Madeleine McCann: Looking For 1 Million, Raonaid Murray And Amaral’s Book
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “WE’VE SPENT £1M HUNTING FOR MADDIE.”
Kate and Gerry McCann Exclusive: We’ve spent £1m hunting Maddy - EXCLUSIVE McCanns vow to keep searching
THE SUN: “McCanns spend £1m on Maddie search” - Not exclusive.
THE MIRROR: “The couple have shielded the twins from what few facts are known about Madeleine’s disappearance in May last year.”
A few facts? There is only one fact: a child disappeared.
Gerry revealed: “They realise Madeleine is not here but they don’t know the details.”
What details?
DAILY MAIL: “Kate McCann: We’ve spent £1m trying to find Madeleine”
Speaking about their spending on the search for Madeleine, Kate said: ‘It’s a lot of money but we can’t set a limit. A child does not have a price. We will pay what we have to.”
A child might have a price. Isn’t that part of the fear?
DAILY EXPRESS: “KATE’S FURY AT DETECTIVE WHO PUBLISHED BOOK ON MADELEINE”
Fury. Always the fury.
KATE McCann has broken her dignified silence to attack the Portuguese detective who led the bungled hunt for Madeleine. She slated Goncalo Amaral for failing to find her little girl and for trying to cash in on the tragedy by writing a book
Tsk! Writing on the McCann saga for profit. The Express (10p cheaper than the Mail) is right to be outraged. What scum would do such a thing..?
As for Kate’s fury…
Says Kate McCann in Expresso, a Portuguese newspaper: “They could still have arrested us, couldn’t they? They could have stopped us from going home.”
Fury, indeed…
Says Gerry McCann: “I will be honest. We have got no idea whether Madeleine is alive or not. What we are certain of is that there is absolutely no evidence.”
Says Clarence Mitchell:
“Kate and Gerry have chosen to speak out to an element of the Portu¬guese media because they firmly believe that there may well be important information that somebody knows in Portugal. They will do everything they can to generate new leads.”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “’I cannot bring myself to walk down the road where she died’”
Just after midnight on September 4, 1999, Raonaid Murray was murdered savagely with a knife only 500 yards from her home in the south Dublin suburb of Glenageary.
Terrible. And Madeleine..?
Sean Hammond, a lecturer in forensic psychology at University College Cork, says high-profile murders can often have a profound impact on our behaviour and our feelings of safety. “They can leave an indelible mark. Even though the risks may be very low, people may no longer feel that it is safe to walk the streets at night. If you take a case like that of Madeleine McCann, people would have adjusted their behaviour towards their children as a result of that.”
Madeleine McCann: the benchmark of pain…
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September 6th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Val: “The quality of being honourable”, I may be able to use that occasionally
September 6th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Châtelaine Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Was in the very early press reports.
Zilch has ever been explained about them.
Nothing in the Files released so far, but we haven’t had most of them revealed
to us yet.
Will have a decco for a report, but can’t guarantee success.
Lots of old reports have been whoosh-clunked.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Châtelaine Says:
Catalina Says:
[...] There’s a bit of a mystery about the million pounds which has been spent on trying to find Madeleine, as British TV this morning said most of it had been paid to ‘a Spanish detective agency’. Presuming this is Metodo 3, they were recently reported as saying that they received nothing like the amount they were claimed to have received. I believe the amounts they referred to were 60,000 euros for six months work and 48,000 euros expenses. Yet another contradiction in this case! But surely either the fund can prove it made the payments, or Metodo 3 could prove which payments they received.
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A bit mean, but … maybe both of them are right? ”
Follow the money. This is beginning to stink very badly. Did not Clarrie specifically deny the £1m, and was not the monthly retainer to be paid by someone else anyway.
