Madeleine McCann: Gerry McCann Talks With Vanity Fair
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DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE: THE BIG INTERVIEW”
“Our regret”
“GERRY: I wish we have never gone to the tapas bar”
“KATE: I wish I’d seen the stranger watching us”
“READ THEIR HEARTBREAKING WORDS INSIDE”
Voyeurs, campaigners, police and handwringers come see the pain, the suffering the agony. Prepare to be heartbroken!
“Riddled with guilt, the distraught” Gerry will tell all to the Mirror. Well, not to the Mirror, rather to Vanity Fair magazine. Journalist Judy Bachrach spoke with Gerry in October near the family home in Rothley, Leicestershire
And the interview is not with Gerry and Kate. Only Gerry McCann was interviewed, says the Mail. Kate McCann’s words come via friends and family
Pages 4 and 5: “I WISH”.
It reads very much like a prayer, or a camping speech by Barack Obama. Says Gerry McCann:
“I wish I hadn’t gone to the tapas bar.
“I wish I’d have stayed in the apartment that night
“I wish I’d stayed in the room when I checked on her five minutes longer”
A wish…
Says Gerry McCann: “”At the time we did it, it was not irresponsible. 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. You are not asking anything we don’t think about on a daily basis. We live this 24 hours a day”
Gerry says his world went “all black, with maybe tiny points of light” in the days after Madeleine vanished. “We can’t cry our eyes out every day because that’s not helping. So after three days I picked myself up…quicker than Kate could. Grief washes over you. It’s like a big wave, mostly I was able to beat it back”
And the Madeleine ‘Look into my eyes’ campaign? Says Gerry: “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”
THE SUN: “Life’s bleak but I cling to hope”
Says Gerry McCann: “People can support you in your darkest hours and in our case the darkest hour was of course when Madeleine went missing. Now it is just bleak”
In next month’s Vanity Fair: “The interview with Gerry came as it emerged GORDON BROWN has snubbed the McCanns’ request for a meeting; furious Kate EXPLODED when cops first told her she was a suspect; and family spokesman Clarence Mitchell has given a university SPEECH on the topic Missing Maddie McCann — the perfect PR campaign
“A pal of the McCanns said Kate, 39, believes the family were STALKED by Maddie’s kidnapper in the days before she went missing”. WOW
COUPLE hit back on film. Says Clarence Mitchell, the spokesperson: “It is not us being greedy. It is us being needy“
DAILY MAIL: “It’s all my fault, admits Maddie’s father”
Well, not quite. Gerry McCann is making no confession. He maintains that the fault lies with a kidnapper. Says the Mail: “Gerry McCann is tortured by guilt that Madeleine’s disappearance is his fault”
Will he tell all? Mr McCann tells Vanity Fair’s Judy Bachrach: “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”
“THIRD POLICE SUSPECT BREAKS HIS SILENCE” – Says Robert Murat to Vanity Fair: “All I can say is that I am innocent”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE - MOTHER IS SHUNNED BY PRIEST”
Page 9: “KATE’S SCREAMS AS POLICE TOLD HER: YOU’RE A SUSPECT – KATE McCann screamed when told by police that she was a suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance, it emerged yesterday. Opening the door of her rented villa to a Portuguese officer the family had come to know, Kate, 39, shouted: ‘Do you honestly believe that I would murder my own child?’”
Gerry McCann is a “39-year-old cardiologist”. Facts!
On the speculation: “Gerry says bitterly: ‘Yes, yes, I know. Kate killed her in a frenzy, Madeleine was sedated by us, she fell down the stairs – in which case you would have thought they’d have found her body. I’ve heard all of that. There are a huge number of theories in the media. But what I want to know is, who told them all that?’”
