Madeleine McCann: With Columnists Carole Malone And Barbara Ellen
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE COLUMNISTS
It’s the Big Brother reject and toothsome talker:
“The truth won’t mend the pain”
I SOMETIMES wonder if The Truth is all it’s cracked up to be. I wonder if there are times when NOT knowing is better than knowing.
Well, as Donald Rumsfeld once said, from whom Malone seems to be quoting…
Because now we think we know Madeleine McCann didn’t die, as police suspected, in her holiday apartment. Neither was she taken by an opportunist killer. Nor did she wander off into the sea.
Sure of that? Yeah, Sure of it. Positive. Sure of it? Facts are facts. Right? Facts…
However, what we now think may have happened is worse than all of those scenarios because it looks certain this angel-faced little girl was snatched to order by a vile paedophile ring and delivered to people who hunt down pretty children to degrade. Maybe even kill.
And we know this because..? Well, someone said something…it got in an email to someone else…Carole read it or heard it and it became news… and fact…and we read about it… and we told someone… and they told Carole…who knows all about it…
What kind of images are going through your mind at this minute as to the fate of this little mite?
Dunno? Tell us what we should be thinking…
“…a sex toy for a bunch of perverts so depraved that they get their kicks from abusing and killing terrified children.”
The picture is becming clearer. Thanks…
And if I can’t bear to think about what might have happened to her after she was “delivered” to those perverts I can’t imagine how Kate and Gerry can close their eyes at night without the horror of it exploding inside their heads.
Draw us a picture…
Now we know that what might have happened to her while she was alive could have been worse.
Yeah, we know what “MIGHT” have heppned. Such are the facts…
I never really understood what the phrase “Fate Worse Than Death” actually meant. Now I think I might.
BARBARA ELLEN (Observer): “The latest speculation about Madeleine feels like exploitation to keep this sad story going”
Dreadful though the thought is, is it time to hope that Madeleine McCann died the night she disappeared?
Wishing death upon a child?
Anything seems preferable to the explanation that she was abducted by a paedophile ring, and is perhaps still suffering. That it was always unlikely that some childless couple just fancied a little British girl, and all this time Madeleine has been enjoying ice cream and piano lessons. In their heart of hearts, the British public probably considered all this the moment Madeleine disappeared…
Barbara heard about the paedos… from someone, maybe it was in the Sunday Mirror…she told us…we told you…you told a friend… who knows Barabara…who knows all about it…
In the grand scheme of things, all this may seem harmless PR padding, but it isn’t. The result is that ‘Maddie-sightings’ are going to end up having the same ring of authority as your bog-standard UFO, Elvis, or Lord Lucan spottings.
And no-one has seen either of them since Madeleine went missing. Interesting…
By the same token, last week’s sensational spin on what most of us guessed anyway, has given the case a dramatic unhelpful ‘Maddie: the sequel’ feel. A background hum of just wanting to keep the story going - to keep selling and exploiting as long as possible.
Read all about it…
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August 10th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Grande earlier in the year I went to morroco and the rif mountains, (remember the photo of blonde girl on sarthy mums back? )
Not a single poster of Madeleine to be found, not even in the airport loo.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
“Specifically to what is relative to the day 3, he alleged that:
- they woke up around 07H30, had breakfast in the apartment, going out at around 09H00;
- soon after, they left their children at the nursery, until 12H30;
- around 14H30, after lunch, they put their children back at the nursery, this time until 17H00;
- at 17H30 they did the children’s hygiene, and settle them in their respective beds by 19H30, all in the same bedroom;
- at 20H30, the couple went out to the restaurant;
- at 21H05/21H15 the father went to check the children, noticing that all was normal, the window and the blinds were closed, however the door to the room seemed more opened than when he had left;…..”
Above is a translation of the official report summary.
Nothing is reported here about tennis? It specifically says “they did the children’s
hygiene”…..??
August 10th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Rationalist
i don’t know about ‘established’ and ‘official’ but the photo has the date and time across the bottom, looks like some of the time is missing, but it does say 3rd may, 17. So somewhere between 5 and 5.59 pm I’d guess.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
hos should read hols (Holidays)
I was also extremely Surprised to find no Maddie posters at Gibraltar as it is Brits territory, the gateway to the Med and an obvious crossing point to N Africa ?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Grande
we’re all fine thanks, just returned from southern france, and I did actually see a small ad in an english national newspaper asking for us all to look out for madeleine.
Still bloody addicted to anoark
Though I am planning to get some therapy (picked up an old self hypnosis tape from the school summer fayre for 5p)
August 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Grand Finale,
How appropriate your name at this time!!!!!! Still nothing conclusive, except the bias of the British Press
August 10th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Noseycow
Has it been established, officially, at what time exactly the last photo was taken
of the group in the restaurant on the same day?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Noseycow Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Grande me old mucka!! long time no see. How the devil are you?
Very very well thanks for asking, been following everyone but not posted until the other night, went on hos to spain, not looking for Maddie but trying to find one of the million posters ?? not succesful though I’m afraid, tested some shutters whilst I was there as well, story was a load of tripe IMO.
Hows your good self, and all at “Chez Nosy” ?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
rationalist
It all gets so blooming confussing, but I think that 5.30pm was when they left the creche and the last confirmed sighting of Madeleine (other than her parents) is by her ‘holiday nanny’.
At 6.30 G asked one of his friends to pop in and check on K, there was some discussions over different stories, but I thought that he Payne (?) didn’t actually see Madeleine as she was in the bath/bed at the time.
