Crimewatch 30th Anniversary (McCanns are guests) 16/09/2014

The programme also returns to meet some of the relatives and survivors of Crimewatch appeals past to see how their lives have moved on. Amongst those featured are Kate and Gerry McCann, Shaun and Josie Russell and Sally Anne Bowman's father Paul.

TheTruthWillOut wrote:

The programme also returns to meet some of the relatives and survivors of Crimewatch appeals past to see how their lives have moved on. Amongst those featured are Kate and Gerry McCann, Shaun and Josie Russell and Sally Anne Bowman's father Paul.

Another spot on Crimewatch for the McCann's. As the case is still on-going/unsolved, I don't know why they are amongst these other victims families. For the ratings I suppose.....

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Tony Bennett wrote:

TheTruthWillOut wrote:

The programme also returns to meet some of the relatives and survivors of Crimewatch appeals past to see how their lives have moved on. Amongst those featured are Kate and Gerry McCann, Shaun and Josie Russell and Sally Anne Bowman's father Paul.

Another spot on Crimewatch for the McCann's. As the case is still on-going/unsolved, I don't know why they are amongst these other victims families. For the ratings I suppose.....

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Not I think for ratings.

The effect of this appearance IMO will be to further cement in the minds of the public that the McCanns are the victims of a terrible crime against them

BlueBag wrote:This is very big.

Whatever it is.

BlueBag wrote:This is very big.

Whatever it is.

Gaggzy wrote:

BlueBag wrote:This is very big.

Whatever it is.

In my opinion, all this protection afforded to the McCanns and friends is not for THEIR benefit (although they obviously are benefiting) it's all the others who were secretly present in PdL that week (politicians? celebrities? Royals? people with knighthoods? household names?) who were merrily swinging it to each other who are receiving top-level protection.

Almost as if it were the very first episode of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Outta Here! (but don't let anyone know we were here in the first place). 

sallypelt wrote:These aren't buying it either:


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Nina wrote:

Gaggzy wrote:

BlueBag wrote:This is very big.

Whatever it is.

In my opinion, all this protection afforded to the McCanns and friends is not for THEIR benefit (although they obviously are benefiting) it's all the others who were secretly present in PdL that week (politicians? celebrities? Royals? people with knighthoods? household names?) who were merrily swinging it to each other who are receiving top-level protection.

Almost as if it were the very first episode of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Outta Here! (but don't let anyone know we were here in the first place). 

With respect Gaggzy, such high powered and known people would not be mooching and smooching around Praia da Luz. They would be in a far more special and secure place.

palm tree wrote:

Nina wrote:

Gaggzy wrote:

BlueBag wrote:This is very big.

Whatever it is.

In my opinion, all this protection afforded to the McCanns and friends is not for THEIR benefit (although they obviously are benefiting) it's all the others who were secretly present in PdL that week (politicians? celebrities? Royals? people with knighthoods? household names?) who were merrily swinging it to each other who are receiving top-level protection.

Almost as if it were the very first episode of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Outta Here! (but don't let anyone know we were here in the first place). 

With respect Gaggzy, such high powered and known people would not be mooching and smooching around Praia da Luz. They would be in a far more special and secure place.

I also think if this was about high powered and known people, this case would've been closed and forgotten about along time ago. But the mcs are still free and still getting donations to the fund (although hopefully a lot less).
IMO

Ladyinred wrote:... "The show is 30 years old this year, an occasion that is being marked by an episode with a number of special features, including a new interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, as well as relatives of other high-profile murder victims in which Crimewatch helped play a role in securing a conviction.

Ladyinred wrote:... "The show is 30 years old this year, an occasion that is being marked by an episode with a number of special features, including a new interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, as well as relatives of other high-profile murder victims in which Crimewatch helped play a role in securing a conviction.

The McCanns, of course, need no introduction.  Since their daughter Madeleine went missing from an apartment in the Portugese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007, their plight has haunted many parents.  A Crimewatch appeal for new information in October last year helped re-energise the police investigation and provide new leads.

As part of that appeal the couple were interviewed by Young, who confesses that it was one of the more challenging episodes of her career.  "You are asking two people to relive the most appalling day of their life, one I can't even begin to conjure," she says.  "Any parent has that moment of 'What happened, where are they?' - and if you have it for three seconds it's torture.  So the idea they have lived with that all these years...you can't imagine it.  Then you are asking them to relive it all over again.  It's not something you do without geat thought."

