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
Posted: 13th, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,025) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
- eggman on Daily Mail Scuppers BBC’s Wrong Shipping Forecast
- agw on Daily Mail Scuppers BBC’s Wrong Shipping Forecast
- Bat E Bird on I’m A Celebrity: Samantha Fox Is Shrinking As ‘Lesbian’ Lover Katie Price Quits
- Bat E Bird on In Photos: Susan Boyle Sings Rockefeller Center Plaza In New York City
- yampster on Daily Mail And Tax Payers’ Alliance Attacks BBC Over Its Free Trees For A Better Planet
January 13th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I think I’ll go down to the local pub, have a few pints and listen first hand to what the sources close to the Mccanns have to say today.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
211 Miss Match says (January 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pm): “The Oldfields and Paynes have been very quiet since returning to the UK. Have they openly spoken, (ie, not Clarence Mitchell’s words), of their support for the McCanns since being back in the UK? I remember that they were supportive in Portugal, but they have been silent since then, as far as I am aware”.
REPLY: On ‘Day 144′ after Madeleine’s ‘disappearance’. just as the papers were full of the PJ’s suspicions about the ‘missing 6 hours’ on 3rd May when no third party had seen Madeleine alive, up popped Dr David Payne, speaking of course through ‘a source close to the McCanns’, to say that Gerry McCann had asked him to check on Kate at about 6.20pm to 6.30pm, and had therefore seen Madeleine and the other children being got ready for bed - he said about 7.00pm, though that was earlier than their usual bedtime. Very convenient!
He has also made statements that he is 100% convinced of the McCanns’ innocence.
All of which makes me suspect he is guilty of a crime concerning Madeleine, even if only of covering up the truth.
As far as I know the Oldfields have been silent apart from I think Rachel Oldfield making a comment saying that she also was sure the McCanns were innocent. That was about October time, I think
‘
January 13th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
216
the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Julie Says to the watcher: ” just in case you’re wondering about my stance on this whole saga. Sympathy does not come very high on my list of priorities with people who abuse and/or neglect children, whether it be their own or not.”
i do not have sympathy for anyone who inflicts pain on others
and that includes people on here who want to inflict pain on the McCanns
to indulge in sadistic fantasy to me is disturbing no matter who is the victim.
to try to justify such fantasies leads us into a very black area.
when is it right to enjoy watching people being tortured.
in my opinion never.
======================================
‘Kate McCann is suspicious about Robert Murat’s alibi for the night her daughter Madeleine vanished, it was revealed yesterday. The mother of three has confided to friends she believes there are questions about the British expat that need to be answered’
It might be worth bearing in mind gems of this nature when calling upon posters to refrain from hurtful criticism of the McCanns.
It does seem that the McCanns are perfectly prepared to accuse others of deeply horrible things, whilst claiming sympathy for themselves…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
216 the watcher
The only people being tortured are the british and Portuguese public.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
123
May
And notice,Madeleine is supposed to report heself back by then!
Kate ‘n Gerry are still anguished by Madeleine’s ludicrius and unhelpful behaviour when it turned out she was not in one of the Christmas present and she selfishly spoiled their festive period.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Julie Says to the watcher: ” just in case you’re wondering about my stance on this whole saga. Sympathy does not come very high on my list of priorities with people who abuse and/or neglect children, whether it be their own or not.”
i do not have sympathy for anyone who inflicts pain on others
and that includes people on here who want to inflict pain on the McCanns
to indulge in sadistic fantasy to me is disturbing no matter who is the victim.
to try to justify such fantasies leads us into a very black area.
when is it right to enjoy watching people being tortured.
in my opinion never.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Regarding the back flip! I haven’t decided what to wear yet, but I will be clothed and will definitely have matching ear rings and fresh highlights. To suggest I will be naked is ‘ludicrous, hurtful and unhelpful’, but flipping funny.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
86
Julie
I guess childish clothes would have been a better word.
Ya know the ponytail with the ribbon, the pink all the time, the butterfly jewelry.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
197
Julie Says
……I do sincerely hope that you will be FULLY clothed ……
++++++++++++++++++
Please Julie - don’t spoil the image !
January 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
The Oldfields and Paynes have been very quiet since returning to the UK. Have they openly spoken, (ie, not Clarence Mitchell’s words), of their support for the McCanns since being back in the UK?
I remember that they were supportive in Portugal, but they have been silent since then, as far as I am aware.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
101
Richard
Certainly gives you food for thought..
Good thinking.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
193 Jolie says (January 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm):
“I keep thinking that someone, some day, will make an announcement that this story has all been a bizarre, sociological test for the public or some new reality show”.
REPLY: Yes. I have some sympathy for those who express the view that there are those involved with this story - who know the awful truth about the death of Madeleine in her Praia da Luz apartment - whio are developing this story as some kind of test or experiment on how gullible the public are these days. The daily battle in the press in the Madeleine McCann affair is all about winning over or winning back public opinion. Almost nothing else seems to matter. And it is possible that public opinion, in some indirect way, may come to determine the eventual outcome of this case
January 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
204
JuneJohnson Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Mods and Admin
To Can’t say No, thanks for the Bullshit button, we have hijacked it !!!!
