Madeleine McCann: Call Off The Dogs, Kate McCann’s Tears And Fatima
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE TIMES page 9: “McCanns send to US for help against evidence of sniffer dogs.”
Gerry and Kate McCann have consulted lawyers working on behalf of Eugene Zapata in Madison, Wisconsin.
In October 1976, Zapata’s wife, Jeanette, went missing. Her body has never been found. Last year sniffer dogs were brought in and Zapata was charged with her murder. The case went before Judge Patrick Fielder who said the evidence – dogs had picked up the scent of a corpse in Zapata’s basement – was inadmissible. He said the dogs were unreliable.
The dogs have yet to make a comment.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADDY JUDGE: LET ME TELL ALL.”
Pedro Daniel dos Anjos Frias wants to “speak freely” about the case.
Pages 6 and 7: “Mum’s tears at 11am Mass.” Once again the Mirror is all eyes for Kate McCann’s eyes. She is crying.
In church, Father Keith Tomlinson narrates the parable of the Prodigal Son. An eight-year-old child called Molly Earp reads “Jesus please continue to love and protect us, until she is found.”
And then Jesus can have a rest and the police can resume normal duties…
Pages 8 and 9: “On the beach Gerry gave Maddy loads of hugs and kisses, he was a perfect dad..The next time I saw him was about midnight..I saw a man alone, desperate. He was crying and screaming her name over and over and over again.” Words from a “WAITER AT MADDIE’S LAST MEAL” before she vanished.
THE SUN front page: “Maddie ‘gag’ lift.” Friends of Kate and Gerry McCann are hopeful of being allowed to speak out and defend themselves. A judge has asked for a lifting of Portugal’s secrecy laws.
Pages 6 and 7: “AGONY TO COME.” The Sun produces a picture of Kate and Gerry McCann’s wedding day. They are holding Kate’s goddaughter Ellie. There is also a new picture of Madeleine McCann “looking angelic”. Have you seen her? Or are you watching the parents?
THE EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. POLICE TO SEARCH SHRINE FOR BODY.” The McCanns went to Fatima. The McCanns car clocked up 1,709 miles in the fives weeks after their daughter went missing.
THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER Pages 2 and 3: “Hand in hand, McCanns go to family church.” The “devoutly Catholic couple” are leaving for church from their “£600,000 home”. Kate McCann is carrying Cuddle Cat.
Pages 4 and 5: “1,000 letters each day in support of the McCanns. Between 500 and 1,000 letters a day arrive at the McCanns’ home. “There are some crank letters,” says a spokesman for the family, “but that’s inevitable.”
None of these letters are believed to point to the whereabouts of Madeleine McCann.
Alex Cayles, a former neighbour of the McCanns, says “I never heard Kate or Gerry raise their voices to their children or anyone else.” Can the same be said of any parents of three very young children?
DAILY MAIL front page: a picture of Kate McCann smiling.
“MADELEINE:
• Doubt cast on sniffer dogs
• Police frontman quits investigation
• Branson funds the McCanns’ defence
• Witness’s vital new evidence”
Pages 10 and 11:2 “Maddie: Is the case crumbling?”
Chief inspector Olegario Sousa has resigned “in disgust” at the way in which fellow Portuguese officers have been briefing the media behind his back.
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE MUM ON MURDER RAP. Now cops claim to have found ‘a motive’.”
The Star says police have read Kate McCann’s diary and “claim it reveals she had a motive to kill”.
Pages 4 and 5: “DID KATE HAVE A MOTIVE?”
Well, we haven’t read the diary, but…
“The idea that Portuguese detectives are looking at my daughter’s most personal thoughts and taking them out of context is terrible,” says Kate McCann’s father Brian Healy.
Pages 6 and 7: “HUNT AT HOLY SHRINE.” Is Madeleine McCann’s body buried at Fatima, one of the Catholic Church’s holiest sites? The Star says the couple went there three weeks after their daughter went missing.
