Tearful Kate and Gerry McCann Mark 6th Anniversary of Madeleine's Abduction

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A tearful and emotional Gerry and Kate McCann mark the sixth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance by attending ceremony in home village
Kate and Gerry McCann attended ceremony in Rothley, Leicestershire
It marked the sixth anniversary of their daughter Madeleine's disappearance
By ANTHONY BOND
PUBLISHED: 01:12, 4 May 2013 | UPDATED: 09:13, 4 May 2013

Their faces are barely able to conceal the stress and pain which they have endured this last six years.
Looking tired and tearful, Kate and Gerry McCann attended an evening ceremony in their village to mark the sixth anniversary of daughter Madeleine's disappearance .
The heartbroken couple attended the ceremony at the candle which burns continually in the centre of Rothley, Leicestershire



Upsetting: Looking tired and tearful, Kate and Gerry McCann attended prayers and a candle lit service in their village to mark the sixth anniversary of the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine
Villagers marked the occasion with prayers and poems.
The low-key ceremony marks six years since Madeleine, then nearly four, disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve on May 3 2007, as her parents dined at a tapas restaurant with friends nearby.
Earlier this week, her parents said their family, including twins Sean and Amelie, now eight, had found a 'new normality' since Madeleine's disappearance.
Mr and Mrs McCann, 44 and 45, said they continued to search for their daughter and remained as hopeful as ever - if not more so - as a case review by the Metropolitan Police was under way.
'In many ways things haven't changed and you could argue that, with the Met review two years in, we are actually in a better place because so much more information has been collated and lots of pieces of the jigsaw have been filled,' Mr McCann said.
'It's just about keeping looking, find out what's happened to Madeleine and hopefully finding those responsible.'
His wife said the Met Police seemed 'more determined than ever'.
The couple said although they struggled with various occasions, including Madeleine's birthday, they were coping with her absence.
'Probably the last couple of years it's been a new normality,' said Mr McCann.
'We have adapted to our situation.
'The thing for Kate and I was always about having a proper search and turning over every stone and we feel like that is being done.
'Of course we miss Madeleine terribly but we still hope that we will find her.
'We are still in the same situation and for us we have got to keep going until we find Madeleine and those responsible.'
Mrs McCann said twins Sean and Amelie, who were just two when their sister went missing, were coping well and were 'no different to any other eight-year-old child'.

'They have grown up knowing that Madeleine is missing, she is their big sister, we're trying to find her and she should be back home with us.
'As they get older and they wander on the internet and other things, there will be more questions, but going by how things have panned out so far I think we will be alright, I think they'll handle it well.'




Sad: The heartbroken couple attended the ceremony at the candle that burns continually in the centre of Rothley, Leicestershire


The couple admitted they found Madeleine's birthday - May 12 - more difficult than the anniversary of her disappearance.
'We both find that more difficult really because it's her special day and we should be there celebrating it and we still do,' Mrs McCann said.
'We still celebrate her anyway, and the same will happen this year, we have a little birthday tea and a cake.
'That's a much harder day for us really.'
But they insisted they have not given up hope and will continue the hunt for their daughter.
Mr McCann said: 'I think it's still about being vigilant and to remind people that we are looking for a 10-year-old girl, and not a three/four-year-old at the time.
'But if they have any information, they think they have seen someone who could be Madeleine, then the route is to contact the police.'
Mrs McCann added: 'I think to encourage everybody, it's six years on, but the way the Met review is going is really positive and with that, new hope.
'The search goes on, in a major way.'
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service continue their investigative review into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, liaising closely with the Portuguese authorities.'


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.....And the spiteful TROLL!!!!! jean sneers:

I don't believe this new show of apparent distress has anything to do with Madeleine. There could though be a connection to their failing to bankrupt Tony B as they'd hoped........

A remark like that says far, far more about her character than it ever can about anyone else. And it's sickening, but sadly predictable, to see the Usual Suspects frantically organising their traditional hatespam so they can pretend to be 'members of the public' when they scuttle back to their home hate sites and announce Tick tock, the tide is turning.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/04/six-years-later-still-no-sign-of-madeleine-mccann.html

Six Years Later, Still No Sign of Madeleine McCann
by Barbie Latza Nadeau May 4, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
The parents of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from a resort in Portugal in 2007, think the police are getting closer to discovering the truth. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports.

