Madeleine McCann: Gerry McCann Talks With Vanity Fair
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
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 2:40 pm
563…Rosemary
I think…yes.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
532 firestar
Thats it.
But why would they need to use the fund for their defence when Kennedy (double glazing JW salesman) is paying for it - and Branson?
Whats happened there then?
January 10th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
564
Marie Nicholas
He could easily have replied that, of the group of friends, he was the last to see her alive, since he last checked on her. I don’t see the problem here.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
562…brandon flours
My Legal Eagle advises that my comment was within the law.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
553
If GM agrees that he was the last person to see the little girl alive, he agrees that she hasn’t been abducted.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
You can’t hurt someone by pointing the finger at then when you know there can be absolutely no evidence to incriminate them and they will never be charged with a crime, can you?
January 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
561
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
554…Ian
A bed, which from the pics, clearly shows that only a stick insect
could hide under.
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be careful of libel
January 10th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
554…Ian
A bed, which from the pics, clearly shows that only a stick insect
could hide under.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I don’t have time to wait for Garth’s witty riposte.
Garth
January 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
lol
January 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
firestar
you know!!
I learnt them from teddyboy
January 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Being sorry for something that does n’t need to be sorry for helps avoiding being sorry for the real thing. It is also fishing for an answer like: “Don’t be silly, you didn’t do anything wrong having dinner out”.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
551
Ade
I know who he is
I was pulling your leg
I thought you were using it as a simarlie or a metaphor or something for something else
January 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
what does pmsl mean anyway?
January 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
515 Garth
Taking your last point first. Yes I do believe it, why wouldnt I? Its is incredible - I mean it - barely credible - the steps which forensic scientists will take. The idea of looking under tiles is pretty basic, something even I might do and my only link to forensic science is through an immediate relative. The cadaver dogs lead to a place and then the investigation begins at that point. You are correct about the words of the detective - but remember the interview with the McCanns where they were asked if there had been any blood spilt in innocent circumstances? They didnt say ‘oh yes, she had a cut knee’ or ‘oh yes, she had a nosebleed’. No, they said ‘we dont even know if any blood was found’. In otehr words, they missed an opportunity to ‘excuse’ the blood. That will come back and haunt them I suspect. If the blood was there then the cleaning required blows apart 5 minutes.
Now, the bit about what actions the abductor had to take once Gerry left? Well, you said he only had to leave. I’d challenge this. Gerry is a very loving father - very loving beyond our understanding - he adores Madeleine. Additionally he is a doctor. I can only assume he might have thereofre recognised if madeleine was harmed in any way, perhaps not breathing, perhaps in an unusually sound slumber, perhaps aware of an unusual smell? I would suggest that the child being carried away by cartoon man was in some way sedated or otherwise silenced? Kates mother has said she would have ’screamed the place down’. This incapacitaion is likely to have had to be done before removal? Put the two together and it is unlikely (not impossible I warrant) but unlikely to have happened before Gerry looked at her.
So the abductor has to get out from under the bed, sedate or otherwise incapacitate Madeleine, carefully extract her from the bedclothes so as not to disturb them (Kate was adamant that this was the case, its why she was so sure of abduction) get her across to the window, break it open (or not, maybe just open it, some conflicting stories here) carefully and quietly open the shutter (to avoid people hearing anything on the ‘incredibly quiet night’) go back and get her and get her and himself out of the window and then get to the point in time to be seen by Tanner. Not impossible, but I for one would not have liked to try it. One small point, for someone who was so efficient, the choice of escape route was a major error.
Oh, and why wait for Gerry to be due back - why not slip in just after the McCanns left first time and use the half hour?
A long post, but you asked!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Why couldn’t he answer whether he was the last person to see M alive, or not…what’s the problem with that?
“Do you know what, this is all about the investigation?” and he stalks out.
http://www.lanoria.telecinco.es/dn_250.htm
January 10th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
i daren’t repeat them ill end up with a red card.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
543 brandon flours
drainage in lower field explained:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEBdi6Xffd0
i’m ralph of course
January 10th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
547
firestar
what words?
January 10th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Salomon ES Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Ian - 420
What a marvellous analogy you have found to illustrate some of the arguments that pro mccanns often use. Have you any evidence that Santa does not exist?
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If you find yourself playing Santa, then you know Santa does exist!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
547
firestar
January 10th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
540
Ade Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
just looked in for a min
the idiot’s still here i see so i’ll be back later
nice to see you up brandon flours - you recovered fast - took me nearly a week!
she just has to recover her mood now and she’ll be fine.
i thought she’d been taken over by the body snatchers this morning.
i never knew ladies knew words like that!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
539…Salomon ES
I doubt if the Team, and Dr’s, McCann “suspect” Mr Murat.
They’ve tried, repeatedly, to cast suspicion upon him certainly…but that isn’t
quite the same thing as “suspecting” him.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
431 dcb
Why indeed?? Now that could be a very telling remark. Maybe they’ve taken note of Ian’s timeline and are going for the 5 minute window of opportunity?
January 10th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
477 just_me
You made me smile!
We survived our parents drinking and driving and being left to play in the pub car park with lemonade and crisps (with salt in blue paper!). Sometimes we even sneaked off to nearby railways lines and put pennies on the tracks.
How did we ever survive?!?
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Absolutely !! but we were not 3 years old in a foreign country with our 2 year old siblings to look after!!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
540
Ade
If thats what you want to call it go ahead!!!
pmsl
January 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
when i was little you were told you’d ‘have your eye out’ with all sorts of impossible objects from footballs to television sets.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I’d love to buy Murat a pint and see what he thinks!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
just looked in for a min
the idiot’s still here i see so i’ll be back later
nice to see you up brandon flours - you recovered fast - took me nearly a week!
my lower field is where ted, the gardner has drainage problems from time to time
a place of refuge when trolls lower the tone back in the big house
fun fun fun
January 10th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Leeza 524
I wonder if in the “pain barometer” general suspicions over the McCanns are more or less hurtful than Kate’s suspicions of Robert Murat (recently stated in many papers).
We suspect the McCanns, the McCanns suspect Murat. I wonder who Murat finds suspect…