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
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January 13th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Good morning Will … in a better mood?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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Julie Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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I hope they have loads of fun and ……….many body guards to look after the little children just in case,well,you know,some freakymonster abuct one of them….
January 13th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Good Morning All
January 13th, 2008 at 11:01 am
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annie123 Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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chenier Says:
Wasn’t there already one of UK’s secret forces in the Algarve already? I recall someone wanting to know what they were doing there at the same time on here?
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I’ve never seen any evidence to suggest that was the case. It seems to be one of those all purpose rumours floating around ready to be attached to whatever topic comes along…
January 13th, 2008 at 11:00 am
http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=we-pray-she-ll-be-at-party-for-twins&method=full&objectid=20284027&siteid=93463-name_page.html
Here’s a link Jo.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:59 am
annie123
thank you for the link however it was not very helpful.
i am interested in the alleged 81 lies
can anyone point me in that direction ?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Off to the farmers’ market… see you all later. Have fun!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
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lilith Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Soooo…Kate wants a HUGE party for those poor twins while their own “search team”(specialising in fraud) is supposedly carrying out a rape and murder investigation( kinda like the PJ!).
“They” need to “take” that woman …to a mental hospital.
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Any link to this fantastic news?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
A further oddity in the Express article; an unamed former Scotland Yard officer, who has given unofficial advice to the McCanns urging them to …
ah an unamed former Scotland Yard officer
i see
so he must be credible
lol
January 13th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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chenier Says:
Wasn’t there already one of UK’s secret forces in the Algarve already? I recall someone wanting to know what they were doing there at the same time on here?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Julie Says:
They’re not MY 81 lies (they are copyrighted by the Mc’s - allegedly). And anyway, they were posted here a couple of days ago by another poster, copied from another forum. M&A removed them from here for obvious reasons. So I won’t take a chance at getting my turn in the chill room by repeating them. Sorry!
i’m afraid i missed all that
so why exactly did m&a remove the list ?
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Libel
January 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
A further oddity in the Express article; an unamed former Scotland Yard officer, who has given unofficial advice to the McCanns urging them to
‘request a meeting with Scotland Yard and to ask them to take over the British side of the investigation. The Yard has a very sophisticated and well-resourced kidnap squad, which deals with more than 300 abductions a year, far more than any other force in Britain. Forces from around the world turn to them for advice.’
Yep.
The problem is that the first question asked by the kidnap squad is whether there has been a kidnapping at all.
Somehow I doubt that the McCanns want yet more hard nosed police officers looking at them…
January 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
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the watcher Says:
This might help with the question of 81 lies:
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id35.html
January 13th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I would genuinely feel that justice would be served if Kate and Gerry were arrested and be subjected to a number of charges (some which obviously speak for themselves) and returned to Portugal for further prolonged questioning. Now that the film has been put on the back burner I am worried they might appear on Big Brother as special guests. By the way, I think the police, British and Portugal, are going a grand, slowly, slowly, catch me monkey job.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am
‘what ya gonna do when the strongest arms in the world come looking for you’
rips up yellow vest and stares into camera.
naughty people soil themselves
nice people smile
all is well in the world
the hulkster is on the case.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Algarve holiday home owners have their say
In more than 20 years of writing newspaper columns, I have never been on the receiving end of an organised write-in, but I have had one this week. Having made what I thought was the anodyne and self-evident point that Portugal was a rather unwise place to take your children if you ever wanted to see them again, and that their police did not seem to be any good at solving a very serious crime - and that, therefore, you might all be happier holidaying elsewhere - scores of you have written to complain. But I know your game. You all have holiday homes on the Algarve, and you are keen not to have your chances of renting them out for the other 48 weeks of the year harmed by people like me writing in large-circulation newspapers about what a Mickey Mouse country Portugal is, and what a cowboy outfit the Portuguese police are. One of you even tried the line: “Don’t you know they are our oldest ally?” Actually, I do, but I don’t recall them playing much part on the Somme or during the Battle of Britain. Now calm down, dears, it’s only a column.
