Spanish private detectives, the Método 3 company based in Barcelona, and contracted by the McCann family, have said that they know who it was who kidnapped Madeleine from the family holiday accommodation in Praia da Luz in Portugal, and that the child could be home for Christmas. The director of the detective agency, Francisco Marco, said that they were closing in on the killer.

- SHE WILL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS BUT CLOSING IN ON THE KILLER?

All by myself…dont wanna be, all by myself..anymore……….la la la!!

and the photo!!! I had to have two cups of tea before I could even read the first page of that article … winsome or what? I didn’t read the rest. I couldn’t.

There are two Madeleine McCanns —-

Just_me

You like Celine?

Anorak, I get the impression from your coverage of Bridget O’Donnell’s deeply moving story that you are not wholly convinced of her undoubtedly innocent desire simply to put the record straight about her total lack of involvement in the disappearance of one of the Ten interchangeable blonde little girls in the kiddie club at PDL.

You cynical old journo, you…

11, chenier

And what does a couple do who is not at all involved? They watch a DVD, of course.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2227354,00.html

“After taking our children to dinner a couple of times, we decided on the Wednesday night to try the service at the [Kiddie] club.We had booked a table for two at Tapas and were placed next to the Doctors’ regular table. One by one, they started to arrive. The men came first. Gerry McCann started chatting across to Jes about tennis. Gerry was outgoing, a wisecracker, but considerate and kind, and he invited us to join them. We discussed the children. He told us they were leaving theirs sleeping in the apartments…”

Wednesay. No mention whatsoever of any monitoring arrangement. Clearly there were none. No mention whatsoever of anyone getting up to check on children. Clearly no one did.

Then on Thursday:

“Our baby would not sleep and at about 8.30pm, Jes took him out for a walk in the buggy to settle him. Gerry was on his way back from checking on his children…”

No, Gerry was outside fiddling with the shutter, after supposedly having checked on the children. From which McCann version did O’Donnel take this explanation of what Gerry was doing when he met Jeremy? Certainly, neither she nor Jeremy can know that Gerry was checking on the children. Gerry had never even mentioned such a monitoring plan before.

“…and the two men stopped to have a chat. They talked about daughters, fathers, families. Gerry was relaxed and friendly. They discussed the babysitting dilemmas at the resort and Gerry said that he and Kate would have stayed in too, if they had not been on holiday in a group. ”

So how ironic that Jeremy (Jes) Wilkins and Gerry talked about childcare. Jeremy mentioned that their solution was to stay in. Gerry replies that he can’t do that, for they are in a group. Does Gerry even claim at this point that there is a monitoring plan? O’Donnel doesn’t mention it, so I would guess not. I would guess that only later she learned that this is what Gerry was doing, and so inserted it into her story.

“Jes had asked if they needed help searching and was told there was nothing he could do; she had been missing for three hours. Jes felt he should go anyway, but I wanted him to stay with us. I was a coward, afraid to be alone with the children. ”

Why did this unidentified guy bang on the door at 1 AM and then say there is nothing you can do? Why doesn’t O’Donnel state the name of this doctor?

“We decided, in the end, to leave them for two hours[the chidlren at the creche]. We put their bags on the pegs and saw the one labelled “Madeleine”. ”

And yet O’Donnell says that she never saw Madeleine, and could not identify her in a group of 10 blonde children.

Anyway, looks like the McCanns were indeed habitual child neglectors, and did not even have an informal system of checking in place. O’Donnell does not even have the guts to unambiguously chastise them for this.

I guess it will take a judge to do that. Ten years in jail.

I can’t believe the Guardian would print such complete shit. The prose style is so hideous and insincere it makes me want to vomit. I’m glad I only read Heat; I’m obviously not missing much.

The article by Bridget O’Donnell is truly dreadful. If you haven’t read the full article, then do it now - it really is unmissable. Why would the Guardian print such shite?

And O’Donnell gives her occupation as writer and director!!!! The world has gone insane.

Dear friends

The Guardian printed the article because the Guardian is a quality newspaper that is sickened by the tabloids witch-hunt on the McCanns.
You don’t like the article because it displays all the flaws in your own wild speculation and conspiracy theories.
I think you are all beginning to realize that you are wrong.

THE PAEDO FILES
The shutters WERE jemmied open.
But then they were jeremied shut again.
Bet that poor Kate hasn’t been jemmied open in a while.

21 Simon

I can assure you, Simon, that you have totally misread!

The Guardian article is quite a remarkable one, it exposes the primary failure of the McCanns as compared to the authors own views and approach.

It is very clever indeed, in that all who read it will realise that the McCanns failed in their primary duty of care. It exposes the difficultyin proving Madeleine was alive and well before the 3rd of May and it exposes the story of Tanner as based on an experience she had the day before.

It exposes the McCanns as not having searched adequately, of having assumed an abduction form day 1. Remarkable.

The other thing it does is show how simple finded folk such as yourselves can be fooled!

20 Remigious

Its a very clever article actally! Not quite saying what the Pro-McCanns think!

Simon,

Actually, there isn’t a tabloid witch hunt on the McCanns, so you must be joking.