Madeleine McCann: Case ‘Collapses’ Against Kate And Gerry McCann, Maybe
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE: Cops ignored key witness – Kate and Gerry ‘clear in week”
Page 13: “KATE AND GERRY’S DNA HOPE” – “DNA ‘evidence against Kate and Gerry collapsed yesterday”
Not the McCanns. It’s Kate and Gerry. Rather, “Doctors Kate and Gerry”
“It is understood British forensic experts told Portuguese cops that tests show NOTHING conclusive” – So nothing to prove things one way or another…
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “Police should now get on with looking for Maddie”
“MADDIE PROWLER IGNORED - Tourist told cops of weirdo” – Amanda Mills “spotted a skulking figure” near the apartment where Madeleine was last seen. It was a week before her disappearance.
“Essex mum-of-three Amanda” says: “It was late at night. This guy came along, put his hands on a pushchair outside an apartment and tried to walk off with it. He ran off when I made a loud noise to let him know he was being watched. He seemed interested in the windows. He was looking at and through them. He set warning bells off in my mind. He was very weird, very dodgy.”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “Amanda is at the top of Metodo 3’s list. This could be crucial”
DAILY MAIL page 11: “McCanns ‘in the clear’ after DNA tests”
The Forensic Science Service says tests remain “ongoing”, but the McCanns’ legal team have called on the Portuguese police to lift the couple’s status as official suspects.
Says Clarence Mitchell:
“Enough is enough. There can be nothing that incriminates Kate and Gerry, because they are innocent. We are hopeful this meeting will help speed up the process eliminating Kate and Gerry from the inquiry…We are hopeful common sense will prevail and that Portuguese police will see Kate and Gerry have no case to answer. Forensic evidence – if there is any – is inconclusive or explicable, so they should be eliminated from the inquiry”
DAILY EXPRESS page 15: “MADELEINE: Calls to clear McCanns as Portuguese police fly home after DNA talks”
But the police in Portugal “are increasingly accepting that without damning evidence, they may have to clear the couple”
DAILY MIRROR page 6: “ENOUGH’S ENOUGH – McCanns demand to be cleared as cops’ summit ends in failure”
The four-strong Portuguese team are “no closer to solving the mystery”, says the paper.
And the facts? Well, both Gerry and Kate are “doctors”. Both are “39”. And Madeleine McCann is missing…
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE – New DNA shock for parents”
Page 13: “MADDIE MUM AND DAD STILL IN THE FRAME – Portuguese cops call for more tests”
If tests are inconclusive, then why not have more?
“Scientists have told police their findings put Madeleine McCann’s parents in the frame for her disappearance”
A spokesman for the FSS says: “It is common for scientists to meet with detectives in the course of criminal investigations to explain our methods. Our inquiries are continuing. Tests are on-going’’
Says the Star: “Detectives accused ex-anaesthetist Kate of accidentally killing Madeleine after giving her sedatives to help her sleep”
Doctor Kate is a suspect, but no charges have been made against her…
THE GUARDIAN: “Bid to clear McCanns after DNA trip”
Those DNA tests “on blood samples, bodily fluids and hair found in the McCanns’ holiday apartment and the vehicle they hired 25 days after the four-year-old disappeared are “routine”
THE INDEPENDENT page 51: “The Big Question: Are we any closer to finding out what happened to Madeleine McCann?”
After days of ignoring the biggest human interest story in years, the Indy wakes up. And it has questions that any tabloid reader can help it answer:
Why are we asking this now?
What will they discuss?
Are they meeting the McCanns?
Are the McCanns still formal suspects?
Are there any other suspects?
Any other evidence?
Has Madeleine been seen since May?
Who is looking for Madeleine?
Could someone be charged soon?
And: Is the investigation any nearer to reaching a conclusion?
