Madeleine McCann: Rachel Nickell, Adam Walsh And Tabloid Bingo
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann; introducing the murder of Rachel Nickell and Adam Walsh
THE GUARDIAN: Pressure on police to find Wimbledon killer put the wrong man in the frame
Robert Napper killed Rachel Nickell. Colin Stagg did not kill Rachel Nickell. Napper murdered Nickell, stabbing her to death in front of her son on Wimbledon Common in July 1992.
The story is now added to that game we all love so much: Tabloid Bingo:
“…it had all the ingredients of the classic media murder story: the beautiful blonde victim, the lyrical summer setting, the child witness, the murderous stranger at large - and all taking place in Greater London. Inevitably, the police were under enormous and immediate pressure to capture the killer of someone whose face smiled out of the front pages of every newspaper.
“Someone out there must know who did this,” said Detective Superintendent John Bassett as he made the first of what were to be many appeals. “He had to be covered in blood so I would think that some mother, wife, lover, sister or even boyfriend must know who perpetrated this crime.”
Eyes down…
It was clear that this would be a high-profile investigation. Perhaps only two cases since have attracted a similar type of coverage: the murder of Jill Dando and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. All three shared the characteristics of a photogenic victim and “stranger danger”.
Big shock for those of you with Princess Diana on your game cards…
Rachel Nickell was murdered. Jill Dando was murdered. And, well, the police have no idea what happened to Madeleine McCann…
PORTUGAL RESIDENT: “Madeleine McCann”
LAWYERS FOR Kate and Gerry McCann are said to be looking into a book written by retired lawyer Anthony Bennett about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The book, which is being sold on the internet for three pounds sterling, sets out 60 reasons against the belief that Madeleine was the victim of kidnap. According to Anthony Bennett, “readers will find things not published in any newspaper. I can prove it all”.
So tell the police; give them your evidence. Why write a book?
NEW STATESMAN: “Wishful thinking for 2009, by John Pilger”
October: The Booker prizewinner Anne Enright apologises to Gerry and Kate McCann, parents of the missing child Madeleine McCann, for speculating in the London Review of Books about the possible involvement of the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter.
That’s a dream for 2009?
INDEPENDENT: “Murder that horrified US solved after 27 years”
Police name paedophile as only suspect in killing of six-year-old that launched America’s Most Wanted
Eyes done:
The family of Adam Walsh, the “little boy in the baseball cap” whose murder inspired the TV show America’s Most Wanted, have finally found out who killed their son almost 30 years after he was abducted from a shopping mall.
Police in Florida announced late on Tuesday that they had identified the man responsible for Adam’s killing, which turned his grieving mother and father into celebrities and struck fear into the hearts of a generation of parents.
At a crowded press conference, Chadwick Wagner, the police chief in Hollywood, the town near Miami where Adam disappeared, announced that Ottis Toole, a convicted paedophile and murderer who died in 1996, was their “only real suspect” in the investigation and declared the case officially closed.
And:
The incident stunned America and turned a photograph of the freckle-faced Adam in his baseball kit into a symbol of lost innocence on a par with Madeleine McCann. For years, parents would invoke his name when instructing their children about the dangers of accepting gifts from strangers.
Madeleine McCann is missing…
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December 21st, 2008 at 12:42 am
Chatelaine
Have you seen the Xmas video of Madeleine? She looks happy, excited and very well adjusted, I hope you dont think thats shes putting it on!!!!
She doesnt look sad in the pic carrying the tennis balls, she just looks as if she trying not to drop them, so please dont start making up stories about the video.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:06 am
or not as it happened in Portugal
December 20th, 2008 at 6:01 am
«Madeleine McCann is missing…»
…and since the main suspects are British subjects in UK, in about 14 years from now your brilliant police may have reached an answer.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
What.. not a little stilton when you’re more than full?
It’s the best bit!
December 19th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
You can have mine, Sponge Bob, don’t like the stuff, except mozzarella on pizzas.
December 19th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Ah give me some cheese
December 19th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I’ve seen such a picture before.
Of a little girl holding tennis balls.
Trying to smile and please others.
December 19th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Such a sad picture of a child …
December 19th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Well what’s your name? Tell me your business.. I might find some skeletons. I think you may not have been exposed to the frenzy
December 19th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Astra Zeneca involved with scandal concerning the awarding of the noble Nobel prize….Astra Zeneca, Uncle john’s old firm, ‘possibly’ involved !!!!!
What is it with this McCann family that everything they are involved with seems to be smeared in ’sh*te’!
December 19th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
‘I’m Loving It’
Now the publication of ’strategy’ emails between Antony (a fine Catholic name) and his Tweenies.. THAT I would pay money for.
December 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
There’s good and good…but Beltane is one of my fave 8
December 19th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Have just heard yesterday from a mate in Coatbridge that the McCann team have a member who is said to be in place as a mod on 3arses, that I could believe.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Me, a good lad yir avin a laff June, whit fekin fun is there in that, get down and dirty………..
December 19th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
doris, nevermind, it was only a spur of the moment thing and well moot by now.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Have I been blocked?
December 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Gandolf
Leave Beltane out of it, there’s a good lad
December 19th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
FFS are you windylickin fans of the frivolous and highly enotional Ian, not aware that he is now chief post reviewer on one of Stevo “blue moon maybe it’s baby grace, tide tables and sacrifices for beltane” I kid you not, I see care in the community escapee doris is on the loose, whatta fuk is society coming to, and hardly a mention of Madeleine. She, Madeleine has now become an end to massaging lots of sad fukwit windylickin nobbers ego’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7AKSn9bjuk
December 19th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Sam thanks , hope you had correct email add , I tried posting it here for you but not allowed
December 19th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Nothing about the squab yet? Hope all is well.
December 19th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
hi doris, i don’t know how to do that either but google throws up quite a few links. i certainly sent the email, shame he didn’t receive it.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Sorry
December 19th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
june, had a look, interesting. crossing fingers for lone and his misses.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
“Whitch”, lol
December 19th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Or the Daily Fail’s Campaign to smear Stagg and stir up a whitch-hunt against him throughout the 1990s, allegedly coordinated by the profiler who also made a career out of his own mistake?
The Daily Fail thing was flagged up regularly in the Private Eye Paul Foot or in the back. I can’t remember the issues but it was often enough to merit an “Eyes Passim”, and the particular hacks in question were named.
The Daily Fail seems to love getting things wrong, but who is worse, them our our own myopic Goldfish memory-like readers?
December 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
BF…… be afraid, be very afraid!
December 19th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Sorry ‘Link Spotter’ , no why?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:47 am
do you still have to log in and out all the time?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Not Lone, I think he’s great, hope things are going well for his Mrs……
Have you seen down in Twitterings?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:26 am
june
I thought you were talking about lone then lol
I was worried about TB coming after lapsed catholics.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:08 am
BF he kept up a barrage of emails to myself, Anorak/Admin and C&C, and despite answering his question he still continued