Kate McCanns tears

Kate McCann's tears as Jimmy Mizen's mother talks at royal memorial service of son's heartbreaking last moments
By Emily Andrews
Last updated at 12:00 AM on 11th May 2010

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This is the heartbreaking moment when the parents of murdered schoolboy Jimmy Mizen were met and comforted by Kate McCann at a service held in memory of young victims of knife and gun crime.
McCann, who of course is still tormented by her own loss - the disappearance of her daughter three years ago - shared a sympathetic hug with Barry and Margaret Mizen on the steps of Westminster Cathedral.
The Mizens showed immense courage as they spoke of their ‘incredible pain’ at the service staged on the second anniversary of their son’s death and attended by Prince Charles.
Kate McCann talks to Barry and Margaret Mizen at the Building Legacy Of Peace Service at Westminster Cathedral marking the second anniversary of the murder of their son Jimmy
Mrs McCann wept as Mrs Mizen described her last minutes with Jimmy and how she had always told him she loved him.

She was personally invited by Mrs Mizen because ‘they were both mothers who had lost their children'.
The Mizens called for more to be done to stop young people being murdered in the UK.
Jimmy was murdered the day after his 16th birthday, trying to avoid a fight, two years ago.
Kate McCann shares a sympathetic hug outside Westminster Cathedral with Margaret and Barry Mizen, whose son was stabbed to death in south-east London

Kate McCann is fast approaching the three-year anniversary of daughter Madeleine McCann vanishing on a family holiday to Portugal
At yesterday's service, led by the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, the Mizen family spoke movingly of Jimmy.
Family members of murdered teenagers Ben Kinsella, Rob Knox and Damilola Taylor were also present.
They all met Prince Charles at a private reception afterwards.
Mrs Mizen said: ‘To all the mothers, take your babies and your children in your arms every day and tell them how much you love them.
‘We told Jimmy how much we loved him on his birthday the day before he died and he told us how much he loved us – it was a beautiful thing.’
Hundreds of relatives, school children, police and members of the public packed the cathedral for the service for peace.
The Archbishop urged politicians to set aside their differences in order to tackle youth crime.
He said: ‘As things stand detailed programmes of policies of each party do not fit together. Co-operation is needed if we are to progress.
‘Building a legacy of peace is something to which we must all subscribe. And even this weekend another young man, Marcin Bilaszewski, was stabbed to death in Finsbury Park – the eighth teenager to die in this way in the last six weeks.
Prince Charles meets the Mizen family - Jimmy was just 16 when he was murdered as he went to buy a lottery ticket with a friend

Prince Charles arrives at the service held in the memory of all young victims of knife and gun crime
‘We know that there is too much violence in our lives. We know there are too many knives on our streets. We know there are too many injuries and deaths caused by them.
‘Building a legacy of peace involves change in all of us. Each of us has to be part of this legacy.’
Jimmy was murdered in May 2008 when he went out to buy a lottery ticket with his older brother Harry near their home in Lee, south east London.
He was celebrating having turned 16 the day before and the pair stopped at Three Cook's Bakery for something to eat.

While there, Jake Fahri – who had been cautioned by police several years earlier for harassing Harry – brushed past the brothers and the trio became involved in a scuffle.

Fahri, now 20, a heavy cannabis smoker and school dropout, tried to attack them with an advertising sign before hurling a glass dish at Jimmy.

It smashed into his neck, severing his jugular vein. The teenager died in his brother's arms in the shop and when his mother rushed to the scene, she fainted at the sight.
The Mizen family have set up a foundation in memory of Jimmy to prevent youth violence.


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Where does this need for endlessly being in the spotlight come from? One wonders if this woman breaks into a song and dance routine every time she opens her refrigerator door.

One has learned today that she is able to shed tears. I was unaware of this before.

