With these headlines arranged in chronological order it becomes clear how neatly these manipulate the thought processes of their readers. In my opinion the articles themselves are of little interest and I do not think that all Mirror and Mail readers would read the whole article when the headlines are so instructive as to what opinion they should form on the case.
Of particular interest are the 'troll' headlines, one in close conjunction with a suicide wish which is also in close conjunction with the court case in Lisbon and the dastardly deeds of the Portuguese. I apologise for the length of the post and the spacing which was a nightmare due to embedded formatting in the headlines. Spelling mistakes are original press copy so I left them in. This is followed with a timeline from September 2007 to August 2008 which links very neatly with the following headlines.
MCCANNS APPALLED BY NEWSGIRL'S SLUR07-06-2007MADELEINE McCann's parents were yesterday cruelly forced to deny being involved in her kidnap.
Kate and Gerry McCann to be cleared of any involvement in Maddy disappearance 02-07-2008 The 426-day police investigation into the four-year-old's case ended yesterday and detectives are thought to have found nothing linking the couple to her death or abduction.
Madeleine police claim 'blood found' in parents' hire car07-09-2007The mother of Madeleine McCann was today declared an "arguido" or formal suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of the missing four-year-old.
McCann witness tells of Kate's distress21-09-2007A new witness yesterday revealed what Kate McCann really shouted on the night her daughter vanished.
McCanns pray for help on hunt day 150 01-10-2007 Kate and Gerry McCann marked the 150th day since daughter Madeleine vanished praying for her safe return.
Kate McCann in tears during Madeleine TV appeal 24-10-2007 Kate McCann broke down in tears as she made a heartfelt appeal for help in finding her daughter in a television interview broadcast tonight.
Kate and Gerry McCann to be cleared of any involvement in Maddy disappearance 02-07-2008 The 426-day police investigation into the four-year-old's case ended yesterday and detectives are thought to have found nothing linking the couple to her death or abduction.
Kate and Gerry McCann to be cleared of any involvement in Maddy disappearance 02-07-2008 The 426-day police investigation into the four-year-old's case ended yesterday and detectives are thought to have found nothing linking the couple to her death or abduction.
Madeleine McCann's parents officially cleared as police shelve investigation 21-07-2008 Gerry and Kate McCann have spoken of their 'devastation and utter despair' at being named suspects in their daughter Madeleine's disappearance after Portuguese police shelved their investigation.
McCanns cleared: Kate and Gerry reveal despair over police hunt for Maddy but vow to continue search22-07-2008Angry Kate McCann poured scorn on Portuguese police yesterday as she and Gerry were cleared as suspects.
Madeleine McCann: Gerry McCann angrily dismiss detectives' claims over Maddy 13-01-2010Gerry McCann angrily dismissed Portuguese detectives' claims that his daughter Madeleine is dead as he arrived at court today.
Kate McCann made a suspect in Maddy disappearance after a nightmare 13-01-2010 The astonishing revelation came during the McCanns’ libel action against disgraced detective Goncalo Amaral.
Madeleine McCann: Scotland Yard to aid search for missing girl after parents impassioned appeal 12-05-2011Scotland Yard will "bring their expertise" to the search for missing Madeleine McCann, the Home Office said tonight.
Madeleine McCann’s parents speak of anguish over some press coverage of daughter's disappearance 24-11-2011 Madeleine McCann’s parents said yesterday they were “totally unprepared” for the media interest in their daughter’s disappearance.
Madeleine McCann: Scotland Yard to aid search for missing girl after parents impassioned appeal 12-05-2011Scotland Yard will "bring their expertise" to the search for missing Madeleine McCann, the Home Office said tonight.
