ANOTHER YEAR WITHOUT MADELEINE

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3 May, 2016 - Anniversary Update

As yet another anniversary comes around, we'd like to thank all our supporters for your continued help and commitment in the search for Madeleine, and the hope for her safe return.

It has been a very long time but the investigation continues, information is still forthcoming and our hope and resolve continue. Until we have answers, until there is news (real news!), there will always be hope and we will continue to do everything we can to help find Madeleine.

The charity 'Missing People' is releasing the single, 'I hope’ on the 20th of May ahead of International Missing Children’s Day. Please support the charity to help all missing children and their families by downloading the song. You can pre-order in the iTunes store at: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/i-hope-single/id1109372930.

Thank you for supporting Missing People and for keeping Madeleine in your heart.

Kate and Gerry

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7123891/We-will-continue-to-do-everything-Gerry-and-Kate-McCann-tell-of-renewed-hope-of-finding-Maddie-on-ninth-anniversary-of-disappearance.html

'We will continue to do everything': Gerry and Kate McCann tell of renewed hope of finding Maddie on ninth anniversary of disappearance

THE PARENTS of Madeleine McCann told today of renewed hope as they vow to “continue to do everything we can” to help find their daughter after nine years.

Kate and Gerry wrote in an anniversary Message on the FindMadeleine website: “It has been a very long time but the investigation continues and information is still forthcoming.

"Our hope and resolve continues.”

Former GP Kate, 48, and heart doctor Gerry, 47, are bracing themselves for the soon-to-end £12million police hunt Operation Grange.

The grim milestone of Madeleine falls on the morning after their local city of Leicester celebrated soccer history winning the Premier League.

Kate McCann is a huge Everton fan and their team, which has publicly supported the search for Madeleine, will be playing new champions Leicester City in a home game on Saturday.

When Madeleine first went missing Kate and Gerry released a photo of her wearing an Everton shirt to boost the global hunt for her.

She vanished from a holiday resort in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007 while her parents were dining at a nearby tapas restaurant with pals. She would now be aged 12, nearly 13.

Kate and Gerry are due to join well-wishers praying for their daughter’s safe return today.

Along with 11-year-old twins Sean and Amelie they are expected to join family, friends and locals to remember Maddie at a gathering in their local village of Rothley, Leicestershire.

It was set to be the first time the couple have been seen in public since their “tormentor” Goncalo Amaral, the former Portuguese cop, last week won a huge appeal court victory against the McCanns about a book he wrote on the case.

On their website the McCanns thanked supporters for the “continued help and commitment in the search for Madeleine, and the hope for her safe return.”

They added: “Until we have answers, until there is news (real news!) there will always be hope and we will continue to do everything we can to help find Madeleine.”

Despite a high-profile search no trace of Maddie has ever been found and the large-scale investigation has been pulled back.

Scotland Yard boss Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said: "The size of the team has come down radically, we are now down to two or three people in that team, at one stage there were about 30 officers in it.

"There is a line of inquiry everybody agrees is worth pursuing."

He admitted Operation Grange, the investigation into Maddie's disappearance, will end once this line of enquiry concludes unless more evidence arises.

He said: "If somebody comes forward and gives us good evidence we will follow it. We always say a missing child inquiry is never closed.

'After nine years, we don't want another one': Gerry and Kate McCann talk of desperation to find Maddie at vigil on anniversary of disappearance

THE PARENTS of Madeleine Mccann have told how they are desperate not to spend another year living in limbo not knowing what has happened to their daughter.

Joining villagers for a special prayer meeting marking the ninth anniversary of Madeleine's abduction dad Gerry said: “Even after nine years, and we desperately don’t want another one, we have this incredible support and it and it means so much to us.

“It makes us stronger and helps us get through it.”

As celebrations erupted just mikes away in Leicester as the city's team won the premiership Gerry, 47, admitted that he and wife Kate felt “incredibly flat" while “everyone is celebrating Leicester City’s victory.”

The McCanns Joined family, friends and locals in Rothley, Leics, to remember Madeleine. They gathered round the village's war memorial where a candle has been kept burning since Madeleine went missing.

Former GP Kate, 48, read a poem by Emily Dickinson during the 20-minute informal get together. Fighting a bad throat,a barely audible Kate said: “Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches on the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops – at all.”

The brave mum, dressed in navy skinny jeans, and black sports jacket looked close to tears at times.

Children lit candles to remember Madeleine and parents read aloud messages of hope including: “Never, never give up!”

Kate, who kept 11-year-old twins Sean and Amelie out of the public spotlight, turned to Gerry for comfort at times.

Local Anglian vicar the Rev Rob Gladstone said: “Throughout the past nine years there have been many high and lows but it is irrefutable that the prayerful support of so many people from different places, from all walks of life, has kept hope alive.”

On Sunday it was revealed that Kate McCann had returned to the spot where Maddie went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Their daughter was just three years old when she disappeared on May 3 2007.

She vanished from a holiday resort while her parents were dining at a nearby tapas restaurant with pals. She would now be aged 12, nearly 13.

On Sunday Kate and Gerry prepared themselves for more heartbreak after a former Portugese cop announced he is writing a second book about the case.

Goncalo Amaral accused the McCanns of faking her abduction to cover up her death in his 2008 book Truth of the Lie.

