Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s Diary, The Maddy Catty And Portugal’s A Banana Republic
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: “Police want Kate’s diary”
“COPS moved closer to charging the parents of Madeleine McCann last night after demanding mum Kate’s diary be seized as trial evidence”
The police want the original, having copied it once and handed it back to Kate McCann. The court only considers original documents
“Cardiologist Gerry, 39, is said to be portrayed as an absent dad happy to leave his wife to shoulder the burden while he relaxed on holiday”
A cardiologist. Kate is a “GP”. Such are the facts
A source close to the family says: “The McCanns fear the police want to show a judge they are in position to move the case forward”
DAILY MAIL: “Portuguese police want to seize Madeleine’s Cuddle Cat again”
“Police in Portugal have begun a fresh trawl for evidence which could incriminate Gerry and Kate McCann. Among the items they are said to want to seize is their missing daughter Madeleine’s Cuddle Cat toy, which was examined by forensic teams in the summer. They have also demanded Mrs McCann’s diary”
Why a diary?
“She was advised by a trauma counsellor to keep a journal and to include the days before Madeleine vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3”
The police: “They have suggested the toy was cleaned to destroy any potential DNA evidence, such as blood. Mrs McCann said it had simply become too grubby”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Don’t go to Portugal for your holiday”
Writes Simon Heffer: “I think it is time that the British people showed yet more solidarity with Gerry and Kate McCann, who have been named by the Portuguese police as the main suspects in the presumed murder of their daughter. If the McCanns killed Madeleine, then I am Barack Obama”
Well…
“The utterly useless Portuguese police have nowhere else to go, because their initial bungling of the investigation has robbed them of vital clues. It is deeply unpleasant of them to try to scapegoat the child’s grieving parents to try to concoct for themselves an impression of competence
“Portugal has revealed itself to be little more than a banana republic through the handling of this case. Whether you have small children or not, you would be mad even to think of having a holiday there”
Portugal is Britain’s oldest ally – or was…
THE INDEPENDENT: “Deborah Orr: The dark deeds that fire the imagination”
“Likewise, the terrible fascination with the Madeleine McCann case can be viewed, with some validity, as collective wish-fulfilment. There is no substantive evidence of murder, but there is a strong undertow of longing all the same for the culprit to turn out to be someone of the professional class living a respectable life somewhere in the suburbs”
Orr quotes form George Orwell’s 1946 essay The Decline of the English Murder: The murderer should be a little man of the professional class – a dentist or a solicitor, say – living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs, and preferably in a semi-detached house, which will allow the neighbours to hear suspicious sounds through the wall … He should go astray through cherishing a guilty passion for his secretary or for the wife of a rival professional man, and should only bring himself to the point of murder after long and terrible wrestles with his conscience. Having decided on murder, he should plan it all with the utmost cunning, and only slip up over some tiny unforeseeable detail. The means chosen should, of course, be poison”
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June 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
By the way, every time this is on the news I get enquries for my holiday accom in Luz, which I rent out - this morning I got a booking which completes the summer.
so people are still keen to holiday in Luz, as I am myself.
Beautiful place and fantastic people. Very non-judgemental on this whole issue and not inclined to gossip, which I’m sure annoys the tabloids….
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
Interesting to see the photo conversatino going again. I’ve looked at them and in my opinion the elbow is missing in the church photo.
Why? The church photo may be from a newspaper - I think the star published this version - and maybe they airbrushed Gerry’s elbow out. Reasonable explanation i would have thought. So I suggest they let us k now, so that we can get rid of this speculation.
If they don’t of course, we will con tinue to speculate.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
“The utterly useless Portuguese police have nowhere else to go, because their initial bungling of the investigation has robbed them of vital clues. It is deeply unpleasant of them to try to scapegoat the child’s grieving parents to try to concoct for themselves an impression of competence … this is a quote from( simon heffer)
and i couldnt agree with him more…
January 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
If the PJ had enough amassed enough proof/evidence (?) to charge Kate & Gerry I feel certain they would not ammounce it to the Press first!