She was left admiring their strength.  "They're very together, they held each other's hands throughout the interview.  They have a great but incomplete family - and that's the point.  They are fundamentally driven by the fact that there are no knowns beyond the fact that their lovely little girl was taken from her room."

What also struck her, as it has when meeting any family with a relative who has been taken from them in brutal fashion, is what she calls the "ripple effect" of the aftermath.  "Particularly with murder, it profoundly affects everyone who loved the victim," she says.  "It's not just the parents, it's the siblings, grandparents, the cousins, friends.  I remember Kate McCann telling me that one of her preoccupations was how she was going to tell Madeleine's grandparents she was missing.  She knew it was going to utterly change their lives, too.  We often forget that."

Tony Bennett wrote:

BlueBag wrote:This is very big.

Whatever it is.

Yes. Former senior detctive John Stalker said the same thing over 7 years ago. He said: 'The McCanns are hiding a big secret'

HelenMeg wrote:

Ladyinred wrote:... "The show is 30 years old this year, an occasion that is being marked by an episode with a number of special features, including a new interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, as well as relatives of other high-profile murder victims in which Crimewatch helped play a role in securing a conviction.

The McCanns, of course, need no introduction.  Since their daughter Madeleine went missing from an apartment in the Portugese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007, their plight has haunted many parents.  A Crimewatch appeal for new information in October last year helped re-energise the police investigation and provide new leads.

As part of that appeal the couple were interviewed by Young, who confesses that it was one of the more challenging episodes of her career.  "You are asking two people to relive the most appalling day of their life, one I can't even begin to conjure," she says.  "Any parent has that moment of 'What happened, where are they?' - and if you have it for three seconds it's torture.  So the idea they have lived with that all these years...you can't imagine it.  Then you are asking them to relive it all over again.  It's not something you do without geat thought."

She was left admiring their strength.  "They're very together, they held each other's hands throughout the interview.  They have a great but incomplete family - and that's the point.  They are fundamentally driven by the fact that there are no knowns beyond the fact that their lovely little girl was taken from her room."

What also struck her, as it has when meeting any family with a relative who has been taken from them in brutal fashion, is what she calls the "ripple effect" of the aftermath.  "Particularly with murder, it profoundly affects everyone who loved the victim," she says.  "It's not just the parents, it's the siblings, grandparents, the cousins, friends.  I remember Kate McCann telling me that one of her preoccupations was how she was going to tell Madeleine's grandparents she was missing.  She knew it was going to utterly change their lives, too.  We often forget that."

It is just unbelievable that they can make such a statement. The case is still an open investigation with the PJ in Portugal and SY in UK.  The parents and friends have made highly questionable statements in their interviews. It is also unbelievable that someone supposedly intelligent such as Ms Young is still fawning.
What is the UK coming to ?

BlueBag wrote:

HelenMeg wrote:

Ladyinred wrote:... "The show is 30 years old this year, an occasion that is being marked by an episode with a number of special features, including a new interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, as well as relatives of other high-profile murder victims in which Crimewatch helped play a role in securing a conviction.

The McCanns, of course, need no introduction.  Since their daughter Madeleine went missing from an apartment in the Portugese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007, their plight has haunted many parents.  A Crimewatch appeal for new information in October last year helped re-energise the police investigation and provide new leads.

As part of that appeal the couple were interviewed by Young, who confesses that it was one of the more challenging episodes of her career.  "You are asking two people to relive the most appalling day of their life, one I can't even begin to conjure," she says.  "Any parent has that moment of 'What happened, where are they?' - and if you have it for three seconds it's torture.  So the idea they have lived with that all these years...you can't imagine it.  Then you are asking them to relive it all over again.  It's not something you do without geat thought."

She was left admiring their strength.  "They're very together, they held each other's hands throughout the interview.  They have a great but incomplete family - and that's the point.  They are fundamentally driven by the fact that there are no knowns beyond the fact that their lovely little girl was taken from her room."

What also struck her, as it has when meeting any family with a relative who has been taken from them in brutal fashion, is what she calls the "ripple effect" of the aftermath.  "Particularly with murder, it profoundly affects everyone who loved the victim," she says.  "It's not just the parents, it's the siblings, grandparents, the cousins, friends.  I remember Kate McCann telling me that one of her preoccupations was how she was going to tell Madeleine's grandparents she was missing.  She knew it was going to utterly change their lives, too.  We often forget that."

