Madeleine McCann: Her Blood, Official Tabloid News And Michaela Walczuch Denies
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: IT WAS HER BLOOD IN PARENTS’ HIRE CAR”
“New results sent to Portugal in the last few days show the blood samples could only belong to Madeleine, it was claimed” – claimed…
Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha reports: “The definitive result of the tests leave no doubts for the Policia Judiciaria. The blood found in the McCanns’ car is that of Madeleine as well as those samples detected in the flat”
No doubt? So says a newspaper report that provides the basis to THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER’S lead story
Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “These reports are very distressing for Kate and Gerry, they are depressed that again wild rumour and speculation is being presented as fact. We wish Portuguese police would just get on with their investigation, come over to England and carry out the interviews with Kate and Gerry and their friends. All those interviews will prove, yet again, that Kate and Gerry have nothing to hide.
“As for the supposed DNA testing, we cannot comment on yet more unsubstantiated rampant speculation in the Portuguese press. It is ridiculous to suggest that Madeleine’s blood was in the hire car because she was never in it. It was hired more than 20 days after she went missing, which means it was impossible for her to have ever been in it”
A friend of the McCanns says: “They were in no way involved in her disappearance, reports like this just add to their anguish. We would also point out that low copy DNA is under review by police forces in this country following the outcome of the Omagh bombing trial”
But it is a sign of police progress, right?
THE SUN front page: “Maddie blood ‘in hire car’”
“The tormented parents of Madeleine McCann reacted in fury last night to new claims that DNA evidence backs the theory they killed her”
KATE AGONY OVER ‘WILD’ DNA CLAIM – Blood specks behind sofa and in car ‘are Maddie’s”. The scent of death?
A ‘wild’ claim repeated in the Sun…
“Now it is being claimed new and ‘definitive’ results from Britain support the police theory that Maddie was killed in the apartment and her body moved in a car hired 25 days AFTER she vanished” – Claimed by Portuguese newspaper Correio Da Manha, from where the Sun gets its news
The Forensic Laboratory in Birmingham says: “Tests are still being carried out. No final report has been submitted to the Portuguese authorities”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE – Blood in car is hers OFFICIAL”
“BLOOD IN CAR IS MADDIE’S OFFICIAL – ‘No doubts’ after test on Renault”
“The findings appear to support the police theory that Madeleine was accidentally killed in the apartment and her parents disposed of her body to mask their negligence”
Only…
“But they come from low-copy DNA analysis – a controversial technique based on just a few human cells which was recently branded unreliable by UK police. Last month, Omagh bomb suspect Sean Hoey walked free after a judge decided this type of testing was not at a sufficiently scientific level to be considered evidence. The Association of Chief Police Officers then announced it was suspending use of the technique in criminal inquiries. And the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales is reviewing a number of cases in which it was involved. That means the results in Madeleine’s case could probably never be used in court”
DAILY MAIL: “Did Maddie witnesses mistake this friend of the McCanns for Murat”
As Anorak reprotered yesterday, David Payne, one of the so-called Tapas 7,9 etc., looks not a lot unlike Robert Murat
Mr Murat’s lawyer Francisco Pagarete says: “Robert has always said the witnesses were mistaken. He was not there that night”
“MR MURAT’S girlfriend Michaela Walczuch was yesterday forced to deny claims she had been named as a police suspect in the case. The Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas claimed the mother-of-one, 34, had been made an ‘arguido’, or formal suspect, alongside Mr Murat and the McCanns. Lawyer Mr Pagarete insisted he had been misquoted by the tabloid when discussing her. Police refused to confirm or deny the report”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Murat’s girlfriend ‘is Madeleine McCann suspect’”
“The Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas reported that Michaela Walczuch, 32, was made an arguida after a witness claimed to have seen her with a small girl two days after four-year-old Madeleine went missing last May”
He is an arguido. She is an aguida
“A spokesman for the Portuguese police said yesterday that she had ‘no information’ about Miss Walczuch being made an official suspect”
Or not…
“ARE spin doctors taking over the world? - The rise and rise of the profession is not confined to politics: even the McCann family, campaigning to find their daughter Madeleine, sought the help of a former BBC journalist, Clarence Mitchell, to manage their publicity”
DAILY MIRROR: “ NEW LEAD ON MADDY”
British tourist Gail Cooper says she saw a “mystery man hanging around Madeleine McCann’s holiday flat just days before she vanished”. Like Paul Gordon did
Ms Cooper say: “He was horrible looking man , really creepy, unkempt and dirty. He definitely wasn’t Portuguese. He scared me”
Is there more than one creepy man in Praia da Luz? Another oddball?
