Madeleine McCann from
On September 7, 2007 Kate McCann is given “arguido” status by the Portugal police. This is known as someone who has become a formal suspect in Portugal. On September 8, 2007 Gerry McCann is given “arguido” status, or formal suspect. The Portuguese authorities made them arguidos with the belief that they had something to do with their daughter's disappearance. They have maintained their innocence.
Analysis:
It would appear by the MCCann's own words that Madeleine may have been accidentally killed by Kate, and Madeleine's body was disposed of by Gerry.
Sky News 5-6-07
Gerry
McCann:
We are pleased that the family liaison officers from Leicestershire are now working closely with the Portuguese police and
are keeping us informed.
We have no further information regarding the investigation...
I've been ashamed,
was never the fool by you.
Sky News 5-6-07
Kate McCann:
I couldn't ask for more. I just want to say thank you.
Yes I
messed it up. Won't surrender.
Gerry McCann:
The thing we are going to take from this is strength, and courage, and hope, and
we continue to hope for the best possible outcome from this for us.
We are so upset with all this.
Unknown Credit 5-07
Kate
McCann:
We would like to say a few words.
To the person who is with Madeleine, or has been with Madeline.
Madeleine is a beautiful bright, funny, and caring little girl.
Por favor {continues in Portuguese}...
Sky News 6-12-07
Kate McCann:
The work that we have been doing over the lasts few weeks has certainly
helped Gerry. It's helped us both and that has kept us focused and...
Isn't it sick we're (the) suspects?
... you know not
dwelling on Madeleine herself so much.
Gerry McCann:
We never ever wanted this to be a long term campaign...
My wife
has said there's no other avenue.
...What we hoped was that by taking positive action it would speed things up. That hasn't happened.
There are some contingency plans, but um you know I think we are looking at event driven...
Never. Never. And they still don't. So
it's alright. Messed up.
...things to keep the profile up and....
Not while I afford to beat this.
Kate McCann:
Certainly
no evidence to the contrary. I mean you said before obviously we've considered all scenarios...
Maybe you're shocked if this isn't
the one we loose.
...but I think the fact that it was nothing to suggest otherwise. Then gives us great hope really. Um it's
important we cling to that as well.
You won't understand why we leave her here.
BBC 2007
Kate McCann:
(Question: …Did
you as a mother Kate, sometimes think I’ve got to go out there to be with them, I want to go and just physically look as well?)
I mean
I did. I mean we've been working really hard really apart from the first 48 hours as Gerry said are incredibly difficult...
That search
is a lie. So observe them all, it is lie.
...but after that you get strength from somewhere. We've certainly have had loads
of support and that's given us strength and it's been able to make us focus really so we have actually in our own way it might not
be physically searching but we've been working really hard and doing absolutely everything we can really to get Madeleine back.
Maybe
we should calm these people.
BBC - World Service 6-22-07
Gerry McCann:
The important thing at this time is that we
don't have Madeleine. And that's the only result that will clearly make Kate and I happy, and the rest of the family.
(Question:
How do you think Madeleine herself would be coping?)
You know that's somewhere where we can't really go...
He remembers that night. {Reversals
are known to occur in the third person.}
We've absolutely no idea who's taken her. And where she is, and what sort of surroundings
she's in...
She's near a trestle.
We've had tremendous support from the local community particularly through the church here. Which really left it as,
particularly those very few first days where it was not, you know it was just awful really.
Now we look forward to survive.
The
phase of the campaign now is very different to that which we have undertaken in the last few weeks with Kate and I. Traveling to different
areas um either to raise awareness in countries in close proximity to
If the mess could talk, message that would stand
out her hair is bloody.
The campaign really started with electronic media. And my sister Phil took the first campaign type action.
And that was to start a chain email.
There is no evidence to date that Madeleine has been harmed physically.
And that means that we will always have hope. And the hope is what drives us on our determination to be reunited with our daughter.
Leave
this machine. The rest is going to know this fiasco.
There'll be a card with Madeleine's image and the details of the numbers
to call if anyone has information.
BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour 8-8-07
Kate McCann:
Obviously I can't
talk too much about the investigation.
The option was lost in our case.
We're just trying to get through one day at a time. To
be honest Jenny.
Annoyed this master has no respect. {Master; would be the one in charge. In this case it could be the interviewer.}
...speculation
is upsetting and it doesn't help us.
This house wasn't cheerly kept. {House; may be a metaphor for the thoughts in her mind.}
...
and Madeleine wouldn't have walked out on her own. I know that.
Are there not flaws to our involvement?
(Question: We've read
repeatedly that you and you are someone who really does hate being in the public eye, you're a very private sort of person. Why then
did you and your husband launch such a high profile publicity campaign after Madeleine disappeared?)
I mean what you said about me
Jenny is absolutely true...
We've just done what we felt was the right thing to do, and that was
to publicize Madeleine's disappearance.
(Question: How much do you worry, as some people have suggested,
that it may be counter productive, that it could motivate her abductors to hide her away?)
I mean we always knew that was a slight
risk of that...
We couldn't sit and do nothing. And we honestly felt this is the best thing to do.
Isn't
this sad, this isn't life I used to know.
We've got strengths and weaknesses and you know we reach different points at different
times I guess. But we're managing to keep together, and pull each other through when we need to.
But we're still the shield of murder.
Sky
News 8-10-07
Kate McCann:
I mean the main thing for us is knowing if the sighting is credible, or not really. To be honest we
don't go through the...
Are these trick motives to lives?
...Um emotional rollercoaster with regards to the sightings.
We take
a little shame in that.
(Question: Is that something that you’d done on other nights {leave the children alone}? Is something
you were getting the feel other holiday makers were doing?)
...I've had so many supportive letters from families from other mothers.
And they've said Kate you know we've done that, we do that, you know who would of ever thought that something as horrible as that
would happen?
Sky News 8-25-07
Gerry McCann:
(Question: …but that hasn’t been the case
in some sections of the Portuguese media they’re writing the most terrible things about you. Why?)
Well that's a difficult question
um I think that are uh I there's a law of speculation, innuendo, there's clearly some absolute outright smears...
Sky News 10-24-07
Kate McCann:
If people know something. If they can just, I guess search the heart really.
And they, they do ask about Madeleine.
You know we know the truth.
We're innocent. We're totally innocent.
Gerry McCann:
Four months since Madeleine disappeared.
And nothing, nothing that's happened to us in this time has come close to upsetting us they way felt when we discovered Madeleine
missing.
I send example of that's the decision what I feel.
Kate McCann:
(Reporter: On Allegations the couple had sedated their
children the night Madeleine disappeared, Kate McCann refused to be drawn.)
You know I'm not even going to...
...answer
that question I'm afraid.
Gerry McCann:
...and we shouldn't be giving them the time of day.
It's
the last time I'm going to make it an issue.
There is absolutely no suggestion...
...that Madeleine
or the children were drugged.
Kate McCann:
I feel, as Madeleine's mommy I feel, in my heart really that she's
there and I don't, I don't believe Madeleine has been taken away from us permanently.
Was not us. He shouted it wrong.
Sky
News 12-21-07
Kate McCann:
I'd also liked to thank our friends in
...
and continue to support us, since those very early desperate and vulnerable days.
