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 2:31 pm
Mr Nosey cow getting quite agitated
guests expected and dinner not ready - must fly - see you all later!!
happy sleuthing
be nice
Ps youngest son (8) approached by Birmingham city scout this morning - should he leave the leicester city academy?? oh the dilemas chez noseycow…
January 13th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
308…noseycow
Even earlier re slating the Police.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1904691
January 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Afternoon all,
Seems the McCanns are fast losing all credibility, as Richard said on a previous post, if they were so keen to be interviewed by the PJ, why not jump on the next Plane?
Loved the casting by Ron Liddle (Sunday Times) for the proposed Film.
Browsing through Dark Forces blog by Martin Brunt, there is a post by Geoff, Durham (11.59pm yesterday ) whom I suspect is a Reporter which is interesting. He mentions the VF
interview and that because CM did not proof read, GM made a big faux pas. KM said that
the reason she knew there had been an intruder was because Cuddlecat was on a shelf, but
GM said Cuddlecat was sat on the bed.
Also, Jon Corner is Godfather to Madeleine, a film producer and now Director of No Stone
Unturned. Apparently, he was also active in producing “evidence” to show Madeleine alive
after her disappearance and could be guilty of perverting the course of Justice.
Expect you will all say “we already discussed all that” but it is more food for thought don”t you think!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Morning miss match
I have to agree with you that we all want a definitive and correct outcome of this tragic case - what ever that may be.
Daisy however - i find it hard to support the mcc’s for many reasons but mostly because team mcc and the british press have been consistantly feeding us anti pj propaganda from day 3 of this story. (the first time i beleive was great aunty phil - talking about Kate the morning after - feeling helpless and saying that the police had done nothing overnight - which was patently untrue).
While i can concede that there may be some police officers (any country) who may be corrupt, accusing the whole organisation of ’setting them up’ is actually accusing many many professionals of a conspiracy that is just beyond me. Police officers (of any country) are just normal people doing a job, and if you look around you, you will find that most people are basically honest and hard working, and also want to do their job well.
i bridle whenever i hear people say that the pj are corrupt, along with people saying doctors are untrustworthy druggies, and many other generalisations that in my mind is the new form of racism/sexism.
So i feel the need to defend the average pj against what i see as hurtful, unhelpful ludicrous slurs that we read on a daily basis
January 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
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Wanderer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
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Chenier, I do believe there appears to be similarities between them, as someone noted the emotion factor and the press. Personally, I do think they can be compared on that level, although, as I’ve said, that comes about from totally different angles as the McCanns did have a reasonable sounding story at first, while the dingo thing was a bit odd from the start. Then, looking at the cases more, you see more holes in the McCann story with times and such.
I don’t think the Chamberlains had as much automatic sympathy shown to them, while the McCanns did and eventually lost it; so while I would compare the press/public reaction, they’re just too different for me in that sense to really support that connection/similarity (I’m probably not making any sense, I apologize).
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All deaths/disappearances of babies and children have a very high level of emotion attached to them; there is nothing that singles them out in that way.
And the intervention of the media in Madeleine’s case is in a different order of magnitude; I don’t think we have ever seen anything remotely like it in the past. The Guardian comment that it was the biggest story since the Second World War has a grain of truth.
I think it makes sense to consider the actions of the press in the light of the commercial factors driving the redtops. According to the Financial Times:
‘With circulation figures of The Sun and the Daily Mirror tumbling past significant and unwelcome milestones on Friday, analysts speculated that sooner rather than later one of them would have to take the plunge and become a free newspaper.
The Sun fell below 3m for the first time since 1974 despite cutting its price to 20p in London and Scotland.’
Given that a front page article on Madeleine was estimated at putting another 30,000 on sales, and that the Sun is not only particularly vulnerable on Scouser stories, but also losing money in Scotland hand over fist, I think that the Sun in particular had every reason to push this story as a tragic happening to a saintly couple.
The Mirror just followed suit…
January 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
could it have been a big bad wolf wot dunnit?
i read about one who dressed up as a granny and sat in bed.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
302…Leeza
Jumping the gun a bit with that last similarity aren’t you ?