Says Cooper: “I’m sure this man had something to do with Madeleine’s disappearance”
THE SCOTSMAN: “New claims on blood in McCann’s hire car
“Blood traces found in the hire car used by Kate and Gerry McCann were from their missing daughter Madeleine, according to a Portuguese newspaper”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Please don’t make this into another Maddy’”
Amy Fitzpatrick is missing. She is Irish. Her mother lives in Spain. Amy is 15. she went missing as she walked home on New Year’s Day from a friend’s house where she was babysitting in Calahonda near Mijas in southern Spain
“Outside Amy’s home, a gated development called Riviera Del Sol, just outside Fuengirola, children played in the shrubland, oblivious to the fact a teenager had vanished nearby without a trace. Some poked through shrubbery, others rode their bikes. It was a very different scene to that when Madeleine McCann disappeared last summer in Portugal, when locals and ex-pats joined the search to try and find the missing girl. But the family does not want a repeat of the publicity which has surrounded her case. ‘Please don’t turn this into a circus,’ a family spokesman said last night. ‘Don’t make it another Maddy. Let the police do their job’”
There is only one Madeleine McCann – Her story so far
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January 8th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
OK…just got off the phone to Bates Wells…the Madeleine Fund solicitors.
I spoke to a couple of people there and the first person said “sorry to keep you…I’m afraid erm we’ve been authorised erm to not…where are you calling from?”
Presumably my calling card from the USA messed up their caller ID.
Second person asked me to call back.
She was quite short with me and said I needed to speak to Rosamund McCarthy. I guess I need to do that tomorrow then.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
566 Logic
Actually, almost everywhere, an accessory legally can be someone who simply fails to report the crime to the proper authorities, or who otherwise renders assistance of ANY type, including hiding evidence of the crime.
But why rely on me? Check it out on Wikipedia.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
575 Karen
The IRA??
January 8th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
looks like the story came from mitchell according to the guardian.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2237217,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=16
January 8th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Remigius 568
Valid points!
January 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
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Carmen Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Mods and Admin
Tinsel, I have pulled that post merely to give me time to ask you whether you would like the user name and password removed from the top?
I can do it as soon as you reply.
***
LOL!
Thank you so much!
Yes, you can pull that whole thing.
Though the password wont work anywhere except on one forum in a galaxy far away!
Thank you, you’re doing a great job!
January 8th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Does Ireland have any serial killers? I’ve never heard of any.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
570 Tinsel
Just imagine the glamour of the film premier…when someone comes forward and douses the slim, blond, beaming Katiepoo and the dashing, dapper Gerrykins with…a gallon or two of piggie blood….as they walk down that blood-red carpet in the latest Armani fashions.
Oh, the drama. I know that Ade will want to be close at hand!
January 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
560
Stevo Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
556 Firestar
And your blog cutting and pasting should be truthful as well….and NOT misleading people by quoting the Military when in fact your pasting was just from an unqualified member of the Public.
an unqualified member of the public like you you mean?
and it doesn’t alter the fact that it’s the military standard now does it?
stop whining, you were wrong.
again.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
567 Carmen
Yes, the marrying a corpse thing has been around a long time–it helps prevent illegitimate births, often results in a nice inheritance….!!
January 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
sorry for that long post (that’s not my password here! but elsewhere)
More McCann updates for the late-nicks like me:
The upcoming film will be discussed in Gerry’s home tomorrow night.
And some of the board members are quitting!
“The meeting tomorrow follows the resignation of key board members, including the fund’s spokeswoman Esther McVey.”
I am wondering if it is the coroner who also quit!
Some tidbits from MF:
This is an old school friend of Kate. She has also been the one who has been hit hard with questions from the public on what the money is being used for, and whether or not people can get refunds.
The remaining fund controllers, besides Gerry’s brother and Brian Kennedy:
- Peter Hubner: retired consultant, industry unknown
- Doug Skehan: clinical director in cardiology at Glenfield Hospital, Gerry’s boss?
