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Madeleine McCann: ‘Pray Like Mad’, Seeing The Light And McCanns’ ‘Cleared’

by | 4th, May 2008

mccanns.jpgMADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCannTHE OBSERVER (front page): “One year on, Kate McCann’s please: ‘Please stay with us. Pray like mad.’”

DAILY MIRROR (front page): “MADDIE: KATE’S PLEA: ‘KEEP WITH US..KEEP PRAYING’”

MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Kate McCann’s pulpit plea: stay with us and pray like mad”

The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “It’s an intensely private and very difficult day for them.”

SUNDAY PEOPLE: “’PUBLIC KEEP US STRONG’ – MISSING FOR A YEAR: BRITAIN, PORTUGAL AND WORLD UNITED IN HOPE”

The world unites.

“LIGHT HER WAY HOME – MISSING FOR A YEAR: BRITAIN, PORTUGAL AND WORLD UNITED IN HOPE ‘You are a light that shines in the darkest times. Guide all who search for Madeleine’ – By Rachael Bletchley In Praia Da Luz”

The sunrise over Praia da Luz was as beautiful as ever yesterday. A warm, orange glow spread up from the horizon then burst into the dazzling rays that give the resort its name – Beach of Light.

A rosy-fingered dawn…

A year ago an excited little girl woke to a May morning just like this, the start of another day of swimming, making sandcastles and holiday fun. But 14 hours later, at 9.15pm on May 3 2007, the blonde three-year-old was carried off into the night – and all light vanished from the lives of Kate and Gerry McCann.

Such are the facts, allegedly.

GLASGOW SUNDAY MAIL: “Family’s Heartache On Anniversary Of Disappearance”

KATE and Gerry McCann will soon be officially cleared of any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, according to reports in Portugal yesterday…

This sounds like progress.

Says Alipio Ribeiro, national director of the Policia Judiciaria (PJ): “Nothing has been determined regarding possible charges or closing the case.”
Such are the facts.

JAVNO.Com (Croatia): “Ten Worst Child Kidnappings in History”

The Top Ten. It’s international Tabloid Bingo. Bingo! Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!

Natascha Kampusch, three sisters locked in the dark for 7 years, a child whose father kept her in the cellar for 24 years, Madeleine McCann.

Shannon Matthews get a mention, but not the Lindberg kidnapping.

A year of one fact 



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