Kate and Gerry McCann have
asked David Cameron to help find their daughter Madeleine
Sunday February 21,2010
By James Murray
KATE and Gerry McCann have asked David
Cameron to help find their daughter Madeleine after a private emotional meeting
with the Tory leader.
They spent half an hour at his Westminster
office explaining their frustration and disappointment with the
investigations.
If Mr Cameron wins the election – expected on
May 6 – the McCanns hope he would give the case a new priority and order a
review of all the evidence.
Mr Cameron, 43, the father of two young
children himself, expressed a desire to the couple to do anything in his power
to discover what happened to Madeleine, who disappeared from a holiday flat in
Praia da Luz on the Algarve on May 3, 2007.
Andy Coulson, the Tory director of
communications, and Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’spokesman who hopes to stand
as a Conservative in the forthcoming election,were also present.
Last week it was disclosed that Kate and
Gerry, 41-year-old doctors from Rothley, Leics, have had a private meeting with
Home Secretary Alan Johnson to request a review of the evidence.
He has been notably silent on the case,
seemingly preferring to sit on the fence rather than use his influence to demand
a breakthrough and there are no indications he will order a review.
The McCanns’ lawyer has been given a
Portugese police file of new sightings which have not been properly
investigated. She is particularly interested in information that Madeleine may
have been in Spain and Italy.
Last week a judge in Portugal ruled that a
book by a former police chief should continue to be banned because his unproven
claim that Madeleine died in the flat is damaging the search.
On Friday Kate McCann was close to tears as
she spoke of the “heartbreaking” failure by police to probe new leads.
