Madeleine McCann: DNA, Over By Christmas, Police To Question Kate and Gerry McCann
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “Madeleine: DNA clue to deserted farmhouse”
SUNDAY MIRROR: “New Maddy witnesses come forward”
“By Lori Campbell” – the hack you told the police and then all of us about “creepy” Robert Murat
“Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat is back in the frame after two new witnesses say they saw him the night the four-year-old disappeared,” says Campbell of the Mirror
And: “The private detectives from Metodo 3 are also investigating a tip-off that Murat had connections to the criminal underworld and was working as a police informant”
Another lead for the private detectives. Keep those invoices coming…
Says a source inside Metodo 3: “There are serious questions around Murat’s alibi. He says he was at his mum’s house and did not learn of Madeleine’s disappearance until the following morning. But his claims have now been challenged by five eyewitnesses. Three of the McCanns’ friends have always insisted they saw him that night. They say they are sure it was him because of his distinctive right eye. Now two new people have contacted us saying they are certain they also saw him. They do not know each other and called our hotline independently”
“Case ‘will close in 4 weeks’” – “Top cop” Paulo Rebelo “plans to close the case in one month”
SUNDAY MAIL: “Madeleine: British police to question the McCanns ‘in days’”
“A close friend of the McCanns said they believed that only the seven friends would face questioning” - so nothing arranged yet..?
He adds: “We believe that we are getting close to the couple being cleared.”
A spokeswoman for the Home Office says: “If the Portuguese police were to require to travel to the UK then they would need to apply for mutual legal assistance from the Home Office”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “McCanns to face fresh police quiz”
Says a judicial source: “Without forensic proof the investigators have to go for the contradictions in the stories of the McCanns and the other witnesses. The investigation has not changed direction. Authorities believe the McCanns and the other official suspect Robert Murat are implicated”
No news is news
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY: “MCCANNS ‘WILL BE CLEARED BY XMAS’”
“Kate and Gerry McCann are set to be cleared as prime suspects in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine in time for Christmas,” says the paper
Cleared! Big news. What evidence of their innocence – if any is needed? Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “Police chief Paulo Rebelo will have to decide soon whether he has enough evidence to charge them and take the case to the prosecutor. We are relaxed about this. Hopefully Kate and Gerry will be cleared by Christmas”
And: “In another development, it has been revealed that the McCanns – both 39 – are considering offers to publicise the search for Maddie on American TV. It is hoped that highlighting the hunt on major networks in the US – together with Arabic-language adverts due to be broadcast on Moroccan TV – could hold the key to solving the case”
In America… Why?
THE GUARDIAN: “Another flaw in the McCanns’ coverage”
Says Roy Greenslade: “According to the Daily Mirror on its front page, The Sun in a page lead, and the Daily Express also in page a lead, police will speak to the ‘Tapas Seven’. But, according to the Daily Telegraph here, and the Daily Mail here, police plan to question the ‘Tapas Nine’.
“Anyone for eight? I know. A small point. Small, but in the context of the way this story has been covered, significant because it indicates, yet again, that - whatever your opinions might be - reporters cannot agree on a single, simple fact”
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December 21st, 2007 at 10:26 pm
hi dave debbie again , that’s because robert muret is a suspect still in the case ,. and the mcann’s will be cleared by xmas it say’s on the paper today . if you read it.what paper do you read ? .i always get the daily express . it is a very interesting paper to get . it tells you everything about the story on the mcanns and little madeleine . so think on and think positive ok . never think bad . because there is a lot off bad people out there . it is not easy in this world . you always think she will be home ok . like other people .
December 21st, 2007 at 9:29 pm
hi dave my name is debbie carroll , come on now the madeleine mcann story is a world wide story .that’s why the daily express is printing it . she is a lovely little girl and her parents kate and gerry want her back for xmas. would ‘nt you want your child back for xmas if your daughter was missing for a long time. you would be sick with worry. i no i would be if my child was missing . so think about that ok ? .i am very concerned about madeleine and her whereabouts. i no she will be home for xmas p god. she will be so happy to see her mummy and daddy again and give them lots off hugs and kissess. madeleine is on sky news most days.and people are sending her lovely presant’s on xmas day to open .
December 21st, 2007 at 9:04 pm
hello gerry and kate, very good news about madeleine coming home for xmas she will be so pleased and happy to see you both again, she will be home for good. and the abductor’s arrested t god for that, and madeleine will open her present’s again with her sister and brother sean and amelie ,.my name is debbie carroll from ireland . tonyanddebbie@eircom.net email address ok.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. you all will be a very happy family once more , god bless you all . from debbie .
