Gerry's Blog - Blog 4, Day 24

by **Jill Havern** 22.01.16 9:41

Day 24 - 27/05/2007

Sunday

Strange day after all the activity during the week. Kate and I started off with an early morning run to the the top of the nearby cliffs. Sean and Amelie were back in kids club and went swimming again. The rest of us attended mass which was very emotional as a priest from RAF Lossiemouth was visiting and further prayers were said for Madeleine. Father Zee-Manuel has also rigged up a powerpoint display projecting a large photograph of Madeleine on to the wall, which he is very proud of and reminds us of the beautiful little girl we are missing so terribly.

There have been some requests for more information ‘about Madeleine’ and this section will be updated very soon. We will also be releasing a very short video of Madeleine taken at the Airport on the day we left for Portugal, Saturday 28 April. Sean and Amelie went to the beach this afternoon with mummy, auntie Trisha and Anne but daddy stayed in the apartment catching up on campaign e-mails, making calls and liaising with Clarence our press officer. The resort is much busier again as it is half-term and there are definitely less journalists here. Many of them have been here since the beginning and are making this journey with us.

The couple of Sunday articles we read did not cover much of what we talked about and seemed to get some of the other stuff wrong! We stated that Sean and Amelie are sleeping in our room (in separate cots) because of other family staying with us and that we were trying to treat them as normal and not be overprotective. This came out that we were so protective we have to have them sleeping in our bed! These inaccuracies are not important in our search for Madeleine and the next phase is being planned currently.

It looks like our planned trips to other European cities will start off in Rome after we learned today that the Pope has been following Madeleine’s abduction closely. There is a reasonable chance we may get a chance to meet the Pontiff and that he will pray for Madeleine. Such a visit would generate huge publicity regarding the family campaign to find Madeleine and will also give Kate and I a great spiritual lift. It will also raise the awareness of missing and abused children generally. We continue to pray that someone will provide the key information that leads us to Madeleine.

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Vatican removes all reference to McCanns' visit from website

Susan Healy, Kate's mother: 'Kate phoned me, errm… about an hour after Gerry and asked me to get in touch with, errm… Paul Seddon, who is the priest, Father Seddon, who married her, who baptised Madeleine, errm… and I didn't have his mobile phone so I rang a friend of Kate's and got… got him and he rang Kate right away and I think as soon as this happened, as soon as Kate realised what had happened, it was as if, errm.. she started to ask God right away to give her Madeleine. Errm… because Kate and Gerry were not the most devout family. We do have Catholic faith, errm… it's… it's the religion that we were brought up in, but I would never describe myself as a devout person. We're just ordinary people, errm… but Kate certainly has… has clung to her religion, errm.. since this happened. Possibly she feels that, you know, it has to be a greater thing that helps us to get Madeleine back. Errm… something with more power than… than we have.'

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/09/maddie-case-first-interview-to-kates.html

by skyrocket 22.01.16 11:41

Re: the airport video.

Apart from GM saying, '**** ***, dya think I'm here to enjoy myself', in the 'airport video', there seems to be some existing tension exhibiting in both (not between) Lily and Madeleine. Both girls sit rigid (apart from MBM, whose foot starts to swing as KM speaks); their heads/eyes are down and they don't move their heads in response to any of the conversation.

It's extremely difficult to tell what KM says but it sounds like something along the lines of 'You (or she) wont be believe me, and then (more indistinct and not at all certain), 'she usually glares at me!' I've ended with the exclamation mark because KM's tone and ending facial expression/head movement, along with the words suggest that she is making a quip? Note, both Amelie and Sean lean forward in unison, to look at one of the two girls as KM makes her comment. However, neither of the two girls look towards KM. They both look very awkward. Of course, any number of normal things could have happened earlier in the day to generate the tension, such as either or both of the girls getting told off for misbehaving.

by Liz Eagles 22.01.16 15:54

Where did this 'mummy' and 'daddy' bit come from? Who calls themselves mummy and daddy and writes on behalf of the twins (who were hawked out at every available press opportunity)?

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"Sean and Amelie went to the beach this afternoon with mummy, auntie Trisha and Anne but daddy stayed in the apartment catching up on campaign e-mails, making calls and liaising with Clarence our press officer"