Madeleine McCann: Blaming Richard Desmond And How To Prevent Another Maddie
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE GUARDIAN: “Why the Sunday Express is so unpopular”
ROY GREENSLADE:
I note that the Sunday Express took another sales nose dive last month to record an average weekly sale of just 673,840. Could the continuing circulation slide have anything to do with the readers’ dislike of its scandalous Madeleine McCann coverage? Possibly.
Or has it more to do with the whimsical, but pointless, columns by the paper’s editor, Martin Townsend ? Also possible.
But I believe it has more to do with the growing distaste for its owner, Richard Desmond. In true Maxwellian form a sweaty picture of Dirty Des appeared in this week’s issue (arm around Lulu, poor her) at a charity function arranged by, of course, Desmond himself. Expect another sales drop this month.
OK!, which routinely features its owner Desmond, is the top selling showbiz magazine. Go figure…
METRO: “McCanns hold ‘low-key Maddie birthday party’”
Mr McCann, a consultant cardiologist at Leicester’s Glenfield Hospital, has a number of clinical appointments but he and his wife were due to be together at home for some part of the day.
Such are the facts.
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “7 ways to keep your kids safe on holiday - It’s easy for parents to become too relaxed about their children while abroad, so Shane Dunphy suggests some general rules”
Summer’s here — at last. And all we can think about are holidays in the sun. But no parent can take their children abroad now without thinking of tragic Madeleine McCann.
Tips to avoid another Madeleine McCann include:
- Have a bottle of water with you at all times, and insist that everyone sips some regularly.
- The accepted belief that a child can drown in a couple of inches of water is wisdom indeed, which means that you must be hyper-careful around the pool or on the beach.
- It is always a good idea for the children to have their own funds (within reason), so during the lead-up to the holiday, encourage them to save up for their own special treats during their time away.
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May 12th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
245
clouseau
I think that as well!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
dont mention the dogs
May 12th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
i think Kate and Gerry arrived back from Chaplins on the 2cnd so p***** they thought the window was the door
May 12th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
BUT none of that takes into account the dogs’ reaction in the apartment, or the blood spots, or anything like that.
And that can’t be ignored.
However, faintly interesting that Sky is questioning the parents’ rigid testimony.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
241 jass Says:
” I think the idea is she went out through the unlocked patio doors and down the stairs, on her way to the restaurant. ”
But who opened the shutters then? And - in this case - why?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
233
Ferdinand Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
217 chenier Says:
” F:Who should have opened them, other than the abductor, and why?
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One obvious possibility would be someone who wished to convey the impression that another individual had entered, or exited from, the apartment that way…”
Well, that’s what I thought occasionally. If someone had a second key to the appartment, or someone knew the patio doors were open, s/he could have opened the window to conceal that s/he was an insider. However, it would still be the abductor - or maybe an accomplice.
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Why?
You are claiming the existence of a dastardly villain, furiously diving for cover in the 10 seconds he had before Gerry came in.
You are claiming that the said dastardly villain then navigated across a pitch black apartment in order to deliberately open the shutter and window, generating noise which would probably have woken one or more of the children, plus the lady who lives upstairs, when he could have got on with silently abducting the child.
That’s nonsense.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Ferdinand:
I think the idea is she went out through the unlocked patio doors and down the stairs, on her way to the restaurant.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
227 Carmen
Thanks, if CM is relieved of his duties, which I suspect he is, I think The McCanns
should stop giving interviews, they are not very good communicators, Kate”s “We
wanna back”, Gerry “I wish I”d been there” (referring to the Abductor) !!!!
His blog today is full of congratulating all the people who had phoned the BBC no, or
e-mailed, literally thousands which will all be read. He particularly asks for any info
from holidaymakers who were in PDL at the same time as them at OC club.
Right at the end he mention”s Madeleine and her birthday!!!!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
236-I thought people justr walked through the reception area-no gate as such-Dunno never been there. i don’t know that staff were actually checking keys-Is it that straightforward?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
235 Jass-I think that is exactly what happened.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
235, jass Says:
” Forgive me if this has been discussed 1,ooo times, but it was new to me: Sky News currently has a video and story about the possibility of Madeleine walking out of the apartment in search of the parents and being snatched by an opportunist. ”
But who had opened the window in this case?
May 12th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
228
whoops Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
225 yes but Chenier you don’t have random people buying a weeks access to your garden do you- and therefore have a right of entry-if you did you’d need to make sure you sat there all night checking who was coming in or out.
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Why?
The keys take you into the gardens, as they do into the flats. People can’t get in without the keys.
