[Beastie]

Kate McCann has laid bare her shock and outrage after Portuguese police officials made her and husband Gerry suspects in the abduction of her daughter Madeleine.

The former doctor, 43, also reveals how she smashed a bed in frustration over their handling of the investigation and how detectives attempted to bully her into a murder confession.

In a personal account of the three-year-old's 2007 disappearance, Mrs McCann said she and her husband were appalled by the treatment they received from the Policia Judiciaria, especially in the early stages of the hunt.

Describing one police interrogation in an extract from the book Madeleine, released on Thursday, she said: "I felt I was being bullied, and I suppose I was.

"I assumed the tactics were deliberate - knock her off balance by telling her that her daughter is dead and get her to confess.

"On and on it went. They tried to convince me I'd had a blackout - 'a loss of memory episode', I think they called it. My denials, answers and pleas fell on deaf ears. This was their theory and they wanted to shoe horn me into it, end of story."

In another stinging criticism of the Portuguese authorities in the immediate aftermath of the abduction, she added: "I was appalled by the treatment we received. Officers walked past us as if we weren't there. Nobody asked how we were doing, whether we were okay. Our child had been stolen and I felt as if I didn't exist."

Mrs McCann also describes how she and her husband felt "completely alone" while searching for their daughter the day after her disappearance.

In another extract, serialised by The Sun, she said: "Nobody else, it seemed, was looking for Madeleine.

"The frustration and anger were reaching boiling point. I felt like a caged, demented animal. This was torture of the cruellest kind, Finally, I erupted. I began to scream, swear and lash out. I kicked an extra bed that had been brought into the apartment and smashed the end right off."

Source: http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.a...ntid=157373256


4 years on after Maddie's disappearance. I still feel for the parents.

However underneath this story.. there has been plenty of negative comments about how self absorbed Kate is!
And that all she cares about is her money making business of losing Maddie.

I am appaled by the comments. I think Kate and her husband are travelling the world and doing their very best to get Maddie back or know if she is dead or not.

Yes.. at the same time she will sort of be neglecting her twins. But families who have a missing child will have to live with this everyday of their lives if they "don't know" what has happened to them. And yes at the same time the other children will have to live with it as well.

I just feel sorry for the family and any other family who "doesn't know" where their children are.

I know it was a mistake that they left their 3 children in the apartment while they were at the tapas bar. But like 90% of adults or everyone does something like this. Whether it was to leave a child in a car for 2 minutes or whatever.

Children could have a lot more freedom. Suppose I don't blame that they are even more wrapped up in cotton wool now.

But yeah poor family.

What do you think of all this? 4 years on.....

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Didnt care four years ago, dont care now.

Why has the whole world gotta stop for a girl who was probably killed by her parents.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by DrunkerThanMoses

Didnt care four years ago, dont care now.

Why has the whole world gotta stop for a girl who was probably killed by her parents.

Killed by her parents? :S

Why do you think this?

I don't want the world to stop. I just feel sorry for them and they deserve to "know" what has happened to her. If she is dead and they "defintely know" then they could put all this to rest and be the end of it.

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Originally Posted by Beastie

Killed by her parents? :S

Why do you think this?

I don't want the world to stop. I just feel sorry for them and they deserve to "know" what has happened to her. If she is dead and they "defintely know" then they could put all this to rest and be the end of it.

Just my thought and Im not the only one who thinks it.

I dont care any more about madeline or her parents, I mean the media attention has been sick, why give her all the attention? There have been other missing children before and after her, but the whole world dosent stop for them.

I mean can you picture if they actually found her dead/alive, you wont here the end of it for months.

If anything it taught her stupid parents a lesson not to leave her on her pwn, and their other children should be now taken away from them for being unresbonsible parents who would rather get pissed then look after their children.

[Z]

I feel very sorry for them, and for any other family that loses a child, especially in such circumstances. I believe they are innocent. I just feel sorry for their younger children, they're going to grow up with very few memories (if any) of their sister but will forever have to deal with their parents' pain at their loss, uncertainty and guilt (for leaving her) - perhaps they'll even grow up suspecting their parents are murderers, who knows? But they're going to grow up with that cloud hanging over them as a family unless it's resolved one day or another.

[Vicky.]

I still have the gut feeling the parents did it

-Is going to hell -

[Vicky.]