DAILY STAR: “Anguished and painfully thin, his wife Kate was too upset to answer even a single question during the interview with glossy US magazine Vanity Fair. Gerry revealed in the 7,500-word magazine article he had to be coaxed by a counsellor into talking publicly about his daughter in the days after she disappeared”
DAILY RECORD: “Maddie’s Dad: Slim Chance Of Getting Her Back”
“Distraught Gerry McCann has admitted the chances of him seeing his missing daughter Madeleine again are ‘slim’”
VANITY FAIR: “Unanswered Prayers”
“After three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on a family vacation in Portugal, her parents pursued a high-stakes strategy: media saturation. It succeeded beyond their wildest imaginings—winning the aid of everyone from J. K. Rowling to the Pope—and failed miserably. Getting the first in-depth interview with Gerry McCann since he and his wife, Kate, were declared suspects, the author re-traces their footsteps to their daughter’s empty bed”
And then a policeman appeared. His name Ricardo. “Because for months they used to have regular weekly meetings with the Portuguese police, and then they stopped,” recalls Gerry’s older sister Trish Cameron
“Do you have something to tell us?” Ricardo asked.
“No,” Kate replied. “Do you have something to tell us?”
“He nodded. “Yes. You are being made arguidos”…
Eight months of talking - read it all…
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January 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
there is a saying here in ireland.THE CLOSER TO THE CHURCH YOU ARE,THE FUTHER YOU ARE FROM GOD karen you are spot on.people hide in the church
January 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
123/peter o
I always had a certain respect for Vanity Fair. In that they usually covered current events with accuracy and style.
Now I wonder if they are slipping in readership. To publish a soap opera as in kate and gerry McCann leads me to believe they are loosing credibility.
To think they may move to the USA? That might work for them. After all look at O.J.Simpson.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:45 am
they have got us talking about films and how sorry they are when we should be talking about the real news this week…..blood in car…….resignations……..
January 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
169 Peter O
Having looked into ‘the fund’ I don’t actually see anything legally amiss. What ‘crime’ do you think they may have committed?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
160
Peter O Says:
“It wasn’t until Kate walked into the villa at 10 and felt a sickening breeze—the front window had been jimmied open—that she realized something terrible had happened.”
Ahh.. so the window (not the shutter you’ll note) was jimmied?
REPLY: “Amazing that they are sticking to this discredited story. Why would an abductor ‘jimmie’ the window (from the inside) rather than open it? Or did he somehow manage to ‘jimmie’ the window from the outside without touching the shutter in any way? Extraordinary.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:43 am
that vanity fair shit was done in October
January 10th, 2008 at 10:43 am
168 Karen Says: January 10th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Peter O
‘And felt a sickening breeze’? Is that said/written by Gerry or an extremely crap hack?
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Think that’s the hacks finest work!
Though I don’t believe for one minute that this article saw the light of day without serious editorial “input” from Team McCann.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:43 am
160 Immediately its undermined the validity of the entire article.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Does anyone know who if anyone other than Esther McVey resigned from the fund?
Has anyone seen any coverage in the british press about Gerry McCanns links to COMARE, EDF and GB?
Delighted that they have given that interview to Vanity Fair as it reveals a bit more about their character. However, I also feel that this interview may be better received out there than we think - amid the broader british public that has not been following this charade as attemptively and critically as this forum.
In any case it has already had the desired effect of moving the issue of the films and the resignation of the funds from the public eye. Clarence is doing is job v well IMO.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:42 am
KAREN inter faith sound like a wounderfull way to go,and im sure this country could learn alot from it but to use term devout catholic is not suggestive of inter faith pratices
January 10th, 2008 at 10:41 am
159 Salomon ES Says: January 10th, 2008 at 10:36 am
130 Chenier
Combating extradiction seems to be the main strenght of their legal team if you look at their backgrounds. I’m just not sure they’ll ever use this strenght.
I mentioned this before a few days ago when a portuguese newspaper suggested that they would face trial in britain.
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I wonder if any of the Limited Company, colloquially known as “The Fund”, issues (assuming there are any of course) might fall within UK jurisdiction?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Peter O
‘And felt a sickening breeze’? Is that said/written by Gerry or an extremely crap hack?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:40 am
4 May
I was going to say that.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:40 am
155 Karen
People who commit crimes go to religion and religious people for ‘forgiveness’.
