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

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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. DID MADELEINE MCCANN DIE ON SUNDAY 29 APRIL, FOUR DAYS BEFORE SHE WAS REPORTED MISSING? – STRONG EVIDENCE THAT SHE DID

Kate McCann's very personal account of those torturous years. A testament to the human spirit in the face of unbelievable adversity. She clearly leaves out a lot, being economic with what she has chosen to share - even small facts like Fr Pacheco giving her keys to the church. Why? It makes me distrust her account. 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.There is no mention whatsoever of any attempt by wither the McCanns or by the Find Madeleine Fund to sue Halligen for his obviously fraudulent conduct. 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’.

There really is no excuse. Can't believe the number of morons supporting these parents. They may not have sold their kid, or drugged her, or been directly responsible for her disappearance, but they left their toddlers alone; And just the response itself - they refused to cooperate, sued detectives who actually wanted to get to the bottom of this case (their ties to Clement Freud, for one, which have been swept under the rug by the MSM coverage of these cases), and seem like absolute narcissists, overall. The fact that they aren't being prosecuted just shows how privileged these people are, just by virtue of being doctors - if they had been normal, working or middle class people, they would have both been prosecuted and charged. Yet, the tone did distinctly change and I realised I didn’t actually believe her any more. Not that I think murder was involved then or now. But desire to believe her seemed to evaporate. The truth has died with him': Uncle of 'Ireland's Madeleine McCann' Mary Boyle, 6, has died - and he was the last person to see her alive before she vanished in 1977 Being told over and over again what to believe – an abduction – served only to reinforce suspicion in this reader. How would they know what had happened? The child could have wandered off. (Ten years on, this may now be the latest theory.) The second half of the book details the lead up to Madeleine's disappearance and the horrifying abduction itself. The final part of the book outlines the police investigation, media frenzy and the unthinkable mental and emotional torture that Kate and Gerry McCann have endured ever since. Kate opens up about her feelings during this time and how she coped with the constant onslaught of accusations of guilt that were fired at her and Gerry during the investigation.

It began to yield results in 2013, with Scotland Yard formally announcing a new investigation in July and saying in October it had identified 41 potential suspects. That same month, BBC Crimewatch released an e-fit image of a man of particular interest who had been seen in Praia da Luz with a child matching Madeleine’s description in May 2007. WHERE'S ESTELLE? Diggers search woods for ‘French Madeleine McCann’ 18 years after girl, 9, snatched by virgin-obsessed Ogre of Ardennes We had one particularly bad experience with a man named Kevin Halligen (or Richard, as we knew him). Halligen was the CEO of a private-investigation foirm calld Oakley International which was hired by Madeleine's Fund for six months from the end of March 2008..." She then refers to three 'phases' of the Halligen investigation, saying only that during the third phase, "...we began to have concerns".

This book was by definition accessible to all staff and, albeit unintentionally, probably to guests and visitors, too. The couple went to the European court of human rights (ECHR) to seek redress, relying on the European convention on human rights – including articles conferring the right to a fair hearing (article 6) and the right to respect for private and family life (article 8) – to argue that Amaral’s statements damaged their reputation, their good name and their right to be presumed innocent. After the case was shelved, the McCanns were later implicated in their daughter’s disappearance by a former detective. The family lost a European court of human rights challenge after their libel case against the former detective was thrown out by Portugal’s supreme court.Dr Kate agonises over the press involvement: “No longer was it about our lovely missing daughter; it was becoming the Kate and Gerry show”. Her book constantly dismisses the PJ (who may indeed have been sloppy) while not mentioning how British Govt officials were constantly around in effect directing the flow of the investigation. (Why?) Having read how atrocious the Portuguese police where it has put me off EVER visiting Portugal again.

Some of the other criticisms I have read of the book I truly could not understand. Other readers have criticised that the book starts with Kate's childhood (only in brief) and how she met Gerry including the criticism of photos of them on their wedding day/honeymoon etcetera but I feel this was so important. You can't just start the story at the point of the abduction and I find it somewhat macabre that people would want that. They had a life and an existence before their daughter's disapearance and this only adds to that chilling feeling because you see them carefree and happy, little knowing that they would endure a high profile and devastating kidnapping of their daughter, so I didn't feel at all that this was unnatural. In her memoir, she wrote: "The first was my inability to permit myself any pleasure, whether it be reading a book or making love to my husband. The second stemmed from the revulsion stirred up by my fear that Madeleine had suffered the worst fate we could imagine: falling into the hands of a paedophile." The McCanns now have three months to appeal against the decision. In a statement, they said they were “naturally disappointed” by the decision but much had changed since they started legal proceedings 13 years ago.

The couple, who met in 1993 in Glasgow and married five years later, have had to find a way to put one foot in front of the other for the sake of their twins, Amelie and Sean, now 18. Kate and Gerry, who still live in Rothley, Leicestershire, are devout Catholics, however Kate admitted her faith has been put to the test amid the trauma their family has faced. So that in turn lead me to buying Kate’s book. A small attempt at trying to be fair to her and them. It was difficult for the restaurant to accommodate the nine adults alone, so “after having a word with the receptionist at the pool and tapas area”, the group were pencilled in for a table for the rest of their week. So did it sway me? Yes and no. As one of the PJ commented, she is either a great actress or innocent. Yet protesting too much also springs to mind.