January 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Well he was a bit harsh on the Portuguese. I don’t think that they’re exactly utterly useless, just not used to dealing with stuff as important as kidnapping. I do believe thought that they are just trying to do enought to get by, and that seems to include convicting an innocent couple.
Madeleine is missing and the police seem to want to find a murderer rather than look for the little girl. If you ask me, we’re gonna have enough time to find a murderer once we find a body. There is a chance she is still alive and they are wasting precious time.
If they do charge the McCanns I dont know how well that will work out since there is NO SOLID EVIDENCE.
Its the police’s fault there is no evidence anyway, treating DNA and a crime scene like that!
January 6th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
i have never heared such crap .
i honestly thought intelligent debate was truly dead in this tabloid obsessed world and the members of this forum have proved me right.
however it is a fine example of human nature at its worst.
January 6th, 2008 at 7:10 am
An observer
Thanks.
If Madeleine was by the pool on the 2nd then there would be independent witnesses to confirm it - if she wasn’t then a photo wouldn’t be enough to convince a jury either way.
Also, one photo doesn’t mean she didn’t die later on the 2nd - so maybe the dispute is a waste of energy?
January 6th, 2008 at 6:07 am
karen,
there is a school of thought that MM’s last day on this earth was the 2nd may not the 3rd.
the non MC evidence supporting MM’s existence on 3rd may is the so called last photo at the pool and the alleged sighting by oldfield during one of the checks on the 3rd. (the statement by nannie catriona roundtree that she saw MM on the 3rd does not seem credible in the opinions of many. i believe their is no record in the public domain what the other nannie (baker?) may have said about sightings on the 3rd may.
some posters, not all, believe the church photo appears to be the same as the last photo minus GM and one of the twins. the inference is one of the photos must be a fake.
January 6th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Why is everyone going on about photos?
What difference would it make if the photos were real or fake or what day they were taken on?
Photos are unlikely to be part of the PJs case.
January 6th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Senior detctives say there is enough evidence to make arrest and charges but negotiations in place to ensure delays. Quelle surprise! How many have people not slept this week? Watch-makers in Japan could end up in this illusory muddle coz docs don’t seem to be able to tell the time. Opticians could be implicated coz they couldn’t remember who was already sat at the table when they aeach arrived. One couple are bickering about who arrived at one particular time.
My eye-sight’s atrocious but one of the detectives thinks that JT’s partner looks a lot like RM. Except for the height. A lot of witnesses have placed RM at the scene. The police have peculiar evidence to PROVE he wasn’t but that somebody who looks a lot like him was there. So what about that then? Who the f*ck looks like RM? My eye-sight’s too bad to work it out. His status is an extension due to fear of him going to the media - allegedly.
The McCs are considering leaving the country - eventually - and have no wish to be rcognised. Like Marlene Dietrich they want to be left alone. Somebody who should know has decided the rest of the negligentt crew are going to be pressured as a job-lot on ‘negligence’ with a 3yr holiday ahead, they are hoping that five of the First Among Equals will decide that it’s just not worth being rogered on a daily basis in a female or male way.
January 6th, 2008 at 5:05 am
CM in serious negotiation this past few days. Is somebody watching the Defence team? Well, not all of them - we would not have the time to watch all of them lol CM hardly slept this week. And ….. They are not all using the same briefs. Quelle surprise! Sacre bleueeee! Merte! Mort! Bete noir/e?
No I have not got a French Connection if MI5 are reading this again lol
January 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am
HELP! ADMIN HELP!
Just tried to put another post in and a message jumped up saying there was an error and a message saying ‘You have already said that’ Where did that message come from? MI6?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
?????????????????
Never heard of that before.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Stevo,
Sorry to return to this issue, but I feel very strongly about this particular one!
