Madeleine McCann: The Age Of Jose Anes, Gerry McCann’s Fury And Murat’s Nannies Know Best
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN: “No one will ever stand trial”
Because no one has been charged with any crime?
Or: “NOBODY will EVER stand trial over missing Madeleine McCann because cops made so many vital blunders,” says the Sun. And so too says Jose Anes, 62: “Mistakes in the early hours demolished the entire case”
The ex-director of Lisbon’s police lab is “Portugal’s top forensic expert”, a billing the lab’s current director may dispute
Mr Anes says: “If the scene is not preserved in the first hours, all the hours of effort that follow are useless. I am utterly convinced — unless some new, concrete evidence suddenly emerges — the case will never reach trial”
But what of the evidence gathered so far, like the DNA samples found in the McCanns’ hire car?
“Maddie sniffer dog ‘was rigged’” - Gerry McCann is “FURIOUS” – as often he is. He “believes sniffer dogs used to find Maddie clues in the family’s hire car were MANIPULATED by cops”
Says a “source close to the couple”: “Gerry says a dog went up to the Scenic, sniffed around and went to head off. He watched the dog being brought back to the vehicle. Finally, it reacts around the boot area. Gerry was open-mouthed at that, he feels the dog was manoeuvred into a position where it could react”
And smell
“Murat pals ’saw him near flat’” – “SUSPECT Robert Murat was PALS with British holiday nannies who say they saw him the night Maddie vanished, it has emerged”
Good friends? “And at least two of the girls knew him well enough to be on first name terms”
That’s close, eh
“A source confirmed yesterday that he did befriend several girls, adding: ‘A lot are attractive and he made a beeline for them. When they were asked who was near the apartment that night, several mentioned Murat”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine: Forensics expert says inquiry is ‘complete waste’ because of police blunders at apartment”
Says Jose Manuel Anes: “Huge amounts of money were spent but if, in the first hours, the due precautions for the preservation of the crime scene were not taken, all this hard work goes down the drain. We can spend rivers of money which will all go down the drain if the crime scene is not properly isolated”
The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell says: “It is alarming to hear that Mr Anes has this view. All we want, and have done throughout, is to ensure the operational police side of this has been done in an effective and efficient manner as possible”
And why is Mr Anes – “the 62-year-old” - speaking out now? Because he’s making his comments known in a book called The McCanns’ Guilt – not that the case will ever, come to trial, you understand
“Madeleine: Gerry’s fury at ‘bungling’ dog handlers” – More Gerry McCann fury
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE COPS HIDE WITNESS”
Says the paper: “The key witness in the Madeleine McCann inquiry was in hiding last night after fleeing Portugal” – Jane Tanner? Kate McCann? Gerry McCann? No, the unnamed Portuguese tapas waiter…
“Pals say he is terrified his identity is about to be revealed and claim he is also scared of British and Portuguese government influence in the probe…Friends add that he is worried about the private eyes hired by Gerry and Kate McCann, both 39, to help find their daughter”
One former work colleague of the waiter says: “He does not want to be involved in any of this. Through no fault of his own he finds himself at the heart of this worldwide mystery”
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE: WITNESS GOES ON THE RUN ‘TO PROTECT HIS EVIDENCE’”
“THE key witness in the missing Madeleine McCann case was in hiding last night after fleeing Portugal”
“POLICE WERE ‘SIDETRACKED’ BY MCCANNS” - Former police crime scene chief Jose Manuel Anes is “ONE of Portugal’s top forensic experts”
The WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER investigates. Mr Anes is “71”
And “last night hinted that Kate and Gerry McCann were partly to blame for the flawed investigation into their daughter’s disappearance”. Although the Sun says it was those bungling Portuguese police (see above)?
“They should not have been thinking of the poor little parents but I understand the human dimension and the pressure which immediately involved the investigators. Sometimes the police are too human. The police must be absolutely objective. Somebody’s suggestions and complaints connected to a person’s disappearance should be set aside while the evidence is being gathered. In the moments immediately following the occurrence the goal is to gather everything and preserve everything”
Not bungling, rather too caring; too human
DAILY MIRROR: “McCann DNA clue ‘useless’”
Jose Manuel Anes is 62. He is the retired head of Portugal’s police science laboratory.
He tells the Mirror, and everyone else: “I fear the case will never reach trial” - and even if it did, no jury would be able to convict anyone.
BBC: Audience for BBC News 24 peaked in 2007 at 8.2 million in the week ending 1 July for the bomb attack on Glasgow Airport and at 7.9 million for the story of the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann in the week ending 13 May
Madeleine McCann: The ratings winner
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December 18th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Does anyone have a good version of the playground picture, where gerry is looking down at something sean is doing, no amelie and madeleine jumping, a madeleine lookalike child also there - her back to the photographer?
The one which looks as if madeleine has been pasted in?
