Madeleine McCann: Inside The Flat, New Clues And Bad Parents
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
NEWS OF THE WORLD (front page): “MADDIE”
More?
“WORLD EXCLUSIVE: FIRST PICTURES INSIDE FLAT”
“Maddie’s bedroom”; “front door” – the flat from Madeleine McCann supposedly went missing is for hire, and the NOTW has been to look it over.
Has the NOTW turned into a holiday brochure, got into the timeshare game?
Now the rest of the flat has been redecorated and is ready to welcome more holidaying families to Portugal.
Can the flat be rented by the minute, and because of its history does it come with a surcharge? For now, the paper wants to show readers “How fiend could have kept out of sight”.
Our detailed survey of the flat reveals a host of places Maddie’s abductor could have hidden when it’s most likely he was almost caught in the act by dad Gerry as he checked on her and twins, Sean and Amelie, at 9.05pm on May 3 last year…
Details. You have noted the door and the bedroom. Now look at the inside of a “WARDROBE”.
But our on-site reconstruction proves that if the kidnapper was already in the flat, as the McCanns fear, he had a full TEN SECONDS to conceal himself after hearing Gerry open the patio doors and enter the apartment.
Although if Gerry McCann moved slower than the NOTW’s estimated speed of 2.34 mph, the kidnapper might have had ELEVEN seconds, or perhaps even TWELVE seconds to hide.
But where to hide?
And he had no fewer than FOUR boltholes to choose from—behind Madeleine’s BEDROOM DOOR, inside her roomy WARDROBE, in her parents’ nearby BEDROOM or in the family BATHROOM.
What about under the BEDS, behind the CURTAINS, on the CEILING or in the SHOWER? Or in the BED?
If one year on, the News of the World found clues, surely the detectives could have established more AT THE TIME?
Clues. the NOTW has found doors and rooms. In one year of tabloid tales, much has been established.
The stillness and silence of the apartment now is just as it would have been after the McCanns left the children asleep in bed that fateful night.
All that can heard is the gentle click, click click of cameras, the sound of a reporter scrambling for a story and the trace of last night’s prawns in garlic butter…
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Summer sun brings out first Bad Parent story”
“It’s hard to resist a little pain-free moral gloating sometimes, writes Eilis O’Hanlon.”
Like the first cuckoo of spring, the sighting of the first Bad Parent story of the summer is always a heartwarming, life-affirming event; and by a happy coincidence, the latest incarnation of this media phenomenon arrived bang on time, just as the weather started to hot up and our thoughts turned sunwards. At last we can say the holiday season has truly begun.
Normally, of course, it’s some foul-mouthed painted doxy from a sink estate in the north of England who hits the headlines after flying off to be with her Spanish waiter in the sun, leaving behind her gaggle of variously-fathered children in their council flat with only a tin of beans, the keys to the drinks cabinet, and Grand Theft Auto IV on the Playstation to occupy themselves until she gets home — if and when she can be bothered.
The Irish now see the English as the English once saw the Irish, albeit without the beer, bombs and potatoes.
The McCanns. The McGuckins.
The media phenomenon of the Bad Parent story, ritually trotted out to appease the secret guilt of other parents everywhere, is a curious one, no doubt about that. It can’t be much fun to be caught in the middle of the latest outbreak of media moralising, but it’s best just to put it down to experience and move on as quickly as you can.
THE SCOTSMAN: “McCanns ‘won’t mark’ Madeleine’s fifth birthday”
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said of the birthday: “Gerry will be at work and Kate will be at or around home. Sadly, for them it is just another day without Madeleine.”
Madeleine McCann: When will the anniversaries stop?
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May 12th, 2008 at 10:28 am
402
irish girl spain
On my way for a “toastada”
May 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
398
SteveT Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
394
jo
They dont need the sun with all the hot air they generate!
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Stagnant,stinking hot air,thick with fear…
May be a change of air with a nice project called “Reconstruction Big Time”,would help for the badly needed change of….weather?
They dont want to go back for a reconstruction because they KNOW they wont be charged for neglect but for something else.
Off now
May 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Morning Mr T! Lovely weekend?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:26 am
402
irish girl
Gerry has been singing “Tie Your Mother Down”, alledgedly.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:25 am
I’m listening to Fools Gold really loud too
May 12th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Germany 3 England two.
More mystery babies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7395683.stm
May 12th, 2008 at 10:24 am
yeah baby what do you want and where do you want it?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:23 am
What a lovely day (here is hot hot hot)….. for listening to Freddie
singing I want to Break Free…..Really LOUD! Perfect.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Lone pigeon !!!!!!
Will you sort me out!
xxxx
May 12th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Brandon!!!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
396
chenier Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I thought the quote from Cherie Blair summed up just how far the rot has set in; spin your wife’s miscarriage while she’s lying there bleeding, spin someone else’s missing child because there will be some votes in it, all in the day”s work
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Sorry,Chenier,I forgot to say this is shocking.Furthermore,I believe this has become dangerous.They all look like goules,feeding off corpses,literally
May 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
394
jo
They dont need the sun with all the hot air they generate!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Jo
Yes it’s the sort of day that makes you horny horny horny
!!!!!!!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am
393
jo Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
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I think a dislike of rubbish bins more or less rules out a career in journalism, though of course you can always steal someone else’s copy if you have sufficient IT skills.
