Madeleine McCann: Manuel Catarino Writes, The Guilt Of The McCanns And International Crimewatch
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: Parents would be in jail if they were locals”
But, then, they would not have been on holiday up the road. But if…
Hernani Carvalho, author of Maddie 129 (a book), hosts Portugal’s “version of Crimewatch”. Says he: “If they were Portuguese they would be in jail by now. There are lots of people up in arms with the scandalously privileged treatment that was given to the McCanns. Any Portuguese couple in these circumstances would have been jailed a long time ago”
The McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell says: “That’s his point of view – we disagree. Kate and Gerry have not been given any special treatment”
MADELEINE: “PLAN TO KEEP KATE IN CUSTODY” – Manuel Catarino has written a book. In The Guilt of the McCanns, he writes: “Kate, exhausted, keeps repeating the same. She played with the children in the living room, she put them to bed – and by 7.30pm they were already asleep. The police don’t believe her. They think Madeleine died accidentally in the living room and the parents, in a panic, fearful of the consequences, interested only in defending their reputation, hid her body and staged her abduction”
Says Clarence Mitchell, It’s “another shameful attempt to make money out of the situation”. Clarence Mitchell is paid to represent he McCanns, how much is not said. The Daily Express has produced its own book
THE SUN front page: “CLUELESS – New Maddie witness blows lid on inept cops”
The Sun has read Bridgette O’Donnell’s story in the Guardian. You can read ‘Vanished’ here
“Maddie suspect Robert Murat looked sweaty, excited and breathless when he was drafted in as a translator by bungling cops the day after her disappearance, it emerged yesterday”
So says Bridgette, who works in the meedja…
The Portuguese police failed “to recognise a picture of Madeleine McCann”
Writes Bridgette: “Then he pointed to the photocopied picture of Madeleine on the table. ‘Is this your daughter?’ he asked. ‘Er no,’ we said. ‘That’s the girl you are meant to be searching for.’ My heart sank for the McCanns”
Do you recognise Madeleine McCann? Does the Moroccan woman who saw her in Morocco, the Irishman who saw her in Bosnia, the woman who saw her in Belgium?
And would you have recognised her picture hours after she had gone missing, being abel to spot the difference between it and a picture of another similarly aged British girl??
DAILY STAR: “KATE’S INNOCENT”
“Crimewatch producer Bridget O’Donnell said Kate and Gerry had simply made a ‘disastrous decision’ to leave their daughter unattended”
She added the tragedy could have happened to “any of us”
Could it have? Child theft is a rare crime. It could be you - Increasing The Fear…
“Throughout all this I have believed that Gerry and Kate are innocent,” says Bridgette. “None of us imagined we were being watched. One group made a disastrous decision – Madeleine was vulnerable and was chosen. But in the face of such desperate audacity, it could have been any of us”
DAILY MAIL: “Maddie: Portuguese police ‘came within an inch of jailing Kate McCann’”
The paper has learnt of A Culpa dos McCann - the Guilt of the McCanns. Manuel Catarino is editorial chief of Portuguese daily newspaper Correio da Manha. He says Kate McCanns was “one step away from prison” on the eve of her interrogation on September 7 when she was officially named as an arguido.
He writes: “The coordinator of the investigation, Gonçalo Amaral, and the prosecutor Magalhães e Meneses, discussed the possibility of serving Kate up to the criminal instruction judge for him to apply for her to be remanded in custody. But both men were consumed by doubts on the telephone: they did not know whether it was a case of ‘negligent homicide’ which did not allow remanding in custody, or whether to accuse her of ‘homicide with eventual intent’, a more serious crime, enough to remand the suspect in custody while they await trial”
And in the end they decided upon letting her go…
Says Clarence Mitchell: “I would refer any fair-minded person to the fact that neither Kate or Gerry have been charged with any offence and there is one good reason for that - there is no evidence because they are not involved in any shape or form in their daughter’s abduction”
Madeleine McCann: The speculation, accusation and sensation
December 15th, 2007 at 10:01 am
1st
December 15th, 2007 at 10:03 am
999th.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Team McCann do appear to have run out spin this morning, with the main message in the media about KM being banged up if still in P, and the only counter being a re run of the Guardian story in the Sun
Are they running out of story lines to retread?