Mirror exclusive, so presumably chacked and cross checked for “tabloid accuracy”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/09/06/kate-and-gerry-mccann-exclusive-we-ve-spent-1m-hunting-maddy-115875-20725857/
“The two doctors, from Rothley, Leics, revealed that in just 10 months the Find Madeleine fund has paid £1million to Spain’s Metodo 3 detective agency to search for her.”
That is £100,000 per month. Many times greater than what their beloved pink spokes-thing urged us to believe some time ago.
No wonder he has absented himself.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
val Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Chatelaine
Hello, how are you? HONOURIFICABILITUDINITY………
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Hello Val.
Sounds a bit like supercalifragilisticexpielidosis [think I spelled that wrong ...]
BTW thanks a lot for the “no frills” video of this morning. I haven’t kept it dry …
September 6th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Chatelaine,
I was going to say this was the longest word in the English Dictionary, but the post just
decided to submit before I had finished.!!!!! Anyway, it was in the last Dictionary I
had, but not in the one I have now. Obviously it has something to do with Honour and
is an adjective so you might be able to show off and use it some time.lol
September 6th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Matt. Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Why would M Oldfield, after “checking” his own apartment, then the McCann’s
apartment, then go and do a listening “check” outside the O’Brien apartment
whilst R O’Brien was still in the apartment ?
******
To fill in blank slots in the PJ forms……???
I am more interesting in what is going to happen within the next weeks or days…..that might wash out any misunderstand in media,statements and….that,their “perfect” excuse or alibi??
“But he said the couple were “not negligent” but “profoundly regret” what happened”.
Sure,dude
He is being HONEST coz honestly,he really honestly does not know what happened to Madeleine nor does he know if she is alive or dead.
He should ask his woman.She might know somefink
September 6th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Matt. Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
[...]Where were the two people who were shepherded out of one of the
apartments, heads covered, and whisked away by Police, residing ?
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Matt. Interesting. I don’t know this story. Do you have a reference or link for me, please?
And while the subject of trousers has been brought up: I didn’t have enough time lately to catch up with all posts. Spotted something regarding a PURPLE DRESS. What was that about? Tanner?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Chatelaine
Hello, how are you? HONOURIFICABILITUDINITY………
September 6th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Châtelaine,
Aha! Thank you - things are becoming clearer now. I don’t have much time to post but try to read regularly to keep up to date. I don’t know what I would do without you lot! (Well, most of you. There are a few exceptions….!!)
September 6th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Val……
5c ??
Don’t know for sure.
Where were the two people who were shepherded out of one of the
apartments, heads covered, and whisked away by Police, residing ?
Re car reeking ….that’s what you get for adopting a health risk strategy and
and an anti-social policy.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Julie Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
It’s a miracle …… GOD has returned ……. (or someone who thinks they are anyway)
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jajajajaja are you having an attack of “Saintety”
Wot you think about O”briens change of trouser?
May be he pooped himself out of fright……?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Matt
Hi there, how are you?
Apartment 5a Mcanns
5b Oldfields
5d O”Briens
The Payne”s were on the next level, so was 5c occupied, if so, by whom.?
I read that Micheal Wright, Kate”s cousin and Gerry”s brother-in-law (can”t remember
his name) told Police the smell in the car was due to rotting meat. A Jurist who was
in the flat next door to Kate on the other side says the back of the van was left open
all night…….to get rid of the smell??
September 6th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Catalina Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Châtelaine,
What is officially declared and what is paid unofficially, you mean? Like most businesses here have two sets of accounts, one for the tax man and one the tax man will never see?
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Remember when we first found out how much they were allegedly paying an unknown Spanish agency with the wrong profile? And that we used the word “….washing” a lot?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Châtelaine Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
An odd quote indeed.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Châtelaine,
What is officially declared and what is paid unofficially, you mean? Like most businesses here have two sets of accounts, one for the tax man and one the tax man will never see?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Matt. Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Châtelaine Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Rachel is not anyone’s mother in law.
She is Oldfields wife.
