Gerry's Blog - Blog 3, Day 23

by **Jill Havern** 21.01.16 10:37

Day 23 -26/05/2007

Saturday

Yesterday was relatively quiet although we did meet the British ambassador and the senior British Police Officer who has been working here in Portugal on the case. This was a productive meeting. There was a flurry of activity amongst the media here stating the family was openly critical of the Portuguese policed which was not true. We did our best to dampen this down but a couple of papers carried stories with our ‘frustration’ with the investigation rather than what we said it was frustrating that 3 weeks down the line we still have not got Madeleine back. This would be the case which ever country we were in. Some of you may have noticed that Sean and Amelie did manage to squeeze in a hair cut!

Today was extremely busy and tiring. We met with our press officer Clarence Mitchell, to discuss strategy for the fortcoming interviews. Kate attended a luncheon in aid of International Missing Child day and John, my brother, attended a similar event in London. After this John and Brian Kennedy, Kate’s uncle, who are both directors of Madeleine’s fund appointed an interim fund manager. We are now actively looking for a campaign manager who will be needed once our government press officer disappears.
The interviews were our first for TV and we were happy how they went. We did 10 min interviews for Sky, BBC, ITV, Portuguese TV/radio and one for the press association. A shorter interview with GM TV will be shown on Monday morning along with stuff from our fabulous web team. The interviewers were very kind but did not shirk from asking us some extremely difficult questions. We answered them all and although painful will allow us to move on in our search for Madeleine. Importantly, shortly after our interviews finished the Portuguese Police held a press conference and gave details of man they would like to interview who was seen carrying a child on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance. We have not had a transcript of what was said but this is an encouraging development and hopefully will result in further calls to the police with information from people who were in Praia da Luz around the time of Madeleine’s abduction. We remain very optimistic that the criminal investigation will lead to Madeleine’s safe return but we need everyone to be alert and vigilant to any suspicious activity.

Tomorrow will be a family day. We are doing a photo-shoot with the twins for the Sunday newspapers in the morning but will involve stuff that we want to do with them anyway. We also need to recharge our batteries after what has been a very busy week.

DAY 23 6/05/2007

3rd - OFFICIAL WEBSITE REGISTERED AS

www.cuddlecat.co.uk - LINKED TO

www.findmadeleine.com - LINKED TO

www.bringmadeleinehome.com

Recharged batteries:

by plebgate 21.01.16 13:12

Day 23 - AAAGGHHH and unbelievable is all I can say.

by IAmNotMerylStreep 21.01.16 15:18

So they were enjoying themselves with their remaining children just for the camera then? A well-earned break from looking for Madeleine, which they never even started to do?

How many changes of clothes did they take with them for this photoshoot and where did they get changed? Colour coordinated as always, though.

by Liz Eagles 21.01.16 15:34

IAmNotMerylStreep wrote:So they were enjoying themselves with their remaining children just for the camera then? A well-earned break from looking for Madeleine, which they never even started to do?

How many changes of clothes did they take with them for this photoshoot and where did they get changed? Colour coordinated as always, though.

How many babes of around 2 years of age manage 'to squeeze in a haircut'?

by IAmNotMerylStreep 21.01.16 15:54

aquila wrote:
IAmNotMerylStreep wrote:So they were enjoying themselves with their remaining children just for the camera then? A well-earned break from looking for Madeleine, which they never even started to do?

How many changes of clothes did they take with them for this photoshoot and where did they get changed? Colour coordinated as always, though.
How many babes of around 2 years of age manage 'to squeeze in a haircut'?

Ones that may have had sedatives in their system?

by Liz Eagles 21.01.16 16:02

IAmNotMerylStreep wrote:
aquila wrote:
IAmNotMerylStreep wrote:So they were enjoying themselves with their remaining children just for the camera then? A well-earned break from looking for Madeleine, which they never even started to do?

How many changes of clothes did they take with them for this photoshoot and where did they get changed? Colour coordinated as always, though.
How many babes of around 2 years of age manage 'to squeeze in a haircut'?
Ones that may have had sedatives in their system?

Remember that on Day 1 of the blog, the twins were taken everyday to the creche and thought they might be still on holiday! Now they're managing to 'squeeze in a haircut'.

Clarence Mitchell didn't write Gerry's blog. Gerry wrote his own blog and it doesn't make sense.

by hogwash 21.01.16 16:16

What happened to their www.cuddlecat.uk website?

by worriedmum 22.01.16 0:36

''There was a flurry of activity amongst the media here stating the family was openly critical of the Portuguese policed which was not true. We did our best to dampen this down but a couple of papers carried stories with our ‘frustration’ with the investigation rather than what we said it was frustrating that 3 weeks down the line we still have not got Madeleine back. This would be the case which ever country we were in.''

HOBS?