A few months after the McCann family returned from Portugal without their beloved Madeleine, Kate McCann took her toddler twins Sean and Amelie to the local pool for swimming lessons.
In her memoir, published four years later, she recounted how painful that was.
This was the same pool where Madeleine, then three, had learned to swim just a year before, and she knew she would be assailed by mental images of her missing eldest daughter, a proper water-baby, ‘in her little yellow hat’.
Yet she also knew, even in her agony, that life had to go on for Sean and Amelie, who were
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