You keep asking yourself: 'Why did they think it was all right to leave the children?'

4/29/2008 Posted by Winnower

29 April 2008
Liverpool Echo
Paddy Shennan

EXCLUSIVE In the concluding part of his series marking the first anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance, chief feature writer Paddy Shennan hears how her grandmother is still struggling to come to terms with the decision taken by nine people on that fateful night.
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McCanns: Our tell-all book

4/27/2008 Posted by Winnower

McCanns: Our tell-all book
Exclusive Maddie 1 year on they hit back at slurs
The Sunday Mirror
27 April 2008
Lori Campbell

Anguished Kate and Gerry McCann are to write a book about their year of hell since little Madeleine disappeared.

The couple are desperate to tell the truth of their ordeal and plan to publish a tell-all book with the help of a ghost-writer - with all proceeds going to the Find Madeleine Fund.

They have had "countless" approaches by publishers and writers who want to help put their story into words and answer all the unfounded allegations they have faced.

Next Saturday is the first anniversary of the day four-year-old Madeleine was snatched from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

As they prepare to mark the agonising milestone their official spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "It will be the family's story, the only official book. Kate and Gerry are both keen to put the truth of everything that has happened to them on record.

"It will be a detailed account of their experience, from the pain of the night Madeleine was kidnapped, to being named as official suspects in the investigation."

Kate and Gerry have been gagged by Portuguese secrecy laws which ban them from speaking out while they are still "arguidos" (official suspects). They have been forced to stay silent while detectives leak malicious stories about them to the Portuguese Press.

Disgraced police chief Goncalo Amaral, who led the investigation, has angered the McCanns with plans to publish his own story. They have vowed to hit back once suspect status is lifted.

Mr Mitchell added: "A number of books are being published in Portugal and the UK. Kate and Gerry want the public to know the real truth."

The couple have been boosted by an "inspirational" meeting" with US dad Ed Smart, reunited with his kidnapped daughter after nine months. The encounter is shown on Wednesday's ITV1 documentary Madeleine One Year On: Campaign for Change.

'All proceeds will go to the Find Madeline Fund'


 
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'Lies' of Maddie parents

4/26/2008 Posted by Winnower

'Lies' of Maddie parents
26 April 2008
The Sun
Antonella Lazzeri

The disgraced cop who led the search for Maddie McCann has written a money spinning book - pointing the finger at her parents.

Goncalo Amaral, 48, who was booted off the case after five months, refuses to believe Gerry and Kate McCann had nothing to do with the tot's disappearance.

He authorised their status as suspects, but was removed after allegedly enjoying boozy lunch breaks while leading the hunt in Portugal.

Amaral's book True Lies accuses Maddie's parents of dumping her body at sea after accidentally killing her. He says British police were too close to the couple and did not follow up leads he suggested.

His lawyer Paulo Santos said of the book: "It's not speculative, but factual."

But the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "We are not surprised at this.

"It is sad that people feel the need to make money out of Madeleine."
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McCanns blast top cop's book

4/26/2008 Posted by Winnower

McCanns blast top cop's book
26 April 2008
Daily Star
Jerry Lawton

Plan to cash in on Madeleine case

The boozy detective sacked from the Madeleine McCann inquiry is to publish a book about the case.

Her parents have branded the move "despicable".

Goncalo Amaral, 48, spent five months in charge of the inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 last year, two days before her fourth birthday.

He was sacked after criticising British police, claiming they were too sympathetic towards Madeleine's parents Gerry, 39, and Kate, 40.

Amaral was also overheard openly discussing the evidence during a boozy lunch.

He has now written his own account of the case under the title True Lies. The McCanns were said to be "horrified".

Their spokesman Clarence Mitchell warned: "Kate and Gerry's lawyers will be among the first to study this book."
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Nobody loves to torture a 'bad mother' like the British

4/14/2008 Posted by Winnower

14 April 2008
The Times
Melanie Reid

* The persecution of Kate McCann is the cruellest thing I have seen

How many centuries of accumulated spite and misogyny, I wonder, went into the latest twist in the Madeleine McCann saga. Did the British television presenters feel the remotest twinge of conscience as they sensationally reported - second-hand via a Spanish television station - the leaks from the Portuguese police portraying Kate McCann in the worst possible light, as a mother who had left her children to cry?
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Maddie cops not got clue

4/13/2008 Posted by Winnower

Maddie cops not got clue
The Sunday Mirror
13 April 2008
Lori Campbell

Police in Portugal will tell prosecutors tomorrow they have come up with nothing new after a trip to the UK in a last-gasp bid to crack the Madeleine McCann case.

They will admit that fresh interviews with the "Tapas Seven" - parents Kate and Gerry McCanns' friends - have yielded no new clues.

An insider said: "They maintained what they said in their original statements. There are discrepancies - but no gaping contradictions."

The three-man police team had hoped to expose inconsistencies in the McCanns' and the Tapas Sevens' stories.

They have been asked to return to Portugal next month to take part in a reconstruction of the night Madeleine vanished from her hotel in Praia da Luz last May.

Police insiders there have said the friends have demanded a private jet and five-star hotels on their return.

But the McCanns' spokesman dismissed the claims as "utter rubbish."

And last night one of the friends urged the Portuguese police to concentrate on the hunt for four-year-old Madeleine.

Jane Tanner said: "If it wasn't such a serious matter some of the things that are being said about us would be laughable."

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We agreed to keep a closer eye on the kids..hours later Maddie had disappeared

4/11/2008 Posted by Winnower

11 April 2008
The Sun
Antonella Lazzeri
McCanns' fury at police leak

What mum Kate told cops

KATE McCann told cops she and husband Gerry agreed to watch their kids more closely after daughter Madeleine said she'd been crying on her own, it was revealed yesterday.

But within hours of the conversation, the innocent youngster had vanished from their Portugal holiday apartment.

A Spanish TV station yesterday told viewers it had obtained the full statements Kate and Gerry gave to Portuguese police after Maddie disappeared on May 3 last year.

In them, said Telecinco TV, Kate re- called how the tot asked why she had not come to her room when she and her brother and sister were sobbing the night before she went missing.
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'Mummy, why didn't you come when we were crying last night'; McCanns' police statement

4/11/2008 Posted by Winnower

11 April 2008
The Sun
Antonella Lazzeri
What Maddie asked parents hours before she vanished

BEWILDERED Madeleine McCann asked mum Kate why she had not come to her room to stop her crying just hours before she vanished, it was revealed yesterday.

The detail emerged after a Spanish TV station obtained the FULL police statements made by parents Kate and Gerry. In them Kate admits that over breakfast on the day Maddie, three, vanished she asked why her mum did not comfort her and twins Sean and Amelie.
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Driven to succeed

4/01/2008 Posted by Winnower


April 01, 2008
Manchester Evening News

ON the eve of his 13th birthday tragedy struck Edward Smethurst. While the young boy was spending the night at his grandparents' house, fire swept through the home he shared with his father who died in the blaze.

His parents had divorced when Edward was six and, after the death of his father, he then went to live with his grandparents. However, his grandmother died a couple of years later and his grandfather had a stroke, leaving Edward to fend for himself. By the age of 16, he was living alone in bed and breakfast accommodation.
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