Madeleine McCann: McCann Incorporated, McCann Ink And Going Back To Portugal
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY MIRROR: “Tapas 7 in despair at all the ‘lies’”
They say they are also called the Tapas Nine? And the Sangria Seven
“The Tapas Seven are “in meltdown” over the failure of Portuguese police to make any meaningful progress in the hunt for Madeleine”
“IT’S OUR D-DAY - McCanns return to Portugal - EXCLUSIVE Kate and Gerry set date in April for Algarve showdown They’ll tell cops: show your evidence or clear us for good”. Like that D-Day back on November?
“Despairing Kate and Gerry McCann are planning to return to Portugal for a face-to-face showdown with police who think they killed their daughter Madeleine”
They are going back. Now..?
Well, not exactly: “A close friend said the the couple were likely to go back after their ‘D-Day’ of April 11, when their three-month extension is up, and added: ‘They feel they’ve waited long enough with this cloud of suspicion hanging over them. They know their return would be very high-profile. They believe investigators do not have the evidence against them to bring charges, and their presence in Portugal would embarrass them. They’ve so far held off going back there, but they see it as their trump card”
They will go back once they have been allowed to see the police first on them
Says the paper’s source: “They see April 11 as their D-day. They have decided to give the police reasonable time to clear them, or at least open the case files so they can see the evidence against them”
That’s good of them…
FIONA Philips, of GMTV writes: “Have a heart”. Yes, that Fiona Philips
“Unbelievably, every time I write about the McCanns I get messages saying, ‘I used to like you, until you started supporting the McCanns.’ Nice, eh? So I hope you’re happy now that Kate and Gerry have blamed themselves for Madeleine’s disappearance”
Happy?
“In a list of ‘if onlys’, Gerry said: ‘I wish I’d stayed in the apartment that night.’ Now, I expect more bile on praising them for considering making a documentary on the case. Surely you can’t tell me that there’s a parent out there who wouldn’t do anything possible to find their missing child?”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “’We pray she’ll be at party for twins’”
“Brave Kate McCann is planning a huge birthday party for her twins - and dreams missing Maddie will be there too. Kate, 39, has vowed to go ahead with the bash for Sean and Amelie even though she is still waiting for cops to quiz her again. Mother-in-law Eileen said: ‘The party’s on and it will be an even bigger one if wee Madeleine is back. All we can do is hope and pray.’ Sean and Amelie turn three on February”
Touching stuff. Gerry McCann is a “heart specialist”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: No film will be made unless she’s found - alive or dead”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been told that the proposed documentary about their daughter’s disappearance can go ahead only if she is found – alive or dead.
A source says: “It was awkward to raise but there would need to be an ending – either Madeleine being found alive or a body being discovered. If this wasn’t the case, and there was a major development after filming and editing, it could render the documentary redundant”
Or the parents or some other person or persons are charged, perhaps?
THE OBSERVER: “A good week for … a bad week for …”
“A bad week for …
“Tradition – A Lib Dem MP called Lynne Featherstone has made a bid for the limelight by reporting the monarchy to the Equality Commission because it goes in for primogeniture”
“Marcus Agius The chairman of Barclay’s was the target of £10,000 fraud”
“Good Taste - Or indeed any taste at all. A London based agency which supplies celebrity doubles has employed a small girl to rent out as Madeleine McCann. 20 per cent”
It was a “good weeks for… Washing up”
“THE Maddie story is already a soap opera, so why the moral panic over a movie? - Don’t get me wrong - nobody wants to see Maddie: The Musical. However, needs must if the McCanns want to continue trying to find out what happened to their daughter and they do, despite the devastating expense (their somewhat unproductive detective agency alone costs £50,000 a month) and the increasingly shabby odds.”
Maddie: The Musical, eh..?
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: “Strange case of the detectives trying to trace Madeleine”
“After a week when commercials deals were more apparent than clues, we investigate the investigators”. Why not investigate the case?
