Kate endures tenth Mother's Day without Madeleine

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3182977/kate-mccann-tenth-mothers-day-maddie/


'IT'S A CONSTANT REMINDER' Kate McCann endures tenth Mother’s Day without Madeleine


Kate is believed to have attended a special church service with husband Gerry and their 12-year-old twins today


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By Tracey Kandohla


26th March 2017, 4:41 pm
Updated: 26th March 2017, 4:52 pm

KATE McCann faces more heartache today as she spends her 10th Mother’s Day without daughter Madeleine – one of the toughest dates on her calendar.

The brave mum said the occasion would be painful for her and “a constant reminder that one of my babies isn’t with me.”

She is believed to have attended a special church service with husband Gerry and their 12-year-old twins Sean and Amelie where prayers were said for Maddie and other missing children.

Former GP Kate, 49, in a previous TV interview to mark Mother’s Day, vows to “get through it like any other day.” She said: “I am still Madeleine’s mum and always will be. I just want to bring her back into the warmth and love of our family.”

Locals in the family’s home village of Rothley, Leics, remembered Maddie during a morning service at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

Traditionally the children hand their mothers a a daffodil after the final hymn is sung.

One worshipper said: “It is a service representing Lent and at the end it is custom for the children to file up to the doors and pick a daffodil from the basket to give to their mums.”

The three-year-old girl vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz nearly a decade ago.

Devout Catholic Kate and heart doctor Gerry, 48, are holding onto a glimmer of hope that their daughter – who would now be aged 13 – could still be alive

The couple are bracing themselves for the agonising milestone anniversary in less than six weeks.

A close pal of the McCann’s said: “Kate and Gerry continue to believe that Madeleine is still out there to be found and they hope police finally get the breakthrough that everybody desperately wants.

“The pain of being parted from Madeleine never fades but Kate keeps strong and brave for the twins’ sake.”

In the run up to the anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance her parents have been bombarded with cruel tweets.

But Kate revealed this week that she’s ignoring all negative remarks. She told the Sun Online exclusively: “I’m not hurt an upset by what they say because I don’t do social media.”

Scotland Yard have been given an extra £85,000 to help keep their struggling six-year search for Maddie alive.

Earlier this week the McCann’s lost the latest and possibly the last round in their long running battle to silence a former police chief.

The fresh setback means Kate and Gerry now face paying all the court costs of their tormentor Goncalo Amaral plus their own fees, which could wipe out the entire Find Maddie Fund.

Their last-bid action challenging a court ruling was thrown out of Lisbon’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rubber-stamped “Indeferida” – or Rejected.
They have no further court in Portugal to complain to.

But they could consider going to the European Court of Human Rights if they feel an “injustice” has been done.

Their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said of the fresh legal loss: “This is just another part of the legal challenge.”

He declined to discuss if the McCanns would continue their nine-year fight against ex-Portuguese officer Mr Amaral, saying: “Anything to do with the Supreme Court Ruling is a matter for Kate and Gerry’s lawyers in Portugal.”

The couple’s lawyer Isabel Duarte declined to comment, saying: “As yet we have not received any formal notification from the court.”

Note how Kandohla makes a fool of herself again!

In the run up to the anniversary of Maddie’s disappearance her parents have been bombarded with cruel tweets.

But Kate revealed this week that she’s ignoring all negative remarks. She told the Sun Online exclusively: “I’m not hurt an upset by what they say because I don’t do social media.”

"Devout catholic Kate"? I thought her mother said once that they weren't particularly religious. Doesn' do social media? If that is the case how come she knows what people are saying? As they say, once a liar always a liar.

Pedantic, I know, but only NINTH 'Mother's Day' ('missing') surely?

I don't believe "devout Catholics" would have hounded, disrespected and sued the man who is dedicated to get to the bottom about what happened to their daughter.

jeanmonroe wrote:Pedantic, I know, but only NINTH 'Mother's Day' ('missing') surely?

Of course it is. I was called some right names on FB when I pointed it out. She was still alive and celebrating Mothers Day in March she went missing in May, so the first Mothers day was 2008 without her daughter, so it is 9 years and 10 effing months without her!! Got into a right row lol

jeanmonroe wrote:Pedantic, I know, but only NINTH 'Mother's Day' ('missing') surely?

