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 7:00 pm
620…Mike
2 McCann’s…sounds like a pub order.
But they haven’t been found guilty. ((yet)))
November 12th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Oh goodie time to talk trash and fuckingnasty trash too…..and fucking nasty bastard trash talk and free masons and holy grail…..and I can’t partake in trashing stuff anymore cause Pitty is calling me to tend to her little slutty whore Gypsy needs….dwat!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
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Matt. Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
614…Mike
er………well……….we had Dr H Shipman
and Dr Crippin
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And 2 McCanns!!!!!!!!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Pitty doesn’t know much about doctors, and tas to American Doctors….she says they’re expensive…and some dentists fondle breasts to relax the jaw muscles and women complain but they keep going back to him? (never could figure that one out).
That’s the sum of her knowledge about doctors…..and when she needs to be healed, she does it herself with chants and herbs……
November 12th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
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Will Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
***** Hands up who thinks I said all freemasons are nasty bastards *****
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I am sure you didn’t say it. My father was a Freemason, a Worshipful Master at a Lodge in Manchester, England. He was not a nasty bastard.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Well Andy, tto be honest Piers was truthful about what is going on in England right now in the 21st century. That’s why he shared this bit of Portuguese history with you:
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.
His logic is ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY riddiculous!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
614…Mike
er………well……….we had Dr H Shipman
and Dr Crippin…
November 12th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Don’t get Pitty started on war killings - she is a crazed maniac when it comes to that topic……makes her nuts…..
November 12th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
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SteveT Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
593
thea
Theo, I take exception to your comments about England. We have the best doctors in the world.
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Proof?
November 12th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
188
Karen Says:
November 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thea
I don’t think Gordon Brown is a paedophile, I don’t think the government would be unchallenged by any other MPs if they were covering up a paedophile network.
If there’s a court case in Portugal then it’s not a secret.
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If you believe what you’ve written, you’re living in cloud cuckoo land.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
608…Totje
No problem Totje.
C”’ing and P”’ing can be very messy at times.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Everyone:
Here is my reply from paulo reis in reply to my e-mail:’
The info published by British Press about a judge having refused to authorize Police to reinterview the McCann and their friends, as far as I know it’s not correct. Of course, it wouldn’t make sense!
What is going on, about the McCann, as formal suspects, is the following: they were questioned and named formal suspects, on early September. They may be questioned again, when it’s necessary - but this will be when there is new evidence or other statements that need to be confronted with their own statements.
What the McCann Team has done was to take a phrase from a formal statement issued by the head of Public Prosecutor’s Office on September 19, manipulate and distort it, and feed it to the Press. That formal statement said that, after the last questioning and the decision to name the McCann as formal suspects (something quite recent, at the time….) there was no need, at that moment, for new questionings, unless new evidence was brought to the case.
So, McCann Team, with a little help from their friends in so many newspapers, changed this informations in something different: a judge refused permission to Police for questioning again the McCan and/or their friends. Easy, no?
regards
Paulo Reis
November 12th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
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thea
Theo, I take exception to your comments about England. We have the best doctors in the world.
As regards the shooting, the police officers involved in the actual shooting went into a situation where they believed that thay were in danger of being blown up. The information that they were given was wrong but the risks of a terrorist attack were very real.
Do you now who killed the most British soldiers in the first Gulf War? The Amerians with “friendly fire”.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I will have to look up this Piers clown. Even so, I am saddened by what is going on.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
600 Totje
Sorry Matt, made a mistake by cutting and pasting…… stupid me..
November 12th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
577…Andy
Roger Knapman MEP ….
From Wikipedia :
*****As leader of the only British party in the European Parliament
to vote against the expansion of the EU in 2004, there was some
amusement in May 2006 when it was revealed that he had employed
a team of Polish builders to renovate his Grade II listed home in Devon,
claiming there were no suitable local workers - a claim denied by
local builders.*****
November 12th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I have a if this then that statement:
If the P. Police are inept, then their investigation is rubbish, and the McCanns go free……
I bet the McCanns or any of the T7 (who are keen to set any record straight…keen to return) never set foot back in Portugal least they are put away - rotting for years - just for being “annoying”…..
November 12th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Ferdinand, I have no idea what you mean by a “continental” law system? Although I am on a different continen, I have learned in my travels and from reading that the criminal mind is pretty much the same. Regardless of a Scottish or Belgian accent or Roman Catholic or Jew or affluent or working class.
If your laws are too lenient then maybe after setting up an EU wide paedo system - you can work on strengthening criminal law.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Stevo, Well done on a great job . Thanks for putting in the effort.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
593 Thea
Piers Merchant has a history (sex scandal). Knapman and Merchant are United Kingdom Independence Party politicians therefore unlikely to have a good word for anyone from east of Dover.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
594
grievingmum
Hi there and welcome back! I remember you from the first time you posted!
