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 11:51 pm
Cheryl Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
quote: HOWEVER, I do know what is right from wrong and what is common decency and civility unquote
Cheryl Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
quote: one can hope you can get fired! unquote
Common decency and civility? rotfl
January 4th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
This land is my land..this land is your land..From California..to the New York Islands!!!
January 4th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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951
leslie Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
For what its worth- I have been in the medical field for about 20 years, and have been around cardiologists and GPs quite a bit. I know I’m generalizing, but cardiologists have the “God complex” down really well. I’ve never met a warm and fuzzy cardiologist. The GPs I’ve been around have had a tendency to be warmer, and maybe a touch needy.
A few years back, the head cardiologist in the hospital where I worked had accidently run over his 2 year old in his driveway as he was backing out. When I saw him later that day (I was surprised to see him so soon) I asked him how his son was. He nonchalantly said “God will take care of him”. I forget the exact wording of the conversation, but my impression was that this man didn’t have a whole lot of feelings about this incident, but a whole lot of “true belief”.
. Maybe I’m making a leap here, but a poster had asked earlier how the Mccann’s would be able to live with themselves. IMO, I think GM will be able to.
I think he’s rationalized Madeleine’s - what- loss/accident/death to make it work for him. He doesn’t appear to be a very emotionally developed person, but someone who finds it easier/more convenient to put responsibility in an entity.
On the other hand, KM looks like she’s broken with reality.
I think they are really sad products of a society which values money, power, stuff, over ethics, morality, and at the risk of sounding corny, love.
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What a wonderful post! I agree with it totally. As for KM, the words are not perhaps ‘broken with reality’ but ‘dissociated from reality’. Your last sentence is spot on.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
no, just exaggerating
January 4th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
962 I do too, but my wifes name is not dissimilar to leslies and she has been known to disagree with Ian!
January 4th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Oh…..maybe you are Ian!!
January 4th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
January 4th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
951 Leslie
Totally agree with Ian.
Yampster
Please keep working on it. I don’t often get riled & rarely comment when I do but sometimes there’s that proverbial straw that breaks the ……!
January 4th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
843
Annie_m Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
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I hd thought ‘Hideki’ was a Japanese male name?
January 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
956
Fair
It doesn’t look like it. We really need one though
:fingers_throat:
I will keep trying
January 4th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
951
leslie Says:
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Powerful thoughts. Yes I have heard that before about cardiologists. I worked in an ER for a summer–office work–and most of the doctors there had complexes too.
Also some of the doctors I met a few years ago in a family crises were just plain out of touch.
K is finally looking haggard. She looked like a celebrity in the early days. So well put together. But now she looks worse for where. She can’t really be looking forward to her future. Gerry neither. No tennis where he is going.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Yampster
But do any of them work??
I think we really need one!
Lots of love & yuk blah blah…..puke!
I leave you in the tender loving care of others….
January 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
951 leslie
A sensitive and relevant post - very close to the position of the McCanns.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Bon Soir all…
Early start to Wales tomorrow to see our 4 day old (1st) grandchild. Much better than all this rubbish.
Enjoy your pointless arguements
Ta Luego…..(for the pedantics that would be hasta luego in ”proper” castilian spanish!)
January 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
947
Fair
:vomit
:sick:
:night_out
Just tryin a few from my board
January 4th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
939
Stevo
Can you take some time out from ” Beer Time” and speak with me ? I value your opinion.
C-Lou X
January 4th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
For what its worth- I have been in the medical field for about 20 years, and have been around cardiologists and GPs quite a bit. I know I’m generalizing, but cardiologists have the “God complex” down really well. I’ve never met a warm and fuzzy cardiologist. The GPs I’ve been around have had a tendency to be warmer, and maybe a touch needy.
A few years back, the head cardiologist in the hospital where I worked had accidently run over his 2 year old in his driveway as he was backing out. When I saw him later that day (I was surprised to see him so soon) I asked him how his son was. He nonchalantly said “God will take care of him”. I forget the exact wording of the conversation, but my impression was that this man didn’t have a whole lot of feelings about this incident, but a whole lot of “true belief”.
. Maybe I’m making a leap here, but a poster had asked earlier how the Mccann’s would be able to live with themselves. IMO, I think GM will be able to.
I think he’s rationalized Madeleine’s - what- loss/accident/death to make it work for him. He doesn’t appear to be a very emotionally developed person, but someone who finds it easier/more convenient to put responsibility in an entity.
On the other hand, KM looks like she’s broken with reality.
I think they are really sad products of a society which values money, power, stuff, over ethics, morality, and at the risk of sounding corny, love.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:04 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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Which is why I had thougth Madeleine would be kept alive until 1-3 May 2008, although evidence is to the contrary. I believe there is a unique anniversary occurring at that time this year?
January 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
944
Fair
Why are you sick, unwell…??? Not serious I hope. Love and kisses and lots of TLC.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
778
Judith C Says:
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. 778
Judith C Says:
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!
. 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!
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Remigius: I am quite bored with seeing your name heading another bovine post. So above is my post, the one upon which you have attempted to build up a case with yourself cast as the ‘victim’. I advised you earlier to read it again, slowly and carefully, as I know the language is perhaps a little beyond you. As you clearly haven’t done so, choosing instead to rant, I will outline the salient points:
(1) When I say “your” education is reflected in your prose. You now see that you believed (or implied you believed) that the “your” referred to meant ‘you’. No, it did not. I could have said “One’s” education is reflected in one’s prose. However, that sounded a little too pedantic, even for me, so I chose to say “your”……meaning the universal “your” (in other words, in this instance, ‘mine’). Understand? Or is that too difficult for you?
(2) “Sadly, you have somehow got the contentions in the post you are criticising twisted round your neck. ”
Now, above, is the sentence that you have managed to make a meal of by implying that in saying those words I threatened to strangle you. I have to laugh at this, because I don’t think even a child would mistake its meaning. But you’ve done it deliberately, that’s quite obvious. owever, I’ll spell it out for you: In this sentence the word “contentions” is what I imply you have got twisted round your neck; ‘contentions’ meaning what I conveyed by the statements in my post - the meanings and implications, etcetera. Comprenez?
As for “shrill” …I think most people on here this evening have made up their minds who qualifies for that title. So, mon petite femme, drop the class warfare and boring rants. Calm down and do a bit of improving reading in your spare time. Sorry about the French, don’t get jealous. If I said the same words in English, it would set you off again!
January 4th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
:puke: ?
:chuck: ?
:honk: ?
There must be one!
Who makes ‘em?
January 4th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
944
Fair
ROFL
January 4th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
testing testing
January 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Is there an emotion (smilie thing) for sick??
January 4th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
chenier, So was Nelson.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Oh, Stevo, you’re shaved and showered and I’m so far away…..makes me sad( can’t do the smiley or sad face thing) will try to humour Mike H …but he’s not you!!!( Elvis ..now…Lol)
January 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
940
Can’t say No Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Evening can’t say no, have i missed something - what you on about please do tell
January 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Ashes inside the CC ?
OMG
This too crazy
January 4th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
922 Ciara-Louise
Hi C-lou. I’m shaved, showered etc. Beer time now. Humour Mike Hondemburst because he thinks Boddingtons is a place on the map. Next he’ll be thinking Heineken is next to Amsterdam!
Check out my latest blog. You’ll find the picture/story amusing
January 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Pity help Martin Smith it’s being reported that Metodo 3 are trying to talk with him and his family! Now that would get them a nice trip to Co Lough before their contract runs out-bet they haven’t been there before or have they??