Madeleine: Our daughter's disappearance and the continuing search for her

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Dr Kate writes of the ‘confrontation’ between Robert Murat and Fiona, Rachael and Russell on 11 July at Portimao Police Station as to whether he was outside the Ocean Club the night Madeleine was reported missing. Dr Kate says they were sitting so close their knees were practically touching each other; Murat eyeballed each of them intently as they were speaking. At the end of the day, if any of the other friends in that group, the so called tapas 9, if any of them knew of anything Kate or Gerry had done to Maddie there is no way they would have stayed quiet, someone would have talked. I have followed the story intensely in the media since it tragically burst onto the world stage in 2007. But it was quite absorbing to get the McCanns' perspective even though I knew the general story. Police probing disappearance of Madeleine McCann 'set to get hundreds of thousands of pounds in new funding'

Respecto al libro: pues es desgarrador, claro. A mí me interesaba más la parte emocional de Kate y su evolución desde las primeras semanas hasta el paso de los años, y el libro lo refleja, si bien también hay muchísimos datos de encuentros con abogados, periodistas, policías, investigadores, ONG que sinceramente he leído un poco en diagonal al final. Pero cuando Kate se abre en canal es cuando el libro cobra sentido, para mí. La primera vez que soñó con Madeleine es un fragmento muy triste, que te sobrecoge. Kate blames almost everyone for Madeleine’s disappearance, but barely a word of self-reproach about their parental negligence. A good few chapters in there is mention of it but once again in answer to the rebukes rather than any guilt over their parenting skills. On 5 July the McCanns discuss with Inspector Luis Neves their outrage with the ‘Pact of Silence’ article and the leaks of their friends’ mobile ’phone nos. to the police. I found this book both compelling and tragic. It is written by Kate, Maddie's Mom, from her (Kate's) point of view and it is told well enough that I can picture things as they happened. It is sad that Kate felt she had to write this book, I suppose, in some way to help clear her and Gerry's names. According to the BBC, Kate was offered a deal to admit covering up her daughter’s death in exchange for a shorter sentence. The arguido status was eventually lifted in 2008 when police submitted their final report.While the subject matter is difficult, the story is important to read. For one thing, it accomplishes its objective, which is to keep Madeleine's name, face, and the event of her abduction, in the public memory, with the hope that someone, somewhere, sometime, will see her, recognize her, and aid in returning her to her family. By the end of 'Missing', it becomes more obvious that the tone is now one of counteracting the various negative theories found on the internet. This may, however, not be so evident to those who have never read alternative views or even those of the original policeman in charge. They will no doubt read everything at face value. Understandably so. And as for Kate and Gerry, any one who thinks they had anything to do with it and then courted the publicity they way they have is a fool. There is no way they would draw such attention to themselves and continue to do so. On 20 July the PJ asked the National Policing Improvements Agency for ‘advisory assistance’. A Serious Organised Crime Officer, Jose de Freitas, who was bilingual, came over to Portugal to help with the enquiry. “We found out later (much later) that the UK team had been instructed by the PJ to proceed on the basis that Madeleine had been killed and her body dumped”.

Kate saying that they had wondered about "having a dinner in the sitting room or veranda" on the night in question, when on a TV interview she said that they had considered going to a restaurant called The Millennium but did not have a buggy - but they had earlier rented a buggy from the resort on another occasion. This is more than the sad disappearance (for whatever reason) of little Madeleine, and more like a conspiracy thriller.

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Take a Look at Our Summary of November Highlights, Whether You're Looking for the Latest Releases or Gift Inspiration Bob Mortimer wins 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with The Satsuma Complex The Portugese police were complete bumbling incompetent idiots. The crime scene was trashed before any investigators even got there. Having been brought up a Roman Catholic, all references to that faith also jar as it’s clear it appears to mean very little to them. They do not appear to go to Sunday Mass until after Madeleine disappears. Praying does not appear to be part of the children's bedtime routine. And I have never known a Roman Catholic call Our Lady ‘Mary’. And the book certainly reads well. I actually wanted to read more due its easy writing style. However, it is nothing like her more staccato diary kept at the time. I got the distinct impression it was written by at least two people, possibly more. Kate’s ‘voice’ based on her diary, jumped out and I could actually hear it – including the Scouse intonation. Other passages had a different ‘sound’ – to me, that is.