Parents Of Missing Girl: We Didn’t Kill Her
Posted October 25, 2007 12:00 pm.
This article is more than 5 years old.
We didn’t drug our daughter and we didn’t kill her.
No parent should ever be forced to make such a statement. But Gerry McCann feels it’s essential you hear him say it.
The father of missing toddler Madeleine McCann has broken his silence about the hunt for the youngster. By now the whole world knows her story. The four-year-old disappeared from a Portuguese resort last May, just days before her birthday. Her parents had gone out to dinner, leaving the child and her twin siblings asleep in their hotel room. When they returned, the girl was gone.
Since then, an all out-search has proved fruitless and local authorities have named both parents suspects in the case. Forensic tests seemed to indicate Madeleine’s DNA was in the trunk of a car her folks rented after she’d disappeared. And recent media reports accused both of them of drugging their kids on the night in question.
“There’s absolutely no suggestion that Madeleine or the (twins) were drugged and it’s outrageous,” Gerry McCann told a Spanish TV channel. “These questions the public knows are nonsense and we shouldn’t be giving them the time of day.”
Kate McCann, the child’s mother, believes her daughter was kidnapped and is still alive somewhere. “I don’t believe she’s been taken away from us permanently,” the distraught mom relates. “I don’t feel it … I think she is probably in someone’s house, I don’t know why and I suppose it’s a feeling, but as Madeleine’s mummy in my heart I feel she’s out there.”
McCann claims she just wants her daughter back and has an answer for all the allegations and rumours that have been aimed against the couple. “Everything else I’m sorry is rubbish,” she says.
In the couple’s first on air interview since being named suspects, McCann became emotional when recalling how the experience has affected one of the twins. “It wasn’t to me actually, it was to my friend. She just said, ‘Madeleine’s coming home to my lovely house and I’m going to share my toys with her’.”
But despite a website, a reward and worldwide appeals from celebrities like David Beckham and JK Rowling, there’s no indication the child’s prediction is going to come true anytime soon.
Previous stories:
