Kate McCann believes that she is being persecuted over the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine because she does not look suitably “maternal”.

Mrs McCann told her mother that she was being treated unfairly by the media over claims that she was involved in Madeleine’s death at a Portuguese holiday resort on May 3. “If I weighed another two stone, had a bigger bosom and looked more maternal, people would be more sympathetic,” she told her mother, Susan Healy.

The comments, reported in a local newspaper, follow a week in which Mrs McCann and her husband, Gerry, have been subjected to a series of unconfirmed allegations about Madeleine’s disappearance. It was claimed yesterday that traces of bodily fluids from a decomposing corpse had been found in the boot of a car that they used in Portugal.

Mrs McCann’s mother told the Liverpool Echo that her daughter, a 38-year-old GP, had been under immense pressure because of the “scurrilous rubbish” being reported about the case. “She does feel persecuted, not by the general public, who have been extremely supportive, but by some sections of the media and I feel it’s important I let people know she is not this person who is in control all the time.



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