Madleine McCann: Rachel Oldfield Knows, Doctors And Gerry McCann
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MAIL: “Stop the carnival”
It’s Richard Littlejohn:
I’ve always been uneasy about the media carnival, but figured if that’s what got her parents through the night, what business was it of mine.
However, one year on, there’s something distasteful about the continuing round of claim and counter-claim, blame and counter-blame.
Gerry and Kate McCann should be left alone with their demons, with our sympathy, and not live out their guilt in public any longer. The police and the private detectives should be left to get on with their job.
The Tapas Seven, the McCanns’ PR man, the professional ghouls should all keep their theories to themselves.
And their opinions?
DAILY MIRROR: “Rachael Oldfield of the Tapas Seven breaks her silence over McCann’s torment”
Tapas Seven? And why speak now?
Rachael Oldfield, a 36-year-old recruitment consultant, said: “I was there on the night. I spent time with Gerry and Kate during the week before May 3 and after.
What happened?
“Their emotions and their reactions were just agonising. There’s just no way they were involved in anything to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.
“If you take the common sense approach and look at timings and the fact they are medics and there are four other medics in the group, they would know what to do to resuscitate a child.
Common sense? Doctors. Such are the facts.
“Anyone with an ounce of common sense would be able to see they couldn’t have done it. And I was there and I know they didn’t do it.”
DAILY STAR: “OUTRAGEOUS”
Rachel Oldfield has a pop at the Portuguese police, and complains about being bound by law to, er, keep quiet.
GLASGOW DAILY RECORD: “McCanns’ Anger At Being Kept In The Dark”
Says Gerry McCann: “I think it’s safe to say we’re getting very little information. We haven’t had any communication in terms of what’s been done in the investigation.”
“We would like to know what is being done to find Madeleine. We’ve always said we want to leave no stone unturned and to do that we need to know which stones have already been overturned.”
THE SUN: “Stop shifting blame, Kate”
IS it just me or are the McCanns getting on your nerves too?
It’s you. It’s them. It might be all of you.
Now, in a new TV documentary, Kate says that she wanted a baby monitor but the resort didn’t have one. So instead she, Gerry and the Tapas Seven made the bizarre decision to eat out every night and leave three young children home alone. I’m sorry, in any language that’s child neglect.
Sorry? Why is Gaunt sorry?
And, by the way, I’m not being heartless, just honest.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann’s father: police gave up”
Mr McCann tells BBC Radio 4 interviewer Steve Kingstone: “We would like to know what is being done to find Madeleine. We’d like know who has been eliminated from the inquiry and on what grounds and what leads are still being followed.”
No news is news
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April 26th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
If I hear Brunty is in PDL then I will believe something is maybe going to happen!
April 26th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
SCARLETT
I saw that one, but ince that there have been some sensational cases including, the young man discovered in a suitcase, buried in his own backgarden, his mothers alleged suicide. Tonight a faimily murder parents and two small children, shot, saw coffins being carried out. he usually gets the sensational cases. if he is not in Pdl he is packing.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Well jo since we know fuk all at the moment, the files are ……….secret………so we still know fuk all. Except some fantasists claim to have access to the files, you know like JT changed her story, Oldfields changed their story, McCanns are requested to return to P ortugal, will the truth never begin.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
1010
Ferdinand Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
1003 jo Says:
” Ferdinand
I think it is up to portugal to say “enough is enough” not the T9 and the PJ will say it soon enough,soon after the 3rd of may ”
Since Rebelo took over, the PJ has partially regained some of the reputation that was destroyed by Amaral. The daft idea of him writing a book is likely to destroy this again. One must ask whether Amaral is on the payroll of somebody who is anti-PJ.
The signals from Portugal are more and more disturbing.
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The PJ has NEVER lost its reputaion even so people have been trying very hard.
Amaral has written a book which will be published after the Secrecy of Justice is lifted.
Yes,I do agree:the signals from portugal are vert worrying but for WHOM?
You will notice how the PJ has slammed down that clown of clarrie…this is only the beginning of the end.MORE to come,dont worry,but it will be official.
Do you wonder why this polar silence FROM portugal?The only “news” are some flimsy interviews and some articles involving the mccanns again in cases separated by oecean
April 26th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Why Scarlett, if the book isn’t published C-y-g- Fecked, don’t get a nice fat fee, as long as it’s libelous.. If it aint libelous, nice little earner for Amaral, and another ex PJ officer makes money out of the tragedy that is Madeleine.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Bounty Hunter, I think i saw Martin Brunt on Sky a few days ago, reporting from Sydenham, covering that 1987 murder of a private investigator. It seems Mr Brunt is not in Portugal.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
1006
chenier Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
1005
Gandolf Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
So Amaral is going to tell us they looked for an abductor, anything else that won’t be seen as a blank cheque by C-y-g- Fucked.
