Madeleine McCann: A House Of Love, Find the Body & What Kate McCann Screamed
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. ‘FIND BODY OR McCANNS WILL ESCAPE’ – Prosecutors ultimatum to Portuguese police.”
The case against Kate and Gerry McCanns is “hanging by a thread”.
A police sources says: “There is a determination within the force to bring this investigation to a satisfactory conclusion but there is a growing fear that without a body, that goal will be impossible.”
Pages 4 and 5: “Our reputation is tarnished forever” – Each day the McCanns prepare themselves for the “worst case scenario”. No, not that they will be wrongly convicted, rather they will learn of Madeleine’s death.
Clarence Mitchell says: “In the middle of this people forget this is still a family who are potentially facing bereavement but are still in that awful limbo position of not knowing what has happened to their daughter.” Thankfully Mr Mitchell is on hand to remind people of this every day.
“Doubts on the McCanns by a lie detector expert” – THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER asks John Ryan, of International Truth Verification Technologies Institute, to listen to Kate McCann’s voice. Says she: “However I think there is some sort of deception when I hear the lady speaking, either over the event or in avoiding showing her true feelings”.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE – find a body or there is no case.”
Page 5: “Gerry and Kate have often talked about the possibility of Madeleine being found dead. That would be the worst news but it would at least give them some..CLOSURE”. So says a “source close to the legal team”.
Antonio Cluny, President of the Public Prosecution Service, says: “Without the little girl’s body, everything is complicated… In the Maddy case, there is no confession and, according to what has been made public, the evidence gathered up until now keeps all leads open – from abduction to homicide or at least to a simple accident”.
DAILY MAIL front page: “EXCLUSIVE: Eyewitness reveals Maddie’s mother DID shout: ‘They’ve taken her’ after four-year-old vanished. WHAT KATE DID SCREAM.”
Nanny Charlotte Pennington is in Praia da Luz. She hears Kate McCann scream: “They’ve taken her, they’ve taken her!” The McCanns say Kate screamed “Madeleine’s gone”.
Sensation. Front-page news.
Page 4: “Nanny Pennington, who worked at the Ocean Club, is pictured. She’s wearing a brown beret and a pink coat. Her tights are black. Her legs are crossed.
“I was in the apartment less than five minutes after they found that Madeleine had gone. When we were coming out we saw Kate and she was screaming: ‘They’ve taken her, they’ve taken her’… It might not have been the first thing she said. But she definitely said it.”
So…
“She also repeated Madeleine’s name and said: ‘She’s gone, she’s gone.’”
Anyone hear anything else?
THE SUN page 24: “MADDIE LAW CHIEF: NO BODY, NO CASE.” Antonio Clunes says: “There have been cases in which it was possible to obtain a conviction without a victim – but there were confessions.”
But the McCanns are innocent, says a source. And they are not confessing. They are talking through their spokesperson.
DAILY STAR front page: “COPS CLOSE IN ON MADDIE. Final pieces of tragic jigsaw falling into place.”
Pages 4 and 5: “FIND THE BODY OR THEY WALK. Law bosses tell Portuguese cops to step up hunt.”
“TWINS’ HOUSE OF LOVE” – Clarence Mitchell says the McCanns have built a “house of love” for their family. Mr Mitchell says the McCanns are living “every parent’s worst nightmare times ten”. Mr Mitchell used to work for the tabloid press.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 13: “Case against McCanns ‘rests on finding body’.”
Clarence Mitchell says: “They did not harm, let alone kill her.”
THE TIMES page 11: “No body, no conviction says McCann police.”
THE GUARDIAN & THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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September 25th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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September 25th, 2007 at 9:18 am
While it is no laughing matter, I had to laugh this morning when Eamonn Holmes asked the sister of Lindsy Hawker, (the 22 year old murdered in a bath of sand in Japan), if they had been following the Madeleine Mccann story. He asked if the family had taken any points from that story to use in the campaign to bring Lindsey’s killer to justice. Lindsey’s sister appeared shocked at the question.
I imagine her to have been thinking something along these lines:-
Yeah right, we’ll lie.
We’ll circulate false facts.
We’ll get our friends to confirm the things we say.
Holmes is an idiot. The Japanese police know who the murderer is but he has avoided capture so far. How is there any comparrison to the Madeleine McCann case?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
1st????
September 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
1st does not constitute a post so you lose by default, and I claim 1st post
(Sticks tounge out)
September 25th, 2007 at 9:20 am
can’t spell - now can’t count either!!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:21 am
6 - Its amazing what happens as we get older
September 25th, 2007 at 9:22 am
I just love the ‘house of love’ the McC’s have created - my sources tell me that they are not allowed to be alone with the kids - hence uncle McC and that Gerry spends all day in the study on his computer -I’m sure he posted a comment yesterday!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Judge - as a female of a certain age, I have joined the exclusive club of women who are actually getting YOUNGER!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:33 am
2 papers not even mentioning it!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:35 am
this is the comment - i think is from GM (well we’ve had all sorts of wild speculation so far….)
Lawener Says:
September 24th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I hope all you peope who “know” the McCanns are guilty will stand up and say “I was wrong” if and when the moment comes. You don’t “know” anything and neither do I. You can suspect, but you can’t “know”. Everytime you spew out your hatered of this couple you make yourselves look like idiots, and idiots that can’t spell either. Were you there? No, and neither was I. Nobody knows what happened. That’s the reality, get over it.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Daily Star
Last night detectives in Portugal revealed they were no longer looking for the “living” four-year-old.
Prosecutors may charge the McCanns, both 39, with child neglect for leaving Madeleine and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie while they dined in a tapas bar 40 yards away in Praia da Luz.
