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THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE: 1 YEAR ON”
A year of headlines, sensation and speculation. A year of Watching The Parents.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “LIGHT A CANDLE FOPR OUR MADDIE”
And leave a chair empty at the dinner table, too? And when should the candle be lit?
“9:15 tonight… A YEAR ON”
Did you light a candle a year after 7/11, the end of the Falklands War, the Hillsborough disaster?
Did the Mirror forget to tell you to?
It is “A DAY TO PRAY”.
FIONA PHILLIPS: “A year ago today Madeleine McCann’s mummy and daddy, Kate and Gerry, became victims of the most colossal crime.”
Mummy and daddy… Are Mirror readers being asked to empathise with Madeleine? The fact is, it could. It could happen to any of us.
Grip hands tighter. Avoid Portugal. Spread the anxiety. The rare crime of a chid abduction, as Phillips supposes, might find a victim in your child.
I fill my car up with petrol and sometimes leave the children in the back when I go and pay for it. It could happen to me.
I’ve seen mums chatting to friends in supermarkets and on busy pavements while their children wander off. It could happen to them.
It happened to the McCanns in a child-friendly, family holiday village. It could happen to you.
YORKSHIRE POST: “The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has written a special prayer to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance.”
Church of England PR?
Father God, we pray for Madeleine McCann Keep her safe and take away her fear and anxiety May your holy angels guard and protect her We pray that she may be reunited with those who love her Give hope to all her loved ones And hear our cry for her safe return We offer our prayer in the name of the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord. Amen.
DAILY TELEGRPAH: “McCann haters - the lowest of the low”
SIMON HEFFER:
Just when one thinks one’s capacity for shock is exhausted, one reads some of the charming, expletive-rich comments sent to Kate and Gerry McCann in the last year since their daughter Madeleine evaporated in Portugal. I know some nutters are convinced they killed her, which I am equally convinced is balderdash: but what shocks me is that even those who accept that someone else abducted her cannot resist delving into the still-open wound the McCanns have, and attacking them for their supposed negligence on that evening last May.
I try to envisage the sense of smug satisfaction these people have when the letter is posted or the send button pressed on the email: but, despite a long study of human degeneracy, I simply can’t.
THE SCOTSMAN: “In the shadow of the bogeyman”
There is no such comfort for my children’s generation. They know the worst can happen because it did. The bogeyman came and took Madeleine from her bed. And for weeks on end they could not turn their heads nor take a breath without being reminded that he had. The press picked up our fear and shone it back at us.
THE GUARDIAN: “Services to mark year since Madeleine vanished”
His wife added: “It’s funny in some ways, because you kind of think it’s just another day, really, almost like a media landmark than anything else. But I think we’ve maybe underestimated it, and it’s probably more significant than we felt. I don’t think we’ll know until the morning really what feels right.”
NEWSWEEK: “TABLOID FODDER - One year after Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal, lurid reporting continues to cash in on her disappearance.
She’s so famous that she only needs one name: Maddie.
Or Maddy?
Her image—those trusting eyes, that innocent grin, the shiny blond hair—haunts Britons, who may think that by now, they’ve heard everything about Madeleine McCann, the young British girl who vanished from a holiday resort in Portugal’s Algarve one year ago Saturday. Her disappearance is probably the most intensely followed mystery in modern British history. Tabloid sales skyrocket with coverage of even the most minor details, which could be why Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of The Sun, has called it “the most significant story of my lifetime.”
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May 4th, 2008 at 11:28 am
568-val-I just can’t get my head round how anyone could dispose of a body and be sure noone would find it.
May 4th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Free2Contemplate Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showpost.php?p=349895&postcount=112
Link to the alleged version 2 of the intel report.
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What on earth does anybody make of this extraordinary link? It seems to have the object of making the McCs appear innocent victims in an unbelievably complicated interrnational paedophile intrigue.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I dont know if this will work but its a pic of sad,fragile,unhappy parents
http://sosmaddie.dhblogs.be/media/02/00/698c7fde8d8de9b1f3776e6fea378dd8.png
May 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/09/12/fury-as-vulcan-attacks-89520-19777325/
Fury as Vulcan attacks
By Bob Roberts Deputy Political Editor 12/09/2007
NO more sleuthing for today
May 4th, 2008 at 9:23 am
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccanns-uk-media-versus-portuguese.html
Have a look at the interviews
May 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am
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PeterMac Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Sky news this morning.
They want to drop out of the limelight, because keeping up this media pressure is “unsustainable”.
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Now that clarrie has been smacked,it makes their life more difficult: they do not have a buffon to express their feelings (if any) for them.
They are left “raw” ,fear is the only feeling they can show and they are doing a very bad job.
(I start feeling very very sorry,embarassed for them
The media are going to lash out now,following the last portuguese interview.Not nice
May 4th, 2008 at 9:04 am
356
sam Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
348
jo Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:41 pm
On sky news
Anger Over ‘Grotesque’ Madeleine Doll, 03 May 2008
Alex Watts, Sky News Online in Praia da Luz
jo, there’s an image of it here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563743&in_page_id=1770
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IMO The doll is a subliminal way of planting a more mature image in the public mind, thus making a 3 year old child appear less vulnerable if it comes to the parents being rightfully charged with child neglect. Perhaps there will be more adult dolls to come so the twins too appear much older than under two years when they were also left alone.