December 17th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Why does the Madeleine McCann story still continue to be on the front pages of every newspaper? When there isn’t any new news of any real significance to report? Why does this seem to be the most important story in the world we live in today I wonder when children go missing every day?
Also I can’t help but get the impression the McCann camp seem to be increasingly trying to put Robert Murat in the frame. Their media machine seems to be focusing on him a lot now. Does anbody else get this impression? At present there is no evidence linking Robert Murat to the crime, but a lot of answers from the McCanns that still don’t add up…. I really hope the truth to this story will come out for all to see in the end.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
1121 hannasus Says: December 3rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Edit….
And each time one of you wonderful beings would tell her what you felt.
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And your point?
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Hannasus
Sorry but the Pj have started the rumour-mongering to the press and would have ended up in prison if the McCanns lawsuit against the Newspaper had gone ahead. It took about three days for the Pj to do damage limitation and shut the McCanns up . Alexander should be diplomatic enough to keep his mouth shut about the McCanns because he does not know what the Pj had been up to BEFORE September with their alleged avidence from alleged places. They were a totally unsafe set of people to questioning anyone about a lost dog. Let alone a lost child.
Dot
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Hello all,
The purpose of diplomats is to iron out any issues between the countries involved.
I believe at the time of increasing frustration with the British Press and ex British Police that the Portuguese did not simply mention it to the press but that they must have approached the British Ambassador. The new guy, Alexander Ellis appointed in September must have been called in for a meeting. I think evidence could have been shown to him to prove that there was a case but that they were being stonewalled. No access to phone records, FSS results taking a long time etc. etc.
Being 40 years old and in that post would indicate some degree of foresight and I believe that since then Alexander has been doing some diplomatic tap dancing of the highest order. And what I find most interesting (the latent novelist in me) is that he has a wife, a Portuguese wife named Maria.
Yes I know it is absolutely LUDICROUS but just before the PJ arrived, Maria had to go away.
And lets face it, she was always totally diplomatic. How many times did people comment on her patience, and dedication to detail. I think a few times she was almost sainted. She was not pro but she was not convinced of guilt and asked a million questions as to why we thought so.
And each time one of you wonderful beings would tell her what you felt.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 am
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Hideki Says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
HOT LIPS HEALY AND THE SMELL OF DEATH
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Hmmmmm…. ideas for a whole new range of “perfumes” comes to mind, “Eau de Cadaver” , ” Death in the Evening”…and so on …
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:02 am
1117 Eric Voglin Says: December 3rd, 2007 at 7:57 am
So how did Tony Bennett get on on the James Whale show last night?
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I’m not a supporter of Tony Bennett’s proposed action(s).
That said, he was treated appallingly by James Whale. Essentially, in my opinion, Tony was set up so that James Whale could vent his spleen at Tony without ever letting Tony state his case. James Whale disconnected Tony when James Whale had finished telling Tony James Whales’ opinion of Tony.
There’s plenty of posts on yesterdays blog after circa 10.30 covering this issue.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:49 am
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Kris Says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:26 am
1072- Brandon Flours. Do you know where I can get the full video of this segment? It was truly bizarre. That particular link you posted was astounding. I’ve been watching a lot of McCann videos this weekend and I must admit, I’m beginning to lean very heavily toward believing ( finally) that this was indeed an enormous smokescreen/coverup. Just based on their bizarre statements on camera. I mean, really, WHY would he say that? It’s like he’s trying to write a bad mystery novel. He’s like Stevo on Crack.
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PMSL
have to go and re shower!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:57 am
So how did Tony Bennett get on on the James Whale show last night?
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
HOT LIPS HEALY AND THE SMELL OF DEATH
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Ann Says:
“Did she not wash herself ? ….her clothes ? Did she just walk out of the Mortuary and get on the ‘ plane and stay in those smelly clothes right up until the point the smell was detected on her ?”
Perhaps Gerry prefers that she not wash? Maybe he likes women with a Morturary Aroma?
I personally think Kate is lying about having dallied with six corpses. She was probably exaggerating, or using some kind of local slang, referring to 6 men she may have allegedly slept with that week. She was possibly not wild about their performance.
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:20 am
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Hideki Says:
Does anyone have any idea or a good reason,why the smell of death has never been linked to GM.Strange don’t you think.”
Kate was reportedly dilly dallying with six corpses just days before she hopped on the plane to Portugal — she was allegedly teaching her Cuddle Cat about death.
