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 11:39 pm
806 Brandon
Whooow there!! What’s all this?
You and I are both of the same mind, I know, regarding what probably happened.
But Murat being able to say what happened earlier in the week.
This is new to me.
Caplin’s was the restaurant that was slightly further afield than just at the end of Gerry’s garden, wasn’t it?
So Murat saw them there? And knew that the kids were minding themselves?
Mmmm.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
814
I didn’t think anyone really believed he was a grandmother or a Russian virgin?
I’m going to miss him though.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
811 Batman
Wheres the retraction? How do these people get away with such open and blatent twisting?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Ian
I just suggested RR write a nice letter not email with one of his feather.Could help.
I know Carmen is nice and so is our RR,cheeky but nice
I think we need a new spin to get all back together,dont you?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
chips!
good = got
February 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
807 jo
Indeed, yet they still have incredibly biased headlines in the so called ‘newspapers’ the Sun and the Mirror who continue to fail to analyse properly what the Portuguese chap actually said.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
812
Mrs pigeon aka brandon F Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
“chaterlaine
I left a comment for her in sept.
I love her!!
I hoped I brought her here!!
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I think she’s really good. And it would only make sense that she’s not been making comments on this case for a long time, because … she good involved … ?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
carmens great!!!!
its the fella ones who are a bit funny !!!
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M and A
Not at all
February 5th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Why does everybody believes that Peter O is a grandmother? I think this is his farewell joke. Sometime ago, late in the evening, he suggested that he could be anything, even a 19-year old Russian virgin.
We should not underestimate cheeky PeterO, he was unlikely to quit without a mask.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
804
RedRooster Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
786
jo Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
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hi jo, im afraid things are not good at the moment and im seriously considering leaving this site at the moment. A certain person has it in for me (carmen)
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write her a love letter with one of your feathers,that might help?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
chaterlaine
I left a comment for her in sept.
I love her!!
I hoped I brought her here!!
February 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Evening Ian.
But I so enjoyed how Clarrie re-spun it!
Badly as usual.
However, where would we be without our Pinkie
February 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
793
RedRooster
Yes, okay…but it’s not fair! I will e-mail you. :kiss:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
804 RedRooster
Come on red! Calm down mate, we dont want to lose you. Carmen is really an extremely nice and helpful person - you two are just misunderstanding each other. Please kiss and make up.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Bye “Kris”
I do blame the Mccanns, because those children should NEVER have been left alone in the first place.
795
Marie Nicholas
Thanks for the link
Goodnight!
February 5th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Ian
mmmmmm….people getting nervy amongst the pro?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Batman
Always remember our early oct scenario.
Murat was a witness for the week before!! Chaplins etc…..
Thats why hes kept quiet!!
February 5th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
787
Batman Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Any predictions for tomorrow’s earth shattering headlines?
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Prediction mode!…………. an item possibly belonging to maddie may be fished out of the reservoir ? they may just be hoping that a team member didn’t actually throw it too far out ?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
786
jo Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
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hi jo, im afraid things are not good at the moment and im seriously considering leaving this site at the moment. A certain person has it in for me (carmen)
February 5th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
791
Batman
I still think his point was the Holy Ones scarpered!
February 5th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Brandon
I had no idea - belated Happy Birthday too. Let me sing it to you….
Happy Birth-hic-day to you
Ha-hic-ppy Birthday to hic you
Happy hic Birthday dear Bran-hic-don
Hiccy Burpday to hic you.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
790
Marie Nicholas Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
“776 Mrs. Brandon épouse Pigeon !
No, it dates back to end of November 2007. The topic of the day was the MCs case.
It is really interesting.
This is the link :
http://patbrownprofiling.blogspot.com/search/label/Maddie [...]”
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And after that she didn’t post anymore, so was hoping she would have joined the PJ in this case
February 5th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
batman
He meant he wished they never gave them the protection of “no comment” so quick!!!!
February 5th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
794 Batman
I enjoy yours too.
Good night (12.30 here!)
February 5th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
792 kris
I agree, its impossible for us to imagine thinking like people who would abandon their children in that manner, especially and incredibly doctors!
Such appalling neglect one could expect from the lower class riff raff from council estates, but doctors!
So well done for highlighting this point, we cannot think like these people.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
kris
are you going then?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
grande finale
I did see it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you
!!!!!!!!!! xxxxxx
February 5th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
782 Annie_M
I just sent the link to Brandon. I’ll put it again now in case you didn’t see it.
http://patbrownprofiling.blogspot.com/search/label/Maddie
I hope it works. Good night Annie !
February 5th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
790 Marie Nicholas
Goodnight. Enjoy your posts.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
779
Ciara-Louise Says:
February 5th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
maybe when we are both on anorak we could communicate with each other by email as well. That way we could say what we like without anyone else knowing what we are saying. What do you think?? 
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blimey i dont know what i can and cant say to you now.