The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann™

Gerry McCann: ''I strongly believe in Freedom of Speech...I don't have a problem with somebody purporting a theory...''

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Robert Jay, QC: Unless the Prime Minister ordered the review by the Metropolitan Police, the Sun would put the Home Secretary, Theresa May, on the front page until the Sun's demands were met?...João Tavares, PJ: "For each lead that was explored to no avail, the closer we have come to the truth"...Kate McCann: “Adam Tudor and his colleague Isabel Hudson (Carter-Ruck) continue to do a vast amount of work for us, without payment, most of it quietly behind the scenes”......McCann's libel lawyer, Isabel Duarte: “Every one of the books sold will increase the amount of damages that we will be seeking from Gonçalo Amaral.”.......McCann's lawyer, Edward Smethurst: “We are currently demanding €1.2 million in damages, but we are reserving the right to increase this value as soon as we can ascertain what profits have been generated from the sale of this book”......Gonçalo Amaral: "For the McCanns to ask for the process to be reopened, all it would take is a letter to the prosecutor...it costs them nothing, just the stamp on the letter."....The McCann's libel lawyer, Isabel Duarte, has finally complied with the superior court ruling to return Gonçalo Amaral's books.....The McCann couple or their Tapas friends could force the reopening of the process if they would do the reconstruction....In 2007 British Ambassador Alexander W. Ellis admitted that the British Police had developed evidence against Kate and Gerry McCann.....Assistant Chief Constable for Leicestershire police: “While one or both of the McCanns may be innocent there is no clear evidence that eliminates them from involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.”....Carter-Ruck's costs in the case of McCanns v Bennett exceed £120,000 already.....Quote of the day in this multi-million pound review that has, so far, taken a year - DCI Andy Redwood: “We are working on the basis of two possibilities here: one is that Madeleine is still alive; and the second that she is sadly dead"...Portuguese and Spanish Police claim the news about the latest timely Maddie 'sighting' in Spain is completely false.....Martin Brunt: "I guess we can expect more of this (new 'sighting' in Spain) as the fifth anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance approaches."...British police confident of breakthrough as fifth anniversary of Maddie's disappearance looms.......Francisco Moita Flores: "Scotland Yard has made another two million pounds available to search for Maddie McCann"....Gonçalo Amaral: "Elements from the Scotland Yard have been working with an investigative PJ team from Oporto, and what is known is that the “affair” is not going well for the McCanns.".....Scotland Yard dismisses work done by the private agency “Método” 3 hired by the McCann couple.....Gonçalo Amaral: "There is going to be news in the upcoming days...At the end of all this someone will reimburse me for all the wicked actions taken against me...then I will tell the rest."........Kate McCann's lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu: "If you were Portuguese, this would be enough to put you in prison.".....Gonçalo Amaral: “This litigation will carry a heavy price – but I have faith that the mystery will be resolved. Even if I “disappear” in the process - as Kate McCann has written that she wishes I would in her book - I have a daughter and lots of friends who will make sure justice is done”...Lady Margaret Hodge's nephew, Philip Edmonds, claimed that on 3 May 2007 Madeleine was captured on a photo, together with his three boys. Despite the immense value this might have had in settling arguments about Madeleine's movements on 3 May, neither he nor the McCanns ever produced it....Martin Grime: "Not all the alert signals have been investigated by the appropriate agencies in order to provide forensic comparations, in spite of indications to the contrary.".....British criminal profiler NPIA, Lee Rainbow: "Madeleine's father was the last one to see her alive. The family is a lead that should be followed. Contradictions in Gerald McCann's statements might lead us to suspect a homicide."...Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent: "The crucial part of the evidence appears to be a complete match of Madeleine's DNA in the boot of the hire car"...Inspector Ricardo Paiva: "It was Scotland Yard who first thought it could be a murder case."......Inspector Steve Bentley, NSY: "You state that you have a first hand information from an insider from the McCann's private investigators. This information would obviously be of interest to the team and they would welcome details of this individual...".......Gonçalo Amaral: "I would be willing to fly to London to speak with officers doing the review to assist them."....Philomena McCann: "Gordon Brown set things in motion at the start.".....Molly: "There is no evidence of a break-in yet the couple are still free to tell the world that there was one and they can do this unchallenged.".....Gerry McCann: "I think certainly there's been remarkably few child abductions since Madeleine was taken and I think people are more aware.".....Kate and Gerry McCann urge Prime Minister to save 'no win, no fee' for libel cases......Brian Kennedy, the McCanns multi-millionaire benefactor, pledged on his website to meet ALL the growing costs of 'Team McCann', so why do Kate and Gerry keep appealing to the public for donations?....Cadaver dogs used in Suzanne Pilley murder probe ... Gilroy found guilty despite no body, no murder weapon and no forensic evidence.....Portuguese Judge orders McCanns to immediately return Gonçalo Amaral's books so they may be sold......Gonçalo Amaral: "The key that Mr. Gerald McCann alleges to have used had in fact been left in the kitchen, on the kitchen’s counter. Right away, the lies started.".....Gonçalo Amaral: "The British priest staged everything."....Hugging Maddie's treasured Cuddle Cat after she washed it, anguished Kate McCann told Rachael Bletchly of The People on 5 August 2007 that she could no longer smell her daughter's scent on the toy.