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Does anyone have any idea, or a good reason, why the smell of death was even linked to Kate in the first place ? How could she say she smelt of death after having handled six corpses, or having had contact with six corpses. before she left on holiday ? Did she not wash herself ? ….her clothes ? Did she just walk out of the Mortuary and get on the ‘ plane and stay in those smelly clothes right up until the point the smell was detected on her ?
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:02 am
We would like to see the video. How many children were in that room? Was the door closed shut or not? Was the window closed shut or not? Why in the world would any parent leave three (3) small children alone in an apartment roon in a foreign country? Do these people know anything about life?
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:01 am
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MAGNUM Says:
“Does anyone have any idea or a good reason,why the smell of death has never been linked to GM.Strange don’t you think.”
Kate was reportedly dilly dallying with six corpses just days before she hopped on the plane to Portugal — she was allegedly teaching her Cuddle Cat about death.
Gerry was doing Cuddle CAT scans in the laboratory, away from the stench of death.
Quite obviously they had not been intimate in the interim, eh?
What about the rest of the Tapas9? How many of them smelled like rotting meat? Jane Tanner LOOKS like rotting meat…
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:53 am
Does anyone have any idea or a good reason,why the smell of death has never been linked to GM.Strange don’t you think.
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:26 am
1072- Brandon Flours. Do you know where I can get the full video of this segment? It was truly bizarre. That particular link you posted was astounding. I’ve been watching a lot of McCann videos this weekend and I must admit, I’m beginning to lean very heavily toward believing ( finally) that this was indeed an enormous smokescreen/coverup. Just based on their bizarre statements on camera. I mean, really, WHY would he say that? It’s like he’s trying to write a bad mystery novel. He’s like Stevo on Crack.
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:20 am
Hi
This is my first post here. I live on the US west coast and I went to a party last week-end. Everyone there had heard of the McCanns and we had a lively discussion. People were interested in the case but no one seemed to have a strong opinion FOR or AGAINST the McCanns.
I’ve been checking out various blogs on this case and it seems that there are lots of people who have already decided that the McCanns are guilty. I don’t understand how they can be so sure. Even now that the DNA results are inconclusive, people are still convinced of the McCann’s guilt.
Isn’t there a little bit of a doubt in some of you?
Annick
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:08 am
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annie123 Says:
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 am
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Hideki
“It is easy for us to jump on the bandwagon and accuse anyone who comes on here and says they left their kids alone.”
If you are referring to Jane’s story of leaving her baby alone, I did not “accuse” her of anything; she herself provided the anecdote showing a mistake she had made as a parent. I merely said that ANYONE who leaves toddlers alone should be prosecuted, but that the sentence severity would of course involve assessing mitigating factors.
“The big difference being these parent recognise their faults, The McC’s don’t. They think they are indistructable.”
I agree with you. Jane recognizes that her neglect was not deliberate. The McCanns’ neglect is of the worst kind: it is a planned deliberation. They knew they had no intention of using day care every night while out boozing. They (allegedly) had the means available — sedation– to make their neglect ’safe and practicable’. I frankly think they locked the doors, but the neglect hardly diminishes even with locked doors, for that would be an admission that their so-called system of checking was a complete fabrication.
The McCanns have dug themselves into a very very deep hole, and I hope they are buried there.
” I don’t think the McScums have political backing anymore. They are on borrowed gov time.”
I think so too. I predict Clarence Mitchell will bail out by Christmas, saying he has done all he can. The only purpose of tycoon Brian Kennedy is to suck the Madeleine Fund dry before the McCanns are damned by the public, IMO, while endeavoring to keep quiet some Jehovah Witness-related muck.
The Fund will be sucked dry with payments to the Kennedy-Smethurst Metodo3 and by other means. Probably they will leave a small amount in the Fund, which will then be donated to a bona fide charity when they can no longer claim that the girl is alive. JMO.
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:05 am
There have been cases of children left at service stations! The panicked parents were enough to make anyone feel for them, and believe you me, there don’t do it again!
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:58 am
1085= Tinsel- Can’t say I agree with your assessment of the US reception to the McCanns. Most people here don’t have the slightest clue about it— “Madeleine who? When? Where’s Portugal?” etc etc. But Americans are, to a large extent, a credulous group — lacking all the insane coverage you guys have had over there, they will likely assume their innocence unless the U.S. media tell them otherwise.
There was briefly a story on CNN last week and also FOX. Otherwise I haven’t seen anything in months in the U.S. media.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 am
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Hideki
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It is easy for us to jump on the bandwagon and accuse anyone who comes on here and says they left their kids alone. The big difference being these parent recognise their faults, The McC’s don’t. They think they are indistructable.