December 18th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Increasingly incredulous
Does your name refer to the innocence of the McCanns? If so, me too!
December 18th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
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brandon flours, thanks for the link, I’ll be back after the cleaning is done.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Maybe why it took ages for a photo of him to be found
December 18th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
238 brandon flours
Totje
what times
the nannies might have seen him later and then thought he was there earlier
hes the image of David Payne
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You could be right. On the other hand the nanny’s must have seen him [t.i. Murat] more often before that event. So in theory it should be possible for them to see the difference between mr Payne and mr Murat.
Sadly we don’t know how good their memories are/were. We don’t know how much ‘contamination’ of witnesses’ memories is caused by talking to eachother, or by suggestive questioning. We don’t know if and how, the pj [amaral] tested the nanny’s recollection and/or recognition.
I’ll be back in a few minutes, puppy has thrown up, have to clean [no need to change sheets, thank heaven for that
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December 18th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
The police were never going to arrest the Mc’s and put the twins in care at Christmas. Bad PR and all that. Are they having their last supper?, roll on January.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
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Harry Hind Sight Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
The Waiter says
“it would have been impossible for an abductor to strike without being seen”
- no need for a child minder then - even without a child minder it was impossible for an abductor to strike unseen.
Case dismissed
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So, no adbuctor?
December 18th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV2IvI6S
robert murat
December 18th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
“But the article says the letters will be sent this week and have been approved by the Ministerio Publico (that means the public prosecutor!).”
It says the requests are “with” the prosecutor - not that they’ve been approved.
Now, allow for the fact that just last week, supposedly these requests had not only been approved, but sent…..
“1. We don’t know which questions were asked and how (other than what the british tabloids report). Zll interviews were recorded in paper translated and signed by the interviewees. So in January we’ll be able to discuss this a bit more.
We could have been discussing them in November - but the PJ asked for an extension of secrecy. Why?
Oh, and there’s rather more in the Portuguese press than the British…..
2. Separation between laywer and suspect. The PJ cannot do that and would not do that
Well, the claim is explicit. We shall see. And note, not denied by the lawyer in question.
“I’m afraid you’re talking about myths that are reported in tabloids.”
That’s rich……
“Why don’t you comment on what we know? We do know that the MET doctored pictures of Jean Charles de Menezes to make him look like the terrorist. Yet the officers are still working and the head of the met is still hapilly getting his salary. Why don’t you comment on confirmed cases rather than coming into this forum with myths about the police forces of another country?”
what has that to do with the competence of the PJ, and the weakness or otherwise of their case against the McCanns - other than as a diversionary tactic, of course.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
232 lileth - this is a different view of the apartment from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/gallery/2007/may/15/1?picture=329854850
December 18th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq2I9TFr
david payne
December 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Totje
what times
the nannies might have seen him later and then thought he was there earlier
hes the image of David Payne
December 18th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Lunch break… No time to catch up all posts. May be later.
212 brandon flours :
The nannies that saw murat that night 3 may
wasnt he helping the police with interveiws then?
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IF true they saw him, this isn’t the explanation for seeing him. Remember [IF true what the papers wrote about his claims to have an alibi] he stated he was with his mum that night?
December 18th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
The Waiter says
“it would have been impossible for an abductor to strike without being seen”
- no need for a child minder then - even without a child minder it was impossible for an abductor to strike unseen.
Case dismissed
December 18th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
very classy lol
December 18th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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can’t say no Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 11:45 am
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Why SOME BRITISH PRESS WAS IN ALGARVE PAYING 5 EUROS, TO ANY PERSON THAT WOULD TELL BAD THINGS ABOUT THE P.J. ?
SHAME ON YOU, U.K. !!!!
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What a bunch of tightwads!
Things have got pretty bad when the British Press is reduced to offering petty cash as bribes…
December 18th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
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brandon flours Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I can afford a baby sitter!
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Me, too! Work that out. 4 couples, 4 hours, £10 per couple. What price safety, eh? A child’s life is worth less than £2.50 per hour to these people.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_03/mcannfrontES_468×234.jpg
Hideki
No balcony.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I can afford a baby sitter!
December 18th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
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Harry Hind Sight Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
On the left, those who believe the Doctors McCann did it;
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Did what? That’s the problem with you extremists. You can’t understand that life is greyscale.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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Ian
6 dead bodies in a few weeks for a locum GP who does not even have her own office and works 1 day a week.
I think it’s safe to say she is out of a job because all her patients are dead.
Too bad the McMurdersuspects didn’t have a Madeleine fund they can stick their fingers in before.
Imagine, Kate was so poor she had to do handle dead bodies in shorts and tops.
In fact she was so poor she could not even afford to wash them and she had to go on holiday in reeking cadaver stained clothes!
Poor thing.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Old Harry Hind Sight takes the truth hounds for another uncomfortable drive along class divide lane.
