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 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am
873 Tinsel Says: January 13th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Peter O Says: 845
I have a feeling that it is time and not money per se that is their real burning issue at the moment. i.e. They need/want the latter but they have precious little of the former in which to obtain it, in my opinion?
The next question then is what they are doing with the money? If/when the balloon does go up I would suspect they would want as little money as possible left in the Limited Company known colloquially as “The Fund”, in my opinion.
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They need money quick because they want to provide “expert witnesses” to discredit the DNA.
The DNA is the most powerful link to the body of Madeleine at this point. In order to find Madeleine, they need to know who put her blood/body fluids in the Scenic car.
If the police feel they are going to indict the McCanns on the presence of bloods (and they probably will since that’s be going on for hundreds of years, even before DNA mapping), it then goes to the prosecutors. That’s when the lawyers will be on the clock trying to get the evidence exposed so they can try to tear it down.
That’s what they want millions for. To get help with the defense.
But time right now is still on the side of the police as they drain the McCanns resources. I think the police think they will still get some clues from the Tapas themselves, especially if they have some damning testimony that they can use as leverage.
But they may as well wait until they are all broke!
Except for Robert Murat. It think Branson should send him some money too. He can afford it.
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I hadn’t thought of that.. I had far more nefarious things going on with the money that involved Swiss bank accounts!
I thought Brian Kennedy was footing their legal bills?
If they did indeed allow the Limited Company known colloquially as “The Fund” to start paying their legal expenses wouldn’t that just be inviting more fire and brimstone upon themselves from an already weary and increasingly sceptical public? What’s defending themselves got to do with finding Madeleine?
Sorry, not disagreeing with you.. Just typing/thinking aloud!
January 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Carmen
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just cracked open a nice bottle of red - would you care to join me :wink
YES! YES! YES! YES! …………….I imagine June will be over in a second too………………..
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i’ll get the glasses …..you’re all welcome even Garfy if he’s about
January 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am
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JuneJohnson Says:
Yellow card
Red card
Anorak hat
Bullshit button
the yellow card which is now a lemon, Ade thought that up, comes first,lasts a couple of days, its justa warning, the red card which is a traffic light for now, (was looking for a baboons bum , but nothing red enough) is a day in the Chill room. The Anorak hat is for people who really are goaded beyond reason and keep their cool, we devised that yesterday. The bullshit button is from CSN and is for anyone to use if a post is utter crap.
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I think yellow should be called lemon-ade, giving credit where due.
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M and A
Oh gods have we to think of a witty one now too?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Totje - Minchia!!! It was me who startled my husband with my shutter experiment!!!! Dinner party over. Only one alarming moment where I thought I was going to have to use the fire extinguisher whilst cooking. How are you?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:04 am
875
Carmen Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
Don’t you get all shirty with me my feathered friend. I answered your post ten minutes ago, look back at your post 861.
Carmen
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sorry must be this bloody wine, goes straight to my head ya kknow
January 14th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Mods and Admin
Yellow card
Red card
Anorak hat
Bullshit button
the yellow card which is now a lemon, Ade thought that up, comes first,lasts a couple of days, its justa warning, the red card which is a traffic light for now, (was looking for a baboons bum , but nothing red enough) is a day in the Chill room. The Anorak hat is for people who really are goaded beyond reason and keep their cool, we devised that yesterday. The bullshit button is from CSN and is for anyone to use if a post is utter crap.
You’ve managed to avoid them so far Red Rooster
January 14th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Dr Matthew Oldfield: 37
An endocrinologist at Kingston Hospital Surrey, he worked with Gerry McCann in Leicester before moving to London with his wife Rachael. He checked on the McCann children at 9.30pm, but did not look to see if Madeleine was in her bed.
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Together with his wife and Dr Russell O’Brien, he was one of three witnesses brought by Portuguese police to a meeting in July 2007 with Robert Murat, then the only named suspect, to discuss discrepancies over their accounts of what happened that night. They had said they saw Murat near the apartment but he insisted he was at home all evening.
Mathew Oldfield is an internist/endocrinologist.
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Tappas9/TAPPAS9.htm
January 14th, 2008 at 12:01 am
875
Carmen Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
Don’t you get all shirty with me my feathered friend. I answered your post ten minutes ago, look back at your post 861.
Carmen
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just cracked open a nice bottle of red - would you care to join me :wink
YES! YES! YES! YES! …………….I imagine June will be over in a second too………………..
January 14th, 2008 at 12:00 am
noseycow Says:
” - should i change my name to lazycow?”
Can’t say, I like all kinds of cows. Holsteins are a bit of a monoculture where I live, sad for them.
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“I like the matt on anorak ”
Yes, he is a keeper.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:00 am
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annie1,
No, but Sledgie said Matt went to the reception….. etc.
And I can recall I’ve read a friend asked the reception to call the police [can't recall the name of the friend].
If my memory doesn’t fail me [it's late over here] TWO people asked MW reception to call the police. The second because after 30 mn the police still hadn’t arrived.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
861
RedRooster Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Evening all, have i missed anything ???
Can somebody please explain this bloody yellow and red card thing. How long does a yellow card last and whathappens etc… and how come i have’nt had one yet ???
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Mods and Admin
Yellow cards last for the day, because we are forward thinking, positive, and caring people.
