Maddie book deal.

[Park Life 71]

McCanns sign Madeleine book deal

Kate and Gerry McCann Kate and Gerry McCann are writing the book about their daughter themselves

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The parents of Madeleine McCann have signed a deal to write a book about their daughter's disappearance.

 

Publisher Transworld has bought the rights to their story of how Madeleine disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal and their efforts to find her.

 

Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, was nearly four when she vanished in Praia da Luz, Algarve, in May 2007.

 

All proceeds from the book will go to the fund to look for Madeleine, which has been at risk of running out.

 

The official Portuguese inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance formally ceased in July 2008, but private detectives employed by the McCanns have continued the search for the missing child.

 

The book, entitled Madeleine, will be published on April 28 next year to coincide with the fourth anniversary of her disappearance.

 

Kate McCann, 42, said: "My reason for writing is simple - to give an account of the truth.

[Monkeys Fist 43098]

Chapter 1

 

Put kids to bed.

Thought about babysitter, then thought " Nah!"

Went for dinner

 

Chapter 2

Oh shit.

[Tom 14013]

''Met the pope, he was canny''

[Ayatollah Hermione 14066]

It'll be a bastard of a cliffhanger.

[Park Life 71]

Still have reservations about these two. Regardless of the tragedy and everything, it still doesn't sit right with me.

[Park Life 71]

Still have reservations about these two. Regardless of the tragedy and everything, it still doesn't sit right with me.

 

thats because she did it Parky

 

She looked decidedly dodgy in some of those interviews. I know that's probably not a fair comment etc...

Edited November 15, 2010 by Park Life

[Meenzer 15732]

Regardless of who did what, this'll be three pages about the night it happened and 400 pages about the incompetence of the Portuguese police.

[TheMoog 0]

Still have reservations about these two. Regardless of the tragedy and everything, it still doesn't sit right with me.

 

thats because she did it Parky

 

 

Wouldn't surprise me

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Still have reservations about these two. Regardless of the tragedy and everything, it still doesn't sit right with me.

 

This and why would anyone want to buy it.

[Park Life 71]

Regardless of who did what, this'll be three pages about the night it happened and 400 pages about the incompetence of the Portuguese police.

 

Book by Portugese cop was surpressed. Pending legal action.

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Suppose if they were guilty they wouldn't want to keep bringing attention to themselves, or is it the perfect cover.

[Park Life 71]

Suppose if they were guilty they wouldn't want to keep bringing attention to themselves, or is it the perfect cover.

 

The Times on 11 September 2007 reported: “Despite the insistence of Kate and Gerry McCann that they had no involvement in their daughter's disappearance, Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses, an Algarve-based prosecutor, concluded that the evidence against them was strong enough to apply for a prosecution”.

 

Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses, a Regional Director of Prosecutions, gave evidence in court much more recently on the subject. He was a witness in the interlocutory hearing on 11 January 2010 of Goncalo Amaral’s appeal against an injunction temporarily banning his book ‘The Truth About A Lie’. Under headlines such as that on SKY NEWS on 12 January: “Madeleine McCann ‘Died In Holiday Apartment’, Mr Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses repeated in the High Court in Lisbon his view that there was much evidence that Madeleine died in the McCanns’ apartment.

 

In addition, we need to bear in mind that despite her apparent desperation at Madeleine being missing, Dr Kate McCann refused to answer all 48 questions asked of her by the Portuguese Police at an interview under caution on 7 September 2007. Not only that, but the McCanns and all their ‘Tapas 9’ friends who were with them in Portugal refused to take part in a reconstruction of the events of the evening Madeleine disappeared, an event which would surely have shed much light on what really happened that evening.

[Park Life 71]

(7) Whether the Madeleine McCann case has undermined the work carried out by police sniffer dogs, especially cadaver dogs and bloodhounds. One of the reasons the McCanns were taken in for questioning was because of the evidence provided by two dogs used by Martin Grime, recognised as one of the world’s top dog handlers. The cadaver dog Eddie was said by Mr Grime, on a video that has since been watched by millions, to have alerted to the scent of a corpse at 10 locations, four in the McCanns’ apartment, two in a car subsequently hired by the McCanns, and four times on clothes or other items belonging to the McCanns and one of their children. The McCanns have rebutted this evidence by claiming that the evidence of these dogs is (I quote) ‘notoriously unreliable’, yet despite that claim, Mr Grime’s dogs have been used successfully dozens of times to alert to the scent of places where corpses have lain for a period.

 

It might also be noted here that the McCanns, themselves and through their spokesman Clarence Mitchell, in an attempt to discredit the use of cadaver sniffer dogs, publicly referred to the case of Eugene Zapata as one where the evidence of cadaver dogs had, they said, been shown to be unreliable. However, less than six months after the McCanns made these comments, Zapata pleaded guilty to murdering of his wife."

[Monroe Transfer 0]

How many children have gone missing on holidays since May 2007?

[Rob W 0]

not mine unfortunately.............

[Rob W 0]

Still have reservations about these two. Regardless of the tragedy and everything, it still doesn't sit right with me.

 

thats because she did it Parky

 

She looked decidedly dodgy in some of those interviews. I know that's probably not a fair comment etc...

 

 

I think if you go back to the immense thread at the time most people reckoned there was sommat very odd about this indeed

[ewerk 31221]

How many children have gone missing on holidays since May 2007?

 

There was that 15 year old in India, though her mother was a stand up lady...

[Guest alex]

£20 a shot apparently with the proceeds going towards the campaign to find Maddie. Can literally barely think of a worse waste of money in terms of a charitable donation. Obviously I hope they find her alive but apart from the obvious likelihood of that not happening I don't see how chucking loads more money at it will do any good. Loads more worthy causes imo.

[Anth 113]

Think this has been said on many threads that have sprung up over the years, but the mother just looks guilty to me. There is just something in the eyes that make me think shes hiding something.

[tinofbeans 91]

Think this has been said on many threads that have sprung up over the years, but the mother just looks guilty to me. There is just something in the eyes that make me think shes hiding something.

 

She's been media trained but there are certain nuances that you can trace that indicate the possibility of lies. NLP for beginners figures that out!

[manc-mag 1]

Trial by forum tbh.

[tinofbeans 91]

yep.

[Park Life 71]

Trial by forum tbh.

 

She wouldn't survive 5 min in here.

[wykikitoon 20773]

Chapter 1

 

Put kids to bed.

Thought about babysitter, then thought " Nah!"

Went for dinner

 

Chapter 2

Oh shit.

 

[Rob W 0]

Chapter 3

 

Lets get a book deal and maybe film rights 'n aalll