Never found is not applicable to this case…yet.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
297
Dingos are attracted to the smell of death so poor Kate has to fight off the critters on a daily basis…poor Kate to have those nasty fumes coming from her underpants.
And why is Gerry on his bike to work these days?
Wouldn’t have anything to do with dingos camping out in the trunk of his car now would it?
January 13th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
282 PeterMac says (January 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pm):
“But Herod died in 4BC…”
REPLY: Opinion on this is divided, and many have moved Herod’s death to a later date, possibly 1 BC or even 1 AD
January 13th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
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chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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We are still waiting for someone to demonstrate that there are, in fact, similarities between the 2 cases.
As I noted yesterday, about the only thing they have in common is that they both involved small females, and even that’s pushing it.
One was a newborn baby and the other was almost 4.
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Ooops! Forgot the most importance similarity - child’s body never found.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Hello noseycow!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
296…Peter O
Hmmm…is a watcher…..related to this lot ?
“”"”In the fictional Buffyverse established by the television series Buffy and Angel,
a Watcher is a member of a secret organization, the Watchers’ Council, which seeks
to prepare the Slayer to fight demonic forces”"”"”
January 13th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
243 the watcher says (January 13th, 2008 at 1:27 pm):
“it seems Mr Tony Bennett’s track record would seem to be lacking having failed to bring a case against both Barrymore and the McCanns”.
REPLY: In 18 months’ work for Terry Lubbock (Jan 2006 to July 2007):
a) hundreds of pages of police documents studied and analysed
b) dossier presented to Essex Police (Aug 2006) showing that the case needed re-investigation
c) Essex Police announce re-investiagtioon (Nov 2006)
d) 404-page book on the case written, and serialised over two weeks in the ‘News of the World’
e) dossier submitted to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (Dec 2006) complaining about the incompetence of and/or corruption in the first, £8 million, bungled Essex Police investigation into Stuart Lubbock’s death. Accepted for investigation by the I.P.C.C. (Feb 2007) with a top level ‘managed investigation’ (same level as John Charles de Menezese case) with I.P.C.C. currently invesigating *38* separate complaints against Essex Police - see I.P.C.C. website
f) claim for standard £5,500 Criminal Injuries Compensatiom made by me on Terry’s behalf(June 2007) - after both Essex Police and his former Solicitor failed to advise him to make a ‘fatal injury to relative’ claim - successful.
P. S. And where is Michael Barrymore now?
Mods and Admin
“Watcher, just what has a failed case got to do with this one? Or was there no dead body in the pool?”
REPLY: No, there was not. As I prove in my book, three three witnesses who claimed to have seen Stuart Lubbock in the pool and who claim to have found him there were lying. I showed that in fact Stuart was NEVER in the pool. His body was laid out on the poolside and in all probability a bucket or two of cold water emptied over him just before the ambulance were called at 5.46am. A classic smokescreen/hoax. There may well be a second inquest in the not-too-distant future, when I expect the previous ‘open verdict’ to be repalced by ‘unlawfully killed’
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Mods and Admin
Tony , could you clarify then if an ‘open verdict’ is ‘not guilty’ or ‘not proven’ or as yousay liable to be reopened at a future date. Certainly unfinished business to us laypeople?
This rather negates the charge of a ‘failed case’ then, doesn’t it?
January 13th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
daisy talked about this case for hours and hours yesterday.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
dontcha just hate it when a dingo leaves its visiting card on the pavement and you step in it…
not much fun either
January 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
271 noseycow Says: January 13th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Morning all
Mr / Ms the watcher - please note that I am extremely vain and DO use my real name on this forum
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In which case…. I must be guilty as charged M’Lud!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
291
Leeza
Wasn’t it a “doctor” that called in with the Azaria meant sacrifice nonsense? I imagine the press went with that because they can be trusted, hands down. Sorry!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
All Retardo 3 needs to do now is track down a dingo with octopus arms, an egg shaped head and a can of sardines in it’s maroon colored pants.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
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noseycow Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
a slight aside - i couldn’t access the findmadeleine.com website yesterday and still can’t today even though i am using a different computer - can any one else access it? please?
