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 10:25 pm
936
Remigius
Moi?
January 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
never posted before am not sure what you allowed to say
January 4th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
imhi they have enployed a cold case dectective to find out what witnesses are saying for trial and to ensure that tapos nine are all singing from same songsheet am suprized portugeese police are allowing it
January 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
933 yampster
Dear me, your cage is so easily rattled!
January 4th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
931 chenier
it’s interesting in this way–a catastrophic experience with one’s own child can cause someone to project similar thoughts, feelings, and motives onto others, who in reality may feel quite differently. To say that GB “knows what it’s like to have LOST a child” is, well, let’s put it this way–it certainly benefits the McCanns to have GB THINK and FEEL as he does, and to offer them sympathy and support. But in reality, the way the McCanns think and feel may be nothing of the sort, especially if they had a hand it whatever happened.
But your facts about GB do go far in explaining why HE acted as he did.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
924 yampster
i went barmy? How so?
To point out that Judith C’s writing is overwrought and overlong and to disagree with her various points is not “barmy.”
She responded by, well, by impugning my education and class background, and saying that I should be strangled. As in, murdered.
Is that a nice thing to post?
When I pointed out that Madeleine might well have met just the fate she described, and at the hands of university-educated people, well, Judith C complained that I needed to see a psychiatrist.
Is that a nice thing to post?
When I pointed out that psychiatrists consider comments like hers to be projection of one’s own personality on to an innocent “other,” she made further comments, again, impugning my sanity.
Is that a nice thing to post?
Now, you come along, on no evidence whatsoever, and claim I am “barmy.”
Why DO you say such things?
January 4th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
931
Remigius
Nurse! Nurse! The screens please. He’s got loose again
January 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
904 Stevo
heh heh heh!
January 4th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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Remigius Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
837 chenier
This is an interesting fact, if true. It has lots of different implications.
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Well, it’s certainly true.
Not sure what the implications are, beyond the obvious.
GB is also blind in one eye…
January 4th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
could mike hondemburst work for anorak, that how he gets info, knows ip addressess etc. would make sense
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Mods and Admin
No, he bloody doesn’t
January 4th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
924 Yampster …how much he got paid what makes you so sure ?
January 4th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
924
yampster
Ooh thank-you, at least I know what I missed. It’s terrible when your social life interupts Anorak!
January 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Hello all. Just catching up - spent all day tarting on facebook.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
923
Nemesis
Marc Almond!
1981
January 4th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
921
Ciara-Louise
Well. how to begin.
Hideki left, Remigious went barmy, Mike Hondenburst told us to be careful. Nemesis was just about to tell us how much he got paid
January 4th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
906 Annie Re: Gruesome twosome -agood example of tainted love. (A song by Soft Cell comes to mind)
January 4th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Oh Please!!!!!! Exit Stevo and enter………………………!!!!!!!
January 4th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
910
Stevo
Evening Stevo, xx
Any news , just got home there .
January 4th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
916
Mike Hondemburst
As I thought. I am paranoid but safe. Wibble wibble wibble
Which one is it, or both??
January 4th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
909 Stevo - Enjoy your beers - see ya
January 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
916 mike
why cant you be more specific?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
911
Mike Hondemburst
I have a friend near Boddington… Blah Blah Blah etc……
Did he teach you to fly?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
914
Thats about it.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Cheers then, I’ll continue to read but it’s difficult to know how to contribute when everythings got so personal and everyone is in a personal quarrel. Enjoy yrselfes.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
906
Mike Hondemburst
I ask again in all honesty. You suggest that it is no longer safe. I suggest that it has never been safe . I have always thought that there was a long term mole on here, collecting names, email addresses, whereabouts and ip addresses. Are you referring to the same person or is this a new threat? Am I paranoid or am I safe. You tell me?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Does anybody of you know the finnish author Tauno Yliruusi, expecially his play “Rikosetsivien vapaapäivä”?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
How much do you think the McC supporters are being paid to post on the forums? Crime, obviously pays! I bet Edward Smethurst is of that opinion also.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
909
Stevo Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
906 Mike Hondemburst
Keep spouting the crap
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As long as you do….
I have a friend near Boddington… Blah Blah Blah etc……
January 4th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
906 Mike Hondemburst
Keep spouting the crap…you and those others are the cabaret for this board.
Anyway, Boddingtons is more appealing than arguing with you.
Remigius, Nemesis et al
Keep the nuts at bay!
January 4th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
876 Ian
I thought it was Catriona Baker?
I thought that Smith was the defacto name when you wanted to make one up on the spot. I think it’s hilarious….a Glaswegian called Jones. I think I have the title of a new blog!
Nemesis
Nothing fancy because I’m off out for a few beers…running late etc.
http://truthformadeleine.com/satire/clarobrien.jpg
The scale is all wrong but I rushed it in 5 mins. Give me more time next time