Madeleine McCann: The People Analyses The McCanns’ Holiday
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE PEOPLE: “WISH SHE WAS HERE”
EXCLUSIVE Maddie in parents’ hearts as they take the twins on first break without her. Moving pictures of holiday brave McCann family thought would be impossible to bear
The People has no little power and can look into the minds of the MCCanns and actually see what they are thinking.
For Kate and Gerry their three week trip to Canada could hardly be anything but a painful reminder of what happened in Praia da Luz in May last year. And Maddie did not leave their minds for a moment.
Fact.
Not for them the excitement and anticipation of other holidaymakers.
Fact.
Not for them the promise of time free from the stresses of workaday life.
Fact.
Norah, sister of Kate’s dad, said after waving off the McCanns: “They had a lovely time, very relaxing. It was all about them getting away. They really enjoyed being away from the spotlight. We spent a lot of time at the beach. The beaches here are beautiful.”
Fact.
Posted: 13th, July 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (353) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 13th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
139. Whoops. You are absolutely right and I accept your criticism so now I withdraw from the daft bickering and go back to work. Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
132 BabyJane Says:
” If I generously put 1 Euro 50 in a brown envelope and sent it to you, would you got to Cologne library and look for articles on Renée ? ”
No, I won’t. It’s not a nice situation if you are a relative of a victim of a cold case. You certainly won’t appreciate forum chat about it. (We do it about the McCanns, OK, they went public, they asked for it, but…) At best, it’s pointless. More likely, it’s hurtful and tactless. I won’t get involved in it.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Whoops,
Far better to watch!
July 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Fun again tonight I see-what is this a battle of wits-a forum to show how clever we are-in which case i won’t attempt to join in.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
aha Chenier… twisting words to suit your own agenda as is your usual want! Naturally SOCA is interested in cocaine smuggling, money laundering, organised crime, industrial espionage et al but in the case of the McCanns SOCAs involvement is because of the possibility of child trafficking.
Economical with the truth yet again…….
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Jo said jajajajajajajajajajajajaja,
do you have a speech defect? Just wondered…. if so then I apologise for thinking you are absolutely barking!
July 13th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Jo,
I became cynical.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
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Maria
Do you ever read anything or wot? they have NOTHING to do with it
I wont do like chenier who spends an awful long time explaining,posting links and the lot because you cant care less:you do not tread a single word of it and wait for people to explain it to you…..how do I know spanish is your mother tongue? jeje I am a witch
July 13th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
122
Maria
jajajajajajajajajajajajaja
July 13th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
128
SteveT Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I used to be a martyr.
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…and what happened to your “martyrdoom” then?
July 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
121
coolandcalm Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
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I hate to spoil your fun, but quoting a 2005 press release about something is not exactly cutting edge news.
CEOP is affiliated to SOCA, but it’s not a law enforcement agency.
SOCA’s aims are set out in its website.
Still waiting for you to provide something to support your claim that SOCA isn’t interested when a half ton of cocaine goes missing…
July 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
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Ferdinand Says:
So all we have to do is to wait for Rebelo’s book methinks.
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Ok, der war gut, Ferdinand.
If I generously put 1 Euro 50 in a brown envelope and sent it to you, would you got to Cologne library and look for articles on Renée ?
July 13th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
29 SteveT
Is SOCA called football in the US?
i think it’s the other way round
July 13th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
SteveT 129
July 13th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Is SOCA called football in the US?
July 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I used to be a martyr.
July 13th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
39 Rasputin Says:
” Word in Lagos (Algarve -agw) is that Paulo Rebelo and his team have solved the case, but the prosecutor has been ordered to close the case. ”
So all we have to do is to wait for Rebelo’s book methinks.
July 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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Rasputin Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Word in Lagos (Algarve -agw) is that Paulo Rebelo and his team have solved the case, but the prosecutor has been ordered to close the case. No British subjects are said to have been involved in the disappearance, the source is usually very good, but I appreciate anything is possible with this case, just passing on from a good source.
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A better source than Concarlo Amaral and Moita Flores???
July 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
|So what you’re saying Elvera, is that because the mcCanns left Madeleine at risk no attempts should be made to find her (alive or dead) and no-one should bother to look for a potential abductor / child abuser / murderer? It’s acceptable to take children and do whatever to them if the parents are negligent?
and I bet you claim to care about Madeleine?!
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No, I didn’t say that at all…….suggest you read my comments again!
oh and I care about all children.
July 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
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Elvera Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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What are you talking about? I don’t think a person alive who knows of this case doesn’t realize if those parents had not committed such an act of neglect the child would not be missing. No one can excuse that act of neglect!
July 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Post 121. Clicked too soon!
Chenier… can you use google? I’m sure you’ll find plenty there to read about regardine SOCA!
July 13th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Carmen
Well, the same thoughts have certainly crossed my mind but then, they have to try to live as normal a life as possible, I suppose. It would be dreadful for the twins if one of the consequences of Madeleine’s disappearance was that their parents became so neurotic that they were no longer allowed to go to nursery, spend normal amounts of time with other friends and family members etc. I think it will be bad enough to have parents whose thoughts must always be on their missing sister. I wouldn’t be surprised if their most normal times are now away from the parents with what will probably be their lifetime obsession about Madeleine. Of course, if they are charged with murder or abandoning the children, and face imprisonment, the twins will probably be brought up by relatives. They are at least lucky to belong to a big, apparently close and supportive family.
