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 4:49 pm
GERRY ADMITS:
Not Cooperating with police instructions to maximise the safety of an “abducted ” child.(There was no point now was there Gerry)
His marketing strategy came before Madeleine’s safety.
This has been a set up from day one .
They planned this a long time ago.
“The secret of Justice allows the smooth conduct of investigations, and it must be respected. In a case of kidnapping, in order to ensure the safety of the child, any parent would have a vested interest in keeping a low profile and to collaborate Investigators with the maximum, which unfortunately was not the case here, “says the same official yet.
Several specialists associated with the Portuguese and British police, since the demise of Madeleine, May 3, 2007, stressed, the assumption that the small British might have been removed, that the media campaign implemented by the couple “put in threaten the lives of children “. Gerry McCann did not share the same view and acknowledges that the plan was risky but “in terms of marketing, it was a good ploy.”
January 10th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
What night did madeleine escape and run outside and hide?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Ferdinand
That’s basically what I’ve been saying for ages. What makes them so special?
Who was the tapas 10th? How into the Government is Gerry? How into Gerry is the Government? Why??? Who knows what? Blackmail? Why? Etc etc
January 10th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
711 Tinsel
I think they had been sedating all the children all week. It was a crazy idea that worked up until the night of the 2nd when M resisted the drugs and cried for help. M was killed in a fit of drunken rage, K and G then blackmailed JT and OB into helping cover up the murder. The rest as they say is history.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
It’s funny how 10 years ago if this happened we all wouldnt be able to discuss it and would be throwing darts at their pictures and getting high blood pressure!!
January 10th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
720…hannasus
I never use it.
Ask delboy.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
matt,
how about the f word.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I think he went down in the mountains
January 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
713…Ferdinand
Always puzzling those, indeed.
All will hopefully be revealed for what they were/are when Mr Rebello
presents his case.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Brings back into focus the rumour of the mysterious tapas 10th.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
religous quote……..incest is bad….yet none of us would be here without it!!!
would you adam and eve it??????
January 10th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
694
Tinsel Says:
The floor tile in 5A was wood parquet — fitted together in a sort of tongue and groove way, it pops right up with a little prying.
++++++++++
Where do you get that information from?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
688 Matt. Says:
“Well, that’s a start.
Care to elaborate a little ?”
Now, I simply ask myself:
Why was there the diplomatic intervention of the british government in Portugal to help the McCanns?
Why did a government spokesman leave his job to assist the McCanns?
Why are there billionaires standing by to pay for the best lawyers available for the McCanns to get them
off the hook concerning their case in Portugal?
Why would the british media have been gagged in this case by the government to hit onto the McCanns?
Why has Methodo3 been employed and why are they so confident that Madeleine is alive? Who assists them, or maybe they are merely assisting some other instance?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Doctors are renowned drinkers (even tho they have a go at us!) Also Gerry is the ”angry one”? I don’t think he would have been overjoyed in suffering the embarrassment of being dragged back from his night out.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
703
man on a hill Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
693 Firestar
Why would JT and OB have so much loyalty to the MC’s if they had nothing to do with M’s death. Somethings not right here. Why are they up to their necks in it too? What’s the connection? I’m getting all dark again.
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The insider that appears on at least 3 other forums: Cybersleuths/Mirror/CourtTV has said that on May 2, M was moved to another Tapas apartment! That’s as much as the PJ know, but no more.
If that is true, they most certainly are involved–but how/why they were involved in the violence is hard to say.
My theory is that since KM is a former anesthetist, there is some drug involvement or other medical reason that the others are drawn into the web. Something illegal and potentially career destroying.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
708…hannasus
I think the PJ have ruled out the P word and the A word too.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
please
January 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Firestar
post that link about the paedo goverment cover up again
January 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Thanks Tinsel for that post from British Cybersleuths.
QOUTE
However i’ve been led to believe by the same Portugese source it was more about the forensic results from the back of the car and in the appartment. There is a BIG difference between body fluids and bodily fluids..Maddys was supposidly found with some mix of ‘quote’ northern European male.
END QUOTE.
Funny how the P word comes back to haunt us ain’t it.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
lone pigeon
Ian thinks we need help
642
Ian Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
638 I think that some of the posters here might benefit from some professional guidance.
________________
wonder what he means?
Does he want to be Fred or Velma?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
683
But then, Ferdinand, why do you think is the Government’s interest in hiding us the truth ?
Why would also the Government want “to prepare” the public to the truth? This is mad. What entitles some people to know the truth and not tell it under the pretence the public isn’t ready for it, and has to be prepared? Prepared! For the truth!!! This sounds like manipulation. It is difficult to believe.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
700
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
lone pigeon
stop it I;m getting scared!!!
don’t be silly
January 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Chenier,
There are several posters I always read. Every single one of their posts. One because they are well written and two because they stay focussed on the issue at stake.
I did not read what got him banned.
So how can I be in effect of that. What I read I thought was great and that is why you and I will always have a different experience of Hideki.
And although what he said was bad enough to get him banned (and I understand it) it has been repeated despite its badness.
I think Ian has been amazing in his turnround he was like an angry yesterday and I think that is a great, powerful transformation.
That is what I am interested in not going on about something that no longer exists.
Enough on the subject.
It remains a distraction to the thread.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
693 Firestar
Why would JT and OB have so much loyalty to the MC’s if they had nothing to do with M’s death. Somethings not right here. Why are they up to their necks in it too? What’s the connection? I’m getting all dark again.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
temper temper
January 10th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
690
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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You’re most welcome!
January 10th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
lone pigeon
stop it I;m getting scared!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
693 Firestar
Exactly! IMO
January 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
697
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
687
Lone Pigeon
No that whole areas my patch now !!!
Well I’d better just get you in then and see how his modus oporandi worked:wink:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
689…Ade
I still think “Smoke and Mirrors” when I see that vid.