
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 8:54 pm
592 Stevo
I see it. There’s also a similar sheet or blanket at 0:56. So perhaps they had a set of matching towels as well.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
605 Tony Bennett
Good find! They certainly have called in favours haven’t they?
December 18th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
607…Ann
December 18th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
NO kidding! There seems to be a thread up since July with posters like SwissMiss, Kat, etc. which continues till this day. Anyone of you knew about this?
http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/174995.html#comment-159348
Would sincerely appreciate your comment[s].
December 18th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
602 remigius
I know!!! The hundred faces of Madeleine! She actually looks older in older photos. The ones at PDL she looks quite babyish.
This video is interesting - it’s the plane video. Notice how on the bus her trousers look more like long shorts but as she boards the plane it looks like the clothes she’s wearing by the playground. The shorts suddenly become longer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpKUyK9whw&feature=related
December 18th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
604
Matt. Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
600…Ann
Who the chuck is Dora the Explorer ???
geez
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Why did I know you’d ask that ?
Kids programme, she teaches kids basic Spanish, little kids love her, my Granddaughter has loads of toys from the programme and trots out these little Spanish phrases all the time
December 18th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
584
lilith Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
545
Chenier
This all about Clarence the Clown discrediting a witness who say Kate on the balcony on the second floor.
Why else make such a fuss of it?
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Because Clarence makes a fuss about anyone suggesting that the fragrant duo are not in line for the next Nobel Peace Prize?
Clarence’s life has gone downhill rather rapidly; it looks as if he leapt at the McCann job as an escape route from a job where he had ceased to matter following Blair’s retirement.
Alas, the escape route appears to have turned into the PR equivalent of the Titanic…
December 18th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
594 Matt.
589 Stevo
Thanks for the help, it *was* Brian Kennedy that spoke of calling in favours, that’s why I coudn’t find it. Here is the full reference from SKY NEWS, 18 July 2007. I think it’s stil of some little interest:
SKY NEWS - QUOTE
Exclusive: Parents To Stay In Portugal
By Lisa Dowd - Midlands Correspondent
Updated:10:36, Wednesday July 18, 2007
The parents of Madeleine McCann have told Sky News they will stay in Portugal until they find their missing daughter.
[Picture: McCanns continue search]
Kate and Gerry McCann said: “We have got no plans to come home. We only want to return with Madeleine.”
It is now 76 days since the four-year-old was abducted [sic] from her parents’ holiday apartment in Portugal.
Brian Kennedy, the missing girl’s great uncle, said it would be a “great ordeal coming back without Madeleine. I think when they do come home it will be low-key.”
But the retired headteacher, whose sister Susan is Kate’s mother, thinks they will be strong enough to allow their younger children Sean and Amelie a normal life.
“It would be a natural reaction to feel very over-protective towards the twins, but they’re sensible and I’m sure that won’t happen”.
Brian is chairman of Madeleine’s Fund, now in itself a full-time job. So far it has raised more than £900,000.
“We’re going to need it, there are big bills coming in for things we’ve produced, for travel, for accommodation while Gerry and Kate are out there.
“They’re not wealthy and there’s no way we could carry on without it”.
[Picture: Madeleine's great uncle]
Responding to criticism that the McCanns would not have had so much help if they weren’t doctors, he said: “It’s true we have friends we could call on that others may not have - and we used them, we called in favours.
“Our view is that any parent wherever they are, whatever they do, should get the same publicity as Madeleine has and if we can do anything through the fund for others then we will.”
UNQUOTE - REST OF NEWS ITEM SNIPPED
P.S. I thought this extract from the SKY NEWS report was of interest in relation to the use or abuse of funds donated to the ‘Find Madeleine Fund’:
“We’re going to need it, there are big bills coming in for things we’ve produced, for travel, for accommodation while Gerry and Kate are out there”.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
600…Ann
Who the chuck is Dora the Explorer ???
geez
December 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
This is freaky. 30 seconds into this video Sean is wearing a t-shirt with URAT on it…lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpKUyK9whw&feature=related
December 18th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
592 Stevo
And it looks like about 5 different little girls, doesn’t it!
December 18th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
596…Slyfox
It could refer to any of many possible sources….but wherever they were
from….they sure rattled them +++.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
532
Matt. Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
519…Ann
Doctors also use a torch/light to attempt to ascertain eye/retina responses
in states of sedation/coma/death.
