Lets have it in the correct context though. Kate admits they lied, and why! >@@(*&)
We'd never lied about anything, not to the police, not to the media. not to anyone else. But now we found ourselves in one of those tricky situations where we just didn't seem to have a choice.
As it hapenned, Gerry had a mild stomach upset which we used as an excuse to postpone the trip. We didn't feel good about this at all, but even if the judicial secrecy law had not prevented us from giving the main reason, can you imagine what would have hapenned if we'd announced to the journalists heading for Huelva that the police were coming to do some forensic work on our villa?
We were not to know our excuse would prove to be no more than a tempory holding measure. If we had, we wouldn't have bothered trying to keep the scurrilous headlines at bay. Page 205/206
Thats a lie in itself.
See Gerry Mccann visit to Portugal in January 2009:
Said:
What we're really here to discuss is, errr... how we can work with the authorities to explore areas where other things can still be done that... that might make a difference and I think, errr... you know, this is the first visit that I'm here in, errr... Portugal but I expect it will be the first of, you know, several over the next few months."
"Q: Do you plan to cooperate with the Portuguese authorities?
GM: Of course."
"The purpose of this visit was to, errr... really look at what can still be done in the search, we want to be, you know, looking positively, not backwards - looking forwards. 'Cause, you know, we want to find our daughter. It's pretty simple really.
"In an exclusive interview to the Portuguese News agency Lusa, Gerry McCann stated that he has no intention, at least for now, to promote any process against the Portuguese state or any other entity, namely media outlets, highlighting the fact that the important thing is to forget the past and try to keep searching for his missing daughter."
"He assured journalists that it is the first of many visits to set up new operations in the search for his daughter."
He was asked what he was looking for on this visit.
"We are going to analyse if in fact everything was done to find Madeleine [this is in a 24 hour visit]. If the authorities acted correctly. And, more importantly, to find out if there is any lead that we can explore."
on page 335 of Madeleine there was one, and only one, reason for Gerry McCann's trip. She writes:
"We had already spoken to our legal team on several occasions about taking action [against Amaral] and knew that the only way of assessing our chances of success would be to seek advice from a Portuguese libel lawyer. We had first talked on the phone to Isabel Duarte on 28 November. She was really understanding and sounded nice. By this point we felt as though we had been condemned by an entire country, so to receive sympathy from someone in Portugal was like stepping into a welcoming warm bath. Six weeks later, [i.e. January 13/14] Gerry went to Lisbon to meet her."
He hadn't come to "discuss things with the Portuguese authorities. He hadn't "come to see what can still be done in the on-going search for Madeleine." He didn't "analyse if in fact everything was done to find Madeleine, If the authorities acted correctly, and, more importantly, to find out if there is any lead that we can explore."
