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 10:23 pm
704
Stevo
There most be photos, and lots of them. Anyone who goes on holiday with their family is going to take LOADS of pics. So why don’t they release them? What are they hiding? Makes you wonder…
The “new photo” shows Madeleines right eye, red?
Yet no “red” on the eye with the “coloboma ”
I’m sure I read somewhere that the coloboma would show up red on a photoraph?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
724
Meejician
That whole Huelva trip is bizarre. If you go on the time they spent there (McCann testimony), I see no point in them making the trip at all. Why drive 120 miles to spend around 2 hours? What was so Godly important to go that far - to another country on a day the town was effectively closed? And hey…not even to spend much time there!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
578
Tony Bennett Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
532 Maria
REPLY: We will draw our own conclusions
INDEED… (wot wot - HHS aka Seymour Laws aka Mike Hondemburst, please translate into provincial solicitor’s Latin)
December 18th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
563
Stevo Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
552
Remigius
One thing is certain. John Corner was helping the McCanns above and beyond what would be considered normal. On Panorama for instance where he uses a zoom lens to emphasise how short the distance was from Tapas Bar to room.
What I’d like to know is how Mr Corner got into the Tapas Bar. The 5 former British police couldn’t get in could they? The McCanns had left Ocean Club by the time Corner was there to help with the movie making on their way to Huelva. So, how did Corner get in?
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Via the McCanns.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
714 simon
i weere thrashed te sleep wi’ a brooken’ bottle if i were looky…
December 18th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
700
Remigius Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
684 chenier
Oh, do not twist, and do not exaggerate what we’ve said on that score.
I’ve stayed in MANY a hotel, worked in MANY a hotel, and while it always has its moments, the Dantesque kinds of scenes described by Egglady and others is, well, it is bizarre. And noisy. And yet, Gerry says the evening that madeleine was abducted, perhaps only seconds after he left her side, all was deadly still–absolutely silent. No screaming, inconsolable babies, no vomiting children, no little girls sobbing “Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!” for hours.
The inconsistencies are striking, aren’t they?
Since drinking copious amounts of plonk does not usually cause deafness, you kind of have to wonder about the Tapas 9s’ various, inconsistent statements.
Now, what were we arguing about again?
and hey, whot’s the deal with the coma talk?
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You appear to be labouring under the impression that the McCanns could be banged up for offences involving the possession of a Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver.
It’s not exactly a magnificent demonstration of the McCanns’ moral turpitude.
I am pointing out that the McCanns’ lawyers would be laughing all the way to the bank if the PJ did anything so stupid.
Far better to stick with the forensic evidence that Madeleine is almost certainly dead, and that her parents know a great deal more about it than they are presently conceding
As for the coma…There was a suggestion that Madeleine may have been kept in a comatose state for several weeks. I was merely pointing out the various practical difficulties that this may present, even for a couple of Doctors….
December 18th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
679 - Pilimary wrote: “In the 21st century, NOBODY, in the U.K., Portugal, Spain, the U.S., Norway, France, Germany, Holland, that is, the developed world (all its errors and failures included) is above the law”.
REPLY: PILIMARY IS INCORRECT -EUROPOL OFFICERS ARE ABOVE THE LAW
I wish your statement were true, Pilimary, but it has not been true since the passing of the notorious Statutory Instrument, The European Communities (Immunities and Privileges of the Euroepan Police Office) Order 1997, S.I. No. 2973 of 1997. Identical legisaltion was passed into law in all other E.U. countries that year or the year after.
Not heard of it?
I’m not surprised.
The establishment and their friends in the media increasingly tell you only what they want you to know.
This legislation was passed by the Houses of Commons and the Lords in 1997 and was one of the factors leading to my conversion to euro-scepticism that very year.
It provides, quite simply, that the officers of the E.U. Police Force, commonly known as EUROPOL, shall have virtually complete immunity from prosecution, no matteer what acts they commit in the course of their duties including e.g. murder.