The security staff are there to deal with people who do not have keys and who are attempting entry.
It’s very straight forward…
May 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Forgive me if this has been discussed 1,ooo times, but it was new to me: Sky News currently has a video and story about the possibility of Madeleine walking out of the apartment in search of the parents and being snatched by an opportunist.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
whats all this about an abductor??
May 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
217 chenier Says:
” F:Who should have opened them, other than the abductor, and why?
———————-
One obvious possibility would be someone who wished to convey the impression that another individual had entered, or exited from, the apartment that way…”
Well, that’s what I thought occasionally. If someone had a second key to the appartment, or someone knew the patio doors were open, s/he could have opened the window to conceal that s/he was an insider. However, it would still be the abductor - or maybe an accomplice.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
227-do we know that they ever went to Chaplains without the children? Or are we speculating? I find it hard to separate fact from fiction-in this case that is-not generally-I am not an avid follower so apologies if I am tiresome.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
119…PeterMac
Re Inquest….Point noted, Thank you.
Though the Darwin “Presumed Dead” declaration needed an extra “push”
by Mrs Darwin via the Home Office…
“”"Mrs Darwin managed to have him declared presumed dead after persuading
the coroner to make an application to the Home Office to do so without
waiting the usual seven years.”"”
May 12th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
RTE not TVE.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Sorry if this has already been posted - Clarence Mitchell interview on TVE
http://www.rte.ie/live/
Click on late late show link and
scroll down the right hand side and you should see the clarrie interview
May 12th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
225 yes but Chenier you don’t have random people buying a weeks access to your garden do you- and therefore have a right of entry-if you did you’d need to make sure you sat there all night checking who was coming in or out.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
226
val Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:48 pm e
213 Carmen
How far is Lagos? is that where the Millenium bar is?
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Lagos is less than ten minutes away. Approx 6 km once you hit the main road by the campsite.
Can’t help you with the Millennium bar, didn’t notice it. Chaplains is bang next door to the church, which rather surprised me; I seem to remember some comment that Gerry was asking where the church was that night, apart from the fact that it is the main ‘navigating point’ in the town, something you are constantly passing and re-passing, I don’t understand how you could have been to Chaplain’s and not noticed the church, they practically share a party wall.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
213 Carmen
How far is Lagos? is that where the Millenium bar is?
May 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
208
whoops Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
197-yes, I have just been to places that are ’secure’ and been amazed how easy it is to get in-people normally hold the gate open for you. That or I could easily climb over it.
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My home is secure, and anyone attempting to tailgate their way in is likely to find themselves explaining to the constabulary why they suddenly thought that they lived here.
Ditto people attempting to climb over the gates into our private gardens…
May 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
208
whoops Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm e
197-yes, I have just been to places that are ’secure’ and been amazed how easy it is to get in-people normally hold the gate open for you. That or I could easily climb over it.
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Every one who ‘got in’ without paying the annual charge would represent a loss of 1200 euros a year to Mark Warner.
There is also the issue of swimming pool security all over Europe (not UK I understand) there are swinging penalties for unsecured swimming pool areas.
On both issues, but particularly the annual charge, I can quite understand that MW are prepared to go to quite a lot of trouble to ensure that only those who have paid use the facility. They only undertake to let those apartments whose owners have paid the charge.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
199 Nemesis
You ought to copy the you tube and see it at your leisure, it is a CBS News production
so quite unbiased, although the Private Investigator thinks it was an abduction. There
is one scene where John Corning is pointing out how easy it would be for Madeleine
to be picked, the McCanns movements watched from a vantage point across the road.
The vantage point is the Balcony of the Apartment opposite, what about the Occupier
of said Apartment, would they give permission for their Balcony to be used by a stalker?
May 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
213 Thanks Carmen-I envisaged it as much bigger than this….and until this week i certainly didn’t even realise the appartments weren’t within the ’secure’ compound. Nothing like your own garden then?
May 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Din din calling
see you later if you are still around.
Lots of posters are missing
May 12th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
204 Carmen Says:
” I don’t know, I wasn’t there on April 29th last year - but then neither were you.”
If you say so.
” Maybe you are right, maybe it wasn’t manned, and they weren’t there! ”
I had only quoted from the Mccannfiles. It is of course hard to understand how there could be so much confusion about the checks, if the gate was manned. We have heard various waiters commenting on the number of checks. Why has no journalist asked the man or woman who was on duty at that gate?
But anyway, if there were someone at the gate, the police would have his or her testimony just as they have the waiters’.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
213
Nemesis
They definitively are not “normal”…..
May 12th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Have to go now . Goodnight all .