For me, it was Kates immediate requirement for a priest and their sudden ‘devoutness’ which is the big ‘giveaway’.
One of the most dishonest people I ever met was a devout christian - some of the time - and one of the worse ’sinners’ the rest of the time!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I think it is time they went to another quiz night..at PJ headquarters
and life begins at 40 ..how about in a PJ jail.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
122 Vera Says:
“I’m with Karen in that I hate them for the way they have ‘behaved’ . ”
So you also go by René Descartes’ famous sentence
“I think therefore I am angry.”
January 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
143
Will Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:27 am
105 Chenier
Even more reason for each person to have separate legal representation and counsel, don’t you think?
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Absolutely.
It is extraordinary that the McCanns high powered legal team has apparently not pointed this out.
Of course, they may have done so already but are unable to put that into the media…
January 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Ian 146,
Someone could always phone Chaplins, might not get any info, but no harm trying:
Chaplin´s
Avenida dos Pescadores, Lote 4 - Praia da Luz
8600-130 Luz - Lagos
Tel.: 282789932
January 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Still on BF
January 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
And another brilliant comment from Vanity Fair
“It wasn’t until Kate walked into the villa at 10 and felt a sickening breeze—the front window had been jimmied open—that she realized something terrible had happened.”
Ahh.. so the window (not the shutter you’ll note) was jimmied?
This is beginning to read like one of these revisionist histories you see written by Holocaust deniers!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:36 am
130 Chenier
Combating extradiction seems to be the main strenght of their legal team if you look at their backgrounds. I’m just not sure they’ll ever use this strenght.
I mentioned this before a few days ago when a portuguese newspaper suggested that they would face trial in britain.
IMO the British courts will not be able to charge or judge the McCanns for an alleged crime that was committed in Portugal, before the portuguese police completes the investigation and the portuguese prosecutor charges them, the courts trial them and find them guilty of that crime according to Portuguese criminal law.
British authorities may however hold the view that a violation of British criminal law has been committed by Drs McCann (in the UK or whilst abroad). I’m not familiar with british criminal law so I don’t know if that is possible or not. Should the McCanns be charged in Britain for a crime of violating British Criminal laws, they should then be charged by british police and make them face trial in Britain. Should they then be found guilty in Britain it is likely that they would serve their sentence in Britain before the British authorities would allow for their extradition to portugal.
I have also mentioned before that somewhere within these issues (where have they committed a crime, violation of which criminal law(s), where should they face trial) should be the explanation for the involvement or Eurojust (as opposed to Europol).
January 10th, 2008 at 10:36 am
is that it?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:35 am
156
Ian
January 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am
149_annieM
I like this man!
Anyone listening? At last!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Catkidd
To be fair, Inter-Faith worship is a big deal in Scotland and England among Church goers because the demographics are such that if we don’t get on some pretty nasty fights could break out.
But it’s true that no one should assume that someone who seems devout actually is, or isn’t hiding a vice.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:33 am
102
Will Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Chenier
Do you know of any precedents re - holding a trial in the UK.
If you could point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks
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Also, if I remember correctly TB’s application was rejected because it was beyond the jurestriction of the uk court, I’m suprised that if TB knew about the 98 Hague thingy that he didn’t use it in his application or use it toappeal the judges descision.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Oooh,, just spotted a brilliant comment in the Vanity Fair article:
“This is his (Gerry’s – Peter O edit) first detailed and candid interview since being declared a suspect, and so great is his loathing of most journalists that it takes place in utter secrecy near his home, in Leicestershire.”
Perhaps we should get out our highlighter pens and send that comment to “most journalist”? Well, especially the ones in the UK!
January 10th, 2008 at 10:32 am
WILL 128
Hi Mornin ! Just back from Big City. I too would like to know more about J Mac, the Grinning Man. Just scanned VF .Must go and unload bakkie and trailer. Mrs Bounty sends her best.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:31 am
141
Karen Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:26 am
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i think she on her trial period and not yet proved herself worthy ???
she wont last long 
January 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am
145 Brandon
He is the one who looks like one of the 7 dwarves.