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 11th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Nemesis
To me, M is K and G’s child. Never mind if G. is her real father or not. Legally, he is.
Maybe, at the time, Dr. O thought nothing of saying he had gone to the appartment and listened from outside the door, and didn’t hear the children crying and thought everything was normal. He probably didn’t think then that one year after, the papers would still be talking about it, and question his sense of duty, while pretending that tragically, he is innocently responsible.
The papers have a way of beating round the bush specially as regards the negligence issue. They are saying things without saying them, and let us draw our own conclusions. Everything and everyone turns out ambiguous about the case.
Gloria,
have you sorted out the socks since yesterday, did it take all night? We can make some exchanges if you are interested. My husband finds it very difficult to part from his oldest ones, but there are so many that he will not notice the difference.
I really must go.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Matt, shouldn’t you be peelin spuds or a big washing or something, I wont mention piles of ironing, that is a very touchy subject on here.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am
75…AgendaWide
Clarence was the source of that quote.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Nemesis, because I like knobbers like you to meet your nemesis, spanner!
May 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
‘From our investigations inside the apartment it is possible the abductor left through the back. But it is also possible he used the window in the bedroom to check the coast was clear at the front and either passed Madeleine through the window to an accomplice or left through the front door.’
And at last we have the arrival of Jane, leading the getaway camel, to whom Tarzan passed the sleeping child.
Once aboard the bactrian the rest is remarkably simple…
May 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am
49 Matt
I remain unsure if R.oldfield said this herself.
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McCanns angered by published police interviews
Guardian 11 April 2008
‘Rachel Oldfield, one of the so-called “tapas seven”, had been in the adjoining flat on the other side of Madeleine’s wall all evening and heard no crying, it has been reported.’
May 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am
70…Gandolf
Why knock the NOTW…you keep rehashing old news yourself ?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
70 Gandolf It appears that you have got used to the idea that there will be no justice for M…So why bother coming on to the forum
May 11th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Moving on to another key point:
‘The one the McCanns had for the Ocean Club apartment is known in the locksmiths’ trade as a “crucifix key”—and is very unusual because it has four sides.’
‘Experienced British locksmith John Reeder told us the key used to take us into the flat yesterday is almost certainly a copy. He said: “Most locksmiths would not be able to copy it without great difficulty. The one in the picture is almost certainly not the original.”
Supporting the theory that the kidnap could be an inside job, he added: “I would say it is most likely there is at least one other key in circulation as most locks come with at least two spares when they are cut. But there are not many keys aroun like this one.”
Clearly Tarzan had access to a crack key cutter!
Or, and this is a bit of a wild guess on my part, he didn’t need a key at all because he went in the patio door…
May 11th, 2008 at 10:33 am
67 Agenda Wilde ..Why bother with a reconstruction when IMHO they know what happened to her. The Tapas Cook says they did not go out and seach for her after the alarm was raised(MCCannfiles.com) . The Obrien child is also supposed to look like M.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Why all the interest in old news, it’s ancient history that MO never entered the room, paper filling no new news, case at dead end, shelved soon get used to it, no justice for Madeleine.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:28 am
67
AgendaWide Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 10:24 am
..Surely it is time for a reconstruction of their famous faces and lives if ever they are to live happily ever after?
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But apparently they can’t see the point? Isn’t that what they’ve implied?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Iam now beginning to think that attention given to Oldfield is diverting attention away from OBrien- IMHO it is OB who plays a more sinister role in this charade.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:24 am
55 Morning Gloria
Appears to be no news on whether the McC’s will attend reconstruction. In Sept 2007 it was reported that the Embassy had arranged that they could leave Portugal on condition of cooperation and return to Portugal if requested.
Surely it is time for a reconstruction of their famous faces and lives if ever they are to live happily ever after?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am
M and A
Don’t be sexist, it could have been Jane
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or with a simple typo, June ..
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Oh not a chance, I’m into big beefy blokes
May 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am
My spilling is atrocious.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
44 Marie N Yes ,why should Oldfield be mentioned after all this time? Remember it was (allegedly) reported that it was O Brien who was away from the table most of the evening. Also am I correct in thinking that it is also OBriens daughters birthday on the 12 May also???!!!!! Peculiar that is ! Remember the twin theory! At one stage it was speculated that M was OBs and KMs child. Allegedly.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
M and A
Don’t be sexist, it could have been Jane
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I am not trying to top that…
May 11th, 2008 at 10:22 am
56…PeterMac
Dr G P has also disputed Ms Tanner’s description of the approximate height
of the alleged villian.
He rather anxiously insisted that “the villian” was not Dr G P’s approximate height….but several centimetres smaller.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Happy sunday!
I think the Dr. O’s checking/non checking is specially interesting. It has a strong flavour or unlikelihood ; if true, it doesn’t show him in a good light when it comes to honouring his engagements responsibly, whether he volunteered for them or not. Were M’s parents “naive” again in trusting him? A lot of nivety that night, maybe the full moon is responsible, but innocently responsible of course.
Have to go, now. Will come back later!
May 11th, 2008 at 10:21 am
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AgendaWide Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 10:15 am
51 Chenier
One problem Tarzan does not say ‘whoosh clunk’, perhaps the Fragrant one misheard?
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She must have done; it was more of a drumming sound as Tarzan beat his chest…
May 11th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Thanks June, I was just so tempted by the puking smiley I tried to post it. I am a luddite when it comes to technical things like that - I hope I haven’t caused a problem?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Morning All
Gloria have pulled your best smiley link for Duncan to sort out later
May 11th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Curiouser and curiouser:
‘That was made even easier because it was left UNLOCKED by the McCanns who wanted quick access to the flat from the tapas bar side.
The patio door could only be bolted from the inside which would have meant them having to walk around to the front every time they wanted to check on their children.’
And, of course, the McCanns wouldn’t want to waste a couple of minutes when they could be having ‘me’ time with people they were really into…
May 11th, 2008 at 10:18 am
53 Matt
But then it is GM who has systematically destroyed the Tanner timeline as well. It is as if he is the guardian of the only true story and everything else must be adapted to fit his version. That which doesn’t fit is simply altered or deleted.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Good morning chenier, Marie Nicholas, PeterMac, AgendaWide and lyn. (I was first by the way!)
May 11th, 2008 at 10:15 am
51 Chenier
One problem Tarzan does not say ‘whoosh clunk’, perhaps the Fragrant one misheard?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:15 am
50…PeterMac
As it seems to have been Dr K who raised the matter of where cuddlecat
was herself….it is an odd way of saying that cuddles was in the wardrobe.
Dr G P’s contradiction of her locating abilities suggests speaks volumes.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Moving swiftly forward:
‘From the restaurant, foliage blocks the view of the balcony to such an extent that a man of average height could have stood in the middle of it next to the wall holding a child in his arms and still NOT have been seen by the McCanns or any of the Tapas Nine at the restaurant.’
Would you say that Tarzan is of average height?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am
‘At the back our astonishing pictures prove THERE IS NO CLEAR VIEW either way from the balcony and the rear patio doors of the McCann apartment to the tapas bar where her parents Kate and Gerry were having dinner.
The abductor would have had the cover of TREES in full foliage as he crept around the Praia da Luz flat that night.’
Well, the picture is certainly becoming clearer; the dastardly villain may have been wearing jungle camouflage as he slid through the undergrowth and swung through the trees.
Anyone think it might be Tarzan?
M and A
Don’t be sexist, it could have been Jane