Madeleine McCann: Anne Enright, Mark Warner And Goncarlo Amaral
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “Maddy’s cop quits”
Madeleine McCann has her own private policeman?
The detective sacked as head of the Madeleine McCann inquiry is quitting the force on full pension. It is thought Goncalo Amaral may talk about the case after telling colleagues he quit partly to recover his “freedom of speech”.
THE SUN: “Kate: We all checked kids”
MADELEINE McCann’s parents have told how they devised their own baby-listening service because the complex they were staying in had none. Kate and Gerry McCann reveal in a new TV documentary how they and seven friends took it in turns to look in on all their kids at the Ocean Club.
At other resorts hols firm Mark Warner had a system where nannies listened at children’s doors, but not at Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve.
Because the resort was too big. As it said in the brochure.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Kate McCann ‘would have used nanny service’ for Madeleine”
Mrs McCann, 40, gave a rare insight into the thought process that led her and her husband, Gerry, to leave their three children alone in their Mark Warner holiday apartment while they had dinner nearby, checking on them every half an hour.
A rare insight. After a year of rare insights.
The McCanns have previously used Mark Warner resorts where baby listening services were available.
And:
However, the company did have on offer an evening creche and baby sitting facilities.
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: “Realism rather than perfection”
Envy is part of the deal, especially in Ireland (”In America, they do success so well!”) but was not prepared for some of the coverage that followed the Booker. She became the target of ire in the tabloids when they picked up an article she wrote in the London Review Of Books dissecting her reaction to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The piece was full of ambivalence, describing her suspicions of Gerry and Kate McCann but in the end condemning her own voyeurism.
She refuses to say whether the fracas upset her but seems sensibly resigned, agreeing that events proved how she was naive to think her nuances would be understood in the grotesque guessing game the story had become. “I was misread and I hoped that would become apparent but there’s no point in me stomping around and fighting with shadows.”
Madeleine McCann: Fact And Fiction
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
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Dr. Watson
Dearest Wobbler
I have never sworn at anyone on this board. I have never posted as Gandolf or Soothsayer. Mods can confirm that. Will you do that Ponchik, Old Chap?
April 25th, 2008 at 7:46 am
As I have said before, if Kate is claiming that Madeleine comes to her at night, how can she then claim that the child must still be alive ? Spirits are what come to you, not live people….
April 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Ian,
after you “outed” yourself, I want to say that I thought Ferdinand was the only pro- who was reasonable! But don’t you find that your opinion will be as much respected, if all dialictic thoughts you post just under Ian, for example? Who needs the switch? You, obviously don’t, because you know who you are, and the people whose opinion you appreciate are, probably, the same people who will be as attentive and respectful towards your posts if you just keep one personality?
All serious thoughts are actually dialectic, so someone who needs to switch a nickname just comes across as insecure, IMO ?
April 24th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
295 June Johnson,
Good evening, June,
With all the respect,
but you say we shall tell M&A about our concerns re deception when multiposters play their games. Once I witnessed how Gangolf was really rude, using swear words, at one of the posters, and I tried to ask M&A to look at it. I was just reprimanded for that, at the same time as yampster, who I believe is a multiposter and an alter-ego for gandolf and soothsayer, came up with more swearing, this time addressing me.
I was quite sternly reminded by the Admin that mulyiposting is O’K. Now you are saying that if it is used to deceive or mislead, then we should tell moderators. Is not it clear, however, that the only purpose of multiposting is to mislead, e.g. to pretend to be different people instead of one?
Maybe I understood wrongly?
April 24th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
241 [JuneJohnson]
To Mods and Admin
I’m not sure if it’s proper to post in this thread or if I should post in the new thread.
I just catched up posts, and saw you had to read all my posts [and Yampster's] of yesterday. I’m not even going to try to count them, but I’m sure it were a lot of posts!
So I wanted to say to you all [June, Carmen, Duncan, Meercat, Agw] I’m sorry you had to do all this extra work.
Have a drink, I hope it cheers you up!
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M and A
Cheers Totje.
We may not agree totally over McC, but we do over fairness
April 24th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
HTFM have now amended the Word documents on their site and deleted the offending Word docs that gave away the author’s name(s).
Guilty consciousness or what?
The docs are now in PDF format…
April 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
231 Agenda Wide
No, but he’s the President of the Ordem dos Advogados, so that may well be why he got asked about i t.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
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Ferdinand Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
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April 24th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
New thread…
April 24th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
319 Daisy
Good point. I think it would be possible to connect the photos to the villa and see if they make a good match.
As for Magnum, there’s a good video doing the rounds of Tom Selleck in his first acting job in an advert. Can’t remember the name of it but it’s worth a look if you can find it.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
305 Daisy Says:
” I will never understand why some posters use different names. They are, after all, using a “nickname” and we don’t know who they really are, so what’s the point in using several names. ”
That’s called “dialectics”. You post as a “pro” under one name, and as an “anti” under a different name. Then you analyse both positions, and so approach the truth. (I for example post symathetic to the McCanns as “Ferdinand”, and critical as “Ian”).
April 24th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
A tiny pocket handkerchief-sized garden overlooked by very very close neighbours - containing a body!!! Amazing that the police took 6 days to find it. Truth is indeed strange than fiction.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
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Saul Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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chenier Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
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wtf Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
afternoon all, still nothing new!
