
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 11:06 am
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Ferdinand Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am
421 Scarlett Says:
” Thus would a reconstruction involving both groups not help in solving the case? ”
There’s a third important group: The Ocean Club staff.
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And that’s not all; we know from chaos theory that a butterfly beating its wings may trigger a hurricane.
Ideally, therefore, we need the entire population of the planet, animal, vegetable and a few of the more active minerals, to engage with this.
A flowchart would be helpful…
May 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am
421 Scarlett Says:
” Thus would a reconstruction involving both groups not help in solving the case? ”
There’s a third important group: The Ocean Club staff.
May 12th, 2008 at 11:00 am
436
Ferdinand Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:58 am
435 brandon flours Says:
” If I were an abductor, I woud have gone out the patio doors ducking as much as I could ……gone down 3 steps then bummed it down for the rest of the way….. ”
But why the open window?
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So Tarzan could hand her to Jane…
May 12th, 2008 at 10:59 am
maybe he tried it first …… It wasnt open thought was it?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:58 am
435 brandon flours Says:
” If I were an abductor, I woud have gone out the patio doors ducking as much as I could ……gone down 3 steps then bummed it down for the rest of the way….. ”
But why the open window?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:54 am
looking at the apartment lay out yesterday………
If I were an abductor, I woud have gone out the patio doors ducking as much as I could ……gone down 3 steps then bummed it down for the rest of the way…..
After all the busy tappas group would have assumed it was one of the checkers opening the doors. A quick poke of head around the corner to check and hey presto!
I think there was an abduction now!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:51 am
433
Ferdinand
I heard that the pigs were going to sue him.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:48 am
430 brandon flours Says:
” oldfield must be a tad annoyed after yesterday ! ”
Never mind. Everyone gets his day. Does anyone remember the pig farmer with the stylish haircut?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:44 am
oldfield must be a tad annoyed after yesterday !
May 12th, 2008 at 10:43 am
422
CLEARWATER Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am
the yard will make the difference
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You meant “lard”?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:42 am
419
Scarlett
imo,a confession will do
May 12th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Stevet


enjoy the lovely weather everyone x
Jo - i’m just putting me lippy on, heading for the tapas bar,
toastada, americano y soberano
(must get something that kills pests)
May 12th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I hope he wasnt sending out sublinimal messages
May 12th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Morning Gandolph.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Not if you put it on ‘full jet’ Brandon
May 12th, 2008 at 10:35 am
yampster
May 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am
the yard will make the difference
May 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am
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415
SteveT Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
409
brandon flours
Are they big down under? A rock group?
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I tried looking but the poison ivy stopped my view!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Mornin folks
Interesting news about alleged involvement of Scotland Yard to assist McFraudo3 with their enquiries
Must go now. I struggle to overcome my existential nausea for this case. What would Sartre have said to this nausea, this sense of revulsion at the absurdity of life through the McCann prism? (absurdity puts it mildly)
May 12th, 2008 at 10:33 am
OCCAM’S RAZOR
For the last year and more, the same names have come up time and again. They fall into two groups -the T9 being one; Murat, Malinka, Michaela Walchuz and Luis Antonio forming the other.
FACT - the PJ have named 3 arguidos, two from one group, one from the other. Applying Occam’s Razor, would the answer not lie somewhere within the two groups, some overlap or common factors? We are not certain whether members of one group knew members of the other before 3 May 2007.
Thus would a reconstruction involving both groups not help in solving the case?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:33 am
lone
It would be too much of a waste on the shower
May 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hi Brandon
May 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
411
SteveT Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Lone,
Fantastic weekend! Out in the garden.
Likewise….plus swimming….park…..and numerous ice creams with the 4 year old mini me
May 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
409
brandon flours
Are they big down under? A rock group?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hi Fair !!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Two dead babies have been found in a house in Manchester. I would post a link but the spammer won’t let me. See BBC news
May 12th, 2008 at 10:31 am
409
brandon flours Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Lone
4 Aussie men have moved next door and have been revving me up all weekend!
I have run out of excuses to wash cars, windows, gardening etc…..
I need help! All this pent up hormones…….
Get to the shower……NOW!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Lone,
Fantastic weekend! Out in the garden.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
369
PeterMac Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 7:21 am
—With full acknowledgements to someone who does not post here any more —
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What?
I’ve been on holiday!
I haven’t been away that long!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Lone
4 Aussie men have moved next door and have been revving me up all weekend!
I have run out of excuses to wash cars, windows, gardening etc…..
I need help! All this pent up hormones…….