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Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins
has lashed out at Madeline McCann's
parents, saying "it's finally time to
speak out" about them. Hopkins said that
Gerry and Kate McCann should take part
of the blame for Madeleine's abduction
and that they "didn't deserve £11m of
our cash to look for Maddie or try to
resolve their consciences or salvage
reputations".
Hopkins' comments come one day after
Kate McCann said that she could never
feel "at peace" until she knew what
happened to her daughter. In her weekly
column for the
MailOnline,
Hopkins slammed Kate and Gerry for
"imagining there is some happy ending to
this sorry tale" and sends them a
message: "Enough."
Hopkins wrote: "I believe the truth is
that Madeleine McCann is never coming
home. She is long gone. There's no
amount of money that will right the
wrongs of the past, no libel action that
will cancel out the damage the McCanns
inflicted on themselves."
Hopkins said that the toddler's parents
were to blame for leaving the child
alone while they were "out eating and
drinking". She made a reference to a
father who was arrested and prosecuted
for leaving his two-year-old daughter
alone for a few minutes in a car while
he went to a chemist, saying that no
other family in the same situation had
been "lauded with such support and the
protection of the state". She accused
the McCanns of being "too self-assured
to hire a babysitter and too
self-centred to care".
The controversial comment from Hopkins
was published as Kate and Gerry put
their weight behind a campaign to raise
awareness about the Child Rescue Alerts
scheme, which sends text messages to
people when a child in the area goes
missing. However, Hopkins said that she
wasn't "buying it".
She wrote: "The McCanns put their own
children in harm's way. Those kids were
in danger. Because of their parents. But
now the faces I associate with neglect
are being used to promote the Child
Rescue Alert campaign. And I'm sorry,
but I am not buying it. Maddie wasn't
lost because someone took her. She was
lost because she was left to be found." |