Red cards last until we can be bothered to let you out of moderation, because we are nasty minded lazy vicious……
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blimey that will be a first M and A…. answering me i mean, i am priviledged thanks -
sorry for the sarcasm , i wouldnt want one of these cards you understand….
thanks for the info
January 13th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
866 Tony Bennett Says: January 13th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
853 Mods and Admin
“Could you wait ’til he’s back online to discuss this, but I do know he added a footnote in explanation after editing your posts”.
REPLY: Yes, of course, I thought it must be this, he’s added a footnote and I’ve simply not seen it. I don’t think this has happened more than once or twice though?
I’m very happy to accept guidance if you’re concerned about the libel angle
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Is this what you are looking for? (Post 1351)
http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/179232.html
Apologies if not.. I saw it a while back and thought it “odd” that you hadn’t commented Tony.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Peter O Says:
845
I have a feeling that it is time and not money per se that is their real burning issue at the moment. i.e. They need/want the latter but they have precious little of the former in which to obtain it, in my opinion?
The next question then is what they are doing with the money? If/when the balloon does go up I would suspect they would want as little money as possible left in the Limited Company known colloquially as “The Fund”, in my opinion.
****
They need money quick because they want to provide “expert witnesses” to discredit the DNA.
The DNA is the most powerful link to the body of Madeleine at this point. In order to find Madeleine, they need to know who put her blood/body fluids in the Scenic car.
If the police feel they are going to indict the McCanns on the presence of bloods (and they probably will since that’s be going on for hundreds of years, even before DNA mapping), it then goes to the prosecutors. That’s when the lawyers will be on the clock trying to get the evidence exposed so they can try to tear it down.
That’s what they want millions for. To get help with the defense.
But time right now is still on the side of the police as they drain the McCanns resources. I think the police think they will still get some clues from the Tapas themselves, especially if they have some damning testimony that they can use as leverage.
But they may as well wait until they are all broke!
Except for Robert Murat. It think Branson should send him some money too. He can afford it.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
veritable - i get confused with the tapas 9/10 - matt oldfield - is he a doctor? do we know where he works - i should look it up but can’t be bothered - should i change my name to lazycow?
I like the matt on anorak
January 13th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
867
veritablequandary Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
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indeed it was
January 13th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
863
Wanderer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
861
I was curious about that? Do yellow cards “refresh” after every day? But red cards last longer (sometimes forever)?
Hi Rooster
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exactly its hardly bloody fair to give out yellow and red cards if they dont tell us what they mean now is it?
Come on MODS and ADMIN we should be told
January 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
861
RedRooster,
You are such a lucky rooster
January 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Matt Oldfield would never post as Matt - surely. He has the whole alphabet at his disposal
January 13th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
861
RedRooster Says:
Can somebody please explain this bloody yellow and red card thing. How long does a yellow card last and whathappens etc… and how come i have’nt had one yet ???
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the star point system was adequate for you . . . .
January 13th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
853 Mods and Admin
“Could you wait ’til he’s back online to discuss this, but I do know he added a footnote in explanation after editing your posts”.
REPLY: Yes, of course, I thought it must be this, he’s added a footnote and I’ve simply not seen it. I don’t think this has happened more than once or twice though?
I’m very happy to accept guidance if you’re concerned about the libel angle
January 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I am not absolutely sure, but there was a screwed up kate cringing in the shadow of Gerry and - in my opinion - pleading to not say too much - if anyone has that footage - the first sight on screen of the McCanns - It is now more interesting than it was that first day as we have a little more background to the case. Gerry, however was calm and collected and not very convincing - IMO
January 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
857 veritablequandary
846 Totje Says:
“Surname starts with “O””
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You are getting warm.
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Warm, warm???? I’t burning hot!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
861
I was curious about that? Do yellow cards “refresh” after every day? But red cards last longer (sometimes forever)?
Hi Rooster.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
859 noseycow Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
veritable - sorry its late and i should be akip - so we think that matt - is matt Oldfield? i don;t think so he has posted some very interesting links for me that have not been at all team mcc!
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He shows evidence of being on a learning curve . . . .
January 13th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Evening all, have i missed anything ???
Can somebody please explain this bloody yellow and red card thing. How long does a yellow card last and whathappens etc… and how come i have’nt had one yet ???
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Mods and Admin
the yellow card which is now a lemon, Ade thought that up, comes first,lasts a couple of days, its justa warning, the red card which is a traffic light for now, (was looking for a baboons bum , but nothing red enough) is a day in the Chill room. The Anorak hat is for people who really are goaded beyond reason and keep their cool, we devised that yesterday. The bullshit button is from CSN and is for anyone to use if a post is utter crap.
You’ve managed to avoid them so far!!!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
81 LIES THREAD
The thread on the Mirror Forums on 81 *alleged* lies of the McCanns and their ‘Tapas 9′ friends has now attracted 101 replies and over 5,500 views. It’s here:
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=36174&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90
January 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
veritable - sorry its late and i should be akip - so we think that matt - is matt Oldfield? i don;t think so he has posted some very interesting links for me that have not been at all team mcc!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
840
noseycow BUT why did noone notice an open shutter / open/broken window when walking past?
Thanks, I’m sitting in my lovely livingroom, fire is on, drinks are on the house, life is good!
Who [according to the stories] passed the window/shutter?
Tanner
Oldfield?
O’Brien?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
846 Totje Says:
“Surname starts with “O””
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You are getting warm.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
848 noseycow Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
thanks veritable! what’s this about Ian O? is he/she someone i should know?
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Don’t recall saying anything about Ian O, but I did ask 711 Sledgehammer, if he knew Matt.
see below:
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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.