Tried to post this comment on the Daily Mail but it was rejected.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:02 am
588 wtf
I think you are spot on. The media are beginning to ask questions, and the McCs are beginning not to be able to answer them or to spin tham.
May 4th, 2008 at 8:05 am
587 petermac
good morning
Do you think the reason they want to step out of the spotlight is because there will be too many arkward questions now?
Could have sorn they said to sky the other day that they were making the most of media interest!!!!
May 4th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Sky news this morning.
They want to drop out of the limelight, because keeping up this media pressure is “unsustainable”.
Hooray.
They also want people to “Pray like mad”
Watch my lips.
1 IF there were a loving, benevolent, omnipotent God, Madeleine would still be with you.
and notwithstanding the above -
2 IF prayer worked, Madeleine would have been returned safe and well a long time ago
Ergo..
There isn’t, and it doesn’t.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:48 am
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=inBpfQRpZJU
May 4th, 2008 at 5:45 am
last.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:16 am
as I said earlier was Brunty right Gerry 10 o@clock check
from the McCann Files Jill, Renwick 7.00 am 4th May 2007
She said the parents went out about 8pm, checked on the children at 9pm and then when they “went back in at 10pm she was gone”.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:06 am
580
Thanks for that Joana, very informative.
Take care. x
May 4th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Too many cooks spoiled their broth!
May 4th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Translation of the video “Tapas Cook Breaks Silence and talks about the McCanns”
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/05/tapas-cook-breaks-silence-and-talks.html
All the Tapas employees working that night were sacked from the Ocean Club. The former cook from the Tapas Bar gives her story about what happened on that night. The McCanns never left the apartment after the alarm was raised. All the police, locals, and employees from the Tapas bar and Ocean Club never saw the Parents searching for their own daughter. More than 200 employees were interviewed by the PJ.
[Inside SIC Studio]
Journalist on Studio: And tomorrow, 3rd of May marks a year since Madeleine McCann disappeared. There in Praia da Luz, Maria João [name of the other Journalist], good evening, is there any ceremonial service predicted?
[Cut to journalist on location]
Maria João: Here, in the Ocean Club, no, nothing is going to happen here to mark the date, just a mass that will be done tomorrow at 18:30pm in the church of Luz. A bilingual mass which is going to mark one year since the disappearance of Maddie. In relation to the process, there are no new developments expected for the next few days. Only in the 15th the Judge of Criminal Instruction from Portimão’s Court is going to reassess if the process continues or not under Secrecy of Justice. It’s very likely that the process continues like in the last year. Who broke the silence, while we’re on the subject, were the Portuguese employees from the Tapas Bar, the restaurant where the couple McCann had dinner in the night of Maddie’s disappearance. Those 8 Portuguese employees didn’t see their contracts renewed this year. They were obliged in the last 12 months to be silent, forbidden to talk with journalists. Since they contracts were not renewed they decided to talk. SIC has spoken with the cook.
[Cut to medium shot of 2 people behind a tree]
Voice over Introduction: She doesn’t ‘show’ her face but a year later and without working in the Ocean Club, Manuela decided that she wasn’t obliged to the silence anymore. The cook [chef] who prepared a ‘Robalo’ [Snook fish/ Sargeant fish] with cuscus [signature dish of the Arab world] and the pepper steak meal the McCanns had to dinner in the night Maddie disappeared was in the griller area 3 meters away from the table of the couple.
[Shot of interior of the Ocean Club, focus on the Tapas Bar]
Manuela, the cook: They had already eaten the main course, [Cut to blurry image of a woman’s face, with a strong southern accent from Algarve], because it was already around 9:30pm when she gave the alarm.
Voice over: This former employee from the Tapas tells that immediately various colleagues left their work posts to help the searches. Meanwhile, in the hours that followed, during most of the time the McCanns stayed inside the apartment.
Manuela: My colleagues were indignated [angered/offended], because they went… One of them even had his feet all red, tired… and he was offended because he went to search though he wasn’t anything related to the girl, and the parents didn’t. [Cut to apartment] They stayed indoors, in the apartment.
[Various shots around the Ocean Club, archive footage of Police and Media]
Voice Over: A year ago, suddenly everything changed in the Ocean Club. The quiet resort, ideal for family holidays, was invaded by police and journalists.
Manuela: The Ocean Club, the Tapas turned into a pandemonium [chaos]. No one could get out, no one could get in. Even if we were married, our husbands couldn’t get in, neither our friends. Everything was surrounded… The security officers didn’t know the employees. They thought the employees were journalists. In the beginning everything was really complicated.
Voice Over: The Judiciary went in a full scale operation to Praia da Luz. For more than a month the investigators created a kind of headquarters in one of the apartments of the Ocean Club. All the employees from the resort were heard.