Yes…
* Yesterday’s ‘DNA Summit’ was a significant event that should push the case on
* There have been many sightings of Madeleine and the case remains high profile, despite being more than six months old
* The Portuguese police know more than they are letting on, but are bound by secrecy lawsNo…
* No trace of Madeleine has been found, despite a huge police investigation and the efforts of private investigators
* The investigation was handled badly from the start, meaning that all leads have gone cold
* An army of scientists, abduction experts and sniffer-dog teams have failed to come up with any answers
Yes and no. Maybe…
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February 6th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Morning Karen, that took you some time to discover
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[ whispering : nuts... most definitely she's nuts, but nice
February 6th, 2009 at 4:57 am
Ooh, I didn’t comment for the whole of this day. I must’ve been asleep…
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:32 am
“Daily Express” today ….”Madeleine: DNA clue at deserted farmhouse”……….WHAT have I been telling you for months ??? My friemd the Medium, said the old boy who used to live in this dilapidated farmhouse ( now in spirit) told her that “Madeleine had been there, she was not there now but that there would be clues to follow” which we always maintained was DNA
….keep watching this space !!!
December 1st, 2007 at 7:22 pm
I really must go now. Adious amigos!
12 bottles of wine to drink.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:18 pm
918
pat
Or the cavader hits the fan!
December 1st, 2007 at 7:17 pm
930
Mini Wireless Spy Camera
Donegal. Family live there.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:07 pm
931
Boobe Houston Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 4:13 pm
The poor girl is dead long ago,eaten by the fish in the Mediterranean sea.
The parents are HYPOCRI910 to 899.
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Perhaps Maddie was found dead stuck in somewhere after a search and that would account for the lapse in time before police were called and also the mobile calls, etc.
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I think we are all agreed she is very, very probably dead but I still don’t think the parents did it, I still think she was abducted and dumped after all the fuss about her eye, and I have to think like that, because the thought of parents who - upon finding their child dead, not immediately calling for help i.e. Doctor, ambulance, police, Girl Guides or whatever, does not sit well with me, this would make them the most unbelievably cold, calculating, callous monsters on the face of the planet.
December 1st, 2007 at 6:49 pm
824
Totje Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 1:48 am
581 lollipop
Dave…even if guilty only of neglect - they deserve to be punished and should not be allowed to keep the twins
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Well, you certainly deserve a medal for your empathy! Punishing the twins too! Love you not!
Totje, I do not want your love - thanks all the same, Why on earth would it be a punishment for the twins………………………They would be safe, away from people who think its ok to leave them unsupervised!
P.s - well done, you seem to have come out of your shell lately - stay focused thou !!
December 1st, 2007 at 4:13 pm
The poor girl is dead long ago,eaten by the fish in the Mediterranean sea.
The parents are HYPOCRITES!
They either killed her (probably Kate in an outrage trew her against the wall) or they found her injured and covered her death.
This morning BBC said a detectives firm in Barcelona,which specializes in child abductions is very,very close to the truth…there are facts which speak that the girl was kept TWO DAYS
alive in the trunk of the rented car(probably this explains the sedatives);then she was driven to onother lcation and handed over to a WOMAN.
The BBC reportage will be repeated tomorrow.Watch it!
December 1st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
[...] Anorak - White A was down I was trying to survive on the Digital Spy forum. There was some news on there that k & G are off on a journey tomorrow (?) to an undisclosed desitination. Some were suggesting Brasil (or somewhere without extradition agreements!). Small Spy Camera News [...]
December 1st, 2007 at 10:12 am
Hi lyn
You said:
” Perhaps Maddie was found dead stuck in somewhere after a search and that would account for the lapse in time before police were called and also the mobile calls, etc.”
Perhaps she was taken by aliens, and is now living on planet Zog. Perhaps your the village idiot, now this I might believe.!!!
December 1st, 2007 at 9:30 am
917 an observor
Looked up the link on forums mirror, the link on this page. An interesting theory.
910 to 899.
Perhaps Maddie was found dead stuck in somewhere after a search and that would account for the lapse in time before police were called and also the mobile calls, etc.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:24 am
Dummy 916
Saying ‘They’ve taken her’ doesn’t seem at all odd or suspicious to me. I just assume that where Kate comes from ‘they’ can be used with a more general meaning. She clearly couldn’t say ‘He’s taken her’ or ‘She’s taken her’ - that would be too specific.
However, the interesting thing about that article (let’s put caution aside and assume everything was reported correctly) is that the family claimed she didn’t say it. Why such a hullaballoo?
