Madeleine McCann: The Evening Standard Donates, Simon MacMillan And Gerry’s Hope
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE SUN: “Maddie hunt trip gives Gerry hope”
GERRY McCann returned home yesterday after “positive” talks in Portugal on the hunt for missing daughter Madeleine.
Any facts?
Mr McCann is”40”.
EVENING STANDARD: “Kate and Gerry McCann”
As readers will recall, since Madeleine McCann’s abduction in May 2007, The Evening Standard has covered the story extensively and reported developments in the police investigation and search for Madeleine.
Well, yes, the Standard and every other news organ…
During the last few months of 2007 we, along with much of the media, published a number of articles which may have been understood to suggest that Kate and Gerry McCann may have been involved in Madeleine’s disappearance.
May have been understood? Could the paper be less specific?
We regret this and wish to make clear, for the avoidance of any doubt, that we fully accept that there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Kate and Gerry were involved in the disappearance of their daughter.
Good that the Standard accepts that with no proof and no evidence of any crime having been committed, the missing girl’s parents are not guilty of hamring their own daughter. How’s that for, er, standards?
We continue to support Kate and Gerry in their search for Madeleine. There is no evidence that Madeleine has come to any harm and clearly there are people out there who know where she is.
“Continue to support”? But didn’t the Standard write things that “may have been understood” to be less than supporting?
Therefore we are today calling on Evening Standard readers to redouble their efforts to find Madeleine. We have now made a very substantial donation to assist with the search and are continuing to run adverts in the foreign editions of our sister paper, the Daily Mail, asking for information which might lead to Madeleine being found.
A donation. And an apology. What happened, then, to bring about such largesse?
We wish Kate and Gerry all the best and will continue to work with them to help find their daughter.
“Continue…”
Just yesterday the Mail, the Standard’s sister organ, told readers:
Mr McCann said he was unaware of how much money remained in the Find Madeleine Fund but admitted his family had “scarce resources and did not want to waste them”.
Waste them on… lawyers?
As the Mail said of the Daily Express’s case with the McCanns and subsequent “donation“:
Media lawyer Paul Gilbert, from the firm Finers Stephens Innocent, said: “Clearly the Express’s lawyers felt this was a case they should settle without a high-profile trial and as a result have saved considerable costs.
“It certainly is a warning sign to newspapers in the future - if they’re going to speculate, they’ve got to be very careful about what they speculate about.”
THE SCOTSMAN: “Madeleine expert joins Uist search”
AN EXPERT who reviewed the hunt for Madeleine McCann has been called in to try to help solve the mystery of the Merchant Navy cadet who disappeared on South Uist early on Boxing Day.
The failed search for Madeleine McCann is now a career defining moment for many, and no barrier to future employment.
As the search for Simon MacMillan, 21, goes on, a new team of police dogs from the mainland was sent to the Hebridean island yesterday. Police have also drafted in Mark Harrison, the national search adviser to the National Policing Improvement Agency, who was brought in to the search for Madeleine after police drew a blank.
And after Mr Harrison drew a blank…
Madeleine McCann is missing, and after months of speculation and innuendo, she remains missing…
Posted: 15th, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (28) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Hope they find both Maddie and Simon safe and well. Simons been missing for three weeks today and everybody here is desperate to find him safe x
January 15th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
“They cling to the hope” that the “Mugs” will believe their story (Full stop)
See my earlier post.
“Eddie” the Cadaver dog, gave a very clear indication of the presence of a dead body.
January 15th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Siesta?
January 15th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX have a good one xxxxxxxx
January 15th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
i’ll let you know tomozzer xx
January 15th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
good girl
speak later xx
January 15th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
wheres me tickets ??????
January 15th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
im teaching him to get to your standard
January 15th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I bet you haven’t walked right for a week hahahahahahaha
January 15th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
16 brandon flours Says:
January 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
pmsl hes 20 on my birthday
Jeezus woman !!! I hope you don’t do that thing that you did with me! Poor soul!
January 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
ok mate xxxxxxxxxxxxx
January 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I’ve gotta dash for the train but will catch up with you later or tomorrow!
January 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
pmsl hes 20 on my birthday
January 15th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Are you getting plenty?
January 15th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
glad to hear !!!
I am very good i have a toy boy
January 15th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I’m ok thanks Brandon. Hard being back at work but i’m good. baby Sam is doing really well and is recovering well from his bronchiolitus, he still sounds like a goose from time to time tho but he is doing well.
Are you ok?
January 15th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Hi Cheryl
You mean it’s clearly obvious the McCanns know where their child is?
January 15th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
baby how are you?
January 15th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Happy new year to you too!
January 15th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
lone are you back happy new year xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
January 15th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Fully Secured, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see ‘clearly’ that there is someone or someones out there who know where the child or her remains are! Yes she disappeared but not into thin air so clear enough to me that someone or someones took her and thus know where she or her remains are. ‘Obviously’ may have been a better word to use, though, for those who don’t understand the various ways the word ‘clearly’ can be used in speaking.
The McCanns are like all those thousands of parents out there with missing children who refuse to believe their child is dead since their remains have never been found. They cling to hope their child is alive from hearing of those cases of children who were missing for many years and being found alive.
January 15th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Why of course they should be discussing the facts in the Sainted Amaral’s book! Quite certain in that self-serving piece of work they’ll find the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth according to Sainted Amaral. That man worked real hard on that case, now didn’t he. Long lunches sitting at a table speaking in a loud voice for all to hear and papers to print and people to condemn his number one suspect. Great cop wasn’t he - he knew who did it right away - all mothers kill their children - we all know that, don’t we? Why they even had the nerve to replace him with one of their top investigators when he was unceremoniously dumped from the excellent investigative job he was doing. By the way, have he and his goons, oh sorry I mean colleagues, gone to trial yet for their exemplary past police work in allegedly beating a confession out of a mother for taking the life of her child?
January 15th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I think the press and particularly the evening standard should be considering and consequently discussing the facts mentioned in Mr Amarals book!
“The book’s publisher, Mario Sena Lopes, said there was now an English version of Mr Amaral’s book and he was negotiating a UK deal. He said several publishers were interested and he was confident the British public would soon be able to read the book.”
January 15th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
‘clearly there are people out there who know where she is’
Really? What like crystal clear? people can actually see these people that know where she is? I wish they would be more specific. Who are these people and why haven’t they been investigated if they are that clear?
Ahhhh. sorry….just got it…..The standard are actually being sarcastic aren’t they….aren’t they????? They mean gerry and Kate know where she is….. don’t they…….or do they?
January 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Will people just wake up, and see the crap going on infront of their eyes. This whole thing needs to be investigated properly, begining with Mum and Dad….
January 15th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Nah need coffee first thrud btw!
January 15th, 2009 at 6:27 am
ill have to read this again when ive woken up properly, i dont think ive read so much fucking bolox in my life. PMSL
January 15th, 2009 at 5:28 am
How very generous of them