.........................................................................................................................................................................................B Did Jim Gamble Sanitize Gerry McCann's CATS File 19309?   *   Barbara Nottage: "How did the alleged abductor snatch Madeleine in a time slot of no more than 3-4 Minutes?   *  Why did Kate McCann tell the Leveson Inquiry, under oath, that no bodily fluids were found in their hire car?   *  Why did Gerry McCann tell the Leveson Inquiry, under oath, that he strongly believes in freedom of speech and doesn't have a problem with anybody purporting a theory when he is instructing Carter-Ruck to take legal action to silence those who purport a theory based on the official Portuguese police files?   *  When referring to Robert Murat's arguido status why does Kate McCann state in her book that his 'formal status meant he would officially be treated as a suspect in the crime' but at the Leveson Inquiry the McCanns refer to their own arguido status, under oath, as merely meaning 'persons of interest'?     *    Why did Kate McCann take Maddie's Cuddle Cat toy to work and place it in contact with 6 dead bodies before taking it on holiday?  * Why don't the McCanns advertise on their website or Facebook page that they have a £2.6 million pound reward for the safe return of Maddie?   *   Why did the McCanns allow the investigation to be shelved then complain that no police force is looking for Maddie?  *  Why hasn't Dr David Payne or Dr Gerry McCann sued Dr Katherina Gaspar for suggesting in her statement to the police that they are paedophiles? * Why has Gerry McCann got a registration number of 19309 in the child abuse CATS system?   *   Why won't the McCanns write to the Portuguese Prosecutor to reopen the process when all it will cost them, according to Gonçalo Amaral, is the stamp on the letter?   *  Why did the McCanns lie about Maddie's coloboma for 4 years?    *    Why is the date 2006 seen on Maddie's Online Shop when she disappeared in 2007?    *    Why did Gerry McCann say, on the airport bus, that he wasn't in Portugal to enjoy himself?   *    Maddie's Fund was created just 7 full working days after she 'disappeared' - how did the McCanns know so early on that she wouldn't be found soon?   *   Why does the Leicester police website link to the McCanns Fraudulent Fund when they are still uncleared prime suspects in hiding their daughters dead body?   *  Why did Maddie's pink blanket and Gerry's blue tennis bag disappear after the PJ photographed them?   *   Why did the McCanns wash the curtains behind the sofa in the holiday apartment when they'd only been there for a week? * Why did the McCanns delete all their text messages and phone records the night Maddie disappeared?  *  Eddie barks to alert to cadaver and Keela freezes at the source of blood - what are the chances of two separate, highly-trained, independent working dogs both alerting to the exact same area, and both of them being wrong?   *  If the McCanns claim they never called their daughter Maddie why did they allow the name Maddie to be printed on the inflatable billboard that they had transported from Scotland to Praia da Luz that advertised the £1.5 million reward?   *  McCanns P.I. Kevin Halligen squandered £500,000 of the Fund money on high living and, although he's currently in prison for unrelated $2million fraud charges, why didn't the McCanns sue him?  *  If Kate McCann was "certain" Maddie had been "murdered" (page 296, para 3 of her Carter-Ruck approved book) surely that means the whole issue of fundraising has been a massive lie?    *   Why did Rachael Oldfield say in her Rogatory Interview: "If Madeleine had accidentally been bumped on the head" rather than "If Madeleine had accidentally bumped her head" before going on to say that there were plenty of people there who could have tried to revive a child?   *   Why did the McCanns keep dirty nappies and rotting meat in the boot of their hire car and does that mean that the dogs' alerts behind the sofa and in the wardrobe in their holiday apartment aswell as outside on the verandah and in the flower bed were also dirty nappies and rotting meat?.......Why did the McCanns pay £37,000 for the FindMadeleine.com website?   * How did a corrupt police officer like Antonio Giménez Raso, currently in prison for fraud, end up working as a lead investigator for the McCanns?.....Why did Philomena McCann tell Martin Brunt that Kate McCann was going to be charged with Madeleine's accidental death if Madeleine was abducted?............................................................   

