Madeleine McCann: The McCanns’ Return To Portugal, A Year Of Looking And Ben Affleck
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “McCanns risk arrest over visit”
KATE and Gerry McCann may risk arrest by returning to Portugal for the one-year anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance.
The couple are prepared to take the chance in a last ditch attempt to revive interest in four-year-old Maddie, missing since May 3.
Any facts?
The doctors, both 39, left the Praia da Luz resort last September – 48 hours after being made official suspects over the mystery.
Gerry and Kate McCann are Doctors. Such are the facts.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “They want to be there for the first anniversary. Going out there would send the strongest possible message that Madeleine could still be alive and the search for her should continue.”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: “Turning the tabloids”
Ben Affleck is Gone Baby Gone:
Almost as troublesome was the story’s unforeseen and unintended resemblance to a real-life case of child kidnapping that hit the headlines in the months it was being filmed. That was the disappearance in Portugal last year of British girl Madeleine McCann, who was of a similar age and appearance to the film’s kidnapping victim and had a name eerily similar to the character in the Lehane novel, Amanda McCready.
McCready has disappeared amid the squalor of her south Boston neighbourhood. The police are out in formation, as are the television news vans, antennas raised high, all but trembling for blood.
Madeleine McCann: That’s entertainment
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April 6th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Any action today?
April 6th, 2008 at 1:48 am
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/06/madeleinemccann.internationalcrime
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The downside is that many of their guests are likely to arrive not with bathing costumes, tennis rackets and sun cream, but with laptops, microphones and television cameras. And their focus will be on the one flat in the Mark Warner holiday complex that has lain empty for 11 months: Apartment 5-A, where Madeleine McCann disappeared on the evening of 3 May, 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday’ unquote.
So the appartment was not rented out before Eddie and Keela arrived.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Lightweights
April 6th, 2008 at 1:39 am
time to sleep goodnight all
April 6th, 2008 at 1:31 am
marie nicholas,thanks. i dont manage to say whats inside with any effect any longer,that bit of venting helped some
April 6th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Catkidd
“to imply hate is to insinuate love, that doesn’t exist here”
Very well said. Very true.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:26 am
denzylle i think someone deleted the page as they created it,and left some vent some much needed steam.what time are the morning papers officialy out
April 6th, 2008 at 1:22 am
We’ll have to wait until tomorrow, see if they have kept the article, or maybe put it some other than the front page, or changed something in the article.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:18 am
1173 Denzylle
Maybe somebody let them know they made a mistake somewhere in the article, and they have to get back all the copies that are already on sale!
If they have problems everytime they mention the MCs in a way that doesn’t suit them, they will do no favour to them in the future.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:17 am
I wonder whether any of the UK witnesses are to be interviewed at the request of the third arguido?
April 6th, 2008 at 1:11 am
it would also be possible that someone pulled a stunt to get posters moving,as prilimary says the press giveth and they taketh away….if so thanks lads will sleep tonight
April 6th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Marie N
1172
Yes, indeed.
I’d be interested to know which witnesses have been requested by the McCs and which have not.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Marie N
1171
That would be the obvious reason except that the first editions of the newspaper are already on sale on the streets of London and Sky News had printed copies in the studio.
Surely all facts would have been verified as accurate and non-defamatory by the Express’ lawyers before they published?
April 6th, 2008 at 1:04 am
It seems that Clarence Mitchell will be interrogated on request from the arguidos.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Denzylle
Good thing you got it back. What could have made them delete it from the internet?
Fear of being sued?
April 6th, 2008 at 12:58 am
saul;yes your right it should read that.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:56 am
ooh tell me that was not futile.more games…but you still makes me laugh..and gives hope
April 6th, 2008 at 12:56 am
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Saul
I think it’s gazpacho that everyone’s thinking about
April 6th, 2008 at 12:53 am
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catkidd Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 12:14 am
gandy your right it is vengeance but i dont care who frys for it but someone better.
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Erm, shouldn’t it be revenge that is best served cold?
April 6th, 2008 at 12:50 am
M+A
I know we mustn’t link to Express Group articles pre-defamation case, but this was today, so I’d assumed, when I first saw it that it must be 103% accurate. Now, I’m not sure why it’s disappeared from the website. No doubt, if you think it shouldn’t be here, you’ll delete my post.
Marie N
I only got to it by going back-back-back -back until I found the article I’d first looked at about half an hour ago.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:47 am
This is the link
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/40326/Maddy-60-face-quiz-by-Police
It says : the article doesn’t exist, it may have been deleted.
Honestly, this is really a weird story.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Up to 60 witnesses will be questioned by police in Britain over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
A series of intensive interviews will start this week after a three-man team of senior Portuguese detectives fly into Leicestershire tomorrow.
