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Things You Always Wanted To Ask Kate And Gerry McCann, But Couldn’t

February 7, 2012

Ben Delicious writes from London: As the search for Madeleine McCann, who had vanished in May 2007 in Portugal, continues, compliments of the British taxpayers, imagine if you could have put some seriously tough questions to Kate and Gerry McCann, to set the record straight on some of the troubling aspects of this whole affair that seems to be preoccupying a lot of people. What would you have asked the couple and what would they have told you?

Gripping stuff, this, eh? Much more exciting than a real interview.

Anyway, judging by the strong feelings Madeleine’s disappearance continues to stir among the masses, I suppose the first question to the McCanns would probably sound something like: ‘Have you had anything to do with your daughter going missing?

It’s a hard-hitting question reflecting the suspicions that some people harbour – good word ‘harbour’ when used in this context – about the McCanns having had something to do with their daughter disappearing from their holiday apartment in Algarve that evening.

Now, I’m no psychic but I guess Kate McCann would have responded like this: ‘We have no knowledge where Maddy is and we have nothing to do with her disappearance. We resent the idea that we could have been involved in this. No, we didn’t kill her and dispose of her body and no, we didn’t sell her to a wealthy couple in America for $350,000, to supposedly pay off Gary’s gambling debts that some people have been saying.’

The next question might have been this: ‘Why did you leave your small children alone in your apartment, even though you were offered the services of a nanny?’

Before we hear the imaginary answer, I’d like to point out that it’s a killer question. Because no proper answer to that exists, to be honest.

Anyway, I suspect Kate would have said something along the following lines: ‘We didn’t hire a nanny because the children would not have liked a total stranger to be with them in their room. We were dining with our friends, a mere 100 yards from the building, and I was watching the entrance all the time. It’s not like we were somewhere far away. You can’t really say that we had abandoned our children. We were there for them.’

It’s a weak answer, by all standards, but hey, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.

Another tough question could have sounded like: ‘Why were you so surprised that the Portuguese police made you prime suspects at some point of their investigation, considering that you left your children alone and that no sightings of any suspicious people in the area were provided?’

Another tough one. I suspect Gerry would have answered this one. ‘We were appalled to think that anyone could suspect us of any involvement in Maddy’s disappearance,’ he might have said, frowning. ‘Imagine, your daughter vanishes, you’re devastated and then you have to go through the indignity of undergoing questioning, as if you’ve had something to do with it.’

And that sort of makes sense, if you think about it. No one likes to be suspected by the cops of anything, especially kidnapping your own kid. But then again, not that many people in Portugal leave their small children all by themselves, to go out and party. Although I hear that on some council estates in Britain this is becoming very popular among liberated single mothers.

But then another killer question comes up: ‘Did you realise that the Portuguese authorities could have prosecuted you for child neglect and that the social services in Britain could have taken your two remaining children from you and put them into care for leaving them alone?’

This one is for Kate. So she would have probably said: ‘We never thought about prosecution. We didn’t consider ourselves to be neglecting our children. We love our children. We would never hurt them or cause them any suffering. Why would anyone want to take them away from us?’

Not a great answer, to be honest, but then what else can she say? That she neglected her kids and didn’t give a damn? Still, it would have been nice to know how is it that they got away with it, considering that in Portugal the law comes hard on you if you leave your kids on their own. But as there would be no chance of getting any answer to that from the McCanns, even in an imaginary interview, we’d better skip that.

But the next question is a toughie as well: ‘Do you blame yourselves for your daughter’s disappearance?’

I imagine that Gery would answer that one. ‘Some people may think what they wish, accusing us of leaving our children. But all we want is to get our daughter back. And we won’t rest until we find her.’

Clever answer, that. Refusing to accept any blame and yet stressing that they are devoted to continuing looking for their daughter.

Then comes the cynical question: ‘Some people say that you have turned yourselves into celebrities, jetting around the world, raising money to fund the search for your daughter. Some even say that you do it, even though you’re pretty sure that she’s dead. And some even hint that you know perfectly well that she’s dead. What do you say to that?’

