Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s Holy Communion, Gerry’s Running And Sleeping Pills
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE DAD TELLS PALS OF TORMENT. We’re frightened and we have been backed into a corner, this is inhumane.”
Gerry McCann accuses the Portuguese police of subjecting them to “inhuman treatment”. There is no word of Robert Murat, the other named suspect.
Pages 4 and 5: “The Sun hears Gerry’s words. And just for the record features some of the awful “SMEARS”.
• “A mum struggling to cope?
• Traces of sedative in hair?
• A hyperactive daughter?
• Ordered back to Portugal?”
At least the Sun’s Fergus Shanahan is on Kate’s side. “Kate MaCann’s guilty of nothing more than sticking to her story,” says the headline above his column.
The case reminds him of a witch hunt. Kate McCann is on the ducking stool. Will she come up alive and guilty or dead and innocent?
And who is to blame for the McCanns’ suffering? Paedos? Tabloid sensation and speculation dressed up as news? No, it’s the foreigners. The Portuguese police who “change their tune every five minutes”. Some news to we who hardly hear a word from the meninos no azul.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE WAS ‘KILLED BY SLEEPING PILLS’.”
This is the “sensational new claim”.
Only yesterday the Mirror was telling us that the McCanns don’t take sleeping pills.
Pages 4 and 5: “New evidence that Madeleine was ‘killed by pills overdose’” – the prosecutor’s report says fluids found in the back of the McCanns’ hire car “prove that the little girl had ingested medicines, without doubt sleeping pills, in large quantities.” The dossier says it as this that “caused an overdose” and so accidental death.
Oh?
“This is not a theory but a fact contained in hard evidence,” says a “senior Portuguese police source”.
So that’s that, then…
Pages 5 and 7: “DNA expert will help McCanns” – Sir Alec Jeffries says samples of DNA cannot prove innocence or guilt. He says only a full match of Madeleine’s DNA would prove she was in the car. And the match, as the Express notes elsewhere, might be 88 per cent.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “KATE & GERRY..their story.” The front-page “EXCLUSIVE” shows Gerry in a rugby kit and Catholic Kate in her Holy Communion white.
The pictures appear above the headline: “MADDY ‘PILLS OVERDOSE’, shock claim that she died from sleeping tablets.”
Pages 4 and 5: “POLICE IN HUNT FOR BLOOD AT FLAT No 2” – Sniffer dogs have detected blood “close to the flat” from where Madeleine McCann went missing, it has been claimed.
Pages 6 and 7: “Kate and Gerry were talking about a new baby but now they just want Madeleine back. They are very close..children are the most important things in their lives,” says Kate’s father Brian.
Gerry was once the captain of Napir City Rovers in New Zealand. Teammate David Anstis says: “He was a really nice bloke.”
Reader may recalls how Robert Murat, who has no PR, was a loon who liked to jump on bouncy castles. And he had a dodgy eye.
The paper says that Gerry was Scotland’s under-19 1500 metres champion and Scottish Universities’ 800 metres champion.
He must be innocent.
Kate was top of her class at school. She keeps fit with trips to the gym and taking the children swimming. Gerry would play golf.
Case closed.
Says Valeria Armstrong, landlady of the Royal Oak in Rothley: “They are gentle caring people.”
DAILY MAIL front page: “As social workers are called to McCann home, an extraordinary new claim… “MADDIE KILLED BY SLEEPING TABLETS’”
Kate’s diary reveals “struggle with Madeleine”. There are “four pages of “reports and analysis”.
Pages 6 and 7: The Cuddly Cat, the Maddy Catty, is to be seized.
Portugal’s ambassador to the UK hopes relations between the two countries have not been damaged. Says Antonio Carlos: “We are doing out utmost to solve the problem together with the support of the British police.”
No Portuguese suspect has been named.
Page 8: “THE NEW QUESTIONS FOR KATE.” The Mail has 14 questions it would like Kate McCann to answer. Is she would just jot her responses down and send them to the Mail’s office, it would be appreciated.
The Mail does not ask if she killed her daughter. Instead she is invited to respond to:
• “Do you ever lose your temper with your children?
• Did Madeleine cut herself in the apartment?
• Could Madeleine have bled on something which was later put in the car?
• Could medications have been placed in Madeleine’s reach?
• Did you feel your husband was not pulling his weight with the child care?”
Anorak empathises with the case and has taken the liberty of answering the questions on Kate McCann’s behalf. Say we: Yes, Who doesn’t; Maybe; Possibly; Perhaps; Tell me about it.
Page 9: “Our first thought was that she’d been taken by a paedophile,” says Kate McCann Paris Match magazine. Her words could have been spoken by any number of tabloid editors.
“Of course we feel guilty at being at the restaurant when she disappeared,” say Kate McCann. “That will always be so, but the person who broke in and took Madeleine is the most guilty.”
