A DECADE OF PAIN Who are Madeleine McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry and how many siblings does missing Maddie have?

A DECADE OF PAIN Who are Madeleine McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry and how many siblings does missing Maddie have?
The pair have endured years of uncertainty and pain following the disappearance of Maddy in 2007

By Sam Webb
11th July 2017, 8:15 pm  Updated: 11th July 2017, 8:16 pm

THE mystery of Madeleine McCann remains, however, new theories continue to emerge as the 10th anniversary of her disappearance passes.

Three-year-old Maddie went missing from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in 2007 while her parents Kate and Gerry were dining nearby with friends.

Who are Madeleine McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry?

Kate and Gerry, were both born in 1968 and live in Rothley, Leicestershire. They are Roman Catholics. Kate Healy is from Huyton, near Liverpool and graduated in 1992 with a degree in medicine from the University of Dundee.

Gerald Patrick McCann was born in Glasgow and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc in physiology/sports science in 1989. In 1992 he qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD.

ince 2005 he has been a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester.

The McCanns met in 1993 in Glasgow and were married five years later.

How many other children do Kate and Gerry have?

The McCanns have twins, a boy and girl called Amelie and Sean, who were born in February 2005 and are now 12.

Kate told The Sun: “The twins are doing really well.

“They’ve grown up essentially without Madeleine, knowing their sister is missing and they want her back.

“They are up to date, they know everything, they know if we are meeting police.

“There is nothing kept from them.”

Are Kate and Gerry both still doctors?

After graduation Kate moved briefly into obstetrics and gynaecology, then anaesthesiology, and finally general practice.

She quit her job as a GP to devote her life to working for children’s charities.

Kate never returned to her part-time job as a locum after daughter Madeleine’s disappearance and handed in her notice in 2008.

Maddie’s dad is a renowned consultant cardiologist and a professor of cardiac imagery.

Professor McCann, as he is now titled, prides himself on having “established a national and growing international reputation as an expert in Cardiac MRI (magnetic reasoning imaging)” – or scanning.

His work has been winning critical acclaim as he and ex-GP wife Kate continue the global hunt to find daughter Maddie.

When did Madeleine McCann disappear?

Madeleine vanished on May 3, 2007, when her family, from Leicestershire, were holidaying in the Algarve, Portugal.

Parents Gerry and Kate left their three children – including toddler twins Sean and Amelie – sleeping in their apartment while they dined at a nearby tapas bar.

When Kate returned to check on the kids at around 10pm that evening, she discovered that Maddie was not in her bed and was missing.

In September of that year, Gerry and Kate, who are both doctors, were sensationally named as ‘arguidos’ by Portuguese police.

While arguido is often translated as ‘suspect’, it actually means a person being questioned under caution.

The following summer the McCanns were cleared by investigators in Portugal who declared they had exhausted all avenues in the case.

In 2010, Maddie’s distraught parents met with then-home secretary Theresa May to talk about the hunt for their daughter.

The following year, Scotland Yard launched its own review, named Operation Grange, into the case at the behest of the future PM.

Two years later Scotland Yard said it had uncovered new leads while Portuguese police reopened their case.

In October 2015, Operation Grange was scaled down from 29 detectives to just four.

Last December, the Tory government injected extra funding into the operation as cops investigated a new theory that Maddie was snatched by a human trafficking ring.

How old would Madeleine McCann be now?

Maddie would have turned 14 on May 12 2017.

In April 2012, UK cops released a computer generated image of Maddie showing what she would look like aged nine.

A number of potential leads have emerged since the little girl vanished, but none amounted to anything and no arrests have ever been made.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3428293/kate-gerrry-mccann-madeleine-parents-children-doctors/

The sun forgot to add thePortugese Supreme Court ruling and also that Mrs now has a medical job.

feels like a "primer"?  bit weird to recap now??  Who is the audience?