Madeleine McCann: Sometimes We Feel Like Giving Up
“SOMETIMES WE JUST FEL LIKE GIVING UP” declares the Mirror “…but Maddie just keeps us going”.
The headline is not, as you might think, an anguished crie de coeur from the paper’s editors. It is, of course, a quote from Kate McCann. The legend at the top of the page reads: “McCANNS 1 YEAR ON”.
Other papers follow suit, with the Sun featuring a 12-page special and pin-up size pictures of “The face we will never forget”.
The Star eschews such tacky emotionalism and goes for a hard news story for its cover: “MUSLIM SICKOS’ MADDIE KIDNAP SHOCK.”
The paper says police are set to investigate a “vile attack on Madeleine McCann’s parents” by Muslim extremists.
What kind of attack? A suicide bomb, perhaps?
No. In a “hysterical rant” on the internet, “fanatics blame the couple for her disappearance”.
All very interesting. But what of the Star’s stablemate, the Maddy Express? What extravaganza are they offering for Day 365? A 28-page special?
Curiously, the front page is bereft of the face we will never forget. Perhaps Express Newspapers have issued a completely separate edition of the paper devoted entirely to all things McCann?
Nope. The newsagents’ shelves are bereft.
We jest, of course. The paper has, as you know, steered clear of the subject since being hammered in court for its scurrilous and exploitative coverage of the case. Coverage that included far from subtle insinuations that the Kate and Gerry McCann were implicated in their daughter’s disappearance. (Not to be confused, we hasten to add, with “hysterical rants” by “fanatics”.)
With no Maddy and no Diana, what is “THE WORLD’S GREATEST PAPER” to do?
Read on, dear reader, read on…
Posted: 28th, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (459) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
jo 133
The longer this goes the worst it’s going to be for the McCanns. And I’m not even talking about the criminal investigation into their role.
The longer this goes, the more links will be uncovered C. Meyer Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission is indeed married to Lady C Mayer.
According to the BBC “Lady Catherine Meyer set up Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT) after her two young children failed to return from a trip to their father in Germany in 1994, despite a court order. She is with the McCanns in Brussels and believes an alert system would have made all the difference in their case.”
One could argue that the behaviour of the PCC (lack of proactive action) vis a vis the lies that are published against the Portuguese investigation and to support the McCanns version of an abduction is at least questionnable.
Whether or not that is the direct result of the interests or position of the Chairman of the PCC is another matter… but I hope this story is out and about and that people in Britain start asking questions. If I’m not mistaken the Press COmplaints Commission is also paid by British tax payers.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Not according to the head PJ honcho jo, blood pure and simple, no mention of anything else, you don’t think he’s lying do you, in the pay of the McCanns ?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
124…chenier
MWT…for a so-called Child Protection Expert…has also never criticised
the McCann’s for leaving their children unsupervised.
And …like Dr G P….he backfits +++.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
122
Gandolf
True,no blood from cadaver but plenty of falling hair and fluids…oh….AND smell
April 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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Aardvarko Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
103 Chenier,
Yes, that’s probably the reason, but remember they are (publicly) sure there was no death. If she had been taken away from the street (or from the apartment) and treated like a princess your reasoning wouldn’t apply.
It also doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to work out that, even though the McCanns cried abduction straight away, wandering off is certainly more likely (and harm caused by or with the knowledge of, at least one McCann is more likely still).
It’s the one thing I don’t get, even now. Abduction would categorically not be the first thing you would think when your child was missing under such circumstances. Panic would be perfectly natural, but the first instinct would be that she had wandered off, either to look for Mummy and Daddy or (less likely) to go for an adventure (pool, playpark, beach etc.)
Of course there’s always the possibility that they are not telling the truth
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I’m with you all the way; my point was simply a possible explanation of why they preferred to claim that someone must have entered the apartment and abducted her, rather than someone grabbing her out on the street.
It’s worth bearing in mind that Mark Williams-Thomas is overlooking, for one reason or another, the point which invalidates his claim that the PJ never looked for an opportunistic paedophile who may have grabbed her off the street.
We know from the incident with the guy with the shotgun that the PJ had been checking anyone with ‘form’ long before M3 and the british tabloids jumped on it.