December 1st, 2007 at 9:22 am
New day, new blog folks.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:22 am
915 Eva Says: December 1st, 2007 at 9:06 am
I don’t know what happened to Madeleine that night, but I just wish the parents would come out and say, ‘We were bloody idiots to leave our three young children alone. We are responsible for whatever fate befell Madeleine. We are prepared to face the legal consequences of our actions, and are fully deserving of the public outcry. Please, please do not leave your child alone.’ Or words to that effect
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While I agree 100% with you Eva, I wonder if anyone would believe them after all this time? That without any shadow of a doubt is what they should have done in the very early days.
The issue here is that the McCann’s have always come across as far more concerned about their public perception and legal position than any real care or regret about what happened to Madeleine. Just my opinion of course. If they did what you are suggesting now I suspect that many would simply refuse to believe that it was any more than a manoeuvre to cover their own butts.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:19 am
919
Hideki Says:
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stress less.
dec 1 forum open.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:18 am
Oh, sorry, I see my mistake with dates 12/5 and 5/12 being the same, just written a different way. So both dates are gving May 12, 2003 as Madeleine’s birthday.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:09 am
915
lyn Says:
December 1st, 2007 at 9:03 am
Very interesting about the wandering off theory….
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hi lyn,
what is the “wandering off theory”?
December 1st, 2007 at 9:08 am
911
Eva
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=483715&in_page_id=1770
December 1st, 2007 at 9:06 am
I don’t know what happened to Madeleine that night, but I just wish the parents would come out and say, ‘We were bloody idiots to leave our three young children alone. We are responsible for whatever fate befell Madeleine. We are prepared to face the legal consequences of our actions, and are fully deserving of the public outcry. Please, please do not leave your child alone.’ Or words to that effect.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:03 am
Very interesting about the wandering off theory. How many people are found years later, ie. in walls, cupboards, and elsewhere. If Maddie wandered off she could be anywhere in that complex,
ie nook and cranny. Still think the Tapas 9 know what happened to her though.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:56 am
It’s not over till the skinny lady sings
December 1st, 2007 at 8:54 am
789
an observer
The page cited
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:T4qa_aiMXvYJ:forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D523355%26highlight%
has 5/12/2003 for Madeleine’s b-day, which would mean that she was about to turn 4 years old. But I wonder why the other page had 12/5/2003 ??
Is this latter date the b-day of Jane Tanner’s child? and the dates were mixed up?
“Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:
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[quote="tuliptree"][quote="tdee"]on this we pg
http://the-daily-behemoth.blog…..-gone.html
Jane Tanner is reported as having been present with Kate McCann during the birth of Madeleine in Amsterdam………. [/quote]
12 May 2003 - Madeleine Beth McCann is born to Kate and Gerry McCann at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.
http://historymike.blogspot.co…..ccann.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_McCann
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yes no maternity facilities at Glenfield, would have been the Royal or the General. seems very odd. only clarification would be birth certificate. “
December 1st, 2007 at 8:54 am
789
an observer
The page you cited
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:T4qa_aiMXvYJ:forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D523355%26highlight%
has 5/12/2003 for Madeleine’s b-day, which would mean that she was about to turn 4 years old. But I wonder why the other page had 12/5/2003 ??
Is this latter date the b-day of Jane Tanner’s child? and the dates were mixed up?
“Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:
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[quote="tuliptree"][quote="tdee"]on this we pg
http://the-daily-behemoth.blog…..-gone.html
Jane Tanner is reported as having been present with Kate McCann during the birth of Madeleine in Amsterdam………. [/quote]
12 May 2003 - Madeleine Beth McCann is born to Kate and Gerry McCann at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.
http://historymike.blogspot.co…..ccann.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_McCann
Edited to add links[/quote]
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yes no maternity facilities at Glenfield, would have been the Royal or the General. seems very odd. only clarification would be birth certificate. “
December 1st, 2007 at 8:51 am
McCann Pals May Be Made Suspects
Dec 1 2007 By Victoria Ward
FOUR of the Madeleine McCann “Tapas Nine” have been warned they could be named official suspects, it has been claimed.
Reports said Dr Russell O’Brien, his partner Jane Tanner and their friends Dr David Payne and Matthew Oldfield have all been told they could be made arguidos like Kate and Gerry McCann.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2007/12/01/mccann-pals-may-be-made-suspects-86908-20188577/
They were among the nine people, including the McCanns, who were dining together in Praia da Luz on the night four-year-old Madeleine vanished.
