Revealed: The 48 questions Kate McCann didn't answer about the disappearance of daughter Madeleine - 2007 police interview resurfaces in controversial Netflix documentary
- Kate McCann was asked harrowing questions by Portuguese police in 2007
- The 48 questions have resurfaced in a new Netflix documentary
- She was asked directly if she had a hand in Madeleine's disappearance
- Kate and Gerry McCann are not suspects and have been cleared of wrongdoing
The 48 questions Kate McCann did not answer about her daughter Madeline's disappearance have resurfaced after she was quizzed by police in 2007.
The full transcript has come out again with a controversial Netflix documentary 'The Disappearance of Madeline McCann,' which Kate and Gerry McCann declined to take part in.
In 2007, Mrs McCann was subject to a harrowing interview by Portuguese police which asked her such questions as, 'Why did you say Madeleine had been abducted?'
The couple have been cleared of any wrongdoing and British and Portuguese police have insisted they are no longer suspects.
Kate McCann pictured in 2011, the mother-of-three was callously grilled by Portuguese police in 2007 after Madeleine went missing
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Madeleine McCann at home in an Everton Football shirt not long before she went missing in Portugal
Gerry and Kate McCann have been cleared of any wrongdoing and British and Portuguese police have insisted they are no longer suspects
Apartment 5A in Praia Da Luz in Portugal, where Madeline McCann went missing in 2007
However, at the time they callously sat the mother-of-three down and asked her what she meant when she said, 'We let her down.'
She was also quizzed on involving the media, 'Did you call Sky News?' the officer asked her and 'Did you know the danger of calling the media because it could influence the abductor?'
The barrage of queries led ultimately to the question: 'Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter’s disappearance?'
The McCanns travelled to the Algarve in April 2007 with Madeleine, her brother Sean, sister Amelie, and a group of friends. Madeleine disappeared five days later.
The documentary looks at theories about the case, including the idea that she was snatched to order by a people-trafficking gang and smuggled to another country.
The 48 questions Kate McCann did not answer:
1. On May 3, 2007, around 22:00, when you entered the apartment, what did you see? What did you do? Where did you look? What did you touch?
2. Did you search inside the master bedroom wardrobe?
3. (Shown two photographs of her bedroom wardrobe) Can you describe its contents?
4. Why was the curtain by the sofa near the side window tampered with? Did someone go behind the sofa?
5. How long did your search of the apartment take after you detected Madeleine’s disappearance?
6. Why did you say Madeleine had been abducted?
7. Assuming Madeleine was abducted, why did you leave the twins to go to the ‘Tapas’ and raise the alarm? The supposed abductor could still be in the apartment.
8. Why didn’t you ask the twins then what happened to their sister or why didn’t you ask them later on?
9. When you raised the alarm at the ‘Tapas’ what exactly did you say – what were your exact words?
10. What happened after you raised the alarm there?
The documentary shows Madeleine happily playing at Praia da Luz children's club in 2007
The McCanns travelled to the Algarve in April 2007 with Madeleine, her brother Sean, sister Amelie, and a group of friends. Madeleine disappeared five days later.
11. Why did you go and warn your friends instead of shouting from the verandah?
12. Who contacted the authorities?
13. Who took place in the searches?
14. Did anyone outside the group learn of her disappearance in those following minutes?
15. Did any neighbour offer you help?
16. What does 'we let her down' mean?
17. Did Jane Tanner tell you that night she’d seen a man with a child?
18. How were the authorities contacted and which police force was alerted?
19. During the searches, with the police there, where did you search for Maddie, how and in what way?
20. Why did the twins not wake up during that search or when they were taken upstairs?
21. Who did you phone after the occurrence?
22. Did you call Sky News?
23. Did you know the danger of calling the media, because it could influence the abductor?
24. Did you ask for a priest?
25. By what means did you divulge Madeleine’s features, by photographs or by any other means?
26. Is it true that during the searches you remained seated on Maddie’s bed without moving?
27 What was your behaviour that night?
28. Did you manage to sleep?
29. Before travelling to Portugal, did you make any comment about a foreboding or a bad feeling?
30. What was Madeleine’s behaviour like?
31. Did Maddie suffer from any illness or take any medication?
32. What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister?
33. What was Madeleine’s relationship like with her brother and sister, friends and school mates?
34. As for your professional life, in how many and which hospitals have you worked?
35. What is your medical speciality?
36. Have you ever done shift work in any emergency services or other services?
37. Did you work every day?
38. At a certain point you stopped working. Why?
39. Are the twins difficult to get to sleep? Are they restless and does that cause you uneasiness?
40. Is it true sometimes you despaired at your children’s behaviour and it left you feeling very uneasy?
41. Is it true that in England you even considered handing over Madeleine’s custody to a relative?
42. In England, did you medicate your children? What type of medication?
43. In the case files, you were shown canine forensic testing films. After watching them, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
44. When the sniffer dog also marked human blood behind the sofa, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
45. When the sniffer dog marked the scent of corpse coming from the vehicle you hired a month after the disappearance, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
46. When human blood was marked in the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
47. When confronted with the results of Maddie’s DNA, carried out in a British lab, collected from behind the sofa and the boot of the vehicle, did you say you couldn’t explain any more than you already had?
48. Did you have any responsibility or intervention in your daughter’s disappearance?
Netflix said its show included 'never-before-heard testimonies from those at the heart of the story', including the McCanns' friends, and former investigators.
Her parents, now 51, have endured almost 12 years of speculation since Madeleine's disappearance, and refused to take part in the documentary.
They did not believe it would help their hunt for Madeleine, and 'could potentially hinder' the UK investigation.
Programme-makers took two years to interview key figures, including the first Briton quizzed over the disappearance.
The Portuguese detective in charge, Goncalo Amaral, has told the documentary he still doubts the McCanns.
He and the family have been locked in a legal row over his extraordinary claims that Madeleine died in her family's apartment and that her abduction was faked.
Mr and Mrs McCann deny his allegations and sued him in the Portuguese courts. The programme also raises questions about the Portuguese investigation.
Gerry and Kate McCann, the parents of Madeleine McCann, talk to the press after attending the libel case against former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral at Lisbon's Palace of Justice
Mr and Mrs McCann said: 'We did not see – and still do not see – how this programme will help the search for Madeleine and, particularly given there is an active police investigation, it could potentially hinder it.'
Scotland Yard's £11.75million investigation, Operation Grange, was launched after the Portuguese inquiry ended.
Last year it was given £150,000 to allow it to continue until the end of this month.
Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCann family, told ITV's This Morning that the McCanns had been 'assured' that the documentary would be balanced.
Mr Mitchell said the McCanns still believe Madeleine is alive - and there is 'no evidence' that she has come to any physical harm. He continued: 'I've always said this could end with one phone call, and that is still very much the case.'
