Madeleine McCann: Facts, Mourn Porn And A Birthday Tea
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
Daily Mirror: “Haunted by Maddy’s disappearance, Kate McCann spends three hours a day trawling files”
She is consumed with the hunt for her daughter. every day she will spend 3 hours reading documents, looking for the vital clue which will answer the question that has tortured her and Gerry for 21 agonising months. Where is our missing Madeleine?
Our Maddy, surely?
Kate McCann sips her tea and then turns another page from the mountain of paperwork, looking for the one clue that could spark a breakthrough in the search for her missing daughter.
As her twins Sean and Amelie enjoy playing with friends at nursery, their 40-year-old mum combs through thousands of police documents stacked up in 17 massive files hoping to latch on to any nugget of information such as the names of witnesses that were never interviewed.
Are we watching the parents or watching the detectives? What is the story here? Gawping at a woman’s obsession, her grief, or aiding an investigation in game of armchair detective? Is it just mourn porn?
Raw pain is still sometimes clearly etched on her face. But this is Kate’s life now.
Can something be etched “sometimes”?
A family member said: “She is there virtually every morning. It’s her routine for two or three hours every day while the twins are in nursery. Sometimes I feel she is exhausting herself. I wish she would take a break. But she won’t listen. She is driven, consumed with the task and the goal of finding Madeleine.”
And this is not all:
While the agony of not knowing where Madeleine is or what has happened to her eats up Kate and husband Gerry, the couple still have to provide a normal family life for Sean and Amelie. Tomorrow, the twins celebrate their fourth birthday and their parents will make sure it is a special day full of fun, laughter, gifts and games.
Did you get the invitation? Print it out here. We are now watching the children. Nothing pervy in that.
This year, the twins will start school – another milestone Madeleine never reached.
Unless… Back to Kate McCann:
Kate has reached folder number 15 of the 17 she is searching through.
Not far to go…
And Gerry McCann?
Despite his demanding work schedule, he strives to be home by 6pm to join in the nightly bath and bed routine of the couple’s twins. Like any devoted dad, he reads the children a bedtime story before lights out and then joins his wife for supper.
But then, instead of slumping in front of the TV, he goes into the study, spending a couple of hours each night taking his turn to scour the files or hit the phones.
And after 21 months of Our Maddy, we are still watching the parents…
The Sun: “McCann twins are four … with presents from sister Maddie”
A clue!
GERRY and Kate McCann will tomorrow hold a party to celebrate the twins’ fourth birthday — with presents from missing sister Madeleine…
It will bring back tragic memories for the McCanns — as it is the birthday Madeleine never celebrated with them.
Such are the facts.
The family and their relatives had been looking forward to a party at the McCanns’ home in Rothley, Leics. They had ordered a Dr Who cake with the number four on for Madeleine. But just days before the celebration planned for May 12, she was snatched from her holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
And the cake sits on a shelf ready for her return..?
Next year the pair will start school, a milestone that Madeleine never reached.
More facts. Of course, ever date is a landmark ,even Valentine’s Day.
The Scotsman: “The secret of taking the drama out of a crisis”
Emily Pykett wonders:
HOW do you put a positive spin on the situation when your client has been branded “the world’s worst banker”?
But Gerry McCann is a surgeon and Kate McCann a GP, so…
Today, Sir Fred Goodwin’s contract with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) officially ends. He stepped down as chief executive on 21 November following a government bailout, and there are many watching to see what he does next…
Maddy: the credit crunch and me.
And so he called in Phil Hall, former editor of the News of the World and Hello!, now turned PR guru. Since quitting the editor’s chair in 2000, Mr Hall has listed celebrity clients Heather Mills McCartney, chef Antonio Carluccio, chat show queen Trisha Goddard and Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne on his books…
Anyone else we know?
The media consultant also offered advice to the McCann family when their daughter Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz in 2007, but it is thought he turned down the chance to be the family’s official spokesman…
Offered. Thought.
Such are the facts. Such is the PR….
Posted: 31st, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (32) | TrackBack | Permalink
