Madeleine McCann: Tapas Sums, Shannon Matthews And GMTV
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann and Shannon Matthews
THE SUN: “Cops plot McCann pals’ quiz.”
“It could involve British police putting questions to the ‘Tapas seven’.”
“Gran’s plea over missing Shannon”
A picture of Karen Matthews wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of her missing daughter. The mother is smiling. Why show this picture?
MISSING Shannon Matthews’ heartbroken gran fought tears yesterday as she pleaded: “I just want to see her little smiley face at my window again.”
June Matthews is a “pensioner”. She suffers from “ill health”. Is interviewing the grandmother now part of the protocol for reporting on missing children?
THE SCOTSMAN: “Madeleine: police may quiz ‘Tapas Nine’ again”
The Sun’s Tapas Seven becomes the Scotsman’s Tapas Nine. Such are the facts.
Detective Superintendent Stuart Prior, of Leicestershire Police, returned from the Algarve yesterday after meeting counterparts in Portugal about how the fresh interviews would be conducted.
The Leicestershire Police spokeswoman says: “Since Madeleine’s disappearance, we, together with other law-enforcement agencies, have been working closely with the Portuguese authorities.
“Mr Prior has attended a series of meetings with his Portuguese counterparts,” she said yesterday. “He travelled to Portugal on Tuesday and returned this morning.
“He went to discuss how the request for mutual legal assistance is to be executed and to seek clarification over elements of the request.”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine: British police meet Portuguese detectives to plan fresh interviews with Tapas Nine”
The “so-called Tapas Nine - the McCanns and their seven friends - could still hold the solution to the unsolved mystery that began in May last year”.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “The sooner this re-interviewing takes place the better. The friends are very keen to help police understand their original statements. No one will be changing their story. We are not aware that Kate and Gerry are to be re-interviewed at this stage, but if so, that’s not an issue.”
Tapas Nine minus Tapas Two equals Tapas Seven.
The McCanns, from Rothley in Leicestershire, were joined at the tapas restaurant on by Dr Matthew Oldfield and his recruitment consultant wife Rachael, Dr Russell O’Brien and his partner Jane Tanner, and medical researcher David Payne, his wife Fiona, and her mother Dianne Webster.
Gerry McCann is a heart consultant. Kate McCann is a GP. Such are the facts.
THE TIMES: “Shannon’s mother, Karen Matthews, defends her partner on TV.”
The mother of Shannon Matthews, the missing nine-year-old girl, insisted yesterday that her boyfriend had nothing to do with her disappearance. Karen Matthews, 32, said that Craig Meehan, 22, “would not hurt anybody”.
The Times hacks are watching mid-morning telly. It was ever so.
Ms Matthews chose an interview on GMTV to confront those making accusations against Mr Meehan, her partner for the past four years, whom she called her “rock”. She said: “I know it has nothing to do with him. He would not hurt anybody. It is very hurtful to think people think he would do something like this, because he would not.”
Mr Meehan said that he had taken no notice of the fingers being pointed at him. He added that the police activity surrounding the family was routine in such cases. “They do it to every family this happens to,” he said.
We watch, voyeurs to suffering. We watch, playing amateur detectives on our sofas. It’s interactive entertainment. It’s just routine questioning on the GMTV sofa.
The family have received messages of support from around Britain, including the family of Madeleine McCann. Mr Meehan said: “They know what we are going through.”
Will GMTV unite the families for a special show?
DAILY EXPRESS: “Shannon: Police dig wasteland.”
It is “grim twist” as police call in a digger to search wasteland.
Says the Express: “There are 1,327 registered sex offenders living within a 20-mile radius of Shannon’s home”
It was 1,400.
No mention of Madeleine McCann in the paper that led with her image for weeks on end.
DAILY STAR: “SHANNON COPS START DIGGING UP WASTELAND”
A “dramatic move” close to Shannon’s fmaily home in Desbuery, West Yorkshire.
Says the Express’s sister paper: “Detectives have been orderd to trace 1,387 convicted sex offenders” in the area.
