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”
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January 4th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
775
Northern Bird
Of course
Where in the north by the way?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
778
Can’t say No Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
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Slyfox
dismissed/sacked/transferred
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But ,a cop that hasNO relation to the mccs
The others had
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So are you saying that the cop who was taken off the case was the only one who didn’t have any connection to the McCann’s whereas those that were left on the case did?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
781
Slyfox
John McCann and all the director’s addresses are public knowledge. They have to be.
The number I got was for John McCann living at the address registered at Company’s House.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
724 Stevo
Of course, they won’t pick up. Cheryl usually answers that line, and now she is threatening Anorakers with physical harm–strangulation, actually. Very, very interesting!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
782
Moriarty
What for? So you can come in here and poke some kind of fun at the conversations?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Judith C
Your writing is very interesting to me. Especially this part you wrote, that is so idiosyncratic and peculiar:
“Your education is reflected in your prose. Sadly, you have somehow got the contentions in the post you are criticising twisted round your neck.”
“Twisted round your neck…”
My neck? MY NECK? Perhaps that is exactly what happened to Madeleine McCann.
It’s a really odd choice of words.
You remember her–the helpless 3-year-old child of university-educated people like yourself.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
724
Stevo
I’ve made several calls to Team McCann. I get the door closed on all calls.
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I would be interested to know what you say to these people when they answer or what you intend to say if they do.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The Times Online and The Independent 5th May 2007 both reported that the McCanns were with a group of 8 couples from Leicester’s medical fraternity— apart from the OBriens,the Oldfields and Diane Webster etc who were all the others ??
January 4th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
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Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Ok…here’s the scoop on the phone call……(Edit)….. He replied that it was “Jones” who lives there.
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Someone did a bit of sleuthing on the mirror forum and found the name “Jones” living either at the current, or previous address, sorry to be vague again. But when you said the name bells rang. maybe nothing maybe something.
Don’t know if I can be bothered to look for a link. Maybe someone here will remember…?
I couldn’t find a link for the Leicester Cop who fed info to the McCanns other than something on Reis’s blog about the PJ realising that a UK counterpart must have briefed the McCanns because they had info that they shouldn’t have known about. Then I ran out of search time! .
January 4th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
771 Cheryl
All Catholics should be offended–it is pretty clear that the Catholic Church was used, and continues to be used, by the McCanns. You can’t stop them from going, of course, to the endless masses, but the implication now grows that the Church was either snookered by Team McCann, or is somehow complicitous (as in giving them the keys to the church, where possibly they might have hidden Madeleine’s body for a time).
For people who are sincerely religious, it’s a questionable use of the church’s power and good will at best. At worst, it is a horribly, cynical manipulation.
And Clarence Mitchell bragging on camera about his great powers and connections is just laughably unprofessional. You know, I almost laughed out loud when CM said that it all stopped “after arguido happened.” You know, CM and the McCanns kept saying, “Arguido is good, arguido means kate and gerry can ASSIST the PJ.” Well, if it’s all so wonderful to be made arguido (and of course we know it’s not!), then why did the big politicos back off?
the Church will likely hope to cut its damages by simply minimizing contact–they can’t keep the McCanns from coming to mass, but you’ll likely see no more special audiences in the street,etc. And I’d say that Clarence Mitchell has fast used up all his sources of good will. But then, that just leads us back to asking questions about why he’d sacrifice his career and credibility in the first place.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
319
Slyfox
dismissed/sacked/transferred
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But ,a cop that hasNO relation to the mccs
The others had
January 4th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
764
Remigius Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
751 Judith C
“sounds like some paper in sociology at university…
a little bit shrill, so you might want to tone it down a bit.
Considering fraud charges is not a sign of an hysterical nation. Fraud is a crime, and if you defraud people of millions of pounds to “find” someone who you know has been dead all along, well, that is a crime, and if the state in which you live has not yet lost its gumption to self-absorbed post-feminist deluded sociological critics, you gather your evidence,make some arrests, and put some folks inthe slammer for a while–seize their lovely big house to pay the defrauded public back, and life goes on….”
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I saw your other curious recommendation to ‘consider human sacrifice’ before I saw the post above. How gratifying that you consider my writing to be ‘like a paper at University’. I wonder if that’s anything to do with my background and my qualifications? Could be. Your education is reflected in your prose. Sadly, you have somehow got the contentions in the post you are criticising twisted round your neck. Read it again, slowly and carefully and I think you will see that I don’t consider (possible) fraud charges a sign of a ‘hysterical nation’. When it comes to money, the hysteria stops here and people sober up. This is what I said.
And, no thank you, I don’t think you are qualifed to tell me that what I wrote is a ‘little bit shrill’ and that I should ‘tone it down’. I judge, by what you write, that you had a lousy time at the University you went to (if you went to one at all). Shame!
January 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Good, good, good. I’m glad the Portuguese police are steadfastly maintaining that the McFrightfuls are their main suspects.
In my mind the worst thing now would be if their arguido status was lifted and the case was pushed into the ‘Can’t be Solved’ file. However badly the UK press has painted the Portuguese press, there clearly remain several aspects of the McMedicals’ accounts which are distinctly questionable - how about leaving 3 children under 4 in an unlocked apartment while ‘discussing’ in ringing tones throughout the resort that your children are left alone every night unsupervised?
I also find it interesting that The Express, which back in May was as mawkish as Sky in its heart-string tugging reporting of the affair, has kept the case relentlessly on its front page since the parents were named as arguidos yet has subtly changed its attitude to the McCanns in the months that have followed. In the same way that Sky . I think the paper is reporting what it can against the McCanns because it feels it has been ‘had’.
Back later, Smuddy’s here with the fish and chips!