It gets complicated because Oldfield says much the same thing on his 9.30p check. When he didn’t see madeleine either.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Seems like there had been a split in the party to me ?
The group went down to the beach with the kids but they didn’t tell K Meccann, then they all went to the restaurant presumably also without telling K.
K M was already annoyed at G Meccann because they had a row after he ignored her at the Tapas bar, she had been landed with the 3 kids as well which she wasn’t used to ? and it was her holiday as well ?? ….it could all add up to one very “Pissed off” individual ?
Solitary jogging on the beach ?
Above is my own personal observations and IMO.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
The first paragraph and the one beginning…”What happened during the time lapse”..
should be in quotation marks…..
The last two lines are mine..
August 10th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
DuncanR
Perhaps they use lovely fair skinned professional people who are not at all weird, bearded or suspicious looking to steal the kids that have been selected after being photographed at play - only the ones who pass the looks test.
The chosen kiddie could be snatched warm from its bed, carried off in pyjamas, then passed to the said paedo in return for a small fee.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
According to the Time and Place, the facts occurred on the day 3 of May of 2007, in a temporal hiatus, understood to be between 21H05 and 22H00 (being certain that after 17H30, only GERALD and KATE had contact with MADELEINE) at the resort named ‘Ocean Club’, located in Vila da Luz, Lagos, place, where the minor’s family, along with seven other persons, with whom they had a friendship relationship, where enjoying some holidays, with the duration of one week.
———-
then later in the official report…
. What happened during the time lapse between 5.30 p.m. (the time at which MADELEINE was seen for the last time by a person that differs from her parents or siblings) and the time at which the disappearance is reported by KATE HEALY (at around 10 p.m.).
This comes from the translation of the summary of the official report…
Where does the 6.30 pm statement come from? Is it official? Does anyone know?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Grande
me old mucka!! long time no see. How the devil are you?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Hiya,
Nosy,
According to “Amarals” book Dianne webster wasn’t at this restaurant, neither where the Mccann family. (Ithink the paper have mistaken her for Rachael oldfield and the one labelled Rachael Oldfield is in fact Mrs Payne).
Fair,
Apparently the men left the restaurant first, followed by the women 15 minutes later, D Payne saw G Mccann at the tennis courts where he was asked to check on Kate. Mrs Payne apparently said that they both went to check on Kate Though!!
(Info from Mccannfiles)
August 10th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Mary
Seems to me that to be a successful paedophile with a special interest in little blonde girls, it might be considered an occupational disadvantage if one’s own appearance might be described by others as swarthy, shifty, unkempt, suspicious ???
August 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Mary
For a moment i thought you were being serious PMSL
August 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
We all know - or should - that this child was indeed abducted, probably by a paedo ring who had her stolen to order so they could take her into banks, restuarants, shops, public transport systems all over the world.
Only the very spiteful and deluded ever gave more than a passing thought to any other theory as parents never ever hurt their own kiddies - well not lovely doctor types.
It must have been some swarthy stranger who spotted her, placed an order, and had the dirty deed done while her innocent parents dined nearby.
It may not be too late - follow up those sightings - give money - there could still be a happy ending to all this nonsense.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Val
I heard that the new investigaters are a new firm with experience of medical circles, and missing children, they are a whizz at using the internet to achieve their goals, and have high level connections to various political, business, religious and judicial institutions.
Oh and if necessary can access private transport to get anywhere in the world at the drop of a hat.
£166000 per month - that should sort the morgage
August 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Hi everyone,
not staying, pissed off with all the stuff I have read in some of the papers, Times on
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4493335.ece
I am going to send an e-mail tomorrow to the reporter Swinford with a copy to the
Editor. It was too long for me to post, but pay attention to where Swinford is
informed the new investigators will start from scratch, being paid £166,000 per month,
partly funded by the DE payout.
CM was interviewed the other day by Eammon Holmes, I watched it, and said there
was £450,000-£500,000 left, including the DE settlement “investigation does not
come cheap” he said. For God”s sake, £166,000 pm?
Loads to tell you, I feel really down about what is going on.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
anaheim
Depends on the police officer in question really doesn’t it?
I think I’d be shouting -why are you hanging around here you should be looking for my daughter. But then again I would be worried about her whereabouts.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Fair
its about one third way down the page.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Fair
Bigger copy of the picture here
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id79.html
Just looks like a shadow to me.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Why were the pious pair ‘irritated’ by the British Police ?
Now - I know in the past the BP have not excelled in their actions - but to be irritated by them - when they were there to assist ? Perhaps they were asking the wrong questions ?
August 10th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Would you Adam and Eve it, wot are you like…..
http://tinyurl.com/63ka5q
August 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Nosey
Know what you mean! It’s not a great photo but at least it’s been marked with who’s who.
It looks like a head in the buggy/chair to me. Perhaps there was no room to pull it in further? It looks like JT is looking that way? Is she holding a child? I assume that’s a child with DP too.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
evening Gandolf
How are you this fine day??
August 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Yep Fair the same picture. The buggy/high chair in question is positioned behind one of the children who’s sat in a high chair at the table. I can’t see a child in it. Sorry
If there was a child in it then they would not have placed it away from the rest, all the kids are sitting up at the table one way or another.
August 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Nosey
Are you looking at the same photo as Anorak printed at the top of the last thread? The names & positions are marked.
FP is pictured on the insert.
The chair/buggy is to the right of JT.
August 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I can’t see the one you describe as being in the smaller buggy/chair.
Looks like Fiona payne sat next to D Payne.