Was Gerry sucking a lolly and joking? I think I've seen a photo of that. Was sedation of the children mentioned? Oh yes, Kate McCann mentioned it when her twins slept too well. I don't know who mentioned swinging, was that Amaral? Did they have help in high places? Well, not every parent of a missing child gets phone calls from Tony and Cherie Blair and Gordon Brown. Child abduction abroad is dealt with at Consular level usually, Ambassadors don't get involved in such matters. The Foreign Office doesn't normally provide press officers. Finally, Amaral was not the only one to notice an atypical emotional response.
Please give a link to the photo of Gerry sucking a lolly and joking. Even if he was, Amaral took that as being unconcerned, when maybe Gerry was joking with friends who rang up to lighten the mood, he was a joker apparently and it is the way some overcome stress. Yet Amaral took the way Gerry behaved as suspicious, that he knew it was a hoax -
Quote from Amaral's book -One day, we were all together at the PJ in Portimão – inspectors and negotiators, members of Scotland Yard and the Leicestershire police – waiting for a contact to define the place and the conditions for the handing over of the money in Holland; when the tension was at its height and we were all holding our breath, Gerald McCann displayed a nonchalance that surprised all of the police officers present, including the English. The atmosphere got heavier as the waiting drew out, but McCann, relaxed, was reading trivia on the internet and discussing rugby and football with the English police, while licking a lollipop. On the telephone, he laughed with friends who called him. Perhaps this was nervousness; sometimes it’s totally displaced, given what is at stake at the time. His attitude shocked. When, two days later the dutch police informed us that the individual had been arrested, that he was not holding any information and had lied from start to finish with the sole objective of extorting money from the couple, we were not surprised. End of quote
'We were not surprised' Amaral said, what does that tell the readers?
As for the Calpol, it was Amaral who said the McCann's give it to the children to help them sleep, Kate McCann said they didn't give the children any medication to help them sleep. Kate's father when asked if the McCann's give the children any medication he replied he had only ever seen them give Madeleine Calpol, which is what is given to children for fever, or pain, Amaral jumped on that to claim that they had given Madeleine Calpol to help her sleep when it is not a sedative the Calpol Sleep wasn't sold until September.
As to the help the McCann's received, what other British couple who have lost a child abroad are you comparing this case with?
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