed in this case the senior detective involved has been charged with corruption.
The Portuguese judicial system does not assume innocence before guilt in the way the British system does and operates an interrogatory process in which people are denounced as suspects without any proof. In this particular case the original police investigation was amateurish and flawed and to date nearly 10 different people have at one time or another been denounced as suspects.
It is important to realise that Portugal has no real history of citizen’s rights and liberties or democracy. From the 1920s to the mid 1970’s Portugal was ruled by a fascist dictatorship, first under Salazar and then Caetano. Political opposition was repressed and the police and judicial system was used to achieve this.
A stable multi-party democracy only came into existence in the late 1970’s and is still very young. Many of the police were trained under fascism and the institutions still bear the impact of this long period of dictatorship. In all the circumstances it is entirely right that British citizens should be protected against an unreliable foreign system. In any event I think you can rest assured that the British police and intelligence services have long had a better grip on the facts of this case than the Portuguese police.
Best wishes Piers Merchant Assistant to Roger Knapman MEP
November 12th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
SKY NEWS POLL - LATEST
There has been a surge of people voting in this poll over the last 24 hours - and the numbers voting ‘Yes’ have increased to an all-time high of 63%.
The question was: “Do you think public opinion is turning against the McCanns?”
17,658 had voted by 6.15pm tonight.
63% YES
37% NO
That represents around 11,125 ‘Yes’ and just 6,533 ‘No’.
P.S. Clarence Mitchell’s role is to put the McCanns in a favourable light. For which he receives £75,000 per annum
November 12th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Its good to view this site. It gives me a lorra lorra laughs. Infact, I havent laughed so much s ince aunt Mable caught her left tit in a mangle! (thanks Pete and Dud - for a comparison) Hilarious. Dreamers, get bloody real!
Tony Bennett reminds us “spam word” blood - firkin amazing!
My spam word. ‘ eat’ followed by a few alcoholic refreshments. Bliss, I love this site. Sod the tv.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Chenier 513
The article from May is interesting also as it states that the International Family Law Group was hired by the McCanns. Looking at the IFLG site it does not seem to be a company that works with the kind of abduction cases that we are witnessing with the disappearance of Madeleine. IFLG deal with parental/family abduction cases (eg divorced parent taking child abroad).
A bit like Metodo 3 and CRG being child abduction experts.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
566
thea Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
552. Julie, there were rumours that a British couple had brought the body of a “dog” wrapped in cloth to a crematorium close to PdL. Owned by a Dutchman who said he incinerated the animal without unwrapping the corpse.
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no, he said that he inspected the dog as he does anything he incinerates.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Pitty said that she found the faceless mystery man and he says that he knows who took MM’s body out of the apartment - he saw it - and the face of the “cleaner” he drew for the police looks oddly similar to someone we know - the cleaner has the same infamous Tanner Scrowl….I suppose that turn about is fair play in love and war….
November 12th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
525
Julie Says:
Yes, I agree. I’ve always maintained that there are more than a few similarities between the two. I think the silence from Team McCann regarding B.G is even more suspect, especially the fact that Clarence is taking the sighting by the irish man as ‘credible’ when all they have to go on is a small blonde girl! B.G is the same height, hair colour etc. and Clarence hasn’t even mentioned it. Do you have a link to Stevo’s site?
November 12th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
567 Steve T - you don’t happen to have the link do you?5
November 12th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
98 collandcalm.. Thank you kindly
Only just resurfaced..feeling A-OK…. thanx.. re Kylie M…I go into rage just hearing her name..and when they invent awards to give her..for what…. having a bit of chemo once a month…? that is IT for me.Never could stand her ,or her nasal drip of a voice….now post her “brave ordeal”..I get a tad homicidal…
Sorry to interrupt the flow here………….need to play catch up before I put my cyberspace foot in things….
November 12th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
565. Bizzy, Transfatty posted several artistic impressions of Tanner’s efit! It’s hilarious. I’ll see if I can find it and post the link.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
564
Bizzy
I think Stevo already has!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
552. Julie, there were rumours that a British couple had brought the body of a “dog” wrapped in cloth to a crematorium close to PdL. Owned by a Dutchman who said he incinerated the animal without unwrapping the corpse.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
266 Matt. Says:
259…Peter O
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November 12th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Someone should put Gerrys face on Jane Tanners mystery man.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
537
thea
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