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I know, Matt. That’s why I raised the question as it doesn’t make sense what’s written in the statement.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
CHERYL
I LOVE you
I am the creme de la creme of the ever most foul scum of the universe
I never doubted it and I do hope you dont either
NO one can equal me
Please,forvgive me I think I read “trousers” in some past posts and it looks like our dear anorakians are doing some washing here
Lemme see that….do u think smell & stains are included?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Châtelaine Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Rachel is not anyone’s mother in law.
She is Oldfields wife.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Catalina Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
[...] There’s a bit of a mystery about the million pounds which has been spent on trying to find Madeleine, as British TV this morning said most of it had been paid to ‘a Spanish detective agency’. Presuming this is Metodo 3, they were recently reported as saying that they received nothing like the amount they were claimed to have received. I believe the amounts they referred to were 60,000 euros for six months work and 48,000 euros expenses. Yet another contradiction in this case! But surely either the fund can prove it made the payments, or Metodo 3 could prove which payments they received.
***
A bit mean, but … maybe both of them are right?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Hello Châtelaine!
About “sa belle-mère”, as it didn’t say if she was Jane Tanner or his mother-in-law (which she isn’t anyway), I wrote “the mother-in-law”! Something must be missing, it would be interesting to see the files.
Had they known at the time what it would become, I bet they would have tape-recorded the statements, and checked them more. Next time a child disappears, the investigation will not be so cursory, from day one, I should think.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
val Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Isn”t it sad that children today have to be made aware so soon in their young lives of
the dangers of trusting anyone. [...]
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When I was young , long time ago, my parents never scared us, though the dangers were no less at that time. They simply demanded that before going with or to someone, whoever, we would come home first and tell them, so that they would not have to look for us. That was all. And it worked fine.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Pam Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
The reading of his partner’s statement claim was regarding the interview
in Enderby in April 2008.
Today’s statement translation is the May 4th 2007 interview in Portugal.
Two different interviews.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_17886.shtml
This is a translation of an interview Amaral had with El Mundo. Nothing new except the
last sentence “the McCanns are human, if they concede that Madeleine is dead they
cannot continue with the Fund”"………..why didn”t I think of that, it is so logical and explains why they keep wanting to be interviewed!!!!!
September 6th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
so there we have it at last confirmed…Gerry was missing between 9.00pm until 9.30PM
September 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Cheryl Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Thus far, except for the time they had to pay their mortgage payment - and wasn’t that paid back in? - the money is being used to find their dearly loved missing daughter, as it was meant to be used.
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There’s a bit of a mystery about the million pounds which has been spent on trying to find Madeleine, as British TV this morning said most of it had been paid to ‘a Spanish detective agency’. Presuming this is Metodo 3, they were recently reported as saying that they received nothing like the amount they were claimed to have received. I believe the amounts they referred to were 60,000 euros for six months work and 48,000 euros expenses. Yet another contradiction in this case! But surely either the fund can prove it made the payments, or Metodo 3 could prove which payments they received.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
MARIE N. Bonjour
“Le déclarant corrobore complètement les déclarations de sa compagne Jane Tanner et de Rachael Mampilly sa belle mère. ”
No offense meant, but I translate that as “and Rachael Mampilly his/her mother-in-law” not “the” mother-in-law. Whose mother-in-law is she anyway? Maybe Dianne Webster is meant and “David Payne and his-mother-in-law” is missing in the French translation?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
It’s a miracle
…… GOD has returned ……. (or someone who thinks they are anyway)
September 6th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
So, they didn’t give him his partner’s statement to read to get his own story straight–they asked him to check the statements of two independent, educated, adult women for accuracy? Is that really what the introduction says?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Why would M Oldfield, after “checking” his own apartment, then the McCann’s
apartment, then go and do a listening “check” outside the O’Brien apartment
whilst R O’Brien was still in the apartment ?
September 6th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
It would seem that he hasn’t volunteered to say in that statement about when the handwritten timelines x 2 were written, and his handing over of them.