Madeleine McCann: Lying To Children, Ian McEwan And Questions
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “McCann pals face new quiz”
“It is understood Jane Tanner, Russell O’Brien and David Payne, three of the Tapas Seven, may be questioned over alleged inconsistencies in their statements”
“Understood” and “may.” Such are the facts. Such is the reporting
Say the McCanns’ family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “There is no suggestion Kate and Gerry will be re-interviewed”
And “suggestion”
DAILY RECORD: “One Last Try To Get Maddie Answers”
“Staff at the resort where Madeleine McCann vanished have again been quizzed by detectives. It comes as they prepare to re-interview pals of Kate and Gerry McCann in a last-ditch bid to crack the case”
Anyone we know questioned?
“Pool cleaner Luis Antonio, the husband of suspect Robert Murat’s girlfriend Michaela Walczuch, was one of five questioned in Praia da Luz”
Any reason why they were quizzed once more?
A judicial source tells Portuguese newspaper 24 Horas: “Several police interviews have been repeated. The statements are being analysed to try to find any lead that could result in a new line of investigation”
Analysing statements, eh. Technical stuff…
In his internet blog yesterday, Gerry McCann vowed not to give up looking for his young daughter, adding: “We hope the police are similarly determined”
DAILY EXPRESS: “POLICE LAST CHANCE TO FIND MADELEINE”
“Five staff members who were at the Ocean Club complex on the night she went missing have been quizzed in recent days as pressure mounts to conclude the investigation”
Why those five? Which five? The WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER does not say
THE SUN: “Cops’ final bid to solve Maddie”
Michaela Walczuch “who denies any involvement in Maddie’s disappearance – was allegedly spotted in Zaio, Morocco, on June 15, moments after a girl resembling Madeleine was seen being dragged away by an African woman”
Three of the McCanns’ freins witll be spoken to by police.
A “source” says: “It sounded like they were concerned about timeline inconsistencies. But if you have nine people not wearing watches, it would be suspicious if their times matched exactly”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Lying to children”
“From white lies to whoppers, vagueness with the truth is part of parenthood. But as Katie Tait learns from one psychologist, deceiving children is never justified”
Recently I told Kitty, our youngest child, that the police car had pulled us over because she was screaming in the back of the car (in fact I was, stupidly, speeding, but partly as a result of her noise). She is now mousey-quiet on journeys. My caprice over the tooth fairy has reached such an extent that the correspondence between “Molly” and my daughter Agnes fills two whole shoe boxes.
Then there are the areas that I don’t really want them to know the whole truth about. Will they get scared if I tell them that Madeleine McCann, whose picture they have seen everywhere, was taken from her bed? What about the news stories of dogs biting children to death? Will they ever go near next door’s puppy again? To me, vagueness with the truth is part of being a human being and certainly part of being a parent. But apparently, I am deeply wrong.
Maybe Katie’s children can read the truth in her article?
THE AGE (Aus): “The private and the public”
An interview with Ian McEwan, the author: “Journalists rang him because the disappearance of four-year-old Madeleine bore a dark similarity to the plot of his 1987 novel, The Child in Time, when a father has his three-year old girl stolen from him in a supermarket”
DVDTOWN: “GONE BABY GONE”
If you’re thinking that this film was a quick knockoff inspired by the real-life Madeleine McCann case–the little girl who disappeared from her family’s Portugal vacation home while her mom and dad were at a party not far away–it’s really just another case of life imitating art. Lehane’s novel about a four-year-old girl who turns up missing under similar circumstances was published way back in 1994.
Madeleine McCann: The Voyeurs, The Gouls and The Fear
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February 17th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Cheryl Nosey
Doesn’t it just show what a disgrace our courts are? Makes my blood boil!
February 17th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
cheryl - i read your post and my first instinct was - a load of tosh - no way, (sorry) and i googled it…
he has been told he will serve half of his three year sentence less the 101 days already served prior to the trial, so he will serve around 446 days for killing this baby. 
frankly i don’t understand
February 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
One of the issues on here that has come out of this tragedy is the need for laws or maybe better said ‘tighter laws’ to protect young children from parental neglect. And on here I’ve also read several say for neglect only McCanns should get 10 years. I was reading the Mirror last night late catching up on the UK news and this is a story that made me stop cold! I hope the Mods and Admin don’t mind my printing it on here - I cut and pasted so….here it is! It will show you that under the current laws a little baby’s life deliberately taken is only worth 3 years in prison!
Anger as tot killer John Jeacock gets 3yrs
By Aidan Mcgurran 16/02/2008
A babysitter who shook a four-week-old tot to death but was jailed for just three years was branded as “scum” by the tot’s furious father.
John Jeacock, then 22, had slammed little Harvey Jackson on to a bed and tossed him around him like a rag doll while babysitting on Mother’s Day. He admitted manslaughter.