The offence carries a maximum two-year jail sentence in Portugal.
Manslaughter, the charge police want to bring against Kate, carries a maximum three years. Last night the McCanns said the legal battle would be a “long haul” and could take a year.
Police chiefs are convinced former hospital anaesthetist Kate killed her daughter with an accidental overdose of sedatives.
They believe the couple hid the body close to their apartment, then moved it in a Renault Scenic they hired three weeks later.
Brit police sniffer dogs found a “death scent” in the car, the McCanns’ apartment, on some of Kate’s clothes, and on Madeleine’s favourite soft toy Cuddle Cat.
Body fluids with an 88% match to Madeleine’s DNA were found in the spare tyre well under the carpet in the Renault’s boot.
But last night one of Portugal’s most senior prosecutors Antonio Cluny said evidence alone was not enough to bring death charges.
Mr Cluny, president of the District Attorneys and Magistrates Council in Portugal, said: “Without the little girl’s body everything is extremely complicated.”
Police are planning to dig near the resort’s tiny hillside church.
A senior police source said: “Finding the body is currently our great priority.
“Operations in that sense are being developed, although so far without results.
“It is fundamental to solving the case. The inquiry can go on but the truth is without finding the little girl it will be almost impossible to accuse the couple of any crime. They will escape.”
September 25th, 2007 at 9:38 am
“Mr Mitchell says the McCanns are living “every parent’s worst nightmare times ten”.”
Mitchell has obviously never lost a child. It is the ultimate nightmare, there is no times 10. When a child dies, a part of the parent dies too. Time does not heal, the parent merely learns to live with their grief and life goes on. Every time a new milestone comes that would be clebrated the grief is resurrected. Starting school, leaving primary school, starting secondary school, becoming a tenager, leaving school, exam results day, 18th and 21st birthdays, aniverseries of the day the child died. There will be no engagement, marriage, or grandchildren to celebrate.
While I pray Madeleine will still be found alive and well, if the worse comes to the worse, the McCanns are responsible for leaving the children alone in an unlocked apartment. Their grief will be of their own making.
Why should decent parents who look after their children properly feel any compassion for the McCanns. If Madeleine is dead, the suffering she had to endure, and indeed her blood, is on the hands of the McCanns.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:41 am
11 No sure I follow why it is thought that that comment was made by Doctor Gerry McCann. I suppose it could have been, but there again, Bulldump, and Firestarter etc could all be Doctor Gerry McCann.
To sort this ought, the next time Doctor McCann is doing a live interview, everyone who is not the good doctor, and does not wish to be mistaken for him, should post.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I hope that she did die of an accidental overdose - at least that way she did not suffer, the other scenarios don’t bear thinking about.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:43 am
only 3 years!!!!!!!!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:44 am
If they’d been at butlins when it happened then the Housemartins could have been their soundtrack for parenting.
Every woman every man
Join the Caravan of Love
September 25th, 2007 at 9:45 am
14 - Seymour Law - are there not two Doctor McCanns?!!!
September 25th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Can’t see GM posting regularly, I just thought it was an odd comment at that point in the postings - and then they went missing… similar to Maddie and the McC’s missing hours… a pattern of behaviour perhaps????
September 25th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Gerry being a consultant would use the title Mr. not Doctor.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Blunger (895) and
Tony Bennett (893)
from yesterday’s thread….responses to Natalya (879) hoping we doubters will be ashamed of ourselves when the McCanns are found 100% innocent.
Very well expressed.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:49 am
if his comp is being tapped then he wouldn’t post here would he?
or am I missing the sarcasm?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:50 am
22 - i think you might be sammy….
September 25th, 2007 at 9:50 am
21.
if they are found innocent then I will eat my cat.
I hope that she is well somewhere but it is not looking good.
I really think they are lying through their expensive teeth…..
September 25th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Are you ready, are you ready,
Are you ready,are you ready,
Are you ready for the time of life
It’s time to stand up and fight,
It’s alright, it’s alright.
Hand in hand we’ll take a caravan
To the mother land
One by one we’re gonna stand up with pride,
One that can’t be denied.
Stand up stand up
From the highest mountain valley low,
We’ll join together with hearts of gold.
Now the children of the world can see
There’s a better place for us to be.
The place in which we where born,
So neglected and torn
A part.
Ev’ry woman ev’ry man
Join the caravan of love,
Stand up, stand up, stand up,
Ev’ry body take a stand,
Join the caravan of love,
Stand up, stand up, stand up,
I’m your brother,
I’m your brother don’t you know.
She’s my sister,
She’s my sister don’t you know.
We’ll be living in a world of peace
In the day when ev’ryone is free
We’ll ? the young and the old,
Won’t you let your love
Flow from your heart.
Ev’ry woman ev’ry man
Join the caravan of love,
Stand up, stand up, stand up,
Ev’ry body take a stand,
Join the caravan of love,
Stand up, stand up, stand up,
I’m your brother,
I’m your brother don’t you know.
She’s my sister,
She’s my sister don’t you know.
Are you ready …
You better get ready …
September 25th, 2007 at 9:52 am
16 - Brandon. Yes but 2 for neglect, and they have admitted that - which I presume is a ‘confession’.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:52 am
25 - didn’t we see you on the x factor last week?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:54 am
here’s one….
the runaway train went down the track and she blew
wooo-oooooo
September 25th, 2007 at 9:55 am
26
I thought that a ” 2 year” stretch in the hand is worth more than a miserly
” 3 year ” one in a very expensive time consuming bush!
what about all the additional charges?
September 25th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Was he the littel fat bald bloke who was tone deaf and screamed rather than sang?