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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Comments
February 5th, 2008 at 8:54 am
owwwwww
February 5th, 2008 at 8:51 am
53
irish girl spain
Dont do it!
February 5th, 2008 at 8:49 am
again
February 5th, 2008 at 8:47 am
trying
February 5th, 2008 at 8:46 am
….for the next 40 days/nights, i shall mostly be looking
at the wider agenda, through the window of opportunity (shutters
up of course),
i shall donate heavily to the fund
i shall donate to swarthy types collecting for orphanages
i shall wear pink shirts and carry a pink cuddly cat
i shall believe everything G/K say
i shall put weight on and look like auntie phil
February 5th, 2008 at 8:41 am
thanks Duncan
February 5th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Hello Everyone and goodbye.
Congratulations Mrs Lone Pigeon.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:36 am
February 5th, 2008 at 8:36 am
NoseyCow - see post 37
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Keep practising.
(Have to logoff now. Got to do some proper work now and earn some money!)
Cheers
Duncanr
February 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I’m giving up chocolate - so tragically people will die.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:28 am
46 - lol ok see you soon
February 5th, 2008 at 8:27 am
just me - perhaps we should turn this into a practice gif thread??
- i’m enjoying the fact that this will annoy the hell out of some of the posters who come on late at night 
got to dash - boys are shouting at each other - world war 3 about to errupt chez nosey - back after school run
keep practising just - am relying on you to teach me
February 5th, 2008 at 8:26 am
This year I shall be giving up ‘giving up things for Lent’
February 5th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Go to fly the coup toodlepip !! see you in an hour!
February 5th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Nosey -
Can’t do that!
40 days/nights a long feckin time to give anything up.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I am giving up soft drinks and vodka,
and I am going to try and do more good deeds everyday.
I am going to try and be more understanding to Kate and Gerry in their desperate plight!!
February 5th, 2008 at 8:23 am
again…
February 5th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Duncan HEEEEELP!! me and Nosey cant do the gifs
February 5th, 2008 at 8:21 am
try again
February 5th, 2008 at 8:21 am
February 5th, 2008 at 8:20 am
last try
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Need to leave a space between img and scr
Need to add = between alt and “”
Need a space between “” and /
Need to remove [ between gif and “
February 5th, 2008 at 8:19 am
35 - I cant get it right, maybe there should be no spaces
February 5th, 2008 at 8:19 am
just me - teehehehe - snap
February 5th, 2008 at 8:17 am
30 - Lent is for quitters!
February 5th, 2008 at 8:17 am
irish - mr nosey cow and kids have suggested that i give up anorak
as if…. 
February 5th, 2008 at 8:16 am
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:16 am
duncan - am trying to do a piccy as per your instructions and its not working…
all - i am determined to get this right - so i apologoes for any empty messages that keep appearing - a bit like the contents od my brain this morning….
February 5th, 2008 at 8:15 am
What are you all giving up for Lent?
February 5th, 2008 at 8:13 am
February 5th, 2008 at 8:10 am
irish - its verry cold brrrr
just me - i love your posts - so funny !! thanks
brandon - a man (or pidgeon) who’ll change their name for you - wow i think you’re onto something - might even be able to train him to close the toilet seat