Madeleine McCann: 20 Years Of Fury, Kate And Gerry McCann Prime Suspects, Robert Murat Says Nothing
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR front page: “YOU’RE STILL PRIME SUSPECTS – McCanns’ fury at police chief warning”
“Kate and Gerry McCann were furious last night after learning they are still prime suspects in daughter Madeleine’s disappearance”
It is now the 105th time Kate and Gerry have reacted with fury of been furious in a tabloid setting
“The couple’s hopes of being cleared today were crushed when police chief Paulo Rebelo asked a judge to extend their arguido status because detectives are sticking to their belief that they accidentally killed the four-year-old”
This was predictable. Robert Murat also remains a suspect
Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “They are frustrated and angry. Frustrated because, yet again, there appears to be no movement in the case when they know they are innocent. They will continue to push for their arguido status to be lifted”
The Correio da Manha newspaper “claimed Kate and Gerry, of Rothley, Leics, could be charged with perjury and wasting police time”
But don’t the police waste enough of that themselves?
“They have been warned by their legal team they may have to go to the European Court of Human Rights to get their arguido status lifted”
Human rights? What of Madeleine’s rights?
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE - McCANNS ARE MAIN SUSPECTS SAY POLICE”
“Kate and Gerry McCann were dealt a crushing blow last night when a police report accused them of killing their daughter Madeleine”
Says a friend: “They are not the prime suspects. As we understand it, the report talks about the police’s continued belief that Madeleine died accidentally in the apartment and that is why Kate and Gerry remain arguidos. It also talks about Robert Murat remaining an arguido and it discusses the possibility of her being abducted. Well, they can’t have it both ways”
No..?
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Throughout 2007 we have declined to comment on speculation in the Portuguese press. We will follow the same policy in 2008. If this report is true, however, and this interim police report exists, then we believe it contains nothing new. It is simply a restatement of the current position of the police. And we note that it not only discusses Kate and Gerry as arguidos, but also continues to name Mr Murat as an arguido. Crucially it also accepts the possibility that abduction took place”
The green shoots of hope…
THE SUN front page: “McCANN AGONY GOES ON – 246 after Maddie vanished, cops name Kate and Gerry as…PRIME SUSPECTS”
“ANGUISHED Kate and Gerry McCann are facing up to living as suspects over their daughter’s disappearance for another TWENTY years, it emerged yesterday”
Maybe…
Kate and Gerry are “both 39-year-old doctors”
Fact!
DAILY MAIL: “Police ’still think McCanns killed Madeleine by accident’ - and they will be suspects for 20 years”
“A secret police dossier has accused Kate and Gerry McCann of accidentally killing their daughter and hiding her body, it was claimed yesterday. The couple faked four-year-old Madeleine’s abduction, according to a leaked report on the eight-month police investigation”
Lawyer Edward Smethurst, who is co-ordinating the McCanns’ defence, says: “Any report about the leaked document we believe is completely without substance. We think it arises out of pure speculation on the part of the Portuguese papers”
Kate and Gerry McCann are “doctors”
THE SCOTSMAN: “Madeleine’s parents could be under suspicion for 20 years, says judge”
“The prospect of the case dragging on for years was reinforced yesterday by the president of the National Union of Portuguese Judges, Antonio Martins, who said: ‘No-one knows what type of crime was committed. If it was homicide, the investigation can only be shelved after 20 years; if it was kidnap, 15 years’”
On we go…
THE OBSERVER: “After a year in which the torment of Madeleine McCann’s family has dominated the British media, the trials of the Lees - and the hope the new image has given them - seem particularly acute”
The story: “Katrice disappeared on her second birthday from a supermarket in Germany, where her father was serving as a soldier. Her mother turned away for a few moments to fetch a pack of crisps for the girl’s party and when she looked back Katrice was gone”
Twenty six years ago…
FOX NEWS: “Missing Madeleine McCann: Irish Witness ‘Clears’ Murat”
Says Martin Smith, who was on holiday in Praia da Luz: “I told police it was definitely not him because the man wasn’t as big as Murat - I think I would have recognised him because I’d met him several times previously. He was wearing beige trousers and a darker top. We all put him in his early 40s and I didn’t think he was Portuguese”
The Speculation Commented Upon
Posted: 4th, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,150) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 4th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
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Jez
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It makes you wonder whether they ALL heard something via the listening device when they were out and thought nothing of it, but when they got back something serious had happened to Madeleine. Guilt for ALL of them for ignoring what they had heard - therefore stick together.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
480 Daisy
I’m sorry, I dont follow you. The McCanns are suspects, probably of covering up an accident, perverting the course of justice etc, Murat of what? Possibly helping them in that disposal and perversion?
