McCanns at New Year 2017 - 'tormented', but hoping for 'a miracle', and full of hope, vigour and 'renewed spirit' (Mirror, 4 Jan 2017)

Tony Bennett wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/parents-madeleine-mccann-hope-new-9557742

 

Parents of Madeleine McCann hope New Year 'miracle' will see lost daughter returned
 

Kate and Gerry have never given up hope that Madeleine could still be alive and have started 2017 with renewed spirit



and vigour.

 

By Tracey Kandohla, Russell Myers,

18:57, 3 JAN 2017

 

Madeleine McCann’s tormented parents are hoping that a New Year “miracle” will reunite them with their daughter as they approach the milestone 10th anniversary without her. 

Kate and Gerry have never given up hope that she could still be alive and have started 2017 with renewed spirit and vigour. 

A Facebook campaign promoting the hunt for their daughter, which they endorse, says in a new posting: “We still have great hope and believe in miracles. Thank you for continuing to be by our side. Let’s get her home.” 

Scotland Yard detectives are investigating a lead said to be one “last throw of the dice” in a bid to end the family’s torment. 

A close family friend said: “Despite yet another Christmas without Madeleine which was very difficult, Kate and Gerry have entered the New Year with a positive and upbeat frame of mind. They are confident the Metropolitan Police will give them the answers they are desperately seeking.” 

Investigators now have less than three months of guaranteed Government funding to continue to unravel an “important” new tip. 

A source close to the investigation, codenamed Operation Grange, revealed last month that they are working on a final theory that Maddie was kidnapped by a European trafficking gang. 

The “spotters” are believed to have targeted the charismatic blonde three-year-old, taking photographs of her, while she was playing on the beach and beside the pool at her family holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007. 

Maddie, who has a distinct and un-operable blemish in her right eye where the pupil runs into the iris, would now be aged 13. 

Her last age progression picture clearly shows the eye defect but portrays her as a nine-year-old. 

Former GP Kate and heart doctor Gerry, both 48, posted in a worldwide Christmas message  “Somebody knows. We just hope they find the courage and compassion to let us know too.” 

The brave couple from Rothley, Leicestershire, wrote on the official Find Maddie website, that support from others will “keep us strong and afloat during the difficult months to come.” 

Detectives have explored dozens of theories about Madeleine's disappearance from being snatched by paedophiles and murdered during a botched burglary. Despite nearly 9,000 potential sightings across the globe police have struggled to unearth any new clues. 

In Operation Grange’s potentially final year of searching they are concentrating solely on the fact she was sold by child traffickers - her parents’ and their first team of private investigators’ initial hunch - and could still be alive. Reports following her kidnap suggested she could have been smuggled to Belgium or Morocco in North Africa. 

Forensic investigations into Maddie’s disappearance just nine days before her fourth birthday were concluded five months ago. So far the inquiry, launched in May 2011 on orders of then Prime Minister David Cameron, has cost more than £12 million with topped-up funds set to run out at the end of March.

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Tony Bennett wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/parents-madeleine-mccann-hope-new-9557742

 

Parents of Madeleine McCann hope New Year 'miracle' will see lost daughter returned
 

Kate and Gerry have never given up hope that Madeleine could still be alive and have started 2017 with renewed spirit



and vigour.

 

By Tracey Kandohla, Russell Myers,

18:57, 3 JAN 2017

 

Madeleine McCann’s tormented parents are hoping that a New Year “miracle” will reunite them with their daughter as they approach the milestone 10th anniversary without her. 

Kate and Gerry have never given up hope that she could still be alive and have started 2017 with renewed spirit and vigour. 

A Facebook campaign promoting the hunt for their daughter, which they endorse, says in a new posting: “We still have great hope and believe in miracles. Thank you for continuing to be by our side. Let’s get her home.” 

Scotland Yard detectives are investigating a lead said to be one “last throw of the dice” in a bid to end the family’s torment. 

