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DAILY MIRROR (front page): “WE’VE SPENT £1M HUNTING FOR MADDIE.”
Kate and Gerry McCann Exclusive: We’ve spent £1m hunting Maddy - EXCLUSIVE McCanns vow to keep searching
THE SUN: “McCanns spend £1m on Maddie search” - Not exclusive.
THE MIRROR: “The couple have shielded the twins from what few facts are known about Madeleine’s disappearance in May last year.”
A few facts? There is only one fact: a child disappeared.
Gerry revealed: “They realise Madeleine is not here but they don’t know the details.”
What details?
DAILY MAIL: “Kate McCann: We’ve spent £1m trying to find Madeleine”
Speaking about their spending on the search for Madeleine, Kate said: ‘It’s a lot of money but we can’t set a limit. A child does not have a price. We will pay what we have to.”
A child might have a price. Isn’t that part of the fear?
DAILY EXPRESS: “KATE’S FURY AT DETECTIVE WHO PUBLISHED BOOK ON MADELEINE”
Fury. Always the fury.
KATE McCann has broken her dignified silence to attack the Portuguese detective who led the bungled hunt for Madeleine. She slated Goncalo Amaral for failing to find her little girl and for trying to cash in on the tragedy by writing a book
Tsk! Writing on the McCann saga for profit. The Express (10p cheaper than the Mail) is right to be outraged. What scum would do such a thing..?
As for Kate’s fury…
Says Kate McCann in Expresso, a Portuguese newspaper: “They could still have arrested us, couldn’t they? They could have stopped us from going home.”
Fury, indeed…
Says Gerry McCann: “I will be honest. We have got no idea whether Madeleine is alive or not. What we are certain of is that there is absolutely no evidence.”
Says Clarence Mitchell:
“Kate and Gerry have chosen to speak out to an element of the Portu¬guese media because they firmly believe that there may well be important information that somebody knows in Portugal. They will do everything they can to generate new leads.”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “’I cannot bring myself to walk down the road where she died’”
Just after midnight on September 4, 1999, Raonaid Murray was murdered savagely with a knife only 500 yards from her home in the south Dublin suburb of Glenageary.
Terrible. And Madeleine..?
Sean Hammond, a lecturer in forensic psychology at University College Cork, says high-profile murders can often have a profound impact on our behaviour and our feelings of safety. “They can leave an indelible mark. Even though the risks may be very low, people may no longer feel that it is safe to walk the streets at night. If you take a case like that of Madeleine McCann, people would have adjusted their behaviour towards their children as a result of that.”
Madeleine McCann: the benchmark of pain…
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January 5th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Regardless of what way you look at it its tragedy for that poor family and of course poor Madeleine and it is a mystery what happened. everything else speculation. What annoys me is some dipstick laughing about how clever he is with no insight at all into what happened.Nothing to laugh about the disappearance of a young child and we all need to take it more seriously as human trafficking is on the rise.This isnt a laughing mater. More value has to be put on human life thats the problem with this planet now.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Coco, I’m sure even anti-Coco’s agree with me when I say that I’m sure you are never ever boring!!
Way cool!
September 7th, 2008 at 4:52 am
CHERYL! You are too kind! I don’t tend to be as Tourrettified if I have been out drinking. lol
Promise me that you are still asking for a Matt Damon/ Robert de Niro type for me!
And a Duff or an Axl for the week-ends! lol
Being surrounded by flood water is rotten. I hope it clears off and cleans up quickly - like the great Clearance himself! Guffaw!
I hope that you are stocked up with food and stuff.
My priorities are always pet-food, cigarettes and Tia Maria - in that order! lol - And I have very little chance of being flooded! lol
I’m working on some reports at the moment that I have to submit by Wednesday - so I’m stopping up in the middle of the night to get them done in case anything breaks on the Clannies and I get side-tracked - like last week!
Just couldn’t stop peaking in and out to see if I was missing anything or any of my favourite posters and I hardly got any work done.
The Dolls are not fantasy! Cheryl - as if! They are more real than the Clan themselves! lol.
I deliberately sit Amaral Dolly next to K-Woman Dolly when I’m in a giddy mood! lol
Tonight - I swear that he is looking at her with a kindly, fatherly - ‘You know you’ve been naughty - and I know you’ve been naughty!’ smug look on his face and K-Woman is looking back at him - defiant and brazen - and just a bit too cocky for her own good if you ask me!
The Dollies are very very real Cheryl - and I have grown to understand them a lot better this past couple of weeks. They all have their quirky little personalities.