We wonder. Is she? Or is she buried in Germany, America, London or Morocco, places also visited by the McCanns?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “New allegations against McCanns - As the McCanns begin a new campaign to clear their names, further allegations emerged over the weekend.”
Oh?
“The hire car: The Renault Scenic hired by the McCanns 25 days after Madeleine went missing. New claims centre on its high mileage. Between May 27 and July 3, it was driven 1,700 miles, with police looking into the possibility that it may have been used to dispose of a body…There were also reports that detectives were waiting for permission from a judge to seize and dismantle the car to search for ‘traces of skin’.”
THE GUARDIAN: No Maddy news today.
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September 29th, 2007 at 8:39 am
1076
Yes!!
Put it all together and I for one must (logic prevailing) put it all together and say the Portuguese police are on the right track. As far as the the UK press (must be ashamed of this) are definitely not.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/fop/2007/pfscharts.pdf
Interesting (if you check the above link) that Portugal (regards Freedom of the press 2007) stands at ‘14′ while UK stands at 31. I wonder if the UK government’s support of the McCanns is affecting the ‘impartial’ way the the UK press reports the McCanns.
Just a thought.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Speaking of videos….I used to think Gerry McCann was innocent, a bit of a twit but innocent nonetheless, that was until I saw that clip of him denying giving Madeleine sedatives wherein he scratched his ear, looked anywhere but at the interviewer and spluttered and waffled …..changed my mind in an instant !!
September 28th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
1074 Dreyfus
I nominate Spudgun for an Oscar !!
September 28th, 2007 at 7:27 am
5 stars for Spudgun’s video. http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2296203136219895848&hl=en-GB
Facts is facts!!
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September 24th, 2007 at 9:47 am
1067 Dreyfus
Kennedy must have more money than sense to get involved with this dodgy couple, I can think of other good causes to donate to if he wants to offload a bit of spare cash and dodge a bit of tax - me for one !! Perhaps he is just a publicity seeking Moron and is going to end up with egg all over him, never mind just his face.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:15 am
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September 23rd, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I wonder if Richard Branson or anyone else will want to fund the defence of the suspects in this case?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7009404.stm
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:23 am
Update to 1062
Cheshire-based Brian Kennedy, who owns Sale Sharks rugby club, said he “felt compelled” to help the couple.
He said he was providing Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leics, with the support of his in-house lawyer and their new spokesman, Clarence Mitchell. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7008872.stm )
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:51 am
to get back to the dogs. I’ve been reading a bit about the case. The judge does not say why he didnt allow the evidence of the sniffer dogs. But one reason could be that’s its a 30 yr old case. Now either the sniffer dog evidence was 30 yrs old but i dont think that’s it. Or the dogs smelled a scent from 30 yrs ago. Also unlikely. So I dont think the judge and this case will be much help to the Mccans.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Signs of Deception:
Body Language of Lies:
• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space.
• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.
• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear. Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
102 Ian Willis
I have just looked at the clip of Gerry denying using sedatives on Madeleine !! NOW I’m worried !! talk about classic signs of a liar, shifting eyes and that tell-tale tugging of the ear, condemned out of his own mouth.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
102 Ian Willis
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
1061 Anne
My opinions exactly.
Clarence Mitchell resigned as director of the Central Office of Information’s media monitoring unit. (UK government’s marketing and communications agency) the day before he announced he was the new spokesman for the McCanns. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Mitchell )
As far as who is paying him is concerned: (Sept 18, 2007, Reuters). He [Clarence Mitchell] also said he was not being paid either by the McCanns or their support fund but that expenses were being met by one of the couple’s “generous financial backers”.
(Branson maybe? Whoever it is does not appear keen to go public on this, which, in my opinion, could indicate a less than enthusiastic desire to support the McCanns publicly in case they do turn out to be guilty. Of course if it transpires they are innocent, it would be good for some lucrative and profitable publicity and a great investment).
Whatever the case it would seem likely if not obvious they needed a ‘Campaign Manager’, specifically because the media appears to have gone somewhat cold on their support for the McCanns in the light of emerging evidence.
