Madeleine McCann: Gran pleads for critics to stop 'crucifying' Kate

Feb 18 2008 by Graeme Currie, Liverpool Daily Post

MADELEINE McCann’s grandmother has said the family’s torment is like “being crucified day to day”.

Susan Healy, 62, pleaded with people to stop criticising her family and launched a scathing attack on the press.

She said: “It is almost like being crucified day to day. I read the most stupid things, about Kate not crying enough, or whatever.”

She added: “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them.

“If the Portuguese can’t find out what happened to Madeleine, we have to find out.

“There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance.”

Mossley Hill-based Mrs Healy, mother of 39-year-old Kate, reiterated the family’s need to know what happened to Madeleine in May last year when she vanished while on holiday in Praia da Luz.

The civil servant, who lives in Liverpool with husband Brian, said: “We will go on fighting for justice.

“We want Madeleine back and we want to find out what happened to her.”