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 11:06 pm
There you go Scarlett, see what speculating does. Sorry if Soothsayer electronic quote was wrong, I thought he said that.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
789 Scarlett Says to Sledgehammer who said:
Soothsayer posted before it was reported in the press about the useless DNA and that there was no CCTV footage from the tapas or the complex, saying that his information had been revised by his informant, that the PJ had nothing concrete also the phone records and taps were utterly useless, I may be wrong but I think he said in the very early threads, that he was involved in investigating mobile phone fraud with some sort of fancy software, with some big airtime company.
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Sledgehammer I don’t think that is Soothsayers true position on the electronic evidence.
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Any in any case, SSayer has been thoroughly discredited.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
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Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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Cheer up; the PJ say they have a good idea of what happened.
The account by O’Donnell gives us some clues as to what happened earlier in the week, and the PJ know what Mrs Fenn actually did say.
Always helpful…
January 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
here i go again
till later
802
Ferdinand
Again thank you
x
January 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
804 veritablequandary
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.
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Do you know Matt?
*******
Congratulations, you’re the first to pick this up!!!!
Who’s Matt?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
813
Ade
Interesting
1 day ,can u tell me what kind a music ??
January 13th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
814
veritablequandary
January 13th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
809
Totje Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I’ve got it!
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Well done!
Unfortunately the article makes no references to Chaplins…
January 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
812
Totje
Yep
Because there ’s a little child involved
I never forget that
January 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
768 Tony Bennett Says to 727 Peter O: “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…”
REPLY: Wait till they’re fourteen! At that age they wil lock you out of *their* bedroom!
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Yes, teens are less willing good soldiers.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
bedtime
i have a funny feeling that something is gonna happen tomorrow - and not in the mcconn’s interest.
i have music stuff to do so i’ll be missing
nite all and have fun
January 13th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
786
can’t say no,
It’s okay CSN, I know, sometimes it’s frustrating, isn’t it?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
809
Totje
I’m almost rolling on the floor
You should see , the poor lady in the POrtuguese TV
January 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
807 peter o
there is 2 may, i believe
that’s why all this focus on 3 may, timelines, sightings etc is irrelevant - apart from creating the illusion of an abduction, of course
all the cleaning up etc was done on 2 may p.m. and during the day of 3 may
i also believe that pj know this.
what fun
January 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I’ve got it!
“Mrs Fenn also told police that two nights before Madeleine disappeared she heard a child crying in the McCanns’ apartment.
Her screams carried on from around 10.30pm to 11.45pm until family members returned from a night out.”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/16750/Widow-with-vital-clues-was-never-questioned-
Don’t forget in another article she denies having talked to the press. “It’s all rubbish” she said.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
767
Totje
See the posts :
802
Ferdinand
&
801
annie1
January 13th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
A thought has just occurred to me…. After all this time.
There is lots of information in the public domain that tells us a lot about Team McCann’s preferred version of events on the evening of the 3rd May. There is also lots of seemingly contradictory information that drives a coach and horses through their alleged version of events to the extent that it’s seemingly impossible to make a case for a stranger(s) abduction.
However, there is absolutely no useful information in the public domain that gives us any real clues as to an alternate timeline/events leading up to Madeleine’s disappearance. E.g. The ongoing discussion about Chaplains, where they there or not? If so, when?
It’s almost like these people didn’t exist prior to May 3rd? Nothing. There’s no reports from anyone saying they popped in for lunch, visited an attraction, etc, etc prior to May 3rd?
As several of us have commented. This is the standard illusionists stage show. Look over here , while I perform the deception over there . Here for the McCann’s is the evening of May 3rd, but where is there ?
I do hope the PJ know rather more than we appear to do?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
802
sweety
Ferdinand
Thank you
I needed to Totje ,she want’s to know
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
775
Totje Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I’ve seen many posts mixing up things printed in the papers [and how trustworthy are they?] and rumours they’ve read at this or other forums.
Look at the ongoing discussion about the Chaplin’s night!
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I have. I was one of the people asking for some evidence about it.
On the other hand, my unwillingness to accept unsubstantiated claims has led me to conclude that it is highly unlikely that there was an abduction.
This cuts both ways…
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 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.
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Do you know Matt?
January 13th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Ferdinand - go onto the site I have put a link to 801
January 13th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
792 can’t say no Says:
“Can somebody ,post the link with the map .that shows the distance from PDL to the sea ??
Txs in advance :)”
Approx. 500 meters from the appartment to the beach.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
You may already have a link to this site - but for those who want to research back it is excellent
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/
January 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
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Tony Bennett Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
REPLY: I have stored a large quantity of press reports on the case but they’re not in any kind of order. As you know, not all press reports are put on line and some of those that are put on line disappear. I will keep a look-out, but as you say a Google search reveals only Forum comments
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Still cannot find any specific article about the night at Chaplins TB but this YOU TUBE makes a brief reference to Mrs Fell and the night Madeleine was crying for a long time and the Tapas bunch were all out. No specific date though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8QJL9nlaw
January 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
RR m
Me ??
I’m a angel
like this
January 13th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
793
Ferdinand
Txs sweety
I’m allways jumping from here ,and doing other stuff at home
Kiss kiss
January 13th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
790
can’t say no Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
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a pint of red wine - jesus you’re worse than me.
I have to go now, but i shall return later so see you then 
January 13th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Sledgehammer 711
PJ website says 10.40
January 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
760
Pray For Little Soul
January 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/176942.html?cp=53
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soothsayer Says:
October 16th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
evening all,people are speculating about whatv i have or have not said.my stance is quite clear and has been since i took a close look at the various information and disinformation in this case,i beleive the priest was given a dispensation by rome,to tell what he knew,on the understanding that the church was kept well distanced from any subsequent trial.the PJ have had the final dna/forensic tests in their hands for several days now,i beleive there is other forensics i.e. of the electronic variety that are being scrutinised to see if they are admissable as evidence,the PJ know who,how and where,but as the prosecutor has said from the start,it is possible that without the body the guilty could escape justice,and with that i concur.