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 11:28 am
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Gloria Smudd Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:25 am
If I am here today more than merely fleetingly, please tell me to shove off and tackle the domestic duties I evaded yesterday.
You have such a great sense of humour, we need you around all the time!
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No don’t go, b*gger the housekeeping, it’ll wait until tomorrow.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:26 am
There’s a paedophile in Praia de Luz who is interested in a Maddie lookalike.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:25 am
88 peter o
same “spokesman” el comico
different lawyers
shared self-destruction
great fun
January 13th, 2008 at 11:25 am
If I am here today more than merely fleetingly, please tell me to shove off and tackle the domestic duties I evaded yesterday.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Good morning all.
Interesting Radio 5 programme last night.
Shona Adams (Lookalike Agency)…was interviewed.
Before she was questioned etc….Clarence Mitchell had a taped
interview by the programme and proceeded to condemn Ms Adams
for being money-grabbing, heartless, uncaring about the McCann’s
situation of having lost their child.
He said that Ms Adams had spoken to him and had apologised for
any upset she may have caused the family. He announced that he
had refused to accept her apology and that she should not have
provided such a lookalike. His diatribe was extremely aggressive.
Steve Nolan, the radio host, then advised that Mr Mitchell would
be returning to speak Live during Ms Adams part of the interview.
During her interview….the matter of the death threats against
her and her young child were also discussed.
She came across as a very frightened woman and said that the
Police were taking those threats very seriously.
She confirmed that Clarence Mitchell had refused any apology
from her and said that she has every sympathy for the family’s
situation.
She said that she had not produced the lookalike of her own volition.
She had been approached by a newspaper who advised her that the
McCann’s were considering making a Film about Madeleine.
They had asked her if she could provide a lookalike for such a venture.
The Host then advised that he had expected Clarence Mitchell to return
to speak Live while Ms Adams was on the programme. However Mr
Mitchell has now advised that he could not attend.
Hoist on your own petard…Huh …Clarence ?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:23 am
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Gloria Smudd Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:22 am
January 13th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Quite possibly she has not been shopping for “mother of the abducted” clothes?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:22 am
73 lilith Says: January 13th, 2008 at 11:11 am
44 Peter O
Edit….
Let Kate take all the blame and have her declared insane.They don’t have separate lawyers for nothing. Edit…
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I thought they all, including the Tapas members, had the same lawyers at the moment?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:22 am
82 Julie
Morning! Looks like my name is Smudd on this board!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:21 am
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lilith Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Why should the world be concerned about an unfit “mother” pushing 40 dressed in girl clothes?
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Oi lilith, coolit on the woman pushing 40 and dressed in girl clothes. I’ve just pushed 40 and I still wear girl clothes …. because I CAN ….. nothing wrong with women around the 40 mark you know ….. although I do see your point about the particular one on subject at the moment
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so do I and I’m pushing 35 yet again
January 13th, 2008 at 11:21 am
man on a hill– “Why is it that some of us find it so hard to believe that two doctors are capable of this crime? ”
“This” crime? What crime are you talking about? The McCanns have likely committed several.
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What possible ‘crimes’ darlings? ‘actions’ is the buzzword now please
January 13th, 2008 at 11:20 am
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
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He definitely is not a nice guy
January 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
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Can’t say no
Yes, why is Eileen not concerned about the fate of her 3 year old granddaughter who, according to forensic traces, died a violent death by, at best, the neglect of her parents and at worst by the hands of her parents?
Why should the world be concerned about an unfit “mother” pushing 40 dressed in girl clothes?
Who cares if she queezes out a few crocodile tears because those mean PJ interferes with her lifestyle?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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Gloria Smudd Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
28 Carmen
Your brain doing a Gloria Smudd?? Explain yourself!
I was wondering when you’d appear and pick up on that one 
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January 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
looks to me like kate has taken all the blame while gerry continues to portray himself as superman.
he has not been shy about making his wife look weak and feeble to the public.
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Taken? wasn’t aware either admitted any culpability
January 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
“But she warned Kate was being “destroyed” by the continuing claims against her. Eileen said: “I have seen her cry every night and every day for her lovely Madeleine.
