Madeleine McCann: Jane Tanner’s eFit, A Spanish Angel And Wearing Pink Pyjamas
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE – 70% DON’T BELIEVE McCANNS”
The McCanns are on the TV in Spain. The show is followed by a phone vote. The people vote, at least some of them do; how many, we are not told. One, two, three..? Gerry is a “cardiologist”
Pages 4 and 5: “Police: Parents are hampering probe.” Angel Galan, head of the Spanish National Police’s kidnap, extortion and murder squad says: “There is no real information to indicate that Madeleine could be in Spain although Mr and Mrs McCann might think so. I think the question is why couldn’t she be in France or in the UK? Why does it have to be Spain, Portugal or Morocco?”
“Drawing that could catch her abductor” – an artist’s impression of a man carrying a child in the vicinity of the McCanns holiday complex on May 3. The man is of average height, of average build, with dark hair and with his facial features not filled in. Do you know him?
The artist was commissioned by the McCanns in light of a person their friend Jane Tanner said she saw on the night Madeleine disappeared
THE SUN front page: “PICTURE SENSATION. He took Maddie – MAN SEEN BY McCANNS’ PAL ON FATEFUL NIGHT”
A drawing of a man. The caption: “Hunted…a drawing of man with child in his arms as seen by Jane Tanner”
Page 13: “MADDIE IN ARMS OF SNATCHER. Pyjamas ‘prove it is her’” – The man is 5ft 6. He is 5ft 10 in the Express. He is “slim”. The girl is wearing pink and white pyjamas. The man is in a maroon shirt, camel coloured trousers and black or brown shoes
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We hope this will go a long was to proving the independent eyewitness account that she was taken by someone and the police’s focus on Kate and Gerry as potential suspects is wrong”. See drawing of a man seen by McCanns’ friend
And: “We believe it does show Madeleine in his arms. The description of the pyjamas is accurate enough to believe that is the case.” The McCanns’ friend sees the girl wearing pyjamas like those worn by Madeleine, whom she knows
“GERRY BACK AT WORK” – Gerry McCann is a “cardiologist” – lest we ever forget
DAILY MIRROR front page: “This is the man who took our Madeleine. PARENTS RELEASE SKETCH”
Page 11: “’He was slim with untidy black hair, plastered back. He was hurrying with a child in pink pyjajmaas’” (No songs please)
“’KIDNAPPER’ SEEN BY KATE’S PAL”
Paul Routledge: “All I want to do is put my arms around her and say: ‘there, there’ while she sobs out her grief on my shoulder”
DAILY MAIL front page: “Friends’ fears for ‘increasingly fragile’ Kate”
Pages 8 and 9: “Is Kate at breaking point?” – If she cracks up will the papers like her better? “Friends fear for Maddie’s mother after TV ordeal”
“SPANISH EYES” – The McCanns have launched a private “proxy investigation” in Spain. Under Portuguese law it is illegal to use private detectives while an investigation is ongoing
The mystery man who may have taken her” – Mrs Tanner sees the man. She is later “racked with guilt”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE PARENTS ‘HIDING TRUTH’ – 70 per cent of TV viewers thinks McCanns are lying”
Pages 4 and 5: “BODY LANGUAGE SPECIALIST GIVES HIS VERDICT ON KATE – ‘MUM WOULD BE VERY GOOD POKER PLAYER’.” Robert Phipps watches the interview with Kate McCann on Spanish TV. She is frowning, and expert Phipps says this is indicative of “pain” and stress. Who knew? We do not know if he then voted in the subsequent poll
THE TIMES front page: “Madeleine ‘abductor’” – The white man is of “medium build”
Page 9: “’This is the man who took Madeleine away’” – The Times says the new picture bears “no resemblance to Robert Murat”. The picture has been handed to the McCanns’ detectives who are operating across Europe and North Africa
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “Madeleine ‘abductor’” – This is the man Jane Tanner says she saw at 9:15pm on May 3
THE INDEPENDENT and THE GUARDIAN: No Madeleine news today
November 7th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
maybe the mac canns interfered with yr computers
November 7th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Am I the only person to think that Jane Tanner’s efit looks like HER?????? There is definately something odd about this woman and I just feel uncomfortable when I look at a pic of her.