Thanks for posting that Candyfloss.
Yet another occasion hijacked by the McCanns. The media, imo, have handled this very badly - surely the focus of this article should have been on the Mitzen family and other parents grieving for their murdered children rather than Kate McCann. As this service was specifically for parents of child victims of gun and knife crimes, what on earth was Kate McCann doing there? Attending a service intended for parents of murdered children is surely at odds with the McCanns' mantra ' Madeleine is out there, she is a findable little girl'.
I fear the way is being paved for the arrival of Kate McCann, the People's 'Mother Theresa/Princess Diana of Missing and Murdered Children Everywhere.

I agree Judge M, sometimes it seems like we are living in some kind of parallel universe, looking on at all this madness. I do feel that the McCanns are plumbing new depths in exploiting families of murdered children for their own ends. The public, whilst not being entirely supportive of the McCanns, have been tolerant of them so far but if the media continue to push them in people's faces to boost sales, there will be a backlash from many who are rapidly growing sick of the very sight of them.

I agree Autumn. A woman like McCann cannot equate having one's child stabbed to death by murderous thugs on his way home from school with her having deliberately left her three children aged under four years in an unlocked apartment with potentially dangerous appliances such as a washing machine and a refrigerator etc. The darkened stairways and quiet alleyways around the apartment's situation were also potential dangers. One of her own dining companions had even alluded to how dark and creepy the area was at night.

The British public seems to have a tremendous capacity for tolerating the Tapas 9's lifestyle. One is therefore left wondering if Clarence Mitchell is quite correct in his suggestion that there is a culture of parents leaving tiny children unsupervised.

Could this be the reason that there has not been a national outrage to protest at the way the Tapas 9 have got off scot-free? Do many parents leave their children alone in these sorts of circumstances, where they could easily over-balance against a toilet bowl and bang their heads and become unconscious or bleed to death? Is it unheard of for a child to trip down some steps, or suffocate in entangled bedding or even suffocate one another during play?

Are the majority of parents quietly condoning the McCanns behaviour, whilst only an erstwhile few dare to speak out? Because it appears that when the few try to speak out, they are persistently pestered to apologise for upsetting a small band of nine people who cannot even be bothered to remember their whereabouts or what they were doing during a child's last days of a Portuguese holiday

The fact is quite simply that this is an enormous national disgrace, yet so few people are even aware of the facts around it.

Is there a single prominent person whom this wretched pair have yet to be found in the company of, or is it safe to say that they have had their presence felt in every boardroom, police conference, political tower and state building? We have even travelled abroad to the White House and Vatican with the McCann's story. Was today the closest we can get to the Royal Household, or will we be taking tea at Windsor shortly?

Well said Autumn and Judge Mental. You have voiced my sentiments completely.

Kate McCann should have shown some respect for parents who have lost a child due to knife and gun crime and stayed out of the limelight. There is no comparison to the disappearance of Madeleine.

Was she not invited by the Mizen family?

Mitchell has PR connections with the Mizens. He will have had a word in their ear.

Disgusting and cynical, Mitchell and the McCanns.
Parasites gorging off other peoples' genuine misery for the sake of a photo opportunity and more sycophantic blurb from the usual hacks. If only these poor people could see how they are being used.

Thank goodness Prince Charles wasn't photographed within a mile of KM.
That was probably the money shot they were hoping for.
It didn't happen.
Good.

All this is being done to make Kate McCann look innocent regarding the death and disappearance of her child. It is very important to someone that Kate looks innocent to the general public. I just wonder who that person is.

It makes her look like a grieving mother, which i have no doubt she is. Grieving is something which she has not had the chance to do...publically anyway; she denied herself the chance to grieve in this way.

Maybe 3 years following this case has made me cynical but I think Kate's presence at this service had more to do with her craving to be in the spotlight, wanting to be the focus of attention and the opportunity to be photographed rubbing shoulders with Prince Charles.

Crocodile tears.

Wonder how she is going to turn on tear ducts when she is caught.