Remember this?
"As far back as 9 December 2007, the satirical internet journal Anorak brought news of how Stephen Winyard was hosting week-long swinging parties - an echo of claims long made by McCann blogger 'Textusa' "
You should do, Baldylocks. You said it.
So here's the article link again
http://www.anorak.co.uk/178278/madeleine-mccann/madeleine-mccann-and-another-thing-gordon-brown-stephen-winyard-says-and-christmas.html/
Would you like me to publish every word of that article, so that you can point to the bit you mention above? No?
Okay then.
So where is it?Madeleine McCann: And Another Thing Gordon Brown, Stephen Winyard Says And Christmas
by Anorak | 9th, December 2007
MADDY WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE PEOPLE: “Madeleine probe hit by delays”Eight months of looking and now this headline..?“Police plans to quiz Maddie McCann’s parents again look set to be delayed until after Christmas” – who works over Christmas?STAR ON SUNDAY: “MCCANN QUIZMAS”“Kate and Gerry McCann fear Portuguese police could turn up on their doorstep on Christmas Day” – They should read The People and stop worrying about “dithering Algarve detectives”; the tabloid press’s not-so-wise menSays a source close to the couple: “They’re desperate for their first Christmas without Madeleine to be an intimate, private affair. But they’re on tenterhooks because the occasion could be gatecrashed”Maybe their private detectives can save the day? Metodo 3 director Francisco Marco tells us: “I think it’s going very well. I am unable to say too much except that everything is very positive.” At a rate of £2,000-a-day, hard to see how things could be negative…“MCCANNS ‘WILL BE CLEARED BY XMAS’” – so reported the Star one week agoDAILY MAIL: “Red tape could delay questioning of McCanns until after Christmas”
“Police questioning of Gerry and Kate McCann over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine could be delayed until after Christmas. Portuguese detectives are ready to fly to the UK and have prepared letters with questions the couple and their seven holiday friends must answer. But they are being held up by a mass of red tape”Gerry and Kate McCann are “doctors”. Such are the factsTHE TIMES: “Brown ‘ignores’ plea by McCanns”McCann backer Stephen Winyard, who owns a Scottish health spa, says the “shutters had gone up” after Portuguese police named Gerry and Kate McCann as suspects: “Our request to meet with ministers – the prime minister, the home secretary and the foreign secretary – has still not been met”It was one so different with Gordon ‘Columbo’ BrownSUNDAY HERALD: “Tycoon blasts Brown over missing Madeleine”Stephen Winyard has also offered a £1m reward for Madeleine’s returnSays he: “”This government was elected to look after its citizens. And it’s fair to say it’s a fundamental principle of our legal system that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. With that in mind, I would really strongly urge that Gordon Brown, who has previously been really supportive, accede to our request for a meeting at ministerial level”Will Gordon Brown meet the McCann party then look at every missing person and apparent crime?Says Winyard: “Both Gerry and Kate have been through an absolute nightmare and they’re facing some very difficult weeks with Christmas coming up”Gordon Brown is a politician. Such are the facts
Interesting to see that in December 2007 the PM, Foreign secretary and Home Office were still not interested in meeting the McCs. Seeing that they asked for these meetings as early as September 2007 (Vanity Fair Interview - where Clarence must have been fast asleep though present - took place end September 2007, published in February issue). They were offered consular level assistance but they turned that down.
ReplyDeleteAs for those swings at the Spa, completely misunderstood, part of the exercise regime you'd expect to use in any Health Farm of note.
I think the minute they had their collars felt, the politicos shrieked in horror and ran to the other end of the bus, rather like gap year students confronted by a tarantula. Or soap.
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