Baby P’s Mum Tracey Connelly And Stephen Barker, In Pictures
BABY P’s mother is called Tracey Connelly. But, then, you all knew her name. Tracey Connelly, mother to Baby Peter, has been a hate figure on the web for months.
The 17-month-old boy’s mother pleaded guilty to causing or allowing Baby P’s death, but was cleared of murder on a judge’s directions.
On 11 November, 2008, Tracey Connelly’s 32-year-old boyfriend, Steven Barker, and another man, his brother Jason Barker (aka Jason Owen) were convicted at the Old Bailey in London on the same charge. Connelly and Steven Barker are jailed for a minimum of five years. Steven Barker raped a 2-year-old girl. The Barker brothers attcked their grandmother, Hilda Barker.
We can now legally name her. This is the trigger for other Tracey Connellys to steel themselves for when their namesake leaves jail one day, as surely she must.
Baby Peter was subjected to daily torture by the mother, Tracey Connelly, step father Steven Barker and lodger Jason Barker/Owen.
Baby Of Hearts
A revolting crime. Many crimes are. But did we need to see computer-generated images of baby P’s wounds? Any sentient being can imagine the pain and the wounds. Seeing them turns us into voyeurs. And Baby P was turned into the media’s Baby of Hearts.
Carole Malone told her readers of her horror at the horror:
I HAD to force myself to read it. And every sickening, gut-wrenching detail made me want to hunt down the monsters who’d hurt Baby P—or allowed him to be hurt—and hurt THEM.
Posted: 11th, August 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: The Story In Pictures
MADELEINE MCCANN - ever since Madeleine McCann went missing and the single thread story began to be spun by a voracious media, taken up by a mawkish commentariat and vain MPs, enjoyed by armchair detectives and turned into a public spectacle, Anorak has followed the story of the girl who became the media’s Our Maddie.
We now bring you the Madeleine McCann story in pictures:
Posted: 7th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How To Get To Jade Goody’s Shrine
JADE Goody: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s post-reality career, with
Daily Star: “Jade’s secret shrine”
Old Mr Anorak would like readers to know that the shrine will not be dismantled after a suitable period of mourning – say, ten years – but in the Shrine Facility, alongside shrines to Our Maddy, Baby P, Princess Diana, Nike Baldwin, Cecil Rhodes and many more…
The Sun: “We don’t want her grave to be shrine”
Posted: 6th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Baby P’s Third Birthday Party Mourn Porn: RSVP The Sun
HAVING made a land grab for Baby P’s final resting place by planting a plaque amid the ashes, the Sun now sends James Clench to St Pancras & Islington Cemetery.
Beneath a shot of Clench holding a big candle, before the pile of teddies and flowers, the Sun tells readers:
“New shrine on date of tragic tot’s 3rd birthday.”
Posted: 2nd, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mourning Sickness: Good Grief It’s Baby P
BABY P Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Baby P in the news and the Sun’s case of Mourning Sickness and how we can all feel good and get off on a big dose of grief…
THE SUN (editorial): “Nation’s grief”
In driving snow and icy rain, decent folk from all over Britain yesterday came to pay their respects to baby P… Many brought their own children to lay flowers and toys, turning the toddler’s grave into a shrine”.
Baby P was cremated and his ashes scattered. There is no grave.
Posted: 24th, November 2008 | In: Media Comments (40) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Baby P: Like Diana’s Death, I Was There
TO the Sun the story of Baby P is being told in numbers and gestures.
The big news is that 700,000 people have signed its cut-out-and-send petition that calls for members of Haringey social service and medical staff to be sacked.
At the cemetery where Baby P’s ashes are scattered, the Sun has erected a plaque to “BABY P”. It’s a land grab for readers’ hearts and minds.
Posted: 23rd, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Baby P: The Mother Revealed, Dad’s Grief And The X Factor
BABY P Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Baby P in the news…
DAILY MIRROR: “Baby P mum bid for new ID after jail”
Who’s to say she will get out of jail?
The mother of tragic Baby P could get a new identity when released from jail, it emerged last night.
Could. Such are the facts…
Tory MP Philip Davies said: “The taxpayer may have a huge bill to protect her rights. It’s offensive.”
