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 9:11 pm
Flash-well if you take a lot of stuff on holiday it’s easy to mislay the odd item-now come on -who hasn’t left their paperback by the pool, or left their lighter on the table in a restaurant? These items are stationary, and inanimate and we still lose them. Imagine how much easier it is to lose something that has legs and moves. I have every sympathy for K & G-Small wonder that any of us come back with our children really.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
val Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Chatelaine,
“[...] look at the pic of the Tapas 7 again and tell me what you think of the person facing sitting at the end of the table? Would you say it is a boy, if so, it is very relevant, but don”t see anything that isn”t there.
I,m sure there were only 7 children among the Tapas 9 ………..3 for GM, two for JT
1 for FP and one for RO
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There were definitely 8 kids between them. See above Grande F. at 8:54 pm. IMO there should be 5 kids [8 minus 3 McCs] at Paraiso on May 3, however, I count 6.
There are also supposed to be only 6 Tapas [as PJ reported Webster wasn't there]. However, there are 7 adults/adolescents. I mention “adolescents” for what the picture names as Msrs. Webster [who wasn't there] and the one without a name-label, by someone earlier today identified as Rachael Oldfield [and the one labeled Rachael to be Fiona Payne..]. Confusing, I must admit. However, what stands is: 2 x 1 too many… Unidentified friends joining?
August 10th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Gandolf
Hi, how are you? No good me asking you to find stuff for me at the moment I can”t
download it onto an e-mail, something wrong with my computer again. It”s weird, every so often it freezes up and I”m left with half pages which I can only get rid of by switching off then doing system restore to an earlier date.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Val, afraid I don’t read newspapers, apart from the backpages that is. And then only old discarded copies.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Val
meaning…summary of the PJ’s final report…
gotta go now…
August 10th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Actually - I quite like Flash
August 10th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Neither did I….
I want more action from Police, MI5, Special Branch, SAS, Secret Services & Interpol on this case…. Christ there is more fact in the papers about the man who fought his council for 2 years for a second Wheelie Bin - Not to say thats not mportant but …..
Can a British couple really just go on holiday - lose a child - and that be it !!!
Can’t believe it - The authorities take more interest in you if you park on yellow lines !!
August 10th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Rationalist
Don”t know what you mean about transcript?
August 10th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
AF
Don’t mind me calling you that do you? Seems much less formal that ‘anaheim flash’ - particularly if we are going to be friends
No, I didn’t attend Mass today. Sadly, as a devout atheist, I was a sore disappointment to my dear departed mother who was a staunch RC.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
whoops Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
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G Drink ? yes!………… I know we’ll make our oldest daughter babysit…. 5 Cents an hour ? much cheaper He He Ha Ha Ha………
August 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Saul,
No your”e O.K.,. Even If I did I wouldn”t shop you, if your”e not too far away from me,I might pop round for a the name that dare not be mentioned in front of Carmen
sandwich.
Looks like Chatelaine has disappeared, would you like to check that photo in the
News of the Woirld and tell me if that is a young lad sitting next to O”Brien , facing us.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Bit like this cae ……
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBjPNShc2Q
for DR
August 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
regarding people on cctv still………
apt 5A - Kate Healy (39) and Gerry McCann (39) with Madeleine (3), Sean and Amelie (both 2)
apt 5B (next to apt 5A) - Matthew Oldfield (38) and Rachael Mampilly (37) with Grace (19m)
apt 5D (like 5A & 5B, also on ground floor) - Russell O’Brien (37) and Jane Tanner (36) with Ella (3) and Evie (1)
apt 5H (on first floor) - David (41) and Fiona Payne (35) with Lilly (2) and Scarlett (1), and Dianne Webster (63)
August 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnKDMjV7EMg&feature=related
August 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
K&G (an imaginary conversation about how they should deal with child care during their holiday)
G. What do you think we should do, if we want to go out for an evening without the children .
K. Well obviously we need to get a registered chilminder to look after them. After all they are so young. One of them might choke, or be frightened…..or Maddie may wake up and wonder where we are and fall and have a nasty accident….and there are strange people about-they may all get abducted and we never see them again….or there may be a fire ….all sorts of horrors might befall them…..