If they bothered to interview a guy convicted of raping an 18 year old- in offending terms a very long way from attacking a 3 year old- then they were looking hard for a possible local connection.
MWT presumably overlooked that point …
April 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
108
Salomon
“Is this true or sleuth? I don’t know - you figure it… but it’s a small world - the McCann world”
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Dont know anymore if it is true or not but one thing is 103% sure,these people are like tarentula…spreading all over and this is worrying because lots of “influent ” people are involved one way or the other and to protect each other they are going to go to more extremes.
Worrying is the “death threat” from a muslim group.
I mean,THIS is serious shit.They should not play with fire.They have already distroyed one sleepy little palce in portugal.Do they want a riot in rothley?
They are dangerous people.I have always said this and I repeat it now: they are dangerous and twisted people
April 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
That must have been the mission where arrests were expected in days, stories changed etc. etc., your grande finale must be pulling your head out of your arse.
ps……….you don’t get blood from cadavers.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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Lone Pigeon
Whoosh Cluck!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
117 Lone Pigeon
Was thinking the same thing but had to go and attend to a dog in the meantime.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
110
brandon
At long last….a post which is trying to point out to the other side of the ….”abduction”
The first people they called immediately ,if I remember well,was Skynews NOT the cops
April 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
112
agw Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Ooo err!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Hey Chloe - great minds think alike!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
110 BF
Mr. Morris Lee shows a great deal of common sense in his statements.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
That Dubliner speaks a lot of common sense. That’s the problem with the Mccanns, they ain’t go one freaking bit of it…..
April 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
103 Chenier,
Yes, that’s probably the reason, but remember they are (publicly) sure there was no death. If she had been taken away from the street (or from the apartment) and treated like a princess your reasoning wouldn’t apply.
It also doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to work out that, even though the McCanns cried abduction straight away, wandering off is certainly more likely (and harm caused by or with the knowledge of, at least one McCann is more likely still).
It’s the one thing I don’t get, even now. Abduction would categorically not be the first thing you would think when your child was missing under such circumstances. Panic would be perfectly natural, but the first instinct would be that she had wandered off, either to look for Mummy and Daddy or (less likely) to go for an adventure (pool, playpark, beach etc.)
Of course there’s always the possibility that they are not telling the truth
April 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
112
agw
Pinch me! I must be “nightmaring”
April 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I am presenting this here as well as in the Forums in the interests of Free Speech and because we never strangle quietly through the night or without cause.
One particular poster has caused anxiety and exhibited behaviour which has lead to short bans in the past. Since he posted almost exclusively within this type of thread I am repeating the decision taken today for you all.
It would appear Anorak can arouse great passions. One of the Moderators blocked an individual known as Red Rooster last night when he was out of control.
Today he appears to have flipped and appeared in the Forums as:
anorakisrunbynazis
FREE SPEECH EY ANORAK…WHAT A FUCKING JOKE YOU WANKERS
Posted: 1 hour in HITLER STRIKES AGAIN IP: 88.111.(Full I.P and provider known)
There were about 30 of them.Each worse than the last since it did not at first get a response. Being ignored appeared to enrage the foolish little person even more.
If anyone out there would like a special closed thread where this sort of thing can go on, do let us know and we will find a cosy little chat room for you…elsewhere.
It would seem the Moderator’s decision was correct and yet another poster goes the journey.
I have no hesitation in revealing the double identity in this case since the activities were meant to be damaging and disruptive. There are other sites which may welcome such trash.
Those of you who like this sort of thing may find another diatribe beginning in another place.
Scum always floats for a short while before sinking and the other site will soon weary of their angst.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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brandon flours Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Kris Marshalls from My family and BT adverts has been in a car crash
he’ll be ok…
April 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Ex-Pat defends cops
Maddie: One year on
Sunday, April 27, 2008
By Gail Edgar
A Dublin man now living in Praia da Luz, close to the apartment where the McCanns were staying when Madeleine vanished, has defended the Portuguese police’s investigation of the case.
Retired cellar master Morris Lee, who’s been living in the Algarve town for five years, clearly remembers the night of May 3, 2007 when a friend of the couple came to ask if he or his wife Truda had seen the little girl.
