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[Erngath]

‘PARTY TINGED WITH SADNESS’ Madeleine McCann’s parents celebrate twins becoming teens with prayers for missing daughter ‘wherever she is’.

Sean and Amelie were just aged two when Maddie's vanished in Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3 2007



By Tracey Kandohla
1st February 2018

THE parents of Madeleine McCann are today celebrating their twins becoming teenagers with prayers too for their missing daughter “wherever she is.”

Kate and Gerry cling onto a glimmer of hope their eldest child could still be alive and are remembering her during a joint 13th birthday party for her siblings.

As Maddie’s younger brother and sister blow out candles on their cake a family pal said: “Their only wish is for their big sister to come home.”



Sean and Amelie, who are both aspiring amateur athletes, are having a special milestone celebration with friends and family.

One guest said: “There will be prayers to remember Madeleine as well wherever she is. Kate and Gerry want to give the twins a memorable occasion, they’re teenagers now and that’s a big deal.

“But the party will be marred with a tinge of sadness because Madeleine is not here to join in the fun.”

Home Office 'to give Scotland Yard another £154,000 to fund Madeleine McCann search'

Three-year-old Maddie vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment nearly 11 years ago.

British police continue to search for her and have not ruled out the possibility of finding her alive despite failing to unearth any new clues. She would now be aged 14.

Her parents are bravely trying to  mark the double birthdays in “as normal way as possible” for the sake of the twins.

Former GP Kate, now a medical worker, has previously told how the family often pray for Maddie’s safe return and always remember her on key occasions.

She said her twins have “grown up essentially without Madeleine but knowing their sister is missing and they want her back.”

The anguished mum, speaking in the past to promote her charity Missing People of which she  is an ambassador, added: “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.

“As a family 98 per cent of the time we’re busy. I don’t know if that’s a conscious thing but it helps. The urge to look for Madeleine absolutely hasn’t changed at all.”

Kate and renowned heart doctor Gerry, both 49, of Rothley, Leics, celebrate their own milestone 50th birthdays this spring.

Sean and Amelie attend a Catholic secondary school in nearby Loughborough which still holds a place for their big sister and hopes one day to welcome her as a pupil.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5473303/madeleine-mccanns-parents-celebrate-twins-becoming-teens-with-prayers-for-missing-daughter-wherever-she-is/

Thank you for posting this.

[jassi]

‘PARTY TINGED WITH SADNESS’ Madeleine McCann’s parents celebrate twins becoming teens with prayers for missing daughter ‘wherever she is’.

Sean and Amelie were just aged two when Maddie's vanished in Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3 2007



By Tracey Kandohla
1st February 2018

THE parents of Madeleine McCann are today celebrating their twins becoming teenagers with prayers too for their missing daughter “wherever she is.”

Kate and Gerry cling onto a glimmer of hope their eldest child could still be alive and are remembering her during a joint 13th birthday party for her siblings.

As Maddie’s younger brother and sister blow out candles on their cake a family pal said: “Their only wish is for their big sister to come home.”



Sean and Amelie, who are both aspiring amateur athletes, are having a special milestone celebration with friends and family.

One guest said: “There will be prayers to remember Madeleine as well wherever she is. Kate and Gerry want to give the twins a memorable occasion, they’re teenagers now and that’s a big deal.

“But the party will be marred with a tinge of sadness because Madeleine is not here to join in the fun.”

Home Office 'to give Scotland Yard another £154,000 to fund Madeleine McCann search'

Three-year-old Maddie vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment nearly 11 years ago.

British police continue to search for her and have not ruled out the possibility of finding her alive despite failing to unearth any new clues. She would now be aged 14.

Her parents are bravely trying to  mark the double birthdays in “as normal way as possible” for the sake of the twins.

Former GP Kate, now a medical worker, has previously told how the family often pray for Maddie’s safe return and always remember her on key occasions.

She said her twins have “grown up essentially without Madeleine but knowing their sister is missing and they want her back.”

The anguished mum, speaking in the past to promote her charity Missing People of which she  is an ambassador, added: “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.

“As a family 98 per cent of the time we’re busy. I don’t know if that’s a conscious thing but it helps. The urge to look for Madeleine absolutely hasn’t changed at all.”

Kate and renowned heart doctor Gerry, both 49, of Rothley, Leics, celebrate their own milestone 50th birthdays this spring.

Sean and Amelie attend a Catholic secondary school in nearby Loughborough which still holds a place for their big sister and hopes one day to welcome her as a pupil.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5473303/madeleine-mccanns-parents-celebrate-twins-becoming-teens-with-prayers-for-missing-daughter-wherever-she-is/

Where does this little gem come from?

