Kate McCann didn’t want the twins to carry the ‘never ending torture’ of Maddie’s disappearance
LOOKING at her clasped hands, Kate McCann went quiet for a moment before looking me in the eye and saying: “If they find a body we will be devastated but it will bring the hell of living like this to an end.
“I have spent days thinking, ‘What would you rather? Not know, or find out something you didn’t want to hear?’Credit: Times Newspapers Ltd They include billboard campaigns, smartphone apps, text alert systems as well as successfully campaigning for a child rescue alert system to be introduced in Europe.But it has also brought her into contact with parents who have lived decades not knowing what happened to their child., whose son Ben disappeared in July 1991, admitted to me: “I must be her worst nightmare because I prove her situation could go on for years.
She said that the twins “had grown up essentially without Madeleine but knowing their sister is missing and they want her back”. Kate said: “Their only wish is for their big sister to come home.”An age progression image showing Madeleine McCann on the approach to her ninth birthday on 12 May 2012The twins have grown up out of the public eye and are normal, happy, well developed teenagers.
Instead she has spent hours, days, weeks and years sitting at a makeshift desk in her kitchen with photos of Madeleine above it.Credit: PA:Press Association Kate told me that they had contemplated it, but ultimately ruled it out. Kate said: “I could not bear the thought of Madeleine coming home and finding we were not here.”Credit: PA:Press Association
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