Madeleine McCann: Not Missing From Any Story
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
IRISH TIMES: “Spanish courts paralysed by industrial action.”
Today’s challenge: Can Madeleine McCann appear in a story on a story about how “legal secretaries and other members of the profession switched off their computers and laid down their pens in protest at their working conditions”.
That was Tuesday, and the Irish Times’s Jane Walker has been toiling to locate Our Maddy in the story. She tells of delays and lost files. And then she calls exhibit C…
This is not a new problem. It is one which has been simmering and threatening to explode for years. The final straw came at the beginning of this year when Mari Luz Cortes (4) disappeared from her home near Huelva.
A grim and depressing crime. A child was abducted and killed, allegedly. So what went awry with the search for Mari Luz Cortes?
Huelva is close to the Spanish-Portuguese border, less than 100kms (62 miles) from the Algarve resort where the young British child, Madeleine McCann, went missing.
Can inefficiencies in the Spanish courts have affected the search for Madeleine McCann?
Hats off to Walker of the Times for locating Madeleine - who went missing in Portugal - in a story on Spain and the death of a child and the arrest of one Santiago del Valle, “who had joined in the searches but was known to have a criminal record as a pederast.”
If you see Madeleine McCann in a or editorial story do tell us…
Posted: 27th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (122) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 29th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Too late!…………. cuddle cat’s out of the bag
October 28th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I’m glad to hear it! Bring it on!
October 28th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
We shall see how brave the keyboard gangsters are……………….white papers on the way………..poetic justice ?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Oh Really! Now that sounds interesting, Gandolf. Would you care to elucidate?
ie
definition of booted?
definition of “you know who”?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
The dark place known as the 3arses is about to get its collective arses severely booted by you know who, retribution is nigh…………what a night ………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liyiT_DGREA
October 28th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Halloween coming up? have you got your costummes ready yet? I am going to be gerry and you? have you decided yet?
http://bp2.blogger.com/_3HAnFzHSqqE/R3V-i8AcpzI/AAAAAAAAAfY/FqqZaL_A4c0/s1600-h/dia_inocentes.jpg
October 28th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I am no gentleman, I am a Warlock and an adept of the Nine Stars, I also teach Tantra to the angels.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Here we go again! In moderation…when is this going to stop?
WHY am I in moderation again?
Is this a game or someting?
October 28th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Gandolf, I apologize, it was just a little joke. How on earth could I have known you really look like the gentleman with the trousers up almost to his throat?
October 28th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
My dear, you couldn’t spot the Sun on a bright summers day, you need to get out more often…………….of your rubber room.
October 28th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I spottet you, too, Gandolf. You’re the guy left from “Maddie” with the yellow shirt and the sexy trousers that go up half the belly.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
The man who walks in the dark casts no shadow.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
If one clicks on Anorak’s picture above one gets a bigger version of it. I spotted “Maddie” - and also Clarrie with the pink shirt a few centimeters right from “Maddie”. He is walking a toothbrush on a red leash.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Lone
I assume that you are not painting it with the luminous, though soothing, orange shade?
October 28th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Yes thats it mars mission- he absolutely goes crazy for the stuff
October 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
brandon ive given him the link
October 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Lone
Astronauts are cool; my own offspring has her eye on a Mars Mission…
October 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
have to go x
October 28th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Has his spiderman craze ended now?
October 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I’ve just been looking now! More expense! I’ve just ordered him some super dooper glow in the dark space effect wallpaper! He’s spaceship crazy at the moment and all he wants to be when he’s older is an astronaut!
October 28th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
wall stickers/transfers
October 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
do you mean transfers
October 28th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
decals???
October 28th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
hello lone
missed you !
Get back up that ladder quick.
There are some great decals on ebay.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
hello Brandon - how are ya? I’ve got the week off
decorating no.1 sons bedroom!
October 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Rasputin Says:
October 27th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
No arguidos and no evidence.
Fact not fiction.
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bollocks not fact.
there’s plenty of evidence, 11,000 pages of the stuff.
proof and political will to charge are different altogether.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
http://www.correiodamanha.pt/Noticia.as … 647339E676
(Translation by Astro - from Joana Morais’ site)
Faro: First day of PJ inspectors’ trial
by Rui Pando Gomes
The expression on the jurors’ faces changed as soon as Leonor Cipriano started contradicting herself, during the trial of the five Polícia Judiciária inspectors that stand accused of assaulting her.
She started out by saying that she had seen “who assaulted” her but then denied it “because there was a plastic bag over my head”. A bag that she asserted before the judges and jurors was “plastic and blue”. But moments later she stated it was “green or blue”.
But the contradictions continued. During the inquiry, Leonor said that she had been “assaulted more than once” and yesterday stated that it had been “only once”. She said that she was beaten between 6 and 8 p.m., because she had seen the time on the clock inside the room, but yesterday described the room without said clock.
She enumerated the alleged aggressions that she suffered in order to confess to the death of her daughter, on the 14th of October 2004, but forgot that she had already confessed all these facts to the PJ one day earlier, in the presence of her then lawyer, Célia Costa. “I never had a female lawyer. I don’t remember having confessed”, she told the court.
The memory failures continued – the only thing that was described with precision was the aggressions that she says she suffered. She asserted that the doctor at the prison in Odemira observed her the day after the assault – but in the Public Ministry’s accusation, the medical report is dated the 18th, three days later. The same lack of certainties happened concerning the date when the photographs were taken. Leonor says that they were taken “on the following day”, but the process refers that they were taken days later. And the defense recalls that the images can be “manipulated”.
