Madeleine McCann: The Sangria 7 And Introducing The McCanns’ Lawyers
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
GLASGOW DAILY RECORD: “POLICE FLYING IN TO QUIZ TAPAS 7”
The Sangria 7. It’s the Tapas 9.
Detective Superintendent Stuart Prior, who heads the British arm of the probe, is likely to lead the interviews. Police chief Paulo Rebelo, the man in charge of the investigation, is also likely to make the high-profile trip to Britain.
Detectives want to clear up any “inconsistencies” in the group’s stories about what happened the night Madeleine went missing.
Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell:
“Kate and Gerry and their friends see this as an important chance to help the police. The friends are more than happy to co-operate as are Kate and Gerry although, in this case, the couple will not be interviewed. We hope that the police will realise there is no evidence to link Kate and Gerry with Madeleine’s disappearance in any way and that they will be rapidly eliminated from the inquiry.”
THE GUARDIAN: “Tapas Seven in new McCann interviews”
The group - three couples, Matthew and Rachael Oldfield, Fiona and David Payne, Russell O’Brien and Jane Tanner, plus Dianne Webster, Ms Payne’s mother - have vociferously defended the McCanns against suggestions that they might have been involved in their daughter’s disappearance.
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS: “Driven to succeed”
Meeting Edward Smethurst. Getting to know the lawyers:
He is also a highly-respected lawyer who works as legal director at entrepreneur Brian Kennedy’s Latium Group. Mr Kennedy is the main backer of Kate and Gerry McCann in the fight to find their daughter Madeleine. As the family’s legal co-ordinator, Edward played a pivotal role in securing £550,000 in libel damages from Express Newspapers. He also directs the legal teams in the UK and runs a team of private investigators searching for Madeleine.
Edward says: “My role is to oversee the teams. I am not a libel lawyer and left that to the team from Carter-Ruck who secured a huge settlement as well as an unprecedented front page apology after the newspapers printed highly defamatory articles about Gerry and Kate McCann. I am also on the board of the Madeleine Fund - No Stone Unturned. It is an extremely high profile case and every effort is being made to find Madeleine.”
Madeleine McCann: Making names and making news
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April 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
876 Carmen
Thanks Carmen.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 am
That’s because they’re all on the new thread Lyn!
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 am
Just testing. All is quiet on Anorak.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Karen
859
Canongate?
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
872 Ann
And, in a separate room away from Gerry and anyone else who may….cough!
Then, of course, the eternal question we all want to know, where is Madeleine?
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
869
lyn Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 am
868 Ann
What on earth are the questions going to be?
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Well I think we here, all know a lot of things we would like to ask them which do not require a lot of thinking about !! The most basic things I can assure you but it will be interesting to hear what other questions the Police and the PJ want to put to them, and let’s hope they are all interviewed completely separately, no Gerry sitting there clinging on the Kate’s hand so he can “.,..one sqeeze for yes and two for no ” type of thing and I hope the interviewers tie them up in knots, verbally that is….
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
870 coco
Brilliant!
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
Only Garth will understand what happened to me yesterday.
I came back from the little bistro just round the corner from my house at approximately 3 30pm and I could not believe what had happened.
My 3 yr old daughter was missing. I had tied her to the radiator with duct tape. I looked across the room to the cot and there was a big alien with a half-eaten twin hanging out of the side of its mouth. Gross!
Then I noticed that the other twin was not in the cot!
My children have been eaten by aliens.
This is not going to look good at work! My mortgage is huge! I am of high standing in the community! I never believed in aliens before.
F*ck! I have been up all night cleaning up the mess with my friends and pondering what to do. I have noticed people walking about on my street looking in the windows sometimes. Watching.
Have they seen a window of opportunity? And my friend said that there was man who looked like a big egg on legs wearing a jacket and my friend thought she had seen him at 2pm but then later thought it must have been nearer to 3pm.
Surely, I am better off saying that I think the children have been abducted than admit that I know aliens have eaten them!?
I have sworn my girlfriends to serecy about this matter because it could have happened to any single one of us. We are in this for the long haul.
I have only just realised that one of my mate’s partners looks a bit like the guy who runs the local estate agent whom she has already described to the police.
