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 9:48 pm
623 Tony
Nosebleed? When asked if they could explain blood in the apartment on one of their interviews, Kate said ‘we dont even know there was blood found’ or something like that. When did they say they claim had a nosebleed?
December 18th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
667 fencesitter says (December 18th, 2007 at 9:44 pm):
“You may have heard a loud crash followed by muffled curse words, that was me falling heavily off my perch. I shall have to come up with a new moniker”.
REPLY: Heard the crash? I felt the vibrations!
December 18th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
667…fencesitter
WeLiveAndLearn. may be apt.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
No Ade your just snotty, know your place in the scheme of things, yours being at the bottom.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
is comical clarrie really bishop brennan?
does he need a kick up the arse?
we should be told
December 18th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I have gone back to the beginning, three children under the age of 4 left unsupervised in a strange apartment. Another child vomiting and also left alone. Constantly changing statements. The sheer matter of factness displayed by Mr McCann, I have been on many foreign holidays and have never come across fellow holidaymakers who left their children in their hotel room or apartments alone. And the speed with which this became an international story.
You may have heard a loud crash followed by muffled curse words, that was me falling heavily off my perch. I shall have to come up with a new moniker.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
631
Tony Bennett Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
618 chenier says (December 18th, 2007 at 8:58 pm):
“At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, babies with colic do not stop howling the place down for anything as easy as a burp, a pat, and a little light conversation”.
REPLY: Um, chenier, at the risk of asking the blindingly obvious, who says that Bridget O’Donnell’s baby had ‘colic’?
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Well, if you had bothered to actually read O’Donnell’s article you would already have known that she had described another lengthy session of the baby crying before the evening when Madeleine went missing.
And had you bothered to familiarise yourself with the symptoms of colic you would not be asking such inane questions…
December 18th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
660 Ade
Haw haw haw!
I want some of what you’re having!
December 18th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
656 matt
johnny ludlow parp parp
knew him well ha ha
such fun…
December 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
654
Remigius
Sadly I’m a “plastic paddy”
December 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
646 Remigius Says: December 18th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
622 Peter O
What I’m ruminating on was that Madeleine was already deceased prior to the PDL holiday. Therefore they need another child to travel to PDL, using Madeleine’s passport. This is a fairly simple “deception”. The “stand-in” child doesn’t need to pretend to be anyone else, check in desks don’t check children that closely.
The child in question would then travel home later on their own passport. Ergo, does anyone know the ages/movements of the children of Murat and the Exeter couple? In particular, you’d be looking for a child that travelled “home” without apparently having travelled “out” in the first place.
As I said earlier, no evidence to support this theory, I’m just speculating about potential events.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
657 chenier, sleuth
sorry, I came in late. What’s with the coma chat?
December 18th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
655 Remigius
641 Ade
D’ya think QC is Father Ted?
Naaaah
not bright enough
December 18th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
609 Châtelaine
Well, that is a surprise! Wonder where they came from. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of those names anywhere else on here.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
652 remigius
she got hairy hands off them greasy pj type and is in jurassic park
December 18th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
634
Sleuth Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
504,
Chenier
580
Logic
Re: Coma
The reality is that in order to maintain life you would need a lot of specialist kit; paediatric sized venflons, bags of saline and dextrose along with total parenteral nutrition (if you’re talking more than a few days) might be tricky to stumble upon , even if you are a Doctor, especially so in the wake of your child’s purported abduction.
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OK, but my wife has nursed patients who have had brain injuries. Some of them could not speak or move but their eyes were open and they could be spoon fed.
So, although I agree I have used the wrong word to describe this state, it does not mean that Madeleine could not have been like this.
i have to say that, like you, I think this is improbable but I have to return to the fact that whatever has happened is improbable. There just isn’t a probable explanation for what has happened.
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I think perhaps you are describing a state of continuing brain injury resulting from an initial ‘event’ such as a stroke, haemorrhage, cardiac arrest, head injury etc. This state would usually only be seen substantially after the initial event, and after the appropriate emergency management had been successfully carried out. Thus it would be unlikely that without intensive emergency treatment, a child would survive long enough to enter the sort of state where she could be fed and hydrated in the manner you describe.
I think also that it is reasonable to describe the possible accidental death of Madeleine as being no more improbable than any other accidental death is. The reality is that people do die from falls, from drowning in a few inches of water, from choking with no-one on hand to perform the Heimlich Manoeuvre, and so on…
December 18th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
651…Ade
QC….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh8CQRerBVA
December 18th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
641 Ade
D’ya think QC is Father Ted?
December 18th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
650 Annie_M
Speechless? Vous?