“They knocked on our villa door about 11.25 to see if we had seen a child in pink pyjamas and my wife said no,” he said.
“We went back to bed and we didn’t think too much more about it. We honestly thought the child had just wandered off somewhere.”
Morris said the woman was quite calm.
“She wasn’t distraught, she just said have you seen a child that’s gone missing?
“We said well if she was awake and walking down the road she would have been crying and someone would have noticed her.”
In the days following Maddie’s disappearance, members of the McCann family and British media began to criticise the local police for what they claimed was a slow response.
Other criticisms levelled at the police included a failure to notify the ports and borders in time and failure to secure the crime scene, leading to the loss of vital clues.
But ex-pat Morris said he thinks claims like these are unfair. “They said they destroyed a crime scene by wandering all around, but it wasn’t a crime scene — it was a missing child scene, that’s all it was.
“The child was missing and the Portuguese police were out searching for her until 2 o’clock in the morning.
“Yes, they did go into the apartment, but so did lots of other people — the McCanns’ guests were in the apartment too.”
He added that it would be possible to get to the Spanish border in under an hour-and-a-half.
“Another thing the Portuguese police were criticised for was that they didn’t close the borders with Spain, but there are no borders between here and Spain.
“I drive over there quite often. You don’t have to show passports and there are no guards there.
“Maybe if there was a war going on or something the border would be closed, but not for a missing child.
“They didn’t notify the police here until an hour after she went missing so whoever took her had that hour’s headstart.”
Morris added that Irish and British people may find it difficult to understand the law under which the Portuguese police are working — legislation drawn up after the abolition of the Salazar-Caetano dictatorship.
“They’ve only had their freedom since 1974.
“They were a dictatorship up until then and they didn’t know what freedom was.
“When the dictator was thrown out they changed all the laws because they didn’t want people to go through the same torture etc to get information out of them. One of those laws is you don’t charge somebody until you’ve got enough evidence.”
Morris said most people in Praia da Luz want to forget about what happened almost a year ago and added that there has been downturn in tourists compared to last year. “The companies have noticed that the number of families were down at Easter.
“It could have been that Easter was too early, or because of the McCanns.”
He’s also critical of the McCanns for leaving their three young children alone in their apartment.
“They should just never have done it and they know they shouldn’t have done it.
“They have to live with it for the rest of their lives which is tough on them, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. It’s sad.
“With the greatest respect to Mr McCann, he could not have seen the apartment from where he was — I think he might have seen a corner of it.
“Kate said she checked every half hour, but a hell of a lot can happen in a half hour.”
Morris said he is baffled why so much attention is focused on Maddie and not on the many other children who go missing.
“Here in Portugal everybody’s talking about it and all over England and Ireland — why’s that not happening with every child?”
The McCann family has strong Irish connections. Gerry’s mother Eileen owns the People’s Bar in St Johnston, Donegal close to the border with Co Londonderry.
As our picture shows, the family visited the village last Easter, just weeks before Maddie disappeared.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Kris Marshalls from My family and BT adverts has been in a car crash
April 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I said last week that this week would be pretty interesting in terms of spin from the happy band.
No more talk about leaving the kids alone… nope… that just came out of people’s minds… and the british media are now focusing on the real issues…ie the McCanns will write a book. Clarence Micthel calls the shots and the McCann stories are printed without questions by the professional british hacks.
The Telegraph are already starting to promote the Algarve / PDL as a place with less tourism than last year. Interestingly the Correio da Manha claims that PDL is visited by as many tourists as last year. What best way of saying “Don’t go to Portugal because you’ll get your kids abducted = That’s what british tourists are doing”. I believe that this campaign against the Algarve will intensify in the run up to summer holidays.
The Press Complaints Commission takes a rather silent view of these press reports without even reminding british journalists that they have basic obligations (strive to be accurate, check information etc.). It has now emerged that Sir C Meyers Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission is married to a Lady Meyers who apparently is involved in the promotion of the Amber Alert System and supported the McCanns in their travels to Brussels.
Is this true or sleuth? I don’t know - you figure it… but it’s a small world - the McCann world.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
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Salomon ES Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
97 Chenier
I didn’t interpret it as meaning the “the night after”… but I wouldn’t exclude it either (you can also interpret it as THE night after). But we don’t know exactly.