Maths is not my strong point, but counting 2008 Mother's Day as number one, this is how I arrive at 10.

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,2016, 2017.

That seems right to me.

jeanmonroe wrote:Pedantic, I know, but only NINTH 'Mother's Day' ('missing') surely?

It's 10.

Pat Brown has tweeted: "Hey, Sun, if Isabel Celis is "America's Madeleine McCann", doesn't that mean you admit Maddie is dead and has been for years?"

interested wrote:Pat Brown has tweeted:  "Hey, Sun, if Isabel Celis is "America's Madeleine McCann", doesn't that mean you admit Maddie is dead and has been for years?"

Excellent.

AspieDistra wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:Pedantic, I know, but only NINTH 'Mother's Day' ('missing') surely?

It's 10.

It is 9 years and 10 months. She went missing in May not March.

fred wrote:

AspieDistra wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:Pedantic, I know, but only NINTH 'Mother's Day' ('missing') surely?

It's 10.

It is 9 years and 10 months. She went missing in May not March.

That may be so, but there are 10 Mother's Days between May 2007 and March 2017.

AnnaEsse wrote:

fred wrote:

AspieDistra wrote:

jeanmonroe wrote:Pedantic, I know, but only NINTH 'Mother's Day' ('missing') surely?

It's 10.

It is 9 years and 10 months. She went missing in May not March.

That may be so, but there are 10 Mother's Days between May 2007 and March 2017.

How? Madeleine was still with her family in 2007 on Mothers day in March, so the first one she was missing was 2008.

1 - 2008
2 - 2009
3 - 2010
4 - 2011
5 - 2012
6 - 2013
7 - 2014
8 - 2015
9 - 2016
10 - 2017

It's because for the first one in 2008, Madeleine had been missing for zero whole years.

squeaker wrote:It's because for the first one in 2008, Madeleine had been missing for zero whole years.

She wasn't missing on Mothers day in 2007, that is why she has been missing for 10 years in May, not 10 mothers day which happened in March, next year will be the 10th one. She had been missing 9 years and 10 months on Mothers day.

fred wrote:

squeaker wrote:It's because for the first one in 2008, Madeleine had been missing for zero whole years.

She wasn't missing on Mothers day in 2007, that is why she has been missing for 10 years in May, not 10 mothers day which happened in March, next year will be the 10th one.  She had been missing 9 years and 10 months on Mothers day.

Fred, just count the number of Mother's Day that have been missed, not the length of time since Madeleine disappeared. Claudia has set it out really clearly.

AnnaEsse wrote:

fred wrote:

squeaker wrote:It's because for the first one in 2008, Madeleine had been missing for zero whole years.

She wasn't missing on Mothers day in 2007, that is why she has been missing for 10 years in May, not 10 mothers day which happened in March, next year will be the 10th one.  She had been missing 9 years and 10 months on Mothers day.

Fred, just count the number of Mother's Day that have been missed, not the length of time since Madeleine disappeared. Claudia has set it out really clearly.

That is exactly what I am doing Mothers day happened in March in the same year, she went missing in May, so that Mothers day in that year doesn't count.

fred wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:

fred wrote:

squeaker wrote:It's because for the first one in 2008, Madeleine had been missing for zero whole years.

She wasn't missing on Mothers day in 2007, that is why she has been missing for 10 years in May, not 10 mothers day which happened in March, next year will be the 10th one.  She had been missing 9 years and 10 months on Mothers day.

Fred, just count the number of Mother's Day that have been missed, not the length of time since Madeleine disappeared. Claudia has set it out really clearly.

That is exactly what I am doing Mothers day happened in March in the same year, she went missing in May, so that Mothers day in that year doesn't count.

2007 doesn't count, but these ones do:

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

So 10 Mother's Days missed.

Claudia79 wrote:1 - 2008
2 - 2009
3 - 2010
4 - 2011
5 - 2012
6 - 2013
7 - 2014
8 - 2015
9 - 2016
10 - 2017

THAT IS 10 YEARS!

We will have to agree to disagree then, for me a 10 year period is a full 10 years not 9 years and 10 months. The "abduction" is 10 years obviously because on May 3rd as that is when it happened. Mothers day was before May 3rd (March) in the same year of course, so how a 10 year anniversary of something like Mothers day can happen is beyond me, but ok. if that is what you want