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.
Madeleine McCann The Public Spectacle
September 17th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Did I make no1
September 17th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Looks like, or they’re all elsewhere!
Congrats
September 17th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Daily Facist sorry Mail is all in support of them, why ?
UK sniffer dogs are believed to be the best trained in the world. DNA evidence is second to none, yet when it involves the McCanns it’s utter nonsense. They’re desperate to debunk anything.
I just don’t believe these two people.
I’ve got an idea though, lets bath Cuddle Cat a third time, she must smell of sweaty palm from Kate now.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:11 am
cmon mr judge, spill the beans and let us get on with our lives!!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:12 am
If Kate is so keen to dis (!) Eddie the dog, why did she immediately account for 6 dead bodies on her 1 day at work a week. Why didn’t she say, “he’s mistaken I’ve never been near dead bodies”???
September 17th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Of course, you know what will be next - H.M the Queen will say they are innocent OR they will be found guilty and Her Maj will give them a royal pardon!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:16 am
5 Helsangel
I understood it was 2 days per week. V important point, as 3 bodies over 2 days is better than 6 on 1 day!!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I keep making disparaging remarks on The Mails website and they refuse to print me. I feel my freedom is being eroded and I haven’t even murdered anyone
September 17th, 2007 at 9:18 am
The fox has been shot what what i.e the show is over people, go back to your lives - as depressing a thought as that may be for many of you.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am
5, LOL - So true! How can she agree with the sniffer dog about her smelling like death but then not for the other times?
“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.”
Fantastic!
Doesn’t ‘zapata’ mean feet, foot or footing?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am
7 SSS, you have a point. I’d start to think I had a problem, if every time I examined a body it was dead. She was a GP not a Coroner. Ostensibly not that good a one!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:22 am
what about Sir Richard Branson’s donation? How would you explain it?
a) the man is a fool - he’s protecting a couple that are suspect of committing a crime. If they are charged he’ll look like an idiot.
b) the man is a genius - he already knows that any evidence against the Mccanns will not be robust enough to result in their conviction.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:24 am
12 The man wants some of the attention. The man likes attention- he goes across the Atlantic in balloons. Everyone else uses a plane.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am
11 Helsangel
Forget the problem you would have if you were the GP. Would you be happy if you found out your own GP had such a high death rate?!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:26 am
9. Why so saaaad Seymour? Not getting deferential treatment? Boo…aaa….hoo
September 17th, 2007 at 9:26 am
10 - presumably, Dr Kate McCann was not an expert in either the reliability or admissibility of the barking of sniffer dogs; and, upon being told that they only barked when they smelt death, was providing a common sense explanation as to why (absence a dead body in her car) they were barking at it.
Just like their barking around the Church - if they do dark when they smell death - this may be because the Church is used for funerals - a boring, yet probable explanation - it really is all barking is it not
September 17th, 2007 at 9:26 am
12 Topper
You forgot to put
c) the man has more money than sense
d) a fool and his money are easily parted
September 17th, 2007 at 9:28 am
14 SSS I’d start to think there was a Euthanasia Service being offered!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Seymour, no one to sue today? No nannies to instruct?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:30 am
12 Topper
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a) the man is a fool - he’s protecting a couple that are suspect of committing a crime. If they are charged he’ll look like an idiot.
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Well you might just be right there but the Daily Mail will always calling the saviour of the McCanns
Getting back to the Renault McCann, did the press follow the car every time it went out of the driveway. Maybe they can provide clues as to where it went. A lot of sightseeing seems to have gone on for one distraught couple
September 17th, 2007 at 9:31 am
I don’t believe her story about signing off deaths as she is only a locum GP and even Harold Shipman didn’t average that many deaths per week.
I have said before, I feel Madeleine is still alive. Day 150 holds the answer. I know I sound like a freak, but I have a strong feeling about this.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:32 am
19 Helsangel
Talking of nannies, where is the Mccann’s nanny all of a sudden. I am certain I read somewhere that at home they had a nanny/au pair type.
Well, where is she??? Very odd don’t you think?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:34 am
16. Wow! They must have some extremely primative funerals in Praia da luz? Not like the modern ones conducted on the moors of Manchester. Brilliant deduction Seymour Law!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:35 am
morning,
we all have to remember if they are innocent a lot of people wil look like fools,
not just richard branson if they are guilty.
nobody really knows anything apart from trash.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:37 am
22 SSS Well I heard mention of a Nanny but after a bit I thought the Nanny was in a brown glass jar with a label on it. It is strange that she’s disappeared too
September 17th, 2007 at 9:37 am
The news of the police feeding the press misinformation was annoying, but to be expected I think in view of the nature of the investigation.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:38 am
21. I’m sincerely curious. What makes you say day 150 and alive? (Truly hope you’re right even though I am highly sceptical of the McCanns.) I mean do you have prescient dreams or something like that?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:38 am
The Spanish government has just started a radio/TV campaign against leaving small children on their own (so that they don’t have accidents, of course, not because they are in imminent danger of being abducted). Perhaps the British government would like to follow suit.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:39 am
19 - Fortunately not, my week long trial settled a few minutes ago - so I get paid without the tedium of actually going to Court - can now get started and some renumerative paper work
I thought that the point of this site was to concentrate on the self-serving and plain unreliable nature of our Tabloid Press - yet the opposite seems to have occcured - each unsupported rumour is latched on to as if proven fact
I liked the one in the Express? about the body having been buried at some important shrine or other - why not the Vatican? Iti is a large enough place to bury a small body and they did go by private jet - have the sniffer dogs had a go at the private jet. If not why not
September 17th, 2007 at 9:40 am
What I recall reading about the nanny was that she accompanied them to PdL and then left suddenly for Canada (which, I believe, was where she was from).