May. Such is the outrage…
THE SUN: “A father’s grief for tragic Baby P”
Posted: 22nd, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (17) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
BABY P Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Baby P in the news…
THE SUN (front page): “Haunting portrait of baby P shows cuts and bruises”
These are the:
“FIRST SIGNS OF TORTURE”
The torture and death of Baby P is not enough for the Sun which continues to search for more pictures of the child to broadcast and therewith show how much it cares for the “blue-eyed angel”.
Here’s one of Baby P fresh out the womb, born on Wednesday March 1, 2006. He’s a healthy weight of 7lob 1oz.
Here’s one of baby P is an Army-style fatigue jacket. He’s smiling. And here’s that front-page shot again, this time with arrows pointing at his “old bruise”, “new bruise” and “red marks”.
Wannabe social workers should make notes. They should be shown the front-page picture and asked to spot any abrasions, lacerations and contusions. Failure to get less than the full three marks would result in a fail, and a job in Haringey.
Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Media Comments (43) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: A Paedo, A Blue Bag And The Orphans
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MIRROR: “We want Madeleine’s toys to go to the little boys and girls who need them most - EXCLUSIVE: McCANNS HELP ORPHANS”
Kate and Gerry McCann have sent cuddly toys left for Madeleine at the now removed shrine in Leicestershire to orphans so they “give a little festive cheer to children who have nothing”
A friend says: “They were so touched with all the gifts they received for Madeleine and wanted to pass them on to other little boys and girls who need them more. Christmas will be heartbreaking for them this year. But at least they know the gifts have gone to a good home”
Happy days. And the toys “all have a label with Madeleine’s picture”. Which should give the little uns happy dreams. “Tell us about the little girl, Miss…”
TONY Parsons: “There is somthing in the story of Madeleine McCann that has touched the heart of the world, and yet the world has let the little girl down”. Shame on you. The Parsons Knows
“Depsite all the gluttony and materialism, the story of Christmas remains the story of a child and innocence somehow surviving in a wicked world. Jesus will survive the murderous wrath of Herod, Scrooge will find pity in his heart for Tiny Tim and the boy will live. And Madeleine will go home to her family”
Religion, fiction and an apparent crime, in which the parents of the Little Baby Madeleine are named suspects. How Parsons linked them is a miracle. A child is missing - such is the raw reality.
Here endeth the Parsons Lesson…
DAILY EXPRESS: “CASE AGAINST THE MCCANNS HIT BY DNA TEST DOUBTS”
“The case against Kate and Gerry McCann has been dealt a severe blow by doubts over controversial DNA techniques… But DNA was gathered and analysed using the techniques that led to the collapse of the Omagh bomb trial last week”
Low Copy Number DNA analysis – was developed by the UK’s Forensic Science Service. “It allows investigators to analyse tiny samples of evidence, sometimes many times smaller than a grain of sand. Scientists are able to produce the all-important genetic fingerprint from tiny samples by growing the DNA until it is large enough to test fully”
THE STAR: “’MADDIE TAKEN IN DAD’S TENNIS BAG’”
Gerry McCann was “reportedly seen with the holdall as he took up to three tennis lessons a day on the ill-fated holiday…But the blue sports bag has been lost, according to a shock new TV special on the mystery that is gripping the world”
A new TV investigation and a new piece of crucial evidence. Curious…
“According to The Madeleine McCann Mystery – a Sky News special on tonight at 7.30 – the bag is vital to the investigation”
According to Clarence Mitchell, Gerry McCann’s spokesman: “Gerry’s baffled. He’s never owned such a bag. There simply is no missing bag. They are entirely innocent”
Look out for Anorak TV’s Madeleine And The Dragon soon…
THE SUN: “Maddie: Mystery of ‘lost’ bag”
So says the Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Sky
“A missing blue tennis bag could hold the key to Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, a TV documentary will claim tonight. The bag — big enough to carry a small child — belonged to Maddie’s dad Gerry, the programme says. It is claimed Portuguese cops have been hunting for the holdall, which disappeared at the same time as the four-year-old girl. The bag emerges as a potentially vital new clue in a Sky News investigation entitled The Madeleine McCann Mystery”
It’s better than Only Fools And Horses. And Cleudo. Play along at home…
“Yet, bizarrely, the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell yesterday denied it existed — saying Gerry did not own such a bag and never had done”
And former detective Tony Rogers, “one of Britain’s most experienced police officers, will be seen saying: ‘If it’s a bag of a size that could be taking away from the flat a child, that would be of great interest to the investigating officer’”
So long as Gerry McCann removes the balls- tennis balls – from it first. But if Gerry did it…?
