Key quotes from Madeleine search

2 May 2008 11:57am

Here are some key quotes from the year-long search for Madeleine McCann.

"Mummy, why didn't you come when we were crying last night?" - what Madeleine said to her mother Kate McCann over breakfast on the day she went missing (leaked to Spanish TV station Telecinco on April 10 2008)

"Please, if you have Madeleine, let her come home to her mummy, daddy, brother and sister" - Gerry McCann speaking publicly for the first time (May 4 2007)

"Gerry and I would just like to offer my sincere gratitude to everybody, particularly the local community here who have offered so much support. I couldn't have asked for more. I just want to say thank you. Please continue to pray for Madeleine. She's lovely" - Kate McCann after leaving a Sunday church service in Praia da Luz (May 6 2007)

"Looking at it from where we are now I don't feel we were irresponsible, I feel we are very responsible parents" - Kate McCann in her first interview (May 25 2007)

"People in Praia da Luz say, 'These bloody McCanns should just go away and leave this town. They are giving it a bad name'" - Francisco Pagarete, the lawyer of formal suspect Robert Murat (interview with London's Evening Standard on August 9 2007)

"There has been a shift in the investigation and the way it was proceeding previously" - Gerry McCann (interview with the BBC on August 10 2007)

"In the past few days there have been some developments, and some clues that have been found that could point to the possible death of this little child" - Police spokesman Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa (interview with the BBC on August 11 2007, the 100th day since Madeleine's disappearance)

"Despite there being so much we wish to say, we are unable to do so, except to say this: we played no part in the disappearance of our lovely daughter Madeleine" - Gerry McCann speaks on the runway of East Midlands Airport following the family's return to England after he and his wife were named formal suspects (September 9 2007)

"If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic" - What Kate McCann told her mother Susan Healy (interview with Liverpool Echo on October 16 2007)

"There was a certain hastiness" - Portugal's top detective, Alipio Ribeiro, saying detectives were too quick to name the McCanns as suspects (interview with Portugal's Radio Renascenca broadcast on February 3 2008)

"Kate and Gerry, we are truly sorry to have added to your distress" - Apology published in the Daily Express after it and its sister papers suggested the couple had caused their daughter's death (March 19 2008)

"Gerry and Kate, how can you use money given by poor people in good faith to pay your mortgage on your mansion? You f****** thieving bastards. Your brat is dead because of your drunken arrogance. Shame on you. I curse you and your family to suffer forever" - One of the hate letters received by the McCanns (revealed in ITV documentary on April 30 2008)

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