Madeleine McCann: No Change, A Tourist Site And Entertainment
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE GUARDIAN: “Last night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change”
It’s difficult to keep the visuals stimulating, too. We saw the McCanns at home in Leicestershire; Kate and Jerry talking on the sofa. But you can’t have two hours of sofa, so we joined them in a lot of taxis - in Portugal, London, Washington. And there were plenty of lingering tree shots - leafless, winter trees (this is a sad story, after all). And a flying heron … eh, what’s that about? Maybe the heron is an aguido, too. Does Sir Trevor know?
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine holiday apartment becomes ’sick tourist attraction’ one year on from her disappearance”
Coachloads of journalists arrive every day. It’s sick.
DAILY MIRROR: “Tourists posing for pictures at McCann tragedy spots”
Pensioner Pamela Fenn, who lives above the McCanns’ holiday apartment, said: “It’s sick.
“They stand outside and then have photographs taken with their children.”
A source close to the McCanns said yesterday: “It’s disgraceful.”
It’s not as if the disappearance of a missing child is entertaining.
The floodlights at Premiership club Everton will be switched on this Saturday to mark the anniversary in a campaign called Light The Way Home.
LIVERPOOL ECHO: “Madeleine McCann: Family prepare for first anniversary of her disappearance”
People around the world are being urged to light a candle, shine a torch or turn on a porch lamp on Saturday night as a gesture of support for Madeleine’s family and friends.
A lighter held in the air?
Robert Murat, the third arguido in the case, is intending to maintain a low profile and will probably stay away from Praia da Luz on Saturday.
He said: “The anniversary is for a little girl who went missing - Madeleine.
“The anniversary is not about us, the McCanns, the PJ (Portuguese detectives) or anything else but a little girl going missing.”
THE TIMES: “Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change; Escape from Alcatraz: The True Story”
Stefanie Marsh: Why must television do compassion? Why, when faced with a captive audience, a prime-time slot and a story that could, if they’d let it, tell itself, must television turn to mush and mutate into a series of treacly Hallmark bereavement cards?…
At one point Gerry McCann admits that his “wife is carrying on in a quasi-real existence”. What she is really doing is falling apart, but too much gloop from the director turned the McCanns’ terrible situation into a guilt trip that made me want to watch The Apprentice instead.
THE INDEPENDENT: “Last Night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change ITV1″
“You can’t always blame the parents,” says Thomas Stucliffe:
They still get a lot of letters, the McCanns, sorting them out into boxes marked “well-wishers”, “ideas”, “psychics” and “nutty”. Incredibly, they also need a box marked “nasty” for messages such as the one that Gerry read out at the beginning of the film. “How can you use money given by poor people in good faith to pay your mortgage on your mansion? You fucking thieving bastards. Your brat is dead because of your drunken arrogance. Shame on you. I curse you and your family to suffer forever. Cursed Christmas. If you had any shame, you would accept full responsibility for your daughter’s disappearance and give all the money back. You are scum.” This heart-warming expression of support had been written inside a Christmas card. The Daily Express, by contrast, chose to print its hate mail on its own front page, confident that there were enough readers out there who would prefer infanticide to unresolved mystery – or to no McCann story at all. And all the time, the McCanns themselves live a life horribly suspended between what might have been and what could happen next, between “if only” and “maybe”.
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May 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
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just_me Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
chenier - that too!!
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They’re on the radio again?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
What I really wanted clarified was if the police were SURE that two people were involved but did not know which was the offender and which was the accomplice - would they be able to charge both and then sort out which was which - or would they have to charge just ONE with the offence and the other with being an accomplice to the crime
May 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
BRNADON
Yeasss
Moving ON!!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
chenier - that too!!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
379
just_me Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
is it really true??? i dont believe it
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They’re on the TV again?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Val - Maddie is still missing!!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
is it really true??? i dont believe it
May 1st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
374 Just_Me
No, what??????
May 1st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
And I am sorry to see that my labour in the vineyards of the the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 has passed Annie1 by…
In this country there is a new offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.
Portugual apparently has no such provision…
May 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
369 annie 1
No doubt someone will know and tell you. I”m thinking of two cases, the first where
one guy was hanged hanged but it was his accomplice who pulled the trigger.