Sentencing him, Judge Gerald Gordon QC said: “I know this will be regarded as grossly inadequate… But I have to pass a sentence according to law.”
Family and friends in court reacted angrily at the sentence. Afterwards Harvey’s dad Darren Jackson, 23, shook his fist at Jeacock and yelled: “You wait, you scummy c***.”
Jeacock had agreed to look after Harvey with his own child. Harvey’s mum Maxine McInerney, 23, was sister of his girlfriend and both had gone to a spa.
Jeacock, of Rainham, Essex, lost his temper and shook Harvey so hard that he suffered fatal head injuries last February.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
1011 CSN said:
“I don’t know ,if you are being paid ,i’m not”
Whaaaat ?????
And yes ,the British MW staff is afraid
They are afraid of both the Porto and the Brits police….
OK I just wonder what they were threatened with and how exactly it was done in order not to alert suspicions……..which would eventually get into the public domain…as in fact they now have ? Or do they not mind thaty we all know about this fear ?
Then you said:
“Now spin as ya like
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And again I say - whaaaat? I just don’t get you first and last comments CSN ????
February 17th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
1037
Jolie
As long as we spin…
February 17th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Ian
I remember ages ago that you said you used to have an electron.
Where did you get/buy the add ons for it? The plus1, plus3 etc.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
1035
Ian t
hey have cast doubt on the profession regarding the right to judge and provide input in family cases
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Its only one doubt out of the long list of “The Casted Doubts”.The Big Picture looks grim really….
February 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
May and MOAH
I don’t mind staying here, in our community of posters to discuss this, as it is true that the Madeleine case may be a symptom of the bigger problem of government control and press manipulation.
Until other posters or Mods and Admin. object to it, of course.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
1022 MOAH
Thank you. I have checked out his site before.
Do you have children of your own? I think it colors your feelings about what might come when you think that, as a protester, you could be imprisoned or killed and your children would be left defenseless. Protecting my children is a higher priority than fighting for an ideal that may not be possible. There are lines I would not cross to do so, though, such as collaborating with the system to harm others in any way. I would fight for some things, despite the outcome to my family.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
1010
âde
In my house we have Apple and various Microsoft versions (in fact I use XP and Vista on the same PC, boots to whichever I choose, using separate hard drives).
Apples are better for people who like everyhting high level and managed for them. I like Vista (I knew we’d disagree on something one day!) but my daughter loves her Apple (but uses wifes Vista laptop an awful lot too!).
Apple are very stylish, but a rip off too, Ipods well too expensive and dropping each version in favour of the next is irritating.
Anyway, Apple or Microsoft, it deosnt matter, the McCannsare still low life in my eyes and I agree with Karent, they have cast doubt on the profession regarding the right to judge and provide input in family cases.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
1031
just_me
Time is our friend, Just.
Take has much as you need.
We will read your new book with the same emotion.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
861
Carmen Says:
February 17th, 2008 at 7:27 am
859
Cheryl Says:
February 17th, 2008 at 5:25 am e
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Thanks, Carmen. The reason I was asking is the newspapers are printing so many stories NOT based on fact, and I expect it will get much worse before the Investigation is over, that before anyone of us ‘bites’ on what we read, we’ll have to stop and think - fact or fiction.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
1030
Karen Says:
February 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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The whole world (not only the uk) should find out what has happened to Madeleine because essentially it is what it is about :the truth
It is beyond a class issue.It is beyond disbelief.
I believe this case as sad an unfortunate as it is, has turned out to be necessary to question many “concepts”,including parenthood and many many more
February 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
1029 jo - yes I do have another book in mind. Its the follow up to ‘One More Angel’. My first book covers the first year, the second will be the first five years. Although the second book is prooving harder to write. The first was a kind of therapy, as it started out as a letter to my mum originally, but ended up as a total outpouring of everything, as I wrote it while I was going through all the emotions, which was then edited to make the book. The second book is harder due to having to take my mind back to that time. Its hard emotionally as well as hard to pinpooint the exact times things happened. But, It will be finished one day
February 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I think the worst thing about the McCann case is all the mournful dribbling rubbish written by hacks about how they leave their kids on holiday and they lie to their kids…
I think England should really question the authority middle-class professionals use to take children away from, usually working-class, parents sometimes for things they might do.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
1027
just_me
You are a born artist!
(Do you have an other book in mind?)
February 17th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
1015
Jolie Says:
February 17th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Man on a Hill
“re. Zeitgeist: the movie
I watched the second half of the movie. Despite being familiar with most of the political truths, I still found myself seriously despondent last night after seeing this well put-together film. SNIP
…Should we start a new thread dedicated to Zeitgeist on the forum to discuss these issues? ”
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I too thought it would be interesting to have a Zeitgeist forum as there is so much to discuss. My next thought was to wonder how much this would deflect from the discussion on the fate of Madeleine?
