Madeleine McCann: Crimewatch And Just Another Day
IT’S Gerry McCann’s birthday today. He’s 39.
This is, as the Mail says, “the hardest birthday of his life”.
So how does he feel? The Sun wants to know. “I can’t even think about it,” says Madeleine McCann’s father. “As far as I’m concerned it’s insignificant.”
The Sun considers the evidence. What about last year’s birthday? What were you doing back then, when Madeleine was with you? “I can’t think about that either,” says Gerry McCann.
The Sun needs its story. And the story is: “TORMENTED MADELEINE DAD FORGETS BIRTHDAY.”
Not forget. More can’t find a reason to celebrate.
Tonight, though, the criminal case will take centre stage. The McCanns will appear on the BBC TV show Crimewatch.
The Sun says plans for a reconstruction of the night of Madeleine’s disappearance have been shelved because Portuguese laws blocked access to the area. Instead, the parents of the missing girl will ask for help.
They will then travel to Amsterdam, Berlin and Rabat. The Mail says the McCanns lived in Amsterdam for a year. There are many German tourists in the Algarve. And a blonde girl has been sighted in Morocco.
But before they leave the Mail says the McCanns will ask local police for a progress report. The Mail is not optimistic. It talks of a “wall of silence” and the McCanns receiving “most of their updates either through the British police or from news reports”.
But what do these reports teach them? That they are upset. That today is Gerry’s birthday. That Madeleine McCann is missing…
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September 26th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Yall need to get on the case and quit worrying about what the father and mother are saying start looking for madaleine and when the parents give a speach does it help every time ?… no
September 16th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Hello Malou
The news media in the UK is so biased towards the McCanns it’s unbelievable.
They are taking so called ‘expert’ advice who tend to discredit everything the Portuguese police say or do. Those McCanns have got all their mouthpieces out for them, telling how wonderful a mum Kate is, etc. Some mum eh, who will go leave the kids alone each night while she wines and dines with friends, in an unlocked apartment as well. And yet there are still idiots who defend them and try to make out it was not as bad as it was.
I hope the Portuguese police charge them with child endangerment for a start and don’t let them get away with that, because a little child is missing, and if these McCanns had been a poor family and did not have friends in high places like the McCanns do, they would certainly have been charged by now.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
According to RTP tv-Portugal- today, the PJ has no intention to dismantel
the Mccann’s car, which they rented in May.
The police seem to have enough samples.
Somebody of the PJ said also that he has never experienced such a huge amount of false stories by the media like he sees now in Madeleine’s case.
He said it on tv and I hope one of the papers will publish it tomorrow.
What happened to the music “Éverything I do” (and not look into my eyes- ) on Gerry’s site? Is the composer angry with the the Mccanns?
The Mccanns seem to start asking for money, a new fund, to pay their lawyers.
If it is true, I wish I sometimes could be that rude.
September 15th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Hello Malou
Yes it is strange that, when you have been sent all that money and there it sits waiting for what? to happen before they start spending it to look for Madeleine.
Anyone would know that in a case like an abduction (if that is really what it is) then time is of the essence.
Although the money is theirs to do with as they will under the terms of the Fund they appear to be hiding behind the trustees and saying the trustees wont let them use it for just anything in the search for Madeleine. Meanwhile, many people appear to believe the money was sent for the sole purpose of finding Madeleine.
Yet if they are charged with the death of Madeleine then that Fund money should be frozen until the outcome of the trial because if it proves they were involved in the disappearance of their daughter and they know where she is, then they personally will have been benefiting from the money knowing it to have been obtained with fraudulent statements by themselves although I suppose they could claim that they were not the ones that actually set it up, but if it came to that, I don’t think the public or the court would buy it.
September 14th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
When they started their fund, I knew the money was for themselves.I still ask myself if they have that huge amount of money on the fund.
I even suspected them hiding Madeleine,alive, in order to become rich.
But it is worse. She is really dead.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Then that’s their own fault for going out every night and leaving their kids alone.
Madeleine most likely has paid with her life.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Have the McCanns actually paid for anything themselves so far?
They have paid by sacrificing their own dignity, their professional ethics and their own personal privacy.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:51 am
And if it turned out they were to be found guilty and had used money from the Madeleine Fund for their defence they would have to repay it.
So it looks like they are going to launch another Fund for the defence, although it is being reported that some rich benefactor is now going to give them money for their defence.
Have the McCanns actually paid for anything themselves so far?
September 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
According to The Mail they are not going to be given the money from the fund for their legal fees. Not so far anyway.
September 12th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Hi Ben
September 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
hi
September 11th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Now it appears that the McCanns are trying to get the Fund money released to them for legal fees, but I wonder why they don’t freeze these funds until after any trial because if it turns out that the McCanns had a hand in the death of their daughter and they therefore know where she is, the funds raised would have been conned out of people by fraud and they should not be allowed to have any of that money if that is the case.
