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McCanns call for media obsession to end

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX 100 DAYS MISSING NEWS AUGUST 2007
Original Source: TELEGRAPH: 26 AUGUST 2007
By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:42am BST 26/08/2007
 
The father of Madeleine McCann yesterday appealed to the media to end its obsession with his daughter's disappearance.

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Gerry McCann said that, despite the family's concerted effort to publicise the hunt for the four-year-old, the continuing scrutiny had been far greater than he could ever have imagined.

Mr McCann, 39, said that, because of the need for the media campaign to continue in "a pretty low-key format", he and his wife Kate were now considering returning home to Rothley, Leics.

"I personally do not think it is necessary to bombard people with Madeleine's image on a daily basis," Mr McCann said. "Initially, without a doubt, we wanted a lot of coverage, but the coverage has been 10 times greater than we imagined."

Mr McCann said that, in an effort to provide coverage of the hunt, some journalists had been tempted into presenting harmful speculation as fact. He added that he had now stopped looking at newspaper and television coverage of the case.

Last week, Mr McCann condemned a report in a Portuguese newspaper which claimed that he and his wife had accidentally killed Madeleine with an overdose of drugs.

The McCanns have denied any involvement in their daughter's disappearance and police have confirmed that they are not suspects.

"A huge amount of speculation is being presented as fact because people are under a huge amount of pressure to come up with stories," Mr McCann said. "In the last six weeks there really has been nothing to report. Staying in Portugal may be counterproductive because of the media attention on Kate and I which generates pressure on people to write things.

"The sticking point is the knowledge that we will be leaving Portugal as a family of four when we arrived as a family of five."

He also admitted that his feelings of guilt over Madeleine's disappearance would never leave him and his wife.

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