It’s never ending …… If only I had admitted that the aliens had been snacking on my kids and that’s why there’s a bit of DNA here and there.
Anyhow, if you don’t see me on here for a while - it’s because somebody on Anorak has shared this secret with the powers that be.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 am
868 Ann
What on earth are the questions going to be? Right now, if there has been a conspiracy the phones will be running hot with last minute chats on what each has to say!!It is a wonder their phones are not bugged. Questions would be better asked straight outright and then see the response.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 am
If questions are now going to be asked of the McCs and their sidekicks, perhaps Anorak should send a list of suggestions to the Leics Police, pending the visit of the PJ, since, by prolonged and vigourous debating amongst ourselves, we have now found some very valid points which need explanation ? They might not have thought of everything you know….
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 am
All holiday complexes are security risks on their own with holiday makers coming and going, and who knows who they are. Thieves are rampant as well. Perhaps someone was with Maddy and the twins, and something went wrong. Perhaps someone was with Maddy who should not have been with her.Coul this be it. Panic all round when realization all had gone wrong. IMO
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:01 am
BOUNTYHUNTER:
Have just had a quick review of yeaterday’s rantings! Thanks for the support. However I wasn’t banned from Anorak. I was just warned by one poster via another that I was boring or something.
However I was most encouraged to see a post by Marvilha who had taken up something I mentioned before lunchtime about JT jumping into the spotlight. I am most concerned about the timelines more than anything else.
I am concerned that nobody knows who was already sat at the dinner table as and when certain other members of the group arrived.
We should also be concerned about the fact that if regular checks were being made, why would they all be trotting up and down this very safe complex albeit allegedly a crime hotspot wherein various people living there and holidaying there have since told us of countless break-ins and people with keys allegedly diving in and out of the apartments.
Should not the owners of the complex have told the residents to be on alert?
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 am
863 - Karen
++++++++++++++++++++
Too right!
Own currency, education, legal system, parliament
Separate representation in Sport/Athletic competitions - Fifa World Cup, Six Nations Rugby, Commonwealth Games.
You tell him, girl !!!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 am
McCanns: Secrecy of Justice up to August
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/04/mccanns-secrecy-of-justice-up-to-august.html
If there was no understanding of when the period began to count in September, the secrecy of justice would be lifted in April, but having this agreement the secrecy in the process will only end in August. “In declarations, to the CM, Rogério Alves, lawyer of the McCanns, contradicts the news circulating yesterday in the UK press, according to which the process of the inquiry to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from Praia da Luz, in the 3rd of May of last year, would be available for consultation after the 14th of April.
“It is out of question”, said also to the CM a source close to the investigation. According to several English newspapers, quoting an interview of Rogério Alves to the news agency Associated Press [you can read his interview and see the differences in the UK tabloids for yourself], the former bar of the Order of the Lawyers, would have informed his clients that they might try the consultation to the process from the 14th of April. “What I speak with my clients I do not speak in public “, said to the CM Rogério Alves, explaining that “the secrecy will only be lifted in August”.
In the count down for the investigations to the friends who were on vacation with the McCanns in the Praia da Luz, predicted to begin day 8 of this month, in Leicester and in the presence of elements of the PJ , Rogério Alves also said to the CM: “I was not notified of anything, neither were my clients.” Kate and Gerry, who are preparing a documentary to be exhibited on the 30th of April, about an alert system for missing children, might not be, for the moment, questioned by the police.
Source: Correio da Manhã
Maybe, and knowing for a fact that Team McCann spin has previously ‘modified’ what people say, like Mr. Alípio Ribeiro comments, and others, Mr. Rogério Alves should take the advice given to Hugo Chávez by His Majesty Juan Carlos, the King of Spain: ¿Por qué no te callas? [Why don't you Shut Up?]
Yesterday, once again spinning, Clarence Mitchell had this to say:
Clarence Mitchell, the couple’s spokesman, welcomed the lawyer’s comments and called for the arguido status to be lifted.
Mr Mitchell said: “We would hope that the police will do the decent and proper thing and open up the files.”
