Madeleine McCann: More DNA, The Maddy Teddy And The Family McCann
MADDYWATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “Madeleine: Police send new evidence for forensic tests”
Page 7: “POLICE SEND NEW FORENSIC EVIDENCE FROM MCCANN APARTMENT AFTER 230 DAYS”
DNA “thought to have come from the holiday apartment where Madeleine was last seen” is on its way to the Forensic Science Service laboratory in Birmingham
More pressure on “GP Kate and heart consultant Gerry” – Such are the facts
“TEDDY TRIBUTE” – Eileen McCann, Madeleine’s grandmother, is to place a “large pink teddy with a white heart on it” in Madeleine McCann’s bedroom as a Christmas gift. How do we know this?
“QUIZ DELAYED” – The McCanns will not face Portuguese police before Christmas. Says McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “It is true we are pleased that the Christmas period won’t be interrupted for Kate and Gerry”
But won’t the investigation then be delayed?
DAILY MAIL: “Kate and Gerry McCann are spared police questioning ‘until after Christmas’”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “However, we are keen for the process to be completed as soon as possible. No one has anything to hide”
Eileen McCann is talking to Hello! magazine, rival showbiz magazine to OK!, the organ from the Daily Express table. There is no mention of Hello! in the Express.
Gerry McCann’s sister Philomena McCann adds: “Nobody’s been talking about Christmas, we just want it to pass. Even mentioning the word feels terrible. There was always loads of food, laughter and games. She’d love to play with her cousins Paul, Fiona and Gregor”
Readers are shown a picture of Madeleine with her cousins
“We’d organise horse-races – with Gerry and me as the horses. The younger children would climb on our backs and we’d race around the living room”
Such are the facts
THE SUN page 19: “GRAN’S TOY HEARTBREAK – Xmas gift on Maddie’s bed..huge pink teddy bear with white heart”
The Maddy Teddy
“DISTRAUGHT Eileen McCann has told of the special gift she has waiting for missing grand-daughter Maddie — a big pink teddy bear. Eileen, 67, will place the toy on Maddie’s bed — while praying the youngster WILL return home”
And: “Kate’s mum Susan Healy, 61, and husband Brian, 67, from Liverpool, are also dreading Christmas”
Madeleine McCann is missing. The parents are suspects. But the Sun wants to keep its readers thinking of paedophiles. As it reports: “POLICE in Portugal are hunting a man who tried to grab a girl of nine in Charneca, 300 miles from Praia da Luz”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADDY LAST CHRISTMAS”
Page 11: “OUR LAST CHRISTMAS” – Madeleine McCann is in Hello! magazine, that bastion of excellence in investigative journalism. Readers learn that last Christmas Madeleine wore a pink party dress
DAILY STAR page 27: “COPS FIND NW DNA CLUE IN MADDIE FLAT – Crack British team to do forensic tests”
Specks of this and that are on their way to Birmingham. But no mention of the McCanns appearing in Hello!. The Daily Star is published by the same stable that brings us the Daily Express and OK!. Can business rivalries be impacting upon the news of the missing girl?
THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TELEGRAPH and THE TIMES: No Madeleine news today
Posted: 19th, December 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (789) | TrackBack | Permalink