Mitchell’s job I suspect is to get the media back on track in support of the McCanns’ innocence, in the hope that in turn they can persuade the public to again revert to supporting them. Perhaps on the one part to put pressure on the Portuguese police to lay off the McCanns and on the other to see an increase in public donations.
The McCanns will of course be forever indebted to the “generous financial backers”. The question is what do the generous financial backers expect in return? Quite a lot I imagine since this appears to have become more of a money ‘thing’ than a ’solve the Madeleine disappearance thing’.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:46 am
1060 Dreyfus
At last - some reasoned and well thought-out statements of fact regarding this freakish case !! Evrything laid out here by Dreyfus is irrefutable and begs a lot of answering.
The next thing that bothers me is Clarence Mitchell, what is he all about ? I may have missed a few things but why would anybody leave a £70,000.000 a year job to be the McCann’s “Campaign Manager ” ? ..so who is paying him now and how much is he getting ? Why do they need a “Campaign Manager ” anyway ? Neither is working at the moment so they could get off their collective backsides and organise stuff themselves, as do other parents of missing children. They have ( apparently ) inumerable friends and family who would - one supposes - be more than happy to do anything for them for nothing and would have enough collective intelligence to work out what to do for the best ….or would they ??
Gerry is categorically a liar as the “Youtube” clip showing him scratching his ear when asked about whether they had administered sedatives classicly shows. More parents than care to admit, have admnistered the odd dose of “Calpol” or “Tixylix Night-time” to get their children off to sleep, especially if they are a tad hyperactive, and - according to Kate’s own diary - these children were routinely “hysterical” or “hyperactive”…now there’s a surpirise !! they are three and two year olds what did she expect ? Being Doctors they no doubt had access to “something a bit stronger” so I have no doubt they DID administer something but whether or not that led to an accidental death I wouldn’t like to state. If it did, then the argument goes in a whole different and very sinister, direction.
One fact is alarmingly clear, the children were left alone in an unlocked apartment, how come The McCanns were so certain that any of them, let alone Madeleine, wouldn’t wake up and go searching for Mummy & Daddy and - knowing where the Tapas Bar was, why would they not go wandering outside and off in that general direction to look for them ? It makes you shudder and they STILL protest they are “innocent”, if nothing else they are absolutely, 100% guilty of negelct and screw all the arguments about them “being punished enough”, you or I would be dragged into Court and our children removed to a “place of safety” !!
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:47 am
1055 Well done Dr. Eric Preston. Where were you when Dr. Harold Shipman really needed you? Vide http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/shipman/dead_1.html
“Shipman was a doctor for God’s sake” (you might have argued). I would trust that he was not brought to justice by (if I may quote you) “a bunch of dead brained working class coppers who couldn’t manage school, never mind university.”
“Gerry and Kate are completely, 100%, without a shadow of a doubt INNOCENT!!” . . . you stated. Interesting statement considering nobody apart from Kate and Gerry McCann are likely to really know whether they are 100% innocent or 100% guilty at this stage!
To summarise the facts as we know them: The McCann family of 5 went on holiday. They organised a tapas party with friends one evening and chose to leave their children unattended in an unlocked apartment for the duration. I would assume, the McCanns being doctors and reportedly responsible, that they were satisfied they could enjoy their evening uninterrupted and they considered their three children were safe from possible harm and safe from doing any damage to themselves . . . if Madeleine was alive from the outset.
Suddenly Madeleine disappeared. So what are the possible options?
1. Madeleine woke up, managed to get out of the unlocked apartment, got run over or picked up by someone in the street and vanished.
2. Someone walked into the unlocked apartment and abducted her.
3. She was sedated and died of an overdose. Not a far fetched assumption considering both parents were doctors and such an event would have put both their careers at stake. A solid motive for the parents to hide the fact.
4. She suffered some physical abuse or a self-inflicted accident in the parent’s absence that led to her demise. Also a solid motive for the parents, if they were responsible, to hide the fact.