“Tonight’s documentary also claims Portuguese detectives have failed to find and quiz a British paedophile with links to the Algarve. He was among 52 British sex offenders with similar connections whose details were given to police by UK cops”
Not Gerry McCann, then, but a PAEDO! Two pieces of sensation in the Sky TV show. Stay tuned
THE TIMES: “Paedophile Briton linked to Madeleine”
The Times has seen the Sky TV show. The Times is owned by, Rupert Murdoch. The competition for viewing figures at Christmas is intense
The paedo. And the blue bag…
DAILY MAIL: “Hunt for Gerry’s missing tennis bag which ‘could have been used to carry Madeleine away’”
Tony Rogers, “who reviews unsolved cases for British police and worked on the Soham investigation”, uses his experience and media contacts to say that the bag might be important
Says Clarence Mitchell: “As far as Kate and Gerry are concerned, there is no missing tennis bag. They came back from holiday with everything except of course, tragically, Madeleine.”
“British paedophile ‘with links to Portugal’ suspected of abducting Madeleine” – A source tells Sky: “They (Portuguese police) were given the names of 52 sex offenders and they’ve worked very hard to find them and rule them out as suspects. There is still one man they are concerned about”
So important is he that we do not know his name nor what he looks like. Unless he is the man Jane Tanner saw. And this from the Sun’s stable, the paper that which criticised the Portuguese police for their efit and not telling the media every detail of their investigation…
DORSET ECHO: “Toddler, 3, walked home from nursery”
Sarah Cracknell, from Somerford dropped little Finley off at the Explorers Children’s Centre in Draper Road at noon while she attended a PTA lunch next door at Somerford Primary School. Says mum: “I went through half an hour of what Madeleine McCann’s parents must be going through 24 hours a day”
Sarah was not accused of killing her child. Neither was Beverly Fleetham
Madeleine McCann – the news so far
Posted: 24th, December 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (757) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Youth Dinking And Violence: Delay It Until 21
Dizzy looks at the current story thread of youth drinking and violence:
This morning I was unable to get a copy of the Independent so I bought the Guardian instead, along with the Times. There seemed to be quite a consensual theme today that young people get pissed too much and turn into violent hordes and something must be done!
What I personally found most interesting about the coverage is that amongst all the solutions and explanations no one really, at least for me, seemed to hit the nail on the head for why it has happened. Sure, I think raising the age of purchasing alcohol to 21 ‘might’ have an impact simply because a shop keeper’s excuse that “they looked 18″ become harder when it has to be “they looked 21″ - at least in my personal view it does.
Having said this, the only problem with such a move could be the sort of situation that exists in the US today where youngsters reach that age and get out of their head then instead. You just move the problem of getting wrecked a few years, although you would hope that the maturity of say a 19/20 year-old drinking for the first time (because they look 21) is more advanced than a 14/15 year-old so they won’t end up stabbing someone or beating them to death.
However, this still doesn’t answer the question of why it has happened. For me personally, I think it’s the unintended consequences of many things we have done over the past few decades. To fix it does not mean we have to reverse those things necessarily, but we do need to pause and think about them rather than just applying a Band Aid to the situation.
For example, in the immediate past I would say that the introduction of “human” rights into our national statute (rather than just being in the Convention) as had an impact. A human right is a right conferred on anyone with the quality of being human after all. This means everyone from a baby upwards. Youngsters today, as a result of the human rights agenda permeating through the media, are not that stupid to not realise that they are can apply the rights to themselves.
Added to this you have the dominance of negative liberties - the freedom from - which are enshrined in human rights legislation. This leads youngsters to say “you can’t touch me” etc. Then we have paedophile panic which leads to adults fearing to intervene, and kids that are astute enough to make spurious claims in reverse - “don’t touch me you paedo!”
Also the dominance - dare I say - of multiculturalism has had an impact. Not should I add multiculturalism itself, but more the mode of philosophical thought that runs beneath it which promotes equivalence. This dominance of relativism, which started out as a school of thought in the philosophy of science and has found itself applied to culture and worse morality, has permeated through society right down to the youth, I’d say.
The result is that many kids today have no respect for the notions of right and wrong, because the dominant belief is that such concepts are only relative to the observer of them. Therefore what is right for me may not be right for someone else. If the adult world says that everything is relative is it any wonder that an increasing number of kids are growing up nihilists?
