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 9:00 pm
Sledgehammer
I asked you a few days ago. Please give us YOUR theory before slating everyone else’s.
Or….are you too afraid to have your theory criticised?
January 10th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
888
delboy Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
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They’re not covering it up for a mate.
They’re covering it up for themselves.
I really doubt that people who are professionally accustomed to death are likely to see anything sacrosanct about a dead body.
The medics involved were trained back in the days when medical students still shared a corpse for anatomy and dissection, and as anyone who went to a University with a Medical School will tell you a lot of very nasty jokes were played.
They are not going to be struck off the register for a couple of months.
Gross neglect resulting in the death of a child involving a group of medics all out on the piss with all of their children left at home without anyone to care for them isn’t going to provoke a slap on the wrist from the GMC.
They would be extremely lucky to get back on the register at all.
And they would certainly be suspended while the GMC conducted a full investigation. There’s an example of this in Sheffield at the moment:
‘”I can confirm a consultant psychiatrist employed by Sheffield Care Trust has recently had his medical registration suspended for 18 months by the GMC pending a full investigation.
“This means the doctor cannot treat patients while the suspension is in place.”
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Psychiatrist-suspended.3655612.jp
January 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Someone PLEASE explain to me why they claim to need more money?
Surely there is still at least £500k in the fund.
Why not use up all the money first, and THEN look for more.
Why demand more now?
Imagine in Madeleine turned up tomorrow.
Would the McConns really give the rest of the money away to other people??
The whole thing is sick
Why not tell the world exactly what has been spent to date - and on what.
Explain there is only £24.89 left and then why they need more.
Am I just being thick here - or, sorry proMcCannics, are the McConns being a tad greedy?
January 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
thanks for all your comments.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
919 Sledgehammer
any theories of your own or do you just whine about it being everyone else’s fault?
January 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
well sledghammer ! Where is Madeleine ? Fucking know all !
January 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
907 Tony B Re: the LIES– Absolutely astounding-and they never seem to end!
January 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Another crackpot theory, being bribed to keep quiet, you really couldn’t make it up, but the barmy brigade can every day.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
916
Slyfox said [..]What can you tell from a bunch of ashes?
You’d be surprised what they can tell from that!
January 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
907 Tony Bennett
Excellent summary of the behaviour of the McSerpents.
And then we had Philomena’s lie about Kate being offered a plea bargain if she admitted to having accidentally killed Madeleine.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Can anyone remember a so called christening that they went to at the end of May. Whose christening and where? Maybe it was really a wake!?Maybe something was transported over to the UK around that time?
January 10th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
898
Melanie Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
This is “Garden Law” UK.
It is then necessary to obtain consent from the local authority to enable the burial to take place. A body comes within the definition of “clinical waste” and as such cannot be disposed of except under the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and the Environment Protection Act 1990. A licensed operator is usually needed but a local authority may waive the requirement in special circumstances. Remember it is a criminal offence to dispose of “controlled waste” otherwise than in accordance with the Acts. Before you consider such a burial stop and THINK what you would do if you ever decided to move!
I mentioned earlier - probably no connection whatsoever, but the planning officer for Rothley is named Sarah McCann
All speculation on my part and with no foundation - but if a body was transported back to the Uk in a bag - then the local authority would need to give authority to bury it in the garden
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They’re quite sussed as doctors though aren’t they. That’s why I think the PJ were looking for cremation opportunities. Much easier to transport three quater pint/litre of ashes. Let’s be straight here, if it was me, and I’m not a doctor, why leave anything to chance? What can you tell from a bunch of ashes?
There was plenty of opportunity to get her ashes out of the country but why was Kate and Gerry so upset at leaving after they had been made arguidos - remember the silent tears of Kate on the plane?
They’d left several times before - christening, G’s visits, etc.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
895
Tony Bennett, I loved the bit about the free booze. I too was really shocked when I read that the MW management told the waiters to take him a free bottle from time to time. I thought how can the management give him booze because he lost his daughter, was it because it was free that it would be a consolation? Did they think that he was going to enjoy it all by himself in his flat, and did he do it?
