Madeleine McCann: Irvine Welsh, French T-Shirts And A Halo
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY HERALD: “I don’t believe we get rewarded or punished, but I believe we have a responsibility to try to get the best out of life and make it comfortable for other people”
IRVINE WELSH arrives at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin carrying a holdall in two-tone, light beige leather; it gives the impression that he has just walked in from a picnic. Natural atrium light swamps his head and in a flash he’s almost on top of me, swapping his bag from one set of fingers to another and shaking my hand. His face contorts: he is an hour and a bit late and he’s sorry.
A halo?
Welsh’s jacket is reversible yellow. His T-shirt, in French, says “What would you do if this was the end of the world?” Well? “I don’t know,” he says, apparently uninspired by the question he is advertising.
Well, he could plug his new book: Crime:
“It’s the most difficult thing to write about,” says Welsh. “Child sex abuse tests the limits of our liberalism to the full. You have the whole idea of whether rehabilitation is possible or even desirable.” He was about halfway through the first draft when the Madeleine McCann story broke and forced him to stop writing for two months. “I couldn’t look at the novel or at the newspapers,” he says. “I thought I was never going to finish the book.”
Fact and fiction - can you spot the difference?
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June 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
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jo Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm e
Madeleine is a WOC because the mccanns ARE official suspects in her “disappearance”,neglect being at the heart of it.
They did not ask for her to be.
Only police and social services can made application for a wardship and in those cases the parents see all their parental responsabilities removed
May be the twins are as well?
They want to know whats going on? It will be refused:No Court will rule against the police
A spokeswoman for the family said: “As responsible parents concerned for the welfare of their twins, on return from Portugal, Gerry and Kate contacted social services to arrange a meeting to discuss their wellbeing.”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1284044,00.html
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And why did they contact Social Services Jo? Because they thought it would be a nice idea to have Social Services in their lives? I doubt it.
Just as I doubt that they are straight forward wards of court. I suspect the truth is that their solicitor ‘invited’ them to make an application to the Court of Protection before a mandatory order was foisted upon them. That way they could appear to be in control.
I suspect they contacted Social Services because they had been ‘invited to arrange a meeting’ on their return from Portugal. ‘Invited to arrange a meeting’ is on a par with being ‘invited to volunteer’………
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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jo Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Madeleine is a WOC because the mccanns ARE official suspects in her “disappearance”,neglect being at the heart of it.
They did not ask for her to be.
Only police and social services can made application for a wardship and in those cases the parents see all their parental responsabilities removed
May be the twins are as well?
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Where is your proof to the above statement, Jo? Not speculation on your part but proof! You live in another country now where is your proof for what did or did not take place in the UK!
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Cheryl
And another thing if your theory is correct, is that not how the leak about madeleines ‘ Why did you leave us cry mummy’ story come out?
Are they choosing these releases to make the casual reader think they are being victimised ?
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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Maravilha Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Menacings and threats.
Can we believe this story or are the McCanns making up those stories?
edited jj 13.37 23/6
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You ask that question are they making up those stories? In all seriousness, look at the sites on the internet with the majority of the postings against the McCanns and some really horrid statements made about them. If you were them - would you sleep easy at night? I sure as hell wouldn’t with all the crazies out in this world who read them or even some write them! You get a crazy out there who reads the sites and decides to take justice in their own hands believing all they read…
Absolutely no doubt in my mind they have been threatened….
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Madeleine is a WOC because the mccanns ARE official suspects in her “disappearance”,neglect being at the heart of it.
They did not ask for her to be.
Only police and social services can made application for a wardship and in those cases the parents see all their parental responsabilities removed
May be the twins are as well?
They want to know whats going on? It will be refused:No Court will rule against the police
A spokeswoman for the family said: “As responsible parents concerned for the welfare of their twins, on return from Portugal, Gerry and Kate contacted social services to arrange a meeting to discuss their wellbeing.”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1284044,00.html
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Cheryl
Also how do you think Aunty Philomena feels as in Matts post….38
Matt. Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
It seems that Dr G P has kept big sis Philomena in the dark about something…
Philomena McCann…11/9/2007…
“”””The family are more than willing to look after the children and they will not become wards of the state here or anywhere else.””””
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-480931/Madeleine-Now-British-police-ask-twins-risk.html
That was 4 months after tey made her a ward of court.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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Cheryl Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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brandon flours Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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I was trying to sort out why also. Most logical reason I can come up with is once it went for the court hearing would it not have come out then? Beat all the malicious people with their gossip and speculations to the punch by announcing it themselves ahead of time.
