"I
have a terrible nagging doubt the McCanns might be
involved"
Almost four months have passed since I first began to
investigate the harrowing case of a beautiful little
girl who appeared to have vanished into thin air,
shortly after being tucked up in bed by her parents on
holiday in Portugal.
Like a great many people in Britain, and millions more
around the world, I have since become fascinated, almost
to the point of obsession, with the Madeleine McCann
mystery.
I have travelled repeatedly to the Algarve to interview
potential witnesses and suspects; retraced the
abductor's possible escape routes and explored all
manner of theories.
And I end most days by reading the strangely breezy and
matter-of-fact web-log kept by Madeleine's surgeon
father, Gerry.
My curiosity has been heightened at least partly because
those haunting last photographs of a beautiful, carefree
child playing in the sunshine resemble so many treasured
pictures in my own family album.
As a father of four, I can also identify with the
dilemma that apparently confronted Gerry and Kate McCann
on that fateful May evening in Praia da Luz. How do you
enjoy an evening out with friends on holiday, and keep
your toddler safe?
Yet something else has kept me utterly absorbed in
Madeleine's case, and it is certainly not the McCanns'
moth-to-a-flame courtship of the media (their latest
interview, with Paris Match, is due to be published
imminently).
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