Regarding the Altar photo, I have done my own analysis/enlargement/zoom and there is an elbow (above the horizontal shadow-line projected along the mortar joint of the rock, which is at about the same level of the edge of the brim of Maddie’s hat). One can also see shadow on the underside of the elbow. You can also see the difference in colour between the rock in the background and the skin (more pinkish) colour. It is definitely there!
You can disagree with me, but you will not convince me!
January 6th, 2008 at 4:53 am
If my only voice was my daily blog I would be poring my f*cking heart out making the public see how much I cared about my daughter and how I
January 6th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Hi Cheryl!
You are not a fence-sitter! I understand your want of a fair trial. However, Madeleine like many millions of childdren before her has no voice.
The Brits have a peculiar legal system derived from various different cultures and religions that have inhabited the place.
However! When people of a certain stature who know people in power who rule the World and have drug connections through stocks and shares and companies and committees not to mention plenty of money pay for blind eyes and blind spots.
Jack the Ripper, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenet to mention more memorable cases. Educated middle-classes are manipulated by the CMs of the World.
Do you remember the story tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes? The one about the Emperor who made himself look like a tw*t when he wandered the streets stark-bollock naked? Everybody said how beautiful the clothes were and made tw*ts of themselves and everybody else around them. It took a working-class oick or a BALDRICK (Blackadder BBC) type to point this out.
Some educated middle-class types will have to carry on their support of the McCs purely because of The Emperors New Clothes spin. The anti-McCs are throwing you a line here and you are eating the bait and avoiding the hook. How?
Being in the public-eye ensures an even fairer trial than they could envisage. It will be like Diana’s inquest!
Whispers going around yesterday that the extradition lawyer’s getting a tad twitchy since Thursday night! Dare he pass them on to an underling for the forseeable future? Watch and wait.
Hot potatoes anyone?
January 6th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Ian, for what it is worth since I believe you think I have no thoughts on this case, I do have thoughts and several theories on what could have happened to that young child. In fact, last night (which would have been the site prior to this one) I posted a missive to Coco telling her some of my thoughts. However, you’ll please understand my stand that I have seen so much on here said then embellished upon, then embellished further twisted with anothers version added on, that soon one does not even recognize the first statement made and it then becomes ‘bible’ in the witch hunt on here. I will not be a party - beit through anything even said after giving long thought - to those people’s right to a fair trial being infringed upon, if it comes to a trial of any kind in a court of law, nor be party to a smear campaign that will stay with them the rest of their lives.
January 6th, 2008 at 4:05 am
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firestar
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willo Says:
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I have to agree with you two. The church photo looked like a scan from a magazine with some sloppy clonning to cover the elbow and top of Amelie’s hat, so that M would be more portrait style. It looked like an amateurish but well intended attempt to make an artistic poster.
But, I still believe the “last photo” was one of the first photos taken on vacation and the McCanns deliberately changed the date and lied to the police about it to try to prove M was still around at that time.
I don’t know of anyone who saw M at the pool and only one nanny who said the saw Kate at the pool at the key times.
January 6th, 2008 at 3:44 am
The last photo :
The honesty of the pool photo was questioned many weeks ago and big discissions were had on its validity.
The investigation by anorak contributors was thorough but the end result was as usual just supposition with arguments for and against photo manipulation. This investigation of the photo could well have been started by the McCanns statement that the time on the photo was wrong and was taken at a different time. Shadow measurements, solar timetables and the like were thrown on to the forum to prove that the picture was indeed manipulated.
So now we have the same image of Madeleine found elsewhere with proof that one of the copies has been tampered with. My thinking is that if the McCann clan read this forum thay would have had ample opportunity to announce that the picture in the church had been altered to remove an offending elbow. It does make sense to do that. It makes the image of Madeleine stand out more and the viewer would focus more on her image the with the least background distractions. Obviously the picture is important to them and a simple clarification would have been easy. But now it looks sinister.
