Madeleine McCann: Tea With Sympathy, Bosnia And ‘A Sinister Higher Force’
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS page 7: “Little Bosnian girl they thought was Madeleine”
They? It was one man from Ireland, on a visit to a Catholic shrine in Bosnia, who saw Madeleine in a car crying for her daddy
A police spokesman says: “The car and occupants were just as described by the Irish pilgrim, except the little girl was not Madeleine McCann.”
But she was crying for her daddy. Not her mummy. Sure it’s not Madeleine?
Police go on: “The owner confirmed the car we lent to his son, who was with his daughter, who is very much like Madeleine”
Says Alan Dedic of his daughter Tea (blonde): “My daughter Tea was a bit out of control and I had to push her into the car… I wouldn’t dream I would create such a fuss”
“McCanns: New police snub” – The Portuguese public prosecutor will not let the McCanns see the files on them. Senior judges pay heed to the “special complexity” of this case. Robert Murat is not allowed to see his police files either
Says Clarence Mitchell: “All they have seen is so-called evidence that has been leaked to the Portuguese press and they don’t know what, if any, of that is true”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE – TRAGIC NEW THEORY”
Come, come. Don’t worry about how it is received. Tragic or magic, let’s have it…
A solicitor, London-based and reportedly working for one of the McCanns’ “holiday pals”, tells El Mundo newspaper, Spain: “I’m afraid these interventions have been prejudicial not only to my client, but also for determining the truth”
The Star says Gerry McCann is a “key Government medical advisor”. The Star’s theory is that “a sinister higher force” has stopped the truth from coming out
“Alert was sparked by ‘hyper’ lookaliake” – “It’s “hyerpactive lookalike” Tea Dedic
THE SUN page 7: “Balkans girl is not Maddie”
Says Mr Dedic of Tea: “She is hyperactive and I had to push her into the car” – Do social services know?
DAILY MIRROR page 9: “Despair at Maddy file secret”
Kate McCann is in “despair”. She cannot see the police files on her. “It has dashed their hopes,” says Clarence Mitchell. And the little girl on Bosnia? Not Madeleine…
DAILY MAIL page 49: “Yet another little girl who turned out not to be Maddie”
How many more? Can there be any more?
Slavko Dedic, Tea’s father – not be confused with the Express’ Alan Dedic – says his daughter was throwing a tantrum. And that his daughter cannot speak English
And for finding Tea we have the Daily Mail to thank. Says a police source: “After being given the car registration plate by the Daily Mail, Bosnian police went within the hour to an address in Ljubuski – and found the VW Golf”
But not Madeleine…
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 17: “Girl in Bosnia is no Madeleine”
“Strikingly similar,” says the caption beneath a shot of Tea Dedic, who is blonde and aged four
THE INDEPEDNT, THE GUARDIAN and THE TIMES: “No Madeleine news today
Posted: 15th, November 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (402) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am
102 Solaris
Thanks for explaining that.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:54 am
126
Patch Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 11:48 am
So, creche out for the reasons chenier noted but an in house sitter awkward if indulging.
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Yep, I think that sums it up …
November 15th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Toni
Lets get under the duvet and see if we can make a replacement for those nice McCann people.
If they don’t want it we could sell it in Morocco, Bosnia, Spain or Portugal - no call for blond kiddies in Leicestershire Ihear.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Ian
I always thought it was the law said it okay unless your actions led to harm of the child.
If you work and your 12 year old was a “latch key kid ” from 3.30 to 5.15 say 5 days a week
Social services cant do anything
but if they come to harm, you are responsible and should be punished.
Someone said technically the mccanns never left the resort so they are not responsible for neglect.
load of bollox
November 15th, 2007 at 11:48 am
117 chenier
Sounds a good theory to me. Also, wouldn’t a babysitter interfere with dubious practices? Interestingly, it appears that it was the men (and I use that word lightly) who checked the kids. Maybe only the men ‘powdered their noses’ and the woman didn’t indulge (too vain to want to damage their pretty little snouts) So, creche out for the reasons chenier noted but an in house sitter awkward if indulging.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:47 am
If the McCanns are really going to release a new blockbuster-type film on CBS to pretend they were concerned by Madeleine’s disappearance…i think we entered the “reality-tv” world and we should no longer comment on this case as a criminal investigation.
