Madeleine McCann: Inside The Flat, New Clues And Bad Parents
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
NEWS OF THE WORLD (front page): “MADDIE”
More?
“WORLD EXCLUSIVE: FIRST PICTURES INSIDE FLAT”
“Maddie’s bedroom”; “front door” – the flat from Madeleine McCann supposedly went missing is for hire, and the NOTW has been to look it over.
Has the NOTW turned into a holiday brochure, got into the timeshare game?
Now the rest of the flat has been redecorated and is ready to welcome more holidaying families to Portugal.
Can the flat be rented by the minute, and because of its history does it come with a surcharge? For now, the paper wants to show readers “How fiend could have kept out of sight”.
Our detailed survey of the flat reveals a host of places Maddie’s abductor could have hidden when it’s most likely he was almost caught in the act by dad Gerry as he checked on her and twins, Sean and Amelie, at 9.05pm on May 3 last year…
Details. You have noted the door and the bedroom. Now look at the inside of a “WARDROBE”.
But our on-site reconstruction proves that if the kidnapper was already in the flat, as the McCanns fear, he had a full TEN SECONDS to conceal himself after hearing Gerry open the patio doors and enter the apartment.
Although if Gerry McCann moved slower than the NOTW’s estimated speed of 2.34 mph, the kidnapper might have had ELEVEN seconds, or perhaps even TWELVE seconds to hide.
But where to hide?
And he had no fewer than FOUR boltholes to choose from—behind Madeleine’s BEDROOM DOOR, inside her roomy WARDROBE, in her parents’ nearby BEDROOM or in the family BATHROOM.
What about under the BEDS, behind the CURTAINS, on the CEILING or in the SHOWER? Or in the BED?
If one year on, the News of the World found clues, surely the detectives could have established more AT THE TIME?
Clues. the NOTW has found doors and rooms. In one year of tabloid tales, much has been established.
The stillness and silence of the apartment now is just as it would have been after the McCanns left the children asleep in bed that fateful night.
All that can heard is the gentle click, click click of cameras, the sound of a reporter scrambling for a story and the trace of last night’s prawns in garlic butter…
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Summer sun brings out first Bad Parent story”
“It’s hard to resist a little pain-free moral gloating sometimes, writes Eilis O’Hanlon.”
Like the first cuckoo of spring, the sighting of the first Bad Parent story of the summer is always a heartwarming, life-affirming event; and by a happy coincidence, the latest incarnation of this media phenomenon arrived bang on time, just as the weather started to hot up and our thoughts turned sunwards. At last we can say the holiday season has truly begun.
Normally, of course, it’s some foul-mouthed painted doxy from a sink estate in the north of England who hits the headlines after flying off to be with her Spanish waiter in the sun, leaving behind her gaggle of variously-fathered children in their council flat with only a tin of beans, the keys to the drinks cabinet, and Grand Theft Auto IV on the Playstation to occupy themselves until she gets home — if and when she can be bothered.
The Irish now see the English as the English once saw the Irish, albeit without the beer, bombs and potatoes.
The McCanns. The McGuckins.
The media phenomenon of the Bad Parent story, ritually trotted out to appease the secret guilt of other parents everywhere, is a curious one, no doubt about that. It can’t be much fun to be caught in the middle of the latest outbreak of media moralising, but it’s best just to put it down to experience and move on as quickly as you can.
THE SCOTSMAN: “McCanns ‘won’t mark’ Madeleine’s fifth birthday”
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said of the birthday: “Gerry will be at work and Kate will be at or around home. Sadly, for them it is just another day without Madeleine.”
Madeleine McCann: When will the anniversaries stop?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:08 am
1st?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:10 am
1st?
Not all it’s cracked up to be is it?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Shall I tell them you’re here ?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:19 am
It’s not the grand triumph I anticipated Duncan, certainly. Go on them, tell ‘em!
May 11th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Duncan
Thats very naughty of you not to warn me there is a new thread while I was going mad on my own in the other one
May 11th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Bit like turning up for a party to find you’re at the wrong address ?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Jo
Was just on my way over to tell you.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:27 am
“Clues. the NOTW has found doors and rooms. In one year of tabloid tales, much has been established.”
I will call that amazing piece of news,clearly,a master piece, “Revelation Day”
.lol:
Any KEYS to doors and rooms and windows or what is shutters? pinch me
Didnt they say they wanted out of the media? so,why do they carry on serving us with those silly stories and washy mushy moods on Madeleine”s 5th birthday?Dont they learn anything? ever?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Good morning jo!
May 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
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jo Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Duncan
:lol:
Thats very naughty of you not to warn me there is a new thread while I was going mad on my own in the other one
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Tell us something new……
“What about under the BEDS, behind the CURTAINS, on the CEILING or in the SHOWER? Or in the BED?”
