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 4:56 pm
491
chenier
If U don’t believe
Maybe , it was from findmadeleine.com.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Gotta go
Just came, 2 see ,if Garth was here
January 13th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
486
can’t say no Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
485
chenier
Sunday Express
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Thanks.
I’m a bit surprised by that, given the Express’ articles yesterday and today.
On the other hand the papers Libel lawyers may not be easily available on Sundays, leaving the moderators to delete first and ask questions later.
The Express is probably the only paper that would have printed the numbers for the readers comments…
January 13th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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Daisy
I think you will find Richard was referring to the possibility of the McScums being clipped by other parties who don’t want to go down with your Impeccible Icons.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
484 tony bennett
good point
January 13th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
487
:lol: 
Matt
January 13th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
485…chenier
Surely not from findmadeleine.com. ???
Free speech and all that.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
485
chenier
Sunday Express
January 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
481
can’t say no Says:
..This post was deleted in less then 4 mints
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Where from, please?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
470 Ade says (January 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm): “Are they still claiming tax credit for Maddy?
REPLY: Tax credit is a standard tax allowance awarded whether you have one child or several
January 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Where is Garth ??
January 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Peter O ………overruled!!
January 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
THIS IS NOT SCOTLAND YARD’S TERRITORY…
13.01.08, 9:00am
For the benefit of our overseas readers and those British who seem to think Scotland Yard is some sort of stand-alone police investigation elite, let’s be clear about a few points.
Scotland Yard, or New Scotland Yard to give it its correct title, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London, excluding the City of London.
Scotland Yard has no particular jurisdiction with regard to this case, which is the affair of the PJ in Portugal and, to the extent that the McCanns live in Leicestershire, the Leicestershire police. Other forces with expertise, like the South Yorkshire police sniffer dogs, may be called upon to offer specialist services.
The Met could be so-called upon to offer specialist assistance but there is absolutely no reason to to do given the two official police forces involved have the case in hand.
One thing is for certain, as other posters have already observed: this is the first thing Team McCann would ask for if they were genuine, and the very last if they were not.
The problem with official police inquiries is of course that they cannot be paid to produce the desired results…
Given the McCanns’ friends in high places it is hardly likely a request for Scotland Yard to review the case would be rejected out of hand.
Were the Met to become formally involved it is safe to presume the PJ would work closely with them as they previously have with the Leicestershire and South Yorkshire constabularies.
Instead Clarence and company deliberately turn to private agencies with NO experience of finding missing children (and let’s be clear, the McCanns KNOW this to be so when they take them on).
These private agencies, by definition, can have no acess to the PJ’s files or the information Leicestershire police have, and therefore can ONLY act on information provided by the prime suspects, who just happen to be paying them huge amounts of money…
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January 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
471 petermac
i like the bull in the arena with days numbered analogy
gerrykins acts like a bull in a china shop when he’s being interviewed
and he talks complete bull most of the time
he certainly likes to hoof back the cheap plonk
and that pinchy face looks like a ring in his nose would not go amiss
the year of the bull
January 13th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
465
RedRooster,
bye bye, I have to go too.
Prepare dinner. And without boasting: I’m quite a good cook [mrT's stature proves it]
January 13th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
M & A
http://www.tesora.com.au/images/products/bullshit-alert-button-l.jpg
Show it now
January 13th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
445 Tony Bennett
I thought you’d gone a bit quiet! Fun, fun, fun!
January 13th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
450 Daisy Says: January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
428 Peter O Says: January 13th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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Before I go (it’s very late here), I’ll reply to your comment. I do feel for her, what can I say. I don’t think she is as bad as people portray her. Yes, they left the kids alone and that is horrible and if found guilty, should be punished.
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Good night, sweet dreams etc.
I beg to differ about your assessment of Kate’s potential wrongdoing thus far. The team assembled around her are conducting the most odious PR campaign imaginable and attempting to interfere with the investigation, in my opinion.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
463
Miss Match,
I hardly can wait to see to return. Love to talk about the shutters.
Good luck to you for the cooking and have fun.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
464
Châtelaine Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
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I tried to access the official site on Friday, but was also unsuccessful. The computer just stalled and stalled …. and I tried a few times ….. wassssssup?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
460
Anaheim Flash Says
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Until they find the Cds - who knows?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Daisy Says:
……” A woman that, as per photos I have seen, has lost a considerable amount of weight, looks terrible and is becoming withdrawn. I’m sorry, but I do not understand the jokes, especially when nobody has been convicted of any crime yet”.
Sorry Daisy, but I wouldn’t expect a woman whose child may be dead to look anything other than as you describe.
But Kate didn’t look like that in the days following her daughter’s disappearance. She went jogging. She carried (freshly-washed?) CadaverCat draped in a rosary in her handbag to church and to press conferences. She sent the twins to the creche - and I have said on here before that I would have had to be bludgeoned into a coma before I would have let go of my children if one of them had been abducted.
Kate’s behaviour has seemed to me to be extremely odd all along and while I freely admit I have no idea what actually happened to Madeleine or whether her parents were involved in any way beyond leaving the children open to risk, I don’t think it is unfair to examine every aspect of Kate and Gerry’s very public behaviour since May 3rd. It is their behaviour up to May 3rd that keeps my alarm bells ringing away 8 months later - leaving their children alone and broadcasting the fact. I just wish they’d left them back in Rothley with the nanny.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
410 Sally thanks for the link
434 Matt Good post
So..
1 IF the fund is not paying for M3, where has all the money gone ?
2 Why are the Telegraph of all people repeating the foul untruth that with Jon Corner on the board they are considering a film or documentary, which has already been specifically denied by GM in his blog ?
3 Why are the Telegraph also repeating the foul untruth about M3 saying they knew where MM was and that they would have… a quote which was specifically denied by the Fund’s solicitors and auditors in their letter to those of us who wrote to them ? (Details on previous threads)
I thought the idea of a spokesperson was that one story came out, carefully controlled and edited.
This lot are going round in circles. Or to use a Spanish metaphor, like a bull in the arena, looking for the way out and shaking its horns at anyone who it sees as being in the way. But all those watching know that its days are numbered.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
are they still claiming tax credit for maddy?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Bye Rooster, catch you later
January 13th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
462
Totje Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
448
Julie,
years ago friends made me compliments they were sooooo glad they finally got a positive indication of a [rude/elementary] indication of brains in my head, when I got a concussion.
And they’re still friends? 
:lol:
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January 13th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
460 Anaheim Flash says (January 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm):
Just a thought - Do you think they are still claiming Madeleines Child Benefit?
REPLY: I believe that under government rules Child Benefit continues to be paid for ‘absences’ (e.g. hospotalisatioon or staying temporarily with a relative) of either 4, 6 or 8 weeks
January 13th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I know it couldn’t happen here in the UK, but can anyone imagine if the PR manager of people involved in the disappearance of a child told the police - they will only talk to you if you tell them they had nothing to do with it.
Arrogance beyond belief.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
gotta go guys see you all later
have no fear the rooster will reappear…till later bye bye 
January 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
We’ve been on this before, but come back to it now that I’ve tried in vain to to get to the findmadeleine.com site:
The copyright on all pages of the on-line shop still read © 2006 Find Madeleine Fund Online Store, where as the home page has been “corrected” to: © 2007 Find Madeleine Fund Online Store. IMO this definitely rules out that the copyright year is related to the software.