.....................................................................................................................................Martin Brunt: "There are 30 Met officers - the equivalent of a murder squad - working on the review and I'm told that a senior officer is having to give regular spending updates to the Home Office which is funding an operation that will cost several million and last many months."....Gonçalo Amaral: "The English can always present the conclusions to which they themselves arrived in 2007. Because they know, they have the evidence of what happened - they don't need to investigate anything. All this is now a mere 'show off'.....Manuel Catriano: "This story did not begin in the Ocean Club, but in London where the 'official truth' was conspired and established: an English girl was kidnapped in the Algarve."....Gonçalo Amaral: "Dr Katherina Gaspar witnesses a scene with David Payne and Gerry McCann which flabbergasts her and makes her fear for the safety of her daughter and the other children"....Gonçalo Amaral: " I have understood their game. The McCanns knew that I was going to catch them. So the game is always the same. We want to catch them, they want to escape, and that's it. Sometimes the bandits win, sometimes the policemen do."....Gonçalo Amaral: "Under the old Penal Process, how do I ask Kate: "Are you lying when you say you didn't touch the window? As a matter of fact, it was you who opened the window. We have material evidence of that. A question like this forces the constitution of arguido...".....Tony Bennett: "The Madeleine Foundation has now sent a 32-page letter and a bundle of supporting evidence to the Scotland Yard 'Maddie Case' Review Team".............Gonçalo Amaral: "The little girl died in the apartment. Everything is in the book, which is faithful to the investigation until September: it reflects the understanding of the Portuguese and the English police and of the Public Ministry. For all of us until then the concealment of the cadaver, the simulation of abduction and the exposure or abandonment were proved."...Gonçalo Amaral: "For the McCanns to ask for the process to be reopened, all it would take is a letter to the prosecutor...it costs them nothing, just the stamp on the letter."...Gonçalo Amaral: "The investigation will be concluded, it will be reopened and it will be taken to an end; and justice will be made, that is all that we want."...Gonçalo Amaral: "There are hundreds of indications, clues regarding a certain event; and it is that event that some people do not accept and want to conceal."...Kate Healy was not immediately made an arguida, but merely interviewed voluntarily as a witness. Only after her interview was she made an arguida, that is, after she was confronted with concrete facts that might lead to her incrimination."...Gonçalo Amaral: "If the McCanns admit that their daughter is dead, they can no longer collect money from the Maddie fund, and that's a lot of money, over one million pounds. That's why they say that the girl was abducted."...Kate McCann: "This pair (Carter Ruck lawyers) continue to do a vast amount of work for us, without payment, most of it quietly behind the scenes."...Gonçalo Amaral: "Nowadays I have no doubts left, the archival for various reasons, was mainly due to political pressures made by the English - I have no doubts about that."...Gonçalo Amaral: "I remind you that they demanded the archiving of the process, in 2008, when they were arguidos, merely to defend their image. They are not interested in the reopening of the process or of the investigation"...Gonçalo Amaral: "It's too big and too serious a burden to be concealed by so many people for their entire lives."...Gonçalo Amaral: "Let's remember it is totally logical to find Madeleine's DNA in the home, but absolutely not in a car rented more than twenty days after her disappearance."...Tony Bennett: "The question is: exactly what is it about Madeleine's disappearance that caused such a massive level of government activity, including MI5 and secret service type groups like Control Risks Group, to become involved, and so quickly and in such large numbers? Was it to help find a missing child? Or to locate an abductor?...Martin Grime: "My professional opinion as regards to the EVRD's alert indications is that it is suggestive that this is 'cadaver scent' contaminant."...Gonçalo Amaral: "If the body had been buried there would have been mummification. The fact that there were fluids points to refrigeration."...Dr Vernon Coleman: "Would you hire the McCanns as babysitters?"...Gonçalo Amaral: "there were gestures and words indicating the existence of a child molester within that group of people"...Jose Barra da Costa, PJ: "There are people who guarantee that this is a couple who practice 'swinging' - i.e. sexual relationships between couples and then changing partners, and that this practice would allow in this type of..."...Justine McGuiness: "We were a bit naughty because we did have messages coming out of the police station which we weren't supposed to..."...C443 J.N. HUGHES: Background Information- Gerald McCANN - A search of the local section of the child abuse shows a registration number 19309 in the CATS system....Dr Katherina Gaspar: "I remember Dave telling Gerry something like “she”, referring to Madeleine, “would do this”.. While he mentioned the word 'this', David was doing the action of sucking one of his fingers, pushing it in and out of his mouth, while with his other hand he was doing a circle around his nipple. I remember being shocked by that."...Sofia Leal: “My husband and I have never abandoned our daughters, or allowed paedophiles in our circle of friends. I am shocked that a couple who affirm to be religious is seeking out to destroy our family”...Gerry McCann: "There's no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there's no evidence to implicate us in her death"...