You are tall and glam with long hair like Cindy Crawford used to have - and you look like a sophisticated, chic French-woman-silhouettey thingy as you walk an elegant Poodle. X
September 7th, 2008 at 4:13 am
coco Says:
September 7th, 2008 at 3:11 am
CHERYL! Glad to see you on here. I noted that you were possibly in the way of Hanna the other night ! Too awful to contemplate. Not read all the way back yet. I do hope that it missed you! X
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Hi - you still up over there? We got the severe rains and winds and parts of Alexandria flooded today ( down the Parkway north of me) and the Parkway where I am located along the Potomac was flooded over today and North from me on another road (runs parallel to Pkwy) people removed from their homes in rowboats Parts of major interstate shut down also. Let’s put it this way - I was a prisoner in my own home surrounded by flooded roads. Otherwise than that a rather uneventful day!
Hey, you are coming across tonight somewhat I note as the fine English Rose I’ve told my friend about (and that is the truth, Coco, I do speak of you with a smile and a laugh) when discussing this thread and the case with them.
Are you actually making the dolls, Coco? I can’t decipher whether it is just ‘fantasy’ talk right now about them or reality and you have made some.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Sorry for being a bit blokey here - but I have scoured all the major news channels tonight when I came home and cannot see a single mention of Khan getting KOd???
Why not? I can’t wait to see the little bastard burst and bleeding for a change!
When I think how he turned down the chance of being an Olympic champion because he was too fucking greedy!
But then to see him go to Court and get off virtually scot-free for all his driving offences! It’s like he got a bit of justice tonight. LOL!
September 7th, 2008 at 3:11 am
CHERYL! Glad to see you on here. I noted that you were possibly in the way of Hanna the other night ! Too awful to contemplate. Not read all the way back yet. I do hope that it missed you! X
STEVET! I’m getting excitations!
September 7th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Kittens of the Commentariat! Those of you who know me - know that I’m a lady - although I tend to swear here and there to amuse myself and wind people up - but only when it lends something to the text!
Tee hee!
So let’s not bother about my gender or sexuality anymore!
It’s not like we can invite each other round for sex! This is not a dating agency! lol
This is a satirical site with a sleuthing zone!
Take no notice of the Arse-Weedo Weirdy-Men who wish to cause a distraction just because I mentioned a fucking ECU!
A few years ago I also managed to put an RSJ in my kitchen where I had taken out the chimney breast.
I also built a brick housing unit for the Aga - on my own - wearing gardening gloves to protect my nails!
I single-handedly followed, tracked and grassed up a load of filthy wanker bastards that were using two farms off the beaten track for badger baiting and dog-fights.
A number of millionaires had their assets seized - if not by the police - then the people they had ripped off in the past. lol
I discovered a team of mules who used to bring cocaine into the country inside the bellies of animals - and I put a stop to that.
I personally and single-handedly stopped a gang of national BMW dealers from stripping stolen brand new cars down and using a super-duper technique of re-applying VIN numbers to vehicles.
I was instrumental in ensuring that a certain international motor company stopped putting key numbers in a fucking stupid place on all their vehicles that youths could easily find - so stopping them from having a key made and going to steal the vehicle at their own convenience without causing a fuss and without going equipped!
So yes - I’m a grass! Yes I’m holier than thou - and yes I get off my rather pert arse and get out there and do blokey things every now and then! lol And I’m fucking proud of myself! lol
Now - let’s concentrate on these Files and Mr Amaral! Oooooooooh!
It’s obvious that the PJ have done an utterly superb job of investigating the case.
I think the UK police could learn a lot from them in certain ways - especially about being more dignified!
Depending on the publicity and the reception and conduct of Amaral in the next few days - I think that the Portuguese will have to make a make a special announcement.
Super sense of timing by the Clan to announce the Clan version of a book this week! Super timing! It’s their last chance to get the money in.
Looks like the gloves are coming off - but in a lady-like way - very slowly.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:02 am
We have to wait for the satemens of the employés of the resort and of other people not conected to Tapas 9.
I hope we will have the chance to read them.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Good, good, good vibrations.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Maravilha Says:
September 7th, 2008 at 12:30 am
wake up ffs!
September 7th, 2008 at 1:06 am
clueless the klunk
Surely you’re here for entertainment purposes?
September 7th, 2008 at 12:59 am
I see the telegraph page with “body buried on beach” has been pulled!!
September 7th, 2008 at 12:41 am
is Gerry one of the beach boys?