And yes, I do find it VERY odd that not only the British Press, but the McCann PR team have not even bothered to acknowledge Baby Grace!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
577 But, Piers Merchant is surely the former Tory MP for Beckenham, who resigned in a welter of sex scandals -in 1997 — look him up in wikipedia — sex acts with hostesses, researchers, sex in the open, caught out lying by the tabloids.
Exactly why does lying, sleazy, slutty Piers feel he has earned the right to comment on Portugese democracy?
Small wonder — with a cv like that — he is pro-McCann.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
553 Tinsel Says:
I have to disagree with this. If he was seen from the front, or from the side, you could certainly give it a try to put together some sort of face. The fact that it is completely blank tells me that Tanner refused to make any comment at all on the face, which to me is someone who is not really trying to help at all.
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I don’t know when this drawing was made. I don’t know how good she is in remembering faces… Not everyone is good at it. And I agree that it looks like she’s not trying to help at all. In earlier posts i’ve seen several good reasons for it. So we don’t exclude Tanner (or her husband/friend) either!
561 Matt. Says:
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I don’t know so I can’t answer them. I expect the police is also reading Anorak. Maybe they investigate this too. Maybe that’s the reason why it is supposed that one/two of the friends want to change their statement.
Btw IF GMcC is so clever, had so much help from other (educated) people (and why on earth would they help him to cover up - I’m sure I wouldn’t not even for my brother or sister, let alone for a friend, I would have talked him/her out of this plan) why would he be so stupid to get himself in the position of being blackmailed later by one of the friends? So many “why’s”….
However why should her 2nd “indication”
re the Swarthy faceless man “urgently
striding” ((in the opposite direction of
her “Eggman)) be considered so worthwhile
that it was published nearly 6 months later?
Important enough for Dr G P McCann to refer
to it’s “Importance” in his Blog as being witnessed
by an Independent Witness.
Whilst at the same time omitting to say that the
“Independent Witness” was none other than a “friend”
of his.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
595. Yes Thea it is interesting. I wish I could hold out that Justice would prevail……A jury can win out over a judge….and at some point the Judge must bow to the jury - maybe the second time is the charm.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
577 Andy … it amazes me how they brushed you off with that type of answer … it’s shocking … whatever happened to justice for the innocents?
To all of you who are contemplating writing to your MP’s, I’d say don’t be scared off by answers like that. They obviously don’t want questions asked …. and for a very good reason (that will yet be revealed)!
HOW can they try and turn the blame onto the PJ, for heaven’s sakes they’re not the ones that trashed the apartment right in the beginning!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
stevo
well done
good sight
November 12th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
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john Says:
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.
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Spot on. I do find it really strange that the McCanns can so consistently sign up with people who have no expertise in the fields they are being hired for. Admittedly they are not actually paying for them but you would have thought they would want people who actually know what they are doing…
November 12th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Yes but Inspector G, this doesn’t automatically mean he will win. I still think the forensics in this case an interesting study.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
ages i posted on here, i buried my son on 3rd may, and also lost my 2 month old daughter last year on 23rd july. I have two other kids and as someone who has suffered a lot through the losses ive incurred ive said from day one that not only is the Mcanns fault cos they left the kids alone, i thought there was something not right and totally suspect with these parents. I would also like to state that i am 22 years old and if we had ‘done a mccann’ and one went missing the other two would have been taken off us and the press given us a battering and been charged with willful neglect.
Does n e 1 find it strange the british press have said bugger all about baby grace and i didnt fine out until 4 days after story broke in u.s and only fro this site and its links that u guys posted????
surely had it not been for rich older parents and press weirdness baby grace would be front page news???
November 12th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Is everyone named Piers an arsehole. I mean an Orwellian arsehole?
I am sick to my stomach reading that attempt at scaring you with falsehoods and typical fear-mongering tactics.
So Piers and the rest of British authorities can continue full throttle with their slurs against PJ but no questions can be asked of British government officials or police?
Has Piers not heard of Charles de Menezes and the cover up by the elite British metro police over his death?
I lol when I read this:
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.
Piers obviously isn’t aware how metro mistakenly id’d, stalked and attacked an innocent man on the tube? Manipulated his photo to make him look like a wanted Muslim extremist (alleged Muslim extremist - after all innocent until proven guily); made tube CCTV footage of the attack disappear and a whole bunch of other lies , smoke and mirror routine bollocks - bloody bollocks.
I am so sorry England. I recommend you give up - don’t bother. Move to Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Spain or Italy.
I feel really really sad for England today. My God. Even in the US we are permitted to ask questions and raise important issues. I never in a million years believed England would become a fascist country.