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 10:17 pm
i dont understand this. i posted ok the other day and now i cant. Can you please tell me why?
Mods and Admin
You may have used upper case in your name, or a different email?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
The PJ is analysing the depositions made in England by the seven friends that dinned with the McCanns in the Tapas Bar. They are also waiting that the Leicester police send the depositions of more than three dozens of tourists that were in the area when the child disappeared and also the new declarations of Clarence Mitchell and Justine McGuiness that were in Praia da Luz on that day. - Joana Morais 03/05/08
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
am i allowed in yet?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
anything else going on.
asking people to give information to them ?
Saw some snippets of them on RTP1 this am, being interviewed by Sandra Fuelgeras ?
Sickening.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Bell might be tolling for thee Gandolph, or the fragrant duo ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
…the lodger
next door neighbour
cuddle cat
clarrie
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
missis-usa
i wonder what it can be…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Chatelaine
we had alight dusting of snow about a week ago. Quite cold next few days i think specially at night. Tired most of my workers have been off for the last week, public holidays. Next week i have to go to the city, just hope i do not miss the ‘braceleting’.
Clarrie apparently gave a statement on BBc earlier this evening , did you hear or see it ? re Murat ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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jo Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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M & a
Why?
M and A
Jo, its already been posted about 3 times by others, and then removed, there is one posted much earlier
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
From Gerrys Blog
“It is a year to the day since Madeleine was abducted. A heinous crime that had the potential to destroy the strongest of families. Without doubt it has been the longest year of our lives, yet it does not seem like a year since we last saw Madeleine. She is still a large part of Sean and Amelie’s life and this gives some comfort to Kate and me”
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Hm. Something seems to be missing here…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJZ72YQuXA
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Can you please tell us again why Clarrie was there on the 3rd? I missed, can’t find…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Crows coming home to roost, vultures as well.
Sky reporting PJ have no case !!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
http://jn.sapo.pt/2008/05/03/primeiro_p … murat.html
McCanns after Murat
The McCanns look for answers in Robert Murat, they are convinced of his involvement in the disappearance of their daughter. The multimillionaire that supports the expenses with lawyers and the private detectives of the Spanish agency “Método 3″ went on purpose to Algarve to know the British.
Brian Kennedy offered to help him, although he was unable to explain how. Why? Why does he believe that Robert or his mother Jennifer might have seen someone on the night of 3rd of May in the area of the Ocean Club. He was prepared to pay to the best technicians to draw a photofit of a possible suspect. Saying one thing and then saying another he ended to say that Kate and Gerry believe that he is innocent and they never came publicly to accuse him but he insisted that Murat might remember some important detail to help them find Madeleine.
The JN knows that Murat did not accept the help of the multimillionaire. On the contrary he was upset with the questions that were made and with the insistence of the multimillionaire that wanted him to remember the night of the disappearance, when Murat always said that he spent the night in his mother’s house, Jennifer, in Praia da Luz.
The meeting - a dinner that Brian Kennedy asked to be discreet and far away from the eyes of the press - took place in the end of last year at a house of Murat’s relatives in Burgau (Vila do Bispo). At the dinner were present Murat and Kennedy, the respective lawyers, Jennifer Murat and the aunt and uncle of Murat.
After dinner was Brian Kennedy that finished the conversation. He could not explain why three friends of the couple, belonging to the group “Tapas 7″ came publicly saying that they saw Robert Murat in the area of the Ocean Club in the night of 3 of May and he (Kennedy) ended to enter in contradiction.
Francisco Pagarete does not confirm this meeting but the JN knows that the PJ is aware and that they monitored the steps of Kennedy and the detectives of Método 3 very closely. According to the lawyer one year after the disappearance of Maddie, Murat “still does not understand how his name was involved in the case”. “Everything is very strange” says the lawyer regretting that ” a person was involved in this story without having nothing to do with it”.
http://jn.sapo.pt/2008/05/03/primeiro_p … murat.html
For those just arrived back here
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
why am still in moderation? I should be trolled
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
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bounty hunter Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hello Chatelaine
keeping well ?
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Fine Bounty, thanks. And you? Funny thought: we finally get some nice weather and you get snow…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
No, I didn’t catch that. Off to trawl through now … that’s a trickly little development …
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Beyond the shadow of the vale of the forces of the exponents of the black arts, hope and goodness walk hand in hand, they fear none for they are the true power, the blackness shrinks away from them, blinded and overcome by the light that is the truth and the way of the righteous.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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bounty hunter Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
JO
No in South Africa near the Drakensburg, Lesotho area.
Silly question but is it winter over there?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
coconuts
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
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Gloria Smudd Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
So Clarrie was there May 3…?!
I knew it!
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WHAT????? Where did you hear that?
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Here. Read it in the posts. You haven’t seen that?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hello Chatelaine
keeping well ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
So Clarrie was there May 3…?!
I knew it!
……………
WHAT????? Where did you hear that?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
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bounty hunter Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
JO
No in South Africa near the Drakensburg, Lesotho area.
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Wow…lucky you!
Beautiful I was told
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
So Clarrie was there May 3…?!
I knew it!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
STEVE T
Heard about the window glazing chap trying to cosy up to the 1st Arguido ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Ade…
Hi, hope the music thingy is going well.
Can i groom you please
I want to do what K is doing to G’s thigh bits, wink wink.
You should be told, get your coat
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Has clarrie lit a candle?
May be Keela will find his tongue…miracles happen
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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chenier Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I don’t need 3; the church thing is a bit of a giveaway…
I wonder if she’ll keep her eyes open for a getaway camel…
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I’m still waiting to see an picture of her coming out of that church [and waving at us...].
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I’m here too but “he who must be e-bayed” has come home so I’ll be ejected soon.