I actually think that they did it by accident though, I think they gave her sleeping pills or something, just so they could go out and have a good time while the kids were sleeping...but they overdosed her and panicked

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I actually think that they did it by accident though, I think they gave her sleeping pills or something, just so they could go out and have a good time while the kids were sleeping...but they overdosed her and panicked

This is what my stepfather and mum think

I think this is what happened as well.

I mean if someone did kidnap her, with all the media attention you think she would of been found by now.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I actually think that they did it by accident though, I think they gave her sleeping pills or something, just so they could go out and have a good time while the kids were sleeping...but they overdosed her and panicked

But where would they have put the body?

I do think they are innocent. But I am being open minded and I am just curious why people think they have killed her :S

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Beastie

But where would they have put the body?

I do think they are innocent. But I am being open minded and I am just curious why people think they have killed her :S

No idea where they put the body. But the same question could be asked about the kidnappers...where did they put the body for it not to be found all this time, or if shes still alive...how come noone has seen her ever?

I dont know why I think they killed her. It was just my gut feeling when the story was all over, and still my gut feeling now.

[Beastie]

Yeah I think it's wrong that parents go out boozing while the kids are sleeping. I personally think they didn't get drunk. Just a social gathering with drinks and food. Back in the day. Plenty of adults did this. Leave their kids sleeping while the adults were having gatherings. It is a lesson they will learn. I mean I suppose it is different just leaving a kid in a car for 2 minutes.

Anyway for me.. it's mainly the curiosity of where Maddie is? Is she dead? Alive?

There is always something in the paper. Like apparently a german kiddie killer is being questioned!

There have been some reports that she was "spotted".

I think she is still alive. But like some people have said.. this case has become so high profile that the people or person who possibly stole her could have killed her. Buried her. Etc..

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Beastie

Yeah I think it's wrong that parents go out boozing while the kids are sleeping. I personally think they didn't get drunk.

That part makes no difference to me. They still left their kids alone in the hotel, in a foreign country...while they went out. What they did while out makes no difference

Though I guess people will have different opinions on that...and its not up to me to tell people what they should or shouldnt do with THEIR kids. Personally no way would I do it though.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

No idea where they put the body. But the same question could be asked about the kidnappers...where did they put the body for it not to be found all this time, or if shes still alive...how come noone has seen her ever?

I dont know why I think they killed her. It was just my gut feeling when the story was all over, and still my gut feeling now.

There have been reports that she has been "spotted" but it probably wasn't her?

Suppose she could be buried in some random marshland. I bet she was taken away from Portugal to god knows where and could have been killed and buried somewhere random. Anywhere in the world.

People say that apparently the Mcanns keep changing their "statement" to what happened on the night.

I just want to know everything!

[joeysteele]

I am obviously not a parent yet, but for me the burning question always keeps hitting me,I have no idea what happened but I will never understand how 2 parents of such intelligence would go on holiday with their very young Children and for ANY time at all leave them alone in the room with no adult watching them or even not to use the Hotels own minding service.

Above all else,I cannot understand how any decent or responsible parents would or could do that.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

That part makes no difference to me. They still left their kids alone in the hotel, in a foreign country...while they went out. What they did while out makes no difference

Though I guess people will have different opinions on that...and its not up to me to tell people what they should or shouldnt do with THEIR kids. Personally no way would I do it though.

I wouldn't do it either. It was stupid of them. But they don't deserve this. Maybe they deserved for Maddie to disappear but then eventually come back and this would give them the message never to leave their kids alone again. Although they now have got the message.. they just havn't got Maddie now

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I am obviously not a parent yet, but for me the burning question always keeps hitting me,I have no idea what happened but I will never understand how 2 parents of such intelligence would go on holiday with their very young Children and for ANY time at all leave them alone in the room with no adult watching them or even not to use the Hotels own minding service.

Above all else,I cannot understand how any decent or responsible parents would or could do that.

They are both intellgent obviously. They are both doctors. But usually a lot of people with intelligence like this have NO commen sense! << Maybe this is just the reason or maybe there is something more "sinister" behind the story. Unfortunately we will never know the story of what happened on the night.

I highly doubt we will ever know what has happened to Maddie but I would love to know!

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I am obviously not a parent yet, but for me the burning question always keeps hitting me,I have no idea what happened but I will never understand how 2 parents of such intelligence would go on holiday with their very young Children and for ANY time at all leave them alone in the room with no adult watching them or even not to use the Hotels own minding service.

Above all else,I cannot understand how any decent or responsible parents would or could do that.

I'm of the same opinion. They could have fallen out of beds cracking young bones, could have choked on their vomit, got up and electrocuted themselves playing around with sockets etc, woke up thirsty and drank something they shouldn't have, - just a few things that could have gone wrong within minutes of the parents not being within hearing distance.

Something that trulydoesn't sit well with me is the mother's revelation about Maddie asking why she (Mum) didn't come when they were crying - ..... why indeed? Seems on that holiday, the night Maddie went missing wasn't the only night then that the kids took a 'back seat' and weren't attended to. Surely any parent, esp on holiday if they hear their child/children crying - they'd investigate - it could have been they were ill, were being bitten alive by mosquitoes, saw a cockroach and were frightened - and that's just the start of any good number of reasons to go check on crying children.

There always has been something that smacked 'not right' for me about this whole case.

Do the parents deserve it? Possibly - they made that choice, they'll have to live with it, their actions allowed this to happen. The person who deserves my sympathy is Maddie for having parents willing to leave her and her siblings alone, when they were out drinking and eating and out of earshot/sight, willing to put her and them in a situation that did pan out terribly for a young child who did nothing to deserve whatever has /had happened to her.

[GypsyGoth]

I think the parents did it too.

[Patrick]

Kate, Just hang yourself already.

[Stu]

His getting stupider again.

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Beastie

Back in the day. Plenty of adults did this...

...It was 2007

[Zippy]

whether they did it or not I think they must have suffered greatly. So all you looking for retribution shouldnt feel too disappointed. If they killed her by accident....what a thing to have to live with for the rest of their lives.

If she was kidnapped....the uncertainty and thoughts of what happened to her and how she suffered must also be unbearable. So either way they are not living in bliss here. Perpetual torment more like.

Im 50/50 on whether they did it and keep switching. Truth is, only they know and it will probably stay that way forever. Until maybe a deathbed confession.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Kate, Just hang yourself already.

You do realise we're talking about a real person not a soap discussion of a random character or horror film. Have some decency and respect.

I did have the thought that maybe the parents hid her body. I find it hard to believe they killed her purposefully, I was more inclined to think she had an accident in the apartment they left her in and cracked her head open or something. They then return to find her dead and panic stricken they hide the body. I remember the case files said they found traces of blood in the apartment and car or something.

Of course the problem with this is the major coverage in several countries, which they themselves persevered with. Why would they do that if they wanted the case to be wrapped up and suspicion moved from themselves.

If they'd done that but deep down were good people they wouldn't take all of the thousands (millions?) in donations to fund their investigations. It's a tricky situation.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers anything like this. It's one thing to lose a loved one, but to lose them without full knowledge of what exactly happened to them must be really tragic.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by 08marsh

You do realise we're talking about a real person not a soap discussion of a random character or horror film. Have some decency and respect.

I did have the thought that maybe the parents hid her body. I find it hard to believe they killed her purposefully, I was more inclined to think she had an accident in the apartment they left her in and cracked her head open or something. They then return to find her dead and panic stricken they hide the body. I remember the case files said they found traces of blood in the apartment and car or something.

Of course the problem with this is the major coverage in several countries, which they themselves persevered with. Why would they do that if they wanted the case to be wrapped up and suspicion moved from themselves.

If they'd done that but deep down were good people they wouldn't take all of the thousands (millions?) in donations to fund their investigations. It's a tricky situation.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers anything like this. It's one thing to lose a loved one, but to lose them without full knowledge of what exactly happened to them must be really tragic.

Exactly. The "not knowing" part. Maybe when Maddie was crying.. the parents ignored her but then at that time she was snatched away. Then moments later Kate and Gerry had found her gone.

The blood in the apartment and in the car?? who's car? :S That could have been Maddie's blood. Maybe the only trace was her blood but nothing from the person who took her.

What if Maddie had an accident.. and died.. or was in a terrible state and then Gerry and Kate.. or one of them.. told someone to take her??

I don't know. I think it might be a good thing to read Kate's book! or read more into the investigation at the time.

I am just thinking if Kate and Gerry or either of them did kill her.. how could they live with that and prolong this investigation for 4 years now? :S

However.. it's usually Kate in the limelight.. now I am thinking.. what if Gerry did something to Maddie?? and he's keeping it a secret. Just seems like Kate is wearing the trousers and Gerry is a bit quieter.

Mmm....

[Beastie]

Do you think we should get a psychic or medium on the case.. to tell us what happened?? Maybe one of them will know!