She sees a man carrying a child late at night but doesnt say anything for weeks? How worrying is that? Her partner is away from the table for half an hour and reappears at the same time as Kate McCann. Strange co incidence….Has anybody considered that one of the McCanns was having an affair and Maddie was taken out of revenge or a plot that went horribly wrong.
Also the man that spent 45 mins with his sick child and then returned to the table….why would a dr leave a child who had been ill and sick alone? That doesnt add up at all. The 4 people should be investigated more thoroughly and named suspects. There is some kind of web of deception and cover up going on here.
November 5th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
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November 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I too believe Tanner is making up her story. IMO why would she pay so much attention to this man? And she can describe the jammies on the child? BUT not the man’s face. This is a joke and i believe the Mccanns and their “friends” know more than they are saying.
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If Tanner is to be believed, she was - or actually HAD to be , very close to the person carrying the child as the alleyways round there are very narrow aparently. She MUST have seen the guy’s face, she must have seen some feature she could describe if the clear description of his clothes, the child, the child’s clothes etc are to be believed. This woman is a nutter !!
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I too believe Tanner is making up her story. IMO why would she pay so much attention to this man? And she can describe the jammies on the child? BUT not the man’s face. This is a joke and i believe the Mccanns and their “friends” know more than they are saying.
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:47 am
I would not trust jane tanner as far as i could throw her the photo of a man carrying the little girl is pathetic she made this up,i think the Tapas Nine are disgusting people and they know what happened to the little girl.
October 28th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
1739 Christine
That’s why my friend never charges for anything to do with children or when people are desperate for help, as in the removal of “entities”. She only ever charges for bona fide readings which is fair enough, but in a high-profile case like this, you would have thought these guys would have been falling over themselves to help. I am going to try to find out what happened about the “Psychic Barber’s” involvement and whether or not, anything came of it
October 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Ann
Well I for one would like to see them come forward. It is meant to be a gift for good use afterall.
October 28th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
1737 Christine
Good thought but the only bunch of psychics I know round here, of which my friend is one, have always tried to help where possible and have very often got together to work on things like clearing “haunted” houses. My friend, who’s name is also Christine !! , worked on one once with the regular crowd which freaked even her out as the “entity” there was so bad it took them all, all their strength and effort to get rid of it.
In a case like this you would think the Psychics could contact each other, see if they had been getting similar “messages” and combine to get them to the necessary authorities for consideration but there again, the Leicestershire Police told me they had often used Psychics and Mediums in cases to good effect but what is the Portuguese take on that ? Would they consider that kind of thing blasphemous ? not worthy of consideration ?
October 28th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Ann
Do you think that psychics would be afraid to get together and reveal their findings? They could remain anonymous as do all the friends of friends and unknown sources.
October 28th, 2007 at 11:31 am
1733 Christine
….also my friend worked with our local Police on several missing persons and murder cases to good effect so she is no slouch
October 28th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Lisa 1721
I told my friend about your “dream” and she was amazed and also feels that she is even more right than she thought, as she is a bit of a “Doubting Thomas” at times which is why she likes feed-back. She also says she feels that things are coming together fairly quickly now because of the results of the “Dispatches” programme, because of what you said and various other little things dropping into place.
She always thought it would be October when the rains come, that Madeleine would be found but she didn’t like the sight of those drains shown on the “Dispatches” programme, they made her go cold. She had also sensed that this still water she feels Madeleine is in, had to be accessed by steps and she thought that strange if it were a well or a pond or a reservoir but - like I said - she is about 75% to 80% right so we’ll see…….