“A piece of her heart has been torn away and I worry about how she is bearing up. It is a living nightmare.”
Luckily her husband is a cardiologist.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Apparently Murat has been hired to do funny tricks with his glass eye.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:16 am
28 Carmen
Your brain doing a Gloria Smudd?? Explain yourself!
January 13th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I was wondering if the forums (if there were any) during the Fred West case also contained many ’sit on the fence types’ who simply could not believe that a working class builder was capable of committing such crimes. Were there constant ‘innocent until proven guilty’ campaigns being run for those two? Were the police constantly being criticized by the press throughout the ‘moors murderers’ case? If they had the internet then would the boards contain thousands of support messages by people who simply couldn’t believe that a two humans being could do such a thing? Why is it that some of us find it so hard to believe that two doctors are capable of this *action*? I don’t know about you but i’ve never met a doctor i liked and i come from a family of doctors, consultants and medics. My current GP is a complete nutter who speaks to me with his eyes closed (as does one of my uncles) and treats me extremely badly (in both senses of the word). As i have already stated my parents were and still are fully qualified child neglecting/ abusing Dr.’s who some of you would probably defend out of a misguided sense of loyalty . There was 60,000 messages on the express board, two thirds were anti and we were supposed to be amazed at that, but i was amazed at the 20,000 messages of support! No-one ever comments when i write about the fascist state but it’s there waiting to be discovered and it won’t go away until we look it in the eye. It is relevant to this case because, it is the original source of infection.(and i don’t want it to happen again people because it will if nothing changes)”nothing will change if you sit there and take it” Culture Shock.
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** editted for libel purposes
There have been far more than 60k messages on here, and its surprising is it not that the so-called ‘anti’ seem far more concerned about the true victim in all this - Madeleine.
There are those, understandably, who do not want to have to believe that such a small defenceless child has been utterly failed by her family - the fence sitters - or some of them.
Some who wisely do not wish to prejudge - a different angle perhaps on the fence.
And some who very sadly cannot see beyond the parents as victims and their child as an inanimate chattel.
Emporers new clothes definitely, but the reference to Fascism here escapes me, apart from its brainwashing tendencies
January 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
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Julie Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
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I totally agree….they only think about their asses
January 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
47 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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However. There’s that word “fraud” again…
January 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
can’t say no, this entire thing has ALWAYS been about how they feel, how its affecting them, etc. The little concern that does come through for Madeleine herself, comes from entire strangers on forums such as this! Quite frankly I don’t give a fairy’s fart how they are holding up (sorry, nasty but true), all I care about is what actually happened to that small, defenceless child who had no hope in the world of defending herself.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:11 am
44 Peter O
I think that’s their ultimate plan E if all else fails.
Let Kate take all the blame and have her declared insane.They don’t have separate lawyers for nothing.
She gets off with a minimum sentence and Gerry stays out of prison to “care”for the twins.
I’m willing to bet Jane Tanner will be there to ” comfort” Gerry within a couple of weeks.
Any takers?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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can’t say no Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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I will never stop repeating that if I was in their situation ,if totally innocent, I would speak up,I would not fear what I could face(jail) for breaking the law/arguido status
January 13th, 2008 at 11:09 am
post to all
an unamed source
friend close to…
spokesman
leak
police source
when any of the above are quoted in the media it means the story is made up.
many of you get carried away by fantasy printed in papers.
if the source of the information is not named then its not true.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:08 am
65 Julie
It’s a new day and I have counted my blessings, so things are good. Still peed off, but on the whole a far happier bunny this morning, thank you.
How is everyone else today?
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Morning Will
January 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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penster Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
They’re not having a pinata are they?
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No,no…only a “few” drinks….
January 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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Julie
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“But she warned Kate was being “destroyed” by the continuing claims against her. Eileen said: “I have seen her cry every night and every day for her lovely Madeleine.
“A piece of her heart has been torn away and I worry about howshe is bearing up. It is a living nightmare.”
Note : it’s always about them. If they want us to beleive that MM was abducted ,why not tell, that who is living a nightmare is MADDY ?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Pleased to hear someone has put their foot down re Madeleine being found, one way or another.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
They’re not having a pinata are they?