Madeleine McCann: The Maddy Catty Plot, Waking Up With Gerry And Kate And Party Politics
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. DOES MUM’S DIARY HOLD VITAL CLUE?”
Portuguese police want Kate McCann’s diary. And “detectives believe her desperate entries…will help unlock the secret”.
Pages 4: “Find the body and prove we killed her – The McCanns’ challenge to police yesterday.”
This is the “startling ultimatum”. This is the McCanns being portrayed in villain mode, the desperados coolly confronting Poirot with the retort that his case is built on nothing but speculation.
“They could stand trial in Britain,” says the Express.
Page 5: THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER sees the McCanns “Facing up to the world”. The paper watches the family seize “60 precious minutes of normality” as they head to a playground. Kate McCann sits between her twins in the backseat of the family car [a VW], “her arms protectively around their child seats”. The Express notes that the couple go out around 10pm, retuning at about 15 minutes to midnight. What can it mean?
Page 6 and 7: Portuguese Daily 24 Hours says investigators are “probing the connection” between Robert Murat, suspect No. 1, and Gerry McCann, suspect No. 3. A police sources says “Gerry [first name] met Murat [surname]” when “Gerry was campaigning for the Labour Party.”
Says Murat: “I’ve never met the man before and the idea that I’d met him when he was campaigning for the Labour Party is laughable. I’ve been a Conservative all my life.”
And so the mystery divides along party lines. Will the right-wing Express now stick up for Murat and the left-wing Mirror puts the boot in and champions Gerry?
DAILY MIRROR front page: “EXCLUSIVE OURAGE OF KATE – A glimpse inside her world of pain.”
Kate McCann is on her way to the playground.
Page 4: “Each morning they wake and think ‘this could be the day we find her’..it’s the hope that drives them on.” So says a “friend of the McCanns”.
The Mirror sees all. It sees Kate and Gerry wake up- and “momentarily struggle to focus”. Then: “a second passes as they lie side by side.” Then the “crushing familiarity, the horror of their living nightmare comes flooding back”.
Kate McCann prays each morning.
They are under “inhuman strain”. They don’t take sleeping tablets.
The live in a “quiet cul-de-sac”, the peace interrupted only by the sound of a hundred snappers screaming “This way Kate!” and hacks shouting “Did you do it?”.
They drive a people carrier, a VW, as the Express has reported. They are at the playground. They push the children on swings “and laughed as they played on the children’s slide”.
Page 5: Party politics is back as Mirror readers learn that John ‘Vulcan’ Redwood has removed his comment on the case (see here).
Pages 6 and 7: “If they are innocent and think that their daughter is still alive then they should be in Portugal trying to look for her.” The Mirror publishes some choice comments from its readers.
DAILY MAIL front page: “MADELEINE – McCanns tells police: Produce the body.”
Page 10 and 11: “Show us your diaries” – Portuguese police want to seize Kate’s diary and Gerry’s laptop.
Police might also confiscate Madeleine’s toys, including the Cuddle Cat (aka the ‘Maddy Catty’). Philomena McCann, Gerry’s sister, says this would be a “disgrace”.
Says Philomena: “That wee girl will be thinking ‘they’re not looking for me. My mummy and daddy and my aunties – they don’t love me because they can’t find me.”
THE SUN front page: “COPS WANT CUDDLE CAT.”
Detectives are “plotting” to take hold of the toy. This is “MADDIE: PARENTS’ NEW ORDEAL”.
Pages 6 and 7: Readers lean of “TWO THEORIES”. They are: “GUILITY OR INNOCENT?”
The Sun sums up the justice system neatly. It has got to the bones of the thing. At last the case is getting somewhere.
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE’S TOY WILL NAIL KILLERS – Cops say Cuddle Cat holds vital clues.”
In an “EXCLUSIVE” (see Sun), the Star says police have launched an “international operation to seize Madeline’s McCann’s favourite soft toy, Cuddle Cat.”
Cuddle Cat is not a suspect. Yet.
Page 6: “Maddie’s hair tufts hold key to killing” – forensics can tell if the hairs reportedly found in the McCanns’ car boot are from a live or dead Madeleine.
Page 7: “PALS ‘COVER-UP’ PROBED BY POLICE”- Detectives want to re-interview the McCanns’ dinner companions.
THE TIMES front page: “McCanns diaries and laptop to be seized by Portuguese police.”
Pages 6 and 7: “Parent will have to pay defence cost without Madeleine Fund.”
The six directors of Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned Ltd, say: “The fund directors realise that there is not only a legal answer and recognise the spirit which underlies the generous donations to Madeleine’s Fund…any search fund to pay legal defence costs would have to be separately set up and administered.”
They fail to add that this is what Princess Diana would have wanted.
A family source tells the paper: “PR and law firm are not cheap.” Nor private detectives, say others.
THE GUARDIAN page 7: “McCanns may order own DNA tests on car.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 11: “DNA expert urges caution over forensic evidence.” Sir Alec Jeffries is billed as “the world’s leading expert on DNA”. He tells BBC’s Newsnight show: “DNA does not have the words innocence or guilty on it – that is a legal concept. What it seeks to establish is connections and identifications.”
THE INDEPENDENT page 9: “Questions at the heart of perplexing investigation.”