The slow decline of youth organisations - which has been driven by paedophile panic as well - has had an impact too, as has been the removal of National Service. That is not say National Service should be brought back, but its cultural impact on discipline and respect amongst peers in society cannot be ignored I think. The idea of a Policeman giving a kid a clip round the ear too is gone, for that is “abuse”, or even worse “police brutality”.
Put simply, the whole issue of “feral youth” today is of our own making over time. Unless we stop and acknowledge the interconnection of our actions, we will just be applying bandages to a gangrenous wound.
Posted: 16th, August 2007 | In: Twitterings Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
TMZ TV: Celebrity Porn For The American Family
LIFE over there in the United States. Scandal. Sensation. Sex tapes. It’s TMZ TV - celebrity porn for the masses. Tabloid Baby takes a look:
Insiders tell us the boys at TMZ have been taking our advice and cleaning up their act as they near the debut of a syndicated television series based on the corporate porn-pushing gossip site.
And the proof is in the pudding! In recent days the crass and often obscene headlines have been toned down considerably. In fact, in the last day or so, the only one that stands out as a groaner is yesterday’s
Is K-Fed Feeding It to Grandma?
And the only porn tape they’ve promoted recently is the gay version of Girls Gone Wild that promises wild “guys” who are “undressed, uncut” and “uninhibited.” (We realize, old habits die hard.)
But the real question and controversy inside TMZ is who will host what will obviously be a watered-down, breeder vanilla TV version of the slobber-stained shrine to Mathew McConaughey.
Insiders tell us that the role of elder, untelegenic TMZ frontman Harvey Levin in the host search is being likened to Dick Cheney’s position as head of the Bush vice presidential search committee in 2000. (For those of you who don’t keep up on current events, Cheney got the gig himself).
Now don’t get upset, TMZ boys. We know you’re already surrounded by expensive, bullshitting corporate TV consultants and suits who are already picking away at your show the way they did to A Current Affair and Geraldo, and they’ll keep it up until TMZ TV looks like Celebrity Justice. But consider this some free advice from real pros who’ve been there and done that: if Harvey Levin hosts the TMZ TV show, failure is guaranteed in the first 13 weeks. Remember Mike Walker and that stupid, short-lived National Enquirer TV series. Wrong people behind the scenes. Wrong face in front of the camera.
(Free suggestion: Adrianna Costa and Brian Dunkelman.)
Meanwhile, the TMZ TV tips keep coming in. We’ll unspool a few more in the coming days about other high-profile hirings—and what the new Sunset Strip location of the TMZ offices means to Hyde, the celebrity haunt that’s already haunted by Harvey’s celeb-taunting kiddie cameramen (a fixed surveillance camera?).
Stay tuned.
And expect to see extracts in the Sun every day…
Posted: 11th, August 2007 | In: Twitterings Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
‘SHES alive! Oh, Heaven be praised! The Princess of all our hearts is among us once again.
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Here she is now. Come on, Di, surely you have a few words for your legion of fans. Tell us what life was like upstairs on the fabled 6th floor of Harvey Nichols.
‘I sit here in sadness,’ says Di somewhat oddly - she is standing to her full 12 inches. Id like to be a queen of peoples hearts.’
Oh, that you would be. But what then would become of Camilla? Di would no more usurp Camillas position than she would skin wife No.2 and wear her for a scarf.
Dressed in a white skirt and jacket, Di might not ever get to rule, but she can take pride of place in our hearts, on our mantelpieces and atop that shrine so many of us created in our smallest rooms.
And this ‘action figure’ swimmer, shopper, gym junkie is every inch as real as Di was. Unlike big Di, little Di speaks 25 ‘historic’ phrases, according to the manufacturer, Texas-based Time Capsule Toys.
At the press of button Di says: ‘There’s far too much about me in the newspapers, far too much’; ‘I want to do good things; and I wanted to teach children.
This toy Di is positively gushing. She just cant stop. Here she goes again: ‘I don’t sit here with resentment. I sit here with sadness.’
As do we all albeit surrounded by our Princess Di margarine tubs; Princess Beanie Baby - a purple bear with a rose on its chest; Diana, Englands Rose Diamond Pendant; Diana, Queen of Hearts Jewelled Tribute Ring; Circle of Tears bath plug; Princess Diana Candle In The Wind scented candle; Princess Diana enamelled tooth and…’
Posted: 1st, February 2006 | In: Anorak Says Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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