....................................................Why do the McCanns tell blatant lies and change their stories then threaten to sue those who question them?  *  Why did Gerry McCann say in his original statement that he used the front door with a key, then changed it in his second statement to the patio door which was unlocked?   *  Why did the McCanns transport rotting meat and dirty nappies to the tip in their car when there were bins nearby?  *  Why did the dogs only signal at the McCanns apartment, clothes and car?     *   Why didn't Kate have the twins checked if she thought they'd been sedated by the abductor?   *   Why did the McCanns tell the media the PJ had offered them a deal when the PJ can't offer deals?  *   Why were old photographs of Maddie released first when Kate had the latest photo on her camara?   *     Why was the Fund named after a police manual? * Why did Kate say the window had been jemmied when it hadn't?   * Why were the only fingerprints on the window found to be Kates? * Why did the McCanns make excuses for the cadaver scent and bodily fluids found in their hire car? *  Just what was Robert Murat's role in the Madeleine McCann disappearance? * John McCann gave up his job to be a director of the Fund - how did he know Maddie wouldn't be found that day? * Why did Clarence Mitchell give up a well paid job and pension to take up a PR job that might only last a few days? * Just how many false names are the McCanns allowing on their petition? *  Who torched Sergei Malinka's car? * Who killed Goncalo Amaral's dog? * Why did our government try to make the McCanns Fund into a charity? * What did Maddie's disappearance have to do with The Chancellor, Gordon Brown? * Why did the McCanns claim to be devout catholics when Kate's mother said they weren't? * Why did the McCanns allow the sabotage of the crime scene? * Why did the McCanns refuse to co-operate with the investigation? * Why did Kate refuse to answer 48 questions that may have helped find Maddie? * Why did the McCanns refuse to take part in an official police reconstruction but then made a tv documentary? *  Will other children, like Shannon Matthews, be at risk of copycat faked abductions?   *
.......................................Gerry McCann: "Find the body and prove we killed her"....David Payne: "We have a pact. This is our matter only. It is nobody else's business"...David Payne: “We know they didn’t do it. One of our party saw Madeleine being abducted. We were waiting for something to happen but didn't in our worst nightmare think it would be this."...Clarence Mitchell: "There is a wholly innocent explanation for any material the police may or may not have found"...Clarence Mitchell: "Kate and Gerry are not responsible for Madeleine`s death"...Clarence Mitchell: "What goes on the internet has not been sanctioned by Kate and Gerry."...Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa: "There is one piece of stand alone evidence."...Michael Wright: "I noted some disagreeable smells on a number of occasions which I judged to have come from the twins’ nappies. I have no knowledge of anything spilling from any article nor of any cleaning of the car after such a hypothetical spill."...Eileen McCann: "If someone lifted her out of bed Madeleine would have screamed the place down. That girl could throw a tantrum if she wanted to"...Clarence Mitchell: “Anybody who has given money to help find Madeleine need have no fear that their money is being spent on lawyers fees or anything like that.”...Clarence Mitchell: "Just put money into an envelope and send it to Kate and Gerry McCann, Rothley, it'll get there"........Kate McCann: "Rome is preparing itself for our visit."...Susan Healy: "Kate said last night 'If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic."...Kate McCann: "Be brave, sweetheart."...Martin Brunt: "We all thought they were a chavvy family from some estate in Essex who weren't looking after their children properly but the fact that these were two middle-aged, middle-income or, even high-income professionals, doctors, it did rather take on a different hue."...Carlos Anjos: "If that situation had been of an abduction, it would have been terrible for the child. Because if that child were to be sold, or something else... She was as good as... it was her death sentence. That situation, that day, advertising that photo, was simply the death sentence of that child."...Gerry McCann: "The iris is Madeleine’s only true distinctive feature. Certainly we thought it was possible that this could potentially hurt her or her abductor might do something to her eye.… But in terms of marketing, it was a good ploy.”...Clarence Mitchell: "If she's dead then she's dead, but not by their hand"...Kate McCann: "My struggle to control 'very difficult' Madeleine"...Question 41 to Kate McCann: "Is it true that in England you even considered handing over Madeleine’s custody to a relative?"...Maddie McCann: "Why didn't you come when we were crying last night?"...Kate McCann: "...that means that, you know, she must have fallen back asleep very quickly, errm... and then she moved on… you know, she moved on."...Kate McCann: "I don't want to dwell on it too much."...Kate McCann:"When lunchtime came, Gerry and I were in the middle of another meeting when we discovered there was no one around to collect Sean and Amelie. We had to interrupt proceedings and go to the Toddler Club ourselves"...Maria Bandeirinha: “Kate passed by my door, laughing her head off, with a friend, days after her daughter disappeared. What mother has a child in an unknown location and feels like laughing?"...Kate McCann: "Well, it was our holiday too"....Kate McCann: "It's funny, we were having such a good time. We were with our friends and their kids. I think cos there was a group of us, you're just into each other, d'you know what I mean"...Gerry McCann: "If Madeleine had hurt herself inside the apartment – why would that be our fault?"...Kate McCann: "It was so dark...it was dark, erm I've never had such a long night it was dark and you're just praying for the light you know to come up to get out there..."...Rachael Oldfield: "I didn’t really like going up there by myself, it was, like going through that car park was quite dark and there was never anyone around, it was a bit, you know made me feel a bit uneasy”...Kate McCann: "I know that what happened is not due to the fact of us leaving the children asleep. I know it happened under other circumstances."...Kate McCann: "I can't stop thinking about Madeleine, about her fear of pain"...Kate McCann: "Whoever Madeleine's with she'll be giving them her tuppence worth."...Kate McCann's diary: "Gerry put on another great performance"...Daily Express reporter: "She and husband Gerry burst into laughter as they promoted her book about their lost daughter Madeleine."....Gerry McCann: "Ask the dogs, Sandra."...Gerry McCann: "It wasn't as bad as the night we found her..."...Gerry McCann: "Nothing of value was taken the night Madeleine disappeared"....Gerry McCann to Ed Smart: "Ed, I would not be surprised if they, you know, don't plant evidence in the car, you know, to have them think that there's DNA in this car that I rented after the fact is just outrageous, and what could they possibly have?"....Dave Edgar: "Maddie is in a secret lair in a lawless village in PDL"...Donal MacIntyre: Maddie's abductor cleaned the apartment, after a rehearsal, leaving no DNA...Gerry McCann: "My plan was to stay quiet and not answer."...John McCann: "It's not bad for a bunch of amateurs"...Moita Flores: "I have no doubts that the child died. Who knows, one day a fishing net will pick up a bag with a child's bones in it."...PJ Case Files: "Between 15h00 on August 4th 2007 and 06h30 on August 5th 2007, the following samples were recovered in the living room of apartment 5A at the OCEAN CLUB where a murder probably took place.".....Gonçalo Amaral: "The priests also know very well what happened that night.”...Gonçalo Amaral: "I receive a phone call from Sofia, who insists on my going home: our Shitzu dog is dead. She found it that morning, lifeless on the ground, with a head injury."...Dr Paulo Sargento: "Gonçalo Amaral is the visible target the McCanns want to take down"....Portuguese AG, Fernando Pinto Monteiro: "One way or another the McCanns were responsible for their child's death."...Gonçalo Amaral: “There are things that I haven’t said yet”...Gonçalo Amaral: "I am not shutting up"...........

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Post  TheCube on Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:29 pm

Who is going to buy this?

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Post  widdishins on Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:06 am

Nobody that I know is even the slightest bit interested in the McCanns' garbage.

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Quotes, sales, hype, contradictions

Post  Tony Bennett on Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:25 pm

KATE'S BOOK:

The quotes, the sales figures, the hype, and the contradictions...

360 books have so far been pre-ordered.

