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Anger at book detective ...we’ll pursue him incourts Shock, pain and a never-ending hope that we’ll find her
Search for Maddie combed area from holiday resort to parts of the Algarve coast
We try to ensure a happy and fulfilling life for Sean and Amelie KATE MCCANN TALKING ABOUT TWINS AGED 12 A massive burden has been lifted from us by Met Police inquiry... GERRY MCCANN PRAISES FIVE-YEAR INVESTIGATION
Here are some of the key exchanges between interviewer Fiona Bruce and Kate and Gerry McCann in their BBC interview. FB: How much of a difference has it made – police actively investigating for the past five years? GM: Absolutely huge, I mean I can’t emphasise enough just what a massive burden that has lifted from us, and those around us, and also knowing that the lines of investigation have been prosecuted. FB: He (detective Amaral) was effectively suggesting you were involved? GM: There’s no evidence Madeleine is dead. The prosecutor has said there’s no evidence that we were involved in any crime. FB: Does it shock you, because it has shocked me, the things people say? KM: I think it has been shocking... that aspect of human nature that I hadn’t really encountered. Why add to someone’s upset? Why would someone in a position of ignorance do something like that? GM: I think we’ve seen the worst and the best of human nature. FB: How different is your life now? GM: I think before Madeleine was taken, we felt we had managed to achieve our little perfect nuclear family of five. And unfortunately for us a new normality is a family of four. FB: You appear to have stayed so strong as a family unit. How have you managed to do that? KM: As Gerry said, one of our goals – obviously ultimately finding Madeleine – was to ensure Sean and Amelie have a normal, happy and fulfilling life and
FB: Do you talk about Madeleine, is she a name that crops up every day? How do you manage that? GM: FB: And how will you get through this anniversary? GM: We don’t tend to go back to the time, because it’s so draining. But inevitably, on anniversaries and her birthday, they are by far the hardest days, by far. FB: You must have imagined, if you saw her, what you’d say – how your lives would change? KM: It would be absolutely fine, it would be beyond words really. We’ll cope with anything. FB: And if you do find Madeleine you’ll be able to show her everything you did. You never gave up. KM: Absolutely. And how many people have been there willing her home.