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Kate and Gerry McCann have hit out at the mini series The Moorside, which follows the story of nine-year-old Shannon, whose disappearance was made up by her mum Karen Matthews



They claim the programme has heaped more misery on both families, as Kate and Gerry McCann face the heartbreaking 10th anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance.

They criticised the screening of BBC mini series The Moorside, which kept alluding to their ordeal, as being in “poor taste and bad timing”, a close friend said.

The show is based on the staged kidnapping of nine-year-old Shannon who “vanished” from The Moorside council estate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in February 2008.

But the schoolgirl’s own mum Karen had callously made it all up.


Maddie’s plight was highlighted at least three times in the well publicised opening episode.

In one scene Karen’s pal and search co-ordinator Julie Bushby, played by Sheridan Smith, is discussing a candelit vigil after the mum’s TV appeal.

A friend, viewing the papers the next day, said: “It must be working all this, they are offering a reward of £20,000.”

Julie’s young son chips in: “They are offering two and a half million pounds for Maddie McCann. Is that because they’re posher than us?”

His mum replies: “It’s not a contest.”


A source close to Kate and Gerry said: “The whole Shannon Matthews saga only came about because of Madeleine’s disappearance and what the family wrongly thought they could claw through rewards and interviews.

"The BBC have been trailing it for a few weeks. Kate and Gerry think the whole thing is appalling, and in really poor taste and bad timing.




Maddie’s mum, a former GP, and heart doctor dad Gerry, believe their daughter – who would now be 13, could still be alive.

The couple, both 48, from Rothley, Leics, are hoping “a miracle” reunites them with their daughter soon.

Scotland Yard are working on one last “throw of the dice” lead which Kate and Gerry are praying could solve the mystery.

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Do you feel the pain and anguish that Kate and Gerry do about this BBC programme?