The book today is 633rd on the Amazon best-seller list (up from 1,183rd last week)

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‘Madeleine’ by Dr Kate McCann

1. The original Press Release

Transworld acquires ‘Madeleine’, Kate and Gerry McCann’s personal account of the disappearance and continuing search for their daughter.

“There are several different reasons as to why I finally came to the decision with my husband Gerry to write and publish this book,” said Kate McCann. “This decision has not been an easy one. Many factors needed to be given thorough and careful consideration, not least the impact of such a book on the lives of our three children. My reason for writing is simple; to give an account of the truth.[ Publishing this book has been a very different decision and is one that we have taken after much deliberation and with a very heavy heart. However, in the last few months with the depletion of Madeleine’s Fund, it is a decision that has virtually been taken out of our hands. Every penny we raise through its sales will be spent on our search for Madeleine. Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl.”Gerry McCann said: “We are hopeful that this book may help the investigation to find Madeleine in other ways too. Our hope is that it may prompt those who have relevant information (knowingly or not) to come forward and share it with our team. Somebody holds that key piece of the jigsaw.”

Bill Scott-Kerr, Publisher at Transworld, bought the book from the Christopher Little Literary Agency for publication in Spring 2011. All royalties will be donated directly to Madeleine’s Fund – Leaving No Stone Unturned Limited. Bill said: ‘It is an enormous privilege to be publishing this book. We are so pleased to be joining Kate and Gerry McCann in the Find Madeleine campaign." The McCanns' Literary Agents, Christopher Little and Neil Blair, said: "We are honoured to be part of this emotive project and to support the McCanns in their search for Madeleine."

2. Why are they writing it?

“On their website dedicated to Madeleine – www.findmadeleine.com – Mrs McCann says: ‘There are several different reasons as to why I finally came to the decision with my husband Gerry to write and publish a book. My reason for writing is simple; to give an account of the truth” - Press & Journal , 25 November 2010

“We are hopeful that this book may help the investigation to find Madeleine in other ways too. Our hope is that it may prompt those who have relevant information, knowingly or not, to come forward and share it with our team” - Dr Kate McCann in Press & Journal, 25 November 2010

“Gerry added: ‘We are hopeful this book may help the ­investigation to find Madeleine. Our hope is that the book may prompt those who have relevant information to come forward and share it. Somebody holds that key piece of the jigsaw’.” - Mirror, 11 April 2011

“Kate McCann’s new book will be key to finding her daughter…The mother of Madeleine McCann is using the book she has written to send a plea to her daughter’s kidnappers: ‘Please, let her come home’.” - Daily Express, 2011

“Publishing this book has been a very difficult decision and is one that we have taken after much deliberation and with a very heavy heart. In the last few months, with the depletion of Madeline’s fund, it is a decision that has virtually been taken out of our hands” - Dr Kate McCann, Daily Express, 2011

“Mrs McCann and her husband Gerry hope the first-person narrative will boost the now depleted fund to find their daughter” - Nick Collins, Telegraph, 11 March 2011

“The he couple hope that the book may prompt someone with new information to come forward. Mr McCann added: ‘Somebody holds that key piece of the jigsaw’." - Nick Collins, Telegraph, 11 March 2011

“Money raised by sales of the book, entitled Madeleine, will be used to pay for their ongoing hunt for the child, who was aged four when she disappeared. The couple, who are both 42 and have five-year-old twins Amelie and Sean, revealed recently that their search fund was dwindling” - Press & Journal, 25 November 2010 [NOTE: Madeleine was three when she was reported missing]

“Philomena McCann said: ‘When Madeleine went missing we thought it would be really important for Kate to keep a detailed journal and she felt it was important to keep an account of everything and some of it has been used for the book. I don’t know if I will be able to read it myself. I have been thinking about it but I think I may find it too upsetting. Kate and Gerry feel a real responsibility that they don’t want to continue asking the public to support them, and that support has allowed them to go on. They think about what they can do to help themselves and they came up with this idea” - Press & Journal, 25 November 2010

“Kate, of Rothley, Leics, said: ‘My reason for writing is simple, to give an account of the truth. Publishing this book has been a very difficult ­decision and is one that we have taken after much ­deliberation and with a very heavy heart. However, with the depletion of Madeleine’s fund, the decision has been taken out of our hands. Every penny we raise through its sales will be spent on our search for Madeleine. Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl” - Mirror, 11 April 2011

“They need money to carry on the investigation. They will never stop looking and that’s why this book has been written. It probably tears them apart to do this but the child is worth it.” - Father Haynes Hubbard, in the Mirror, 11 April 2011

“After numerous false hopes in the search the book may be one last throw of the dice for the family” - Mirror, 11 April 2011

“Kate, 42, has written the book because the Madeleine Fund, set up by well-wishers, is getting through money fast. The McCanns want to be able to pay for further private detective work to track her down and cling to the belief that Madeleine is still alive somewhere” – Express, 11 April 2011.

“For now, however, they are hoping Kate’s book will succeed where every other attempt to find Madeleine has not, prompting someone finally to come forward with the crucial piece of information that will unlock the mystery” – Mail, 18 April 2011

“Kate and Gerry McCann are desperate to reignite the search for their daughter, but where do they start? With Kate’s book, it would seem. Close friends say the McCanns are pinning all their hopes on Kate’s story prompting someone, somewhere, to come forward with new information. The aim of the book is two-fold: to put Madeleine’s disappearance back in the spotlight, and to raise funds so that the McCanns’ team of private investigators can continue their work in trying to find her” - Mail, 18 April 2011.

