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Gerry and Kate Mcann promoting Book on Late Late next week
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Just to give you an idea of the book, which you are unlikely to believe if you do not believe Kate McCann to start with :
" at 10.35 the police had still not arrived... it was not until 11.10pm that two policemen arrived from the nearest town, Lagos, about 5 miles away. To me they seemed bewildered and out of their depth, and I couldn't shake the images of Tweedledeedum and Tweedlededee out of my head. I realize how unfair this might sound, but with communication hampered by the language barrier and precious time passing, their presence did not fill me with confidence at all."
She goes on to explain that they didn't realize these police officers were like the French Gendarmes, local guards, generally in charge of traffic matters.
"I'm pretty sure that initially the GNR officers assumed Madeleine had simply wandered off by herself. By midnight, however, evidently they were concerned enough to inform the PJ.... took an hour to arrive"
So the PJ arrived around 1 am.
She mentions that in the meantime, Gerry tried to keep people out of the room. When the young PJ officer tried to take their fingerprints he must have messed it up, because they had to redo it the next day.
Phew, and that's all I'm typing for the night
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Mountainsandh wrote: »Just to give you an idea of the book, which you are unlikely to believe if you do not believe Kate McCann to start with :
" at 10.35 the police had still not arrived... it was not until 11.10pm that two policemen arrived from the nearest town, Lagos, about 5 miles away. To me they seemed bewildered and out of their depth, and I couldn't shake the images of Tweedledeedum and Tweedlededee out of my head. I realize how unfair this might sound, but with communication hampered by the language barrier and precious time passing, their presence did not fill me with confidence at all."
She goes on to explain that they didn't realize these police officers were like the French Gendarmes, local guards, generally in charge of traffic matters.
"I'm pretty sure that initially the GNR officers assumed Madeleine had simply wandered off by herself. By midnight, however, evidently they were concerned enough to inform the PJ.... took an hour to arrive"
So the PJ arrived around 1 am.
She mentions that in the meantime, Gerry tried to keep people out of the room. When the young PJ officer tried to take their fingerprints he must have messed it up, because they had to redo it the next day.
Phew, and that's all I'm typing for the night
Do you not think it's a bit rich for Kate McCann to be giving out about the police when she and her husband and her friends have done everything in their power from the moment of the child's disappearance to hamper the investigation and ensure that it wouldn't come to a successful conclusion?0 -
Aw now i feel bad
Aah don't. I've heard a few good ones myself and I have laughed, it's just I'm not sure this thread is the right place to tell these jokes. It's an emotional issue and a lot of people in this thread are very concerned/invested as you can probably tell by the multiple posts.0 -
Mountainsandh wrote: »Just to give you an idea of the book, which you are unlikely to believe if you do not believe Kate McCann to start with :
" at 10.35 the police had still not arrived... it was not until 11.10pm that two policemen arrived from the nearest town, Lagos, about 5 miles away. To me they seemed bewildered and out of their depth, and I couldn't shake the images of Tweedledeedum and Tweedlededee out of my head. I realize how unfair this might sound, but with communication hampered by the language barrier and precious time passing, their presence did not fill me with confidence at all."
She goes on to explain that they didn't realize these police officers were like the French Gendarmes, local guards, generally in charge of traffic matters.
"I'm pretty sure that initially the GNR officers assumed Madeleine had simply wandered off by herself. By midnight, however, evidently they were concerned enough to inform the PJ.... took an hour to arrive"
So the PJ arrived around 1 am.
She mentions that in the meantime, Gerry tried to keep people out of the room. When the young PJ officer tried to take their fingerprints he must have messed it up, because they had to redo it the next day.
Phew, and that's all I'm typing for the night
If you report a missing child here you aren't going to get detectives out, you'll get the Guards from the nearest station. Perfectly reasonable and understandable.Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.
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@askmychocolate : ah but again, how ? how did they hamper the investigation in the first few hours ? (asking your chocolate)
Yes, they were like idiots in a panic, running around, being frantic and nonsensical, like anyone would be in that situation. That's not deliberately hampering anything. That's just being lost, un-savvy to what a police department might want or not in that situation.
Again from the book you won't believe unless you are willing to give K McC a chance, I gather that it's not the police force's questions they resented, but other people whose credentials they just couldn't fathom in their panicky state.
God, I should be a lawyer (NOT ! I hear you say
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Excuse me everyone, I'm now officially very silly, it's the tiredness and I need to go to bed, so I will now take my leave.0 -
Mountainsandh wrote: »Just to give you an idea of the book, which you are unlikely to believe if you do not believe Kate McCann to start with :
" at 10.35 the police had still not arrived... it was not until 11.10pm that two policemen arrived from the nearest town, Lagos, about 5 miles away. To me they seemed bewildered and out of their depth, and I couldn't shake the images of Tweedledeedum and Tweedlededee out of my head. I realize how unfair this might sound, but with communication hampered by the language barrier and precious time passing, their presence did not fill me with confidence at all."
She goes on to explain that they didn't realize these police officers were like the French Gendarmes, local guards, generally in charge of traffic matters.
"I'm pretty sure that initially the GNR officers assumed Madeleine had simply wandered off by herself. By midnight, however, evidently they were concerned enough to inform the PJ.... took an hour to arrive"
So the PJ arrived around 1 am.
She mentions that in the meantime, Gerry tried to keep people out of the room. When the young PJ officer tried to take their fingerprints he must have messed it up, because they had to redo it the next day.
Phew, and that's all I'm typing for the night
K, I've been trying to leave this thread alone until I see if Scotland Yard come up with any new findings that could be discussed, but Kate McCann saying that at 10:35pm the police had't arrived is misleading, because it makes it sound like that they had been waiting ages for them to arrive.
Gerry McCann himself said on the late late show that the first call logged to the GNR police wasn't logged until 10:40pm so how the hell could they have have been there at 10:35pm?
If you read page 109 and pg 110 of this thread myself and Kess already discussed the police timelines.
I read Matthew Oldfield's statements, and he is the one who asked the hotel reception to ring the police.
If you read over his statement it seems he suspects that the hotel reception did not ring when he first asked, as they believed Madeline had simply wandered off nearby somewhere.
It was only when their management team arrived and he and Gerry went back a second time, that the police were definitely called.[in Matthew's opinion]
The statements then say that the police arrived within 20 minutes, although Kess says that the GNR records show a travel time of just 12 minutes from when they received the call. 12 minutes or 20 is a fairly fast response time.
I will have to read the various statements again, but I'm pretty sure that people say the police started clearing people out of the apartment as soon as they arrived.
It wasn't really their fault if the place had been contaminated at that stage, they got there and started work as quick as they could.
They had to clear the scene, and ask questions and get the full story of what had happened, do all this with the language barrier so translation had to be used, then after doing all this in only 50 minutes the Judicial Police were called. First call logged at 23:50 to the Judicial Police I believe.0 -
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