There seems to be a significant shift in the pro-McCann stance here today, or are they saying the only crime was actual disposal of a body and all the other stuff is ‘ok’?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
472 Annie_M
There’s going to be a riotous comedy once all this is over. Like yesterday’s Mirror front page about the “snatch”. What a shame Spitting Image isn’t still on telly.
Ian
Yes…or maybe it was Tiny Tears.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
479
Sledgehammer Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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Totally agree with your statement.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Am I not right in thinking that at the time of questioning the McCanns were not, in fact, suspects?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Totally agree with your statement.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
my god must be hitting a nerve there all out again!!!
ok pros
end the speculation get them take a polygraph makes no difference if it comes out they are not telling the truth most people think that anyway
January 4th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
461 Cheryl
I was not made aware of the ‘rules’ for being a pro-McCann, is that the rule? Belief that they didnt murder Madeleine?
Then it might be that I am in fact not one of ‘the rest’ but am in fact a pro-mccann!
So as a Pro-McCann, I am allowed to say I think they neglected her and as a result she died in a tragic accident (as she was alone) and then disposed of her body?
Wow - the Pro-McCann stance is very wide open minded isnt it!
January 4th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
473
Ian Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
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Murat remains a suspect also, or has his “arguido” status been lifted today?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Simply Ian all 3 suspects should have been interviewed at the same time in the same place by different teams, easier for officers to cross check stories with their colleagues in real time, prevents collusion by the suspects.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Cheryl Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
REPLY: You are one of many who deliberately and intentionally twist or misinterpret the truth and sometimes not speak the truth to suit your purposes and you have it close to perfected!
Your statement : “If the McCanns are charged then all those people who supported them and said it was ok to leave kids alone because “everyone’s done it…” Where has anyone said it was okay to leave those children alone?
Those supporting the McCanns are those who are saying they did not murder their child. It think a true statement is we all agree - both pro and anti- they neglected their children.
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1. Read the supporters’ comments on the Find Madeleine website. First of all, unless you are a supporter you can’t get a comment moderated and passed on their website. Secondly, there are numerous McCann supporters who say the McCann’s actions on May 3 were ok.
2. The pro McCanns say they did not murder their child eh? I thought it was more than that. I thought a pro McCann’s stance is that the McCanns did not have anything at all to do with however she disappeared/died etc. Murder is specific. I thought a pro-McCann’s support was less restrictive than that.
3. I can judge who I like and form my own opinion. For now and the foreseeable future, the law is not going to change to reflect my personal views and I think that’s a good idea. Living in a free country means I am allowed to have my own views. There are people who make judgments and liars.
4. I have never made a sick insinuation directed at the McCanns or any of their friends. You must be confusing me with someone else.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
469 Sledgehammer
You know full well it is not a private board. It is a public forum. The whole idea is to share ideas and debate possibilities.
As no one here knows the truth, then all we are doing is speculating. No one person’s views are any more valid than anyone else’s. I have yet to find a poster who claims to know what happened. Many of us have our own theories and are willing to share them. Just like Stevo and indeed myself in the past.
This means that we are open to be attacked for our suppositions. You are one such attacker and I am interested in YOUR views so that your opinions can also be discussed or challenged.
Why not state your own position? You clearly have one as you seem very willing to criticize the position of others!
January 4th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
447 Stevo
Early in the case GM stated something like “we had our own listening system in place”. It suggested that the one listening device the T9/10 had was covering all kids in one room. Suspect this would have been very necessary on Chaplin’s night(s) – when, presumably, some check was made from very long distance.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
467 Stevo
Did the tears cause the ink to run?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
463
Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
459 Matt. Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
When did you guys graduate from the school of “We Have Been Here Since The Beginning Of This Case Therefore We Know It All” ? Common, guys, be fair!
Also, you have a choice: If you don’t want to reply to a particular post, then don’t. But why again the negativity towards people who do not agree with your views? Is that necessary? Can’t we all just “get along”?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
464 Daisy
You are saying that - as the McCanns remain suspects - the police having a good idea of what happened is not likely to absolve the little darlings from some level of guilt?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
467
Stevo
January 4th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
469 Sledgehammer
But you claim to know of some ‘major mistake’ made by the Police in interviews?
How can this be?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
165
Matt. Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 11:45 am
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Hasn’t the CV been amended as it now states “did ‘A’ Levels at the same College”.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I have already stated batman I do not know what happend and until there is enough evidence of a reputable nature, that will continue. Sorry I did not realise this was a private board
January 4th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Madeleine McCann and 9/11.