They should also be prosecuted for said fraud as well, but don’t doubt the Macs will have an answer for that as well. Gerry has said it was his brother that started the Fund, so perhaps he will make out it was nothing to do with him although he is obviously quite prepared to take the money for his own use.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Not exactly, Miss Marple. We live together, sniffer dog and Georgina.
we share the same ideas.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Georgina and Sniffer Dog, are you the same?
September 10th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
The parents are Britsh.
Madeleine was it as well.
Would the UK be in favor of her, please?
September 10th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Most of the Britsh media is still in favor of the parents.
They forget Madeleine was also Britsh.
And she is the victim, isn’t she, not the parents.
Who in UK is in favor of the truth?
Everything was very well planed.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Most of the Britsh media is still in favor of the parents.
They forget Madeleine was also Britsh.
And she is the victim, not the parents.
Who in UK is in favor of the truth?
September 9th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Hello Miss Marple, you could be right about that day but wouldn’t somebody have commented about Madeleine not being in the creche which was the normal routine.
Something else I have read a few times is that the car they later hired exclusively for themselves was the same one that had been hired to be used by the whole group when they first went out there. If that is so, then they had access to that car from the get go.
I thought it was interesting about O’Brien (I hope that is correct name, he is the one whose partner said later (and her story appears to have been further embellished as it progressed from seeing a man carrying ’something’ to a man carrying a child and even the colour of his shoes), was not there for most of the evening and said his child was sick and he had had to launder sheets, which the hotel staff could not understand because they would have done that for them.
Perhaps Madeleine had also been sick, but as there was nobody there to help her she had choked?
Then as soon as he appeared at the table Kate got up and did her check on the children.
You can’t blame the police for being very suspicious with all of this and then the forensics also.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Tiana, noboby knows what happened on the afternoon of the 3rd.Those stories of have being seen at 6.00 pm are not official.I heard different stories:
!) they went out the whole day, coming back at 6.00 and going streight to the apartment.
2) she was the whole day at the creche.
3)they went to the beach up til 3.00pm(hot!) and back to the apartment up til the parents left to the tapas(8.30, 9.30pm).(very hot in the apartment). Nobody could remember them on the beach.
From 6pm to 10pm is very short time, to die and to plan the disappearence on such a perfect way.The person who removed the body later was probably family and he did not know Portugal well.They must have gotten help from a insider.If the police did not find rests of leaves and sand in the car, her body must have been kept on a very clean place.We don’t know about sand and leaves.I still suspect the church.Everything is too perfect for foreigners to get rid of a body in such a short time.I believe in an accident, a tragic accident, and they are suffering on a terrible way.
September 9th, 2007 at 4:11 am
Hello Miss Marple, that is possible but I don’t think she can have died earlier than that day because I keep reading that Madeleine was seen with her dad and O’Brien {I think it was him) earlier, in a restaurant at about 6p.m I hope somebody will correct me if I am wrong.
But one thing I have just thought of if that is true, is that I think it is O’Brien who is the expert in drugs and things like that. Again anybody correct me if that is wrong and it was somebody else. I think if I remember rightly it was just the three of them together.
Could that have any relevance, because it has been said that Gerry had admitted that they did give sedation, where I heard that I don’t know, am just soaking this information up as am browsing, but think it was on a TV channel.
I think the best people to give the info about the Church to would be the Portuguese police and they could have a look around.
If the parents do have anything to do with Madeleine being dead and having to conceal her body then that would be a logical place as the priests are sworn to secrecy I believe. I also think that anybody close to them would be most likely have helped them too if they knew it was an accident and the consequences for them would be dire and they might lose their other children.
I am not convinced they killed Madeleine, I don’t know for sure, just as they don’t know for sure, if they didn’t do something to her themselves, that she was abducted.
But why don’t they mention that she could have gone out the door and got lost or are the clever Macs going to admit they sedated her that night to confirm their scenario that she must therefore have been abducted because she was asleep and unable to walk.
I get the impression those McCanns can think faster than anybody can ask the questions, and I don’t believe a word they say having been taken in by them to begin with.
They do so want people to see them as victims and they can only do that by saying an abductor took their daughter, without an abductor it should be obvious to everybody that it is Madeleine who is the victim. She is a victim of them because she was left by them in an unlocked apartment night after night so that anything could have happened to her. They are a disgrace as parents.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:12 am
Tiana, you live in England.
