Madeleine McCann: Tabloid Bingo With Tony Parsons And Catherine And Ben Mullany
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
TONY Parsons has written about Madeleine McCann before. He has empathised with the parents. He has criticised the sardine-munching Portuguese. He has seen Jesus. Parsons gets it. Even his child gets it.
Catherine and Ben Mullany are on honeymoon in Antigua. They are shot. She is dead. He is braindead. Is there a link between them and Madeleine McCann.? Eyes down for Tabloid Bingo. Parsons knows:
Casual security, bungling cops and paradise suddenly turning into hell - the horrific murder of the Antigua honeymoon bride has echoes of the Madeleine McCann case.
Foreigners:
But everything that makes them attractive - the laid-back attitude, the heat, a police force that enjoys an afternoon nap - make them bad places to be when the real world kicks the door down.
Mad dogs and Englishmen:
And this is what the horror in Antigua shares most with the case of missing Maddy - it is a crime so unspeakable that it changes the way we look at the world.
If a honeymoon couple can be shot in the Caribbean, and if a child can be stolen from the Algarve, then where on earth is safe?
The Mirror’s newsroom has never been kidnapped…
Catherine Mullany will never return from her honeymoon. Her husband Ben is braindead. Maddy McCann is still missing. We would all love to believe that the wicked world we know at home goes away for a week or two when we are on our holidays.
Read the new improved Mirror website anywhere in the world. Read Parsons, a man who can put murder and a child disappeared child in the context of capitalism:
A vast amount of money flows into the region from the tourist industry.
But I have never seen any evidence that much of it reaches the locals. These holidays don’t come cheap. So why are the locals living on peanuts?
Maybe the poo think that if they earn money they will want to travel abroad and so be shot, kidnapped, raped…
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August 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 am
M & A
What is wrong with your new “updated” site ? I click on the thread I am interested in, it will say that there are X no: of responses yet only one page of same will be showing, not only are there no numbers by the responses, but there are no further page numbers until I click on the bit that says “RSS 2.0″ and then the boxes for the next pages show up, but - having read those, they then go away again and the whole process has to be gone through again and yet it quite cleartly shows in the side bar under “Recent Comments” that I have posted !! This is why I thought, some posts back, that I had been relegated to the “naughty chair”, is there some technique to navigating the new set-up which is passing me by ? and why are there Avatar boxes and not numbers beside the posters ? no-one is going to stick their picture on here for very obvious reasons, unless it is an alter-ego like Daffy Duck or something !!
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Julie, it ook me a month to try changing my Broadband server, in the end I went back
to my original!!!!!!! Horrendous.
I had 43 e-mails when I finally got Broadband again, have sent you the jokes.
Duncan……..very good! Whoever wrote that post has a great sense of humour, do you
know what Boabie Puller is meant to be?
I”m watching the cricket , Collingwood is out of his skin, pity Vaughan can”t do the same. Latest score 337 for 7.
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Val
Could this be the man Dolly Dimple saw ?
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Is tony parsons on the mcc payroll?
Twice he mentioned the mcscams on his page, the Barry george trial and the Antigua case
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hello Val
glad to see you’re back - I realised that when my inbox was swamped with mail 
Fair, over here when there ISN’T a police car chasing up and down roads with sirens blaring …. I go into shock
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Hi Val
Saw that you’ve been away for a while too!
Yes the thought of moving to Spain is sometimes nice but they are always just a few years behind us. Would be ok for our lifetime I expect but probably for not much longer. Our children would love to move out there to bring up their families but it’s finding the work.
Yes WHO will stem the tide? God knows something has to be done!! The mere slap on the wrist days have to end. More are now leaving the UK than coming in! Surely that alone should tell our wonderful government something??
Off out now before I turn intoa grumpy old woman!
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Fair,
Several years ago a young mother was attacked and left for dead in a leafy Surrey lane, but she astounded everyone by not only recovering as much as she could( still wheelchair bound) but also delivered her baby several months later.
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Hi Fair, read earlier you had just come back from Spain. With a stabbing near you
I bet you can”t wait to live permanently in Spain!!!!
We can all say what causes youngsters to behave like this, but who will be brave enough
to stem the tide?