A close family friend said: “Despite yet another Christmas without Madeleine which was very difficult, Kate and Gerry have entered the New Year with a positive and upbeat frame of mind. They are confident the Metropolitan Police will give them the answers they are desperately seeking.” 

Investigators now have less than three months of guaranteed Government funding to continue to unravel an “important” new tip. 

A source close to the investigation, codenamed Operation Grange, revealed last month that they are working on a final theory that Maddie was kidnapped by a European trafficking gang. 

The “spotters” are believed to have targeted the charismatic blonde three-year-old, taking photographs of her, while she was playing on the beach and beside the pool at her family holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007. 

Maddie, who has a distinct and un-operable blemish in her right eye where the pupil runs into the iris, would now be aged 13. 

Her last age progression picture clearly shows the eye defect but portrays her as a nine-year-old. 

Former GP Kate and heart doctor Gerry, both 48, posted in a worldwide Christmas message  “Somebody knows. We just hope they find the courage and compassion to let us know too.” 

The brave couple from Rothley, Leicestershire, wrote on the official Find Maddie website, that support from others will “keep us strong and afloat during the difficult months to come.” 

Detectives have explored dozens of theories about Madeleine's disappearance from being snatched by paedophiles and murdered during a botched burglary. Despite nearly 9,000 potential sightings across the globe police have struggled to unearth any new clues. 

In Operation Grange’s potentially final year of searching they are concentrating solely on the fact she was sold by child traffickers - her parents’ and their first team of private investigators’ initial hunch - and could still be alive. Reports following her kidnap suggested she could have been smuggled to Belgium or Morocco in North Africa. 

Forensic investigations into Maddie’s disappearance just nine days before her fourth birthday were concluded five months ago. So far the inquiry, launched in May 2011 on orders of then Prime Minister David Cameron, has cost more than £12 million with topped-up funds set to run out at the end of March.

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OK I'll go back to my naughty corner now

Kamiyah Mobley was taken from a hospital in July 1998 and was living under a different name with a woman she assumed was her birth mother

• 21:53, 13 JAN 2017
  
• UPDATED22:23, 13 JAN 2017
  
  

Tony Bennett wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/parents-madeleine-mccann-hope-new-9557742

 

Parents of Madeleine McCann hope New Year 'miracle' will see lost daughter returned
 

Kate and Gerry have never given up hope that Madeleine could still be alive and have started 2017 with renewed spirit



and vigour.

 

By Tracey Kandohla, Russell Myers,

18:57, 3 JAN 2017

 

Madeleine McCann’s tormented parents are hoping that a New Year “miracle” will reunite them with their daughter as they approach the milestone 10th anniversary without her. 

Kate and Gerry have never given up hope that she could still be alive and have started 2017 with renewed spirit and vigour. 

A Facebook campaign promoting the hunt for their daughter, which they endorse, says in a new posting: “We still have great hope and believe in miracles. Thank you for continuing to be by our side. Let’s get her home.” 

Scotland Yard detectives are investigating a lead said to be one “last throw of the dice” in a bid to end the family’s torment. 

A close family friend said: “Despite yet another Christmas without Madeleine which was very difficult, Kate and Gerry have entered the New Year with a positive and upbeat frame of mind. They are confident the Metropolitan Police will give them the answers they are desperately seeking.” 

Investigators now have less than three months of guaranteed Government funding to continue to unravel an “important” new tip. 

A source close to the investigation, codenamed Operation Grange, revealed last month that they are working on a final theory that Maddie was kidnapped by a European trafficking gang. 

The “spotters” are believed to have targeted the charismatic blonde three-year-old, taking photographs of her, while she was playing on the beach and beside the pool at her family holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007. 

Maddie, who has a distinct and un-operable blemish in her right eye where the pupil runs into the iris, would now be aged 13. 

Her last age progression picture clearly shows the eye defect but portrays her as a nine-year-old. 

Former GP Kate and heart doctor Gerry, both 48, posted in a worldwide Christmas message  “Somebody knows. We just hope they find the courage and compassion to let us know too.” 

