Madeleine McCann: Let Us Pray, Light The Way, It’s A Year Today
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE: 1 YEAR ON”
A year of headlines, sensation and speculation. A year of Watching The Parents.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “LIGHT A CANDLE FOPR OUR MADDIE”
And leave a chair empty at the dinner table, too? And when should the candle be lit?
“9:15 tonight… A YEAR ON”
Did you light a candle a year after 7/11, the end of the Falklands War, the Hillsborough disaster?
Did the Mirror forget to tell you to?
It is “A DAY TO PRAY”.
FIONA PHILLIPS: “A year ago today Madeleine McCann’s mummy and daddy, Kate and Gerry, became victims of the most colossal crime.”
Mummy and daddy… Are Mirror readers being asked to empathise with Madeleine? The fact is, it could. It could happen to any of us.
Grip hands tighter. Avoid Portugal. Spread the anxiety. The rare crime of a chid abduction, as Phillips supposes, might find a victim in your child.
I fill my car up with petrol and sometimes leave the children in the back when I go and pay for it. It could happen to me.
I’ve seen mums chatting to friends in supermarkets and on busy pavements while their children wander off. It could happen to them.
It happened to the McCanns in a child-friendly, family holiday village. It could happen to you.
YORKSHIRE POST: “The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has written a special prayer to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance.”
Church of England PR?
Father God, we pray for Madeleine McCann Keep her safe and take away her fear and anxiety May your holy angels guard and protect her We pray that she may be reunited with those who love her Give hope to all her loved ones And hear our cry for her safe return We offer our prayer in the name of the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord. Amen.
DAILY TELEGRPAH: “McCann haters - the lowest of the low”
SIMON HEFFER:
Just when one thinks one’s capacity for shock is exhausted, one reads some of the charming, expletive-rich comments sent to Kate and Gerry McCann in the last year since their daughter Madeleine evaporated in Portugal. I know some nutters are convinced they killed her, which I am equally convinced is balderdash: but what shocks me is that even those who accept that someone else abducted her cannot resist delving into the still-open wound the McCanns have, and attacking them for their supposed negligence on that evening last May.
I try to envisage the sense of smug satisfaction these people have when the letter is posted or the send button pressed on the email: but, despite a long study of human degeneracy, I simply can’t.
THE SCOTSMAN: “In the shadow of the bogeyman”
There is no such comfort for my children’s generation. They know the worst can happen because it did. The bogeyman came and took Madeleine from her bed. And for weeks on end they could not turn their heads nor take a breath without being reminded that he had. The press picked up our fear and shone it back at us.
THE GUARDIAN: “Services to mark year since Madeleine vanished”
His wife added: “It’s funny in some ways, because you kind of think it’s just another day, really, almost like a media landmark than anything else. But I think we’ve maybe underestimated it, and it’s probably more significant than we felt. I don’t think we’ll know until the morning really what feels right.”
NEWSWEEK: “TABLOID FODDER - One year after Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal, lurid reporting continues to cash in on her disappearance.
She’s so famous that she only needs one name: Maddie.
Or Maddy?
Her image—those trusting eyes, that innocent grin, the shiny blond hair—haunts Britons, who may think that by now, they’ve heard everything about Madeleine McCann, the young British girl who vanished from a holiday resort in Portugal’s Algarve one year ago Saturday. Her disappearance is probably the most intensely followed mystery in modern British history. Tabloid sales skyrocket with coverage of even the most minor details, which could be why Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of The Sun, has called it “the most significant story of my lifetime.”
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May 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
118…Chloe Spain
The two references to “lap” would seem to suggest that the terminology
in the translation may be different from ours…but the meaning is the same.
At the Airport, Dr G P is certainly carrying the child in his arm.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 am
114 Matt.
That’s very interesting. Presumably the Portuguese says “arms”, not “lap”.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 am
http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/frontpage/local-familys-anguish-over-maddy-sighting-1271043.html
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:29 am
113 Jo
He could have been any nationality. Or perhaps they are getting their dates confused and they saw Jes Wilkins the night before.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 am
12
jo
good link
Clarie
we have ways and means of dealing with internet blogs…
he is really angry because we call him comical clarrie and pinky…
that will be my defence
he can’t stop people from having a brain, a sense of humour or a chat…
clarrie up your pink shirt…
besides he has called the bloggers names
it will be more fun than a shakespeare comedy if he starts on us lot
i have….
a very small wallet but a very big mouth
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 am
110…jo
Ahh…The Smith’s…an interesting follow-up to that report was…
…and this seems relevant to the “Call Gerrykins and spill”..line.
“”"Jornal de Noticias 3/5/2008
An Irish that spent holidays with the family at Praia da Luz, in May last year, guaranteed to the PJ that he saw a man with a child in his lap in the night of
3rd of May. Later he said informally that that man seemed to be Gerry McCann.
This comment of the Smith’s family appeared when they observed the images of the McCanns arriving in England at 9th of September. The way Gerry held Sean in his lap when he got out of the plane in the East Midlands airport and the clothes he was wearing, described in the first deposition, were useful to the witness “to clarify the ideas”.
But when the PJ wanted to formalise that deposition the witness backtracked and revealed that he was not sure that the person he saw was Gerry.
This deposition ended to give credibility to Jane Tanner’s words, a friend of the couple, that guarantees having seen a man with a child in the night Madeleine disappeared.
The investigators opted to listen again the witnesses but decide that the depositions would be made through rogatory letters sent to the Leicester police.
Before this step was fulfilled, in April, this family was contacted by detectives of Método 3. The JN discovered that since that contact the certainties of the Smiths ended.”"”"”
End….
