Madeleine McCann: Lying To Children, Ian McEwan And Questions
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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 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am
CSN
Yes, I live in Spain (Madrid) Want to pay me a visit?
February 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am
1653
can’t say no
If there is anything in the uk it will be AGAINST the Cortes and this IS just what I want.
I am waiting for it wishing it
February 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am
CSN
Jo
British press is quite dissapointing… Not a single paper has had a minimum of objetiveness… All of them obeying the godfather… go to bed, if a stay here talking about this I’ll end up vomiting(again
nite all!!
February 18th, 2008 at 12:59 am
1650
Jolie
Good news he?
I can tell you some in spain are very pissed off with the mcDesperate…..and dont worry thats only the beginning coz people are very fed up with them now,especially the Cortes.
Basta is basta
February 18th, 2008 at 12:58 am
1651
jo
I doubt, only possible ,if they want to fool us they are unbiased
February 18th, 2008 at 12:57 am
1646
Pilimary
Do you live in Spain?
Sorry ,only answer if you want
February 18th, 2008 at 12:56 am
1647
can’t say no
Its going to stop soon.
I wonder if the poster episode and the Cortes sueing them will be in the english media ?
I doubt it very very much….
February 18th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Here’s a link to the article about the posters not having prior approval from the Cortes parents.
Parents of missing Mari Luz are against her image being used in a Madeleine McCann poster campaign
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15143.shtml
February 18th, 2008 at 12:55 am
1646
Pilimary
Yep
But the worst ,is that these people is above ALL LAWS
February 18th, 2008 at 12:55 am
1644
Pilimary
I am only too aware the Cortes didnt know anything….I wonder who told them tho???
February 18th, 2008 at 12:54 am
1637
dcb
Oh ,dear
Sorry ,i’m no longer able to support ,this kind of spin
They are the victims
Never the poor child ,or ALL the others ,they are trying to frame
February 18th, 2008 at 12:54 am
CSN
They have lost completely the reason, the point, the control… They’e simply mad
February 18th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Mrs Healey, a civil servant, who lives in Liverpool with her husband Brian, said: “We will go on fighting for justice. It is a ridiculous situation.
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Justice for whom?oh…of course thier highness are the victims!!!
Oh yesssss it is a ridiculous situation but hey! who provoked it?
I wish they would just shut up for god sake
February 18th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Jo
I read yesterday the story: The Cortés family didn’t know anything about the posters, and were angry cause the mcc had utilized the picture of Mary Luz without permission… The mcc are absolutely crazy, desperate, doing the most stupid things that can be imagined…¡¡¡Qué fuerte, qué fuerte!!!!
(trnslation? heavy? strong? I don’t know…
February 18th, 2008 at 12:52 am
1631
False Flag
Sorry ,my mistake
I’m never able to read All the posts or posters
February 18th, 2008 at 12:51 am
1635
Pilimary
They can do things ,beehond our imagination
Sorry my english ,i’m tired
February 18th, 2008 at 12:49 am
i’m trying to e here for a couple of mint’s
February 18th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Pilimary
All the spin are la obra de arte/chefs d”oeuvre from clarrie.
The new spin just comes out after Juan Cortes said he would sue them for not asking permission to put Mari Luz pics on their famous posters.Gitnaos dont joke with lawyers cops AND kids…..
This is not going to be in the uk media…..oh nooooo
Yes lots of lies and whatever but with the Cortes nothing of the sort.Juan was very pissed off when se ha enterado jajajajjaja.. and taken action over the last 2 days only
February 18th, 2008 at 12:48 am
uf
Back
February 18th, 2008 at 12:43 am
1633
Gandolf Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 12:35 am
I agree totally: I hope such a thing will never happen again.This is really too much .
Poor little Madeleine has entered History.She has become a fight for the truth,Gandolf and I respect this.
I am not easily fooled but here are a lot of evidence against the mccanns and I agree: it is also important to separate facts from fiction.The media are making an awful lot of cash,yes.What about those 2 fools???
