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 12:11 pm
147 Julie - can’t say no …. OMG I am SHOCKED! Can’t understand a word of the article …. but Clarrie’s shirt isn’t PINK!!!
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I think the shirt was pink, but a rogue black sock got caught up with the ‘pink load’ of washing and the colour ran. Only logical explaination really!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
150 Ade
Agree with you on all counts.
I think the chances are good that the PJ will act before April anyway.
The arrogance of the McCanns and their team knows no limits, does it? As that unnamed source close to the PJ investigation supposedly said, “Who do they think they are?”
January 13th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
matt, oh yes and I think we are starting to see that with the mcs…..
January 13th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Tony Bennett
we have brains, minds, the ability to detect truth from fiction etc.
hmmmm
and yet on this very forum people take very seriously reports in the tabloids from unamed source’s because it happens to fit into their personal belief of what happened.
most people on here fall into this trap both pro and anti McCann.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Whilst being aware of the foolishness of prejudging just about anything, it seems to me to be important to try and work out what the facts are.
The fewer the facts we possess, the more important those facts become.
I regard the fact of the failure of the McCanns to get the twins to hospital for monitoring on the night Madeleine disappeared as clear evidence that something deeply nasty happened in the woodshed.
I also regard the fact that the alleged abductor was said to have been able to navigate around a pitch dark apartment as clear evidence that either the alleged abductor possessed supernatural powers or didn’t exist…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Miss Match, I think that practically everything to do with M, CM, CC, GM, KM and every single other person/cuddly toy that’s been within 50 yards of this case has already been copyrighted! So unfortunately the money making aspect of this case goes only in one direction. However I still think you should claim for the damaged shutters, you’ve cracked it after all!
IMHO of course!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
146…delboy
Yes….arrogance has a habit of becoming self-destructing.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Morning all
Sorry if old news…
13.1.08
Doubts about new detective company
Hogan International is not up to the job of finding Madeleine, according to the Sunday Express. The private detectives company, hired by the McCann to replace Metodo 3, “simply does not have the resources or the back-up to conduct a major investigation”, according to a former Scotland Yard Officer who has given advice to the McCann. The same source told Sunday Express that Leicester Police is now conducting investigations, in UK, requested by Portuguese police.
The McCann legal team is now preparing the defence of the couple against what they expect will be charges related to a murder, soon. A source close to the family told the Sunday Express that “the investigation is working towards a resolution and we have to consider that Madeleine may have been murdered. We have been working to the theory she may have been killed and all the possible scenarios are being considered.”
Posted by Paulo Reis at 01:56:00
Mark Warner, Alex Woolfall and a few questions
I appreciate the kindness and sympathy of so many of my readers who send me information about the first news in UK Media, about Madeleine’s disappearance. So, it seems that even before the Polícia Judiciária team arrived at Praia da Luz, the Foreign Office had already information about the “kidnap” and UK TV’s were already broadcasting the story.
It’s always good to remember that first call to GNR precinct was 45 minutes after Kate realized Madeleine disappeared, and the head of PJ was informed by the British Ambassador, around 11h15, even before PJ detectives had time to drive from Portimão to Praia da Luz…
Alex Woolfall is a star among stars. His experience covers “deliberate sabotage and accidental contamination of products (from food to pharmaceuticals); accident, injury and death in the workplace; allegations of corporate manslaughter; product recalls; corporate fraud and theft; court cases on the grounds of sex, race and age discrimination; redundancy and closure announcements; the use of illegal and/or child labour; regulatory breaches; mislabelling of products; abduction and robberies and terrorist related activities”, according to Bell Pottinger site. Quite a curriculum…
I presume my readers will help me again with these details: Mr. Alex Woolfall was quickly placed at Praia da Luz, with a special team from Bell Pottinger. I’m looking for news, in the UK Media, referring the arrival of Alex Woolfall. Not that he was there or he has been there, but about being on his way or having just arrived at Praia da Luz…
Another detail: John Hill, manager of Ocean Club, told some newspapers that police was called immediately and arrived at 10h45. But I was told he was quoted in other newspapers as saying that police arrived around midnight. Could it be only in printed editions? I checked the Net and only found this reference, from MR. John Hill, about 10h45. Any help on this will be appreciated…
I promised to share with all of you – free of charge, as always, of course… - the final conclusions of what I’m investigating, as soon as I reach a conclusion. What I can tell you is that those two persons – Alex Woolfall and John Hill – play a significant role in this case. Because they had, both, close knowledge of events, on decisive moments.
Posted by Paulo Reis at 00:43:00
Just a detail
Marcos Teixeira Aragão Correia, the “Human Rights Lawyer” that claims to know, since May 6, what happened to Madeleine, is a founding member of Nova Democracia, a small right-wing party.
Posted by Paulo Reis at 00:37:00
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/
January 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
147
Julie
I have to go now
I’ll try to come back later ,and translate
January 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
142 jolie
i remember garth mumbling about a trump card
but trump card = going back to portugal?
not much of a trump card to me…
anyway if you read between the lines i don’t see them intent on going back
too afraid of arrest
these people are nuts
fun watching them suffer though
January 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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can’t say no Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
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Could you please,translate a resume?…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
127…can’t say no
Hi Chick.
