[quote="IamSpartacus"][quote="ShuBob"]Anyway, why are we only being subjected to this interview NOW if it was given in OCTOBER? Does this mean that back in October, a MONTH post-arguido, the McCanns were already complaining about the depleting Fund and considering making a docu-movie to replenish it?????
What indeed ? .... they hadn't even hired the Spanish detectives then had they ? ... in fact, they'd hardly dipped into the fund at all at that point [/quote]
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The McCanns (and the McCanns only) hired Metodo 3 in early September, right after they had been made arguidos.
Unka Brian Kennedy, the No stone director, let it slip in late August (29th?) that the fund had spent 300 grand to date, and that there was 700 grand left. Justine billed 51 grand after that, and the Leicester Mercury donated 57 grand from bangle sales, so that was almost a wash.
At around arguidostime, Hanover Media was hired at 15 grand a month to perform some PR work for the months of September and October.
And according to the Telegraph still haven't been paid
"They recently spent £80,000 on a poster campaign in Spain and still owe Hanover International, a public relations company, money for work they did until November, when their involvement ended."
[quote="tara9"]Seems that even the movie was also being considering back in OCTOBER from the Vanity Fair interview "Mr McCann said he had considered the plans for a documentary-drama only because it could address issues such as alert systems to help find lost children." [/quote]
Gerry is such a piece of work... the only alert system needed would have been to ring for the police when instead of Sky...
and giving the interview in October means he broke his Arguido status...
just add it to the ever growing list of charges for the McCanns
not forgetting the serious fraud charge of setting up a fund after the death
Gedda McScam is tortured by guilt that Magdalena's disappearance is his fault. In an interview with Fanity Vair, he also admitted there was only a "slim" chance his daughter was alive - the closest he has come to conceding the fact - considering the Fund has yet to break through the two million pound mark.
"I wish I hadn't gone to the tapas bar," Mr McCann told the comic. "I wish I hadn't gone to the tapas bar and got absolutely blathered. I wish I'd stayed in the apartment that night on the off chance of a quickie with Rachel. I wish I'd stayed in the room five minutes longer, she may a offered a blów job at the very least."
"Of course we feel guilty about not having been there and that is just something we have to deal with for the rest of our lives. We live this 24 hours a day whilst checking the Fund total and reading submitted film scripts."
Mr McScam, 39, gave the interview alone in October, without his wife Kath, who was still nursing a hangover, after being approached by the comic.
Fanity Vair also spoke to the couple's friends and family as well as to the other suspect in the case, Robert The Rat.
Mr McScam's sister, Fat Fill, told the comic that he had called her on the night Magdalena vanished just has she was in the middle of polishing off six of Greggs Steak Bakes, and sobbed: "It's all my fault, because Kath and I went out swinging."
Clarence ‘The Cross Eyed Lion’ Mitchell, the family's ‘no comment’ spokesman, said Mr McScam had not been paid by Fanity Vair and had instead requested donations to the fund in return for cooperation with future projects, these being on set photographs when the movie goes into pre-production.
He said the Find Madalena campaign was to take on a "commercial dimension" to keep it in the black. It emerged on Tuesday that the couple could make £2million from a film about Magdalena's disappearance.
Other projects could include a book deal and even TV chat shows which the McScams have shunned in the past for fear of seeming like celebrities, God forbid!
The £1.2million fund to finance the search for Magdalena has been halved by the cost of hiring those clowns masquerading as private detectives, running adverts and paying the family's living costs, and the purchase of a Chelsea Tractor.
Only £600,000 remains and the balance is expected to drop to only £346,000 by April and possibly zero by June.
In the Fanity Vair interview, Mr McScam, from Rothley in Leicestershire, said: "I know now that, probably, the chances of getting Magdalena back are slim, which cannot be said abut my sister.
"You might never see her again. But still you have the hope the Fund will break through two million. Still."
He told how he sank into a depression after his daughter's disappearance from a resort villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3. He said the world then seemed "starless and bible-black, with maybe tiny points of light which represented the million pounds".
But the consultant cardiologist said he pulled himself out of the "darkest hours" by throwing himself into Foremark Reservoir, only to be pulled out by passing schoolboys. "Grief washes over you - it's like a big wave, mostly I was able to beat it back with the thought of an overseas property portfolio.
"We can't cry our eyes out every day, because that's not helping to keep the Police running around chasing up bogus sightings; that’s if they have time after taking three hours over lunch. So after three days I picked myself up - quicker than Kath could, although to be fair she had drank more than me."
He conceded that his wife remained "fragile, this way up" and had struggled to deal with the loss of Magdalena, who vanished a few days before her fourth birthday, in other words she was three, but quite capable of looking after her brother and sister.
The couple, who are both suspects in their daughter's disappearance, insist she was taken from her bed while they went out on the lash with friends nearby.
Portuguese secrecy laws mean they are not allowed to speak directly about the investigation, or the events of May 3, but Fat Fill did all their talking for them.
Mr McScam told Fanity Vair writer Judy Backache: "I can't talk to you about the details of what happened.