It’s like reality tv without the reality element but with a touch of surrealism. marvellous.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:46 am
123 SteveT
The world is full of ‘experts’ - the assumption is that if someone studies a subject and passes exams they are fit to tell us all about it.
What they dont mention is that without basic common sense, people cannot interpret what they have been taught - in fact they may not have been taught correctly (as other experts teach!).
I only trust myself and my wife to care for my kids in the way I think is sufficient.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Would you leave these so called experts in charge of your children?
November 15th, 2007 at 11:42 am
120
toni.b Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 11:36 am
117, BUT THEY DID leave the kids at the creche all day, every day, that was the topic of a long discussion a while ago, why go on a FAMILY holiday and then leave your 3 under 4 year olds inside at the play centre, whilst they played tennis and went jogging.
and Teddy i have progressed to a under the duvet gal, sounds posher and you can muffle the noises easier !!
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I agree entirely; I was exploring why they didn’t use the child care facilities at night.
They could have justified dumping them in the creche during the day on the grounds that they were having such fun with all their new friends…
But that excuse doesn’t apply in the evenings.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:40 am
The wheelbarrow can only end in tears.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:36 am
117, BUT THEY DID leave the kids at the creche all day, every day, that was the topic of a long discussion a while ago, why go on a FAMILY holiday and then leave your 3 under 4 year olds inside at the play centre, whilst they played tennis and went jogging.
and Teddy i have progressed to a under the duvet gal, sounds posher and you can muffle the noises easier !!
November 15th, 2007 at 11:35 am
85
Swannie
Perhaps he knows something that is not for public consumption. Most of our power stations run on gas which is fast running out. Nuclear power is the only option for the UK to fill the gap, and people are scared of nuclear power.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:35 am
88 Brandon
She is looking at this from a legal persepctive. The law really needs to change to make it more explicit that you dont leave little kids alone!
Ironically (for me) I always thought it WAS illegal. I thought there was a minimum age for babysitters. Maybe there is? Maybe if the approach was to assume the eldest child was technically a babysitter, then leaving Maddy babysitting was in fact illegal?
November 15th, 2007 at 11:32 am
107
Kitty Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 11:20 am
They are a pair of greedy, self-serving hedonists who went out with their mates to get pissed in a crappy tapas bar, whilst leaving their young children unattended in an unlocked apartment.
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I think that there may have been a specific reason for the failure to get a baby sitter- beyond the obvious one that they were strapped for cash- which is to do with how they wanted to be perceived.
Until quite recently people killed their wives/husbands because they didn’t want the ’shame’ of going through the divorce courts.
Sacrifices on the altar of the Great God Respectability.
They wanted to go out every night with their friends to the bar.
They didn’t want people to think that they were the sort of people who went out every night with their friends to the bar.
If they’d hired a babysitter, or taken the kids to the creche every night, people would have known that they were the sort of people who want to go out every night to the bar.
So they just left the kids and went to the bar.
Works for me…
November 15th, 2007 at 11:32 am
113 There are some real sleuthing types here, Stevo is on of the best - though some dont like his thoroughness.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:31 am
#113
If there is any “under the covers” stuff to be done I shall have to take my trusty sex slave Toni.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:31 am
110 I dont know whats going on with parents nowadays - maybe its nature finding a balance?
Was the family religious? Religious people seem to be intrinsically ‘barking mad’.
I mean, unseen omnipotent all powerful deities (who seem to have selective use of their powers) written about in big boring books by half witted fanatics. Letting horrible things happen and then being prayed to by their followers!
Barking mad.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I agree with Teddy for one - nothing really new to talk about.
Anorak would be so much more interesting if we were able to undertake our own investigations and find new facts rather than rely on blogs and papers.
Any ideas how to make this happen?