The paper wonders what we know about forensic evidence reportedly found in the McCanns’ car. It answers: “The picture remains far from clear.”
Is there a 99 per cent match or an 80 per cent match? What about a 62.2 recurring match. Higher or lower?
We could go on…
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March 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
‘cuddle cat is not a suspect. yet.’ hilarious!!
I must complement Anorak on these articles, because unlike a few other Madeleine satires I have read, whoever writes these articles has the gift of being able to make them increadibly humourous and poke fun at the investigation WITHOUT poking fun at the little girl who was the victim. Congrats!
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:12 am
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September 14th, 2007 at 7:48 am
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September 14th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Happy to see Moriarty. Where is the Smell of Death? And moreover Watcher.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Whoops - old thread by mistake.
Jake-66 We are all on the newer thread - been there for hours.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:15 am
Looked on archive.org (wayback machine) for http://www.dailymail.co.uk.
Absolutely nothing, ever.
They have blocked out the crawler, right back from long ago.
It says :
“Robots.txt Query Exclusion.
We’re sorry, access to http://www.dailymail.co.uk has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.”
Archive.org will be no help at all in documenting the crimes of our media. Nowt.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:06 am
I take it I’m sitting here all alone and everyone is away too bed ?
Where are all the unemployed people ? Away to sign the dole?
September 14th, 2007 at 1:00 am
okay , sorry out of line angry 1036 , got a bit carried away
September 14th, 2007 at 12:55 am
The second line was uncalled for Jake, I do not cast aspertions about you so see no reason why you should about me.
On that note as its almost 1am I’m off to bed.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:49 am
angry catches on pretty quick .
Not as dumb as he lets on he is !
September 14th, 2007 at 12:48 am
1033
Hear! hear! Angry
I think we have been quite constrained.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:45 am
No one is committing libel on here. There is this thing called freedom of speech. We are merely discussing our interpretation of the media stories. Therefore all discussion are based on heresay.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:42 am
moriarty 1023 .
Actually I am a liberal and who exactly resents my comments apart from you ?
Is this hearsay or fact?
September 14th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Did you win the quiz Moriarty
September 14th, 2007 at 12:38 am
angry 1022
I apologise but I re-iterated myself because “wanting” and ” lonely attention seekers ” are one and the same thing ! Sorry for any misunderstanding .
September 14th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Moriarty -and 1007
September 14th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Do you know that we are commiting libel? (see 1016)
Funny old world- newspapers print any old tosh and usually get away with it- and make money from the exercise.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Hi Moriarty
Had a good evening?
September 14th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Hi again Freshman (1016)
Actually you are wrong about libel - I and most others on here would use the defence of fair comment as are views held are reasonable given that we are doing no more than speculating about media reports.
ps - you can suggest it - is that your usual modus operandi?
End of correspondence with you.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Sorry.. am a bit pissed. But we raised another £23 for the fundmoriarty.com campaign.. For anyone that has been following, that makes it £8.50 after our invoice for the natty lime and brown wristbands (invoice £20.50)
(no posters of me and bulldump gone out yet…)
September 14th, 2007 at 12:28 am
paulette 1021 .
I agree and was only getting at a small minority of wasters .
The link you posted is interesting in the fact that it talks about money and Kate & Gerry but, does not even mention Madeleine .
Is money really what its all about?
September 14th, 2007 at 12:26 am
(991) fascist
i am self employed in IT. i resent your superior comments as I am sure others do..
cheek
September 14th, 2007 at 12:22 am
This remark
“there are a few punters on this forum that are a bit wanting if you know were I’m coming from”
September 14th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Jake-66,
I think I have encountered a few of that classification.
No hard feelings. These forums can get insane.
I’ve been enjoying this reporter’s blog on the case: http://gazetadigital.blogspot.com/
A lot of Anorak posters do have valid points & interesting insights but it’s difficult to keep up & sift through the chaff.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Which remark would that be MR angry?
September 14th, 2007 at 12:09 am
1018
Please explain your remark jake-66
September 14th, 2007 at 12:07 am
paulette 991.
I agree with you wholeheartedly but there are a few punters on this forum that are a bit wanting if you know were I’m coming from .
September 14th, 2007 at 12:00 am
991. jake-66 Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
This forum is about Madeleine and personally I think the parents are implicated in some way but I am disgusted by some of the posts especially by the lonely attention seekers.
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I believe the McCann’s & their consultants are the only “lonely attention seekers” in this mess.
September 13th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
1011 john
Oh right ok then - going on the principle of it’s not right but you can get away with it…
Can I suggest spiking the next drink you see belonging to a ‘ladeee’, then taking her and having conjugals. Drop her in a taxi somewhere later…
Pretty much think that would be ok in terms of getting away with it too
September 13th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
John: I am inclined to agree with your wife and how she thinks she would behave in such a situation. The problem I have with this case is the apparent lack of care over all three children (being left alone etc)…. Followed by what appears to be very odd behaviour by the McCanns. The odd behaviour alone does not proove them guilty of abduction/murder, but it all seems very strange.
September 13th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
1008 Vote percentages
Involved (accident or murder) 28 = 66.22%
Fake abduction 1 = 2.22%
Not Involved 3 = 6.67%
On the fence 13 = 24.89%