In the case of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, they were both charged and jailed.
In the case of an accidental homicide, if someone helps to destroy evidence and
hide the body I would think there would be a charge of aiding and abetting in a crime.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
366
brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Oh a large kronenburgh please IGS and a fully body wax !!
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or creosote. Just one of my perks 
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sorted. 5.30 you have to share the treatment room with lone. i have oxygen there, so all’s good, only have bud or cava, sorry.
Are you allergic to wd40
(kin ell they still on sky, must put some dire straits on
May 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
ohhh my god….. have you heard the latest about the McCanns?????
May 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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annie1 Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Is there a legal beaver around who could clarify - in the Huntley case - it was fairly obvious that the crime was “committed” by Huntley and his girl friend knew about it but kept quiet.
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No; his girlfriend was acquitted on the charge of assisting an offender.
She didn’t know he had committed the murders.
There’s a big difference between perverting the course of justice, which she was convicted of, and assisting an offender.
If someone gives a person a false alibi because s/he believes that person to be innocent, then it’s perverting the course of justice.
If someone gives a false alibi when s/he believes that person to be guilty then it’s assisting an offender…
May 1st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Kin ell, im gonna be a busy girl.
wtf - i’ve got a window at 5.30, is it a full back, ie, buttocks, neck, etc.
lone - see you in my treatment room at 6. bacon butty,axle grease, and all the extras
(just had my bacon butty and a bud, perfek).
May 1st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
annie1
I got yer and thought the same!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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Dr Watson
One for you and one from me. And this
Actually you are correct and I do a lot of sanctimonious fence-sitting to compensate for the fact that I find it hard to be objective about the behaviour of this couple.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Is there a legal beaver around who could clarify - in the Huntley case - it was fairly obvious that the crime was “committed” by Huntley and his girl friend knew about it but kept quiet. In the McCann case - just say that two people (nameless at present because we dont know, do we?) were involved, but the police had just not enough evidence to accuse one of them of the “actual” crime and the other as an acomplice. Would the police be able to bring both in and charge both, or would they have to charge just the one? I was just wondering if the pj had enough evidence to narrow it down to one of two - but couldnt yet pin it definately on either. Nobody will understand this rambling - but if anyone can desypher what I am trying to ask, maybe they can tell me
May 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
actually make it a vodka and ice I need to watch my belly
May 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
jollification.
That’s a lovely word.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Oh a large kronenburgh please IGS and a fully body wax !!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
363
Saul Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
353
chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
343
Saul Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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It’s Mayday; old donkeys are usually congratulating themselves on surviving another year.
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“After all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.”
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I always felt that Eeyore was wrong on that one; I celebrate my birthdays for as long as possible.
This has been assisted because the offspring’s birthday is a week before mine; we therefore have an extended excuse for jollification.
A bit like the 12 days of Christmas, but in June…
May 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
She didnt say dysoning - maybe she is looking for a fee for mentioning a hoover - dyson would be far too estute - they have just introduced a new model - all balls
May 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
353
chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
343
Saul Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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It’s Mayday; old donkeys are usually congratulating themselves on surviving another year.
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“After all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.”
May 1st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
May 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
250 Justlooking,
Sorry! But if you want to lose weight, I can accise you of something else?
Smile! (smiles I can’t do…)
May 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
No give and take. No exchange of thought.It gets you nowhere, particularly if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:40 pm
357
irish girl spain Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Bacon butty and a beer anyone
(choice of extras available)
Il’l have it all
May 1st, 2008 at 3:40 pm
357 irish girl spain
Could you wax my back please
May 1st, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Bacon butty and a beer anyone
(choice of extras available)
May 1st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
347 Brandon Flours
They must have had the Media following them around, not only in the Car Park, where
Gerry seems to be saying “You O.K.?, Kate looks a bit arsed but says Yes. The best
bit for me is when they are walking through a Corridor, either on their way to the
Studio, or on their way out. There”s a big Picture of Kate on the Wall as if they are walking through some “Hall of Fame”!!!!!!!! Kate sees it and makes a grimace.
Honestly, Kay Burley is talking about it every five minutes, that and the Austrian case, oh and the place in India where they throw babies out of a window to a crowd 50ft
below holding a canvas “blanket”. This is supposed to make the baby strong.