Youtube + Dailymotion Link - Kate & Gerry FULL Interview - 10 Year Anniversary

Patience wrote:Thanks @ EnglishBull,

Comments I posted on other threads about this video>

Gerry looks very uncomfortable at the start IMO.

For those interested in body language - watch at the start of the video, (02:37) how both parents shake their heads negatively when Fiona Bruce asks them how big a difference the last 5 years have made to them since the police have been actively investigating. Both reply with HUGE - but their shaking heads appear to disagree.

Philip Anders wrote:It's such a shame that David Barclay has totally changed what he said in the Channel 4 Dispatches 'Searching for Madeleine' documentary to what he says in the Australian Channel 7 video.

He now says that it's quite likely that a burglar could have opened the shutters as an escape route but the current UK regulations on holiday home door locks require that 'Exit doors, such as the front or back door, should always be easy to unlock and must not need a key to unlock from the inside. A simple Yale-type latch or thumb turn is usually good enough'. & since these were introduced in repsonse to EU legislation then I assume the same applies in Portugal.

So why would an intruder need to open a window when the patio door was already unlocked & the front door wouldn't need a key?

Especially a window with a drop outside it.

worriedmum wrote:

Philip Anders wrote:It's such a shame that David Barclay has totally changed what he said in the Channel 4 Dispatches 'Searching for Madeleine' documentary to what he says in the Australian Channel 7 video.

He now says that it's quite likely that a burglar could have opened the shutters as an escape route but the current UK regulations on holiday home door locks require that 'Exit doors, such as the front or back door, should always be easy to unlock and must not need a key to unlock from the inside. A simple Yale-type latch or thumb turn is usually good enough'. & since these were introduced in repsonse to EU legislation then I assume the same applies in Portugal.

So why would an intruder need to open a window when the patio door was already unlocked & the front door wouldn't need a key?

Especially a window with a drop outside it.

or has that been edited too?

worriedmum wrote:Ten years but immediately after Madeleine disappeared, Gerry was already planning ahead  , not for a 'one year anniversary' but 'sooner than that'...how did he know she wouldn't be found by then? Elton John, were you ever asked?

LET'S HOLD A MADELEINE DAY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD

Sunday June 3,2007
By Jason Groves
Daily Express

ROCK legend Sir Elton John is being lined up to front a global pop concert, to carry the message of missing Madeleine McCann’s plight to every corner of the earth.
It is hoped the singer will headline a huge series of worldwide events to mark a special Madeleine Day that her distraught parents are planning in the effort to find the vanished four-year-old. Sir Elton’s popular appeal is guaranteed to attract a swarm of other film and music superstars keen to offer support to parents Gerry and Kate McCann.
The couple, having promised not to return home until they are reunited with Madeleine, are now planning a series of visits to European and North African cities, to distribute posters and widen the appeal for information.
Sir Elton has played an emotional DVD of Madeline at his concerts, but now believes a larger effort would do more to raise awareness of her predicament.
Gerry McCann, 38, said: “One of the ideas is maybe getting all the people who have publicly supported us to come together. I don’t just mean from the UK but from different parts of the world. We want a big event to raise awareness that she is still missing.
“We would look at high-profile people who have already pledged support. It will be some sort of focus around an anniversary, to tell people thatMadeleine ’s still missing. I think it would be later this year, once media attention has dropped, to bring it back up, hopefully, for a short period.
“It wouldn’t be a one-year anniversary, it will be sooner than that. What we’re doing at the minute has its role but doing that down the line in a few months won’t have anything like the same impact. We might have a sporting event, something arts, something music.[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
"We’ve had backing from sporting people up to now. We have had backing from certain musical celebrities as well. We’ve got some other musical contacts that we are exploring, who are happy to offer support.
“We’re not saying it would necessarily be one big concert, it might be that on a certain day they are playing her DVD.
“What we want at the current time is maximum message out there now, about her disappearance but then just events to bring it back up occasionally just to remind people, if she’s not found.”
A month after the sleeping Madeleine was snatched from her bed, Gerry and Kate McCann have betrayed the first signs that their hopes of finding her alive are starting to fade.
The couple confessed that they are haunted by the harrowing thought of her being held captive by a pervert. Still desperately clinging toMadeleine ’s pink Cuddle Cat, 38-year-old Kate said: “We don’t know where she is. We’d like to think she’s still in Portugal, she might still be in Portugal.
“But we know there’s a possibility she’s gone over the border – or several borders. We know there are bad people out there, but we know there are also a lot of sad people. We hope it’s the latter.”
Gerry added: “Of course we believe Madeleine is still alive but you would be incredible if you hadn’t considered the worst scenario, that she’s dead.
“Kate and I discuss it – not a lot, but we talk about hope, and that while there’s some we will not give up. At the minute, there’s loads of hope.”

Irene 2 wrote:

worriedmum wrote:
Gerry added: “Of course we believe Madeleine is still alive but you would be incredible if you hadn’t considered the worst scenario, that she’s dead.
“Kate and I discuss it – not a lot, but we talk about hope, and that while there’s some we will not give up. At the minute, there’s loads of hope.”

Cmaryholmes wrote:I wonder how much Fiona Bruce was paid for this propaganda piece. She has plummeted in my estimation. A child is missing under the most peculiar circumstances. Millions of tax payers' money has been spent. Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect this Oxbridge graduate to do some serious research? Not a hint of a challenge to the Mccanns's narrative.

Cmaryholmes wrote:I wonder how much Fiona Bruce was paid for this propaganda piece. She has plummeted in my estimation. A child is missing under the most peculiar circumstances. Millions of tax payers' money has been spent. Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect this Oxbridge graduate to do some serious research? Not a hint of a challenge to the Mccanns's narrative.

tara wrote:Mirage, I think the parents eclipsed Madeleine from day one, really. I can't think when it was never about protecting them in favour of finding Madeleine. It's like a snowball picking up more and more dirt the bigger it gets as the white, clean snow gets thinner

Mirage wrote:

tara wrote:Mirage, I think the parents eclipsed Madeleine from day one, really. I can't think when it was never about protecting them in favour of finding Madeleine. It's like a snowball picking up more and more dirt the bigger it gets as the white, clean snow gets thinner

Yes, I essentially agree, with you  tara.  However, I do think it was, of necessity, a partial eclipse to start with because the public's number one concern was always going to be the fate of the child. The couple knew and understood that but, as the years have passed they have had to fire fight more and more and they have seamlessly  moved into the expanding vacuum that Madeleine's ten year silence has left.

ChippyM wrote:The bit at 11.15 is interesting.

Fiona Bruce asks something about 'how different is your life now because every parent imagines what life would be like' 


….Kate says it’s a hard one, doesn’t seem to be able to answer and turns to Gerry


11.29,  Gerry - (Coughs and with voice faltering)...I think before Madeliene,..(cough) was, taken…..


It seems like he was going to say one word here after Madeliene but coughs instead, seems uncomfortable and corrects himself.  I think ‘died’ would have fit there, and he corrects himself with ‘was taken.'

Philip Anders wrote:It's such a shame that David Barclay has totally changed what he said in the Channel 4 Dispatches 'Searching for Madeleine' documentary to what he says in the Australian Channel 7 video.