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.
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July 13th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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chenier Says:
[...] you omitted to notice that things have changed since you stopped hanging around police stations;
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*big, big grin*
July 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
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Maria Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
chenier
Please don’t accuse me of lying because I can’t produce a link immediately but I read months ago of SOCA’s interest in the M case. They certainly do concern themselves with child-trafficking, for example. (Not that I’m saying this was such a case.) I think I read about it when looking at the campaign of different missing people/children groups to persuade the European Parliament to adopt some sort of Amber-Alert-type consistent, cross-border response in cases of missing children. I did a lot of reading before lobbying my MEP group to sign the declaration.
To suggest SOCA is not interested in cases of possible child-abduction is….erm…..daft or dishonest.
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Maria,
Had you bothered to spend a few minutes reading SOCA’s own website you would have realised that you are talking twaddle.
I find it extraordinary that people would prefer to talk twaddle than take the trouble to familiarise themselves with the facts.
May I suggest that you try reading it now?
July 13th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
and SOCA will tell you that they are especially interested in the MMC case because it is thought she was child-trafficked. Child abductions and kidnappings are serious.
(from CEOP) ………. Working alongside law enforcement partners, the UK Human Trafficking Centre, the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the UK Border Agency, specialist charities and NGOs, the CEOP Child Trafficking Unit provides a focal point for the production and dissemination of knowledge, information and understanding on the nature and scale of the trafficking of children in the UK, along with policy, guidance and training on the best responses to the problems identified.
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Give them a call in the morning………..
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I don’t need to, C&C.
But disposing first of your original claim, you omitted to notice that things have changed since you stopped hanging around police stations; in particular there was a major reform and SOCA only came into existence on 1 April 2006.
The agency is directed at serious organised crime, dear C&C, not just any old serious crime, and what you vaguely remember from the old days matters not one iota to the people charged with tackling serious organised crime.
Once you have managed to lodge that fact into your cranium further facts can follow.
One of SOCA’s lead tasks is organised immigration crime.
‘Organised immigration crime covers both the organised facilitation of immigrants to the UK (“people smuggling”) and the trafficking of people for criminal exploitation, for example as prostitutes or forced labour (“human trafficking”).
Organised illegal immigration causes harm to the people who are trafficked, who often face violence and other personal risks. But it also creates problems for the UK through the economic costs and impact on social cohesion brought by large numbers of illegal migrants.’
By this point your brain may be up to the task of grasping that ‘immigration crime’ means ‘immigration crime’, just as the phrase in the CEOPs note you quoted ‘in the UK’ means ‘in the UK’.
I appreciate that to someone fed a constant diet of fantasy about the way law enforcement agencies operate, words like ‘organised illegal immigration’ are really boring, and that to someone of your romantic nature ‘in the UK’ clearly means ‘not in the UK’, but the people at SOCA, fortunately for all of us, are neither fantasists or romantics.
SOCA does indeed know a great deal about people trafficking; who do you think was responsible for the whole ‘abducted to order for an evil arab pervert’ being shot down in flames? Even the McCanns have had to give up on that one…
But their remit does not include an English child kidnapped abroad; that’s just another romantic fantasy spun for the benefit of people who like to believe romantic fantasy.
It does include drug trafficking, which is SOCA’a single most important activity:
‘Trafficking in heroin and cocaine, particularly crack cocaine, poses the greatest single threat to the UK in terms of the scale of serious organised criminal involvement, the illegal proceeds secured and the overall harm caused.
Home Office estimates put the harm caused by Class A drugs at around £13bn a year. This largely arises from the profits from sales, the crimes addicts commit to fund their habit, and the damage caused to family life and communities, as well as from costs to addicts’ health.’
At this point, dear C&C, you have to ask yourself whether you are feeling lucky.
Bearing in mind, of course, that one of Metodo 3’s finest was done for half a ton of cocaine going missing.
SOCA had every reason to be there on Monday, and it had nothing to do with organised immigration crime…
July 13th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
chenier
By the way, I would totally support the police, SOCA and anyone else who said it was vital not to compromise cooperation with foreign police forces or to compromise in any way an ongoing criminal investigation.
The Mcs accepted a compromise before the hearing actually took place. Their QC said they fully realised the important principles at stake.
They still wanted as much information as possible and the police’s own QC said the police appreciated this. Most people would, at the moment, because, as yet, there’s no evidence in the public domain that the Mcs are guilty. Thank God a lot of people still agree with your words the other day about guilt being determined by the proper collection of evidence to be presented to a court.
Interesting that the POLICE QC chose to express the sentiment though!
Of course, as I said before, they know where public sympathy mostly lies at the moment. rightly or wrongly.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
chenier
Please don’t accuse me of lying because I can’t produce a link immediately but I read months ago of SOCA’s interest in the M case. They certainly do concern themselves with child-trafficking, for example. (Not that I’m saying this was such a case.) I think I read about it when looking at the campaign of different missing people/children groups to persuade the European Parliament to adopt some sort of Amber-Alert-type consistent, cross-border response in cases of missing children. I did a lot of reading before lobbying my MEP group to sign the declaration.
To suggest SOCA is not interested in cases of possible child-abduction is….erm…..daft or dishonest.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
cool and calm
It looks as though they brought in a lot of heavy hammers to crack a nut though!
Or perhaps it wasn’t such an easy-peasy lemon-squeezy piece-of-cake case, after all….??!
Were they just a tad concerned about the final outcome?
Of course, they would also have known where public sympathy would lie.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
and SOCA will tell you that they are especially interested in the MMC case because it is thought she was child-trafficked. Child abductions and kidnappings are serious.
