So What Now for the Mccanns? ; It's Three Months Since Maddy Vanished and Her Parents Are Grieving in Very Different Ways. He's Thinking About Moving Back to Britain and Starting to Rebuild Their Lives. She's Still Lost in Despair and Cannot Bear to Leave Portugal

Daily Mail › July 28, 2007

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ON WEDNESDAY evening, Gerry McCann flew back to Portugal after a hectic threeday trip to Washington DC the latest and farthest- flung staging post on his mission to champion the cause of abducted children and maximise publicity for his missing daughter, Madeleine. Settling into his sleeper bed in Virgin Upper Class (mindful of the sniping about the 946,000 fund for Madeleine, of which 67,000 has been spent, he bought an economy ticket, but was given a complimentary upgrade), the 39-year-old heart consultant was exhausted.

But onlookers remarked that he appeared buoyant for the first time in the three months since his four-year-old daughter was taken. Ultimately, of course, the McCanns will measure success and failure solely on whether Madeleine is returned safely. However, according to Justine McGuinness, a Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate who was recently appointed the Find Madeleine campaign manager, Mr McCann felt the venture had gone 'extremely well'. This is despite the fact Mr McCann had encountered some unexpectedly hostile questions, notably from Chris Cuomo, the Good Morning America breakfast show anchor.

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So What Now for the Mccanns? ; It's Three Months Since Maddy Vanished and Her Parents Are Grieving in Very Different Ways. He's Thinking About Moving Back to Britain and Starting to Rebuild Their Lives. She's Still Lost in Despair and Cannot Bear to Leave Portugal

'Your story is pretty puzzling ... it's tough to understand why you and your wife came to leave your children to go to dinner,' Cuomo asserted, remarking that no American parent would 'leave their kids in that way'. And yet, besides highlighting Madeleine's abduction on all four networked TV channels (ABC prefaced its coverage with clips of Britsof-the-moment J. K. Rowling and David Beckham making appeals for information), there were many other pluses. Mr McCann visited a world-renowned centre for missing children, where he received advice and consoled himself with uplifting stories about abductions which ended fortuitously.

He lobbied senior statesmen on Capitol Hill, including U.S....

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