If you’ve seen the YouTube Canada video, you’ll know how the foundational myths about 9/11 were all laid down within minutes and hours of the first plane striking WTC. If you’re informed, you’ll have seen the BBC news report and the female anchor standing with WTC7 in the background, telling us it had collapsed, a full twenty-three minutes before it did.
You’ll also recall how the foundational myths about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann were all laid down in the minutes and hours before and after the first public report of her disappearance.
Now ask yourselves, poor-luvvy-losters and clarence lick-spittlers, how much longer do you want to be suckered?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Officers took it without Mrs McCann’s permission in the summer, made a photocopy and then returned it. She has been updating it ever since.
Portuguese police, in a series of leaks in the summer, suggested the diary was important because it showed Mrs McCann’s unbalanced state of mind - a claim dismissed as a smear.
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Perhaps Kate should use a biro and not an inkpen.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
463…Stevo
One’s gotta start somewhere.
PS…possibly even May 2027.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
441
Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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Okay, let me word it in a better way (pitty I cannot write in in Spanish and therefore express myself correctly!).
You and everybody who participate in these forums have not had access to the evidence that the police hold. You and I do not exactly know what evidence the police have and therefore we are just speculating. Yes, you have an idea, but at this stage, you don’t know if you are correct in your assumptions. I don’t know if my theory is correct either. The truth and the facts will be revealed eventually, or at least I hope so.
The police also have an idea of what happened, which is probably quite accurate as they are basing it on evidence that we don’t have access to.
I’m sure you will now understand what I am saying, don’t you?
January 4th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
451 Cheryl
At last someone who knows the truth!
I say this because you claim that other people are - well you must do as you say that other people “..deliberately and intentionally twist or misinterpret the truth ..”
PLEASE PLEASE put me out of my misery and tell us all the truth.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
459 Matt. Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Actually, Stevo….the trolls and ProMccannics add to newcomers knowledge
of the case.
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Actually, you’re right Matt. The problem though is that to get people up to speed, 8 months is a lot of information. It’s almost like you need a qualification now to discuss this case. I can see someone on Mastermind in the future…”and your chosen subjec is? The Madeleine McCann case, May 2007 through October 2009.”
Don’t ask me why I typed October 2009…it was a random guess.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Sledgehammer
You were not around this forum before Christmas. Well, not under your current name. For the benefit of those of us who have only just re-joined the discussion - but have been regular contributors in the past, I would be very interested to have your view on what happened to Madeleine McCann. Where you believe she is now. Whether or not you think she is alive or dead and who is responsible for her disappearance.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
418 coco
It can only get worse before getting better IMO. If the McCanns are charged then all those people who supported them and said it was ok to leave kids alone because “everyone’s done it…” will be eating lots of humble pie. That’s a hell of a lot of pie and there will be pandemonium. Assuming charges are raised and a trial ensues, I’m surprised because Mr Branson may feel echoes of his support coming back to haunt him via his Virgin Empire. I’ve flown them many times but I vote with my feet and wallet and will give a wide berth to any public supporters of whoever did Madeleine wrong. I’m sure others will as well.
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REPLY: You are one of many who deliberately and intentionally twist or misinterpret the truth and sometimes not speak the truth to suit your purposes and you have it close to perfected!
Your statement : “If the McCanns are charged then all those people who supported them and said it was ok to leave kids alone because “everyone’s done it…” Where has anyone said it was okay to leave those children alone? Those supporting the McCanns are those who are saying they did not murder their child. It think a true statement is we all agree - both pro and anti- they neglected their children.
It is the anti-Mccanns, such as yourself, who stand in judgement of them have crossed that line from just charging them with neglect to far more sinister sometimes sick insinuations.
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Cheryl
back when this story first broke, the questions asked in the UK were ‘why did they leave the children’? many many pro mcCann posters on here, and 95% of the posters then were pro were adamant it was acceptable for children to be alone, and any poster who dared to question that were told they were insane.
I suggest you look back in the archives in May and June and July -
In addition there were suggestions that as the parents were doctors they should not be subjected to any doubt, this privileged position of acceptable ‘truth’ was granted to one Dr H Shipman, he who killed over 200 of his patients.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
435 agw
I saw it the first time. It doesn’t look any better after seeing it again. I for one can’t fault your decision/reasoning.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
452…Stevo
Actually, Stevo….the trolls and ProMccannics add to newcomers knowledge
of the case.
Their repeated returns to old discussions are, when the more balanced posters
reply rebuffing their claims etc, are extremely helpful to newcomers. I know…
as i found this very helpful to me when I first began to read Anorak.
Indeed very counterproductive by the Pro’s.