I was born into a society (the U.K.) where the rule of law applied to everbody, even to the Royals and the government, unlike many other countries.
But this is no longer the case. And EUROPOL is growing fast in terms of numbers, influence and powers. Plus the paramilitary European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) is also being developed, is already operational in 5 E.U. countries, and they also have the same immunity from prosecution.
IMO a grave danger to civil liberty in the future.
Here, for the record, is that immunity from prosecution in black-and-white, set out in Paragraph 15 of those 1997 Regulations.
I hope one day that we can repeal this significant undermining of the rule of law in this country:
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The European Communities (Immunities and Privileges of the Euroepan Police Office) Order 1997
PARAGRAPH 15.
Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Board, in the case of the Director, Financial Controller and members of the Financial Committee, by the Director, in the case of staff members of Europol, or, in the case of the members of the Board, by the Member State of the European Union of which the member is the representative, such persons [EUROPOL Police Officers] shall enjoy immunity from suit and legal process in respect of acts, including words written or spoken, done by them in the exercise of their official functions, except in respect of civil liability in the case of damage arising from a road traffic accident caused by them.
UNQUOTE
December 18th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
710
Remigius
I hate it when people use that argument that a housewife is worth like $100,000 because she’s a chauffeur, housemaid, nanny, cook - all rolled into one. What they fail to see is they’re not performing all those duties in parallel! Yes, life was tough years ago and it’s sad to see so many flaky parents these days - both male and female - before I get told off for being sexist.
Being a parent is great isn’t it? Isn’t part of the “cost” the fact that you get royally entertained? Isn’t that priceless?
Not to the McCanns evidently!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
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Remigius Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
562 Tinsel, Stevo
The problem is this–Corner doesn’t per se fabricate evidence. He does take film footage that is strongly supposed to promote the McCanns’ abduction scenario.
But by going to Huelva with them in what we can safely call “the cadaver car,” he becomes a witness. Now, he implies on CBS/BBC that he was in the car the whole time with the McCanns, and saw nothing and smelled nothing suspicious. But his own film footage shows that at least for part of the trip, he and his assistant had their own car. You can see it as he films the McCanns on the road to Huelva.
This film footage is certainly evidence of their trip to Huelva, but it is curious, self-generated, self-created evidence designed, as is all of corner’s film work, to put the McCanns in the best possible light.
I suppose in the end, it comes down to his credibility. I mean, in theory, the waiter at the Tapas bar is a witness. One could argue he is a “paid” witness, but this just means he was working his shift at the time he saw and heard what he saw and heard. So the waiter remains an impartial, disinterested witness with a high indicia of credibility.
But if Corner is working directly “for” the McCanns, being paid either by them, the fund, or some millionaire supporter, or even just selling his “exclusive” footage (like the Madeleine birthday party vids) to the BBC etc., then this fact would greatly decrease his credibility as an impartial observer of the scene.
But Corner
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I’m back-reading so may be overtaken. But the PJ said, about the trip from Huelva, that the McCanns had left their relative, who was filming them at the time, and HE had no idea where they went. This is what alertd the PJ. Corner was left in Huelva, without notice, and when the McCanns reappeared, they said they’d been for a McDonalds……………………. Sheesh.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Its for a good cause!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
718 Ian
That means I’d have to mess about with Gerry’s right leg. It’s bad enough having to watch him anyway. Please don’t make me do that!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
707 Stevo
I agree–human pets much easier to train.
Not always as loving, of course.
But the human pet housebreaking is nothing compared to the doggie pet training.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
713 Pat
I’m eastern USA…right next to Kentucky/Ohio and West Virginia. Minutes away from all 3. What’s that got to do with Derby County?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
714 Simon
Luxury!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Stevo,
Have yo considered seeing if you could remove the jumping madeleine and see what that photo looks like then?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
The McCanns say in this latest Daily Mail article:
“They have said they are dreading the festive celebrations without Madeleine, but want to have a “very quiet, private Christmas with family”, and to keep the day as normal as possible for the twins.”