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Oh, once the files are open you’ll know the rest…
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I am wondering how much we will actually know
April 26th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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992
Gandolf Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Because if there are no arrests and no convictions, Amaral’s book which, if it claims to finger anyone, will be open to libel claims.
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Hi, Gandolf, wouldn’t you think that Carter Wotsit could go further and get an injunction stopping the book’s publication?
April 26th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
1003 jo Says:
” Ferdinand
I think it is up to portugal to say “enough is enough” not the T9 and the PJ will say it soon enough,soon after the 3rd of may ”
Since Rebelo took over, the PJ has partially regained some of the reputation that was destroyed by Amaral. The daft idea of him writing a book is likely to destroy this again. One must ask whether Amaral is on the payroll of somebody who is anti-PJ.
The signals from Portugal are more and more disturbing.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
1003
Ferdinand Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
993 Missis_USA Says:
” I just wonder what the motives were for giving that interview and suddenly going public. In mind that there have been just PJ reinterviews this could be very interesting. ”
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For me it’s a clear signal to Portugal that “enough is enough”.
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Er, given that Rachel Oldfield was saying exactly the same things to the British press last August it would appear that her signals really aren’t working…
April 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
AL JAZEERA
Running a one hou documrntary ‘ The Mccanns versus the Media’, just saw last 3minutes before 10pm, being rescreened at midnight, 5am tomorrow and again at 10.am, just saw the pink one, and Brunt.
Brunt must be in Portugal, he has not been covering any uk crime stories this last week.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
1005
Gandolf Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
So Amaral is going to tell us they looked for an abductor, anything else that won’t be seen as a blank cheque by C-y-g- Fucked.
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Oh, once the files are open you’ll know the rest…
April 26th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
1001
Maria Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
chenier
Yes, of course I accept that some people WOULD protect a spouse and I know there are several recorded cases.
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Actually, that is not true.
There are not just ’several recorded cases, as you should know full well.
I do think that you are being disingenuous on this. You started by asserting that it wouldn’t happen.
When I rebutted that claim you then claimed that you knew it all along, and slide in another misleading claim about there being only ’several recorded cases’.
Getting it wrong once might be accidental. Getting it wrong twice begins to look like carelessness…
April 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
So Amaral is going to tell us they looked for an abductor, anything else that won’t be seen as a blank cheque by C-y-g- Fucked.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
1002
Ferdinand
I think it is up to portugal to say “enough is enough” not the T9 and the PJ will say it soon enough,soon after the 3rd of may
April 26th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
993 Missis_USA Says:
” I just wonder what the motives were for giving that interview and suddenly going public. In mind that there have been just PJ reinterviews this could be very interesting. ”
For me it’s a clear signal to Portugal that “enough is enough”.
The Tapas 7 haven been used for months by the portuguese authorities as a smokescreen for whatever reason. The police bought seven months with the allegation there were inconsistencies, and reinterviews would be necessary.
But now the interviews took place, the “inconsistencies”-card cannot be played any more.
I expect that any further smears from Portugal against the Tapas 7 will now be dealt with more aggressive. However I also expect that the Portuguese have understood the signal, and there will probably no more allegations leaked against the Tapas 7.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
997
Gandolf Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
What verifiable facts, that x was and is guilty of something that can’t be proved……..Carter-your-getting Fucked would have a field day.
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Verifiable facts include everything the PJ did to find an abductor.
The mainstay of Team McCanns’ PR programme has been claiming that the PJ didn’t look for an abductor.
A few hundred pages reciting everything they did do, dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, is seriously bad PR…
April 26th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
chenier
Yes, of course I accept that some people WOULD protect a spouse and I know there are several recorded cases. I was just genuinely wondering about the likelihood. “How many?”!! especially when there is a group of reasonably intelligent people around, who either need to be fooled or to have a very good reason for conspiring in the cover-up. I also think there has been so much publicity about this that if, for example, Rachel was afraid of Matthew, or Kate of Gerry, this would probably have come out by now. (I know you’re not either believing all the reported details of the case you quote, or drawing a direct parallel with the Mc case.)
I’m really just musing about likelihoods, definitely not coming to any conclusions. I haven’t researched figures but maybe killings of babies (all that crying!) are more common even than of four year-olds?
If one of them (Mcs) killed Madeleine in a fit of temper, that would be a very good reason for them wanting to cover up her death. But we would still be left with questions :
Wouldn’t their grief and panic be evident to their friends?
How did they quickly plan to hide the body without their friends knowing? Successfully so the police didn’t find it?
How have they been able to maintain the front for so long and in such a way as to convince everyone who knows them (as far as we know)?
Why did they constantly try to push the police into MORE thorough investigative action instead of being only too grateful for lack of action….as they saw it?
Why did they stay so long in Portugal instead of sneaking home at the first possible opportunity and letting everything go quiet?
