Madeleine McCann: Picture Perfect, The Last Million And Cancel Christmas
MADDYWATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
THE INDEPENDENT: “Madeleine McCann: The face that’s haunted us all for eight months”
How she stares…
“David Randall explains why the photographs of a missing child, her parents and a suspect have retained the power to mesmerise and horrify us”
“And then there is Madeleine. No other word or detail is needed. Before even the third syllable is spoken, there she is in your mind: the blonde hair, almost unbearably cute face, and impish grin; a haunting, indelible part of that arcade of awfulness which includes the faces of Sarah Payne, Holly and Jessica, and so on right back to the gaunt and startled faces of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley’s victims buried on Saddleworth Moor more than 40 years ago”
Looks matter. Madeleine McCann is blonde…
And there are Gerry and Kate McCann: “These were successful thirtysomethings from Central Casting. Whether it was walking down a street or going in and out of church, they were memorably – even, to some people, enviably – attractive: she clutching Cuddle Cat, both never in a mess, and never red-eyed or blotchy faced. But, as the year and the media-savvy ‘Find Madeleine’ campaign went on, there was something about this pair of health-conscious, neatly coiffed, always composed young professionals that aroused resentment in some quarters”
The middle-class doctors…
THE PEOPLE: “They’d cancel Christmas if they could.. EXCLUSIVE McCANNS FACE ‘HARDEST DAY IMAGINABLE’ DISTRAUGHT COUPLE WILL NOT GIVE EACH OTHER GIFTS MADDIE’S PRESENTS LEFT UNDER TREE WITH TWINS’”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Kate and Gerry McCann: We can’t face giving each other Christmas presents”
Media savvy…
“Kate and Gerry McCann will not be giving each other presents on Christmas Day.
They have agreed it would be inappropriate to celebrate between themselves when they spend the day at Kate’s parents in Liverpool.
“They have told friends they cannot face Christmas at home in Rothley, Leicestershire, although they have bought their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie gifts and have decorated a tree in yellow tinsel, the colour of a safe homecoming”
DAILY STAR: “McCANNS’ NEW EVIDENCE PLEA”
Their renewed campaign was revealed yesterday after the couple broadcast an anguished appeal for the return of their missing daughter Madeleine”
SUNDAY EXPRESS: “The £1million raised to trace Madeleine McCann will run out early next year as her parents launch a last-ditched attempt to find the missing four-year-old”
And then..?
The Madeleine McCann story so far
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