UNITED Who are Madeleine McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry

UNITED Who are Madeleine McCann’s parents Kate and Gerry?

The couple had been wed for nine years when their daughter vanished in May 2007

Dan Hall

3 May 2019, 21:33Updated: 3 Jun 2020, 15:11

MADELEINE McCann's parents have never stopped searching for their little girl ever since she went missing 13 years ago in Portugal.

Kate and Gerry McCann recently marked the 13th anniversary of their beloved Maddie's disappearance.

Who are Kate and Gerry McCann?

Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry are both practising Catholics who met in Glasgow in 1993.

Kate became a GP after studying medicine at the University of Dundee while Gerry has been a consultant cardiologist since 2005.

The couple got married in 1998 before having their first child, Madeleine, in 2003.

They also have twin children, a boy and a girl, who were born in 2005 and live in Rothley, Leicestershire.

Kate and Gerry had been married for nine years when Madeleine disappeared on the night of May 3, 2007.

Are they still together?

Shortly after Madeleine vanished, Kate said their marriage nearly broke down as she withdrew into herself.

She stopped reading, playing music or even having sex with her husband Gerry.

And the couple were gripped by the fear that a paedophile may have taken their daughter.

Writing about that period in her autobiography, Kate said: "Tortured as I was by these images, it's not surprising that even the thought of sex repulsed me.

"I worried about Gerry and me. I worried that if I didn't get our sex life on track our whole relationship would break down."

Kate went on to credit Gerry's understanding and the couple's resilience for the endurance of their marriage.

They remain together to this day, despite the stresses of intense media scrutiny on their lives.

Why did they become the centre of scrutiny?

When three-year-old Maddie vanished from the family's Pria da Luz holiday apartment on the Algarve, Gerry and Kate were dining with friends in a nearby restaurant.

Within 24 hours of their child's disappearance, they held a press conference to make the first in a string of public appeals to help find Madeleine.

In the intervening years, the couple have constantly kept the search alive for their daughter.

Over the course of the investigation, they have both been considered "persons of interest".

A Netflix documentary released in March 2019 called The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann is drawing the couple back into public attention, despite their refusal to be involved in or with the film.
What is the latest?

Operation Grange -the Scotland Yard investigation into Madeleine's disappearance - is still continuing.

It began in 2011 and so far it has cost nearly £12million with the continued funding coming from Special Grant funding, which is available to forces that face exceptional costs.

Operation Grange is run from a Met Police branch station in Putney, South West London and is staffed by five officers.

Metropolitan Police chief Cressida Dick confirmed on May 3, 2019, that the force had applied for more money from the Home Office to continue its Operation Grange search for Maddie.

Dick said: "We have active lines of inquiries and I think the public would expect us to see those through.

"A very small team continues to work on this case with Portuguese colleagues and we have put in an application to the Home Office for further funding."

Gerry and Kate thanked supporters for "continuing to have hope" ahead of the 12th anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance on May 3.

However, Kate and Gerry have said that the latest images to emerge of Maddie's age progression are bogus.

A revamped Facebook page, run on behalf of Kate and Gerry, has posted a new message stating: "Thank you for continuing to have hope and helping us in the search for Madeleine."

The couple will remember Maddie, who vanished as a three-year-old during a family holiday in Portugal in May 2007, during a poignant outdoor prayer service in their home village.

On May 3, 2019, it emerged that Portuguese police were hunting a sex fiend who speaks English and wears a surgical mask in relation to Maddie's suspected kidnapping.

In one of his previous cases, he broke into a British family's home and loomed over a seven-year-old girl who woke up and asked "Is that you Daddy?" and he replied "Yes" in a
foreign accent, author Anthony Summers said in the Netflix doc.

Detectives have discovered a creep carried out nearly 30 attacks within a 40-mile radius of the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz where Maddie vanished from 12 years ago today.

He crept into Algarve properties rented by families and many victims were British.

And a judicial source is reported to have confirmed the unnamed man was definitely in Portugal at the time the three-year-old suddenly disappeared.

And the insider also alleged he was KNOWN to local cops and had previously been investigated on suspicion of involvement in paedophile cases.

A chilling reconstruction features in the final episode of Netflix's recently released eight-part documentary The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4006047/madeleine-mccann-parents-kate-gerry-still-together/

Oh good grief , not Kate and Gerry's sex life   

I'd rather read about a pandemic    ! 

"Detectives have discovered a creep carried out nearly 30 attacks within a 40-mile radius of the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz where Maddie vanished from 12 years ago today.

He crept into Algarve properties rented by families and many victims were British."

So why have we not heard about the other 29 cases?
Where are the victims of these crimes?
What happened in these cases?
Were there other abductions?
Where are the witness statements of these victims?
Who are they?
Who would have access to a surgical mask?