Madeleine McCann: Find Madeleine, Kate Must Not Cry And No Evidence
MADDY WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE: NEW HOPE SHE COULD BE ALIVE”
Page 7: “Police: We have no evidence she did in apartment” – Portugal’s “top forensic laboratory” cannot find evidence that Madeleine died on the night she went missing
A “senior police source” says the Find Madeleine campaign has hampered the investigation. Says he: “People used to look at her picture and well up with tears… Now they see her picture and it gets no reaction”
Does this say more about human nature than the campaign?
“Mountain folk who love their children so keen to find her” – Villagers in Morocco are looking for Madeleine. “We very happy to help,” says one local
DAILY MIRROR page 6: PUBLIC ‘SICK OF MADDY’ COP SHOCK”
It is “astonishing” it is a “cruel attack”. The police source says: “They’ve overdone it and it’s time to stop.” Can the McCanns introduce another child, a new face we can see? Problem is, the McCanns have only one daughter to focus on. And it she they want found
Says a friend of the McCanns: “Madeleine is currently the most famous missing child in the world and we don’t think that is a bad thing” – such is the way of Brand McCann
DAILY MAIL page 5: “Madeleine campaign ‘could have put her in danger’”
Carlos Anjos, chairman of the Portuguese Union of Police Detectives, says: “The parents and their publicity campaign have turned her into a symbol of something ugly and wrong. People are sick of having it rammed down their throats”
Says a police source: “I know a woman who was out before sunrise every day, searching all day. She couldn’t eat or sleep. It was like she (Madeleine) was her baby. Now she pulls a face when she sees pictures”
Says Clarence Mitchell PR: “Everything we have done from the word go has been very carefully considered and thought through”
And some people would say that is the problem – too careful, too thought through
DAILY STAR page 11: “MADDIE: ‘EYE’ GIRL IN MOROCCO ISN’T HER”
Naoual Malhi sees Madeleine in Morocco. The McCanns private detectives head to Morocco. But local police find the child first. It’s a Moroccan child with blonde-ish hair. It’s not Madeleine
“Expert insists friends are key” – David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham University, says his “educated guess” is that Madeleine is not alive.
THE SUN page 9: “Cop rap for’ Find Maddie’”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We have done our absolute best to make people aware Madeleine is out there”
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 2: “No more TV tears for Madeleine, Kate told”
“Kate McCann has been told by British police not to cry in public for fear it could play into the hands of Madeleine’s abductor”
Clarence Mitchell tells a Spanish TV station that British police experts are worried a kidnapper would “get off” on any show of emotion by her and husband Gerry.
THE TIMES: “Kate and Gerry McCann ‘created information monster’ that hindered search for Madeleine McCann”
Says Carlos Anjos: “There is no criminal investigation which can feed a news frenzy for six months, so what we have seen are both English and Portuguese journalists behaving in a scandalous and unprofessional way. Writing terrible stories in the papers, some of which have clearly affected the McCanns… now we have to say that the McCanns are partly to blame for this. Because it was something they created”
THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: No Madeleine news
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