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
Comments
January 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
843
Patch
Snap! I used to be crazy but i’m alright nowoowooooooooooooooooooo!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
836
Judith
Me to. Probably why I can only eat it at that “special time” now
And I’m not talking Easter!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
837 chenier
This is an interesting fact, if true. It has lots of different implications.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
(843) Patch
Is there a full moon tonight? That might account for it.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
834
Judith
Just nipped outside to check on the moon. Must be a bad prescription. Care in the community eh? You can’t live with ‘em. Tough, you’ve got no choice
January 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Judith C
I am totally bemused. Full moon?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
830
Stevo
839
yampster
I thought “bloke” also, with some strange issues.
Not nice and I for one an glad he/she is banned.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
(834) Nemesis
A cautious “Hiya” to you too!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Mods and Admin
You did get carried away Cheryl,.
perhaps we can reach an agreement , you ease off - you defend the Mccanns- thats fine - but don’t pounce on or lecture people on here quite as much - things are still speculation not the Gospels - allow people their thoughts and opinions - discuss- offer your own stance too - but don’t swamp , please
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I beg your pardon that wasn’t even me he or she was talking about, he or she was mixing me up with another poster.
For your information also, I am NOT defending the McCanns per se I am truly interested in their right not to be persecuted, smeared and some other words I’ll not mentionon here. I realize I’m not a Brit, and the more I read I thank heaven I’m not, I don’t understand their sense of humour, and do know some of their laws frankly and some I just throw off on Tony B. with deliberateness for him to answer me. HOWEVER, I do know what is right from wrong and what is common decency and civility.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
830
Stevo
Never! I never knew that. Came across as a bloke to me. Perhaps just pretending to be a woman so as not to get shot down for risqué interpretation of holiday snaps
January 4th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
833 Judith C
Now YOU are calling me “a nutter?”
LOL!
Judith, you threatened to strangle me. In writing. Then, you threatened to call “men in white coats” to do, well, what do you have in mind, Judith, after murder?
Your issues have little to do with my theory about Scottish traditions of human sacrifice and what might have happened to madeleine in Portugal.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I’m sure we will soon recognise Hideki’s style again …. the continuous copying and pasting, and the continuous obsessions …… unhealthy obsessions!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
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Logic Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
288 Chenier
You said GB is a “sucker for small children”. Funny comment, if I may so.
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Not really.
His first child died as a baby and his second child has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
You get to see a lot of suffering small children in those circumstances…
January 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
832
Annie_m Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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I remember that one. It was responsible for me eating a lot more chocolate than was good for me. But I get the angle.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Hiya Judith
January 4th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
826
yampster Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
815
Judith
Looks like your turn in the barrel tonight. Promise not to strangle or bite me.
What do you think that Hideki’s next incarnation will be? Or is he already around
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Hello Yampster. Welcome to the asylum! Only one inmate so far. He/she (although I favour she) has been dancing naked round the witches fire, I think, tonight. A complete nutter if ever there was one. I don’t know whether it is Hideki reincarnated. Hideki was a bit — no a lot — more intelligent and literate than this one. Unless it’s H dumbed down.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Aaaaargh, just come in from a lovely dinner out with my two brothers, and what the heck is going on here ….. who’s on their way to the looney bin?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
822
Judith C
Nuts!
Whole hazelnuts.
Cadburys take ‘em and they cover them in chocolate
Childish I know, but I couldn’t resist.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Once, twice, three times Team McCann ignores offer to raise awareness of missing Madeleine
‘Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned.” A high profile, multi-media, global campaign that is based on lies and deceit. The campaign has made little or no attempt to find Madeleine. Donations from struggling parents, businesses and even emotionally blackmailed children, have been used for expenses never before associated with a search for a missing child.
Within a short time of Madeleine’s disappearance Team McCann, set about the task of protecting the McCanns from the financial hardship most parents of missing children incur. We have all seen it time and again - relationships break down, mums or dads lose their jobs due to stress, and families are financially ruined due to legitimate expenses incurred in a desperate, heartbreaking attempt to find their lost child.
Gerald McCann and Kate Healy came from nowhere - and they were determined to do everything in their power to avoid going back to their roots. They were prepared to betray their little girl, betray the sympathy of the public and betray the concept of truth, in order to protect their lifestyle.
With the help of highly-connected friends and a regime of secrecy, fear and protection, the operation went in to full swing with the slickness of a well organised propaganda campaign. They targeted people’s emotions, they tried to sell the, “there but for the grace of God go I” message to the naive and the unquestioning.