The trio, led by Paulo Rebelo, the chief investigator in the case, will begin by supervising the quizzing of key witness Jane Tanner.
Ms Tanner, 36, claimed she saw a man carrying a girl from the McCanns’ holiday apartment in the Algarve at about 9.15pm.
Yet another witness says he was outside the flat in Praia da Luz at the same time but did not see her or the mystery man.
After Ms Tanner’s interview, British police, supervised by the Portuguese, will spend three days speaking to remaining members of the Tapas Seven who were dining with Madeleine’s parents when she vanished.
No lawyers will be present and friends of the group stressed they are meeting the police voluntarily. They have been warned to expect lengthy bouts of questioning.
The group were all dining with Kate and Gerry McCann on the night their daughter vanished on May 3 last year in Praia da Luz.
Ms Tanner’s partner Dr Russell O’Brien, 36, from Exeter, was away from the group tending to his sick daughter in the period when Madeleine was snatched.
Dr Matthew Oldfield, 37, a hospital consultant from London, and his wife Rachel, 36, a recruitment consultant, were also at the tapas restaurant.
David Payne, 41, a cardiovascular researcher from Leicester, was the final person, apart from the McCann family, to see Madeleine. His wife, Fiona, 34, and her mother, Diane Webster, will also be questioned by police in Leicester.
Then officers will switch their attention to three separate bands of witnesses who have been singled out by Gerry and Kate McCann as vital.
As arguidos, or official suspects, the couple have the right to demand that certain individuals be seen by police if they are believed to hold relevant information. Despite plans for the Portuguese investigators to return home on Friday, British police will mount a full-scale operation in which more than 50 more witnesses will be interviewed. These will include other guests who were staying at the resort, Ocean Club apartments staff and holidaymakers staying nearby.
Relatives of the McCanns who visited the Algarve in the weeks after she went missing are understood to be on the list, as are their current spokesman Clarence Mitchell and his predecessor Justine McGuiness.
Two sisters who were puzzled by a blond pair of men in their 30s acting strangely at the resort hours before Madeleine went missing are on the interview list.
Jayne Jensen, 54, and Annie Wiltshire, 58, said one of the men standing outside the patio doors started to walk down a flight of steps.
But when he was seen by divorced mum-of-two Annie, from Maidstone, he retraced his steps and began talking to his friend.
Yesterday the McCanns made an emotional plea to Portuguese detectives to clear them in time for the one year anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance.
Madeleine’s parents, both 39, hope the unprecedented move to question their friends in Britain will mark an end to their seven-month ordeal as suspects.
The couple are desperate to return to Praia da Luz to mark the tragic date with a renewed appeal for information which could unlock the mystery surrounding what happened.
Clarence Mitchell confirmed that Kate and Gerry want detectives to lift their arguido status and reveal any evidence they hold.
He said they will not return to the Algarve while they are still suspects.
He said: “Kate and Gerry want to return to Praia da Luz to reinvigorate our campaign to find Madeleine.”
Kate and Gerry want to return to Praia da Luz to reinvigorate our campaign to find Madeleine - Clarence Mitchell
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Above first printed in Sunday Express.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:46 am
agreed but they still need to admit their failings and they made the media their cofessional,and i do understand your point, but everyone else have valid points.everyone on this thread has a reason for been here,its not ok to leave children alone even to go 50 yards,they need to take stock ,and own up to that, and not flaunt bad parenting up as acceptable,its not.if they are victims in someway im sorry for them ,no one else should suffer the concequence of their failing,hence the anger towards them,its not hate,to imply hate is to insinuate love,that dosent exist here.only for maddie.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Can anyone check? Is it my computer? But I read it ten minutes ago?
April 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am
The article seems to have been deleted from The Express!
April 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
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catkidd Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 12:25 am
personally gandy i have nothing against mccann family but i want to see whoever responsible rot in hell.
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You have grasped the nettle catkidd, what you propose is justice, if the parents are responsible they should suffer the law, if not they should be left to shoulder their burden and their inner devastation, as best they can.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
gandolf; truth comes as a whole sum not in fractions,as does the bible.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:25 am
catkidd The Ancients are the keepers of Revelations, it is best that mortals do not have knowledge of the fine line their ilk treads, somethings are better left unsaid and unknown.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:25 am
personally gandy i have nothing against mccann family but i want to see whoever responsible rot in hell.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:20 am
gandolf;you show me justice for maddie, and i will lie down smiling.show me truth in any of this.the truth is pj are coming and for someone,ive been inside the minds of scum and not seen evil as clear as i do now,put your head in the book of revelations and see if it foretold this