Yeah right. If they’d looked after the kids properly they’d have all 3 this Christmas wouldn’t they? Looking after your child is free - it doesn’t cost a penny.
But no. The McCanns chose wine over their children and now Madeleine isn’t there to share it with her twin siblings.
The audacious b*****ds!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
708 chenier
Yes, you are a nasty devil, aren’t you! So proud of your evil number! In the realm of the demonic, yes, you are cool.
I am just kidding.
I do remember all my arguments. What’s the deal with the coma, etc.?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Correction:
I meant to write; in USA
December 18th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
710
That’s nothing. I grew up in a cardboard box on the motorway.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
705
Stevo
I asked because I know Rams are Derby and for some reason I thought you were not in US.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
410
Mary Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Quote “Plus there are a number of paedo networks - particularly one in Belgium, which should have been looked into and yet so much time has been wasted on pondering over the movements /behaviour of this family!
A lot of these networks keep children in basements for months as they sexually abuse them before finally murdering them !!! So could some of you out there stop wasting all our time mulling over the families movements and instead call for a NEW professional investigation into a number of potential suspects who slipped through the net because of all this pointless babble! ” Unquote.
You seem to have a lot of info on paedofile rings, is it personal experience? If you know of a kiddie ring in Belgium why not go to the police?
Probably cause you made it all up? Or you ain’t finished cleaning the apartment/cellar properly yet?
But any links you can provide for such statements would be invaluable to that countries police. Any decent person would do that. Have you?.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
707
I feel sad for you.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
696 Stevo
I agree. My English grandmother came from a family of 14 surviving children. And my Irish grandmother came from a family of 11 surviving children. And not a holiday taken, ever! A picnic in the spring, once in a great, great while. Of course, neither of their mothers was a GP/Obstetrician-Gynecologist/Anesthesiologist, although in addition to brutal housework, they nursed innumerable children, sick and elderly relatives, and volunteered to tend the wounded during the various wars. Oh, the pressure modern-day women must feel…..
December 18th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
703
Jolly Good Ade. I love old Monty.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
683
Remigius Says:
December 18th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
666 chenier
Oo, do note the mystical number present here!
It’s the number of “the beast,” is it not?
“Colic” does not equal “crying a lot.”
“Crying a lot” can have a great many causes.
Bridget Eggman indicates that she was “exhausted,” claims many vacationing parents at PDL similarly “exhausted,” focus is constantly on herself, not even on making good memories for her child, just of veiled partnership complexities….
Sounds like Mark Warner was more of a “Mommy Dearest” convention that fateful May.
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Had you bothered to actually read the article I cited it would have been obvious that the diagnosis is not simply based on ‘crying a lot’.
And you appear to have forgotten that this discussion originated in your claim that a burp, a pat on the back and a little light conversation would have been more than adequate to stop the baby crying.
It is somewhat difficult to conduct a rational debate when the person debating cannot even remember his/her own arguments.
And I got to be 666; how cool is that?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
699 Simon
What do I mean? I thought it was obvious. You don’t have to walk a child do you? You don’t need to shovel poo from a cat litter tray. A nappy is a doddle by comparison.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
130
“You effing fucker don’t call me a knobhead , you are a chareletan trying to take everybody for a ride . You know nothing, never have and never will, you are a stupid old macc troll, trying to sound impressive. You are trying to take down the Anorak site, you never will you frigging meathead, i think you are an old incontinent woman, so go piss yourself/”
A truly wonderful quote from earlier today (I would like to point out that I am being sarcastic
Now, is this person Pro or Anti, would you say?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
702 Pat
I’ve followed soccer all my life. East Midlands/Yorkshire/Lancashire. But rugby league is my #1 sport. Why do you ask?
December 18th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
680
Annie_M
The McCanns make me sick. There they go releasing more unseen Madeleine photos…but none from the week in PDL - because there are none! Sheesh!
December 18th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
699 simon
i ‘ave a pet fish called eric who is very difficult to get a licence for….
so there…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnq96W9jtuw&NR=1