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It’s quiet out there, Carruthers.
Too quiet…
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I’m going outside, I may be some time.
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Probably because you’re a better man than I am…
April 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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Pamela Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
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It’s odd how supporters of the McCs, like yourself, always try to minimise the distance from the Tapas to where the three young children were sleeping. How is it you can be so obtuse as to miss the obvious - the parents were OUT OF EARSHOT.
They have failed in their duty of care if there is nobody to hear whether a child is in distress, for whatever reason, whether the parents are eating in their garden, the other side of a swimming pool, in the middle of a football pitch or at Chaplins, a mile or so away.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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wtf Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
318 chenier
keep saying it, but no news is good news
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Indeed it is.
It suggests that the PJ are getting on with their work, and that the rest is soap opera.
Who knows when the fat lady will sing?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Who takes a dressing gown on holiday?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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Logic Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
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How sad
April 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Holidaymakers tell of late-night search for Madeleine
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A British couple on holiday in the Algarve resort where Madeleine McCann was abducted told today how frantic staff knocked on the doors of holidaymakers to get them involved in a search for the missing girl.
Paul Moyes, 58, who is on holiday with his wife, Susan, said: “At 11.30pm there was a knock on the door. I went out in my dressing gown and there was a distressed gentleman there saying that a child had been abducted and could we help with the search. Everybody got involved.”
The couple said the drama unfolded after what they described as “a fabulous day” in the Praia Da Luz resort.
It was as the couple were sleeping that three-year-old Madeleine was snatched from her parents’ holiday apartment below.
Mrs Moyes, 58, from Middlewich, Cheshire, told how they had returned to their apartment at around 9.15pm after an evening out.
“We went into the apartment, I went out on the balcony, looking over at the tapas bar, and remarked to Paul that there were so many people in there eating and drinking – ’what a fabulous day’.”
Among those dining in the tapas bar opposite their apartment were Madeleine’s parents, Gerry and Kate, who were making regular trips back to their own rooms to check on their children.
Mr Moyes said: “I felt quite shattered, to be quite frank. The people were themselves extremely sad and it was quite sad for everybody.
“We were quite emotionally shattered, seeing the family that distressed.”
He said that among those who joined the search were many off-duty police in plain clothes who had been called in to help.
Mrs Moyes said: “Walking around you would see individual men, they were police but you wouldn’t know because they were in casual clothes.”
The couple said they remained on the search until 4am on Friday morning.
Mr Moyes described the resort as idyllic and safe. His wife added: “It is paradise.”
April 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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chenier Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
316
wtf Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
afternoon all, still nothing new!
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It’s quiet out there, Carruthers.
Too quiet…
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I’m going outside, I may be some time.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
318 chenier
April 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
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Stevo Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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Hey, Magnum is very handsome IMO, even at his age today.
Thanks for the explanation. I remember reading that after the McCanns were moved from the apartment they eventually moved again to a villa lent to them by someone who they have never mentioned by name, because this person wanted to remain anonymous. Could this be the villa they moved into???
April 24th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
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wtf Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
afternoon all, still nothing new!
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It’s quiet out there, Carruthers.
Too quiet…
April 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
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Ferdinand Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
300 chenier Says:
” You assured us yesterday that your posts are based on your conviction that British doctors are more truthful than Portuguese police officers, serving or retired. ”
Precisely, I said that confirmed matching statements of two british doctors are more credible to me than an unconfirmed statement of one portuguese ex-cop. Given that neither the doctors nor the ex-cop serve us any evidence we can check.
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Confirmed by whom?
Possibly that should be
Confirmed by who?
April 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
afternoon all, still nothing new!
April 24th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
300 chenier Says:
” You assured us yesterday that your posts are based on your conviction that British doctors are more truthful than Portuguese police officers, serving or retired. ”
Precisely, I said that confirmed matching statements of two british doctors are more credible to me than an unconfirmed statement of one portuguese ex-cop. Given that neither the doctors nor the ex-cop serve us any evidence we can check.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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Ferdinand Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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And even if it would have been 40 meters …. that’s still not good enough when we are talking about child safety … totally out of sight is what matters, IMO.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
256 Daisy
Thanks…Magnum eh?
HTFM is probably the most extreme of pro-McCann websites. It’s never been clear who was running it all. This revelation shows the site is run by a firm of lawyers - one of whom is a specialist in clinical negligence. The two documents on the front of their site and freely available to download are authored by a lady within St John’s Chambers and the other document is penned by a 34 yr old girl in Amsterdam. Both documents were edited by Janelia Farm - either a person or the research laboratory in Chevy Chase, Maryland - just up the road from me.
A lawyer at St Johns is also the owner of a big villa in Praia da Luz. Beady eyed Matt came up with the picture in the Online Resident of this man in the Algarve - thus virtually confirming the link even more positively.
Reading about Richard Stead from the St Johns’ website:
Specialisation: Specialist in construction law, personal injury and professional negligence.
Professional Memberships: Personal Injury Bar Association - Society of Construction Law - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Career: Called to the Bar in 1979. Recorder 1996.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
BF - I wish!
April 24th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
oh okay I thought you could today!
April 24th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
BF - I will have to do it when I get home. Firewalls at work prevent me!
April 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
sc46
click me for a laugh