Perhaps the powers that be would enjoy the lessening of the Madeleine debate, if that was the outcome. We would have to ensure equal attention to both forums.
But it is essential to permanently highlight the ways in which we are already being controlled in so many areas by behind the scenes activities we seem to have so little power to resist.
Administrator:I beg your pardon? -agw
February 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
jo -
I’m spinning in the rain,
I’m spinning in the rain,
What a glorious feeeeling,
I’m happy again!
February 17th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
1024
just_me
Lets spin in the rain…..
It seems a long birth for the truth but Madeleine will get there for her we will..
A little bit more time.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
1022
man on a hill
You are a star!!!!
February 17th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
afternoon all
no news then?
February 17th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
1019
May
Food for thoughts
February 17th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
1015 Jolie
I really am very sorry for you and everyone else who finds out. Why don’t you give Alex Jones a listen through the link below. He will revive you.
http://prisonplanet.com/
As i have already stated i thought long and hard about whether Zeitgeist the movie was an FBI attempt to flush out the last of the free thinkers and came to the conclusion that it is genuine. I have no objection to starting a separate thread because of the importance of this but i do not want the potential link to M being ignored by the other posters here who would continue to be the unwitting stooges of their masters.
It is better to die a free man than a slave - that’s why we’ll win.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
1017
May
The PJ is re-interviewing 5 people in PLD.
Why do you think they are reviewing everything and all?
Tying up lose ends? There arent any.
They are are squizzing the net and will be in the uk soon to squizzed further….yeah…less than 1%
The ONLY innocent here is Madeleine
February 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Totje
Thank you for your comments last night, it was very kind of you. The only reason I mentioned it was to say how precious a life is.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
1007
jo Says:
February 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
102
Saturn Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 am
The previous article I cited does not name the “counsellor” who flew to the resort. In this article, two counsellors are said to have flown to the resort. They are not named. Their purpose is said to be to help employees cope.
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2007/05/15/40592/tour-operator-mark-warner-offers-counselling-to-staff-at-madeleine-mccann-kidnap-resort-in-portugal.html
Tour operator Mark Warner offers counselling to staff at Madeleine McCann kidnap resort in Portugal…….SNIP
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And how do we know that these helpful counsellors so promptly flown out to support the distressed MW staff, who were subsequently employed elsewhere, did not in fact “assist” the staff in “understanding what they really saw”?
February 17th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
1011
can’t say no
I knew it! you”ve got the “Clarriestitis”!!!
Lest spiiiiin the rain…
February 17th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
992
can’t say no Says:
February 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Also, from 3 A :
Europe » United Kingdom » England » East Sussex » Lewes
I was the Madeleine Mccann of 1969… I got kidnapped in 1969 from a …SNIP
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What a bizarre article. Starts intriguingly to ensure reading, then proceeds to spin verbose pro-McC arguments with no credibility since the circumstances are not at all similar.
Are we to believe it was coincidence that the McCanns rented a corner Apt from a Ruth McCann, thus giving greater scope for variations on the method of ‘abduction’, and then access by even more people to confuse ‘clues’?
What exactly is meant by the statement “Even if the DNA said they were 99% guilty, they would only be guilty when proven so… until then they are innocent”?
Innocent of what? Or does it mean they might be proved to be 1% innocent?
February 17th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
954 Pilimary:
“By the way, how is that expression in English “entre nosotras”? Is it “between us”?”
Think you mean ‘Between you and me’ oeven ‘between you and me and the gate-post’
February 17th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Man on a Hill
re. Zeitgeist: the movie
I watched the second half of the movie. Despite being familiar with most of the political truths, I still found myself seriously despondent last night after seeing this well put-together film.
I CAUTION those who are predisposed to depression and anxiety (as I am), that the information in this film could seriously affect your mood and outlook on life.
Unlike you, I don’t see a way out from under the thumb of these ruthless, wealthy greedy basta*ds. They already have control over every aspect of our life–food, through the giant agribusinesses, money, personal data and surveillance control, military/police might. There is a lot on the net that wasn’t covered in the movie about how the government in the US has been preparing for martial law.
Did you ever think that perhaps the information about this new world order is allowed to continue to be disseminated because the puppet masters hope for a reaction from it? An uprising would allow for more conflict, bloodshed, rounding up prisoners, taking of personal property, etc. More financial gain and control end up in their hands. It doesn’t make sense for them to allow the movie Zeitgeist, including the official site for it, on the internet, unless it was acceptable and perhaps desired for people to have access to it. We already know that the media is censored and controlled to a large extent. Food for thought, anyway.
Should we start a new thread dedicated to Zeitgeist on the forum to discuss these issues?