Revealed: How shamed cop made a fortune spouting lies about Madeleine McCann's parents 12-02-2012 Gonçalo Amaral has been paid at least £320,000 for a book and DVD peddling his outrageous claims that Kate and Gerry McCann covered up the death of Madeleine
'Maddy's alive': Police reveal new evidence suggests missing Madeleine McCann may still be alive 25-04-2012The sensational news came as police released an age progression image of what Maddy would look like today
Keep looking for Madeleine: McCanns encouraged by new developments in hunt for missing daughter 26-04-2012A new age-progressed picture of Madeleine was released yesterday as police revealed they believe she may still be alive
Maddy case must be reopened: Cop who led the botched Portuguese hunt calls on authorities to act 28-04-2012Goncarlo Amaral is being sued by the McCanns but even so sided with the couple after Portuguese authorities refused to reopen the case
Five restless years: My utter admiration for Madeleine McCann's parents 01-05-2012For five years their lives have been a sleepless hell, haunted by nightmares of what might have happened to her that night and ever since
'Maddy could be alive': Madeleine McCann's parents reveal fresh hope on fifth anniversary of daughter's disappearance 02-05-2012 Kate and Gerry McCann said they were feeling "probably as positive" as they had been for a long time in finding Maddy alive
"I am absolutely certain it was her": Portuguese taxi driver claims police have ignored his possible sighting of missing Madeleine McCann 02-05-2012 McCann spokesman says it is "deeply shocking" that detectives have never interviewed Antonio Castela
'Our new hope for Maddy': Parents more positive than ever after 95 new leads found in case review 03-05-2012Kate and Gerry McCann revealed they are more confident than ever the mystery will be solved thanks to a Scotland Yard review of her case
Why we still care about Madeleine McCann05-05-2012 Those who sneer at the search for Madeleine McCann are denying that little girl’s humanity
Maddy 'sighting': 'Groggy-looking' girl identical to Madeleine McCann seen at campsite with German couple 08-05-2012 Little girl looked "out of it" at campsite just three days after Maddy vanished from Portugal holiday resort
"I don’t think it’ll be long before she reincarnates": TV medium Derek Acorah 'claims that Madeleine McCann is dead' 15-05-2012 Most Haunted medium 'claims that he was told missing girl had died by spirit messenger called Sam'
"Really positive": Maddy's mum Kate goes to Downing Street to back new missing children hotline
23-05-2012 Kate McCann, whose daughter disappeared in 2007 aged three, said the 116000 missing children phone number was a "lifeline"
2013
Millionaire child abuser and girlfriend accused of trying to extort £2.5m from missing Madeleine McCann's parents are arrested in Portugal hideout
By GERARD COUZENS - 06/07/2013 17:23:39 Italian Danilo Chemello, 67, and his Portuguese girlfriend Aurora Pereira Vaz, 60, were arrested on the same charges in 2007 but were released.
Why SHOULD we help find Maddie, ask Portugal's police chiefs, as they ridicule Scotland Yard claims of new leads on missing girlBy NICK FAGGE IN PRAIA DA LUZ r - 06/07/2013 12:01:24 Portugal's top lawyer has said British officers investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance will not be able to 'conduct any interviews or any other action'.
Scotland Yard detectives to return to holiday resort where Madeleine McCann vanished 'within days' to follow up new leadsBy STEVE NOLAN - 20/07/2013 12:15:17 Metropolitan Police officers could potentially interview suspects, search properties and even make arrests in the Algarve where Madeleine McCann, pictured, disappeared in 2007.
New Portuguese police team in Maddie hunt: Officers to quiz 30 'people of interest' including cab driver who may picked up toddler the night after she vanished By GERARD COUZENS 25/08/2013 15:58:08
Police in Portugal are putting a new team together after the initial shambolic investigation to help Scotland Yard look for Madeleine McCann, who went missing in 2007.
Kate McCann came close to suicide after Portuguese former police chief unleashed a 'smear campaign' against her, reveals her psychologist By GERARD COUZENS - 19/09/2013 19:12:17 Alan Pike, Kate McCann's psychologist, told a civil court in Lisbon she confessed 'dark thoughts' to him after Goncalo Amaral's book was published.
'Anti-McCann' websites plotted to kidnap one of Madeleine's siblings 'to find out what they knew about her disappearance', court hears By GERARD COUZENS r - 27/09/2013 11:53:30Internet trolls fuelled by an ex police chief's claims about the McCanns incited conspiracy-theorists to plot to kidnap the couple's twins Sean and Amelie, a court heard today.
Madeleine's parents pain at losing her was 'multiplied 100 times' by police chief's book, court hears as her father expresses disappointment he couldn't give evidence By DAILY MAIL REPORTER -- - 04/10/2013 08:00:41Gerry McCann is seeking to testify in the family's libel case against Goncaro Amaral, who published a book about the three-year-old's disappearance.
'The pieces of the jigsaw are now fitting together': Missing Maddie's parents 'greatly encouraged' by new mobile phone evidence as probe spreads to Holland and Germany By SANCHEZ MANNING -- - 05/10/2013 23:29:49Kate McCann (left) is hopeful that new evidence uncovered by Scotland Yard could shed light on the whereabouts of her child Madeleine (right).
Police investigating theory that Madeleine McCann was taken by paedophile ring 05-10-2013Portugese detectives are now working on the theory that British paedophiles active in the resorts of the Algarve were responsible
Was Maddie abducted by burglars she disturbed at holiday flat? Scotland Yard probes new theory as McCanns prepare to make 'significant' TV appeal By STEPHEN WRIGHT -- - 05/10/2013 10:22:16Detectives think her disappearance could be linked to a series of break-ins at the Portuguese resort from which she vanished, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Parents of Madeleine McCann say pieces of the jigsaw are now fitting together 06-10-2013Kate and Gerry will appear in a Crimewatch special this month in the light of “fresh, substantive” material found by UK detectives
Scotland Yard 'to release image of a suspect in the search for Madeleine McCann' By HUGO GYE -- - 09/10/2013 13:57:41 Officials apparently hope the photograph will enable them to track the man down, more than six years after Madeleine went missing in Portugal.
