Kate McCann felt ‘violated’ by News of the World

KATE MCCANN told the Leveson Inquiry she felt like “climbing into a hole and not coming out” when the News of the World printed her intensely personal diary.

She described feeling “violated” by the paper’s publication of the leaked journal, which she began after her daughter Madeleine disappeared on holiday in Portugal in 2007.

Mrs McCann, 43, said the diary — which was so private she did not even show it to her husband Gerry — was her only way of communicating with her missing daughter.