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But it hasnt, has it? It’s just brought it sooner.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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brandon flours Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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I was trying to sort out why also. Most logical reason I can come up with is once it went for the court hearing would it not have come out then? Beat all the malicious people with their gossip and speculations to the punch by announcing it themselves ahead of time.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Chenier
‘had the High Court thought it was possible, and proper, to seek disclosure of the information held by the Leicestershire police force…’
This probably explains all the delays in those rog letters.
I always thought since I did a child protection course, if a parent ‘loses’ a child, then the social services /courts would have interviened.
But why have they told us now?
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
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chenier Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I know; what is more it would have been very embarassing. I’ve already been blown up once, and people would have made very pointed comments about a repeat performance.
One of my closest friends summed it up nicely some years ago when we were caught in a sudden downpour:
‘I’m not saying you are unlucky, but I’m not standing under the same tree as you…’
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Ah the things close friends can say without getting a clip around the earhole
I have to ask …. you were blown up????
(If it’s something you don’t want to talk about, then I’ll understand, it is a very personal thing I’m asking)
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
brandon, thank you.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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brandon flours Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Ward Of Court
In the UK, a child whose guardian is the High Court. Any person may, by issuing proceedings, make the High Court guardian of any child within its jurisdiction. No important step in the child’s life can then be taken without the court’s leave.
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Which raises the interesting question of whether Madeleine can be said to be within the Court’s jurisdiction.
I think we can agree that, if Madeleine was abducted, and is still alive, then whoever has her doesn’t give a hoot about applying to the Court for leave.
And reinforces my puzzlement as to why the McCanns should be taking legal action which presumably should have been initiated by the High Court acting as Madeleine’s guardian, had the High Court thought it was possible, and proper, to seek disclosure of the information held by the Leicestershire police force…
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
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Julie Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Wheeew, you’re lucky Chenier! If that thing had gone bang, you may have found yourself on a U-turn back to hospital (that’s if you were still in one piece!).
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I know; what is more it would have been very embarassing. I’ve already been blown up once, and people would have made very pointed comments about a repeat performance.
One of my closest friends summed it up nicely some years ago when we were caught in a sudden downpour:
‘I’m not saying you are unlucky, but I’m not standing under the same tree as you…’
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Ward Of Court
In the UK, a child whose guardian is the High Court. Any person may, by issuing proceedings, make the High Court guardian of any child within its jurisdiction. No important step in the child’s life can then be taken without the court’s leave.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I am not sure, but I think its when a childs needs are taken away from the parent and the social services monitor them and look after their best interests.
I will try to find the right phrase.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Brandon, what is a ward of court?
(I’m always asking what is this, what is that).
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Former Notre Dame high school pupil Kate and Gerry were in the French city to campaign for a Europe-wide alert system for abducted children.
A Leicestershire police spokesman said: “We are investigating threats made against the McCanns.”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/06/23/madeleine-mccann-family-death-threats-100252-21136114/
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Aye?
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
77 WTF,
who payed it for them?
A 3 years old (probably) dead girl?
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
88
Hi Maravilha,
I think they are playing the victim card to lose focus on the why was she made a ward of court story.
Makes casual readers think it was because of this.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Menacings and threats.
Can we believe this story or are the McCanns making up those stories?
edited jj 13.37 23/6
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Wheeew, you’re lucky Chenier! If that thing had gone bang, you may have found yourself on a U-turn back to hospital (that’s if you were still in one piece!).
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Well, don’t know about the McCanns but I’m feeling lucky; the laptop person informs me that I’m lucky it didn’t explode.
They are probably not going to be able to fix it, so bang goes the stuff I had collected on.
But at least it didn’t go bang!
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
bye julie, thankyou, but i dont suppose i will
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Bye wtf … enjoy x
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
And as for their “we will leave no stone unturned”, I think the rocks are getting too big for them to pick up!
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
off to work, may be back later x
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
julie
especially after declaring to the world they would return to pdl if asked by the pj! they have brought everything on themselves imo
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
To be honest with you wtf, I don’t think they’re in a position to clear their names - Obviously my opinion of course.
What really put the nail into the coffin for me regarding them is their refusal to co-operate with the re-enactment in PDL, I was always suspicious of the way they acted but this really just did it for me. FFS this was their little girl, if there was the tiniest little bit of hope that the re-enactment may have triggered something new then why didn’t they go?
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
julie
Doesnt the fact that they are receiving all this hate male and threats make them realise that the sooner they clear their name the better? they are doing nothing to make people think they are innocent are they?
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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wtf Says:
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Who paid for them i wonder
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A certain little fund?