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 10:31 am
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:29 am
in fact the McCanns seem to think the entire world owes them something.
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Well we do don’t we? A couple of lessons in good parenting behaviour? And a few other things which I shall refrain from mentioning on this forum
January 13th, 2008 at 10:30 am
26 Julie LOL! It completely and utterly convinced me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the McCanns attempted to ’stage’ an abduction. It is quite difficult, for me at least, to explain just how these shutters work, but what they claim is just impossible and illogical. I wish I could put a little video clip here to make it clearer!
As I mentioned yesterday though, Mr Rebelo will most likely have the same type of shutters and will see through the McCann lies.
I do remember seeing photos in the newspapers of the PJ recreating the scene and passing a ‘bundle’ out of the window and the McCanns’ spokesman saying how glad they were that the PJ were finally starting to believe their abduction story! I am pretty sure that the PJ were simply proving that what they claimed to have happened, could not.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:29 am
i find it puzzling that the McCanns believe not enough is being done to find Madeleine.
they have spent a huge amount of public money on the biggest missing persons campaign in recent history.the result being that just about everyone on planet earth knows the face of Madeleine .i do not see what more they expect from us.
never before has so much publicity been given to a missing child for such a long period of time and yet the McCanns complain not enought is being done.
in fact the McCanns seem to think the entire world owes them something.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
“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”
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Sooooooo, is 11th April the date for the HUGE celebration that Gerry was talking about all those months ago (you know the one where he said it wouldn’t be a ONE year anniversary thingie).
Hmmmm …. we should be told so that we can prepare!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yes, Miss Match, I bet if we started a list of the terrible/odd/weird/strange choices/decisions that the Mc’s have made in the last 8 months, it’d probably take us less than an hour to exceed the 81 lies so far!
(But let’s rather not start doing it, we give M&A grey hairs when we venture into things like that)
January 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am
From Sunday Mail:
*Gerry and Kate McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell said yesterday that it was “almost inhumane” that they were still suspects in Madeleine’s disappearance.
He said the couple had “absolutely no plans” to return to Portugal, where Madeleine vanished on May 3. *
From the Mirror:
*‘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.”*
January 13th, 2008 at 10:22 am
‘In a startling twist, Kate and Gerry’s lawyers have ordered that their own inquiry into Madeleineís disappearance, while on holiday in Portugal last May, should focus on the theory that the three-year-old was killed and her body hidden.’
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.’
January 13th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Miss Match, I was falling of my chair, giggling, at the scenarios that you and Irish Girl in Spain presented last night doing your “testing the shutter theories”. Absolutely brilliant
January 13th, 2008 at 10:21 am
22 Julie - Aagreed! They do seem to make an alarming number of terrible choices don’t they!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:20 am
As Peter says, it is “bluff and bluster”. Didn’t they also say they would take lie detector tests? They reneged on that. So saying that they will go to Portugal in April has no meaning. They can easily change their mind and in April make up some excuse why they can’t go there. I would be impressed if they hopped on a plane and went there right now.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:19 am
This article appears to try to justify the “movie” on the grounds that Tony Blair is doing the same thing by capitalising on the invasion of Iraq. The moral being?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2239888,00.html
January 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
14 Peter O - It has only taken eight months for the McCanns to show a hint of guilt. EIGHT MONTHS!!!! Now call me cynical, but I doubt this slight expression of guilt would have happened if public support had been a little stronger.
I believe that everything they do is calculated in an attempt to gain public opinion.
Fiona Philips, or any other journalist, just needs to pop on a plane to Portugal, and recreate the shutter scenario to realise that the McCanns’ shutter story is completely impossible, and their abduction theory falls and crashes at the very first hurdle. Time for some decent investigative journalism, IMO.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Just when I thought they’d done it all … i.e. hire M3 (with no experience in finding missing children), they then make things seem even more odd by going and hiring yet ANOTHER detective agency with zip experience at finding missing children.
I think they need some help here! There are NUMEROUS detectives who specialise in missing persons, shouldn’t we point them in the right direction before they’ve …. erm …. “wasted” the entire fund? (Allegedly of course).
January 13th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:11 am
9 chenier Says: January 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am
‘In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express, Mr Hogan revealed that his previous experience of missing people cases was limited to tracing beneficiaries of wills.’
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/31295/Madeleine-Fears-detective-not-up-to-job
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On the basis that Mr Hogan cannot, usefully anyway, talk to the PJ he simply doesn’t have access to the information required to do a top down re-investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.
In my opinion, if this man is doing any more than re-examining the “evidence” of the McCann’s, the Tapas group and any associated hangers on for “gaps/inconcistencies”, then I will be very surprised.
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I think he would be, as well.
‘Mr Hogan, who runs a private detective agency, has re-interviewed British witnesses including the McCannsí holiday friends. He is also understood to have gone through the McCanns’ own statements in minute detail with the couple.’
