I wont bother giving kates version of the incident but you need to understand that amarals book contains statements that simply are not true...accuracy is not one of his strong points is it?
Without revisiting the actual speed of the car yet again ... suffice it to say it was fast ... Kate's account of events explains the actuality of the event in relation to the hopes and fears she and Gerry were enduring for her missing little girl.
SnipTen or fifteen minutes into our journey, the police officer had a call from his station.
He said something to Angela, who explained that he’d been ordered to return us to the police station straight away.
He wasn’t allowed to tell us why.
Already driving at quite a scary speed, he suddenly swung the car into a U-turn, floored the accelerator and drove us at a life-threatening 120mph plus back towards Portimão.
I cannot overstate how terrifying this was.
Had Madeleine been found? Please God. Was she alive? Was she dead?
Gerry and I clung on to each other for dear life. I was crying hysterically and praying for all I was worth.
Back at the police station we endured at least another ten minutes of torture in the waiting area before somebody showed us a photograph, clearly taken from CCTV, of a blonde child with a woman in a petrol-station shop.
We weren’t told anything about this, just asked whether the little girl was Madeleine.
She wasn’t.
And that was that. Again we were sent on our way, utterly devastated.
madeleine Kate McCannI think it takes someone with a particularly devious mind to take an incidence such as this to twist it into the absolute lie it became to vent his spleen on a grieving mother while adding spice (and spite) to his best seller and to reflect the fantasy world of his fertile imagination.
Amaral did it without a blush.
How could anyone put this creature on a pedestal let alone give him credence.