Interestingly I can access the findmadeleine online store
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Noseycow,
I can access the main page and did yesterday also.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
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Noseycow, this site is working for me:
http://store.findmadeleine.com/
I’m trying to open up the “news” page, but it is being really slow, so I imagine it won’t work. (for me anyway)
January 13th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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We are still waiting for someone to demonstrate that there are, in fact, similarities between the 2 cases.
As I noted yesterday, about the only thing they have in common is that they both involved small females, and even that’s pushing it.
One was a newborn baby and the other was almost 4.
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There are some similarity in that Mrs Chamberlain was disliked by the public because unemotional. Also, because she gave media interviews and appeared on the front cover of a woman’s magazine holding the baby, and wore a different outfits to court everyday and took great trouble with her appearance. There were many crappy stories in the press. For example, that she dressed the child in black (it had a black dress with a red trim, which was rather cute) and that the child’s name meant sacrafice. There was also speculation that she did not want the child because it was mentally disabled ( room for some similarity too, I fear, as there have been comments about Madeleine being hyperactive)
However, Mrs Chamberlain gave an eyewitness account of the abduction and police disbelieved her because of discrepancies between her first account and her later accounts. There was no one to back up her version of events and the timeline was very tight (another similarity perhaps?)There was much debate about whether or not a dingo could carry a child off in the way she described. Aboriginal trackers said the dingo could, animal experts said it could not.
She was convicted because she was not believed and not acquitted until new evidence - in the form of a blood stained jumpsuit - turned up about 5 years later. Had that evidence been available at the trial, she would never have been convicted.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Daisy - i am not up on the dingo case - but wasn’t the most recent evidence of a bloody babygrow fround in an area that had previousley been searched?
January 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Hello Daisy,
I did say yesterday how terribly sad the Lindy Chamberlaine was. A shocking miscarriage of justice.
With the Madeleine McCann case, there are many things that make me question their innocence; the shutter story for one. I believe we are fully entitled to raise our concerns and question their words. I am sceptical of what is written by journalists in the newspapers but interviews from family members and the McCanns themselves are, in my opinion, open to debate and analysis.
On the whole, I believe that, that is what we are doing on this forum.
Despite our differing of opinions amongst forum users, I think the one thing we have in common is for the truth to be reached and for justice for Madeleine. A miscarriage of justice in this case would be terrible.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
To those who asked,
I’m not comparing the two cases itself (Chamberlaine and McCann) and what exactly happened in both, but only the fact that the majority of the people had crucified the mother and believed that she was guilty because of her cold appearance in public, lack of emotions, never any tears, her words were analysed to the enth degree, her demeanor, etc. The public believed it was impossible for a dingo to have taken the baby, that it must have been the hard, unloving mother who did it. After all, she looked like a “b*tch”, she dressed the baby in black, etc. etc.
I just would love for some people here to keep an open mind, that’s all.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
wanderer - the dot com website is working for you? i can get the .co.uk and the .org one but not that one, does this mean i’ve officially been taken off the mcc’s christmas card list?
January 13th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
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It’s working for me, noseycow. Posters all around!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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Julie Says
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100% agree with your comment
January 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
272…chenier
Yes….mind you we could stick up a case just as unsimilar…and quote
Dr Shipman’s case….as being remarkably like the McCann’s case.
Well he was a Dr….and like Dr G P and Dr K…a Dr.
He was a GP like Dr K.
Was present to confirm death often. No reports of cadaver scent from him though.
He aslo was a UK citizen….was married to Primrose…evidently a fragrant
woman.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
258 the watcher
“despite technology our minds are still in the middle ages’
speak for yourself
January 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
269 Tony Bennett
“No serious historian disputes these facts.”
Unless they follow Matthew 2:16-18 where Herod ordered the Massacre of the Innocents. But Herod died in 4BC, so JC must have been alive at that time for the story to work. No one else mentions it.
All far too remote, and anyway it doesn’t detract from the essential point of your posting.