To the posters who claim the parents weren’t sad enough, you clearly haven’t watched all the footage from that time. They were always braking down, especially Kate. Gary even stormed out of an interview once, as the interviewer wanted to waste valuable time pressing them on the accusations the public were making against them rather than actually help find their missing child. The more people that accused the parents, the more people stopped looking for the real monster who took her. It’s always angered me as I think the truth would come out quicker (whether you think that would be them or someone else) if people had the attitude of ‘Lets find Madeline’ instead of ‘What is the point, it was the parents’.
I’ve always felt that Gerry came across very badly in interviews and did him and Kate no favours in focussing suspicion on them, however he is a consultant and for me this made me feel a bit differently about why he might have acted the way he did (I.e arrogant, unfeeling
twit!)
Gerry works as a Consultant, apparently a bloody successful and well regarded one at that. If you work in medical circles (or a hospital in any capacity) you will be aware that consultants are commonly known to often be massive
holes (sorry to any consultants in the room!)
They’re like Demi-gods in hospitals, don’t take to being challenged kindly. Their modus operandi in their job is to come into every situation immediately ready to call the shots and generally take charge of everyone in the room. They literally stalk around hospitals/wards (depending on their area of expertise) making quick-fire critical decisions, and when they say jump, you say how high! You don’t piss them off, and unless you’re 200% sure of your conviction, you certainly
don’t bleeping question them. (not to their face anyway-ha!)
I suppose what I’m saying is that for someone like that to be suddenly plunged into a whole heap of new situations in his personal life where he was not only the least knowledgeable in the room (in a professional sense), but with very little control over the situation, then I can see why he constantly reacted badly- it turned everything he knew about how to deal with situations on its head. I think he’s probably a massive
fool in real life, but to be such a successful consultant, you kind of have to be in my opinion (certainly true of pretty much every consultant I‘ve ever met lol)- so he would have a very high opinion of himself, be used to being absolutely in control and people always dancing to his tune. From a physiologist point of view, I think it would make for an interesting study and probably provide quite a lot of mitigation for how he was perceived.
In conclusion, I just think he’s a controlling
hole of a man, but I don’t think that makes him guilty. I just think his stress reaction was just not what most ‘normal’ people would expect and that he was really
bleeping angry a lot of the time. He wanted to find his daughter and his instincts were not to play the teary, pleading Dad- he went into consultant-mode so trying to manage everything and everyone, bossy, domineering and overbearing. To be fair, that approach would have been what worked in his day-job for years so understandable that he would fall back on it.
I am completely on the fence about their involvement; I am swayed all the time and every time I read more information! I guess that’s why a lot of us are fascinated by the case.
Sorry to the original poster, no harm meant, but your post was pretty funny.it's been a while since I followed this thread and didn't see an immediate mention on the last page.
Probably shouldn't use a picture of him as my avi on a site like this (although I guess it doesn't make much difference considering he's not here anymore), but it makes me smile when I see it too