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Granted, but go back to the full post I made which said ….”the two men were arguing outside the door, ( of the dark room she was in ) they spoke like Dora, ( Dora the Explorer ) they came in and shone the torch in her eyes then they went outside and argued even more loudly and then the big white angel took her out of the water ” Not Doctors, not lookinmg for that stuff, looking at the blemish and then decided they had made a Grade A mistake and got rid of her
December 18th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
329 carmen
does Brian Gerrish have “hindsight” - in his own view of course?? haha
too much doom destroys the gloom…
such fun
December 18th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
580
Logic Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
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Indeed; I don’t think we are disagreeing.
Someone with medical training might well be able to improvise over a short period of time, at extreme risk of sepsis; my view was that it would be impossible for the extended number of weeks suggested by the original poster…
December 18th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
591
onequestion?
That’s been mentioned a lot but we can’t see the whole room so can’t really say one way or the other with any certainty.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Matt et al: sorry no time to keep track of numbers etc.
Re McCann defence team mentioning “doctored” photos, could this refer to photo stills or footage the PJ have of GM and RM pre or during PDL?
December 18th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Tony Bennet
You got a laugh out of me with this re Maria–
MARIA: Honestly, Tony, your remarks about walking the baby are just not sound. Someone could easily walk a baby in a buggy to amuse/soothe them….
TB REPLY: I didn’t deny that at all. I just said it would have been much easier to walk the baby round the room for a few minutes soothing her. Instead of: “Bridget, leave this to me. You can’t calm the baby. *I’ll* take the baby for a walk in the pushchair. I may be gone some time…”
I agree with you. It’s a kind of strange thing to do. You’re tired, your baby’s crying, you’d just perhaps change him, burp him, pat on the back and say something soothing….but NO! Lug him out in the pushcart late at night, go clatter-clatter-clatter up and down the tiled walkway, and it’s COLD in Portugal then–JT went into great detail about the “abductor” wearing heavy clothes. This all has to be VERY uncomfortable for the leetle baby!
And talk about noise late at night in a resort–do the parents have to drag those pushcart things up and down the stairs to their unit, do you know? Listen to THAT at 9 pm–BahBAM! BahBAM! BahBAM! and on and on and on (how many steps were there?).
Yeah, Jes’s story is starting to sound…mccannish!
Thanks, jes’s wifey! uh, I mean, partner….
December 18th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
589…Stevo
I think it was Brian Kennedy, (Great Uncle) who said the “Favors” etc.
Might have been John McC though.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
hello folks
just fell in from the taxi
big doom big geetarr day
anyone got a summary of today’s play before i collapse on the sofa?
December 18th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Looks like a Mexican/Aztec pattern carpet in one of the photos in this video at 3:22:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2digRPLBGSk
December 18th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I have followed the discussions here for ages and it occurred to me tonight that what had made K certain that m had been abducted was the fact that Cuddlecat had been placed on a high shelf which a young child could not have reached. However once the photos of the room came out - I could not see any high shelf or unit at all. Any ideas? Anyone?
December 18th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
555
Let’s not forget Kate’s DNA found in a place where, according to the PJ , she shouldn’t have been.
I think they mean the service area under the apartment.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
582 remigius
Well Amelie’s hair was blonde in all the PDL pictures after May 3 that I’ve seen. I doubt they’d dyed Amelie’s hair brown then back to blonde again.
Tony Bennett
I’m not sure which of the two men “called in some favours”. I do remember it though.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
“Something strange happened on the Way to the Forum” [remember the title?]:
- I just checked onto Anorak again
- I see “Recent Comment” heading
- I see a post called “Lauren on Madeleine McCann Not In Malta Or Morocco”
- I think I’ve been missing a new thread being up today
- I check
- I get: “5591 Responses to “Madeleine McCann Not In Malta Or Morocco”
- I’m curious; haven’t seen this many post in one day in a missed thread …
- I cannot get any further than :
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paula Says:
October 16th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
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December 18th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Lots of new Madeleine photos in this video - one of Kate in a hammock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2digRPLBGSk
December 18th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
583 Tony Bennet
I believe that was Gerry’s brother, but I will go back and have a listen/look-see.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
581 Stevo
all the more reason to ask who paid his PDL travel/living expenses. And who made up for his time lost at work (assuming he had other projects)? A good accountant doing a once-over on the books could tell you a lot about this bloke.
How much did BBC/CBS pay Corner for the vids? And did he “share” any of that with his godchild’s parents?
December 18th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
545
Chenier
This all about Clarence the Clown discrediting a witness who say Kate on the balcony on the second floor.
Why else make such a fuss of it?
December 18th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
576 Remigius says (December 18th, 2007 at 8:15 pm):
562 Tinsel
Stevo
Was it John Corner who talked about ‘calling in a few favours’? Or was that Gerry McCann’s brother?