A Room With A View...

[Vertigo Swirl]

KMC : Again, it’s quite a nice memory really. Madeleine was sitting on my knee. Sean and Amelie were alongside. We’d had a story, and Madeleine asked if she could put my engagement ring on, which she did quite a bit. So, she had that on. Yeah, it was just a, a really nice moment really. And then Gerry got back pretty prompt at seven.

[Vertigo Swirl]

KMC : We sat on Madeleine’s bed and we had a story. And then, Gerry came through and we kind of put the twins into their travel cots they were sleeping in and said goodnight

[Miss Taken Identity]

Incidentally, here is that “distancing” quote in full

Kate MC : I kind of knew straight away then that Madeleine had been taken. It’s not us that have committed this crime. It’s a person who’s gone into that apartment and taken a little girl away from her family.

Ah so there we have it again... Kate knew straight away! so why all the searching in and around the apartment?  why not Just shout from the patio- get help -phone the police Maddie is missing!

and what did she say in her book about Mrs Fenn when she asked what was wrong?

[Vertigo Swirl]

KMC : So at ten o’clock, em.. I got up to do the next check. I’d finished eating then so I headed back to the apartment the usual route. And I just stopped and listened in the living area for a bit and it was all quiet but it just caught my eye that the children’s door was quite far open. And at that point I thought it must have been when Matt checked and he’s left it open. And as I was just drawing it over, it was like it had been caught by a draft and it just kind of slammed shut. It was only at that point really that as I kind of opened it a bit, I kind of looked into the room. And I was, I guess I was looking at Madeleine’s bed and I couldn’t, couldn’t make her out. And then I realized actually she’s not in that bed. Aw, I wonder if she’s woken up and gone through to our bed. She wasn’t in our bed. And that was, that was the first time I guess, you know, a panic kicked in. And it was literally at that point the curtains that I said were closed just kinda whoosh... And then I could see that the window had been pushed right open. The shutters were up. So, em, alright, err, so, so I kind of knew straight away that, that Madeleine had been taken.

 

[Vertigo Swirl]

KMC : These are virtually identical to the pyjamas that Madeleine was wearing when she was taken.

[Vertigo Swirl]

KMC : I think Gerry was scared because he knew that we were in a system that we didn’t know. And I think I just lost it actually. I was, I was upset. I was angry and I was.. I just thought, you know, this is just crazy, you know, it’s unjust, we’re never going to find Madeleine.

[Vertigo Swirl]

GMC  : When it’s a special occasion, when you should be at your happiest, and Madeleine’s not there, that’s when it really hits home. Obviously Madeleine’s birthday goes without saying. But it’s when you’re really getting …

[Wonderfulspam]

KMC : So at ten o’clock, em.. I got up to do the next check. I’d finished eating then so I headed back to the apartment the usual route. And I just stopped and listened in the living area for a bit and it was all quiet but it just caught my eye that the children’s door was quite far open. And at that point I thought it must have been when Matt checked and he’s left it open. And as I was just drawing it over, it was like it had been caught by a draft and it just kind of slammed shut. It was only at that point really that as I kind of opened it a bit, I kind of looked into the room. And I was, I guess I was looking at Madeleine’s bed and I couldn’t, couldn’t make her out. And then I realized actually she’s not in that bed. Aw, I wonder if she’s woken up and gone through to our bed. She wasn’t in our bed. And that was, that was the first time I guess, you know, a panic kicked in. And it was literally at that point the curtains that I said were closed just kinda whoosh... And then I could see that the window had been pushed right open. The shutters were up. So, em, alright, err, so, so I kind of knew straight away that, that Madeleine had been taken.

Kate was looking at flat bed clothes & couldn't make out if they were Maddie or not 

[Erngath]

Not at all. TBH I think you’re made of sterner stuff than you’re letting on and you would call your child by their name no matter how hard it was. I grew up with women like you...I know how strong they can be when they have to be.

It’s possible to support the parents while not being able to explain everything they’ve done.

I've no desire to explain everything they've said and done.
It's not me who places such weight on their every word and action since Madeleine disappeared.
I cannot place myself in  their shoes and say what I  would or would not do or would or would not say.

And a story to explain how quickly a child can be.out of sight.
Our grandsons aged ten and nine at the time, some years ago, were at the cinema..
We saw them in and then sat in a little cafe within the complex with their sister aged  five.
The film ended, out the boys came and within a second our granddaughter was.not beside us
My first thought was that.she had been taken, utter panic set in, then I realised one of the boys had gone to the toilet and yes she had.followed him.

So never, ever think it couldn't happen to you, no matter how careful and protective you are.

[Vertigo Swirl]

KMC : Yeah, you know (slightly embarrassed) I´d, you know, why did we think that was OK? You know, obviously with eh, with hindsight, but then, as Gerry said, it doesn’t help. It doesn’t help us. It doesn’t help Madeleine. to somehow put And ultimately, it’s not us that’s committed this crime. It’s a person who’s gone into an apartment and taken a little girl away from her family.

[Vertigo Swirl]

KMC : Well, it doesn’t matter how much heartache we put ourselves through, so long as, you know, we get the result that we need. You know, as Gerry said, the Met have made huge progress and that has given us great hope that we can find Madeleine, that we can find out what’s happened to her.

[Vertigo Swirl]

GMC : I think that absolutely we don’t know what’s happened to Madeleine. Ermm, we don’t know who’s taken her. Probably our best chance of finding her is identifying that person, and that’s why the e-fits and the sketches and the new information tonight are so important to us, because that’s probably the best chance we’ve got of finding Madeleine.

[Wonderfulspam]

GMC : I think that absolutely we don’t know what’s happened to Madeleine. Ermm, we don’t know who’s taken her. Probably our best chance of finding her is identifying that person, and that’s why the e-fits and the sketches and the new information tonight are so important to us, because that’s probably the best chance we’ve got of finding Madeleine.

The e-fits were so important to them that they remained locked in a filing cabinet for 5 years 

[Vertigo Swirl]

I make that 17 mentions of Madeleine’s name in one “distancing” interview. 

[Wonderfulspam]

I make that 17 mentions of Madeleine’s name in one “distancing” interview.

Who said that they always used distancing language?