Why are they still doing that? Why even suggest an investigation of the investigation if there is still their own crime to be uncovered?
I’m not saying there are no answers to be suggested to these questions; of course there are. I’m just puzzled and asking myself questions. I’m not convinced of anything yet.
delboy
I have heard K’s father once in an intervew speaking in a very friendly manner about Gerry. I have never heard K’s mother say anything remotely derogatory, except that she could not understand why “they” (both) had left the children alone since they (both!) are normally such responsible parents. (However, to quote chenier’s quote on MRD, “she would say that…..!” ) I have never heard that they didn’t think Gerry, a consultant cardiologist, good enough for their daughter?????!!!!! Most people would be happy enough with that…..! Had they hoped for royalty?!
Yes, I also heard Sue Healy say she was surprised that Kate had asked her for the number of the priest. (Not the local priest in Praia da Luz but the one who is a close friend and who married them and baptised Madeleine.) I thought she was simply implying that this showed that they were absolutely desperate at the time. People do sometimes turn to their religion in moments of deep trauma even if they haven’t been especially religious before. I read (could be wrong) that K did go to church but I once heard Gerry say in some interview that he was not religious before this event though he seems to have been brought up as a catholic. They certainly seem to have already registered Madeleine at the local catholic school in Rothley, I think. Their “religiousness” is probably just a matter of different degrees at different times, as with many people.
I certainly think it unlikely that they confessed any crime to that particular priest because we saw him on TV in Portugal, praying for his friends and for Madeleine’s safe return. We also saw the local priest doing the same. He still does, I gather, every Friday? One has to wonder if they would do this if they knew the Mcs had killed and/or disposed of Madeleine, whatever about the seal of the confessional.
It will be interesting to see what happens at the anniversary. Bound to be services somewhere, I should think.
Not being rude but I MUST switch off for a while and talk to patient friends!! Thank you both for answers. May look in later before I go to bed. Have a nice evening.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
917
PeterMac
What “it” is that happened?
What if the mccanns were not involved at all in the “it”?
April 26th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
994
Missis_USA Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I just wonder what the motives were for giving that interview and suddenly going public. In mind that there have been just PJ reinterviews this could be very interesting. Forget about what she said, her motives are more telling.
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Problem is that she went public last August, attacking the PJ and generally flouncing a lot.
That didn’t work then and it is unlikely to work now.
They can’t trot Tanner out yet again because she really did not come over well on Panorama.
They can’t trot Clarrie out because the lawyers have gagged him.
They can’t trot Kate out because the lawyers have gagged her.
And Mr Oldfield was said to be the last person to visit the apartment before Kate made her shocking dicovery…
April 26th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
937
clouseau Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
see my old favourite is doing the rounds again on all the blogs
http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=22954
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mmmmmm….(scratching my chin)
Interesting
April 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
What verifiable facts, that x was and is guilty of something that can’t be proved……..Carter-your-getting Fucked would have a field day.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
993
Gandolf Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Because if there are no arrests and no convictions, Amaral’s book which, if it claims to finger anyone, will be open to libel claims.
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Indeed.
However, if he sticks to verifiable facts, he can’t be guilty of libel…
April 26th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
And, in another cheery case heard earlier this month, one Wayne Robertson pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his 10 week old daughter Lila minutes before a jury was due to be sworn in to try him for murder.
Lila died on November 14, 2006 - three days after being admitted to Leicester Royal Infirmary with brain and eye injuries.
His wife was cleared of causing or allowing Lila’s death and cruelty to a child; she genuinely didn’t know that her husband had assaulted the baby on a number of occasions.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I just wonder what the motives were for giving that interview and suddenly going public. In mind that there have been just PJ reinterviews this could be very interesting. Forget about what she said, her motives are more telling.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Because if there are no arrests and no convictions, Amaral’s book which, if it claims to finger anyone, will be open to libel claims.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
991
Gandolf Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Until there are arrests and convictions in this case Amaral’s book is a non starter.
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Why?
April 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Until there are arrests and convictions in this case Amaral’s book is a non starter.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
982
Maria Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
‘How many people would actually protect friends, or even a spouse, if they thought one of them had killed a child’
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Well, at least when it comes to spouses, quite a few.
For example, earlier this week Gary Allen finally admitted the manslaughter of 5 month old baby Elisha, some 15 months after her death. He had denied any responsibility up to a fortnight ago.
The child’s mother pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of causing or allowing the death of a child.
Her plea was on the basis of her fear of violence at the hands of her former boyfriend.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
984,Maria …
Was’nt it reported early on in the case that kates mum thaught kate was too good for gerry,Im sure I read that somewhere,
Also I dont think many know whats happened just k+G…and one or two others that may have helped them,everyone else is to believe the story they are telling,The abduction etc…
Also the mother of kate said that kate did not go to church that much so was suprised she asked for a priest,If my memory serves…