Kate McCann “How Do You Prove Innocence?”
Gerry McCann “It Was Like Dining In Your Backgarden”
It was important he get the facts right in case any journalist asked embarrassing questions about Mrs Pamela Fenns’s damning allegations. He and Kate had been out eating and drinking at the Tapas bar as usual. There had been a quiz that night, as apparently there was every Tuesday, organised by the buxom quizmistress Najova [...]
What had been best about the media exposure was how he and Kate were now seen as champions of the case for reforming procedures when children were abducted. All the concern about their leaving the children on their own, exposed to all manner of risks including being abducted, had been quietly forgotten. What really mattered [...]
He sipped another mouthful of wine, and continued with his reverie. Clarence Mitchell had been brilliant. It was he, using his strong connections with the Roman Catholic Church, who had persuaded the Papal Archbishop of Britain to hastily arrange Pope Benedict XVI’s Papal blessing on their search of Madeleine. Clarence had bragged about it in [...]
A more senior officer had also counselled him and Kate not to use Madeleine’s eye defect, the coloboma, in any publicity, begging the McCanns to realise that if that were publicly disclosed, an abductor might realise that Madeleine was much too easily recognisable, and then decide to kill her. Gerry McCann recalled how he had [...]
Woolfall had spoken of how he had been working ‘from 5am to 1am, fending 200 calls a day from journalists as far away as Norway and South Africa’. He’d told ‘The Times’: “Gerry said to me: ‘I’ve spoken to the Consulate and said ‘Can you help us?’ Because there is a lot of media interest [...]
Woolfall had of course been talking patent nonsense!. Everything that he and Kate had said, and their relatives and friends, was 110% consistent in insisting that Madeleine had been snatched by an evil abductor. Probably an evil paedophile, in fact. Indeed, a resident of Praia da Luz at the time, June Wright, speaking on the [...]
Gerry now turned his mind to the involvement of Alex Woolfall in those heady early days. He had to admit that he had been a puzzle, he reflected. The press had billed him as ‘Mark Warners’ expert in crisis management’, but in fact he was the Head of Issues and Crisis Management for the entire [...]
Right from the first day after Madeleine disappeared, he and Kate had been sought after by the media. They had even eclipsed most other ‘Class A’ celebrities, like Posh and Becks, Any Winehouse and Pete Doherty. There were the carefully staged photo-shoots in the early days, of them jogging, holding hands plaintively on a lonely [...]
Prior to 3rd May 2007, life for him and Kate had been enjoyable, up to a point. He and Kate had a nice 5-bedroomed house on a very up-market private estate in a quiet cul-de-sac in the sleepy small Leicestershire town of Rothley. It had been worth over £600,000, until the 2008 credit crunch started [...]
GERRY MCCANN’S REVERIE A 21-chapter novel, based partly on fact by ‘Montmorillonite’ Exclusive to ‘Truth for Madeleine’ Dr Gerry McCann cast his eyes up to the snow-white, stucco wall of his Mediterranean mansion – or ‘villa’, to use the Mediterranean term – and gazed adoringly at the deep purple bougainvillea, which was at its prolific [...]