In the aftermath, 46 minutes passed before the police were called. Most people would have called the police immediately, if for no other reason than to get help finding her as soon as possible . . . especially if abduction or the possibility that she got out on her own were an option. The next move was for the McCann parents to bring in the media in the biggest possible way. Perhaps to increase their chances of recovering Madeleine! Perhaps to create public support for their innocence! Perhaps to create a diversion to give them time to hide any evidence that needed hiding before they became suspect!
One other point on the media coverage. If Madeleine was abducted, the massive media coverage would have done more to encourage an abductor to dispose of evidence than to risk releasing her I would have thought.
To say they are 100% Innocent is very naive Dr. Preston.
One thing is certain, at the very least, the McCanns are totally guilty of neglecting their very young children for having left them unsupervised in an unlocked apartment. This in a country, like most Mediterranean countries, where families are mostly welcome to bring their children with them when they go out to dinner in the evening. They could also have enjoyed a family evening in the apartment or they could have hired a babysitter. I don’t think they are entirely impoverished.
The only thing that amazes me is that the twins, for their own safety, have not been taken into custody until the guilt or innocence of the parents has been established.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:24 am
1055 Dr Eric Prestwich, “You people make me sick”
-Just as well you’re a Dr. Then isn’t it. Unless of course you’re not a Physician.
“Gerry and Kate are completely, 100%, without a shadow of a doubt INNOCENT!! and this whole investigation should be stopped and looked at and the Police made to answer for there arrogant assumptions”
Anyone that comes out with that kind of statement, is frankly going to be dismissed by a vast majority of logical free thinkers.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:14 am
91.PLEASE READ IT PROPERLY BEFORE WRITING TO YOUR MP’S IT’S UNPAID LEAVE
WHICH MEAN’S HE IS NOT BEING PAID LOL
September 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pm
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September 21st, 2007 at 4:04 pm
1055 Dr Eric Prestwich
Yes - agreed Gerry & Kate are Doctors but so was Crippen !! so was Shipman, so was….oh well, you get the picture, and before you start insulting anyone else’s intelligence, just hold off until the case is solved …just in case. Egg, face, on….
I keep saying Gerry is innocent, of that I am convinced, but Kate is doing herself no favours at all with her weird behaviour which has even been analysed by Psychiatrists and discussed quite openly. If - as a Doctor - you have anything useful to add in your professional capacity, I am sure we will all be pleased to hear it . Thank you for your intelligently thought out input.
September 21st, 2007 at 3:36 pm
You people make me sick, you believe you have the god given right to insult this god fearing lovely couple with your hate and your spite and your intolerable bile - well a wake up call, you most certainly have no such rights!
Gerry and Kate are completely, 100%, without a shadow of a doubt INNOCENT!! and this whole investigation should be stopped and looked at and the Police made to answer for there arrogant assumptions.
Do you not realise how important and intelligent, dignified and respected this couple is? They are DOCTORS for gods sake, they will never be charged with such ludicrously ludicrous actions, certainly not by a bunch of dead brained working class coppers who couldn’t manage school, never mind university.
Gerry and Kate, i support you completely and so do many many millions, i know as you do that you innocence is above question and that very soon you will be able to live again and find happiness.
September 20th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
This is off topic, but I sure hope The Special One comes home! Say what you will about the man, but he loves his kids and would never leave them alone. I was so disappointed when he left Porto and went to Chelsea because he’s the best coach I’ve ever seen and he’s proved it over and over again. Sack Scolari, hire Mourinho!!!!!
You may return to regular programming now.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
724 the real stig
Depends how you define “appropriate emotion” , all we’ve seen is the stiff upper lip from Kate, her face never changes and I have yet to see her do what anyone would expect of a woman whose little girl has been snatched and is either dead or having God knows what done to her. Gerry has shown a bit more but then he’s the one we all think is innocent of any hand in Maddie’s demise/disappearance so he is functioning reasonably normally. Kate looks like she is waiting for someone to find her out, she never looks into anyone’s eyes, she never engages properly, always looking down, sideways, into the middle distance, and totally unemotional.