Grace Before Film: “Net Closes” In On Madeleine McCann’s Kidnappers
THE Express’s front-page headline (“MADELEINE”) is married to the promise of a “FREE £15 EYE TEST FOR EVERY READER AT ASDA.”
The face of Madeleine McCann stares from the page. Readers are used to the image, familiar with Madeleine’s distinctive right eye, where the pupil runs into the blue-green iris.
The official Madeleine McCann website features the song Everything I Do (I Do It For You), chosen no doubt because it opens with the line “Look into my eyes”. Although the song also implores listeners to “Search your heart - search your soul/ And when you find me there you’ll search no more”, words that appeal to the tabloid press for whom Madeleine is “our Maddy”.
Entertaining Stuff
Such mawkishness causes Tony Parsons to write in the Mirror of the people who felt uneasy about the cinema showing of Shrek The Third (certificate U) featuring an appeal for “snatched” Madeleine. Parsons says of the people on a fun day out who don’t like their four and five-years old learning of children “snatched” from their beds and never seen again: “And they should be grateful that their own children will sleep in their own beds tonight.”
Only a lunatic would want to experience what the McCanns are going through. But we should not give thanks that our children sleep in their own beds in this Grace Before Film. The crime of child abduction is rare. We should be shocked at the crime, not anxious and fearful that our children will be next.
Fishing Net
But Madeleine McCann does appear as the victim of a heinous crime. And now good news. Promising news. “Net is closing in on kidnappers,” says the Express. “Chief suspect faces new quiz.”
Only the Express has news of a breakthrough. And the news is that police “expect a major breakthrough in the hunt for her kidnappers”.
What it is? Can’t say? Will it lead to Madeleine being found? Can’t say? Will it be a happy ending? Can’t say. Will the ogre get it in the neck? Can’t say.
The Express is thin on facts but it does say that the chief suspect is Robert Murat. He is due to be “hauled in” for more questions later this week.
Says a police source: “While there is only one official suspect so far, investigators have identified other people they believe were involved in this case and they are now being sought.”
But the only suspect we have is Robert Murat. And his estranged British wife Dawn tells us: “Hopefully, any new meeting with police will be able to tell him he is no longer wanted with their inquiries.”
That might be it. If any new evidence were incriminating, the police would not wait to speak with Murat or arrest him.
But still the Express looks at Murat twice and tells us all about him. It offers no new insight, no new clue. But the net is closing in, we are assured.
Keep your eyes peeled. Wear glasses if you must. Help find Madeleine…
July 9th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Bet the parents are getting worried - the gravy train may soon be pulling into the station - alight here for obscurity.
Perhaps they could ‘lose’ another one.
July 9th, 2007 at 10:07 am
john, you are a wanker
July 9th, 2007 at 10:13 am
And what wisdom do you base that on then my friend?
July 9th, 2007 at 10:22 am
sorry, i mean to say that you are a cunt. in addition, i am clearly not your friend. so piss off.
July 9th, 2007 at 10:26 am
God you are good. Any more like you in the institution? Capital letters come at the start of sentences my dear friend.
You could do with me as a friend, because the ones who keep telling you to do things are actually in your head.
By the way - I think the McCanns did it and I think they will get away with it.
July 9th, 2007 at 10:30 am
That Spidermantra’s scary.
Have They searched its suitcases for clues, DNA, money, Kate and Gerry’s soiled underwear??
Anyone that rough has to be suspicious
July 9th, 2007 at 10:48 am
thanks for the note on grammar. i shall of course ignore it as you are an intellectually inferior nonce and i suspect you live on a diet of semen and faecal particles. you too gander. by the way, i’m a cop. so be afraid you cunts, i can trace you.
July 9th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Cops require an IQ in excess of 6 , so I think that excludes you.
As for finding us - you couldn’t find your arse with both hands and a flashlight.
Better to eat faeces than to talk it big boy.
July 9th, 2007 at 10:57 am
whatever you say john. see you soon. i look forward to having a chat with you. bye for now.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:03 am
So, give us the benifit of your knowledge. How exactly do you trace us? Will the voices in your head lead you to me? Are you related to George Bush? Are you really as big a cunt as you appear?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Dear John, Your one sick puppy. Your and that wanker Gander that is.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:09 am
good to see the cops chasing people they disagree with on the web. Is it any wonder that no one has been connected with this childs disapperance (incl Parents)
July 9th, 2007 at 11:18 am
spidermantra - you’re at it again! You keep bunking off school to post on these forums.
Probably why you can’t string a sentence together and do not have the ability to use whatever limited vocabulary you have to make a logical point?
I await your vitriolic response.
p.s. Sorry if I’ve included some words that you’ll have to look up. You really should have done all that school homework shouldn’t you.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Paula
Half terms over - get back to school and stop singing into that hair brush.
PS are you a virgin?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Scary thought - possibly spidermantra and Paula are not still at school? Possibly they are 18 and have just finished their A levels!?
Who said the education system isn’t working any more …..
July 9th, 2007 at 11:27 am
I think they are one and the same. Spidermantra is like all police - a little bit precious. They only join for the truncheon - slips in real nice does that.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:40 am
good to see you all have madeleine’s welfare at heart. a 4 year old?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Lisa
I do have her welfare at heart, which seems to me more than her parents do.
I have her welfare at heart because I fear for her if she ever goes back to those schemers - they will parade her around the world and turn her into a freak show.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
“good to see you all have madeleine’s welfare at heart. a 4 year old?”
Yes lisa, I too have her welfare at heart - so you are right on that one.
A 4 year old? Well you are right again lisa!
Want to make a point about Madeleine’s disappearance, or is sarcasm the only weapon in your armoury?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
hey john suck the back of them big lad…your just a tosser..
July 9th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I repeat my earlier question on another forum - why aren’t the McCanns being subjected to rigorous questioning by the Child Protection Authorities and the UK police? They would in most other countries.
They know that the number of people who suspect them of having some involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance is growing, and you have to wonder why they do not feel the need to “clear their name”.
If I were in their position I would be doing everything I could to prove that I had nothing to do with the “abduction” or “disappearance” - however you want to characterise it. That would include volunteering to take a polygraph test when answering any questions that the authorities wanted to put to me.
If the McCanns did that, and were absolved of all blame - save for having left the children alone - they would immediately silence their accusers and would win more people over to their cause, and the concentration would be on the hunt for Madeleine rather than on accusations against her parents.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
What are you lot on about? Nowt to do with Madeleine! And what language to be using. Really course!!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Of coarse!!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Sadly there appears to be another John on the forum - not too bright either by the looks of it. Please don’t think badly of him - he’s just a cunt.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
John, help me out with this will you. So there’s now two John c**ts?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Do you think Gordon Brown will get Madeleine back?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Hollie - do try to keep up dear, it wasn’t Gordon Brown who lost her!!!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
But he said he’ll do his best to find her? It said in the daily Mail!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
No Confused - just the one - the other one - but which one is he?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I think I do alright for a dog