“Just when the Madeleine McCann saga couldn’t get any more agonising, along came a raft of developments last week that began to achieve what you would hope would be impossible: turning a little missing girl into an industry – Madeleine Inc. Item: a London agency hawking around various small girls as Madeleine lookalikes. Item: US television bringing a team of psychics to bear on the disappearance as part of what they no doubt hoped would be a money-spinner of a show. Item: her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, exploring the possibility of selling the book and film rights to the case”
Madeleine became a brand long ago. Brand McCann…
“Madeleine Inc bring benefits to some, but not, so far, to the girl herself or her distraught parents”
Or Madeleine Ink – see the press
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Ron Liddle writes:
“So, get yourself ready for Maddie – The Movie (PG, until you fancy nipping out for something to eat). Kate and Gerry McCann’s press spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, has confirmed that the couple met with representatives from the US entertainment company IMG before Christmas and that while nothing was agreed, the meeting had been ‘positive’. A day later Gerry McCann hastily backtracked and said no, no, they weren’t planning a movie. Who to believe? And which British actors will Hollywood cast as the parents if there is a film? Sacha Baron Cohen and Catherine Tate? Am I bovvered? Look at my face – is it bovvered? And maybe Matt Lucas as the shady-looking Robert Murat? Norman Wisdom as the Portuguese chief of police?”
Madeleine McCann: Fiction, faction and a single unbearable fact
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January 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
it was a good marketing PLOY……gerries words
it was a good money making PLOY….my words…..
January 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am
45/88 Peter O Re: Mental Health of the arguida– Perhaps consideration of the legal implications of DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA are appropriate at this stage. Dissociative amnesia has, apparently, been cited as a defense in cases of murder of adults, neonatricide and infanticide. Apart from just being plain super self righteous,arrogant, and deluded -do you think that the D.A. condition might be included somewhere along the line ? Just a thought along with many others ,like stone the b….s!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am
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Matt.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
77 Mods and Admins said: “Some who wisely do not wish to prejudge…”
REPLY: But this is a ‘trump card’ of Team McCann. Time after time, they and their supporters cry ‘do not prejudge’, ‘wait for the evidence’, ‘innocent until proven guilty’. They sometimes even quote Christ’s words from the Bible in the Sermon on the Mount - ‘judge not that ye be not judged’.
These are all IMO techniques to browbeat McCann-sceptics into silence.
But we have brains, minds, the ability to detect truth from fiction etc.
True wisdom in this case may be the ability to discern and distinguish between the Team Mccann lies, deceptions, half-truth and spin - and the truth.
To claim the moral high ground by saying ‘I won’t prejudge anything’ may turn out to be…foolish
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Whilst speculation still runs very high not prejudging might be deemed as sensible by some. Lets wait til PJ confirm suspicions might be their free choice in the matter. Also notice that they do NOT prejudge others either. Their thoughts , on the other hand may be unfathomable. Silence on a given subject can speak volumes.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
102 mornin’ julie
ted tells me the latest drainage work done by the poor people is holding up to the north easterly.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Yes, Miss Match at least we’re allowed a laugh or two here, although there’s some that the appreciation of humour fall flat on …. oh well, it takes all sorts doesn’t it?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
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chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Edit…
“Which is a bit odd since according to the People:
‘Brave Kate McCann is planning a huge birthday party for her twins - and dreams missing Maddie will be there too.’
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Blowing the rest of the Fund on the birthday party? And the celebration, of course.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Hi Julie,
I’ve checked out the Mirror forums a few times. Goodness, they can be quite fierce over there can’t they. I think I will stay here where it is much friendlier.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am
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chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
He’s just doing what he’s told…
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Be rather interesting to find out who’s telling him what to do …………
January 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Miss Match … welcome back
Would you kindly perform the test on the shutters that I’ve requested just after you dared to go out earlier
January 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
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Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
47 chenier Says: January 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
‘Hogan International has become renowned for it’s work in the fields of: Tracing Missing Persons, Asset Investigations, Intellectual Property Infringement, Internal & External Financial Transaction Fraud, Surveillance, Electronic Security and all manner of Criminal Investigations acting for both Prosecution & Defence. It has earned international retainers from leading corporate organisations: Banks, Finance Houses, Insurers and The Legal Profession.’
Not much there about finding little children…
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However. There’s that word “fraud” again…
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There certainly is.
It seems to pop up a lot in the context of the McCanns.
In fairness, private detectives as portrayed by Raymond Chandler and Robert Parker seem to be somewhat thin on the ground.
Most private investigators work for corporate clients because corporate clients have the money to pay them.
And unless you are really, really rich and have other concerns, divorce work here in England does not provide much in the way of bread and butter nowadays.
Nevertheless, most private investigators make much of their discretion.
Smearing themselves all over the media as both Metodo 3 and Hogan have done is extremely unusual.
As Hogan notes on the website:
‘as is the case wherever Hogan International is involved the client was able to minimise publicity - sometimes more damaging than the crimes themselves.’
In short, the articles about Hogan were based on information revealed by his client, not himself.
He’s just doing what he’s told…
January 13th, 2008 at 11:41 am
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Carmen Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:39 am
105 the watcher
Cartwheel past, knickerless, if you prefer.
