Save twins from sick web trolls
A DECADE ago I stood outside a holiday apartment in Portugal listening to Kate and Gerry Mccann make their first public appeal for help to find their missing daughter. I’ll never forget Kate, numb with shock, clutching Madeleine’s Cuddle Cat to her face, breathing in her girl’s scent. I prayed she would be found safe even though I thought she was probably already dead. But I knew her parents would never give up hope – because how do you ever stop looking for your missing child?
The 10th anniversary is, as Kate says “a horrible marker of stolen time” and my heart goes out to her and Gerry.
Yet our thoughts should also be with Madeleine’s twin siblings. Sean and Amelie are now 12 and on social media, like their peers. But Twitter, Facebook and whacko websites are infected by conspiracy theorists with “proof” Madeleine’s parents killed her. Sick lies.
Kate and Gerry have tried to shield the twins, but trolls tarnishing the memory of a missing child need to be shut down. Because Sean and Amelie, robbed of their big sister, don’t deserve to suffer for decades to come.
We should have had 10 years with Madeleine, it has just been stolen KATE MCCANN TALKING ABOUT DECADE OF PAIN
Reporter Rachael