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 4:46 pm
406…Noseycow
Be verry verry careful.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Matt
FBI monitoring you
May 1st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Pilimary -
Due to low hallways / bendy stairs I can only get flatpacked stuff upstairs here!
Sit on a cushion on the floor ( away from the oil), and pour yourself a lovely long glass of wine and post awhile with us.
The chaos of your move will still be there, but you’ll be able to cope much better.
and here’s to many fun times in your new home
May 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
M & A
Have tried to post a link to Wikipedia, twice, and it has just “disappeared”.
Any reason ?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
IGS
How long will it take till the red goes down ????
May 1st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
399
Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Chenier - I assume that if the PJ do not press charges then the question of whether they can be charged with neglect (or worse) here would be looked into. But not before as it might be seen as politically incorrect until Portugal make a decision.
After all Madeleine is / was a British Citizen isn’t she entitled to the protection of our laws?
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Indeed so; she should be entitled to the protection of our laws.
Otherwise people might decide to dump irritating offspring off the end of the Dover Calais ferry halfway between here and France.
But I certainly think the CPS here would conclude that it would be improper to act here before the Portuguese investigation is concluded…
May 1st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
sky is making themm look bad
May 1st, 2008 at 4:42 pm
guaranteed me some kind of rare happiness and self-confidency…
Pure illusion
May 1st, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Matt
well i heard that they might be looking for a cleaner?
I got a mop and bucket - just need a head scarf…
May 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Re: My moving on
Sofa didn’t go throug the apartment door (despite they have to unscrew the reinforced door). Finally, we used a hammer and ripped the tapestry up.
Hall library neither get through… After anscrewing and separate the parts, some screws are lost and they cannot ensemble it again.
Microwaves has felt from the top and don’t work anymnore.
On of the workers of the move compañy spilt an olive oil bottle in the hall wooden floor.
The matress case is also ripped up.
The more books I read and gather, the less I know about everyday things that I suppossedly should master. But I don’t give up… and I keep and keep books as if it guaranteed
May 1st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
401…Noseycow
That’s wot sleuths are supposed to do….Leave No Stone Unturned.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
390 Matt
That”s right, I couldn”t think of his name, thanks.
If there proves to be evidence of foul play in the case of Madeleine, I would have thought there would be a Law for aiding and abetting.
I think after the reaction to this TV blitz the Lawyers would be advising the McCanns
to return to Portugal. When Gerry said the decision was not just theirs to make, other
people were involved I wondered if other people have refused to go unless the McCanns go. I”m sure it is not designed to help find Madeleine, more to show up the
T9 by proving how other witnesses testimonies differ, and the McCanns know this.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
bet they got a brand new waste disposal unit though - whoops, sorry the wouldnt need one -they dont peel veg do they? nor hoover………
May 1st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Derek Bentley case…..Craig was under 18…so could not be Executed…but Bentley,
although suffering from Epilepsy, and considered to be of limited intelligence,
was of Executionable age….so he was hanged although he did not commit the
offence of killing the Police Officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bentley
May 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Matt -
i doubt that Rothley manor has a basement. It is a modern house and they don’t usually.
Would you like me to go knock on the door and ask?
Shall I check the divans at the same time?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
They aint listed as “orchard house” in the phone book - they must have added that for the filming -
May 1st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Chenier - I assume that if the PJ do not press charges then the question of whether they can be charged with neglect (or worse) here would be looked into. But not before as it might be seen as politically incorrect until Portugal make a decision.
After all Madeleine is / was a British Citizen isn’t she entitled to the protection of our laws?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Matt - I know, I should keep up really
May 1st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
396…just_me
How remiss of you.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
nosey - yeah sorry lol, I thought we all needed reminding and thats what all the interviews were about.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
394…Noseycow
Does Orchard House have a basement ?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Just_me
was that it?? that Madeleine is still missing?
has anyone looked in G’s mum divan or Richard Bransons Moroccan hotel?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
388
Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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Salomon Es says they don’t have a similar provision in Portugual.
It has occurred to me that this may be a possible explanation for why the McCanns stayed in Portugual, instead of legging it home to England straight away.
After all, the question of whether individuals could be charged here for offences committed elsewhere is notcut and dried, and our police may have seemed a little less sympathetic, what with the new law and all…
May 1st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Val
May 1st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
380 Just_Me
Oh………..p… off!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
376…val
That was re the Derek Bentley trial…when he shouted to his friend, Craig,
who had the gun…”Let him have it”….which was taken to mean…shoot the
policeman.
But his defence was that he said it to encourage his friend to hand over his gun.
The friend fired his gun, wounding one Police Officer and killing another
soon after.
Bentley was hanged….but received a posthumous Pardon…45 years later.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:25 pm
That is exactly what I thought - so it may just be one vital bit of evidence to prove who actually committed the crime which is being sought by the police - that is hypothetically speaking of course, because we have no idea if the police have anyone in mind - do we? Oh sorry - of course there are named suspects aren’t there. And there was me thinking that the McCanns were the new Posh and Becks
May 1st, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Annie - it used to be the case in the UK that they had to specify which person ‘did it’.
This lead to a very famous case where a child was abused and killed by one of its parents (both were involved) but because the police couldn’t prove which one actually killed her they got away with murder. One said it was the other and vica versa.
Chenier has been heducating us on a recent change in the law which would enable the police to charge them - max sentence 14 years, with causing / allowing the death of a child.
I don’t know whether they have a similar system in portugal - doubtful. So if the pj can not pin it on one individual they might struggle to prove anything. However I don’t know if they could be charged in the UK?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
god - they are everywhere
whine whine whine
May 1st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
384
annie1 Says:
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
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Well, as I pointed out, the new offence covers both allowing and causing a death, which enables the police to charge both of them.
If the police can’t tell which person committed the offence they would have had severe problems in charging anyone…