Madeleine McCann documentary – Kate McCann’s refusal to answer 48 questions from police about Maddie’s disappearance
KATE McCann refused to answer 48 questions about the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine during a police interview in 2007.
The transcript was released to the public the following year and helped to fuel the cruel conspiracy theories against the devastated parents.
The abduction line of inquiry wasn’t prioritised by Portuguese cops – who instead devoted their time to trying to pin the blame on Gerry and KateCops in the UK and Portugal have repeatedly said the McCanns are no longer suspects in the case.
The list of unanswered questions have resurfaced in the wake of Netflix’s new documentary: The Disappearance of Madeline McCann.
One of the questions left unanswered was: “Assuming Madeleine was abducted, why did you leave the twins to go to the ‘Tapas’ and raise the alarm?
“The supposed abductor could still be in the apartment.”
The 48 questions Kate McCann refused to answer
1. On May 3, 2007, around 22:00, when you entered the apartment, what did you see? What did you do? Where did you look? What did you touch?
2. Did you search inside the master bedroom wardrobe?
3. (Shown two photographs of her bedroom wardrobe) Can you describe its contents?
4. Why was the curtain by the sofa near the side window tampered with? Did someone go behind the sofa?
5. How long did your search of the apartment take after you detected Madeleine’s disappearance?
6. Why did you say Madeleine had been abducted?
7. Assuming Madeleine was abducted, why did you leave the twins to go to the ‘Tapas’ and raise the alarm? The supposed abductor
could still be in the apartment.
8. Why didn’t you ask the twins then what happened to their sister or why didn’t you ask them later on?
9. When you raised the alarm at the ‘Tapas’ what exactly did you say – what were your exact words?
10. What happened after you raised the alarm there?
11. Why did you go and warn your friends instead of shouting from the verandah?
12. Who contacted the authorities?
13. Who took place in the searches?
14. Did anyone outside the group learn of her disappearance in those following minutes?
15. Did any neighbour offer you help?
16. What does “we let her down” mean?
17. Did Jane Tanner tell you that night she’d seen a man with a child?
18. How were the authorities contacted and which police force was alerted?
19. During the searches, with the police there, where did you search for Maddie, how and in what way?
20. Why did the twins not wake up during that search or when they were taken upstairs?
21. Who did you phone after the occurrence?
22. Did you call Sky News?
23. Did you know the danger of calling the media, because it could influence the abductor?
24. Did you ask for a priest?
25. By what means did you divulge Madeleine’s features, by photographs or by any other means?
26. Is it true that during the searches you remained seated on Maddie’s bed without moving?
27 What was your behaviour that night?
28. Did you manage to sleep?
29. Before travelling to Portugal, did you make any comment about a foreboding or a bad feeling?
30. What was Madeleine’s behaviour like?
31. Did Maddie suffer from any illness or take any medication?
32. What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister?
33. What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister, friends and school mates?
34. As for your professional life, in how many and which hospitals have you worked?
35. What is your medical speciality?
36. Have you ever done shift work in any emergency services or other services?
37. Did you work every day?
38. At a certain point you stopped working. Why?
39. Are the twins difficult to get to sleep? Are they restless and does that cause you uneasiness?
40. Is it true sometimes you despaired at your children’s behaviour and it left you feeling very uneasy?
41. Is it true that in England you even considered handing over Madeleine’s custody to a relative?
42. In England, did you medicate your children? What type of medication?
43. In the case files, you were shown canine forensic testing films. After watching them, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
44. When the sniffer dog also marked human blood behind the sofa, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
45. When the sniffer dog marked the scent of corpse coming from the vehicle you hired a month after the disappearance, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
46. When human blood was marked in the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
47. When confronted with the results of Maddie’s DNA, carried out in a British lab, collected from behind the sofa and the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
48. Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter’s disappearance?
She was also asked what she meant when she allegedly said: “we let her down”.
The devastated mum-of-three was quizzed on blood found behind the sofa, tampered locks on the window and blood in the boot.
During the police interview, she answered just one question and invoked her right to remain silent in protest at being treated as a suspect.
She later said that she refused to co-operate because she thought it was distracting them from the work they should have been doing to find her daughter.
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Gerry and Kate have slammed the eight-part doc and refused to take part in it despite being asked on numerous occasions.
The group of friends that the McCanns had enjoyed tapas and wine with that night allegedly refused to give interviews for the explosive new documentary.
The doc, that claims Maddie is still alive, is available to be streamed on Netflix today.
It was first commissioned by Netflix in 2017 and examines the case of the missing three-year-old as well as interviews key figures and investigators.
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The streaming site had been hoping it would be ready to screen in 2018 but the project reportedly took longer than expected.
In 2018 The Sun reported that the McCanns have declined to be involved because the Metropolitan Police’s investigation is still active.
Netflix are hoping the documentary will be a massive hit like its other successful true crime dramas including Making A Murderer and Abducted in Plain Sight.
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The search for the toddler became the most high-profile missing person investigation in history.
But despite a Portuguese police probe and an £11 million Scotland Yard investigation, Kate and Gerry McCann’s search for their daughter goes on.
Cops are waiting to find out from the Home Office if they will be granted extra public funding to continue their painstaking search for the missing girl.
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