‘We are only doing it for Maddy,’ Kate would reply. ‘It’s got nothing to do with celebrity. We are acting on behalf of all parents who have lost their children. We give them hope that they missing children are still alive.’

Good answer, that. Sort of makes you feel embarrassed to question the motives of the couple.

Then the next question: ‘Is it true, Kate, that you started a diary on the day after Madeleine’s disappearance? Sounds a bit creepy, if you ask me. What do you say to that?’

And Kate would look with that devastated look of hers and say: ‘I wanted to keep my sanity intact. The diary was a good distraction for me. It helped me to forget the pain.’

Well, whatever anyone thinks of that answer, I still think it’s spooky to start a diary in such a situation. And to use it later as a basis for a book.

Finally, the last question would probably be about the backers who help the McCanns to raise money and do their PR. ‘So who are the people, guys, who help you continue your search for Maddy? Are there any well-known names among them?’

Silence would probably initially greet this question. And then Kate would say: ‘They are all good people. We could not have done it without them.’

And there you have. Even after all those tough questions and answers to them we’re none the wiser. And will probably never be. Although, as they say, no secret remains a secret for ever. So there’s still a chance that we might one day find out what had actually happened.

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  • anon

    Haha! and you know that IS exactly how they would answer those questions too….

  • Sonia

    Some more questions:-

    Where has all the money gone?

    Why do you employ the most fearsome and most expensive lawyers to protect your reputation while employing dubious detective agencies with no experience in locating missing persons and who have had NO success to date?

    How much ‘hush money’ have you received from News International and other newspaper groups?

    Are these payments all fully accounted for in your ‘search’ fund’s accounts?

    Was the figure you received for serialisation of your book from NI really £200,000? Or was it closer to £500,000 as has been suggested – albeit by an anonymous hack on Twitter.

    Did some of this money come from the News of the World’s £2.5m reward fund, partly collected from generous readers? What has happened to this reward fund since the closure of NOTW? (ok, so that’s a question for NI)

    Why did Gerry have to return to Rothley to collect Madeleine’s pillowcase for a DNA sample? Why was there not sufficient DNA in the apartment where she had stayed for 5 days prior to her disappearance? From the clothes she had been wearing or from the pillow she had been sleeping on? Did your three children REALLY share a toothbrush? Come on.

    Why did you initially claim that you had locked the doors and the abductor had jemmied open the bedroom shutter then 6 days later, after the shutters had been proven impossible to open from the outside, change your statement to indicate that you had in fact left the doors unlocked?

    Gerry, you stated at the Leveson inquiry that you ‘strongly believe in freedom of speech’. Why then do you insist on suing those who propose an alternative theory? e.g Goncalo Amaral, Tony Bennett. As there is NO proof of an abduction and since you and your friends have refused to return to Portugal for a reconstruction and, since you have in fact not been cleared of involvement by any court, why can’t you accept that people will continue to speculate based on the available evidence?

    Did you really abandon your children night after night? How bad does the truth have to be if child neglect is in fact your cover story?

    Why exactly is it that your establishment and media luvvie chums hold you in such high regard?

    I could go on and on. And on.

    One final, general question:-

    Why, oh why is it apparently considered by so many to be politically incorrect to criticise the McCanns??

  • Missypuddleduck

    No wishing to appear pedantic but it’s Gerry, not Gary

  • pete

    Kate and Gerry    Are you two not absoutely delighted with the backing of such prominant people, such as celebrities and Politicians?…Do you wonder why ordinary people do not believe you? bet you can’t believe your luck! Did God let you down very badly? he must love paedophiles his ‘churche’s’ are full of them…