December 15th, 2007 at 10:06 am
“Says Clarence Mitchell: “… they are not involved in any shape or form in their daughter’s abduction”,”
1 The correct cliché is ‘in any way, shape or form’
2 I believe you are correct, Sir. They are not involved in their daughter’s abduction. She was not abducted.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:07 am
so here you all are
morning everyone!
December 15th, 2007 at 10:08 am
I thought that too peter mac
December 15th, 2007 at 10:08 am
3…naddo
“”"”Banged up”"”"….
Ah…the ever “motherly” Kate.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Good morning to each and every !!
December 15th, 2007 at 10:09 am
bar open yet matt?
December 15th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Sure is brandon….always open….virtually.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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Matt. Says:
December 15th, 2007 at 10:03 am
999th.
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Saddo!
December 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am
11…Garth
Bad mood again little one ?
December 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am
I hope you reserve the right to refuse certain people
December 15th, 2007 at 10:13 am
13…brandon flours
No bad language or foul play allowed.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:14 am
what with me and pige your best customers!!!!!
lol I thought that was compulsory
December 15th, 2007 at 10:14 am
PeterMac - Whatever. Bring in some real proof other than what you have read in the media. Theres nothing that is more sickening than someone who judges others when they dont know the facts. None of us do. Not me. Not you.
And people who really give a damn dont care about whether a cliche was said in the wrong sequence. Why does that matter? Is your mind so narrow? There is a small child missing, regardless of the hows and whys and if it was YOUR child or relative Im sure you would be saddened by comments like yours.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:15 am
15…brandon flours
Birdspeak is a language I can’t translate….so it’s safe 4 u.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:16 am
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Matt. Says:
December 15th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Sure is brandon….always open….virtually.
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I have reached the point where alcohol doesn’t help, but the Ghost of Christmas Past has passed out on the floor..
On the other hand I don’t have to go to Ikea today.
Or tomorrow…
December 15th, 2007 at 10:17 am
no new news then?
oh well must post all the ebay stuff in time for everyone
I feel like FC
December 15th, 2007 at 10:18 am
A no news day.
Should be restful then
December 15th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Ikea?
Hate the place
full of mc cann alikes
December 15th, 2007 at 10:19 am
17…chenier
A little bit of silver showing around that cloud then ?
Good.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:22 am
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brandon flours Says:
December 15th, 2007 at 10:17 am
no new news then?
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Er, no.
But I can offer an exciting range of used news with an impeccable servicing record and a substantiated history of extremely careful owners.
Metallic paint is an extra, unless it’s sprayed on Paris Hilton, in which case a crate of turps is included.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:23 am
According to o the Guardian (O’Donnel article) the ‘Doctors’ arrived at the bar one by one, the men first.
I got excited thinking this was an inconsistancy - until I realised she was alking about a different night. Still, it reconfirms that the ‘doctors’ regularly left the children and that this was being commented on the night before Madeleine went missing.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:23 am
chenier
have you been at the bar all night? lol
December 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am
morning everyone
Watched “its a wonderful life” last night, with james stewart. The guardian angel in that film is called Clarence, Described by his superiors as having “an IQ of a rabbit, but the faith of a child”. Sound like the clarence we know and love?
December 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Ian
If the pjs revert to just negligence
this will be evidence
December 15th, 2007 at 10:25 am
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Matt. Says:
December 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am
11…Garth
Bad mood again little one ?
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Who are you calling little one?
December 15th, 2007 at 10:25 am
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Matt. Says:
December 15th, 2007 at 10:19 am
17…chenier
A little bit of silver showing around that cloud then ?
Good.
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Quite so; I had failed to recognise that the aerial socket for the tv was in the wall which was knocked down.
Visions of popping round to the neighbours to inquire if we can borrow a cup of sugar and the use of their sofa for the duration…
December 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am
aaaah
every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings
Theres alot of till bells ringing