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 11:53 pm
nite batman
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
JO
Both of us noticed that little urnlike thingy around the neck. making a statement ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Hope this new hotline is well and truly bugged.
Who in their right minds will give a honest statement to the PJ then divulge all to the Mccons anyway. Tossers!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PmxkB5AvpY
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
PUZZLED
If they had given M a teaspoon of Calpol because she had a bit of a cold and fell it could still be claimed as an accident, no crime in giving a feverish kiddy a little medication, and children all fall, but very few of them seem to lie around for 2 hours ? But an autopsy would not ave found too much . why all this cloak and dagger stuff ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Night all.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I’m also reminded regularly at conversations we had here months ago about a “puppet master’” and everyone acting to his will … Maybe, just maybe, a lot of people got themselves entangled in a game they can indeed not control ??? IMO etc.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
546 pat
he’s not alone
http://tiny.cc/SCZpT
wasn’t this taken just after Kate shed her famous tear (singular).
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 pm
548 Jo
Really! I haven’t noticed. Has she been wearing it at interviews? I did actually notice that she was wearing two lots of things which I found strange. A bit chav I thought at the time. Gonna have a look.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I think their biggest mistake so far was the new telephone number and the invitation to “people” to tell them what they told the police so far …
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
nite steve t x
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
525 Christine
I think CM was called in to take over from Justine, who had replaced Sheree Dodd
who had blotted her copy book by voicing disquiet about the McCanns. There was
also a Diplomat from the British Embassy who said the Embassy should distance
itself and who I believe resigned or was replaced. Remember , Tony Blair was in
Power at the time and there was a suggestion from Stevo that Tony “owed one”to Gerry”s
Uncle who has a Clinic in Scotland.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Night all.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Bounty Hunter
It was the staff at the resort that complained about the children crying at night not Maddie. IMO, The children were sedated to silence them at night. If Maddie did have an accident in the apartment they could not call for help without being caught out. If the medication was insufficient then she would have become giddy rather than sleepy and may have fallen.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Clarrie is after us!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7378010.stm
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
jo
your still here
the other two hounds have been scent off
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
544 bounty
agreed. as mentioned earlier, it is the lack of the word ‘abduction’ and only talk of ‘disappearance’ today which is telling, imo.
after all - whathas happened to Jane Tanner’s incredibly detailed description and identikit drawing?
think people are slowly waking up to the fact that things stink
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Clarrie is after us!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7378010.stm
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
535
Christine Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
526 Bountyhunter
IMO M was also incinerated. If you go on national ~TV and say - “find the body and prove it” you are confidently aware that there is no body to find. Only dust. Which IMO, is the reason they think they can get away with it.
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Also,kate wears a chain,neckless with different stuff on it and especially a small victorian flask with a screw top,originally used for perfums or powders of sorts….just enough to keep a momento?
I will be put in mod now
edited jj
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
543 Jo
Nice one!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
gerry’s brother always seems to find it all so amusing
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Off for some zzzzz’s
Catch you tomorrow.
News is loosening up though so truth will be out in no time.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Batman
with every word and action their halos are loosing shine.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
526
Christine
Only 8 here!
Where are the other 2?
http://bp0.blogger.com/_3HAnFzHSqqE/R2EMNKshDbI/AAAAAAAAAag/02yoqUtEeRA/s1600-h/partida_de_cartas.jpg
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
VAL
There was no abduction, i am sure. and why would one cover up an accident, accidents happen all the time in the best of families. they are a fact of life. so where is MM ? in my ho no longer with us,
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
538 Val
BBC News this evening has confirmed that it was Brian Kennedy who visited Murat. However a ’spokesman’ for the McConn family said that he was perfectly entitled to do so and was not interfering with the investigation.
The level of meddling by Team McConn is odd.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
538
val
The BBC stated, and showed pictures of, Brian Kennedy - Mr.Doubleglazing.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
532
Bâtman Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Where are all the McCelebrety-supporters today? Haven’t seen much evidence today of the Beckhams, JK Rowling or Beardy covered in yellow ribbons and urging people to continue to cough up for the ’search’….
……………..
very true
not speaking for them either
they seem to be alone today
and
the brother in pdl with a bunch of balloons
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
529 Jass
I think the Kennedy who approached Murat was BRIAN, Kate”s Uncle. Several members of K & G”s Family were there in support for weeks after Madeleine disappeared.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Muddler is not the only person who has suggested that the solution to the puzzle can be found in Ireland. Remember the poster ‘Coldwater’ or something similar.
However, the interest in the McCanns in Ireland is not very high anymore. The Irish Times did not run with an anniversary story.