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 9:48 pm
some for garthy:
night garthy x
February 5th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
660 nosey
Please go ahead with the toast. I have recharged my glass and am standing by….
February 5th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
601. Garth.
So logic has the final say.
Yes, they are simply being prevented by the government from further incriminating themselves. Being so quickly joined to the hip by favour owned GM, what else could the British government do? At least he didn’t make them hold his hand every time a camera came along.
Innocent people do not need a PR spokesperson to keep them quiet, or a PR team to orchestrate an interview.
Guilty people try to get as many people as they can involved in their plight.
If GM was involved in the cover-up of his daughter’s demise, then his calling in of the favours from his government friends was one of the biggest mistakes of all times. What government wants to admit one of its own subjects got the best of them? The first thing such a government would do is control the damage, limit the harm done to its image.
That is exactly what is happening. The best move was sounding out the cattle call for all the emotional types and BINGO, free field work.
I think I’ve learned enough to take over Britain. Just kidding. hahahahahha
February 5th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I love ‘em
February 5th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
You can all get back to pretending you are right now! Bye!!!!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
MMMmmmm. Simon and Garthy going off together. I wonder!!!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
to smilies
every where the more the merrier imo 
did you know that smilies wind some people up btw?
February 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
RR,
come here, you wouldn’t have been sleeping in bed if I was with you.
xx
Really missed you last week , know you think I didn’t but I did.
M and a
that is for private conversation, not here
February 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
657
Me too, see you around Garth! Keep up the good work!!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
thank you for the wine batman can i suggest a toast??
February 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
657 Garth
Goodnight. :wish I could do a smiley with ZZZZZzzzzzzzs coming out of his head:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
654
Rooster, do we really have to get into that?
February 5th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Here we go
Im off………..
February 5th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
652
Ciara-Louise Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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in bed babe, unfortunately not with you
February 5th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
639 Marie Nicholas
So right. What on earth is the point in getting personal and nasty? Especially from people who often adopt a morally superior attitude!!
This site is about Madeleine McCann - not about trying to prove which poster is ‘right’ and which is ‘wrong’
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Mods and Admin
Slight correction, the site is Anorak and we have been around for 12 years. Some of the threads are about Madeleine McCann
February 5th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
651
Simon Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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you’re not sledgy in disguise are you simple
February 5th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
649 Simon
Find soneone else to direct your insipid sarcastic comments. I have been with children all day and this is my slim chance of adult conversation. Don’t ruin it for me.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
650
RedRooster
Thought you’d never ask.
Where were you last night?
February 5th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
647
It’s all in the eyes of the beholder.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
646
Ciara-Louise Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
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how you doing babe?
February 5th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
641
I find that very hard to believe.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Remigius
In your own time……………..its way past my bedtime ya know!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
642
Simon Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
638
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anyway you havent answered the question so perhaps you are simple 
im sorry if you think that but i’ve only just got here
February 5th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
RR,
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.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
636 Nosey
Your glass of wine is waiting for you, and I am not aware of where Garth has been thrown out of. I am just eternally grateful for him sharing his smiley knowledge
with us all and livening up our visual lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
632
Batman Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
630 Remigius
Sorry to disagree. Garth writes good English and has a sense of humour
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sorry to have to correct you but you missed out a word - just before sense you should have put “twisted”
February 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
638
RedRooster
:Smile:
February 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
638
That question was a long time coming! It’s a very silly one though. Isn’t it RedRooster. Simple, even.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
639 Marie nicholas
Good point well made. I got a load of abuse for asking someone to explain a statement!
February 5th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Errrr… Duncan has got a ‘date’ with my bloody ironing board first