————————————————
As long as Duncan R doesn’t get to work on it and turn it into a jumping up and down Bullshit button…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
203 delboy
mange tout rodders
and she’s readily expendable
and she’s a serious liability that needs keeping under wraps
couple of years in the nut house and life can go on regardless in perfect rothley
what fun to see it unfold
January 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
203…delboy
You can be sure that when things look “bleak” legally that Dr G P
will ensure that he looks after his own hide….no matter what it may
entail.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
190 tony bennett
have you seen jim carrey in “the truman show”?
uncanny similarities
January 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Mods and Admin
To Can’t say No, thanks for the Bullshit button, we have hijacked it !!!!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
199,ADE…YOU ARE SO RIGHT.. it seems kate is the scapegoat,even though I wouldnt trust that arrogant bstard whome she is married to…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
138 Mods and Admin
(and 138 Leeza)
“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”.
REPLY: True, whether it’s muddied waters, a smokescreen, ’smoke and mirrors’, a thick fog or whatever.
But suppose *every* McCann-sceptic chose to take the ‘wiser’ option and remain silent?
Then where would we be?
Leeza IMO put it very well indeed when she said: “However, using judgement , even though it involves the risk of being wrong, is a moral obligation”.
—_____________
Mods and Admin
Human nature being what it is, that won’t happen. But sooner or later even the most ‘reserved’ and discreet person will plump for one view or the other.
Even though my position here being what it is, I was deemed as insane and needing anger management etc etc oh as recently as May 5th, but do hold sincere regret for Madeleine and do hope my fears thoughts etc are unfounded, and things didn’t happen as I dread.
BUT being blinded by admiration or wilful obtuseness or indeed brainwashing into an opinion is morally uncertain too.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
88
PeterO
The tapas 7 have the same lawyer but Kate’n Gerry have seperate ones.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
177
Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
chenier– “But I really don’t want anyone to die…”
Neither do I. But when someone commits murder, they do want someone to die. A common motivation for murder is to shut someone up, and make sure some truth is not revealed. This is unfortunate reality.
The McCanns do not seem very aware of reality in any respect, do they? Gerry looks like a dunce puppet on a string.
————————————————————
You are stretching a very long way from ‘people are sometimes murdered to shut them up’ to ‘G&K may be murdered to shut them up’.
You haven’t provided any evidence of any kind to suggest that G&K know something which is so secret that it could endanger their lives, much less that one or more people would be prepared to kill them…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
i think we are well past the stage of arranged “accidents” simply because the wider tapparatti are involved and could leak key snippets.
to sort this lot out you’d need a plane crash with them all on board!
most likely to me is to pin it all on “mad” katiepoos
trouble is though there must have been some help in tidying up after her
so again, some mud will stick to the tapparatti
perverting the course of justice?
then there’s the whole business of a potentially fraudulent slush fund
did “mad” katiepoos do that on her own too?
oh dear what a mess we have got ourselves into…
wonderful fun
January 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
191…Julie
Very true….Some parents have harmed their offspring since time immemorial.
Anyone who claims that such a thing can’t happen is either being extremely
ignorant or being dishonest in their claim.
—————-
Mods and Admin
Until the recent generations parenthood hasnt been an option, although desired by many ,some resent the intrusion of tiny feet and distance themselves from their progeny almost since conception.
But, it was a chilling remark that the McC made when they said, unforced and unexpectedly, that their children were conceived through IVF. To my mind anyway,conception even through IVF is still a very private matter even though the loss of intimacy is enforced, but why did they say that? Why did they want us to know that as then the world asssumed that abduction had occured.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
#
192
Miss Match Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Peter O - hello again.
After my detailed shutter investigation, I am too drained to do anything but sit at the computer, let alone a cartwheel. If the McCanns do get charged, I may just do a back flip though.
********************************
I do sincerely hope that you will be FULLY clothed
January 13th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
128 Nemesis Says: 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!
++++++++++
Nemesis – While I have no legal experience that would allow me to comment as anything other than a “layman”, I have no doubt that every conceivable tactic/ploy will be employed to prevent charges ever being brought, trials going ahead, evidence ruled inadmissible, trials adjourned for all manner of reasons, trials kicked out for improper process, judgements challenged/appealed, Human Rights appeals, etc, etc. All that before you get to the inevitable PR machine still spinning its wheels throughout the whole process.
If charges are ever brought in this case that will simply be a “stopping off point” in what will inevitably be a marathon legal process, in my opinion.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Julie Says to the watcher: ” just in case you’re wondering about my stance on this whole saga. Sympathy does not come very high on my list of priorities with people who abuse and/or neglect children, whether it be their own or not.”
Me too.
And Watcher, you did not answer my question about what you take seriously. You merely repeated yourself. Re: the speculation on a morbid outcome for the McCanns, well, I would agree with others that this is not something we should dwell on — though it is something the McCanns themselves probably should think about. It just often looks to me as if they are being set up. Well, I must get back to work. Cheers.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Carmen Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
the watcher
I totally agree.
I do think that this line of speculation is best dropped, it is unnecessary and does nothing to help Madeleine.
Carmen
carmen
thank you
i think people have forgotten what this is all about.
a little girl who is missing.
it has become a witch hunt and the tabloids love every minute of it.
while people make a lot of money making up stories to keep the public fed
the truth and only truth is that a little girl is missing
January 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
191 Tony
I keep thinking that someone, some day, will make an announcement that this story has all been a bizarre, sociological test for the public or some new reality show. The way these characters behave does make one believe it can’t really be true, can it?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Peter O - hello again.
After my detailed shutter investigation, I am too drained to do anything but sit at the computer, let alone a cartwheel. If the McCanns do get charged, I may just do a back flip though.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
187
Jolie Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
*********************
Very tragic story indeed. Just goes to show though, that anyone living in fairy land who believes that parents are incapable of harming their own, need to get a serious grip on reality!