January 4th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Batman - Hi , wishes of equinimity for the new year.
watermelon doing extremely well.’
Coco - Am really enjoying your posts.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Stevo Could you produce a side by side picture of Clarence Mitchell and Russell O Brien ? Preferably on the balcony of the apartment? Thanks.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
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Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
768
Judith C
“that moment” is also like KM’s cryptic “they’ve taken her”. I’ve also found other phrases they use to be quite odd and out of tune with the real situation.
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And also they have a mincing cover-your-as* way of cherry picking words in order to be technically telling the truth, as in “We weren’t there the MOMENT she was taken.”
Instead of “We weren’t there any night of the week during the entire vacation, four hours a night–and now we regret that because it ended in a big accident. And while our friends helped out, we stood aside in order to be say we could honestly say we weren’t there the moment they removed her.”
January 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
767 Stevo
Yes, and weren’t the McCanns just wonderful neighbors and good citizens–those many, many fun-filled trips to the tip, where they’d meet all those well-wishers….
You know, I just read something about ritual murder that was very interesting. Two anthropologists are trying to figure Beltane out, and what it might mean today when Scottish children burn a man in effigy, and one wrote, “The solution is no less disquieting than the riddle.” I think this is one big reason why so many people cling to the “evil abductor” theory. Without it, well, your local doctor is, what…potentially a child killer, an assassin, your own children seem much less safe, perhaps even you are much less safe. So there is just tremendous denial that the McCanns would put even one foot wrong.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
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coco
We need to do this. We need to get these high-powered people who run these organisations to shoot themselves in the proverbial foot. Policitican’s words are scrutinised and played back when ever they contradict themselves. Why not the so-called bosses of organisations who aim to help children? Good work
January 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
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Tony Bennett Says:
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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REPLY: I’m curious, Tony B., what if Mitchell is a Catholic - is that a crime in the UK that he could stand trial for? As for him boasting…. as you think, it isn’t all that easy to keep an audience with the Pope, so if he managed to set one up good for him!
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Cheryl
The British Government is Establishment: Church of England, it took a lot of effort and time to set an audience up with Elizabeth Regina and the then Pope,nothing has changed since then, so why and how would they set an audience, which actually in the end was not an audience as it was outside and not in the Pope’s inner sanctum, with the ‘IVF it is against RC dogna parents?
But isn’t it odd the Vatican removed the Madeleine interest from their website in early September….why do you think that was?
January 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
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Judith C
“that moment” is also like KM’s cryptic “they’ve taken her”. I’ve also found other phrases they use to be quite odd and out of tune with the real situation.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
766
Remigius Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
751 Judith C
If you want to write something sociological/anthropological about Madeleine McCann’s mysterious disappearance, perhaps you should look into the Beltane/Highland festival & the human sacrifice associated with it. Always celebrated on May 1 or thereabouts….
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Thank you for your advice, but I don’t quite see how what I wrote could be connected with human sacrifice.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
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Ian Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
589 Annie_m
EDIT: “They have never admitted making any mistake. They have said they regret not being there when Madeleine was abducted but it would have happened even if they had been in the room next to it.” END
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They, but particularly Mrs. M, have said that they ‘regret not being there AT THAT MOMENT” She has said it on interviews more than once. He’s said it as well, emphasizing ‘that moment’. This ties in with the theory that they are sticking as close to the truth as possible so, in their mind, they are not actually ‘lying’, but simply playing word-games as well as easing their consciences. Because, of course, if they had been ‘there’ at that ‘moment’ - presumably the moment she was either taken or died, or died and was taken - then ‘it’ wouldn’t have happened….in the normal course of events at any rate.
To emphasize ‘that moment’ also justifies them, in their own minds - and they think, to other people as well, for having left the children alone on other occasions as though ‘that moment’ was an extraordinary unlooked for and unexpected event which of course they would have guarded against if they could. So the words ‘that moment’ are significant in that they are a devious shield in common, of course, with all the other carefully thought out words and phrases that the scheming McCanns have used all along.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
758Remigius Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Child neglect issues do NOT arise if, after killing your child (accidentally or otherwise) you leave her body alone in a freezer or otherwise move it around. The act so described IS wrongful, but it is NOT child neglect.
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And we all know what happens to meat if it isn’t put in the refrigerator promptly don’t we?
It rots and you have to drive to the local dump to dispose of it.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
751 Judith C
If you want to write something sociological/anthropological about Madeleine McCann’s mysterious disappearance, perhaps you should look into the Beltane/Highland festival & the human sacrifice associated with it. Always celebrated on May 1 or thereabouts….
January 4th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
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Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
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LOL nice one stevo
January 4th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
751 Judith C
sounds like some paper in sociology at university…
a little bit shrill, so you might want to tone it down a bit.
Considering fraud charges is not a sign of an hysterical nation. Fraud is a crime, and if you defraud people of millions of pounds to “find” someone who you know has been dead all along, well, that is a crime, and if the state in which you live has not yet lost its gumption to self-absorbed post-feminist deluded sociological critics, you gather your evidence,make some arrests, and put some folks inthe slammer for a while–seize their lovely big house to pay the defrauded public back, and life goes on….
January 4th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
761 RedRooster Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
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Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
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will you be releasing this recording in the near future stevo.
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What do you think? How dare you make such a ludicrous assertion? Of Course!
January 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
759 wtf
Thanks!
You know with a few mouse clicks etc. I can post my conversation with John “Jones” McCann.
I am certain I have the right number but if the number somehow got “abducted” then I need to eliminate it from my enquiries first. Then I’ll post the “ludicrous” conversation with Mr Jones.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
756
Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
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will you be releasing this recording in the near future stevo.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
751 Judith C
I hinted at that yesterday when I said they should have any punishment trebled for the fraudulent and hoax aspects.
Agree 100%.