Madeleine McCann And Shannon Matthews: Pets And Parents, The Sun Raises And A Disco
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann and Shannon Matthews
DAILY MIRROR: “McCanns diver fury”
Always “fury”.
Kate and Gerry McCann reacted with fury yesterday after divers began a second search of a reservoir for Madeleine’s body.
The couple told friends the search - funded by a Portuguese lawyer who they claim is a “fantasist” seeking publicity - is a distraction from the hunt.
Marcos Aragao Correia claims crime contacts told him she was killed and left in the lake two days after going missing.
Says a McCann “source”: “There’s no evidence Madeleine is in that reservoir. They believe she is alive and are concentrating on finding her.”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Divers search remote Algarve lake for Maddy.”
Says Mr Aragao: “If I was Madeleine’s parents, I’d want to be helped. It may not be the outcome they want if I find Madeleine, but it’s important for them that they find out what happened to her and recover her body if she is dead. There may be genetic evidence on the corpse that could help the police discover who killed her.”
Indeed. Any more clues? Can the paper help?
A Portuguese lorry driver told Metodo 3 he saw the German girlfriend of Madeleine suspect Robert Murat handing over a child in a blanket to a mystery man in Silves, a five-minute drive from the reservoir, on May 5 last year.
Michaela Walczuch has claimed she is being framed to protect the McCanns and denied any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance. She has never been made an official suspect and has only ever been quizzed as a witness.
So why mention it?
THE SUN: “Stepfather is innocent says Shannon’s dad”
A picture of Craig Meehan, Shannon’s stepfather
Says he: “I’ve never hit Karen (Shannon’s mother) or any of the children. We play about, as you do, but have a brilliant relationship.”
Says Shannon’s father Leon Rose: “I don’t believe it. “I’m horrified anyone would suggest that. They got on really well. I was not around for some years and he has been a real dad to her. If there had been any problems I am sure she would have told me.”
What of mum? “Karen, meanwhile, has told how Shannon’s pet dog Scania is pining for her. She said: ‘Scania won’t keep still.’”
Watching the parents. Watching the family. Watching the pets.
DAILY MIRROR: “I’VE TOLD THE KIDS SHANNON’S GONE AWAY ON HOLIDAY.”
A friend said: “Every time little Courtney sees a picture of Shannon in the paper or on the TV she points at it and says her sister’s name. Karen can’t bear the thought of telling her Shannon has disappeared so she has said she’s on holiday. “She has got so much to worry about already that she just can’t risk upsetting Courtney.”
Watching the parents. Watching the family. Watching the children.
Yesterday, Karen tried going in to Shannon’s bedroom for the first time since the nine-year-old went missing three weeks ago after a school swimming trip in Dewsbury, West Yorks. But she was overcome with emotion.
We are watching the parents. Watching the family. Looking through windows. Looking through walls.
An anonymous donor has given £10,000 to the appeal to find her.
DAILY EXPRESS: “SHANNON REWARD INCREASED TO £50,000”
The Sun has up its reward from £20,000 - to £50,000. But if a reward of £2.5million has not been not enough to find Madeleine McCann, what good is $50,000?
How is the reward amount set? Is consideration given to the victim’s social status, the competition for headlines, exchange rates?
Leon Rose, Shannon’s father: “No-one can imagine the agonies we are going through. She is a wonderful daughter and we need her home. We are desperate to have her back and we thank The Sun for helping.”
An offer from the heart? Or a hollow offer, a PR-induced offer to get the Sun mentioned?
DEWSBURY REPORTER: “SHANNON MATTHEWS LATEST”
4.07pm - A family disco is being held to raise funds for the Shannon Matthews appeal. It will be on Thursday March 13 from 7pm to 10pm at Staincliffe Cricket Club.
A disco for a missing child. Her face at the disco. Her face on the wall.
2.23pm - A sponsored walk to raise money for the Shannon Matthews appeal has been announced. It will begin at 6pm tomorrow (Tuesday) at Moorside Road.
Posted: 11th, March 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (980) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Photoshop needs to be calling in their legal advisers tonight too.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
793
matty
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March 11th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Should they sue the IVF company for conception of M., which resulted in such a stress for them ???
March 11th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
793 Matty
Absolutely right.
And what about the manufacturers of the light bulbs used in the street lighting.
