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 9:38 pm
Rosemary..
What do you mean by “I don’t think the children were ever left alone”?
I thought it was accepted fact the Tapas 9 went out every night and were delighted to be doing so?
January 13th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
707 Tony Bennett Says:
“If you are a seeker of truth in this case, how do you explain the open windows and shutters?”
You might remember a report that the police made a reconstruction in the appartment (handing a bundle out of the window etc.) . So if the police needs a reconstruction to solve the case, why should I speculate about a detail, without having any access to the crime scene? I can’t offer an educated guess on this in either direction.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
696
RedRooster,
you said dont forget when gerry did his check maddie wasnt there and
Try again. She wasn’t where? At the bathroom? Remember if we believe the stories in the papers he stood beside her bed and looking at her he thought “what a lucky guy he was, to have such a lovely beautiful daughter”?!
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He also said that she was not there, he assumed she had woken when the twins cried and had gone into the McC bed. He never looked for her
January 13th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Ian the only thing I have posted as fact, is that we don’t have any that would make a case.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
676
Tony Bennett Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
620 chenier says (January 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pm):
“As far as I am aware Martin Brunt did not claim that the McCanns were at Chaplins. If you think he did it would be helpful if you could note where in the programme he said so…”
REPLY: You’re quite right, I did not make myself clear. I was only confirming that there was a very strong point made in the Brunt programme about the *2 hours* of Madeleine sobbing ‘Daddy’, ‘Daddy’. Which night that was, was not I think made explicit in the programme. As you say, there was no reference to Chaplins in that programme.
References to Chaplins come in mostly earlier press reports and most mention 2 May but some 1 May
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I have run a number of google searches on this and I can’t find any references in the press to this visit to Chaplins.
The only references I can find are made on forums, blogs etc.
It would be helpful if you could indentify the press reports in question…
January 13th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
711
Sledgehammer
for you ,coz you know what you are doing
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January 13th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
614 Tony Bennett Says: January 13th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
547 coolandcalm says (January 13th, 2008 at 5:58 pm):
“I thought all young children had star charts for most things nowadays”.
REPLY: For children aged *three*?
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Tony et all.. I’m not going to go into the ins and outs of our child rearing. Suffice to say we do use sticker charts for various “good behaviour/achievement” type things. The key point if you are going to use this sort of approach is to always, always concentrate on positives and never negatives. It should not ever be about punishing, belittling etc, etc.
There is a whole world of difference between making it clear to your child(ren) that if they awake at any time and are scared, need a cuddle, reassurance, etc that they are always welcome in Mummy and Daddies bedroom, and encouraging a young child to respect Mummy and Daddies space at other appropriate times. So, at four and half our son is quite happy to play in his bedroom when he wakes up in the morning but he knows that if he needs to see Mummy or Daddy that he is quite welcome.
We’ve used sticker charts for a reward, say a special toy that is wanted, to encourage tidying toys away at the end of the day. Tidy to a four year old usually means that there is one big pile instead of the things scattered all over the place, which is fine. It’s the principle of tidying that you want to encourage.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
717
jass
I don’t know that the others didn’t have babysitters or at the very least working listening devices on the 3rd May and on previous nights. I don’t really believe the children were ever left alone, in fact.
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Rosemary, one set of parents had a babysitter, another set had a listening device. The MCCanns and one set used neither, and their children were left alone. Dr G McCann did say Madeliene not left , as the twins were there
January 13th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
TB, you are on a roll you have given me a fact, any more.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
716
Totje
THE SHUTTERS ARE 15 YRS OLD
THE APARTMENT IS NEAR THE SEA
DOES IT RING A BELL TO YOU GUYS ?
January 13th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
chaplins looks like a fairly late night venue
2 a.m. closing - possibly later
http://www.algarve-luzbay.com/places/chaplins/chaplins.html
not exactly upmarket
bangers and mash
i wouldn’t want to take my posh acoustic guitar in there
rough looking bastards - that’s the customers
January 13th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
711 sledgehammer
I dont mean to be rude, but I’m getting confused with your posts. Sometimes you post things as facts and sometimes you say there are no facts.
Can you clarify for me what your approach is - what is a fact in your view and what isnt?
January 13th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
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RedRooster Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
“dont forget when gerry did his check maddie wasnt there and it was assumed she had gone to the toilet - something he didnt bother to check. Well how bloody strange is that, he goes to check his kids are ok but finds one not there and it doesnt concern him.”
As I underestand it, he found the bedroom door more open than usual, so he thought maddie might have gone to the bathroom or into his his bedroom to get away from the twins crying, but as maddie was back in her bed he didn’t concern himself too much………..But then again this check seems to have changed half a dozen times ???
January 13th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I’m opff
With so many twisted posters
But i’ll not close the door behind me
January 13th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
711
Sledgehammer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
More speculation ?………Matt went down to the 24-hour reception at the bottom of the hill to raise the alarm. The call to the police went in at 10.15. They arrived 55 minutes later. It is widely believed among the Portuguese media, and perhaps the police too, even now, that the McCanns called Sky News before they called the police. For the record, Sky News picked up the story from GMTV breakfast television, at around 7.30am the following day.
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really sludgy well we all know you get most of your FACTS from the sun. Are we really supposed to take you seriously???
come on sludgy 
you should be on the stage,you’re so funny 
January 13th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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can’t say no Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
you guys still belivie in SHUTTERS STORY ?
