Madeleine McCann: The Observer, The Locator And Bloody Footprints
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: Bloody footprint found in McCanns’ apartment”
“A bloody footprint was found in Kate and Gerry McCann’s apartment, matching a print on their hire car, according to a forensic report” shown to the paper
“The existence of the two marks, which has never been revealed until today, is apparently at the heart of renewed suspicion that the couple were involved in their daughter’s disappearance”
So it’s her blood. This is rightly headline news…
“New tests carried out at the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Birmingham show there is a ‘moderate’ chance that the blood belonged to Madeleine. But the results are inconclusive”
So it might not be Madeleine’s blood. It could belong to anyone. Hold the front page. Too late…
Clarence Mitchell comments: “We simply cannot comment on unsubstantiated reports that touch on any evidence at the centre of this inquiry”
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “Bloody footprint clue to mystery of Madeline”
NEWS OF THE WORLD front page: “MADDIE KIDNAP – THE PROOF”
“Police have been told Kate KNEW instantly little Madeleine had been snatched because there was still a clear imprint of the youngster left in the unruffled bed sheets”
Says a..?
A source tells us: “People keep asking how did Kate know so quickly that Madeleine had been taken and not just walked out. But it’s obvious. When she put Maddie to bed the child was all tucked up around the shoulders, and when Kate realised she was gone all the sheets were still neatly in place.
“A child of that age wouldn’t have been able to get out of bed without moving a thing. Someone had clearly been in and carefully lifted her out. Kate realised that right away.
“This evidence must now refocus the police attention. Kate and Gerry should be released from their suspect status”
Because a “source” close to the suspect says so…
SUNDAY MIRROR: “COPS PROBE NANNY’S DUMPED AT SEA CLAIM”
“Portuguese police are becoming increasingly convinced Madeleine McCann’s body was dumped at sea”
But the bloody footprint..?
“Last night nanny Charlotte Pennington told how she saw a sailor kicking at something in the hull of his vessel in Praia da Luz” two days after Madeleine went missing”
Says Charlotte: “I’m really pleased they are taking this seriously because it means they aren’t just looking at the McCanns as suspects”
A “source” says: “Whoever had the expertise to make Madeleine disappear from the flat also had the expertise to throw her into the sea”
Or take her to Morocco, Belgium, Spain etc…
THE PEOPLE: “MADDIE COPS: SHE WAS THROWN OFF BOAT”
It is an “EXCLUSIVE” (see Sunday Mirror above) Charlotte Pennington speaks out
“Little Madeleine McCann was dumped at sea hours after she was snatched from her family’s Portuguese holiday apartment, police believe”
“Cardiologist Gerry and GP Kate vigorously deny the police allegations against them” – the facts!
TAKING HEART: “Gerry and Kate McCann put on brave faces yesterday as they took their little twins to a special children’s service at their village church. They then returned to their £600,000 home nearby” – More facts!
THE TIMES: “McCann case detective faces ‘torture’ trial”
Tavares Almeida, who interviewed Kate McCann, is “one of three officers accused of beating Virgolino Borges, a railway worker, during nearly eight hours of interrogation”. Read more here
But he is only accused, and not proven guilty. He is a suspect
THE OBSERVER: “The readers’ editor on… DNA and the hunt for Madeleine”
The Guardian reports on Danie Krugel: The Locator –“It’s also disappointing that this appeared in the newspaper that was first to discount the wilder DNA theories that swirled around the Madeleine inquiry last month, theories that are now largely discredited”
McCANN Watch: In an article about, er, Gordon Brown, Mariella Fostrup works in The McCanns: “Does anyone remember St Diana, currently back in the headlines, being vilified as a loose cannon by all and sundry just weeks before her death led to her canonisation? How many times have Kate and Gerry McCann found themselves riding the metronome of public opinion back and forth between monsters and maligned victims?”
Enlightening stuff
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH and SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news today
October 14th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Yippppeeeee. First
October 14th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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October 14th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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October 14th, 2007 at 9:18 am
bloody tea
October 14th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Ade,
May I suggest you make a flask of tea first thing in the morning.
This tea is your downfall. No wonder you spend so much time inspecting the ditches.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Ah, the McConns anlways take full advantage of the Weekend and the Portugese’ strange affectation to spend it doing wierd stuff like being with their families having dinner and etc.
Unlike over here where we put the little “worn out” (yeah right) buggers to sleep at SEVEN in the evening every night to go “socialising”. I had trouble getting mine off to bed at TEN at night sometimes, the same at a recent dinner party with my Best Man’s middle son. Being more down at heel, we let him in for a while before Mum put him to bed.
Fantastic morning of damage limitation, anyway. I wonder if their stories will knock the ones coming out of Portugal off the presses tommorrow?
Somehow I doubt it.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:34 am
5 susannah
au contraire rodders… I dont inspect ditches It has to be the drainage in the lower field - otherwise it’s not ted and ralph, after all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEBdi6Xffd0&mode=related&search=
I wudunt noo aboat dat sur
October 14th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Good Morning.
