The parents of missing toddler Madeline McCann have given an interview to be aired on British TV tonight. They spoke to a Spanish news team. During the interview Kate, Maddies mother, broke down and wept. Why would she not…her baby girl has been missing for nearly six months now with no trace of her and no progress made by either Portuguese or British police as to her whereabouts. These people have been failed, not only by the law but by the vindictive British general public. And it is disgusting. But tonight the British people will get their pound of flesh; because tonight they will see Kate McCann cry. At last.

Ever since Madeline disappeared the British public have condemned them for not thrashing around in front of the cameras in the throes of extreme grief. ‘She’ must have ‘done something’ because she does not cry.  ‘He’ must have ‘done something’ because he does not cry. The fact is, when you look at their situation, how would any of us  say exactly how we would behave in public when faced with it?. The answer is…we do not know. Until we actually face it ourselves. Ok, how many of you wish to volunteer to be in the McCann’s shoes?.

You only have to look at this woman to see how she has deteriorated before our eyes over the last few months. She is thin, wan, and obviously numb. But, going by the comments by the public to the British media, this is not enough. The people want tears, lots of them…blood even.  The McCanns have not satisfied the voyeristic general public enough yet.

I remember back in 1993 the dignity with which Denise Bulger held herself in public after her little boy, James, was abducted and literally destroyed by two ten year old boys. I remember her public bearing and admired her fortitude in the face of the unimaginable horror, pain and grief she had been dealt. No-one persecuted her for that. If I was in a similar situation, the last thing I would want to do was put on a ‘show’ for millions of complete strangers just to get their ‘sympathy’. The public are not involved; their child is not missing; who ARE THEY to tell the McCanns how to behave!. Kate and Gerry have every right to ask this question.

Yes, tonight those insatiable voyeurs have the opportunity they have all be waiting for…the chance to see a grieving and distraught woman, at her wits end, break down in front of them all.  Just as they have always wanted. The British public, more concerned with the way her distraught parents behave in front of the cameras than with Madeline’s fate, will finally get their pound of flesh from the McCanns.

Now. What next do they want from them?.