I thought the quote from Cherie Blair summed up just how far the rot has set in; spin your wife’s miscarriage while she’s lying there bleeding, spin someone else’s missing child because there will be some votes in it, all in the day’s work…
May 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Gerry’s blog, Day 374: 11 May 2008
“Tomorrow is Madeleine’s fifth birthday. It will be one of the hardest days of the last 375. We will be marking it privately and quietly. We will do everything to try and ensure Madeleine does not spend another birthday separated from her family”
What have they got in mind? A clone?made out of the forensic DNA samples?
On this very macabre tone,I am off for a nice “breakfastnewspaper” session in the sun,probably missing the new thread on its way to be born..
May 12th, 2008 at 10:01 am
392
brandon
Fantastic day,Brandon
Didnt they say it was rather cloudy over rothley today ?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Abduction difficult to explain, 12 May 2008
Abduction difficult to explain Correio da Manhã
“But, just like CM had already advanced before, the greatest difficulty for the eventual abductor would have been to transport Maddie through the bedroom window, jumping over a second bed that was inside the room with the three-year-old girl, without anyone seeing him and hearing the child cry”
…..and then
I am going to call 44 845 838 4699
I DO have an important info to give them :I know whom they can contact for full infos over Madeleine”s disappearance
Chenier
Do you think I should become a journalist? Even if I dont like rubbish bins?I”ll brush up my english,I promise
May 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am
What a beautiful day
May 12th, 2008 at 9:47 am
‘I couldn’t believe it. There I was, bleeding, and they were talking about what was going to be the line to the press.’
‘It’ was Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell discussing Cherie Blair’s miscarriage.
And I can believe it….
May 12th, 2008 at 9:42 am
‘I couldn’t believe it. There I was, bleeding, and they were talking about what was going to be the line to the press.’
‘It’ was Alistair Campbell and Tony Blair discussing what they should do about Cherie Blair’s miscarriage…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3911746.ece
May 12th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Alas, it’s not tabloid bingo, but I think I deserve several stars for this one:
‘ He accepts that Raban is a less than flattering portrait of the profession, but points to Robert Murat - one of the formal suspects in the Madeleine McCann case - who is suing 12 British media outlets after a Sunday Mirror journalist “expressed concerns” about him to Portuguese police, thus drawing his name into the investigation. “Murat’s whole life was turned upside down because of what that reporter said,” he shrugs. “So I think it’s fair to say there’s a little point being made here…”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/12/itv
May 12th, 2008 at 9:11 am
No abduction
No “accidental accident”
No Madeleine
JUSTICE for Madeleine
M & A
Welcome if you spam me but I really had enough and I am not the only one
May 12th, 2008 at 9:09 am
376 brandon flours
Gerrys blog
“EDIT Tomorrow is Madeleine’s fifth birthday. ”
No. The correct grammatical structure for the verb in this case involves the use of the past perfect conditional
- Tomorrow would have been Madeleine’s fifth birthday –
May 12th, 2008 at 8:50 am
12.05.2008
Maddie would be five years old today
According to Gerry McCann, May 12, the day of the fifth anniversary of Madeleine, will be marked quietly in private. It will be one of the hardest days of the last 375, said the father of the little British, missing for over a year.
At this date, Gerry McCann has once again appealed to all those who have stayed at the Ocean Club at the time of the disappearance of Madeleine, asking them to contact the new hotline established by the couple with the purpose of knowing the content of the testimonies made by Portuguese and British police.
The new phone number works through a computer system that allows the caller to choose one of eight available languages - English, Spanish, french, Portuguese, Russian, German, Dutch, Arabic - and to record a message three minutes .
“We would like to have information from those that stayed at the Ocean Club at the time of the abduction of Madeleine or anyone could have suffered a similar incident in Iberia peninsula,” wrote Gerry today McCann.
Kate and Gerry McCann, arguidos in investigating the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, had already launched a similar appeal to all witnesses who provided information to the Judicial Police in the framework of investigations, asking them to contact the new phone number in the United Kingdom.
“What we ask you to do is, if you have provided information to the police (UK), Crimestoppers, or the Portuguese police, we also communicate,” had then asked Gerry McCann.
Without having succeeded in gaining access to the file of the Judicial Police, still under secret court, the couple tries to know what the witnesses have said to the Judicial Police.
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Here we go again: be illegal and give us all information you have provided to the UK police
Run,run,run…for dear FREEDOM
May 12th, 2008 at 8:48 am
384
irish girl spain Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 8:31 am
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Brilliant article; I actually laughed. This is a rare occurrence before 9am…
May 12th, 2008 at 8:38 am
384
irish girl spain
May be I could apply for a job at M3?
Dont worry,I shall not forget you and you would have your share of stuffed prawns and ….bones
I believe I have become inmune to all this.I dont even fly in a rage anymore! weel….at least,I try
May 12th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Hi Jo.
I know -
“Enjoy yourselves, and return home refreshed and in one piece.”
“nor would you combine spaghetti Bolognese with fish and chips for your main course…”
I think i’ll become a child expert
M3 and Scotland Yard -
i’ve never laughed so much.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:30 am
382
SteveT
Mornin”
So do I,so do I
bah…not to worry,it will come soon
May 12th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Good morning all.
I wish they would just shut up!
May 12th, 2008 at 8:22 am
380
irish girl spain
Good morning
jajajajaja…what a bunch of idiots
Have you read this about M3 and scotalnd Yard getting together? jajajajajaj
I am having the fun of my life this morning