No body has ever been found. Police said they wanted to speak to a thus-far unidentified second person who spoke with the German suspect from a Portuguese phone number on May 3, at the time of McCann's disappearance.
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. NBC News Logo. Covid Politics U. Occasionally they stabbed or shot one another. In the worst tragedies, toddlers drowned in villa swimming pools. He had been dumped there just before his parents flew home to Gatwick. The Portuguese were shocked. British tourists were good for the economy; but they also did the strangest, most inhuman things. UK tabloids lapped up these stories.
Part of their readership was sitting on the beach, reading summer editions printed on Spanish presses. The McCanns were not that kind of tourist. Kate and Gerry were both doctors. In fact they were the perfect victims: the blonde white girl with the professional parents.
These, after all, were the people the media thought they were speaking to — white, middle-class families. But British children go missing more frequently than we would like. They rarely, if ever, get this much attention. It is always, too, somehow more fascinating if the disappearance happens abroad. That taps into a very British fear of the foreign — and enables us to blame another culture. This was only too visible in the warfare waged between the British media and their Portuguese counterparts, and by sections of the police in both countries.
Sky catapulted the McCanns to the top of every news list. In his book, "The Truth of the Lie," Amaral reportedly wrote that the McCann's had hidden their daughter's body and faked an abduction after she died in an accident. The former officer was found guilty of libel, but can reportedly appeal the ruling. The couple said the claims exacerbated their anguish and discouraged people from coming forward with information after the disappearance, reports the BBC.
The McCanns, of Leicestershire, England, were originally seeking 1. Last year, British and Portuguese police examined patches of ground in the resort, but turned up nothing, reports Sky News. The child remains missing.
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