“I would go further than that, and say once they have completed the interviews with the friends, they should go back to Portugal and assess the evidence and eliminate Kate and Gerry and allow everyone once again to concentrate on the search for Madeleine.”
“Kate and Gerry and their friends have long expected this visit by Portuguese police officers.”
“It comes as no surprise to them at all that some reports in the Portuguese papers in the last few days have been speculating about the arrival date.”
” I am not in a position to confirm any dates or give any details about the re-interviewing of the friends and all matters will have to go to Leicestershire police to be dealt with.”
“However, Kate and Gerry and their friends welcome the police interviews. The friends are more than happy to co-operate fully, as are Kate and Gerry, although in this case Kate and Gerry will not be re-interviewed.”
” This has not been requested but Kate and Gerry would have agreed to answer any questions had they police wished to put anything to them.
” There were some reports from Portugal last week that police were not going the question Kate and Gerry because they thought they would not co-operate. This is utterly ridiculous and completely baseless.”
“Kate and Gerry and their friends see this as an important chance to help the police.”
” We hope that the police will realise that there is no evidence to link Kate and Gerry with Madeleine’s disappearance in any way and that they will be rapidly eliminated from the inquiry and the arguido status, which was imposed too hastily as the head of the Portuguese admitted, will be lifted as soon as possible”
Source: The UK Tabloids, Sky News aka the McCann’s Media
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:47 am
Stevo
Scottish is a nationality.
Don’t make us invade America just to slap you about.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 am
Who is asking leading questions???
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 am
Where are the journalist sleuths - an important question could be - are the McCanns Maddy’s natural parents? Why hasn’t this been sorted out by now. Maddy was small for her age was she. Too much for the mother? Sent back was she, then the plan hatched for the makeamemoney scheme! IMO hope the PJ have pertinent questions to ask several of the tappas 7/9/10.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 am
Dear Anorakees,
is it just me or is anyone else noticing that someone posting seemingly throughout the day is asking some very leading questions??
answer by all means but be tactful. and watch your wallet.
Mudz
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 am
Coolandcalm
I got called away this evening and couldn’t answer your post.
I am doing some work in a publishing firm (not DCT though) - it’s an Edinburgh based firm that mostly reprints forgotten classics. It’s not every day and it’s not part of my course. I’m getting some experience for my CV. I got the job through a friend who is an agent at MBA (and knows the owner).
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 am
Grande Finale
I agree. You turn to the Church after all other avenues have failed. It’s like being in a car crash and going to a Priest before going to the hospital.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 am
855
Ferdinand Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 am
850 brandon flours Says:
“ferdinand
networking favours?”
It makes no sense to call Sky news at night. You should better look for her if she’d wandered off, and of course call the police. Unless the call was planned, and someone gave it away by calling too early.
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I reckon their time could have been a lot better spent, looking for Madeleine rather than a Catholic priest that fatefull night !
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 am
Tanner the planner ? Yes maybe…….. didn’t quite count on Eddie though !
Good boy choccie drops would be in order I think
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 am
850 brandon flours Says:
“ferdinand
networking favours?”
It makes no sense to call Sky news at night. You should better look for her if she’d wandered off, and of course call the police. Unless the call was planned, and someone gave it away by calling too early.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 am
Night ferdinand
I think i like to dally with your version occasionally because it means she could be alive and her parents will still suffer!
xxxxx
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 am
The blond cute factor/ the hype frenzy factor/the ripper factor/the uk middle class factors/ the money factor??????
It always comes back to money
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:28 am
Must sleep about that.
Good night all.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
amber alerts by ringing all your contacts?
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 am
ferdinand
networking favours?
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 am
OK, I could understand that if you happen to have friends who are capable to organise a campaign, then they will organise it. You can hardly refuse their help. But why would Sky news bring such a story within hours? Only on Mrs. Tanner’s or somebody similar’s request?
I just try to imagine if I now heard in the radio that a tourist child has gone missing in Greece two hours ago, I would think exactly the same as this poster I cited.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 am
GF
I am starting to think they staged their August status now by planting evidence to sue at a later date!
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
Well it does add another light to her character and to the brainstorming events of the 2nd May 2007
The others were just dopey doctors after all