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Copied and pasted from “proud of the pj site* hope thats ok,if not, mods please delete,
just tickled me pink reading it,its really funny, Its in reference to how could the mcanns or lawyers prove who posted what?
I don”t think it can in any way be libellous, just very good satire.
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How would they prove who wrote the posts. We live in an age where computers are hacked all the time. We have a PC and several laptops being used where I post from. I could use any of the laptops here when the PC is not on (that is where the thingy that allows all the laptops access to the Internet is attached) and still get access to the Internet. I could park my car outside someones house or just sit out side in my garden and still get access to the Interenet via some other persons Internet access if they have it on and do not have any security to stop other people using it. I believe this is not against the Law unless there is security to access and some one hacks it. I am in no way computer literate and I know that. When I log on to this blog I click on watch in real time, it is not the location I am from that I see and not the location of my IP address either.
My defence will be:
When I go out I always leave my doors unlocked and sometimes the windows are also left open. I enjoy wining and dining with my friends in another friends back garden approx 100 mts from my house, in fact it is just like sitting in my own back garden I can see the top of the roof of my house from my friend Stu Pidder’s garden therefore I believe it is within the bounds of responsible home safety especially as we take it in turn to check on each others homes every 30 mins or so.
I am sure my Insurance Company would have no quibble with that when I need to make a claim if it were ever burgled. Every home owner does it! Although the chances of it being burgled in such circumstances are very rare hence the no need to lock up, imo.
Although there was one incident regarding a laptop in my home, I had gone to do my usual check and discovered my laptop had been moved, used and then replaced. I just knew as soon I entered the house that someone had been using it, the study door was half open, not the way I had left it, the small window to the rear was open, it was closed when I left. I looked at the desk and I could tell from the way the the mouse was sitting on the mat that it had been taken at some point in the evening and then replaced. I went back to Stu Pidder’s and finished my wine and Tapas although this did kinda bother me I decided not to let it interfere with my dinner and my social life, my friends are important to me and it was the kind of night we were all into each other so why spoil it.
However with the art of hindsight I think this has been happening over a long period of time, maybe 14-16 months. I decided to mention it to my mates cos it was starting to annoy me that someone could just go into my unlocked home and use my laptop, I mean you do not expect that where we live it is very safe, very quiet and I really did not think for a minute something like that would happen, if I did think that I would never have left the doors unlocked.
Anyway, I was telling my friends my sad news when my closest mate in the whole world, Dolly Dimple said that when she was checking her home (a few months ago, FFS some friend!) she saw a guy walking past my house. She knew he was a local, he had bright orange hair, he was peally whally white, wore a kilt, sipped Whisky from a small flask, was humming ‘Donald where’s your troosers’ and carried bag pipes under his right arm. She thought he was a bit odd because he had something under his left arm wrapped in a blanket with a mouse hanging out, she watched him walk up the street and he hid in a neighbours front garden. She said she walked up and peeped over the hedge to see what he was doing. He was sitting with what she now knows was my laptop, it had my name on it ‘Amya Moron’ but at the time she just thought someone shared the same name as me. She said he was sitting in the neighbours garden, she could see him clearly as the Streetlamp gave her a clear view, he was laughing like a hyena she could only see some of the words on the screen…3.. and… A…and…rows of pictures, then he was typing a word…Zodi….that was all she could see.
She said she would definately be able to recognize him again as he has a distinctive walk, it looks like he is doing the highland fling, she would recognize him any where despite not being able to see his face.
My witnesses for all the occassions that my laptop was used without my permission are:
Stu Pidder and his partner Ida Nyit.
Patty O’Furniture and her partner Pop Sickle.
Xavier Breath and his partner Sue Cherself.
Dolly Dimple and her partner Hyman Idiot.
And of course not forgetting my PR rep should I need one Boabie Puller.
I don”t understand “Boabie Puller”, will one of you enlighten me?
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
We live in Surrey, the ”affluent south”, in a beautiful quiet leafy lane. That is not meant to sound boastful merely setting the scene.
Our road has been closed off & is swarming with police after a stabbing!!
Our neighbours (which include 2 sets of police officers) are out chatting & giving statements & most are in complete shock.