October 28th, 2007 at 11:23 am
1733 Christine
With you on that !! It appears that at least 150 Mediums /Psychics had contacted the Police both here and in Portugal and we are of the opinion that there are enough of them out there to come up with similar threads which would be worth investigation. Their submissions are all in a file apparently. I also think that it is amazing that Lisa 1721 had that dream which also came up with Madeleine in still water and she doesn’t profess to be a psychic !! I had a set-to with someone on another Madeleine forum about the “Psychic Barber” who had offered his services for free to the McCanns but haven’t heard anything further as to whether they took him up on that. This poster quoted all these famous name Psychics, Stephen Fry, Derek Acorah et al, and said how wonderful they are - well OK - why haven’t they combined their talents to seek out this child ? If the “Psychic Barber” did find Madeleine under the circumstances my friend describes, guess who’d get the publicity ??!! would’t do his career any harm I doubt !! not that she wants any publicity or reward, she just wants to help find the child. Incidentally, she has been “told” all the way through that she will be interviewed and then she had a dream where she was taken to a room and the McCanns were brought in but she’s not sure if that was just things playing on her mind, she tends to trust what she is “given” rather than what she dreams.
But harking back to the “Psychic Barber’s ” offer - yes, you are right, psychics are the last things I would want to contact if I had something to hide !!
October 28th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Ann 1720
Thanks for your reply. Actually I wouldn’t poo poo anything from a medium or psychic and I’ve wondered right from the beginning why the McCann’s didn’t contact mediums right from the start. They may not have been 100% accurate but if enough of them told of the same things, then it could have built up a picture of what happened would have been a positive lead to finding where Madeleine was. Of course if I had anything to hide, they’d be the last people I’d turn to.
October 28th, 2007 at 9:41 am
1727 Lisa
You’re not paranoid but this woman has to be criminally stupid if today’s headlines in the “Redtops” are to be believed, now she is saying “I saw him take her” …hullo ??? now it seems she stood by in this five-foot wide alleyway, saw someone walking past with a bundle, sorry with this child wearing Madeleine’s pyjamas and not only didn’t challenge him but didn’t say anything about it for three weeks, not on the night “…oh my God !! I have just seen someone carrying what looked like Madeleine down the alleyway …!! ” at which point everyone could have fanned out and looked for her. Then she comes up with this “picture” six months later, which could be anyone from my / your next-door neighbour or the guy down the fish shop and expects to be taken seriously !!
Having now watched the “Dispatches” programme and seen the logical way these guys worked through the case I now see several things I didn’t know before e.g it was always said that the abductor carried this “sleeping” ( drugged) child through the streets to the Marina, why would he/she do that ? walking through a brightly lit street filled with night-time merrymakers when the steps from the apartment were in dark and shadow and led down to an alleyway at the side which was totally dark, and then ultimately to another one which led to the car park where no doubt this white van that has figured so largely, was parked, and thence away to the hills !!
And speaking of white vans, what happened to the Hans von Aesch story ? ..that died the death has it ?
October 28th, 2007 at 7:50 am
1729 Logic
I kept getting an error page yesterday. It wasn’t due to a problem with my computer.
October 28th, 2007 at 12:47 am
I’ve had a ‘feeling’ about this case for some time…like thousands of others, I know, and this is just one more ‘feeling’ to add to the seemingly endless lists of speculative statements.
The idea of the parents killing or hurting Maddy did not ’sit’ right - yet I sensed they were involved.
I had a weird sense that the parents had given her away. I have no idea why they would. Although that seems crazy, in some part of my brain it makes some sort of odd sense.
Or it could be my medication….
I just hope all the results come out of Birmingham soon, and move this forward to a conclusion.
PS - One good thing to come from this so far…the Portuguese seized and checked a whole bunch of computers with child pornography on them. Hopefully some depraved souls were arrested…and maybe a few missing children found.
Not a happy time.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Has anyone had a problem with their computer today?
October 27th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Oh well… I used to think that all the inconsistencies in statements and all the strange behaviour suggested the McCanns were hiding something.
…But now we have this startling PROOF OF ABDUCTION in the form of a picture of THE ABDUCTOR IN THE VERY ACT OF ABDUCTION, I must of course withdraw everything I have thought and said about this case over the last six months.