A press release issued by the ECHR said: “Even assuming that the applicants’ reputation had been damaged, this was not on account of the argument put forward by the book’s author but rather as a result of the suspicions expressed against them, which had led to their being placed under investigation in the course of the criminal investigation (the prosecutor’s office decided to take no further action in July 2008) and had led to intense media attention and much controversy.

I was snatched at birth and brought up by another family - the man who raised me walked me down the aisle at my wedding alongside my biological dad Speaking in her ambassador role for charity Missing People, Kate said about the twin teens: "They have their own friends and they keep busy and they're really sporty but their only wish is for their big sister to come home. We miss our complete family of five. The negligence of the initial investigation is as heartbreaking as the abduction itself. The incredible insensitivity of others is equally horrifying: the neighbour who complained about the noise when Madeleine was missed, the people who shouldered their way to the parents apparently simply to make themselves the centre of attention. Her book constantly dismisses the PJ (who may indeed have been sloppy) while not mentioning how British Govt officials were constantly around in effect directing the flow of the investigation. (Why?) A local man, Robert Murat, subsequently became its first suspect and had his house and car searched, his swimming pool drained and his electronic devices confiscated but no evidence was found to link him to Madeleine and the matter was soon dropped.

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I didn't enjoy the writing style of whoever wrote this. It was reported at the time of publication that JK Rowling lent her assistance, but this has been denied since - with sources saying that the only connection there was that they shared a literary agent. If you read this book and nothing else, Kate McCann (or her editors/PRs) will have mostly succeeded in getting the reader on side. Yet despite my earlier empathy towards them, I am now less convinced. The Drs Gaspar, two UK Doctors on holiday with the McCanns and the Paynes in 2005, allege paedophilia within the Tapas 9 group.

So did it sway me? Yes and no. As one of the PJ commented, she is either a great actress or innocent. Yet protesting too much also springs to mind.Kate saying she felt "fleetingly disappointed" that she had not been invited to the beach with her friends, but Fiona Payne saying in her rogatory interview that the McCanns HAD been invited, but had tennis lessons. Madeleine will be 11 years old on 12th May this year, and has been missing since she was almost 4, having disappeared from her holiday apartment in Portugal on the evening of May 3rd 2007. The first part of the book is Kate's story of growing up, getting her medical degree and her single life, followed by when she met and married Gerry, the birth of their three children and the lead up to the ill-fated holiday in Portugal. This part of her story is relevant to the events that would ultimately unfold and gives the reader an insight into the person that Kate is and her unconditional love for her family. Kate McCann's personal account of the disappearance and continuing search for her daughter, revised and updated. I dont think for a minute that either Kate or Gerry had anything to do with Maddie's disappearance. And whatever my thoughts are about the children being left alone in the apartment, it still doesn't take away the fact that someone either went into their apartment and took Maddie, or Maddie wandered out of the apartment and then someone took her. And after all, do not forget the McCanns were not the only ones who left their children alone, the rest of the party did so too each and every evening. The other families in their party must be on their knees thanking god it wasn't their child that was taken.

Gerry spent almost an hour on the ’phone to important people in Washington and afterwards Dr Kate says Gerry was ‘almost radiant’ (but obviously not quite) at the prospect of a trip to Washington. When the McCann family of five left England with friends for a holiday in the Algarves, little did they dream that only four of them would be returning. Just shy of her fourth birthday, their daughter Madeleine would be snatched from her bed by a stranger. This book is their story. Also, as Catholics, they’d know small children would go straight to Heaven on dying, but she prefers to think of Madeleine as being alive, regardless of how frightening that might be for the bright little girl. On 20 July the PJ asked the National Policing Improvements Agency for ‘advisory assistance’. A Serious Organised Crime Officer, Jose de Freitas, who was bilingual, came over to Portugal to help with the enquiry. “We found out later (much later) that the UK team had been instructed by the PJ to proceed on the basis that Madeleine had been killed and her body dumped”. I also felt that the book had too many coincidences inserted for the sake of it. Are we supposed to believe that Kate had a conversation about pedophiles the day before Maddy disappeared? Are we supposed to believe that one of their favourite songs to sing to Maddy involved the line "please don't take my Madeleine away"? Or that Kate and Gerry "almost" stayed in that night instead of going out? Come ON. I felt like this book was trying too hard to gain sympathy when anyone with half a heart is already sympathetic to a family who has lost their child.

It is hard to describe how utterly despairing it was to be named arguidos and subsequently portrayed in the media as suspects in our own daughter’s abduction,” Kate McCann said previously. She added it had been “equally devastating to witness the detrimental effect” it had on the search for her daughter.