I suppose we are now getting a bit immune to the news reports of this culture but when it’s outside your own door & in an area such as this the severity of the problem really hits home.
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Ann, if you are still around, and anyone else interested.
During my enforced four week “holiday” from Anorak I did read a couple of Articles
in the Express which were not on the front page relating to the McCanns employing
new Detectives. they will not give the name of the Firm, except to say they are
British and will operate from the U.K. with trips abroad when necessary. CM stated
Metodo 3 had only been receiving a retainer, in direct contrast to his Statement
earlier in the year saying a new three month contract with Metodo3 had been made.
Some days later, another report in the Express, page 5, said the McCann”s would
also be using Secret Service personnel.
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/187034.html
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Saul Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Saul Says:
“Now that Arguıdo status has been lıfted can we at last have an answer to the questıon.
“dıd you know Robert Murat” ”
And to the supplementary “Why did you react in that extraordinary way when you were first asked the question ?”
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Yawn, come poıntıes, ıts not that dıffıcult a questıon.
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Rıght Im off for some Anatolıan Soup.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
just so
link please
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
A new thread has just started. It’s well worth a read.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Errm what sand.
(Bloody Hell Julıe, keep ıt down)
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Saul, are you still making plans to move that sand?
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
jo Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Ann
Yes,M3 still on board shifting ….err…stones
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They didn’t appear to be too interested in moving stones, perhaps they should try a few pebbles first, just to get into the swing of things. Perhaps they could move a few before Christmas …..
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
She dıd make a brıef appearance off.. off..off Broadway, unfortunately the run only lasted one nıght. It took several hours for the young effete actor to be removed from her hooves.
Apparently they dıdnt take too kındly to her ad lıbbıng.
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M&A
Artemis
Well, what did they expect? Casting her in Equus was always a disaster waiting to happen.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
jo Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Ann
I was being sarcastic
“$$$$stones”
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….aaah !! je suis un idiot !!!!
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Stıll proppıng the bar up ın New York, stıll lıstenıng to Shane McGowan bemoanıng the fact he was born ın England.
Just took the Fetlock wrestlıng tıtle from a Central Park Polıcehorse.
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M&A
Artemis
I’m pleased to hear it; I assume she’s forwarding some of the profits to you? Equine psycho-therapy is worth big bucks in the Big Apple.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Well that’s what the local down-and-out has a day and he speaks more sense
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Just a lıvener for Rocınante.
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M&A
Artemis
And how is the noble steed?
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Bloody hell!! Brandon!!!!!
A dose for a horse jajajajaja
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
more like 10 special brews and methadone
and a little sniff of glue 
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Ann
I was being sarcastic
“$$$$stones”
“I think the incompetent cops of Portugal are at least partly responsible for the fate of Madeleine McCann”
You know wot? I am going to send tony parsons “oeuvre d”art” to the PJ.They”ll have a good laugh
They”ll love it
mmmm…this is if they dont have it already
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Do you think Parson was on 3,4-metilendioximetanfetamina when he wrote this piece of poops?
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
jo Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Ann
Yes,M3 still on board shifting ….err…stones
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Stones ??????
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Ann Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I can’t seem to find who it is “The Fragrant Ones” are using as “their” private investigators now, it isn’t still M3 is it ?
M&A
Artemis
I believe M3 are still on board, but other firms are said also to be working for the McCanns.
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Thanks for that M & A, I just wondered because Christine and I have been chatting aimlessly this afternoon and she was wondering if whoever-it-might be, might have a little bit more get-up-and-go and dedication to the path, follow up things the others didn’t even though it is now a cold path . She still says Madeleine will be found in “still water “…………….
M&A
Artemis
I recall that the search parties, including tourist visiting PDL as well as local people, were asked specifically to check the wells in the surrounding countryside.
Whether the new firms will be any more dynamic than M3 and their associates remains to be seen.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Ann
Yes,M3 still on board shifting ….err…stones
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
lydia Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I have just e mailed tony parsons to tell him what an arse he is
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I think you are misunderstanding there! “Its cool ” to stuff the Holies in the media at any cost even if people think you are a piece of crap, never mind anymore…its the thing to do.Rejoyce !
You did well to send him an email.I hope you will receive an answer too.