The warning emerged after it was revealed Portuguese police were demanding the group be interviewed again.
The news that they were preparing to send a letter of appeal to British police dashed growing hopes that Madeleine’s parents could soon be officially cleared.
A friend of the group said last night: ‘There has always been the possibility that some or all of the friends from the tapas restaurant may be made arguidos if they were reinterviewed by police.
“All of those who have given statements are absolutely confident about what they said because it is the truth.”
Dr Payne, 41, from Leicester, was the last person outside the McCann family to see Madeleine alive on May 3.
He went to the family’s apartment at 6.30pm and saw Kate with her three kids, while Glaswegian heart consultant Gerry played tennis.
Mr Oldfield, 37, from London, was the last of the group to check on the kids that night, about 30 minutes before the alarm was raised.
He told police he saw two-year-old McCann twins Sean and Amelie but Madeleine’s bed was out of sight.
Jane Tanner, from Exeter, told police she saw a man carrying a child from the apartment at 9.15pm but police say there are contradictions in her statements.
Dr O’Brien, 36, left the group for around 45 minutes to look after his own child, who was ill in his apartment.
The letter of appeal demands British authorities re-interview the group about the night of May 3.
The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “Kate and Gerry’s friends have consistently said they are happy to be re-interviewed by police if necessary.
“They are keen to help if it clears up any inconsistencies. They, like Gerry and Kate, have nothing to hide.”
Portuguese police who had been meeting British forensic experts over the case flew back home last night. They appeared grim but refused to comment on claims that DNA results were inconclusive.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:50 am
Nanny Pennington sees much. Where did she say she saw him? was he ‘lurking’ or ‘acting suspiciously’?
December 1st, 2007 at 8:48 am
899
an observer
Thanks for the info. According to the page
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=47193&highlight=
Madeleine’s b-day is 12/5/2004 which is odd because I had heard she was about to be 4 years old in May, 2003. The last comment below written by Gerry is ironic.
“Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject:
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For all of you who wanted to see gerry’s friends reunited site before it was updated here it is
“Good to see so many familiar names and a few faces! Is anyone not doing well?Finished medicine and working as a cardiology registrar in Leicestersince Jan 2000 (hopefully temporarily). Had a brilliant year in New Zealand 1995/96. Married to Kate (Healy, for those docs in Glasgow) and very happy although no kids-yet!
Don?t get to Glasgow that often but have bumped into a few old friends around the southside where my mum still lives.
June 2003- Still in Leicester but now family of 3 after birth of Madeleine Beth on 12/05/03. Thankfully she takes after her mother although definitely has my lungs even without a dew drinks.
August 2004- Bones- glad i left after 5th year! Currently in Amsterdam learning some fancy heart scanning(MRI) but returning to UK in New Year when hopefully will become family of 5. Looking for a consultant job and shortlist is Glasgow, Liverpool, Leicester in fact pretty much anywhere north of Birmingham
April 2005- Back in Leicester and looking for a job. Now father of three with Sean and Amelie joing Maddie. Anyone fancy babysitting? “”
December 1st, 2007 at 8:42 am
Most parents make arrangements with a friend to be with the children on a roster basis.
Never heard of kids being left on their own, in a foreign country. Even in suburbia, kids get into trouble and get out as has happened, and wander along a road.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:42 am
Why do Mark Warner resorts claim to be ‘family friendly’ when what they really mean is ‘parent friendly’?
Not living in the UK, I’d never heard of them. And I had no idea there were two MW resorts in my country. They sound terrible. Their thinly veiled message is, ‘You’re going on holiday, but you’ve got to bring the pesky kids along. Never fear! We’ll keep the brats busy and away from you at meal times - you need never know you’ve GOT children!’ Ugh.
IMO
December 1st, 2007 at 8:41 am
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Eva Says:
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views on ms pennington
http://tinyurl.com/3yxhze
http://tinyurl.com/3axra3
December 1st, 2007 at 8:40 am
Observer, yes I realise that. English is not my native language so I’m glad you point it out to me so I can correct it.
Eva, and she’s also the one who claims to have seen Murat that evening.