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Noooo, what a horrific thought ….. incredibly funny though
January 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Hello everyone,
I’m back! Gloria, don’t leave us! You provide some much needed humour in the midst of the tragedy.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:39 am
99…Julie
Good morning, Julie.
Perhaps it wasn’t a wise thing for her Agency to do.
It does seem that Clarence wants any Business activity
re the matter to be purely under His/McCann control.
Sadly, Madeleine and her fate, have, thanks to her family’s
courting with the Media, long ago become big business.
Newspapers, TV, Radio, Authors etc all jumping onto the
gravy train. As well as the McCann’s and Clarence themselves.
Hard to decide as to who has done most wrong re the matter.
(business side that is)
January 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am
….another source…a friend of the mccanns….a close source…an unnamed ex police officer/sergeant/scotland yard/investigator……bla bla bla….ITS BULLSHIT…
TAKE THE EFFIN LIE DETECTOR,AND TRY TO PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE……
MAKE THE FUND A CHARITY……….TO HELP OTHER MISSING CHILDREN..
WORK WITH THE PJ AND NOT AGAINST THEM….
QUIT THE BULLSHIT OF BOOKS AND FILMS……..
and then people may start to believe you????
January 13th, 2008 at 11:38 am
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
julie /gloria etc
have you anything relevant to say because if not please chat somewhere else.
this is supposed to be about the McCann case .
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Suggest you go to the Mirror forum or something like that then, they’re into the dead-serious stuff! Chill out!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
105 the watcher
If you can’t bear to tolerate the chummy bits which merely pepper our otherwise ad-hoc and therefore on-topic observations, then just scroll past our posts, dear fellow, just scroll past our posts.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
101 Richard
Now that’s a wicked thought, but clever.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
108 Because 9 drunk mates of mine saw him
January 13th, 2008 at 11:36 am
penster– “There’s a paedophile in Praia de Luz who is interested in a Maddie lookalike.”
How do you know he is not in Rothley?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Does anyone else think that Kate will be dead before April? There will be what appears to be a suicide note that seems to admit her guilt, but as usual it will all be open to other interpretation. Many people will say she killed the girl. Others will say Kate was murdered. Gerry will say she lost her mind after agonising for so long. The PJ will be stuck trying to pin something on Gerry. But by then Gerry will be a super-hero dealing with a double-whammy grief.
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Youve got a wild imagination!!!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
julie /gloria etc
have you anything relevant to say because if not please chat somewhere else.
this is supposed to be about the McCann case .
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‘On topic’ is not enforcable on this site
January 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
96 Carmen
Ah. Yes. Horrifying image.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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man on a hill Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:29 am
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Their first crime has been to leave the kids unattended….about the rest,will we ever know???
January 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
ADE, good morning! How’s the drainage today
January 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Does anyone else think that Kate will be dead before April? There will be what appears to be a suicide note that seems to admit her guilt, but as usual it will all be open to other interpretation. Many people will say she killed the girl. Others will say Kate was murdered. Gerry will say she lost her mind after agonising for so long. The PJ will be stuck trying to pin something on Gerry. But by then Gerry will be a super-hero dealing with a double-whammy grief.
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Good morning Richard
Indeed possible suicide attempts have been discussed on here.
Gerry a super hero? well he has yet to assume heroic status first for that, yes?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Lilith 73
“She gets off with a minimum sentence and Gerry stays out of prison”
If Gerry is shown to have the slightest foreknowledge of any of the events leading up to the Oscars on the 3rd he might have a problem having appealed for donations to his mortgage fund.
Perverting the course of and fraud are more likely going to be far easier to prove than the actual events.
Al Capone went up the river for tax evasion, not for deadly do.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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Matt. Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:24 am
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Good morning Matt.
While I personally think that the woman who runs that agency did wrong, I find the death threats against her and her young child particularly disturbing. Also the matter of her apology being refused speaks volumes about what is probably going on behind the scenes in this case.
The matter of “deeper involvement” once again springs to mind …….. IMHO
January 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am
how about finding a comical clarrie lookalike?
dim facial expression
no brain cells
no dress sense
verbal diarrhea (?)
pink shirt
just walk around saying “ludicrous, hurtful, unhelpful, can’t possibly comment on that”
January 13th, 2008 at 11:29 am
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Richard Says:
man on a hill– “Why is it that some of us find it so hard to believe that two doctors are capable of this crime? ”
“This” crime? What crime are you talking about? The McCanns have likely committed several
See what i mean, even i go easy on them. lol