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Madeleine McCann: Shannon Matthews, Entertainment And Mr Cheese

MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann is missing front the front pages. She now only appears in the media in the context of Ben Affleck’s film Gone Baby Gone, a work of fiction based on a work of fiction.

SPIKED ONLINE: Gone, Baby, Gone: who’s fit to be a parent?

With echoes of recent high-profile child abductions, Ben Affleck’s crime drama poses a very modern moral dilemma.

And a cracking night out at the cinema?

I remember when I heard Shannon Matthews had been found alive.

Shannon Matthews?

That moment of relief - and that sense of disappointment at the subsequent arrest of Shannon’s mother and other members of her extended family - came flooding back to me while watching Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, Gone, Baby, Gone.

The mind wanders. The film isn’t that good?

As a number of reviewers have pointed out, the plot of Gone, Baby, Gone bears at least as much relation to the Shannon Matthews case as to that of Madeleine McCann.

Anorak thinks it’s more like Dennis Lehan’s book Gone, Baby, Gone:

Cheese Olamon, “a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who’d somehow arrived at the misconception he was black,” is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn’t try to have him killed. “You let Bubba know I’m clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone.”

Is Cheese Craig Meehan, Michael Donovan, Robert Murat, or someone else?

Anorak

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cyn says:
June 16th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

WHY WOULDN’T ANY COUNTRY NOT WANT THE AMBER ALERT SYSTEM?? ANY HELP TO RECOVER A MISSING CHILD SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY!! THE ONLY ‘PEOPLE’ WHO WOULD NOT AGREE WITH THE AMBER ALERT SYSTEM ARE PEDOPHILES / ABDUCTORS THEMSELVES!!! OTHERWISE WHY THE HELL ELSE WOULD SOMEONE NOT AGREE?????? IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE NOT TO AGREE UNLESS YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PIGS YOURSELVES!

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jo says:
June 14th, 2008 at 8:20 am

McCann couple goes to Strasbourg for a last ditch attempt
Gerry and Kate McCann will be in Strasbourg next Tuesday, trying to get enough support from European Parliament Members for a “written declaration” about the creation of an European Amber Alert system, covering all 27 EU states. This idea was first referred by the EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Mr Franco Frattini, in 2006. However, the McCann, their Media advisers and Clarence Mitchell never mentioned this detail. Mr. Frattini proposed an EU alert system to be set up by each country, not an European Parliament legislative initiative.

But Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Bryan, a UK top ranking police officer, who is the Association of Chief Police Officers head of missing people, told Media, last May, that “there was no need to emulate the US system of immediate information broadcasts once children have been reported missing.”

According to the Times on-line edition, “Mr Bryan congratulated the McCann on doing a ’sterling job’ in raising the issue of how police deal with child abductions, but he said that police would rather use other investigative techniques to trace children before going public and potentially alerting abductors.”

The UK has already a national alert system for missing children, Mr Richard Bryan told the Times: “That has been in place since 2003 in Sussex and it was rolled out nationally by 2006. We have only had to use it on three occasions.”

The initial idea of Mr. Frattini knew some developments, since 2006. In February 2007, the European Commission decided to ask all state members to reserve a special set of national phone numbers, starting with “116”, to be used as a hotline, in cases of missing children. Until now, 10 EU countries have done it – the UK is not one of them.

On April 21, five European Parliament Members - Edward McMillan-Scott, Roberta Angelilli, Glenys Kinnock, Evelyne Gebhardt, et Diana Wallis – after meeting with the McCann, submitted a “written declaration” to the European Parliament, concerning “Emergency cooperation in recovering missing children.” The declaration “calls on Member States to introduce a missing child alert system” and asks for the creation of a “common organisation to provide assistance and training” to police forces from the 27 EU countries.

In order to have the “written declaration” sent to the EU President and published, the McCann still need the signatures of more 182 European Parliament Members, to reach the number needed, which is 393. The “written declaration” is just a way of “launch or relaunch a debate on a subject that comes within the EU’s remit”, but it has no legal implications for the EU state members.

On June 12, police forces from several European countries tested their level of cooperation, through the simulation of a child’s kidnap, in order to evaluate the existing system of coordination, in those kind of cases.

I really wonder who do they think they are?

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jo says:
June 14th, 2008 at 8:16 am

They refuse to go to portugal for a reconstruction but dash off to strasbourg to SHOW off with a camera crew filming them.
They could almost make me vomit

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jo says:
June 14th, 2008 at 8:04 am

There is more “news”,especially on SOSMadeleine but I cant be asked to translate because there is no feed back whatsoever
Anorakians are saturated ( understandable)
Wosholwedowedo, my roodoodoo?

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coolandcalm says:
June 14th, 2008 at 8:00 am

To whom it may concern. notably Duncan and Saul.
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new book out called ‘There’s A Hippo in My Cistern’. (Pete May)

Is Gloria about to reach the dizzy heights of fame? could she then turn?

I’m so pleased I didn’t participate.

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jo says:
June 14th, 2008 at 7:54 am

Good morning from Sausage Land

http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/

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Rasputin says:
June 14th, 2008 at 6:37 am

June 13th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
DuncanR, I am making no point. I am merely showing that such articles and figures exist about “missing” children in the UK, rather more than can be said for the existence of evidence against the McCanns
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Maddie’s missing, how much more evidence does this guy need?

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What are you wittering on about you silly filly.

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Cheryl says:
June 14th, 2008 at 3:56 am

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noseycow Says:
June 14th, 2008 at 12:29 am
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Noseycow, those links are from UK sources so any problems you’ll have to take it up with them. One does have to wonder where they get them from since no one seems to be in agreement with them on here.

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Dee says:
June 14th, 2008 at 2:55 am

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Dee says:
June 14th, 2008 at 2:49 am

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Julie Says:

June 13th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
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Cheryl Says:
June 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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As I said there are more important things right now for me to tend to…so lay off, Dee, you on here are the least of importance to me..so it will stay hit and miss in getting back to you.
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Care to tackle me Cheryl?

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GO JULIE