It has been six years since Madeleine McCann, then just shy of her fourth birthday, disappeared without a trace from a Praia da Luz holiday resort in the Algarve, Portugal, while her parents were at a tapas bar just 130 yards from the apartment. Since then, her parents, Gerry and Kate, have searched relentlessly—and so far in vain—for their daughter. They have left the young girl’s room intact in their home in Leicestershire, England, and still celebrate her birthday each year.

The McCanns have endured a barrage of criticism for leaving Madeleine and her younger twin siblings unattended, and they have been the victims of a vile online conspiracy hate club that sees them as the perpetrators in their daughter’s disappearance. But through it all, they have remained stoic and vigilant in their belief that she is still out there somewhere—and their patience might soon pay off. Both Kate and Gerry McCann have said that they believe the police are moving closer to finding the truth about what happened to their daughter.

The case was officially closed in 2008 when the Portuguese police dismissed Madeleine’s parents as subjects. In May 2011, Scotland Yard launched a shadow investigation called Operation Grange to examine more than 100,000 pages of investigative documents. In their initial review, they found nearly 200 leads they believe the Portuguese investigators missed, including leads to known pedophiles who could have taken the young girl and reports of suspicious vehicles in the area at the time. So far, the missed leads they have followed up on have all turned cold, but the McCanns believe they are getting closer to finding Madeleine. "With the review the Met have been doing over the last two years I think we are closer to finding out what happened," Gerry McCann told SKY news ahead of the anniversary of his daughter’s disappearance. "But for Kate and I, until we find Madeleine or the person responsible then we're still miles away."

On Friday a service was held in the chapel of the family’s home village to mark the day Madeleine disappeared. Poems and prayers dedicated to Madeleine were read, as they have every year since the toddler disappeared, but Gerry says it wasn’t intended as a memorial service. “It marks the day she was taken, but it is really just another day she is still missing,” he said.

The McCanns continue to distribute posters to those traveling to the Algarve with a time-lapse image of Madeleine to show what she might look like at 10 years old, in hopes they will hang the flyers up and someone will call the toll-free line with information. They also keep in regular contact with detectives working on the Operation Grange investigation and provide information and answer questions to cooperate fully. They say they have found a new normal in their life, but it has not been easy. “It's a horrible, confusing, uncomfortable situation to be in,” Kate told the British press. “As time's gone on we've obviously got stronger and you do adapt to living in that situation.”

Kate believes that as long as they continue to talk about Madeleine’s disappearance, someone will remember something or see a young girl who looks like their daughter. “Someone knows—not just the people involved in the crime,” she told SKY. “Other people will know as well, or will be strongly suspicious.” She’s hoping that suspicion will lead someone to make a call that might lead them to the truth about their daughter.

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they have been the victims of a vile online conspiracy hate club that sees them as the perpetrators in their daughter’s disappearance.

Doesn't look like that tide is ever going to turn for the forkers, hounders, Big Rock cult, and assorted low-life nasties, does it?

Re: Anniversary very soon -
tiny Today
Well I have no compassion for the mccanns at all, they have brought all this on themselves, you reap what you sow.

And then they whine because the media uses words like VILE, SICKO, HATERS, etc., to describe them. Do they never worry about what sort of Karma they are bringing down on their own heads with their sadistic abuse?

They look so sad, but apparently it's fake grief according to some of the vilest on the hate forums.

Quite heartbreaking to see the grief and pain etched on the faces of Madeleine's mummy and daddy.

God forgive those who have added to their pain and suffering.

tiny, do us favour: shut up you barsteward, you stink.

The spite and bile they have been posting today has proven, beyond any doubt, that their sole motivation is blind hatred.

Why they do it, what sick pleasure they get from it, is a matter for their consciences - if they possess such things. The Christian thing would be to feel sorry for such sick creatures, living such a dark, horrible existence. I almost pity them - but only almost.

They are deliberately choosing to be vicious and hateful, no-one is forcing them. The cure for their misery is in their own souls - again, if they even have such things, which many doubt.

My friends, this was taken from The Portugal News newspaper:

http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/six-years-on-madeleine-mccann-parents-remain-hopeful/28340

also from:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/01/madeleine-mccann-news-kate-gerry-sixth-anniversary-pictures_n_3191349.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319228/Madeline-McCann-A-tearful-emotional-Gerry-Kate-mark-sixth-anniversary-daughters-disappearance.html

BennettsFauxPas ‏@wotsbutlerdoing 3h
Operation Grange would like to hear from holidaymakers in Praia da Luz pre 3 May 2007. Did you see anything suspicious then?

That's interesting; I wonder if they think the abductor/s had been hanging around for a while?

Looks like there is a story in the Star.