Madeleine McCann: Duarte Levy, Clarence Mitchell And The Daily Mirror
DUARTE Levy writes on the case of Madeleine McCann. He alleges that that Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ PR adviser, is “using the Government’s services to keep watch on journalists and forum participants.” Says Mr Levy:
Clarence Mitchell, the McCann’s PR adviser and spokesman, continues to make use of the British government’s services despite having officially resigned from his position as director of the Media Monitoring Unit*. The accusation comes from a Home Office source who has stated that the outgoing director had called upon his former service to keep a watch not only on several journalists but also on the behaviour of participants in a list of forums and blogs considered to be “highly detrimental to the image of the McCanns and that of the British government”.
Can what Mr Levy alleges be true? And if it is, why would it be a big deal for the McCanns’ spokesman to keep an eye on the web, and get what help he can? Mr Levy continues:
Clarence Mitchell, a former journalist for the Daily Express and the BBC, was seconded by the Foreign Office to act as a liaison officer between the media and Madeleine’s parents. Through the intermediary of the respective British embassies, it was he who organised the McCann’s visits to the Vatican, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam and Rabat.
Since the very early days, media monitoring has been an important part of Clarence Mitchell’s work. While the McCann’s were in Praia da Luz, it was he who decided to separate journalists according to nationality: the British first, and the Portuguese last.
Today, the McCann’s PR campaign relies more than ever on monitoring public opinion: over the past few days several UK forums and blogs have been shut down due to “anti-McCann” comments. Amongst them is the Mirror newspaper’s forum, which erased all comments about the case without warning when the participants started to debate Home Office interference.
No response from Mr Mitchell is quoted in Mr Levy’s email to us. But why did the Daily Mirror close its forum? Anyone from those forums care to tell us what they know?
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January 27th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
501
Totje Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
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good idea stick it over fairs head
January 27th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
501
January 27th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
499
Batman
January 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
495
Fair
Need the bag??? I’ve got plenty now, been to a wholesaler’s in between the dinners and parties
January 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
495
Fair Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
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should have know you’d spring up out of a bloody bush… anything else to add or is that it???
January 27th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
491 can’t say no
Whether or not it does belong to Anorak - at least we doubters can still express an opinion.
But it has always been a mystery to me why people who think the McConns are so innocent would feel the need to come onto a forum like this and constantly fight their corner.
The only conclusion I have been able to draw is that they are either paid to or directly involved in the family/friends themselves. A conclusion which has been strengthened by these latest attempts to gag the public.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
492 can’t say no Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
491
Batman
Anorak belongs to them
You shold read more posts
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Belongs to whom????
What posts???????
January 27th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
488 veritablequandry
Of course, he’s a few cards short!
But in PDL?
NOt even Metodo is interested in him. They are too busy hunting down eggman and pigman and now, cockleman. Ahem. It does sound a bit rude, doesn’t it?
January 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Sorry about the garbled quote at 463, that’s the way it appears on I Want a Referendum.com
Anyone who is as angry as I am about our PM signing this Treaty and refusing us the referendum that he pledged t0 give us in his election manifesto, please sign all of the online petitions including that of I want A Referendum.com and support your local campaigns.
Our families fought and made huge sacrifices during the last war for our democracy, our country and freedom.
The huge powers which Gordon Brown proposes to give to the EU are not his to give away. They belong to all of us, the people of Britain and Brown must give us a Referendum on this EU Treaty!
January 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
449
RedRooster Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
444
Totje Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
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‘’sadly im banned from anorak for the whole of next weekend. Do you know where i get therapy or something to get through it??”
Maybe there is a God after all??
10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1…………..
January 27th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
490
Sledgehammer Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Remigius, it was not your reference to possible death that I thought was a mistake.
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the floor is all yours mr BAFFOON 
oh do tell us what it was then sledge - god this is going to be REALLY interesting….snore snore
January 27th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
486 Peter O
What it means is that someone is likely lying…or has made a big mistake, because Madeleine, as you note, can’t be both peacefully sleeping in bed and also, at the same moment, being carried away in the arms of her abductor.
so someone is not telling the truth. Or perhaps both are not telling the truth.
It’s the obvious inconsistencies like these that point to a deep parental involvement, and a Tapas 9 cover-up. This is what keeps us Anorakers intersted in solving the murdery. I mean, the mystery.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
491
Batman
Anorak belongs to them
You shold read more posts
January 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
A couple of months ago Sky News pulled their ‘Madeleine’ page.
Now Mirror Forum has suddenly been pulled.
Who is pulling these strings?
And more importantly - why?
How long before Anorak is also stopped?