I have an idea how government works, I workred for them. The gov will turn a blind eye when it suits them. If the McC’s are involved in gov issues, this case will be swept under the carpet until opposing party moves into 10 downing St. I don’t think the McCscums have political backing anymore. They are on borrowed gov yime.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:24 am
I forgot to delete Jane’s quote
“I was not a good parent. I had didn’t have good parents myself and, though I was a better parent than they were, I was far from perfect.”
in the previous quote. I apologize.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:21 am
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Jane Says:
“I left my baby in a pram outside a shop for about 15 minutes once. I’d had little sleep for weeks because he was teething and I walked out of the shop and began walking home half asleep, then realised I’d left him and rushed back for him. He could have been abducted. I suppose that was a form a neglect though it wasn’t deliberate.”
If he’d been abducted, you would have been responsible. Even without the abduction, you were guilty of neglect. It’s up to the courts to determine mitigating factors. Your episode resembles a case in the USA where a toddler was accidentally left in a car, the mother forgetting that she had not dropped her off at daycare. She went to work, and the child died in the car. Again, it’s up to the courts to determine mitigating factors.
I was not a good parent. I had didn’t have good parents myself and, though I was a better parent than they were, I was far from perfect.
“You haven’t answered my question, Hideki, so I take it you weren’t a perfect parent either. ”
Yes, I did. However, I’m here to discuss the McCanns who left 3 toddlers alone for long periods of time several nights in a row. I’m not here to talk about who is a “perfect parent” in all respects.
“Did you allow your children to go out when without you before they were 13? Tony Bennett has said that is child neglect.”
The issue of what age limit should be legally set may be an important one, but it has nothing to do with the McCann child neglect case — unless you are advocating setting the age limit below 2 years of age? Is that what you think, Jane? Or are you just trying to change the subject?
For the McCann case, they did not even claim to have checked on the children the several nights previous. One child was heard sobbing for more than an hour a previous night. After that, the McCanns were OFFERED a babysitting service (that was already available) and they still declined. They admitted being aware of various dangers, including fire and abduction. They are both doctors , 39 years old. They need to be prosecuted for their child neglect, IMO. Again, it’s up to the courts to determine if there are any mitigating factors.
It is NOT up to people like you to determine whether or not child neglectors have “already suffered enough”.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:16 am
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Ariel
Thank you Ariel. We are all shaped by life’s experiences. Some don’t experience or wish to avoid the reallity. They are the ones to be pittied, they will never know the inspiration and true innocence of children.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 am
Annie
I’m so sorry, that is such a sad story, your son obviously is a lovely person and you are right to be proud of him, I have to go now but I am pleased that I talked to you
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 am
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Ariel
The little girl I mentioned, her parents received £1million. They had 2 healthy boys after this, but unfortunatly they lost a much loved daughter again due to the same hospitals neglect. She was a beautiful child, always smiling and had a soft spot for my first born yet could not do anything for herself, slept only 4 hours each night. She was an inpiration, loved life as she knew it, I think it was spina biffida? it was due to lack of oxygen as I believe. Her name was Abigail, coincidence that was the name of the baby abducted when I was pregnant. I do feel inspired having met and known this special little girl. My son, only 2 at the time showed so much understanding towards a disabled child, something he had never encountered before. He has grown so big in his understanding of the less fortunate and a champion for their cause. I am so proud of him, it is something he has learnt, not taught.
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 am
Well am off to bed - thanks for the info annie 123 - as I said I have been mainly reading but my addiction is now complete so guess I will be posting tomorrow - cant wait! G’night
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:52 am
Does anyone know if the T9 story about ‘changing their story’ was true? heard that they denied it - but then they would wouldn’t they? possibly these new interviews would allow them to do that without undergoing pressure form the McC’s and resultant publicity?
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:48 am
Annie
Thank you, I see what you mean, Its amazing actually how we are all accepting the leaving your kids bit, but it is being ‘normalized’ I have to say! Actually you are not taking money from the NHS, as I believe they have a ’special budget’ put aside to pay compensation claims that would not be used for patient care
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 am
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Ariel
If you include G & K in the Tapas 9 = The apartment was locked - which led me to believe an employer or previous employer of MW. This changed to unlocked.
JT saw man carrying child wrapped in blanket, then no blanket.
The arrival of T9 at Tappas does not compute. One says one thing, another says something different.
2 eye witnesses state they did not see abductor when JT said so. They didn’t even see JT.