Mother Toni Clarkson who found an intruder looming over her young sons bed at their Spanish holiday apartment said: 'It could have been another Maddie McCann.

Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007 (Picture: PA)

Toni Clarkson snatched six-year-old Jacob to safety before she and her partner Paul chased the prowler out of their Benidorm room ? only to later realise he had been in there for 15 minutes raiding their safe.

The 1.9m (6ft 4in) Spanish intruder has never been caught but may have used a cloned room key card to gain entry.

Mrs Clarkson, from Solihull, said she woke when she heard sobs from Jacob, who now needs counselling. 

The 39-year-old mother of three said: ?I opened my eyes and saw a stranger standing over the bed. I managed to jump on his back, near the stairs but he just shouted at me in Spanish and shrugged me off.?

The break-in took place in June but the family are speaking out now to alert others.

Madeleine McCann was snatched in Portugal in 2007.