- Philip Tomlinson: retired solicitor, retired coroner
- Michael Linnett: retired accountant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pag…..ge_id=1770
January 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
550 Logic
Actually, there is an apt saying in Spanish–God creates them, and then they find each other.
To your psycho list, you could add lots more other famous couples, married and otherwise. Usually, one alone is okay–they do no homicides. But together, they create a killing machine. Leopold & Loeb, the “In Cold Blood” killers, Bonnie & Clyde….on and on. The infamous Hitler Bunker murder/suicides are a more mysterious, occult kind of thing….may not be out of place here.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
544 Remigius
I don’t think it would be likely that someone who helps dispose of a body, but has taken no part in the murder, could be accused of murder. They would be an accessory after the fact and presumably charged as such. It would depend on the jurisdiction but I would think it would be extemely unlikely within the EU (ECHR etc).
Also, who says (apart from Catkidd) that two disturbed people don’t stay together for long? I believe Fred and Rosemary West were married for a long time.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
198 Freddy
I’m still working my way through today’s thread.
Just gotta say, Freddy, I think you’re a comedy genius (and I still think you’re the same fellow who was Clouseau and the poster who was in love with Pitty, too).
January 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Clarence says….
‘All those interviews will prove, yet again, that Kate and Gerry have nothing to hide’
Yet again? When did they prove they have nothing to hide?
It was always prettyobvious that the McCanns didnt want Tanner to change her story as it nails them to a 9:15 end of ‘window of opportunity’ - no time for the abductor to clean the apartment, so who did it?
January 8th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
559…Ade
I bet he is a rabid ProMcCannic….seems thick enough to qualify.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
551 Jolie
The difference being that, despite his obvious ineptitude, Inspector Clouseau always fingers the criminal.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
547…Tinsel
How on earth will the PJ stop themselves smirking and then bursting
out in uncontrollable laughing when O’B tries to “correct” his story ?
January 8th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
556 Firestar
And your blog cutting and pasting should be truthful as well….and NOT misleading people by quoting the Military when in fact your pasting was just from an unqualified member of the Public.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/21/1752256
January 8th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
firestar/matt
first saw clarkson gaffe yesterday but my chesty cough linctus was giving me memory loss
he really is a thick bastard
i like the other two though - james may and the hamster hammond
January 8th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
86 Freddy
There is nothing criminal per se about leaving a DEAD child in a car or boot, since you separate these things.
Leaving a LIVE child CAN get you into trouble for neglect.
But the McCanns don’t have this particular problem, do they?
January 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
547 Tinsel
Of course….O’Brien IS Bundleman.
Instead of movie rights, I’d be all over that Bundleman cartoon and turn it into a character. I guess the FBI artist has the rights over it unless Madeleine Fund bought it/licensed it.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
552
Stevo Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
531 Firestar
Interesting. You were telling me off as some kind of “Anorak Cop” because mods and admin told you to drop the subject.
and the mods were talking about nettiquette, not data security.
you really should learn to read before you post you know.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
552
Stevo Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
531 Firestar
Interesting. You were telling me off as some kind of “Anorak Cop” because mods and admin told you to drop the subject.
Then you cut and paste from another blog into this blog.
You really are a sad case
well you are a nutcase.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
539
Ade Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
this stuff about data security reminds e of the recent clarkson story.
that’s funny ade.
not seen the story before, has it just happened?
January 8th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
539…Ade
Oh dear…Clarkson….DOH !!!
Hadn’t heard of that story.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
531 Firestar
Interesting. You were telling me off as some kind of “Anorak Cop” because mods and admin told you to drop the subject.
Then you cut and paste from another blog into this blog.
You really are a sad case.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Freddy
Are you Inspector Clouseau reincarnated here? I note a very similar, keen sense of humor between the two of you.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
534 Catkidd
The chances of two psychos coming together are not as slim as you suggest. Of course, I am not suggesting this of the McCanns. But remember Brady and Hindley, Fred and Rosemary West, Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr (she was not found guilty of murder but of covering for him). And all the other couples we hear of from time to time who abuse and murder their children as a joint effort.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
542 rockhopper
the charity was:
Diabetes UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm