Madeleine McCann: DNA, Over By Christmas, Police To Question Kate and Gerry McCann
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “Madeleine: DNA clue to deserted farmhouse”
SUNDAY MIRROR: “New Maddy witnesses come forward”
“By Lori Campbell” – the hack you told the police and then all of us about “creepy” Robert Murat
“Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat is back in the frame after two new witnesses say they saw him the night the four-year-old disappeared,” says Campbell of the Mirror
And: “The private detectives from Metodo 3 are also investigating a tip-off that Murat had connections to the criminal underworld and was working as a police informant”
Another lead for the private detectives. Keep those invoices coming…
Says a source inside Metodo 3: “There are serious questions around Murat’s alibi. He says he was at his mum’s house and did not learn of Madeleine’s disappearance until the following morning. But his claims have now been challenged by five eyewitnesses. Three of the McCanns’ friends have always insisted they saw him that night. They say they are sure it was him because of his distinctive right eye. Now two new people have contacted us saying they are certain they also saw him. They do not know each other and called our hotline independently”
“Case ‘will close in 4 weeks’” – “Top cop” Paulo Rebelo “plans to close the case in one month”
SUNDAY MAIL: “Madeleine: British police to question the McCanns ‘in days’”
“A close friend of the McCanns said they believed that only the seven friends would face questioning” - so nothing arranged yet..?
He adds: “We believe that we are getting close to the couple being cleared.”
A spokeswoman for the Home Office says: “If the Portuguese police were to require to travel to the UK then they would need to apply for mutual legal assistance from the Home Office”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “McCanns to face fresh police quiz”
Says a judicial source: “Without forensic proof the investigators have to go for the contradictions in the stories of the McCanns and the other witnesses. The investigation has not changed direction. Authorities believe the McCanns and the other official suspect Robert Murat are implicated”
No news is news
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY: “MCCANNS ‘WILL BE CLEARED BY XMAS’”
“Kate and Gerry McCann are set to be cleared as prime suspects in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine in time for Christmas,” says the paper
Cleared! Big news. What evidence of their innocence – if any is needed? Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “Police chief Paulo Rebelo will have to decide soon whether he has enough evidence to charge them and take the case to the prosecutor. We are relaxed about this. Hopefully Kate and Gerry will be cleared by Christmas”
And: “In another development, it has been revealed that the McCanns – both 39 – are considering offers to publicise the search for Maddie on American TV. It is hoped that highlighting the hunt on major networks in the US – together with Arabic-language adverts due to be broadcast on Moroccan TV – could hold the key to solving the case”
In America… Why?
THE GUARDIAN: “Another flaw in the McCanns’ coverage”
Says Roy Greenslade: “According to the Daily Mirror on its front page, The Sun in a page lead, and the Daily Express also in page a lead, police will speak to the ‘Tapas Seven’. But, according to the Daily Telegraph here, and the Daily Mail here, police plan to question the ‘Tapas Nine’.
“Anyone for eight? I know. A small point. Small, but in the context of the way this story has been covered, significant because it indicates, yet again, that - whatever your opinions might be - reporters cannot agree on a single, simple fact”
FOR all the speculation, sensation and news
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:46 am
first?
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:47 am
Finally I have made it.
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:48 am
3rd ?
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:52 am
What is the connection with Murat?
Why did they claim not to know him?
How many of this group do you believe will be charged?
I have missed a lot of yesterdays postings. The blood in the apartment was Madeleine’s but it does not prove she was dead.
But does the blood in the car signify death?
So where did she die between the apartment and being transported in the car?
Murat’s house?
Alleged ramblings ….
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 am
Good morning.
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SteveT Says:
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:48 am
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Aren’t you supposed to be fishing this morning?
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:11 am
………..the only way this farce will be “over by Christmas” is if Maddie’s body is found…..
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 am
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Châtelaine
Yes! Its blowing a gale and raining. Will try later on! Bit of a fair weather fisherman.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 am
4
hannasus
Metodo 3 (Clarence) are stirring up all the talk about Murat. And I thought that they were not meant to be getting involved in the case!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:26 am
Good Morning Vietnam!!!!!!!!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:26 am
Apart from all of the “strange” aspects in this case, it strikes me that the parents of a missing child have their “own” detectives”, an official spokesman and an army of lawyers …
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 am
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chenier
Watch out for incoming!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 am
SteveT
Awful weather here too. Thought the fishing would be abandoned! Bad head after last night’s drinkies? I’ve only just staggered down the stairs.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:28 am
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Châtelaine
You do that when your completely innocent, or do you?
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 am
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Patch
You owe the barman £6.80 for that double vodka Red Bull you bought me!
