Madeleine McCann: Back To Portugal, A Scapegoat And Super Cop
MADDYWATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “Madeleine: McCanns vow ‘We’ll go back to Portugal’”
Page 9: “Kate and Gerry: We’ll fly back to Portugal”
A source says the McCanns would like to meet Goncarlo Amaral’s successor leading the investigation. And: “We would not presume to tell the Portuguese police how to do their jobs”. So what will they talk about?
On Mr Amaral, a source tells Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, the man was “a scapegoat for the English”.
The Express says Gerry is a “consultant cardiologist”. Kate is a “part-time GP”. Such are the facts
DAILY MIRROR front page: “McCANNS: WE’LL GO BACK TO PORTUGAL”
Page 11: “NEW COP IN CHARGE..NEW HOPE FOR US”
A source says: “We do hope that the change will re-energise and refocus the hunt for Madeleine”
THE SUN pages 14 and 15: “He was boozy, incompetent and convinced the McCanns killed Maddie..so we say to sacked police chief Amaral: “GOOD RIDDANCE”
Readers see the “Cop’s café…restaurant where Amaral spouted his nonsense.” He is a “hapless plod”. He has thick forearms. “It seems he spent most of that time conjuring up countless malicious explanations for Madeleine’s disappearance”. You spend too long with tabloid hacks, you run the risk of going native
“COPS IN MUDDLE WITH NO LEADER”
Page 11: “Snub Portugal till brains are put on Maddie case”
Kelvin Mackenzie wants Britishers to boycott Portugal
DAILY MAIL page 30: “Now focus on finding Maddie, her parents tell police” – The McCanns have “welcomed the sacking” of Mr Amaral. But they will not comment on the, er, case
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE – Sarah Payne cop to join in hunt”
Page 9: “GET SARAH COP TO FIND MADDIE – ‘Ace British detective will crack the case’”
Dept Supt Alan Ladley is a “super cop”. He nailed Roy Whiting for the murder of seven-year-old Sarah Payne. A source says: “They want a successful copper and he could be just the man”
A British wooden top could head the Portuguese investigating team. He will show them how to clear crime up and make Portugal a crime-free idyll, like the UK
DAILY EXPRESS page 15: “Madeleine case in disarray after sacking” – Says Clarence Mitchell: “There have been so many distractions, so many unsubstantiated allegations swirling around all of this out there and repeated here in Britain”
THE TIMES, THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news today
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