Details
Telephone book – Leonor says that she was beaten with a phone book while she had a bag over her head. She stated to the court that at that point in time “she couldn’t see anything”.
Room light at night – The room where the photographs were taken at the prison was “bright and with light”, according to Joana’s mother – but everything happened at night. Therefore, according to the witness, they were taken after the employees’ normal working hours.
Without explanation for bruises on her body
A set of photographs that were sent by Odemira prison and that were included in the process don’t match those that were used to write the forensics report on the hematomas. In some of the images Leonor presents hematomas in her face, but on others those bruises are not visible. When she was confronted with those images, Joana’s mother was not able to explain which ones were real. She asserted the court that “photographs were taken only once”, always “inside the prison” by two employees. The colour of the bra was also questioned, given the fact that Leonor stated she only wears white or black underwear.
Plaintiff’s lawyer wants to call Alípio
Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer is going to ask for Alípio Ribeiro to testify in the process, so the former PJ national director can explain the exit of Gonçalo Amaral from the institution. At the end of the session, Aragão Correia launched serious accusations against the former PJ coordinator, connecting the cases of Joana and Madeleine. “The British police has carried out a private investigation on Gonçalo Amaral and has detected several crimes.”
Amaral says that Leandro is guilty
Gonçalo Amaral was the protagonist of the key moment yesterday when he pointed at Joana’s stepfather as someone who was involved in the child’s disappearance. ”He’s the one who should be on trial”, he referred, while pointing at Leandro, who is a witness in the process.
As far as CM was able to establish, the accusations are related to a process of rape upon Joana, in which Leandro was a suspect and which was investigated after the mother was accused of homicide.
At that time, sperm was found in little Joana’s underpants, which was an almost full match with Leandro’s DNA. The collection of sperm was requested, but Leandro refused.
Leandro interprets Amaral’s accusation because he is “desperate and anguished because he knows that he’s guilty”.
Defense wants to show series of statements
During the audience, António Pragal Colaço, the defense lawyer for four out of the five arguidos, showed a lengthy document which he stated included “a series of contradictions” that Leonor made throughout the investigation.
As an example, Pragal Colaço referred to a situation when Leonor said she had been beaten with a cardboard tube, at the same time when she stated that she had a bag over her head and couldn’t see anything.
At the end of the trial’s first session, the lawyer excused himself from making a statement to the media. “I don’t want to talk”, he said. Nevertheless, CM knows that the document that was exhibited by António Pragal Colaço in court has not been appended to the process yet and the lawyer will only present it over the coming days.
António Cabrita, Gonçalo Amaral’s defense lawyer, questioned the reason why the doctor at the Health Centre in Odemira failed to denounce the aggressions that Leonor denounced when she was examined. António Cabrita asked if the doctor should not be accused of omission to denounce, just like his client.
Many members of the public watching
Throughout the day, the main room at the Court in Faro was literally overfilling and there wasn’t enough space for the numerous members of the public that wanted to watch the trial. At the door, many persons waited for someone to leave in order to obtain a place. Contrary to what was requested by Leonor’s lawyer, there was no metal detector control, but Leonor was constantly surrounded by prison guards. The trial proceeds on Wednesday morning.
Notes
Accusation: Different crimes – Inspectors Leonel Lopes, Pereira Cristóvão and Marques Bom stand accused of torture. Nunes Cardoso, of forgery of a document; Gonçalo Amaral, of false testimony and of failure to denounce.
Condemned: Her daughter’s death – Leonor is presently fulfilling a 16-year prison sentence over the death of her daughter and the concealment of her cadaver. The case was appealed until the Supreme Court, which confirmed the sentence.
Order: Normal lapses – Rodrigo Santiago, one of the most renowned lawyers in the country, is the assistant who represents the Order. Concerning the contradictions, he says that “they are natural because [Leonor] has been imprisoned for several years”.
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M&A
Artemis
Thank you, Matt.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
did anyone say it was libellous when canoe man was DEAD and they actually had an inquest into his Death ? for christ sake someone has to stand up for Madeleine
October 28th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
You did the same yesterday to the one post I made, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
I quoted a paragraph and gave the source from the Cipriano Trial, nothing to do with the M c€Canns. Please don”t attempt to justify this as Libel. Seriously, if Anorak want”s to retain posters it must stop offending them
I hope you have the grace to let this post through.
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M&A
Artemis
Have you actually read what I wrote?
I thought I had made it clear that I was concerned that Amaral might have grounds to sue on the claims in question if we repeated them here.
If I didn’t make it clear enough then I apologise, but the McCanns do not have a monopoly on the English libel courts; the Sangria Seven, Murat, his former girlfriend and Malinka have also received large payouts.
There is no rule that says that Amaral cannot sue as well.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Hi Coco,
Please read in Joana Morais blog, a very interesting article by Paulo Sargento:
Maddie and esotericism: means or ends!
Xby
October 28th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I do not pretend anything at all
I am trying to exchange views and opinions with posters and the only thing I get is a vindictive answer from a moderator.
I will not engage in a fight with you nor anybody.I would not be surprised at all if you were one of those mccanns supporters.You sound a very negative and arrogant person and this is not what is e`pected from moderators at all.
Now,you will excuse me but I am off and probably will not come back
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M&A
Artemis
What you got was a polite explanation on the virtues of a libel free life. Your pretence lay in pretending that you had not received a full explanation.
And your posts made no attempt at exchanging views and opinions; they were simply the Gospel According To Clarisse.