Well wasn’t that very thoughtful of the kidnapper to make sure the bed was made before he left!
This kidnapper sounds wonderful, he makes the beds, he places the toys on shelves and then wraps Maddy in a blanket so not to catch a chill!
How stupid do the McCanns think we are.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Morning all
How do you suppose the Sunday Mail got its scoop about the footprints and how did they see the report?
October 14th, 2007 at 10:04 am
From a police source, Roger? We know they talk off the record. Goncarlo Amaral was removed from the case for doing so…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:05 am
9 roger
I don’t believe anything written in a newspaper - a loose term for the Subday Mail, agreed. They may have see “a” report - probably written by some hack. And it’s probably not a scoop.
More significant is the deafening silence from the McConnSpin machine - sucha contrast to the ludicrous verbal diahorrea they normally spot…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Did the nanny say anything about the man in the boat in May?
October 14th, 2007 at 10:19 am
12 willo
I seem to remember something from the nanny - don’t know when it was and I can’t be arsed to trawl back through it all again… from what I remember she said was was wearing high-vis clothes - not the sort of thing you’d wear if you were up to no good, surely?
As the Harpers Bizarre song put it “Anything goes” in this bloody circus…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Just read some of todays newspapers
…..ludicrous…..
if I was paying for Clarence’s ‘expertise’ I think I would want my money back…..
what a useless, ludicrous man!
October 14th, 2007 at 10:21 am
8 casey
“Well wasn’t that very thoughtful of the kidnapper to make sure the bed was made before he left!”
You’ve cracked it - it must have been a Royal Marine - bet all the shirts were ironed too…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:22 am
14 vera
and all a load a tosh…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Just as Brown misjudged and wrongly timed his visit to ‘our wonderful troops’ in Iraq - whom he couldn’t give a monkey’s about - in order to wrongfoot the Tories, he also misjudged and wrongly timed the support he gave the McCanns which was also designed to appeal to the masses. As much as this sorry case is teaching us about the selfishness of people who have designer babies, it is also teaching us a great deal about the vacuity and opportunism of modern politics, particularly those that bottler Brown represents. I only hope that the cancer that is eating away at the heart of our once fantastic country destroys the people who have brought it about.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:22 am
12 Willo I can’t help feeling the aura of superstition hanging around the case with
mediums brought in, forgotten and recalled memories of sightings, the Irish heritage and so on. Are the Portuguese a supersticious people, anyone know?
October 14th, 2007 at 10:23 am
On reflection (no pun intended) high-vis clothes is just the sort of thing you would wear if you were involved in this case!!
October 14th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I am not embarrassed about being an amateur sleuth and i don’t think anybody else should be on this forum. After all the amateur does their thing for the love of it, unpaid and off their own back. The amateur might make the odd mistake but their passion will get them results. Whatever path takes you to the city is the right path (if the city is where you want to go).
I am convinced of the McCann’s guilt and i have been from the very beginning. I have not yet read or heard an account from any pro McCanner’s that can explain the presence of an abductor and at the same time explain away the evidence against them. If this circus continues the McCann’s will have to turn themselves in if only for their own safety for i doubt they can ever prove their innocence. I think they are losing everything that they were trying to protect in the first place. They should tell the truth and take the punishment.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Has anyone got the Tapas 9 shoe sizes yet?
October 14th, 2007 at 10:28 am
“Bloody footprints” makes me laugh and reminds me of the joke about the Archbishop of Canterbury taking the Pope out to dinner. The waiter asks the Pope what he wants and he says “A bloody steak”. then the Archbish gets into the action by saying “Same for me and plenty of sodding chips…”.
I’ll get me coat
October 14th, 2007 at 10:30 am
I bet Kate wears a size 5-6
October 14th, 2007 at 10:30 am
19 willo
Or even “high-Viz” clothes… Comical Clarrie’s “top tips” on PR are a poor reflection of the Geordie version…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:32 am
21 willo
bet they all wear hush puppies…
October 14th, 2007 at 10:33 am
20 Well for me, man of the hill, I am not making a conclusive judgement (except on leaving kids alone in the apartment) otherwise as they say, it would be tantamount to taking the law into one’s own hands. They don’t need to prove their innocence and we shouldn’t expect them to.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:35 am
26 roger
“They don’t need to prove their innocence and we shouldn’t expect them to.”
Quite true - so why are they hiring expensive lawyers to “prepare their defence”? We didn’t expect ‘em or tell ‘em to do that… Bit of a giveaway, perhaps?
October 14th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Obviously Kate didn’t need to sedate the kids - her story telling would be enough to send them to the land of nod - Kate-a-nory, Kate-a-nory, Kate-a-nory.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Well, Ade, they might say to defend themselves against a “kangaroo court”.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Does anyone think that Tony Bennett is following up on Scarlett’s clues whilst in Spain?