G. But Kate-since you’ve gone part-time we only take home £147,000 per annum….and they charge 3 euros an hour to look after them.
K. I see your point-they’ll be just fine on their own……Fancy a quick bevvie over the road?
August 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
DR - Sorry - There’s me thinking this was an open forum for discussion - And you - an M&A asking for discretion ?
Holy me - I know I missed mass today but did not realise God worked in such mysterious and direct ways !! Just a shame he can’t do more with this case really ??
DR - were you at the Mass today or reading libellous Sunday papers with breakfast of kippers ??
We need to know……
August 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Val
That is the source of the transcript I’ve been posting!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
anaheim flash
Sshh!!!
No need to tell everyone !
August 10th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Rationalist
There was a website mccannfiles.com which was excellent for keeping a kind of Library of information and who”s who. I tried the other day to find something and
it looks as if it is gone commercial, The Daily Mirror advert was on it.!!!!!!! Anyway,
give it a try. All we have based our opinions on really is speculation, but there are nuggets of truth like the Times on line Report. I will e-mail Mr Swinford tomorrow
to ask if his report was recorded and take it from there.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Thats what you like to be called - I’ve heard you called lots more on here ………..
August 10th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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On page 2412, is the interview with PAMELA FENN, who relates several details, of which, though not clarifying the facts, are elucidating. PAMELA FENN lives on the first floor of the residential block, above the apartment occupied by the McCANN family. She related that, on 1 May 2007, two days before the disappearance, at about 22h30, she heard a child crying, which by the sound was MADELEINE. The child continued weeping for one hour and 15 minutes, until the parent’s arrival (she heard the door sounds), at about 23h45. This witness places in cause the allegation (by the parents) of the daily routine of visits every 30 minutes to check the children who had been left on their own.
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extract from the official summary of report of investigation.
It would be curious to learn that K slept in the children’s room on this night….if the
reports are true…that she did sleep one night in the children’s room!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
whoops
Re timelines you’re right. I said months & months ago that if it were me I wouldn’t have a clue what the time was. (holiday or not!)
August 10th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
The ones that harbour aggression ? (Right spelling or not ?) are the most volatile !!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
anaheim flash Says
DuncanR - thats not sportsman-like !!
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That’s why they call me the ‘Sneaky Mod’
August 10th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Val-they may never ‘row’-just harbour resentments!!!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
What man or woman could not live with Kate (Scouser) McCann or Gerry (Wegie) McCann - and not argue !!
They are both such obnoxious persons !!
Errr !! I, I - I can’t comment - I will say no more - !!!!!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Fair-I lived over the road from a well-known singer who liked a good time. The press came round trying to get a story to all the neighbours and we all kept schtumm and said just lovely things-Mind you she hadn’t left her kids and gone out on the razz-Plus she was really nice….So, not sure what my point is here….:lol:
August 10th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Val, do you work for the Inland Revenue?
August 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I think it might have been more suspicious if all the timelines were bang on-On an evening out, I bet most people couldn’t give an accurate itinerary of what they did for an hour and a half whilst supposedly relaxing and eating a meal. Plus-if you’re relaxed enough to leave your kids alone in a room, you’re hardly going to ensure that your 30 minute checks are accurate IMO.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
whoops
It’s beyond me how everyone ever known to them has been able to keep “a pact of silence”. Even the local butcher, baker & ….
What about Madeleines nursery school teacher? I’m sure she would want to say how lovely she was?
Kates hairdresser about how charming she was even when she cocked up her hair?
The green grocer about how Kate always loved….
Anyway…….how come everyone has kept shtum?
It’s just not natural!