The number grows.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “WE SAW SHANNON SOBBING.”
Says a boy, aged 12: “There were tears running down her face. She was proper crying.”
Pages 4 and 5: “THE HUNT FOR SHANNON.”
“’It breaks my heart to think she was so upset on that wall. Why did no one comfort her and bring her home to me?’” Karen Matthews. The missing child’s mother.
A last poignant sighting of vanished Shannon Matthews by two boys has pierced the heart of her stricken mum Karen. Clutching the hand of partner Craig Meehan, despairing Karen, 32, said: “It breaks my heart to think she was so upset and we don’t know why. Why did no one comfort her and bring her home to me?”
Readers are invited to empathise with her pain.
Speaking exclusively to the Mirror from her home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorks, Karen said she was mystified by her daughter’s tears and convinced she was still alive after being snatched. She said: “Shannon was perfectly normal on the day she disappeared. “She came running downstairs already in her uniform because she was so excited about going swimming. “Then she was out of the door, shouting ‘See you at teatime - love you’. She didn’t tell us about being bullied at school and I didn’t think she was upset about anything. I’m sure she’s still alive. It’s just a feeling I have - a mother’s feeling. “Wherever she is, she’s going to be frightened. It’s breaking our hearts. I don’t think she’s run away. I think something sinister has happened.”
We can join in the speculation:
Karen said: “I even hate going upstairs. Just walking past her open door is painful. She loved her room. It seems so empty since she’s been gone. Courtney, who shares the bedroom with her half sister, now sleeps cuddled up to Shannon’s favourite teddy. Karen said: “You can hear her shouting out for Shannon. It’s heartbreaking.” At her side, Craig said: “With 200 police on the case you’d think they’d have picked up something by now. But Shannon hasn’t been seen anywhere. I think someone must have taken her. It could be a person with a grudge or who can’t have children of their own. If someone has her, just let her come home. That’s what everyone wants. That’s what Shannon and her family want. We’re all missing her.”
TYPICALLY SPANISH: “Two Million Euro ransom demanded in Marí Luz case”
A phone call was made to the family yesterday, but it is not considered by police to be genuine
The family of the missing five year old girl, Mari Luz Cortés, who vanished from Huelva in the middle of January, says they have received a ransom demand for two million Euros. They say they received a phone call from an individual yesterday, who demanded two million € to release the child.But at a press conference held today in the Plaza Rosa del Torrejón, in Huelva, the missing child’s uncle, Diego Cortés, lamented the call which he described as ‘upsetting and senseless’, as it was believed the call is a hoax. He said that the family ‘was prepared to negotiate’ in the case of serious calls, adding that if the family would go personally to rescue Mari Luz if necessary. He said there was no chance of the family raising a sum of two million €, but that 300,000€ was possible.
And:
Speculation continues in some media over a possible link to the Madeleine McCann disappearance, but there is no evidence of any relationship, apart from the geographical location of the two cases.
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March 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am
82 SpongeBob Says:
“Ferdinand
Eh? Maybe it’s too early in the morning for me - are you joking? Billing? Does that mean that you are all paid?”
Did you think we were just a bunch of loonies who had their time to waste?
March 7th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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Gandolf Says:
March 7th, 2008 at 9:38 am
When you arrive May.
May, worse than that, she claims to be a friggin ambulance chaser.
May, don’t worry be happy, tell me all about the situation, for I don’t know anything about it, you and fannie1 can bone me up on the situation.
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Gandolf, I know nothing about anybody ambulance chasing. Is it relevant?
I certainly wouldn’t claim to be able to ‘bone’ you up on this or any other situation, since you appear to have all the answers. I merely read in a spirit of enquiry and occasionally venture to comment. You can always scroll past me!
March 7th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Karen asked Who is Frances Wicks:
OK then: a treat: This is part of Wicks last post on here in June 07:
……like the evil cowards you are !!
BUT THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU - REMEMBER - I STILL HAVE PRINT OUTS OF EVERY SINGLE POST EVER PRINTED ON EVERY SINGLE MADELEINE FORUM - SO DOES THE SUN.