You go heat up the tar. I’ll gather the feathers.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
650 annie…
of course - they know everything
December 18th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
641 Ade
Aha, I have solved it–Madeleine is with Father Ted!
December 18th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
647 qc
but maybe i am the teacher
and maybe i have all the qualifications
ha ha ha
not a snotty “qc”
December 18th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Ade
“Do they know who is the abductor that the detective Francisco Marco talks about?
Yes, they are fully informed of every step given by the researchers. ”
I’m speechless…
December 18th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
645 Ade
Haw haw haw!
Listen, maybe the McCanns really WERE thinking this! Because when Kate talks about madeleine saying that the day she disappeared, “This was the best day EVER!” well, that is a line from a SpongeBob show.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
644 mad stuff ha ha ha
greay fun too
December 18th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Ade I find you mentally challenged, but entertaining none the less, your teachers must be very vexed with your lack of advancement…toodle doodle.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
622 Peter O
You raise a lot of decent questions here. I doubt that Murat could be involved in something like child trafficking without it becoming VERY well-known in PDL–a small, tightly-knit community. But the other British couple is an interesting twist. Did they “buy” madeleine, or perhaps, simply agree to take her off her harried parents’ hands?
There are some folks who very willingly take on handicapped, genetically-defective, etc. children. We have some in my local church who do this relentlessly. Although I am sure that they wouldn’t participate in a cover-up crime. That’s the thing….If you were going to “sell” Madeleine, you wouldn’t want her to be living in any kind of proximity to you, would you?
Much as I would love for her to be alive, I tend to think she’s dead. Some kind of homicide. But that is just my opinion. And didn’t the PJ check out the British couple? I thought they did. If there was any suspicion, wouldn’t the British police have watched them?
I hate to say it, but I believe madeleine was killed, either accidentally or otherwise. Too much time has passed, and there is no proof of any abduction or child trafficking, and if the cadaver car thing is true, that is pretty damning. But we honestly don’t know everything–i.e., did the British couple in fact return home?
I think if they were genuine suspects, however, you’d hear about it by now.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
636 reginius
my lovely house
shurely shome mishtake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8linZiGYSeE
December 18th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
“McCanns believe that Madeleine was kidnapped”
METRO interview to Clarence Mitchell,spokesman of the family
“They are innocent victims of a heinous crime.” It was one of the first statements of Clarence Mitchell when, in September, he began his work as a spokesman for the McCanns. Former BBC journalist, Mitchell worked as director of the Central Office of Information, which supervised the unit of media within the British government. He left his post to defend the innocence of Kate and Gerry before the media.
Are the McCanns informed of the developments in the investigations?
They are informed of everything. Thus, we avoid the creation of false expectations in the event that the informations are not true. The detective’s agency is in constant contact with the family, although they only send a report when the information is consistent.
Do the McCanns agree with the theory that Madeleine is alive and was abducted by pedophiles?
Yes, that is the theory in which they believe more strongly, especially because there is no body or other evidence indicating otherwise.
Do they know who is the abductor that the detective Francisco Marco talks about?
Yes, they are fully informed of every step given by the researchers.
At the end of the period of the six months, are they going to renew the contract with the detective’s agency Metodo 3?
They worked on the case over the past three months. When the contract finishes, we will evaluate the results. If they are positive and their work continues to be as efficient as it is now, there are many possibilities for a renewal agreement.
How are the McCanns going to spend the first Christmas without Madeleine?
They do not talk about the subject, but I can assure you that, despite the sadness by the absence of Madeleine,they will do everything possible so the twins spend a happy Christmas. Most likely they will spend the holidays at their home in Rothley or visiting a relative.
Chronology
May 3. Madeleine McCann disappears in the Algarve while their parents dine with friends.
May 15. The police revealed the name of the first suspect, the Englishman Robert Murat.
August 6. Blood was found in the apartment of the McCanns.
August 8. The police believes that Maddie has died.
September 7. The McCann are declared suspects.
October 11. The option of kidnapping takes force.
November 1. The McCanns hire a Spanish detective to look for their daughter.
Andre Barbosa
METRO Portugal
Http://www.diariometro.es/es/a…../index.xml
December 18th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
622 Peter O
Interesting thoughts Peter.
To my knowledge, there were two videos - one on the bus with Gerry’s F-word and the other one on the ramp as Madeleine boards the plane. I think the girl boarding the plane looks to have longer trousers on than the girl in the bus. I may be mistaken though as sometimes infant’s clothes have a habit of falling down - which may account for the shorts getting ‘longer’ and perhaps accounts for why Madeleine tripped.
But why release those videos? Good question.