Any news from Portugal ?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
can’t say no …. OMG I am SHOCKED! Can’t understand a word of the article …. but Clarrie’s shirt isn’t PINK!!!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Matt, everyone is starting to crack up,this case is more addictive than drugs…
just hope the lying bstards are cought sooner rather than later…………………..there nothing better in this life than to see people who think they are better than anyone else..get egg on their face…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Can I claim copywrite on the shutter theory and trademark it? Oh, silly me, I’d be making some money and they’d threaten to sue me. My defence would be that I was covering costs in the name of very serious detective work.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:l210iPH86fwJ:semanal.expresso.clix.pt/1caderno/pais.asp%3Fedition%3D1822%26articleid%3DES268030+clarence+soham+expresso&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3
January 13th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Dunno if the link works here
http://64.233.169.104/search?q…..k&cd=3
January 13th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Where’s Garth?
Now that the Mirror has announced what the McCanns’ trump card is, I’d be curious to know if it matches the same trump card that Garth was talking about a couple of days ago.
The same phrase used by Team McCann (a “close friend” says) used within the same time frame as our friend Garth does indicate the strong possibliity he is indeed connected up with them, don’t you think?
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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.”
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January 13th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hello julie hope you are well…….
January 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
In the early days mccanns thought they were in control and the pj let them think that,but I believe it was a ploy to catch them out,and now control is taken away from them they are like cornered rats,they hav’nt a clue whats happening behind the scenes and it is killng them,so they keep leaking all this crap, to goed the pj into leaking evidence,but it aint working, they know whats happened to that child and only them,(maybe a couple of tapas included) and to to try, a get rich quick scheme,they have made all this rubbish up,they will be cought out oh yes………what goes round ..comes round…..and I believe in that…
January 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am
OMG Miss Match, you are definitely going to be famous! Hope you’re putting in a claim for the damaged shutters to the Fund … it was done in the interests of detective work in order to find out what actually happened
January 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am
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Tony Bennett Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:47 am
To claim the moral high ground by saying ‘I won’t prejudge anything’ may turn out to be…foolish
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Not just foolish but probably irresponsible too.
Surely to “prejudge” means to come to a definite conclusion without having considered the evidence (both factual and circumstantial) and taken into account the views of others.
Also, a “judgement” is merely a conclusion or opinion, which can never be made with 100% certainty. However, using judgement , even though it involves the risk of being wrong, is a moral obligation. I fail to see why failure to form an opinion or reluctance to state an opinion could be considered morally superior to making a judgement and expressing a view.
These constant reiterations along the lines of “you cannot be 100% positive” and”innocent until proven guilty” are a total nonsense but they just won’t give up as its all they’ve got.
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Mods and Admin
Perhaps some cannot see too clearly through the awfully muddy state of the water - is it morally superior? They may just feel its wiser to remain silent. And isn’t the challenge of others that innocent etc indicates there has been judgment made and are clearly NOT on the fence
January 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am
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Miss Match Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:55 am
” [...] Secondly, in order to force the window, as claimed by the McCanns, you would physically have to hold the shutters up with one hand and use the other hand to force the window, Obviously, with your third hand, you can use whatever tool you have brought to force the window. With the fourth hand, you would get the tool out of your tool bag which you were carrying with your fifth hand.
Ohmygod - I’ve solved it. It was a crafty octopus.”
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Brilliant!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am
ok
m&a its your site
i just find it difficult to keep on a thread when people go off talking about something completely different or just start larking about.
however thank you for being polite about it .i have been insulted many times on here just for voicing an opinion so thanks for being civil
i apologise if i seemed rude.
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The ambling and meandering can sometimes be more enlightening, and anyway it would be hypocritical of us (in M and A) to enforce topic only, the Forums are proof positive of our dog pissing in the snow ways I’m afraid. Its the way we are.
We just ask that people don’t cross -thread as that gets confusing
January 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Good Afternoon,
Do you think that if G.and K. take part in Celebrity Big Brother, they will invariably be the winners? Just because all other contestants will disappear one by one through the window?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Sorry for the typos in previous post.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am
117 Miss Match
Morning to you! And Julie, re: the woman-pushing-40-in-girlish clothes - enjoy your girlish frame while you can. I now have a midriff like a giant maggot and my wardrobe is more Demis Roussos than Demi Moore. Off to do the hoovering.
(remember the watcher, just scroll right past.)
January 13th, 2008 at 11:55 am
120 Julie - “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”
Sincere apologise for going out, but I do have a valid excuse for the supermarket visit. We were down to the last few sheets of loo roll.
Re the shutter test! I actually had another serious thought about the shutters. If bundleman did enter by the shutters from the outside (which is impossible anyway but….), the shutters would have to be forced up, which damages them, as I found out yesterday in the name of serious detective work, but once in the apartment and through the shutter, the shutters would automatically drop down again due to gravity unless bundleman had incredibly long arms and could secure them in the raised position by the interior pulley.
Firstly, why open the shutters open which would give people a view of what you are doing in the apartment?
Secondly, in order to force the window, as claimed by the McCanns, you would physically have to hold the shutters up with one hand and use the other hand to force the window, Obviously, with your third hand, you can use whatever tool you have brought to force the window. With the fourth hand, you would get the tool out of your tool bag which you were carrying with your fifth hand.
Ohmygod - I’ve solved it. It was a crafty octopus.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
delboy … good to see you
January 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
129…delboy
Seems Dr K is not the only one cracking up. (allegdy).