INDEPENDENT page 8: The Indy hears the words of Sir Alec Jeffries, the words he delivered to BBC’s Newsnight two days ago. The Indy is on the case.
THE TIMES front page: “McCann twins ‘safety talks’.”
Pages 6: “Social workers visit McCanns to see if the twins are at risk.” Is Kate McCann overfeeding them? We hope not.
Page 7: “Get the cat to forensics, armchair sleuths demand.” The web is alive with theories. And the cat must be interrogated. Get the Maddy Catty!
Page 21: Ben Mcintryre says “There is a Miss Marple inside all of us”. The McCanns “bring out our sleuthing instinct.”
And we though it was just idle gossip and speculation.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 13: As reported on Anorak, the McCanns are looking for a “media handler”. Brand McCann needs a steady hand.
THE GUARDIAN: “McCanns in talks with leading PR adviser” – Look out for Kate McCann in Hello!, Hell’s Kitchen and l’m A Celebrity..Get Me Out Of Here!
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October 24th, 2007 at 5:41 am
I’m just glad I’m not going through the living nightmare that Gerry and Kate McCann are being put through. Their closest conversations are being repeated in the papers. They are being destroyed in a vicious witch hunt. I hope Maddie is found safe and well through the publicity when her photograph is shown in the articles which are destroying her parents
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:14 am
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September 16th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Pat - Where are you from??? I can not figure out that “accent” for the life of me. I think it’s the Southern part of the US - Central Time Zone - so my guess would be that you’re somewhere between Alabama and Texas. My guess would be Texas. But not necessarily native.
Just give me the state or tell me if I’m warm at least….I’m intrigued by the tone of your writing. It’s very “Faulknerish”. Very Southern. Non-linear narrative; stream of consciousness….
Maybe it’s Florida though?? So many transplants down there. Any one could be living in Florida today…..ho hum.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:41 am
1133 - potsy Says:
September 15th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
“Spudgun is here!!!!…I love his posts….”
Yackety, Yack, don’t come back!
Ugh!! GET A LIFE….
You are a very strange American girl. Very strange indeed!!!
September 16th, 2007 at 3:23 am
Moderation, later I would like to read your links, and others. Last night when I tried each time I would go out of a link end up kicked out of the site all the way. No attempt tonight yet. Thanks.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Oh, Moderation, my point is if a drawing of a structure is taken to court it is hard to convince people you know what the author meant, as in writing, without getting into Brian’s dreaming catagory.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:18 am
Moderation,
A diary most learn is a bad idea early on don’t you think? My first diary I made to inserts. One was that I loved one of the Beatles, YES. I saw them live when I was a child. WOW quite a show YES. The second was frustration that family members carried away all of my cats while I was at school. Oh, so much for diary keeping but much clear evidence that people love to snoop other people’s diaries. YES. Diaries appear to end more of a problem than a good thing maybe? This much is true if you sketch of paint a building when looking at it you remember the details without writing them. If someone else looks at a picture of a building they know little?
September 16th, 2007 at 2:34 am
1133. Posty,
You asked about having DNA evidence but no body and being able to prosecute?
I believe in the UK it is the same as in the US. You can prosecute without the physical body but it usually considered risky. This could be why PJ have not yet arrested them because their case will be stronger with the body.
(Sorry to be gruesome when speaking of a missing person, especially that of a child. I hope Madeleine simply got tired of her fucked up lazy careless stupid parents and walked out the door and found a loving caring couple who didn’t mind her being around 24-7.)
September 16th, 2007 at 2:30 am
1109.
Karen I agree this whole media blitz is a way to defelct blame of either child care negligence or worse. Either way it has worked wonderfully.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Oh, Spudgun,
Another medical theory, my sister the nurse, remember we discussed the mouth, nose, tracheal blood a week or so ago?? That was her theory…well her new theory is also that the vomit or fluids could be the twins, the twins vomited and Madeleine didnt..so they expelled the drugs…and were okay…or if it is Madeleines, she choked….
Help me, did the PJ ask for urine samples from the twins right away????
Sorry if I am being graphic, but she just talks like this cuz she deals with body fluids and patients all the time..
But she does have some interesting ideas regarding the medical aspects…
Let Justice roll down……
September 15th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Spudgun is here!!!!…I love his posts….
The American commentators this week said that the British Dogs are the best in the World!!! The FBI uses them…..which says alot cuz the FBI goes to Europe to testify and help with cases…I think more often than vice versa….
My sister (the nurse) was ranting to me about this case and she said that hair follicles are excellent for finding DNA and hair shafts can give the history of medications ingested…sooo if sedation was a regular thing, it will show….
She also said that there were alot of British Police helping in Portugal…..and she thought it was ironic that all the McScam publicity and celebrities insisted on urging British help to find the killers/kidnappers….who most likely will turn out to them..