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
And now a t.v. campaign in the USA? Whereas they always completely ignored BG?
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 am
Question: Was GM already “arguido” when he refused to comment on knowing Murat?
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 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 2nd, 2007 at 10:32 am
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Châtelaine
Will the US TV campaign be to publicise their missing daughter, publisise them or generate some more money?
Anyway, I think they are busy next week and possibly for the next 10 years.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 am
Morning
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 am
Bye for now.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
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Ann Says:
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 am
“Daily Express” today ….”Madeleine: DNA clue at deserted farmhouse”
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Cannot find that article. Do you have link for me?
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
My wifes a medium, or so she says. I always buy her the wrong size clothes..
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:37 am
Voices from beyond the grave are calling us to a deserted farmhouse.
I think I feel safer here in Vietnam…
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
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SteveT Says:
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
My wifes a medium, or so she says. I always buy her the wrong size clothes…
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Very funny.
& almost as funny as the one [few days ago] about the PJ not having power in the U.K. [have to change plugs]. That one nearly killed me
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 am
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Châtelaine Says:
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
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Don’t know if there is a link to that, I just saw it when I went to pick up my papers from the Newsagents this morning and there is a bit on the front which says “Madeleine: DNA clue at deserted farmhouse” so I whisked that off the shelf !! You could try the “Express” website and see if you can bring it up
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:41 am
Hideki - yesterday, and
an obseerver - yesterday
MADELEINE MCANN AND JANE TANNER’S CHILD - BORN ON THE SAME DAY?
I have not had much time to check, so far I have only turned up this reference by a poster on BT Yahoo Answers:
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“Russell O’Brien is a doctor and lives in Exeter – the same English city where the sister of Robert Murat lives.
After studying at the same university as David Payne, O’Brien met Jane, with whom he has two children. The friendship between Russell and David is so strong that he chose him as his wedding godfather when he made his relationship with Fiona official, in Italy.
Coincidentally, Jane and Kate became pregnant at the same time, as the O’Brien couple’s oldest daughter is exactly the same age as Maddie.
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I have an idea that the original references to Kate McCann’s ansd Jane Tanner’s babies being born on the same day, and Jane Tanner ‘being present at Madeleine’s birth’ etc., was on the Daily Mirror Forum, but the relevant threads may have been deleted by now and I can’t tun it up anywhere at the moemnt.
I also found this which was on Kate McCann’s ‘first interview without Gerry’ - I think from ‘The Mail’/Associated Newspapers group, I found it on thisislondon.co.uk:
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In the first interview she has given without husband Gerry at her side, Mrs McCann, 39, recalled their delight - and surprise - when Madeleine was born in 2003, five years after they married.
She said: “The one thing I have always been definite about is that I want a family. I wanted to be a mother. Then, when we were trying for a baby and it wasn’t happening, it was really
hard.
“The longer it went on, the harder it was. I saw my friends having children and I was really delighted for them, but it made me feel sad, too. We tried unsuccessfully for several years to conceive.
“There came a point when we admitted we needed help. I was so desperate to have a child I’d try anything. I know IVF isn’t everyone’s choice but I wanted to try it.
“We had one unsuccessful attempt before Madeleine and that was very hard. When I got pregnant with Madeleine it was just fantastic. It didn’t seem true.
“I did a test at home so I could handle the result if it wasn’t good. I was looking at it thinking, ‘I don’t believe that’.
“Then I went to the hospital and they checked it. I was really excited.”
Smiling at the happy memory of her birth, she went on: “There she was - perfect. She was lovely. She had the most beautiful face.”
And she revealed: “I’d thought I was going to have a boy, just based on instinct. That actually made it even more special that she was a girl. She took us by surprise.”
Two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie were born 20 months later, also after IVF treatment. They talk about Madeleine all the time, she said. “There are photographs of her all around.”
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December 2nd, 2007 at 10:41 am
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Ann Says:
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:40 am
“You could try the “Express” website and see if you can bring it up”
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I did, but cannot find it
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 am
Someone’s scanned and photobucketed it, but I don’t think the mods here let jpg files through.
Try going to
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=30015&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=105
and follow the link from there…
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:46 am
16 Châtelaine says (December 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 am) “Question: Was GM already ‘arguido’ when he refused to comment on knowing Murat?”
REPLY: Chatelaine: No. This was much earlier, when the media were swarming around Murat as a possible suspect - about late May or early June I think.
I wonder just what Gerald McCann and Robert Murat have on each other? Must be significant
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:48 am
15 Châtelaine Says: December 2nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
And now a t.v. campaign in the USA? Whereas they always completely ignored BG?
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I’ve always been of the opinion that for some reason they have always been keen to get to the US? Possibly some designs on living/working there?