Had that been brighter, it would not have taken Jane so long to remember eggman’s features or the colour of the pyjamas.
And please don’t get me started on sueing that bloke from S. Africa. If it wasn’t for him we would never have heard the slightest woof-woof.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
WTF - how are you this evening?
March 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
sue locksmiths for not making age-detecting automatic bolt shutters…
March 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
sue window fitters
March 11th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
That knighthood might not be lost at all.
And now that the Pope has revised the deadly sins - beatification looks like a well-deserved cert.
Good for Gerry McCann. Well done.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Batman 783- Vino Verde manufacturers and suppliers should be sued. The potency of their sweet nectar causing confusion, inability to make decisions and potential loss of pub quiz under the influence. On the up side you would think you sound good at karaoke.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
C - yes I was. Not hard enough unfortunately. I am going to have to graft big time tomorrow
March 11th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
781 Ian
You’ve got it. Of course. Dr Gerry 007 McCann to the rescue. How selfless he has been all these months. And all the time he had a……….’wider agenda’……
the pieces of the jigsaw are miraculously coming together….where is Brandon to share in the joy and revellation?
March 11th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
784
Dave
It was easier than I thought and I didn’t get too wet.The children enjoyed it? Were you working today?
March 11th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Aww Julie…
may hyour dreams be as sweet as your whispers…
March 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I’m off to bed now … sweet dreams all
March 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
783 - I believe that the Foreign Office is offering advice to travellers to sunnier climes in the SE of Europe to make sure you take the follwoign precautions:
a) qualify as a doctor
b) get a good government job
c) be properly innoculated against rational behavious and good parenting
March 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
781 Ian
Hurry back from your meal. I need help here keeping all the negativity towards the McCanns at bay. They need our support, our help, our sympathy and our trust. They don’t want our money. But they reluctantly agreed to take it to - as you point out - help break up these paedo rings rampant in Praia.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
off for dinner
whoosh clunk…gone
March 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
C - how was the hike…
March 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
And pray tell me something. Does the Portuguese Tourism Board give potential holiday-makers to their country adequate statistical analysis of the likelihood of one of three children, under 4 years old, being left alone in a dark apartment being abducted.
I thought not. Sue the bastards.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
According to the BBC, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has institutional racism.
Do you think they grab babies and say ‘get back where you came from’?
OUCH!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
773 Batman
Completely agree.
But perhaps Gerry and Kate and the other doctors are working for the PJ? Perhaps the idea was to lure an abductor known to be prowling?
Think about it, Gerry went around telling everyone that they were leaving the children alone in the apartment and checking regularly!
Brilliant! But perhaps it went terribly worng?
Excuse me I have to go for dinner - theres a meritocracy here too and if I dont go, she’ll have my guts for garters (or tape my mouth up!). Cry freedom!
See ya later.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Cheshire Set 778- Tony Parsons would be proud of you
March 11th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
And all shutter-manufacturers need to be sued for not making it easier to fake, er I mean, show that an abduction took place.
And as for the Spanish Sanitation Department - sue sue sue. If they provided a better service, the poor holiday-making McCanns would not need to have driven around to dump their rotten nappies, meat, horse-flesh, freezers etc.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
775 batman
Let us not forget the sardine munching swarthy bunch from Portugal!
March 11th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
They could also sue M3 for impersonating a police officer
March 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
batman - Garth would be proud of you
March 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
772 CC
Good idea. And all Moroccans, Russians, Arabs, Spaniards, Belgians, French and Bosnians for deliberate time-wasting by allowing bogus sightings by their citizens.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
773 batman
March 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
765 Ian
What I cannot understand is that there are a lot of people on this thread who seem to doubt the McCanns. They claim that the McCanns are irresponsible parents and that they are self-obssessed.
Irresponsible? Come on. They are doctors, on holiday with other doctors. They know better than anyone else. It was just an unfortunate coincidence that they were being stalked day after day until whoosh-clunk in the three minutes available between rigourous checks on the children, their little girl was snatched.
And self-obssessed? Again what crap. All they want to do is remind people to keep looking for Madeleine who is almost certainly alive still.
I just don’t get these begrudgers. I think they are envious of Gerry’s obvious literary flair and Kate’s fragile beauty and vulnerability.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
766 Batman
Perhaps they should just sue anyone swarthy?