We may never know what has happened to her but may be we will and in this case it could be soon.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Torment of Madeleine’s family ‘is like being crucified’
By JOHN FAHEY
THE grandmother of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann yesterday said the family’s torment is like “being crucified day to day”.
And Susan Healey, 62, pleaded with people to stop criticising her family.
She said: “It is almost like being crucified day to day.
“I read the most stupid things about Kate not crying enough or whatever.”
She added: “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them.
“If the Portuguese can’t find out what happened to
Madeleine, we have to find out. There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance.”
Mrs Healey, the mother of 39-year-old Kate McCann, spoke of the family’s need to know what happened to Madeleine, who disappeared while on a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal in May last year.
Mrs McCann and her Glasgow-born surgeon husband Gerry remain arguidos – official suspects – despite Portugal’s top policeman saying two weeks ago that their arrest had been hasty.
Mrs Healey, a civil servant, who lives in Liverpool with her husband Brian, said: “We will go on fighting for justice. It is a ridiculous situation.
“If they think we are going to sit by and not have this stupid arguido status lifted, then we will fight to lift it.
“We want Madeleine back and we want to find out what happened to her. There is nothing in place to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
The full article contains 266 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
Last Updated: 17 February 2008 8:54 PM
February 18th, 2008 at 12:43 am
well i won’t be donating anything to any charity she’s involved in.
and i think we ought to make this clear to any charity thinking of employing her.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Frankly, I cannot believe that the mcc team is getting SOOOOOOOO FAR!
They are desperate, it seems, that desperate people do whatever. OMG they are more evil, ruin, rotten than nobody could ever have though!
February 18th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Want to know something?
I m thinking that the latest spin could be provokedby M3, I mean, the recent attemtp (essay?) of abduction but without successs. It’s strange, three cases in so little time, men in cars, calling the little girl and frightening tem BUT, -pitty- none real abduction… I’d bet M3 is behind this
February 18th, 2008 at 12:35 am
jo, to be honest I don’t know what to think, I don’t think and I hope not, that we will ever see anything like this case again, at least in my lifetime. So many contradictions so much unsubstantiated, so little clear evidence, such a carnival surrounds the whole thing, and the newspapers keep the cash rolling in from it.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:33 am
“McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “There is no suggestion of a direct connection but it shows that this sort of thing can occur in Portugal.”
Yeah…it only happens in portugal
“Mrs McCann’s mother Susan Healy, 61, told the People: “It is definite now. One of her main goals in life is to work with children and assist with child safety.”
jajajajajajajaja incredible!
“A source close to the couple told the People newspaper: “Kate feels after all she’s been through she has lots to offer child organisations”
Like fund raising?
February 18th, 2008 at 12:30 am
CSN 1337
“Replyng , to what ya didn’t uderstand in my post
1 Question,where are the nannies that claimed to see MM on 3th of May ?
And ,don’t try to fool me”
CSN, I truly think you must be misunderstanding where I am coming from. Have you read previous posts from me ? What I did not understand was your implication that I take a different perspective from your own. And the strange comment challenging me to ’spin’…….
As I have just posted, the nannies, as I understand it were moved out very, very quickly by MW………and I am not sure at all of the motivation behind that or of the ultimate source of its happening.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:28 am
1626
RedRooster
Good night
February 18th, 2008 at 12:28 am
From jo’s link
“Meanwhile, it is understood Kate McCann is quitting her job as a locum GP to devote her life to children’s charities.
Mrs McCann has not returned to work since Madeleine’s disappearance in May and has reportedly told friends she feels she has a lot to offer charity organisations”
:lol:
++++++++++++++++++++
never mind bleedin helping childrens charities Katiepoo should start working with some mental health charities…. night all
February 18th, 2008 at 12:27 am
1627
Gandolf
Thank you…..but as you know what is said in the media….
I am sure it wont be in the uk media tomorrow what do you think?