Or in the Divan drawer? Feck me, you dont suppose it was the same jerk that kidnapped Shannon Mathews? Wey hey weve bleedin cracked it………
See ya
May 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
So this is where it’s at ?
Been scrawling on the now “old” thread.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:32 am
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Matt. Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 7:56 am
NOTW re Oldfield’s check….
“””It highlights the tragic but innocent error he made when he checked on the
children at 9.30pm while the McCanns were at the nearby tapas bar with the
other adults in the party””””
How can a dereliction of duty be ever considered “an innocent error” ?
Allegedly…he himself opted to replace Dr K ’s “turn” to check the children.
Not to actually “check” is not innocent.
And what was his report to the “trusting” parents when he returned to the Bar ?
“Everythings fine…all three…of your’s….were sleeping snugly” ???
If he said such….why haven’t the “trusting” parents hauled him over the
coals about his betrayal of their trust.
After all…it isn’t that a wallet or credit card or suchlike “disappeared”.
It was, allegedly, a precious and much loved daughter who “vanished”.
Yet….they were all “so much into each other” according to Dr K.
What about the “That lying barsteward betrayed our trust..never checked
our lovely daughter as he opted to do…has let us and Madeleine down..we
hate him now and wonder why he didn’t actually check” ?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Are you taking to the open road on your bike today Garth?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:33 am
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Garth
Baby!
GOOD morning to you too
May 11th, 2008 at 8:34 am
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Matt. Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 8:21 am
320…jo
Good morning, jo.
Re….sub-article in NOTW…Regarding the dubious Ms Tanner…
“””She was on her way back from her flat and saw a man walking quickly across
the top of the road, away from the apartments and towards the outer road of the complex”””
Dear NOTW “reporter”…please watch the Panorama Programme…and note
Ms Tanner’s personal testimony…which says that she was on her way to the
Apartment FROM the Tapas Bar….etc.
Tapas Group et al…Fabrication, fabrication, fabrication.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:34 am
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Gloria Smudd Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Are you taking to the open road on your bike today Garth?
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jajajajaja
Morning,Gloria
May 11th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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Matt
Tapas Group et al…Fabrication, fabrication, fabrication.
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Profuse imagination
May 11th, 2008 at 8:42 am
“If one year on, the News of the World found clues, surely the detectives could have established more AT THE TIME? Crucial DNA evidence could have been lost during those early hours. The abductor must have touched windows, doors, shutters, particularly if he was disturbed and had to stay longer than he planned.”
It is hard to accept that absolutely no telltale fibres or hairs were left behind
May be there would be “blood,fingerprints and fibres” if some clever people didnt whoosh…clunk…you know…?
No, I dont but I am having fun
May 11th, 2008 at 8:50 am
The NOTW article is really just a non-story - what’s the point of it?
May 11th, 2008 at 8:52 am
18…jo
As the NOTW seem to have disregarded the fact that there are, at least
,
two genders….it may be that their tatty “scoop” is overlooking a potentially
important point regarding the “phantom’s” gender.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:54 am
19…Gloria Smudd
“”The point of it”"”
Hmmmm…main point is to sell copies I guess.
Secondary point…to push the “abduction” allegation.
Third point…to highlight Dr Oldfield’s “error”.
IMO…
May 11th, 2008 at 8:57 am
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Gloria Smudd
The point?
As usual: a sunday spin to make peoples mind off real worlds issues
Basically,they are “running for life”
I bet,this next week they will be official asked to go to portugal and then….I dont even wont to think what will happen next if they refuse.
Their extraditon lawyers are paid very high fees and they”ve rather come back to them with much needed “gauaranties” ….but somehow,I doubt it.
Meanwhile,lets make diversion…..
May 11th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Was it J.Tanner who said she stayed in the flat that evening? or was it R.Oldfield?
May 11th, 2008 at 9:00 am
23…jo
R Oldfield, allegedly, stayed in the night of the “crying”. The 2nd I think.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Ok, The NOTW item will sell copies, and we are discussing it, so I guess that is the point. And it is helpful to see a photos of where the abductor could have hidden for a few days.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
jo, what makes you think they’ll be asked back to Portugal this week?
May 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am
25…Gloria Smudd
I think the pic of “his” tent, and various cooking utensils within, in the bushes
was a bit of a giveaway.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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Matt
Yes,I remember now.It is just that Tanner says “she was coming from her flat” implying she had already been at the bar ???
I am in a muddle now,I cant remember what she said previously.What did she say previously?
May 11th, 2008 at 9:10 am
12 Matt.
” EDIT After all…it isn’t that a wallet or credit card or suchlike “disappeared”.
It was, allegedly, a precious and much loved daughter who “vanished”.
Quite so. Didn’t they say at the time that no valuables were taken.
Only a child.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:12 am
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Matt. Says:
May 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am
25…Gloria Smudd
I think the pic of “his” tent, and various cooking utensils within, in the bushes
was a bit of a giveaway.
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Tiny but tell-tale signs …