I DO NOT MAKE IDLE THREATS ANORAK - WHEN I SAY I AM DOING SOMETHING - I DO IT - AND LIKE THE MCCANNS - I LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED - I NEVER GIVE IN UNTIL I HAVE FINISHED WHAT I STARTED - WHICH IS WHY WE ARE NOW AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME.
I FOR ONE AM DYING TO SEE YOUR NEXT MOVE. YOU BETTER MAKE IT A SMART ONE - OR MAYBE A VERY APOLOGETIC ONE…?
THIS GETS BETTER BY THE DAY..
YOU SHOULD HAVE REALISED FROM DAY ONE YOU CANNOT MESS WITH ME MATE. YOU CAN DELETE ALL YOU LIKE BUT THIS SHIT IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE. YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT MORE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU STARTED THIS, COS DELETING MAY MAKE YOU FEEL YOU WON THE BATTLE - BUT YOU ALREADY LOST THE WAR - AND YOU KNOW IT - WHICH IS WHY WE NOW HAVE THIS MEANINGLESS, EXCRUCIATINGLY EMBARRASSING FORUM - ANORAK IS TRYING TO SHIFT SOME OF THE BLAME ONTO MARLON - AND MARLON CAN`T ARGUE - SHE SAID IT - END OF.
It has all been hilarious from start to finish, but you know the funniest bit.. ?
I DID ACTUALLY GET PAID FOR THIS, AS A FEW PEOPLE KNEW - NO NOT FROM ANORAK AS SOME THOUGHT - HE COULDN`T AFFORD NEW SHOES LACES HIM..
MONEY DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT I AM A STAUNCH MCCANN SUPPORTER - I HAVE EVERY SYMPATHY - AND A LOT OF RESPECT - FOR KATE AND GERRY MCCANN - TWO DECENT PEOPLE WHO WOKE UP THE WHOLE WORLD AND SCREAMED FOR HELP TO FIND THEIR DAUGHTER - AND GOT IT !
WELL DONE MCCANNS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My work here is done i think - the ball is in the mccanns court now.
Regards to ‘jocelyn’ - who has a great sense of humour and fairness - and to Jane, who knows what`s right and fights tooth and nail for it - and my good friend keyhole kate - no i wasn`t kate by the way. She is somewhere else now - she never got sussed on here - most of her posts are still there - unbelievably.
REMEMBER FOLKS - :
“NO-ONE IS ABOVE RIDICULE OR LAMPOONING ON ANORAK” - -
except Anorak himself…
Administrator: Oh and SpongeBob; that’s one of the ways we can spot who is being paid…. -agw
March 7th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Scarlett, nice to hear from you, coldwater is also flogging the syringe, again.
But as you and I know, our craft tells us, the silver of the moon reflects the tracks of the devil.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Perhaps the express should pay a private detective company, As an out of court settlement,then that will give them rights to ask questions,and not line the mccs pocket,what judge could disagree with that,the mccs should be happy with that,after all its a search for madeliene,is it not?
March 7th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Brandon - just to compare -
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj15/just_meme5/KK.jpg
March 7th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Mods & Admin -
Fair has just emailed me as she is getting the same ‘forbidden’ message as I got yesterday. Is she banned? She doesnt think she has done anything wrong. She has emailed the editors and had no reply.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
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Ferdinand
Eh? Maybe it’s too early in the morning for me - are you joking? Billing? Does that mean that you are all paid? And the inference here is that the said poster is paid by the McCanns or an associate of theirs. Is an invoice sent to Rothely?
Bloody hell, I’m missing out on some extra cash! How can I sign up?
March 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Karen, I said last night, that I think the priest knows more than is good for any one person connected to this case, I posted the links from the Catholic news agency.People can make up their own minds, but I believe the print of the Church is deep in this case, and it would not be the first time.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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firestar Says:
March 7th, 2008 at 9:10 am
well if it is, the onus will be on the express to prove they weren’t lying.
may get interesting.