IMPOSSIBLE
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We’re testing the possibilities/opportunities
January 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Everyone agrees that the McCanns are guilty of neglecting their children by leaving them alone, night after night.
But so are the rest of the tapas 7/8. Is that one reason they’re keeping their heads down?
PS: IF the Daily Express is changing its tune, it will only be because they think they will sell more papers by appealing to the sceptics. NOT because R. Desmond is a seeker after truth…but because he thinks the wind is blowing more one way than the other and wants to make money out of it.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
691
can’t say no,
Lots of noise depends on the shutters. We heard nothing when the shutters of our neigbours were jemmied. They didn’t close them properly though! And our houses were under the same roof!
January 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
705 annie12
There are two versions (at least)! In one Gerry had a protractor and measured angles, in another he thought Mdeleine had gone to the toilet (and hence wasnt there).
Why were Gerry and Kate so sensitive to the question ‘who saw Madeleine last’ - have a watch of the Spanish ‘tears’ interview - when that question is asked, its clear Kate hesitates and Gerry steps in quickly.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Oh, no
Don’t trust the P.P or the Brits Police
Even when you have proves ,of the Mcc &Co LIES
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January 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
705
annie123
Ah well that’s how confusion arises because reports ages ago said she wasn’t in her bed and her father thought she might have gone into the parents’ bed, as she sometimes did this if the twins cried and woke her up - but that was a report in a newspaper, so who knows.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Lets face the fact the shutters never were jemmied and the mcs are bloody lying through their teeth. On top of this the mcs are child neglectors. These i believe are the facts. Unless some smart arse can explain this. So why do these diehard mccann supporters continue their support. Please explain this because how ever hard i try i cant understand why???
January 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
More speculation ?………Matt went down to the 24-hour reception at the bottom of the hill to raise the alarm. The call to the police went in at 10.15. They arrived 55 minutes later. It is widely believed among the Portuguese media, and perhaps the police too, even now, that the McCanns called Sky News before they called the police. For the record, Sky News picked up the story from GMTV breakfast television, at around 7.30am the following day.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Why do this people ,insist min the lies of the mccs & friends allegedly
I really don’t understand
January 13th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
689 Sledgehammer
I dont think we should be selective in which stories we dismiss out of hand and which we treat with credence.
Either reject all newspaper stories or accept them all and use them one against the other to determine the nearest to ‘likely’.
I dont think DNA is useless, even if not admissable in a court of law. The DNA is at the very least indicative, as is the cadaver dogs indicative.
I tend to accept that Gerry looked at Maddie at 9:10 and Tanner saw her at 9:15, for example.
When I say accept, I mean I ‘accept to test’. Abduction fails the Tanner Gerry times, in my view.
If you take everything the T9 and their supporters and family state, through pro-McCann articles, through video (as in Panorama), record it and compare it, it comes out as an impossible tangle which dimisses itself very powerfully.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
702
Châtelaine
I have no more faith in waiters as accurate witnesses than anyone else. Why believe a waiter? Wasn’t he reported to be in protective custody?
January 13th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
681 Ferdinand says (January 13th, 2008 at 9:10 pm): “My point is that it would make no sense that Gerry McCann would have ever claimed in a police interview that the shutters have been jemmied, because the police would have never asked him for speculation, instead they would have found out easily that they were not jemmied. Therefore I don’t believe that this story is relevant for the investigation”.
REPLY: Who opened the windows and shutters? - for it’s a certain fact that they were found open (yes, Sledgehammer, that’s *another* fact).
Two possibilities:
1. The McCanns and/or their friends, or
2. The abductor.
I say ‘The McCanns and/or their friends’.
If you are a seeker of truth in this case, how do you explain the open windows and shutters?
January 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
shutters jemmied
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January 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
696
RedRooster Says:
dont forget when gerry did his check maddie wasnt there and it was assumed she had gone to the toilet - something he didnt bother to check. Well how bloody strange is that, he goes to check his kids are ok but finds one not there and it doesnt concern him. So WHY bother to bloody check then FFS
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I didn’t read that Maddie wasn’t there, I thought he looked in the bedroom first because the kids bedroom door was open, then found her in bed - ‘I stood looking down at her and thought how lucky I was etc’ I haven’t read that he said she wasn’t in bed?
January 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
611 chenier Says: January 13th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
599 Wanderer Says: January 13th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
598
Chenier, does it have to reference Chaplin’s directly?
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It doesn’t have to do anything; if the suggestion is that they were much further away than even the Tapas Bar then obviously the point is relevant to the question of just how severe the neglect might be.
I have long speculated that the alleged substantial delay in calling the police may have involved extremely hasty attempts to get legal advice on their position.
You have to bear in mind that the automatic reaction of a doctor to ‘disaster’ is to call the MDU; I assume that the MDU wouldn’t touch this case with a bargepole, but the Tapas 9 may have been calling other lawyers…
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There has been discussion here in the past about a technicality in the Portuguese child neglect laws. I don’t actually know if this is true or not, so please don’t anyone shoot the messenger!
The suggestion is that the Tapas Bar is technically a part of the same complex as Apartment 5A and under Portuguese child neglect laws they would be deemed not to have left the apartment complex and therefore they haven’t broken any laws. Bizarrely it appears, if this is indeed true, that the distance from the apartment to the Tapas Bar has no bearing on whether it was legally neglectful to have allegedly left the children unattended in the apartment.
Now, obviously the matter becomes very different if they were indeed at Chaplins with the children left unattended in apartment 5A.