But Kate and Gerry put on a brave face as they thanked their many friends and supporters.

On official website Find Madeleine they wrote: "As yet another anniversary comes around, we'd like to thank all our supporters for your continued help and commitment in the search for Madeleine, and the hope for her safe return.

"It has been a very long time but the investigation continues, information is still forthcoming and our hope and resolve continue.

"Until we have answers, until there is news (real news!), there will always be hope and we will continue to do everything we can to help find Madeleine.'

Pamela Gurney
May 4 at 12:24pm

Seems to me the McCann couple can't do right for doing wrong. I wonder has anyone else noticed this?

You see the antis absolutely hate the fact Kate & Gerry are seen from time to time in our press or on television even though to me they are rarely seen that often.

The thing is this, if they had kept a low profile and never been seen, these same people would be shouting the odds over that as well. "See them McS***s" the various socks would be yelling , "they dont giva toss for there dauhgter cuz their neva seen" .

So what do they do? It is a double edged sword unfortunately!

And the pair when they are seen are pulled to shreds for their looks. Sometimes it is because they have the audacity to smile. This is an emotion never to be allowed them again having lost their child. they must live in a state of misery forevermore...or so the trolls tell us! It isn't fair and isn't feasible, but that is what they say.

Or they look sad and weary, as in the vigil in Rothley yesterday for Madeleine, who is, after all, their little girl lost who is nearing her 13th birthday now. "Them McS***s neva did look sad enough for me liking" ...really?

So what are they supposed to do to appease the trolls? Is there anything apart from the suggested suicide pact that would give these morons any pleasure? I don't believe there is.

They will continue to be hated via the internet whether or not Madeleine is found. Some people have such unforgiving hearts!

‘Maddie police were ignored’ Detectives have waited five months for Scotland Yard leads
PORTUGUESE detectives tasked with helping Scotland Yard solve the Madeleine McCann mystery have spent the past five months waiting for leads to pursue from their British counterparts.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7143194/We-still-celebrate-her-being-part-of-our-lives-Kate-McCann-to-put-wrapped-presents-in-Maddies-bedroom-tomorrow-to-mark-her-13th-birthday.html

'We still celebrate her being part of our lives': Kate McCann to put wrapped presents in Maddie's bedroom tto mark her 13th birthday

KATE McCann will lay birthday presents in her missing daughter’s bedroom to mark her becoming a teenager, emotionally revealing : “We still celebrate her being part of our lives.”

Kate and husband Gerry have marked Madeleine's birthday every year since she has been missing by putting her wrapped presents in her bedroom ready for when she returns.

In an interview with The Sun recently Kate told how she couldn't imagine Madeleine reaching the milestone of becoming a teenager, saying: "It's hard to imagine isn't it, it's hard to go there. A teenager."

Madeleine was just three when she was snatched from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal on May 3rd 2007.

Kate told The Sun when she launched a drive to ask people to sign up to receive Child Rescue Alerts: "I jump between seeing as she was and trying to imagine her as she is now."

Madeleine's birthday comes just nine days after the family prayed for her safe return during last week’s gathering to mark the ninth anniversary of her disappearance.

Heart doctor Gerry, 47, told well wishers in their home village of Rothley, Leics: “Even after nine years, and we desperately don’t want another one, we have this incredible support and it means so much to us. It makes us stronger and helps us get through it.”

They normally have a family gathering where they light candles on a birthday cake for Madeleine.

They then leave gifts for her in her pretty pink bedroom which has remained unchanged since she vanished as a three-year-old from a Portuguese holiday apartment in May 2007.

The bedroom is not treated as a shrine as Kate says Madeleine's twin brother and sister Sean and Amelie, now 11, are free to go in when they want and when they were little they would go and play with her toys.

Former GP Kate, 48, sometimes goes into the room and talks to Madeleine.

In her book ' Madeleine' she told how when the family first returned to their home in Rothley, Leicester she had imagined Madeleine in her bedroom, holding up her arms saying "lay with me Mummy" as she had always done.

She told The Sun previously how she struggled to cope with her daughter being missing so long saying: "Nine years. She would be a teenager. Time just goes too quickly. It's the quiet times that are tough. Times when you are thinking about her or something related to her.

She should be here and we should be celebrating with her!”

Kate worries people won’t recognise Madeleine any more as she enters her teens and changes.

Missing child experts are advising her parents to have new computer-generated images drawn up to show how her features will have developed.

The McCanns have been buoyed up by the Met’s continued support over the past five years but are “not surprised” that the inquiry is being wound down.

Britain’s top cop Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the 12 million Operation Grange is set to finish “within months” after a final line of inquiry is pursued.

In an anniversary message Kate and Gerry vowed to “continue to do everything we can” to help find Madeleine adding: “Our hope and resolve continues.”

On Madeleine McCann’s 13th birthday, we look at the lost children of Britain who have never been found

THE DISTRAUGHT parents of Madeleine McCann will be laying presents in her bedroom to mark her milestone 13th birthday - more than nine years after she went missing.

According to Missing Kids UK, hundreds of British children go missing every day with 200,000 incidents reported to the police each year.

It's the tragic news that drives a wedge of fear through the heart of any parent.