Madeleine McCann: A Con, A Call To Imagine The Worst And A Joke
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: A fresh appeal to imagine the worst, more jokes, a con and Our Maddie will now entertain you…
The Sun: “’Imagine if she was your child’”
She’s not? But if she were…
THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann have posted a poignant internet appeal for information - urging readers: “Imagine if she was your child.”
Isn’t that what columnists and mums and dads have been doing for over two years, looking at Our Maddie and whispering, “There for the grace of God…’? Isn’t it every parent’s worst nightmare? Hasn’t Anorak spent three summers chronicling sighting and repeats of Our Maddie?
Appearing beside two pictures of the vanished girl, the wording reads: “Imagine if she was your child, imagine the pain and grief, imagine if someone like you never came forward.”
Imagine if Our Maddie was not the media’s only story on missing children. Imagine if there were others who weren’t blonde of blue eyed who never made it to the front page and made Prime Minister’s weep. Imagine if Our Maddie was not a story that sold papers.
Another appeal says: “A little girl stolen, a family torn apart, but saying nothing is the worst crime of all.” Yet another says: “If you stay quiet you are as guilty as those who took her.”
The McCanns’ words are aimed at any abductors. But in the media they become something more, an appeal to every reader to do something or be complicit in a child’s suffering. But what can you do? You can look. Look. Look. No not look at the parents. Look for Our Maddie.
Madeleine McCann is now on the CV of anyone who has worked or pretended to work on the case.
Press & Journal: “Expert to give an insight into forensics”
A FORENSICS expert whose high-profile cases have included the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the World’s End murders in Edinburgh will give a lecture in Aberdeen next week.
Professor Dave Barclay, former head of physical evidence for the UK National Crime and Operations Faculty, will give a presentation to potential forensic science students at an open day at the Robert Gordon University (RGU) next Saturday.
So he worked on the case?
He was also sent to Portugal in 2007 to investigate the disappearance of Madeleine McCann for a Channel 4 documentary.
The Scotsman: “’King Con’ fails to hoodwink jury”
Paul “King Con” Bint, who has spent a lifetime “worming” his way into the “hearts and homes” of the opposite sex, wined and dined unsuspecting victims he met through lonely hearts adverts or the internet.
The 47-year-old told some of his “conquests” he was Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer QC, while another knew him as Jonathan Reese, QC.
He boasted of owning a fleet of luxury cars, including one used in the James Bond film Goldeneye; that he had socialised with former 007 star Pierce Brosnan; was friends with singer Robbie Williams; and had once been married to British comedy actress Sarah Alexander.
And:
In 2007, he posed once more as a heavyweight QC, this time representing the family of Madeleine McCann…
This Is Kent: “Comedian Jim Jeffries at Trinity in Tunbridge Wells”
Previous tours have included jokes on missing Madeleine McCann and family bereavements and he told Go! his new material would be just as close to the bone. “I’ve got a 20-minute story about taking a disabled friend to a brothel,” he said.
Why not have Our Maddie working in the brothel and be really edgy?
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November 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 am
Christmas is coming.
Or as Gerry Mccann - the Honorary Scotsman - might say ,” It’s time to lock up your wallets”.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Veronica
I’ve never read or heard the McCanns say they were different from other parents who have lost a child?? Neither have I ever heard them say she’d return to normality if she was found??
Or do you have secret sources of information denied to the rest of us?
As to that terrible one mistake they made, one can only begin to imagine the bitterness of their grief and regret. Would you not think they will live and relive that fateful decision every day of their lives? There’s absolutely no evidence that they’ve ever made a similar poor decision over parenting.
Or do you have secret sources of information denied to the rest of us?
But maybe you are the one perfect parent in the world? Most parents are honest enough to admit that they have taken the odd calculated risk, or made the odd mistake, here and there. Most don’t end in tragedy.
And what makes you think they were NOT the victims of a terrible crime?
Or do you have secret sources of information denied to the rest of us?
Without evidence to the contrary, do they have the right to assume their child is dead and stop searching?
Or do you have secret information denied to the rest of us?
And if you have, shouldn’t you be informing the police?
November 1st, 2009 at 6:03 am
Instead of having the grace and humility to say “We made a terrible mistake leaving our child alone, All parents learn from this and keep your children safe” they say.
“We are victims of a terrible crime, cry with us, feel sorry for us because we are totally innocent and we are different from the other thousands of parents who have lost children worldwide and whats more we still believe she is alive even if she is enduring terrible torture at the hands of paedophiles.” But when we get her back she will return to normality because we are the McCanns, we are different to all those other parents.”
How terribly terribly sad especially for this poor child Madeliene who deserved better parenting. God bless little Madeliene,.
November 1st, 2009 at 3:56 am
The McCanns are great Though!
They are good, honest, fantastic, wonderful, loving parents!
They have done nothing wrong except make ONE Mistake! It was not done malliciously. It was a guenuine honest mistake that they are living with, and we have to help them through it!
I love the McCanns- there is something so honest and gentle about them. You can see that deep down and even not so deep, they are just desperate parents in need of their child.
Now that is what I call Heartbreaking.
God Bless
October 31st, 2009 at 11:46 am
Oi!! This isn’t up to your usual standard. Feral apostrophe’s should be shot!!
“……….and made Prime Minister’s weep”