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
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January 4th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
715
Garth Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
zzzzzzzzzzzz………….I’m off down the local!
the local what garthy - the local farm to throttle a chicken or something or the local slaughterhouse to give them a hand lol
January 4th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
721
Tinsel
“the McCretins”
722
wtf
Have one for me Garth!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
709 Jez
The one to watch on Youtube is Gartut200. He really despises the McCanns.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
724 stevo
is there no specific office address or phone number for the fund?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
CLARENCE MITCHELL BOASTS OF HOW HE AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ARRANGED THE MCCANNS’ MEETNG WITH THE POPE
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The references by Clarence Mitchell to these ‘devout Catholics’, and his speaking more than once of the ‘Holy Father’ with reference to the Pope, suggest that Clarence Mitchell himself might be a Roman Catholic (as of course was Tony Blair even before he became one officially).
Is it just me, or does Clarence come over as boastful of his role in arranging the notorious meeting with the Pope?
Final comment - I loved the bit about the Pope watching all this on telly and asking if he could help. He soon changed his mind when his sources in Portugal tipped him the wink that the McCanns were about to be made arguidos.
No wonder he put through a call to the Vatican’s webmaster and said: “Marco, get all that Madeleine stuff of our website - pronto. We’ve backed the wrong horse here”:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQPUUlU6i8&feature=related
January 4th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
716 Ian
I’ve made several calls to Team McCann. I get the door closed on all calls.
Fobbed off or what? A company that takes in over a million pounds of well-wisher’s funds and then they don’t want to talk to anyone?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
706
Garth Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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are you saying you would like to throttle me garthy, now thats not very nice.
Do i take it that you agree with abusing Roosters as well as child neglect garthy.
you young man are beginning to sound like a nasty piece of work. Now pack it in garthy and behave yourself or i shall have to tell mr red
January 4th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
715 garth
god help the poor sods out for a quiet drink!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
There was no way the PJ could make any direct moves against the McCretins in December. They would have been reproached and criticized for being cruel during holidays.
But I do think they will advance quickly this month in order not to appear “at a loss”.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I feel like Michael Moore or Roger Cooke. Why would John McCann claim to be a Mr Jones?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
712
Stevo
The front of these people…
January 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
715 Garth
Come back!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
714 ian
the word is mightier than the sword! he soesnt even try to make sense imo!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
712 Stevo
Can you blame him?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
zzzzzzzzzzzz………….I’m off down the local!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
711 regarding Clarences ‘bit’…
‘…clarify any inconsistencies…’
lol, need I say more?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
688 Garth
Not fair!
Let me back in!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Ok…here’s the scoop on the phone call….
I called John McCann and said I was trying to get in touch with someone from the Madeleine Fund. He said it was a private residence.
He asked who I was trying to get in touch with and I said “John McCann”. He replied that it was “Jones” who lives there.
So…the director of the Madeleine Fund is now purporting to be Mr Jones and not Mr McCann!!!!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Old Clarences bit is funny!
‘The spokesman for the McCanns, Clarence Mitchell, said: “Kate and Gerry, and their friends particularly, are very keen to talk to the Portuguese police again because they want to be able to clarify any inconsistencies to do with the timeline of events on May 3, or whenever the police put forward.”
Especially their friends!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
619 Tinsel
Wow–have you heard from Cheryl yet?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
578 Matt
What a powerful indictment. Do I understand that it keeps being removed from Youtube? It is required viewing.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Portuguese police want to seize Madeleine’s Cuddle Cat again
By VANESSA ALLEN - More by this author »
Last updated at 18:23pm on 4th January 2008
Police in Portugal have begun a fresh trawl for evidence which could incriminate Gerry and Kate McCann.
Among the items they are said to want to seize is their missing daughter Madeleine’s Cuddle Cat toy, which was examined by forensic teams in the summer. They have also demanded Mrs McCann’s diary.
Facing more questions: Kate McCann with the Cuddle Cat toy
Read more…
Police ’still think McCanns killed Madeleine by accident’ - and they will be suspects for 20 years
The requests suggest officers remain hopeful of bringing charges against the four-year-old’s parents.
Police already have photocopies of the diary but these would not be admissable in court.
A police dossier this week revealed the McCanns remain the chief suspects in the case and that they could be charged with accidental homicide, homicide by negligence, hiding their daughter’s body or faking her disappearance to cover up her death.
Police yesterday made a formal request for British police to re-interview the seven friends who were on holiday with the McCanns when Madeleine disappeared. They submitted a catalogue of questions they want answered to the judge in Portugal overseeing the case.
They also included the list of items they would like seized. Leaks have previously suggested these would include the diary kept by Mrs McCann, 39.
She was advised by a trauma counsellor to keep a journal and to include the days before Madeleine vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3.
Detectives took the diary and photocopied it, then leaked sections to the Portuguese media in which Mrs McCann allegedly wrote that her eldest daughter was hyperactive and said she could not cope.
Officers used the excerpts to suggest the GP could have been sedating her children. Mrs McCann has always denied the claims.
Police were also said to want to seize clothes and other items - including the pink soft toy Cuddle Cat - on which trained sniffer dogs allegedly picked up the “scent of death”.
Detectives have long questioned why Mrs McCann was so attached to Cuddle Cat and why, if it was her last link with Madeleine, she allowed it to be washed.
They have suggested the toy was cleaned to destroy any potential DNA evidence, such as blood. Mrs McCann said it had simply become too grubby.
Other items sought by police are thought to include the couple’s laptops and private correspondence, Mrs McCann’s Bible, in which a passage related to the death of a child was marked, and their phone records.
The formal “letters of appeal” will now be sent from the court in Portimao to the Portuguese justice minister and then on to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for her approval.
Once granted police will contact the group to arrange interviews. Detectives in Portugal will then consider whether they need to reinterview the McCanns, of Rothley, Leicestershire, and whether they should be charged.
The spokesman for the McCanns, Clarence Mitchell, said: “Kate and Gerry, and their friends particularly, are very keen to talk to the Portuguese police again because they want to be able to clarify any inconsistencies to do with the timeline of events on May 3, or whenever the police put forward.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=506110&in_page_id=1811
January 4th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
704 redrooster
with all this talk of feathers maybe garth is in need of a good plucking, would explain his frustration!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
700
wtf Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
699 garth
whats my next line? Hes behind you?
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Let that one lie now wtf.
I think its been throttled enough! Talking of which……. where’s wooster?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
703
Garth Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
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dear oh dear, where were you educated garthy my little feathered duck, ducky.
ducks have feathers too garthy…
January 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
684 Garth
My point is……………… you’re a knobjockeyherbert!
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what exactly is a knobjockeywhatsisname Garth?
If after all that, that was in fact your point then as i said to you a few days ago you are pointless…..
January 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
“………………but my feathered freind it is NOT acceptable to leave the kiddies to go out on the piss to either of these destinations. So for gods sake garthy what is your bloody point”.
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Uh? I thought you were the feathered f#cker?
January 4th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
674
coco
That is sickening!
I hope they get put away for a long time.
Speaking of keeping a tighter grip on her arm ever after that.
Have you seen:
Kate’s Bruises - We think we know what caused them
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=34375
January 4th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
685 Can’t say No
I agree. That’s been the most sinister possibility from the beginning.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
699 garth
whats my next line? Hes behind you?