I wanted to tell you, Tony, I also thought your post on the other Anorak forum this morning was great.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Hi Julie
January 10th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
906
Batman
Maybe the pro-mcc would like to be like them
January 10th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
901 can’t say no
January 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
evenin’ julie
January 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
904
delboy said [..]hey maybe she has maddeleine
hmmmmmm
January 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
898 Melanie
but what colour bag?
here in sunny south hams we have clear bags for plastic bottles and cans (no glass)
and blue bags for paper, cardboard (not tetrapak cartons) and (no glass)
so i presume we could use either colour for a cadaver
we should be told
more fun than getting fined
January 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Greetings delboy, can’t say not, Ade, … etc!
January 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
81 LIES (ALLEGEDLY)
Posted across from the Mirror Forums, where it was posted 5 minutes ago:
QUOTE
They lied (allegedly)
UNQUOTE
Administrator: This edited version of this second attempt to place this posting to another Forum is all I’m prepared to accept here. It was not posted to this Forum and we are not concerned or will accept with second-hand torts. With your disciplines (which I should point out are close to mine) you should know better. This has been discussed off Forum and the view is this: if this sort of posting is repeated there is a risk of a very serious falling out between us. I know who would have the upper hand here. You have several valuable points to make in most contributions. I should not like you to self-destruct. Howqever, (isn’t there always at least one) be clear, I will not hesitate to act if anything like this is posted again. The Moderators will take swift and permanent action if need be.-agw
January 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
900 Totje
And the McCanns did indeed turn to the church in time of disaster - but why? - for a publicity stunt, to drum up more sympathy and then when that same church dared to stop publicly supporting them, the McCanns chose to have the 6 month ecumenical church service in the Anglican Church. A service not attended by their own priest! So much for becoming ‘devout’!!!
Also, in case we forget - they were in such a hurry, tripping over their bags to leave Portugal that they did not even have the common courtesy to say goodbye/thank you to the local clergy who had afforded them super-preferencial treatment.
You are right, human behaviour is not always rational. In the McCanns case, however, it is very very manipulative and self-centred.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
886
Slyfox
Look at G. background
Familly …
January 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
893totje,,,yes agreed……whare is the nanny now,does anyone know,maybe she was bungled off to australia,so she cant tell all, hey maybe she has maddeleine…..????and its all been a get rich ploy…to go with the eye ploy…
January 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
886 Slyfox I think that neither of the McCanns had time for the kids. I believe that KM resented G going playing tennis or whatever. Remember that when it first happened the waiters were surprised that the group had infants as they’d never seen them in the evenings- the children seemed ” to exist outside the adults world” !
January 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
876 nemesis
read recently that the pj have the blue bag - it is tanner’s bag and it contains incriminating evidence
may have been here yesterday
January 10th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
884
Batman
There is no movie”, stated Mr McMitchell.
McMitchell went on to say that whilst it would be “hugely entertaining and a bit of fun to think of cast lists”, Kate and Gerry are planning on playing themselves.
Jerry McCann commented: “Although we are only amateur thespians, we have had several months experience acting the roles of grieving parents. The public has paid over a million pounds to watch us. We are already a box office hit.”
The Clarence of Arabia Foundation strongly denies that Gerry and Kate stand to gain financially from the proceeds of the movie that is not being made. All money raised will be spent on mortgage payments, foreign holidays, spectacles for Jane Tanner and other items essential to the hunt for Maggie.
;lol;
January 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
891
Batman,
Never read it, but thanks.
Some people turn to the church in times of a disaster/heavy grief and become devout, others turn away from church and become atheïsts…. Human behaviour, not allways rational.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
895 Tony Bennett
and getting hair cuts of course!!
January 10th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
This is “Garden Law” UK.
It is then necessary to obtain consent from the local authority to enable the burial to take place. A body comes within the definition of “clinical waste” and as such cannot be disposed of except under the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and the Environment Protection Act 1990. A licensed operator is usually needed but a local authority may waive the requirement in special circumstances. Remember it is a criminal offence to dispose of “controlled waste” otherwise than in accordance with the Acts. Before you consider such a burial stop and THINK what you would do if you ever decided to move!
I mentioned earlier - probably no connection whatsoever, but the planning officer for Rothley is named Sarah McCann
All speculation on my part and with no foundation - but if a body was transported back to the Uk in a bag - then the local authority would need to give authority to bury it in the garden