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
111
Chloe Spain Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
110 Jo
“The Smith family’s suspicions were aroused because the man made no response when they asked if the barefoot child was asleep.”
Didn’t speak English, perhaps?
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“He was wearing beige trousers and a darker top. We all put him in his early 40s and I didn’t think he was Portuguese.”
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
According to The Telegraph McCann haters are the lowest of the low! Well I am extremely sorry that Madeleine is still”out there”(strange expression that is) and not at home. However,IMHO, I think it is extremely low to put ones own selfish needs above that of defenceless infants. We have now had ayear of absolutely upside down morality and the sooner atrial or an inquest happens the better. I hope that wherever M is that she has not and is not suffering.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
110 Jo
“The Smith family’s suspicions were aroused because the man made no response when they asked if the barefoot child was asleep.”
Didn’t speak English, perhaps?
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Not a word from the Murats front.
I was looking up at old stuff and came across that skynews article
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1299179,00.html
An Irish tourist who saw someone carrying a child in a blanket on the night Madeleine McCann disappeared insists that the mystery man was not Robert Murat.
Robert MuratMartin Smith, from Drogheda in Co Louth, was on holiday in Praia Da Luz with his family when they bumped into the man just before 10pm on May 3 last year.
The Smith family’s suspicions were aroused because the man made no response when they asked if the barefoot child was asleep.
But Mr Smith is certain that the man he and his family saw that night was not Robert Murat, who is still officially an “arguido” in the Madeleine McCann investigation.
“I told police it was definitely not him because the man wasn’t as big as Murat - I think I would have recognised him because I’d met him several times previously.
“He was wearing beige trousers and a darker top. We all put him in his early 40s and I didn’t think he was Portuguese.”
They talked to him? They saw his face then?They are the only ones who can give a descript?
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Great links jo.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
The phrase ‘posterior sphyncter’ is wonderful. I will introduce it into my conversation whenever possible!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
104…jo
Yes….extremely ill at ease.
Re…Aunty Phil vid…yes…the first “edition” of the Deal lie.
It altered later to…”I heard via a mobile where I was talking to
??Jill Renwick???…and I heard Kate shouting, in the background,
that she had been offered a deal”.
She reverted back to her first lie….on the Larry King Show..(phone
link).
Seems that Phil is a serial mistruther. IMO.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:08 am
91 Gloria Smudd
The version my priest taught me !
The sexual life of the camel
Is more complex than anyone thinks
Every night in the mating season
He tries to bugger the Sphinx;
But the Sphinx’s posterior sphyncter
Is blocked with the sands of the Nile
Which accounts for the hump on the camel
And the Sphinx’s inscrutable smile.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 am
103 coolandcalm
Nothing to do with what you’ve just said but I believe the Anglicans hold their services in the Catholic church in PdL.
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/venue.php?V=8479
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:03 am
95
Matt.
Very much uneasy…saying “somebody saw us as an opportunity”.This is an affirmation
Some nightmares the few first days …they could sleep then?
They really love gory stories,dont they?
Found this vid as well.How comes it has not been removed yet?
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpunYKXhc8&NR=1
The PJ offered a deal to Kate
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
In haste in passing… en route to jolly old Tesco. Yuk…. but no food in the house and minimal petrol in the car. (Smartcar so I forget to fill it up)
For those who asked….
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The mass today in PDL is in the Catholic Church which has had a candle burning all year and which holds weekly prayer meeting for madeleine; the Rothley one is in the CofE church with Hubbard coming over for it. ECUMENICAL. Very popular these days. My mother would be turning in her grave but we have progression in all things…….
The Catholic priest in PDL is alive and kicking and doing what he has always done in his parish of PDL! saying mass and tending his parishioners.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Peter Mac
My version is how my mother told it to me, but I like your version very much!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
99…yampster
Indeed…..but no futher personal thoughts on what “may” have happened
to her ??
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
90
Gloria Smudd Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
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A great contribution to the genre, if I may say so.
Though, as I am sure you would be the first to recognise, there is a certain circularity in the argument.
The camel got his hump by humping…
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
94
Matt
She is still missing after a year. That’s all I know
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Amber Alert! Amber Alert!3 tots left alone in holiday apartment with access to dangerous kitchen knives, possibly toxic cleaning fluids, hot water in bathroom,furniture to fall off and nearby steps to fall down!! Not to mention being endangered by weird passersby who could enter through unopened doors!! Oh but that doesn’t matter cos the parents are responsible doctors and ,as the media reported in the early days many British carry on like this ! Put your own house in order before you start telling others what to do .!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 am
91 Gloria Smudd
‘But the sphynx’s posterior sphincter
Is blocked with the sands of the Nile…”
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 am
Whinning because “even their friends who have “cooperated” with the PJ have NO informations at all
They are thick imo
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 am
91…jo
Thanks for that link, jo.
Will watch it later….Dr G P looks very uneasy.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
92…yampster
And your personal view on what may have happened to MM ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 am
85
Gloria Smudd Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
chenier
thank you for that. Yesterday, the Smuddlets burst into a spontaneous rendition of the opening of Sunshine of Your Love - my motherly bosom swelled with pride!
(and Ginger Baker is still the best drummer on the planet)
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Superb track.
Particularly if your bloke works a night shift…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 am
89
Matt
I didn’t want his scanners to pick it up that why. It’s done now. Never mind
Cue Wobbler
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
The sexual life of the camel
Is stranger than anyone thinks
For at certain times of the season
It desires to make love to the Sphinx;
But the Sphinx’s sexual organs
Lie deep in the sands of the Nile
Which explains the hump on the camel
And the Sphinx’s inscrutable smile.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 am
Jim,almost,cought the “abductor” ?????