Kate McCann has revealed how the torment she suffered at being named a suspect in her daughter's disappearance was nothing compared with the agony she felt at discovering Madeleine was gone.
Speaking for the first time since her return to the UK, Mrs McCann told of the pain of not knowing what happened to her missing daughter.
She said she cried every day for Madeleine - and the kindness shown to her by strangers also brought her to tears.
"I've had days when, if I wasn't crying about Madeleine, I was crying from the letters and messages people have sent to us. It has helped so much," she said.
Mrs McCann admitted she came "crashing down" when police named her as a suspect in the case.
But she said nothing could eclipse the horror of the night Madeleine went missing from the family's holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3.
"A lot has happened since then. Sometimes, the most trivial of things can bring you crashing down," she said, speaking alongside her husband Gerry.
"Everything that has happened, everything we do and feel, it is all put into perspective by how we felt on that first night.
"I think when we were made suspects in our own daughter's disappearance, when the inference was that Madeleine was dead and that, somehow, we were involved ...
"But, no, it can't get worse than that first night."
Mrs McCann also revealed how she and her husband Gerry are trying to give their twins, Amelie and Sean, as normal a life as possible.
She told the Leicester Mercury: "Something carries you through. We have Sean and Amelie of course. We are there for them.
"We tell them that she is missing and that everyone is looking for her. And that's the truth."
The couple have thanked the people of Rothley and Leicestershire as a whole for their continued support.
Mr McCann said so many well-wishers had written to them that, until recently, they had to collect their mail from the post office in their car.
There would be three crates of letters and cards awaiting collection every day, he said.
Mr McCann added: "We want to increase awareness, get back to basics if you like. Target specific areas with pictures and billboards and messages. We want to refocus the coverage."
Sky Interviews Spokesman 03/10/07
McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell tells Sky News they hope the sacking of the policeman in charge of the search for missing Madeleine will help re-energise the search for the four-year-old.
Watch full screen
Watch in video player page
1 comentário:
That bore as much relationship with the interview they gave ti th Leicester Mercury as milk and orange juice
Enviar um comentário