Manuela: They all went in two… in two hours by two hours, two [referring to the number of people –in pairs], during sometime. Close to a month. We were almost 200 employees.
Voice Over: Manuela remembers of seeing Madeleine sometimes.
Manuela: When the Parents would put her at the crèche, in the babysitters, the kitchen was next to it.
Journalist on location: How was Madeleine’s routine during those holidays? When she entered there, in the Ocean Club?
Manuela: She got in, was delivered to the babysitters. The babysitters would do a class; they would do a group course with the girls. Between 4pm and 4:30pm they had something to eat. In the morning they had a fruit lunch [breakfast?]… And then the parents would come to pick them up at 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
Journalist: In the middle of all those children do you remember Maddie?
Manuela: Because she entered there, she would wave goodbye, or say hello…She was really nice [lovely/polite]. She was always smiling.
Voice Over: After the disappearance of the girl, several family members of Kate and Gerry came to the Algarve.
Manuela: I remember that the family members instead of being worried with the family, would go to the pool, rented the tennis court, played tennis… Instead of being worried with the child that was disappeared!
Voice Over: The majority of the employees who was in the Tapas in the night of the Maddie’s disappearance as already left the resort.
Manuela: The contract ended and they sent us to unemployment.
Journalist: All the team that was in the Tapas that night?
Manuela: All the team that was there in that night.
Voice Over: After the disappearance of Maddie, the McCanns stayed in the Ocean Club for more 65 days. In July they moved to a house in the outskirts, away from the journalists eyes. It was there that they stayed until the 9 of September, the day that they went back to England.
Good Night to all/Boa Noite
May 4th, 2008 at 12:44 am
560 — Bounty Hunter
I posit that Madeleine McCann died after some kind of fall or blow to the head. I’m not defending the practice of sedating kids before bedtime, but from what I’ve read, it would take massive amounts of Calpol (or whatever) to kill a child. On the other hand, kids fall frequently. If Madeleine banged her head or fell down a flight os steps, her parents either would call 911…or kick off a coverup that from which there’d be no way to turn back.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:34 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_jT0LLGE50&feature=related
nite nite xx
May 4th, 2008 at 12:21 am
nite val
nite chatelaine
May 4th, 2008 at 12:18 am
nite jo
send an angel for madeleine
xxx
May 4th, 2008 at 12:16 am
jo
no wonder they do not want to return
not so popular over yonder…
May 4th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Good night Bounty, Bâtman, Jo, Puzzled, Pat, Val et al
Tomorrow is another day.
Sleep well
[Should I mention the silken sheets...?]
May 4th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Jo, Pat and Puzzled,
Goodnight to you, expect more info to follow, plus the Press Reports on today”s
events.
sleep well
May 4th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Good night all
Must go,my eyes are killing me
Sleep well
xxxxx
Madeleine,your are in our hearts
Truth and justice will be made to you
Love
Jo
May 4th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Back from PDL
Not a new link,nor breaking news.Just “revising” some stuff
Why are the mccanns arguidos
“The mayor of Praia da Luz accused the couple of “extreme negligence” and said they should never have been allowed to leave Portugal”
How dare this sardine muncher comment on childcare and legal aspects of a criminal investigation?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=501553&in_page_id=1770
May 4th, 2008 at 12:05 am
goodnight bounty hunter
May 4th, 2008 at 12:04 am
goodnight all fellow naughty ones, sleep well, only 12 days to the 15th.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:01 am
batman
the new word is ‘evaporated’ :loll:
and they did not take a buggy ! with three little kids
Goodnight will see you soon.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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bounty hunter Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
JO
Both of us noticed that little urnlike thingy around the neck. making a statement ?
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Bounty
Ouch!
M & A just gave me a smack around the neck because of my post on ….ejem…the burning topic .
Shall we just drop it?
(Look up at my post and jj edited it )
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
541 Batman/542 Bounty Hunter
I don”t believe Madeleine is alive and think her death was accidental. More than likely the body was buried in haste because the Tapas 9 , being Proffessional People did not
want to be seen as negligent parents and agreed a cover up.
Because of the unprecedented WorldWide attention received throught the PR spin,money rolling in etc, the McCanns had to go along with it and now believe in their own innocence!!!!!!!!! It”s the only thing that makes sense and because there is no body, it would be very difficult to go to trial. The reason they are reluctant to return
to Portugal is the fear of being charged with negligence and having to face the resentment of the Portugese in general and the Residents of PDL in particular. On 14th
May, Murat will have been an arguido for one year. Apparently the Prosecutor, a Judge
and the PJ will meet to decide what to do and I think the case will be shelved.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 pm
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pat Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
jo
your still here
the other two hounds have been scent off
:lol:
trying to find out where on earth I read clarrie and J.McGuiness were in PDL or not.I am stuck on that one , it could explain a few things 
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Excellent!
Back sleuthing
Also,I find it very strange not to hear anything at all about these 2 being questioned when and where.When the PJ was in the UK?