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McCanns search for media attention: Leave no page unturned

By John Hirst

McCanns search for media attention: Leave no page unturned

10.50pm 3 May 2007: "The first call Gerry made on the night of the crime was to Alistair Clark, a good friend from University days and a diplomat close to Gordon Brown. Clark must have immediately contacted people at the highest level".

12.01am 4 May 2007: "Three year-old feared abducted in Portugal

By staff and agencies
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 04/05/2007

A three-year-old British girl has gone missing while on a family holiday in Portugal, the Foreign Office said today.

Portuguese police are investigating the disappearance from a holiday complex in Praia da Luz in the western Algarve.

A Foreign Office spokesman said that he understood the girl's parents had gone to have dinner once their children were asleep last night, but returned to check on them only to find the girl had gone missing.

"They reported it straight away," he said, adding that consular assistance was being offered".

Whilst everybody else was searching for Madeleine, the McCanns were searching for something else, that is, media attention and political interference.

An hour had not even passed since Kate McCann had announced Madeleine missing.

"Were the friends and relatives simply used by the McCanns in order to provide a smokescreen for their real aim - which was to shift attention away from themselves and unleash a typhoon of media comments that would wipe out all opposition to their story?".

Kate/Gerry ring another friend, Jill Renwick, at 07:00am (4 May 2007)

"Jill Renwick, a family friend, told GMTV at 7:45am, on the morning of 04 May, that the distraught parents were certain that Madeline had been abducted...Poor Kate and Gerry don't know where to turn".

I would say that they knew exactly where to turn.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).