On the left, those who believe the Doctors McCann did it;
On the right those who do not.
Which side of the street will hold its value in the years to come, and where would you prefer to live, if given the choice?
In a credit crunch it will be the properties in the marginal areas will fair worst e.g the Balhams of this world.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
From the Dailt Express, October 24th
MADDY: FATHER PLAYED TENNIS AFTER SHE VANISHED
THE father of Madeleine McCann stunned hotel staff by organising a game of tennis while the massive hunt for his daughter was under way, it was revealed yesterday.
Waiter Jose Baptista, 45, told how the staff were amazed by the calm demeanour of Gerry McCann and his wife Kate in the agonising days after Madeleine disappeared.
Heart specialist Gerry, 39, is also said to have regularly wandered down to the tapas bar at the family’s holiday complex where he was given free bottles of wine to take back to his apartment. Mr Baptista added that staff at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz rarely saw the McCanns display any emotion away from the TV cameras.
“If my kid disappeared I’d go insane. I wouldn’t be able to function. They’d have to lock me away,” said Mr Baptista.
“They were so cool about it. All the staff commented about how they were able to play tennis and take things calmly. Everybody around them seemed more upset than they were.
“They very rarely showed any signs of affection like they did for the cameras. I think I saw them holding hands once. But they weren’t always together and affectionate like they are in front of the cameras. I never saw close contact.”
Mr Baptista said he often saw the couple after Madeleine, four, went missing – especially at the tapas bar where they had been dining when she vanished on May 3.
Mr Baptista, who has been interviewed twice by Portuguese police, said: “The McCanns moved to another apartment but we still saw them.
“The management told us we shouldn’t charge them for anything because of their situation. Gerry would often come up to the bar to ask for a beer or a bottle of white wine.
“Sometimes we would take them some dinner to their apartment because they didn’t want to eat in the restaurant.
“What we found really strange was Gerry playing tennis a few days after the little girl disappeared.
“He played with an old couple from England. I just thought that everybody else in the group seemed more upset and stressed and bothered than the parents.
“They are very cool people. I never saw them cry or anything. They played tennis and went jogging. They didn’t seem as distraught as their friends.”
A source close to the couple’s lawyers said that, in the days after Madeleine disappeared, they were advised by criminal psychologists not to display too much emotion in case a kidnapper was watching. He said: “They were told a child abductor might be getting his kicks from their grief so they should try to maintain an air of calm.
“They were very conscious whoever had taken their daughter may be watching their every move and Madeleine’s life may depend on their reactions and appearance.
“Who would not behave differently, even ‘oddly’, in such circumstances? Inside, this was, and continues, to tear them apart.”
Mr Baptista, who served the McCanns on the night Madeleine disappeared, has told the Daily Express how the couple and their seven holiday friends made a special arrangement with resort managers to be allowed to dine in the tapas bar. For four nights the group, known as the Tapas Nine, spent around three hours there while their children were left unattended.
Mr Baptista said he told police, during two interviews lasting four hours, that he believed Madeleine’s disappearance could only have been the fault of her parents or a family friend.
The group could not see the McCanns’ apartment from their table.
Mr Baptista also said he cannot understand why the group did not use the resort’s babysitter service which would have cost £10 an hour between them. He insisted it would have been impossible for an abductor to strike without being seen.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I am (49), my dog is (10), my cat is (13). Okey now what does anyones age have to do with this case? A little girl is missing! How about we stop fighting and look for her.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
class is a frame of mind, some one else’s.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
214 Harry
I don’t think they would have been able to put road blocks up in time. The McCanns took 40 minutes (or was it longer?) to call the police. The police would obviously first have to check that she hadn’t just wandered off or was hiding in a cupboard, etc.. They could practically have been over the border by that time, plus the fact that there is, as Sherlock says, no physical border. To close all the border crossing points within a reasonable distance, you would need a regiment of policemen and they would, presumably, have to set up ordinary road blocks. It would not be easy -and certainly not quick- in the middle of the night.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
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brandon flours Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Persons of real class have no need to let people know
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So damned true!
December 18th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
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Ian Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I dont know. I was being sarcastic - I hope you realised!
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Yes! Of course! But it was the nearest reference to the waiter, so I just referenced it.
If it’s the same guy, he’s the one who said the women never got up from the table etc. Very interesting stuff but I wonder why it’s being recycled, and made to sound hush hush?
December 18th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Harry 215 - the morning after the disappearance police were already stopping cars on the southern border. they had already deployed GNR patrols to the algarve border with spain.
It’s true that a possible abductor could have escaped by then. But it’s also true that an abductor could have escaped (by car) and crossed the border even before the alarm was raised to police.
This one about the borders ( like many other) is just a myth…
Let’s be patient and wait until we have all information at our disposal about the investigation. We can then judge the action of the Portuguese police.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Persons of real class have no need to let people know