Home Office 'to give Scotland Yard another £154,000 to fund Madeleine McCann search'

[faithlilly]

Thank you for posting this.

My, my. I'd forgot how grief-stricken the parents were in the early days. Brings it all back.

[Erngath]

My, my. I'd forgot how grief-stricken the parents were in the early days. Brings it all back.

Now you are not being entirely truthful, are you?
Sceptics have endlessly posted photos of the happy, delighted parents for over ten years and many, many times have discussed the joy on their faces in those early days.

[faithlilly]

Now you are not being entirely truthful, are you?
Sceptics have endlessly posted photos of the happy, delighted parents for over ten years and many, many times have discussed the joy on their faces in those early days.

Don't you think they look grief-stricken ?

[Erngath]

Don't you think they look grief-stricken ?

No.
But you do.

[Wonderfulspam]

Don't you think they look grief-stricken ?

I'll never forget Gerry reading that statement, & Kate straining, but failing, to get any tears out of her eyes, on the evening of May 4th.

It was around this time I first suspected them, long before a dog barked or a fat tosser wrote a book.

[faithlilly]

No.
But you do.

Do I ?

[Erngath]

Do I ?

Yes you said so in your post.
You had forgotten how grief stricken they looked.
So you must have thought previously that they looked grief stricken.

[slartibartfast]

Where does this little gem come from?

Home Office 'to give Scotland Yard another £154,000 to fund Madeleine McCann search'

A stray link to old news.

[Wonderfulspam]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5473303/madeleine-mccanns-parents-celebrate-twins-becoming-teens-with-prayers-for-missing-daughter-wherever-she-is/#comments

There were 42 comments when I read this article earlier today.
Credit where it's due, at least one of the comments I read wasn't blaming the McCanns for child neglect or accusing them or knowing where Maddie is.

I feel sorry for the twins, they'll have to live their teenage years having Kate & Gerry breathing down their necks every time they go online.

[jassi]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5473303/madeleine-mccanns-parents-celebrate-twins-becoming-teens-with-prayers-for-missing-daughter-wherever-she-is/#comments

There were 42 comments when I read this article earlier today.
Credit where it's due, at least one of the comments I read wasn't blaming the McCanns for child neglect or accusing them or knowing where Maddie is.

I feel sorry for the twins, they'll have to live their teenage years having Kate & Gerry breathing down their necks every time they go online.

Another own goal for whatshername.

[Brietta]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5473303/madeleine-mccanns-parents-celebrate-twins-becoming-teens-with-prayers-for-missing-daughter-wherever-she-is/#comments

There were 42 comments when I read this article earlier today.
Credit where it's due, at least one of the comments I read wasn't blaming the McCanns for child neglect or accusing them or knowing where Maddie is.

I feel sorry for the twins, they'll have to live their teenage years having Kate & Gerry breathing down their necks every time they go online.

Actually, I think the twins will have had to be educated about the filth they will encounter when they go on line; the individuals you should really feel sorrow for are the inadequates who derive some sort of satisfaction and define themselves and think they are gaining kudos from being able to post an inane couple of sentences after a newspaper article.
I think they epitomise the dregs ... but one must also allow for feeling sympathy for their plight.

[Mr Gray]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5473303/madeleine-mccanns-parents-celebrate-twins-becoming-teens-with-prayers-for-missing-daughter-wherever-she-is/#comments

There were 42 comments when I read this article earlier today.
Credit where it's due, at least one of the comments I read wasn't blaming the McCanns for child neglect or accusing them or knowing where Maddie is.

I feel sorry for the twins, they'll have to live their teenage years having Kate & Gerry breathing down their necks every time they go online.

I think the twins will soon learn to ignore some of the rubbish on the net

[Wonderfulspam]

Actually, I think the twins will have had to be educated about the filth they will encounter when they go on line; the individuals you should really feel sorrow for are the inadequates who derive some sort of satisfaction and define themselves and think they are gaining kudos from being able to post an inane couple of sentences after a newspaper article.
I think they epitomise the dregs ... but one must also allow for feeling sympathy for their plight.

I think, when the twins are educated enough, they'll search online, maybe see that clip of the CSI dog, his head snapping back, as he barks, at their mothers clothes & at the wardrobe & the hire car, & then they'll reach their own conclusions. And that will be more of a problem to the McCann's than any posed by some inadequate dregs posting about child neglect.