Could you please tell your police my theory above? Thank you?.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:06 am
I read on Portuguese paper (site), published longer ago tah Gerry got so nervous that night, that he wanted to call the priest at 01.00am.People thoght that it was not wise to do it and he gave up the idea.Today I heard that the priest gave the Mccanns a key of the church allowend them to enter it anytime they wanted.I remember now that he wrote a million times on his site that they were going to pray in the church every afternoon.Could it be that Maddie died much earlier that day, even the evening before, they went confessing(always a secret) explained the danger of losing the twins and the priest hid Madeleine’s body in the church somewhere?That’s why the parents were going back there every day?And why they got the kee?And why the police never found her?She is not in the see and not buried in a field because it was not possible for them or to relatieves to dig a grave. Did the priest found an old grave for her in the local cemetery? And somebody brought her from the church to the cemetery, using that car? I live far from England and from Portugal and I ask one of you, living in England or Portugal, to present this theory to the police. They can try founding it out by taking dogs to the church.Maddie disappeared on the most perfect way. It could be the church.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:53 am
I have seen on Sky tonight that they are about to let the McCanns come back to UK.
So, looks like they may end up not being charged with anything when they should have been put inside I reckon for child endangerment at the very least.
I can only imagine the sick reporting from the UK press saying how this poor wonderful couple have been persecuted by the bad old Portuguese police and them doing the rounds on the tv programmes and people fawning all over them like they are some sort of returning heroes.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Well, from what I have observed this selfish duo do have some very obliging friends and relatives who apparently are even prepared to overlook the fact that these two left their kids alone alone night after night when they went out for the evening with their other pals.
Nothing would surprise me.
I’d say charge them anyway for child endangerment, and fine them big time for all the money it has cost the Portuguese taxpayers who have had to pay for their selfish irresponsible behavior. What’s betting these McCanns haven’t had to pay a penny of their own money so far.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
The couple rented the car 25 days after the crime, exactly one day before they visited the Pope, I read somewhere.And they took millions of journalists with them, on the privet jet,to witnesse their meeting with the Holy Father.Speaking about media,Praia da Luz was empty, for some few days.
They left the twins with some relatieves.
Could one of those relatieves have replaced the body while the Mccanns and the journalists were away? Good alibi for the Mccanns and good chance for the relatieve?
The body must have been very very near to the resort.
September 8th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
So far, on the TV news here in UK, they keep repeating that Kate was offered a deal and not that it was denied by Portuguese police, also we keep getting over and over their friends and family coming on and telling everybody what wonderful responsible parents they are who would never do anything to hurt their children.
Are all these people colluding with them that it is OK to leave your kids alone for hours on end in a dark unlocked apartment while you go out drinking with your pals then?
I bet if it had been anybody else who had done that they would have been down on them like a ton of bricks.
Excellent parents, I don’t think so, dangerous irresponsible parents more like.
They should be charged at least with child endangerment whatever is found to have happen to Madeleine and I hope the Portuguese police do that before they escape back to the UK and are lauded and applauded here. People should know what these two are really like.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I saw Gerry coming out of the police station last night(BBC).
He is devastated.
He got himself in trouble, trying to help his wife.
He looked worse than Kate, two days ago.
I felt sorry for him.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
correction: that the PJ ever offered a deal to Kate.
They did no offer anything.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Somebody speaking on the name of the Portuguese police denied on RTP, a Portuguese television, that the PJ never offered any deal to Kate.
The words were “this is a fable”.
September 8th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Hi All
My comment is non-judgmental and judgemental at the same time…..
I am confused, disorentatied and disturbed by everything I have read here.
I would just like to tell you all a story to assist with your “investigations”
I have the most wonderful 13 year old boy in the world, I have a wonderful set of friends and family and have spent wonderful balmy aromatic nights abroad with them (Portugal, France, Spain, Turkey, Gran Canaria, etc)……more often than not during the evening I became slightly drunk, hey not falling down drunk, but slightly merry should we say……….as probably were my husband, mum, sister, brother, aunties, uncles, friendsl we were on hols …But my son was right beside me…we brought the prams with us,blankets etc The children slept like angels , my last holiday with the family before we emigrated to australia inolved a 7 year old in a pushchair he was far to big for it! People laughed and stared I did[’nt care, he was real snuggled and most importantly he was with me and safe…….My child, my responsibilty..I am of a lower income family, my husband is a builder and I am a buyer for a mining company…would we have had your support?+
My family used to laugh at me……….he’s a big strong hulking lad now…but he has been within 10 yards of me from the day he way born…I changed my life for him, he did not have to adapt to my social calendar, he goes out with his mates now and I want no control over that, from here on in its his go!!
What ever happened/happens that kid had no chance…holidays are for families not for the parents….I understand they wiil suffer guilt for the rest of their lives….. tough…so do I,…I had no control over mine I was sexually abused for many years..I didnt earn my guilt..it came free…we all carry scars. Some self inflicted…….some not…
Please God with all my heart the McCanns are innocent …this is beyond my comprehension and let maddie come home…
But Parenting is a full time job……………..please learn from this tragedy
disappointed.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Gerry’s sister said to the media today(she was seen on TV,Portugal) that the Portuguese police offered her a deal: if she tells where Madeleine’s body is (or admits Madeleine’s death, one of these two possibilities, I forgot which one) she would be prosecuted for child neglect only.
The PJ denied this whole story this evening. They never offered anything.