Should we send Teddy Boy as our “under the covers” investigator and finance him through a find madeleine fund II?
November 15th, 2007 at 11:27 am
108
I think its not relvant, he states elsewhere all the time that she was abducted. All he is doing here is using words carefully to make sure that they can’t be seen to actually admit neglect.
Clearly they must have agreed this on the night (or before it?) as Kate and Gerry use the same precise language. This in itself is evidence of ‘planning’ which I’d not think ‘a real caring parent’ would even think about - yet they appear to have done very early on.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:26 am
84 Solaris
I forgot to say how much I agree with your excellent analysis (and that of 93 Patch).
I bet they’ll end up on Oprah (I think she’s on CBS). Can you imagine it in the run up to Xmas? My money’s on a sighting somewhere suitably snowy and seasonal.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I have to admit that I am totally distracted from everything today by the news that the house fire in Northern Ireland that killed a couple and their five children was probably started by the father himself.
The story of the fire and the family deaths was bad enough, but the father?? his five children?
I know this is the MMC forum but it bothers me that this horrendous story is only an extra on the news. will say no more!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20071114/tuk-father-main-suspect-in-fire-probe-6323e80_2.html
November 15th, 2007 at 11:23 am
103 But they have nothing but circumstantial evidence without the forensics.
What the Mccanns supporters fail to realise is that circumstantial evidence supported by forensics becomes much stronger - remove the forensics and its inredibly difficult to prove anything.
So even though the Mccanns might never be charged, it does not mean they are innocent. Innocent until proven guilty is a legal position - not a human condition.
I - for one - am 100% convinced that their has been T9 skullduggery of some sort here, more drink, less checking, accident, body disposal, maybe all of these things, maybe just some of them, but lies have been told. Until at least one of the T9 tells the whole truth, none can ever be cleared.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:23 am
91
Tony Bennett Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 11:04 am
snip
The father of Madeleine told CBS that he and his wife “will always live with the fact that Kate and I were not in the apartment when it happened.”
snip
what does GM mean when he says “when it happened” wtf is “IT”. GM is clever with words and i am sure there is a reason for this choice. why not say abduction? what else might “IT” be?
anyone have a view?
November 15th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Professor Carolyn Hamilton opines “This couple had…clearly made a responsible assessment of the risks and decided that they were minimal. They could not have predicted the possibility of abduction.” —-
No, Pollyanna, get with the programme. This couple wouldn’t know a responsible assessment from a jug of milk. They are a pair of greedy, self-serving hedonists who went out with their mates to get pissed in a crappy tapas bar, whilst leaving their young children unattended in an unlocked apartment. They didn’t give their children a second thought, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the (allegedly) frequent trips back to the apartment were for another ‘more personal’ reason than checking on their wellbeing.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:19 am
my darling Teddy 104 - would you like me to drift away from pleasure beach as well?
bissous xxx
November 15th, 2007 at 11:18 am
press the button
November 15th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Come on. This whole topic is dying a death. Nothing new is ever posted and most of the entries are garbled nonsense.
I for one would as Anorak to close down the McCann forums and let these simple minded posters drift into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:17 am
100
re trial not aquittal
November 15th, 2007 at 11:16 am
94 Snakeplissken
It was said yesterday that extradiction procedures were very far away. Even extradition from the UK to Portugal (ie within the EU) would only be started after the Portuguese prosecution pressed charges against the McCanns and if they did not turn up in Portugal for further questionning or trial. Only then would they be able to initiate extradition procedures.
That is different from issuing an international search warrant. That again would require that the authorities would have pressed charges but that they did not know their whereabouts (note that the McCanns have appointed legal counsel in portugal to represent them - even in their absence - through all legal proceedings).
I imagine that with non-EU countries (USA) any extradition procedures would possibly be more lenghty.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:15 am
99 Tony. Let them talk! I wish the Portugues would lift their ‘ban’ and let the Mccanna speak as freely as they like! Get them on the talk shows and ask them the pertinant questions, how many corpses Kate?!!!
Itchy nose Gerry?