For a while it worked - but everything the McCanns do - they do badly - and that includes parenting. Thankfully for those of us who are seeking answers, they enlisted the aid of Justine McGuinness, a PR guru who is so inept she doesn’t know how to spell PR, let alone organise an efficient, water-tight campaign.
Team McCann have not turned over one stone - they stayed away from stony ground to graze upon greener, lusher pastures. The McCanns go from interview to interview, photo-op to photo-op, launching tasteless posters, tacky wristbands and releasing balloons.
After more than three months the campaign has not produced any information regarding the fete of the child they neglected - the only credible information has come from the Portuguese police and Portuguese media. Information the McCanns, the Establishment and the British media, take unseemly delight in discrediting - unless it suits their own agenda.
Genuine and credible offers of help and assistance have gone unacknowledged, been turned down and scorned. Team McCann ask us to believe they are prepared to do everything in their power to find a little girl betrayed by good-time parents. They give interviews thanking people for their support when in reality the support and kindness of strangers, has been constantly rejected and even ridiculed.
Gerry McCann has been quoted as saying, “We are always trying to think of ideas that will reach people who may not have heard of Madeleines disappearance.”
It is a lie. As are so many things associated with the McCanns.
I received three emails from an impeccable source whose integrity the Tapas Nine, could not collectively come close to. The source has professional credentials and contacts that any parents of a missing child, would give their soul to have on their side. Those credentials were made clear to Team McCann in emails.
My source made three attempts to initiate a highly effective awareness campaign in Bosnia, which as you will see by the correspondence, is a major route and destination for human trafficking.
—– Original Message —–
From: Name Deleted
To: mail@bringmadeleinehome.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:10 PM
Subject: suggestion for appeal in Bosnia
January 4th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
826 yampster
Hideki was a she wasn’t she?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
822 Judith C
How you do project onto others!
First you threaten, in writing, to strangle and, by implication, kill someone who’s merely criticized your writing for being overly long and tedious.
But THEN, you add on to it your NEW threat to, uhm, what was it? “call the men in white coats,” something like that?
Yes. It’s called “projection.”
January 4th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
816/811 Not all it seems? Might be like that film Zodiac!?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
819 Cheryl
The law is only bothered about recordings insofar as using the recording as evidence. The only type of recordings I know are illegal are live music (because you are usually in violation of the terms of admission) and you’re not allowed to illictly record anything in court. I know when I go to court I have to hand in everything including mobile phone.
I don’t understand why you’re bothered about an investigator investigating and using the tools of the trade?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
815
Judith
Looks like your turn in the barrel tonight. Promise not to strangle or bite me.
What do you think that Hideki’s next incarnation will be? Or is he already around
January 4th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
799
Remigius Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
792 Cheryl
If Team McCann encourages the public to call them, as they so often do, they have to imagine that they will receive an occasional call from a sincere Anoraker who just wants to solve the case! I mean, didn’t the late Princess Diana make thousands and thousands of nuisance calls? And what did Scotland Yard do to her?
nada. I think Stevo’s entitle to one or two direct dials, don’t you?
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REPLY: Yes the Princess did if one wants to believe the newspapers, rag sheets and books written since. Scotland Yard did nothing to her but I think I recall reading years ago a wife got really PO’d with her constant calls to her husband.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Ann - are you reading this anymore?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
816
Remigius Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
811 Mike Hondemburst
All is not as it seems? How so? Will you chat and enlighten us?
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No. I Believe now that its too risky to post anything of importance here. Be very careful, all.
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mods and Admin
Might be responsible of you to notify Anorak then?
January 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
810
Remigius Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
797 Judith C
What absolute prattle you write. People caring more about money than about what happened to a child who is likely dead? I don’t think so. But, but, buttttttttt oh, oh, no! No! oh please, no, mommy, daddy, hhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeelllllpppp! Donnnnnnn’t STRANGLE ME! Don’t strangle me……please!!!!!!! I was just….just typing….something….to a university-educated person………..Help! Please let go! Please stop! Oh, it hurts…….!!
Oh, ah. yes, that is much better. Thank you so much for not strangling me.
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No I revise what I said….don’t wait to see a psychiatrist. I’ll phone for the men in white coats to come and get you now….you’re nuts!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
815 Judith C
YOU threaten strangulation, and then say I should go see a psychiatrist?
Uhm….that’s not how it works.
Threatening to strangle someone in a decidedly unfriendly way–which is what we’d call your tone–is a very strange thing to write.
So your instruction about seeing the psychiatrist, well, it kinda works the OTHER way.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
is it too late to salvage Cuddle Cat?