(from CEOP) ………. Working alongside law enforcement partners, the UK Human Trafficking Centre, the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the UK Border Agency, specialist charities and NGOs, the CEOP Child Trafficking Unit provides a focal point for the production and dissemination of knowledge, information and understanding on the nature and scale of the trafficking of children in the UK, along with policy, guidance and training on the best responses to the problems identified.
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Give them a call in the morning………..
July 13th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
67 Gandolf is it possible that the priest was running a mobile confessional from the back of the taxi?
July 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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Gandolf Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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Tell it to the Attorney General, Gandy.
Though do allow me a friendly word of advice; leave out the bit about cotton picking.
Baroness Scotland really wouldn’t like it…
July 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
SOCA are always involved in abductions / kidnappings etc. I’d have been surprised if they weren’t involved….. Serious Crime is Serious Crime is Serious Crime… it matters not a jot which serious crime!
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C&C, does it ever occur to you that it might be advisable just occasionally to check before you impart your pearls of wisdom to a waiting audience?
Particularly, in this instance, by checking that SOCA does what you claim?
Because according to SOCA it doesn’t.
And SOCA probably knows more about what SOCA does than you do…
http://www.soca.gov.uk/
July 13th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Dontcha just love it when the law and the code of conduct sets it out.
“A barrister ’s code of conduct makes it a disciplinary offence for him to mislead a court.
He can do this by commission or omission so for a barrister who knew differently to allow a judge to make a statement that he knows to be untrue would be a disciplinary offence.
It would be an abuse of process to allow a wardship hearing to continue in the case of a child that the police have already officially told the parents was dead.
The LP would have had no need to mount any defence to the judges order neither would SOCA and the AG needed to attend when they simply had to tell the judge that Madeleine ws no longer alive and with the death of the ward the judges authority ended.”
Kiss ma cotton pickin ass!
July 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
From what The Mad Monk incanted, the plod know CC.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
SOCA are always involved in abductions / kidnappings etc. I’d have been surprised if they weren’t involved….. Serious Crime is Serious Crime is Serious Crime… it matters not a jot which serious crime!
July 13th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
IMO there are too many people involved, not just the T7. One day someone will get pissed or pissed off …
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Well, there has certainly been a vast investigation there and here; consider, for example, all that claptrap being spouted about M3 working with the Moroccan Mafia to find Madeleine, with the subsequent arrest of the M3 operative Antonia Jiminez for his alleged involvement in smuggling half a ton of cocaine.
The involvement of SOCA in the hearing suggests that they are extremely concerned about their information getting into the hands of the McCanns….
July 13th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Gandolf… excluding the priest of course
you think the same way I do and the way many in PDL do!
But who knows for sure?
July 13th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Karen in true windylicker style you got it arse for elbow, again. The question is was the priest in the taxi, an educated guess from the descriptions given by the driver, should lead you to the other three, here is a hint none of them are residents of the UK.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
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chenier Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am
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Good morning, Chenier. Nice report. Isn’t it funny that we can surprise men by playing and winning. I’ve done my fair bit at the pool table, as well as poker and bowling. In fact my second name is “Strike” …
July 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Allo all.
lyn if this is a conspiracy between the Tapas 7 - 9 then they’ve stuck like shit to a blanket.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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lyn Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
[...] It is amazing that after all this time someone of the group has not dropped a clanger.
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IMO there are too many people involved, not just the T7. One day someone will get pissed or pissed off …
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m&a
Mods would do well never to lose Old Mr Anorak then!
-meercat
July 13th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Got to go now, so see you all later. bya.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
jo yes maybe they have re-mortgaged the house. I agree, the washing of cuddlecat is significant as it would have had Madeleine’s scent and that would mean a lot to a mother.
The whole saga is so difficult to understand as it has been “cold”. A lot of people have picked up something that is not right. It is amazing that after all this time someone of the group has not dropped a clanger.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Morning all
In a further report from North America, though in the rather more fashionable location of NYC, I am pleased to announce that the offspring, having been sized up as a soft option, was invited to play pool in the bar currently honoured with her patronage.
Naturally, she beat everyone; much to their surprise, though not hers, nor mine. I taught her
Regrettably, none of the challengers was as good looking as Paul Newman, but you can’t have everything….
July 13th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Gandolf
I thought you said the Priest knew about the couple in the taxi that made for the border?
I was dead shocked. An actual theory - not just defending K and G and calling me a windylicker - but after 2 posts you started telling me about the moon and dark happenings and beware….
or something similar. 
July 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
This was too perfect.
But too many people (Tapas 9)know the truth and this is dangerous.
Someday somebody will tell it.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
46 - Rasputin Says:
Off to golf, am playing well so no complaints.
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Ready to take on Tiger Woods yet ?
July 13th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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âde Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 11:00 am
nice sunny day
off to the doom and pasty inn to check the cuddle shelf
have lots of fun fun fun for me
*****
Dont worry we will have lots of fun for you….not me though but
Bbl xxxxx
July 13th, 2008 at 11:02 am
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DuncanR Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 10:58 am
49 - jo
My life is one big dilemna -
Do I go to work or not ?
Should I open a bottle of Red or White ?
Decisions, decisions !
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I personally prefer Red although it is a bit early in the day methinks
Must go before I get the ever promised sack
July 13th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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lyn
May be they have re mortgaged the place?
I am sure it is all under control but be sure YOU will never have the support they have and this is what makes it smell so fishy,in fact it stinks
The washing and re wahsing of cuddle cat is very symbolic
July 13th, 2008 at 11:00 am
nice sunny day
off to the doom and pasty inn to check the cuddle shelf
have lots of fun fun fun for me
July 13th, 2008 at 10:58 am
49 - jo
My life is one big dilemna -
Do I go to work or not ?
Should I open a bottle of Red or White ?
Decisions, decisions !