  • mahatmacoatmabag

    Beyond a shadow of a doubt an unexplained traumatic event, most likely a death, occured in apt.5a of the Ocean Club in PDL, the McCanns apartment.
    The Cadaver Dogs, Eddie & Keela detected the Scent of Death in the apartment & on clothes belonging to the McCanns & more suprisingly in the Renault Scenic rented by the McCanns some 25 days after their daughter Madeleine disapeared. This along with a blood spot discovered on the wall behind a sofa with a near match to Madeleines DNA has cast doubt in the minds of many members of the public as to the likelyhood that Madeleine was Abducted, especialy not by the Mysterious Romany like man that a member of the Tapas 9 , Jane Tanner, claims to have seen that night carrying a small girl away from the Ocean Club.
    This particular sighting of a man & child , witnessed only by Jane Tanner, is further mysterious in that the trained Search & Rescue Dogs of the GNR ( local police  )  failed to detect a scent trail of, along the path he is alleged to have taken, carrying a child presumed to be Madeline McCann. The S & R dogs had been allowed to sniff artifacts with the childs scent but failed to find any scent trail of a live Madeleine McCann having been removed from apt.5a, unlike the positive Scent Alerts found by the Cadaver Dogs.
    The Policia Judical Detectives led by G. Amaral came to the conclusion that a Tragic Accident occured to the Child  Madeleine, left like her younger siblings, unsupervised by an Adult night after night whilst Kate & Gerry McCann wined & dined with their friends out of sight & earshot at the Tapas Bar & this was the basis for their being made ‘Arguidos’  – suspects.There is much else about this case that does not endear Kate & Gerry McCann to the Informed & Enlightened Public, their refusal to answer police questions & continued lack of co-operation in matters such as taking part in a Reconstruction, their Political Connections to the Labour Party , its Govt. at the time, their connections to Free Masonery & their Medical Professional circle of friends, the unusual method of their collection of donations in that their Fund is Not a Charity but a Limited Commercial Company & the large amounts spent on Lawyers especialy Libel Lawyers, the use of dubious Private Detective companies & reliance on PR  shenanigans such as Kates book which is more about herself than her daughter.
    They have Not been charged with any crime, not even the obvious Child Neglect, & are no longer official suspects, the case having been shelved, but suspicions linger. You must draw your own conclusions about the McCanns & the fate of their missing daughter Madeleine, since the authorities have been unable to either find her or charge anybody with a crime.
    I hope you will all join me in hoping that Madeleine McCann will be found alive someday soon

  • Bigpete

    Kate, Gerry Can you tell us which was the most painful aspect of this whole epidode of your life.

    Kate first: Well, err there was.err windows were jemmied err I men  I mean um windows of oppertunity and all we want to say is a little um  err  you know  she   her   um is missing we want to find her.

    I repeat the question; most painful aspect?

    Kate; yes well,  it is sickening that he is making money out of a book  about a little missing girl and not giving us any of it and we should have  had first dibs on books being written. So His book cause us excruciating pain - our dignity was compromised and our twins names have been   you know  been done something to  human rights things. Laws have been broken .

    Gerry: I want to add to that that as a close very loving family full of love for each other  we almost died from shock  when we found out he had to give us money from the sale of his book it was like taking candy from a baby… But we deserved it because we were very ill and very depressed we locked ourselves away to grieve…*he looks at clarence*  well we would have done that but there is a little girl  missing and we need to find her…

    So to sum up you were both badly affected mentally by the book?

    Both; nod  and say yes!

    So, just a quick fire one?   did you both understand that question? was it too difficult? Because the reply was expected to be: detailed account of your grief for your daughter  who may be being raped by peeods, tortured by gypsies?….

    Gerry. half grin; well you know we were upset but there is absolutely no evidence we had anything to do with that.

    Kate: well I I  Gave it some thought. and you know. it was like, you know, just because I AM a doctor it does not mean I harmed my child indeed there is no evidence, and I ..she may be dead but that is not our fault.. I mean yes she could have been dragged off b y a peedo ring to order  and terrible things may have been done to her   but i had to stop thinking about that due to my heavy schedule  to find her.. You know  visit the pope and high ranking politicians and celebrites it has beed exhausting  and worse doing that with my deep depression brought about by a book. besides whoever has her.. she will give her tuppence worth.. she would never go with a stranger! NEVER!

    Stranger? ok what about someone she knew….?

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