But what is a strange state of affairs imo is that the BKA claim MM is dead, yet the parents are in the dark, an indeed the findmadeleine.com still shows that there is no evidence MM has come to no harm, where is there another case where a LE makes claim of death yet can't or won't confirm such to the parents, come to that even SY have not confirmed they have seen evidence of such.Claiming to reveal such evidence could harm an investigation is absolute bull.
Why do we continue?
- There is absolutely nothing to suggest that Madeleine has been harmed.
- Madeleine is still missing and someone needs to be looking for her.
- She is young and vulnerable and needs our help.
- We love her dearly and miss her beyond words.
I do agree that the situation for MM's parents and family is utterly heartrending. They have been living with it since 2007 and until very recently they had no hope of resolution.
They have now; for the first time since MM vanished there is a real hope of finding out what happened to her.
All that is required is for the police to be allowed to do their job as they are trained to do and the prosecutors to do theirs and the evidence is that is precisely what is happening.
Very, very hard times indeed for loved ones but knowing is so much better than never knowing.
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She said: “If they find a body we will be devastated but it will bring the hell of living like this to an end.
“I just want to know if she’s alive or dead. Not knowing is the worst thing - a never-ending torture. Anyone with a missing child will tell you that.
She feared her twins, who are now 15, would have to carry on the search should their parents, now aged 52, die without getting any answers.
She accepted that MM may be dead, but believed that finding out that that devastating "worst-case scenario" was true was better than never finding her at all.
MM's mum made the comments six years ago following reports that British police would be excavating sites in Praia da Luz, Portugal - the resort where the family was staying when Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2017 - to look for a body and evidence
The mum, an ambassador for the charity Missing People, said at the time: “I have spent days thinking, ‘What would you rather? Not know, or find out something you didn’t want to hear?’
“I’ve spent hours thinking about that and, each time, I still come up thinking we need to know. Regardless now, we need to know.”
In 2014, KM said the couple had thought of moving to a new home, but ruled it out based on the heart breaking thought of Maddie one day returning home to find her family was not there.
Madeleine McCann's mum Kate, from Rothley, Leicestershire, once told how she feared she would never get answers in her lifetime and her twins, Sean and Amelie, would have to carry on the search without their parents
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