January 27th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Remigius, it was not your reference to possible death that I thought was a mistake.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I think some Brits reports here in Portugal,wil return with some bruses
Well ,more money for Portugal
January 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
460 Remigius Says:
“His alibi turned out to be unshakeable, if involuntary. In the end, some speculated that he just wanted a free plane ride out of Thailand.”
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I wonder if anyone has checked John Mark Karr’s alibi for early May 2007.
That one was a few cards short of a full deck.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
484
Ciara-Louise Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
well you could teach me how to behave for starters 
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omg my blood pressures going up
January 27th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
467 Ian Says: January 27th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Edit…
9:10 (Gerry looked down on Madeleine) to 9:10 (amended time Gerry says Tanner saw Madeleine in the arms of an abductor) simply isn’t sufficient time for a stranger to have abducted cuddle cat let alone a child!
Edit…
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I know you’ve probably left….. however….
The amended time explains why Gerry didn’t see Jane when she saw egg/bundle/pigman, because Gerry was too busy staring at Madeleine… What it doesn’t explain however is how come Jane saw Gerry talking to Mr Wilkins…. Hell, I’m confused!
January 27th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
469 Cheryl
But also so much DNA that DID match the Ramseys!
And the alleged “pubic” hair found on her? Well, tests showed it was more likely an animal hair. Patsy Ramsey liked to wear animal furs, and had worn animal fuyr boots and a hat the night of the murder. The Boulder police detectives recommended that a search warrant for these items be issued, but it never was. They vented their frustration very publicly.
The lead detective has never wavered in his belief, in print and orally, that Patsy Ramsey killed her daughter in a fit of rage, then tried to cover up her actions by staging a more intricate murder scene with fake ligatures, and penning a false ransom note.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
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483
RedRooster Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
475
Ciara-Louise Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
what do you teach??
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so you’re a teacher - i always fantasised about my teachers
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Well what would you like to be taught?
January 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
475
Ciara-Louise Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
what do you teach??
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so you’re a teacher - i always fantasised about my teachers
January 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
463 Jane
David Milliband was interviewed on the Politics Show last week and categorically refused
to have a Referendum. If the mealy mouthed Labour MP”s voted with their conscience
instead of kow-towing to GB and DM etc, we would have a referendum.
Years ago I was an active member of the CND and we collected thousands of signatures, presented them to our local MP in the Houses of Parliament had a chat which was a load
of twaddle and that was that.Now there is talk of using Nuclear Energy because of the low
reserves of oil and gas. This at a time when we have never been so vulnerable for National
Security.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
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Ian
x
January 27th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Nighty night. Really gone now!
January 27th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
429
Marie Nicholas
I shall not be e-mailing.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
431 Sledgehammer
It is NOT a mistake to raise the inference that a child of 3, missing for over 72 hours, is dead.
The case of Michael Manning in Boulder, Colorado, is a case in point, and was much-discussed at the time of JonBenet’s murder. Like madeleine McCann, Michael Manning was 3 years old when he “disappeared.” His mother insisted repeatedly that Michael was living with “friends of the family” but refused to identify these friends, claiming that if she did, social services would take her son away from her.
A lot of people in colorado sympathized with this mother’s apparent plight.
A judge who hadn’t completely been cowed by public support sentenced the mother to jail for contempt of court. She still refused to talk, sat in jail for three months, and the public was just aghast at how mean the judge and police were to this poor, poor woman who was just trying to keep custody of her son.
The supportive public was very surprised that, when a police detective offered to treat the mother as a witness rather than a suspect, the mother immediately declared that she and her boyfriend had killed 3-year-old Michael by “using him as a punching bag.” They then hid Michael’s body by wrapping it in a green blanket and shower curtain, stuffing it into an air conditioning vent, and then moving it to an irrigation ditch during the snowy, icy winter.
Elizabeth Manning was not a heart surgeon, not a cardiac consultant, not a GP.
But what a deal she cut for herself!
Because the police hadn’t given her any warnings about self-incrimination, and had offered to treat her solely as a witness, all the evidence against her, including her own statement and her son’s body, was declared inadmissible.
Elizabeth Manning and her lover were charged with felony child abuse and assault–the only criminal charges left. Elizabeth pled guilty and was out in a year. Her lover received a ten-year sentence. I’m not sure how much of that he actually served.
So you see, lightning can strike, and strike and strike and strike, and still, the guilty go relatively unpunished and unscathed, and the child is dead….
January 27th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
469
RedRooster
Hi RR,
I was preparing some lessons for school tomorrow.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
470
Is an infestation 
clouseau
January 27th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
467
Ian Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
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somehow i dont think sledge would ever make the grade