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Just so long as the Express doesn’t decide to boost the fund by settling out of Court for some obscure reason.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Ferdinand … NOW you’re in c**p !!!
March 7th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Ade…..sappy hour again and again and aga……in sappy hour again,
nowt wrong with the housmartins mate I loved them,
March 7th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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Karen Says:
March 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Julie
If a thing’s worth doing it’s worth doing in public.
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I think ya better save the rest of the glorious things you’ve done in public until you come down from the ceiling, you may splab something here that’ll make you crawl into a hole when you’ve stopped spinning around
March 7th, 2008 at 10:05 am
60 SpongeBob Says:
“I think I asked a reasonable question - how is it established that a poster is paid? Does anyone know?”
Anorak knows because they do the billing.
Posters are paid per post. On the end of each month, Anorak counts the number of posts for each paid poster and reports it to the respective employer.
Administrator: I don’t believe it. A German with a sense of humour.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Verbatim on Three Arguidos says this:
“The cadaver dog manuals (you really should read them) indicate that the dog’s indications are highly reliable where there is a corpse. Where there is not, they are far less reliable.[/quote]”
Gandolf, I see Coldwater is still flogging the dead horse re the Scenic…
March 7th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Val ….. wash your mouse
(Hi there) Cannot wait to find out the results of the interviews (when they do eventually take place)
March 7th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Now I want to know who Frances Wicks is.
It’s like the Legendary multi-poster of Old Anorak.
Like Spring-heeled Jack.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
62 just_me
Goodness, goodness, what have you done?
Addictive is a good word - and still, it is not like it used to be - now I am restricting myself
March 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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firestar
Can you confirm re the paid poster allegation.
Proof that a poster was paid would be highly significant, in my opinion of this case at least..
March 7th, 2008 at 10:01 am
mornin’ all
looks like another slow news day
March 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Julie
If a thing’s worth doing it’s worth doing in public.
Imagine I was Kate and Gerry - you’d know absolutely everything that I’d said, done and thought from the minute the PDL holiday started till now.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
52 Julie
Hi there hope all is well with you.
Since more Papers are discussing the proposed interviews, must be happening, good news eh.!!!!!!!
I”m just going to browse for a while, this cursor is going all over the place and it”s
taking me ages to type a post, and driving me mad.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:57 am
The Matthews family have shown the McCann family exactly what DIGNITY is when you have a missing child. You don’t act like the entire f******g world owes you something, you are heartbroken and couldn’t care less what others think of you!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Gandolf
Ok, you don’t insult - but was it agreeing or disagreeing???
I thought you were switching teams last night - you were that cryptic about the significance of the Priest.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Karen
By the time you’re finished, we’re all going to know your entire pedigree … 
March 7th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Why are the mccanns happy with mt3,Gerry calls the pj for not doing their job right,complains over one of his PR reps(mcguinness)fees,we never hear him complaining about how things are going with the search,yet doesnt complain at all over mt3,infact renews their contract, why?If I were in his position I would be looking elsewhere,I would not be happy at all,and what about the board of directors of the maddie fund,why are they so happy and content at paying fifty grand a month for nothing,it doesnt add up, why no questions…from anywhere,
March 7th, 2008 at 9:54 am
That poor mothers eyes from crying compared to the smug bitch poise and sideways glances from Kate.
I know on the surface of things the step dad appears dodgy, but in that inteview the way he comforted Karen compared to the one hand grasp of Gerry. They do seem very genuine.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Candy - I know, it is so addictive, I was nearly having a panic attack when I got banned yesterday lol
March 7th, 2008 at 9:51 am
just_me
Another day on Anorak
Thank God I am working from home 
March 7th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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AWG
I’m not sure that I understand your point - are you saying that I am this person or that a rumour that I am could easily be started?
I think I asked a reasonable question - how is it established that a poster is paid? Does anyone know?
Administrator: The second of the two. The question was reasonable but a full answer will not be given, for fairly obvious reasons. The only certain way of knowing a poster is being paid is proof or confession. We have had both in the recent past. -agw