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GERRY BLASTS PORTUGUESE PAPER'S SMEAR
Gerry McCann yesterday launched a blistering attack on a Portuguese newspaper
for accusing him and wife Kate of killing Madeleine with drugs.
The paper Tal & Qual claimed police are working on the theory the McCanns
accidentally gave the four-year-old an overdose then covered up the death and
disposed of her body.
Gerry said: "I can't believe this. It is absolute nonsense, total
speculation, a load of tosh.
"It's incredibly hurtful and incredibly untrue. It is just so absurd, it
is just not credible.
"What it implies is that we somehow did it, we did it together, managed to
dispose of Madeleine without a car, without anything, the whole group was
involved.
"Even if somebody could think that, there is just absolutely no evidence
pointing in that direction.
"It is extraordinary. But we will come through it. My opinion of what has
happened has not changed in 16 weeks. We know our facts, we know what we did. It
does not bear any resemblance to this wild speculation."
Tal & Qual's front page headline read: "Police Believe Parents Killed
Madeleine." The paper claimed: "The use of drugs could have been
fatal. The analysis, which is late arriving, should confirm suspicions."
Journalist Catarina Vaz Guerreiro wrote: "The hypothesis of the little
girl dying from excess of drugs is not to be pushed aside. It remains plausible
that Madeleine received her dose which the parents believed to be inoffensive
and which turned out to be fatal."
Another newspaper said police had found traces of blood inside the McCanns'
Renault hire car.
Both papers said senior police officers had supplied the information.
Gerry said he was horrified at the increasing number of so-called leaks from
Portuguese officers in a country that prides itself on keeping investigation
details secret.
He added: "I am disappointed so much information is in the public domain
in a country that supposedly has judicial secrecy. There have been whispers.
There's either judicial secrecy or there's not."
Tal & Qual reporter Ms Guerreiro yesterday defended her story, adding:
"I can't reveal my source but I have complete trust in them. It is someone
close to the investigation.
"It is not my personal opinion. In fact, I want to believe it is all a
mistake and the parents are innocent." |