If you have enough DNA from other evidence, can they prosecute without a body?
September 15th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Stefanie, I haven’t read much news yet. Later tonight.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Spudgun,
Also, I meant to say if the reports about the dog study are accurate then planting that many places would appear very unlikely? I have a lot of trouble accepting a frame job. Possibly in some situations something like that can happen but I just don’t think that happened in this case. The question is how accurate are the reports about the dog study?
September 15th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Spudgun,
The dog reports about the scent of a dead body claimed a two hour death. Is that how you understand the results of the dog study?
September 15th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Stefanie, that is real sad. I am curious how far away she was from the original sighting of Mr. Von A?
September 15th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
1125 Potsy
Don’t choke on ‘em, will you? (greedy guts)
Selective censorship still going on in these forums…..Does Anorak have something to gain by removing posters of those still maintaining there is not enough evidence to state categorically the McCanns’ guilt?
It f*ckin’ sucks. One is starting to suspect Anorak has a hidden agenda. Do the moderators know something we don’t, pray tell? (see todays Daily Mail)
September 15th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
stefanie…..Terrible news!! My thoughts go out to Ylenia’s family. May she rest in peace!!
Her killer will never serve time, but he must face God!!
September 15th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Ylenia from swizerland is dead! She is found in a place of forrest! Without clothes!
September 15th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I feel badly, I’m in a different time zone (Twilight zone, ozone???)..so by the time I log on, everybody is gone….wahhhh…off doing something stupid, making a living, taking care of their kids….??? PEOPLE…where are your priorities??? he he..
will check in later…
September 15th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
If I am wrong, I will force myself to eat 3 cadbury bars…(the big ones)….
September 15th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I’m up and reading the above posts…very good points….
I think Moderation is very intelligent and makes good arguments…been reading your posts over time….
Sorry, there is an “however”…
I want them to be innocent also…… everyone does…but logic is pointing in a different direction…unfortunately….
I think it was an accident and a panicky cover up…sad…really…
Poor little thing…..
September 15th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
She didnt laugh? Then what was that she did as she turned away from the woman askin the questions?
Maybe the sounds she made and looked away was because she knew she could not of been talkin to Maddie cause she was already dead?
I have seen parents do that too many times here when asked to talked to their child as if they could hear and they cry, they tell them how much they love them and they tell them they are looking. They dont act like the Mccanns.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:51 am
1108 karen you say
“To be fair to the McCanns they seem to have been following expert advice over thier bedtime routine. The experts think 7pm is a good time and that it shouldn’t be changed even for something like a holiday (which was thier explanation for not taking them to the tapas bar).”
did these experts tell the mcscamms to leave the bloody door unlocked and wide open as well Karen. To be fair to the mcscamms the twins should be taken from them and they should be made an example of, at the very least. At worst they should rot in jail (if what we are being told by the media is true)
September 15th, 2007 at 10:42 am
emma v 916.
yes there is evidence she was called maddie by Gerry. do a search for him on freinds reunited and see for yourself.
this is taken from his page on friends reunited
“April 2005- Back in Leicester and looking for a job. Now father of three with Sean and Amelie joing Maddie”
September 15th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Sorry, Foxngoose. but mine usually were in bed early, even on holiday. After a day in the sun they were ready…….. occasional late night maybe but not the norm.
September 15th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Yes I have 4 children and babysat loads none of which at that age especially on holiday would be asleep at that time.
Generally it would be a short nap to recharge and then theyd be up in an hour and rarring to go till 1am
Most family holidays have little discos and entertainment till 9pm aimed at parents with small children.
Was this too boring and inane for Doctors with intelligence to endure?
They should be taking samples of all those kids hair involved.
This would be a damning evidence for both police and parents
so why have neither considered it?
September 15th, 2007 at 9:53 am
calling mods and admin !
Did you have to delete some posts?
Many forum participants refer to a post number when they are replying rather than copy/paste. Because of this I’ve noticed the post count is definitely not right for some reason.
A suggestion - you could leave the post number intact but delete the text and replace it with “deleted by editor” or something like that. Then the post count would remain accurate.
Sorry if you’ve already addressed this - and thanks for the forum opportunity.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:59 am
1112 - Laughing in a stressful situation is something some people do - it is an involuntary reaction, and not proof of anything, let alone a flat earth.
Perfectly normal.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Patricia Hi.
It’s a journal she started keeping after Madeleine went missing. Recording her thoughts and feelings……
September 15th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Just trying to think back I don’t remember Mrs. McCann saying too much other that mentioning she thought possibly a sad loner was responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance. Why do you suppose she thought that?
I am trying to catch up reading posts. Maybe tomorrow more will be clear.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Why do people keep diaries? How do people with three small children have time to keep diaries?