I would not have left children to go and eat with friends, even with regular checks (if these occurred) and even a short distance away. I would simply have arranged a babysitting rota.
However, IF there was an abductor, he or she cannot be excused on the grounds that s/he only took advantage of the parents’ carelessness.
July 13th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/New_Centre_To_Protect_Children_O
July 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
|So what you’re saying Elvera, is that because the mcCanns left Madeleine at risk no attempts should be made to find her (alive or dead) and no-one should bother to look for a potential abductor / child abuser / murderer? It’s acceptable to take children and do whatever to them if the parents are negligent?
and I bet you claim to care about Madeleine?!
July 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
CHENIER 107:
“Anorak isn’t the tabloid press. We are here to critique it, not emulate it.”
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But we aren’t supposed to critique lengthy posts by bored posters, are we
Though we might suggest them to get a hobby, instead of watching television.
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Are you making catty remarks about me watching TV, Chatelaine? See I’m a prisoner in my own house - I am exposed to MRSA on a daily basis, as I’m taking care of someone dying with it and other ailments, and thus it is best I don’t return to work and pass it around at the present time. Can be quite deadly you know! I believe 1200 or so people in the UK have died from it over the last two years?
July 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hi Maria and Cheryl.
Taking away all the red herrings about M3 and drugs, SOCA investigate child-trafficking and pornography. That is part of their remit and they work alongside other agencies for this. That is why they are invovled in the MMC case.
The armchairs like to pretend they know more than anyone else. They don’t!
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It’s so strange that you cannot find anything on the SOCA website to support that claim, isn’t it?
But until you do I will stick to the boring and uninspired, but factually correct, statement that SOCA does what SOCA says it does, and I can assure you that SOCA does not regard half a ton of cocaine as a red herring.
Particularly not since it was hidden in frozen prawns…
July 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Why can’t the likes of Maria, Cheryl, C&C get it into theur heads that what happening to Madeleine is down to her parents for abandoning her and her siblings…thus leaving the door open to many dreadful things that could and have happened in their case. The world is never going to be a totally safe place no matter how much legislation, iniatiatives etc etc are brought in…….at the end of the day it is the RESPOSIBLE parent who is best placed when it comes to child safety. It’s simple….Don’t leave tiny children on their own to fend for themselves on any occasion let alone at night in a strange environment….simple really, I think its called common sense!
July 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hi Maria and Cheryl.
Taking away all the red herrings about M3 and drugs, SOCA investigate child-trafficking and pornography. That is part of their remit and they work alongside other agencies for this. That is why they are invovled in the MMC case.
The armchairs like to pretend they know more than anyone else. They don’t!
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Thanks, C&C, I understand and I do have a mind of my own and able to sort things through. As you know, C&C, I worked 7 years hand in hand with the former director of the highest spook agency in the US and he taught me well …
July 13th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Cheryl
Here too, if a school knows that a parent does not have the legal right to collect or contact a child, it must not allow that to happen.
The problem, especially for secondary schools, is that when you have 1000-2000 youngsters leaving a site, it is impossible to check everything that happens near the school gate. We do have some difficult cases. Sometimes there are cases of schools being blamed for things which are pretty well out of their control. There is a secondary school near my home where precisely this happened recently. The poor teacher on “gate duty”, whom I happen to know, did not know that a particular parent should not have collected this particular child, did not even know the child concerned, and did not notice, amidst the scores of kids pouring out of the gates, one particular meeting anyway. This school will have to adjust its communication practices and its policies but, in fact, this sort of thing may well lead to schools trying to change the current situation over their responsibility for pupils’ safety up to about ten minutes after the end of the school day. I know of another teacher who was attacked by a passing bunch of kids when she was on duty at the school gate. The kids were “after” some of the kids coming out of the school in question and decided to throw missiles at the duty teacher when she appeared on the scene.
I don’t know the details of the law on schools’ responsibilities but I know one very distressed teacher. Fortunately, in this particular case, the parent who does have custody of the child was very understanding of the individual teacher’s position although I gather she had words to say to the Head! The child was completely unharmed, though unhappy, and, being twelve, was able to make her own way home later.
Enjoy your day. I am about to go for a jog to try to run off too much eating and drinking recently!
July 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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jo Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Kate,I know what you did in canada
http://bp2.blogger.com/_3HAnFzHSqqE/R-mo0t6RLHI/AAAAAAAAAxc/aKDAeRNtJo0/s1600-h/floppers.jpg
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Get a grip on reality, Jo - you live on the blog sites, such as linked, to feed your all consumming condemnation of the McCanns?
July 13th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hi Maria and Cheryl.
Taking away all the red herrings about M3 and drugs, SOCA investigate child-trafficking and pornography. That is part of their remit and they work alongside other agencies for this. That is why they are invovled in the MMC case.
The armchairs like to pretend they know more than anyone else. They don’t!