"But I can promise you, there were times where I felt like I was drowning, and it was the media, primarily, not the situation we were in, being declared arguido [suspect]. We knew the legal process. It was what was happening and the way things were being portrayed, where you were being suffocated and buried, and it felt like there wasn't a way out."
"McCann and his wife, Kate, are among more than 30 people who have signed a letter to Keir Starmer calling on him to revive the second part of the Leveson inquiry, which was due to examine the relationship between the media and the police. McCann said it was not acceptable that more than a year on from Labour coming into power, press regulation was no longer a priority."
"Describing the intrusion, he said: Journalists coming to the house, photographers literally ramming their cameras against our car window, when we had two-year-old twins in the back who were terrified, and how distressing that is for you as a parent It's the half-truths. It's the making up of stories to fit the agenda, rather than the truth, which destroys people's lives."
Gerry and Kate McCann experienced sustained intrusive and misleading press coverage after Madeleine's 2007 disappearance, including journalists camping outside their Rothley home and aggressive photography. The press behaviour forced the family to take legal action after prolonged misleading headlines and intense media interest. The intrusion caused severe emotional toll, with Gerry McCann describing feelings of suffocation, burial and drowning due to media portrayals and being treated as a suspect. More than 30 people signed a letter urging Keir Starmer to revive the Leveson inquiry to examine media-police relations. The McCanns call for tougher press regulation to prevent similar harms.
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