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Original Source:
SKY: 13 JUNE 2007 |
By
Martin Brunt, crime correspondent
Updated: 20:21, Wednesday June 13, 2007
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Don't know how the McCanns are coping.
I said goodbye to them in Morocco
as they headed back to Portugal
to spend some time out of the limelight, without Clarence their media minder,
to grieve over their missing daughter.
They were barely reunited with their twins when news came of a tip-off
suggesting Madeleine's body was buried a few miles outside Praia da Luz.
They were very upset at reports - but no evidence - that police diggers had
arrived at the site.
Don't think this is what they meant when they told me that publicity from now
on would be "event driven."
They will have to get used to such grim twists and turns in the story and some
will be awful to bear. The family have, rightly, sought publicity and will now
find, as others have before them, that they can't turn it on and off like a
tap.
I'm sure police have looked at dozens of such potential sightings, burial sites
and suspects without given credibility to any of them. Details of some will
inevitably leak and cause upset.
Gerry McCann talked to me of the need "to find Madeleine soon". I
think he was being careful not to add the word "alive", although he
and Kate still hope, of course, that she is.
One thought of his sticks in my mind: "This must not become an unsolved
abduction," he said as we sat chatting in the beautiful garden of the
Rabat Hilton.
Never knowing what became of Madeleine would surely be the saddest outcome of
all the possibilities. But how could you really compare one with another? |
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