“‘Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl,’ Kate writes on the Find Madeleine website. Our hope is that the book may prompt those who have relevant information (knowingly or not) to come forward and share it with our team’.” - Mail, 18 April 2011

3. What’s it about?

“Philomena McCann said: ‘Kate is mainly doing it and I know she has written some very truthful and scathing things relating to the Portuguese police’ - Philomena McCann, Press & Journal, 25 November 2010

“The book, entitled Madeline, will tell the story of the toddler's abduction from an apartment in Portugal and the worldwide search for her through the eyes of her parents” - Nick Collins, Telegraph, 11 March 2011

“An aunt of missing youngster Madeleine McCann has described a new book about her disappearance as ‘truthful and scathing’.” - Philomena McCann, Press & Journal, 25 November 2010

“Kate and husband Gerry, both 42, hope it will help shed new light on how Madeleine vanished four years ago” - Mirror, 11 April 2011

“Friends say Kate will ‘want to settle some scores’ – particularly with the Portuguese police, who investigated’the disappearance and became convinced, wrongly, the child’s parents were involved” - Mirror, 11 April 2011

“After numerous false hopes in the search the book may be one last throw of the dice for the family”. – Mirror, 11 April 2011

“The book, simply entitled Madeleine, gives Kate’s account, in her own words, of her daughter’s disappearance during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007, and the dramatic events that followed” – Mail, 18 April 2011

4. Who wrote it?

Both of the McCanns: “The book, which is being written by the McCanns themselves…” - Daily Mail, 3 Janaury 2011

Kate McCann on her own: “A family friend describes how she would write through the day, while the couple’s six-year-old twins, Sean and Amelie, were at school, and then return to her study to write late into the evening after the children had gone to bed. ‘Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl. Our hope is that the book may prompt those who have relevant information (knowingly or not) to come forward and share it with our team’. She turned down the offer of a ghost writer because she wanted the book to be in her own words.Pouring intense emotion into the book has given Kate a sense of focus, as well as renewed hope that Madeleine will be found. Meeting publishing deadlines has also given Kate a feeling that she is doing something both positive and purposeful in her struggle to discover what has happened to her hazel-eyed daughter”.- Mail, 18 April 2011

“Madeleine McCann search: JK Rowling helps Maddy's mum Kate write book on missing Madeleine. JK Rowling helped Kate McCann to write her book on missing daughter Madeleine. The Harry Potter author gave advice as she penned details of the youngster's 2007 disappearance in Portugal, With cash draining from the fund set up to hunt for Madeleine McCann, JK Rowling’s pledge to help was a welcome boost to mum Kate. The Harry Potter author gave the devastated 42-year-old advice and support as she wrote the harrowing details of the night her daughter vanished from their holiday apartment on the Algarve.” - Mirror, 11 April

J.K. Rowling issued a statement on 15 April denied that she had any imput in to the book whatsoever except advising the McCanns to contact her publisher.

5. What has it been like writing the book?

“Reliving those first terrifying days after Madeleine vanished, and charting the dramatic events in the months that followed when even Kate and Gerry became suspects in their daughter’s disappearance, has been an intensely painful experience for Kate. The tortured look that has been etched on the 42-year-old doctor’s face since Madeleine’s disappearance is still in evidence, and friends say she looks tired, thin and drawn” - Mail, 18 April.

6. How much will it make?

“The girl’s parents, Gerry and Kate, have secured a multimillion-pound deal to write an account of their search for their daughter, who vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007” - Press & Journal, 25 November 2010

“Kate hopes to raise £1million from the book” - Mirror, 11 April

“Kate’s book is expected to raise £1million…” - Mirror, 11 April

T”he McCanns hope sales of the book will raise more than £1million for Madeleine’s fund” - Mail 18 April 2011

7. What will happen to the proceeds?

“Every penny we raise through its sales will be spent on our search for Madeleine. Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl” - Kate McCann, in Press & Journal, 25 November 2010.

“All the proceeds will go to the ‘Find Madeleine’ Fund - Nick Collins, Telegraph, 11 March 2011

“Kate said: ‘Every penny will go on the search for Madeleine’”. - Mirror, 11 April 2011

“The money it raises should be enough to pay for private detectives to keep working on the case that gripped the world for another two years” - Mirror, 11 April 2011

“All proceeds from sales of the book will go to the McCanns’ official fund to look for Madeleine, which had been in danger of running out in 2011” - Daily Mail, 3 January 2011

8. Will Madeleine be found?

“Mr and Mrs McCann remain convinced their daughter is still alive somewhere, especially after the recent re-emergence of American schoolgirl Jaycee Lee Dugard and Austrian Natascha Kampusch, both of whom were kidnapped as children but surfaced years later” - Nick Collins, Telegraph, 11 March 2011

9. When was the book written?

It was finished in November: “Mr McCann’s older sister Philomena McCann, 46, who lives at Ullapool in Wester Ross and is head of social subjects at the local high school, said Kate had finished writing and the book was being edited” - Press & Journal, 25 November 2010

It was started in November: “Kate began writing the book five months ago on the computer in her study at the family home in Rothley, Leicestershire” - Mail, 18 April 2011

It was finished week ending 18 April: “Earlier this week, Kate McCann signed off the final chapter of her book about her lost daughter, Madeleine. It is now with the publishers, and a rush is on to have the book edited, printed and on sale by the planned publication date of May 12, which will be Madeleine’s eighth birthday” – Mail, 18 April 2011.