January 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am
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dcb Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Q. “”Kate feels exactly the same now as she did on that night. Whenever I speak to her, she says ‘Where is my daughter? What can we do to find her?’ They refuse to sit around doing nothing but dwelling on their grief. They feel she is alive but the clock is ticking to find her.”
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‘A source close to the family said: ìThe investigation is working towards a resolution and we have to consider that Madeleine may have been murdered.
ìWe have been working to the theory she may have been killed and all the possible scenarios are being considered.†
ìOf course we hope very much that she is alive but nothing can be ruled out.’…
Sunday Express
January 13th, 2008 at 10:11 am
9 chenier Says: January 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am
‘In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express, Mr Hogan revealed that his previous experience of missing people cases was limited to tracing beneficiaries of wills.’
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/31295/Madeleine-Fears-detective-not-up-to-job
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On the basis that Mr Hogan cannot, usefully anyway, talk to the PJ he simply doesn’t have access to the information required to do a top down re-investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.
In my opinion, if this man is doing any more than re-examining the “evidence” of the McCann’s, the Tapas group and any associated hangers on for “gaps/inconcistencies”, then I will be very surprised.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:11 am
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Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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The fools are losing public sympathy rapidly and it’s they that need this thing wrapped up before the sympathy and, more importantly in my opinion, the money train goes completely off the rails.
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Quite so. It was reported yesterday that “donations had dried up” so there is precious little loot to be made now. Future film, interview and book deals are also tainted IMO.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:10 am
And what kind of deluded fools would imagine that the press might fail to notice that Hogan was not all he had been cracked up to be?
Or is thus yet another of those tragic events which inexplicably afflict the McCanns?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:08 am
10 Peter O
Your right Peter O, time is hitting the hardest blow and time is money.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:08 am
PeterO,
(Don’t worry, I’m doing the same thing), I posted this earlier this morning on the other thread, and considering that that particular room has now been vacated, thought I’d bring it over here
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Julie Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Seeing that no-one’s awake on this glorious Sunday morning, I’ll have a quick chat to myself
(Only kidding, just popped in quickly before I go out into the garden). I shall leave you with these thoughts :
Read this :
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3333778.ece
Note in this article :
“Metodo has never recovered from the extraordinary swaggering comments of its director, Francisco Marco, when he boasted in December that not only did they know who abducted Madeleine, but that she could, in that most ill-fated of phrases, “be home by Christmas”.
Then, note my reply received from the Fund’s solicitors (received yestereday) :
“Dear Madam
Madeleine’s Fund – Leaving no Stone Unturned Limited
We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 23 December 2007 which was also sent to the auditors of Madeleine’s Fund, Haysmacintyre. We are also replying on behalf of Haysmacintyre.
We are advised by our client that reports in the media purporting to be from the investigators, which made claims as to when Madeleine would be found are inaccurate and misrepresentations of their views.
Our client has every confidence in the investigators who continue the search for Madeleine.
Yours faithfully
Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP”
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Hmmmm ….. who to believe, who to believe ……. !!
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January 13th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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”
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Blamed themselves in the very loosest of senses and without ever admitting any responsibility for the events that led up to Madeleine’s alleged abduction. In fact, most of their “admissions” of any culpability are usually issued by third parties and not directly and unequivocally from the sainted ones themselves.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Q. “”Kate feels exactly the same now as she did on that night. Whenever I speak to her, she says ‘Where is my daughter? What can we do to find her?’ They refuse to sit around doing nothing but dwelling on their grief. They feel she is alive but the clock is ticking to find her.”
A. “Mr Hogan revealed that his previous experience of missing people cases was limited to tracing beneficiaries of wills.”
January 13th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Yeah.. I know that last one is a repost from yesterday.. but you’ve all run away from that thread to this shiny new one!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:03 am
man on a hill …. I second you on that one!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:03 am
What kind of deluded fool could convince themselves that the presence of a couple of arguidos would cause the slightest embarrassment to the PJ?
Do these same deluded fools believe that they would be warmly embraced by the Portuguese people if they deigned to return?
Bluff and bluster… Show us the body… Show us the evidence… etc… What the deluded fools don’t like is that the PJ are going at their own pace, not that dictated by said fools. The fools are losing public sympathy rapidly and it’s they that need this thing wrapped up before the sympathy and, more importantly in my opinion, the money train goes completely off the rails.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am
‘In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express, Mr Hogan revealed that his previous experience of missing people cases was limited to tracing beneficiaries of wills.’
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/31295/Madeleine-Fears-detective-not-up-to-job
January 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Mods and admin
Ian’s so polite now i see him as Stepford Ian, i suppose i’m just used to the old lan. On the whole though i do prefer this site with less abuse going on.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Yeah, you go Ian, don’t let them goad you again. It’s EXTREMELY difficult sometimes (and I also SLIP occassionally), but you go boy! Proud of you!
January 13th, 2008 at 9:57 am
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DuncanR Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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And so say all of us!
January 13th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Looks like they are running out of storylines, if all they can now say is they’ll go back after April 11th
If they think this will really wash as “co-operation” with the enquiry, they and their advisers really have lost the plot