September 7th, 2008 at 12:39 am
oh
Raspy
where is teh telegraphythingy
September 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am
nags head brigaabe thingy in
now wheres the slayer of fuckwits
September 7th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Did some of you noticed that Amaral is telling now more than he told in his book?
Some interviews.
And I read on Mccannfiles that the McCanns are not intending to sue him which means that his book is telling the truth, only the truth and nothing but the truth, so help him God?
September 7th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Speaking about paying detectives, CIA, FBI etc, the McCanns seem to have been very generous.
Is it not true that they refused to pay Mrs McGuiness (former spokes woman)a better salary and that was the reason why she left, immediately after they were made arguidos?
Or was that a tabloid story?
Why did she leave?
September 7th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Good night, all
September 7th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Maravilha
Your question will I think be answered by Paulo Reis in due course, right now he is on holiday with his family and I suspect his wife has confiscated the DVD for the duration.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Candy, it can’t be like Murder on the Orient Express - if all 9 were involved, and the tapas meal a mere charade to get alibis from the waiters etc, the 4 May statements would be far neater and the abductor sighting would not have happened when Wilkins was around. IMO.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Does any of you know if the reception of the Ocean confirmed that the alarm was at 10 pm?
Was not,at the begining, May 2007, that the alarm was after 10 pm?
I remember something about 10.10 pm or am I wrong?
What is the DVD saying about the statements of the employés?
September 6th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Chatelaine/Marie,
I often encounter the Catch 22 of someone saying “link please” and then when I post the link it never appears.
Anyway if you put in the http bit and then gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com
and join it to /2008/06/tapas-friends-denied-mccanns-version-of.html
it just might work
September 6th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Good Lord, it’s like Agatha Christie’s story … someone from T9 is implicated, but who? Maybe that’s the mistake - and the answer do lie within T9, just the different couple.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Pam, it seems that a bit is missing. He probably said who was there on holidays with him, and the line naming Dianne Webster is missing, so it looks as if Rachel was also a mother in law. It is a mistake, but I translated it exactly as it is what was written in the text.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Cheryl
Difficult to say if he thinks he fucked up horribly. This is the previous question,
and Gerry’s answer.
“Were you afraid you could lose the custody of Sean and Amelie because your behaviour was considered negligent?”
Gerry ; “We weren’t negligent. We did what any reasonable parents would do (or any parent would reasonably do, I am not sure of the best translation, MN). I certainly regret it deeply , because in what we did, somebody saw an opportunity to take Madeleine. I am an optimist. I never thought something like that could happen”.
( TQ - ¿Ha sentido temor de que usted pudiera perder la custodia de Sean y Amelie porque su comportamiento se consideraba negligente?
Gerry - No fuimos negligentes, hicimos lo que cualquier padre razonable haría. Sin embargo, lamento profundamente lo que pasó, porque en nuestro accionar, alguien vio la oportunidad de tomar a Madeleine. Soy una persona optimista. Nunca pensé que algo así podría ocurrir. )
I certainly am not a reasonable parent (grand-parent now), as I would never do that.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
pam, only one grandparent, diane webster.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Sorry–been out–thanks to whomever clarified the distinction between the PDL and Enderby statements, but I still want to know why they began the PDL interview by asking him to validate those of the two women?
Also–there are two grandmothers on this trip or only one?
September 6th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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Bonne nuit Marie :-*
September 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
They really see themselves as having contributed to the security of many families, through the sacrifice of their daughter. Maybe it helps them to think it, but still, they don’t realise what they are saying. Dreadful.
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Not to be argumentative, Marie, but I didn’t read into his statement that way at all. “We never leave our children alone again, and many families never do it, due to us”.” I would like to have seen his face and heard his tone of voice when he said it; but I think, and how I took it, this was his way of saying we really f’d up horribly in what we did and with the tragic consequences no other families will ever do what we did…
September 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Châtelaine,
Seems we are the only ones left, you and me, tonight!
On Gazeta Digital, there are plenty of other things, under the “Tennis Tornament”, but I haven’t found what AZ is mentioning in his post either. Anyway, it is obvious that they don’t all tell the same story, especially as regards JT.
Time for aglass of water, and to bed! Bonne nuit chère Châtelaine.XXX
September 6th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
They really see themselves as having contributed to the security of many families, through the sacrifice of their daughter. Maybe it helps them to think it, but still, they don’t realise what they are saying. Dreadful.
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Marie, yes indeed. They’ve been called narcistic many a times and that’s exactly what they are