It is just unbelievable that they can make such a statement. The case is still an open investigation with the PJ in Portugal and SY in UK.  The parents and friends have made highly questionable statements in their interviews. It is also unbelievable that someone supposedly intelligent such as Ms Young is still fawning.
What is the UK coming to ?

I repeat this big... whatever it is.

The effort being made on their behalf by the establishment is staggering.

Rogue-a-Tory wrote:

BlueBag wrote:

HelenMeg wrote:

Ladyinred wrote:... "The show is 30 years old this year, an occasion that is being marked by an episode with a number of special features, including a new interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, as well as relatives of other high-profile murder victims in which Crimewatch helped play a role in securing a conviction.

The McCanns, of course, need no introduction.  Since their daughter Madeleine went missing from an apartment in the Portugese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007, their plight has haunted many parents.  A Crimewatch appeal for new information in October last year helped re-energise the police investigation and provide new leads.

As part of that appeal the couple were interviewed by Young, who confesses that it was one of the more challenging episodes of her career.  "You are asking two people to relive the most appalling day of their life, one I can't even begin to conjure," she says.  "Any parent has that moment of 'What happened, where are they?' - and if you have it for three seconds it's torture.  So the idea they have lived with that all these years...you can't imagine it.  Then you are asking them to relive it all over again.  It's not something you do without geat thought."

She was left admiring their strength.  "They're very together, they held each other's hands throughout the interview.  They have a great but incomplete family - and that's the point.  They are fundamentally driven by the fact that there are no knowns beyond the fact that their lovely little girl was taken from her room."

What also struck her, as it has when meeting any family with a relative who has been taken from them in brutal fashion, is what she calls the "ripple effect" of the aftermath.  "Particularly with murder, it profoundly affects everyone who loved the victim," she says.  "It's not just the parents, it's the siblings, grandparents, the cousins, friends.  I remember Kate McCann telling me that one of her preoccupations was how she was going to tell Madeleine's grandparents she was missing.  She knew it was going to utterly change their lives, too.  We often forget that."

It is just unbelievable that they can make such a statement. The case is still an open investigation with the PJ in Portugal and SY in UK.  The parents and friends have made highly questionable statements in their interviews. It is also unbelievable that someone supposedly intelligent such as Ms Young is still fawning.
What is the UK coming to ?

I repeat this big... whatever it is.

The effort being made on their behalf by the establishment is staggering.

IMO the roads lead to MSM

HelenMeg wrote:It is staggering - and it makes me ashamed of this country - no wonder Scots want to break free - (please take Gezza with you  if you go )

Ladyinred wrote:Agree, HelenMeg.  It's not just Kirsty Young, who I used to regard as an intelligent woman, it's the Crimewatch team and the BBC who need to be challenged on the stance taken by this programme towards the parents.  I don't know why Mr&Mrs are featuring in this special edition, as no-one has been charged or convicted of any crime relating to their daughter's disappearance.  As you say, it's an on-going investigation.

What has Crimewatch actually contributed to bringing to justice those who are responsible for the disappearance of MBM?

Gillyspot wrote:Kirsty Young is married to Nick Jones (owns Soho House private members club) who is a VERY close friend of Matthew Freud.

ETA - Wonder if the Crimewatch special will be aired at the same time as PT judges decision is announced. Hmm

PeterMac wrote:

Ladyinred wrote:... "The show is 30 years old this year, an occasion that is being marked by an episode with a number of special features, including a new interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, as well as relatives of other high-profile murder victims in which Crimewatch helped play a role in securing a conviction.

Have I read that correctly ?

As well as relatives of OTHER HIGH-PROFILE MURDER VICTIMS, in which Crime watch helped secure a conviction.  

Is that what they meant to say ?

Rufus T wrote:

PeterMac wrote:

Ladyinred wrote:... "The show is 30 years old this year, an occasion that is being marked by an episode with a number of special features, including a new interview with Kate and Gerry McCann, as well as relatives of other high-profile murder victims in which Crimewatch helped play a role in securing a conviction.

Have I read that correctly ?

As well as relatives of OTHER HIGH-PROFILE MURDER VICTIMS, in which Crime watch helped secure a conviction.  

Is that what they meant to say ?

I do hope so, perhaps I am wrong and the beeb are playing a blinder, but judging by previous TM outings on crimewatch I very much doubt it.

HelenMeg - no we absolutely will not take wee Gerry with us if we decide to go it alone  .