Lorraine Kelly: I Pray Maddie Police Will Be Proved Right (merged)

**bb1** Sat Apr 28, 2012 12:32 pm

I Pray Maddie Police Will Be Proved Right

WHEN I first interviewed Madeleine McCann’s mum and dad shortly after her disappearance, I hoped with all my heart that I wouldn’t be talking to them about their missing daughter five years down the line.
Sadly it has come to pass, and the incredibly brave and stoic Kate and Gerry will be on my TV sofa next week as they face up to the fifth year without their beloved little girl.
Madeleine is frozen in time as that beautiful blonde-haired, blue-eyed four-year-old, but she would be approaching her ninth birthday now and this week’s new computer-generated image shows us how she might look.
I imagine it was bittersweet for Kate to see this photo, as her daughter is the image of her mum. As we now know, the initial botched investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance by a Portuguese police force, who assumed she was dead and tried to pin the crime on her distraught parents, was shambolic and shameful.
Vital leads were never followed up and Kate and Gerry were hurled into their own private hell as they wasted valuable energy defending themselves against false accusations that they killed their own daughter.

There has also been carping at the cost of the Scotland Yard investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, personally ordered by David Cameron after a plea from Kate in this newspaper.
A 30-strong squad of British officers have been sifting through mountains of evidence at a cost of around £2million, and although this case is now very cold, they are convinced they will be able to find out what happened to Madeleine, and have gone as far as to say she may still be alive.
Obviously the outcome we are all praying for is that she was kidnapped to order by someone who is taking good care of her.
How I wish that, one day soon, I might be talking to Kate and Gerry about their reunion with the child they love so much.
Kate and Gerry will be on my Lorraine show at 8.30am on Wednesday, ITV1.

Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/papercolumnists/lorrainekelly/4284728/I-pray-Maddie-police-will-be-proved-right.html#ixzz1tKlCUAdB

**Pedro Silva** Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:16 pm

Excellent news, looking forward to see the video about this interview.

Well done couple McCann, keep up the good work.