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 9:45 pm
903 Stevo Better still- you could say that you were Mike Hondemc(b)urst.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
899
Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
890
Mike Hondemburst
The difference is (and clearly you show how you lack comprehension skills) is that I never said it was Baby Grace. I proposed a method of transportation that’s as valid today as it was 6 months ago. I didn’t shoot my mouth off with some cryptic bullshit and scarper when people ask questions about it. You did it…and so did the others. All of you have been proven to be charlatans
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Proven?????????
Sure!!!!!!!
Got any E mails from the pope lately? Or who ever this weeks flight of fancy is?
Do they ever begin their responses with dear Walter…………
January 4th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
900
Stevo
Maybe. But if the gruesome twosome are that confident the body won’t be found. It kind of narrows down the options. IMO
Boars?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
881
Stevo Says:
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Someone on MF knew about the cadaver dogs before it was in the papers.
I love hearing the rumors.
It’s just smoke, but you know what they say about that …
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire …
and/or
It’s just smoke and mirrors.
The thing is, whatever the rumors are vs. the truth ….
as far as we know, this is still a corpus delicti case.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
900
Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
896 Annie_M
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re - pet cremation
i’m sure i remember reading the Pj checked it out a long time ago. nothing seems to have come of it.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
888 Moriarty
No Moriarty….or should I call you no-balls Moriarty? It’s more like people like you sitting on the sidelines with your finger up your arse doing sweet bugger all and complaining and whinging about others. You’re never in here unless you’ve got some stupid moan.
Why would I say it’s Stevo from Anorak if I called someone?
I tell them it’s Moriarty from Anorak. That works better.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
896
Annie_m
How did he know it was a labrador if he didn’t look in the bag. It could have been two standard poodles or a foxterrier and a Jack Russell. He’d need to know for his records, they could be trying for a two for one
January 4th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
896 Annie Re: Pet Crem Creon Starlight The guy Hoos also had a facility in Spain . Also I read somewhere that he had an eye op at that time or was it just another excuse for not looking in the bag?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
896 Annie_M
I remember the Dutch geezer with the inferno but his place was checked and it hadn’t been used in months as I remember it. He’s like another Murat IMO - a distraction.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
890
Mike Hondemburst
The difference is (and clearly you show how you lack comprehension skills) is that I never said it was Baby Grace. I proposed a method of transportation that’s as valid today as it was 6 months ago. I didn’t shoot my mouth off with some cryptic bullshit and scarper when people ask questions about it. You did it…and so did the others. All of you have been proven to be charlatans.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Good arguments tonight among the sloooooothers. Happy nuisance to you all.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
894 nemesis
true! knew someone from glasgow that lives here and she was very hard, very confident, bit like the scousers, no offence to any on this site (except if its garth) kept bragging how hard and streetwise the glaswegians are
January 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
886
Stevo
Incidently, that pet crematorium theorycould be an interesting one, conflicting reports as to whether the guy looked in the bag or not. Also the “English speaking people”
I wonder if there might be an i.d. parade when they go back ?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
893 tinsel
my question has always been about the detective thing is why wait so long, it would have been one of the first things i did
January 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
891 WTF I prefer Northumbrian to Gs Glaswegian !
January 4th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
The new cold case detective is most quiet.
What do you make of the move to hire him?
Is he really helping the McPope-Goers?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
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890
Mike Hondemburst Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
How goes that ship to america thing, Baby grace, etc……..
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A lot of posters supported Stevo on this one, it was very likely that it could have happended …. he never said it was an absolute …. he was pointing out a possiblity ….. you too blind to see that ? Or is being a natural in dickhead mentality your forte?
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Julie (or shall I call you Jezebel?)
I forgive you your betrayal.
I’ve released your comment from the Spam folder
January 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
886
Stevo
Not a problem
January 4th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
889 nemesis
berwick is a pretty town, walked round the walls a few times, drop isnt very child friendly atall! accent takes a bit of getting used to though!
January 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
881
Stevo Says:
Mike Hondemburst, Soothsayer, Scarlett, Smell of Death…
None of their posts have come to anything…ever.
Has anyones?
How goes that ship to america thing, Baby grace, etc……..
January 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
878 WTF Weird things always accompany anything to do with the McCs - that includes computer gremlins! Yep been to Berwick a few times- really like the Barrack museum,but not that really steep drop by the ramparts!
January 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
881
Stevo
None of their posts have come to anything…ever.
Bit like Baby Grace? Who do you say is calling when you phone? Stevo from Anorak? Like knocking on doors and running!
Cheryl, I sympathise. Who, by the way, is Coco? I wonder?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
881 Stevo
I will not leave you, Stevo!
But I do need to get some coffee, so I am leaving now….for that….
January 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
879 Annie_m
Sorry…I didn’t realise you had cut and pasted the article so it wasn’t you mentioning about the 3 months/sniffer dog thing.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
MH is infering a poster with a 4 letter name is a plant.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
879 Annie M
Can’t argue with you about the doggies.
I went to a K-9 training show the other day, and was challenged to throw a quarter from my pocket onto a larg lawn. They then brought out the dog, who found the quarter, and then he came over to our group, and sniffed me out. It was very impressive, I must say. They did say that with the passage of time, the success rate is lower. Like, if I’d left my quarter out in the rain for a few weeks, he might not have found it. Or me.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
879 Annie_m
“If, or as seems increasingly likely, when, the full story of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is revealed, one question will demand an answer: why did detectives wait three months before bringing in sniffer dogs?”
Answer: They didn’t
Like all pro-McMyths, look for yourself at all the photos on official media websites - the photos you have to pay for. I’ve seen helicopters, PJ, locals, frogmen and sniffer dogs, and all were on photos in the first few days after May 3. Pro-McCanns like to create this myth that the PJ were buffoons and didn’t know their arses from their elbows. The reality is that you can see with your own eyes that they were doing everything perfectly. Even Gerry McCann says as much in an early May interview.
Look on http://www.prphotos.com and type in the usual keywords to see for yourself. I’m not taken in by the McTactics anymore.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
814 Re Mods and Admin
A theory about Beltane is as good as any.
although of course university-educated posters may know more, I take my references from Brian R. Clark’s complex Wittgenstein, Fazier & Religion (which gives a lot of comparative views). I also refer you to Dr. Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult in Western Europe (sadly, out of print today). And then, there is my own tome, Demonalatry.
The custom of the burnt cake remains alive. Who’s to say that more is not also still practiced as well? It’s just one theory to look at, like any other, and it provides motive, and it matches the date.
The dumbed-down pagan sacrifices of today do not mean that more is not being practiced, secretly.
And this would, of course, explain such violent reactions like threatening to strangle someone for merely mentioning it.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Mike Hondemburst, Soothsayer, Scarlett, Smell of Death…
They’ve all come in here, dipped their toes in for a few posts, left a cryptic clue to nothing and left.
None of their posts have come to anything…ever.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
866 The Hondemburst Trojan Horse Theory -It’s all Greek to me!