What we know is that nobody recognised him.
Now I certainly interpret this as “soon after she disappeared” if not the Night after. Why? Because some 5 days after she was missing Gerry and Kate’s face were constantly all over the news.
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But that isn’t what she said.
If she meant ‘the night after Madeleine vanished’ she would have said ”the night after Madeleine vanished’.
Or 2 nights or 10 nights…
One of my favourite movies is called:
It Happened One Night.
As for people failing to recognise him; it is likely to be a combination of seeing what you expect to see and drinking alcohol.
People failing to recognise people happens all the time in bars…
April 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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Noseycow Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Also Note the bed - people looked under it????
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You think maybe she melted ?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
99 Gran Finale
But do you get blood from a body that’s been dead for 25 days? But, if he literally said what is quoted, he confirmed that it was blood.
Back to work.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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Aardvarko Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Quote from Mark Williams-Thomas in article above -
“Britain has not seen a single case of a predatory paedophile entering premises and abducting a child where the occupants of the house are unknown to the offender.”
and yet that’s what we are led to believe in this case; not only that, but that the parents, etc., recognised this immediately, with no thought to other possibilities.
Williams-Thomas does have the “wandered off and then was abducted” theory, and I’ve often wondered why the McCanns have been so against that. Surely that would have been more likely than the abductor who left no trace of having ever been there, apart from his super-human spring-cleaning efforts?
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Probably because doctors are paranoid about negligence claims, and Kate as a GP would have been aware of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004.
The Act introduced the new offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult.
And it covers cases where a child dies as a result of neglect…
April 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
(From previous thread)
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Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
What Amaral should have said, “Silence is the enemy of justice” Such a silence from the Portuguese, shit creek big time.
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Quite, agree the Mecons up the creek without paddle !
Ps. Bad news matey the PJ that you reported as not coming on a 12.20pm flight that doesn’t exist have just completed a very succesful mission in sunny Leicestershire.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Maybe the man said:
Gerry McCann came here one night,after Madeleine disappeared,
April 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
97 Chenier
I didn’t interpret it as meaning the “the night after”… but I wouldn’t exclude it either (you can also interpret it as THE night after). But we don’t know exactly.
What we know is that nobody recognised him.
Now I certainly interpret this as “soon after she disappeared” if not the Night after. Why? Because some 5 days after she was missing Gerry and Kate’s face were constantly all over the news.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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Grande Finale Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Encouraging ?
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Maddie blood evidence not certain: Portuguese police
Sep 10, 2007
PORTIMAO, Portugal (AFP) — It is not certain that traces of blood found in a car rented by Kate and Gerry McCann match that of their missing daughter Madeleine, the director of the Portuguese judicial police said as they prepared to report to prosecutors on Tuesday.
“None of the results of the analyses allows one to say with certainty that the blood comes from X or Y,” Alipio Ribeiro said on Portuguese public television station RTP.
“Not with mathematical precision,” he said, in reference to claims by some British media outlets that the results were a perfect match with Madeleine’s DNA.
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no one is taking a blind bit of notice
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Oh yes we are LP, Gandolf has inadvertantly confirmed a MAJOR problem for the Mcteam, you don’t get BLOOD from the items they said had been in the boot of the car ?
April 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
48
Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Encouraging ?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Maddie blood evidence not certain: Portuguese police
Sep 10, 2007
PORTIMAO, Portugal (AFP) — It is not certain that traces of blood found in a car rented by Kate and Gerry McCann match that of their missing daughter Madeleine, the director of the Portuguese judicial police said as they prepared to report to prosecutors on Tuesday.
“None of the results of the analyses allows one to say with certainty that the blood comes from X or Y,” Alipio Ribeiro said on Portuguese public television station RTP.
“Not with mathematical precision,” he said, in reference to claims by some British media outlets that the results were a perfect match with Madeleine’s DNA.
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no one is taking a blind bit of notice
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Oh yes we are LP, Gandolf has inadvertantly confirmed a MAJOR problem for the Mcteam, you don’t get BLOOD from the items they said had been in the boot of the car ?