10. When will the book be published?

“The book will be published on April 28, 2011 – to coincide with the fourth anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance from the Praia da Luz resort” - Press & Journal, 25 Nov 2010 [NOTE: The McCanns claimed she was abducted on 3 May, not 28 April]

“Clash: Kate and Gerry McCann have moved the publication of their book about their missing daughter Madeleine from April 28 2011 so as not to clash with the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29. The book, which is being written by the McCanns themselves and is simply entitled 'Madeleine', will now be published on May 12, the missing child's eighth birthday. The couple's account of how the little girl vanished on a family holiday to Portugal in 2007 was due to hit the shops on April 28 2011, just before the fourth anniversary of her disappearance. But publishers Transworld postponed the release date by a fortnight after it was announced that Prince William would marry Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey in London on April 29. McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: ‘The publication date for ‘Madeleine’ has now been moved on to May 12 2011 in the light of the royal wedding and the subsequent media coverage that will generate. Kate and Gerry are very happy with the new date, as are the publishers, and it will still be very much tied into the fourth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.'. The book was due out on the 4th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, but has now been moved to coincide with what would be her 8th birthday on May 12” – Daily Mail, 3 January 2011

“The book, called Madeleine, will be published on May 12, the ­youngster’s eighth birthday” - Mirror, 11 April 2011

11. How long is the book?

384 pages - According to Amazon

348 pages - Express, 11 April 2011

12. Why was the book-signing cancelled?

“Madeleine McCann’s mother Kate McCann will not do a book tour as she fears an assault . Kate McCann is so fearful of being attacked she is refusing to do public signings of her new book about the fight to find daughter Madeleine. She will do television interviews here and in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared four years ago, but will not meet the public over fears for her personal safety. A source close to the publishers told the Sunday Express yesterday: ‘Kate doesn’t want to give anyone the opportunity of heckling her or attacking her during any promotional tour. It’s been emotional enough just writing the book’. We can disclose that one of the groups that could potentially have caused trouble is The Madeleine Foundation, which plans to distribute leaflets and step up an internet campaign confronting Kate and Gerry McCann on the date of publication. They have already written to publishers Transworld demanding answers to 163 questions. The questions include several put to the couple by the Portuguese police. One question asks: “How would the McCanns’ children have coped if there was an emergency while they were absent and out of earshot?” They also ask why the McCanns did not use the hotel’s evening baby-sitting service. The Foundation letter states: “Many feel that the McCanns owe it to the public, whom they have so frequently asked for help, to give them reasonable answers to their questions.” Public book-signings have become a risk for celebrities. Last year former prime minister Tony Blair was pelted with eggs and shoes by anti-war protesters at a signing in Dublin. A year earlier X Factor star Leona Lewis was punched in the face as she signed copies of her autobiography in London” - Express, 11 April 2011.

“The launch of the book will be low-key. Kate will not be doing any signings because she has serious fears about being subjected to verbal abuse, or even physical attack. Kate doesn’t want to give anyone the opportunity to have a go at her during any promotional tour” - Mail, 18 April 2011.

But on another occasion, Dr Kate McCann said she didn’t want to do a celebrity book-signing because she wasn’t a celebrity.

13. Questions about the book from The Madeleine Foundation

“As an example of the deep unpleasantness the McCanns have to deal with, you have to go no further than an organisation called The Madeleine Foundation, which has a website demanding answers from the McCanns to some 163 questions concerning the case. The group, which comprises 28 members but claims it has thousands of supporters who have looked at the website, has already written to the McCanns’ publishers, Transworld, requesting answers to its 163 questions and is planning to step up its campaign to coincide with the publication of the book. Around the time Kate McCann was finishing her book this week, the organisation was taking delivery of 10,000 leaflets entitled ‘What happened to Madeleine McCann: 50 facts about the case that the British media are not telling you.’ It now plans to distribute them to homes and shops across the country. The leaflet is divided into four sections: 1) Major contradictions in the statements of the McCanns and their friends. 2) The highly trained police dogs who detected the scent of a corpse. 3) Strange things the McCanns have said and done. 4) How the McCanns wasted public money on useless private detectives. In 2009, 30,000 similar leaflets were distributed around the country — including Kate and Gerry’s home town — before the McCanns' lawyers, Carter-Ruck, obtained a High Court undertaking from the group’s secretary, retired solicitor Tony Bennett, to halt the leafleting. He also agreed to stop sales of a book he had written, entitled What Really Happened To Madeleine McCann: 60 Reasons To Suggest She Was Not Abducted.

‘Many people subscribe to the view, to one degree or another, that we are not being told the whole truth,’ says Mr Bennett, seemingly oblivious to the pain he is causing the couple.

14. TV interviews: The Oprah v. Piers Morgan bidding war

“The book’s launch will be accompanied by several television interviews”. The publication of this book will propel the family back onto the world’s front pages and, as Kate herself remarks, they embark on this latest chapter in the Maddie story with very heavy hearts” - Mail, 18 April 2011

“Chat show host Piers Morgan is favourite to clinch the first major TV interview with Kate McCann to kick start a new global campaign to find her daughter. The former Britain’s Got Talent judge is in a bidding war with US rival Oprah Winfrey but is boasting: “I’ll get it.” Kate, 42, is prepared to appear on camera after writing Madeleine, her account of the 2007 disappearance of her daughter while on holiday in Portugal. She and husband Gerry hope the book – published on May 12, Madeleine’s eighth birthday – will be read by the girl’s abductors. Kate says a high-profile interview in the US will re-ignite the hunt. Morgan, 46, took over from chat legend Larry King to front the CNN show in January. Oprah, who had Kate as guest on her show two years ago, is desperate to win her back. But a McCann source said: “The two giants of American chat shows are battling it out. The deal is not done but Piers is hot favourite” - Daily Express, 18 April 2011

15. Sales

Position in Amazon best-seller list

15 April moved from 779th to 921st during the day as follows: 779th, later 885th, later 961st, later 1068th, later 1183rd and finally 921st. It was listed 95th in ‘biographies’.

22 April: book has noved up to 538th and later in the day 531st in Amazon best-seller list

23 April: back down to 940th

25 April: back up to 633rd

16. Actual pre-orders:

March: 78

April 1: +29 = 107

April 2-15: +107 = 214

April 16-22: +141 = 355 (includes 9 pre-ordered on 21 & 22 April)

April 23: + 3 = 358

Mid March: Amazon reduce the hardback price to £15.00. Waterstones follow suit.

Late March: Amazon reduce the hardback price further to £12.40.

Early April: New tellow sticker added to the front cover: “All royalties donated to Madeleine’s Fund”. Amazon add “Tell us about a lower price”, a device to find out how low people will go to be persuaded to buy a book.

Early April: Amazon ‘3 books for £20.00’ offer: ‘Shannon Matthews’ + ‘Disappeared’ + ‘Madeleine’

Early April: WH Smith reduced the price to £13. Blackwell's still trying to sell it for £20.00

April 22: The book is 49th in ‘Hot new releases’

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Post  Big Vern on Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:44 pm

Only the braindead would even contemplate buying it.

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Post  PeterMac on Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:49 pm

360 pre-ordered !
One of those is for me. And I suspect many other copies have been ordered by those of us who want to know the truth.
Whether the book will actually tell us the whole truth is another matter entirely.

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Post  ufercoffy on Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:55 pm

I can understand PeterMac reading it as he's a former police officer. I'm sure he'll be picking it apart with a fine toothed comb yes and can't wait for his analysis Mrs

I'm also hoping someone will be able to scan the pages, or something, to get it online here so we can all pick it apart!

I want to read it but I don't want to buy it and give the McScam's any money in case Kate uses it to highlight her hair instead of looking for her daughter.

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Post  PeterMac on Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:16 pm

We MUST reserve judgment until we read it
We have been promised
“... Kate’s account, in her own words, of her daughter’s disappearance during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007, ....” – Mail, 18 April 2011
The account of the disappearance. The truth. Or even a "version of the truth" in the impenetrable contortions of language the McCanns have affected since the events of 4 years ago.
Simply to say " I went back to the apartment and she was not there", will not, I feel sure, be quite enough to fill three hundred and however many pages it is.
And note the Mail's careful use of the word 'disappearance'. They could equally have said "Kate’s account, in her own words, of her daughter’s abduction...", but they didn't.
I want the Royal wedding to be over very soon, so we can read the truth about the case we have been struggling with for so long.
Here finally we shall be given the denoument, that last page of a good Sherlock Holmes, where everything is laid out, and we shall realise that although we had access to all the facts all the time, we had failed to put them together in quite the right order, or to draw the right conclusions. That moment when we shall see clearly that our preconceptions had been leading us to make assumptions which the facts did not permit. That moment when we shall take full account that the working hypothesis we had been using whilst we tried to interpret evidence, had itself been force on us by the protagonists.
That moment when we we shall find out, so that we are sure beyond a peradventure, what the evidence was which led Dr Kate Healy, otherwise McCann, to know at once that Madeleine McCann had been 'abducted'.

That is what I am waiting for, and it is what we have been promised.

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Post  Tony Bennett on Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:16 pm

PeterMac wrote:360 pre-ordered ! One of those is for me. And I suspect many other copies have been ordered by those of us who want to know the truth. Whether the book will actually tell us the whole truth is another matter entirely.

The book has dropped 130 places today in the bestseller lists on Amazon, down from 633rd yesterday, and is now 763rd.

Another interesting point is that the Sun has not yet announced its serialisation of the book -and nor has Piers Morgan announced (as Clarence Mitchell confidently predicted) that he has won his 'bidding war' with Oprah Winfrey for the rights to interview the McCanns.

Possibly there is an almighty media blitz being prepared for the day after the Royal Wedding - but we do then have the small matter of local elections on 5 May and the first national referendum since 1975 - 36 years ago - on the same day.

With the Arab world daily crumbling into ever more violence and bloodshed, it'll be hard work pushing those book sales up from 763rd.

ETA: LATE NIGHT EXTRA - Kate McCann's book has sold another 3 pre-order copies today, bringing the total ever nearer 370. But not so good news for the McCann is that the book has now slumped a further 428 places today and so is now ranked 1,091st Amazon best seller

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Post  PeterMac on Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:02 am

370 x £ 12.40p = £ 4,588

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I Say I Say... Boy did you hear Max Clifford on THE BOOK!

Post  The Rooster on Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:12 am

I recently watched a YouTube clip of Max Clifford offering his opinion on the relevance of the forthcoming McCann book, Madeleine. In his opinion it has no relevance going forward and will also only further alienate the general public from the McCann's manic funding activities. Here's the link if you haven't already seen it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3wpl3vJRnA

It was first broadcast on ITV Central back in November. Love him or hate him, Mr Clifford is an extremely well qualified commentator and I for one am pleased to hear him voice his opinions. Wake up and smell the Starbucks you media/ journalist folk, stand tall, get out of the roost and earn your corn.

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