To me it looks like the blurred copy is the original as it was the earliest released.
Does anyone know if the church copy is blurred or is it just the photo taken of it blurred?
Gerry, as pointed out could have stepped quickly out of the picture taking his other child with him, thus leaving Madeleine alone. But why hasn’t this stated by the McCanns? They placed a lot of emphasis on this photo even though it took a few weeks to be released. To clear up any potential conspiracy theories you think the McCann camp would, if innocent, realised the confusion such discrepancies could cause and would have endeavoured to counter them before they arose.
A theory starting to grow on me is that CM is the 10th tapas guy.
Has any investigation been done to place Clarrie anywhere near the McCanns on that fateful week?
Has any connection been found between Richard Branson and CM?
Did Virgin Airlines fly the family back and forth from Portugal at anytime? And does Richard Branson get preferential customs treatment?
I worked on border control in Auckland a few years back and even though NZ is relatively corruption free, certain famous people get favours. As do heads of state etc. I serched and caught a member of a Kings entourage bring in 1000’s of cigarettes but was told to turn a blind eye. No diplomatic scenes wanted. Yet Joe public gets hammered for a sly carton!!
IMO the McCanns sphincters will be twitching a little more in the next few days.
January 6th, 2008 at 3:37 am
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Can’t say No Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 2:42 am
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Ian
Of course they’ll not co-operate .They never did that ,and never will
They have everything to lose
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You are wrong - they don’t cooperate they truly do have everything to lose! They cooperated before - they turned over copies of Mrs. McCanns diary when asked (and they were only asked for a copy if you’ll recall); turned over cuddle cat for forensic testing when asked before. Why should they not do the same now? Frankly, if they are doing a ‘charade’ or a con job best not stop it now by refusing to cooperate at this point - that could seal their fate!
January 6th, 2008 at 3:30 am
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Can’t say No Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 2:23 am
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Jane
the ” Correio da manhã ” article” confused me
I think ,at this stage the only “leaks” from the P.J. ,are only to play with the mccs , if there are “leaks”
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I truly don’t think there are any ‘leaks’ just speculations taking place if for no other reason than to sell papers. The new Investigator they assigned to the case is a total professional and I would be quite surprised if he even permitted his staff to dare discuss this case outside of the office.
January 6th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Hi Guys!
‘ SHOW US THE BODY!’ or ‘WHERE’S THE BODY?’ With equally shocking gesticulaive gesture WAS NOT JUST A HEADLINE. I will put my job on the line for this!!!
SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE MUST HAVE THIS ON VIDEO! PLEASE HELP BY PUTTING IT ON HERE. THANKS.
KMcC did say either, ‘ Where’s the body!?’ or ‘Show us the body!’ She said it in an interview where she was sat on a couch with GMcC. I think it was the Spanish TV interview with a well-respected interviewer. Although I have found the interview that I thought she said it on - it appears that this bit has been edited by the powers that be - ie possibly by somebody who works for some editorial intelligence agency putting a gagging order on some important others………….????????????
When she actually said it I re-watched it on You-tube but now I am buggered if I can find it. It was one of THE most cocky, arrogant things KMcC has ever uttered! I was sure that public opinion would sway totally against them in that instant - and obviously CmMthought the same thing!!!
Jet-lagged again but will try and get up to speed on today’s posts.
The milk is believed to be on the turn in Devon due to very sour faces so let’s see where the reporters are hanging out in the next couple of weeks!!!! lol
January 6th, 2008 at 3:19 am
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Ian Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Well, must to bed.
To sleep off all the nonsense,
‘Fence sitters’ (supporters of the McNeglectors) said.
Night real sleuthers, up yours McNeglector supporters.