Kate McCann tells libel hearing she wants to defend herself in court against ‘smears’ made against her by Portuguese police By GERARD COUZENS -- - 09/10/2013 15:07:06 Kate and Gerry McCann are suing ex-Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral who suggested in a book that they covered up their daughter's death.
Madeleine McCann trial: Mum Kate wants to defend herself in libel case against ex-cop's smears 09-10-2013 The McCann family is suing Goncalo Amaral over claims he made in his book about the case - including alleging they had hidden Madeleine's body
Madeleine McCann: New E-fit of suspect 'set to be released by police' 09-10-2013 Police are refusing to confirm the development, reported by Sky News, but the image may be included in Monday's Crimewatch appeal
Madeleine McCann The shots cops pray will nail Maddy's abductor: Crimewatch to air reconstruction of tennis match with parents 13-10-2013 The match, where Madeleine acted as ball girl, is one poignant scene recreated by actors for Monday night's programme
Madeleine McCann files: Timeline of evidence of Maddie's disappearance 14-10-2013 At 7.30pm on May 3, 2007, little Madeleine has breakfast with her family. By 10pm that night she had been taken - here's the evidence so far
Is this the man who took Maddie? Scotland Yard releases two e-fits of 'smirking' suspect and promises 'revelation' on tonight's Crimewatch By MARTIN ROBINSON,REBECCA CAMBER -- - 14/10/2013 19:18:03 Detectives say the man may speak German, is white, aged 20 to 40, has short brown hair, is medium height and build, and is clean-shaven.
A nightmare reconstructed: New video of Madeleine's last hours with her parents is released as McCanns launch Crimewatch appeal to find their missing daughter six years after she disappeared By WILLS ROBINSON -- - 14/10/2013 11:04:45 Pictures of men seen in and around the Portuguese town of Praia da Luz on the night of Maddie's disappearance will also be shown during tomorrow night's special episode on BBC Crimewatch.
So could this TV reconstruction end the distasteful slurs about Kate and Gerry? By SUE REID -- - 14/10/2013 10:04:32 New revelations in tonight's episode of BBC Crimewatch have the potential to discredit different claims of what happened the night Madeleine disappeared
Maddie detectives hunting two 'German-speaking men': E-fit of suspects revealed this week as McCanns pray Crimewatch reconstruction results in a breakthrough By ABUL TAHER ,NICK CRAVEN -- - 14/10/2013 08:39:50 The images, based on eyewitness accounts of 'two German-speaking men', will be broadcast on Crimewatch at 9pm on Monday night. Scotland Yard says the un-identified men were seen in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz at the time when Madeleine, then aged three, went missing on May 3, 2007.
Just minutes from saving Maddie: 10pm sighting suggests mother almost caught kidnapper in the act By REBECCA CAMBER,NEIL SEARS,MARTIN ROBINSON -- - 15/10/2013 08:50:56 Detectives believe a suspect seen carrying a child 500 yards from the McCanns’ holiday apartment was the kidnapper who had struck just moments before the mother went to check on her children.
Madeleine McCann Crimewatch appeal: Was kidnapper still in Maddie's room when mum Kate McCann checked on her? 15-10-2013 The mother revealed she heard a door "slam shut" shortly before she found her daughter was missing, and saw curtains moving at an open window
Crimewatch callers 'name' Maddie suspect: McCanns delighted by overwhelming response to TV reconstruction By REBECCA CAMBER,NEIL SEARS -- - 16/10/2013 01:55:55 Police are chasing new leads in the Madeleine McCann case after being swamped by almost 1,000 tip-offs from the public.
Who did the key witness see? Police say it is possible that family saw Maddie being taken by her abductorBy REBECCA CAMBER -- - 16/10/2013 11:13:40 The sighting came when Martin Smith, a retired businessman in his 70s, was walking back to his apartment in the Algarve resort following a meal and drinks at a bar with his wife and children.
Twitter trolls attack the McCanns with sick messages and taunts in run-up to Crimewatch appeal By STEPHEN WRIGHT -- - 16/10/2013 08:08:13 Kate and Gerry McCann were subjected to appalling taunts. One troll tweeted a picture of the McCanns as Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.
Detectives probing Madeleine McCann disappearance receive another 150 calls after fresh appeal on Dutch TV to identify 'fair-haired men' seen near apartment By ROB COOPER -- - 16/10/2013 20:33:21 The new calls, after a broadcast on Opsporing Verzocht, will raise hopes that police can make a breakthrough in the hunt for the missing girl.
Madeleine McCann: Over 2400 calls and emails to police after TV appeals in UK and Europe 17-10-2013 Detectives are trying to identify a number of fair-haired men, possibly Dutch or German nationals, who were seen near the McCann apartment
Inside the squalid camp where blonde girl, four, was found after being 'abducted by gypsies'... the discovery brings fresh hope for Maddy McCann's parents By SIMON MURPHY -- - 19/10/2013 23:45:24