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MCCANNS: WE DID NOT GIVE OUR CHILDREN MEDICATION
Thursday August 16,2007
By Martin Evans in Praia da Luz
"THE parents of Madeleine McCann have denied giving their other two children drugs to stop them waking up on the night of her alleged abduction.
Police in Portugal are baffled why Madeleine’s twin brother and sister never stirred the night she disappeared from her holiday apartment.
Detectives had hoped that the two-year-olds Sean and Amelie could be key witnesses in the case and provide vital clues about their sister’s fate.....
"But reports in Portugal claimed detectives had abandoned plans to try to coax information gently out of the toddlers – because they slept through the whole ordeal.....
There has been growing speculation in the Portuguese media that Madeleine and the twins may have been administered drugs by their parents, who are both doctors, to help them sleep.
But yesterday the McCanns categorically denied that they had sedated their children.
A source close to the family said: “They did not give the children sedatives that night. They have never given their children sedatives.’’
It is understood that the couple have never given their children anything stronger than the over-the-counter painkiller Calpol, the infant form of para­cetamol.
Reports in Portugal claim that the twins did not even wake when part-time GP Kate, 39, found Madeleine missing – and repeatedly screamed out her name in desperation. And they slept on after the McCanns raised the alarm and a frantic search began involving their friends and other ­holidaymakers.
The twins were eventually carried out of the apartment still sleeping by two police inspectors, it was reported.
Officers were so stunned that they even asked the McCanns if they had given the children sedatives to help them sleep, it is claimed.
The couple insisted that the children had been tired & exhausted after a long day in the sun. Police have also asked local pharmacies to check their records for anyone buying sedatives in the days before Madeleine vanished.
Chemists were asked if they had sold insect sprays containing the knock-out drug in the days leading up to Made­leine’s disappearance.
Frustrated detectives are now resigned to the fact that two “witnesses” who were in the same room as Madeleine at the time when they believe she died saw or heard nothing.
A police source said: “It is a remarkable aspect of the investigation. Madeleine was asleep in a bed between the twins’ cots – one on either side.
“They were just a few feet away, yet they never woke up.
“We had hoped officers could have discovered information from the young ones in a gentle way.
“It might have been possible that they could have unearthed things children may even have tried to bury in their subconscious – things they never even thought they’d witnessed.
“But in this case there was nothing. The twins simply carried on sleeping, even through all the noise and the con­fusion during the desperate search that followed.
“The two children were asleep when police arrived and were removed from the apartment by two inspectors.
“Because of this they were unable to be of any use in our investigations.’’
Kate and her consultant cardiologist husband Gerry, also 39, believe that Madeleine was abducted from the apartment while they dined in a tapas bar and is still alive.
They think the twins simply slept through the abduction.
A family friend said: “They didn’t give the children anything to help them sleep. The youngsters must have just been exhausted after a long and exciting day on holiday.
“In some ways it may be a blessing they didn’t wake.’’
Last week the McCanns were forced to take the twins out of a creche facility at the holiday resort after other parents “became upset” at the daily Portuguese media scrum outside the babysitting service at the Mark Warner Ocean Club...."
Thursday August 16,2007
By Martin Evans in Praia da Luz
"THE parents of Madeleine McCann have denied giving their other two children drugs to stop them waking up on the night of her alleged abduction.
Police in Portugal are baffled why Madeleine’s twin brother and sister never stirred the night she disappeared from her holiday apartment.
Detectives had hoped that the two-year-olds Sean and Amelie could be key witnesses in the case and provide vital clues about their sister’s fate.....
"But reports in Portugal claimed detectives had abandoned plans to try to coax information gently out of the toddlers – because they slept through the whole ordeal.....
There has been growing speculation in the Portuguese media that Madeleine and the twins may have been administered drugs by their parents, who are both doctors, to help them sleep.
But yesterday the McCanns categorically denied that they had sedated their children.
A source close to the family said: “They did not give the children sedatives that night. They have never given their children sedatives.’’
It is understood that the couple have never given their children anything stronger than the over-the-counter painkiller Calpol, the infant form of para­cetamol.
Reports in Portugal claim that the twins did not even wake when part-time GP Kate, 39, found Madeleine missing – and repeatedly screamed out her name in desperation. And they slept on after the McCanns raised the alarm and a frantic search began involving their friends and other ­holidaymakers.
The twins were eventually carried out of the apartment still sleeping by two police inspectors, it was reported.
Officers were so stunned that they even asked the McCanns if they had given the children sedatives to help them sleep, it is claimed.
The couple insisted that the children had been tired & exhausted after a long day in the sun. Police have also asked local pharmacies to check their records for anyone buying sedatives in the days before Madeleine vanished.
Chemists were asked if they had sold insect sprays containing the knock-out drug in the days leading up to Made­leine’s disappearance.
Frustrated detectives are now resigned to the fact that two “witnesses” who were in the same room as Madeleine at the time when they believe she died saw or heard nothing.
A police source said: “It is a remarkable aspect of the investigation. Madeleine was asleep in a bed between the twins’ cots – one on either side.
“They were just a few feet away, yet they never woke up.
“We had hoped officers could have discovered information from the young ones in a gentle way.
“It might have been possible that they could have unearthed things children may even have tried to bury in their subconscious – things they never even thought they’d witnessed.
“But in this case there was nothing. The twins simply carried on sleeping, even through all the noise and the con­fusion during the desperate search that followed.
“The two children were asleep when police arrived and were removed from the apartment by two inspectors.
“Because of this they were unable to be of any use in our investigations.’’
Kate and her consultant cardiologist husband Gerry, also 39, believe that Madeleine was abducted from the apartment while they dined in a tapas bar and is still alive.
They think the twins simply slept through the abduction.
A family friend said: “They didn’t give the children anything to help them sleep. The youngsters must have just been exhausted after a long and exciting day on holiday.
“In some ways it may be a blessing they didn’t wake.’’
Last week the McCanns were forced to take the twins out of a creche facility at the holiday resort after other parents “became upset” at the daily Portuguese media scrum outside the babysitting service at the Mark Warner Ocean Club...."