The brave couple from Rothley, Leicestershire, wrote on the official Find Maddie website, that support from others will “keep us strong and afloat during the difficult months to come.” 

Detectives have explored dozens of theories about Madeleine's disappearance from being snatched by paedophiles and murdered during a botched burglary. Despite nearly 9,000 potential sightings across the globe police have struggled to unearth any new clues. 

In Operation Grange’s potentially final year of searching they are concentrating solely on the fact she was sold by child traffickers - her parents’ and their first team of private investigators’ initial hunch - and could still be alive. Reports following her kidnap suggested she could have been smuggled to Belgium or Morocco in North Africa. 

Forensic investigations into Maddie’s disappearance just nine days before her fourth birthday were concluded five months ago. So far the inquiry, launched in May 2011 on orders of then Prime Minister David Cameron, has cost more than £12 million with topped-up funds set to run out at the end of March.

jeanmonroe wrote:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccanns-parents-fresh-hope-9618987


Madeleine McCann's parents fresh hope after newborn baby stolen 18 years ago found alive

Kamiyah Mobley was taken from a hospital in July 1998 and was living under a different name with a woman she assumed was her birth mother

BYCHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

• 21:53, 13 JAN 2017
  
• UPDATED22:23, 13 JAN 2017
  
  

Kate and Gerry McCann are "buoyed" by news Kamiyah Mobley has been found alive 18 years after she was stolen as a newborn baby from hospital.

She was taken from a hospital in July 1998 and was living under a different name with a woman she assumed was her birth mother.

Kamiyah’s case has given fresh hope to the family of Madeleine McCann , the three-year-old who went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal in May 2007.


A friend of parents Kate and Gerry revealed they were “buoyed” by the news across the Atlantic.

The source said: “It shows that dreams can come true and this teenager being found so many years after the event is another example that will give Kate and Gerry hope.”


Last month the McCanns, of Rothley, Leics, said they were hoping a new year “miracle” would reunite them with their daughter as the 10th anniversary of her ­abduction approaches.

A Facebook campaign, which they endorse, said in a new post: “We still have great hope and believe in miracles.

“Thank you for continuing to be by our side. Let’s get her home.” A police source recently revealed detectives were working on the final theory that Maddie was kidnapped by a European trafficking gang.




Please see new thread for today's Mirror story - Mod

Lands_end wrote:This is the year that the chidren of the McCanns and some of the Tapas 9 drinking buddies' children will hit their teenage years. Teenagers are very astute but also vulnerable. If there are genuine people on this forum who want the truth to come out it is only going to come from the mouths of some of the vile adults present. Their children however may have access to some information gleaned from yearsof mummy baiting. I call upon anybody who knows the location of any of these children now teenagers to be vigilent. Are they being bullied at school? I know of the location of at least 1 so there must be others out there who know teachers and Social Services representatives. Oh btw for the McCanns: Make sure your twins have their stories off pat, they will be the first targets. Should not be difficult for you to form pact secrets with them to promote a conspiracy of lies, you represent the medical profession. Hope that is not too close to the knuckle.

aquila wrote:

Lands_end wrote:This is the year that the chidren of the McCanns and some of the Tapas 9 drinking buddies' children will hit their teenage years. Teenagers are very astute but also vulnerable. If there are genuine people on this forum who want the truth to come out it is only going to come from the mouths of some of the vile adults present. Their children however may have access to some information gleaned from yearsof mummy baiting. I call upon anybody who knows the location of any of these children now teenagers to be vigilent. Are they being bullied at school? I know of the location of at least 1 so there must be others out there who know teachers and Social Services representatives. Oh btw for the McCanns: Make sure your twins have their stories off pat, they will be the first targets. Should not be difficult for you to form pact secrets with them to promote a conspiracy of lies, you represent the medical profession. Hope that is not too close to the knuckle.

This has to be the most appalling post I've read in a very long time on the forum and is shameful in its abuse of the McCann twins to make a completely vacuous point shrouded in venom with a little hint of threat. This helps the search for justice in what way?

A truly awful post.