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Where's our Maddie?

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX BLOGS PHOTOGRAPHS NEWS MAY 2007
Original Source: Sun: 04 May 2007
By VINCE SOODIN
Published: 04 May 2007
 
A THREE-YEAR-OLD British girl has gone missing while on holiday in the Algarve, Portugal.

Portuguese police are investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann who went missing last night in the seaside village of Praia da Luz in south-west Portugal where the girl was staying.

The parents of the three-year-old were “distraught” when they discovered she had disappeared from their rented apartment while they dined nearby.

Sniffer dogs were brought in by detectives today to comb the area.

The Sun has put up a £10,000 (15,000 euros) reward in a bid to help find little Madeleine and printed posters looking for information in Portugal.

If you live in Portugal you can download a copy of the poster, by clicking here, to play your part in the search for Madeleine.

A Foreign Office spokesman said that he understood the girl’s parents had gone to have dinner once their children were asleep last night, but returned to check on them only to find the girl had gone missing.

He said: “They reported it straight away,” adding that consular assistance was being offered.

And a family friend was reported to have said the parents were certain that the girl had been abducted - but this was unconfirmed.

She said: “They were just watching the hotel room and going back every half-hour and the shutters had been broken open and they had gone into the room and taken Madeleine.

“They went out about eight, went back in at nine, they were fine, went back in at 10 and she was gone.”

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She added: “This is the first time they have done this. They are very, very anxious parents and very careful and they chose Mark Warner because it is a family-friendly resort.”

She said the couple, from Leicester, also had twins.

Today the manager at the Mark Warner resort, John Hill, confirmed the missing girl as Madeleine McCann and her parents as Gerry and Katie.

He said around 60 staff and guests at the purpose-built complex had searched until 4.30am while police notified border police, Spanish police and airports.

“It was a very emotional and very frantic night and everyone did a fantastic job of getting involved and trying to search the area,” he said.

“As you can imagine, Madeleine’s parents are distraught and not doing very well at all.”

He said there was no physical evidence that the girl had been abducted from the family’s rented apartment while they ate at the tapas restaurant 200 yards away.

“It’s still questionable as to whether it’s an abduction,” he said.

“We are hoping that Madeleine is found as soon as possible and safe and well.

"Everybody here is just wishing that she is found as soon as possible."

But fears are now growing that Madeleine was taken against her will. Her anguished parents, both 38 and doctors, have accused Portuguese police of not doing enough to find her.

Madeleine, who turns four next Friday, and her two-year-old twin brother and sister Sean and Amelie were left in their apartment alone as their parents dined at the tapas restaurant 200 yards away.

The resort offered a creche service but the couple opted to leave the children sleeping at the apartment, taking turns to check on them at regular intervals.

Madeleine’s aunt, Trish Cameron, who lives in Dumbarton near Glasgow, said her brother, Gerry, called her last night “breaking his heart”.

She said his wife had gone to check on the children and “came out screaming”.

“He said ’Madeleine’s been abducted, she’s been abducted’.

“The door was lying open, the window in the bedroom and the shutters had been jemmied open.

“Nothing had been touched in the apartment, no valuables taken, no passports.

“They think someone must have come in the window and gone out the door with her.”

Mrs Cameron will join her mother from Manchester together with Mrs McCann’s parents, Mr and Mrs Healy to travel out to Portugal.

Mrs Cameron described Madeleine as a “lovely wee girl“.

“She has a broad English accent, loves going to nursery and her swimming and tennis lessons,” she said.

Family friend Jill Renwick told GMTV the McCanns had chosen their holiday destination carefully, and travelled there with a group of other families with young children.

She said: “This is the first time they have done this. They are very, very anxious parents and very careful and they chose Mark Warner because it is a family-friendly resort.”

Madeleine’s grandfather, Brian Healy said they were “worried sick“.

Speaking at the door of the family home in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, before leaving for Portugal, he said: “It’s a very distressing time.”

Mr and Mrs McCann met in Glasgow. Mr McCann is a consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester who colleagues today described as “popular and hardworking”, and Mrs McCann, from Liverpool, is a GP in Latham House Medical Practice in Melton Mowbray.

Do you know this girl or are you in the Algarve? Call The Sun newsdesk on 0207 7824105 or emailtalkback@the-sun.co.uk

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