"I live under threat from the Portuguese - if I do talk - of two years' imprisonment. And may even sleep with the fishes"
But Tosh Cameroon, Mr McScam's sister, told Fanity Vair of Kath's dramatic reaction when policeman Ricardo Privardo told her she was being made a suspect.
She said Kath screamed at the officer: "Do you honestly believe that I would murder my own child, to make lots of money?" Recardo declined to comment.
The McScams were interviewed and formally named as suspects on September 7 and Mrs McScam was allegedly offered a two-year jail sentence if she confessed to accidentally killing Magdalena and hiding her body.
Mrs Cameroon said Kath, a 39-year-old family doctor, sort of, rejected the deal saying: "I'm not going to fúcking lie, you dégo spic bástard!"
The couple's psychologist, Alan Poke, who counselled them every day for a fortnight in May, said Mrs McScam was threatened with losing her other children, two-year-old twins Steve and Amy.This rather appealed to Kath, but thought better of it.
Mr McCann also spoke about the many ludicrous theories surrounding the youngster's disappearance which have circulated in the media.
He said: "Kath killed her in a frenzy, Magdalena was sedated by us, she fell down the stairs - in which case you would have thought they'd have found her body; fingers crossed, they never will!
"There have been a huge number of theories in the media. But what I want to know is - who told them all that? My money’s on Mitch at the moment."
The piece also carries a comment from Con Jorner, a family friend who just happens to have 32 bit film recording equipment. He said he was with Kath McCann in Portugal, hoping to get some action with her in August, she had told him she wished she could "roll back time" to the day before the abduction, then she could have caught Gedda with the aerobics instructor over in Burgau.
He said Mrs McScam had told him: "I would slow down time. I would get a really good look around that fitness centre and have a really good think. And I'd think: Where are you? Who are you? Who is secretly screwing my husband? Because someone was watching my husband very, very carefully. And taking £20 notes from him."
Ms Backache also spoke to Robert The Rat, the other official suspect in the investigation besides the McScams, but realised that his version of events counted for nothing, therefore have not appeared in this article.
Statements made by Gerry to Vanity fair - you cant say one and then the next, it invalidates his first statement
Gerry said: "I wish I hadn't gone to the tapas bar. I wish I'd stayed in the apartment that night. I wish I'd stayed in the room when I checked on her five minutes longer.
But Gerry still refuses to accept he and Kate acted irresponsibly.
He snapped: "At the time we did it, it was not irresponsible.
WHY CANT THEY ADMIT WHAT THEY DID WAS IRRESPONSIBLE?
WAS SOMEONE WATCHING?
Family friend Jon Corner told how Kate is certain a paedophile or kidnapper was watching their apartment in Praia da Luz.
He said: "In August, I was with Kate in Portugal. She told me 'I wish I could roll back time and go back to the day before Madeleine was abducted.
'I would slow down time. I would get a really good look around and have a really good think. And I'd think: Where are you? Who are you? Who is secretly watching my family? Because someone was watching my family very carefully. And taking notes."
WHY LEAVE HER ALONE THEN KATE?
MADELEINE'S EYE
Gerry fears Madeleine's unique right eye could put her in danger.
He said whoever snatched the child now held a recognisable girl and could take her life. But he still believed her distinctive iris could also help trace her.
He added: "We thought it was possible this could hurt her. Her abductor might do something to her eye. But in marketing terms it was a good ploy."
What the f***, they use her eye in thier logo etc, oh well could kill our daughter but makes us great dosh
Yes, I´ve said it before, but thanks, CaboFrio. Your version makes much more sense than the Vanity Fair piece of work. And yes, it is interesting that this (VF, not FV) was in the works in October. So there have been money problems with the Fund for some time. I´m only surprised CM hadn´t come out with his "banknotes in an envelope to G & K" sooner, then.
.. In marketing terms it made a good ploy, is this man a congenital i diot, to talk that way aboutan act the police were impressing him urgently on, that it could cost her her life. To me the only way he could talk in this crass jargonist way, was if he is either completely emotionally detatched from the child and her fate, that she is absolutely nothing to him. ... or he knows that it is not a factor as she is already dead. It is the latter is theone that seems most likely when combined with their making any timeline of that evening so vague and contradictary.. I am guessing this is the moment the PJ became convinced Maddy was dead and the parents already knew that fact.
Meme - I think you have it exactly right. There is no way any parent (and I include KM and GM in that) would run any risk at all of their child being killed or harmed by the abductor. They would be terrified, and keen to do exactly as the police advised.
To ignore that advice because it was a 'good marketing ploy' (which it was) must suggest that he knew she was already dead and that the cover-up / abduction story, and worldwide media coverage of it, was now the most important thing.
Well in terms of when the interview was, it would have to be a couple of issues in advance for publishing deadlines, so that's not unusual.
I'm trying to think - if I felt that my (ex) husband and I had let the children down by going out, I think I'd say, "It's all OUR fault," not, 'MY'. I think he's protesting too much. He's quietly separating himself from Kate - and this was 2 months ago.
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If Hanover is the agy. hired for the £80,000 billboard campaign, they originally wished to remain anonymous. Strange attitude for an advertizing co. to shun publicity.
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