By Simon Heffer
http://www.tesora.com.au/images/products/bullshit-alert-button-l.jpg
January 13th, 2008 at 10:42 am
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chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
‘Hogan International has become renowned for it’s work in the fields of: Tracing Missing Persons, Asset Investigations, Intellectual Property Infringement, Internal & External Financial Transaction Fraud, Surveillance, Electronic Security and all manner of Criminal Investigations acting for both Prosecution & Defence. It has earned international retainers from leading corporate organisations: Banks, Finance Houses, Insurers and The Legal Profession.’
Not much there about finding little children…
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I KNOW why they’ve been hired ……Asset Investigations? (IMHO)
January 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
i find it sad that people have no faith in Mr Hogan
if anyone can return Maddy to her parents its him.
i don’t want to give too much away right now…
all i can say is don’t miss wrestlemania.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
‘Hogan International has become renowned for it’s work in the fields of: Tracing Missing Persons, Asset Investigations, Intellectual Property Infringement, Internal & External Financial Transaction Fraud, Surveillance, Electronic Security and all manner of Criminal Investigations acting for both Prosecution & Defence. It has earned international retainers from leading corporate organisations: Banks, Finance Houses, Insurers and The Legal Profession.’
Not much there about finding little children…
http://www.ehogans.com/
January 13th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Bye Miss Match.
When you get back, could you possibly try a jack-hammer on those shutters, and let us know if that works. Then we’ll have to start believing there was an abduction.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:39 am
40 lilith Says: January 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Soooo…Kate wants a HUGE party for those poor twins while their own “search team”(specialising in fraud) is supposedly carrying out a rape and murder investigation( kinda like the PJ!).
“They” need to “take” that woman …to a mental hospital.
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Something(s) akin to that suggestion has been made once or twice in here, subject to charges being brought of course, in my opinion.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:38 am
41 Trismegistus - Very true and completely agree. Ciaooo.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:37 am
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:34 am
JULIE
81 lies so far!
hmmm
would you care to post a list of your 81 ‘lies’ ?
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They’re not MY 81 lies (they are copyrighted by the Mc’s - allegedly). And anyway, they were posted here a couple of days ago by another poster, copied from another forum. M&A removed them from here for obvious reasons. So I won’t take a chance at getting my turn in the chill room by repeating them. Sorry!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:37 am
23 Miss Match…
I absolutely agree with you… time for some good investigative journalism instead of the fawning sycophantism that seems to pass for it these days.
I fear that we hope in vain… the most obvious lesson from this case is that the British press is rubbish. All of it, not just the tabs.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Soooo…Kate wants a HUGE party for those poor twins while their own “search team”(specialising in fraud) is supposedly carrying out a rape and murder investigation( kinda like the PJ!).
“They” need to “take” that woman …to a hospital.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I have to pop out now, so ‘good sleuthing’ everyone!
Ciaooooooo
January 13th, 2008 at 10:34 am
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chenier Says
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It’s much more credible that an independent investigator has been hired to make sure the T9 get their stories straight for when they are re-interviewed.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:34 am
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: No film will be made unless she’s found - alive or dead”
So… if they don’t make a film unless she’s found, what happens to the argument that the film is necessary to aid the search? What possible motive could be left to make a film?
I won’t say it, but I think it starts with a “P” and ends with a “rofit.”
What’s really good fun is watching the McCanns’ shock and horror as others try to get a cut of the cash cow.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:34 am
JULIE
81 lies so far!
hmmm
would you care to post a list of your 81 ‘lies’ ?
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Please do not post that list, 3 times it has appeared only to be condensed to
They lied, allegedly
January 13th, 2008 at 10:32 am
‘He also admitted that despite the high profile of the Madeleine investigation, his 12-strong team of former detectives and ex-SAS men were already handling around 5,000 cases.
Speaking from his office in a rundown tower block in Aldershot, Hants, Mr Hogan refused to say how much he was being paid. He said: ‘I don’t want to become part of the circus surrounding Madeleine. I am not allowed to go into operational detail and I just do what I am told.
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So much for the independent investigator beavering away searching for Madeleine…