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Ian, you are a bully and that will get you no where - even in life. Sorry you think you are the one with the only brains on here but you are not. We all have a mind of our own and entitled to use it. And entitled to say what we think or do not think. No, a fence sitter is not a pro-McCann - a fence sitter is one who says there are two sides to every story and will wait for the Investigators to tell the whole story which will be based on FACTS, that they will find in their investigation, and thus I shall believe ONLY what they tell me that is based on found facts from evidence which only they have and/or are gathering.
January 6th, 2008 at 3:09 am
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Jane Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 2:26 am
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Cheryl Says:
Another explanation I thought and gave was it was a second picture taken immediately after the one with an elbow in it. That was a very cute picture of her and whoever was taking it could have quickly told the adult standing there to move quickly away and snapped it again. That I myself have done taking pics and then want just one of my child alone with nothing else or anyone else in it.
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Another excellent point, Cheryl. Don’t let Ian bully you with his ‘you should be ashamed’ postings. If anyone should be ashamed it’s Ian - his strange jokes about Madeleine’s disappearance and this case chill me to the bone. Just how much authenticity is there to Ian’s alleged moral outrage and how much of it is bogus? He seems to me to protest and joke too much about this tragedy for his outrage to be real.
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Jane, no one bullies me - I have my own mind and I use it accordingly. I’ve never budged from my stand they committed Neglect in leaving those wee ones alone. Over here the others would have been removed immediately for minimum of 30 days pending a ‘home’ investigation - that is law where I live in my county. But obviously laws over there are much more laxed or non-existent. However, as for any other involvement they may have had in her disappearance that is for the Investigators to find out. Ian is the one who said they never deserve to live a normal life. That is not true and shows the kind of person he is inside and those are the ones who make one uneasy to be around even in the workplace.
They will pay for their Neglect, if not legally because of no laws, they will pay in their minds and hearts the rest of their lives. There is a legal system that if they are to be punished under the law then it will be.
January 6th, 2008 at 3:01 am
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Ian Says:
1051 Jane
If I were a bully, then as long as I was bullying people supporting child neglect and abuse as you and your ‘friends’ do then I’d be proud to be a bully!
Ian said:
Ian 1053 Maria…. - her posts make my skin
Ian 1030 Cheryl…You should be ashamed of yourself sitting on the fence
Ian 1054 Maria, I’m sorry about this but your posts really make my skin crawl!
Ian 980 Cheryl…Please apply some common sense and realism
Ian 1030 Cheryl…Whats the point of sitting on the fence…If thats the case, what the heck
are you doing here at all?
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Come now, Ian, from the above and your many other attempts to intimidate and ridicule other posters, it’s clear that you don’t need an excuse for trying to intimidate, belittle and bully others, you enjoy doing it.
Bullying - women in particular, it seems, since you so often home in on us - gives you the sort of ego buzz you desperately need.
You know what they say about bullies - insecure cowards.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Well, must to bed.
To sleep off all the nonsense,
‘Fence sitters’ (supporters of the McNeglectors) said.
Night real sleuthers, up yours McNeglector supporters.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:42 am
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Ian
Of course they’ll not co-operate .They never did that ,and never will
They have everything to lose
January 6th, 2008 at 2:40 am
I never understand why people get angry here
We can do nothing
January 6th, 2008 at 2:39 am
1060 Can’t say No
Lets see if they do co-operate and hand things over then shall we! Actions speka a hell of a lot louder than words and the McCanns are still hiding in the UK, even with their extensive legal team!
They werent involved in the abduction of Madeleine - I agree, as she wasnt actually abducted was she!
January 6th, 2008 at 2:39 am
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Can’t say No Says
How many of these so called witnesses are genuine?
The woman collecting for the Maddie appeal but keeping the money springs to mind - con artists.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Ian
Not, that I was saying you’re a pain in the arse, you haven’t bothered me at all.
No one has since Maura.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:38 am
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Ian
Calm down
No point to get angry
Afterall ,there is nothing we can
Zero ,niente ,nada
This all affair ,will remain in the dark