Madeleine McCann: A Pundit Says, Judge Eurico Reis Orders And The Sun Omits
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “Shut up: Maddie cop by judge”
Police national director Alipio Ribeiro “stunned his men” by “admitting” the decision to make “doctors” Kate and Gerry McCann suspects was “hasty”
Judge Eurico Reis said it is “not the cop’s role to publicly comment on cases under investigation. The judge raged: ‘It is his duty to SHUT UP.’”
And: “Portugal’s top prosecutor Antonio Cluny branded Ribeiro’s comment ‘extremely worrying’” – Why worrying? Because of what he said? Or because a policeman has given his personal views about an ongoing case? The Sun fails to make this clear
The McCanns spokesman tells us: “You cannot have the head of the police force openly questioning the validity of the way in which they were made suspects and then not have a review”
Can’t you? Can someone expert in Portuguese law tells us if you can or cannot…
FERGUS Shanahan: “COPS SO WRONG”
Alipis Ribero is on the radiop. Says Shanahan: “In effect, Mr Ribeiro is saying: ‘We never had any evidence agsint Kate and Gerry. We didn’t take Madeleine’s disappearance seriously… Some of our detectives thought Kate and Gerry looked dodgy. So we made them suspects and hoped something might turn up.”
The tabloids, meanwhile, look at “creepy” Robert Murat, also a suspect - you know, the one the Sun calls an “oddball“
DAILY STAR: “BLOW FOR MADDIE PARENTS”
“TORMENTED Kate and Gerry McCann are to remain official suspects over their daughter’s disappearance. They hoped to have their ‘arguido’ status lifted after Portugal’s top cop Alipio Ribeiro admitted it may have been a mistake to put them in the frame. But government legal advisers yesterday denied they were planning to clear their names”
So the personal views of a policeman are not a deciding factor in an ongoing investigation?
“The 39-year-olds may be considered suspects for as long as the investigation continues – possibly years”
Read all about it!
DAILY MIRROR: “STILL SUSPECTS – Maddy probe team in row over letting McCanns off hook”
Says Judge Eurico Reis: “This case has had more than enough media exposure”
Mr Ribeiro is on the radio…
Says “media pundit” Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: “He killed the investigation when he said there was haste in making the McCanns arguidos in the case”
Says Antonio Cluny, who we heard from earlier in the Sun: “I don’t know if he’s right or not but this conduct of speaking about pending cases is extremely worrying”
Why did the Sun end its Mr Cluny quote short?
LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: “Madeleine McCann: Liverpool grandad hoping for a miracle”
Says Mr Healy: “Like most people I would like to think that if there is a spark of hope I have to hang on to it. They haven’t found anything yet. We have to believe a miracle can happen. I still believe she is alive and until someone tells me different I will believe”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Maddy’s grandad hopes for miracle”
Brian Healey says he is pleased that “Alipio Rebeiro, national director of the Policia Judiciaria, said detectives were too hasty in making the couple suspects over their daughter’s disappearance”
Says he: “I am glad he has said it, it will get things moving to reinstate the fact they’re innocent”
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:07 am
just experimenting
February 5th, 2008 at 8:06 am
nosey
FO
He changed his name for me !!!!!!!
Just me
That sounds like a quickie
February 5th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Nosey - did you see the wedding photo?
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj15/just_meme5/wedding.jpg
February 5th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Nosey
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Ok… I’m off to that part of the world on friday -
NOT looking forward to the cold
February 5th, 2008 at 8:04 am
20 - 17 - sizzle sizzle toss toss splat ——there ya go!
February 5th, 2008 at 8:04 am
brandon -so where was the honeymoon??
wasn’t lone previousley gerry mccant - so does that now make you kate mccantt??
February 5th, 2008 at 8:03 am
17 - sizzle sizzle toss toss splat ——there ya go!
February 5th, 2008 at 8:03 am
JMe
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mmm. yummy. (God, Lent tomorrow, must give something up) !!!!!
can i have a side order of crispy bacon with mine please.
I’ll have a brandy/coffee while i’m waiting, ta
February 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am
test
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:02 am
irish - i believe that miss match is visiting relleys in the uk - don’t know if she’ll have the time or the facilities to post much for a while
February 5th, 2008 at 7:59 am
lemon juice please
February 5th, 2008 at 7:57 am
14 - lol your welcome x - maple syrup or lemon sugar?
February 5th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Where is that child?
February 5th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Yes please JM
Thanks for snapping us on our big day
February 5th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Mk
There you go………………. add milk & sugar yourself
February 5th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Morning all
anyone for a pancake?
February 5th, 2008 at 7:53 am
morning ladies, anyone got the kettle on?
February 5th, 2008 at 7:40 am
I was sent to the other side IGS for a few days so I wasnt on
February 5th, 2008 at 7:39 am
top of the morning to you all …..
:::Irish Jig Duncan please:::
Hi Brandon, hi Nosey,, any sign of Miss Match
February 5th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Nosey
I had to be made an honest woman before anorak would have me back !
February 5th, 2008 at 7:25 am
morning all - morning brandon - you ok??
February 5th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Good morning everybody
February 5th, 2008 at 7:15 am
haway man…Ive just woken up! I can barely talk let alone string a few sentences!
February 5th, 2008 at 7:13 am
This gets more ridiculous, the above is the information Sledgehammer was expelled for posting yesterday.
Administrator: I regard a blocking procedure as a failure since it means we have been unable to guide a debater along the right, acceptable course.
The harsh facts are these. The Moderators are responsible for the safe conduct of the site and one of the transparently difficult areas has been the wide-spread usage of unsubstantiated text from other sources. That was the case with the huge and badly translated posting yesterday It was made clear that this was unacceptable and Sledgehammer was acutely aware of that policy. He caned other posters with previous rulings with nauseating regularity.
I recognise irritation is a valid weapon in debate, insult can be useful too.
It is very unwise to use such tactics when dealing with a Moderator.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:06 am
I’ll take a three
February 5th, 2008 at 6:56 am
O.k.
I’ll give you that!
February 5th, 2008 at 6:53 am
no 1 please